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Ezekiel's vision of God's glory, seen amid his exile among fellow Jews to Babylon, is one of Scripture's most misunderstood passages. Some have built on it extreme teachings that have led religious leaders to restrict study of it. Properly understood, it is a theophany, a dramatic appearance of God to humans with a message of consolation and warning. The vision of a heavenly chariot was rooted in Jewish experience of the prophet's time -- an experience of despair of a present of persecution and exile, but also of hope of a future of restoration and glory. That vision was rooted in earlier visions of prophets such as Moses, David, and Isaiah as given shape in the Ark of the Covenant and in the Holy of Holies of Solomon's Temple. That vision still speaks to all of us, Jews and Christians. Out of Ezekiel's vision of living creatures and of wheels within wheels comes the message that the heavens can come to the earth -- that deliverance can come to each of us. The chariot is not a secret thing for mystics alone, but an open truth that all who study Ezekiel's prophecy can learn.
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