- I AM ANSWERING THIS BOOKLET THAT TRIES TO MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT EZEKIEL AND ISRAEL. THE AUTHOR PUTS FORTH THE IDEA THAT EZEKIEL WAS SENT TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, IN CAPTIVITY BY THE ASSYRIANS BY 718 B.C. [THE INVASIONS BY ASSYRIA STARTED ABOUT 745 B.C.], TELLING THEM TO REPENT AND SO COULD COME BACK TO THE HOLY LAND AND ENTER A NEW OLD COVENANT COMPACT WITH GOD AND A TEMPLE AND RITUALS DESCRIBED IN EZEKIEL CHAPTERS 40-48. HENCE THEY DID NOT REPENT AND SO THE PROPHECIES OF EZEKIEL BECOME VOID, AND DO NOT APPLY TO ANYTHING IN THE YET FUTURE.
THIS IDEA IS COMPLETELY WRONG AND MISSES THE WHOLE POINT OF WHY EZEKIEL WROTE DOWN HIS PROPHECY FROM THE ETERNAL GOD FOR A YET FUTURE CAPTIVITY FOR ISRAEL AND JUDAH [NOW GONE INTO BABYLON CAPTIVITY STARTING 604 B.C.].
THIS TRUTH IS ALSO GIVEN IN THE BOOKS OF ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH—— THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND THE HOUSE OF JUDAH BOTH GO INTO DESTRUCTION CAPTIVITY AT THE VERY END TIME—- THE LAST 42 MONTHS OF THIS AGE.
BY THE TIME EZEKIEL WAS TO GO AND WAS ALSO WRITING DOWN HIS VISIONS AND WORDS OF THE LORD, IT WAS ABOUT 593 B.C. [according to the New KJV Study Bible]. Please note the following:
- ANCIENT HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA
- 627 BCE
- Revolts break out following the death of Ashurbanipal, empire begins to fail.
- 627 BCE
- Death of King Ashurbanipal.
- 612 BCE
- The great Assyrian cities of Ashur, Kalhu, and Nineveh are sacked and burned by the Medes, Babylonians, and Persian forces.
- 612 BCE
- Downfall of the Assyrian empire.
- 605 BCE - 549 BCE
- Babylon rules over the Assyrian regions.
WE SEE THE FALL OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE TO THE BABYLON EMPIRE, IS GIVEN AT ABOUT 612 B.C. THE ASSYRIANS TOGETHER WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN MOVING NORTH, AWAY FROM EZEKIEL. AND EZEKIEL WAS A CAPTIVE IN THE IMMEDIATE LAND OF BABYLON. BY 593 B.C. THE PEOPLE OF THE 10 TRIBED ISRAEL WOULD HAVE GONE QUITE A WAYS NORTH. HISTORY SAYS THE ASSYRIANS [AND THEIR LAST KING] DISAPPEARED FROM HISTORY; YES THEY ALSO AFTER 612 B.C AND ESPECIALLY 605 B.C. WERE WELL ON THEIR WAY NORTH.
WHEN THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WENT INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE, IT WAS NEVER THE INTENT THAT GOD WOULD HAVE WANTED THEM BACK IN THE PROMISED LAND. EZEKIEL WAS NEVER SENT TO TRY AND BRING BACK THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL TO THE PROMISED LAND. GOD HAD NO INTENTION WHATSOEVER FOR ISRAEL TO RETURN TO THE HOLY LAND. HIS PLAN FOR THEM NOW HAD TO MOVE ON TO FULFILL ALL PROPHECIES GIVEN IN THE BIBLE.
WE READ ABOUT ANOTHER PLACE GOD HAD DECIDED TO PUT THEM EVENTUALLY IN HIS MASTER PLAN FOR ALL NATIONS ON EARTH, TO THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH IN POWER AND GLORY.
WE SEE THIS IRON-CLAD PROMISE AND PROPHECY GIVEN TO KING DAVID;
NATHAN THE PROPHET WAS TO GIVE WORDS TO KING DAVID:
"NOW THEREFORE SO SHALL YOU SAY UNTO MY SERVANT DAVID; THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS.....MOREOVER I WILL APPOINT A PLACE FOR MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, AND WILL PLANT THEM, THAT THEY MAY DWELL IN A PLACE OF THEIR OWN, AND MOVE NO MORE [UNTIL THE END OF THE AGE AND COMING OF THE MESSIAH IN GLORY AND POWER], NEITHER SHALL THE CHILDREN OF WICKEDNESS AFFLICT THEM ANY MORE, AS BEFORE TIME"
2 SAMUEL 7: 8, 10.
AS J. P. GREEN SR. SHOWS IN HIS TRANSLATING OF THESE VERSES IN HIS HEBREW/ENGLISH INTERLINEAR, THE HEBREW IS IN THE FUTURE TENSE…. “I WILL” - FUTURE TENSE
ISRAEL ON THE WHOLE HAVE COLLECTIVELY NEVER BEEN CONQUERED ONCE SETTLED, WHICH WAS NOT TILL ABOUT 500 A.D. HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER. BUT ONCE ESTABLISHED, NO ENEMY, NO NATION HAS EVER COME CLOSE TO CONQUERING ALL ISRAEL NATIONS..... HITLER COULD NOT DO IT, BUT FOR FRANCE FOR A FEW YEARS. THE SPEARHEAD OF ISRAEL - THE TRIBE OF JOSEPH ONCE SETTLED IN THE BRITISH ISLES WITH THE COMING OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS, AROUND 450 A.D. AND SPREADING ABROAD, HAVE NEVER BEEN CONQUERED, THEY HAVE DEWELT SAFELY.
THIS WAS A FUTURE, YET TO COME SOMETIME AFTER DAVID, WHEN GOD WAS READY TO FULFIL IT, WHICH WHEN ISRAEL WAS IN CAPTIVITY TO THE ASSYRIAN AND FREED FROM THAT CAPTIVITY, THEY MOVED WITH THE ASSYRIANS, AND MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT THEY WERE LOST; HENCE THE PHRASE "THE LOST TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL." AND MOST PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ASSYRIANS EITHER; MOST HISTORIANS SAY THEY DISAPPEARED FROM HISTORY.
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WAS ON THE TRAIL TO FINALLY FINDING NEW LANDS, PROSPERITY, AND SAFETY IN THEIR NEW LANDS. THIS WOULD TAKE HUNDREDS OF YEARS, BUT GOD HAD DECLARED IT WOULD BE SO. HE EVEN TOLD THE PROPHET AMOS THAT HE WOULD GUIDE AND LEAD THEM:
“FOR LO, I WILL COMMAND, AND I WILL SIFT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AMONG ALL NATIONS, LIKE AS CORN IS SIFTED IN A SIEVE, YET SHALL NOT ONE LEAST GRAIN FALL UPON THE EARTH.” - AMOS 9:9.
THIS IS A DUAL PROPHECY FOR THE TIME YET AHEAD OF AMOS, AND A PROPHECY FOR THE TIME YET TO COME AT THE END OF THIS AGE, AS THE CONTEXT SHOWS.
IT WAS NEVER THE PLAN OF GOD TO BRING BACK THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL TO THE PROMISED LAND, UNDER SOME NEW OLD COVENANT ADMINISTRATION WITH THE TEMPLE OF EZEKIEL AND ALL IT CONTAINS.
IT WAS ALWAYS FROM THE TIME OF DAVID, GOD’S PLAN TO REMOVE ISRAEL, TAKE THEM TO ANOTHER LAND, AND THERE FULFILL THE PROMISES GIVEN TO ABRAHAM, ISSAC AND JOCOB, IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS. IT WAS ALWAYS SO TO BE, SO ALL END TIME PROPHECIES [WHICH ARE VERY MANY] COULD BE FULFILLED, AS JESUS SAID, IN HIS PROPHECY IN LUKE 21 “FOR THESE BE THE DAYS OF VENGEANCE, THAT ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN MAY BE FULFILLED” (VERSE 22). JESUS HAD JUST SAID IN VERSES 20, 21, THIS WOULD ALL COME TO PASS WHEN JERUSALEM WAS SURROUNDED BY ARMIES TO BE MADE DESOLATE AND THOSE IN JUDEA NEEDED TO FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS. LUKE 21, AS MATTHEW 24 AND MARK 13, IS AN END TIME PROPHECY COMING TO PASS SHORTLY BEFORE JESUS WOULD RETURN IN POWER AND GLORY TO RULE THIS EARTH.
I REPEAT, IT WAS NEVER GOD’S INTENTION TO BRING BACK THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL FROM THE ASSYRIAN CAPTIVITY, BACK TO THE HOLY LAND.
ANYONE TEACHING SO, AS THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOKLET, JUST DOES NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, AS DETERMINED BY THE VERY PROPHECIES OF THE PROPHETS SENT TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL BEFORE THEIR FIRST CAPTIVITY, [NOT COUNTING THE SLAVERY IN EGYPT] BY THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE.
HERE’S A CHALLENGE: YOU GO SEE IF YOU CAN FIND IN THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL SUCH PHRASES/SENTENCES LIKE….
“I SEND YOU TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, TO TELL THEM TO REPENT, AND I WILL BRING THEM BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND, AND THEY WILL CONTINUE UNDER THE COVENANT I MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS, AND A NEW SPECIAL TEMPLE THEY WILL BUILD IN JERUSALEM.”
OR
“TELL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL FROM ME, THAT UPON REPENTANCE THEY CAN RETURN AND BUILD A SPECIAL TEMPLE I HAVE GIVEN TO YOU EZEKIEL TO WRITE DOWN, ITS DIMENSIONS AND ITS RITUALS, FOR THIS TEMPLE WILL BE UNIQUE.”
IF GOD WAS SENDING EZEKIEL TO TRY AND BRING THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND, THEN GOD WOULD HAVE CLEARLY, YES CLEARLY, HAVE TOLD EZEKIEL, AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN DOWN, AND CONTAINED IN THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL WE HAVE TODAY.
JEREMIAH WAS COMMISSIONED TO TELL JUDAH VERY SPECIFICS OF THEIR DESTRUCTION AND CAPTIVITY AND RETURN TO THE LAND OF JERUSALEM.
IF EZEKIEL WAS GIVEN THE SAME KIND OF COMMISSION TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, AS JEREMIAH WAS TO JUDAH, IT WOULD BE CLEARLY GIVEN IN VERY CLEAR SENTENCES IN THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL…… IT JUST AIN’T THERE PERIOD!
SUCH A TEACHING AS THIS AUTHOR OF THE BOOKLET I AM ANSWERING, IS THE IMAGINATION OF THE MIND OF MEN WHO WILL NOT LET THE EZEKIEL BOOK TEACH WHAT IT CLEARLY TEACHES!
THE TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL I HAVE EXPOUNDED FOR YOU UNDER THIS SECTION OF “PROPHECY” ON THIS WEBSITE.
THE READER SHOULD STUDY CAREFULLY MY EXPOUNDING OF EZEKIEL, SHOWING IT IS A PROPHECY FOR THE VERY END TIME, AND INTO THE 1,000 YEAR AGE TO COME.
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