adequate warning of an earthquake in which three hundred people died. Ezekiel is warned that he’ll be held responsible in this way if he fails to warn people of the fate hanging over them. The fate isn’t inevitable. While in a sense God’s intentions are fixed (if people carry on as they are, the trouble will come), in another sense they’re flexible (their implementation depends on people’s response). Ezekiel’s task is to work himself out of a job, to prove himself wrong. God has a way of addressing