October 18, 2020: Day 57 – Ezekiel 5

Now we have what I consider a more or less normal object lesson that Ezekiel is commanded to give to the people of Israel.  He is to shave his hair from his head to also his face and use it in three different ways.  Each way represents how the people of Israel have been either taken away in to captivity into Babylon, or killed within Jerusalem because they rebelled and fought back, or were simply left behind by the Babylonians because they were either too poor or too weak to be of any use to them.  

If you look at the words starting in vs. 17 you read that God will send a famine against the people and specifically against “your children.”  This famine will rob the people of Israel of their children which would have been their most precious, and in their captivity, their only possession.  Can you imagine?  This sword which Ezekiel is called to brandish to shave his hair will be used to pass through the people and the nation of Israel because they have turned their back consistently on the Lord.