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Pamphlet #8003

Ezekiel, you must: (1) Hear the word from The Lord's mouth, i.e. from His Word, not from men. (2) Give the people warning from His word.

Our Father has made a special and personal visit to the priest and the prophet, EZEK-I-EL, by arriving and appearing in an awesome vehicle, a Chariot of Fire, a space ship which Ezekiel described in chapter 1detail.

However, ONLY these final, end time generations would be able to understand what it was he wrote about.

Think of this! No other generation until the 20th century had ever seen tons of highly polished spectrum metal fly up into the sky with people inside, much less fly into outerspace and land on the moon. But the Baby Boomer generation has seen it, the generation of the fig tree which was planted on May, 15, 1948, which is also the generation of the "increased knowledge" prophesied in Daniel 12.

In any event, His arrival in Israel One certainly got Ezekiel's attention, didn't it?  Come to think of it, our just writing of His arrival in His vehicle has gotten quite a bit of attention!

We begin chapter 3 where the Lord God, speaking from His throne, surrounded by the "rainbow", the shekinah glory, has told Ezekiel that He is sending him to the House of Israel, His rebellious children. And where are they today? Yes, Europe and North America, for the most part.

And now He has laid out before Ezekiel a "roll of a book", or a scroll, written within and without, meaning it is a complete book.

Ezekiel 3:1
Moreover He said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.

You see, the Word of God is spiritual food and must be eaten daily.

Our daily bread, the bread of life, is the Word of God.

We are to eat it ALL.

It is what God's servants do!

Jeremiah ate His words.

Jeremiah 15:16
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

Ezekiel 2:9
And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;

Ezekiel 3:3
And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

Rev 10:10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

But there is another bitterness when you have eaten "truth".

And that is, be prepared to suffer the bitterness of persecution as Christ would tell us:

John 17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them...

Ezekiel 3:2
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

[3] And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

So, when (1) your belly is full of His Words and (2) they have been digested and absorbed into the blood stream and carried to your forehead wherein lies your brain, then you are a prepared servant of the Lord God, and ready for ACTION!

[4] And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

That means none of this, "Well I believe this way", or "Our church teaches this". Who cares? If you are one of God's servants and have eaten from His table, then you speak, "Thus saith the Lord God!"

Ezekiel 3:5
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

You must KNOW who the House of Israel IS in order to be sent there, MUST YOU NOT?

If He tells you to go to the House of Israel and you take off for the Holy Lands, you are in BIG TROUBLE. For the House of Israel is NOT THERE, except for a remnant of the House of Judah, who was only 1/12 of the House of Israel.

It is so amazing to listen to the preachers and evangelists who haven't eaten both the "within and without" portions of the scroll, i.e. the Old Testament and the New Testament. It is evident that they do not know the difference between an Hebrew, an Israelite, and a Judahite. They are at a loss to explain where the Superpower of all Superpowers, the United States of America, is spoken of in prophecy, so they hide behind spiritualizing everything away into the church.

But that causes a HUGE problem, because some latter day Ezekiels better get to the House of Israel and teach the Word of God and SEAL it in the foreheads of the 144,000, a cool 12,000 from each of the Tribes of the House of Israel (Rev. 7), not 12,000 from each church denomination.

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You do not know who the so-called lost 10 tribes of the House of Israel are and where they dwell today go to Live Links for>>> Pamphlet #1064 and Pamphlet #1020 right here in this study on the this American Wisdom Series site.

[6] Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

Ezekiel 3:7
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

[8] Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

Note: If you have eaten the scroll and been "strengthened by Him", then you are an Ezekiel, so pay close attention to the messages he is told to take to the House of Israel in this book. A word to the wise is in order here.

[9] As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

You have heard the expression he/she is a "Diamond in the rough". Well, the Ezekiels of this generation, those who He has strengthened through His Word, i.e. God's Elect, are "Diamonds in the Wilderness." He has made them so! How precious indeed! (Note: It requires tremendous pressure to make a diamond, don't you know?)

Ezekiel 3:10
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

[11] And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

[12] Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

Ezekiel 3:13
I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.

[14] So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

Ezekiel will end up in Tel-abib and will be officially made a "watchman" by the Lord. Now that is a position of great responsibility! You see, if you are one of God's elect, then there is a little bit more to serving the Lord than helping out with chicken barbeques and being an usher every fourth Sunday. Ezekiel is a type of God's elect in this final generation. That means get ready for action, for if the hand of the Lord is upon you, it is an awesome experience. Nevertheless, praise Him and enjoy the ride! 

Now, in the words of the apostle Paul, who fell into the hands of the Lord when the Lord knocked him off his high horse.

Hebrews 10:31
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

When we last left Ezekiel, he had eaten and digested the entire Word of God, written within and without, and so he is now "filled" with the Spirit of the Living God, and has become as a precious diamond to our Father. The Lord has told him to go to his own people, not a people who speak some strange foreign language, but to the very House of Israel, and speak "Thus saith the Lord" to them.

So Ezekiel will now be taken to his predestined location among the captives at Telabib, to be made a watchman by the strong hand of the Lord which is upon him.

Ezekiel 3:15
Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

Now there is reason why nothing happened for those seven days, and that is to reveal to us that there is a time gap to be understood here, even to the "fullness of times", the time of the end. You see, it would be the generation that could understand about the vehicles written of in chapter one that would be the generation of the captivity to whom "Ezekiel" would be sent. If you have eyes to see and ears to hear then you understand that he's being sent even now, and his "vision" is being seen in these last days (Acts 2:17).

[16]  And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

[17]  Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

Ezekiel 33:7
So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

You must:
(1) Hear the word from His mouth, i.e. from His Word, not from men.
(2) Give the people warning from His word.

And just so you know that the two words "awesome responsibilities" weren't used to merely add color, the next four verses, 18-21, outline how serious being a watchman truly is. 

Here is the Lord speaking:

Ezekiel 3:18
When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Notice in verse 18 that the warning is exactly the same warning the Lord gave to Adam and Eve, in the beginning! Stay away from Satan, the serpent, that "tree" of the knowledge of good and evil, or "Thou shalt surely die!" (Gen 2:17) Well guess what?  Satan, the son of perdition, as the false-christ, is coming again, soon, at the sound of the 6th Trump. It is written! Thus saith the Lord!

[19]  Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

[20] Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

You see, there are many, many pro-claiming Christians who love the Lord, but they do not really KNOW Him, because they do not know His Word! (The Living Word and the Written Word are one.) They are not even aware that there are two Jesus Christs, the real One (of Christianity) and the Instead-of-Jesus (of Churchianity).  Satan is an imposter who appears as the real Messiah.

The Apostle Paul WARNED the people in 2 Thes. 2, that Satan is coming BEFORE we gather back to Christ. And there will be a great falling away, a great apostasy when he comes, for those who did not "love the truth", i.e. study His Word, will believe that he is God, whom he will claim to be. He will deceive the whole world, except for God's elect and those who heed the warning from the "Ezekiels", i.e. those who teach Ezekiel and the "Entire Scroll" which he ate. God therefore will send Satan (Rev. 12:7-9) and he will, while appearing as Jesus Christ, cause them to stumble!

2 Thes. 2:8
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

[9] Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

[10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2 Thes. 2:11
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

1 Peter 2:8
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.

With that background, let's re-read Ezekiel 3:20.

Ezekiel 3:20
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Here they are trying to cash them in:

Matthew 7:22
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

[23] And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Ezekiel 3:21
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

So here are the words of the Apostle Paul:

1 Cor. 16:13
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

[14] Let all your things be done with charity.

Ezekiel has been chosen by the Lord God, Adonai Yahveh, to be a watchman for the House of Israel, and the LORD has given him explicit instructions regarding his responsibility to learn His Word and give warning to the people directly from Him!

Next, the LORD instructs Ezekiel to go forth into the valley between the mountains, and He will talk with him there. 

See if that's how you read this next verse.

Ezekiel 3:22
And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

plain = biq`ah, bik-aw', Hebrew 1237; from Hebrew 1234 (baqa`); properly a split, i.e. a wide level valley between mountains :- plain, valley.

Ezekiel 3:23
Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

[24] Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

Ezekiel 3:25
But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:

[26] And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

There is a time and a place for everything and our Father controls the time table of His plan, according to His will and purpose, not ours. If you are one of His elect, then you know according to Eph.1:4 that you have been chosen before the foundation of this earth age and have a predetermined job to do.  Let it therefore be no mystery that God will hold you back until He is ready to use you.

So here we see God "shutting up" Ezekiel for a time, until He is ready (see next verse), and we already saw when that ready time will be. It is the time of the end when the Word of God is unsealed (Dan. 12) and the mouth of Ezekiel is opened and His words are spoken to the rebellious House of Israel (our Christian nations of these end times!)

[27] But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

Mark 13:10
And the gospel must first be published among all nations.

Now think! Never before in the history of mankind has it been possible to reach all peoples on earth, but today we can do it live, via satellite TV, radio, and the World Wide Web. What a time to live! Imagine trying to explain all this to the disciples of yesteryear.

And here is that opening of their mouths by the Holy Spirit:

Mark 13:11
But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.