Ezekiel’s hair-raising flights
by Damien F. Mackey “He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated”. Ezekiel 8:3 “Then the angel of the Lord took [Habakkuk] by the crown of his head and carried him by his hair; with the speed of the wind he set him down in Babylon, right over the [lions’] den”. Daniel 14:36 1. First Identifications of Ezekiel Until recently, I thought that I may have correctly identified Habakkuk as the prophet Job, whom I had previously, and most confidently, identified as Tobias, son of Tobit. For one , the books of Job and Habakkuk are often compared as to their subject matter. Here is a good example of this from Taylor Yoder (Feb 14, 2026): Job and...