Friday – Prophets

Reading – Ezekiel 4-6

Highlight Verses:

“Then I said, “O Sovereign Lord, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or was killed by other animals. I have never eaten any meat forbidden by the law.” “All right,” the Lord said. “You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung.””
‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭4‬:‭14‬-‭15‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Oh joy! Ezekiel gets to cook his food over burning cow pies.

It’s better than the alternative.

In case you thought Jeremiah was negative, read on.

Ezekiel relates the punishment of Israel in graphic details – even more graphic than his camp fuel.

Unlike the people of Israel, he was committed to obeying what God told him to do.

What God told Ezekiel to say and do was rather extreme. But he was faithful to God’s words.

While those words were rather extreme, they did a good job of illustrating the need for a savior.

Israel had been extreme in its rejection of God, so God was being extreme in His rejection of them.

Extreme enough for them to repent.
Extreme enough for God to send a Savior.

How does the extreme nature of these prophecies strike you?
What do you think it was like for Ezekiel?