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1 | How does it make them ashamed? | Ezek 43:10 | Jalek | 239138 | ||
Greetings, Wow, you sure are dusting off the old ones. LOL. Okay, an example of what I'm referring to. The Jews, in their history, go from one extreme to the other. They go from being obedient to the Law, to rebelling against God's Law, and then back to obeying God's law to the extreme. If I were to choose an example out of the Bible for such things, I would say that the Adulterous woman in John 8 is a good example. Jesus is approached by a group of Jews who bring him a woman who committed adultery and got caught. Now, they wanted to stone her for committing the act. The Law does teach that in Leviticus 20:10. However, they fail to add that the one she slept with should also be put to death as well. This law is repeated in Deuteronomy 22:22, and it says that the reason is to purge the nation of evil. So, their interpretation and execution of God's given Law in this matter was deficient. Further more, Jesus writes something in the dirt of the ground that convicts and shames them. What he writes is unknown, but it could be their sins in which they should be stoned for, or it could be the names of the woman's lovers who was in the crowd, or their mistresses. The possibilities are limitless. Why did I use this as an example? The Jews had the Law available, but instead of following it measure by measure, they instead slipped on a couple things. This is an example. If they were to be truly in line with the law, they would have brought forth both the Woman and the Man together. Now, here's another example, probably one that will hit closer to home. In metal work, there is a measuring device called a "Micrometer" that is used to gauge the thickness of metals. This is a very precise instrument, some of them measuring down to a thousandths of an inch. With continued use and normal wear, this device can get out of sync, and become imprecise. Therefore, to recalibrate the instrument, a standard is used. This standard is a known thickness, and the micrometer is set to it, and adjusted appropriately until it reads the correct thickness. This is an analogy of what I'm talking about. God's word is our standard. During the days of the Old Testament, specifically in the time of Ezekiel, that standard consisted of the Mosaic Law. By describing the details of what the Temple should be in comparison to how it was then, God is using Ezekiel to show the Jews how far away from God's standard they had fallen, and how far they needed to come to be recalibrated. Jalek |
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2 | How does it make them ashamed? | Ezek 43:10 | loavesnfish | 239147 | ||
Greetings, Jalek! Thank you for responding! Your examples make sense and I understand them and the point you are making. I just don't understand how it relates to cubits and palm trees. loavesnfish |
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3 | How does it make them ashamed? | Ezek 43:10 | Jalek | 239148 | ||
Greetings, As I said, God, through his prophet, is using an analogy. A cubit is a unit of measure that is about 18 inches. He's saying basically, "You have defiled my temple. You've fallen far from grace. This is how my holy temple should be, and this is how you should behave. This is what you should be doing, but you're not doing it." Jalek |
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4 | How does it make them ashamed? | Ezek 43:10 | loavesnfish | 239167 | ||
Greetings, Jalek! Thank you for responding again. My understanding is that the actual equivalent of a cubit in inches is irrelevant here. The cubit is a measurement that makes a man's forearm the standard by which other things are measured so that he knows their sizes relative to himself. I am wondering if measuring by cubits would be the shame inducer since one is forced to compare oneself to what is being measured. loavesnfish |
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5 | How does it make them ashamed? | Ezek 43:10 | Jalek | 239170 | ||
Greetings, I've already covered this. There is God's standard of what he considers to be good and righteous living. That is spelled out in the Law. He sent his prophets prior to the coming of the Christ as messengers to show the people how far away from God's standard they are. Each prophet at different times used different methods to show that. Ezekiel often uses building and construction metaphors. Hosea married a prostitute, which was to be descriptive of how God sees idolatry. He views it the same as adultery. There are other prophets who used different metaphors, but the intended purpose was to bring the people back in line with God's standard. Jalek |
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6 | How does it make them ashamed? | Ezek 43:10 | loavesnfish | 239172 | ||
Greetings Jalek! So you are saying that the measuring is a metaphor and not to be taken literally. Then the whole vision is just symbolic and not literally predictive. loavesnfish |
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7 | How does it make them ashamed? | Ezek 43:10 | Jalek | 239191 | ||
Greetings, Prophecy comes in two forms: Fore-telling and Forth-telling. But first, what is the role of the Prophet? The role is, simply put, to bring God's message and judgment to the People. Fore-telling is what we commonly think of when it comes to prophecy. As the name suggests, it's focus is on the future. In the Fore-telling aspect, the Prophet declares the warning of God's pending judgment or future blessings to the people so they can either repent or strive harder. Forth-telling brings God's current message to the people, be it a message of judgment or blessing. An example of this is comparing Jonah to Nahum. Both prophets spoke against Nineveh. However, they were separated by at least 100 years. Jonah presented the "fore-telling" message of Nineveh's doom. The people of Nineveh repented for a while, but fell back into their old ways. Nahum comes along a 100 years later to "forth-tell" or bring forth the message of God's dissatisfaction. God was willing to spare them, but they fell back into their old ways. So, God sent his prophet to make good on his warning. The message in Ezekiel 43:10 isn't necessarily predictive, but it is an analogy used by the prophet to help the jews understand how far they have fallen from God's intended path. He uses the Temple because that, at the time, was the center of Jewish worship. It would have struck a cord, as it were, with every Jew who read or heard Ezekiel's message. Jalek |
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