Ezekiel

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NASB	Ezekiel 3:14 So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.
AMPLIFIED 2015	Ezekiel 3:14 So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went embittered [by the sins of Israel] in the rage of my spirit; and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.

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Bible Question: If I understand it correctly, Ezek 3:14 is not a leading verse to v15. Verse 14 was describing a spiritual expereience of Ezekiel taken up in a vision where as after his such experience/vision, he went to sit beside the river Chebar at Tel-ab for 7 days in grieves.

or (to my understanding, it is unlikely so) the Spirit lifted him up and took him away to sit beside the river Chebar at Tel-ab for 7 days in grieves?

Thank you in advance for helping me to understand better.

Shalom
Azure

Bible Answer: Dear Sister Azure,

I do not doubt that Ezekiel was literally transported from one location to another, similar to the experience of Philip in Acts 8:39-40.

Contrary to our romantic and silly imaginings, the experience of a theophany is probably one of the more terrifying thing that can happen to a human being. God's incredible holiness, power, and majesty is more than simply stunning, but enormously frightening and dismaying (viz. Judges 6:22; 13:22-23; Job 42:5-6; Isaiah 6:5-8; Jeremiah 23:9; Daniel 10:7-8; Habakkuk 3:16; Matthew 17:6; Luke 5:8; Revelation 1:17). The effect of Ezekiel's theophany was so traumatic that all he could do was sit there desolate, astonished, and stupefied for entire week (v3:15). Indeed, the experience was so traumatic that the Lord had to intervene (v16).

In Him, Doc