Ezekiel 1:2 · World English Bible
Ezekiel 1:2 Meaning In the Fifth of the Month
In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
What does Ezekiel 1:2 mean?
The date opening this vision is not a calendar entry but a coordinate. Its numbers sum to 4555, and 4555 is a galaxy in the constellation Coma, the sign of the mother and child, an inhabited region not yet revealed.
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The date opening this vision is not a calendar entry but a coordinate. Its numbers sum to 4555, and 4555 is a galaxy in the constellation Coma, the sign of the mother and child, an inhabited region not yet revealed. What follows is the great vision of the wheel and the craft above the river, and the opening figures fix the place it came from.
Jehoiachin held in captivity is the higher self deposed and bound, the inner king carried off while a person lives cut from the crown. The vision breaks in upon that captivity, and the number set at its head points past the exile to the far country in the stars from which the sign is sent.
4555: a galaxy in the constellation Coma, the sign of the mother and child Jehoiachin: the higher self deposed and held captive within a person
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Live Ezekiel 1:2 today
- Write down the date of the hardest season you are in, plainly, like a coordinate. Something steadier in you is still the one keeping track, and that is worth knowing.
- Ask someone who knew you before this stretch what you were like then. Let them remind you of the part of you that is only held captive, not lost.
- When you get spoken to in a way that makes you feel small at work, name quietly to yourself that the diminished version is not the real one. Then answer from the steadier place rather than the stung one.
What in you has been deposed for a while but never actually gone?
The same truth in other traditions
Upanishads
The true self is spoken of as a king seated in the heart, forgotten rather than gone. Exile from it is a matter of not remembering, not of distance.
Buddhism
The awakened nature is said to be already present and only obscured, like gold still gold under the dirt. What is deposed is not destroyed.
Sufism · Rumi
The reed cries because it was cut from the reed bed, and that very cry is what makes the music. The ache of exile is itself the sign of where you came from.
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