Ezekiel 24:25-26

Ezekiel 24:25-26

[25] Also, thou son  of man,  shall it not be in the day  when I take  from them their strength,  the joy  of their glory,  the desire  of their eyes,  and that whereupon they set  their minds,  their sons  and their daughters,  [26] That he that escapeth  in that day  shall come  unto thee, to cause thee to hear  it with thine ears? 

What does Ezekiel 24:25-26 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Evidently Ezekiel was not to deliver any more prophetic messages to his fellow exiles after he made the explanation in Ezekiel 24:20-24 until he received word of the destruction of the temple and the capture of the remaining Judahites. This message reached him five months later ( Ezekiel 33:21). His enforced dumbness must have been limited to prophecies concerning Israel, however, because Ezekiel 25:1 to Ezekiel 33:20 contains oracles against foreign nations some of which are dated during the siege of Jerusalem.