Is the river of Ezekiel 47 literal?
What is Isaiah's high mountain?
How the desert becomes fruitful
W. Harris and the stream of blessing
Hengstenberg's comments on Ezekiel's river
John Gill's commentary on Ezekiel 47:1-12
William Kelly: mired in literalism
Charles Henry Wright on the topographic changes of Zechariah 14:8-11
Patrick Fairbairn on the temple waters
Patrick Fairbairn on principles of interpretation
Interpretations of the promised land
Andrew Jukes and the land promise
F. B. Meyer's interpretation of the land of promise
John Owen on the rest of Hebrews 4:1
John Owen and the rest in Hebrews 4:3
Currey's points of contact between Ezekiel and Revelation
Gardiner's Preliminary note on Ezekiel 40-48
The inheritance of the priests and Levites in Ezekiel 48
The table below contains a list of points of contact between Ezekiel and Revelation identified by G. Currey in his commentary on Ezekiel, in: The Holy Bible, According to the Authorized Version (A.D. 1611): Ezekiel. Daniel, and the minor prophets. Edited by Frederic Charles Cook. J. Murray, 1876. pp. 12-16.
Points of contact | Ezekiel | Revelation |
---|---|---|
I was among the captives | Ezek. 1:1 | Rev. 1:9 |
The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel | Ezek. 1:3 | Rev. 1:10 |
Four living creatures… Four beasts | Ezek. 1:5 | Rev. 4:6 |
The likeness of a man… The third beast had a face as a man. | Ezek. 1:5 | Rev. 4:7 |
Every one had four faces and four wings… The fourfold nature distributed severally to each individual | Ezek. 1:6; 10:14, 21 | Rev. 4:7 |
Four wings… Six wings | Ezek. 1:6 | Rev. 4:8 |
The appearance of lamps… Seven lamps | Ezek. 1:13 | Rev. 4:5 |
The colour of the terrible crystal… Glass like unto crystal | Ezek. 1:22 | Rev. 4:6 |
Like the noise of great waters | Ezek. 1:24; 43:2 | Rev. 1:15 |
A throne | Ezek. 1:26; 10:1 | Rev. 4:2, 3 |
The colour of amber, as the appearance of fire… like the beryl | Ezek. 1:27; 8:2 | Rev. 1:14-16; 10:1 |
The bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain… A rainbow | Ezek. 1:28 | Rev. 4:3, 10:1 |
I fell upon my face | Ezek. 1:28; 3:23; 44:4 | Rev. 1:17 |
Stand upon thy feet | Ezek. 2:1; 3:24 | Rev. 1:17 |
A roll of a book… A little book | Ezek. 2:9 | Rev. 10:2; 8-10 |
Eat this roll | Ezek. 3:1 | Rev. 10:9 |
The spirit took me up… I was in the Spirit | Ezek. 3:12; 8:3; 11:1, 24; 37:1; 43:5 | Rev. 1:10 |
A man clothed with linen | Ezek. 9:3, 11; 44:17 | Rev. 15:6; 19:8, 14 |
A mark upon the foreheads | Ezek. 9:4 | Rev. 7:3 |
Come not near any on whom is the mark | Ezek. 9:6 | Rev. 9:4 |
Scatter the coals of fire over the city | Ezek. 10:2 | Rev. 8:5 |
Full of eyes | Ezek. 10:12 | Rev. 4:8 |
The living creature… Four living creatures | Ezek. 10:15, 20; 1:5 | Rev. 4:6 |
The day of the Lord | Ezek. 13:5; 30:3 | Rev. 6:17; 16:14 |
Written in the writing of the house of Israel | Ezek. 13:9 | Rev. 20:12 |
The vine-tree | Ezek. 15:2, 6; 17:6-9 | Rev. 14:18, 19 |
The whore | Ezek. 16:15-34; 23:1-21 | Rev. 17:1-6 |
Punishment of the whore | Ezek. 16:35-43; 23:22-49 | Rev. 17:16 |
Bring into the wilderness | Ezek. 20:35 | Rev. 12:6, 14 |
The sword | Ezek. 21:3-5, 9-20, 28; 30:4, 24; 32:10 | Rev. 1:16; 19:15 |
I will make the pile for fire great… The smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever | Ezek. 24:9-13 | Rev. 14:11 |
A merchant of the people | Ezek. 27:3, 33; 28:5 | Rev. 18:3 |
Fine linen, blue and purple | Ezek. 27:6, 15 | Rev. 18:12, 16 |
Ivory | Ezek. 27:6, 15 | Rev. 18:12 |
Precious stones and gold | Ezek. 27:22; 28:13 | Rev. 18:12, 16 |
Persons of men | Ezek. 27:13 | Rev. 18:13 |
Spices | Ezek. 27:19, 22 | Rev. 18:13 |
Horses | Ezek. 27:14 | Rev. 18:13 |
Lambs and rams and goats | Ezek. 27:21 | Rev. 18:3 |
They shall fall into the midst of the seas | Ezek. 27:27, 34 | Rev. 18:2, 21 |
They shall cry bitterly | Ezek. 27:30 | Rev. 18:9, 11, 15, 19 |
Thine heart is lifted up | Ezek. 28:2, 17 | Rev. 18:7 |
There shall be no more any grieving thom | Ezek. 28:24 | Rev. 21:4 |
The horn of Israel to bud | Ezek. 29:21 | Rev. 22:16 |
I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean | Ezek. 36:25 | Rev. 1:5; 7:13, 14 |
The breath came into them | Ezek. 37:10 | Rev. 21:11 |
They shall be my people and I will be their God | Ezek. 37:23, 27 | Rev. 21:3 |
My tabernacle shall be with them | Ezek. 37:23, 27, 28 | Rev. 21:3 |
Gog, the land of Magog | Ezek. 38:2, 3 | Rev. 20:8, 9 |
I will bring thee forth and all thine army | Ezek. 38:4, 9, 16 | Rev. 16:14; 20:8 |
A great shaking | Ezek. 38:19 | Rev. 16:18 |
Great hailstones | Ezek. 38:22 | Rev. 16:21 |
Fire and brimstone | Ezek. 38:22 | Rev. 20:9, 10 |
I will give thee unto the ravenous birds | Ezek. 39:4, 17-22 | Rev. 19:17, 18, 20 |
A very high mountain | Ezek. 40:2; 43:12 | Rev. 21:10 |
A city | Ezek. 40:2 | Rev. 21:10 |
Like the appearance of brass | Ezek. 40:3; 1:7 | Rev. 1:15 |
A line of flax and a measuring reed | Ezek. 40:3 | Rev. 11:1; 21:15 |
The outward court | Ezek. 40:17 | Rev. 1:2 |
Pillars | Ezek. 40:49 | Rev. 3:12 |
They shall put on other garments | Ezek. 44:17 | Rev. 7:13 |
He measured it by the four sides | Ezek. 42:20 | Rev. 21:16 |
The earth shined with His glory | Ezek. 43:2; 10:4 | Rev.18:1 |
I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever | Ezek. 43:7, 9 | Rev. 21:3 |
Most holy | Ezek. 43:12; 48:14 | Rev. 21:2, 27; 22:3, 14, 15 |
They shall enter into my sanctuary | Ezek. 44:16 | Rev. 21:22, 24; 22:3, 4 |
The gate shall not be shut until the evening… The gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there is no night there | Ezek. 46:2 | Rev. 21:25 |
The gate | Ezek. 46:1, 9 | Rev. 22:14 |
Four corners… four-square | Ezek. 46:21-23; 48:16, 17 | Rev. 21:16 |
Waters issued out of the house… water of life | Ezek. 47:1-5 | Rev. 22:1, 17 |
Very many trees… The tree of life | Ezek. 47:7, 12 | Rev. 22:2 |
The waters shall be healed | Ezek. 47:8, 9 | Rev. 22:2 |
On either side of the river | Ezek. 47:12 | Rev. 22:2 |
New fruit according to his months | Ezek. 47:12 | Rev. 22:2 |
The fruit for meat | Ezek. 47:12 | Rev. 22:2 |
The leaf for medicine | Ezek. 47:12 | Rev. 22:2 |
Three gates | Ezek. 48:31-34 | Rev. 21:13 |
The name of the city shall be “The Lord is there” | Ezek. 48:35 | Rev. 21:3; 22:3 |
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