Scripture

The idolatry witnessed by Ezekiel was the intentional divine worship of other things. Since we don’t offer incense to pagan deities anymore, how are modern idolatries, such as money, power, etc., similar to or different than the idolatries of Chapter 8?

These four chapters are a microcosm of the Old Testament’s salvation history of sin (chapter 8), physical judgment (chapter 9), spiritual judgment (chapter 10), and the promise of restoration (chapter 11).

So then, by the river Chebar, Ezekiel saw the heavens opened when he was thirty years old. And the Lord Jesus Christ, “when he began he was about
thirty years old”, by the Jordan River, and “the heavens were opened”. And throughout the entire
prophecy of Ezekiel, he is called: “son of man.”

The reason to read through Ezekiel during Epiphany is because both the prophet himself and his teachings prefigure the person and teachings of Jesus Christ.