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Pamphlet #8021 Ezekiel 21

Guess who is coming to clean your Biblically illiterate spiritual clock?

Do you remember we learned in Ezekiel chapter 16 that our Father "married" the city of Jerusalem, thereby choosing her as His dwelling place for all of eternity? We also learned several times in this Book of Ezekiel so far that the king of Babylon, Satan, the false-christ, comes upon the final generation.

Then in the last chapter, after we were admonished to do our homework and check out our beliefs in His Word to see if we are polluted by men's traditions, we were told that each individual would be tested in the wilderness and give answer to our Father face to face. He said also that He is eventually going to gather all Israel back to Him on Mount Zion. No, not the Jews, from that little country in the Middle East, as we know them today. Well yes, some of them to be sure. The ones who are really descendants of Judah along with all the other descendants of Judah's eleven brothers. The other eleven tribes of Israelites, i.e. United States of America, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Denmark, France, and ALL THE WORLD where Israelites live today. 

Ezekiel then spoke a parable in the closing verses of chapter 20 and the elders of Israel, who were steeped in the traditional stinky idol worship of their fathers, wondered why he did that, because they didn't understand it.

Therefore, just so no one is left with an excuse, God is going to explain the parable in this chapter 21.

Ezekiel 21:1
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

[2] Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

drop = nat*aph, naw-taf', Hebrew 5197; a primitive root; to ooze, i.e. distil gradually; by implication to fall in drops; figurative to speak by inspiration :- drop (-ping), prophesy (-et).

[3] And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

Ezekiel 21:4
Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

[5] That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.

[6] Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

[7] And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

[8] Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

[9] Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:

Ezekiel 21:10
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

baraq, baw-rawk', Hebrew 1300; from Hebrew 1299 (baraq); lightning; by analogy a gleam; concrete a flashing sword :- bright, glitter (-ing, sword), lightning.

[11] And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

[12] Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.

So slap your thighs, all ye watchmen, and get the people's attention. Hello citizens of the United States of America, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Denmark, France, and ALL THE WORLD.  Guess who is coming to clean your Biblically illiterate spiritual clock?

Ezekiel 21:13
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

trial = bachan, baw-khan', Hebrew 974; a primitive root; to test (especially metals); general and figurative to investigate :- examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).

Ezekiel 21:14
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.

[15] I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

Ephes. 6:11
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Then you are not only protected from the devil, you get to carry around the most powerful Sword in all the Universe! Dragons beware!

Ephes. 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Ezekiel 21:15
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

The Hebrew word for "ruins" is "mikshowl" which means a stumbling-block.

ruins = mikshowl, mik-shole', Hebrew 4383; or mikshol, mik-shole'; masculine from Hebrew 3782 (kashal); a stumbling-block, literal or figurative (obstacle, enticement [specifically an idol], scruple) :- caused to fall, offence, × [no-] thing offered, ruin, stumbling-block.

Rev. 2:14
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

And so it is that the king of Babylon will be a stumblingblock to most Christians, because they haven't checked out God's Word, so #1.) they don't know there are two Jesus Christs (the real one and a fake one), and #2.) they believe the the vision of "any moment" rapture. Read this verse again! Remember, this is one of five of the seven churches of Revelation that have Big Problems because they teach BAD DOCTRINE. They are polluted after the manner of their fathers and they will FALL and WORSHIP before the king of Babylon (Satan), believing of course that he is Jesus Christ, the Messiah returned. Therefore they will be SLAIN by his sword, brought upon them AS PROMISED and DECLARED by the Word of God time after time after time again, even once more in this 21st chapter of Ezekiel.

It will happen exactly as it is written.

The "watchmen" have been instructed by our Father in the second verse of this 21st chapter, that when they teach His Word in this final generation to always "drop a reminder" to folks about what is going to happen in the holy city of Jerusalem. That is really easy to do because the Word of God is replete with the warnings that the King of Babylon (Satan) IS COMING, and EVERYONE, the good, the bad, and the ugly, are going to BE HERE (on the ground) and they are going to FACE HIS SWORD!

So don't be deceived by these latter day ministers and preachers who come in the name of Jesus Christ, as His representatives, and deceive people into believing they are going to fly away and not go through the tribulation of Satan as the false-christ. Paul even warned about being misled as to when we gather back to Jesus Christ in 2 Thes. 2. It occurs AFTER the king of Babylon has come and taken the whole world captive. True, those who have the seal of God in their foreheads, who have the Gospel Armor on, will not be harmed by Satan's sword or his fiery darts, but they WILL BE HERE nonetheless to endure the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, who was merely a type of false-christ, or perhaps a free one night stay in the Lion's Den.

So picture each individual (the good, the bad, and the ugly) with the point of the sword of the king of Babylon right up against his or her chest [gate], and it is sharp as a razor and furbished and it glitters like lightning! And our Father says to he who holds it, "Wield that sword to the right and to the left, and let it cut whom it will"!

The question is, "Will it cut you?"

Ezekiel 21:16
Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

[17] I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.

Ezekiel 5:13
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

Ezekiel 21:18
The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

[19] Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.

[20] Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

Note: The Ammonites were descendents of Lot and they became idolatrous worshippers of Molech, you know, the religion where you "pass your children through the fire". It was from these Ammonites that the great city of Jerusalem adopted many of the wicked practices and idols to worship.

[21] For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

And believe it or not, they had another (more messy) divination where they killed an animal and inspected its liver. If it was healthy the decision was "yea". If its liver was unhealthy, the decision was "nay", for that meant the animal drank too much Babylonian Brew. (Just kidding.)

Ezekiel 21:22
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

Here is beginning of the account in chapter 4 to show the parallel with verse 22 which we just read:

Ezekiel 4:1-2
Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

[2] And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

Well, there is nothing new under the sun, is there? Their children, and their children's children today, are POLLUTED after their same manner and believe the religious leaders (Christian ministers) of today who tell them they are safe and are going to avoid confronting the king of Babylon, Satan, the spurious messiah. IT'S A LIE! The preachers today are LYING to the people just as they did when king Nebuchadnezzar came upon the great city, JUST AS IT WAS FORETOLD by Ezekiel and Jeremiah!

And the same message and warning applies to this generation for whom it was acted out in type in history. Christians had better get the Gospel Armor on and get ready to take a stand (Eph. 6). Otherwise they will be defenseless and SHALL BE taken captive and slaughtered (spiritually) by the king of Babylon, who will be Satan posing as Jesus.

Ezekiel 21:23
And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

[24] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

[25] And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,

Ezekiel 21:26
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

Also, we read the same thing about the "exalting of Him that is low", etc., back in chapter 17 concerning the parable of the high branch, etc., and how the low tree would be exalted and the high tree brought down?

Ezekiel 17:24
And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

We also talked briefly about the "daughters" of Zedekiah who were not killed by king Nebuchadnezzar and were taken along with the Stone of Scone, known as Jacob's Pillar, to the shores of Ireland by Jeremiah, thus replanting the kingship line in the Isles of the West? In his booklet "Jacob's Pillar", E. Raymond Capt gives the details of this fascinating and easy to document history of how this stone was overturned from Ireland, to Scotland, and then to England (overturn, overturn, overturn). The "it" in the next verse is the royal crown, the diadem. It is written that there would always be someone to sit upon the throne of David until Christ returns as King.

Ezekiel 21:27
I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

By the way, the rock was recently removed from under the Coronation Throne in Westminster Abby by the English Prime Minister, John Majors, and taken to the Edinburgh (Eden's - place) Castle. As the chair sits emptied of the Stone of Scone, could it be that the last human coronation has taken place upon it and the next king to be crowned upon the stone will be Him "whose right it is" to be upon it for all of eternity, the King of Kings? We shall soon see!

Ezekiel 21:28
And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:

[29] Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

Historical Note: After the fall of Jerusalem, Ammon was destroyed for helping Ishmael in usurping the government of Judea against the will of the king of Babylon. God's Word is always true and accurate and its history has never been disproved by the skeptic.

The next question is: Is there anywhere a person can go to escape the sword of trial? The answer is: No, there is not!

[30] Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

[31] And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.

[32] Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.