Chapters 25 - 32
CHAPTER 25
Prophecy against Ammon and Moab (the Jordan area).
We have covered this prophecy in the book of Isaiah and
Jeremiah, so it is repeated in Ezekiel. When Jerusalem, the house
of Judah and the House of Israel fall in the end time, the people
of the Jordan area are going to say, "Ah!" It is an "ah" with a
smirk, a tongue in cheek, a contestable "ah." The Arabs of the
Jordan area are going to smile and smirk and will say in effect,
"The Israelite people are cast off, God does not look upon them
as anything different than any heathen nation." Now, in one
respect that is a truism, for the Lord is no respecter of
persons, but the Jordanians will be saying this with a laugh,
with an attitude that will not be pleasing to God, and so those
people will, at the end time, go into captivity themselves by the
"men of the East."
The armies of Russia, China, and others from the East will
come into the Holy Land and will destroy certain peoples there.
The war machine of the East will have a representation dwelling
in the Holy Land during the last 42 months of the end of this age
(verses 1-11).
Prophecy against Edom (Turkey)
We have also seen this prophecy in Isaiah and Jeremiah. When
the Great Tribulation comes on this earth, as the people of Judah
flee NORTH and try to escape through Turkey, the people of that
land will NOT HELP them, in fact they will kill many of them, and
will "greatly offend" the Lord by so doing. The people of Turkey
were not to be used by the Lord to persecute the children of
Judah, but they will. God will not forget this!
When Israel and Judah as brought back from captivity at the
coming of the Messiah Christ, as Israel is gathered from the
nations of Europe, and as they exodus from Europe back to the
Holy Land, they will needs go through Turkey. The people of
Israel returning, will take revenge, they will "do in Edom
(Turkey) according to mine anger and according to my fury; and
they shall know My vengeance, says the Lord God" (verses 12-14).
This prophecy is given in full detail in the prophetic book
of Obediah, which I will expound later, when we come to that book
of the prophets.
Prophecy against Philistia (the Palestinians)
The Philistines have long been the enemy of Israel and
Judah, centuries upon centuries the hatred has been there for the
Jews. The Palestinians will rise up in glee and help destroy the
Jews in the Holy Land when the Beast Babylon power of Europe
comes marching into Palestine and Jerusalem, at the start of the
last 42 months of this age. The old Palestinian Philistines will
help destroy Judah. The Lord will remember this and will execute
great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes (verses 15-17).
We saw in Isaiah 11:10-16, that it is the returning people
of Israel and Judah who shall lay their hand on the Palestinians
and shall execute God's revenge.
CHAPTER 26
Prophecy against Tyrus
There was a very real past fulfilment of this prophecy, and
all the details of chapter 26 DID HAPPEN. You can see the Bible
Commentaries and Bible Encyclopedias for the historic details.
CHAPTER 27
Prophecy of end-time Tyrus
This chapter concerns the prophecy against the coming mighty
world TRADING POWER of the Beast Empire of Europe, as it is now
forming under the European Common Market.
Some of the trading nations will be Egypt (v.7); Tarshish
(Spain, Portugal, v.12); Javan (Japan, v.13); Tubal and Meshech
(Russia, v.13); Syria (v.16); Judah (the Jews, v.17); Israel
(most of the West, v.17); Dan (Ireland; Denmark, v.19); Arabia
(the Arabs, v.21); Assur (Germany/Austria, v.23).
Notice verses 27-36 and compare them with Revelation 18. It
is the SAME TIME, AND IT IS THE FALL OF MODERN BABYLON, the Beast
Empire over-ruled by the Babylon Mystery religion - the church
drunk with the blood of the saints.
CHAPTER 28
The Man False prophet and the Devil behind him
Read verses 1-2; now read 2 Thes.2:1-12. We have a man at
the end time, who has set his heart as the heart of God, way
above the idea of just turning to love God and His ways; this is
above anything like that; it is making out you are God in the
flesh, as some "religious" mystery of a kind. It is best
illustrated with a real life example. The man who is head of the
largest "Christian" church on earth came to a South American
country a few decades ago. A TV interviewer asked a young lady
(she looked to be in her early 20s), "What do you think of this
man visiting your country?" She replied, "He is God on earth!"
This is what this chapter in Ezekiel is telling you. This is
what 2 Thes. 2 is telling you. A man at the end time will come,
who is really, according to the book of Revelation, a FALSE
prophet. But he is not going to tell you he is a false prophet; a
false prophet does not tell you he is a false prophet. This man
will come in the name of Christ. He will have MILLIONS believing
as that young lady believed, that he is "God on earth!" That will
be the spiritual deception that will continue to deceive hundreds
of MILLIONS at the time of the end. This false prophet man will
be able to work MIRACLES! Hundreds of millions already believe
this head of the largest Christian church is "God on earth" - so
add MIRACLES to that theological teaching and you have the
ingredients for a power to rule the Western world.
It is the last days. We are into the time when this
religious Christian false prophet, with his "church" is once more
riding and ruling the Beast of the resurrected Roman Empire of
Europe. This false prophet's heart is so deceived that it is
quite possible he himself does not realize he is being inspired,
if not possessed, by the very Devil himself. The evil work will
be done, but God says He has appointed the "terrible of the
nations" to draw a sword after this false prophet's Empire. This
Western "religious" Empire of Europe will come crashing down. As
I've already written, the men of the East, the war machine of the
terrible power to the East, will come against her and the power
of the Empire of the false prophet will be smashed down. This is
all given in Revelation 9.
The prophecy of Ezekiel shifts in verse 12 to the individual
behind the scenes of this false prophet. The individual sealed up
the sum of wisdom, full of wisdom, perfect in beauty. The
individual had been in Eden, the garden of God, certainly not now
referring to a physical man. This individual was covered with all
kinds of precious stones; with the workmanship of "thy tabrets
and of thy pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were
created" (verse 13). This individual is the "anointed CHERUB that
covereth" and was once upon the very mountain of God; he had
walked up and down in the midst of the fire. He was PERFECT in
his ways UNTIL ... until INIQUITY was found in him. He is going
to be destroyed, this cherub, from the midst of the stones. He
was corrupted by the reason of his wisdom and BRIGHTNESS. His
VANITY got the best of him (verses 15-17).
This is not a physical man here being talked about. This is
the COVERING CHERUB - the one time full of BRIGHTNESS cherub. But
he SINNED, and in so doing became the individual we today call
the DEVIL or SATAN.
This fallen cherub angel, will one day inspire and maybe
even possess, the end time king man, false prophet man, of the
end time Tyrus Empire now forming in Europe.
At the end of verse 17 to the end of verse 19, the prophecy
switches back to the physical false prophet man. The false
prophet will meet his end. He will be brought to ashes,
literally, as he is thrown into the lake of fire by Jesus Christ
Himself at the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16; 17; 18; with
Rev.19:20 and context).
Prophecy against Zion
Zion or Jerusalem will have her punishment, and at that time
she will indeed be no more a pricking thorn to the House of
Israel. Today, as Israel of the West backs and supports the Jews
in the Holy Land, it can be said that they are a somewhat
pricking thorn of adversary to Israel, many other nations,
especially those of the Arab world, do not like the most powerful
nations of the West (Britain and the USA) be-friending the Jews
(verses 20-24).
Beyond it all, when the House of Israel is gathered and
restored from their captivity, when they are taken back to the
Holy Land, then they shall build the houses, plant vineyards, and
they will dwell with confidence, when the Lord executes judgments
upon those people who are still despising them, at the beginning
of the 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth. The first years of
this 1,000 year age will not be a bed of roses for some people.
Lessons will need to be learned by some nations (verses 25-26).
CHAPTER 29
Prophecy against Egypt
Here we come to a few chapters concerning Egypt. Back in the
1960s and 1970s the nation of Egypt was in the news weekly,
sometimes daily. Today Egypt is hardly mentioned in the news. But
it will not be this way forever. Egypt is yet to rise to a major
important nation in the Middle East and Arab world. Egypt will
spear-head the coming "king of the South" as given in Daniel
11:40-45. But God says that the end time Babylon, the "king of
the North" will come against Egypt and her Arab partners. It will
be the time when the horn of the House of Israel will but forth -
the time of the end restitution of the House of Israel (verses 1-
21).
CHAPTER 30
Egypt and her allies DOOMED!
The prophecy is "even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy
day; it shall be the time of the heathen" (verse 3).
No mistaking this, it is a prophecy for the great day of the
Lord, the time of the end of this age. Those allies of Egypt will
fall together with Egypt (verse 5-8). We know from other prophecies
that Egypt and her allies will fall at the BEGINNING of the last 42
months of this age (see Daniel 11:40-45 and into Daniel 12).
Great pain is to come on Egypt and on the Ethiopians. It is
Babylon of Europe that will put an end to this Egyptian power of
the king of the south. It is the time when judgment is to be
executed on Egypt and her allies, the time when "they shall know
that I am the Lord" (verses 9-19).
The Egyptians and Arab nations do NOT know the Lord. God
uses that expression over and over again in the book of Ezekiel;
it means what it says; nearly all nations today DO NOT KNOW the
Lord! The time is coming when they most assuredly will; when the
knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover
the sea beds.
Once more God proclaims to Egypt and her allies that she
shall be broken, put to the sword, and the power to do that will
be the king of Babylon, the king of the North - Daniel 11:40-45,
and on into Daniel 12.
CHAPTER 31
Allegory of the fall of Egypt
God uses the mighty Assyrian Empire (the Assyrians migrated
through Europe and are the German people today) - verses 1-9.
Because of the pride of Egypt as it will be in that day, she
and her allies will be brought low by the mighty hand of the
"terrible of the nations" - and in modern times the terrible of
the nations has been the German people. They will again spear-
head a resurrected Holy Roman Empire of Europe that will come
against the Egypt/Arab king of the South, in the last 4 years or
so of the end of this age (verses 10-18).
CHAPTER 32
Lamentation over Egypt's fall
The setting for this prophecy is the "heavenly signs"
(verses 7-8) given by Christ for the end of the age, and also as
given in Revelation 6 and the 6th seal (verses 1-8).
This is the GENERAL time frame only, to help us see that it
is a prophecy for the every end of this age. We know from Daniel
11:40-45 and into Daniel 12, that the SPECIFIC time of Egypt's
destruction by the king of the North is AT THE BEGINNING of the
GREAT Tribulation. The CONTEXT of Daniel 11:40-45 and into
chapter 12, proves that point. But that is so near the time of the
"heavenly signs" that God mentions it here in Ezekiel 32 so we
will understand this prophecy WILL HAVE AN END TIME FULFILMENT!!
It is the sword of Babylon - the king of the North - the
Babylon Beast power of the book of Revelation, that will be used
to bring destruction on Egypt and her Arab allies. It is the time
when all nations will "KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD" (verse 9-15).
It is also within the time span when not only Egypt will
KNOW GOD IS GOD, but other nations like Meshech and Tubal (the
mighty Russian nation); it is the time when Edom (Turkey) will be
with the dead men (verses 17-32).
Yes, it is true, prophecy can have MORE THAN ONE
FULFILMENT!!
That is one very good reason as to why prophecy was WRITTEN
DOWN AND PRESERVED for us, as we saw in Jeremiah 30:1-9. Because
in the last days prophecy will be REPEATED, BUT WITH THE MODERN
OFFSPRING OF THE ANCIENT NATIONS. It is also true as they say,
that if we will not learn from the past, we are doomed to REPEAT
the PAST in the FUTURE!
History has sadly and clearly shown that Israel and Judah do
not learn from the past. It would seem we have ONE MORE BIG
LESSON TO LEARN, at the end of it Jesus the Messiah will come to
earth again and pour out His Spirit on us so we will NEVER again
DEPART from His love and the way of His righteousness.
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To be continued
Ezekiel For TodayChapters 33 to 34
The Work of the Watchman!
CHAPTER 33
Down through the centuries we as a people have had various
large and small wars, many nations have wanted to sink the
British people and those who have sprung from them, to the bottom
of the sea. We've had at the turn of the page into the age of
A.D. those like Boadicea and Caractacus who saw the tyranny of
the Roman Empire. They raised their voice to give warning and
through their leadership the British peoples were delivered and
freedom remained. There was the time when the Spanish with their
fleet of ships like the world had never seen, came across the
English channel. Britain had its champions then who raised their
voice and led the people to victory over their enemies. The Fresh
under Napoleon tried to subdue the British under their heel and
could not. It was people like Nelson, Wellington, Drake, and
others who stood tall and were the watchmen of their time, the
freedom fighters.
During the Second World War it was Churchill who was the
champion of the time. Winston Churchill was laughed at by the
British government when he voiced his cry that there would never
be peace with Adolf Hitler. Churchill was out working in his
garden when the call came from London and the King to return to
London and lead the British people against the might of the
German army. The British government came to acknowledge Winston
Churchill was correct.
God has from the beginning of Israel being led out of Egypt
by Moses, had prophets sent to them, to SHOUT and DECLARE the
warning message of punishment and destruction, when Israel would
not repent of their sins and leaving the way of truth and
righteousness of the Lord. We can see the prophets of old as
contained in the Bible, sent to Israel and Judah, the so-called 3
Major (Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel) and 12 Minor prophets
(Hosea through to Malachi). They were the WATCHMEN for the first
captivity of Israel and Judah.
But ONE MORE great and mighty CAPTIVITY is yet to befall the
modern offspring of Israel and Judah. Most of the Western world
are the nations of modern Israel and Judah. God's original
message to them was to be written down (as we have seen in
Jeremiah 30) FOR the time was to come again at the end of this
age for Israel and Judah to go into punishment captivity.
When God shows someone the truth of His word, the truth of
the modern meaning of the prophets of old, then that someone has
a GREAT RESPONSIBILITY to WARN the nations, not only of Israel
and Judah, but other nations of the world also, as the prophecy
applies.
If that someone knowing the truth WILL NOT lift up their
voice like a trumpet and shout the warning message, then the
people's blood will be required at the prophet's hands. If the
prophet does proclaim the warning message, then the people's
blood will be upon their own shoulders. The prophet has done his
job!
I certainly did not plan or even consider as a young man
that God wanted me to be one of His prophets to Israel and Judah.
It was the furthest thing from my mind. I had other plans and
thoughts for my life. But the Eternal brought be to see many of
His truths that had been hidden from me as a young man. One of
those truths is the very fact that the nations of modern Israel
are the nations of North-Western Europe and the British and
American peoples. I was not called to be one of the detailed
expounders of that truth, that was for others to do, and indeed
has been done. Probably the most scholastic research ever done on
this subject can be found on the Website britam.org
It has never been my calling to expound to you the in-depth
details proving that a very good portion of the nations of the
West are indeed the descendants of the House of Israel. But with
that truth, I have been called to be ONE of the watchmen to the
nations of Israel. I have been called not only to be a teacher of
the word of the Lord, but one who has been given the
understanding of the prophetic books of the Bible. So, it is my
RESPONSIBILITY to SHOUT OUT to you of Israel what WILL BEFALL you
IF you as nations will NOT REPENT!
My duty is then done. Your blood will not be upon my head.
With the modern worldwide INTERNET God is SHOUTING OUT to you
concerning your SINS, your WICKEDNESS, your ABOMINATIONS. All
peoples around the world, in most nations, certainly more and
more every year, have access to the Internet. All are free to
what is on the worldwide Internet. All, from the kings, to the
people on the street, have access to the Internet. People can be
informed, they can pass on to others what is there. From the
heads of state to the kids playing in the back-yard, the
INFORMATION HIGHWAY is out there for all to drive down.
Be assured when your blood comes upon you, as it will indeed
in God's own time, you will not have the excuse that you were not
told your sins and wickedness.
But, God has NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked. He
would like you to TURN from wickedness, to REPENT of your sins,
and so the evil which He has thought to do to you, He will not
do. For as he has said, WHY WILL YOU DIE O HOUSE OF ISRAEL - TURN
FROM SIN AND LIVE!! If the wicked will turn from sin then he will
not die, none of the sins will be mentioned; if you will do what
is lawful and right then you will SURELY LIVE, says the Lord
(verses 1-20).
Jerusalem falls!
Ezekiel was told that the city of Jerusalem had fallen.
Remember that Jerusalem was a TYPE of what was going to happen to
Israel in the last days. Ezekiel here is told that Israel says
they have the land and none will take it from them. They are
confident in their own power (verses 21-26). Ezekiel is told that
many people come to him, sit at his feet, hear the words of God,
BUT THEY WILL NOT DO THEM! They send forth "love" with their
mouth towards God, but in their heart there is no desire to do
anything but what they covetously want to do. Many God says, look
upon the prophets like Ezekiel with favor, look at them as he
that sings a lovely song, or has a pleasant voice, or can play
well on a musical instrument; they will be willing to hear the
words of the prophet, BUT THEY WILL NOT DO THE WORDS OF TRUTH!!
When the words of the prophet COME TO PASS, and God says
THEY WILL COME TO PASS, then you WILL KNOW a prophet of God was
among you (verses 27-33).
Are you one that is willing to open up this Website, one who
will read it, study from it, say, "Yes, yes ... tell it to 'em
Keith. Give it out and let them know their sins!" But then do YOU
go away, turn off the Computer, and forget about DOING THE WILL
AND WAYS of the Lord?
I hope and pray you are NOT one of which the Lord speaks
about in this section of Ezekiel. I hope and pray you are one
that is not a forgetful hearer but a DOER OF THE WORD.
CHAPTER 34
God's concern for His flock
The Eternal One is very much concerned for each individual
of His flock. He tells Ezekiel to give a WARNING to the
"shepherds" (spiritual and political) of Israel. God asks, "Should
not the shepherds FEED the flock?" the answer of course it a BIG
YES!! God goes on to say that the shepherds of Israel have fed
themselves, lived very nicely thank you, but have NOT healed the
sick, have not bound up the wounds of the injured, have not gone
seeking those who were driven away.
The Eternal speaks of why Israel was to be scattered and
fallen and driven away in the end time. Why they are to wander
through the maintains and high hills. It is to be because they
had no real shepherds to feed and guide them. And the shepherds
did not bother to search for them.
So, God will indeed deliver His flock from the lazy and
"couldn't care less" shepherds. God Himself will search them out. He
will deliver them from the false shepherds and He will search
them out and find them and bring THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN SCATTERED,
HE WILL DO IT IN THE CLOUDY AND DARK DAY!! (verses 1-12).
We will see as we read the CONTEXT, that the expression
"cloudy and dark day" is interpreted for us.
God will gather Israel from OUT OF the countries they have
been scattered in, bring them back to the plenty and safety of
the land, to feed them with JUDGMENT. God will feed them. They
shall no more be a prey, the Lord will be the judge, and they
will have ONE master shepherd, EVEN DAVID, and the Lord will be
their God, and David will be a prince among them! (verses 13-24).
It is the time of the end, the cloudy and dark day of the
Lord will have come. The judge of the earth will come. Jesus will
return and the RESURRECTION of the saints will take place. David
will be raised up from the dead, just as we saw in Jeremiah 30:1-
9. There can be no mistaking the TIME of this prophecy!
We go on to read about the House of Israel and the House of
Judah being sown together, and as God plucked them up and
scattered them, to destroy and afflict, so He will watch over
them to build and to plant. It is the time every person shall be
judged for themselves, individually and personally. It is the
time when a NEW COVENANT is to be made with the House of Israel
and the House of Judah.
It is a covenant of PEACE, where people can dwell safely in
the wilderness and sleep in the woods. Showers of blessing will
come down. They will be safe in the land. The heathen will prey
on them no more. They will dwell SAFELY and none shall make them
afraid. And "thus they shall know that I the Lord their God an
WITH THEM, and they, even the House of Israel are My people, says
the Lord Go" (verses 25-30)
Can it be said that ANY nation has EVER had this covenant
bestowed on them. No nation has EVER experienced such an
everlasting covenant. It is the same covenant spoken about in
Jeremiah 31:27-34; 32:37-44; 33:7-16.
What a BLESSING is in store for Israel and Judah. We wait
with anticipation for all the promises of the Kingdom of God on
earth.
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To be continued
Ezekiel For TodayChapters 35 to 36
Chapters 35-36
Prophecy against Seir
CHAPTER 35
As noted by the Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, "In
general, "Seir," "Mount Seir," and "land of Seir," have become
synonyms for Edom (2 Chron. 25:11; 20:10; and Gen. 36:30
respectively).
This is again a prophecy against Edom or TURKEY today.
God is against the land of Edom for their perpetual hatred
of the children of Israel. In the time of the calamity to come on
Jacob Israel at the time of the end, the people of Turkey will
stand in the way of those in Judah who flee to the north and try
to escape the destruction upon them by the armies of the king of
the North, the Babylon Roman Empire of Europe. The land of Edom
Turkey will use the sword to kill many Jews fleeing north through
their land, at the time of the end. It is the very last days of
this age, it is the time frame when the iniquity of Israel and
Judah will have its END (verses 1-5). Iniquity is FAR from having
its end in Israel UNTIL the coming of the Messiah in glory. Verse
5 and the iniquity of Israel having its end gives us the time
frame of this prophecy; there will be an END TIME FULFILMENT!
The people of Turkey are going to smear and laugh so to
speak, at the calamity of Israel and Judah, at the destruction of
the Jews in the Holy Land, when the end time Babylon Mystery
Religion Empire of Europe marches into Jerusalem and makes
desolate that city and the Jewish people of Judah Palestine.
Further to the time frame of this prophecy is verse 14. When
the whole earth REJOICES, WHEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS COME TO
EARTH, WHEN IT WILL BE THE TIME THAT THE WHOLE EARTH CAN REJOICE
UNDER THE RULERSHIP OF CHRIST, then will be the punishment of
Edom Turkey. As Turkey rejoiced at the desolation of Israel and
Judah, so God will make desolate the land of Turkey. I have
covered this previously and will again as we explain the book of
Obediah.
CHAPTER 36
Judgment on Israel's enemies and the
Restoration of Israel
The whole CONTEXT of these chapters together with chapter
37, is the VERY END OF THIS AGE, AND THE BEGINNING OF THE AGE TO
COME UNDER THE MESSIAH CHRIST.
God tells Israel that as their enemies have said, "Ah, these
lands are ours to have and possess" all the hills and valleys and
mountains and rivers; to the desolate cities God now says, "I
will lift up my hand and the heathen (not knowing the true God)
nations shall bear their shame" (verses 1-7).
God will restore as before the people of Israel, they are at
hand to come. The prophecy is for the time of the end of this
age, when Jesus will return and bring out of captivity the
peoples of Israel and Judah, when the lands of Israel will be
replenished and built back; it is the time of multiplying the
people of Israel, and the cities be inhabited once more; it is
the time to settle Israel again after their old estates; it is
the time when the people of Israel will KNOW GOD IS THEIR GOD
(verses 8-12).
The Eternal tells us in verses 13-21 WHY He had to punish
Israel. Over and over again in the prophets there is left no
doubt as to why Israel and Judah have to be punished.
For God's Holy Name, because Israel and Judah have profaned
His name, in the way they have lived, to bring them to REPENTANCE
AND BACK TO SERVING GOD IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH, the Lord must
deal with them in a manner so the end result will be that God can
be GLORIFIED by all nations. It is the time when God WILL BE
SANCTIFIED in them. Israel and Judah will be taken from the
nations and gathered out of the countries they have been
scattered in and brought back to the Holy Land. God will CLEAN
THEM UP! It will be the time when they shall have a NEW HEART AND
A NEW SPIRIT; THE STONY HEART WILL BE GONE AND A HEART OF FLESH
THEY WILL HAVE.
It is the time when Israel and Judah will have GOD'S SPIRIT,
AND WHEN THEY WILL WALK IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD, KEEPING THE
STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS OF GOD!
Never, not yesterday, not today, have the people of Israel
and Judah, had the pouring out of the Spirit of God on them as
nations of people. Some Jews have returned to the Holy Land in
this last 100 years BUT it cannot be said they have had the
Spirit of God poured out on them to observe the statutes and
judgments of God, as these verses portray. Even if you think this
prophecy is for only the Jews returning to the Holy Land in our
time, it just cannot be said they are as a people, CONVERTED to
the commandments of God. The Jews today are MAINLY SECULAR and
UN-converted to the Spirit of God.
The CONTEXT of these verses in Ezekiel make it clear they
will NOT become a reality UNTIL the end of this age, when Christ
the Messiah is here to indeed pour out God's Spirit on all the
peoples of Israel and Judah.
It is the time of good harvests, beautiful orchards and vine
yards, the time when Israel and Judah will REMEMBER THEIR EVIL
WAYS, AND SHALL LOATHE THEMSELVES FOR THEIR INIQUITIES AND
ABOMINATIONS (verses 22-32).
Do the Jews in the Holy Land today LOATHE themselves for
their sins and iniquities and all their abominations? Can any say
they have DEEP REPENTANCE AND GOD'S SPIRIT POURED OUT ON THEM?
Can anyone claim the peoples of North-West Europe, the British
Commonwealth, and the United States of America (the modern House
of Israel) LOATHE themselves for their many sins and iniquities
and abominations? Can anyone in the far reaches of imagination,
claim the peoples of the House of Israel and the House of Judah
are filled with God's Spirit and serving Him with a heart and
mind that is led and filled by the Holy Spirit? NO!! This is a
prophecy YET TO COME TO PASS!!
It is a prophecy for the END OF THIS AGE. When Israel and
Judah will have become DESOLATE, when all that is written will
come to pass, when all in the book of Revelation has been
fulfilled. It is for the time when Israel and Judah will be
brought out of their captivity, out from the nations where they
have been scattered, brought back as in a MIGHTY EXODUS to the
Holy Land; when they will build the cities, plant the corn, reap
great harvests, dwell safely and in peace; when the land will be
as the garden of Eden; when the heathen nations will KNOW that it
is God who is building and blessing. It is the time when Israel
and Judah will "KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD" (verses 33-38).
There is no history of any people that has ever fulfilled
this prophecy. It is all for the time of the end of this age and
into the Kingdom of God on earth age. There is an absolute flow
in the book of Ezekiel - Israel and Judah to be PUNISHED - Israel
and Judah to be RESTORED - AT THE TIME WHEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS
TO COME TO EARTH, WHEN ISRAEL AND JUDAH WILL BE UNITED AS ONE
PEOPLE, WHEN GOD WILL DWELL AND SET HIS SANCTUARY IN THE MIDST OF
THEM FOREVER - as we shall clearly see from what is told to us in
chapter 37.
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To be continued
Ezekiel For TodayChapter 37
Chapter 37
The Valley of Dry Bones and
the Reunion of Israel and Judah
Once more the CONTEXT of this chapter shows clearly that it
has NEVER YET come to pass. That it WILL come to pass when
God shall set His dwelling and tabernacle in the midst of
regathered Israel. It is a prophecy for the Kingdom of God on earth.
The hand of the Lord was upon Ezekiel and he was carried in
spirit or vision and set down in a valley of dry bones. The
prophecy is upon the dry bones, breath will come into them;
sinews will be laid; skin will cover the bones; and the covered
bones will LIVE!. Ezekiel gave the prophecy and indeed the bones
came together and skin covered them and they DID LIVE!
The wind is to come on these SLAIN AND BREATH ON THEM AND
THEY WILL LIVE!
And SO IT WAS, they did live and stood upon their feet like
a great army (verses 1-10).
What is this? The answer is in verse 11. The House of Israel
says their bones are dried up; their hope is gone; they are cut off.
The House of Israel has fallen; they have gone into
captivity; they have been punished for their sins. It is the last
days of this age, the last 42 months of this age. Israel (the
peoples of North-West Europe, the British Commonwealth and the
United States of America) have met their doom, their destruction,
at the hands of the last resurrected Babylon Holy Roman Beast who
is guided by a false prophet and his Babylon Mystery religion
church. Israel has sinned, their iniquity and wicked abominations
have reached up to heaven. God has finally said they must be
brought to DEEP REPENTANCE through the fires of literal
destruction. Israel is now in the mental state of thinking all is
truly LOST, that there is no hope of them ever being a great
peoples again. Indeed, how can such a MIGHTY AND GREAT a people
as Britain and the United States believe they can ever be so
great again, when their people have been so hugely destroyed,
when what is left of them are in captivity in the lands of their
enemy lovers, scattered, and so many of them now lying dead.
Their heart is in despair; they believe there is no more
hope for them; they now believe they will go down in history as a
"once upon a time a great people, who like other Empires, finally
came to and end" (verse 11).
But GOD CRIES OUT, "Behold, O my people, I WILL OPEN YOUR
GRAVES, AND CAUSE YOU TO COME OUT OF YOUR GRAVES, AND BRING YOU
INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL. And you shall KNOW that I AM THE LORD,
when I OPEN your graves, and bring you UP out of your graves, and
shall PUT MY SPIRIT IN YOU, and you SHALL LIVE. I will place you
in your own land: then shall you KNOW that I THE LORD HAVE SPOKEN
IT, AND PERFORMED IT, says the Lord" (verses 12-14).
Have you ever read anything like this? The world will see
many MIRACLES in the last days! THERE WILL BE THE MIRACLES OF THE
FALSE PROPHET. THERE WILL BE THE MIRACLES OF THE TWO WITNESSES IN
JERUSALEM. There will be MIGHTY SIGNS in the earth, the sea, and
in the heavens. The world will never have ever seen such a time
as the last 42 months of this age. The Great Tribulation will
bring such death and horror that there will be no time before or
after it that will be the like. The Day of the Lord will be the
time when, if Jesus did not come back to save us from ourselves,
no human flesh would remain alive. The Battle of Armageddon will
be horrific as Jesus and His armies destroy the armies of the
Europe Beast power and the kings of the East. Jesus said in Luke
21 that the last years of this age would be the time when all
things that are written will come to pass. THERE IS MUCH WRITTEN -
THERE IS MUCH TO COME TO PASS!
BUT HERE IN EZEKIEL 37 YOU ARE READING ABOUT A MIRACLE FOR
THE LAST DAYS THAT REALLY BLOWS THE MIND!!!
GOD WILL PERFORM A PHYSICAL RESURRECTION OF SO MANY SLAIN
ISRAELITES THAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE A MASSIVE ARMY. THEY WILL RISE,
THEY WILL COME BACK TO THE LAND GOD PROMISED THEIR FATHERS
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.
TRULY NO SUCH MIGHTY A MIRACLE HAS EVER TAKEN PLACE IN THE
HISTORY OF ISRAEL. BUT HERE YOU HAVE THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT IT
WILL TAKE PLACE!! IS ANYTHING IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE LORD? NO! NO!
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE LORD TO DO. HE HAS WRITTEN WHAT YOU
HAVE JUST READ, AND HE WILL PERFORM IT!!
ISRAEL - YOU ARE SINNERS - YOU ARE A WICKED GENERATION. YOUR
EVIL AND ABOMINATIONS REACH TO HEAVEN. YOU WILL BE PUNISHED. YOUR
DAY OF RECKONING IS COMING. WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN YOU WILL REAP. GOD
IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS. ALL PEOPLES WHO HAVE SINNED AS MIGHTY
AS YOUR SINS ARE, HAVE INDEED FALLEN, HAVE DESTROYED THEMSELVES.
MANY MIGHTY AND GREAT NATIONS AND EMPIRES HAVE WRITTEN THEIR
HISTORY IN FINAL DESTRUCTION. YOU WILL BE NO DIFFERENT. IF YOU DO
NOT REPENT AS NATIONS I TELL YOU YOU WILL PERISH BY FAMINE,
PESTILENCE AND THE SWORD OF WAR!
YET GOD TELLS YOU THE HAPPY ENDING - YOUR SLAIN WILL RISE
AGAIN - AS A GREAT ARMY YOUR PEOPLE WILL RISE FROM THE GRAVE AND
GOD WILL PUT HIS SPIRIT IN YOU. THEN YOU WILL INDEED KNOW THAT
GOD IS ALIVE, THAT HE DOES EXIST, THAT HE WILL STILL LOVE YOU,
TO YOU HE WILL GIVE THE LAND THAT HE PROMISED TO ABRAHAM.
Judah and Israel REUNITED
It is the time in earth's history that Israel and Judah be
brought back as ONE PEOPLES again. All Jews of any scholastic
mind of Old Testament history KNOW that the House of Israel and
the House of Judah since their SEPARATION after the death of
Solomon, HAVE NEVER BEEN RESTORED AS ONE PEOPLE - AS ONE NATION
OF 13 FAMILIES OR TRIBES OF JACOB ISRAEL.
THE TWO STICKS - ONE FOR JUDAH AND HIS COMPANIONS OF ISRAEL
- ONE FOR JOSEPH, THE STICK OF EPHRAIM AND ALL THE HOUSE OF
ISRAEL.
THE TWO STICKS GOD WILL MAKE AS ONE STICK. THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL AND JUDAH WILL BE GATHERED OUT OF THE NATIONS AND THEY
WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE HOLY LAND. THERE THEY WILL BE ONE
NATION AGAIN. THEY WILL BE CLEANSED OF THEIR SINS AND GOD SAYS,
"SO SHALL THEY BE MY PEOPLE AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD" (verses 15-
23).
Ah, LOOK, see what it to happen, DAVID (RAISED FROM THE DEAD
AT THE RESURRECTION OF THE SAINTS AT CHRIST'S COMING) WILL BE
THEIR KING. THEY WILL WALK IN THE JUDGMENT AND STATUTES OF GOD.
THEY WILL DWELL IN THE LAND GIVEN TO JACOB, THEY AND THEIR
CHILDREN AND THE CHILDREN OF THEIR CHILDREN, FOREVER; AND DAVID
SHALL BE THEIR PRINCE (verses 24-25).
IT IS THE TRUTH WE HAVE ALREADY SEEN IN ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH.
A TRUTH YET FOR THE FUTURE AHEAD OF US TODAY. YES IT IS THE TIME
GOD MAKES A COVENANT OF **PEACE** WITH THEM; AND SAYS GOD, "WILL
SET MY SANCTUARY IN THE MIDST OF THEM FOR EVERMORE. MY TABERNACLE
ALSO SHALL BE WITH THEM: YES, I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL
BE NY PEOPLE. AND THE HEATHEN SHALL KNOW THAT I THE LORD DO
SANCTIFY ISRAEL, WHEN MY SANCTUARY SHALL BE IN THE MIDST OF THEM
FOR EVERMORE" (verses 26-280.
A most remarkable, sober, but very INSPIRING chapter of
Ezekiel.
Jesus will return; He will raise from the death many slain
Israelites, they with the ones still alive, shall return to the
Holy Land. David (the king of old Israel) will be raised to
immortal life as will thousands of saints. David will be the king
again over them, the 12 apostles, as Jesus promised in the
Gospels, will each rule one of the twelve tribes.
God in the form of Christ Jesus will dwell among them, plant
His sanctuary in their midst forever more. Oh yes, the nations as
well as the people of Israel will then KNOW THAT GOD IS GOD.
IT IS THE TIME OF THE START OF THE EARTH BEING FULL OF THE
KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA BEDS!
SO IT IS WRITTEN AND SO IT WILL COME TO PASS!
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To be continued
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