And you, son of man [Ezekiel], take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor and shave your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair into three parts. (Ezekiel 5:1)
- Shaving off a man’s beard was considered very shameful because a man’s beard in those days was a matter of pride.
- The hair of the priest was a mark of his consecration to God’s service (Leviticus 19:27)
- Shaving the head was a sign of mourning (Isaiah 3:24; 22:12)
- If an Israelite priest shaved his head, he was defiled (Leviticus 21:5)
Ezekiel defiled and humiliated himself as a symbol of the humiliation of the people of Judah who were defiled and no longer holy to the Lord. Nothing was left to do but to mourn their death as a nation.
‘Therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; (Ezekiel 5:11)
In the New Testament, the sanctuary of God is our body. When we defile our bodies, an anti-prosperity anointing starts working that diminishes everything that we set to do.
Chapters
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Chapter 32
- Chapter 33
- Chapter 34
- Chapter 35
- Chapter 36
- Chapter 37
- Chapter 38
- Chapter 47
- Chapter 48