{"id":73087,"date":"2020-04-07T18:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=73087"},"modified":"2020-04-07T18:38:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:38:25","slug":"ezekiels-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/ezekiels-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel\u2019s Mission"},"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":[],"acf":{"old_id":"73087","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":72948,"related_cahpter":"454","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ezekiel is told at the outset that he is being sent to the nation to convey God\u2019s word, for them to know that a prophet was among them before the Destruction. But the people dwelling in Jerusalem \u2013 like those in Babylon \u2013 will not change their ways. The role of the prophet is not to bring about repentance but rather to convey God\u2019s word and thereby justify the imminent punishment. Therefore when he is commanded to eat the scroll, he is ambivalent. Just as the scroll contains lamentations, with no hint of redemption, so too Ezekiel\u2019s prophecy includes, initially, only the coming of the Destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nonetheless, there is a message that the prophet addresses to each individual in his generation: the Temple is going to be destroyed, and the nation will be exiled from its land, but every person bears personal responsibility for his own fate, because even at this most bitter time there will be those who will die and those who will be saved. Every individual is responsible for their own actions. Ezekiel must therefore carry out his mission even if the nation\u2019s fate is already sealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(This is excerpted, via hatanach.com, from a longer article. For the full article &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hatanakh.com\/sites\/herzog\/files\/herzog\/yehezkel3.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">see here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Ezekiel\u2019s Mission","main_caption":"Though the nation\u2019s fate is already sealed, every Individual is responsible for their own actions","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73088,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73087\/revisions\/73088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}