Ezekiel's last prophecy about the judgment coming on Judah and Jerusalem ended with an announcement that a fugitive would escape Jerusalem's destruction and come and report the city's fall to the exiles (24:25-26). At that time God would open Ezekiel's mouth and he would be dumb no longer (24:27). Now the messenger arrived and God opened the prophet's mouth.
33:21 On the fifth day of the tenth month of the twelfth year of the Jews' exile, namely, in 585 B.C., word reached the exiles from refugees who had come from Jerusalem. They announced that Jerusalem had fallen to Nebuchadnezzar.436This news reached them several months after the city fell in 586 B.C.437
33:22 The Lord had spoken to Ezekiel the evening before the refugees arrived and gave him permission to speak to the people when they heard the announcement of Jerusalem's fall. This broke the silence that God had imposed on him (cf. 3:26-27; 24:27).
