Now that is an interesting connection, one I have not noticed before. Thanks LLoJ!
Your welcome and thanks for posting.
Ezekiel is a deep book......Goes with Revelation like white on rice.......
Ezekiel 37:9
And He saith unto me: 'Prophesy! unto the Spirit, prophesy! son of adam, and thou hast said
unto the Spirit/breath:
Thus said my Lord Yahweh: From the
four winds come in, O Spirit,
and breathe on these slain, and they do live.'
Matthew 24:31
and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together his chosen/elect from the
four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.
Coincidentally, both of these chapters have the same chapter number:
Ezekiel 7:
1 And a Word of Yahweh is becoming to me to say of, `And thou, Son of 'adam! thus says Adonay Yahweh to
ground of Yisra'el:
2 An End! comes,
the End on four corners of the land.
3 Now the End upon thee, and I send My anger in thee, and I judge thee as ways of thee,
and I give on thee all abominations/08441 tow`ebah of thee.
Revelation 7:1
After these things I saw four Messengers standing at the
four corners of the land,
holding
the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the land, on the sea, or on any tree.
Allusions in Revelation from Old Testament
One man studied and found
348 allusions (not illusions, Light)
in Revelation
from the Old Testament. You see the similarity in wording and the context mirrored in Revelation and the particular Old Testament story, and immediately can recognize the reference source!
That's IF you know the bible well enough to even notice that.
95 of the 348 plain references used in Revelation as taken from the Old Testament are repeated in Revelation.
That makes about 250 Old Testament passages are cited. How many chapters are in Revelation? 22. That makes about TEN OLD TESTAMENT REFERENCES FOR EVERY CHAPTER!
EZEKIEL AND REVELATION PARALLEL
1. THRONE VISION - (Rev 4./Ezek 1).
2. THE BOOK (Rev 5/Ezek 2-3)
3. THE PLAGUES (Rev 6:1-8/Ezek 5).
4. Slain Beneath the Altar (Rev. 6:9-11/Ezek. 6)
5. WRATH OF GOD (Rev 6:12-17/Ezek 7).
6. SEAL ON SAINTS' FOREHEADS (Rev 7/Ezek 9)
7. COALS FROM ALTAR (Rev. 8/Ezek 10).
8. NO MORE DELAY (Rev. 10:1-7/Ezek 12).
9. EATING THE BOOK (Rev 10:8-11/Ezek. 2)
11. MEASURING THE TEMPLE (Rev. 11:1-2/Ezek. 40-43)
11. JERUSALEM AND SODOM (Rev. 11:8/Ezek 16)
12. CUP OF WRATH (Rev. 14/Ezek. 23).
13. VINE OF THE LAND (Rev. 14:18-20/Ezek 15)
14. GREAT HARLOT (Rev 17-18/Ezek. 16, 23).
15. LAMENT OVER THE CITY (Rev. 18/Ezek 27)
16. SCAVENGER'S FEAST (Rev. 19/Ezek 39)
17. FIRST RESURRECTION (Rev 20:4-6/Ezek 37).
18 BATTLE WITH GOG AND MAGOG (Rev. 20:7-9/Ezek 38-39)
19. NEW JERUSALEM (Rev 21/Ezek 40-48)
20. RIVER OF LIFE (Rev 22/Ezek 47)
