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The pillows are covering his outstretched hands. He wants his children to come to him but false preachers are covering the truth with the rapture theory.
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I think you are missing the context of the passage, and it has (as a result) created this totally off-topic discussion.
The mention of the pillows & the kerchiefs are references to falcon hunting. The pillow covers the hunter's hand/wrist/forearm to protect it from the talons of the hunting bird. The kerchief covers the eyes of the hunting bird--like a hood--until the hunter is ready to release the bird after its prey. (For more insight on this, you might check out the fantastic foreign documentary called "The Eagle Huntress".)
Suffice it to say--this chapter and the next are directly addressing God's thoughts on false prophets and providing some identifying marks for such persons. Here in verse 20, God is vowing to strip these false prophets (or false teachers, in our day) of the protective pillows that allow falconers to hold their captured birds of prey at the ready--as a perch for release & return. In the following verse God also vows to remove the kerchiefs that cover the falcons' eyes, keeping them in thrall to their handlers, between hunts. The pillow is: a contrived perch, a base of operations, a protection from the "natural consequences" of the sport (the talons being turned upon the hunter). The kerchief/hood enables control through blindness.
These are both classic mechanisms/trappings of cults, still alive & well today. (See also Matthew 23:15.) For example: Mormons baptize their children into their control group at age 8, feed them a steady stream of man-centered heresy & idolatry, then turn them loose (with no chaperone) as "missionaries" around age 18-22...trusting that they will "capture" others & return to their perches, obediently, when they are finished.
Vicki l Joplin on Ezekiel 13:20
The pillows are covering his outstretched hands. He wants his children to come to him but false preachers are covering the truth with the rapture theory.
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I think you are missing the context of the passage, and it has (as a result) created this totally off-topic discussion.
The mention of the pillows & the kerchiefs are references to falcon hunting. The pillow covers the hunter's hand/wrist/forearm to protect it from the talons of the hunting bird. The kerchief covers the eyes of the hunting bird--like a hood--until the hunter is ready to release the bird after its prey. (For more insight on this, you might check out the fantastic foreign documentary called "The Eagle Huntress".)
Suffice it to say--this chapter and the next are directly addressing God's thoughts on false prophets and providing some identifying marks for such persons. Here in verse 20, God is vowing to strip these false prophets (or false teachers, in our day) of the protective pillows that allow falconers to hold their captured birds of prey at the ready--as a perch for release & return. In the following verse God also vows to remove the kerchiefs that cover the falcons' eyes, keeping them in thrall to their handlers, between hunts. The pillow is: a contrived perch, a base of operations, a protection from the "natural consequences" of the sport (the talons being turned upon the hunter). The kerchief/hood enables control through blindness.
These are both classic mechanisms/trappings of cults, still alive & well today. (See also Matthew 23:15.) For example: Mormons baptize their children into their control group at age 8, feed them a steady stream of man-centered heresy & idolatry, then turn them loose (with no chaperone) as "missionaries" around age 18-22...trusting that they will "capture" others & return to their perches, obediently, when they are finished.
(These are both precious promises of hope!)
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