Doctrine Analysis
Doctrine Analysis: Ezekiel for Spanish Translation
This document is the full-book doctrine matrix for the Ezekiel curriculum, produced in strict consistency with doctrine_risk_registry.json (same doctrines, same risk tiers, same review routing). It supplies the supporting-passage detail and chapter-by-chapter coverage mandated by the PRD Phase 1 full-book coverage rule. No new doctrines or risk tiers are introduced here beyond what doctrine_risk_registry.json already establishes; this file expands that registry into passage-level and chapter-level detail for Phase 2 planning.
The core passage, Ezekiel 37:1-14 (the Valley of Dry Bones), is the curriculum’s theological anchor and the controlling case study for the two Critical doctrines most acutely in tension for Spanish-speaking audiences: (1) the collapse risk between national-covenantal “vivir” (chayah) and the baseline’s reserved “resucitar” (Christ’s unique bodily resurrection), and (2) the live Espiritismo/Santería syncretism risk around imagery of bones and breath re-entering corpses. Both are addressed in full below, but the matrix as a whole spans Ezekiel 1-48.
Part A — Full Doctrine Matrix
| # | Doctrine | Spanish Doctrine Name | Risk | Supporting Passages (Ezekiel) | Translation Risk Summary | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Glory and Sovereignty of God | la gloria y la soberanía de Dios | Critical | 1:1-28; 6:7-14; 8:1-18; 10:1-22; 11:22-23; 20:1-44; 36:22-23; 38:23; 43:1-5 | ”Gloria” must be elevated far beyond the baseline’s Medium-risk Romans usage; the recognition formula “sabrán que yo soy Jehová” (~70+ occurrences) must be rendered identically at every occurrence or the book’s structural argument collapses. Risk of drifting into generic devotional “gloria a Dios” exclamation that loses the self-authenticating, courtroom-like force of the formula. | Human theologian |
| 2 | God’s Presence Departing and Returning | la partida y el regreso de la presencia de Dios | Critical | 8:1-18; 9:1-11; 10:1-22; 11:22-23; 43:1-12; 48:35 | The book’s narrative spine (departure ↔ return) must use matched, parallel Spanish vocabulary. Catholic-majority learners accustomed to Eucharistic “Real Presence” theology risk collapsing Ezekiel’s historical-narrative temple-glory movement into sacramental theology; must be taught as a distinct historical arc. | Human theologian |
| 3 | Individual Responsibility for Sin (Ezekiel 18) | la responsabilidad individual por el pecado | Critical | 3:16-21; 14:12-20; 18:1-32; 33:1-20 | The single highest doctrinal-collision risk in the curriculum: Ezekiel 18’s behavioral-covenantal “justo/impío” must be explicitly disambiguated from the baseline’s forensic imputed-righteousness doctrine (Romans 3-5), since both use the Spanish “justicia/justo” word family. Mandatory disambiguating note required at every occurrence in these chapters. | Human theologian |
| 4 | The New Heart and New Spirit | el corazón nuevo y el espíritu nuevo | High | 11:19-20; 36:25-27; 37:14 | God’s unilateral, sovereign transplant of the inner disposition risks assimilation into a sacramentally-mediated, progressively-cooperated renewal (confirmation, ongoing penance) in Catholic-majority contexts — the same caution the baseline records for “gracia.” The cleansing-water image (36:25) risks over-identification with Christian baptism rather than being taught as typological anticipation. | Human theologian |
| 5 | Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations | el juicio sobre Jerusalén y las naciones | High | 4:1-7:27; 12:1-28; 15:1-17:24; 19:1-14; 21:1-23:49; 24:1-27; 25:1-32:32; 35:1-15 | The largest span of the book by chapter count. Chief risk is softening covenantal wrath/vengeance into either capricious anger or sanctioned human retribution, both distorting the judicial, righteous character of divine judgment already anchored in the baseline’s “righteousness” and “power_of_god” entries. The harlotry metaphor (chs.16, 23, folded in here) requires a note distinguishing corporate covenant metaphor from literal individual moral accusation. | Human theologian |
| 6 | Restoration and the Valley of Dry Bones | la restauración y el valle de los huesos secos | Critical | 34:1-31; 36:1-38; 37:1-28 | CORE-PASSAGE DOCTRINE. Two distinct Critical risks: (a) premature collapse of “vivir”/chayah into the baseline’s reserved “resucitar” before the vision’s own controlling interpretation (37:11, “toda la casa de Israel”) is taught; (b) in Caribbean/Latin American Espiritismo- and Santería-influenced contexts, bone-reassembly and breath-re-entering-corpse imagery carries a live risk of being read through a necromantic or mediumship lens rather than as God’s sole sovereign act. | Human theologian |
| 7 | The Vision of the New Temple | la visión del nuevo templo | Medium | 40:1-42:20; 43:13-46:24; 47:1-48:35 | Extended architectural measurement (chs.40-42) itself communicates ordered holiness; low independent lexical risk, but the deliberate “príncipe” (never “rey”) terminology for the restoration ruler must be preserved, since the term-shift carries a chastened-monarchy theological point relevant to messianic teaching. | Native speaker |
| 8 | Prophetic Call and Commission | el llamado y la comisión profética | Medium | 1:1-3:27 | Establishes “hijo de hombre” (93 occurrences) as the book’s humility-address. Must never be capitalized/articled as “el Hijo del Hombre,” which Gospel-literate Spanish readers will instantly read as Christ’s messianic self-designation (Daniel 7:13; the Gospels). Surrounding commission narrative carries no independent Critical freight beyond this term collision. | Native speaker |
| 9 | Covenant Unfaithfulness as Harlotry | la infidelidad al pacto como fornicación figurada | High | 16:1-63; 23:1-49 | The marriage-covenant metaphor for idolatry must retain shock value without being sanitized into vague “unfaithfulness” or misapplied as literal accusation against individual women — a real pastoral risk where such shaming language has historically been weaponized against women specifically. Requires a corporate-metaphor teaching note. | Human theologian |
| 10 | False Prophecy versus the True Prophetic Word | la falsa profecía frente a la verdadera palabra profética | Medium | 13:1-23 | Distinguishes divinely-given prophecy from self-generated religious speech, directly relevant to ongoing charismatic/folk-prophetic movements in Spanish-speaking evangelicalism. The ironic “paz, y no hay paz” must be flagged as denounced false assurance, not an affirmation of the baseline’s “peace with God” doctrine. | Native speaker |
| 11 | Divine Jealousy and the Holiness of God’s House | los celos divinos y la santidad de la casa de Dios | Medium | 8:1-18; 9:1-11 | God’s jealousy must be framed as righteous covenant jealousy — the exclusive claim of a covenant Lord on his people’s worship — not human possessiveness, which “celos” can connote colloquially in everyday Spanish. | Native speaker |
| 12 | The Watchman and Prophetic Responsibility | el atalaya y la responsabilidad profética | High | 3:16-21; 33:1-9 | Extends individual accountability to the prophet’s own ministry. “Atalaya” must be rendered identically at both occurrences; any drift toward a purely institutional-clergy reading would narrow a warning-responsibility Ezekiel applies more broadly than to ordained office alone. | Human theologian |
| 13 | The Davidic Shepherd-King Promise | la promesa del pastor-rey davídico | High | 34:1-31; 37:24-25 | The promised future “David” is not the historical king returning but a Davidic figure fulfilled in Christ. Failing to distinguish this from a literalistic expectation of the historical king’s own resurrection would create confusion given this curriculum’s careful “vivir”/“resucitar” distinction elsewhere in the same oracles. | Human theologian |
| 14 | The Everlasting Covenant of Peace | el pacto eterno de paz | Medium | 16:60; 34:25; 37:26 | Restoration rests on God’s own unilateral faithfulness, not Israel’s merit, paralleling the baseline’s grace doctrine. Render “pacto eterno” identically at every occurrence for cross-passage consistency. | Native speaker |
| 15 | Pride and Self-Deification | el orgullo y la autodeificación | Medium | 28:1-19 | The king of Tyre’s claim “yo soy un dios” is the paradigmatic sin judged by the God who alone is sovereign. Eden/cherub imagery (28:12-13) carries a documented high risk of popular over-reading as a literal biography of Satan’s fall in Spanish-language folk teaching; requires a caution note despite the core lesson’s own low lexical risk. | Native speaker |
| 16 | Sheol and the Realm of the Dead | el Seol y el reino de los muertos | Critical | 31:14-18; 32:17-32 | Spanish-speaking audiences will almost certainly read “el Seol” through the lens of Catholic-tradition “el infierno” (fiery torment) or “el purgatorio” (temporal purification), both carrying theological content absent from the Hebrew she’ol (a shadowy, communal realm of all the dead). Requires an explicit clarifying note at every occurrence. | Human theologian |
| 17 | Reunification of Israel and Judah | la reunificación de Israel y Judá | Medium | 37:15-28 | Extends the dry-bones vision’s national-restoration meaning to the reunification of the divided kingdoms; requires Old Testament background (the divided monarchy) many nominal Spanish-speaking Christian learners were never catechized in. | Native speaker |
| 18 | Gog and Magog: Eschatological Judgment | Gog y Magog: el juicio escatológico | Medium | 38:1-39:29 | Shares idiom with NT eschatological “last days” language but must not be taught as a one-to-one identification of Gog/Magog with any specific modern nation or geopolitical event — a live and recurring temptation in popular Spanish-language prophecy teaching and media across Latin America and Spain. | Native speaker |
| 19 | The River of Life and the Renewal of Creation | el río de vida y la renovación de la creación | Medium | 47:1-12 | The temple river’s healing of the Dead Sea extends restoration to creation itself; teach the legitimate but non-identical typological trajectory toward Revelation 22:1-2 without collapsing the two texts into equivalence. | Native speaker |
| 20 | Inheritance and the Allotment of the Land | la herencia y el reparto de la tierra | Medium | 48:1-29 | Echoes the Joshua-era land allotment as an ordered “second conquest” gift; may be connected to the baseline’s adoption/inheritance doctrine, but the immediate referent is literal tribal territory, not the NT believer’s spiritual inheritance. A purely “spiritualized” reading that erases the literal historical referent must be avoided. | Native speaker |
| 21 | God Sanctifying His Own Name Before the Nations | Dios santifica su nombre delante de las naciones | High | 20:1-44; 36:22-23; 38:23 | Reuses the baseline’s “santificación” root for a DIFFERENT referent: God vindicating his own holiness/reputation before the nations, not believers being made holy. Learners catechized on the baseline’s personal-sanctification doctrine risk misreading these passages as statements about their own inner transformation. Requires explicit disambiguation at every occurrence. | Human theologian |
Part B — Full Chapter-by-Chapter Coverage Map (Ezekiel 1-48)
Per the PRD full-book-coverage mandate, every chapter is accounted for below, either as a primary supporting passage for a doctrine in Part A, or explicitly noted as reviewed with no new load-bearing doctrinal or terminological content beyond what an adjoining doctrine already covers.
| Chapter(s) | Doctrine(s) Engaged | Coverage Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | #8 Prophetic Call and Commission; #1 Glory and Sovereignty | Inaugural throne-chariot vision; establishes “gloria de Jehová” and “hijo de hombre” address (2:1, but vision begins in ch.1). Reviewed — foundational, no additional new terms beyond #1/#8. |
| 2-3 | #8 Prophetic Call and Commission; #12 Watchman (3:16-21) | Commissioning, scroll-eating, first watchman charge. |
| 4-7 | #5 Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations | Siege sign-acts, famine, sword, the “day of Jehová” oracles. Reviewed — no new doctrine beyond #5. |
| 8-9 | #2 God’s Presence Departing; #11 Divine Jealousy and Holiness | Temple abominations, the jealousy-provoking image, the departure sequence begins; executioners sent through Jerusalem. |
| 10 | #2 God’s Presence Departing; #1 Glory and Sovereignty | The glory departs the threshold to the cherubim/wheels; the book’s most vivid glory-departure imagery. |
| 11 | #2 God’s Presence Departing (11:22-23); #4 New Heart and New Spirit (11:19-20) | Glory departs the city over the Mount of Olives; first “corazón nuevo/espíritu nuevo” promise. |
| 12 | #5 Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations | Sign-act of exile enacted before the people. Reviewed — no new doctrine beyond #5. |
| 13 | #10 False Prophecy versus the True Prophetic Word | Whitewashing false prophets and prophetesses; ironic false “peace.” |
| 14 | #3 Individual Responsibility for Sin (14:12-20) | Noah/Daniel/Job case: each righteous person delivers only himself, not others by proxy. |
| 15 | #5 Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations | Vine-wood parable of Jerusalem’s uselessness. Reviewed — no new doctrine beyond #5. |
| 16 | #9 Covenant Unfaithfulness as Harlotry; #14 Everlasting Covenant of Peace (16:60) | Extended marriage-covenant/harlotry allegory; first “pacto eterno” promise embedded within judgment oracle. |
| 17 | #5 Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations | Eagles-and-vine political allegory (Babylon/Egypt intrigue). Reviewed — no new doctrine beyond #5. |
| 18 | #3 Individual Responsibility for Sin | THE chapter-length treatment: “the soul who sins shall die”; rejection of inherited-guilt proverb; call to turn (shuv) and live. |
| 19 | #5 Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations | Lament for the princes of Israel (lion/vine dirge). Reviewed — no new doctrine beyond #5. |
| 20 | #1 Glory and Sovereignty; #21 Sanctify God’s Name | Historical recital of rebellion “for my name’s sake”; God acts to protect his own reputation among the nations. |
| 21-23 | #5 Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations; #9 Covenant Unfaithfulness as Harlotry (ch.23) | Sword oracle, Ammon/Jerusalem judgment, Oholah/Oholibah sister-harlotry allegory extending ch.16’s metaphor. |
| 24 | #5 Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations | The boiling pot; sign-act of Ezekiel’s wife’s death as enacted grief for the temple’s fall. Reviewed — no new doctrine beyond #5. |
| 25-32 | #5 Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations; #16 Sheol and the Realm of the Dead (31, 32); #15 Pride and Self-Deification (28) | Oracles against Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre, Sidon, Egypt; Tyre’s king’s self-deifying pride (28:1-19); Egypt’s and Assyria’s descent to Sheol (31, 32). |
| 33 | #3 Individual Responsibility for Sin; #12 Watchman and Prophetic Responsibility | Watchman charge renewed after Jerusalem’s fall; individual responsibility restated as the exile community’s pressing pastoral question. |
| 34 | #6 Restoration and the Valley of Dry Bones; #13 Davidic Shepherd-King Promise | Indictment of false shepherds; God himself will shepherd; promise of “my servant David.” |
| 35 | #5 Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations | Oracle against Mount Seir/Edom. Reviewed — folded into the judgment-on-the-nations doctrine; no independent new term or doctrine. |
| 36 | #6 Restoration and the Valley of Dry Bones; #4 New Heart and New Spirit; #21 Sanctify God’s Name | Land restored; new heart/new spirit and cleansing water repeated; God sanctifies his name before the nations (36:22-23). |
| 37 | #6 Restoration and the Valley of Dry Bones (37:1-14, CORE PASSAGE); #17 Reunification of Israel and Judah (37:15-28); #13 Davidic Shepherd-King Promise (37:24-25); #14 Everlasting Covenant of Peace (37:26); #4 New Heart and New Spirit (37:14) | The Valley of Dry Bones vision and its interpretive key (“toda la casa de Israel,” v.11); the two-sticks reunification sign-act; convergence point of nearly every major doctrine in the curriculum. |
| 38-39 | #18 Gog and Magog: Eschatological Judgment; #21 Sanctify God’s Name (38:23) | Climactic eschatological judgment oracle against Gog; God’s holiness vindicated before the nations. |
| 40-42 | #7 The Vision of the New Temple | Extended measured tour of the new sanctuary’s outer/inner courts and chambers. Reviewed — folded into #7; no independent new doctrine beyond the temple vision. |
| 43 | #2 God’s Presence Departing and Returning (43:1-12); #7 Vision of the New Temple | The glory returns to the new temple by the east gate, explicitly reversing the ch.10-11 departure. |
| 44-46 | #7 The Vision of the New Temple | Priestly/Levitical regulations, the prince’s role, offerings and feasts in the new temple order. Reviewed — folded into #7; the “príncipe” (not “rey”) terminology is the one load-bearing translation point already captured in #7. |
| 47 | #19 The River of Life and the Renewal of Creation | Life-giving river flows from the temple, healing the Dead Sea. |
| 48 | #20 Inheritance and the Allotment of the Land; #2 God’s Presence Departing and Returning (48:35, “Jehová está allí”) | Tribal land allotment; the book’s climactic closing name resolving the departure/return doctrine. |
Part C — Risk Tier Alignment Check (Cross-Reference to doctrine_risk_registry.json)
This matrix contains the identical 21 doctrines, identical risk tiers, and identical review routing as doctrine_risk_registry.json version 1. No doctrine or tier has been added, removed, or reassigned. The additions in this document are: (1) fuller supporting-passage listings per doctrine where the registry used chapter ranges, and (2) the chapter-by-chapter coverage map in Part B, which the registry’s notes field references but does not itself enumerate.
| Risk Tier | Doctrine Count | Review Routing |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | 5 | Human theologian review required for every occurrence |
| High | 6 | Human theologian review required |
| Medium | 10 | Native speaker review recommended |
| Low | 0 | — |
Note: this document counts Critical doctrines as 5 (glory_and_sovereignty_of_god, gods_presence_departing_and_returning, individual_responsibility_for_sin, restoration_and_valley_of_dry_bones, sheol_and_the_realm_of_the_dead) based on the per-doctrine risk field in doctrine_risk_registry.json. This is flagged for reconciliation with that file’s risk_summary.Critical value of 6, which appears to be a summation artifact; the per-doctrine tiers themselves are the operative data for Phase 2 routing and are reproduced faithfully above.
This document must be loaded alongside 08_core_glossary.md, translation_memory.json, bible_term_registry.json, and doctrine_risk_registry.json for all Phase 2 Ezekiel translation planning.
Critical Risk Doctrines
The Glory and Sovereignty of God
Spanish name: la gloria y la soberanía de Dios
Key terms: glory of the LORD, Lord GOD, recognition formula, for my name’s sake, sanctified and glorified
Review routing: Human theologian
The book’s structural doctrine, expressed through ‘gloria de Jehová’ and the ~70-times-repeated recognition formula ‘sabrán que yo soy Jehová.’ Because this must be elevated to Critical beyond the baseline’s Medium-risk ‘gloria’ entry, any drift toward a generic devotional ‘gloria a Dios’ exclamation, or any inconsistent rendering of the recognition formula across lessons, would flatten the book’s entire narrative-theological argument that God’s acts of judgment and restoration alike self-authenticate his supreme identity.
God’s Presence Departing and Returning
Spanish name: la partida y el regreso de la presencia de Dios
Key terms: glory departed/returned, cherubim, wheels, place of my throne, dwelling place, the LORD is there
Review routing: Human theologian
This is the book’s narrative spine: departure (chs.8-11) answered by return (ch.43) and climaxed in the closing name ‘Jehová está allí’ (48:35). Spanish-speaking learners, especially those from Catholic-majority backgrounds accustomed to a tabernacle/Real Presence framework centered on the consecrated Host, must be taught that Ezekiel’s temple-glory departure/return is a distinct historical-narrative movement, not to be collapsed into or confused with later eucharistic real-presence theology. Failure to render the departure/return vocabulary with matched, parallel Spanish terms would also obscure the Hebrew’s own deliberate structural symmetry.
Individual Responsibility for Sin
Spanish name: la responsabilidad individual por el pecado
Key terms: righteous/wicked, soul/person, turn/repent, iniquity of the father, watchman
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: this is the single highest doctrinal-collision risk in the entire curriculum. Ezekiel 18’s behavioral-covenantal ‘justo/impío’ language, if taught without an explicit disambiguating note, will either be flattened by learners into the baseline’s forensic imputed-righteousness doctrine (Romans 3-5), producing a legalistic misreading of Ezekiel, or will be wrongly cited to argue against justification by faith. Both errors are live risks precisely because both Romans and Ezekiel use the same Spanish word family (‘justicia/justo’) for two theologically distinct categories within one Language Package.
Restoration and the Valley of Dry Bones
Spanish name: la restauración y el valle de los huesos secos
Key terms: dry bones, house of Israel, chayah/live, graves, one nation, everlasting covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
The curriculum’s core-passage doctrine carries two distinct Critical risks for Spanish-speaking audiences: (1) premature collapse of national/covenantal restoration language (‘vivir,’ ‘you shall live’) into the baseline’s reserved ‘resucitar’ terminology for Christ’s unique bodily resurrection, before the vision’s own controlling interpretation (37:11, ‘toda la casa de Israel’) is taught; and (2) in Caribbean and broader Latin American contexts with active Espiritismo and Santería, the imagery of reassembling bones and breath re-entering corpses carries a live risk of being read through a necromantic or mediumship lens rather than as God’s sole sovereign act.
Sheol and the Realm of the Dead
Spanish name: el Seol y el reino de los muertos
Key terms: Sheol/the Pit, dragon/sea monster
Review routing: Human theologian
CRITICAL: Spanish-speaking audiences will almost certainly read ‘el Seol’ through the lens of Catholic-tradition ‘el infierno’ (fiery torment) or ‘el purgatorio’ (temporal post-mortem purification), both of which carry theological content and later doctrinal development absent from the Hebrew she’ol, which denotes a shadowy, communal realm of all the dead. Every occurrence requires an explicit clarifying note.
High Risk Doctrines
The New Heart and New Spirit
Spanish name: el corazón nuevo y el espíritu nuevo
Key terms: new heart, new spirit, heart of stone/flesh, sprinkle clean water
Review routing: Human theologian
God’s unilateral, sovereign transplant of the inner disposition risks being assimilated, in Catholic-majority Spanish-speaking contexts, into a sacramentally-mediated, progressively-cooperated renewal (confirmation, ongoing penance) rather than taught as God’s own unmediated gift — the same caution the baseline records for ‘gracia.’ The cleansing-water imagery (36:25) additionally risks over-identification with the specific Christian rite of baptism rather than being taught as its OT typological anticipation.
Judgment on Jerusalem and the Nations
Spanish name: el juicio sobre Jerusalén y las naciones
Key terms: abomination, idols, wrath, sword, bloodshed, vengeance, nations, the end, rebellious house
Review routing: Human theologian
Spans the largest portion of the book by chapter count. The chief translation risk is softening God’s covenantal wrath and vengeance into either capricious anger or, conversely, into sanctioned human retribution; both distortions misrepresent the judicial, righteous character of divine judgment the baseline already establishes for ‘righteousness’ and ‘power_of_god.’ The harlotry metaphor (chs.16, 23) additionally requires a note distinguishing theological metaphor for idolatry from literal, individual moral accusation, to avoid pastoral misapplication.
Covenant Unfaithfulness as Harlotry
Spanish name: la infidelidad al pacto como fornicación figurada
Key terms: covenant, harlotry, everlasting covenant
Review routing: Human theologian
The marriage-covenant metaphor for idolatry is deliberately shocking and must retain its force in Spanish without being either sanitized into vague ‘unfaithfulness’ or, conversely, misapplied as literal accusation against individual women — a real pastoral risk in cultures where such shaming language has historically been weaponized against women specifically. A teaching note framing this as corporate covenant metaphor is required.
The Watchman and Prophetic Responsibility
Spanish name: el atalaya y la responsabilidad profética
Key terms: watchman, shofar/trumpet, turn/repent
Review routing: Human theologian
Extends individual accountability to the prophet’s own ministry, not only to hearers. The rendering ‘atalaya’ must be identical at both occurrences (ch.3 and ch.33); any drift toward a purely institutional-clergy reading (e.g., limiting the warning role to ordained priests) would narrow a doctrine Ezekiel applies more broadly to anyone entrusted with proclaiming God’s warning.
The Davidic Shepherd-King Promise
Spanish name: la promesa del pastor-rey davídico
Key terms: my servant David, shepherds/sheep, prince
Review routing: Human theologian
The promised future ‘David’ (34:23-24) is not the historical king returning but a Davidic figure ultimately fulfilled in Christ; failing to distinguish this from a literalistic expectation of the historical king’s resurrection would create confusion given this curriculum’s own careful distinction between ‘vivir’ and ‘resucitar’ elsewhere in the same restoration oracles.
God Sanctifying His Own Name Before the Nations
Spanish name: Dios santifica su nombre delante de las naciones
Key terms: sanctify God’s name, for my name’s sake, sanctified and glorified
Review routing: Human theologian
Reuses the baseline’s ‘santificación’ root but for a DIFFERENT referent: God vindicating his own holiness/reputation before the nations, not believers being made holy. Spanish-speaking learners catechized on the baseline’s personal-sanctification doctrine risk misreading these passages as statements about their own inner transformation rather than God’s self-vindication; requires explicit disambiguation at every occurrence.
Medium Risk Doctrines
The Vision of the New Temple
Spanish name: la visión del nuevo templo
Key terms: sanctuary/temple, priests/Levites, prince, river of life, inheritance
Review routing: Native speaker review
The extended architectural measurements (chs.40-42) themselves communicate that God’s presence requires ordered, careful holiness; low independent lexical risk, but the deliberate ‘príncipe’ (not ‘rey’) terminology for the restoration ruler must be preserved rather than flattened, since the term-shift itself carries a chastened-monarchy theological point relevant to messianic teaching.
Prophetic Call and Commission
Spanish name: el llamado y la comisión profética
Key terms: son of man, hand of the LORD, scroll, word of the LORD
Review routing: Native speaker review
Establishes ‘hijo de hombre’ as the book’s address of humility (93 occurrences) — a term that must never be capitalized or articled as ‘el Hijo del Hombre,’ which Spanish-speaking Gospel-literate audiences will instantly read as Christ’s messianic self-designation. This confusion risk, while flagged at Critical for the term itself in the glossary, is treated as Medium at the doctrine level since the surrounding commission narrative carries no independent Critical doctrinal freight beyond that specific term collision.
False Prophecy versus the True Prophetic Word
Spanish name: la falsa profecía frente a la verdadera palabra profética
Key terms: false prophets, peace (false), whitewash, word of the LORD
Review routing: Native speaker review
Distinguishes divinely-given prophecy from self-generated religious speech, directly relevant to ongoing charismatic and folk-prophetic movements in Spanish-speaking evangelicalism; the ironic ‘peace, when there is no peace’ must be flagged as denounced false assurance, not an affirmation of the baseline’s ‘peace with God’ doctrine.
Divine Jealousy and the Holiness of God’s House
Spanish name: los celos divinos y la santidad de la casa de Dios
Key terms: jealousy, abomination, idols
Review routing: Native speaker review
God’s jealousy must be framed as righteous covenant jealousy — the exclusive claim of a covenant Lord on his people’s worship — not human possessiveness, which ‘celos’ can connote colloquially in everyday Spanish usage.
The Everlasting Covenant of Peace
Spanish name: el pacto eterno de paz
Key terms: everlasting covenant, covenant of peace
Review routing: Native speaker review
Restoration rests on God’s own unilateral faithfulness, not Israel’s merit, paralleling the baseline’s grace doctrine; render ‘pacto eterno’ identically at every occurrence for cross-passage consistency.
Pride and Self-Deification
Spanish name: el orgullo y la autodeificación
Key terms: pride, seal of perfection / in Eden
Review routing: Native speaker review
The king of Tyre’s claim ‘I am a god’ is the paradigmatic sin judged by the God who alone is sovereign. The Eden/cherub imagery of 28:12-13 carries a documented high risk of popular over-reading as a literal biography of Satan’s fall in Spanish-language folk teaching; a caution note is required even though the doctrine’s core lesson (self-deification judged) is not itself high-risk to translate.
Reunification of Israel and Judah
Spanish name: la reunificación de Israel y Judá
Key terms: one nation, king/prince, two sticks
Review routing: Native speaker review
Extends the dry-bones vision’s national-restoration meaning to reunification of the divided kingdoms; requires OT background (the divided monarchy) many nominal Spanish-speaking Christian learners were never catechized in.
Gog and Magog: Eschatological Judgment
Spanish name: Gog y Magog: el juicio escatológico
Key terms: latter days, sanctified and glorified
Review routing: Native speaker review
Shares idiom with NT eschatological ‘last days’ language but must not be taught as a one-to-one identification of Gog/Magog with any specific modern nation or geopolitical event — a live and recurring temptation in popular Spanish-language prophecy teaching and media across Latin America and Spain.
The River of Life and the Renewal of Creation
Spanish name: el río de vida y la renovación de la creación
Key terms: river of life, healed
Review routing: Native speaker review
The temple river’s healing of the Dead Sea extends restoration to creation itself; teach the legitimate but non-identical typological trajectory toward Revelation 22:1-2 without collapsing the two texts into equivalence.
Inheritance and the Allotment of the Land
Spanish name: la herencia y el reparto de la tierra
Key terms: inheritance, tribes
Review routing: Native speaker review
Echoes the Joshua-era land allotment as a fresh, ordered ‘second conquest’ gift rather than a chaotic return; may be connected in teaching to the baseline’s adoption/inheritance doctrine, though the immediate referent is literal tribal territory, not the NT believer’s spiritual inheritance — the distinction must be kept clear to avoid a purely ‘spiritualized’ reading that erases the text’s literal historical referent.
Referenced passages