Did Ezekiel’s prophecies come true? By Kevin Rogers.
July 23, 2026
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Date(s) - 23/07/2026
7:00 pm
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Online
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The next Reasonable Faith Adelaide (RFA) meeting for 2026 will be part 1 of
Did Ezekiel’s prophecies come true? By Kevin Rogers.
This meeting will start at 7-00 pm on Thursday, the 23rd of July. You can participate in RFA meetings via ZOOM. Please click on the following link to join the meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/78515108298?pwd=ma6A3gTzF6FbREsgtLSyojNgRedn5P.1
Ezekiel has numerous prophecies that he introduces with “Thus says the Lord: Behold…”. He then describes the fate of various people, countries or towns and then concludes with the statement, “Then you will know that I am the Lord”. He is really convinced that God has commissioned him as a prophet and that God has shown him what will take place. He really places his neck on the line by making testable claims, both short term and long term that can be verified. Does he score 100%? Nearly, but not quite. Where he knows that, he admits it! What should we make of that?
A unique feature is that often Ezekiel provides precise dates for some events or prophecies. Eg, he received the vision in chapter 1 on the 5th year, 4th month, 5th day after Jehoiachin’s deportation, which is the 31st of July 593 BC. This allows us to know when the prophesied event occurred relative to its announcement.
The remarkable thing is that many of these prophecies can be shown to be true. Eg the fate of the surrounding countries, like Moab, Edom etc, the decline of Egypt as a superpower, the fates of Sidon and Tyre etc. It shows that God determines the rise and fall of nations. There are too many to cover in a single session and so these will be split into two sessions. Part one will cover the surrounding nations and towns and part 2 will cover prophecies about Israel.
I have always found Ezekiel to be quite a challenging book, and I have learnt a lot about it in preparing this talk. Once you begin to study it, it is not that hard to unravel (with a little help from AI). I have found this book to be very interesting and encouraging. I hope that you will too.
Dr Kevin Rogers is the director of Reasonable Faith Adelaide. He has a wife, 4 children and 8 grandchildren. After a 40-year engineering career, he was a Research Fellow and lecturer with the University of South Australia but is now mainly retired. He is a member and former elder at Ingle Farm Baptist Church, where he plays the guitar and preaches occasionally, often based on material presented at RFA.
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