Today, I am reading and commenting on  Ezekiel 24-26.

Today’s passage begins with Ezekiel comparing Jerusalem to a copper cook pot.  As he describes how the pot is put over the fire, he makes the point that it doesn’t make any difference that the best quality meat was put into the pot.    I had always imagined the “heat” Ezekiel says was applied to the pot as God’s wrath being poured out on Jerusalem for their sin.  Today, it struck me that the “heat” applied to the pot was the sins of the people, particularly the sins of the elites, of the wealthy and powerful.  Their sins have boiled off that which would have made the “stew” edible until the contents were burned to the metal so that no amount of cleaning could remove it.  That is what is happening to our society today.  After finishing his metaphor, Ezekiel talks about the fall of Jerusalem and God’s judgement against the nations surrounding Judah.  Repeatedly as he describes these things God, speaking through Ezekiel, says, “Then you (or they) will know that I am God.”  Yesterday, I wrote about people doing terrible things because they had forgotten God.  Today’s passage tells us that if we forget God, He will allow terrible things to happen to us until we once more know that He is God, and act accordingly.

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