Ezekiel 22:10
In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
Ezekiel stands in the first division of the book, chapters 1 to 24, giving prophetic warnings uttered before the destruction of Jerusalem and occupied with correction, denunciation, and reproof. It records part of the transgressions that led to Israel's dispersion, where idolatry joined with Sabbath desecration brought the people into trouble and exile. In its plain sense it is part of the indictment of Jerusalem for sexual and family violations, including uncovering a father's nakedness and humbling a woman set apart in menstrual impurity. It places desecration of the Sabbath among Jerusalem's sins, showing that the city's failures were ethical and religious and not merely ceremonial.
It shows the priests carried away by pagan apostasy into violation of God's law and profanation of His Sabbath, as evidence that the pagan division of Babylon led prominent men of Israel into false worship, with sun-worship bringing Sunday in place of the Sabbath of Jehovah as a complete rival system. The reading of Ezekiel 20 to 22 to which it belongs teaches that sin must be forgiven, or it will be consumed. The chapter addresses the same last-day work described in Ezekiel 13, with its verses 25-30 identifying the breach in God's law with the neglected Sabbath and the failure to prepare people for the day of the Lord. It is part of God's description of the professed people of God in the last days, with Israel meaning the people of God and remnant meaning the last part, showing them walking in violation of God's precepts if not outwardly then in thought and motive, because God's law reaches even to the hidden things of the heart and God measures acts and words by underlying motives. It warns of people in peril of soul who are lulled into deeper slumber by slight healing of the breach with the cry of peace when there is no peace, who refuse to walk in the old paths of the commandments and to hearken to the watchmen's trumpet, so that God will bring evil upon them, even the fruit of their thoughts, and when they say peace and safety sudden destruction will come upon them and they shall not escape.