The Bible contains a lot of questions, and it doesn’t always provide satisfactory answers. So I’ve been answering some of the Bible’s questions myself. This time, I’m looking at questions from the book of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel asks God: Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem? Answer: No. As he just said, the killers won’t touch anyone who has the mark. Weren’t you listening?

God expects that the Israelites have asked Ezekiel: What are you doing? Answer: Ineffectively trying to tell the people something by sort of acting it out, because his God won’t let him communicate normally.

God says his people ask: Why does the son not share the guilt of his father? Answer: Because they’re not the same person?

Ezekiel says the people ask: Isn’t he just telling parables? Answer: Ezekiel does tell quite a few parables, but that’s not all he does. So no.

God expects that his people will ask Ezekiel: Why are you groaning? Answer: Because his God couldn’t think of a better way to get his message across.

God expects sailors to ask: Who was ever silenced like Tyre? Answer: Plenty have been, I’m sure. Especially if by “like Tyre” you mean “unsuccessfully“.

God tells Ezekiel to inform the Israelites that the Israelites are asking: Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live? Answer: By not doing that?

God expects Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all the villages of Tarshish to ask Gog of Magog: Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder? Answer: Yeah, that’s pretty much what he just said he was going to do.