Reference

Ezekiel 39:17

And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
15

And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon–gog.

16

And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

17

And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

18

Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

19

And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

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While the language is concrete, the imagery of animals eating human flesh and drinking blood on a massive scale is highly symbolic of utter destruction and judgment, rather than a literal feast for animals.

Prophetic Methods of Communication

The verse describes a command given by God to the prophet Ezekiel to speak to animals, but it does not describe *how* God communicated this command to Ezekiel, nor does it detail any specific method of prophetic revelation. The focus is on the content of the message and its recipients (the animals), not on the means by which Ezekiel received the message.