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   From: andrew.321.remov@usa.net   
      
   "Jack Sovalot" wrote in message news:UiGtN.52225$U1cc.745@fx04.iad...   
   > Andrew wrote:   
   >> "Mitchell Holman" wrote:   
   >> > "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."       http://tinyurl.com/532j9x98   
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   >   
   > Thank you for sharing that with us, Andrew.   
      
   Although Israel were the "chosen people", their history   
   shows the severe judgments from God that came upon   
   them when they failed (refused) to follow His counsel.   
      
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