Steven's Post today of Ezekiel 4 is for the Believer to read and consider your part in this prophecy.

After you have read it, I would suggest to those Christians that think they are Gentiles and will be rapture before God can deal with the Jews get their Bibles out and start re-reading them for themselves. Most do not even know who they are, yet the scriptures has told us that the ecclesia is made up of both the House of Israel and the Gentiles. Get over this lie of a pre-tribulation Rapture and realize how much the Church has been hood-winked by the best of them....the Jesuits.

You are here for the full course of this prophecy.

Gerlinda

4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! Behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

KJV


Ezekiel's Forgotten Prophecy of the House of Israel

The House of Israel's Divine time of punishment ended with the conquest of the Persian Empire in 331 B.C. -- exactly 390 years after their kingdom collapsed. So what happened to the Ten Tribes? These exiled tribes did not retrace their path to Canaan, but were dispersed to all points of the compass following which, in their new homelands, they would become a blessing to all the earth.


By Jory Steven Brooks, CBIA

Even Christians who seldom read their Bibles may have heard of the prophecy of the joining of the two sticks in Ezekiel 37:15-28. It is therefore not an unknown prophecy, although mainstream churches incorrectly interpret it with the claim that this rejoining of the two branches of YEHOVAH's people took place immediately after the Babylonian captivity. However, the Prophet Ezekiel himself refutes that interpretation in a little-discussed -- almost forgotten -- prophecy found in chapter four, verses 4 and 5.

This prophecy states,

"Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel."

This prophecy states that the ten tribe House of Israel -- also called "Ephraim" by the prophets -- would undergo a distinct and separate 390-year period of "bearing their iniquity" during which time they would therefore remain separate from Judah -- who suffered only a 40-year period of punishment for their own iniquity (Ezekiel 4:6-8). It is, therefore, not possible that the two houses of Israel -- Judah and Ephraim -- reunited immediately after the much shorter Babylonian captivity that totaled only 70 years.

This 390-year period indeed represented a time of punishment for the ten tribe House of Israel. Prof. B. E. Thiering in the American Journal of Biblical Archaeology refers to the prophetic 390 years as a "period of wrath" (Qumran Interpretation of Ezekiel 4:5-6, AJBA-1, 1969, p. 30-34). There is a parallel with other Old Testament passages. The prophet Hosea reveals that exiled Israel was cast off into the wilderness (Hosea 2:14). What then is the purpose of this 390- year punishment in the wilderness? It would cause a forgetfulness of prior homeland, history, pagan rites and rituals; a veritable loss of identity in order to set the stage for a new beginning for the House of Israel. It was a period of cleansing to be purified of their pagan rites and false religion.

Complete article: http://www.hope-of-Israel.org/forgottenP.html


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