God told Ezekiel to go to the people in captivity. He was a captive ministering to captives. We must get alongside people to help them. This was our Lord's way. God tells Ezekiel to speak whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear (Ezekiel 3:11) Ezekiel's responsibility was to deliver God's message. The results were not in his hands.
Soon after Ezekiel was born a great reformation of popular worship and social life was aroused. This was caused by the inspiration of the Book of Deuteronomy, which had just been published ( 621 B.C.). But the reformation was only superficial. The religious decline was crowned by political disaster and Jerusalem was taken after an eighteen-month siege amid horrors untold. The temple, on which such a passion of love had been lavished, was reduced to ashes and the people deported to Babylon.
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