Thursday, November 19, 2009

Ezekiel

The first thing I thought while starting to read Ezekiel: "Yes! More strange Biblical creatures!" The first is a creature with four faces: lion, ox, eagle, and man. Each one had four wings, and they had cows feet and hands. No science fiction writer can do it better than this.

God makes Ezekiel shave off his beard and hair too. Plotz is right: God does love bald men. Only Ezekiel has to scatter it around.

Unlike the "small voice" Elijah heard, God talked to Ezekiel in a "loud voice."

Another thing with four faces: face 1=cherub, face 2=man, face 3=lion, and face 4=eagle.

"Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls!" What?

Ezekiel seems to think that Noah, Daniel, and Job were the three most righteous men. Interesting, considering most other sources point to Abraham, Jacob, and Moses.

Chapter 23 says the word "whoredom" roughly ten times.

The coolest part of Ezekiel, by far, was the part with the valley of bones. I'm pretty sure this is the first "horror movie." About zombies. It was really cool.

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