These are my speaking notes from the second of two classes that likely could have been 3 or 4 classes on this critical subject. I am praying into perhaps revisiting this topic\/portion of prophetic scripture. Once again, these being class notes, they might contain references to overheads, etc.<\/p>\n
EZEKIEL CHAPTERS 33-39 – WEEK TWO<\/strong><\/p>\n I am not going to go deep into my thoughts re pre-tri\/post-trib\/trib-wrath separate events – etc. That is a related but sort of separate topic.<\/p>\n There\u2019s lots more scripture addresses that I am CITING but not READING \u2013 for time-sake.<\/p>\n I believe those are good things to understand and pray into and ponder, and if you would like a good overview of MANY end-times doctrines, there\u2019s a book called \u201cThe Last Days Handbook\u201d by Robert Lightner. Jack Hayford references it often in the Spirit Filled Bible, as it presents alternative viewpoints. Lightner presents a good description of many current beliefs \u2013 BUT I COUNSEL you to pray into and study way more than his one good book. Study THE BOOK. I am more and more seeing that God Himself will honor your SPENDING of your life in His Word.<\/p>\n I spend WAY less time reading other people\u2019s thoughts ABOUT the bible, than I do IN the bible.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, another good book: \u201cThe Coming Awakening Of Israel\u201d \u2013 by James Goll.<\/p>\n Another important point \u2013 I don’t think that NOT UNDERSTANDING end-times a disqualifier of anydisquali he more you can press in to understanding, though, the better. The whole book is for each one of us…<\/p>\n HERE\u2019S WHAT I THINK IS DANGEROUS FOR US ALL: NOT KNOWING (a) who God is or (b) HOW HE OPERATES is a huge issue \u2013 it will AT BEST open doors to well-intended inaccuracies. And it can get far worse than that.<\/p>\n He is who He is. His word reveals His personality. He does not change. If the Jews would understand that, they would have a more sober view of their current situations, as well as their future promises. So would the church \u2013 in us redeeming the time.<\/p>\n We\u2019re looking into Ezekiel to understand HOW GOD OPERATES \u2013 what He HAS done, and what He says He WILL DO. To not do that places us in jeopardy of taking offense (Luke 7:23), having our hearts grow cold or hard (Matt 24:12), or even failing to see what is the work of God (Matt 16:3).<\/p>\n Jesus didn\u2019t condemn ANYONE for being SURPRISED by what He did. Jesus was furious when the Pharisees, in religious ignorance, raged against God with preconceived philosophy and attitudes. He dubbed them actors. MATT 16:3.<\/p>\n So we want to be humbly, prayerfully prepared, set apart for the Master\u2019s use. Understanding who He is and what He does (Jer 9:24-26) and deep in His word, where we will find favor: ONE QUICK BACK-TRACK \u2013 (to demonstrate the goodness of God to Israel, and His protection over them during this current season of chaos). Last week we read:<\/p>\n Lev 25:1,4,20,21<\/em><\/strong> 4 ‘but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.<\/em><\/p>\n 20 ‘And if you say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?”<\/em> (TELL THE IDF STORY AND THE TERRORIST TUNNELS) \u2013 fields were harvested in obedience of harvesting prior to a sabbath year, and that harvest exposed terror tunnel entrances that had formerly been hidden by full grown crops.<\/p>\n ONE MORE BACK-TRACK \u2013 to cement the point re HOLY SPIRIT prayer and not knowing how to pray \u201cw our understanding\u201d (IN OUR WORDS) – when we see international trouble throughout the earth \u2013 although there is no ques we are called to pray:<\/p>\n BACKGROUND \u2013 God was judging the nations around Israel during this same time when He was judging Israel itself (reading Ezekiel 20-32 is enlightening re the period). God, BTW, was calling that time \u201cTHE TIME OF THE GENTILES\u201d (Ezek 33) \u2013 strikingly similar to Jesus saying the TIMES of the Gentiles throughout the Gospels – which we typically assume means the TIME PERIOD during which SALVATION IS OPEN to the Gentiles….in Ezek it meant the Gentiles\u2019 time for judgment and correction. So factor that prior example into Luke 21:24…<\/p>\n OK \u2013 here\u2019s where Holy Spirit, as opposed to \u201cI-understand-what-God-is-doing-and-can- therefore-accurately-verbalize-how-to pray-into-news-events\u201d prayer works: Ezek 29:19<\/strong><\/em> GOT THAT? God identifies Babylon as WICKED \u2013 He has them on His Judgment-List all the way up to the book of Revelation, and yet here God says He\u2019s using Babylon for His purposes, and paying them for their efforts.<\/p>\n SO – HOW TO PRAY? Rom 8: 26<\/em><\/strong> I believe it will be a huge breakthrough for the true praying church when we start recognizing how much of the call to prayer is the call to Holy-Spirit-praying in heavenly-language- prayer.<\/p>\n Currently that kind of prayer is often regarded as an option. If you think differently, God bless you. But some of the testimonies I have received THIS WEEK, between these two classes, would support this theory.<\/p>\n Eph 6:12-13, 18<\/em><\/strong> 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints–<\/em><\/p>\n See what\u2019s happening here? As we go back and dig in, it prepares us w understanding and equips us to move forward in God. THIS IS THE END-GAME PLAN OF GOD \u2013 A Spirit-filled praying church that understands what God has already said is going to happen, and then determines to pray into those things, understanding that \u201cYOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN\u201d means prayerful agreement w the will of God revealed in the Word of God. THAT is progress.<\/p>\n I believe those in-alignment prayers will fill the bowls in Revelation GOT ALL THAT???? Pray \u2013 invest your time in the eternal plan. The issue is not HOW LITTLE we need to pray \u2013 of course He loves our little prayer. The opportunity is HOW MUCH we may want to participate. Why set the low bar? The heroes of faith chose to be extremists.<\/p>\n OK \u2013 moving on:<\/p>\n NEBBY\u2019S STATUE \u2013 (THE MOTHER OF ALL PROPHECY) \u2013 there\u2019s a new understanding for me \u2013 as of this week \u2013 makes things clearer and more confirmed for me re EZEK as well as many other places where end times are addressed…..<\/p>\n BOOK TO READ \u2013 \u201cTHE MIDEAST BEAST\u201d by Joel Richardson \u2013 Given to me by Michele and Bruce \u2013 it has THIS WEEK shifted my understanding re the BOTTOM SECTION of Nebby\u2019s DREAM STATUE in the Plain of Dura \u2013 (Daniel 2) \u2013 and that shift fits so silly-great into what I believe the Lord has personally been showing me for years re the Anti-Christ and the end-times culmination \u2013 and NOT ALL NATIONS totally succumbing to the Anti-Christ.<\/p>\n And this is more evidence why you want the Word in you, so that new information will In this instance, MY GLOBAL thoughts are CONFIRMED, and at the same time an opinion I had held before has been totally adjusted. Personally I am now of the mind that the feet of clay and iron describe the Sunni-Shi\u2019ite conflict that will continue within Islam until the very end of this age, and also I am of the mind that the VERY popular theory of the ROMANIC-originated European 10-nation alliance coming under Anti-Christ needs to be carefully reconsidered in light of Joel R\u2019s book \u2013 which builds a sound case for the feet NOT describing a sort of resurrected Roman Empire, or an empire comprised of current day or future nations whose roots spring from Romanic influence. It\u2019s almost sort of \u201cWestern Arrogance\u201d. Read: \u201cTHE MIDEAST BEAST\u201d \u2013 pages 57-70.<\/p>\n What does this mean to us\/me? Why is this important for our Ezek study? Peter is not simply \u201ctalking Paul stuff\u201d \u2013 he mentions the \u201crest of Scriptures\u201d. So we want to embrace the invitation to dig deep, and also to understand the jeopardy of being, or remaining either\/both untaught or unstable. WE WOULD DO WELL TO GET THIS AS RIGHT AS POSSIBLE.<\/p>\n Joel Richardson\u2019s well-supported conclusion that Islam is the feet of the governmental prophecy of Daniel actually SUPPORTS WHAT I SAID LAST WEEK re: Ps 110 \u2013 \u201cHe shall slay the heads of MANY NATIONS\u201d (but not ALL). THAT is a huge HOPE for us \u2013 to spiritually war for our nation.<\/p>\n I remain inclined to believe most and likely all nations will be influenced and impacted by the spirit of Anti-Christ, but IF ALL NATIONS were under his complete dominion and rule, then: RE: the statue-feet being Islam and not Romanic – I have not embraced some \u201cnew thinking\u201d because it\u2019s a \u201ckinder and gentler\u201d gospel. There\u2019s danger in that process. GENERAL RECOMMENDATION – RE: TRYING NOT TO MISS ANYTHING \u2013 when you read ANY prophecy of scripture, try to ask yourself EXAMPLE \u2013 an \u201cANYMORE\u201d proclamation \u2013 meaning it won\u2019t happen again: Israel is hearing the taunts of most all nations, including OUR NATION, right now. Therefore: HHY, and something to pray into \u2013 looking forward to its fulfillment. OK \u2013 Ezek 36 – towards the end of the chapter.. That should inspire each of us to recognize the ramifications of our own sins on the ones around us. And the accountability towards others re our sins.<\/p>\n EZEK 36<\/strong> (GOD speaking) says: (re: GOD NO CHUMP, and wanting Israel to know that, even in Ezek\u2019s day) (REMEMBER verse 10 \u2013 we\u2019re talking ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, ALL OF IT)<\/p>\n 25 “Then (meaning, at that time) I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. (HHY \u2013 visit Israel today, and sadly see)<\/em> 32 “Not for your sake do I do this,” says the Lord GOD, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel!”<\/em> The scriptures make it clear that even in the eventual revelation of their Jesus, there will be sorrow \u2013 I believe not only because of the tough times, but also in the realization of the past 2,000 years: Do we want to wait until more Jews perish without knowledge of their Savior because we don\u2019t want to hurt their feelings? That is the danger of a humanistic \u201cgospel of man\u201d. Help us Holy Spirit…to be effective, loving, but speaking the whole bible-gospel \u2013 swords are for cutting.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not a message only of God\u2019s ANGER, or only of God\u2019s KINDNESS, or only SYMPATHY or HOLINESS, or even HOW COOL AN OVERALL PLAN.<\/p>\n It is a message of the Spirit \u2013 ONLY Spirit led, ONLY Spirit controlled, ONLY Spirit ordained<\/p>\n Isa 55:11<\/em><\/strong> But people say: People say: \u201cThe word of God does not return void\u201d. Wrong. It does not return void when it is sent by His SPIRIT. We\u2019ve all heard void sermons, void teachings. Something is different when the word is under an anointing of Spirit-guidance. The WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD is required. (ACTS 20:26-27 \u2013 and Paul knew the assignment of Ezekiel\u2019s watchmen)<\/p>\n EZEK<\/em><\/strong> Israel today wants to claim this as already having happened (HH). But that logic falls down when you see the land still bereaving them of their children (36:13 – dying in the IDF) and the very same enemy nations still raging war against them. WE CANNOT RUSH THE TIMING OF GOD, but we are invited to PRAY INTO IT so that His plans will come: EZEK: CIRCLING BACK TO v37 and yet-unfulfilled promises – here’s one of God to Jacob \u2013 about which Jacob reminds GOD \u2013 a good model for us in our prayers \u2013 remind God of His promises towards all His believers (My wife and I are doing that in this season!): EVEN EARLIER PROMISES had been made by God to ABRAHAM, and those, by virtue of what they said, were passed along to Jacob as well as all the descendants – and that promise remains a KEYNOTE to all prophecy re the Jews Gen 22:15, 17-18<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 more promises to the Jews, and for us to be praying, for God\u2019s fulfillment: EZEK 37<\/strong> <\/em>– DRY BONES \u2013 verses often used to assure the dry Gentile saints of their restoration \u2013 which is glorious and fine \u2013 but let\u2019s read it in its prophetic context: WHO ARE THESE VERSES primarily FOR, and ABOUT? ans: (The re-unification of the tribes, including the return of the ten lost tribes) (GEOGRAPHICAL CONFIRMATION \u2013 the land given to Jacob \u2013 restored to them):. 28 “The nations also will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”‘”<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019m captivated by verse 28 (my blog and FB address www.facebook.com\/ez3728 and www.ez3728.com) \u2013 V 28 is HUGE in revealing a WHAT, a WHEN and a TO-WHO.<\/p>\n Also it implies NOT UNTIL THAT TIME will the nations understand this… Ezek 38:1-23 – HUGE PROPHETIC VERSES right here. And all is not yet fully revealed, although I think a good deal is COMING INTO PLACE.<\/p>\n Is the BEAST from the MID-EAST (or Europe)? I leave this to your opinion, but with my fresh inclination to see ISLAM as the root of the anti-christ BEAST (instead of stemming from a European root) these verses flow yet better when considered in that Middle Eastern context \u2013 AND (now obviously) most all of those Middle Eastern nations are named in Ezekiel.<\/p>\n OTHER NATIONS, TOO: THIS does NOT MEAN that many\/most other nations and govts from all around the world will not unite under the influence of the Anti-Christ, and in fact I believe we are seeing it in our days, but only ascribing MAGOG to RUSSIA becomes a stretch. We can w\/o question understand that these verses are against the united enemies of Israel \u2013 of which I believe there may well be a vast majority of all the nations of the earth. Pray for the USA.<\/p>\n A good point to note about the BIBLE \u2013 it\u2019s a MIDDLE EASTERN book written w a MIDDLE EASTERN style, but then read and interpreted by all men everywhere. The Middle Eastern culture spoke and wrote in hyperboles (a kind word for some exaggerations). At the risk of sounding less than an absolute literalist, I offer these hyperbolic examples:<\/p>\n Daniel tells Nebby this (obviously Middle Eastern hyperbole): (Hyperbole \u2013 instantly-speaking wicked babies) This is not to dumb-down the scriptures, nor to dispute re the truths of Truth is, we would do better reading our bibles w a Middle Eastern lens rather than a WESTERN lens. OK \u2013 GOG\/MAGOG \u2013 once again, my speculative opinion. If you think differently, great. Zeph 1:4-5<\/em><\/strong> \u201cMagog\u201d means \u2013 coming out of GOG \u2013 related: some think it means \u201cLand of (from) Gog\u201d<\/p>\n EZEK 38 IMPORTANTLY – LOOK who\u2019s doing the initiating \u2013 GOD. It is His time for His plans to be activated….) Here actual nations are named, so there is no negotiation as to who they are (and they are Islamic, and growing in that leaning and intensity, as we sit here tonight): 8 “After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely.<\/em> (HHY actually \u2013 the Jews are not dwelling safely yet \u2013 I contend things are just beginning) ANY PLACE ELSE IN SCRIPTURE that might reveal GOD\u2019S OWN HAND in this invasion? Would God CAUSE wars? (Isa 45:7 says yes)<\/p>\n Directly related to these events:<\/p>\n Zech 14:1-4<\/em><\/strong> BACK TO EZEK 38 12 “to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.<\/em> \u201cFAR NORTH\u201d can indeed mean nations other than the Ezekiel-days Islamic nations \u2013 it has spread north as well as east west and south since the times of Ezekiel. AND other nations will surely come along with them \u2013 unnamed.<\/p>\n 16 “You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”<\/em><\/p>\n REMEMBER \u2013 GOD IS dealing with all people all the time (Jer 9:24-26, Acts 17:26-31): 17 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Are you he of whom I have spoken in former days<\/em> (PRE EZEK) by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?<\/em> WHAT DOES THAT TELL US? A warring army, inclined to be fighting among itself to the point of destruction? Is this a confirmation\/hint of Gog perhaps being from the root of Esau\/Edom, which is Mount Seir, which is integral to Islam?<\/p>\n Gen 36:8 So Esau dwelt in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom.<\/p>\n Gen 16:11-12<\/em><\/strong> THE DARK ALLIANCE OF EDOM AND ISHMAEL as enemies of Israel: EZEK 38<\/em><\/strong> Ezek 39:1-29<\/strong><\/em> 6 “And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in security in the coastlands. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.<\/em> THAT is a huge verse \u2013 because if there is no longer any blasphemy of the name of God, then REV 13:4 has to have occurred prior to the destruction of Gog \u2013 which upsets many end-times theories (you\u2019re invited to dig into this yourself):<\/p>\n Rev 13:5 – 5 And he (THE BEAST \u2013 which to me is looking to be one and same as Gog) was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months.<\/p>\n And just as Jesus in Rev 19:13 is \u201cdivinely labeled\u201d THE WORD OF GOD, we see yet another “divine label” pointer to the possibility of this final demonic \u201ccorporation\u201d coming from Islamic roots: FAIR QUES – Is there any \u201cSPECIAL ANOINTING FOR WICKEDNESS\u201d assigned to Babylon? Zech 5:7-11<\/strong><\/em> GOD IS MAKING THE \u201cSURELY\u201d remark to counter what He knew would be folks wanting to write these prophecies off \u2013 which we see being offered to the church right now, as doctrine: SEE THE JEOPARDY of denying or ignoring this \u2013 whether we LIKE it, or even whether we UNDERSTAND IT fully? The DAY when ALL NATIONS are involved in such activity hasn\u2019t happened. I\u2019d think any historical reflections to the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, or the Holocaust of WW 2, or the genocides in China, all fail to FULL-FILL this prophetic word, which appears confirmed in Isaiah, Zechariah, Zephaniah, etc. \u2013 and our Lord told us not think everything would not be fulfilled. And His answer to the \u201cWHEN-ARE-YOU-RETURNING question was to point the people back to Daniel, who clearly spoke of global events.<\/p>\n I can go on, but I won\u2019t. Michael the archangel, cited in Daniel 12, did not stand up to prevent the destruction of the temple in 70AD. Nor was it glorious times afterward, and Israel did not stop living contrary to God. Nor was Israel delivered. I am personally convinced these events are HHY.<\/p>\n V 9-20 \u2013 solid to read but for time-sake I will say they are descriptives of the intensity and result of the judgment on Gog.
\nAnd Daniel (8:26 and 9:24) has God Himself saying some things were sealed up UNTIL THE END \u2013 so there\u2019s things that will be unclear until God does them TOWARDS or even AT the very end of the Age. So some \u201cNOT KNOWING\u201d is OK.
\nBut choosing to ignore the signs of the times, proclaiming \u201clife and church as usual\u201d can be Pharisaical, or Phatal (just kidding: Fatal).
\nGod is calling His Bride to ready herself. She MADE HERSELF ready. Rev 19:7. She was not MADE ready by circumstances. That will be one marker of the real Bride \u2013 her readiness.<\/p>\n
\nIsa 66:2<\/strong> <\/em>(B)
\n2 ……”But on this one will I look: on him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 1 And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 21 ‘Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nEzek 30:10-12<\/strong><\/em>
\n 10 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will also make a multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.<\/em>
\n 11 He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land; they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.<\/em>
\n 12 I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked; I will make the land waste, and all that is in it, by the hand of aliens. I, the LORD, have spoken.”<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 19 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he shall take away her wealth, carry off her spoil, and remove her pillage; and that will be the wages for his army.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n…AND THE ANSWER IS…..(envelope, please) – HOLY SPIRIT prayer:<\/p>\n
\n 26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI don\u2019t think that will continue, as things progress and times get tougher.<\/p>\n
\n 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.<\/em>
\n 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nRev 5:5, 8<\/em><\/strong>
\n 5 But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.”<\/em>
\n 8 Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.<\/em> (THIS THE VERSE which defines HARP AND BOWL worship, btw)
\n…and proceeding further, if you are so inclined, would take you to what\u2019s in those bowls. It appears to be the activation of the end-times plans of God. Tough stuff released on the earth, BY the filled prayer\/worship bowls.
\nSo we are invited to, and charged with, participating in the activation of the plans of God, which makes sense. We\u2019re His army of volunteers (Ps 110)<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 ring true and confirm what you already believe; OR
\n\u2022 ring true and provide confident readjustment.<\/p>\n
\nBLESSED ARE THE FLEXIBLE, and the INFORMED.
\nDon\u2019t get constipated by revelations you\u2019ve received, or positions you\u2019ve taken. There is more. (John 16:12-14)<\/p>\n
\nFIRST: Misunderstanding any scripture can open doors to all sorts of weirdities, and worse. Peter said it this about Paul\u2019s writings (this of course is WORDT CASE SCENARIO):
\n2 Pet 3:15-16<\/em><\/strong>
\n 15 and account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation– as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you,<\/em>
\n 16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n1. Why would our Lord only slay the heads of SOME nations (Ps 110)? SO HERE\u2019S OUR EVANGELISTIC HOPE and OUTREACH:
\n2. Let\u2019s go contend for OUR nation, and also for ANY OTHER NATION that the Lord would lead us to. Get that? I often pray Ps 125:3 over America, as our nation made a covenant pact w God when we began our national journey. The little church, where the OATH of covenant (Shaba) was made, was left standing, BY GOD, at the base of the World Trade Center (good book: Cahn \u2013 \u201cThe Harbinger\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nBut I do believe it aligns w countless scriptures, and I believe it is more accurate, and in that accuracy there happens to be more hope for us as we go about WARNING EVERY MAN\u201d as Paul says (Col 1:28) \u2013 which ties into the Ezek 33 watchman charge to the reader of Ezekiel.<\/p>\n
\n1. WHO is God (or the prophet, for God) talking to?
\n2. WHAT is being said as going to happen?
\n3. Do I know, from other scriptures, whether this HAS HAPPENED IN FULNESS, YET; OR
\n4. Is there sound evidence, biblically or historically that it has NOT HAPPENED YET?
\n5. Words like: ANYMORE, or FOREVER mean what they say. It is also interesting where those words DO NOT APPEAR \u2013 there were certain ordinances & provisions NOT intended FOREVER.<\/p>\n
\nEzek 36:15<\/em><\/strong>
\n 15 “Nor will I let you hear the taunts of the nations anymore, nor bear the reproach of the peoples anymore, nor shall you cause your nation to stumble anymore,” says the Lord GOD.'”<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThat is prayer-partnership w understanding!!<\/p>\n
\nWE LOOKED TOO BRIEFLY at the NEGATIVE TESTIMONY OF ISRAEL – because of their TESTIMONY OF CORRECTION AND PUNISHMENT due to their disobedience, the nations around them actually fell into greater confusion and darkness, misinterpreting God bringing HIS PEOPLE INTO CAPTIVITY as a SIGN THAT THEIR OWN FALSE GODS were stronger than the God of Israel. So Israel\u2019s disobedience fueled demonic fires of deception.<\/p>\n
\n20 “When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name– when they (the heathen) said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and yet they have gone out of His land.’<\/em>
\n 21 “But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I do not do (PROMISE OF RETURN) this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went.<\/em>
\n 23 “And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD,” says the Lord GOD, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.<\/em>
\n 24 “For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 26 “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.<\/em>
\n 27 “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.<\/em>
\n 28 “Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.<\/em>
\n29 “I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you.<\/em>
\n 30 “And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of famine among the nations.<\/em>
\n 31 “Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTHIS IS WHY KISSING UP TO ISRAEL IS NOT THE ANSWER FOR THE CHURCH. If we present only a GOSPEL-OF-VICTIMIZATION to the Jews \u2013 how will they repent?
\nWhat will they repent OF?
\nTheir biggest issue is their 2,000 year rejection of their Messiah.
\nLOVE ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE. SPEAK TRUTH OF THE WORD IN LOVE.<\/p>\n
\nZech 12:10<\/em><\/strong>
\n 10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they have pierced; they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.<\/em> (THEY\u2019LL BE GAZING ON THEIR SAVIOR, BUT MOURNING)<\/p>\n
\n 11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 33 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will also enable you to dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt.<\/em>
\n 34 “The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by.<\/em>
\n 35 “So they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPs 122:6-9<\/em><\/strong>
\n 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.<\/em>
\n 7 Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces.”<\/em>
\n 8 For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”<\/em>
\n 9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\n36 “Then<\/em> (ON THAT DAY v 35) the nations which are left all around you<\/em> (some will be left \u2013 not all nations destroyed) shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.”<\/em>
\n 37 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will also let the house of Israel inquire of Me to do this for them: I will increase their men like a flock.<\/em>
\n 38 “Like a flock offered as holy sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem on its feast days, so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.”‘”<\/em> HHY? I would say so.<\/p>\n
\nGen 32:11-12<\/em><\/strong>
\n 11 “Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children.<\/em>
\n 12<\/em> (JACOB’S REMINDER) “For You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'”<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGen 12:2-3<\/em><\/strong>
\n 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing.<\/em>
\n 3 I will bless (BARUCH \u2013 \u201cbless\u201d) those who bless (BARUCH \u2013 \u201cbless\u201d) you, and I will curse<\/em> (ARAR \u2013 \u201ccurse\u201d \u2013 as in Ararat \u2013 \u2018Curse Reversed\u201d) him who curses (QALAL \u2013 \u201ctreats you lightly\u201d) you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”<\/p>\n
\n15 Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,…<\/em>
\n 17 “blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. (HHY)<\/em>
\n 18 “In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”<\/em>
\nTHE JEWS ARE NOT YET BLESSING ALL NATIONS. HHY.<\/p>\n
\n1 The hand of the LORD came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.<\/em>
\n 2 Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry.<\/em>
\n 3 And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” So I answered, “O Lord GOD, You know.”<\/em> (ONE OF GOD\u2019S RHETORICAL QUES. Like \u2013 \u201cADAM WHERE ARE YOU?\u201d duh)
\n4 Again He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!<\/em>
\n 5 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: “Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.<\/em>
\n 6 “I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the LORD.”‘”<\/em>
\n 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded;<\/em> (THAT is the SPIRIT-LED prophet – he [a] hears from the Lord and then [b] speaks \u2013 compare to Ezek 13:7, 8)
\n….and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone.<\/em>
\n 8 Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.<\/em>
\n 9 Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath<\/em> (RUACH \u2013 living spirit), prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”‘”<\/em>
\n 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’<\/em>
\n 12 “Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.<\/em>
\n 13 “Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.<\/em>
\n 14 “I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and performed it,” says the LORD.'”<\/em>
\n 15 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,<\/em><\/p>\n
\n16 “As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’<\/em>
\n 17 “Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand.<\/em>
\n(Ezek was actually instructed to tie the sticks together, so the captives standing w him would ask a question, and he\u2019d give them a prophetic answer. PROPHETIC STREET THEATER)
\n18 “And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Will you not show us what you mean by these?’–<\/em>
\n 19 “say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Surely I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”‘<\/em>
\n 20 “And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.<\/em>
\n 21 “Then say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land;<\/em>
\n 22 “and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.<\/em>
\n 23 “They shall not defile themselves anymore (HHY \u2013 visit Israel \u2013 you\u2019ll see for yourself) with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.<\/em>
\n 24 “David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n25 “Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever.<\/em>
\n 26 “Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore.<\/em>
\n 27 “My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAT THE TIME OF HIS ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS SANCTUARY the nations that are left will finally, fully recognize the call and separation-for-divine purpose that the Lord has put on the Jewish people. That is why we pray, and teach, and want to understand these amazing plans. And that is why there is so much ranting and raging against Israel \u2013 it is spiritual blindness. Anti-Semitism (the Mount Seir spirit) is a primary symptom of spiritual blindness, which biblically can be fatal \u2013 inside or outside the church.<\/p>\n
\nDan 2:39<\/em><\/strong>
\n 39 “But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.<\/em>
\n This commonly is believed as referring to Greece. Greece (700 BC to AD 600) did not rule over the Mayans in Central America (2000BC to AD 250) \u2013 so did Daniel blow it w his \u201cover all the earth\u201d word, or was he meaning, as a Middle Easterner \u2013 over all the world area in which you live?<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPs 58:3<\/strong> \u2013 <\/em>here\u2019s another one (WICKED BABIES don\u2019t have to wait two years to talk???):
\n 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 ONLY Savior and Him dying for EVERYONE, nor for
\n\u2022 THE FLOOD covering ALL THE EARTH \u2013 in fact we have geological proof of that, and flood-accounts in most all cultures (if you\u2019re a guy, come to the men\u2019s meeting next Saturday \u2013 we\u2019re having an ark explorer and creation scientist!).<\/p>\n
\nThe more we invest in scriptural study, the more the Holy Spirit will assist lens-adjustment.
\nHey – WESTERN lens interprets Jehovah \u201cJireh\u201d as providing 2 flatscreens and 3 cars.<\/p>\n
\nIn Hebrew \u2013 GOG means ROOF \u2013 sometimes associated with a place of demon worship and abomination (although not always \u2013 but very much the case during the times of the disobedience of Israel and Judah around the times of the captivities):
\n2 Sam 16:22 \u2013 Absalom went into his father\u2019s concubines in a GOG (roof-top) tent \u2013 an abomination.
\n2 Kings 23:12 (timely to Israel before Ezek writing) \u2013 Josiah\u2019s revival included tearing down the roof (GOG) altars the people had erected to sacrifice to demons.
\nZephaniah 1:5 \u2013 Huge, and timely to Ezek\u2019s prophecy.<\/p>\n
\n 4 “I will stretch out My hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off every trace of Baal from this place, the names of the idolatrous priests with the pagan priests–<\/em>
\n 5 Those who worship the host of heaven on the housetops (GOG); those who worship and swear oaths by the LORD, but who also swear by Milcom;<\/em><\/p>\n
\n1 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,<\/em>
\n 2 “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,<\/em>
\n 3 “and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.<\/em> (Identifying these places is longer than this class. Some think Turkey, others think otherwise. ROSH absolutely meaning RUSSIA is likely goofy, although it is not out of the ques that evil Russia could and would align to hate Israel. They hate it today).<\/p>\n
\n4 “I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n5 “Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;<\/em>
\n 6 “Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops– many people are with you.<\/em>
\n 7 “Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n9 “You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”<\/em>
\n 10 ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan:<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 1 Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, and your spoil will be divided in your midst.<\/em>
\n 2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; <\/em>(HHY \u2013 I see no way how anyone could check this off the prophecy-chart as having occurred in 70AD \u2013 which is required in some other eschatological views – “all nations” in 70 AD?) – the city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.<\/em>
\n3 Then<\/em> (“THEN” would have me to conclude: AT THAT TIME = the next event, without a 2,000 year lag, is the appearance of the Man Christ Jesus. HHY) the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.<\/em>
\n 4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two<\/em> (HOW? See Ezek 38:19, Rev 16:18 – then come back here!), from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n11 “You (enemy nations) will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates’-<\/em>(THEREFORE \u2013 HHY even at this moment, and certainly HHY if you want to embrace the popular \u201call-the-tough-stuff-happened-in-70AD\u201d eschatology. They weren\u2019t living in peace when the temple was destroyed).<\/p>\n
\n 13 “Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?'”‘<\/em>
\n 14 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “On that day when My people Israel dwell safely, will you not know it?<\/em>
\n 15 “Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many<\/em> peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 He is dealing w ISRAEL \u2013 working on them to bring them to repentance via their own still-rejected Messiah
\n\u2022 He is dealing w ALL NATIONS \u2013 not willing that ANY should perish
\n\u2022 He is dealing w the ISLAMIC ALLIANCE \u2013 set up for final judgment – and meanwhile calling many sons of Ishmael back to Him…<\/p>\n
\n 18 “And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “that My fury will show in My face.<\/em>
\n 19 “For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: ‘Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel,<\/em>
\n 20 ‘so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.’<\/em>
\n 21 “I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord GOD. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 11 And the Angel of the LORD said to her: “Behold, you are with child, and you shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your affliction.<\/em>
\n 12 He shall be a wild man; his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”<\/em><\/p>\n
\nPs 83:5-8<\/em><\/strong>
\n 5 For they have consulted together with one consent; they form a confederacy against You:<\/em>
\n 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites;<\/em>
\n 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;<\/em>
\n 8 Assyria also has joined with them; they have helped the children of Lot. Selah<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 22 “And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. (prophetic weather forecast)<\/em>
\n 23 “Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.”‘<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 1 “And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal;<\/em>
\n 2 “and I will turn you around and lead you on, bringing you up from the far north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel.<\/em>
\n 3 “Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.<\/em>
\n 4 “You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.<\/em>
\n 5 “You shall fall on the open field; for I have spoken,” says the Lord GOD.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n 7 “So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore<\/em> (UP TO THIS POINT THEY ARE STILL PROFANING HIS NAME. HHY, THEN, FOR THIS PROPHECY). Then the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.<\/p>\n
\nRev 17:5<\/em><\/strong>
\n 5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nYoung Zechariah sees heavenly creatures taking a \u201cwoman\u201d to a pre-planned place (on a base), to be released at a pre-appointed time:<\/p>\n
\n 7 “Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket”;<\/em>
\n 8 then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover over its mouth.<\/em>
\n 9 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.<\/em>
\n 10 So I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they carrying the basket?”<\/em>
\n 11 And he said to me, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar; when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its base.”<\/em>
\nSHINAR is IRAQ.<\/p>\n
\n8 “Surely it is coming, and it shall be done,” says the Lord GOD. “This is the day of which I have spoken.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n9 “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows, the javelins and spears; and they will make fires with them for seven years.<\/em>
\n 10 “They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,” says the Lord GOD.<\/em>
\n 11 “It will come to pass in that day that I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea; and it will obstruct travelers, because there they will bury Gog and all his multitude. Therefore they will call it the Valley of Hamon Gog.<\/em>
\n 12 “For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.<\/em>
\n 13 “Indeed all the people of the land will be burying them, and they will gain renown for it on the day that I am glorified,” says the Lord GOD.<\/em>
\n 14 “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.<\/em>
\n 15 “The search party will pass through the land; and whenever anyone sees a man’s bone, he shall set up a marker by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon Gog.<\/em>
\n 16 “The name of the city will also be Hamonah. Thus they shall cleanse the land.”‘<\/em>