4 And there before me was the glory of the God of Israel, as in the vision I had seen in the plain.
5 Then he said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north…….
Ezekiel 8:4-5 NIV
The Glory of the God of Israel is the Holy Spirit. Verse 4 would be clearer for the reader if the word ‘glory’ was capitalized so that the verse reads: ‘And there before me was the Glory of the God of Israel…’
The Glory of the God of Israel is initially seen by Ezekiel in Ezekiel chapter 1:
25 Then there came a voice from above the vault over their heads as they stood with lowered wings. 26 Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. 27 I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. 28 Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him….
Ezekiel 1:25-28 NIV
