Ezekiel gives us a perspective on the events in Jerusalem as it seems to him from exile.
Ezekiel appointed watchman
Ezekiel 3:10-21
God’s glory
Ezekiel 3:22-23
Filled with the Spirit again
Ezekiel 3:24-27
The sign of the tile
Ezekiel 4:1-17
The sign of the sharp knife
Ezekiel 5:1-17
Idolatry condemned
Ezekiel 6:1-7
Remnant to be spared
Ezekiel 6:8-10
Desolation to come
Ezekiel 6:11-14
Ezekiel was stunned into trembling silence by his vision. When he starts prophesying, he does it without words, silently acting out the degradations of Jerusalem under siege. It must have looked as if he had gone mad. People would have looked on with pity and horror. he was a priest, a man with a position of respect and honour, and now he was acting like someone unhinged. How would his family have felt? Would they have squirmed with embarrassment, watching him lying on his side in front of a model city, moving toy siege weapons to attack it, cooking his food on cow dung?
Then he has to shave himself, and wander around with his hair, burning it and scattering it, and finally he is allowed to clap his hands and stamp his feet and cry out “Alas!”
So he enacts the despair and humiliation of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel appointed watchman
Ezekiel 3:10-21
God’s glory
Ezekiel 3:22-23
Filled with the Spirit again
Ezekiel 3:24-27
The sign of the tile
Ezekiel 4:1-17
The sign of the sharp knife
Ezekiel 5:1-17
Idolatry condemned
Ezekiel 6:1-7
Remnant to be spared
Ezekiel 6:8-10
Desolation to come
Ezekiel 6:11-14
Ezekiel was stunned into trembling silence by his vision. When he starts prophesying, he does it without words, silently acting out the degradations of Jerusalem under siege. It must have looked as if he had gone mad. People would have looked on with pity and horror. he was a priest, a man with a position of respect and honour, and now he was acting like someone unhinged. How would his family have felt? Would they have squirmed with embarrassment, watching him lying on his side in front of a model city, moving toy siege weapons to attack it, cooking his food on cow dung?
Then he has to shave himself, and wander around with his hair, burning it and scattering it, and finally he is allowed to clap his hands and stamp his feet and cry out “Alas!”
So he enacts the despair and humiliation of Jerusalem.
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