{"id":10551,"date":"2020-07-29T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2020-07-26T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T02:02:54","slug":"ezekiel-19_1-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/ezekiel-19_1-14\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Lion King"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ezekiel 19:1-14 \u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Ezekiel 19:1-14.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Ezekiel 19:1 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Take up a lament concerning the princes of Israel
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\nOn verse 1:\u00a0 Here in chapter 19, God tells Ezekiel to write down a \u201clament\u201d.\u00a0 A lament is a funeral song honouring someone who has died and expressing the feeling of loss and grief of losing that person.\u00a0 In this case the lament concerns \u201cthe princes of Israel\u201d, which is Ezekiel\u2019s term for the kings who led Israel in its most recent history.\u00a0 As we will see, the lament consists of two pictures or parables.<\/p>\n

Ezekiel 19:2-9 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0and say: “‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among the young lions and reared her cubs.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The nations heard about him, and he was trapped in their pit. They led him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘When she saw her hope unfulfilled, her expectation gone, she took another of her cubs and made him a strong lion.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He prowled among the lions, for he was now a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He broke down their strongholds and devastated their towns. The land and all who were in it were terrified by his roaring.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the nations came against him, those from regions round about. They spread their net for him, and he was trapped in their pit.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0With hooks they pulled him into a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon. They put him in prison, so his roar was heard no longer on the mountains of Israel.
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\nOn verses 2-9:\u00a0 The first parable describes how a mother lion raises one of her cubs to be a strong and powerful lion, but that lion cub is trapped and taken to Egypt as a captive.\u00a0 The mother lion then raises another one of her cubs to be an even stronger and more powerful lion, but the nations trap him and take him to Babylon as a captive.<\/p>\n

Who do these lions symbolize?\u00a0 According to many scholars:<\/p>\n