{"id":65850,"date":"2019-11-19T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=65850"},"modified":"2023-06-14T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T04:56:40","slug":"its-called-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/its-called-acting\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Called Acting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[525,570,680],"acf":{"old_id":"65850","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":64758,"related_cahpter":"354","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Multi-media prophesying","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our chapter, Isaiah joins the list of prophets who act in shocking manners.\u00a0 After the Assyrians capture the city of Ashdod, God commands Isaiah to &#8220;Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and take off your shoe from your feet.&#8221; The verses then describe Isaiah who walks away- naked and barefoot. If this wasn&#8217;t enough, we then have a prophecy of God explaining the reason Isaiah needed to walk naked and barefoot FOR THREE YEARS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is almost as shocking as when we read that God commanded Hosea to marry a well-known prostitute, with the knowledge that she has no plans in quitting her job (Hosea chapter 1). Indeed, Hosea followed God&#8217;s orders, married Gomer the prostitute and named the three children she bore, and he was not the father of any of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One prophet who objected to a shocking commandment was Ezekiel. At first he was commanded to lie on his left side for 390 days, and he didn&#8217;t complain. He was then commanded to lie on his right side for 40 more days, and here too he doesn&#8217;t object. But after completing his 14 months of lying on his side, he was commanded to make a barley cake and &#8220;bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man&#8221;, and here Ezekiel\u00a0 protests. God does not heed Ezekiel&#8217;s objections, and commands him to eat this dish with the exact ingredients which he commanded. (Ezekiel chapter 4).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These shocking acts are not random. In each of these cases, the acts that the prophets did were highly symbolic. The three years of Isaiah walking naked, Hosea marrying a prostitute, the names of their children, the days Ezekiel lies on his side, and the dung that he needed to eat all have clear symbolism, spelled out in the Bible itself. The question is: how did these prophets do abnormal, unethical, and inhuman acts and still retain the respect of the people?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key to understanding these acts is realizing that the prophet did not do them in reality, but rather they acted them out in a play. A prophet has the job of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>communicating<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God&#8217;s message. Communication is more than speaking; it is ensuring that the other party hears your message. If a prophet walked into the middle of the market place and started shouting out his prophecies, who would listen?\u00a0 He would either be looked at as insane or irrelevant. But if a prophet acted out a play in the middle of the market, who wouldn&#8217;t stop his shopping to enjoy good entertainment? Therefore, to be a successful prophet, besides being a spiritual person, you would need to have good drama skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: by Ben Schachter, courtesy of the artist.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":65851,"id":65851,"title":"Is20-Schachter-ANorin","filename":"Is20-Schachter-ANorin.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Is20-Schachter-ANorin.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/its-called-acting\/is20-schachter-anorin\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is20-schachter-anorin","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":65850,"date":"2019-11-19 15:11:45","modified":"2019-11-19 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