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

Today, I am reading and commenting on Ezekiel 5-8.

The first thing which struck me in today’s passage was when God told Ezekiel that the people of Judah had not even lived up to the standard of righteousness of the nations around them.  I was not quite sure what to make of that until I considered that most nations have laws restricting abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.  Then I read further into the passage where Ezekiel was shown the idolatry going on in the Temple, both that which was going on publicly and that which the leaders were doing in secret.  This reminded me of the sexual deviancy of which our society publicly approves and the sexual abuse of children which some number of our society’s leaders practice in secret.  As I read it, the practices which Ezekiel saw practiced secretly would have been “a bridge too far” for the general populace of Jerusalem, yet they refused to condemn the practices conducted in public which led people down the path to those vile secret practices.  Such is where I find our society to be.