Do the Book of Revelation and Ezekiel announce the same event?

Question

I have noticed some similes between Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation. Are the Revelation and Ezekiel perhaps admonishments and revelations of the same event that the man still expects?

1)Both authors of the books write of their divine vision and the place where they have received it.
2)At the beginning of the book, both prophets describe the vision of four living creatures.
3)John and Ezekiel have the vision of a book and a roll written on the inside as well as on the outside.
4)John and Ezekiel have the vision of the new Jerusalem.
However, I believe that it would be better to announce the arrival of the Kingdom of God to the christians with the Book of Revelation and, to the hebrews with the books of the Old Testament.

Answer 1

It's a fictional story. Don't read too much into it. The New Testament, though, does play off of the Old Testament. The authors were familiar with the Old Testament, so many of the same themes were carried through.

Answer 2

I think you have identified some of the commonalities between John and Ezekiel (divine visions, scroll). However John and Ezekiel's vision of the city of Jerusalem are different in significant features: Ezekiel's vision has a temple complete with sacrifices, whereas Revelation specifically states that there is no temple in the new Jerusalem (20.22).

The classic dispensational argument is that Ezekiel's vision of the Temple and city with its precise layouts for each tribe are what is going to happen during the 1,000 year reign of Christ on the earth, during which time the literal OT promises to the nation of Israel are fulfilled.

Then John's vision, though similar in some ways, takes place after the 1,000 years, the loosing of Satan, and the final battle described in Rev. 20. Then as it says in 21.1, the old earth and heavens are gone and what happens from then on is a completely new creation, with a new Jerusalem in which God and Christ dwell with believers for eternity (sans Temple).

Therefore the two visions, although similar in some ways, are not exactly describing the same event.

A covenant view would tend to spiritualize Ezekiel and say that his vision is a "prototype" that will not literally materialize, but serves rather as a hypothetical occurrence that was supposed to hearten his fellow-exiles in Babylon with a view of what the future could potentially look like. Since the Church has replaced Israel, the prophecies are not taken as literally as in a dispensational scheme of interpretation.

Myself, although not a hard-core dispensationalist, do tend to take the texts more literally than spiritual. I suppose in the end, time will tell which interpretation (or another variant) turns out to be the correct one.

By the way Andymjc66, if you look at Ezekiel 4.14-15, although told to cook his food with human dung, he protested to God about it and was allowed to use cow dung instead.

Answer 3

You'll find portions of a number of old testament books included in Revelation, particuarly Daniel.

You'll find the unusual craft from Ezekiel 1:1, with the four winged creatures, all the way back in Exodus, on top of Mt. Sinai, and then again in Jerusalem, on Pentecost.

God gets around.

Answer 4

Thank you for verifying that for me. I have read the Book, and know what is and is not in it. But can't remeber chapter and verse.
I said the other day I thought there was something in
Ezekiel that pertains to today
There is also a chapter in Isaiah, (24), which has helped me
to understand what exaclty is going to happen. It will be a
natural worldwide disaster. And when billions of souls are
released at once, it wil create a spiritual power that will open
the doors to other realities, verse 18.
We will indeed see things that make us" faint from fear", and
there will be tribulation like never before, or ever will be again.
At some point, the power let loose will interfere in the free will
of other life in Creation.
"Their sins have reached into the heavens."
And then, our Creator will have to put a stop to it.

Answer 5

Revelation is an allegoric portrayal of the "worse"-end state of man to avoid, which notably involves "seven spirits" in Matthew 12:45. Nevertheless Mary Magdelene had "seven" cast out of her. Hence there is still hope for worse-end state of man in this new dark age; Especially since "worst" does not occur in the NT, but oppressed Timothy being "set at liberty" does, along with "the word of exhortation", to "go on unto perfection" at the end whereby grace is with you all are saved(only) by grace(only).

John is not author of Revelation. Rather it is "sent unto John". It is Paul's salutation, token in every epistle written by his own hand, at the end that sign-ifies Paul is author of Revelation. His conclusion of Revelation is the same as To The HEBREWS:

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ WITH YOU ALL. AMEN.

Answer 6

Ezekiel cooked his food with human excrement-how seriously does such a man need to be taken?

Answer 7

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