Ezekiel Eats the Scroll

(Revelation 10:1–11)

“Son of man,” He said to me,“eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

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So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll

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“Son of man,” He said to me,“eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.”

So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

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Then He said to me,“Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them. 5 For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel — 6 not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

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But the house of Israel vvv will be unwilling to listen to you, since vvv they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted

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Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9 I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them [or] dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.”

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“Son of man,” He added listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart. 11 Go to your people the exiles; speak to them and tell them,‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”

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Then the Spirit[fn] lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me:“Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!”[fn] 13 [It was] the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, a great rumbling sound.

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So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me. 15 I came to the exiles vvv at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.

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