'Today with the Prophets' series
Clifford Hill has written many Biblical Commentaries on the Old Testament Prophets. More details of each book can be found in the resources section of this website by clicking the links below.
Today with Isaiah Vol 1, 2 and 3
Today with Jeremiah Vol 1 and 2
Today with Ezekiel Vol 1 and 2
Today with Amos, Hosea, and Micah
Report of the TODAY WITH EZEKIEL launch, Thursday 11 April 2024, 7.00pm via Zoom
Over 60 prayer partners and supporters had requested to hear more and join a launch on-line with Clifford Hill and a small team representing those involved in the production of this important new addition in the ‘Today with the Prophets’ series. The team also included Vanessa Edmonds, an IM Trustee, who hosted and recorded the meeting and Tony Whelan who both edited the recording and designed the spectacular artwork for the book covers.
Cliff, now aged 96, has been studying and expounding the messages of the Old Testament Prophets and their relevance for today for many years and 'Ezekiel - the Prophet of the Exile' was his latest, but not his last, contribution.
Nick Szkiler, chair of Issachar Ministries – the ministry distributors, welcomed everyone to the short half-hour on-line presentation, explaining that some parts would be recorded as a video and that these would be followed by a longer unrecorded interactive time when the issues raised could be explored further.
Following prayer, both for the book and for the gathering, Nick spoke about how he saw the studies as being relevant for today and then he introduced the Rev Dr Jock Stein, the academic publisher behind Handsel Press who had personally been involved. He gave his reflections from a publishing perspective, you can read Jock's comments below. Angela Isbister, representing the team of proof readers gave her reflections from the proof-reading perspective, see Angela's comments below. Tom Lennie, Executive Editor of Prophecy Today, had already printed a series of introductory articles to Ezekiel’s messages in a Prophetic Insights series. Tom gave his commendations at the launch (see below).
A video recording was made of the remainder of the open session and is available on request. Cliff expounded on the key scriptures, with a downloadable PowerPoint presentation as a pdf, available below. This was followed by a promotion to purchase the books through Issachar Ministries.
The majority stayed on for more interaction in the unrecorded session which lasted a further hour before closing in prayer. They discussed the specific words and teaching and ministry of Ezekiel, and especially the topicality of the message in Ezekiel 38 and 39 and the relevance of these two chapters for today following the attack of Hamas upon Israel in October 2023 and the following war in Gaza.
Ezekiel is the Prophet of the Exile and has a very special message for today. This commentary builds on the Living in Babylon studies and Living Victoriously in Babylon work book and has been a real joy to develop. By the way Cliff is now well into ‘Today with Amos’ with its message of ‘Justice’ as a follow up!
