O. Addison Gethers
e-mail address [email protected] [email protected] twitter URL http//:twitter.com/OAddisonGethers Messenger contact window live/msn messenger: [email protected] aim: durangoadd64 skype: cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS rs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 11:19 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Monday August 31 > Day 243 > > Ezekiel 4-6 (The Message) > > Ezekiel 4 > This Is What Sin Does > 1-3 "Now, son of man, take a brick and place it before you. Draw a picture > of the city Jerusalem on > it. Then make a model of a military siege against the brick: Build siege > walls, construct a ramp, > set up army camps, lay in battering rams around it. Then get an iron > skillet and place it upright > between you and the city-an iron wall. Face the model: The city shall be > under siege and you shall > be the besieger. This is a sign to the family of Israel. > 4-5 "Next lie on your left side and place the sin of the family of Israel > on yourself. You will > bear their sin for as many days as you lie on your side. The number of > days you bear their sin will > match the number of years of their sin, namely, 390. For 390 days you will > bear the sin of the > family of Israel. > > 6-7 "Then, after you have done this, turn over and lie down on your right > side and bear the sin of > the family of Judah. Your assignment this time is to lie there for forty > days, a day for each year > of their sin. Look straight at the siege of Jerusalem. Roll up your > sleeve, shake your bare arm, and > preach against her. > > 8 "I will tie you up with ropes, tie you so you can't move or turn over > until you have finished the > days of the siege. > > 9-12 "Next I want you to take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, dried > millet and spelt, and mix > them in a bowl to make a flat bread. This is your food ration for the 390 > days you lie on your side. > Measure out about half a pound for each day and eat it on schedule. Also > measure out your daily > ration of about a pint of water and drink it on schedule. Eat the bread as > you would a muffin. Bake > the muffins out in the open where everyone can see you, using dried human > dung for fuel." > > 13 God said, "This is what the people of Israel are going to do: Among the > pagan nations where I > will drive them, they will eat foods that are strictly taboo to a holy > people." > > 14 I said, "God, my Master! Never! I've never contaminated myself with > food like that. Since my > youth I've never eaten anything forbidden by law, nothing found dead or > violated by wild animals. > I've never taken a single bite of forbidden food." > > 15 "All right," he said. "I'll let you bake your bread over cow dung > instead of human dung." > > 16-17 Then he said to me, "Son of man, I'm going to cut off all food from > Jerusalem. The people > will live on starvation rations, worrying where the next meal's coming > from, scrounging for the next > drink of water. Famine conditions. People will look at one another, see > nothing but skin and bones, > and shake their heads. This is what sin does." > > Ezekiel 5 > A Jealous God, Not to Be Trifled With > 1-2 "Now, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a straight razor, > shaving your head and your > beard. Then, using a set of balancing scales, divide the hair into thirds. > When the days of the > siege are over, take one-third of the hair and burn it inside the city. > Take another third, chop it > into bits with the sword and sprinkle it around the city. The final third > you'll throw to the wind. > Then I'll go after them with a sword. > 3-4 "Retrieve a few of the hairs and slip them into your pocket. Take some > of them and throw them > into the fire-burn them up. From them, fire will spread to the whole > family of Israel. > > 5-6 "This is what God, the Master, says: This means Jerusalem. I set her > at the center of the > world, all the nations ranged around her. But she rebelled against my laws > and ordinances, rebelled > far worse than the nations ranged around her-sheer wickedness!-refused my > guidance, ignored my > directions. > > 7 "Therefore this is what God, the Master, says: You've been more > headstrong and willful than any > of the nations around you, refusing my guidance, ignoring my directions. > You've sunk to the gutter > level of those around you. > > 8-10 "Therefore this is what God, the Master, says: I'm setting myself > against you-yes, against > you, Jerusalem. I'm going to punish you in full sight of the nations. > Because of your disgusting > no-god idols, I'm going to do something to you that I've never done before > and will never do again: > turn families into cannibals-parents eating children, children eating > parents! Punishment indeed. > And whoever's left over I'll throw to the winds. > > 11-12 "Therefore, as sure as I am the living God-Decree of God, the > Master-because you've polluted > my Sanctuary with your obscenities and disgusting no-god idols, I'm > pulling out. Not an ounce of > pity will I show you. A third of your people will die of either disease or > hunger inside the city, a > third will be killed outside the city, and a third will be thrown to the > winds and chased by > killers. > > 13 "Only then will I calm down and let my anger cool. Then you'll know > that I was serious about > this all along, that I'm a jealous God and not to be trifled with. > > 14-15 "When I get done with you, you'll be a pile of rubble. Nations who > walk by will make coarse > jokes. When I finish my angry punishment and searing rebukes, you'll be > reduced to an object of > ridicule and mockery, turned into a horror story circulating among the > surrounding nations. I, God, > have spoken. > > 16-17 "When I shoot my lethal famine arrows at you, I'll shoot to kill. > Then I'll step up the > famine and cut off food supplies. Famine and more famine-and then I'll > send in the wild animals to > finish off your children. Epidemic disease, unrestrained murder, death-and > I will have sent it! I, > God, have spoken." > > Ezekiel 6 > Turn Israel into Wasteland > 1-7 Then the Word of God came to me: "Son of man, now turn and face the > mountains of Israel and > preach against them: 'O Mountains of Israel, listen to the Message of God, > the Master. God, the > Master, speaks to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and the valleys: > I'm about to destroy your > sacred god and goddess shrines. I'll level your altars, bust up your > sun-god pillars, and kill your > people as they bow down to your no-god idols. I'll stack the dead bodies > of Israelites in front of > your idols and then scatter your bones around your shrines. Every place > where you've lived, the > towns will be torn down and the pagan shrines demolished-altars busted up, > idols smashed, all your > custom-made sun-god pillars in ruins. Corpses everywhere you look! Then > you'll know that I am God. > 8-10 "'But I'll let a few escape the killing as you are scattered through > other lands and nations. > In the foreign countries where they're taken as prisoners of war, they'll > remember me. They'll > realize how devastated I was by their betrayals, by their voracious lust > for gratifying themselves > in their idolatries. They'll be disgusted with their evil ways, disgusting > to God in the way they've > lived. They'll know that I am God. They'll know that my judgment against > them was no empty threat. > > 11-14 "'This is what God, the Master, says: Clap your hands, stamp your > feet, yell out, "No, no, > no!" because of all the evil obscenities rife in Israel. They're going to > be killed, dying of > hunger, dying of disease-death everywhere you look, people dropping like > flies, people far away > dying, people nearby dying, and whoever's left in the city starving to > death. Why? Because I'm > angry, furiously angry. They'll realize that I am God when they see their > people's corpses strewn > over and around all their ruined sex-and-religion shrines on the bare > hills and in the lush > fertility groves, in all the places where they indulged their sensual > rites. I'll bring my hand down > hard on them, demolish the country wherever they live, turn it into > wasteland from one end to the > other, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they'll know that I am God!'" > > > > > > > ~~~~~ > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > Also, follow my tweets on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/Donnie1261 > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dbilg?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
