Ezekiel // Pastor Gene Pensiero

Ezekiel faced a language barrier of a different kind: It was a spiritual language barrier. It was the result of hardened hearts. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Three of Godʼs prophets were commanded to take the metaphor of Godʼs Word as food literally. They each were commanded to eat Godʼs Word. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

You know what happens when a Christian acts like a rebel in his or her walk with Jesus? They conform to the world! Theyʼre not rebels in a romantic sense. Theyʼre rebels in a pathetic sense. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Ezekiel sees the heavens open and a storm approaching. In the storm he sees four living creatures who he will later identify as cherubim. They are special beings, probably angels, that are associated with the presence of God and His throne. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Ezekiel sees the heavens open and a storm approaching. But there is something in the storm. There are four cherubim – of the type that minister constantly around the throne of God. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Was Ezekiel a primitive man doing his best to put an alien encounter on papyrus? (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

While itʼs great to dream and to plan everything must be subordinated to the understanding, “nevertheless not my will but Godʼs will be done.” Had Ezekiel been born a few years earlier he would have enjoyed life serving as a priest during a time of great revival. (Pastor Gene Pensiero)