Ezekiel”
Ezekiel’s whose name means “God will Strengthen” or “God Strengthens” and was the son of Priest Buzi. Not all students and scholars agree that the book is in any degree a single effort of one person, for a considerable number understand it to be a composite from several sources (Harper’s Bible Dictionary). Ezekiel and King Jehoiachin and 10,000 other craftsmen, military, and political leaders were taken captive by the King Nebuchandezzar and taken to Babylonia.
Ezekiel’s call as to become prophet in Israel came in 593 BC the 30th year which probably refers to his age, and 30 was also the normal age to become a priest. Ezekiel was a man who chose to obey God. He was a priest, but he basically served as a Jewish street preacher in Babylon for 22 years. He really just went around and tried to tell everyone that they needed to repent and obey God. God communicated to Ezekiel in visions and a vision is a miraculous revelation of God’s truth (Life Application Study Bible). The reason that the visions seem so strange to us is that they are apocalyptic and that means that he saw some symbolic pictures that vividly conveyed an idea and he took it from there (Life Application Study Bible).
The first vision that Ezekiel saw was when he was called upon to become a prophet. There was a huge cloud that flashed with lightning and was surrounded by a bright light. There were 4 living beings showed Ezekiel his first vision which was Jerusalem’s upcoming destruction by God for the punishment of sins. The beings that he saw were cherubim, which are powerful angelic beings created to glorify God, each had 4 faces, one of a human, one of an eagle, one of an ox and another of a lion (Life Application Study Bible). Ezekiel was angry at the attitudes and sins of the people and went into mourning for seven days which was the customary period for mourning the dead, but he was mourning the spiritually dead.
Ezekiel lived in a time of international crisis and conflict. Assyria was the world power in the area under the rule of Tiglath-pilesar III. In 724 B.C Israel raged war upon Assyria, and Israel was no match for Assyria. In 627 B.C the last of the able Assyrian rulers, Ashurbanipal died. Following the death of Ashurbanipal, Babylon under Nebuchadrezzer II wanted independence from Assyria. In 614 B.C the Assyrians under Nineveh surrendered to the rising Babylonians. In 605 B.C the Babylonians defeated the Egyptians and established themselves as the leading power in the area. During all of this warring, Judah allied itself with Babylonia and kept her independence. However, in 597 BCE, after failing to continue their payment of tribute, Babylonia besieged Jerusalem. Nebuchadrezzer II, king on Babylonia, installs a puppet king, Zedekiah, in order to keep the Judeans in line. Nevertheless, Zedekiah rebels also. In 586, Babylonia exiles the most of the rulers and people of Judah to Babylonia, leaving only the poorest, and decimates Jerusalem, including the temple. Since the people believed the “Zion Theology,” which said Jerusalem is God’s choice of Zion and the monarchy comes from David, exile left the Judeans completely lost. The responses varied among the exiled Judeans, since they assumed that they were safe, after the temple wasn’t destroyed during the first destruction of Jerusalem and the fall of Israel. One response was lament, a feeling or an expression of grief, over their loss. Another was anger towards the Babylonians. A further response was anger toward neighbors who failed to aid them. Moreover, some Judeans turned to Marduk, chief god of the gods of Babylonia, figuring that he overpowered Yahweh, the god of the Judeans. Finally, the Judeans thought judgment had befallen them for their sins against Yahweh and Yahweh revoked his protection of Jerusalem. The Judeans remained in exile, until 538 BCE.
The first two characters mentioned in the story are Ahab and Jezebel. In this narrative, Ahab is merely an agent of transitioning from the prior story about God’s victory on Mount Carmel against Baal to Jezebel’s reaction. On the other hand, the narrative shows Jezebel as a flat character: the powerful, evil, Baal worshiping queen bent on Elijah’s destruction. The ancient reader would have seen implications within the name of the queen herself. Jezebel meant either “Where is the Exalted One?” or “The Prince lives”, the implication of Prince is that of Baal. The messenger who carries Jezebel’s message is merely another agent to continue the story.
In Paradise Lost, one of the differences God is aware of the betrayal his creations unlike Frankenstein. There is a point where Adam desires a companion to share the world with, thus God creates Eve from one of Adam’s ribs. He is in a predicament now, due to there are now two beings to love now, but who deserves the more affection. He “can neither love himself adequately nor love Eve as himself unless have love God adequately – and so make his love for Eve, the unity of their shared self, an expression of that higher love” (Gross 95). This scene displays one of Adam’s limitations of his free will. Thus creating her in being the submissive which eventually became her downfall, Adam’s and the rest of humanity. Eve is flawed, she has the inclination of self-love, a quality she should not be capable of possessing or acting upon. The only love that she should be expressing is her love for Adam in a way also loving God. This becomes their weakness. Satan learns about this weakness and exploits it as his advantage to enact his scheme. He influences a susceptible Eve, by coercing her into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge. He claims to Eve about the fruit “By the fruit? It gives you life To knowledge by the threat’ner? Look on me, Me, who have touched and tasted; yet both live” (Book 9 l. 686-688). Satan is able to persuade them to consume the fruit that provides them
would this free will be to us if we did not know good from evil? When Eve ate
The Book of Hosea is one among the several books of the Hebrew scripture and appears as the first in the order of the twelve Minor Prophets. The term ‘minor’ refers to the length and not the importance of the books when compared to the books of Ezekiel, Isaiah and Jeremiah. All the twelve minor books are Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Zechariah, Haggai & Malachi (Feinberg, 1990). Hosea was instructed by God to marry a prostitute, by the name of Gomer, who symbolized covenantal relationship between Israel and him (God). Hosea’s prophesies were unique in the sense that they were relayed through the names given to his children. This paper seeks to give an illustrative description on the first chapter of the book of Hosea.
A key idea in A Midsummer Nights Dream, a romantic comedy play written by Shakespeare, is that “the course of true love never did run smooth”. This is portrayed in the play by two Athenian lovers, Hermia and Lysander and also the king and queen of the fairies, Titania and Oberon. Both of these relationships with each other, face many challenges in the play therefore explaining the message that “the coarse of true love never did run smooth”.
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A classic representation of this male wish to control a female’s affections is seen in Hermia’s fight with her father over whom she wishes to marry. Hermia loves Lysander more than anyone else, and yet her father, Egeus, demands that she wed Demetrius instead. When Hermia and her father’s conflict escalates to epic proportions, where it now involves both of the suitors, and Theseus himself, it is the last s...
Quantum mechanics was pioneered by Max Planck, who developed the formula E = hv—which is the base for much of the quantum mechanical field. Quantum theory (the origin of quantum mechanics), as described in Talking Tech, was, at its early core, a handful of theories and hypotheses regarding energy quantization and wave-particle duality (Rheingold and Levine). The book goes on to explain how this realm of science is basically an extension of physics attempting to derive a mathematical specification of how the entirety of the universe operates and behaves at the subatomic level. Conversely, it also describes how quantum theory also diverges from classical physics in that it stipulates that the only...
Adam was the keeper of the Garden of Eden. He tended to the garden and was given instructions by God that all the trees were good for food except the two that were in the center of the garden. Those two trees were the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life (The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, 2003). While in the Garden of Eden, Adam was tending to the garden and a serpent (Devil) came to tempt Adam and Eve. Remember, Satan has been thrown from Heaven and now he is in the Garden of Eden trying to separate Adam and Eve from God. Satan decided to tempt Adam through Eve and told her if she did eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil she would not surely die. He told her she would be like God and it is not wrong to be like God. It should be everyone’s goal to be holy like God (Life Application Notes and Bible Help, 1996). For one to be like God, he must desire to be holy. No one can be like God; however, one can desire to be holy like Jesus. Satan took God’s word and twisted it by telling Eve to go against God’s will. Because Eve was misled, her goal became corrupted and led to sin. Everyone should have noble goals and aspire to become holy. However, when she ate the fruit from this forbidden tree nothing happened until Adam ate of the fruit. When Adam broke the law of God, sin entered the world. Instantly, sin separates people from God. God was looking for Adam and
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Eve knows of the threat which Satan poses to both her and Adam, yet she is able to make the descions to separate for both Adam and herself since her opinions are just as important as Adams throughout their partnership. In an attempt to convince Eve of the potential dangers to both himself and Eve Adam states, “His [Satan’s] wish and best advantage, us asunder/ Hopelessness to circumvent us joynd, where each/ to the other speedie aide might at lend (9.258-60).” Adam knows that Satan will take his “best advantage” to strike when they are separated from each other furthermore Adam understands that he may need Eve’s aide if confronted by Satan. Eve is not the only vulnerable one in their relationship; this creates a perspective for the reader in which Adam and Even are equally vulnerable as partners rather than one in which Adam functions as Eve’s
While in the Garden the serpent says to Eve, “… but God knows that as soon as you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like divine beings who know of good and bad” (Genesis 3.13 Line 5). The serpent makes an appealing temptation to Eve, saying that they can have what God has, and can be like God. This temptation caused Eve to eat the fruit and also gives it to Adam. The serpent was not lying when explaining this to the woman but put the thought into her head. Being God like, and having the knowledge of good and bad could be an appealing thing to have, so Eve ate the fruit disobeying
The serpent even states to Eve that “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (NIV, Gen 3:5). The next few lines are completely different from what is shown by Milton. It says that when Eve saw that the fruit was good and she began to desire wisdom she took some and ate it. Then she game some to Adam who was with her. This is a very large contrast from Milton’s work because this shows that Adam was present the whole time of the serpent and Eve’s discussion. In the poem “Verses for Madonna of humility with the temptation of Eve” Lynn Powell takes a very graphic and almost nostalgic look at the story of Adam and Eve. Her poem states “Eve 's lying at eye level, propped up on an elbow./And never has abyss been so good to pink,/ the void a perfect foil for her foreground flesh./She fits into the black like a woman/ ready to be skewered in a vaudeville act./ You can tell the painter loves her, the way/ You can tell the painter loves her/ he 's touched her every place he can with paint./ And he 's noticed what she 's thinking:/ holding the pear, as Hamlet did the skull,/ while gazing up at someone who 's got everything to lose./ Eve 's about to make the choice Mary has to live with./
During the seventeenth century, the modern science of physics started to emerge and become a widespread tool used around the world. Many prominent people contributed to the build up of this fascinating field and managed to generally define it as the science of matter and energy and their interactions. However, as we know, physics is much more than that. It explains the world around us in every form imaginable. The study of physics is a fundamental science that helps the advancing knowledge of the natural world, technology and aids in the other sciences and in our economy. Without the field of physics, the world today would be a complete mystery, everything would be different because of the significance physics has on our life as individuals and as a society.