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Ezekiel and Daniel: Babylonian Crisis

  1. Lesson One
    Ezekiel's Prophetic Word (Ezekiel 1–24)
    19 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Ezekiel: Israel's Shame and Restoration (Ezekiel 25–39)
    22 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  3. Lesson Three
    Ezekiel's Distinctive Message (Ezekiel 40–48)
    24 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  4. Lesson Four
    Daniel: Dreams and Prophecies (Daniel 1–3, 9–12)
    18 Activities
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    1 Assessment
  5. Lesson Five
    Daniel: Kings and Kingdoms (Daniel 4–8)
    18 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

Being a superpower comes with responsibilities. There are obvious advantages to having the exports, material or cultural, that other smaller nations want or need, but the risk of becoming an economic bully and exploiting vulnerable peoples for your own benefit is an ever-present temptation. We may tend to identify who we are, and where we live, with the good guys in the Bible story. Considering the example of Tyre and its economic power may lead us to a good place to break that habit. Some of us live in countries that are modern day superpowers faced with a similar temptation to Tyre’s in Ezekiel. And these countries handle that temptation with varying degrees of success. 

  1. Each of us also faces this kind of dilemma on a personal level. In your life, you have advantages; you have leverage. How do you use it? Do you use it like Tyre, or do you live like Ezekiel who is interested in vulnerable people? Rather than exploiting others do you try to bring them back to God?