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The book of Ezekiel is notoriously strange. Ezekiel's visions, actions, and words are bizarre "sometimes utterly incomprehensible" to us. He lies on his side for over a year, he eats a scroll, he is asked to cook with human waste, and he cannot cry at his wife's death. Ezekiel's message seems unavailable to many because we simply don't have "ears to hear."

patron god of Israel, had permitted their deportation. The “official” view of those in Jerusalem was that Yahweh had finally cleansed the capital of its troublemakers and allowed the favored to remain (cf. 11:3). Despite everything in Ezekiel’s world pointing to hopelessness and ruin, it was here that the heavens were opened and he saw visions of God. The last thing Ezekiel or his contemporaries expected was for Yahweh to communicate to his people in Babylon. Rather than coming from within the land
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