In the News ... "Ezekiel’s visions still astonish"

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• Sixth Century B.C. prophet imparted warning against idolatry

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - The visions of the Prophet Ezekiel are some of the most evocative in the Old Testament, giving an image of God above “four living creatures” with four faces and four wings each “who sparkled like burnished bronze ...

... God gave Ezekiel, who was about 30 years old and married, a scroll on which were written “words of lamentation and mourning” because the Israelites would be punished for their rebellion, say ministers Leslie Boone of Andrews and William Mark Bristow of Odessa ...

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