6 Ezekiel Israel's Watchman

God is outside time and space and is therefore not bound by its constraints. Ezekiel is now lifted up into the eternal environment from which God will impart instructions for him to take back into time and space, that is, the earth to convey God’s Word to the captive Israelites in Babylon. From this moment Ezekiel would begin to receive the various commands from God directed to him to provide the proper motivation for him to carry out God’s Will effectively. The rushing sound was the wings of the Cherubim kissing (Hebrew nashak) each other as the wheels of fire add to the deafening sound experienced by the prophet. The Cherubim were moved to praise at the conclusion of His launching of Ezekiel’s ministry for God when they said, “Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place.”