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Ezekiel is about to put on another demonstration like he did in chapters four and five. This time he will be ACTING OUT the exile of his people and specifically enacting the "history in advance" of how king Zedekiah, the last king of Judah, would try to escape the judgment of the Lord God. Imagine that!...Trying to run and hide from Almighty God. You would think that to be a strange and rather unintelligent maneuver to attempt, but it seems to be a common trait among our people, the first attempt of which began in the beginning, where most things begin, believe it or not:

So you see, it is not a matter of incapacity, but a matter of ignorance, of laziness and even perversity. As Peter declares in 2 Pet. 3:5, they are "willingly ignorant" of His Word.

Editor's Note: Please don't miss the fact that this message from God, by way of Ezekiel, is not only to Jerusalem and the "House of Judah"; But is addressed to the whole "House of Israel" which would include those Israelites who were displaced by the Assyrians well over 100 years prior to this time. Therefore, it is prophesy for the benefit of us Christians upon whom the end will come, during this 21st. century.

Editor's Note: Remember as you read this study, or any place in the Bible;

#1. When the talk is about the ancient "House of Israel", it is the ten tribes of Israelites who made up that northern kingdom house or nation and have since their dispersement by Assyria in 745-721 B.C., migrated on to the west and have become the Christian nations of our 21st. century.

#2. When the talk is about the ancient "House of Judah", it is the two tribes of Israelites, Judah and Benjamin, who made up that southern kingdom house or nation and have since, after mixing with the Kenites, i.e. descendants of Cain during their Babylonian captivity in 586 B.C., become the Jewish peoples of our 21st. century, now calling themselves, not Israelites but Israelis, many of whom in 1948 moved back to the middle east and with the help of England organized into the new country called Israel today, which was then recognized by the United States and three days later Russia,

Here is the historical account from Jeremiah concerning Zedekiah's escape and capture.

You see, king Nebuchadnezzar forgot to kill Zedekiah's daughters, "the young tender twigs of the high branch", whose destinies we will read about in chapter 17.

Jeremiah the prophet will take the king's daughters, along with the Stone of Scone, to the shores of Ireland, and there will be a marriage performed upon that stone, that "rock", that will reunite the two lineages of Judah, through Judah's sons Zarah and Pharez. That Stone of Scone is the same rock which was Jacob's pillow that he anointed as Bethel, the house of God. It was carried in the wilderness and was the very rock that Moses struck and the water poured forth.

Virtually all of the kings and queens of Ireland, Scotland, and England have been coronated upon that rock as it was prophesied to be "overturned" 3 times, to each of those countries respectively! A few years ago it was MOVED from under the "Coronation Chair" in Westminster Abbey, where is has resided since the 1300s, to Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. You can do a web-search on "Stone of Scone". You can start here: http://www3.cnn.com/WORLD/9611/15/stone.of.scone/

Also learn more about Jeremiah's travels with Zedekiah's daughters by loging unto and reading our 2 pamphlets listed on this web site titled (LIVE LINKS)to->>>"The Stone Kingdom" and "The Birthright and the Sceptre".

Our Father is very fair and just in all that He says and does for His children, and we are never left in any doubt whatsoever as to where He stands, for He always says what He means and means what He says, the same as He has done from the very beginning and will so continue to do forever.

He also is a very fun-loving Father and He has an Exciting Eternity (EE) planned for His children, far beyond the wildest imaginations of the flesh mind. That's not my opinion, that's a "Thus saith the Lord".

It is too bad that the best way some minds can imagine us spending eternity is to have us float around on fluffy clouds and play harps. What kind of incentive is that to "run the race with patience" (Heb. 12:1)?

The fishers and the boaters among us sometimes become alarmed and disappointed when they read that there will be no more seas on earth when the Holy City comes down out of heaven (Rev. 21) and the headquarters of the universe is established in Jerusalem. These folks are NOT easily sold on the concept of spending any time at all, much less eternity, playing a harp on some waterless cloud! They don't even like the word "harp" because it stirs up bad vibrations. (You see, some go fishing just to get away from the harping!)

I always ask the fishermen if they fish at home, and except in rare occasions where someone lives on a lake or river, the answer is no, they go somewhere else. Well, all things, including the entire universe, groans and awaits to be inherited by the overcomers, the sons and daughters of God, as it is written in Rev. 21:7.

Now, did you know that half of the people who have ever lived in the flesh are alive today, in this generation of the fig tree? This is important and helps us with perspective in understanding the events that are to befall ONE HALF of the sons of God, for this half of His children will face the supernatural, the soon coming king of Babylon, the false-Christ, who is Satan himself. Knowing this helps us to realize the relevance of His Word to this generation, the time of the end, the last days that all of the prophets and disciples were so curious about and desirous to understand what it would be like in the 21st century. If you were able to travel back in time to the days of the prophets or disciples, how would you describe our day to them? Think about it!

We are now going to conclude the 12th chapter of Ezekiel. This "son of Adam", "eth-ha adham" the individual man formed as described in genesis chapter 2, Ezekiel, set by God (ordained) a watchman to his people, has just given us a physical demonstration of the final siege of Jerusalem, even detailing the fate of the last king of Judah, king Zedekiah, who would be captured and suffer his eyes to be put out before being taken to Babylon where he would die.

But the people, even with SIGNS from our Father, (Ezekiel himself was and is a sign. See vs. 6) will not listen. So He has three things He wants His watchmen to tell the people for Him. Then in chapter 13, God will have some choice words for today's preachers and some of those TV evangelists.

Next, God wants His watchmen to address the scoffers who say "God is dead" or God's prophecies are just stories that give false hope to weak minded right wing Christians. Sounds like something you would hear on a CNN or PBS documentary, doesn't it?

Here is a New Testament version concerning the vision for our time, the time of the end.

Note: The invasion of the Chaldean army took place only 5 years later. God's word happened just as it is written. Remember though, that history is prophecy, or as 1 Cor. 10:11 says: "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come." We have a similar proverb today that says "History repeats itself."

And because He is just and fair and loving and kind, He has foretold us all things, and so we know that the time is near and the VISIONS of the prophets are being SEEN (understood) as Joel said in Joel 2:28 and Peter said in Acts 2:17, and they are coming to pass right before our very eyes.

This is without a doubt the most exciting time to be alive in the flesh, to walk under the sun upon this earth!