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The book of Ezekiel is organized around three major visions. This prophetic book describes God’s action as king of wayward Israel. Through symbolic acts, the prophet Ezekiel is so closely identified with divine judgment that his life becomes a mirror of the judgment itself. His first vision gives him a glimpse of the cosmos under the rule of God and inaugurates him into his role as a prophet....

In the book of Ezekiel, we read of a priest, Ezekiel ben Buzi, one of the Judean exiles deported along with King Jehoiachin to Babylonia in 597 BC. Five years into their exile, visions of God compelled him to relinquish his old way of life as a priest to become a prophet to the exiles. Engaging in a series of symbolic acts, the prophet became a sign prefiguring certain doom for Jerusalem. A year or so later, again in visions of God, he witnessed cultic and political abominations in the
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