The American Wisdom Series

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Pamphlet #6314

When a person truly repents of his or her sins and asks for forgiveness, God forgives him immediately according to His promise. You either believe and understand that, or you don't.
 

In this marvelous Book of Ezekiel we have been reading about the wisdom of our Father's plan to set before His children their clear choice. You see, in this final generation the decision making process as to whom one will follow is going to be simplified and solidified so that there is no question whatsoever as to the choice one makes, even the choice one is already making now, as to whose "side of the fence" they are on.

Have we not read time and time again in this book that everyone, the good, the bad, and the ugly, is going to face the king of Babylon? He shall come against both the nations of Israel and the gentile nations, i.e. the whole world. And having read thus far in Ezekiel can there be any doubt at all about who that soon coming king of Babylon is in this final generation? He is the king of Babylon of Revelation, the son of perdition, the abomination of desolation, the devil, the antichrist, the spurious Messiah, i.e. Satan himself disguised as Jesus Christ (2 Thes. 2).

When the king of Babylon of Revelation arrives here in person (Rev. 12:7-9) there will be only one group of people who will not be "slain by his sword", i.e. deceived into believing he is Jesus Christ and worshipping and serving him. That group are those men and women who have the Seal of God, His Word, in their foreheads [brains](Rev. 9:4). All others will be spiritually slain because all others have the Seal of Satan, deception, in their foreheads [brains]. In Revelation this seal of deception is called the mark of the beast.

There is only one way to avoid being slain by the beast and to acquire the Seal of God in your mind, and that is to "eat the scroll", study His Word, and "digest it in your bowels", i.e. absorb it in your mind with understanding.

We are about to read in the next verse in Ezekiel 33, is that there are no "good deeds" or "righteous acts" that will prevent your slaughter (spiritually) by the king of Babylon. If you are Biblically illiterate and ignorant of God's Word, you are simply not "sealed" and you WILL BE deceived by Satan. It is written! It is your choice.

Therefore repent and stop listening to the traditions of men and study His Word and then, unlike those in the last few verses of this chapter, DO THEM.

Ezekiel 33:12
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

That "falling away" is to be "slain by the sword" of the king of Babylon, i.e. deceived into believing that the son of perdition is Jesus Christ.

[13] When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

[14] Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

[15] If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Ezekiel 33:16
None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

If you continue to ask forgiveness for the same sin for which you already ask to be forgiven, then you apparently don't believe He forgave you the first time you ask, right?  That means that God's promise to forgive you when you asked was no good! Therefore you call God a liar and your unbelief is perhaps worse than the sin you committed in the first place.

Forgiving a person and not "mentioning the sin to that person again" is God's way. But man (as noted in the next verse) says that the way of the Lord is not equal, i.e. is not measured out fairly. This "forgive and not mention" thing is a big problem for the churches who continually want people to rehash the juicy details of their sins in confessions and testimonials before the congregations.

It is their way that is not equal.

[17] Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Proverbs 16:25
There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Ezekiel 33:18
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

[19] But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

[20] Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.