Ezekiel

The book of Ezekiel.

18. The Righteous Shall Live

In Jeremiah, God also says this saying will be done away with. God puts an end to certain memes.

All souls belong to him.

It's common in our day to heap up blame on the boomer generation for sins that a particular cohort made. Young Amercian men are demonized and fear dispossession and disinheritance. The sins of the 20th century were very bad and there was a lot of damage from their apostasy, injustice, impurity. But all of that's no excuse for your own lack of justice and righteousness.

Eating upon the mountains? Presumably, eating at the sites of false of religion?

The man who acts with cleanliness and justice will be preserved by God.

14: The anguish of generational breaks. Sons must be more righteous than their fathers.

21: Hope for the repentant.

Is God talking about what he will bring about providentially or is Ezekiel saying that this is a divine command for us to reorganize society such that it follows this principles?

Because we cannot live by our own righteousness, we must gather together under the righteousness of Christ. Good luck trying to win the approval of God by your own wisdom.

"Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”

These words are still universally applicable today.

20. Rebellion and God’s Patience

25-26: Absolutely bonkers line. There's a lot of different things this could mean. Was the Old Testament law always meant to be a stumbling block? Or is this about unjust statutes that have providentially arisen in the political situation since, that force them to wrestle with the stupidity of their own sin?

In what way are they defiled? By their inability to fully meet the rituals?

31: Angry atheists and satanists and pagans will abort their own children and then turn around and say "God's a big meanie, why does he do this, why does he do that." It's the same problem for thousands of years.

28. Prince of Tyre

Is this about angelic authority or political authority? Hard to discern.