EZEKIEL 4:5

[NKJV] — For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

[GNT] — “Then lie down on your left side, and I will place on you the guilt of the nation of Israel. For 390 days you will stay there and suffer because of their guilt. I have sentenced you to one day for each year their punishment will last.

SIN-BEARER(s)

Firstly, understand that sin or iniquity takes time to resolve after it is ended or corrected. It's like a wound or disease which, even after it's treated, takes long time to resolve and be fully healed. It's not the day a man stopped sinning that his sins get ended: for some sins could take 10 generations of people or 4 generations of people, or even years, months, days or hours, to fully get resolved after the ones who committed them stopped or repented.

But there's a mystery involving a righteous man bearing the sins of sinners for them, instead of the sinners bearing their own sins. And the sins are resolved quicker or faster when another man who's righteous bears the sins or iniquities for sinners who committed those sins not just as intercessor but as "Sin-Bearer."

In the top Bible verse above, God laid on Ezekiel the sins of Israel to bear, and the bearing of the sins of the entire nation that should have been 390 years drastically reduced to 390 days.

*1* When a Righteous man is bearing the sins of a Nation:

As in the Bible verse above, "Years are reduced to days or hours for the righteous bearing the people's iniquities."

*2* When a Nation is bearing their own sins themselves:

In this case, "Days are elongated into years or decades for the nation or the entire people bearing their own iniquities." Example:

[Numbers 14:33-34] — "And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your prostitutions, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know My breach of promise."

Again, it is written,

[Daniel 9:24] — "Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy."

*3* When a Nation is bearing the sins of one man leading them - Leadership sins laid on the nation's people/poor masses because of the foolishness of their leader/father:

In this case, "Either Days are elongated into years or Years reduced into days, as the nation or the entire people bearing the sins or iniquities of their heading leader or father." Example:

[2 Samuel 24:10‭-‬13 GNT] — But after David had taken the census, his conscience began to hurt, and he said to the Lord, “I have committed a terrible sin in doing this! Please forgive me. I have acted foolishly.” The Lord said to Gad, David's prophet, “Go and tell David that I am giving him three choices. I will do whichever he chooses.” The next morning, after David had gotten up, Gad went to him, told him what the Lord had said, and asked, “Which is it to be? Three years of famine in your land or three months of running away from your enemies or three days of an epidemic in your land? Now think it over, and tell me what answer to take back to the Lord.”

*4* When a God is the Man bearing the sins of all Nations:

In this case, "Eternity or everlasting is reduced to less than three days or hours for the Lord Jesus bearing all peoples iniquities."

[Isaiah 53:5-6] — "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all."