{"id":73493,"date":"2020-04-20T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T09:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=73493"},"modified":"2023-11-13T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T09:02:28","slug":"points-to-ponder-ezekiel-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/points-to-ponder-ezekiel-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Points to Ponder &#8211; Ezekiel 11"},"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":"73493","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38102,"related_cahpter":"463","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"","content":"<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The Shechina is leaving; the misdeeds remain<\/em>. There is no possibility for good neighborliness between God and the abominations that are committed in the Temple. There has been no redress. God is not willing to continue to dwell in a House full of wrongdoing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>What are they saying in Jerusalem<\/em>? In verse 3 we hear what the Jerusalemites think of themselves. In verse 15 we hear what the Jerusalemites think of the exiles &#8211; that they have distanced themselves from God, and thus were punished, and that those who remained were given the land as an inheritance. This understanding is diametrically opposed to Ezekiel\u2019s explanation of the power relations between the two communities, and the situation of those settled in Jerusalem. Note that the prophecy is intended for the exiles, and not for the Jerusalemites.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The pot of meat<\/em>. Jerusalem is the pot and the people are the meat. That saying of the people is only the beginning. 13 chapters from now (Ezekiel 24) &#8211; it will become a spine chilling allegory.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The saving remnant<\/em>. Why does the prophet conclude (verse 13) that what has happened implies a decree to destroy the remnant?\u00a0 Perhaps because in his world of words and allegories, the death of Pelatiah is liable to be seen as symbolizing the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">she-erit hapleitah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the surviving remnant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Open heart surgery<\/em>. Who is the patient, and what exactly is the procedure? 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