The prophet Ezekiel: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel was a priest who had been deported to Babylon by the tyrant Nebuchadnezzar along with the deposed King Jeconiah, there Ezekiel was chosen by God as a prophet for his people. The Kingdom of Judah was not destroyed with this first deportation, but Joachim's successor, Zedekiah, was greatly weakened.
The prophet Ezekiel had fantastic visions that are difficult to understand, but the Lord gave Ezekiel a clear message, what happens when a vineyard does not give the vinedresser the expected fruits? Jerusalem had sinned and its destruction at the hands of the Babylonian empire was near.
As in many prophetic texts, God compared the nation of Israel in the Book of Ezekiel as that vine that must bear fruit, but the chosen people, as the same prophet described it, had behaved like an unfaithful wife, due to the hardness of their hearts.
Ezekiel was called by God as "son of man", and as the personification of the perfections of God, he had to preach before a people who had eyes to see but did not perceive, and ears to hear but did not listen because they were a rebellious people.
This is how Ezekiel tells us how God, the vinedresser of Israel, condemned the rebellion of his people, that vine that had not borne fruit:
"Son of man, how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any of the trees in the forest? Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on? And after it is thrown on the fire as fuel and the fire burns both ends and chars the middle, is it then useful for anything? If it was not useful for anything when it was whole, how much less can it be made into something useful when the fire has burned it and it is charred?
Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: As I have given the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest as fuel for the fire, so will I treat the people living in Jerusalem" Ezekiel 15:2-6.

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