Ezekiel: please explain

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I’ve been thinking ‘bout Isaiah and the children that he spawned There was “speedy prey, quick spoil” and “a remnant shall return” And then there was the virgin whom a child did bring to birth Emanuel, God with us, and a comfort to the earth.

Kicking back on my living room Saw a form like to a man, I was in swoon Waist down he was like flaming fire But he turned to molten metal, as you looked higher
Reached out and took me by the hair To the north gate of the temple – it was Satan’s lair To the desolating sacrilege that I did see Then the glory of Jehovah it spoke to me Saying, “Envy, jealousy radiate In the evil that my people here do perpetrate They will drive me far from here, from my sanctuary But things yet more detestable you will see”  Then he brought me to the entrance of the outer court To a hole in the wall, at least that’s what I thought Said, “Dig still further til you come unto a door, Enter through that portal, tell me what you saw” So I came into a room with murals all around There were creping things, and monsters and idols there I found There were hypercritic holy men with censers wafting clouds They were worshipping the idols in the dark that did enshroud There were reaching out for comfort in the sirens empty charms Finding loneliness and loathing in cold, unloving arms Seeking not the holy presence, soon departing from the land Then the glory of Jehovah spoke of worse things, yet at hand  Meanwhile back at the northern gate The woman spent their days with words of hate Mourned the passing seasons and the sun’s depleted rays And slaughter of John Barleycorn in summer’s golden haze Deeper in the sanctuary twixt altar and the porch Their men lay prostrate to summer’s fiery torch Backs toward the temple, faces to the east Intent upon the vicious acts on which they all would feast Then the glory of Jehovah spoke to me with strident voice ”I will crucify all pity, let them live with their own choice. Though they cry to me for sustenance and shelter from the storm I will turn my back upon them til their spirit be reformed.” . Then he called his guards to order, each with weapon in his hand And his glory left the temple, and departed from that land His linen clad offsider, not a soldier but a scribe Bearing nothing but a writing kit, the guards all by his side Placed a seal upon the righteous heads of all of them that mourn And grieve at all the evil done, await the righteous dawn Then he summoned all his guards to go forth into the city And kill without compassion, and slaughter without pity And visit death upon the heads of all of them that did not bear the seal Who criticized the destitute and pity did conceal Filled the country with their bloodshed and the cities with the lust Piled the corpses in the temple left them bleeding i the dust

5.1 First we think about Isaiah and three children

5.1 Ezekiel takes a trip to the temple in Zion

5.2 God Leaves the Temple, Jerusalem & planet earth