Who are the 70 Elders in Ezekiel?

The Sagas have said that Ezekiel is controversial, because things that we have adopted as true are under attack. What if it is our beliefs that are wrong? Those same beliefs that caused prophets to be sent to by Hashem to Israel prior to and during the first and second Temple destructions.

If the seventy elders that Ezekiel sees are performing abominations, why would it be assumed that their teachings then and after, which become Mishnah and the foundations of Talmud, are pure?(Holy) Better than Torah in that where they differ, Torah has less weight or value. Maybe Ezekiel is talking to us today. Telling us that we should take to heart what the prophets have been saying since Moses(approx. 3,650 years). The point has been made that the people of that time were not listening. I don’t believe that there has been a change in our attention Today.

The 70 elders are the source of Oral Tradition, in Ezekiel 8, starting at verse 9 then through 13.

25 Men bowing to the Sun facing east away from the Place of the L’RD , how is this different from Greeting the Sabbath Bride in facing west(facing away from G-D, also not found in the Torah or Tanach)?Ezekiel 8:14 & 15.

Last evidence compared to today, Ezekiel 8:17) …”Do you see, O’mortal? Is it not enough for the House of Judah to practice the abominations that they have committed here, that they must fill the country with lawlessness and provoke Me still further…” This last is not the Blind leading the blind, it is that religious leaders cause followers to go astray from G-D. Don’t take my word for it. Read Ezekiel with an open heart, read it slowly, to savor every meaning, without preconceived notions and ideas. No Training to be used, let G-D show you the meaning.

Shalom,

James