Ezekiel became a prophet in Babylon--the first prophet to receive the to prophesy outside the Holy Land. As one of the exiles deported by Nebuchadnezzar in 597 B.C. his first task was to prepare his fellow countrymen in Babylon for the final destruction of Jerusalem, which they believed to inviolable. Accordingly, the firs tpart of his book consists of reproaches for Israel's past and present sins and the confident prediction of yet a further devastation of the land of promise and a more general exile. In 587 B.C. when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem, Ezekiel was vindicated before his unbelieving compatriots.
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