Re: Written in The Book of Life

"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> "Andrew" wrote:  
> 
>>  "Whosoever was not found written in the Book 
>>          of Life was cast into the lake of fire."
>> 
>>                              ~ Rev 20:15
> 
> "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 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 fulfill 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 neighbors."  

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