How John Created the Ezekiel-Isaiah Draft

The Ezekiel-Isaiah draft was a simple parallel comprising two columns of wax tablets based upon common content found within Ezekiel and Isaiah. The Ezekiel column of wax tablets is one of judgment against a rebellious people and how God dealt with them with the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. The Isaiah column of wax tablets tells the story of Israel’s redemption through a new holy seed, Jesus, from being a child born to the slaying of the great dragon.

Ezekiel Side		Isaiah Side
Ezekiel Introduced (Ezek 1:1-3)

EP1 Ezekiel's Expeirience in Heaven God on the throne (Ezek 1:26-2:2). The living creatures (Ezek 1:4-26). The scroll sweet to the mouth (Ezek 2:8 - 3:3).		IP1 Isaiah's Expeirience in Heaven God on the throne (Isa 6:1). The seraphim (Isa 6:2-7). The altar that removes iniquity when touched to the lips (Isa 6:6-7).

EP2 Ezekiel's Mission Gods do not hear or understand (Ezek 3:4-7). Say “Thus says the Lord” (Ezek 2:4; 3:27).		IP2 Isaiah's Mission God’s people do not hear or understand ( Isa 6:9-10). “Go, and tell this people” (Isa 6:9).

EP3 Ezekiel Appointed as a Watchman God’s people are like briers, thorns and scorpions (Ezek 2:6), God hardens Ezekiel’s head (Ezek 3:8-9). Ezekiel appointed as a watchman (Ezek 3:16-27). End of three ministries and its relation to the siege of Jerusalem (Ezek 4:5-8).		IP3 The New Seed (Jesus the Child) When a tenth of the city is burned God will raise up a new holy seed (Isa 6:10-13). The sign of a woman with child (Isa 7:14-6 ). Three phases of the child’s life is connected to the destruction of Jerusalem (Isa 7:14 - 10:34).

EP4 The Judgments by the Nations The nations will strike in thirds (Ezek 5:2). God’s people give evil decrees (Ezek 5:6-10). The day of the Lord (Ezek 7:7) where God will destroy those without the mark of God on their forehead (Ezek 9:1-11).		IP4 The Judgments by Jesus Jesus will strike in thirds (Ezek 5:16-7). God’s people receive evil decrees (Isa 10:1-19). The day of the Lord (Isa 13:9) where God will darken the sky (Isa 13:10; Ezek 32:7-10).

EP5 The Glory of God Flees Jerusalem Babylon comes, the glory of God flees (Ezek 10:1- 22). Israel at war with nations (Ezek 11:1-13). The Israelites are taken to all nations (Ezek 11:16 - 12:28).		IP5 The Glory of God Triumphs in Heaven (Jesus the True Morning Star) The glory of God triumphs in heaven (Isa 14:1- 12). The nations are at peace (Isa 14:18). The remnants of Israel return (Isa 14:32).

EP6 Jerusalem the Mother of God’s Children The harlot wears expensive clothing (Ezek 16:10-1). The harlot kills God’s children (Ezek 16:20). The harlot is the mother of God’s children (Ezek 16:20).		IP6 Jesus as Eliakim the Father of God’s Children Eliakim wears expensive clothing (Isa 22: 21). Eliakim saves God’s children (Isa 22:21). Eliakim is the father of God’s children (Isa 22:21).

EP7 Tyre Wealth from trading with other nations (Ezek 27:12-22). Their riches became what ruined them (Ezek 27:27). Merchants lamenting, Tyre’s destruction (Ezek 27:27-28:2).		IP7 Tyre (Jesus, a Certain King) Wealth from trading with other nations (Isa 23:1-17). Post-destruction’s wealth will be righteousness (Isa 23:18). Saints rejoicing over Tyre’s destruction (Isa 25:1-6).

EP8 The Slaying of the Great Dragon With a sword (Ezek 29:8). The great dragon finds comfort in his army (Ezek 32:31).		IP8 Jesus Slays the Great Dragon The rod of his mouth (Isa 11:4), a great sword (Isa 27:1). Jesus musters his army from the whole world (Isa 11:10-6).

EP9 Jerusalem Attacked by Gog and Magog Nations come from the north to destroy Jerusalem and God destroys the nations (Ezek 38:1 - 39:29).		IP9 Jerusalem Attacked by a Multitude of Nations Nations come from all over the world to destroy Jerusalem and God destroys the nations (Isa 29:1-21).

EP10 The City of God Jerusalem will be a city that God and the righteous will live in (Ezek 40:1 - 48:35).		IP10 The Holy City of Jerusalem Various descriptions of the Holy City of Jerusalem scattered throughout Isaiah.

The table below shows how John took the story of Eliakim and made it the core of the message to the church in Philadelphia. The primary imagery such as a key that opens doors that are closed and closes doors that are open can be seen in both passages (Isa 22:22; Rev 3:7-8). The imagery of nails on the wall in God's temple (Isa 22:23-4) will become the saints as pillars in God's temple (Rev 3:12).

Isaiah 22:20-25	Revelation 3:7-13
22:20 It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 22:21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22:22 I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open. 22:23 I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house. 22:24 They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers. 22:25 “In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”	3:7 “To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things: 3:8 “I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name. 3:9 Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. 3:10 Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 3:11 I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown. 3:12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name. 3:13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

The table below shows how John constructed many elemetns in the New Jerusalem from the last eight chapters of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 40:1 - 48:35	Revelation 21:1 - 22:5
Ezekiel in a vision was carried to a high mountain in Israel where he saw the City of God (Ezek 40:2).	An angel carried John away in spirit to a great mountain where John saw the New Jeruslam (Rev 21:10).
Ezekiel had a measuring rod (Ezek 40:3). He meaured the walls and the thickness of the building (40:5).	An angel had a golden measuring reed (Rev 21:15).
God dwells in the temple where his throne is (43:7).	God dwells with those in the New Jerusalem (Rev 21:3). God and the Lamb are the temple (Rev ).
The house of Israel will no longe defile God's name with prostitution, sacrificing to high placers, and violating God's orddinances (Ezek 43:7-11).	Those who overcome will live in the New Jerusalem (Rev 21:7-8). Ouside of the New Jerusalem are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who practices falsehood (Rev 22:15).
The city of God has 12 gates named after the 12 tribes of Israel. There are 3 gates on each side of the city of God(Ezek 48:31-4).	The New Jerusalem has 12 gates named after the 12 tribes of Israel. There are 3 gates on each side of the New Jerusalem (Rev 21:12-3).
The city is square measuring 4,500 cubics (1.3 to 1.5 miles) square (Ezek 48:16).	The New Jerusalem is a cube with each side measuring 12,012 stadia (1,380 miles / 2,221 km) (Rev 21:16).
Water comes down from the right side of the house, south of the altar (Ezek 47:1).	A river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb (Rev 22:1).
By the river or its banks . . . . shall grow every tree for food whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fall. It shall produce new fuit every month . . . . Its leaf for healing (Ezek 47:12).	On the side of the river was the tree of life bearing 12 kinds of fruit, yeilding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations (Rev 22:2).