From Ezekiel 4 - 6
1. It appears that God asked Ezekiel to essentially starve himself in front of the Israelites and use (at first anyways) human excrement to heat his food. That is gross and disgusting! However, it was meant to be a warning to the Israelites about what was going to happen. It must have been tough to carry out too, especially laying on one's side for so many days.
2. Consequences of Sin - God definitely was not happy with the Israelites, to curse them to the point that they would be so famished and ravaged that they would be willing to eat their children to keep from dying of hunger. This is horrifying!
3. I do not believe that God would not condemn the nation of Israel to destruction so complete if there were still righteous people living among them - at least, according to how I read this in light of the conversation that Abraham had with the Lord in Genesis regarding Sodom and Gomorrah. Still, I wonder - if there had been a group of people who had set God before them and had not wavered, would God have spared that group from destruction? How would that work? God lets the invaders treat them well? Or God does not let their area be overrun due to certain circumstances? Or perhaps the survivors are those who had trusted God completely.
