Narcissistic families and narcissistic rage in the Word
As we know, God not only gives prophets teachings to share with the Church but also uses them as neon reprogrammable billboards to express matters like the spiritual health or unhealthiness of the Church. When we covered the meaning of bricks as spiritual falsehoods, we looked at how the Lord told Ezekiel to draw Jerusalem on a brick to represent their spiritual darkness; and then to play-act besieging the city with divine truth. He told other prophets to behave similarly. Jeremiah, for instance, got told not to marry: "2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be co...