plan and precise material specifications. Ezekiel’s outline contains neither. Further, as L. E. Cooper remarks, ‘… if this [theory] is true, then his [Ezekiel’s] hope was never realized. Nothing that took place after the return from Babylon matched the details of these predictions.’ And, ‘There has been no literal fulfilment down to the present that compares to what Ezekiel saw.’8 It is also inconceivable that, upon this theory, in Haggai and Zechariah and in the historical books of Ezra and Nehemiah