The strangeness of Ezekiel continues and he has to throw a scroll in the river after making prophecies on the scroll. He also has a lot of prophecies about Jerusalem, which in some ways is strange since he is living among the exiles. Therefore, his prophecies are not a call to repentance or surrender in contrast to those of Jeremiah. I seems that God is using him to preach to the exiles about what will happen or already is happening back home.
He also makes a prediction that the fate of the lives of the people of Jerusalem will be determined in 1/3 allocations. One third will die by the sword, one third will die by famine, and one third will be sent to exile. In a way, this parallels that of the horses of Revelations, which we will discuss and encounter much later.
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