Eat What I Give You - Ezekiel 2:8-10

Ezekiel 2:8-10 ESV 

“But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.” And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it. And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

The scroll is not given to Ezekiel, but spread before him. Christ is the only one worthy to take the scroll and break its seals as we read in Revelation. 

He is to warn Israel of the coming judgement, which will take final form as foretold in Revelation. Israel suffered in the past and it will be repeated to a greater degree in these latter days to degree never seen before or to be seen again. 

Israel defiled their own temple with all their abominations. The four horsemen in Revelation remind us of the of this judgment. The breaking of the seals shows us that the final days have arrived. 

There is a pause of the eschatological events until the number of the body of Christ is complete. 

The scroll was spread before Ezekiel, and spread before us in this book. He ate the scroll as we eat the flesh of Christ. We digest and understand the living word.