Ezekiel 12:3
Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house. Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.
God directed Ezekiel to prepare baggage for removal and to move by day in the people's sight from his place to another place, publicly acting out a hasty departure into exile to make Jerusalem's coming removal and captivity vivid. By that public act Ezekiel himself became a visible sign to a rebellious house. The words "it may be they will consider" express God's hopeful purpose that the rebellious would pause over the warning, recognize His message and requirements, turn from idolatry and disloyalty to Him, and be saved.
The verse lays the same sign-role on God's people, who by deliberate witness are to make others pause, consider, and turn to God. That end-time sign work is bearing the last message throughout the world, calling attention to Christ's return and the Sabbath, and continuing as a sign even when the message is distorted and under persecution or threat of death. In its setting the verse belongs to the searching moral instruction running through Ezekiel to chapter 27 and counts among the predictions of the last days found there.