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Pamphlet 1301 Ezek kc 82-1
Is
everyone who claims to be a Christian going to be able to enter the
kingdom
and
sit at the feet of Jesus during the Millennium?
How
about those shepherds and preachers who lead their people in praise and
worship
and
give sermons claiming that God says "this" in the Bible and He says "that"
in the Bible,
when
He doesn't say it at all?
How
about those preachers who cast out demons and sickness
right
there on stage in the name of Jesus as they knock people down?
Jesus
didn't knock people down when He healed them,
He
always lifted them up.
How
about those who hold chicken barbeques to raise money
to
send missionaries abroad or who "fund raise" to feed the hungry children
in
third world nations or even this nation?
Certainly
those are good and noble works, but are they worthy of salvation?
And
how about those who elevate themselves on podiums which become pedestals
and
those who sit high in stature in the sanctuaries of major Christian denominations,
arrayed
in their "oh so religious" attire,
who
perpetuate the traditions and rituals and idolatrous doctrines of the church,
but
never quite get around to teaching His Word?
What
about those preachers?
What
will they be doing in the Millennium?
In
this study we shall see what probation the Lord has in store for them for
1000 years.
First,
let's hear Jesus Christ answer the opening question for us,
"Is
everyone who claims to be a Christian going to be able to enter the kingdom
and
sit at the feet of Jesus during the Millennium?"
Matthew
7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven.
You
see, a person either believes Jesus Christ and what He says, or he doesn't,
and
therefore would rather do the "church thing", which
"thing" is religion, not Christianity.
There
are MANY (see next vs.) today who call themselves Christians
who
do all the things they believe they are supposed to,
because
they are told from men who claim to be Christ's representatives
that
this is what God wants them to do in order to be in good standing.
There
is just one problem with that.
Because
they have forsaken His Word (by not studying
and absorbing it)
and
have substituted Churchianity, i.e. men's traditions, in place of Christianity,
they
will fall at the feet of the first supernatural entity who comes in power,
arrayed
in glory, riding on a "white horse" (symbolic
of Christianity)
claiming
to be the Messiah and who deceives the whole world into believing he is
God.
This
is the great apostasy,
which means "falling away",
spoken
of by Paul in 2 Thes. 2.
It
is called "great" because it will be the MAJORITY of the House of Israel
who will FALL,
i.e.
the Christian nations of the world.
So
what will happen when these Christians
and
their Christian ministers who will have worshipped antichrist,
now
go before the King of kings and Lord of lords when He returns at the 7th
Trump
and
try to "cash in" all their wonderful good deeds and works?
[22]
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in
thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many
wonderful works?
These
false teachers are the MAJORITY of the Christian ministers of today
who
are CAUSING the fall of the House of Israel by not building an hedge around
the people
that
they may be able to stand in that day of the deception.
The
hedge is BUILT by teaching the Word of God line by line
chapter
by chapter, and verse by verse, even one "spiritual cubit" at a time.
Remember
we covered this in depth in Ezekiel 13:4-6,
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
[5]
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the
house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. [6]
They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and
the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they
would confirm the word.
They
give false hope and teach a false sense of security
by
promising that people will be "raptured" away into the clouds when the
antichrist appears,
when
there is NO such rapture.
Christ
returns at the 7th Trump AFTER the reign of antichrist who comes at the
6th Trump.
And
so it has already come to pass
that
MANY are sorely deceived this very day by those they trust as Christian
ministers.
It
IS a sign of these last days:
Mark
13:6 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall
deceive many.
It
is the great famine for the hearing of the Word of God in these last days
spoken
of by Amos in chapter 8, vs. 11, of his book.
So
what will Christ say to these deceived preachers who will have led the
multitudes to worship Satan,
the
abomination of desolation, i.e. the desolator spoken of by Daniel the prophet?
Matthew
7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me,
ye that work iniquity.
He
never knew them because they never knew Him,
i.e.
they never came to Him through the written Word to know Him.
We
are now going to see what will befall those ministers
who
even now are causing the House of Israel to stumble and fall.
Ezekiel
has just SEEN the measurements of The Altar,
i.e.
understood its purpose and function during the Millennium,
and
he will now be taken to the East Gate which looks across the Kidron Valley
to
the Mount of Olives in the direction of the return of the Glory of God,
even
Jesus Christ the King and Lord over all.
The
CLOSED OUTER EAST GATE and the reason. (Ezekiel 44:1-3)
To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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