In verve 10, God says to Ezekiel all my words that I speak unto thee receive in thine heart but in verse 1 he said eat This roll. Something specific. Also, in my study bible they described the scroll in detail, that the words were written on both sides and the material scrolls were generally made of back then. I am asking God to reveal to me the total truth, I want to know.
Please pray with me that the truth be revealed because it is my desire to know and the truth is in the word of God. Thank you. Always interesting to hear differing interpretations of the Bible! In fact, I am greatly encouraged by your desire for the truth in the word of God. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Main menu Skip to content. There are 3 instances in the Bible that it was recorded where somebody ate the scroll.
The passage on Ezekiel is from Ezekiel — Ezekiel ; which is perhaps the most detailed account out of the three. The old question is, did Ezekiel really eat the scroll? If he did, how was it possible? In reading the Bible and trying to make sense of the verses in the Bible, there are two ways to go about doing it — firstly, by using the literal meaning, secondly, by using the figurative meaning. In books like Revelations, Ezekiel and Daniel especially, there are so many imagery and symbols that one often has to adopt the figurative meaning — in fact, most of the prophets have a tendency to do that.
Open your mouth and eat what I give you. Ezekiel saw a hand stretched toward him. In the hand was a Scroll In ancient times, a scroll the precursor to modern books was the most common form for written works.
A scroll was created on a roll of papyrus, made from reed plants. It was typically inches wide and up to feet long. Scrolls found in Qumran were more than twenty feet long with writing in narrow columns about 3-inches wide separated by a narrow margin between the columns.
Writing on the scrolls continued right to left and thus, the reader would unroll the scroll to the left while rolling up completed sections to the right. There was writing on both sides of the scroll. Written on the scroll were words of lament, mourning, and woe. Ezekiel is told to deliver a message.
The original Hebrew words are identical to the words an ancient messenger would have used when delivering a message. God tells Ezekiel to deliver the message without regard to how the recipients respond.
Our purpose is to deliver the message and let God take care of the rest. In the New Testament , the phrase is applied to Christ. In some cases, the Hebrew text contains words only used a single time in the Old Testament. For instance, God Tells Ezekiel that the Israelites rebelled against him.
The original Hebrew word indicates a harsh violation of a covenant. God saw the Israelites were violating his covenant with them.
God tells Ezekiel to open his mouth—not to speak, but to eat. Well, Ezekiel, as we heard earlier, is already in exile. But the worst has not yet come for the people of Judah. The second wave will come about ten years later, when the new puppet king propped up by the Babylonians in Judah also revolts, and this time they tear down the Temple and send everyone else they can get their hands on into exile too. As always, this is not an easy message. But Ezekiel is clearly not any old priest. Eating a scroll, by the way, is not the only weird thing our friend the prophet Ezekiel does.
In chapter 4 Ezekiel is commanded to draw the city of Jerusalem on an unbaked brick, then press a baking griddle against it as a sign of what is to come. Then he lies on his left side for days, symbolizing the time that Israel is to be punished.
Then he switches to his right side for 40 days, for Judah. Then God commands him to bake a cake over burning human excrement, because the people of Israel will be forced to eat unclean food; though Ezekiel does protest and get it switched to cow dung at the last minute. He shaves his head and does different things with his hair, in thirds: burning part of it, cutting part of it to pieces, and scattering part of it to the wind—the different things that will happen to the people of Judah.
Other prophets do this kind of thing too, but Ezekiel is the king of sign-acts. He is fascinating, but very weird and a little scary. For Ezekiel, the Word of God has to be something he actually puts inside of himself, chews on, digests, perhaps that he is strengthened and nourished by—before he can deliver it to others.
For a prophet, the Word of God has to fundamentally become part of who he or she is—and I believe that is true not just for those biblical figures who are formally commissioned as prophets, but for all of us who hope to live a little more prophetically. Jim had drawn a picture in the card, and Sendak thought it was charming, so he sent a card back with a hand-drawn picture of a Wild Thing in it.
He saw it, he loved it, he ate it. I wonder what it would be like to eat the Bible, the Word of God? What would it be like to eat the Ten Commandments? The Beatitudes? A more neutral alternative to "Old Testament. Of or related to the written word, especially that which is considered literature; literary criticism is a interpretative method that has been adapted to biblical analysis. Site HarperCollins Dictionary.
Add this:. Did Revelation simply copy Ezekiel? What does eating otherworldly food do? Did you know…? Other ancient examples of transformational eating can be found in noncanonical texts like Joseph and Aseneth and The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas and in the Greek and Roman myth of Persephone. Divine food is thought to be sweet in Greco-Roman traditions.
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