SUMMARY OF THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL

BIBLICAL PERIOD	# 8 THE EXILE
FOCUS	Call of Ezekiel	Judgment of the Covenant People	Judgment of the nations	Promised restoration of Israel to the Lord and the Land
COVENANT	THE SINAI COVENANT
SCRIPTURE	1:1----------------4:1-------------------------------------25:1-------------33:1--------------48:35
DIVISION OF TEXT	Ezekiel's vision of the heavenly court/a covenant lawsuit called	Ezekiel's mission -signs -visions -parables	Judgment on 7 gentile nations	Ezekiel's mission -messages -judgments -prophecies
TOPIC	Before the siege of Jerusalem		During the siege	After the destruction and fall of Jerusalem
LOCATION	Bablyon
TIME	592 BC – 587/6 BC		c. 586 BC	c. 585 BC – 570 BC

TIME LINE B.C. WORLD EMPIRES:

----------------ASSYRIAN--------BABYLON------PERSIAN------------------------------------------------------------------GREEK

Divided Kingdom	--Southern Kingdom
		( 70 year exile for Judah )
c. 873-853	722	587/6	539	516	458	445-3	333
Elijah's Minstry	Israel conquered by Assyria	Judah conquered by Babylon	Persians conquered by Babylon	Temple Rebuilt	Ezra's mission to Judah	Nehemiah rebuilds Jerusalem's walls	Conquest of Syria by Alexander the Great
			First group of Exiles return		Second group of Exiles return	Third group of Exiles return