Ezekiel 2 – The Message of the First Vision
Jehovah (or whoever speaks to Ezekiel) calls Ezekiel “the Son of Man”. He tells Ezekiel he is sending them to the rebellious “children of Israel” (even though he is in Babylon with Judah). He instructs Ezekiel to do as he is told, speak to the people, and to not be afraid. He presents a scroll to Ezekiel that is filled with “lamentations, mourning, and woe.”
Ezekiel 3
Ezekiel is then instructed to EAT the roll, which he says was sweet like honey (another drug?) Interestingly, Jehovah tells Ezekiel to go to people like him, of his same language (Israel) because if he went to any other people of a different language, those people would be able to “hearken” to him. Israel, he explains, will not.
The Abduction
Ezekiel is then picked up by the fleet of entities going in “bitterness” and the “heat of his spirit” but he was secure by the “strong hand” of Jehovah. A quick look at the Hebrew Interlinear shows he could also be saying “in rage and in distress” so I don’t think Ezekiel was quite comfortable being carried away into the sky.
He hears the roar of the entities/vehicles as they took him away and apparently they dropped him off at a place called Tel-Abib in Babylon by the river Chebar where the captivity was, and he stayed there “astonished” for 7 days. Was he fatigued? Drained from traveling through the skies/space? Interlinear shows he can be saying he sat there “desolate or appalled” at what has just happened to him. After the 7 days Jehovah appears again, giving him a list of “mandates” and “rules” regarding the different aspects of a man sinning after being warned.
Jehovah (or whatever is appearing to Ezekiel) appears to him “in the plain” and Ezekiel falls on the ground. A spirit enters (possesses) him, making him stand up with more instructions: he is soon to talk to the people and until Jehovah possesses him again to speak through him, he will be unable to talk.
Ezekiel 4
In an extremely bizarre scene reminiscent of the army forts I used to play with as a child, Jehovah instructs Ezekiel to strangely draw Jerusalem on a piece of tile, then “lay siege against it” 4:2, complete with battering rams. He is then to take an iron pan and put the pan between himself and the tile and then lay siege to the pan.
4:3 … “This shall be a sign to the house of Israel“
It gets even more bizarre! Ezekiel is to lay on his left side for 390 days representing the bearing of the iniquity of Israel. Once that is over, he flips over to his right side and lays there for 40 days. To ensure he does this properly, Jehovah is going to put him in “bands” (so he can’t move?)
Wait, it gets EVEN MORE BIZARRE! (this is why I seriously think there is some sort of hallucinogenic activities going on here.) Ezekiel is then instructed to make a “bread” out of various food items. His daily “meat” rations are given while he “lays siege” to a piece of tile and a pan, as well as his daily water ration.
4:12 – And thou shalt it eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of a man, in their sight.
WHAT?! He is going to bake it with human dung? Damage control alert: many people say “Oh no, he’s going to burn the human dung in regular fire to bake it, not eat it.” I believe he was to EAT IT, especially based on Ezekiel’s response:
4:14 – Then said I, Ah, Lord Lord (Yahweh Adonay)! behold, my soul hath not been polluted from my youth up even till now have I not *eaten* of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; *neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
Sorry people, the intention here was that Ezekiel was to eat his barley cake like bread with human dung. Jehovah heeds Ezekiel, and instead gives him ANIMAL DUNG!
Jehovah then explains that he will also provide rations of bread and water in Jerusalem, where they will eat and drink with “astonishment” (“desolate or appalled”) Is it possible this “bread” and “water” is affecting the people physically/mentally? Something is very ODD and wrong about what is being described by the author.
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