Whoa!
This is a pretty scary prophecy.
17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the Lord have spoken.”
Lots of horrible things are about be befall Jerusalem. There is a lot of imagery here, that I can only assume would mean more to that time than it does to me. I don't understand the cutting of the hair, and splitting it up into thirds....and then doing such specific things to it. The only thing I can grasp at, is that letting your hair grow seemed to be a thing that has come up in other books, almost as a committment to God and living his lifestyle. Now he is asking to shave the head and the beard. Maybe this represents a break with the "detestable people".
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the hair shaving research lead me to this. Interesting, is the great red dragon assembling through the acts of Putin in the Middle East? Knut
ReplyDeleteEzekiel 15:6-8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the "fire for fuel", so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them. And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
How interesting it is to review Ezekiel’s hair-shaving play and compare it to world history. We today can look back in retrospect and observe the historical occasions when the exact drama of judgment against the divisions of hair took place. It is most ironic to me to review the statistics of the Holocaust of World War II and discover that Nazi Germany under Hitler literally burned Jews in ovens and that the demonic Nazi plot resulted in the killing of about 6,000,000 Jews in Europe. The figure is staggering to my mind. But even more astounding to my mind is the fact that the world population of Jewry on that era was about 18,000,000. These seemingly cold mathematical estimations sometimes simply don’t register in our minds with regards to the Satanic conspiratorial onslaught against the nation of Israel. But when I reflect on the blessing-curses covenant aspect of the relationship between God and Israel, and realize that God is refining Israel in the fire of affliction, I am all the more astonished when I read a verse like the following:
Zechariah 13:8-9 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Ironically enough, the demoniac Hitler subjected one-third of world Jewry to the fires of the Holocaust, an exact display of the pictograph of Ezekiel, and his hair-shaving exhibition. And out of that Holocaust of fire Israel was miraculously and providentially planted back into their land. Ah yes, the bound hairs, or "remnant", that Ezekiel salvaged from the one-third that was scattered in the wind, and saved them within his skirt have finally been re-gathered. And they have been preserved for a Godly design!
Astounding as these historical facts might be, there are still yet some astounding parallels to Ezekiel’s hair raising story, prophecies which have future implications for Ezekiel’s fair haired gathered remnant. These prophecies concern the ultimate war which the great Red Dragon will wage against that preserved remnant, by dragging the whole world into the final Satanic assault on Israel. ( Revelation 12:7 )
wow!
ReplyDeleteI asked the question about what the hair thing could mean....and you found a possible answer.
That is really interesting. I may be more inclined to think of the Red Dragon as China, and not Russia.....but who knows. The other thing to consider is that God doesn't normally fulfill the prophesies in the manner in which we think he will. What if the "red dragon" takes over financially, and its not a millitary take-over.......hmmmmmm.......China is definitely poised to own the globe.
thanks for the research and insight