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  1. Not just on the streets<\/em>. Ezekiel is grappling with what seems like an informal, popular expression (\u201cParents eat sour grapes and their children\u2019s teeth are blunted\u201d). But if you were following along in previous chapters, you know that intergenerational reward and punishment is also an \u201cofficial position.\u201d \u201c For I the LORD your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who reject Me\u2026\u201d (The ten commandments, Exodus 20:5).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. A reminder from Jeremiah<\/em>. 38 chapters ago (Jeremiah 31), Jeremiah responded to the same popular adage, and promised that there would be a change in the idea of reward and punishment in the future. Ezekiel describes an immediate change; as far as he\u2019s concerned this has always been the divine way of doing things.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Why is this important now<\/em>? Ezekiel\u2019s activities take place on the verge of the inevitable destruction. But who\u2019s guilty? If the people feel that all the suffering isa price being paid for the past, and that they have no way to influence their fate, then despair will reign. Ezekiel gives them personal hope. Everyone is liberated from a sinful past – even his or her own. Everyone, in the generation of the destruction can make for themselves \u201ca new heart and a new spirit,\u201d and live.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. An influential family<\/em>. The righteous grandfather, the evil son, and the righteous grandson, suggest a family well known to the audience. Hezekiah was a righteous king; his evil son Manasseh filled Jerusalem with idolatry, and the righteous third generation, Josiah, ended up implementing sweeping religious reforms. The author of the Book of Kings explains that the destruction of Jerusalem is payment for the sins of Manasseh. This chapter is a response to that view.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Righteous is not the opposite of evil<\/em>. If you compare the criteria for being righteous (verses 6-8) to the criteria for wickedness you\u2019ll discover that a righteous person is not only one who avoids the evil deeds of the wicked. It\u2019s possible to be just ok. In what ways is the righteous superior? 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