Day 174 – April 16, 2024: Ezekiel 21-25 and Proverbs 30

“Pressing anger produces strife.” That’s not a terrible quote, and it ends our reading in Proverbs 30. Our Ezekiel Scripture continues the diatribe against both Judah and Israel with personifications of two sisters who are, to say it diplomatically, free in their marital vows to Ezekiel. Similar to the prophesy of Hosea who is commanded by God to marry a woman who was going to be unfaithful, so here Ezekiel describes two sisters who are married and yet lust after, each of them, the surrounding nations and carry out their desires without looking back.

Finally the last chapter that we read in Ezekiel, 25, has prophesies against the surrounding nations and that the day of judgment will come upon them. It is a bit jarring to read these words of Ezekiel and be inundated with shocking and vulgar images which we don’t expect within the Bible. The images are quite explicit and quite graphic and not the Scripture that you would want to stumble upon as you are reading through the Bible out loud in the church. But we have made it thus far, we are very close to finishing Scripture.