September 20

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2647S0920.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1130 Download Link --> <p>Ezekiel 4-7 We are in the Prophetic Stream reading from the World English Bible. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote> <div class="gmail_quote">Lord, we need to realize from this painful symbolism and judgement today that all you want is for us to acknowledge that you are God, and for us to like like we know this.  May we learn from the huge mistakes of others and not "go there" ourselves.  Amen.</div> </blockquote> <div class="gmail_quote">Do not forget that Ezekiel was taken as a captive to Babylon in 597. B.C. He begins prophesying 592 B.C. It is six years before the siege of Jerusalem. This siege of Jerusalem is the issue that Ezekiel revolves around as he writes "Ezekiel".  The book pivots around the destruction of Jerusalem; it's not a book about Ezekiel.  So he is prophesying from 592 to 570 B.C. - 22 years. This chapter is written during the 'first quarter' of his writing years.</div> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr">4 - Ezekiel is to make a model of Jerusalem and enact the siege that is imminent for Jerusalem; build ramps and battering rams and the whole bit. It's like a kid who is building model cars during the decade before he is driving a real car.  Ezekiel is trying to insert some reality into the minds of the Jewish people who were already in captivity, when the worst of the destruction of Jerusalem is yet coming. Many were pining to return to Jerusalem and it was a<u>terrible</u> time to be wanting to go back there and get caught in the "hailstorm" of violence and likey get killed.  We see Ezekiel getting peculiar instructions from God that involve him in the pathos of the coming event of Jerusalem's getting r-a-z-e-d to the ground. His diet