7 God Conditions Ezekiel

After seven days of silence in the midst of the other Israelites God came to Ezekiel as depicted with the phrase “the hand of Jehovah was there upon me. ”In this phraseology Ezekiel is describing the beginning of the encounter the God of the Universe was initiating with him. This was how Ezekiel described the manner in which God began to open the line of communication to him. God tells Ezekiel to Arise, from the quiet contemplative position he has been in and go forth into the plain. God is now going to address Ezekiel again with direct revelation and instructions. He is telling him to go to “the” plain. By using the definite article in front of plain it is clear that location was known to both to the Lord and Ezekiel as well as those living in Babylon at that time. The Hebrew word that gets translated in the English Bibles as plain is habeekah. In the Hebrew Bibles it is “valley” not plain. This direction to the valley was not a causal direction. There was purpose in selecting this particular location to reveal the Shekinah Glory again to Ezekiel.