546. A Sign of the Coming Siege ⏤ Ezekiel 4:1-17

546.

Siege of Jerusalem Predicted

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Today's Passage: Ezekiel 4:1-17

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Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you for insight.

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29th Strategy.
Called to Evaluate Our Choices

• Enter your time with the LORD in prayer.
• Read the entire passage.
• Does the passage call for an evaluation of choices made? If so, stop and re-read that section one time.
• Continue through the entire passage.
• After reading the passage through one time, go back and re-read the section calling for an evaluation.
• Would the choices you are facing in your life today be similar to the choices in the passage.
• Write them down on a sticky note, or underline them in your bible.
• Whatever you are being prompted to evaluate, write it down. (This will be a great source of strength for years to come.)
• Take these choices to the LORD. Ask Him to give you clarity on how to move forward.
• Tell Him you desire to make wise choices and you know you need His guidance.
• Ask God to broaden your vision for the passage.
• Thank Him for His guidance and praise Him for His words.
• (I encourage you to write down what God shows you.)
  

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1. "And now, son of man, take a large clay brick and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it. 
2. Show the city under siege. Build a wall around it so no one can escape. Set up the enemy camp, and surround the city with siege ramps and battering rams.
3. Then take an iron griddle and place it between you and the city. Turn toward the city and demonstrate how harsh the siege will be against Jerusalem. This will be a warning to the people of Israel.

4. "Now lie on your left side and place the sins of Israel on yourself. You are to bear their sins for the number of days you lie there on your side.
5. I am requiring you to bear Israel's sins for 390 days ⏤ one day for each year of their sin.
6. After that, turn over and lie on your right side for 40 days ⏤ one day for each year of Judah's sin.

7. "Meanwhile, keep staring at the siege of Jerusalem. Lie there with your arm bared and prophesy her destruction.
8. I will tie you up with ropes so you won't be able to turn from side to side until days of your siege have been completed.

9. "Now go and get some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and emmer wheat, and mix them together in a storage jar. Use them to make bread for yourself during the 390 days you will be lying on your side.
10. Ration this out to yourself, eight ounces of food for each day, and eat it at set times.
11. Then measure out a jar of water for each day, and drink it at set times.
12. Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread.."
13. Then the LORD said, "This is how Israel will eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands to which I will banish them!"

14. 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."

15. "All right," the LORD said "You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung"
16. Then he told me, "Son of man, I will make food very scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out with great care and eaten fearfully. The water will be rationed out drop by drop, and the people will drink it with dismay.
17. Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.
Ezekiel 4:1-17 NLT

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