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Pamphlet #8023

Church is not Christianity. 
God's Word is Christianity.

The following 23rd chapter in this Book of Ezekiel is not just intended for those who seek after other religions like Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Humanism, Environmentalism, Liberalism and other mystic religions.
It's intended for Christians who just don't seem to quite understand how our Father looks upon the "traditions of men", many of which have come from pagan religions and have crept into and been adopted by Christianity, and worse yet, declared Holy.
I don't think so!

Most Christians who go to church never give it a first thought, much less a second one, to the possibility that what they are learning or what they are doing there may be an abomination to our Father and that they themselves are POLLUTED from believing the stinky doctrines spread across the pews just like the elders of Israel in chapter 20 who while smelling from their "bull-sins" came to Ezekiel seeking revelation from the Lord. I don't think so! For example, does your church teach that God is going to fry people in a burning hell for ever and ever? That hideous doctrine comes directly from the Molech worship of "passing the children through the fire" and God said that thought never, ever, crossed His mind. Yes, there will be a "lake of fire" at the end of the Millennium, but it will CONSUME the wicked and they shall PERISH just as John 3:16 says, which means they will be gone for ever and ever.

Then too, today we've got all sorts of creative ways to worship God and get religious and holy, as if somehow, as long as we call it Christian, our Father will give it His approval. We've got up-and-down kneeling and standing, we've got reach-high-in-the-air hand waving, we've got knock-em-down on stage with slay-'em-in-the-spiritism, we've got gobble-like-a-turkeyism, we've got save-'em-every-Sundayism, and don't forget the do-good-worksism, and on and on it goes.

Add to that the profaning of the high sabbath, the Passover, with Easterism and Sunrise Worshipism, both of which came from paganism along with the Sexual Orgy Mascot (SOM) of the quick-like-a-bunny Ishtar Rabbit and her fertile little eggs!

So before we begin here's a few preliminary Bible Study questions:

Ezekiel 23:1
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

[2] Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

[3] And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

[4] And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

'Oholah, o-hol-aw', Hebrew 170; in form a feminine of Hebrew 168 ('ohel), but in fact for 'Oholahh, o-hol-aw'; from Hebrew 168 ('ohel); her tent (i.e. idolatrous sanctuary); Oholah, a symbolical name for Samaria :- Aholah.

'Oholiybah, o''-hol-ee-baw';(similarly with Hebrew 170 ('Oholah)) for 'Oholiybahh, o''-hol-e-baw'; from Hebrew 168 ('ohel); my tent (is) in her; Oholibah, a symbolical name for Judah :- Aholibah., Hebrew 172;

In verse four we read that these two girls belonged to God. He repeats that fact for emphasis in the next verse concerning Aholah, the first to play the harlot.

Ezekiel 23:5
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

[6] Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

[7] Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

Here is what Aholah did:

Judges 10:6
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.

1 Kings 11:33
Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

Ezekiel 23:8
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

[9] Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

What about this generation who hasn't taken the heed [warning] of Christ (Mk. 13, Mat. 24) and who has been deceived by those who come in the name of Christ teaching traditions about snakes and apples and telling people to show up at sunrise* on Easter and face the rising sun**, and then go eat the traditional abominable swine's flesh (ham) dinner to cap off a perfectly idolatrous day. And then perhaps discuss the lie that they are going to fly away in some rapture of the church and avoid the coming sword of the king of Babylon?

If they want to play church and believe lies, God will send them what they asked for. The Assyrian is coming to this generation! And the people will believe he is actually the Bridegroom and they will jump in bed with him just like their ancestors did! The fact is it will be Satan. The lie is that he is Jesus who has come to rapture them away.

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

So sometime during the night following Saturday sunset, which would actually be Sunday, He rose, because when Mary Magdalene arrived at the tomb it was still DARK and He was GONE already! The sun had not come up yet!

John 20:1
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

** Go ahead, show up on Easter for sunrise services after the tradition of the church (because there is no scriptural documentation for it, though there be some against it). Bring these scriptures with you and ask your preacher why this day is named after a pagan sex goddess and why the LORD calls this sunrise practice by God's people an ABOMINATION! Someone has to start holding preachers, teachers and politicians accountable.

Ezekiel 8:15
Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

[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.

The question from chapter 20 stills stands:

Ezekiel 20:30
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?

Our Father has been relentlessly explaining over and over to us that Idolatry is more shameful and lewd than whores seeking lustfully after exciting and strong lovers and taking them to their beds of love. Why? Because idolatry, which is worshipping God after man's traditions instead of as instructed by Him in His Word, makes void the Word of God as Jesus said in Mark 7:13 "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye."

And when you follow those traditions handed down by the fathers, without checking them out in the Word of God, though you praise His name and sing your songs of worship and do good works in His name, you do it all in VAIN, for naught!
(live link-) to-Matthew 15:9 In vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Here are Christ's own words as He quotes from the Book of Isaiah:

Matthew 15:7
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,

[8] This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

[9] But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

So people believe they are doing what He wants them to.
Here's the section of Isaiah Jesus quoted from. Notice the very last phrase. (the word "fear" means to "revere")

Isaiah 29:13
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

We now return to Ezekiel chapter 23 where Aholah, symbolic of Israel, has just been delivered into the hands of her lovers over whom she doted, and it would be those very lovers of hers that would destroy her. You see, God turned her objects of affection and trust into the instruments of her chastisement. She WANTED them and she GOT them!

The point here is for us to understand the spiritual analogy? It is the very religious worship, the idolatrous polluted traditions of men that God's children dote over that will destroy them, for their churchianity will lead them straight to the most religious leader of all time, Satan, when he comes to earth as the spurious messiah who they will fall in love with instantly, believing he is Christ returned.

Ezekiel 23:10
These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

[11] And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

[12] She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

Ezekiel 23:13
Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,

defiled = t*ame', taw-may', Hebrew 2930; a primitive root; to be foul, especially in a ceremonial or moral sense (contaminated) :- defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, × utterly.

[14] And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

[15] Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

[16] And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

[17] And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

This should make it really easy to understand what Jesus Christ meant when He said concerning the last days "Woe to women with child."

Luke 21:23
But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

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.

Ezekiel 23:18
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

This graphic imagery causes our minds to visualize a flaunting little whore who will get in bed with anybody, so that we get the picture concerning the traditional, idolatrous, religious worship handed down to us from our fathers that Christians flaunt in His sight. Turn on Sunday morning TV and you'll see it, if you can see it.

Did you catch the part where it ALIENATES Him from you!

But why should that bother anyone? Who cares what God thinks as long as you think you are praising and worshipping Him! That's why many will come to Jesus when He returns and say, "How come we aren't part of the first resurrection? "... 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?" (Matthew 7:22).

Do you understand who those people are today? They are professing, born again Christians who go to church and just love to praise and worship God and do good things. There's only one problem! They do not know Jesus Christ because they do not know His Word. The Bible IS the mind of Christ. The Bible is where you get oil [Holy Spirit - "My words are Spirit"] to fill your lamp so you are not one of the 5 virgins whose virginity got popped by the king of Babylon who convinced her in her Biblical ignorance that he was Jesus. Consequently she didn't make it through the final "hour" until the true Bridegroom came, for she was already impregnated and found to be with child. Woe to those with child in those days! We are to remain virgins [spiritually] for Christ!

So here come the POLLUTED Christians to cash in their idolatrous praise and worship services and goodly deeds for eternal life, and Christ says:

Matthew 7:23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

So it didn't bother these little whores, Aholah and Aholibah, that God was alienated from them. In fact they INCREASED their prostitution even above their idolatry in Egypt.

[19] Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

[20] For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

That is why we are in the famine of the end time:

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:

[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.

[13] In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

Ezekiel 23:21
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

What is it going to take to "sober up" our people from their spiritually drunken state of mind and awaken them to the fact that their "traditions of men", taken from the religious practices of paganism and passed down from generation to generation, are not based on, and are therefore contrary to, the Word of God. Are you polluted with them? Unless you have studied the Word of God, you wouldn't know for sure, would you? How could you?

When you follow those traditional religious doctrines and practices, which appear so holy and "feel" so right, it is to our Father as if you have deserted Him (which you have by not studying His Word) and jumped into the "bed of love" with another.  So why should anyone be surprised that our Father calls a person like that a WHORE and an ADULTERESS! Why should anyone be surprised that He calls the WHOLE Biblically illiterate NATION a bunch of Whores! Where is the line by line teaching of our Father's Word from the "main stream" Christian churches? It is a legitimate question, is it not?

We have been studying the 23rd chapter of the Book of the Watchmen of the End Times, EZEK-I-EL, whose name means "El is strong" or even "whom El has made strong". It is only by "eating the scroll [God's Word] and digesting it in your bowels" that you can be made strong. It is a requirement that one eats the entire scroll before God will appoint that person to the position of "watchman" or "watchwoman" unto the House of Israel.

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.

[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.

Ezekiel 3:17
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.

So in this 23rd chapter of Ezekiel, God has been using an allegory of two sisters, Aholah and Aholibah, to symbolize the House of Israel and the House of Judah respectively. This is exactly as they are TODAY, in this final generation before the real king of Babylon, Satan himself, comes as the destroyer, the abomination who makes desolate spoken of by Jesus Christ and Daniel the prophet.

And in what condition do we now find these two sisters? They are now two WHORES! You see, they weren't interested in God's Word! They wanted new ways to worship and praise and they wanted to have religious symbols and things to hold and rub or count, and they wanted beautiful pageant church ceremonies like the Assyrians and the Egyptians. So they went after all those handsome studs and brought them into their beds. And you know what? Many of those same abominable things have been passed down to this generation and you will find them polluting the churches. Ever hear of Astarte, Ishtar, the goddess of love [lust]? How about her symbols of quick like a bunny sex and her little fertility eggs? That is "just for starters" as they say.

Let's resume our study with verse 22, where Aholibah, representing Judah, is being "dressed down" by our Father for her idolatry.

Ezekiel 23:22
Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

[23] The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

And are they ever coming in full fury!

[24] And they shall come against thee with chariots, (Note:Satan must have space ships similar to Gods- see "God visits Ezekiel in His Space Ships": #8001 & #8010) wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

However, if you are one of God's Elect, Satan will be the "judgee" not the "judger", for he and his crew have no power over us. Quite the contrary, Christ has given us all power over Satan and his worthless angels: 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."

Did we mention that it infuriates our Father when His children roll Ishtar eggs and keep an unsanctified, unholy "high day of Christianity", named after an ancient pagan whore, in substitiute for the Lord's Passover? They won't play the role of whore much longer. He's jealous and He's not happy!

Ezekiel 23:25
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

Hey, the nose rings are making a big come back these days!

[26] They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.

Ezekiel 16:39
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places(churches): they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

Ezekiel 23:27
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

[28] For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

[29] And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

Ezekiel 16:37
Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

This analogy of "spiritual nakedness" is a concept carried throughout God's Word. Christ used it, Paul used it, and even John used it right through the last book of the Bible:

Rev. 3:18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Rev. 16:15
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

And now for the umpteenth time our Father is going to tell us WHY the king of Babylon is coming to chastise His people:

Ezekiel 23:30
I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

[31] Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.

[32] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

Rev. 14:9
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

Note: Yes, that's right! You can now tell all your friends that we now realize we just didn't get the whole story from Margaret McDonald concerning her vision of the Rapture in 1830. You see, the Rapture Theory is actually TRUE, but only your CLOTHES are going to fly away.

Those who aren't aware of this new revelation and still believe that the 7th Trump comes before the 6th Trump will experience spiritual corporal punishment from their Father. Hopefully this will shame them enough to wake them up so that they don't have to experience spiritual capital punishment at the end of the Millennium.

[10] The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

Ezekiel said it so simply:

Ezekiel 23:33
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

The king of Babylon is coming soon to be our Father's instrument of chastisement when He pours out the cup of His wrath upon this final "rebellious" generation. And when that cup is poured out it will be totally, completely emptied!

Ezekiel 23:34
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

Why is He going to do this to His children? Why?

Because they NEED a good SPANKING! They will not listen to their Father! You see, they have gone astray after church traditions and they have forsaken the Lord GOD by not reading and studying His Word, so they have literally turned their backs on Him.

[35] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

However, if you have eaten the scroll and have gained the understanding of a watchman, then it is your appointed duty to "tell it like it is", i.e. to declare unto them their abominations! When you do, be prepared for major rejection, but remember, if you have done it in the properly instructed manner as "Thus saith the Lord GOD" then it is Him they reject, not you! If you take it too personally you will end up on the mountain like Elijah, whining and moaning and having a big pity party for yourself.

Ezekiel 23:36
The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

Ezekiel 23:37
That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

[38] Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 28:18
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.

Leviticus 19:30
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 23:39
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

[40] And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

[41] And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

Ezekiel 23:42
And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

[43] Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

So the question is, "Will the people, the Christians in our generation, wait for the true Bridegroom or be taken as WHORES when the king of Babylon comes with his handsome locust captains, who will wear crowns as ministers of righteousness?"

Did not Jesus give the warning of Ezekiel, of a watchman, in Matthew 24 when He said:

Matthew 24:19
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

So the question is: "Will that Babylonian king and his army be able to seduce the SISTERS in THIS GENERATION?"

Here's your answer. Read it and weep for our people!!

Ezekiel 23:44
Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

That, my friend, is Ezekiel chapter 23 in a nutshell, along with the fact that God is going to put a stop to it! He's about fed up with His children playing church and ignoring His Word. And He will use the king of Babylon and his fallen angels to come upon them as a swarm of locusts to spiritually devour the souls of those who have not eaten the scroll and do not have the Word of God absorbed in their minds, which Word is the Seal of God and their armour of protection.  Rev. 9:4 "And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads."

Ezekiel 23:45
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

[46] For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

[47] And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Ezekiel 23:48
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

[49] And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.