The Bible by David Alley

Daniel, and his three friends Hananiah, Azariah and Mishael are among the earliest Jewish people taken into exile in Babylon. They are presumably castrated and put into the public service under the watchful eye of Ashpenaz the caretaker of the eunuchs. While in Babylon Daniel is renamed after a foreign god, taughter a foreign way of life and language, and is surrounded by worldliness. How does he...

In the final chapter of Ezekiel's grand vision, he is shown how the promised land is to be divided up. The tribes get a strip each from left to right starting with Dan at the top, each tribe in turn all the way to Gad at the very bottom. In the middle is a giant chunk designated for the priests. What should we make of this unusual and quite impractical breakup of the land?

In Ezekiel's grand 9 chapter long vision, this chapter is one of the most intruiging features, and strongly suggests we are not talking about a physical temple, but a spiritual one. The river gets deeper and deeper as it goes, eventually flowing all the way to the dead sea, which it turns into a living sea full of fish. This is nothing other than the fruitfulness of God's people, who have springs...

Ezekiel's grand vision continues, and now he sees the city. It would seem it is the same city that is described in Revelation 21 - the New Jerusalem.

Ezekiel's grand vision of the future temple continues, and now he sees the festival practices, including the Passover, that are happening. What do we make of these things, when we are clearly in the New Covenant?

Ezekiel's grand vision of the temple continues and now he sees some of the practices of the temple. In this chapter it becomes clear that only the Prince can enter by way of the east gate. What does this mean? What is the symbolism of the east?

Paul tells us that the glory of the new covenant surpasses that of the old covenant. And in this chapter Ezekiel's vision of the spiritual temple continues, and he sees the glory, which previously departed from the physical temple, now return and fill this spiritual building which is the Body of Christ on earth.

In chapter 3 of this nine chapter long vision of Ezekiel's, the measuring of the temple continues. The outer area is now measured and we find out that the space required for this temple is too big for the available space. David explains why that is ok, because this is not a temple that is ever going to be physically built. NOTE: In the youtube comments section, @Noniksleft made this correction to...

Ezekiel continues his grand vision and the man with the rod takes him into the most holy place. As the measurements of all the various parts of this grand new temple are advised, one thing becomes clear.... this temple is not going to fit on the existing site of the current temple. What is the reason for these measurements? Is this even a real temple?

Later in Ezekiel's life he has a grand vision, the longest of any in his book. In his vision he sees someone who appears to be Christ, with a measuring reed in his hand, and they set out to explore the land and what seems to be a third temple.... except, the second temple wasn't build yet. What do we make of this visionary temple? There are many theories, and starting with this chapter and the 8 t...

Gog and Magog are misunderstood in scripture, and every commentator seems to have a different belief. What seems clear to David is that when Jesus went to the cross, he defeated the works of Satan, and conquered the kingdoms of the world. In this video we learn that "on the mountains of Israel" when Jesus submitted to the Father, he defeated the devil and led him in triumph, destroying his works....

This is one of the most misunderstood chapters in the Bible, but David believes it is a picture of the great triumph of Jesus over Satan, who in this chapter and the next is called the "Chief Prince" of the nations. Jesus defeats Satan at Calvary and takes the nations back through his atoning work. Gog and Magog are not some combination of Russia, and Iran attacking Israel. That idea is particular...

Have you every tried to raise someone from the dead? What about if there were only bones to work with? In this chapter Ezekiel sees a vision of a valley of bones that becomes a living army. This is the closest you get to a Zombie Apocalypse in the Bible, but is nothing of the sort. What is the interpretation of this remarkable vision? Also, in this video David explains why there is a skull on his...

In the last chapter (Ezekiel 35) God prophecies against one mountain - Mt Seir. But in this chapter God prophecies towards many mountains in the land of Israel - promising many good things including.... that he would pour out the Holy Spirit on them? How exactly does a mountain receive the Holy Spirit? This video explains.

A strange prophecy against.... a mountain? Well the mountain actually represents the Edomites, the people of Edom, the descendants of Esau. God is very annoyed with them for reasons this video will explain.

Ezekiel hears the Lord's frustration against the Shepherds of Israel who only feed and care for themselves, and have little regard for the flock. Then we hear that there is one flock and one true shepherd - which of course is Christ. Watch this video and consider the Shepherd of our Souls, Jesus.

We have heard that at the end of hte world the sun, moon and stars will go out. Jesus said it in Matthew 24. But did you know he was quoting the Old Testament prophets concerning thier prophecies about Egypt, and about Babylon. The lights went out for those nations. Here in the Egypt prophecy we will consider what it means for the lights to go out, and hence what it also meant for Jerusalem in Mat...

The Lord sets Ezekiel as a watchman over the house of Israel. A watchman had a job of alerting when an enemy was approaching, and like Paul Revere, sounding the alarm. But what about spiritual watchman, and our role today?

End time Bible enthusiasts have heard about the prohpecy that the Euphrates River will dry up - but did you know Ezekiel predicts the rivers in Egypt will dry up.... surely not the Nile? In this video we discuss what the symbolism of a river drying up means. It doesn't mean actually going dry right?

Some things are too big to crash, right? We cannot imagine Google going away, or Facebook, or the USA. And yet Egypt in its day was such a big immovable object but in this chapter Ezekiel says they are going down.

In Ezekiel 28 we have a passage of prophecy against the King of Tyre, but it turns out that this "king" is a demonic principality none other than Lucifer. This angelic being was found in Eden and wore a breastplate of twelve precious stones just like the High Priests did in the Temple. What do we make of that? Join us as we explore the Lucifer Prophecy.

Pharoah the king of Egypt is called "that great monster" in this prophecy against Egypt. The Lord says he will put hooks in his jaws and take him away, and Egypt will become the lowest of kingdoms, never to recover its prominent position. Does this happen?

The Phoenicians are described in the most horrible way in the Bible, and the ancient Roman historians agreed. The discovery of a "baby cemetery" at Carthage seems to give evidence that agrees with both the Bible and the Romans. But what was so horrible about Tyre and the Phoenicians? And is this why God proclaimed such judgements against them?

Ezekiel brings four short prophecies against four nearby countries all of which have the same concluding idea - that they would know that He is God. One of the nations, Ammon, looked at what happened to God's people and was delighted - they were so happy that Jerusalem was destroyed, but that terrible attitude brought them down too. In this video we talk about the gods of the nations, and how thes...

Tyre was to have it's walls pulled down, and become a palce for the spreading of nets. How exactly was a city on the mainland, going to become a place where fishing would happen. In this video we explore the amazing fulfilment of a prophecy that occured when Alexander the Great threw the mainland city into the sea to build a land bridge.