EZEKIEL PROPHECY FOR TODAY AND BEYOND #6

 

Ezekiel For Today and TOMORROW

Chapters 25 to 32

CHAPTER 25 Prophecy against Ammon and Moab (the Jordan area). We have covered this prophecy in the book of Isaiah and Jeremiah, so it is repeated in Ezekiel. When Jerusalem, the house of Judah and the House of Israel fall in the end time, the people of the Jordan area are going to say, "Ah!" It is an "ah" with a smirk, a tongue in cheek, a contestable "ah." The Arabs of the Jordan area are going to smile and smirk and will say in effect, "The Israelite people are cast off, God does not look upon them as anything different than any heathen nation." Now, in one respect that is a truism, for the Lord is no respecter of persons, but the Jordanians will be saying this with a laugh, with an attitude that will not be pleasing to God, and so those people will, at the end time, go into captivity themselves by the "men of the East." The armies of Russia, China, and others from the East will come into the Holy Land and will destroy certain peoples there. The war machine of the East will have a representation dwelling in the Holy Land during the last 42 months of the end of this age (verses 1-11). Prophecy against Edom (Turkey) We have also seen this prophecy in Isaiah and Jeremiah. When the Great Tribulation comes on this earth, as the people of Judah flee NORTH and try to escape through Turkey, the people of that land will NOT HELP them, in fact they will kill many of them, and will "greatly offend" the Lord by so doing. The people of Turkey were not to be used by the Lord to persecute the children of Judah, but they will. God will not forget this! When Israel and Judah as brought back from captivity at the coming of the Messiah Christ, as Israel is gathered from the nations of Europe, and as they exodus from Europe back to the Holy Land, they will needs go through Turkey. The people of Israel returning, will take revenge, they will "do in Edom (Turkey) according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know My vengeance, says the Lord God" (verses 12-14). This prophecy is given in full detail in the prophetic book of Obediah, which I will expound later, when we come to that book of the prophets. Prophecy against Philistia (the Palestinians) The Philistines have long been the enemy of Israel and Judah, centuries upon centuries the hatred has been there for the Jews. The Palestinians will rise up in glee and help destroy the Jews in the Holy Land when the Beast Babylon power of Europe comes marching into Palestine and Jerusalem, at the start of the last 42 months of this age. The old Palestinian Philistines will help destroy Judah. The Lord will remember this and will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes (verses 15-17). We saw in Isaiah 11:10-16, that it is the returning people of Israel and Judah who shall lay their hand on the Palestinians and shall execute God's revenge. CHAPTER 26 Prophecy against Tyrus There was a very real past fulfilment of this prophecy, and all the details of chapter 26 DID HAPPEN. You can see the Bible Commentaries and Bible Encyclopedias for the historic details. CHAPTER 27 Prophecy of end-time Tyrus This chapter concerns the prophecy against the coming mighty world TRADING POWER of the Beast Empire of Europe, as it is now forming under the European Common Market. Some of the trading nations will be Egypt (v.7); Tarshish (Spain, Portugal, v.12); Javan (Japan, v.13); Tubal and Meshech (Russia, v.13); Syria (v.16); Judah (the Jews, v.17); Israel (most of the West, v.17); Dan (Ireland; Denmark, v.19); Arabia (the Arabs, v.21); Assur (Germany/Austria, v.23). Notice verses 27-36 and compare them with Revelation 18. It is the SAME TIME, AND IT IS THE FALL OF MODERN BABYLON, the Beast Empire over-ruled by the Babylon Mystery religion - the church drunk with the blood of the saints. CHAPTER 28 The Man False prophet and the Devil behind him Read verses 1-2; now read 2 Thes.2:1-12. We have a man at the end time, who has set his heart as the heart of God, way above the idea of just turning to love God and His ways; this is above anything like that; it is making out you are God in the flesh, as some "religious" mystery of a kind. It is best illustrated with a real life example. The man who is head of the largest "Christian" church on earth came to a South American country a few decades ago. A TV interviewer asked a young lady (she looked to be in her early 20s), "What do you think of this man visiting your country?" She replied, "He is God on earth!" This is what this chapter in Ezekiel is telling you. This is what 2 Thes. 2 is telling you. A man at the end time will come, who is really, according to the book of Revelation, a FALSE prophet. But he is not going to tell you he is a false prophet; a false prophet does not tell you he is a false prophet. This man will come in the name of Christ. He will have MILLIONS believing as that young lady believed, that he is "God on earth!" That will be the spiritual deception that will continue to deceive hundreds of MILLIONS at the time of the end. This false prophet man will be able to work MIRACLES! Hundreds of millions already believe this head of the largest Christian church is "God on earth" - so add MIRACLES to that theological teaching and you have the ingredients for a power to rule the Western world. It is the last days. We are into the time when this religious Christian false prophet, with his "church" is once more riding and ruling the Beast of the resurrected Roman Empire of Europe. This false prophet's heart is so deceived that it is quite possible he himself does not realize he is being inspired, if not possessed, by the very Devil himself. The evil work will be done, but God says He has appointed the "terrible of the nations" to draw a sword after this false prophet's Empire. This Western "religious" Empire of Europe will come crashing down. As I've already written, the men of the East, the war machine of the terrible power to the East, will come against her and the power of the Empire of the false prophet will be smashed down. This is all given in Revelation 9. The prophecy of Ezekiel shifts in verse 12 to the individual behind the scenes of this false prophet. The individual sealed up the sum of wisdom, full of wisdom, perfect in beauty. The individual had been in Eden, the garden of God, certainly not now referring to a physical man. This individual was covered with all kinds of precious stones; with the workmanship of "thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created" (verse 13). This individual is the "anointed CHERUB that covereth" and was once upon the very mountain of God; he had walked up and down in the midst of the fire. He was PERFECT in his ways UNTIL ... until INIQUITY was found in him. He is going to be destroyed, this cherub, from the midst of the stones. He was corrupted by the reason of his wisdom and BRIGHTNESS. His VANITY got the best of him (verses 15-17). This is not a physical man here being talked about. This is the COVERING CHERUB - the one time full of BRIGHTNESS cherub. But he SINNED, and in so doing became the individual we today call the DEVIL or SATAN. This fallen cherub angel, will one day inspire and maybe even possess, the end time king man, false prophet man, of the end time Tyrus Empire now forming in Europe. At the end of verse 17 to the end of verse 19, the prophecy switches back to the physical false prophet man. The false prophet will meet his end. He will be brought to ashes, literally, as he is thrown into the lake of fire by Jesus Christ Himself at the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16; 17; 18; with Rev.19:20 and context). Prophecy against Zion Zion or Jerusalem will have her punishment, and at that time she will indeed be no more a pricking thorn to the House of Israel. Today, as Israel of the West backs and supports the Jews in the Holy Land, it can be said that they are a somewhat pricking thorn of adversary to Israel, many other nations, especially those of the Arab world, do not like the most powerful nations of the West (Britain and the USA) be-friending the Jews (verses 20-24). Beyond it all, when the House of Israel is gathered and restored from their captivity, when they are taken back to the Holy Land, then they shall build the houses, plant vineyards, and they will dwell with confidence, when the Lord executes judgments upon those people who are still despising them, at the beginning of the 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth. The first years of this 1,000 year age will not be a bed of roses for some people. Lessons will need to be learned by some nations (verses 25-26). CHAPTER 29 Prophecy against Egypt Here we come to a few chapters concerning Egypt. Back in the 1960s and 1970s the nation of Egypt was in the news weekly, sometimes daily. Today Egypt is hardly mentioned in the news. But it will not be this way forever. Egypt is yet to rise to a major important nation in the Middle East and Arab world. Egypt will spear-head the coming "king of the South" as given in Daniel 11:40-45. But God says that the end time Babylon, the "king of the North" will come against Egypt and her Arab partners. It will be the time when the horn of the House of Israel will bud forth - the time of the end restitution of the House of Israel (verses 1- 21). CHAPTER 30 Egypt and her allies DOOMED! The prophecy is "even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen" (verse 3). No mistaking this, it is a prophecy for the great day of the Lord, the time of the end of this age. Those allies of Egypt will fall together with Egypt (verse 5-8). We know from other prophecies that Egypt and her allies will fall at the BEGINNING of the last 42 months of this age (see Daniel 11:40-45 and into Daniel 12). Great pain is to come on Egypt and on the Ethiopians. It is Babylon of Europe that will put an end to this Egyptian power of the king of the south. It is the time when judgment is to be executed on Egypt and her allies, the time when "they shall know that I am the Lord" (verses 9-19). The Egyptians and Arab nations do NOT know the Lord. God uses that expression over and over again in the book of Ezekiel; it means what it says; nearly all nations today DO NOT KNOW the Lord! The time is coming when they most assuredly will; when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea beds. Once more God proclaims to Egypt and her allies that she shall be broken, put to the sword, and the power to do that will be the king of Babylon, the king of the North - Daniel 11:40-45, and on into Daniel 12. CHAPTER 31 Allegory of the fall of Egypt God uses the mighty Assyrian Empire (the Assyrians migrated through Europe and are the German people today) - verses 1-9. Because of the pride of Egypt as it will be in that day, she and her allies will be brought low by the mighty hand of the "terrible of the nations" - and in modern times the terrible of the nations has been the German people. They will again spear- head a resurrected Holy Roman Empire of Europe that will come against the Egypt/Arab king of the South, in the last 4 years or so of the end of this age (verses 10-18). CHAPTER 32 Lamentation over Egypt's fall The setting for this prophecy is the "heavenly signs" (verses 7-8) given by Christ for the end of the age, and also as given in Revelation 6 and the 6th seal (verses 1-8). This is the GENERAL time frame only, to help us see that it is a prophecy for the every end of this age. We know from Daniel 11:40-45 and into Daniel 12, that the SPECIFIC time of Egypt's destruction by the king of the North is AT THE BEGINNING of the GREAT Tribulation. The CONTEXT of Daniel 11:40-45 and into chapter 12, proves that point. But that is so near the time of the "heavenly signs" that God mentions it here in Ezekiel 32 so we will understand this prophecy WILL HAVE AN END TIME FULFILMENT!! It is the sword of Babylon - the king of the North - the Babylon Beast power of the book of Revelation, that will be used to bring destruction on Egypt and her Arab allies. It is the time when all nations will "KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD" (verse 9-15). It is also within the time span when not only Egypt will KNOW GOD IS GOD, but other nations like Meshech and Tubal (the mighty Russian nation); it is the time when Edom (Turkey) will be with the dead men (verses 17-32). Yes, it is true, prophecy can have MORE THAN ONE FULFILMENT!! That is one very good reason as to why prophecy was WRITTEN DOWN AND PRESERVED for us, as we saw in Jeremiah 30:1-9. Because in the last days prophecy will be REPEATED, BUT WITH THE MODERN OFFSPRING OF THE ANCIENT NATIONS. It is also true as they say, that if we will not learn from the past, we are doomed to REPEAT the PAST in the FUTURE! History has sadly and clearly shown that Israel and Judah do not learn from the past. It would seem we have ONE MORE BIG LESSON TO LEARN, at the end of it Jesus the Messiah will come to earth again and pour out His Spirit on us so we will NEVER again DEPART from His love and the way of His righteousness. ....................... To be continued

EZEKIEL FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW #5

 

Ezekiel For Today and Tomorrow

Chapters 19 to 24

WHY will you DIE, O House of Israel?  Part 5 by Keith Hunt You peoples of the lands of Northwest Europe, the British Commonwealth, and the United Stated of America, are the very literal people of the ancient House of Israel, believe it or not! Dozens of booklets and whole books have been written by various persons over the last 200 years, proving that the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples came from the area where the 10 tribed house of Israel was taken captive by the great Assyrian armies from 745 to 718 B.C. That captivity was the end result of decades of preaching by different prophets sent by the Eternal God of Israel to His people, telling them that if they did not TURN and REPENT from their wicked ways and seek Him with their whole heart and mind, He would bring the mighty Assyrian Empire against them who would carry them away into captivity and slavery. They did not heed the words of the prophets, and so the rest of the story came to pass as God promised. Yet the Lord also said through Amos that not one grain would fall, they would be sifted as through a sieve among the nations (Amos 9:9). God would lead them on and plant them in a new land as He promised to David (2 Samuel 7:10), and there He would comfort them, bless them, multiply them. There He would bring about the promises and the prophecies of Genesis 48, 49 and Deut. 33. Yet the Eternal knew also that in so restoring Israel to prosperity and greatness, they would over a period of time, once more turn away from Him and His word into sin and wickedness and idolatry. He knew that once more, just before the end of this present age and the return of the Messiah Christ Jesus back to this earth, He would again have to bring Israel to repentance by allowing a mighty nation and company of nations to subject them to death and captivity and slavery, as it was in the days when they were held under Egyptian bondage before God delivered them by the hand of Moses. The Almighty, knowing this had to be the way (because it would be unlikely Israel would repent without facing such punishment) He had Jeremiah and the other prophets WRITE down the words of their first preaching to Israel back in the 8th and 7th century B.C. for a time to come in the latter days (Jeremiah 30:2,3; Hosea 3). The time is at hand O peoples of Israel to see the works of the Lord upon you, to accomplish what is written, to bring to pass the many prophecies of old, and to deal with you in such a way as that you will never backslide again, never go after your lovers to make love to them and their carnal deceptive religions. The Eternal says Britain (Ephraim) has gone after Assyrian (the German peoples) when she saw her sickness, when she was named the sick nation of Europe, to seek help (Hosea 5), yet she will only eventually find a lion waiting to devour her. You together with the peoples of the house of Judah will be torn to pieces without rescue. The Lord will turn from you UNTIL you acknowledge your sins. You will be two full years (a day for a year principle in prophecy) in slavery. During the third year of Jacob's trouble (Jer.30:7) God will start to deliver you, give you some life and hope (Hosea 6). Why must this come upon you? Why will you have to die (two thirds and more of you according to Ezekiel)? Will you not see why O Israel, as you read the words of Hosea in his 8th chapter. "Set the trumpet to the mouth....because they have transgressed my COVENANT, and trespassed against my LAW....Israel has cast off the things that are GOOD: the enemy shall pursue him. They have SET UP KINGS, but NOT by me: they have made PRINCES, and I knew it NOT: of their SILVER and their GOLD have they made them IDOLS, that they may be CUT OFF....For they have sown the WIND, AND THEY SHALL REAP THE WHIRLWIND.... Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein there is no pleasure. For they are gone up to Assyria (Germany) a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim has HIRED LOVERS....Because Ephraim has made altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. I have written to him the GREAT things of my LAW, but they were counted as a strange thing....For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples: and Judah has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a FIRE upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof." Notice Hosea chapter 9. "....Ephraim shall RETURN to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria....The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come, Israel shall know the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of their iniquity, and the great hatred....As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird....though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. My God will CAST THEM AWAY, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HARKEN UNTO HIM, AND THEY SHALL BE WANDERERS AMONG THE NATIONS" (various verses). You people of America, Britain and Northwest Europe, you have in your history always been a stiff-necked people, hard to deal with, rebellious in heart and mind, going away from the Eternal's laws and commandments when in the good times, the prosperous times. It was no different when God made Himself known to your fathers in the land of Egypt. Read about your history in Ezekiel chapter 20. God revealed and gave to you His laws, statutes, precepts, and His Sabbaths, as a sign so you would know the true and only God, but your fathers REBELLED and despised the judgments of the Eternal, they refused to walk in them. The Lord God asks if YOU are the same as your fathers were. It would seem the answer is a positive, YES! So, the Eternal will deal with you as to bring you to repentance and into His covenant. A FIRE will come upon you and those not burned up shall come forth to serve the Almighty in Spirit and in Truth. Notice the revealing prophecy in Ezekiel chapter 21 and verse 14. Two GREAT swords of war have come upon you already in the this 20th century. Both great wars stated by your old enemy the Assyrian - the German people. The sword was sharpened twice already, you have seen the enemy that shall again come upon you twice before. The THIRD TIME the sword is being sharpened in Europe. Yet this third time is and will be different than the previous two times. The battle will be from two directions, yet it will be one. The modern BABYLON of the Europe Empire now forming in the area of the old Roman Empire, together with the mighty German nation now united once more, will be the power and the end time Empire that God will use to strike the sword and kill you. This end time "religious" whore woman that will ride the beast of secular Europe, shall also come against your brothers of the house of Judah. You will both FALL TOGETHER (Hosea 5:5). Again, why will you fall from your power and might? Once more, like a broken record it would seem, God repeats again your sins in Ezekiel chapter 22. Will you not listen? Maybe, if repeated enough times some will listen and repent. "....Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city, yes, you shall show her ALL HER ABOMINATIONS... You have despised my holy things and have profaned my Sabbaths... And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife, and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another in you has humbled his sister (sexual immorality)....In you have they taken gifts(bribes) to shed blood ( the hired gun) you have taken usury and increase (your loan and banking system is not from God), and you have greedily gained of your neighbor by extortion ( low wages for some, exploiting the women and the needy), and you have FORGOTTEN me....Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become DROSS.....As they gather silver , and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace....so will I gather you in my anger, and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.... Her PRIESTS (RELIGIOUS LEADERS) have violated my LAW, and profaned my holy things: THEY HAVE PUT NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HOLY AND THE PROFANE, NEITHER HAVE THEY SHOWED DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE UNCLEAN AND THE CLEAN, AND HAVE HID THEIR EYES FROM MY SABBATHS.... Her PRINCES (SECULAR LEADERS) IN THE MIDST THEREOF ARE LIKE WOLVES RAVENING FOR THE PREY, TO SHED BLOOD, AND TO DESTROY LIVES, TO GET DISHONEST GAIN. And her PROPHETS (RELIGIOUS FORECASTERS TO THE SECULAR LEADERS AND THE PEOPLE)....SEEING VANITY, AND DIVINING LIES UNTO THEM, SAYING, THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD, WHEN THE LORD HAS NOT SPOKEN. The PEOPLE of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and the needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully (those in positions of power and able to employ others have taken advantage of the weak, the poor, the needy, the new immigrant, and the stranger among you)." NOW TAKE A GOOD LONG LOOK AT VERSE THIRTY!! Within the context of the whole Bible, this is not saying the Eternal does not have ANY true ministers of the Church of God doing His work in Israel and proclaiming His word faithfully. Jesus said He would build His Church and the gates of the grave would never prevail against it. So the Lord does have His servants on this earth and within the nations of Israel, telling it like it is. Why this message and my web page is just one small witness to this truth. What God is saying here is a GENERAL statement, and within the context of speaking to the SECULAR nations of Israel, it is a secular comment. The Almighty looks at the secular peoples of Israel and all their secular leaders, together with all the leaders of false Christian religions, and then He says HE CANNOT FIND ANY AMONG THEM TO MAKE UP THE HEDGE, TO STAND IN THE GAP, SO HE SHOULD NOT DESTROY MOST OF YOU AS A PEOPLE!! THEREFORE HE SAYS IN VERSE 31 HE WILL CONSUME YOU IN HIS WRATH AND BRING UPON YOU WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN BY YOUR SINS AND INIQUITIES! Chapter 23 of Ezekiel shows clearly that Israel and Judah are not the same people. It shows plainly they are at this time SISTERS, and separate KINGDOMS of people. Yet BOTH will face the same ENEMY! This did not happen the first time they went into captivity. The house of Israel were taken captive by the Assyrians, and the house of Judah by the Babylonians. The Eternal says there are TWO women, the daughters of one mother - they both come from the same origin and were one woman at the beginning. The books of Kings and Chronicles are devoted to the two separate Kingdoms of the house of Israel and the house of Judah. The house of Israel is AHOLAH, and the house of Judah represented by Jerusalem is AHOLIBAH (verse 4). Aholah played - past tense - the harlot. She went to Assyria and made love to her (verse 5). Then God says, "Wherefore I HAVE delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. These discovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword...." (verses 9,10). Notice the PAST tense is used. When this message was given to Ezekiel, the house of Israel was already over 120 years in captivity to the Assyrians and actually most were moving away and entering eastern Europe. Not to be outdone, the house of Judah, after seeing all this, went one better and became even more corrupt than her sister (verses 11,12). Yet it was ultimately the Babylonians that Judah doted upon and loved (verses 17,18). Judah is warned that the Empire of Babylon will come upon her and discover her nakedness. Actually such had already taken place as Ezekiel was a captive. Most of Judah had already fallen, only the city of Jerusalem was yet to fall into the hands of the Babylonians (verses 22-35). The prophecy now comes to the end time captivity of Israel and Judah, starting in verse 36. BOTH Aholah and Aholibah are to be judged. THEIR sins are now listed. Some are the same as given before, a few basically the same but with a new twist, such as described in verses 40-45. The key is verse 46 and 47. A COMPANY OF NATIONS ARE TO COME AGAINST BOTH HOUSES OF THE PEOPLES OF JACOB - ISRAEL, AND BOTH ARE TO FALL TOGETHER! This is also given in Hosea 5:3. In the strict technical way, this did not happen back in the 7th and 6th century B.C. In that time frame there was over 120 years between the downfall of the kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah. Yet there are a number of clear prophecies that plainly forecast there will be a destruction TOGETHER of both the house of Israel and the house of Judah BY a COMPANY of nations that include the Assyrians (German peoples) and the Babylonians (Italian peoples). Other prophecies call this end time empire - Babylon, or the daughter of Babylon (Isa.47). Compare Isaiah 47 with Revelation 18. The book of Revelation calls this end time power, the Beast! It is a ten nation (feet of Daniel's image - chapter 2 - ten toes). Ten kings/nations/secular powers will for a short time give their might and devotion to a king man, also called "beast" in the book of Revelation. He will be the secular political leader while the woman whore/religious part of this empire will have its man who can bring fire down from heaven and perform miracles. In the book of Revelation he is called "the false prophet." This great beast power will contain the Germans and the Italians - Assyrians and Babylonians. They will try to literally conquer the world, for God, as they will claim, to bring peace and establish, as they will further claim, the one true religion of God. They shall first begin their quest by conquering the "king of the south" (Daniel 11:40) who will push at them in some way not specifically revealed to us. They shall be victorious - the king of the north, this beast power, and shall proceed to enter the Holy Land, and Jerusalem (continue reading Daniel 11 to the end). It is at this time (proceeding to read into Daniel 12) that a time of trouble such as never before or ever will be again (Jeremiah calls it "Jacob's trouble" as we have seen) shall come upon the earth. It is at this time that the Beast power will head for second base in its quest to rule the world, by attacking and destroying the Jews and the house of Israel - you people of Northwest Europe, the British Commonwealth, and the United States of America. Jacob's trouble will have arrived. Along with all this there will come the time when the true people of the Church of God, who have the testimony of Jesus and who keep the commandments of God (Rev.12), coming under fire, under persecution, and many being put to death because they will not worship the false religious system of the Beast power. Some of God's people will find protection in the wilderness, yet many will suffer death as many did in past ages for the truth of the Lord. It is GOING TO HAPPEN (if national repentance is not forthcoming)! Mark my words well. Read my lips. A day of reckoning for all the sins of the nations of the West is coming. The Assyrian/Babylonian Beast power of Europe will rise - it will be the 7th resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eternal has declared it will be His battle sword (Isa. 10) against His people of the whole 13 tribes of Israel, as well as the power to persecute the very Church of Jesus Christ. Ezekiel chapter 24. Remember, the city of Jerusalem is a type of the House of Israel, and in some cases all of Israel including the House of Judah (all 13 tribes). Here in chapter 24 we have the prophetic end time king (beast man) leading the end time Babylon of the European resurrected Holy Roman empire (the 7th and last resurrection) against the nations of Israel (typified by the city of Jerusalem in Ezekiel's day). The Eternal describes you Celtic-Anglo-Saxon nations to a huge boiling pot of death, your sins and iniquities boiling up as scum. You have not repented, your scum is yet within you. Once more the Lord God cries out to you: "She has wearied herself with lies, and her GREAT SCUM went not forth out of her: her scrum shall be in the FIRE. In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness any more, TILL I have caused my FURY to rest upon you. I THE ETERNAL HAVE SPOKEN IT: IT SHALL COME TO PASS, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; ACCORDING TO YOUR WAYS, and according to your doings, SHALL THEY JUDGE YOU, says the Lord God" (verses 12-14). Yes, it is written that we shall REAP what we SOW! Even if you do not want to believe you are the very people of literal physical Israel, you shall still die because of your sins and wickedness. The Eternal is no respecter of persons, and because you people of the Celtic-Anglo-Saxon race were given the words of the Almighty (the Bible) like as no other people in modern times, because at one time you founded your nations and culture upon those words of the Bible, because you proclaimed to be Christian nations, and because you have rejected that heritage, the Supreme One is going to reject you, and allow your lovers to come in and defile you, lay your shame open to all, and punish you till you so deeply repent and cry out to Him for mercy. The DEATH of Ezekiel's wife in one sudden stroke was also to be a sign to you the nations of Israel (verses 15-24), that your destruction will come quickly and not really expected. It will take many of you by complete surprise. The Lord does give and leave some hope. Those of you who live through Jacob's trouble in the end time, shall be able to find the truth of the Eternal through faithful servants of the Almighty like Ezekiel, in type. "Also, you son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters. That he that escapes in that day shall come unto you, to cause you to hear it with your ears? In that day shall your mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more dumb: and you shall be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the Eternal" (verses 25-27). There follows a number of chapters dealing with some Gentile nations in the context of the last days and as it relates to the time when Israel and Judah will again experience death and captivity by the hands of the last days Assyrian/Babylonian Holy Roman empire. Those prophecies we shall look at next time in this series on the message of Ezekiel. ..................................... Written March 1998 To be continued

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