EZEKIEL 4:11

[NKJV] — You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.

[BSB] — You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.


"Dry Fasting" was regarded as different from "Wet Fasting" because in Dry Fasting one will neither take food nor water whereas in Wet Fasting one takes only water or some fruits but no food.

In the Bible verse above, Ezekiel was also to make his fasting dry by drinking water just once in a day, and the water he would drink in a day must not be upto nor exceeding "1 litre" {⅙ of a Hin (Hin = 5.7litres)} water in a day.

Now, supposing Fasting means "Self-Affliction" and "Abstinence," intended to touch another concerned Person or get his/her attention to act for he/she who's fasting: or supposing Fasting means becoming a "Masochist" to prove the concerned Person is either a "Sadist" or "Sympathetic" pertaining to you — Then it's not the goal of Ezekiel here to engage in these fasting for God's attention, rather the goal was to engage the people's attention.

You may have come across where the Lord Jesus Christ taught us that when we fast, we should not appear to people that we are fasting by putting on long face, but rather we should anoint our selves and fast in secret; and the God who sees in secret will reward us openly. Well, Ezekiel's own case here was exception to that Lord's Teaching because clearly Ezekiel's fastings, sufferings and bearing the sin of Israel, was not to be kept secret for only God to see but more importantly to be made openly for the people to see and behold Ezekiel bearing their sin and demonstrating their afflictions before them and God.

*1* The Testimony of Jesus - is the spirit of prophecy or the true mark of a true prophecy or prophets' messages; not the miracles, signs and wonders or fulfilling of the prophecy, but the message or testimony of Jesus Christ should be the spirit you use in judging prophecies/revelations of prophets. [Revelation 19:10].

*2* This Testimony of Jesus - as the spirit of prophecy, is not just about using the "Name of Jesus Christ" to speak but about the suffering afflictions because prophets have spoken in the name of Jesus Christ the true message of Christ. If they don't use the name of Christ but their own name or other names, no affliction follow those prophets; and even if they use the name but do not speak the same things Christ speaks - they speak what they saw instead of speaking what the Word of Christ is saying - no affliction or persecution but gifts, tithes, offerings, private jets.

[James 5:10] — "Take, my brothers, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience."

Ezekiel was an example of suffering affliction and patience. Here were five different afflictions or fastings Ezekiel had to endure:

*1* Fasting of Eating only once a day;

*2* Fasting of Drinking water once a day, less than a litre;

*3* Fasting of not turning the other side for 390 days;

*4* Fasting of no sexual intercourse with his wife those days;

*5* Fasting of no movement or no leaving there for 390 days.