Ezekiel 1:28

‘And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one who spoke.'

Having seen God, even though veiled, was something that stirred Ezekiel to the depths of his being, and was something he would never forget. It put the past and the future in a new light. He had seen God as the omnipotent One on His throne, as the omniscient One whose eyes saw everywhere, and as the omnipresent One in constant movement about the world. He was there with them in Babylon, and He was there on His throne. The effect of the experience appears constantly throughout the book (Ezekiel 3:12; Ezekiel 3:23; Ezekiel 8:4; Ezekiel 9:3; Ezekiel 10:4; Ezekiel 10:18; Ezekiel 11:22; Ezekiel 43:2; Ezekiel 44:4).

‘I fell on my face.' An indication of total submission and worship.

‘And I heard a voice of one who spoke.' Compare Ezekiel 1:25. In the end this was the purpose of the revelation he had received, that he might receive God's word to pass on to God's people.