God would personally seek His lost sheep and heal the Jews of their backsliding. Only then would God's glory return to the Temple.
Ezekiel had once been the Jews' most important prophet and was also called the father of Judaism. He believed that all Jews were sinful and had to atone for their ancestors' betrayal of God.
After the Kingdom of Judah was destroyed by Babylon, Ezekiel was captured and made a slave. He tended sheep for several years and prayed to Yahweh in repentance. At last, he received a vision from heaven: God wanted to speak with him.
After the man and God spoke, the outcome was that God was still angry over Judah's betrayal, and all of Judah's descendants bore the sin of their bloodline.
Still, it was not impossible to gain forgiveness. God proposed a condition:
"You shall take wheat, barley, beans, and the like, put them in a vessel, and make bread for yourself. You shall bake it over human dung in the sight of everyone. The house of Judah, whom I drive among the nations, shall likewise eat unclean food."
Ezekiel begged God for mercy, saying that he had been God's priest since childhood and had always loved cleanliness. He truly could not eat flatbread baked over human dung.
So the generous God displayed His love for mankind and allowed them to bake flatbread over cow dung instead. However, the price of that mercy was that while eating cow-dung flatbread, they had to wash it down with foul, rotten muddy water.
Su Ming had not made up this story. It came from the records of the "Old Testament: Book of Ezekiel," or at least that was how it was recorded over on Marvel's side. The scriptures from his previous life should have been roughly the