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Ezekiel 2:8–3:3
Ezekiel must not imitate the rebellion of his audience; he is commanded to open his mouth and receive a written scroll. The scroll is covered front and back with lamentation, mourning, and woe, preparing the reader for a ministry in which the prophet must first receive God’s hard message before he can announce it.
Ezekiel eats the scroll he was shown and finds it sweet as honey in his mouth. The image joins obedience and proclamation: the prophet must internalize God’s word even when the message itself announces judgment, a pattern Revelation 10 later deliberately replays in John’s prophetic commission.
John's eating of the little scroll deliberately replays Ezekiel's prophetic commission to eat God's scroll before speaking.
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