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God told the prophet Ezekiel to make bread, and he gave him a specific recipe. In the scriptures, bread often represents the body of Jesus Christ. This parallel seems to work until God tells Ezekiel to take his own dung, and add it to the bread. This is too disgusting for Ezekiel, and he tells God that won’t do it, because he has never eaten anything “unclean”. So God relents and lets Ezekiel add cow manure to the recipe instead. | God told the prophet Ezekiel to make bread, and he gave him a specific recipe. In the scriptures, bread often represents the body of Jesus Christ. This parallel seems to work until God tells Ezekiel to take his own dung, and add it to the bread. This is too disgusting for Ezekiel, and he tells God that won’t do it, because he has never eaten anything “unclean”. So God relents and lets Ezekiel add cow manure to the recipe instead. | ||
Paul said that | Paul said that his own effort to keep the law was "dung". When we try to secure our own salvation (eternal health) by adding our own works to Jesus’ sacrifice, we are only disrespecting a perfectly good recipe. Every person has the potential to really mess things up with self-righteousness. | ||
==A Facial For Priests== | ==A Facial For Priests== | ||
The prophet Malachi outlines a curse for priests that deceive, and do not give glory to the name of the LORD. These priests are told that God will “corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.” One of the reasons God is not happy with these priests is because they say, “everyone who doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD”. | The prophet Malachi outlines a curse for priests that deceive, and do not give glory to the name of the LORD. These priests are told that God will ''“corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.”'' One of the reasons God is not happy with these priests is because they say, ''“everyone who doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD”.'' | ||
While God called Ezekiel to eat dung, he cursed the priests to wear it. | While God called Ezekiel to eat dung, he cursed the priests to wear it. The prophet Isaiah calls our own righteousness ''"filthy rags”''. Today, you might call your own righteousness “toilet paper”. So when we try to remain clean through our own obedience to the law, we are only proudly covering ourselves in these filthy rags before we present ourselves to the Lord and to his people. | ||
==The Roman Soldier and the Wine== | ==The Roman Soldier and the Wine== | ||
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#The Dung Gate: Nehemiah 3:14 | #The Dung Gate: Nehemiah 3:14 | ||
#Child Sacrifices in the Hinnom Valley: Jeremiah 7:31 | #Child Sacrifices in the Hinnom Valley: Jeremiah 7:31 | ||
#Romans 7:21, "...when I would do good, evil is present with me." | #Romans 7:21, ''"...when I would do good, evil is present with me." | ||
#Gehenna is a type of hell: [http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=gehenna&qs_version=YLT] | #Gehenna is a type of hell: [http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=gehenna&qs_version=YLT] | ||
#Ezekiel's receipe: Ezekiel 4:9 | #Ezekiel's receipe: Ezekiel 4:9 | ||
#Ezekiel's argument with God about eating human dung: Ezekiel 4:14-15. | #Ezekiel's argument with God about eating human dung: Ezekiel 4:14-15. | ||
#Philippians 3:6b-8, ''"...touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,'' | |||
#Malachi 2:1-3, ''"And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it." | |||
#Isaiah 64:6, ''"But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."'' | |||
#John 19:28-29, ''"Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture he said, “I am thirsty." A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips."'' (New Living Translation) | |||