Ezekiel: God who travels Chapter 6

Wipe Out Memory Loss

A Reflection on Ezekiel and the Human Condition

Nowhere else in Scripture do we see what Ezekiel saw:

A scene where God arrives in such a stunning, otherworldly display, riding on wheels within wheels, accompanied by radiant, multi-faced living beings, breaking through the veil between heaven and earth.

Not with Moses.

Not with Abraham.

Not even with the Israelites in the wilderness.

They saw fire. They heard thunder.

But they did not see this.

Only Ezekiel did.

A Vision So Powerful, It Could Ruin You for Earth

Ezekiel beheld something so glorious, so transcendent, that I wonder if he was ever the same again.

Did he walk through life after that as a stranger to the world?

Did he suffer the burden of knowing too much too soon?

How does a man return to ordinary life after encountering God in such overwhelming glory?

He probably longed for that vision again—longed for that presence more than anything life on earth could offer.

He must have felt a deep emptiness, a holy loneliness, the kind that sets prophets apart.

And in today's world—if Ezekiel walked among us now—would we even recognize him?

Or would we label him delusional?

Would he be ignored, dismissed, institutionalized?

Why Was Ezekiel Chosen?

Perhaps God chose Ezekiel to pierce through humanity’s memory loss.

We forget who God is.

We forget that He exists.

We live as if we are not known, not watched, not created.

So God tore open the skies, sent fire and lightning, wheels and beings, just to burn a memory into one man.

And through that man, into Scripture.

And through Scripture, into us.

But we still forget.

Is God an Alien to His Own Creation?

These questions haunt me:

How far are we from God?

Did God truly make Himself distant—or have we just wandered so far that He seems alien to us?

Has the world made God so “out of place” that when He finally appears, we call Him strange?

If the answer is yes, then the main human flaw is not ignorance or rebellion—it's memory loss.

We do not remember who made us.

We do not remember who we are.

We do not remember the One whose image we bear.

God’s Repeated Reminder

That’s why, over and over, God tells Ezekiel to say this to the people:

“Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

It’s more than a declaration—

It’s a reminder to a forgetful creation.

A cry to wake up from spiritual amnesia.

Final Thought

Maybe Ezekiel’s visions weren’t just about the future or Israel.

Maybe they were a divine intervention in the deepest parts of the human mind:

To wipe out the memory loss that has plagued us since the fall.

God broke through space, time, and logic to reinstall the truth.

He is the Lord.

And He will be known.

AC

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