God is telling Ezekiel to take a flat piece of slate, this is a Babylonian brick, and the object is to portray the city of Jerusalem becoming Babylon. This lesson is for the end times, and it will relate to the final siege, that is the siege when Antichrist takes over. This is a picture projected far into the future, to the time that we now live in. It is a model of Jerusalem drawn on a tile and given for an object lesson for the house of Israel, or the Christian nation, as well as the House of Judah [the Jews].

Ezekiel 4:2 "And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about."

Notice that "against it" is used five times, and in Biblical numerics, five stands for grace. It is time that we wake up and stand against the "Judas goats", and make a stand against everything that is unholy.

Ezekiel 4:3 "Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. this shall be a sign to the house of Israel."

At this time, the iron pan was a flat iron skillet, and the placement of the pan between Ezekiel and this tile with the city of Jerusalem drawn on it, was to show that what is going to happen. This would be on an individual basis. This also is a special message to the Christian nations [House of Israel] and individuals of our day. It is one of the signs that God is giving us that the time of the end is near. Each of the items of warnings have its own meaning,

This sign of the end times takes a close look at Jerusalem, and the events that will take place there. Jesus talked about these abominations that would take place in Jerusalem, as He was quoting from Daniel 9:27, and He warned us and gave special instruction of what we are to do when we see them come to pass.

The subject in this chapter is Jerusalem, and that you are against it. That is that we are against this city when certain things take place in that city. This is the reason that Ezekiel is to take an iron pan, and put it between him and this tile with Jerusalem painted on it. We will see in Ezekiel 38 and 39 that the Christian needs only one wall, regardless where he [she] is. Our wall is God, and that wall is the common sense that we use once we understand His entire word. God gives us instruction as to how to protect us, and He will do the rest.

Iron is always given as a symbol of strength, and an Iron mountain stands for nation with strength and protection. The special instructions to the Christian of exactly what their "iron pan" is, are given in Ephesians 6.10-20. That Iron pan is your breast plate, and that breast plate is part of the gospel armor. That armor is part of protection that you must have on, and in place [in your mind] to understand the signs and events of the end times.

So our protection against this deception, the false peoples that shall come into Jerusalem, that is to say the followers of the Antichrist [Satan], is your gospel armor. What God is saying is this is directed only to Christian nations [the House of Israel], and not to the House of Judah [Jews]. God will give the Jews special instruction later, however Ezekiel is the chief watchman for the "House of Israel".

This means that within Ezekiel's prophecies are the most complete details explaining fully within the Scriptures to the watchmen of this generation. Within the book of Ezekiel are the best details that explain to the fullest the signs of the times to the watchmen of this generation.

Ezekiel 4:4 "Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity."

This is one of the signs God is giving to Ezekiel. God is telling Ezekiel to lie on his left side for a period of time, and for the total number of days, Ezekiel will bear their sin. This is prophecy, and remember that when you lie on one side there is one arm pinned.

Ezekiel 4:5 "For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel."

Ezekiel then is the sign, or example whereby people will be able to understand.

Ezekiel 4:6 "And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year."

When you lie on your right side, your right arm is covered.

In Biblical numerics that the number forty is probation. We also know from the parable of the fig tree that Judah would return to the city of Jerusalem, and when the house of Judah returns, they will also be accompanied by bad figs [the Kenites]. These bad figs have caused a great deal of trouble to the house of Judah.

Just as the forty years of probation tested the Israelites when they came out of Egypt, until they entered the promised land, so also will their be a period of probation at the close of this flesh age for the House of Israel, the Christians, before they enter into the promise land of the Millennium age.

To find the start of this time of three hundred and ninety years when the House of Israel, The British and American people, became the powers of the world, you have to go back beyond the two hundreds years since we became a nation. From that time the House of Israel [Christian nations] have experienced a form of life that no other nations has come to. Yet we are sinking also to the lowest form of degradation also.

While Ezekiel is pinned to one side, then the other, is to represent the paralyzing degradation that the Houses of Israel will fall to. We have see the rapid decline in the Christian nations, as crime, drugs and even in the false doctrines and foreign religious forms that are taking a grip on churches that call themselves Christian today.

Friend, as the degradation of the world is taking place, the wall around god's elect stands firm, when the have the gospel armor on. The events and deceptions of the satanic One World System will not tempt you. You will see through the false doctrines, and and the lies of the false prophets, when you know the truth.

Ezekiel 4:7 "Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophecy against it."

When this siege of Jerusalem takes place, we are not to run from it, or hide from it, or try to escape to some far off place. When this time comes, God is telling you to know how to tell when these signs of the times are, and when you know [arm shall be uncovered] then that is the time to speak out and tell others [prophecy against it], If you have laid on an arm for a year then that arm will be paralyzed, however, God is saying that this paralysis will be removed.

Ezekiel 4:8 "And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn the from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege."

God is telling Ezekiel that His Word will come to pass exactly as it is written, and He will put the blinders on the Christians that they simply won't be able to identify the events and interfere with them until the time for their witnessing and speaking against these events has come. God has His set times, and from the foundation of this earth age, the times and events came to pass, exactly as "it is written" in His Word. Those set times were right on time when Israel came out of Egypt, When Jesus the Christ child was born, and they are right on today.

We have many putting their books out on Bible prophecy, and as fast as they make their false statements, they have to put out another book to correct the first set of lies. These are false prophets, and they have existed in Jeremiah's day, and in Jesus day; and friend, there are many peddling their lies and deceptions today. At the bottom of it all is money, and the vanity to be called the authority, when in fact they are liars. Their problem is that they try to fit the fairy-tales of their false doctrines, to the Word of God, and it just does not fit.

Ezekiel 4:9 "Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat there of."

This is an object less that God is teaching to Ezekiel. Remember from the prior chapters that God came to earth in those highly polished bronze vehicles with cherubim's to give a message personally to Ezekiel. This is part of those words that God spoke.

Each of these items, the wheat, barley, beans and so on, represents item that will make up the bread that will sustain those living in the last days. It is obvious that when you make a bread you do not include all these things in the mixture, and have the baked bread fit to ear. The Christian's bread is the staff of life, and that bread is the hearing of the Word of God. Jesus told us in John 6:35; "Jesus said unto them, "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst."

This is stated by Christ over and over in the Gospels, that Jesus is the only bread that we need. This is another bread then that is to be made, and this bread will reflect exactly what will most of the so called Christians will try to sustain themselves on in the latter days. Notice that along with the ingredients for real bread, the wheat and the barley, you have things that are not intended for bread, and also things that should not be eaten.

This is a spiritual lesson that God is making into a object lesson that we, living in the latter days, can understand. Remember in Ezekiel 3:1, God had Ezekiel eat the whole book [roll], for that is the whole loaf. The time is coming where the true word will be removed from us by the false Christ [Antichrist], and in it's place a false book will be given to sustain the church. Are you starting to get the reason for the mixture of all the foreign things here that went to make up the bread [spiritual truth] of the last times? Are you going to rely on the pure Word of God, which is our living bread; or the mixture of half truths, and foreign dogma of the heathen religions that is filtering into the entire church world today.

Ezekiel 4:10 "And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: form time to time shalt thou eat it."

God is saying that the meat, or truth of God's Word that you do get will be weighed out for you, and you will receive only what these Kenite traditionalists want you to receive, and then at a cost.

Ezekiel 4:11 "Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: for time to time shalt thou drink."

"The sixth part of an hin" is a sixth part of an gallon, and there is a part of this liquid that you will not like, and that is because of Satan's pollution into the world.

Ezekiel 4:12 "And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight."

Why would God use an objected lesson like this, of these polluted cakes, or bread mixed with the dung of man, baked and eaten in the sight of everyone? God is teaching those that live in those end a lesson whereby they would surely get the message of how corrupt, polluted people have allowed themselves to become in the flesh, in this generation.

Remember both Ezekiel and Jerusalem are to be a sign to our generation; are you beginning to see the sign that God would have you see? This is to show us that in the end time there would be an awesome famine for the truth, and as Amos 8:11 tells us; "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:"

Lets get these things in proper order here. This is an object lesson to show us a spiritual truth and though these things of pollution that are of a physical nature, relate all this to how God's word will become polluted, and filled with all sorts of heathen traditions. Then in this twelfth verse, God is adding man's dung to the ingredients to make the bread. If that doesn't turn your stomach, I don't know what will. However this mess that is called bread, is how God looks at the teaching that is forming as part of the so-called Christian church world today, and it will get worse. This polluted bread is an analogy of the deception that will take place upon Satan's arrival to earth, when he to serves and is accepted as the Antichrist.

God is getting graphic to wake us up to the changes now taking place. The entire Christian world is being prepared to accept Satan as the true Christ, when he comes, and spiritually this cake filled with all these impurities, and man's dung, fits the lesson perfectly. The bread, that is to say the "Word of God", is going to be polluted with the dung of Satan, and that is to say Satan's corruption in the end times. This is the way that God feels about this.

This is the abomination that was spoken of, and it is the great apostasy that will come on the whole earth with a perverted religion that will capture all but the elect of God.

Ezekiel 4:13 "And the Lord said, "Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them."

this is the "bread of life" of the Antichrist, and Christian and Gentile alike will all eat of this bread. All that is, except the elect of God, who know the truth.

Ezekiel 4:14 "Then said I, "Ah Lord God! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth."

Ezekiel is telling God that he simply could not eat this bread, and this is in reference to God's health laws, he is telling God "Don't make me make bread made of that evil stuff.

Ezekiel 4:15 "Then He said unto me, "Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for Man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith."

Ezekiel is the example to the house of Israel, the Christians, of what would take place over that forty days before his coming. So here God changes the formula of the bread and adds cow dung, instead of man's dung.

Ezekiel 4:16 "Moreover He said unto me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment;"

In the historical sense there was a time of great shortages in Jerusalem, however this is a spiritual object lesson for another time. This astonishment that the world and Jerusalem will have, as they take their spiritual bread of Satan's filth, is what will cause them to bow down to him. There will be a small number of people that will be saved from partaking in the abominations of Satan deceptions and wonders. These people are God's elect, and they will escape because the took of the true bread of life, the Word of God, and they were sealed in their minds of the signs and events of the end times.

The bread is the word of God, and by studying that Word you will have the knowledge and the council to see the truth, and the deceptions and lies of Satan will not be tempting.

Ezekiel 4:17 "That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consumed away for their iniquity."

Stop and apply this to those around us today. How many even care what is in the Word, and the details of warnings of the Old Testament today. Many pastors even tell their flocks that the book of Revelation, revealed by Jesus Christ Himself is not to be understood. How ridiculous, for a man of God to stand and tell his flock that Revelation is not to be learned, or any part of the Bible, when God told us to learn it. Know it. Make it part of your mind, and the very seal for your life.

The Christian world on the whole today, simply is lazy, and they don't want to take the time to understand, and become part of anything that would come between them and their friends, The Kenites have caused and taught them to be lazy, and to study and know God's Word for the truth that is there takes time and in many ways, courage to stand for what is right.

In the next chapter both the city of Jerusalem, and God's remnant are addressed, as a sign to Ezekiel, just as Ezekiel is a sign to them.