"While the nations rejected God's principles, and in this rejection wrought their own ruin, it was still manifest that the divine, overruling purpose was working through all their movements. Ed 177.1"
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Both passages address the idea of God's overarching purpose working even through negative events or the actions of those who reject Him. Romans 8:28 speaks of all things working together for good, while the EGW passage speaks of God's purpose working through the ruin of nations.
"This lesson is taught in a wonderful symbolic representation given to the prophet Ezekiel during his exile in the land of the Chaldeans. The vision was given at a time when Ezekiel was weighed down with sorrowful memories and troubled forebodings. The land of his fathers was desolate. Jerusalem was depopulated. The prophet himself was a stranger in a land where ambition and cruelty reigned supreme. As on every hand he beheld tyranny and wrong, his soul was distressed, and he mourned day and night. But the symbols presented to him revealed a power above that of earthly rulers. Ed 177.2"
"Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God."
The EGW passage directly references Ezekiel's exile and the circumstances surrounding his vision, which are described in Ezekiel 1:1. It sets the stage for the vision described in Ezekiel.
"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion."
Both passages describe the sorrow and mourning of the Israelites in exile. Ezekiel's sorrow and the desolation of Jerusalem in the EGW passage parallel the weeping by the rivers of Babylon in Psalm 137:1.