Ezekiel chapter 3

vs 19

So their response is not in issue - it is the sharing of the message that is important. "Save yourself" is fairly strong language really. You are in trouble that is severe enough that you will save yourself from it by doing your duty. What is that exactly? It doesn't say. But being accountable for someone's death is pretty serious.

vs 20

The formula is followed again, but instead of the wicked doing what wicked always do and being wicked, the righteous can sometimes just stop being righteous and do a wicked thing. The responsibility is the same - they need to be told, just like the wicked. The accountability is also the same.

vs 21

Righteous people take warnings, and so they might actually respond and change their attitudes. Then, not only are you safe, but they are too. Huzzah!

vs 22

Because sometimes you need a change of scenery to hear a message, I guess.

vs 23

Once again, another vision.

vs 24

Because, of course, you can do your best preaching from inside your house.

vs 25

I assume God means that the people won't want to hear his message, and so will restrain him from sharing it.

vs 26

My opinion of this passage was that God was telling Ezekiel that, unlike other prophets, he didn't want Ezekiel to take the intercessory position of appealing to God for his people. He didn't want him to instruct them so much as send his message to them.

vs 27

See, God wants them to either listen or not listen, and to judge them on that basis. He doesn't want Ezekiel rebuking them into it, as it were. God will open Ezekiel's mouth when he wants it open.