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#1157 Ezek kc 13
Religion
LOOKS SO REAL and it is so intoxicating!
People
love it! Yum, yum!
When the trumpet sounds the warning
that the king of Babylon is on his way,
where will the multitude be?
Will they have on the gospel armor
and be prepared to take a stand and go to battle against the false messiah?
NO, they won't,
for they will have been captivated
by the wondrous and marvelous one who appears as Jesus Christ.
Ezekiel
7:14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth
to the battle: for my wrath is
upon all the multitude thereof.
They will NOT recognize him as the
ENEMY of Almighty God
and His Christian Soldiers,
so as verse 14 says, "none goeth
to battle".
Ezekiel
7:15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he
that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city,
famine and pestilence shall devour him.
All who are not on the watchman's
side of the Iron Griddle
(remember Ezekiel's model),
"The Flat Iron Griddle"
Ezekiel 4:1
Thou also, son
of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it
the city, even
Jerusalem:
The "tile" is a "Babylonian" writing tablet, or brick, about the size
of a legal pad. Ezekiel is to take it and etch a picture of the city of
Jerusalem on it and lay it before him.
[2] And lay siege
against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set
the camp also
against it,
and set battering rams against it round about.
Now Ezekiel is to illustrate Jerusalem under siege by running trenches,
building a siege-wall against it, pitching enemy camps around it,
and setting battering rams against it. Got the picture so far? He's
sort of playing in the dirt.
Personal Note: We used to build forts and battle grounds like this when
we were kids, with our little rubber and plastic soldiers and tanks
and cannons, etc. Sometimes we even played cowboys and native americans.
Now for the spiritual illustration.
[3] Moreover
take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of
iron between thee and the city: and
set thy face
against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against
it. This shall be a sign to
the house of
Israel.
The iron pan is a flat iron griddle and represents the
strong, impenetrable wall of separation between God's elect and the city
of Jerusalem
when it is under siege by the enemy. It is He who strengthens whom
He will that is our impenetrable wall of protection. Did you see the
picture? It is very simple and easy to visualize, isn't it?
All who are not on the watchman's
side of the Iron Griddle
(remember Ezekiel's model),
who do not have the gospel armor
on and in place,
who have not the seal of God in
their foreheads,
i.e. sealed their minds with
the Word of God by eating the whole Book,
will die (spiritually) wherever
they are.
The two-edged sword is the Word
of God (Rev. 1:16),
but Satan has his own look-a-like
sword which people will swallow with ease.
The famine as we've seen in Amos
8:11 is for the hearing of the true Word of God
and the pestilence is that which
comes as result of the famine,
i.e. the plague of diseased
false doctrines replacing the true bread of life,
the Word of God,
spearheaded by the fly-away
rapture theory.
Ezekiel
7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains
like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
"... and if any survivors escape,
they shall all be hiding in the
hills,
mourning over their sins, moaning
like doves of the valley."
(Moffat) In other words, this verse
is really saying the same thing as verse 11, that no one will escape the
effect of the siege.
[17]
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
"They will all be shaking in their
boots, pardner." (John Wayne)
[18]
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover
them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
They shall wish the mountains
to fall upon them
for the shame they will experience
when they finally KNOW that the Lord is GOD.
Jesus talked about this as He walked
up the hill to Golgotha:
Luke 23:29 For,
behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the
barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Jesus is saying blessed are those
who do not commit fornication with the false messiah.
Blessed are those who do not attend
the first wedding
and are therefore not seduced by
the fake bridegroom.
Blessed are those who endure unto
the end and wait until the marriage of the Lamb.
(This verse has absolutely nothing
to do with natural child birth and breast feeding. It is simply an analogy.)
[30]
Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills,
Cover us.
They will be totally ashamed
and will have "hit rock bottom", as we say,
and will now be ready to be
detoxed from the wine of fornication
and enter the Millennial Rehab.
Ezekiel
7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall
be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them
in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls,
neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Here is further documentation
that we are talking about the end of this earth age
which is the day of His wrath.
And there will be nothing that they
can turn to that will help them.
Actually, it is their love of Christ
that becomes the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
How so?
They were disobedient and did not
love their Father enough to study His Word
to know the difference between
the two Jesus Christs,
the real and the imposter,
so they fell down and worshipped
the imposter,
Satan himself, believing in their
hearts that he was Jesus.
Therefore they stumble BIG TIME!
Peter explains:
1 Peter
2:6
Wherefore also
it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner
stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
[7] Unto you
therefore which believe He is precious: but unto them which be disobedient,
the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the
corner,
Jesus Christ is the Chief Cornerstone,
the stone which the builders rejected.
It is He who becomes the stone of
stumbling, i.e. the stumblingblock.
[8]
And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble
at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
They were supposed to study
to show themselves approved.
They were supposed to learn the
Parable of the Fig Tree as Christ commanded.
They were supposed to "Take heed
that no man deceive them"
by searching the scriptures daily
and believing what Christ says,
not man's stories, theories, and
traditions.
Therefore as verse 8 says,
"They stumble at the Word",
because they do not study it,
and God calls that DISOBEDIENCE!
Religion LOOKS SO REAL and it is
so intoxicating!
People love it! Yum, yum!
Most actually prefer religion over
God's Word
as is documented by the great
church attendance in this nation
coinciding with great Biblical
illiteracy.
But you see, religion, Churchianity,
is idolatry which our Father likens to whoredom!
And the "woman", the great whore
who gives birth to confusion and idolatries
(she is called the mother of harlots)
stems from and is in fact that
great city of Jerusalem.
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