Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. Ezekiel 1:1
Of the Old Testament prophets, most of them were told by God what to write as the Holy Spirit moved them along; they ‘spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost’ – 2 Peter 1:21. Ezekiel was different; our text refers to visions that he received as the heavens were opened. God caught his attention and gave him instructions by giving him amazing visions that are described in Chapter 1. The whirlwind, fire, the living creatures, the great wheels, and the great rainbow caused the prophet to fall on his face and to harken to the voice that he heard. And it was worth hearing!
You and I will never experience the types of visions that Ezekiel did. But God still has much to tell us, in fact He has many of the same things to teach us that He had to teach Ezekiel. We don’t need the heavens to open and all the visions and their startling elements to appear. We have a Book that we can pick up at any time, and the same God Who revealed great mysteries to Ezekiel is ready to reveal His great truths to us as well. The Holy Spirit delights in teaching the reader of the Scriptures what we could know and what we should know and what we must know. The heavens that were opened to Ezekiel are not closed to us.
Plainly speaking, we do not need visions and revelations today, contrary to what many of the charismatics seem to think. The canon of Scripture is complete. And we have warnings, even in the last chapter of the Revelation, not to add to or take away from what we have been given. Everything God would have us to know, He has already written. – Jim MacIntosh
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