Today is the fifth day of November.

Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian and it's great to be here with you at the threshold of a brand new shiny sparkly week and this will

be our first full week in the month of November the 11th month of our year together, and this week we'll

read from the New Living Translation, and of course we will pick up where we left off yesterday. So for our Old Testament reading today,

Ezekiel chapter 12 verse 1 through 1411.

Again, a message came to me from the Lord.

Son of man, you live among rebels who have eyes but refuse to see.

They have ears but refuse to see. They have ears but refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious people.

So now, son of man, pretend you are being sent into exile.

Pack the few items an exile could carry and leave your home to go somewhere else. Do this right in front of the people so they can see you,

for perhaps they will pay attention to this, even though they are such rebels.

Bring your baggage outside during the day

so they can watch you.

Then in the evening, as they are watching,

leave your house as captives do when they begin a long march to distant lands.

Dig a hole through the wall while they are watching and go out through it.

As they watch, lift your pack to your shoulders and walk away into the night.

Cover your face so you cannot see the land you are leaving, for I have made you a sign for the people of Israel.

So I did as I was told.

In broad daylight, I brought my pack outside, filled with the things I might carry into exile.

Then, in the evening while the people looked on, I dug through the wall with my hands and went out into the night with my

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