No Stronger Message! This world has so little to offer, and it will only get worse. What is the value of human life, if you don’t give your life to God? You are not even safe unless you have God watching over you. Without God, there is no future for your children, your family; it will get to the point where there will be so much slaughter, human life will be worth no more than animal life! There is so much more to life than that, and the nations of Israel should know it! But they don’t want to hear about it. They are so lost in sports and pleasures, you can’t even reach their minds with God’s message—or any message of value! “She hath wearied herself with lies, and her GREAT SCUM went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire” (verse12). This is not ordinary scum, but GREAT SCUM!LAWLESSNESS IS INTERTWINED INTO THE VERY FABRIC AND CONSTITUTION OF OUR BEING! IT WILL TAKE THE CRUCIBLE OF A HOLOCAUST TO BURN IT FROM OUR SYSTEM! God prophesies that the “great scum went not forth” when they were warned by God’s Work. They bring the evil upon themselves. BUT GOD must GET THE SCUM OUT BEFORE WE CAN KNOW HIM! There has never been a stronger message to be delivered than this one! And we are the only people with the courage to stand up for the God of Ezekiel 1. When God says, “Thus says the Lord God,” we must tell people what God has on His mind. We must not be afraid to tell the peoples of Israel that THEIR FILTH IS THE WORST ON THIS PLANET! This is the job God says we must complete. This is what being 100 percent behind this Work is about! God prophesied about our delivering this message: “In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused MY FURY to rest upon thee” (verse13).I have purged thee, God says. The people heard God’s message and weren’t corrected by it. God sent an end-time Elijah to preach the gospel around the world. Now He’s sending a prophet to warn people one last time. What kind of response are we getting? Comparatively, very little. (Of course, when you realize just what this little group will become, what we’ll be doing in the future, that makes us a good-size group of qualified headquarters personnel!) In truth, Israel is not interested in being purged! But God says, you’re still going to be purged. I WILL purge you—this time through my FURY! Even though you wouldn’t hear my end-time Elijah and watchman, before it is over, you will wish you had. “I THE LORD 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 thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD” (verse 14). How has God “spoken it”? In person? No—through His physical leader and God’s very elect! God speaks through a man, and that man speaks with the support of a body of people who follow and support him. Nothing has ever been more serious than what we are talking about here. There have never been more heinous sins than what God sees today in Israel. THE SINS ARE EXTREME, AND SO OUR MESSAGE IS GOING TO SOUND EXTREME. UNPARALLELED FILTH REQUIRES UNPARALLELED PUNISHMENT! You can see anti-America and anti-Israel sentiment quickly building in the world today. Satan is stirring up tremendous hatred as never before! People the world over have a deep, deep hatred for YOU. Only God can protect you. I say this with all the love of God, because it’s the truth of God, and it will happen. Why is it important for us to know about these prophecies? Yes, we must get this message out, but there is something deeper that God is getting at here. Neither Mourn Nor Weep God had to implant within Ezekiel a special sense of URGENCY. How did He do it? As we look at this, we may see His method as heartless, but again—we must get God’s view. Let’s realize what this is really about. “Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet NEITHER SHALT THOU MOURN NOR WEEP, neither shall thy tears run down” (verses 15-16). “The desire of thine eyes” is Ezekiel’s wife. God took her away. Ezekiel’s wife died. Then God instructed Ezekiel not to mourn or cry. He wasn’t saying Ezekiel should have no emotion over his wife’s death. But He wanted him to keep his emotions in check for a very important reason. God is trying to teach us a DEEP lesson here, deeper than we have understood before. God continued, “Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee [in other words, do the Work], and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men” (verse 17). DON’T ACT LIKE NORMAL MEN IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES. Go right on and do the Work. Yes, you have lost a loved one, but put your shoes on those beautiful feet (Isaiah 52:7; Romans 10:15), get busy and continue the Work. God is saying this to all His very elect. If one of us loses a loved one, and he or she was converted, we don’t really need to mourn a lot about that. God says the death of a saint is precious in His sight (Psalm 116:15). When someone dies in the faith, that adds one more member to the God Family. How can you calculate that blessing? In a very short time, that person will be brought right back up from the grave, and we’ll all be together again—this time, for eternity! This command to Ezekiel gives us a view of God’s love. We must expand our love if we’re to understand this. We know that 50 percent of the Laodiceans will lose their ETERNAL LIVES. And that number would probably be much higher if you and I didn’t deliver this message to God’s Family! We have Family members in Laodicean churches and in the world who are in danger of losing their eternal lives! THAT is what God is concerned about. We must think the way He does, and keep our perspective. From time to time someone in the Church will die. Sometimes it shocks us severely, because we love them so deeply and dearly, and they were so dedicated to God. But God tells us not to lose our balance and our focus. We’re involved in something much bigger than that. We must think like God, and love like God. God loves THE WHOLE WORLD. Jesus Christ died for THE WHOLE WORLD! He didn’t just die for the very elect. That’s what we need to keep in mind when some personal crisis occurs. This episode with Ezekiel’s wife was really a chance for Ezekiel to set an example for us today. And that is just what Ezekiel did. “So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded”(Ezekiel 24:18). What an example! Losing a loved one isn’t really a great crisis when you consider the scale of suffering that is about to occur. We’re talking about one life versus many millions, plus all the Laodiceans who will lose their ETERNAL LIVES. I must admit, looking through these scriptures makes me realize that I don’t love the people in God’s Family as God does. I don’t love the world as God does. I know I need to GROW and think more like God. How easy it would be to get overwhelmed at the personal loss of a loved one. I’m not saying that it is wrong to mourn. Perhaps there is nothing more painful, in a family context—there is no getting away from that. Please understand: We should not be hard-hearted. We should simply believe Ezekiel. We need to keep our godly perspective in this end time. WE CANNOT HAVE “NORMAL” EMOTIONS. WE MUST KEEP IN MIND THE SCOPE OF THE DISASTER THAT IS COMING UPON THE WHOLE WORLD. “And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?” (verse 19). The people were puzzled. He was going on with the Work and acting like his wife didn’t even die! So Ezekiel had to explain it to them.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:08:22 +0000
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