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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 26, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 29.

OUR BIBLE BAND

Schedule for the Week Ending August 6, 1910

Sunday,	July 31	Lamentations	3-5
Monday,	August 1	Ezekiel	1-4
Tuesday,	2	5-8
Wednesday,	3	9-13
Thursday,	4	14-17
Friday,	5	18-20
Sabbath,	6	21, 22

SIX days of the week are taken up with Ezekiel, who prophesied among the captives of Israel between the years 595 and 574, beginning and closing his work just a little later than Jeremiah. Ezekiel also belonged to the priestly family. He presents before us the wonderful visions in which God revealed to him His glory before he began his prophetic work. The great majesty of God was impressed upon him before he was sent with his awful messages of warning and reproof. When one once gets a sight of God, he does not fear the face of man; and therefore God revealed His own glory, that Ezekiel might not fear to meet the sinners among his own people.

VERY clear, strong principles the prophet presents of sin and righteousness; of the true nature of repentance. Wonderfully graphic are some of his descriptions, as in the seventh chapter for instance, the prophecy which reaches down to our own day. Chapters eight and nine are also typical of the great sealing work brought before us in Revelation 7. First of all the sins of Judah are pointed out, and among the greatest which the prophet sees is that of sun-worship. Then follows the man who marks the true worshipers, and following him are those who cut off the men who have been judged worthy of condemnation.

IN chapter 10 is again presented a wonderful vision of God's working among the nations. The four living creatures are the same as the four standards under which Israel pitched, a lion, an ox, an eagle, and a man. These were not four different creatures formed in this way, but they represented by these typical orders of creation just how God is working among the nations of the earth.