OUR FATHER WHO GIVES WARNINGS OF IMPENDING JUDGEMENT

The book of Ezekiel chapter 4 verse 10 says this;

But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side. You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

The prophet Ezekiel had been instructed by the Lord to lie on the ground for three hundred and ninety days in front of the city of Jerusalem as a sign to them of the siege that was to come against them.

Ezekiel was then instructed to made bread from a variety of grains and this was what he would have to eat for the three hundred and ninety days that he was lying on the ground.

He was then to ration out the bread by taking a set amount of food each day and was to fix the times during the course of the day that the bread could be eaten.

This would represent what the people of Israel would experience when they went into exile by illustrating the scarcity of food as well as the loss of freedom to choose even their own mealtimes 

The coming judgement would expose the people of Israel to the harshness of servitude and Ezekiel demonstrated this to warn the people.

Amen.

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