OUR LORD WHO GIVES CLEAR WARNINGS OF DANGER

Ezekiel chapter 4 verses 3 - 5 says this;

Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the people of Israel.

 “Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the people of Israel.

Having already instructed Ezekiel to make a small scale  model  of Jerusalem, the Lord told Ezekiel to create a miniturized  siege against the city complete with siege works, battering rams, ramps and encampments. The Lord then directed Ezekiel to  take an iron pan and place it between the city and himself to enact the siege.

The passage then records that the Lord instructed Ezekiel to lie on the ground  on his left side facing the model of Jerusalem  and to take the sin of Israel onto himself for 390 days which was one day for each year of their sin.

 Ezekiel chapter 4 verse 6 then records Ezekiel being instructed to lie down on his right side but this time, it would be to bear the sin of Judah for 40 days with a day for each year of Judah's sin. The verse reads this way;

“After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.

For a total of 430 days, Ezekiel was to lie facing the scale model of Jerusalem bearing the sin of Israel and of Judah.

This way, the unmistakable message of the impending siege was communicated to the people of Israel and Judah warning of the dreadful conditions that would befall them when the food and water supplies were cut off.

The Lord warned his people with graphic depictions of imminent danger so that they could be prepared.

Amen.