Ezekiel 23–27
The Holy Bible interpreted through Divine Principle insight and the words of True Father.
This study page continues Ezekiel with chapters 23 through 27. Commentary is attached where the text strongly reflects Divine Principle themes such as covenant infidelity, judgment through history, the end of false comfort, national arrogance, and the collapse of commercial glory without God.
23:1–10 The word of the LORD describes two sisters, Aholah and Aholibah, who committed whoredoms from their youth. Aholah is judged after giving herself to the Assyrians, and her nakedness is exposed before the nations.
23:11–21 Aholibah sees this yet becomes more corrupt, multiplying her whoredoms with Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians. She remembers the corruptions of her youth and deepens rather than repents.
23:22–35 Therefore the Lord gathers her lovers against her. Those she desired become the instruments of judgment, and the cup of astonishment and desolation is placed into her hand.
23:36–49 The chapter closes with a public indictment: blood is on their hands, idols are in their midst, and even children have been brought into defilement. Thus lewdness is judged and righteousness vindicated.
24:1–5 On the day Jerusalem is besieged, Ezekiel is told to set on a pot, pour water into it, and gather choice pieces into the caldron. The image prepares a prophecy of judgment against the city.
24:6–14 Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is in it. The rust is not gone out of her. The pot is set empty upon coals so that its brass may be hot and its filthiness melted, yet much scum remains and is not removed except by fire.
24:15–24 Ezekiel’s wife, the desire of his eyes, is taken away with a stroke, yet he is commanded not to mourn outwardly. His restrained grief becomes a sign to the people that a devastating loss is at hand.
24:25–27 When the sanctuary, their strength and joy, is taken, then they will know the meaning of the sign. On that day the prophet’s mouth shall be opened to speak plainly.
The boiling pot is significant because it shows that accumulated corruption eventually has to be brought to a point of exposure. Divine Principle strongly resonates here: history becomes a furnace where hidden pollution is made visible when a people resist repeated calls to repentance.
True Father often spoke of the sorrowful heart of God, who carries grief deeper than human beings can easily express. Ezekiel’s silent mourning becomes a sign that providential loss is not only political disaster but heartbreak at the center of God’s hope.
When the sanctuary itself is taken, outward religious security is shattered. The chapter marks the end of illusions that sacred history alone can protect an unrepentant people.
25:1–7 The word of the LORD comes against Ammon because it said “Aha” over the profaned sanctuary and the desolate land. Therefore Ammon shall be given to the men of the east and cut off.
25:8–11 Moab is judged for saying that Judah is like all the heathen. Its pride and leveling of God’s distinction bring consequence.
25:12–14 Edom is condemned for vengeance against Judah. The Lord declares that vengeance belongs to Him, and Edom shall know His judgment.
25:15–17 The Philistines are judged for revenge with a despiteful heart. Great vengeance and furious rebukes come upon those who made themselves enemies of God’s people.
This chapter shows that the moral order of God reaches beyond Israel. Divine Principle strongly resonates because providence has a central line, yet the surrounding world is still accountable for mockery, revenge, and arrogant participation in the fall of the chosen center.
True Father often emphasized that hatred, revenge, and delight in another’s fall are themselves forms of satanic response. Even when Israel is judged, the nations are not innocent if their hearts rejoice in destruction or exploit it for their own pride.
26:1–6 The word of the LORD comes against Tyrus because it said against Jerusalem, “Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people.” Tyre sees Jerusalem’s fall as opportunity for its own increase.
26:7–14 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon is brought against Tyrus with horses, chariots, and a great company. Walls are broken down, dust rises, and the city becomes like the top of a rock, a place for the spreading of nets.
26:15–21 The isles shake at the sound of Tyre’s fall. Princes descend from their thrones and lament. A city once glorious among the seas is brought down to the pit and removed from the place of the living.
The sin of Tyre begins in its interpretation of another city’s collapse as its own commercial advantage. Divine Principle strongly resonates because fallen history repeatedly converts another’s providential crisis into selfish opportunity. Such a heart cannot escape judgment.
True Father often taught that worldly greatness without Heaven is unstable, no matter how impressive it appears. Tyre’s walls, trade position, and fame among the seas cannot preserve it when its inner heart is centered on profit rather than righteousness.
27:1–11 Ezekiel is told to take up a lamentation for Tyrus. The city is portrayed as a beautifully built ship, perfect in beauty, with fine materials, skilled rowers, and men of war from many lands.
27:12–25 A long catalog of merchants follows: Tarshish, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, Dedan, Syria, Judah, Damascus, Arabia, Sheba, and many others. Tyre is filled and made glorious in the midst of the seas by worldwide trade.
27:26–36 Yet the east wind breaks her in the midst of the seas. Mariners, pilots, traders, and warriors all lament as the cargo, riches, and multitude sink. The city becomes a terror and is no more.
Ezekiel 27 is a lament over beauty, skill, wealth, and connection that are not centered on God. Divine Principle strongly resonates because external perfection can mask an inward false center. A civilization may look complete while already heading toward collapse if love, truth, and purpose have been displaced by self-glory.
True Father often warned that material abundance and international influence do not equal Heaven’s blessing by themselves. The ship of Tyre sinks with all its cargo. The lesson is not anti-wealth, but that wealth without righteous center becomes fragile and tragic.
This chapter is severe because it shows unfaithfulness not as a small moral defect but as betrayal of covenant love. Divine Principle strongly resonates here because the Fall and all later corruption are rooted in misdirected love, false union, and the turning of what belongs to God toward other centers.
True Father often warned that what people embrace apart from God eventually becomes the very instrument of their sorrow. The nations desired in fallen love become the agents of exposure and judgment. False comfort always turns bitter in the end.
The chapter broadens guilt from personal imagery to public corruption. Idolatry, bloodshed, and family defilement are all linked. When the covenant center collapses, every sphere of life is dragged into disorder.