Ezekiel's Own Voice Must Be Silenced

Ezekiel: I'm only talking to you because God is enabling me to speak. This deliberately chosen form of expression, my words, prepares the way for confinement and dumbness that we're going to see in the next episode. Ezekiel's own voice must be silenced. We're going to read about how Ezekiel is going to be struck dumb. He's going to be tied up. And when he's enabled to speak, people are going to know that, hey, I thought the guy couldn't talk. When his tongue is loosed, again, it's a sign act that what I'm saying now isn't coming from me.