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Pamphlet 1806 Malachi kc 2-2
They have no idea that the "starving
people" of the great famine in our land
are the people sitting in their
dung "phews"!
Let's go to Luke 17 where Christ spoke the following words
during His teaching concerning the signs preceding His
second advent:
Luke 17:25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
You see, there would come many priests,
many "false" Christian ministers,
who would come in His name,
i.e. claiming Jesus Christ as their authority
and they as the representatives
of His authority (His name),
and they would deceive the multitudes
so much so that there would be a great apostasy
in which the true Messiah, Jesus
Christ, would be rejected
and the false messiah,Satan, worshipped
in His place.
The apostle Paul spoke of this great falling away that would happen BEFORE we gather back to Christ (2 Thes. 2:3).
It is our privilege to now hear in our mind's ear the
words of the LORD Himself
as He explains what He meant in Mat. 24, Mark 13, and
Luke 21 concerning the false prophets
who bring about the deception and the great falling away,
which is the rejection of Christ and the acceptance and
worship of the false messiah by this final generation of Christians.
Mal 1:6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
You see, there is nothing new under the sun
and just as the priests were the cause of the breach
in Israel's covenant,
actually Her marriage to her Husband whereby she went
astray
and committed adultery with another god (read Hosea),
so shall she go astray in this
generation and also commit adultery by jumping in bed in with another,
even the false-christ who she will
think is her husband who has come to take her away!
It shall likewise be the priests/ministers of this generation who are the cause of the great apostasy!
No, there truly is nothing new under the sun
and the priests today just do not "see" nor understand
how it is they "despise" His name.
They do not think they are doing anything wrong because they just don't get it!
They think that by running around saying "Lord, Lord,
Praise the Lord"
that they are reverencing and worshipping the Lord
and therefore showing that they love the Lord (see Jn.
14:15).
But to "despise" His name is to disesteem His name, which is His authority - His Word!
They come in His name, as one
authorized by Him, and they say His name crying "Lord, Lord",
but they deny His authority (His
name) because they do not allow the Holy Spirit,
the words of life, the Word of
God, to speak through their lips!
John 6:63 "It is the spirit that
quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you,
they
are spirit, and they are life."
Again, they speak their own words
through their mouths,
even the polluted traditions and
doctrines of men, which do not come from God's Word
and therefore they are not of God,
e.g.
things like snakes and apples in the garden, Ishtar's day,
the any-moment "Rapture Theory",
and on and on it goes.
[7] Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
Christ told His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Sadducees and Pharisees!
Don't eat and don't serve that deadly junk food to your brothers and sisters.
Want to actually see what spiritually polluted bread converts to in an earthly image?
Rom. 1:20 says the things which aren't seen, i.e. spiritual
things,
can be understood by the things that are seen.
Therefore, to help us understand
this "polluted bread"
served in by the false preachers
and priests in more graphic detail,
our Father had His servant, the
watchmen Ezekiel,
bake an analogy before the people,
in their sight!
Here it is:
Ezekiel 4:9,12-13 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.[12] And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
The fact is... this is exactly what the "bread" served in the majority of the churches of our land is laden with... dung!
Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear know that
the "man" spoken of here
is ultimately that "man of sin", the "son of perdition",
the one who leavened the true bread from the beginning,
even in the first earth age, with his spiritual "dung"
and now his "children of disobedience",
the scribes and Pharisees "work in" the same smelly leaven!
And our "Biblically Challenged" brothers and sisters eat that "stuff"!
[13] And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
By the way, the nice preachers and
ministers who serve them to their congregations
usually put so much sugary sweet
wordspin into their decorative cakes
that the people actually love to
eat them.
In fact, many haven't missed a Sunday of going to church and eating dung cakes for a long, long time.
I hate to say it at this point, but you know... you are what you eat!
Seriously though!
Do you study your Father's Word
and check out what you are being taught,
i.e. where the bread you are being
fed comes from?
It better be the "bread of life" which comes directly from the Word of God, not from church quarterlies.
If you do not check things out then you are actually part
of the problem
and are disobedient to obeying the Word of God (1 Jn.
4:1, 2 Tim. 2:15).
Christ also warned His disciples to take heed and "beware" of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Let's check that out!
Matthew 16:11-12 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
They have no idea that the "starving people" of the great famine in our land are the people sitting in their dung "phews"!
[12] Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
That is not an opinion for the Word of God tells us that is how it shall be in the last days!
It is the famine which Christ spoke of in Mat. 24 and
Mark 13 which is a SIGN of these times,
for those with eyes to see, and is explained in Amos
8:11-13
where he says the FAMINE in these
last days will not be a famine for bread nor a thirst for water,
but for hearing of the words of
the Lord. Check it out! You'll get the hang of documenting things.
Amos 8:11-13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:[12] And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
The lack of hearing
God's Word is caused by the lack of His Words
being spoken
through those who claim to be His messengers!
This "famine" of truth has produced the great valley of the (spiritually) dry bones of Ezek. 37.
In other words, our brothers and sisters are spiritually
dying
as a result of a lack of nutrition and a dearth of the
living water taken from the fountain of life.
Shame on the priests and the ministers who serve intoxicating
wine
with nutritionless junk food like Margaret McDonald's
(I
speak of the any moment,
fast food, rapture sandwiches served
by on "says-a-me" buns!)
Mal. 1:8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will He be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
Of course if you choose to offer that which God says not
to,
then do not be surprised when He does not accept it and
does not answer your prayers!
God even draws the analogy to earthly rulers and governors
saying,
"Go try to pay you taxes with phony baloney play money
and see if he accepts it.
Or better yet, to keep the analogy closer to how our Father
feels,
go press out some "dung coins" and then go try to pay
your taxes to the governor with them!
Think he will accept them?
Here is the law regarding blemished sacrifice and polluted bread.
Leviticus 22:19-25 Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. [20] But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. [21]And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. [22] Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. [23]Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. [24] Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land. [25]Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
Mal 1:9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
Good luck, pal!
[10] Who is there even among you [i.e. priests] that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
You can usually tell a hireling by what he or she talks about most, which is your sacrifice to God!
And you will often hear them lie to our "Biblically Challenged"
brothers and sisters
by promising them "big investment returns" if they "sow
big seeds (code words for "write big checks... to
them")"!
Or I'm sure you have heard many times where they try to
"lay guilt trips"
on the "sheep to be sheared" by accusing them of "robbing
God" by quoting (out of context and out of subject)
from the 3rd chapter of this Book of Malachi concerning
"tithes and offerings",
and saying it is speaking of your tithes
and offerings!
Yet it is written to them (the ministers, not to the people in the phews) and it is they (the ministers) who have robbed God of what He is due.
Our Father wants "meat" in His storehouse, not dung cakes.
He wants His messengers to offer
their time doing their homework
thereby becoming
knowledgeable
of His Word because
He wants the truth of His Word
to be taught and not the polluted doctrines found in most churches.
Malachi 2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at His mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
They are not to be "fundraisers" and/or "beggars"!
God has no pleasure in them (Mal. 1:10) so the question is, "Why should you?"
Maybe if some of them started receiving
"dung coins" from their congregations
when they start hounding them for
money... enough to really fill-up their coffers...
maybe they would start to get the
point!
Hey, that's a kindler and nobler act than what our Father says He is going to do with the "dung"!
Hear now the burden of the LORD, O ye priests!
Malachi 2:3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
God is not a respecter of persons
and since they have been feeding His children "dung cakes"
they are going to get a taste of
their own medicine... without sugar additives!
One thing is for certain though, because it is written
in the Word of God (next verse),
the time will come when the polluted sacrifices are going
to stop at the hand of the false prophets.
Mal 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same My name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto My name, and a pure offering: for My name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.[12] But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
The LORD says that they have PROFANED HIS NAME, His Holy Word!
They water it down and pollute it with the vain traditions
of men
and they do it for handfuls (basketfuls) of money.
But you see, they are "killing"
our people (spiritually) and our Father is NOT PLEASED with them,
which is saying it mildly.
The entire 13th chapter of Ezekiel also deals with the
lying false preachers,
the many Christ spoke of in Mat. 24 and Mark 13 who would
come in His name and pollute it,
thereby deceiving the majority of the people.
Ezekiel 13:19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
Then too, when these false preachers
discover a true teacher of God's Word
who teaches chapter by chapter
and line by line,
offering up the meat of His
Word
instead of always serving the baby's
milk message of salvation and baptism
(meant for NEW Christians, i.e.
babes in Christ),
they even call that disdainful,
contemptible, even polluted!
So in case you still have a problem
getting the whole picture of the extent of the spiritual "famine in the
land",
this spiritual "valley of the dry
bones", i.e. the idolatrous,
apostate spiritual condition of
this great nation of the House of Jacob,
the United States of America, here
is how it stacks up.
Statistically, according to the
Word of God, according to the words of Jesus Christ Himself in Mat. 24
and Mark 13,
the majority of those who call
themselves His ministers, His messengers,
in these last days are liars (not
necessarily intentionally,
but through the ignorance of His
Word) and thus they offer polluted bread
(false doctrine which deceives
the people) and spotted sacrifices (unacceptable to God) upon His altar.
Think about it!
Mal 1:13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
Besides, "dung" is much more plentiful
and easier to obtain
in the open field than precious
gems which one has to labor and dig deep in the earth for.
So what do you think?
Should God accept their "spot"!
Remember Deut. 32:5, from the song of Moses,
concerning the sacrifice to God of this final generation:
"They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the
spot of his children:
they are a perverse and crooked generation."
Would you accept blemished (spotted) sacrifices and "dung cakes" as offerings?
Then why should we expect our Father to accept them?
It is not OK!
And quite frankly, if one participates
in that kind of trot
and for example tells his brothers
and sisters
that Christ is going to return
at any moment and rapture them away,
that they are not going to be here
when the false-christ comes so there's no need to study the Book of Revelation,
then he betrays His brother and
assists in delivering him up to spiritual death,
even to worship Satan, the spurious
messiah, as God!
It is a serious thing and the penalty is severe against those who deceive His people!
Your Father DOES NOT LIKE IT!
Woe!
[14] But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and My name is dreadful among the heathen.
You just read that Father doesn't
like their polluted bread which deceives His children
and when He returns those who have
caused His little children
to stumble and fall and worship
before the abominable one would be better off dead!
Here is how Christ puts it:
Take a Strong's Concordance and check out the word "offend" in Greek.Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
offend = skandalizoô skan-dal-id'-zo Strong's #4624
To "scandalize"; from G4625; to entrap, that is, trip up (figuratively stumble [transitively] or entice to sin, apostasy or displeasure):—(make to) offend.
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