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Pamphlet 1807 Malachi kc 3=1
Ezekiel
28:12 is a description of Satan!
So
do not be trapped into believing that he walks around in long-handled red
underwear sporting horns and carrying a pitchfork.
The great Book of Malachi, the last book in the Old Testament
and written by the hand of one whose name appropriately means "My Messenger",
describes the idolatrous spiritual condition of our people just prior to
the first advent, even as a type of how it shall be in these last days
just before Jesus Christ's second advent.
And although the people themselves
are not absolved from all responsibility, even as they shall be reproved
in the second half of this second chapter, the
priests, the preachers and pastors, must be held to the higher degree of
accountability in that they are the leaders who guide and shepherd God's
people and who are therefore entrusted with great responsibility.
To that end, there is an old proverbial saying which states
that "A fish smells from its head down!", which simply means as the head
goes, i.e. as the leader goes, so go the people who follow after him...
and people especially follow after those in whom they trust and believe.
Therefore if a priest departs from the Word of God and
follows after the traditions of men he will cause those who believe and
trust in him to likewise be drawn away from God, i.e. to be drawn away
from the Word of God.
The fact is, we are here dwelling
in these lowly flesh bodies and walking under the sun for precisely that
very reason.
You see, there was once a great
prince and high priest who walked up and down in our midst and who our
people dearly loved and trusted and admired for his brightness, for indeed
he was a bright morning-star (Isa. 14:12).
His name was "Lucifer" which means
"bright morning-star"!
We can learn in great detail what this "wise and beautiful"
one did in that first age, the "world that then was
(2 Pet. 3:6)", from the Book of Ezekiel where he is referred to
as the king of Tyrus in the 28th chapter.
Note:
The first age refers to the time when you and I and all our fellow beings
dwelt in our spirit bodies right here on earth between the time we were
created which was before the foundation of the world and the distruction
of that first earth age after satan sinned and lead one third of us astray
- To follow him instead of our creator God.
Let's read some excerpts
from that chapter:
Ezekiel
28:12-15
Son of man,
take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom,
and perfect in beauty.
THAT is a description of Satan!
So do not be trapped into believing
that he walks around in long-handled red underwear sporting horns and carrying
a pitchfork.
[13]
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy
covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and
the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the
workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the
day that thou wast created.
These stones are the exact
same stones worn by the Levite Priests on their breastplates representing
the 12 tribes of Israel.
Yep, Satan wore them because he
was a high priest in the garden of God in the first earth age.
He was also present in Eden, the
Garden of God, in this flesh age as that beautiful angelic creature (a
handsome man not a snake...) who seduced mother
Eve in the fig grove.
[14]
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have
set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast
walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
It was the "mercy seat" of God that Satan was to
cover.
In other words, he was to protect the truth and justice
which emanated from that mercy seat.
God appointed him (as in anointed him) to that entrusting
position which was high in the mountain (symbolic of government) of God.
As it is written, he walked up and down in the midst of
the stones of fire who are God's children, Israel.
[15]
Thou
wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity
was found in thee.
Uh oh! Iniquity was found in
him!
Do you KNOW what that iniquity was (iniquity is "evel"
in Hebrew pronounced "eh'-vel")?
It was unrighteousness, a departure from the truth!
Let's see what happened next:
Ezekiel
28:16-19
By the multitude
of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence [i.e.
corruption], and thou hast
sinned: therefore I will cast
thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy
thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of
fire.
Knowing the meaning of this word "sinned" as it is
used here will help us to fully understand the importance and significance
of what we shall read in today's study of Malachi.
Here it is:
Sinned = àèÈç˜chaòtÖaòkhaw-taw'
Strong's #2398
A primitive root; properly to miss; hence (figuratively
and generally) to sin; by inference to forfeit, lack,
expiate,
repent,
(causatively)
leadastray,
condemn:—bear
the blame, cleanse, commit [sin], by fault, harm he hath done, loss, miss,
(make) offend (-er), offer for sin, purge, purify (self), make reconciliation,
(cause, make) sin (-ful, -ness), trespassive.
The great "sin" that Lucifer,
the high trustworthy priest and prince of our people, committed because
of his iniquity was to LEAD GOD'S PEOPLE ASTRAY and Revelation
12:4 documents that he led fully ONE THIRD of them astray!
God does not like those who cause His children to err.
This is serious business "O ye Priests/preachers"!
Here's what happened to this once great self-exalted star
who fell and took many with him:
[17]
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy
wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will
lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
As it is written, during the
Millennium people will "behold" him and... "They that see thee shall
narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is
this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms
(Isa. 14:16)."
[18]
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will
I
bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour
thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight
of all them that behold thee.
Make no mistake about it, Satan has been sentenced
to die, to totally and completely perish (be turned
to ashes) in the lake of fire at the end of the Millennium!
That is why he is even called the "son of perdition",
because he is the son who will perish.
[19]
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou
shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Satan, the ultimate spiritual terrorist, will soon
have his day as antichrist when Michael stands up and casts him out of
heaven to this earth along with his host of angels (Rev. 12:7-9).
But for Satan, there is no turning back nor space given
for repentance.
He has already been judged and sentenced to die.
Well, that background ought to be enough to set the tone
and let one know the seriousness of the consequences allotted to priests
who lead God's children away from the mercy seat where Christ dwells, i.e.
away from His Word from whence truth and justice flow.
Hear now what the Creator of the Universe and the Father
of our souls has to say to those who are supposed to be His messengers.
Mal.
2:1
And now, O ye
priests, this commandment is for you. (See
our next study to learn what that commandment to our preachers/ministers
is.)
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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