A lesson in faith for the woke bishops of the West
by Julian Mann, TCW:
THE prophet Ezekiel was given an assignment that even the mighty Mark Steyn of GB News might decline.
Ezekiel, a former priest in the Jerusalem Temple who prophesied to the Jewish exiles in Babylon from 593 BC to 571, was told by the Lord God Almighty: ‘I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them’ (Ezekiel 2v3-5 – Authorised Version).
Ezekiel’s role as a ‘watchman’ (Ezekiel 3v16-27) charged with warning the wicked to turn back to the Lord involved lying prostrate, his legs tied down with ropes, on his left side for 390 days in front of a mock-up of the city of Jerusalem. The Lord commanded him to take a clay tablet and draw a picture of Jerusalem on it and then to ‘lay siege against it, and built a fort against it, and cast a mount against it, and set battering rams round about’ (Ezekiel 4v2). The prophet then had to lie on his right side for a further 40 days.
The Lord told him the purpose of this eccentric and physically taxing assignment, which in 21st century Britain would have got him into trouble with the health and safety Stasi: ‘Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it’ (Ezekiel 4v7).
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