PROPHECY---- EZEKIEL'S MESSAGE TO US #1

PROPHECY------ 

Ezekiel's Message To Us 

Part 1

      FOR WHY WILL

      YOU DIE, O HOUSE

        OF ISRAEL?

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one

according to his ways, says the Eternal God. Repent, and turn

yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be

your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby

you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new

spirit.......For I have no pleasure in the death of him that

dies, says the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live.

 Part One

       Scripture quotations from the KJV, unless otherwise

noted

by

Keith Hunt

     Will you listen to the voice of the Eternal, O you people of

the British Commonwealth,  United States of America, and nations

of North-Western Europe?  Will you open your ears to the word of

the Almighty?  He speaks to you with power and certainty through

the prophet Ezekiel, with end time, this time, the age of the

21st century predictions of what WILL befall your nations, unless

total humble repentance with a turning away from sin to 

righteousness, is accomplished on a national scale.  

     You, as a collection of prominent nations of the world, with

the British Commonwealth and the United States of America

spear-heading this family of Celtic-Anglo-Saxon peoples, are

mentioned in the pages of Bible Prophecy MORE than any other

peoples on the face of this earth - believe it or not. And yes, I

know that most of you will not believe it, though it be told you.

     Listen, you nations!  You are THE PEOPLES AND DESCENDANTS OF

THE BIBLICAL HOUSE OF ISRAEL!   Yes, you are the very LITERAL AND

SPIRITUAL peoples of the ancient house of Israel.  Most of you

will laugh and scorn such an idea as that, most of your religious

leaders will vehemently deny that the nations of North-Western

Europe, the British Commonwealth, and the United States of

America, are the peoples of Old Testament Israel.  Yes, I know

this will be the case - utter denial by most in your nations.

     I do not come to you in this series of messages to try to

prove or to convince you that such a statement by myself is

correct.  I do simply come to you to TELL you quite

dogmatically, whether you believe it or not, that you are the

nations of the House of Israel, in the prophecies of Ezekiel and

others contained in the Old Testament (OT).  There is ample proof,

volumes of proof, that my statement is absolutely correct.  

     What I am about to begin to relate to you from the Eternal

God through the words that Ezekiel was inspired to write so long

ago, the words that God spoke many centuries ago, to be given to

you in the last days, WILL COME TO PASS AS SURE AS THE RISING OF

THE SUN, if as nations you will not repent.  And if that will be

the case, if you will not as peoples turn and repent from all

your wickedness, then when these prophecies of the Lord do indeed

come upon you, then you will know you are the children of Israel,

and the Eternal did send His prophets to warn and to teach you,

just as the Lord had promised (Amos 3:7).

     The time is at hand, O house of Israel!  Will you not give

ear to the admonition and cry from the Lord God, to mend your

ways, and return unto Him with all your heart, mind, and soul, to

worship Him in spirit and in truth, to hunger and thirst after

righteousness? Will you choose to live and not to die? For the

Lord has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the

wicked should turn from their iniquity and sin, and LIVE!

     In the time past, God chose a man called Abram from the city

of Ur. He told him to pack his bags and head west, for a land

that He would promise him. Abram trusting, obeyed. God told him

that he would make him a GREAT nation. God then changed Abram's

name to Abraham, because he would be a father of many nations and

many kings would come from his descent. The Lord gave Abraham

perhaps the greatest test of all - to give up his son of promise.

Because he was willing to do so, God promises with an oath - "by

myself have I sworn, says the Lord" - that Abraham's seed would

be as the stars of heaven,  posses the gates of their enemies,

and in his seed all nations would be blessed.

     Isaac, was the son of promise, that was born unto Abraham.

He had two sons, namely Esau and Jacob.  Esau was the firstborn

and to him should have gone the birthright of physical bounty and

greatness, but for a bowl of pottage he sold it to Jacob. Isaac

passed on this birthright officially to Jacob with blessing of

the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth, plenty of corn

and wine, with nations bowing down to his offspring, even the

nations of his mother's sons - his own brothers.

     Jacob was also tested by the Lord. He wrestled with the Lord

all night and did prevail boldly, so much so that God changed his

name from Jacob to Israel, meaning a prince of God, for it was

stated that "as a prince hast you power with God, and with men,

and hast prevailed."  Later, God appeared to Jacob or Israel

again, and promised him that of his seed would come a nation and

a company of nations!  

     Israel had 12 sons, one being called Joseph. He was a

favorite of his father's. Joseph's brothers being envious sold

him to the Egyptians. After much trials and tests Joseph rose to

become second in command over Egypt under the Pharaoh. Famine in

the land of his father eventually brought Joseph's brothers and

his father to Egypt where they were all united again in family

love.  There they were given the land of Goshen, where they

greatly multiplied and found favor in the eyes of the Pharaoh.

Before, just before, the death of Jacob, Joseph visited him

bringing with him his two sons that were born unto him in the

land of Egypt, Ephraim and Manasseh. Jacob knew this was God's

doing and placed his name upon them as his own two sons, and

placing his hands on them blessed them. The birthright promise

was given to Joseph while the sceptre promise was Judah's (1

Chron.5:2). Joseph and his seed through Ephraim and Manesseh

would become as a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches would

run all over the wall. They above all other peoples on the face

of the earth would inherit the blessings of heaven above,

blessings of the deep, blessings of the breast and of the womb.

They would be mighty in battle strength though many would strive

against them.  When another Pharaoh was king who did not know the

God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the peoples of Israel were made

bond slaves, and worked in servitude under harsh task masters. 

They cried unto the Lord for deliverance and He did hear their

cry, sending a man called Moses to lead them out of the bondage

of Egypt to the land of promise.  Even then as today, the peoples

of Israel showed wickedness in rebelling against the word of the

Lord, even when He suffered long with them. Time and time again

they disobeyed His voice, turned their ears away from the words

of God's servant Moses as he led them for 40 years in the

wilderness. Before Moses died he blessed and prophesied about the

tribes of Israel, again the physical blessings of the heaven, the

earth, and the sea, were promised to Joseph through his two sons,

Ephraim and Manasseh. Jacob had done the same before his death.

Promises and blessings to fall upon the tribes of Israel in the

last days.

     When all that faithless and evil generation had died in the

desert, God led Israel into the promised land by faithful Joshua.

Under his leadership they served the true God.  Yet, it was not

long after the death of Joshua that the peoples of Israel turned

away from serving the Eternal God with all their heart and soul,

and went whoring after other gods and other nations round about,

doing wickedness in the sight of the Lord.  Often, God would

correct and punish them by being conquered by the nations around.

Then they would again repent and cry out for mercy, and the Lord

would deliver them from their enemies. They would for a while

serve and obey the Almighty, but in the process of time they

would forget the true God and once more return unto practicing

falsehood and carnality. 

     In time the peoples of Israel wanted a king to rule them as

the other nations around. Their leader Samuel, God's faithful

priest and prophet was displeased, as was the Lord Himself, yet

the desire of their carnal hearts was granted.  God chose Saul, a

tall handsome man of valor, to be the first king of Israel. At

the beginning he walked with God, but soon departed from the ways

of the Lord and was rejected as king, the Lord choosing a young

man whose heart was after the heart of God. David was his name.

Under David, Israel continued to serve the Eternal in truth and

righteousness.  Solomon, the son of David, took the throne and

continued for most of his life to follow in the foot-steps of his

father. But he multiplied many wives from foreign nations who did

not know the true God of Israel, and it is written they turned

his heart away from serving the Lord in truth and spirit. He also

burdened the people with heavy taxation.

     Upon the death of Solomon, his son Rehoboam was to take the

throne. The elders of Israel told him if he would lift the

taxation burden his father had imposed upon them, then they would

serve him, but he listened instead to the young men, and rejected

the wisdom of the elders, to which 10 of the 12 tribes revolted

against Rehoboam, setting up their own kingdom and throne in

Samaria, under the leadership of Jeroboam. 

     Up to this time the 13 tribes (the tribe of Joseph now being

two tribes - namely, Ephraim and Manesseh) were known as "Israel"

or "House of Israel."  Now from the reign of Rehoboam, it was the

10 Northern tribes that would be known as Israel or the House

of Israel, the Kingdom of Israel,  and the 3 Southern tribes

would be known as the Kingdom of Judah or House of Judah.  They

would both have their own land, their own dynasty of kings, their

own laws, their own national capital cities, their own religious

worship, with their own priesthoods, and temple service.  It is

written this separation and division was allowed and was from the

Lord, to fulfil His worldwide plan of the ages to the time of the

end. Many prophets from the Lord were sent to both these

kingdoms, to correct and to teach them the true ways of the

Almighty, if they would but listen and heed.

     Immediately, upon the departure of the northern 10 tribes to

form their own kingdom under Jeroboam, this man established a

false counter-part temple priesthood worship practice, with two

calves of gold, one in Bethel and the other in Dan, an imitation

feast of Tabernacles in the eighth month instead of the seventh

as commanded by the Eternal God. He caused Israel to sin a great

sin in the eyes of the Lord.

     The books of Kings and Chronicles contain the histories of

these two kingdoms, their ups and their downs, their righteous

kings and their evil kings, the times they served the Lord in

truth and holiness, and the times they departed from the Lord

into wickedness and sin.  

     The times of wickedness and great evil for Israel or the 10

tribe House of Israel, grew more and more frequent. The patience

and the mercy of the Lord finally came to its end. Mighty

prophets such as Isaiah, Amos, Hosea, were sent to warn the

northern kingdom of Israel, that unless true humble repentance

was forthcoming, then Israel would be conquered, taken captive,

and deported as slaves to the land of their enemy - the

mighty and great Assyrian nation.    With a stiff neck and

rebellious heart, the people of Israel refused to repent and

depart from their wicked ways. So God, as promised sent the

Assyrian empire and armies to enslave them. From about 745 B.C.

to 718 B.C. Israel, the 10 northern tribes, and many from the

house of Judah to the south, were deported as captives to

Assyria. As foretold by Hosea, the house of Israel started to

abide many days without a king, without a prince, and without a

sacrifice. And as Amos was inspired to forecast, the nation of

Israel was to be sifted among and through all nations, as corn is

sifted through a sieve, yet not one grain was to fall upon the

earth. God was still going to be merciful, He was working out His

plan with the children of Israel to the end time, when they would

inherit the great physical blessing of the earth, and when

Ephraim and Manasseh would become the nation and company of

nations as promised to Jacob and Joseph.

     The house of Israel together with much of Judah, left the

land of Assyria, and began their centuries long wandering through

Asia Minor, south-west Russia, the Black and Caspian sea area,

through Europe and on west to eventually settle in Northwest

Europe and the British Isles. The became known as Celts( Kelts),

Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Jutes, Gauls, Normans, and other names.  The

peoples of Manesseh, leaving Europe and Britain to form the

mighty United States of America, while the Ephraimites settled

England and came to world greatness through the British

Commonwealth of nations and all the other lands upon which at one

time the sun never set.

     Yes, whether you will believe it or not, I tell you with

dogmatic assurance, you peoples of the lands of Northwest Europe,

the British Commonwealth, and the United States of America, are

the very literal descendants of the Old Testament House of

Israel. And the Lord has MUCH to say to you through the prophetic

books of the Bible. The message of the book of EZEKIEL is

especially for you peoples of the above nations.

     The House of Judah was not all carried away with the

captivity and deporting of the House of Israel. Jerusalem

survived the Assyrian onslaught. It was not until about 120

years later that Judah became so wicked and rebellious towards

God that He sent them into a 70 year captivity to the

Babylonians.  Their deportation started about 604 B.C. and

lasted till about 586 B.C.  During that time, Ezekiel, at the age

of 25, was taken captive and in the environs of Babylon, by the

river Chebar He was chosen by the Lord to be a prophet to many

nations, in particular to the nations of the House of Israel. 

Now, remember, the peoples of the Northern Kingdom of Israel had

ALREADY gone into captivity about 120 to 150 years EARLIER!  They

were no longer in the land of Samaria. They never as a majority,

returned, only a few individuals and a few families of Israel

ever came back to live with the peoples of the house of Judah.

Some were, by the time Ezekiel was writing, starting to leave the

land of Assyria and heading west into Europe. They became known

as Celts in history.

     Ezekiel, as we shall see, never got to the nations he was

told to prophetically warn and call to repentance.  His message

to the House of Israel never reached them. It was not intended to

reach them at that time, for it was for a time way beyond the

days of Ezekiel. It was a warning, a teaching, a call to repent,

and what would happen if the nations of Israel did not repent, at

the time of the end, shortly before the coming of the Messiah in

glory to establish the government and Kingdom of God of this

earth for a thousand years.

     People of America,  people of the British Commonwealth,

people of the lands of Northwest Europe, the message of Ezekiel,

IS FOR YOU TODAY!!

     Through the words of Ezekiel, the Almighty God tells you of

your sins, your wickedness, your wayward ways in departing from

the laws, commandments, statues, and judgments of the Eternal,

into false doctrine of false religions, perverseness, evil, sin,

and utter depravity of rebelliousness and the way that seems

right unto men, but which ways end in death.

     The Lord says through Ezekiel, He is not pleased with the

death of the wicked, but that the wicked should REPENT and turn

from their sins and LIVE!  The Lord DOES NOT want you to DIE, O

house of Israel. He does not want to have to bring these

predictions of Ezekiel to fruition upon you, BUT THEY WILL SURELY

COME UPON YOU IF YOU WILL NOT TURN YOURSELVES FROM ALL THE EVIL

YOU NOW PRACTICE!

     LISTEN CLOSELY, O peoples of the nations of Israel.  Mark

the words you hear well, for if God must bring them to pass, you

will know He sent His servants to warn you beforehand, and you

will KNOW you are the people of Israel indeed, you will know you

are not Gentiles at all, as you have been led to believe by your

false priests and ministers who come to you in the name of the

Lord, but are in truth wolves in sheeps clothing, and ministers

of Baal.

     Listen now closely as I begin to expound to you the message

of the Lord from the words of the prophet Ezekiel, for in them

contains DEATH on the one hand and LIFE on the other hand.  Maybe

the nations of Israel as a whole will not repent and so save

themselves from the punishment and destruction God will send upon

them, but you my friend, can personally find protection and LIFE.

I pray you will!

        EZEKIEL IS CHOSEN TO WARN THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL

Chapter one - the setting:

     Ezekiel is a captive by the river of Chebar. He is 25 years old. 

The year is about 597 B.C.  The word of the Lord comes unto

Ezekiel the priest. He is given a vision of  four living creatures 

and four wheels. There is a firmament above the heads of the living 

creatures, and upon the firmament is a throne. 

     Upon the throne is the appearance of a man. The likeness of the

man is expressly and specifically said to be the "glory of the Lord."

     This throne is a travelling throne, different from the throne room i

n the Temple in the heavenly Jerusalem.

     God begins to talk to Ezekiel, starting in chapter two.

            GOD TELLS EZEKIEL TO SPEAK TO ISRAEL

"And He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of

Israel....." (verse 3-7).

Comment:

     Israel had gone into captivity and had been deported to

Assyria one-hundred-and- twenty to one-hundred-and-fifty years

earlier. Ezekiel was a captive of Judah near Babylon. It would

have been impossible for him to literally have gone where the

peoples of the once northern kingdom of Israel were now beginning

to spread out and wander through the nations. 

     God tells him that He is sending him to a stiff-hearted and

REBELLIOUS people. He is not to be afraid of them, although 

they be as thorns and scorpions. He is to speak the words of the Lord

to them, whether they will listen or not. Ezekiel is given a vision of a 

roll of a book, written on both sides. Symbolically he is to eat this book. 

It contains lamentations, mournings, and woe.

     

     Most in the nations of Israel today will not listen to this

Ezekiel message. Most will say it is not a prophecy towards 

much of Europe, the United States, and the British Commonwealth.  

Such denial of the modern identity of the house of Israel, will result

in the very predictions against these peoples, coming to pass. 

As before stated, when these dire events do come upon you who

live in the lands of Israel, then you will surely know you have

been most rebellious, and you will know that the true people and

servants of the Lord within the "Church of God" did WARN you

beforehand.  You will know who were the genuine children of God. 

And you will know or start to know, who the one and only true 

God is, and that you are literally the children of Abraham, Isaac,

and Jacob.

"And He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of

Israel, and speak my words unto them. For you are not sent to a

people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the

house of Israel......but the house of Israel will NOT HARKEN unto

you, for they WILL NOT HARKEN unto ME: for all the house of

Israel are impudent and hardhearted. Behold, I have made your

face STRONG against their faces, and your forehead strong against

their forehead......fear them not, neither be dismayed at their

looks, though they be a REBELLIOUS house"(chapter 3:4-9).

Comment:

     It is clear, Ezekiel was sent with a message to the HOUSE OF

ISRAEL,  which were away in captivity far from where he was a

captive near Babylon.  They were already moving up to the Black

and Caspian sea areas. The house of Israel and the house of Judah 

were STILL at this time TWO SEPARATE kingdoms and peoples.

Ezekiel was a Jew. A good portion of the house of Judah were in

captivity from the invasion by the Babylonians, but the city of

Jerusalem had not yet fallen. God was sending Ezekiel to warn and

preach to the HOUSE OF ISRAEL!  

     He was told by the Lord that the peoples of the house of Israel, 

you people of Celtic-Anglo-Saxon-Danish-Viking-Jute ancestry, 

ARE HARDHEARTED, stiff-necked, and an impudent people

WHO WILL NOT LISTEN to the Eternal, so you will not listen to

Ezekiel. Yet, he was told that God had made his face and forehead

STRONG to withstand your rebelliousness.

     God told Ezekiel to go to them of the captivity, to speak to

them, whether they would hear or whether they would not

hear (verse 11).  Ezekiel could NOT physically go to the house 

of Israel, for he was a captive in a prison camp by the river of

Chebar.  So in the spirit of a vision, the living creatures and

the wheels, together with the Spirit of the Lord, lifted him away

to where others were captive at Telabib, on the banks of the

river Chebar. There he remained astonished among them for seven

days (verses 12-15).

     After seven days the word of the Lord again came to him,

saying:

" Son of man, I have made you a WATCHMAN unto the house of

Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and GIVE THEM

WARNING FROM ME......" (verse 17).

Comment:

     You nations of Northwest Europe, the British Commonwealth,

and the United States of America. This message is not from some

human man, with human ideas, that may or may not come to pass. 

The words you are about to read and to hear are FROM THE

ALMIGHTY, ETERNAL GOD of this Universe, the one who created 

ALL THINGS by and through Jesus Christ.  He is the author of the

words, not me, not Ezekiel, and He is ABLE TO BRING TO PASS 

WHAT HE PROPHECIES WILL COME UPON YOU IF TOTAL 

HUMBLE REPENTANCE IS NOT FORTHCOMING!

     Those to whom God tells them to proclaim the message of

Ezekiel MUST DO SO or the blood of the people will be required at

their hands if they do not. The wicked will die in their

wickedness, but if the watchman has not WARNED them, the blood 

of the wicked will be upon them. But, if the wicked have been

warned, the watchman will save his own soul, though the wicked

will die(verses 18,19).

     Sometimes God will TEST even the righteous man, putting or

allowing a snare to be placed before him, and if he turn away

from his righteousness he will die in his sin. If the watchman

has not warned him then his blood will be required at the

watchman's hand. If the watchman has warned him and the righteous

man does not sin, he shall live. The watchman will also deliver

his own soul from death(verses 20-21).

     Was Ezekiel to literally go out from the prison camp by the

river of Chebar and walk, run, ride off to the peoples of the

house of Israel, far far away from there in the land of Assyria

and beyond, to give them the words of the Lord?  Was he to

literally, personally himself, to go out preaching among the

children of the ten tribe house of Israel, that at least 120 years 

earlier had been removed from their land of Samaria by the

Assyrians, and were now moving North and West? 

     The word of the Lord gives us the answer.

" Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and

spoke with me, and said unto me, Go, SHUT YOURSELF WITHIN 

YOUR HOUSE. But you, O son of man, behold, they shall PUT 

BANDS UPON YOU, AND SHALL BIND YOU WITH THEM, 

and you shall NOT GO OUT AMONG THEM: And I will make your 

TONGUE TO CLEAVE TO THE ROOF OF YOUR MOUTH, 

that you shall BE DUMB, and shall NOT be to them a REPROVER: 

for they are a rebellious house. But WHEN I SPEAK WITH YOU,

I WILL OPEN YOUR MOUTH, and you shall says unto them, 

Thus says the Eternal God; He that hears, let him hear; and he that

forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house"(verses 24-27).

Comment: 

     Now, does all this sound a little confusing? God calls

Ezekiel to be a messenger, a watchman to the house of Israel.

Gives him a message and tells him if he does not go and preach 

it to those who will die if they do not repent, the blood of their

lives He will require at the watchman's hands. The Lord tells

Ezekiel he must warn them of their wickedness. Then He tells

Ezekiel He will SHUT HIS MOUTH, BIND HIM UP and he will 

not go out among them. He tells him that he will be DUMB and not 

a reprover.  But also goes on to say that WHEN HE speaks to Ezekiel

then he will open his mouth and speak to them the words of the

prophetic message.

     Ummm, what on earth can it all mean?  Just this, and I will

prove it to you in the following parts to this series.  Ezekiel

was chosen to be a watchman to the house of Israel, house of

Judah, and some other nations.  He was given a prophetic message

for those nations. He ALSO WAS TO  WRITE it down, to PRESERVE 

it! 

     He was NOT allowed to go himself, personally and bodily, to 

those nations. He was to remain a captive by the river of Chebar.  

In that sense his mouth was shut. He was not to be like the other

prophets such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, Hosea, who did

personally preach among the peoples of Israel and Judah. He was

to be "dumb" in that sense.  His message to the nations he was to

warn WAS NOT FOR HIS DAY!  It was for a time FAR BEYOND 

the time and age of Ezekiel. He was to be somewhat like much of

Daniel's prophetic messages,  closed and sealed up till the time

of the end. Daniel would sleep in death, rest in the grave, and

his messages would rest with him UNTIL the time of the end, when

people would run to and fro and knowledge would be increased. 

Then Daniel's messages would be understood and preached

(Dan.12:4).

     So it was to be for Ezekiel.  His warning messages to Israel

and other nations, were for the time of the end, the time just

before the coming of the Messiah in glory and power to rule all

nations on the face of the earth.  Ezekiel was to remain dumb,

his mouth shut, UNTIL THE LORD SPOKE and then the messages 

that Ezekiel had written down WOULD BE PROCLAIMED LOUD 

AND STRONG.  

     The time for those warning cries to go to Israel, Judah, and

some other nations, concerning punishments, mercy, restoration,

and the age of the Kingdom of God on earth through the return of

the Messiah to earth, came in this 20th century, and will continue 

to be shouted to them as we head into the 21st century. Part of that 

very fulfilment is being done right now as you read these words, 

and whenever others distribute these words and this series of articles, 

or themselves proclaim this same truth as you will here be reading.

     LISTEN CLOSELY, O you people of the modern house of Israel. 

God is sending you His servants who are faithfully telling you

His word of promise.  What he told Ezekiel to write down so many

centuries ago, is now being proclaimed to you.  The Lord has

promised He will not do anything but first He reveals it to His

servants the prophets, who do understand His prophetic word and

the messages contained in books of the Bible such as in the book

of Ezekiel.

     What you shall hear in this series of articles WILL COME

UPON YOU UNLESS AS NATIONS YOU REPENT!  

The Almighty Eternal God says you are a most rebellious people, 

an impudent hardhearted people. He says your lands are filled with 

wickedness and that you will die in your sins if you will not turn from 

your wickedness and live. He will show you through the words of

Ezekiel that your prophets and priests are profane, leading those

of you who are "religious" into the way of falsehood, sin,

deception, and Baal worship. The Eternal will show you through

the writing of Ezekiel, that your secular leaders of your nations

are MAD and without the knowledge of the true God and His true

ways that lead to health and life. The Lord will get quite

specific at times, naming specific sins.  He will get specific at

telling you exactly HOW He will punish you, even to percentage of

numbers who will die from specific things He will bring upon you. 

He will tell you some of your past history,  some of your future

history, how He will bring you to real deep repentance, the mercy

some of you shall find, and the gathering together He will

perform on you, so you will never again depart from His holy,

righteous, honorable, and perfect laws and commandments.

     There is GOOD NEWS for you, but as it seems to be so many

times, the good news must come AFTER the bad news.  It would 

seem that you as nations will not repent, so therefore the bad news

will come to pass as God foretells in the early chapters of the

book of Ezekiel.

     May you as an individual reading this, seek for the Lord

with all your heart, soul, and mind. May you acknowledge the

truth, hunger and thirst after righteousness, fall upon your

knees and cry out to the Eternal for grace and mercy, to be

forgiven your sins through the death and blood of Christ Jesus,

and walk in a personal relationship with both the Father and the

Son.  In so doing God says through Ezekiel, He will mark you with

His Spirit so you may escape the destruction that will surely

come upon the modern nations of the house of Israel.

     It is written:  Let him that has an ear to hear with, HEAR

what the word of the Lord does say.  The time has come for YOU to

HEAR and to HEED!!

       A MAJOR KEY IN UNDERSTANDING EZEKIEL'S MESSAGE

" You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you,

and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 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.

     Moreover take thou unto you an iron pan, and set it for a

wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face against

it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. 

THIS SHALL BE A SIGN TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.......

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. 

That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, 

and consume away for their iniquity" (chapter 4:1-3, 16,17).

Comment:

     Did you find from the above this most important key to

unlock the book of Ezekiel to your understanding? Most of Judah

were already in captivity to the Empire of Babylon. Basically

only the city of Jerusalem was still to be captured and destroyed

by the armies of Babylon (this would take place around the year

586 B.C.).  Ezekiel was a captive by the river of Chebar. He was

going to be taken IN VISION, through the Spirit, many times to

Jerusalem and even the Temple in Jerusalem. There he would be

shown many of the abominations, sins, and wickedness taking place

in the city and in the Temple within the city.  Jerusalem was to

fall to the armies of Babylon in a most horrific and painful manner, 

partly given in the verses quoted above.

     The key is: All that was to happen to the city and inhabitants of Jerusalem 

WAS A TYPE OF WHAT WAS TO BEFALL AND COME UPON THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AT THE TIME OF THE END, A TIME JUST BEFORE THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH IN GLORY, AND TO WHICH HE WOULD  RE-GATHER THE SCATTERED CAPTIVES OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH.

RESTORE THEM AS ONE SINGLE PEOPLE (13 TRIBES AGAIN AS ONE NATION),  AND ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM OF GOD OVER ALL NATIONS UPON THIS EARTH, JERUSALEM BECOMING THE CENTER AND CAPITAL CITY OF THAT NEW AGE TO COME, AS PROPHESIED BY MANY OF THE OTHER PROPHETS BESIDES EZEKIEL. 

 

     ALL THIS IS STEP BY STEP PROCLAIMED AND UNFOLDED AS WE PROCEED THROUGH THE PAGES OF THIS BOOK OF EZEKIEL.

     REMEMBER,  MARK IT WELL, NEVER FORGET THIS VITAL KEY!  ALL THAT WAS TO TAKE PLACE TO THE CITY OF JERUSALEM WAS AND IS A TYPE AS TO WHAT WILL TAKE PLACE TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL (AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH) ONCE MORE SHORTLY BEFORE THE COMING OF CHRIST THE MESSIAH TO ESTABLISH GOD'S KINGDOM ON EARTH.

     Notice verse 13. The words are FUTURE TENSE!!  It concerns

the "children of Israel"  who had  ALREADY gone into captivity

some 120-150 years earlier. Now, with Jerusalem as a type, God

says the children of Israel will eat their defiled bread among

the Gentiles, "WHITHER I WILL (future tense) DRIVE THEM."

     DOZENS of prophecies in the prophetic books declare this

same truth.  The house of Israel and also the house of Judah are,

if as nations they do not repent, going to be destroyed by their

enemies, taken as captives to foreign lands, in a time called

"Jacob's trouble" by Jeremiah. A time approximately three and one

half years before the return of Christ Jesus to this earth. These

many prophecies show that when Jesus comes in glory, the children

of Israel and Judah are in a state of captivity and slavery, that Christ 

DELIVERS them out of, and restores them as one people (what

is left of them, which will be one tenth of their present

populations) to the promised land of Palestine. There they

will serve God with a new heart and a new spirit, to finally be

the light of the world that God originally wanted them to be.

     Israel had already suffered, had already been conquered, had

already been deported out of Samaria into the lands of the

Gentiles, over a HUNDRED YEARS previously to Ezekiel writing

these words.  And God tells him that the children of Israel WILL BE 

DRIVEN away among the Gentiles. This is part of the prophetic 

message the Eternal tells Ezekiel to tell the house of Israel. 

That a time is YET TO COME when they will eat their defiled 

bread  among the Gentiles, a time when God WILL -  "whither I 

WILL drive  them."

     Yes, you peoples of the British Commonwealth, North-Western

Europe, and the United States, the fall of the ancient city of

Jerusalem, its captivity, and its destruction, the pain, the

suffering, the death, and the captivity of its people, is a type

and an example, as to what is to befall YOUR NATIONS in the 

time beyond us, in the 21st century.

     You as peoples, have turned away your hearts and minds from

the word and ways of the Holy One of Israel.  You have multiplied

wickedness and sin in your homes, your schools, your

Universities, your work places, your religious temples, and in

your leisure practices.  As you increased in population and in

material wealth, so you forgot God and increased your whoredom,

unrighteousness, lewdness, vanity, jealousy, lust and greed.

     Even your religious leaders have led you into sin, saying

the grace by which you are saved abolishes the law and

commandments of the Almighty God. They have turned the grace 

of God into a license to sin and to practice those things that are

an abomination to the Holy One. Your religious leaders have put

no difference between that which is holy and that which is

un-holy. They call black, white, and call white, black. Or they

turn everything into the shade of grey.

     The turning of things upside-down, and not right-side-up,

means there is no real knowledge of the Lord in the lands, and

because you have rejected true knowledge then the Eternal is

going to reject you.  God is no respecter of persons, and what 

everyone sows that they will reap.  Even if you do not want to 

believe you are the literal people of the house of Israel, still you 

will face punishment and destruction as nations of peoples, 

because all people who have entered upon the pathway of grave 

and plenteous sins, have crumbled from within and finally from

without. You only have to look at the mighty iron Empire of

Rome, or more recently the falling apart of the "God rejecting"

empire of Russia.

     The hand-writing is clearly on the wall. Soon it will be

time to meet your maker, O nations of the house of Israel.

     Starting in chapter five of Ezekiel, the Lord God begins to

get very specific as to the punishment to come upon you O Israel,

even to the percentage of you that will live (and live what kind

of life) and die.

     BUT WHY WILL YOU DIE O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?  

TURN YOURSELVES FROM YOUR WICKEDNESS SO 

THAT YOU WILL NOT DIE, BUT THAT YOU MAY LIVE!

To be continued

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Written October 1997