Ezekiel 2:5

5. Whether they will hear Heredity may have determined the form of their guilt, but it does not relieve them from responsibility. They are still able to hear and obey yet these words breathe a sad suspicion that they will still remain persistently impenitent. Yet shall know, etc. To speak as a herald, not originating the message or arguing about it, or tampering with it, but simply crying, “Thus saith the Lord,” is the best way to convince a sharp-tongued and impudent people that there is a prophet in their midst. Even such hearers will soon begin to acknowledge that there is something in religion, and “if there is a prophet on earth, Ezekiel is one.”