February 15, 2013 – Ezekiel 24

I may be missing the real meaning of the imagery, but I see a meaning in putting the choice meats in boiling water to cook. Anyone that knows anything about cooking will understand what a waste that is. It does cook the meat, but when you have the choice pieces, those need to be cooked in a much better way than boiling it. The way I see it is Israel is the choice piece, or the gifts God has given them are the choice pieces. They have thrown them into the water to boil instead of nurturing them and cooking them properly. What they bring out of the water is filth, which I think would be fair to call a prime rib steak that was cooked in boiling water.

As Ezekiel is a prophet, you can look to this as a message about our time and a warning to us as well. Not a specific warning like “the world will end on 12/12/12” but a warning on how we live our life and what we do with the “choice meats” God has given us. What do we do with our gifts and what do they bring to fruition. Do we produce good fruit or are we pulling filth out of the pot. And not only on an individual level, but as a nation. What have we done with the gifts we have been given as a nation What did we do with the choice meat of freedom, gave mothers the right to kill their babies. What did we do with the freedom of religion. Create a culture where you must accept everyone else’s belief as true or be labeled a bigot. What did we do with the choice meat of marriage but trample on it with homosexuality and divorce. And we appear to now be pulling our filth as a result.