The prophet Ezekiel encouraged the people from the land of exile. He dreamed of a restoration to the promised land. Ezekiel had a powerful vision of the glory of God coming “from the east” toward Jerusalem. “I fell prone as the glory of the LORD entered the temple.” The problem with the vision was that there was no temple. It had been destroyed at the time of the exile. An earlier vision showed the “glory of God” on a wheeled chariot. God was mobile, able to come with the Chosen People into exile. Now God was letting them know that the plan of God was still at work, that no matter how things looked God promises “I will dwell among the children of Israel forever.”
