God revealed to the “son of man” (Ezekiel) about the utter destruction of Israel and the dispersion of its people. That did happen very soon. Obviously, Ezekiel prophesied that while still in Jerusalem although he may have written it down after he was taken to Babylon. He may have thought this happened just as it was revealed to me. The destruction of the Temple happened very soon after Ezkiel saw the vision. His warning from God follows:
Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, “The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of the times that are far off.” (Ezek 12:27)
God referred to Ezekiel as the “son of man.”
That has great significance for by then “mankind” had degenerated; Adam’s kind
to another existence called “’Is” in the Hebrew. Consider that kind
as sons of Eve and the wicked one, according to the lineage of Cain who was of
the wicked one (1 John 3:12).
Ezekiel remained
purebred because he was from the house of Israel, or the genetics of Jacob
whose name was changed to Israel when he was engendered by God long before as
he “wrestled” with a “man” (‘Is) that turned out to be God (Elohim). That
being was Jesus, not in the flesh, but in a vapor (Gen 32:24) from the Hebrew
word ‘abaq.
How did Jacob
wrestled a man who was nothing more than vapor — a phantom — you ask? It was
not a wrestling match at all but pre-incarnate Jesus changing the genetics of
Jacob. Think about that; God changed Jacob from a devious and sinful man into a
righteous man. God removed the “beast” within Jacob and made him glorious. Ezekiel
was of the House of Israel, and Buzi his father is thought to be the prophet, Jeremiah.
God had
corrected the genetics of Jacob and Ezekiel was of the House of Israel, or the gens
of the former, Jacob. In other words, Ezekiel was worth God talking to
because Ezekiel was, in a sense, in Christ, the same as the man (adamic)
Israel.
Because Ezekiel
was of Israel (the man), God revealed to him the fate of the House of Israel.
It would mostly perish as the Temple was destroyed in the House, or gens,
of Israel, reseeded in Babylon where they would grow enough to be replanted in
Israel seventy years later.
The seed of
Adam could be planted and replanted just as the original man, Adam. Again, in a
sense, God put the Israelites, by then only the Jews, in a “hothouse” in the
Babylon. That brings to mind the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
It is believed
that King Nebuchadnezzar established the hanging gardens to please his Medianite
wife. There has never been any evidence that the Hanging Garden ever existed. Perhaps
(and this is me speaking) that the Hanging Garden in Babylon was not trees at all
but Israelites, and that the planting of them in Babylon was one of the Seven
Wonders of the World!
The Israelites
were a “garden” that God planted in Canaan, perhaps the true Garden of Eden,
and would in the time of King Jeconiah, be replanted in Babylon where the
Hanging Garden was said to exist despite the lack of evidence.
Note that Adam was planted in the Garden of Eden:
The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. (Gen 2:7-8)
God had made Adam in phantom (in
His Image) then put him in the soil of the Garden to grow. (I believe that the
Garden of Eden was not like any other garden, but a Garden of Living Souls, and
that the Hanging Garden of Babylon was much the same; without proof of course,
just like the Hanging Garden itself.)
Throughout scripture, men are
likened to trees. The blind man said, as Jesus approached him, “I see men as
trees walking” (Mark 8:24). Perhaps the blind man in his vision saw Jesus as
the Tree of Life walking toward himself.
I see Adam as a “tree” planted. I
see the Jews, the remnant of Israel, as the best plants that God replanted in a
type of hothouse until the fertile crescent was made new ground again. I
believe that much of scripture is esoteric in nature and that perhaps the Jews
planted in Babylon could have been the proverbial Hanging Garden of Babylon as
the time fits perfectly with the diaspora.
When God revealed the destruction
and diaspora to Enoch, God knew that the Jews would believe it would be in a
distant time (Ezek 12;27 above). It was not distant; it happened very quickly;
perhaps that same year or at least within a few years. Who would have thought
the Kingdom of David would disappear to the world, but it did! Even to this
day, just like the Hanging Gardens, the evidence that there was a Davidic
Kingdom is almost non-existent. That Jesus was the “son of David” (of his
genome) is evidence enough and that even His enemies called Him that is provenance
of King David.
Perhaps because the Jews appeared
contiguous with the Hanging Garden of Babylon and disappeared with it is
provenance that they could be the wondrous “hanging garden” that God planted
there for a time, and that God used Nebuchadnezzar as the husbandman to plant
His Garden again.
You may not buy into that but
indeed God is mysterious. Who would have believed that Ezekiel really saw
living creatures with wheels. Perhaps he saw something in the future that he described
in that manner, but they were machines from the distant future that he
saw!
Whether the Jews were the Hanging
Garden of Babylon, or not, is not significant, but what is significant is that
God knew that the Jews would not expect it to happen soon… but it did, and so
it goes with the end-of-time prophecy that God will destroy the heaven and the Earth
and replant it anew with the living souls of dead people.
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