This lesson is taught in a wonderful symbolic representation given to the prophet Ezekiel during his exile in the land of the Chaldeans. The vision was given at a time when Ezekiel was weighed down with sorrowful memories and troubled forebodings. The land of his fathers was desolate. Jerusalem was depopulated. The prophet himself was a stranger in a land where ambition and cruelty reigned supreme. As on every hand he beheld tyranny and wrong, his soul was distressed, and he mourned day and night. But the symbols presented to him revealed a power above that of earthly rulers.

Dette lærer vi gennem en vidunderlig, symbolsk fremstilling, som profeten Ezekiel fik, mens han levede som landflygtig i kaldæernes land. Ezekiel fik synet på et tidspunkt, hvor han var knuget af smertelige erindringer og ængstelige forudanelser. Hans fædres land lå øde hen, Jerusalem var mennesketom. Profeten selv var fremmed i et land, hvor ærgerrighed og grusomhed herskede uindskrænket. Da han til alle sider kun så tyranni og uretfærdighed, fortvivlede han, og han sørgede både dag og nat. Men de symboler, der blev vist ham, åbenbarede en magt, der var hævet over de jordiske herskeres.