Ezekiel 6:15-22 - Was your prostitution not enough?

16:15-19

In Deut 6:10-12, and elsewhere, Israel was warned that once she had taken possession of the land she must not assume that she had achieved this because of her own goodness or merit. Yet this is precisely what she did, and it is a risk we are all prone to. The roots of this lie in the fundamental sin of thinking that we do not need God, when the truth is that we are completely dependent upon the Lord. So in the analogy tale here she used the very things that God had given to her as gifts to engage in prostitution. We can maybe see a similar thing with education. Education is one of the great gifts of Christianity, and which has greatly benefited societies in which Christianity is influential. Yet now it is so often used to promote wrong thinking. So Israel became a prostitute. Israel totally misused the gifts that the Lord had given her, note the phrases like “my oil and incense”, “my gold and silver”. 

16:20-22

The worst thing was that she also sacrificed their sons and daughters. We sometimes look on ancient religions as being quaint, this is not the case. They are utterly evil, involving child-sacrifice. We are little better today, with millions being sacrificed on the altar of abortion. We so easily regard children as dispensable.  Again, notice the phraseology, “son and daughters whom you bore to me”. We belong to God, all that we have belongs to Him. We so easily think that we are the source of any skills or goodness that we have. This is not true. We have responsibility to use and nurture our skills, but ultimately they come from God. We must never forget from whence we came.