Can we imagine what it was like when Jerusalem and the Beit Hamikdosh were destroyed? Can we picture the devastation, the carnage and the slaughter? It was the original Holocaust. As the surviving starving captives were being marched off to Babylon, they must have felt that G-d had abandoned them. They must have thought that G-d doesn't care about us anymore.

The Zohar, however, gives us a glimpse of what was going on in Heaven at the moment of the Churban. As the Beit Hamikdosh was being destroyed, G-d assembled his entire Heavenly Retinue (Pamalya shel Maalah) and He said to them, "What are you doing here? Get up, arise let all of us go down with the exiles to Babylon."

When the exiled Jews arrived in Babylon, continues the Zohar, the portals of heaven opened wide and the spirit of prophecy rested on Yechezkel. That is when Yechezkel had the spectacular vision of the Heavenly Chariot that he describes in his prophecy.
He saw G-d and His entire Heavenly Retinue going down to Babylon to be with His beloved children, the Jewish people.

It is like a parent who is forced to banish her beloved child from the house as part of the therapy called "tough love". She hears her child crying, and she cries along with him.

Yechezkel told the people, that they should not despair, that G-d still loves them and is with them in their exile, but they didn't believe him. Yechezkel's message could not penetrate their consciousness, so Yechezkel told them about all that he had seen.
He described the Heavenly Chariot in great detail so that the people should know that G-d was still with them and still loved them.

That was the purpose of this incredible and spectacular prophecy.

The descriptions of the Heavenly Chariot and the angels and their wings are all beyond our comprehension. So what was the point of recording all of this? It was only to reassure the Jewish People in Babylonian exile that G-d had not abandoned them and that He still loved them. The Zohar states, "G-d told Yechezkel, " Describe your mystical vision in great detail. Tell them you saw the Heavenly Chariot coming to Babylon so that the Jews will know that there is still hope. Tell them so that Jews in all generations will know that no matter how black the situation seems, I, G-d, am always with them. " This encouraging statement is to be found as well in Tehillim 91, "I, [G-d], am with him (Israel) in all of his sufferings. "