Presents
Pamphlet #7005
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Measure the Temple Introduction
long version
Presents
Pamphlet #7005
Measure the Temple Introduction
long version
The visions of the prophets were not given for their understanding during old testament times. They were give for our understanding during these end times. (Please Read Daniel 12:4,8 &9) Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Daniel 12:8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? Before the angel gives answer to this question, he again informs Daniel that the words given unto him concerning the wondrous things that would happen were not for his time, but rather for the time of the end. [9] And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. The words are given for the time of the 6th Trump, the time of testing, the great tribulation, "the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Rev. 3:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Let's look at what Ezekiel found in the 5th Century B.C. when God showed him what was happening inside the temple (Read Ezekiel 8:5-18) Verse [9] ...Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. Nothing has changed since then! (Read Ezekiel Chapter 13 where Lying prophets are condemned) Note: 13:5 makes reference to the same "day of the Lord" that John was taken to. Ezekiel's vision of the defiled temple wasn't meant for his time any more then God's visit to him in a flying saucer, as he describes in chapter one, could have been understood prior to our present space age. You and I have no problem whatsoever understanding what the vehicle was that God visited him in because we have actually seen 5 tons of shiny metal fly so many times that it is not at all unusual to us. It's normal everyday life. But imagine someone 2500 years ago who actually saw something like a Jumbo 747 and four F-17 Fighter jets land right before his very eyes! Well, Ezekiel did see "something like that", only the vehicles that he saw were circular and more high-tech than our crude propulsion aircraft of the 21st century!
Let's measure the temple of God as John was told to do in Rev. 11:1 Rev. 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.Remember John was taken spiritually into the future (Rev. 1:10) to "The Lord's Day", the Millennium which in this year 2010 is very close a hand. (documenting that is for another lesson which we will get to later).
Why
do you imagine John was told to measure the temple again during these end
times? For the same reason Ezekiel was 2500 years ago. Just
like the temple was over thrown by the physical King of Babylon in Ezekiel's
time the spiritual church is being taken over by the spiritual King
of Babylon (satan, the spurious messiah) during our time. Ezekiel
8:9 ...Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
God warns
Ezekiel about false church doctrines and the consequences thereof.
Ezekiel 4:13 And the LORD said, Even thus
shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles,
whither I will drive them.Note: 'Bread"
is always symbolic of "doctrine". Ezekiel
4:16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man,
behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat
bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure,
and with astonishment: Ezekiel 4:17 That
they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume
away for their iniquity. You can read of
their dismay and astonishment in Revelation chapter 18. Meanwhile, there
are not much undefiled bread to be found in the world today. We are in
the famine of the end times, and it will get a whole lot worse when the
"Satan" himself arrives. Amos 8:11
Behold,
the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words
of the LORD: Not many of God's children
eat the scroll within and without that is laid before them, yet most people
have it available in their very homes. Ezekiel
5:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem:
I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round
about her. Ezekiel 5:11 Wherefore,
as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my
sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations,
therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither
will I have any pity. Ezekiel 5:16
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for
their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase
the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: If
you are one of God's elect, then the staff of your bread is not broken.
Our Bread is plentiful and we feast at the table of the Lord, having more
abundant "Manna" from heaven than we can ever consume in a lifetime. You
have heard the expression, "It's feast or famine". Salesmen understand
what it means very well, but it is an accurate description of the last
days. There is only one table at which you can feast, and that is the undefiled
table of the Lord. If you get bread somewhere else I can tell you what's
mixed in it! Ezekiel 5:17
So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave
thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring
the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it. Again,
we can understand this verse in it's physical, historical fulfillment,
but as it is written in 1 Cor. 10:11"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
do not lack for the true Bread of Life and Jesus Christ has given us power
over all our enemies. Dragons Beware! Luke
10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread
on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing
shall by any means hurt you. Ezekiel 6:6 In
all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places
shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate,
and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down,
and your works may be abolished.
He said it ALL
before at Mount Sinai! He will destroy the sanctuaries, the high places,
and you know what else? He will NOT hear their prayers, which is what "I
will not smell the savour of your sweet odours" means.Ezekiel
6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst
of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Yet
from the beginning, from before the foundation of this earth age (Eph.
1:4), God chose some of His children who were faithful to Him and stood
against Satan at his rebellion, to be a remnant, His elect, to carry forth
His truth among His scattered and scatter-brained people. Ezekiel
6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may
have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall
be scattered through the countries. If
you have eyes to see and ears to hear then you are part of that remnant
who are called His elect in this final generation. [9]
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither
they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish
heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go
a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils
which they have committed in all their abominations. The
"their" are those who have committed idolatry, i.e. whored around with
other gods and abominations, even the "abomination who makes desolate"
spoken of by Daniel the prophet in chapter 9 of his book. "Their" eyes
SEE their Churchianity as being true Christianity while they roll Ishtar
eggs and bring quick-like-a-rabbit Easter bunnies into their sanctuaries
and teach people VISIONS of mentally ill women (I speak of Margaret McDonald's
vision of the fly-away rapture theory in 1830) instead of the Visions from
the Word of God. They are going to find out real soon that the LORD God
means business! The king of Babylon is coming at the sound of the 6th Trump
to take them captive and they will fall by the famine and the sword and
the pestilence! [10]
And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain
that I would do this evil unto them.
God gives Ezekiel
a description of the final siege at the time of the end of this earth age
by the king of Babylon, even that same king of Babylon who is the spurious
messiah, the beast spoken of in Revelation 13.
God used the "king of Babylon" to come against His people who turned to
idolatry in the PAST and He will do so AGAIN in these last days, only the
king of Babylon in the end is the false messiah, Satan himself. Ezekiel
7:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto
me, saying, These are not the words
of some dead prophet. They are the words of the Living God! Besides, Ezekiel
is not dead! He's with Christ right now (1 Thes. 4:13-17). Ezekiel
7:2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith
the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon
the four corners of the land. An
end, THE END, is come upon the " four corners". This is the first statement
to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear that this is speaking of
the time of the end, the last days. The "four corners" are where the four
angels
stand who hold back the four winds that let loose the king of Babylon and
the final fury of events of this earth age. See Rev.7;1 Ezekiel
7:3 Now is the end come upon thee, and
I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy
ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. Ezekiel
7:4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither
will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations
shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. When
the 7th Trump sounds the whole world will know who the LORD is, for every
knee shall bow at the appearance of the Lord of lords and King of kings.[5]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. Thus
saith the Lord GOD! How many times do we have to be told over and over
again until we listen to Him? He says there is calamity upon calamity coming,
"... and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there
was a nation even to that same time..." (Dan. 12:1). If the Lord God said
it, it WILL HAPPEN! "WARNING, WARNING, Will Robinson, WARNING, WARNING!"
(For those who are too young to remember, that is a line from the old TV
show "Lost in Space", but it applies to those here now who are "Lost on
Earth".) [6]
An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
The
final end-time siege by the king of Babylon is coming. "It watcheth for
thee" literally means "It has awakened against you", i.e. it has taken
you by surprise if you have been sleeping and not watching. [7]
The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time
is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the
mountains. The Day of reckoning
is come, the sand will finally run out of the Hour of Warning Glass into
the Hour of Temptation Glass (which will take about 5 months to empty from
there). The day of trouble, the day of "Jacob's trouble" is near, and many
are going to wake up, having been asleep and not watched throughout the
night, and be real surprised. There will no more be heard "the sounding
of the warning from the mountain tops". It is too late! The king of Babylon
has come! Ezekiel 7:8 Now
will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon
thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense
thee for all thine abominations. God's
fury, His wrath, is poured out at the time of the end, beginning with the
5th and 6th trumps, the first two "WOE" trumps, where He allows the king
of Babylon and his locust army to come to "try" those who dwell upon the
earth. "... Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the
devil [the king of Babylon] is come down unto you, having great wrath,
because he knoweth that he hath but a short time." (Rev. 12:12) Do
not participate in all the abominations. The king of Babylon will appear
as the spurious Messiah, showing great signs and wonders and perform miracles
in the sight of men. The siege is a spiritual one. He will bring worldwide
peace and prosperity for all who will worship him. But he causes "slaying"
and "death" to the people, which is the "second" death, the death of their
souls, not their bodies. The problem is that you can't see a "spiritual
sword" slay the "inner man", the soul, so if you never SAW this happen
physically, how would you understand the VISION to SEE that it will happen
spiritually? We have been provided with great and graphic demonstrations
throughout history! The Bible is NOT a book about saving your little old
flesh! It can't be done! Your flesh body is going to DIE one way or another.
PERIOD! Escape to the clouds theories, escape from Ezekiel's model theories,
escape from the reality of His Word theories, which are ALL designed to
spare you some brutal physical slaying by the false-christ is not only
based on the false premise that the battle in Revelation is PHYSICAL but
it serves only to save your flesh! Big deal! We already read the words
of Jesus regarding the flesh. Here they are again: Matthew
10:28 And fear not them which kill the body,
but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to
destroy both soul and body in hell.Are
you afraid of Satan? If you are "saved" from the second death, then
what are you worried about? Let's put the Gospel Armor on and take up the
Sword of the Lord and go teach that Dragon a lesson! Ezekiel
7:9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither
will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine
abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am
the LORD that smiteth. All of God's
children are treated fairly and receive just recompense for THEIR OWN actions
(a novel concept to the modern day liberal who likes to blame everyone
and everything else, like a defective gene made them do it, or a gun made
them do it). So, if God's children have "asked for it", by ignoring His
Word and bringing every imaginable idolatrous doctrine and abomination
into their churches, they are going to get what's coming to them! They
are going to worship the king of Babylon as the King of kings and Lord
of lords, only he will be Satan himself. And
they are going to find out real soon following their affair with the false
messiah, that it is their loving Father who did the chastening, and it
was for their own good. That day of reckoning is coming real soon! 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. [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. Ezekiel 7:26 Mischief
shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they
seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest,
and counsel from the ancients.
[27]
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,
and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto
them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them;
and they shall know that I am the LORD.
"Calamity upon
calamity will befall you; woe upon woe, disaster upon disaster! You will
long for a prophet to guide you, but the priests and elders and the kings
and princes will stand helpless, weeping in despair. The people will tremble
with fear, for I will do to them the evil they have done, and give them
all their just deserts. They shall learn that I am the Lord." (Living Bible)
And they shall learn that He means exactly what He says in His Word. So
don't be disobedient! Read and study the Word of God.
Acts
2:16 But this is that which was spoken through
the prophet, Joel: Acts 2:17 And
it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out my Spirt
upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your
young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward,
that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and
your
sons andyour daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams,
your young men shall see visions: Peter qualified
the "afterward" as meaning "in the last days": "And it shall come to pass
in the last days... (Acts 2: 17). And as we learned from the Song of Moses
in Deuteronomy 32, His doctrine, i.e. His truth, His Word, His spirit,
IS that rain which shall be poured out upon all flesh, even all nations:
Mark 13:10 "And the gospel must first be published [heralded] among all
nations." Deut. 32:2 My
doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall
distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers
upon the grass: Hey, you know the saying, "When it Rains,
it Pours!" Hmmm... Wasn't that the slogan for Morton Salt? It brings to
mind the scripture "Ye are the salt of the earth (Mat. 5:13)". Nevertheless,
it is the "latter day rain" of Joel 2:23 that is the pouring out
of God's Spirit, His truth. And it is poured out upon ALL flesh through
His sons and daughters of this final generation. Joel
2:28 ... and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, Through His Spirit, symbolized by the
olive* oil, which is received through prayer and by studying His Word,
the "wise" virgins of the last days shall and have come to understand (see)
the visions of the prophets. It is written that the angel spoke unto Daniel
the prophet and said "... Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed
up and sealed till the time of the end. [10] Many shall be purified,
and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of
the wicked shall understand; butthe wise shall
understand." Yes, they would "See" the visions of the
prophets in the last days! Joel 2:28
... your young men shall see visions:
This phrase really has
a double meaning, because as the young men and women grow in their "understanding"
of the visions, they also begin to actually "see the prophetic visions"
come to pass, many of which have already come to pass! So these young lovers
of God's Word will be
teaching His truth in "Brotherly Love" and
blowing the trumpet in the ears of their slumbering Brothers and Sisters.
They are as watchmen and shepherds over the House of Israel to whom they
are sent and they speak out boldly against the deception of the wolves
in sheep's clothing who come in the name of Jesus and deceive our people
with the traditions of men and by blowing the wrong ram's horn! This is
the witness of the Church of Philadelphia (Rev. 3:7-13), the Church of
Brotherly love! But there will be another witness by those of another candlestick.
It shall be by the "old men" who "shall dream dreams" before the kings
and rulers of the nations, just as Christ foretold us in Mat. 24 and Mark
13, which JO-EL refers to in the following phrase given by the Spirit to
perk the ears of the wise and spiritually mature who do know the scriptures!
Joel
2:28 ... your old men shall dream dreams,Let's
document to those with eyes to see and ears to hear what Joel is talking
about. Do you know and recall the story of Joseph who was "betrayed by
his brothers" and sold into bondage? Well, after Joseph was taken to Egypt,
the "woman", who was the master's unfaithful wife, tried to "seduce" him,
but to no avail and so the scorned woman saw to it that Joseph was "cast
into prison", the king's prison!
It's time
for us to read and understand the visions of Ezekiel concerning the conditions
in our churches today!
(Please read all of Ezekiel but especially
Chapters 8) Do you have eyes to see and ears to hear?
There's an important reason for asking and considering the question. You
see, "eyes to see" are not really eyes at all. They are the "ability" to
SEE beyond the flesh and the physical and understand, even discern, the
things that are spiritual, the things that you cannot SEE with the eyes
of clay. Often it helps to close your flesh eyes, which often hinder your
VISION when open, because of the distractions they bring into your mind.
Your Father wants to know if you can now SEE the idolatrous, abominable,
religious practices that go on in the house of God TODAY, that appear
unto the masses as being Christian because they are labeled such! Have
you ever heard that Easter is a Christian holiday? You see, you must have
consumed enough of His Word to be able to KNOW the difference between religion
and reality, between Churchianity and Christianity, between the traditions
of men and the oracles of God, between Jesus and Satan, the instead-of-Jesus.
So, four times in the 8th chapter following an idolatrous scene, the question was asked to the Watchman, "DO YOU SEE?" Here are those questions to you, if you are a watchman:
It is extremely important that we do SEE, because those who have come in the name of Christ, as His ministers in these last days, have already fulfilled the scriptures in Mat. 24 and Mark 13 and have deceived the masses through their traditions of men. That's right, though "Take heed that no man deceive you" was the Number #1 WARNING from Jesus Christ concerning these last days, the majority of Christendom is asleep in ignorance and grossly deceived. And guess what? They "spiritually" DO all the things in chapter 8. Do you SEE them doing those things? It is so sad, because they don't think our Father SEES them as doing anything WRONG. After all, they use His name in their worship services and that of Jesus Christ, though in reality God sees them as WHORES! Ezekiel 8:12 ... for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. One thing is for sure, our Father DOES SEE it, and it makes Him furious! Ezekiel 8:15Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. So the question is again: "Do you have the eyes to SEE the abominations in the churches that the people do?" If you do, then get ready to SEE even greater abominations than that last one! The reason this next verse contains "greater abominations" than even the heathen sexual revels of the people is because the leaders of the 24 courses of the Levitical priesthood (1 Chron. 24:1-19), along with the high priest himself (25 priests in all), not only participate in the traditions of men, the example given being the heathen ritual of sun worship, but they do it "between the porch and the altar", "with their backs toward the temple", making obeisance to the rising sun! [16] And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. Ezekiel 11:2 Then said He unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:Exekiel 11:16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. You must come out from among the heathen, from "religion", and He will be your sanctuary. [17] Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. Yes, though they been gathered into the nations of true Israel, the largest being from sea to shining sea, and given the national blessings promised to Abraham's descendents, the promise of the final restoration is yet to be fulfilled. [18] And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. All false worship and idolatry as well as the "great abomination" will be taken away. Gone! [19] And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: Don't you just love the King James Bible? The second half of this verse sounds so "fleshy", like surgery or something. Our Father is simply saying He will change their "hard heartedness" to a loving "tender heart". [20] That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. The final restoration is coming, the time to which we all look forward, when only the "Doers" of His Word will be here, and our Father will dwell with them forever more. Ezekiel 11:21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD. Everyone gets "just" compensation, for the Lord GOD is completely just and fair. You make your bed and you sleep in it. Just watch who you are crawling in bed with. Don't lose your virginity to someone who you "think" is your husband because the lights are turned off and you walk in darkness. Open His Word and turn on the light of truth, especially when you hear, "Come to me, honey!" Ezekiel 13:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [2] Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; So that we get a more up-to-date PICTURE of what verse 2 said, here are verses 1 & 2 quoted from the Living Bible: Ezekiel 13:1-2 Son of dust, prophesy against the false prophets of Israel who are inventing their own visions and claiming to have messages from me when I have never told them anything at all. Woe unto them! (Living Bible) That right! Our Father says these clowns are MAKING IT ALL UP! Their visions come from their own minds. And the watchmen in this generation are to teach against their phoniness by teaching the people, "Thus saith the Lord GOD", in the 13th chapter of Ezekiel. Ezekiel 13:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! [4] O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. Ezekiel 13:5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. Ezekiel 13:6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. [7] Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken? If there is one thing that we Christians need to understand, it is that "Christianity" is the cloak under which Satan spreads his lies and abominations. we have learned that there are many religious leaders who preach, teach, heal, and prophesy using the name of Jesus Christ, who Himself prophesied they would come in His name and so do! "But take heed", Jesus said, "that they don't deceive YOU", for they will and have deceived the masses, for they are false prophets, false teachers indeed! What constitutes a false teacher? Someone who teaches theories of men and the traditions of men and not the Word of God. Oh, they use the Bible. They quote a verse here and a verse there and make it APPEAR as if it says something it does not say. Anyone can do that! In chapter 13 of Ezekiel we learned about those false preachers and ministers who dream up every trick in the book (except to teach His Word chapter by chapter and verse by verse), including claiming God speaks to them, in order to gather sheep into their own fold. We also learned they shall receive their just recompense, and it isn't a pretty sight. Ezekiel 14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. These are not the elders of Judah, but of the House of Israel. They are from the 10 northern tribes who had been taken captive by the Assyrians about 200 years preceding these elders making this trip to see Ezekiel, whom they obviously recognized as a true prophet of God. So they came before God's anointed watchman, Ezekiel, but before they had even opened their idolatrous mouths, the word of the LORD came unto Ezekiel and informed him concerning their abominable, sad state of spiritual and religious debasement.[2] And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [3] Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? As we noted earlier, it is one thing for the people to follow the traditions of men, but it is a greater abomination for a minister or priest of God, who should uphold the oracles of God and teach them to the people, to be participants in such heathen practices! It is written that judgment will begin with them, the trusties of the house of God, and as we read in chapter 3 vs. 18, the people's blood will be upon them. Want to teach God's Word? You better make sure you first eat the whole book and digest it.And so at the time of the end, when the 6 Trumpet blows, SPIRITUAL DEATH will occur to ALL those who do NOT have the seal of God in their foreheads, which is to say, have NOT studied and understood their Father's Word, which is to say, have NOT eaten and digested the scroll, which is to say have NOT put enough oil (His Word) in their lamps, etc., etc., etc. It is said so many times and in so many different ways in His Word, that we are without excuse!Ezekiel 8:6
... Son of man, seest thou what they do? ...Ezekiel 8:12
... Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do... ?Ezekiel 8:15
Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man?...Ezekiel 8:17
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man?...
Do you consider yourself a Christian? Do you know exactly what you believe and why you believe it? It is a good starting point on the road to recovery from the idolatry of the traditions of men IF you can honestly determine the answers. It is really amazing when you inquire of people's beliefs to discover the different concepts they harbor in their minds. For instance, some people believe angels have wings and can fly? Can they document that from God's Word? No, they have just seen a lot of artists' concepts. Some people even think that heaven consists of floating around on clouds while playing harps? Some people actually believe Eve ate an apple even though the word apple is not in the book of Genesis. Some people even think that they won't be here during the reign of Antichrist. Where did they get that silly unscriptural idea? Some preacher probably, who keeps promising his congregation a quick way out of the events of Revelation which he cannot explain because he himself is Biblically illiterate. And obviously the people who listen to him haven't read 2 Thes. chapter 2 which clearly explains that Christians will NOT gather back to Jesus Christ until the son of perdition, Satan who comes posing as the Messiah, i.e. the false-christ, sits in the temple and claims to be God, i.e. Jesus. Do you think Jesus was lying when He said that in the last days that the majority would be deceived by ministers representing Him (Mk. 13 & Mat. 24)? Their pulpits are infested with the "many who would come in the last days" in the name of Christ and deceive the multitudes Did you catch back in Ezekiel 9:6 where the Lord said the slaughter was to begin?Ezekiel 9:6 .... and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. They were to begin at His sanctuary. Woe to the preachers, teachers, pastors, those who wish to be called reverends, holy fathers, and sanctimonious windbags. Jesus Himself warned us, in this final generation, to be careful and take heed. Matthew 24:4-5: "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. [5] For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." Do you think He was just kidding? Jesus said there would MANY of them, i.e. many Christian Ministers, who will mislead MANY! Paul said the same thing regarding Satan's ministers appearing as the good guys in 2 Cor.: 2 Cor. 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. The word "transformed" means "to disguise" or to "appear as". [14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Jesus Christ is the Light (Jn. 1:9) and Satan will "appear as" that Light, i.e. as the Messiah. [15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. Satan's ministers "appear as" Christian ministers, ministers of righteousness.2 Tim. 2:15 "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." And DO 1 Thes. 5:21: 1 Thes. 5:21 "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." Of course the choice is an individual one. We don't have to do our homework, but we should expect the Teacher will record an "F" in the book beside our name, shouldn't we? It would seem however, that if a person believes Jesus Christ when He said that many would be deceived by the traditions of men in these last days, that the probability is pretty high that that person has been covered by bull manure and stinks to high heaven like the elders of Israel. One can take his chances or do his homework.
Let's repeat the first question: Do you consider yourself a Christian? Then the following questions from the Lord GOD are for you. You will have to answer to Him, not me!
In chapter 20 of Ezekiel we learn that God is going to want to know if the high places, the churches of our nation, are polluted after the manner of our fathers. Ezekiel 20:30 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; (Question #1.) Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and (Question #2). commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
Consider the following questions before you answer the above questions from God:
1.) Do you basically believe the same thing that your parents believe or believed?Hello! Do you fully understand what the Lord GOD is asking? The only way you can know the answer to the second question is to check out what you believe with what the Word of God says. He wants to know whether or not you have done so! Are you polluted or not? Do you know? These are not opinion questions, by the way. Furthermore, the questions aren't about whether or not your parents are good people or sincere or loving. Of course people don't believe they are wrong and parents don't naturally try to deceive their children. But generation after generation has followed the majority in going to church and in believing the traditions handed down. Some people think the Bible says there were three wise men at the manger. The Bible does not say how many wise men there were but it does say they entered the house of Joseph and Mary in Nazareth. You see, the wise men were never at the manger.2.) If so, do you know if are you keeping God's Word or following the traditions of men?
If you are supporting a church with your gifts and offerings, then you are supporting what that church teaches to others. Is it "Bull" or not? You BETTER FIND OUT! Did you know that only two of the seven churches in Revelation chapters two and three were found to be OK by Jesus Christ? The rest have Big Problems. Ezekiel 20:32 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. Ezekiel 22:23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, [24] Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. Those who claim to be, who should be, the "tillers of the ground" have not prepared the "field" nor caused the fruitful rain of God's Word to fall. Instead THERE IS A CONSPIRACY among the Prophets, those who "claim" to represent Him. [25] There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Hey, there's your roaring lions. And lo and behold, they are prophets (supposedly so), men of God. Imagine that! They have devoured "souls" (nephesh). And they have ripped everyone off!Ezekiel 20:31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
It comes from "qashar", #7194, which means to "Bind".Conspiracy = qesher, keh'-sher, Hebrew 7195; from Hebrew 7194 (qashar); an (unlawful) alliance :- confederacy, conspiracy, treason.
Would religious men of God conspire to bind people and devour their "SOULS", "nephesh" in Hebrew? Would they take treasure and money and precious things? If you haven't read the letter that the translators of the 1611 King James Bible wrote to the English Reader, then you might not suspect church systems to be conspirators. So here's a little excerpt from that letter:Bind = qashar, kaw-shar', Hebrew 7194; a primitive root; to tie, physical (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league) :- bind (up), (make a) conspire (-acy, -ator), join together, knit, stronger, work [treason].
Note: This letter is no longer printed in the front of each "King James Bible"! I wonder why!
If you think things have changed in this final generation then you are deceived indeed. It has GOTTEN WORSE! The deception and the lies and the CONSPIRACY has encompassed almost the entirety of Christianity. Did not Jesus Christ foretell that it would be so? Did He not say that many would come in His name and deceive MANY, the multitudes? How? By not teaching His Word and instead teaching the precepts of men! And so our people are starved of the true Word of God and it has become the famine of this final generation, just as Christ foretold of. Amos spells it out in detail: Amos 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: There's the famine Christ spoke of! [12] And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. They shall wander from sea to shining sea and find but crumbs and containers of spiritual garbage. Yes, the Biblical foretellers of what is going to happen (prophets) have CONSPIRED and convinced the majority of Christians that they are going to be "Raptured" and not have to face the king of Babylon! It's a LIE! Remember chapter 13 of Ezekiel? God hates those who teach His children to "fly" to save their souls! Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. The preachers and ministers have violated His law indeed! Many even say it was done away with! And they not only don't know the difference between clean and unclean physical food, but in the spiritual sense (of the famine) they certainly don't know the difference between "truth" (clean food) and "traditions of men" (very unclean food). So they even profane the Highest day of Christianity, the Passover, with Ishtar and her sex symbols of "quick like a bunny" bunnies and fertility symbols like Ishtar's eggs. Not only is Easter not to be found in the New Testament, it is an unsanctified, profane pollution of His Sabbath. Go priests go! Next! [27] Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. Good grief Charlie Brown! We've got conspiracy and perversion everywhere. Even the governors are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy "souls" (nephesh) and to GET DISHONEST GAIN! Yes, that about describes our leaders and politicians, doesn't it? [28] And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. The churches should have been and should be educating our people in the Word of God and His laws that He laid out for our freedom and from which our Constitution was taken. But no! They have "whitewashed" Christianity and reduced it to ceremony, to mere praise and worship and do-gooder deeds, and they have LEFT OUT the Word of God. And so we have allowed many non-Christians, even anti-Christians, to come and rule over us! Shame on us!From The Translator's To The ReaderNow the Church of Rome would seem at the length to bare a motherly affection towards her children, and to allow them the Scriptures in their mother tongue: but indeed it is a gift, not deserving to be called a gift, an unprofitable gift: they must first get a License in writing before they may use them and to get that, they must approve themselves to their Confessor that is to be such as are, if not frozen in the dregs, yet soured with the leaven of their superstition. Howbeit, it seemed too much to Clement the 8. that there should be any License granted to have them in the vulgar tongue, and therefore he overruled and frustrated the grant of Pius the fourth. So much are they afraid of the light of the Scripture, (Lucifugx Scripturarum, as Tertullian speaketh) that they will not trust the people with it, no not as it is set forth by their own sworn men, no not with the License of their own Bishops and Inquisitors. Yes so unwilling they are to communicate the Scriptures to the peoples understanding in any sort, that they are not ashamed to confess, that we forced them to translate it into English against their wills. This seems to argue a bad cause, or a bad conscience, or both. Sure we are, that it is not he that had good gold, that is afraid to bring it to the touch-stone, but he that had the counterfeit; neither is it the true man that shunned the light, but the malefactor, lest his deeds should be reproved: neither is it the plain dealing Merchant that is unwilling to have the weights, or the meter-yard brought in place, but he that uses deceit, But we will let them alone for this fault, and return to translation.
"The iniquity of the house of Israel (read Christian Church) and Judah is "religious adultery"!" [Was in 586BC, still is 2009AD] Since judgment begins at the house of God, let's look at the house of God and see what's going on.God doesn't want His children to be like the heathen and believe "Bull", so...
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