Ezekiel 4:12-17 (New International Version)
12 Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.” 13 The LORD said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”
14 Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
15 “Very well,” he said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow manure instead of human excrement.”
16 He then said to me: “Son of man, I will cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair, 17 for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of [a] their sin.
And here is the explanation and inspiration for this site:
I’ve studied this passage a few times back in my Christian Hay-Day
This is something the old school god did rather consistantly throughout the scriptures. He’d take a prophet, ruin their lives, and say it was an object lesson for the people of Israel. In this case, God is asking Eziekal defile himself because of either something Israel did, or is going to do, or something God was going to do to Israel. Whatever that was, it meant to explain why something horrible happened to Israel.
Eziekal naturally pleaded with god and begged him not to let him do that, so god was of course like ‘ok your right I was stepping over that line.’ Whether or not god was being sarcastic or not depends on what the hebrew lexicon says.
Most of the time though, these so called ‘prophetic’ accounts were things people wrote down after something terrible happened.
Today if we still did this someone would say something like: The Lord came on to ericarlen and said, “Dude, I’m going to smite the housing marking, america’s got me raging mad with all the gays, jews and blacks and stuff, so I need you, my prophet to go live in the streets and cook your food on one of those lame camping stoves, you are forbidden to wear pants, and you have to do this for the next 15 years so everyone knows that it’s about to hit the fan k? ROTFLMAO”
God’s a bit of a dick.
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