Siege of Jerusalem symbolized

Ezekiel 4:1-17
Siege of Jerusalem symbolized.
Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the people of Israel.
“Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the people of Israel.
After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year. Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her.
Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.
The props for the drama are ready to hand: a large sun-dried brick on which Ezekiel draws an outline of the city; and the metal plate on which they bake their flat loaves of bread. We are in the realm of symbol, as so often in this book.
The people watch and get the message. With growing horror they see him weigh out his message measure of mixed grain and eke out(掏出來) his water ration(配給). They see the prophet wasting away, as the population of Jerusalem will do under siege.
Why?
Ezekiel live out the living style of Jerusalem people, to people of Israel how they will be under siege in their land.
It is very hard job to transfer this message to Israelite, lie down on one side 390 days, and eat the same food 390 days. No one can bear this living style. So as to symbolized the people of Jerusalem.
Because they have to bear their own sins, but prophet have to bear this hard work first.
To be a prophet of the Lord is a heavy mission, if their is no the grace and Spirit with us no one can do it.
How?
Remember the grace of the Lord and let the history of Jerusalem be our reminder and warning message. Follow God's word and give honor to the Lord!