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Pamphlet 1213 Ezek kc 13-1

"They stumble at the Word", because they do not study it.

Ezekiek7:14 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.

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.

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),
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.

(This verse has absolutely nothing to do with natural child birth and breast feeding. It is simply an analogy.)

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.

[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!

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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