This chapter is another parable, and it is used because God did not intend that everyone should know and understand what He is saying. This is the parable of the Babylonia war, and it will continue from chapter 24 all the way through chapter 32. Then in chapters 38 and 39 you will read a direct prophecy concerning that final battle.

What is the Babylonian war? It is a type of what happened in the first Babylonian war with king Nebuchadnezzar. This prophecy is not history to our generation, but the future. In that future Babylonian war the ruler will be Satan himself, the "son of perdition".

Ezekiel 24:1 "Again in the nineth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,"

It was nine years since king Jehoichin of Judah was taken captive by king Nebuchadnezzar. King Jehoiachin's  kingship lasted only three months, then he submitted to Babylon. Unlike the book of Jeremiah, this book is based on the dates from Jehoiachin's captivity.

Ezekiel 24:2 "Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day."

There will be a certain day also when Satan will set himself against God's elect, and that is when Michael casts him out of heaven to the earth. This time is recorded in Revelation 12:7-9. Those that have learned to understand those prophecies, and prepared their minds to cope with those deceptions of Satan and his religious system. Satan will rule the world through his system from Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 24:3 "And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, 'Thus saith the Lord God; 'Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:"

This verse relates back to the parable of the caldron in Ezekiel 11, and this time He relates to the cleansing that He feels His children need.

Ezekiel 24:4 "Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones."

This "pieces thereof" are the meat of the sheep, that is God's children. The sheep are symbolic of God's people. So what God is telling Ezekiel is to and get a big pot, and build a large fire under the pot, and put water and all the choice parts of the sheep in it. This is a parable to show what it will take to cleanse His people.

Ezekiel 24:5 "Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.' "

"Seethe the bones of it therein" in the Hebrew text reads, "burn the wood under it". God is telling Ezekiel to just let it cook for a real long time.

Ezekiel 24:6 "Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; 'Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it."

The "bloody city" is the city of Jerusalem, and it refers to when the king of Babylon [the Antichrist] is there in a futuristic sense. We know what happened when king Nebuchadnezzar took charge of the city in the three sieges, and they are types where it is set up, whereby we can know exactly what will take place in this generation.

God is telling Ezekiel to take every last piece of those parts, after they are boiled, and throw them on the fire to burn. Again, it is the cleansing. Will this actually happen? No, this is a parable; God is giving a object lesson. This is to let His people of both Houses know how disappointed He is with them, both in the past, and during the time of the Antichrist's rule. This does not apply to the elect of God.

Ezekiel 24:7 "For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;"

Christ's blood that was shed there in Jerusalem was shed on top of the rock. That blood of Christ was shed for the sins of all that would repent and turn from their wicked ways to Him in repentance. Ezekiel was to take the blood of the sheep of the sacrifice, and symbolically set it on top of a rock. It was not to be poured out on the ground.

Ezekiel 24:8 "That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.' "

This is a play on when an animal is slaughtered, and the blood is shed, then the other animals simply go mad, around that slaughtering. That is what this parable is built from. God intended that Christ's blood should be left uncovered, whereby it would be obvious to all man, because it is that same blood that will judge many at the time of the judgment.

Ezekiel 24;9 "Therefore thus saith the Lord God; 'Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great."

Again this is a parable, and when God is ready to cleans Jerusalem, it will be God that is the consuming fire that will consume Jerusalem. God's consuming fire is the Holy Spirit that protects His own, and gives us the gifts that we have, yet that same fire will judge the wicked, and destroy their wickedness. Just like in Daniel 3, when the three children of God were in the fiery furnace, the fire did not touch even the hair on their head, so also in the time of the end will God's elect be protected.

Ezekiel 24:10 "Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned."

God is telling Ezekiel to let it cook until the flesh falls off the bone, then spice the bones and cook them well.

Ezekiel 24:11 "Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed."

God then told Ezekiel that when the entire flesh and bones are well done, pour the water out, and let the pot sit on the hot fire, and cook what is left into a hot smelly scum. Let it become a stinking mess. This is what God thinks of those that call themselves Christians in the final days, He thinks they are a dirty bunch. In this parable He is showing the need of the cleansing that needs to be done in our generation. This is a parable to let us know what God thinks of those that will not read his word, and walk in His path.

Ezekiel 24:12 "She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire."

She [Jerusalem and those that call themselves Christians] would rather listen to the lies of the world, then go to the comfort of God's holy Word. Even after all that cooking and cooking over the raw flames just never gets the scum out of the flesh. She is so imbedded in the false doctrines and tradition that make void the word of God, that the scum and smell stay with her. These people offended God by their every word and action.

After all the God has done for His people, and the mankind on the whole, they find pleasure in cursing Him and taking all sorts of liberties with His name. In fact many people of our generation just don't believe their is a God. Even most of them that claim His name rather doubt in His personage, or even that He lived. Because if they did believe in Him they would read his word, and try to know Him better.

Ezekiel 24:13 "In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused My fury to rest upon thee."

Because you have taken up these whoredoms, and idolatry, and you refuse to repent and turn from your wicked ways, God says that He will turn His fury toward you, and that day is coming shortly, upon His return.

Ezekiel 24:14 "I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord God."

God has written in His word exactly as it is and will be, and according to your ways will your be judged. The Zadok, the elect shall judge the unrighteous in that day of the Lord's coming. This is make clear in Ezekiel 44, and each person will be judged by his words and actions. God has stated it and he will not change [repent] form what he has stated. If you are stiffed necked and bull headed, unchangeable in your attitude and will not follow His word, then this verse is directed to you.

If you are waiting for the day to come before you start to prepare then it is to late. For when Satan is released upon the earth, you will be marked with the knowledge, or you will have the mark of the beast upon you.

Ezekiel 24:15 "Also the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,"

Ezekiel 24:16 "Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down."

This is probably the hardest parable to understand in the whole book. God is telling Ezekiel that He is going to take his wife [the desire of thine eyes] by a stroke. And when this event happens, God is telling Ezekiel that he is not to shed one tear, nor even show an expression of loss for her. Don't even act like you miss her. This is a parable, but in that parable Ezekiel the prophet will lose his wife, to teach us of the last generation a lesson. Has the parable even started to sink in.

There is more then one meaning to this, for when that day comes, at the end of this earth flesh age, we are not going to mourn for those loved ones who are gone. The reason that this will be possible is that they will be blotted from our minds. It will be as if they never existed in the first place. They will be erased from all records, and from the minds of all that ever knew them. The physical and human attachments of this earth age will all be gone, and we will all be in our spiritual soul bodies.

Ezekiel 24:17 "Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men."

This bread is the mourning bread, and it was brought to the house of the mourners. God told Ezekiel that when his wife died by this stroke, not only was he feel no remorse, nor cry, but he was to refuse the bread that people would bring to him. This custom is still common today, for when a family looses a loved one, friends would bring over food to the family in mourning.

Ezekiel 24:18 "So I spake unto the People in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded."

Ezekiel the prophet went out to the people that morning and told them what God had told him, and by that evening his wife had died. Following the death of his wife, Ezekiel did exactly as God had commanded him to do. Ezekiel told them before the fact, and he carried out what he was to do. I'm sure that Ezekiel was in grief, yet that parable lesson that caused the prophet the life of his wife, was done to help you and I today to see just how our Lord feels about the whoredoms that Christians are allowing themselves to get in to.

Friend, if their is tears to be shed, it is to be now; for this is the time for repentance. Once the Antichrist is upon the earth, there will be no changes of mind, for then God will seal His own, and the rest are the Antichrist's.

Ezekiel 24:19 "And the People said unto me, "Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?"

The people just could not understand what Ezekiel was doing. His wife had died, and then he goes in and puts on his best cloths and fixes himself up to look great. This was suppose to be a time of great mourning and weeping, and the people wanted to know why he was not in mourning.

Ezekiel 24:20 "Then I answered them, "The word of the Lord came unto me, saying,"

Ezekiel 24:21 "Speak unto the house of Israel, 'Thus saith the Lord God; 'Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the Excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword."

God will profane His sanctuary by casting the Antichrist into His holy city of Jerusalem. When God sends the Antichrist into Jerusalem, all the higher powers and religious leaders will desire him. The people of God will either know the truth of the two messiahs, or they will fall. Them and their sons and daughters shall fall by the sword. the sword of the Lord is the word of God, while this sword that they shall fall by is the lies and deceptions, and great wonders that the Antichrist shall do in the sight of their eyes.

Every last soul on the face of the earth looking for a rapture will be taken instantly, and by this action they will all be as the one with child, at the coming of the True Christ, that Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24:19; "And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!" To give suck is to assist the Antichrist in any manner in bring others to him. What they do they will do in ignorance, because they just don't believe the warnings of God's holy word.

The elect of God will know what is happening, and when they see their loved ones going into the whoredoms of the Antichrist, it will be to late to do anything, or even shed a tear, for they will be defenseless against Satan, the Antichrist, for they have not the marking or seal of God in their forehead.

Ezekiel 24:22 "And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men."

Ezekiel is telling them that at this time, the coming of the Antichrist, when their souls are committed to death, Satan, they will not know either how to shed a tear, for they will be ignorant of their actions.

Ezekiel 24:23 "And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another."

When we see this come to pass, we are not to mourn. When we observe the Antichrist in Jerusalem, and see the fallen angels in our presents, and the Kenites leading the flocks of so called Christians into the Antichrist's fold, we are to understand just what time it is, and the day of standing has come. We are to have that armor of God on, and now comes the time to use it.

Ezekiel 24:24 "Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord. "

Ezekiel is a sign to us today. It cost Ezekiel his wife, and the loss without an expression of morning for his dear wife, just so we could have a parable as to what it would be like at the coming of the Antichrist, and later when the Lord Jesus Christ returns. This is to reveal to us more of God's love for us.

There is another parable that God told us to learn, or we would be deceived. the parable is the parable of the sower, also called the parable of the fig tree. We are living in the generation of the parable of the fig tree, for that time started when the Jews went back and established their home land, and shortly Jerusalem will be their capital. If you don't know who those bad figs [the Kenites] are, then your in trouble, for they will prepare the world for the coming and acceptance of the Antichrist.

God is telling us that we, the elect of God, will go through the exact same thing that Ezekiel went through, and when the losses come, we will not feel the mourning loss. This is why we must know the events of the end times, for even though our loved ones don't believe they will fall, if they are not sealed with the knowledge, they will.

When that time comes, it will be a fact, and their minds will not be able to accept the truth. If they were the elect, then they would desire to know the truth, and they would demand that all things be in accordance with God's Word.

Ezekiel 24:25 "Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that where upon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,"

God is saying that it will be the same way as it was in the day of this parable. Where are their eyes and the joys of their glory set on. The "desire of their eyes" in the Hebrew text, is their wives, and of course most parent's entire lives are centered around their kids, their sons and daughters. God is saying that the time is coming when those that see the truth will stand strong against the Antichrist, however, those that you hold dear will not. In that day the elect of God will be as the parable that Ezekiel went through, for it will not be a time of mourning. In just a matter of a short period of time this age will be all over, and the elect will receive their just rewards.

Ezekiel 24:26 "That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?"

This is in reference to chapter thirty three. That day is the day of the Lord, and all those were deceived in ignorance, will be taught, and come to know who the true Messiah is.

Ezekiel 24:27 "In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sigh unto them; and they shall know that I am the Lord."

This parable the is taught using the life and death of Ezekiel and his wife, is a type of what the elect of God will see come to pass. Their will be no changes to the parable, and God will not repent of correcting His children. Many of those that call themselves saved now, they are not. What they call saved is based on an emotional high, or an escape route from facing the religious rule of the Antichrist. The vast majority of the Christian world bubbles over at the thought of an rapture, and that conviction is what will cause their fall. Yet they have not studied into God's Word to know the events that we will face, and the preparation needed to be successful in that spiritual battle that will come upon the entire earth.

When that happens, it is not a time of mourning for their act is in ignorance, because the time of teaching will follow. Prior to the teaching period of the Millennium age, they will see a great shame for what they have done, and the shame of losing the grace that God has offered to them.

There will be a time when God's elect will delivered up, and when they are, the Holy Spirit of God will speak through them, and this is the time spoken of By Joel the prophet, where the example is given in Acts 2:1-21.

What God has revealed to Ezekiel about the parable of the Babylonian war of the end times, will continue as a series of parables that will continue in chapters twenty five on through chapter thirty two. Each segment of the Babylonian was with the Antichrist will be covered in detail, and "in that day" the time of our generation "Shall thy mouth" or the teaching of these parables be opened [known] to him which is escaped. The person that has escaped, are each person who takes the time to study these words of Ezekiel, and have their armor on in the final days. The events of the our day, and the arrival of the Antichrist will be known to each of them.