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Ezekiel 7:26 "Mischief shall come on mischief, and rumor shall be on rumor; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients."
Ezekiel from the Old Testament often refers to "ancients" that could refer to his elder statesmen, but from a spiritual connotation, we know that Ezekiel was a successor of the Prophet Daniel. Daniel is the first to be included as referring to these individuals (Dan 7:9):
"I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire."
The Urantia Book refers to the Ancients of Days, as an order of beings, who [tUB 182:3.2] "they disclose the combined character and unified nature of the Trinity." ; [18:3.3] "The Seven Master Spirits on high determine the nature of their respective superuniverses, but the Ancients of Days dictate the administration of these same superuniverses. They superimpose administrative uniformity on creative diversity and insure the harmony of the whole in the face of the underlying creational differences of the seven segmental groupings of the grand universe."
So, we have a very clear picture of the role that the Ancients of Days play in the grand universe, especially the unsettled seven superuniverses. What is the question, then? The question is of the 'mired' nature of language, in this case: what did the Prophet Ezekiel mean to imply when he wrong "counsel of the ancients"? What was he yearning to convey? In one interpretation, I believe he may be referring to his ancestors, the wisdom of his forefathers, so to speak, including the prophet Daniel, who had come before him.
But, we know how often humans mistaking actual spiritual impressions with memories of fond loved ones. Even if Ezekiel requested or invoked a higher wisdom from his ancestors, it is not necessarily they who would inevitably provide such counsel: [158:1.8] "Peter erroneously conjectured that the beings with Jesus were Moses and Elijah; in reality, they were Gabriel and the Father Melchizedek. The physical controllers had arranged for the apostles to witness this scene because of Jesus' request."
The impression of the human individual, in the mind of a person, should be sometimes considered as different compared to what you would expect that person to be seeing & experiencing. For instance, we have this gem from the book of Urantia, where Jesus, ripe with the stories that his father Joseph had told him, "sees the Holy City", before passing along the brow of Mount Olivet:
[124:6.8] "By the fourth and last day's journey the road was a continuous procession of pilgrims. They now began to climb the hills leading up to Jerusalem. As they neared the top, they could look across the Jordan to the mountains beyond and south over the sluggish waters of the Dead Sea. About halfway up to Jerusalem, Jesus gained his first view of the Mount of Olives (the region to be so much a part of his subsequent life), and Joseph pointed out to him that the Holy City lay just beyond this ridge, and the lad's heart beat fast with joyous anticipation of soon beholding the City and house of his heavenly Father."
In the view or artistic or spiritual correspondences, I have to question, "what was Jesus actually seeing, if he anticipated beholding the Holy City?" The City of Paradise, or the City of Jerusalem? This is the same as I withhold in the consideration of the book of Ezekiel, that he could be referring to his existential family, or taken to mean as, in addition to original invocation to ancestors. The same ambiguity is held between Jesus as witnessing "the Holy City" before passing the brow to gaze upon the City of Jerusalem, though his duty as a native of bethlehem would arguably only be enhanced by such experiences.
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