Preface Unlike most previous publications in this series, this book is not the product of Bible Class discussions at Mill Lane Chapel. The notes on which the book is based were originally distributed to members of the assembly which meets at Belmont Hall, Harrow, West London. The distribution took place in connection with Monday evening meetings held there between October 2011 and October 2016. With this in mind, I must take the opportunity to express my deep appreciation of the warm welcome extended to me by the believers at Belmont Hall during these meetings, something, let it be said, that I have enjoyed over many years and on many occasions, and continue to do so. It has been nicely said of the ‘big three’ prophetic books in the Old Testament, that ‘while Isaiah was the poet, and Jeremiah the preacher, Ezekiel was the artist’. Ezekiel certainly paints pictures of glowing colour and graphic detail. He was, moreover, an actor as well as an artist, for he was not only commanded to state his God-given parables, but to act them out in the presence of the people. The same quotation (not surprisingly) is also to be found in the preface to Living with the Glory of the Lord – an excellent book dealing with Ezekiel’s prophecy, written by Malcolm Davis, and published by John Ritchie Ltd. Both Malcolm Davis and the present writer also heartily endorse the title (not to mention the contents!) of Charles Lee Feinberg’s work, The Prophecy of Ezekiel: the Glory of the LORD. During the course of my visits to Belmont Hall, Harrow, I was frequently accompanied by Mr. Ken Lloyd, late of Cheshunt and now ‘at home with the Lord’. Rather than complaining about the traffic during the homeward journey, we ‘chewed the cud’, after which, in the comfort of his home, brother Ken checked not a few of the ‘Ezekiel manuscripts’. The “memory of the just is blessed” (Prov. 10: 7).
