The Denial of Reality

The elders in Babylon were just like a modern group of executives who won't actually see the writing on the wall. There's a great verse that captures this in chapter 12 verse 22 when they're saying about the prophecies of doom, probably Jeremiah's. It's been a long time, God's not doing anything, Jesus isn't coming back. They were thus falsely consoling the people. The reason there was no peace was that in the spiritual diagnosis of Ezekiel, God was behind this.