{"id":73089,"date":"2020-04-07T18:54:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=73089"},"modified":"2020-04-07T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:56:08","slug":"working-to-understand-a-prophetic-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/working-to-understand-a-prophetic-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Working To Understand A Prophetic Lesson"},"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":"73089","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":70715,"related_cahpter":"454","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Only then can it be internalized\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we internalize elements of a lesson that we\u2019re taught, when we allow ourselves to grow with a bit of received wisdom, the process generally operates on a psychological level.\u00a0 But as Ezekiel seems to dramatize, we can encounter prophetic truth physically and spiritually when we come to terms with what we allow into our minds and into our bodies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s look at the physical first.\u00a0 At the end of Chapter 2, Ezekiel sees a hand which offers him a scroll filled with poetry.\u00a0 Later we\u2019re told that the prophet will eat the scroll and relish it as he might enjoy a spoonful of honey. A heavenly message fills him up like a good dessert.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And now let\u2019s consider a spiritual angle to prophetic internalization.\u00a0 At the beginning of Chapter 2, a spirit enters the prophet. Or are we indeed reading about spirituality when we read that in communing with the divine, Ezekiel is filled with \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ruach<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d?\u00a0 Does that word mean \u201cspirit\u201d here, or \u201cwind\u201d?\u00a0 The context doesn\u2019t help us. We don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ruach Elokim<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d a spirit of God, such as the presence that flutters above the water in the opening lines of Genesis.\u00a0 Perhaps we\u2019re reading about \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ruach kodshekhah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d \u201cyour holy spirit,\u201d as we describe it to God &#8212; the divine essence that Psalm 51 demands be allowed to remain a part of human experience.\u00a0 Or maybe we\u2019re meant to stay in the physical realm, with the opening verse of Chapter 2 telling us no more than that gusts of wind blew around Ezekiel\u2019s body and into his lungs, and that\u2019s what it was that allowed him to pick himself up off the ground and stand straight rather than grovelling in the divine presence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any which way you look at it, Ezekiel incorporates into himself what he perceives as godly and digests the divine message so that he can disgorge his own understanding of that message to the people.\u00a0 The precise character of his charge is not entirely clear. 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