Today, I am reading and commenting on  Ezekiel 22-23.

When I read today’s passage I see parallel’s to our society today.  Ezekiel describes Jerusalem as a society which condemned itself by the blood it shed and the idols it made.  All too many of those in its government use(d) their power solely for their own interests, even when it brought suffering and bloodshed upon those whose interests they were supposed to look after.  Children are taught to treat their parents with contempt.  God tells people through Ezekiel that they have despised His holy things and desecrated His Sabbaths.  He goes on describing behaviors which sound so much like our society today.  Then He tells them that they have forgotten Him.  They do all of those terrible things because they have forgotten God…and they have forgotten God because they want to do all of those terrible things.  Perhaps the greatest failing Ezekiel mentions is that of the religious leaders.  They intentionally fail to distinguish the holy from the common and teach that there is no distinction between that which is sinful and that which is good.  With a society of whom those things are true, God is looking for people who are willing to build up the wall against such things, by pointing out the distinction between that which is clean and that which is unclean.  God is looking for people who are willing to stand in the gaps in the wall against such wickedness, pointing out that which is unclean.  Will He find such people in our society today?

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.