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
(All 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
ighteousness, 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.
You can go on the website ----- britam.org and see the mountains of proof about the nations today that came from the House of Israel. 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 to 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
Babylon. 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 on 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 in 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 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 say 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 be reading here.
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 gray.
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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Ezekiel's Message To Us - Part 2 FOR WHY WILL
YOU DIE, O HOUSE
OF ISRAEL?
by
Keith Hunt
People of the nations of the British Commonwealth, the
United States of America, and countries of North-west Europe, you
are the literal people of the 10 tribes of the Old Testament
House of Israel, who were taken as captives and slaves by the
armies of the Empire of Assyria from 745 to 718 B.C. Those ten
tribes never returned to their land of Samaria in Palestine, but
eventually migrated north to the area of the Black and Caspian
seas. Through the following centuries they came into Europe under
various names, the most familiar ones being the names of Celts,
Danes, Gauls, Anglo-Saxons, Jutes, Franks, Normans, and Vikings.
Those peoples settled in North-west Europe and the British isles.
There the people of the tribe of Joseph - Ephraim and Manesseh -
multiplied together, eventually forming a multitude of nations
and a great single nation, as foretold in the book of Genesis.
There are dozens of prophecies in the OT concerning the last
days of this present age, and what portends for YOU as nations,
IF as nations you will NOT repent!
Those words of prophetic significance WILL come to pass as
sure as day turns into night. The Eternal says that as you
multiplied in population, wealth, and power, so your SINS
multiplied, until your lands are full of every kind of wickedness
and corruption and perversion, from the top of your head to the
sole of your feet.
The Almighty God gives you a warning and a sure end result
of your sins, through the prophet Ezekiel. He tells you that His
punishment, His correction, His chastising, will come upon you,
and in no uncertain manner.
Last time we saw the setting and calling of Ezekiel to warn
the House of Israel. He was a prisoner by the river of Chebar. He
was to tell the children of Israel (far away from where Ezekiel
was) about their future destruction and captivity, yet he was NOT
to go about among them, and his mouth was to remain shut....until
God opened it, and that was to be way down at the time of the end
of this present age.
The events to come upon the city of Jerusalem was to be a
type of the events to come upon the House of Israel, shortly
before the coming of the Messiah in glory to rule all nations
with a rod of iron.
We have now come to the beginning of the 5th chapter of the
book of Ezekiel. Here God gets very specific in percentage of
your peoples and what WILL happen to them in the yet future time
of "Jacob's trouble" or the "great tribulation" that is to come
upon the whole world, about three and one half years before the
glorious return of Christ Jesus to this earth.
Your sins and wickedness O house of Israel is very great and
have come before the Holy One of Israel, for judgment and
correction.
You, nation of Britain, have about 4% of your population
that attend religious services on a regular basis. Even most of
those have little knowledge or desire to find the truths of the
word of the Lord. You are a people of secular materialism, and
such sexual desires of lust that the most popular daily newspaper
has its topless girl on page three each day.
Canada, your violent crime is growing - killings and murders
on the increase, and still you will not bring back the death
penalty for those guilty of willful murder, as the laws of the
Eternal proclaim should be the law of the land.
The United States of America, your crime rate is the highest
in Israel, and blood does touch blood. You have a high percentage
of church going people, and ones that say they believe in a God,
yet your land is full of every sin and evil imaginable.
Every day in the lands of northwest Europe, the British
Commonwealth, and the United Sates, the local news of your towns
bring the sordid reality of a people that have forgotten the true
ways of the Almighty, have turned their back on the commandments
of God, have fallen into drug abuse, food abuse, alcohol abuse,
gambling abuse, pleasure and sports madness, hate and violence,
unhappy families, abuse within families of every kind, and a huge
divorce rate. Your schools by and large have no discipline, and
true to the prophecies, children are your oppressors. Those that
lead you cause you to err and destroy your paths. Your leaders
are mad and your prophets are profane, so says the Lord.
Your lands kill tens of thousands of the most helpless and
innocent each year in your freedom of choice abortion clinics.
Your courts are full of injustice, where sometimes the rich
and the famous can literally get away with murder. Then on the
other hand many innocent people are found guilty because of the
pressure from some to find and convict a suspect - to solve a
case.
You have judges that take bribes, and lawyers that will
defend anyone for pay, manipulating the law, withholding
evidence, lying and twisting things, using the race issue, and
doing just about anything to win a case if paid enough money.
The poor and the widow and the fatherless are being
forgotten, while the rich get richer. The people's money
collected through taxes is often greatly abused by your
government agencies as clearly reported by your investigative
news programs.
There is lust, greed, envy, immorality, perversion,
unbridled anger, a calling of good "evil" and the calling of evil
"good" through your lands O children of Israel. You have a form
of godliness but deny the power thereof!
You trample on the holy Sabbath day of the Eternal.
And reject His feasts while observing false pagan feasts
that He hates. Most of your religious teachers have taught you
to believe that God's grace gives you license to break the law of
God. While they offer you liberty, they themselves are the
servants of corruption and sin. Because there is no knowledge of
the Lord in the land, because you have chosen to reject true
knowledge, the Almighty is going to reject you that you will be
no priest unto Him.
You are increasingly teaching and proclaiming that
Homosexuality and Lesbianism is fine among consenting persons.
You are starting to even give them "family" status, with child
rearing rights. You are increasingly adopting trans-gender as normal.
All this, while the perfect righteous and holy God calls living this
style of life an abomination!
I could go on and on listing and expounding your wickedness
and sins, but those I have commented on shall bring punishment
upon you from the Eternal in no uncertain way. That certain way
God will now reveal and proclaim to you. Unless you repent as
nations what you are about to read is certain to come to pass. So
it is written, and so it will be done. And when it will come upon
you, then you will know there is a God in heaven who rules in the
kingdoms of men, setting up and setting down as He has decreed by
His holy prophets, one of them being the prophet Ezekiel.
Remember, the city of Jerusalem and that which was to befall
it, is used in the book of Ezekiel as a type of the nations of
the house of Israel, and what is to befall them just before the
coming of the Messiah in power and glory to rule all nations and
establish the Kingdom of God, over the whole earth for a thousand
years.
"And you , son of man, take you a sharp knife, take you a
barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your
beard: then take you balanced to weigh, and divide the hair.
You shall burn with fire a THIRD PART in the midst of the
city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shall
take a THIRD PART, and smite about it with a knife: and a THIRD
PART you shall scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword
after them.
You shall also take thereof a few in number, and bind them
in your skirts. Then take of them again, and cast them into the
midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a
fire come forth into ALL the HOUSE OF ISRAEL.
Thus says the Lord God; THIS IS JERUSALEM: I have set in the
midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
And she has changed my judgments into WICKEDNESS more than
the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are
round about her: for they have REFUSED my judgments and my
statutes, they have not walked in them" (Ezek.5:1-6).
This is the word of the Lord unto the HOUSE OF ISRAEL, not
the house of Judah, but unto those that had already, 120-150
years earlier, gone into captivity and were now out of the
Assyrian land and in the area of the Black and Caspian seas,
heading North and West into Europe and South into Asia Minor.
The House of Israel was typified by the city of Jerusalem. What
was written here was to yet happen to the people of the holy
city, and in so doing this prophecy had a first fulfilment, but
the MAIN and ULTIMATE fulfilment was to take place on the peoples
of the House of Israel, still in the FUTURE of us TODAY. These
words are YET to come to pass on YOU PEOPLES of the United
States, Northwest Europe, and the British Commonwealth, unless
you REPENT AND SEEK THE ETERNAL WITH ALL YOUR HEART!
"Therefore thus says the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am
against you, and will execute judgment in the midst of you in the
sight of the nations. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in
the midst of you, and the sons shall eat the fathers; and I will
execute judgment in you, and the whole remnant of you will I
scatter into the winds" (chapt.5:8-10).
The time will yet come in Jacob's trouble, that starvation
and hardship will be so intense people will literally eat each
other to try and stay alive. Those of you who shall survive will
be scattered into the winds as captives and slaves of your
enemies.
"Wherefore, as I live, says the Lord God; Surely, because
you have DEFILED my SANCTUARY with all your detestable things,
and with all your ABOMINATIONS, therefore will I also DIMINISH
you; neither shall my eye spare, neither will I have pity" (verse
11).
One of the reasons that judgment and punishment will come
upon you is because of the FALSE RELIGIONS that you espouse. The
Eternal calls your religions, yes even your so called "Christian"
religion, an ABOMINATION! You have defiled His name and His
sanctuary with evil abominations!
You have changed the holy Sabbath day of the 4th
commandment, the 7th day, to the pagan sun-god day of the first
day of the week, which not one verse in the entire Bible declares
is the Lord's day to be set apart as holy unto Him.
You have rejected the FEATS of the Lord as listed in
Leviticus 23, the festivals that Jesus observed in the NT
gospels, the festivals that the early apostolic church continued
to observe, and you have adopted and adapted the feasts of the
heathen, deceived, Satanically influenced nations around you.
Spend a few hours in your Encyclopedias and look up the topics of
Easter, Christmas, January 1st, Valentines Day, Halloween, and
even Thanksgiving Day, and enlighten your eyes and mind to the
truth of the matter concerning these festivals that are passed
off by the leaders of your churches as "Christian" and pleasing
to God to celebrate. Then search the Scriptures and find what
the Eternal has to say about taking the feasts of the spiritually
darkened nations around you and worshipping Him with those feasts.
You can start with Deuteronomy 12:29-32.
The word of the Almighty says your priests and ministers
have put NO DIFFERENCE between that which is holy and that which
un-holy, that which is clean and that which is un-clean, that
which is righteous and that which is un-righteous. Your religious
leaders have led you astray and have deceived you with enticing
and sweet words. You heap to yourselves ministers with itching
ears that tell you what you have hired them to tell you. You and
your workers in the sanctuary of God have turned the grace of the
Lord into a license to sin and practice wickedness. You have
church organizations that support the sin of abortion on demand.
You have churches that teach their members that homosexuality and
Lesbianism is acceptable to God and just another life style that
is within His law.
You have ministers that have fallen into gross sins many
times, that have brought shame and embarrassment on the word and
name of Christ and His true church, which you allow to remain as
leaders of the flock of God.
Because of all this and more, listen to what the Almighty
Eternal God says to you:
"A THIRD PART shall die with the pestilence, and with
famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you: and a THIRD
PART shall fall by the sword round about you; and I will scatter
a THIRD PART into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword
after them" (verse 12).
Here the order is pestilence, famine, the sword, and
scattering, but later as we shall see, the order is the sword,
famine, and pestilence (chapter 6:11). So we cannot be dogmatic
as to which will come first upon you, but whichever is first, the
message is very clear, when all is done, two thirds of you will
be dead while the other remaining third is scattered into the
winds and a sword comes after them. The prophet AMOS was
inspired to foretell that only ONE TENTH of you shall remain
alive after God has poured out His judgments on you (Amos 5:1-3).
"Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my
fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they SHALL
KNOW that I have spoken in my zeal, when I HAVE (future tense)
accomplished my fury in them. Moreover I will make you waste, and
a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the
sight of all that pass by you. So it shall be a reproach and a
taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that
are round about you, when I shall execute judgment in you in
anger and in fury and in furious rebuke. I the Lord have spoken
it. When I shall send upon you the evil arrows of famine, which
shall be for their destruction, and which I shall send to destroy
you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your
staff of bread. So I will send upon you famine and evil beasts,
and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass
through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I the Lord have
spoken it" (verses 13-17).
As if all this was not enough emphasis, the Lord God opens
up the other barrel of the shot gun and unloads it upon you in
chapter six. Most of you will not listen or harken to these words
so you may repent from all your wickedness, for you are a most
rebellious and stone-hearted people, but for the few among you
who will fall upon their knees in humble repentance, and so save
their souls, I will give you the words of the Eternal as found in
Ezekiel the sixth chapter.
"And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man,
set your face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophecy
against them, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord God; Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, and to the
hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will
bring a SWORD UPON YOU, and I will destroy your high places. And
your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken:
and I will CAST DOWN YOUR SLAIN MEN before your idols. And I will
lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their
idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. In
all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the
high places shall be made desolate, and your idols shall be
broken and cease, and your images shall be cut down, and your
works may be abolished. And the slain shall fall in the midst
of you, and YOU SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD.
Yet will I LEAVE A REMNANT, that you may have some that
shall escape the sword among the nations, WHEN you SHALL BE
scattered among the countries. And they that escape of you shall
remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried
CAPTIVES, because I am broken with their WHORISH heart, which
have departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring
after their idols: and they shall LOATHE themselves for the EVIL
which they have committed in all their ABOMINATIONS. And they
shall KNOW that I AM THE LORD, AND THAT I HAVE NOT SAID IN VAIN
THAT I WOULD DO THIS EVIL UNTO THEM.
Thus says the Lord God; Smite with your hand, and stamp with
your foot, and say, Alas for ALL the EVIL ABOMINATIONS of the
house of Israel! for they shall FALL BY THE SWORD, BY THE FAMINE,
AND BY THE PESTILENCE. He that is far off shall die by the
pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and
he that remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus
will I accomplish my FURY upon them. THEN shall they KNOW that I
am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols
round about their altars, upon every high hill, and in all the
tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under
every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savor to
all their idols. SO WILL I STRETCH OUT MY HAND UPON THEM, AND
MAKE THE LAND DESOLATE, YES, more desolate than the wilderness
towards Diblath, in all their habitations: AND THEY SHALL KNOW
THAT I AM THE LORD."
Comment Do not think that your wealth and your mighty weapons of
war, all your space-age computer driven rockets and machines of
mass destruction with their nuclear war-heads, will protect you
from the destruction that surely lies in wait for you, O peoples
of the House of Israel. Have you no remembrance of how the
Eternal has used with mighty results of devastation, the forces
and power of NATURE against some of your towns and cities in the
past? It would only be a matter of hours that you would be on
your knees, broken and helpless, to the sword of your enemies, if
the Almighty was to turn the power of nature upon you from coast
to coast, border to border, nation to nation. If the God in
heaven was to pour out upon you plagues, pestilence, and famine,
that you have never seen the like of for hundreds of years, if
all these natural evils of huge paralyzing death and pain were to
come upon you from the hand of the Lord, if one third of you were
lying dead in the streets from these destructive plagues, you
would be helpless to withstand the sword from your enemies.
You may be preparing to LIVE as great nations, you may
eventually see who your real enemies will be, and you may, at the
stroke of midnight BLOW THE TRUMPET, to make ready, but you will
not stand to fight.
More from the Eternal about this point in the next part as I
proceed through the book and prophecy of Ezekiel.
.........................
Written November 1997.
Ezekiel's Message To Us - Part 3 FOR WHY WILL
YOU DIE, O HOUSE
OF ISRAEL?
by
Keith Hunt
Over and over again God shows through the prophets of the OT
that when the time comes to send the Messiah (Christ Jesus) back
to this earth in POWER and GLORY to establish the Kingdom of God
on earth, the peoples of the House of Israel and the House of
Judah (all 13 tribes of Jacob or Israel) have already gone into a
three and one half year captivity, a scattering abroad into the
land of their enemies, FROM WHICH they are DELIVERED by the
Messiah, and returned to the land of Promise, the Holy land of
Palestine, when they shall rest in peace, build the fallen
cities, cultivate the land with such bounty that the seed planter
and the reaper will overlap each other.
We see this foretold in the book and prophecy of AMOS. Amos
was sent to the House of Israel in the main, to warn them that if
they did not REPENT and turn to worship the true God in spirit
and in truth, they would be punished with destruction and
captivity. THIS IS A PROPHECY FOR YOU, O PEOPLE OF THE
CELTIC-ANGLO-SAXON NATIONS OF THE USA AND BRITISH COMMONWEALTH,
AS WELL AS NATIONS OF NORTH-WEST EUROPE. IT IS A PROPHECY FOR
THE END TIME, JUST BEFORE THE PLOWMAN OVERTAKES THE REAPER.
The prophecy is set just before the Lord sends you into
captivity for ALL YOUR SINS. It takes us through the time of
"Jacob's trouble" (as it was called by Jeremiah), a time such as
NEVER BEFORE on this earth-----
(see Jer. 30; 31; 32; 33 as Jesus also talked about., in Matthew 24) and into the
restoration of Israel, into the ABUNDANCE of the reign of the Messiah on earth.
"BEHOLD, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the SINFUL
kingdom (the people of Israel - that's most of you who are reading
these messages), and I will DESTROY IT (the Kingdom, the power,
the government) from OFF the face of the earth; SAVING I WILL NOT
UTTERLY DESTROY THE HOUSE OF JACOB, says the Lord (the prophet
said in chapter 5 that by the time it was all over only 10% of
you would remain alive to return under the Messiah's hand).
For, lo, I WILL COMMAND, and I will SIFT the House of Israel
AMONG THE NATIONS, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, YET SHALL
NOT THE LEAST GRAIN FALL UPON THE EARTH. ALL THE SINNERS OF MY
PEOPLE SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD, which say, The evil shall not
overtake nor prevent us..... "
Many reading this will laugh at it---
They will deny that the nations of North-west Europe, the BritishCommonwealth
and the USA are the literal peoples of the house of Israel.
Your leaders will deny it, your religious teachers will
deny it. They will say "this evil will not come upon us." God
says these and others are SINNERS, who will die by the sword. 90%
of you shall perish, by the sword and by the famine and by the
pestilence. Yet the 10% that remain shall be sifted through the
nations, but shall live and the book of Revelation says that
144,000 shall find repentance and the first resurrection at the
coming of the Messiah. The rest will live as human flesh and
blood and be restored to the promised land where they shall learn
the ways of the Lord and find rest and blessings beyond belief.
"In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David this is
fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up
his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old ---"
(A fulfilment----
took place concerning this prophecy once in the days of the NT
church when the Gentiles were brought into the fold of God - see
Acts 15 - but a larger, end time fulfilment is yet ahead, when
after you have been restored to the Promised land, and are
the true light to the world that the Eternal chose you to be
among the nations - see Deut.4 - then the Gentiles from all
nations shall want to learn from you and from the Almighty God
that will be among you - see Isaiah 2; Micah 4).
"That they may posses the remnant of Edom, and of all the
heathen, which are called by my name, says the Lord that does
this.
Behold, the DAYS COME (they have never yet ever been, not
days like this that you are about to read) says the Lord, that
the PLOWMAN SHALL OVERTAKE THE REAPER, AND THE TREADER OF GRAPES
HIM THAT SOWS SEED; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and
all the hills shall melt.
AND (NOTICE IT, AT THIS TIME AS WHEN THE ABOVE IS TO TAKE
PLACE) I WILL BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF MY PEOPLE ISRAEL (bring
once more FROM captivity as it was in the days of Moses when the
Eternal brought Israel from the land of their captivity in
Egypt), and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them;
and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they
shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no
more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says
the Lord your God" (Amos 9:8-15).
So, there is GOOD news and there is BAD news for you. Before
you experience the GOOD news YOU WILL HAVE TO LEARN SOME MIGHTY
BIG LESSONS! YOU WILL HAVE TO COME TO LOATHE YOUR SINS, YOUR
WICKEDNESS, YOUR IDOLATRY, AND ALL YOUR PERVERSE WAYS WHEREIN YOU
HAVE REBELLED AGAINST YOUR GOD AND SAVIOR!!
People of BRITAIN, head tribe of Israel, you who have such a
long glorious history. You who have seen the hand of the Lord
working with and for you, so many times over the centuries. You
who were blessed with greatness above your brethren. You have in
these last days, the last years of this 20th century, increased
in so much violent crime that a recent report now makes you as
your brother the United States, that for so long a time stood
alone in the western world where "blood touched blood." But you
O people of Britain are now not far behind your brother. Daily
your streets and towns are being filled with violent crime of
every sort and evil.
The Lord God calls you by name in His prophetic word. He
lays it open and squarely on your plate. He pulls no punches. He
gives it to you right between the eyes. He first tells Israel you
will be many days WITHOUT A KING, and without a PRINCE, the
throne of Israel will not be as it is today, it will not function
when in CAPTIVITY (Hosea 3:3-4). As before, the Eternal goes on
to say that after all this punishment you SHALL RETURN AND SEEK
the Lord, and even DAVID (who shall be resurrected at the return
of the Messiah - see Jer.30:9) and shall at last truly FEAR the
Lord Almighty and His goodness. In the LATTER DAYS - the end
time, this shall all come to pass (verse 5).
But as for YOU O nations of Britain, the lands of Ephraim.
Here is what the Lord says, "EPHRAIM IS JOINT TO IDOLS: LET HIM
ALONE! Their drink is SOUR: THEY HAVE COMMITTED WHOREDOM
CONTINUALLY.........O EPHRAIM, YOU COMMIT WHOREDOM, AND ISRAEL IS
DEFILED.......therefor shall Israel and Ephraim FALL in their
INIQUITY......EPHRAIM SHALL BE DESOLATE IN THE DAY OF REBUKE:
AMONG THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL HAVE I MADE KNOW THAT WHICH SHALL
SURELY BE (THESE MESSAGES AND WHAT OTHERS WILL DO TO WARN YOU ARE
PART OF THIS PROPHECY).......Ephraim is OPPRESSED and broken in
JUDGMENT (you do not fear the Lord any more, only about 4% of you
attend "church" on a regular basis. You have rejected the
knowledge of the Lord and so He is going to reject you)......For
I will be unto Ephraim as a lion......I will TEAR AND GO AWAY...I
will go and return to my place, TILL THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR
OFFENCE, AND SEEK MY FACE: in their AFFLICTION they WILL SEEK ME
EARLY (THE NEXT VERSES OF THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER show it will be in
the THIRD YEAR of captivity God will start to answer you - a day
for a year principle of Bible prophecy) " (sections from Hosea 4
and 5).
Those that will lift up their voice like a TRUMPET AND WHO
SHOW the people their sins, do not have a pleasant task at times.
It brings me no pleasure to have to expound to you the words of
the Lord regarding this matter of WHAT IS GOING TO COME YOUR WAY
unless you as peoples will REPENT!
Listen to the voice of the Lord: "O Ephraim, what shall I
do unto you......I have SLAIN THEM WITH THE WORDS OF MY
MOUTH.......FOR I DESIRE MERCY, AND NOT SACRIFICE; AND THE
KNOWLEDGE OF GOD MORE THAN BURNT OFFERINGS. But they like men
have transgressed the covenant: and have dealt treacherously
against me......And as troops wait for a man, so the COMPANY OF
PRIESTS MURDER IN THE WAY by consent: for they commit lewdness.
I have seen a HORRIBLE THING in the house of Israel: there is the
WHOREDOM of Ephraim, Israel is defiled....." (Hosea 6: 4-10).
The Eternal has already SPOKEN IT! It has gone forth out of
His mouth. DESTRUCTION is coming your way O nations of Israel.
It is ONLY A MATTER OF TIME. And that time is in the hands of
the Lord. Even if you were NOT Israel, you would still die in
your sins because they are so heavy and so multiplied. All
nations with such wickedness have finally DESTROYED THEMSELVES.
So it was with the mighty Roman Empire, and so it shall be for
you. It is only a matter of time, and time is marching on!
You will notice once more (God repeats it over and over again
through the prophets) what the Eternal says about your MINISTERS,
your PRIESTS, your leaders in religious worship. They are as a
pack of hounds chacing the fox. As a troop of men waiting to
beset and plunder the traveller. What they do SPIRITUALLY is as
MURDER! So says the God of israel. Their theology KILLS! They
offer you LIBERTY but they themselves are the servants of
CORRUPTION! They put no difference between that which is HOLY
and that which is UN-holy. They have a FORM of religion, they
have sacrifice, but they have no KNOWLEDGE - true knowledge - of
the Lord God. They come in the name of Jesus, but they lead MANY
astray.
They are BLIND and they lead the blind, both they and their followers
going into the ditch. You have been TOLD!
It is time to OPEN YOUR EYES, to search the Scriptures DAILY (Acts 17),
to HUNGER AND THIRST after RIGHTEOUSNESS, to LOVE THE TRUTH,
so some of you can escape from the fouler and find the TRUTH THAT SHALL
SET YOU FREE!
EZEKIEL SPEAKS AGAIN
As nations you may be planning on sticking around for a
while, planning on raising your children, seeing them off to
College or University, looking forward to spending time
with your grandchildren. And as nations you will plan and make
sure you have a DEFENCE FORCE to protect your from the enemy
without. You have Early Warning machines and computers incase an
enemy should want to strike. You have secret spies and
under-cover agents. You have indeed MADE READY, and the trumpet
has been blown so can go to war if it is so determined by others
who would have your wealth and lands. You are the "tops" in the
world for military might and power, well for now you are,
as I write these messages to you from Ezekiel, in the year of
1997/98. The future holds a different pattern of events that
will see your "lovers" in Europe, emerge as the number ONE super
power in trade and commerce and military might. But for now, you
are prepared, at least you think you are prepared, BUT THE
ETERNAL SAYS DIFFERENTLY.
"Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Also,
you son of man, thus says the Lord God unto the LAND OF ISRAEL;
An end, the end, is come upon the four corners of the land. Now
is the end come upon you, and I will send mine anger upon you,
and will JUDGE YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR WAYS, and will recompense
upon you all your ABOMINATIONS. And my eye will NOT SPARE you,
neither will I have pity......and you shall KNOW that I am the
Eternal.......An end is come, THE end is come, it watches for
you; behold, it is come.......Now will I SHORTLY pour out my fury
upon you, and accomplish my anger upon you......Behold the day,
behold, it is come......Violence is risen up into a rod of
WICKEDNESS.......THEY HAVE BLOWN THE TRUMPET, EVEN TO MAKE ALL
READY; but none goes to the battle, for my wrath is upon all the
multitude thereof. The SWORD is WITHOUT, and the PESTILENCE and
the FAMINE within: he that is in the field shall die with the
sword; and he that is within the city, famine and pestilence
shall devour him.
BUT they that ESCAPE of them escape, and shall be on the
mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them MOURNING, every
one for his INIQUITY. All hands shall be feeble, and all knees
shall be weak as water.......They shall cast their silver into
the streets, and their gold shall be REMOVED: their silver and
their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the
wrath of the Lord......because it is the STUMBLINGBLOCK of their
INIQUITIES.......And I will give it into the hands of the
strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil;
and they shall pollute it (Now you stop and think, ask yourself
this question: WHO, what people in this century could you
classify have been the wicked of the world, that have brought
more pain, suffering, and death on the world than any others?
The Eternal will yet use those same people to bring you this
time to DEFEAT and to your knees in humble repentance)......
Make a chain: for the land is FULL of BLOODY CRIME, and the
city (Jerusalem - the type here used to foretell what will come
upon the House of Israel, as we saw earlier) is full of violence.
Wherefore I will bring the WORST OF THE HEATHEN, and they shall
posses their houses: I will also make the POMP of the STRONG to
cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. DESTRUCTION
COMES; AND THEY SHALL SEEK PEACE, AND THERE SHALL BE NONE!
Mischief shall come upon mischief......then shall they SEEK
a VISION of the PROPHET; but the LAW shall perish from the
PRIEST, and COUNSEL from the ANCIENTS (Those who should KNOW the
Lord and the true ways of righteousness, health, and
safe-keeping, those ministers of yours who come in the name of
the Lord and who say 'thus says the Lord' when He HAS NOT SPOKEN
TO THEM, they shall fail and fall. You shall then see them for
what they have always been - false prophets and false deceivers).
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled: I will do unto them AFTER THEIR WAY, and according to
their DESERT will I judge them; and they SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE
ETERNAL" (Various sections of Ezekiel chapter 7).
Paul, the great apostle of the NT church, was inspired to
write that WHATSOEVER WE SOW THAT SHALL WE REAP! The mighty
Russian Empire stood strong and mighty after WW2, stood for a
while, forty years or so. But it sowed among its people that
which finally brought it to collapse and disintegration. It sowed
economical sins that now still hold many of its people in poverty and
misery.
You also, peoples of the English speaking nations and lands
of North-west Europe, are sowing the sins of rejecting the ways
and commandments of the Holy One, for the ways that seem right
unto a man, but which end in dead. You have chosen to cast the
Eternal and His Word out of the schools, by and large, out of the
court-rooms, by and large, out of your governments, both
nationally and locally, by and large. In so doing it is only a
matter of time before you also crumble and disintegrate as a
people, ready to be taken over by the worst of the heathen, who
will show no mercy, as they kill and force those left of you to
serve them and the state religion of Babylon the Great, that they
will put around your neck. To be sure, they will think they do
God a service, they will think they are acting righteously for
their god whom they will believe is the true God.
It is at that time, when those left of you shall come to see
WHO is the real true God, who are His real true servants, and
WHAT real REPENTANCE is all about! But before that day arrives,
the Almighty has more to say against you and your religious
leaders and the false worship you extend towards Him.
In chapter 8 we find Ezekiel in his house, with some of the
elders of Judah sitting around - he was still a captive by the
river of Chebar. He had not been allowed to go to the peoples of
Israel who were far from where he was a captive. More messages
from the Lord concerning the sins of Israel were to be given him.
Ezekiel was lifted up in VISION and taken to the house of
God in the city of Jerusalem. Taken to the very center of what
was supposed to be the true pure religion of the true pure
Almighty Eternal God of the people of Judah. Taken to the Temple
or Tabernacle that King Solomon was allowed to build in honor of
the God of his father David. It was David, the man after God's
own heart that wanted to build the Temple, but he was not allowed
to undertake the task because he was a "bloody man" but the Lord
did say his son would build it, and so it was.
Notice verse SIX! All that he saw in vision was to portray
the ABOMINATIONS that were within the HOUSE OF ISRAEL'S RELIGIOUS
WORSHIP TOWARDS THE ETERNAL! In vision he even saw seventy men
of the house of Israel as if they were literally there acting out
the worship of religion and believing that this false
worship (which the context clearly shows it was) was acceptable to
the true God (verses 10, 11).
They were so deceived they actually thought (and no doubt
taught it to others of their flock who blindly followed them) IT
MADE NO DIFFERENCE! That God did not see, did not take into
account the false from the true. They thought and they taught
that the Lord was not really concerned with those who worshipped
Him on the earth, that He had left them to decide and figure out
for themselves HOW TO WORSHIP HIM! They said God was FAR AWAY,
with more important things on His mind than to be concerned with
telling people on earth HOW to worship Him. They were teaching
that the Eternal would ACCEPT EVERYONE, just as they were without
searching to know and to practice the righteous ways of the Lord (verse 12).
And this is precisely the state of YOUR religion in your
nations today O House of Israel. You are being taught that
GRACE, the grace and mercy of God through the blood of Christ
Jesus frees us from all obligations to obey the laws and
commandments of God. You are being taught that you can live ANY
life-style you desire and it's okay with the Father in heaven.
Why you were "born" that way, the Lord made you that way, many tell
you. You were "born" a homosexual or Lesbian, you were "born" a
child molester, or spouse abuser, or addicted to alcohol, or
gambling. You have churches that accept such people's styles of
life and do not teach them to REPENT AND CHANGE! You have
hundreds and thousands of ministers up and down your lands that
claim they represent the true God but teach you He does not see,
that it does not matter to Him, that you take false pagan
traditions and customs from the darkness of the un-converted
world, and ADOPT and ADAPT them to try to worship the ONE who
says He will NOT ACCEPT such worship towards Him.
For starters-----
look up in your Encyclopedias the origin of HALLOWEEN! Many
"church going" people and whole church congregations openly
participate in this day or evening of "fun." Then after that
little bit of investigation, you may like to continue with
finding out the facts about Easter and Christmas, Valentines
Day, January the first celebrations, and yes even "Thanksgiving
Day."
Ah, and many of your leaders of religious matters work in
darkness, behind closed doors, to practice their habitual sins,
that seem to hold them in the grip of slavery. We have seen a
number of them, well known evangelists, in the spotlight of your
public media to reach the masses, fall in disgraceful ignominy.
And to the shame of themselves and yourselves, some of them have
refused to retire to the back seat of the church, as long
as some will continue to give them acclaim and adoration. As
shocking as it is, some of those preachers claim they are above
the law of God, too important for the work of the Lord. They
claim the Eternal does not see (verse 12).
The IMAGE of jealousy that stands in the door of your
churches (verse 3), could be today any NUMBER of things, that will
provoke the Lord to jealousy. I have mentioned
a few above.
Certainly far too many of you give your allegiance to an
organization, be it locally or nationally, or to the church
building itself, or to the people in that building, so making
them your a "social club" from which you cannot pull away no matter
how corrupt or false in doctrine they become. That also is an
idol that will provoke the Supreme One to jealousy.
Then in verse 14 we have the persons who "weep for Tammuz."
What on earth is this all about? Well it's quite a story, longer
than we have time for here to cover in detail, but I will cover
some of it.
Before we go back to the very beginning of the entrance of
Tammuz on the earth and where he really came from, a little
information about his celebration is educational for us as it
pertains to the time of Ezekiel.
The word Tammuz is the Syriac for Adonis. Yes, the supposed
handsome mystic fellow all the women swoon over and cry about
with emotional butterflies in their stomach. He was, in the pagan
world, the paramour of Venus, the sex goddess. These women at
the Temple, instead of weeping over the SINS of the nation are
crying over the idol Tammuz.
He was said to have been killed by a wild boar, and then
permitted by the gods to spend half the year on the earth and
then the other half in the lower world. An annual feast was
celebrated to him in June at Byblos, when the Syrian women, in
wild grief, tore off their hair, and gave their persons over to
prostitution, consecrating the hire of their infamy to Venus;
next followed the days of rejoicing for his return to the earth -
the former feast being called "the disappearance of Adonis," the
latter, "the finding of Adonis." See on this the Bible
Commentary by Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Vol.2.
Now to the story of Tammuz as it was in the beginning. For
this we must go back to NIMROD, mentioned in Genesis 10. He was a
MIGHTY ONE, a MIGHTY HUNTER, and he was such it is written
BEFORE the Lord. He established a KINGDOM, the first so
mentioned in the Bible. The JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA says: "he who
made all the people REBELLIOUS against God." They have good
reason to say this. The expression "a mighty one" has a hostile
meaning. The expression comes from the Hebrew word "gibor" which
means TYRANT; while the very name Nimrod means "let us rebel."
The Hebrew word "before" as in "before the Lord" also carries a
hostile meaning - AGAINST!
Nimrod was AGAINST the Lord, the one who taught and led the
people to REBEL against the Lord. He was a priest of
DEVIL-worship. He was the priest-king of Babylon, his empire.
Nimrod did die, for he was but human. The Babylonian religion
which he founded CONTINUED on and DEVELOPED further under the
leading of his WIFE.
After Nimrod's death, his wife, Queen SEMIRAMIS, claimed
that he was now the SUN-god. And later, when this idolatrous
woman gave birth to an illegitimate son, she claimed that this
son, TAMMUZ by name, was Nimrod REBORN.
Now Satan knew the promise from the Lord that a "seed" would
come from woman, that was to be the SAVIOR of the world, who
would conquer sin, death, and Satan himself. Queen Semiramis, as
an instrument in the hands of Satan, claimed that HER son was
supernaturally conceived (immaculate conception) and that HE was
the PROMISED SEED, the "savior" of the world. This Babylonian
religion went on to formulate that the MOTHER (Semiramis) was to
be worshipped as much as the child, if not more than the child in
certain respects.
The "golden calf" was a SYMBOL of Tammuz, son of the Sun-god
Nimrod. This Nimrod-Sun-god was the Baal of the Scriptures, so
often mentioned as the false god that your fathers O house of
Israel worshipped time after time, until the True Lord had to
send them into captive punishment, for their idolatry and Sabbath
breaking.
This system of false TRINITY worship (Nimrod-Sun-god, Mother
queen of heaven, and the child Tammuz) spread from Babylon to the
nations of the world. We find evidence of this Babylonian
religion - in one form or anther - in all the false religions of
the earth and all nations upon it. As it spread, the names of
the three principle characters often CHANGED and other rites
added and expanded upon, but the basic form still remained in
tact. It ALL started in BABYLON, under Nimrod, who was under the
influence of Satan.
The whole system has many MYSTERIOUS parts to it, many
mysterious patterns, rites, forms, symbols, feasts, codes of
worship etc. In the book of Revelation it is called BABYLON
MYSTERY RELIGION. It is symbolized by a WOMAN, a fallen woman.
One who is drunk on the BLOOD of the SAINTS of God, whose history
has been to persecute and kill the true children of the Almighty.
She rides a BEAST that does her bidding, a civil power that acts
on her behalf. She is said to be a MOTHER, who had children born
from out of her. They are called HARLOTS, for they also have many
of her character traits and ways and practices.
LISTEN ISRAEL! Many of your past theological scholars of
the 16th to the 19th centuries KNEW WHO SHE WAS, AND BOLDLY
PROCLAIMED IT TO ALL WHO WOULD READ THEIR BIBLE COMMENTARIES,
which are still in print to this day and can still be purchased
through the your Bible Book stores, or now on the Internet.
Tammuz was the false savior, being dressed up by Satan to
deceive the world as the true Savior. The women weeping for
Tammuz in this section of Ezekiel's message is to teach you that
there is a FALSE EMOTIONAL RELIGION in your lands. A people
that THINK they are worshipping the real SAVIOR of the world, but
are in truth only following in a physical emotional way the FALSE
savior of Satan. They may think they are worshipping Jesus
Christ, but in reality they serve and worship Tammuz, the son of
the Sun-god Nimrod, who taught the whole world to rebel against
the one and only true Eternal Lord of the universe.
Now notice verses 15 and 16 of Ezekiel the 8th chapter. If
all this was not enough, God says that an even GREATER
ABOMINATION is going on in the sanctuary of the House of the
Lord. TWENTY-FIVE men, representing the 25 courses or orders of
the priests, 1 Chr.24:18,19, with the high priest at their head,
which in turn represents the WHOLE priesthood of your lands.
These then are said to have their BACKS to the west
and WORSHIP THE SUN IN THE EAST!
Pretty clear! God is telling you that your religious
leaders AS A WHOLE are nothing but a group of PAGAN SUN
WORSHIPPERS! O, they may come to you in the "name of the Lord"
and say to you that "Jesus is the Christ" but as Jesus Himself
said, they would and they do DECEIVE MANY! Read again Jesus'
prophecy in Matthew 24.
What does the Eternal say to all this:
"Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not
spare, neither will I have pity: and though they CRY unto me in
mine ears with a LOUD VOICE, yet will I NOT HEAR THEM" (verse
18).
IS THERE NO HOPE, FOR AT LEAST SOME? WE SHALL SEE IF THERE
IS NEXT TIME AS WE CONTINUE WITH THE MESSAGE OF EZEKIEL.
.................................
Written December 1997
Ezekiel's Message To Us - Part 4 FOR WHY WILL
YOU DIE, O HOUSE
OF ISRAEL?
by
Keith Hunt
Over and over again in the pages of the Prophets of old, God
has stated WHY He must punish the whole peoples of the House of
Israel and the House of Judah, with a punishment like no other in
all recorded history - Jeremiah called it "Jacob's trouble"
(chap.30:7). Daniel talked about the same time of trouble, like
no other before or after. And it was at this time that the people
of God would be delivered (Dan.12). Dozens of passages teach that
the peoples of the 13 tribes of Israel are in a captivity to
their enemies at the time of the end. Jesus comes again, and one
thing He immediately does is bring forth the remnant of Israelite
people out from the lands they have been scattered in, to restore
them to the land of Promise - the land of Palestine.
The punishment was needed to bring them to deep and true
REPENTANCE. One passage in the writings of Jeremiah gives the
clear reason why the Eternal will have to lower the rod of
correction upon the Jewish people, and the people of the British
Commonwealth, USA, and nations of Northwest Europe.
"For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have
only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of
Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their
hands, says the Enteral........Because of the evil of the
children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have
done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes,
their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. And they have turned unto me their
BACK, and not their face: though I TAUGHT THEM, RISING UP EARLY
AND TEACHING THEM ( yes, God has always had His faithful true
ministers proclaiming His truths to the nations of Israel,
especially in the last days - Keith Hunt), YET THEY HAVE NOT
HARKENED TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION......" (Jeremiah 32:30-33).
We have come to chapter nine in the book of Ezekiel, and the
Lord is now ready to start to act upon what He has promised,
punishment and death, if the nations of Israel will not turn to
Him in repentance. But the Lord is merciful to those that are
after His own heart. Remember when the Almighty with two angels
came to destroy Sodom and Gomorah (Gen.18) and Abraham asked Him
about the innocent? The Eternal would have mercy for the
innocent. You will remember Lot and some of his family were
spared death.
This situation to befall Israel is not quite the same, for
they will be punished regardless of how many righteous are
within. But we now see in Ezekiel nine, that the Lord is still
looking out for the righteous who dwell in the nations of Israel.
These righteous "sigh and cry for all the ABOMINATIONS" being
committed (verse 4). Please keep in mind that "the city"
(Jerusalem) and all that is to take place in her, is a TYPE of
all to come upon the whole 13 tribes of Israel and Judah. This we
have seen in previous studies.
These righteous have a mark set upon them. They are marked
as God's people. The indications are that they will be protected
from the death when it starts, as those under the blood were
protected from death when God brought Israel out of Egypt under
Moses (Ex. 12). This would seem to be the logical conclusion from
the context of chapter nine. It could be that the righteous are
noted, God has them in His book of life, and that they will be a
part of the first resurrection, those who will rise to meet
Christ in the air, the clouds, and so ever be with Him [1 Thes. 4: 13-18].
The righteous marked here are so marked at the beginning, or
just before the start of the announcement to slay the young and
the old. They are spared from death as Jacob's trouble begins.
These marked here are not to be confused with the 144 thousand
of Revelation 7. Those in Rev.7 are brought to conversion just
before the great day of the wrath of God, after the heavenly
signs and killing of true saints during the great tribulation (see
the 5th and 6th seals of Rev.6 with Mat.24). Revelation 7 is a
later time frame from this prophecy of Ezekiel 9.
We certainly do have very plain words about the death to
come for a great many of the inhabitants of the nations of
Israel, immediately after the marking of those who cry and sigh
for the abominations being committed.
" ....Go you after him through the city, and SMITE: let not
your eye spare, neither have you pity: Slay utterly old and
young, both maids and little children, and women.....and BEGIN at
my SANCTUARY......and they went forth and slew in the city. And
it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left,
that I fell upon my face and cried, and said, Ah Lord God! will
you destroy ALL THE RESIDUE OF ISRAEL in your pouring out of your
fury upon Jerusalem?
Then said He unto me, The iniquity of the HOUSE OF ISRAEL
and JUDAH is EXCEEDING GREAT, and the land is full of blood, and
the city full of perverseness......And as for me also, mine eye
shall not spare, neither will I have PITY, BUT I WILL RECOMPENSE
THEIR WAY UPON THEIR HEAD....."
Ezekiel is again lifted up by the Spirit and brought to the
Temple in Jerusalem, chapter 10:1.
God here speaks to the princes of Israel. To the men who
give you advice and leadership. You receive BAD and
self-deceptive advice O nations and people of Israel.
They tell you to plan for the next century, way down the road,
for they tell you no evil will befall the might Western nations.
You increase in crime overall (USA has declined in crime
recently, during the 90's, but Britain has greatly increased,
especially in violent crime. By the time God is going to punish,
crime will be out of sight in the nations of Israel). The
Eternal says you have feared the sword of war, and indeed the
sword will come upon you. God will deliver you over to your
enemies and so execute judgment upon you. You shall fall by the
weapons of war, and when it happens the Almighty says you
will finally KNOW that He is the Eternal. He will so bring you to
humble repentance, for He says you have not walked after His
statutes, and His judgments, but have done the manner of the
heathen around you.
After all this has taken place, yet the Lord will not cast
you away. He will see your repentance. He will hear your cries
for mercy, and He will forgive, and love you. He will answer you.
Oh, how wonderful and longsuffering is the Eternal. The day is
coming when you will be given a new heart and a new life. Will
you listen people of Israel and Judah to the good that your God
will yet perform towards you.
" ....Although I have cast them far off among the heathen,
and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will
I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they
shall come.....I will even gather you from the people, and
assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered,
and I will GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL. And they shall come
hither, and they shall take away ......all the abominations...And
I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within
you; and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and
give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes,
and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they SHALL BE MY
PEOPLE AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD....." (Ezek.11:16-21).
This has nothing to do with the Jews returning to the Holy Land. The Jews today are not obeying the Laws of God; they are a secular people. THEY DO NOT HAVE A NEW HEART FROM GOD AS THEY STILL
DO NOT ACCEPT JESUS AS GOD AND SAVIOR.
The Eternal had Ezekiel act out a literal removal of himself
and his "stuff" of captivity in chapter 12, to teach the lesson
to Israel that they would indeed be removed. Again the emphasis
is placed on Israel that they are a REBELLIOUS household of
people, with eyes to see but will not see, with ears to hear but
will not hear. God says He will leave A FEW IN NUMBER who shall
escape the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, to declare all
the abominations that they will then fully recognize, among the
nations where they shall come (verse16).
There will be among you people and leaders who will laugh at
this warning, they will say the day of destruction for such great
and powerful nations as the British Commonwealth and the USA is
many many years away. But the Eternal says He is the Almighty,
and it WILL NOT BE PROLONGED, for He will say the word and it
shall come to pass (verse 25-28). It will come to pass in God's time.
Listen O nations of Israel, you have famous religious
preachers and prophets in your lands. But they teach and prophesy
"out of their own hearts." They talk out of their own spirit,
and God says they have SEEN NOTHING! (chapter 13:1-3). They come
to you in the name of the Lord, but the Lord says He has NOT SENT
THEM! They have lulled you to sleep with a false grace and false
hope. They have built up a false wall that looks strong and right
but there is no true cement to hold the bricks, and the Eternal
will blow with His stormy wind upon it, until it and its builders
are smashed (verses 6-16).
Ah, the Lord also speaks to the women that now lead in your
nations in various influential positions of power and leadership
- spiritually (many are now ordained ministers of religion) and
physically (positions of power and influence in governments from
local to federal). Because in the main they have strengthened the
hands of the wicked and have not led the people to turn from
their evil ways, God will in the coming punishment return to them
their reward of sin and evil, and will deliver the people from
their clutches of corruption (verses 17-23).
We see in chapter 14 and verses one to eleven, a very
interesting principle of teaching. If the attitude of the bulk
of the people is that they do not really want truth or
righteousness, that they have closed their hearts and minds to
hungering after righteousness, if they have turned their minds
over to being deceived, and put whatever idols before their
minds (i.e. comfort, wealth, biblical laziness, overlooking sins,
corruptions, lies, making the "church" into a social club) and
still come in an outward form to the religious leaders to
supposedly ask about the things of God, then we learn one BIG
principle of truth here. Under those circumstances, with that
attitude prevailing, GOD WILL DECEIVE THE VERY RELIGIOUS LEADERS
THE PEOPLE COME TO SEEK AFTER FOR GOD'S WAY.
This shows that the grass roots PEOPLE of the churches are
just as MUCH RESPONSIBLE FOR DECEPTION AND WILL BE PUNISHED AS
MUCH AS THOSE THAT DECEIVE!
The whole NT shows that religious deceivers WOULD COME, some
would be FROM WITHIN THE VERY CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST(i.e. Acts
20). The whole NT declares every Christian is personally
responsible for searching the Scriptures, proving all things,
loving the truth, and trying the spirits to see if they are from
God. This must always be the case throughout any Christian's
life. Never going to sleep on this job. If they do, then they
are in the above attitude of mind, and what goes around will come
around, deception leads to deception. Those that are deceivable
will be deceived by those who are deceptive. AND GOD SAYS BOTH
ARE JUST AS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DECEPTION - THEY SHALL BOTH
BEAR THE PUNISHMENT OF THEIR INIQUITY. YES, THE ETERNAL PULLS NO
PUNCHES, HE CALLS THIS MIND-SET - INIQUITY (verse 10).
We notice also here that the Lord will GIVE YOU YOUR DESIRE.
The one who WANTS to deceive, will be granted his wish, God will
allow him to do so. The one who has turned from seeking truth and
righteousness will also be led by God (for God will not step in
and prevent it) into the deception of the deceiver (verse 9).
Yet, the ultimate free will to deceive or be deceived, is still
the responsibility of each individual. And they will personally
bear their punishment.
The Lord goes on to show HOW PERSONAL this really is, in
verses 12 to 23. When God does bring the promised destruction
upon your nations, only those who will see, acknowledge, and who
will be practicing righteousness will be spared from death. No
one will be able to deliver anyone else, no one will be able to
save anyone who is not in the righteous mind-set. Some will
already be in a state of righteousness as we have seen in chapter
9. Some will come to deep repentance as all these four evils
come upon the lands of Israel (the sword, the famine, the beats,
the pestilence, verse 21). A REMNANT will be spared.
The first part of chapter 16 tells us in an analogy, how the
Almighty found and chose you peoples of Israel.
You mighty nations of Britain, USA, and Northwest Europe,
were not always powerful and great. Your beginnings as a people
goes back a very long way, and the Eternal says you were like a
helpless un-cared-for baby cast away in the field to die. God
passed by and saw you, had pity and compassion on you. He rescued
you, washed, clothed, and fed you, until you increased and became
great in the world.
The Lord goes on to tell you how He was the one who built
you up, made you into a fine lady, even a beauty queen dressed in
the best clothes and jewelry and ointments available. He says you
then became "exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper into a
kingdom" (verse 13).
Your fame throughout the world for your beauty and wealth
and perfectness was known by all (verse 14).
BUT, the Eternal goes on to say, starting in verse 15, that
all this fame, fortune, wealth, beauty, greatness, was your
downfall, were the things that led you to play the HARLOT! You
have let your material wealth lead you to commit idolatry - you
are a people engrossed in pleasures and materialism, with the
rich ever getting richer and the poor ever getting poorer (verses
16-19).
In turning your back on your God, in rejecting His ways, in
casting Him out of your schools and places of business, in
turning to the ways that seem right for man but which end in
death, you are destroying your children. You are raising a
generation that does not know, has never opened the pages of the
Bible, have never read one single word within its pages. Your
have broken homes, children with one parent, or no parents, or
children with two mothers and no father, or two father and no
mother, as you accept the life style of the homosexuals and grant
them family status. You have children being raised on crime and
violence as they watch all your violent TV shows. You have
children being raised on your "sick-cons" during prime time
hours, which portray sexual immorality, fornication, adultery,
homosexuality, as the normal thing, and that which is clean and
straight and moral as something to be laughed at. You have not
solved the "ghetto" problem, and with it today the problem of
hard drug use by an ever younger population of your children.
You have an increase of children killing children. The violence
among teenage girls is shooting off the charts. There is an
epidemic is teen cigarette smoking.
Surely you are, with your children, sacrificing them to be
devoured (verse 20). And the Lord asks you if you think this is a
small matter. You are reaping what you are sowing. Through the
prophet Amos God speaks to you: "Hear the word of the Lord,
you children of Israel: for the Lord has a controversy with the
inhabitants of the land, because there is NO TRUTH, NOR MERCY,
NOR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD in the land. By swearing, and lying, and
killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out,
and BLOOD TOUCHES BLOOD.......My people are DESTROYED for
LACK of KNOWLEDGE: because you have REJECTED knowledge, I will
also reject you......seeing you have FORGOTTEN THE LAW OF YOUR
GOD, I WILL ALSO FORGET YOUR CHILDREN......(Amos 4:1-6).
The Eternal in this age, does not force anyone to learn and
to love His knowledge contained in His word. He does not at this
time force anyone to love and obey His laws, commandments,
statutes, and judgements. You people of Israel, in the main,
have chosen to REJECT the word and laws of the Almighty God, and
as He allows you this freedom, and as you then produce a
generation of children who do not know Him, who do not seek Him,
who do not want him in their lives, He then, not forcing them to
do differently, in human terms says to you, "I will forget your
children." God will keep hands off and allow you and your
children to reap the results of doing your own thing. So today
we have an epidemic of children bashing and killing children,
children killing themselves, children and youths on an ever
increasing drug binge, more and more children running away from
home and living on the streets, and as Isaiah wrote, "And my
people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by
his neighbor: the CHILD shall behave himself proudly against the
ancient...As for my people, CHILDREN are their oppressors...they
which LEAD you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your
paths " (Isa. 3:5,12).
Among all this whoredom, you have your "religion" - your
"churches" on every street corner. You have a form of religion,
an outward show of religion. You, the USA still print on your
dollar bills, "In God We Trust." You claim you are Christian
nations, yet as a prostitute you have sex with those who come to
you (verses 24-26) like the Egyptians.
You have gone to the Assyrian - the German nation - and the
rising mighty power of Europe, and played the harlot with them,
but still you could not be satisfied (verse 28).
Then the Eternal says, you have not acted as a prostitute as
a prostitute acts and works. You have not taken gifts from your
lovers, but you have been like an adulterous wife, you have given
gifts to your lovers and you hire them to love you. In this you
are truly unlike any whore of prostitution. You defeated Germany
and Europe in the Second great World War of 1939 to 1945, and
then immediately started to re-build her and re-store her to
former glory and power. You have made your enemies into your
lovers, and you have given them presents for loving you. Those
very lovers will come against you to execute God's judgement upon
you. Your lovers will form A COMPANY of nations to fight and
destroy you. Listen to what your God tells you will come to
pass (if you will not repent):
"Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord: thus says
the Eternal God; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your
nakedness discovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and
with all the idols of your abominations, and by THE BLOOD OF YOUR
CHILDREN, which you did give unto them; Behold, therefore I will
gather all your LOVERS, with whom you have taken pleasure, and
all THEM THAT YOU HAVE LOVED, WITH all them that you HAVE HATED;
I will even GATHER THEM ABOUT AGAINST YOU, and will discover your
nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness. And I
will judge you as a woman that breaks wedlock and shed blood are
judged; and I will GIVE YOU BLOOD IN FURY AND JEALOUSY.
And I will also give you into their hand.......they shall
strip you of your clothes, and shall take your fair jewels, and
leave you naked and bear.
They shall also bring up a COMPANY against you, and they
shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their
swords.....and execute JUDGMENT upon you.....and I will cause you
to cease from playing the harlot....."(verses 35-41).
In Ezekiel chapter 18 the Eternal shows that those who sin
and practice evil shall personally bear their punishment.
Everyone will have to personally give account for their own
actions. The son will not be punished because his father did
wrong. The Mother will not be punished because her daughter did
evil. The soul that sins shall die, for his or her sins (verse
20).
Once more the Lord cries out to you the people of the House
of Israel. He cries out for your people to REPENT! He shows you
that His way is JUST and EQUAL. He does not want to have to
bring all these prophecies upon your lands and your people.
They do not have to come to pass. Will you not listen to what
your God proclaims to you?
"But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has
committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful
and right, he shall surely live, he SHALL NOT DIE. All his
transgressions that he has committed, shall not be mentioned
unto him: in his righteousness that he has done he SHALL LIVE.
HAVE I ANY PLEASURE AT ALL THAT THE WICKED SHOULD DIE? SAYS
THE LORD GOD: AND NOT THAT HE SHOULD RETURN FROM HIS WAYS, AND
LIVE?
.....When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness,
and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he
has done shall he die. Again, when the wicked man turns away
from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is
lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Because he
CONSIDERS, and TURNS AWAY from all his transgressions that he has
committed, he shall surely LIVE, he shall not die.
Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not
equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? Are not your
ways un-equal?
Therefore I will JUDGE you, O house of Israel, EVERY ONE
ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS, says the Lord 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 WHY
WILL YOU DIE O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says
the Eternal God: WHEREFORE TURN YOURSELVES, AND LIVE YOU "
(Ezekiel 18:21-32).
May there be some of you out there in the lands of Israel
who will not only listen to the words coming from your merciful
Everliving God, but may there be some of you who will act upon
those words. It is never too late to REPENT, TURN around, depart
from wickedness and do that which is righteousness, and to accept
Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.
To be continued
....................
Written February 1998
Ezekiel's Message To Us - Part 5 WHY WILL YOU DIE,
O House of Israel?
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 started by your old enemy
the Assyrian - the German people. The sword was sharpened
twice already, you have seen the enemy that 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), which happened in 586 B.C.
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"-----
He will be for Christ, coming in His name, allowing people to say
he is God on earth [2 Thes. 2], doing miracles, but his theology will actually be anti-christ, against the truth of God's word.
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, [Revelation 12].
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.
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Written March 1998
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