why did god ask ezakeil to eat excrement mixed with barley?

Question

also the prince of the prophets isiah was walking the streets of israel naked for 3 years, and making people eat humun exreata freshly expelled and excreata smothered on the face of prophet ezakiel. also it says poor people should be given hard drink so he remembers his misery no more, but kings and princes are not allowed to drink cos they have to rule. what kind of god is that found in the bible. a very bad example of the most high

Answer 1

Have you ever TASTED "Merde Barley Bread?" Wow! Especially if it's toasted with a little brie...heaven!

Answer 2

I assume you are referring to Ezekiel 4. My translation says the barley loaf was to be cooked using human excrement as fuel (although Ezekiel bargained for cow manure). Hebrew prophets did strange things at the direction of God in order to give messages to the Jewish leaders and people. The message here was that it was now too late to reform their bad practices and a siege was definitely coming. Food would get scarce and people would get desperate.

The Jews in the Babylonian exile struggled to understand their apparent abandonment by God, and many of the prophetic scriptures they preserved referred to THEIR abandonment OF God and God's subsequent punishment. The fact that Babylon was the instrument of God's discipline enlarged the Jewish undertanding of God from a national deity to the One God of all.

The bizarre performances of Ezekiel, Isaiah and others were illustrations of events to come. (They eventually produced later prophecies that reassured the exiles they were not abandoned, merely disciplined, before their eventual restoration.) God was taking pains to warn the people what to expect even as the corrective lesson was being prepared. The situation was a consequence of their infidelity, not a way God intended the people to live.

Answer 3

Well I see this as a great act of mercy. God was using extreme measures to reach these people who would be suffering a long (long long long long long LOOOOOONG) time if they didn't repent. If I was going to hell I would want God to send anything to keep me from that fate!

Here's the actual passage. He was going to use the excrement as fuel (not part of the cake) but God let him use cow manure instead.

12 Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel." 13 The LORD said, "In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them."

14 Then I said, "Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."

15 "Very well," he said, "I will let you bake your bread over cow manure instead of human excrement.

Answer 4

God did not ask Ezekiel to eat barley mixed with excrement.
I am guessing you are referring to Ezekiel chapter 4. The passage there says that Ezekiel was to eat the bread while it was cooked over excrement, not that it was to be mixed in.

Answer 5

Those are the symptoms of extreme schizophrenia. If we saw someone walking around naked, eating excrement today, hearing voices, they'd be institutionalized.

Answer 6

Nopes. Ezekiel had turned so inquisitive that after a long session of Why's, God simply told him to "Go Eat Sh-it!!"




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Answer 7

instead of just saying what you are..how about showing the scriptures please where it says these things