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   ocr: An uprooted, dispirited people such as these needed a - strong, authoritative voice, and in Ezekiel they got exactly that. As a goung man in training for the priesthood, he had found his career plans interrupted by the foreign deportations. What good was a priest in Babylon when the temple was in Jerusalem? God summoned Ezekiel to a new role, as prophet to the Jews in exile. Ezekiel begins with a description sO unearthly that some have suggested the prophet saw a UFO. Indeed, there are some similarities: glowing lights, quick movements, inhuman figures. But, there are differences, too, in this ...