Ezekiel 12:2 Meaning Son of Man

To have eyes and not see is to move through your days lost in a stream of thought, so absorbed in the mental commentary that the living world in front of you goes unnoticed. The rebellion is not wickedness. It is the ordinary trance of a mind that would rather narrate reality than actually perceive it.

Seeing and hearing in the true sense begin the moment you step out of that stream and give your full attention to what is here. The people described are not seeing because they are somewhere else, inside their heads. When you return your awareness to the present, the world becomes vivid again.

Whatever a person declines to take in is exactly what would have cost them the life they are currently defending.

Deletion is a strategy before it is a failure. Taking in what would force a change hurts now, so the aim drifts, the drift leaves the belief intact, and the intact belief sets a state comfortable enough to produce tomorrow the same choices it produced today. Rebellion of this kind is quiet: where focus goes, energy flows, so a warning that is never aimed at gets no energy and functions as if it were never spoken.

Working equipment proves nothing about where it is aimed, which is why God stops arguing the message and has it acted out in the street, where the eyes have nowhere else to land. The cost is years of warning that could have gone into preparing, given instead to defending a world that was already ending.