C.R.P. Day 239 - Ezekiel 1-4

Ezekiel’s vision of the Chayos and the Ofanim; YHVH sends Ezekiel to the Children of Israel to speak to them from YHVH. Whether they will heed or refrain they will know a prophet was among them. YHVH commands Ezekiel to eat the scroll and it tasted like honey in his mouth. YHVH command Ezekiel to act out the siege against Jerusalem using a brick. He then commands him to lie on his left side for 390 days to represent the years of Israel’s iniquity and 40 days on his right side to represent the years of Judah’s iniquity. He tells him to prepare wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt and the amount he should eat. He to drink 1/6 hin of water and he’s to bake the grains into a barley cake and include excrement. Ezekiel says he’s never defiled his body so YHVH allows him to prepare the barley cake upon cattle dung. YHVH is breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem.