"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message news:XnsB10781E468432...@69.80.101.15...
> "Brother Desmond (Desi) Edward Coughlan" wrote:
>
>> Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work
>> within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.
>>
>>
> "And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou
> shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man,
> in their sight." Ezekiel 3:12
Through this and other symbols Ezekiel
was instructed to foretell the siege and
utter destruction of Jerusalem.
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"The process of baking in ashes was as old as
the time of Abraham (Genesis 18:6), and
continues in Arabia and Syria to the present
day. The kneaded dough was rolled into thin
flat cakes, and they were placed upon, or hung
over, the hot wood embers of the hearth or
oven. But in a besieged city the supply of
wood for fuel soon fails.
The first resource is found, as still often
happens in the East, in using the dried dung
of camels or of cattle. Before Ezekiel's mind
there came the vision of a yet more terrible
necessity.
"That supply also might tail, and then men
would be forced to use the dried contents of
the "draught houses" or cesspools of
Jerusalem.
They would be compelled almost literally
to fulfil the taunt of Isaiah 36:12. That
thought, as bringing with it the ceremonial
pollution of Leviticus 5:3: 7:21, was
revolting to Ezekiel as it is to us; but he
does not shrink from naming it.
It came to him, as with the authority of a
Divine command, that he was even to do
this, to represent the extreme horrors of
the siege. And all this was to be done
visibly, before the eyes of his neighbours."
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