Ezekiel 23-24

[wolfpurplemoon]

I think Ezekiel 23 is an example of what I meant before about God's arbitrary sins, the metaphor is again of a woman who is a prostitute. This is like the people of Jerusalem worshipping the gods and idols of the neighbouring cultures. For this grave sin God will send their neighbours to kill them. The neighbours that apparently get no punishment for worshipping those other gods and idols which tempted his people.

So whatever else the people were doing is nowhere near as awful to God as their worshipping of the wrong gods, it's quite petty I think. He doesn't really want them to be moral, or at least it seems he prefers worship to moral behaviour, ignoring all moral behaviour not done in his name. What's wrong with just being good for goodness' sake?

Now we have what appears to be a recipe for stew, with some analogy about how it is impossible to remove rotten meat from the pot, like it is hard to remove the sin from the midst of the people. Seems to be God justifying killing everyone because of a few sinners.

God kills Ezekiel's wife and tells him not to mourn or accept sympathy from other people because they will soon experience the same loss when God starts the destruction.