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When Ezekiel wrote these words did he understand their meaning?

11 For thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.
12 ”As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep , so I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.
13 ”I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land.
14 ”I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
15 ”I will feed My flock and I will lead them to rest,” declares the Lord God.
16 ”I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment. Ezekiel  34:11-16 (NASB)

I wonder if Ezekiel had in mind a shepherd who would lay down his life for the sheep.  Perhaps he did – but did he realize that God himself would come into this world to save his flock.  Do we understand what God intends to do to save this world?  I don’t think any of us fully realize what he intends to do, but we are guided by his words.  To love one another, even the least and the lost, as he loved.  That is the task he has set us.