EZEKIEL 3:4
Then He said to me, “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them. [BSB]
Then He told me, “Son of man, now you are to go to the people of Israel and give My message to them. [FBV]
SPEAKING AS ORACLE OF GOD |
The Word of God sent man to speak the Word of God. Though he be a son of man, the Words spoken by his mouth were the Words of God by the mouth of a man, especially the mouth that had eaten and digested the Handwritten Word of God on a scroll and tasted the Word. So the Word of God can come out from the mouth of a man or an angel, and still be the Word of God no less. Do not underrate the Words of God just because you heard them from the mouths of men. Scriptures or prophecies mean holy men/women spoke Words expressing the Will of God as they were moved by the Spirit of God; and we saw the Word (Jesus) that came directly from God became subject to the Words (scriptures/prophecies) that came directly by God's men/oracles.
In the Bible verse above, Ezekiel who had just ate the scroll containing the written words of God, became ready and sent to go speak the Words/Message of God to the house of Israel. That meant, instead of him to deliver the message from the scroll or by reading the letter, he was made to become one with the letter and then made to speak the message of God from within him rather than from within the scroll or the letter of the Handwriting. Therefore, he was turned into an "Oracle of God."
Would it not have been simpler for Ezekiel to have come down with the Scroll like Moses came down with the tablets of Stones, and read the message from the Book like Bible Reading to the house of Israel the way Newsreaders read their scripts?
Behold, God was making everyone to recognize Him in the Son of man (Ezekiel), so that when God finally comes as the Son of man the whole creation would have been prepared and used to the Word of God proceeding from the Son of man. A major example was the son of man speaking to the dried bones to hear the Word of God and thus says the Lord, while the son of man was speaking.
Again, this is the wisdom of God making His Messengers, "Living Epistles/Oracles," so that Instead seen carrying and reading the book, rather they are seen as "Living Books" or "Speaking Oracle" with the Oration, Unction or Utterances dwelling within.
There's a place where Moses was instructed to cause the priests to engrave, write or carve, the words of God on medals, jewelries, or ornaments to be worn by them or hanged by walls/doors for men to easily read them and remember. There are churches where the church workers are mandated to be seen carrying a Bible when going to church, without hiding their Bible. Then the era of Living Epistles and having the Words written in our hearts and minds came, and men began carrying the Word in them and the Word abiding in them and not just abiding with them.
Eating the Word of God with God's Handwriting like Ezekiel did has not ended in it coming out through the anus, but resulted in it coming out through the mouth and voice of he who ate it like utterances by the Word. A man of God testified that he drank a Tear from the Lord's Eye, and then the Tear became like a flame within him compelling him to speak or preach the message of the Lord or else the flame would consume him. Thus he had burning to preach and prophesy due to what he drank of the Lord's Hand.
[Revelation 10:9-11] — "And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make your belly bitter, but it shall be in your mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. And he said to me, You must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings."