Ezekiel 12 is a chapter from Ezekiel where the prophet Ezekiel relays a message from God for his people by sign acts. In these signs acts Ezekiel acted out a drama that showed the certain coming of destruction of Jerusalem because the people had turned their back on God. The events of the chapter appears to have been written some time between 592 BC and 587 BC when Jerusalem was destroed by the Babylonian army. In the chapter Ezekiel called for the people to hear and believe God's word, a message that remains relevant for the world today.