{"id":632,"date":"2007-03-07T07:02:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T07:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/ezekiel_chapter_3.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:34","slug":"ezekiel_chapter_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/ezekiel_chapter_3.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel- Chapter4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ezekiel 4:4-8 – I wonder if he literally laid on his side, constantly, for 430 days. That’s 14 months. Even if e di, he had to get up to eat (but not much, see next point) and go to the bathroom. Regardless, putting the extent of the punishment of Israel and Judah into these terms, and having him live it would give him an appreciation of how serious it was to God. Those days would be years for them. Not only so, I expect it would give him some sympathy for their plight.
\nEzekiel 4:10-11 – 8 oz – 1\/2 of a pound of bread a day (baked on human<\/strike> cow dung!) and 2\/3 of a quart of water a day.
\nEzekiel 4:16-17 – Jerusalem would not fare better:<\/p>\n

Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply [7] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. <\/p>\n

Ezekiel 4:16<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Imagine eating “by weight and with anxiety<\/em>“. And this was not, as we might like to think of God, for a grand, deep purpose. It was punishment, pure and simple. I believe that God’s heart is ultimately to teach and to care for them, that they would return to Him and that they would be better off, but here there’s no mention of that here: <\/p>\n

I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.<\/p>\n

Ezekiel 4:17<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think I dismiss to easily that God would punish today. I see people receive indirect<\/em> punishment in the consequences of their actions – a baby born to a teenage girl, jail time for the thief, etc – but I tend to dismiss outright the idea that God would send hardships or pain simple for punishment. Certainly, it’s dangerous to pull one or two verses out of an OT book and say “See, Gos punishes us.” or even worse, “See, God punishes and He is punishing you now.”
\nI tend to want to see God as watching more than acting. He’s set up the world to provide punishment for us when we stray. But that’s certainly not the God of the OT, but it’s not the God of the NT either who struck down Ananias and Sapphira for their lies. We cannot point to our trouble and pin it on God as punishment necessarily (doing so is frequently a cop out), but neither can we dismiss the idea, saying God isn’t like that anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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