Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
The first twenty chapters belong to the prophetic ministry among the captives in Babylonia by the river Chebar. The command is to drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin, from time to time, as part of a famine diet of measured food and water in a time of affliction. The drinking of water by measure stands together with the other symbolic actions of lying days on the left side and then on the right side, eating bread by weight, and eating defiled bread.
The whole belongs to a real acted miniature of the siege of Jerusalem and its consequence, with water drunk by measure showing the straitness of the siege. Together with the other acts, it typified the awful judgments awaiting the Jews and represented the measured and defiled food the children of Israel would eat in their captivity among the Gentiles. His privation served as a sign of the famine and suffering that would come upon Israel.
As a realistic sample of the ruin awaiting the world when Heaven says, It is done, the terrible things witnessed give emphasis, positiveness, and dispatch to the message of those who witness them and call all who read to tell the people to run to escape the ruin. The image pictures faithful people who endure long periods of hardship, receiving little, like food in a measure and the bread and water of affliction. The results of their prayers, sacrifices, and efforts may emerge later in their lives or even after their deaths.
The first twenty chapters belong to the prophetic ministry among the captives in Babylonia by the river Chebar. The command is to drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin, from time to time, as part of a famine diet of measured food and water in a time of affliction. The drinking of water by measure stands together with the other symbolic actions of lying days on the left side and then on the right side, eating bread by weight, and eating defiled bread.
The whole belongs to a real acted miniature of the siege of Jerusalem and its consequence, with water drunk by measure showing the straitness of the siege. Together with the other acts, it typified the awful judgments awaiting the Jews and represented the measured and defiled food the children of Israel would eat in their captivity among the Gentiles. His privation served as a sign of the famine and suffering that would come upon Israel.
As a realistic sample of the ruin awaiting the world when Heaven says, It is done, the terrible things witnessed give emphasis, positiveness, and dispatch to the message of those who witness them and call all who read to tell the people to run to escape the ruin. The image pictures faithful people who endure long periods of hardship, receiving little, like food in a measure and the bread and water of affliction. The results of their prayers, sacrifices, and efforts may emerge later in their lives or even after their deaths.