Ezekiel's task was not only to talk about God but to make him visible. What picture of God did he present to the Israelites?

Ezekiel talked about a forest fire that would burn up every tree. But the people complained he was talking in riddles. So he spoke instead of God's sword that would slay the "righteous" and the wicked alike.

The leaders of Israel in Ezekiel's day had treated God wickedly. But they felt no shame nor remorse. Yet the Lord promised that one day his people would loathe themselves for their sins. That takes a new heart, a new birth!

Ezekiel took the elders of Israel through the history of the nation. What was the chief lesson they could learn? That they had never learned from history!

The elders of Israel took it for granted that they had the right to ask God questions and that he would answer. But God had already said everything he wanted to say to them - and they hadn't listened.