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[Ezekiel 8:15 BSB] - “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”

[Ezekiel 8:15 NIV] - He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see things that are even more detestable than this.”

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☆1☆ As you see the Lord doing here, He shows and knows what iniquities are, and knows which sin is greater than the other. Part of discipleship training is to know what sins are, where sins are, when sins are, and to know the nature and extent of sins. The Lord was showing Ezekiel these things for his learning and for his witnessing.

One of the banes of the endtimes is the generation of the world growing increasingly ignorant or oblivion of what abominations or sins are. With advancement in technology, comes advancement in deception: but those who know the Lord would increase in the knowledge of both His righteousness and the knowledge of what He sees as sin, which is Truth. We must be sanctified by truth, or we are not fully sanctified at all.

“You have seen this (abomination), yet you will see greater abomination than this” — The mystery of iniquity must be fully unveiled for the righteous and the holy to see right through them till there's no more mystery of iniquity.

☆2☆ Another reason the Lord would show His angels, His prophets and His close friends the iniquities of people is so that those close to the Lord would both understand and agree with Him when He judges the sinners and pours His wrath on them. It's more like God getting justified when He acts against the sinners. In God's Judgment, there must be justification: when He justifies the righteous, He must be justified; and when He condemns the sinner/wicked, He must also be justified. Hence He upholds righteousness in judgment so that He may not be condemned when He condemns. One of the reasons you as a man should not judge is because you will be judged when you judge, and you may be condemned when you condemn [Luke 6:37]. God knows how to condemn without being condemned or being justified when He condemns, because God knows how to expose or bring to light the secret things in darkness when He judges.

[1 Corinthians 4:5 FBV] — So don't judge anything before the right time - when the Lord comes. He will bring to light all the darkest secrets that are hidden, and He will reveal people's motives. God will give everyone whatever praise they deserve.

Judgment comes with Revelation or Demystification (Light and Exposure). If you do not have enough Revelation and Lights to judge anyone, do not judge or condemn anyone. For saying you misjudged a man you condemned is not acceptable, and admitting you judged wrongly is even a reason you should be condemned: the sin of misjudging shall not go unpunished.

When I talk under the last bible verse in this chapter, I will relate more on how God being justified when He condemns or judges the sinners also shuts up voices of intercessors. Before then, let look into the next abomination the Lord say was greater than the ones He already showed the son of man in His Expository Series.

[Ezekiel 8:16 BSB] - So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

[Ezekiel 8:16 KJV] - ‭And He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

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This was the biggest of the abominations so far in that expository series. Though they were all idolatry, this one was the worst among the them.

☆ If it were based on the number of people involved — this one that had just 25 men would not have matched the one involving more number of women or 70 men.

☆ If it were based on the number of gods involved — this one that had just ‘Sun’ would not have matched the one involving many idols, demons and creatures.

It's not about the crowd involved nor about the varieties of demons or unclean things; rather its about the “Service and Worship” involved. To illustrate, take Roman Catholics’ claim “They are honoring Mary (and various saints), but never worship her (the saints).” Now supposing this claim is factual and true, it would still idolatry or abomination, but it would be less than the abomination of worshiping.

■☆■ The 70 elders were seen offering incense or oblation to various gods on Walls, doing “Joyful Mystery;” but they were not seen worshiping any of those gods by Ezekiel — That's idolatry of honoring or serving various gods, but not worshiping any of them.

■☆■ The women were seen weeping for Tammuz, doing “Sorrowful Mystery;” but they were not seen worshiping Tammuz by Ezekiel — That's idolatry of loving or devoting to dead gods with all one's heart, but not worshiping the dead gods.

■☆■ The 25 men were seen worshipping the sun, doing “Glorious Mystery” adoration to the sun as seen by Ezekiel — That's the peak of idolatry - worshipping any other creatures or thing apart from God the Creator of all.

Moreover, the peak of idolatry is not yet the peak of abomination that those 25 men were doing: they were also “Deny God, Profaning His Temple, and Blaspheming.”

— How they Denied God:
[Job 31:26-28 FBV] — Have I looked at the sun shining so brilliantly or the moon moving in majesty across the sky and been tempted to secretly worship them by kissing my hand to them in devotion? This too would be a sin deserving punishment for it would mean I had denied God above.

— How they Profane God's Temple:
They were in the innermost court of the temple, yet their backing was against the temple while they were facing the sun and worshiping the sun far away. This was in contrast to Daniel, being far away and in a country where prayer was forbidden, and yet he opened his window to face the temple of God while praying to God. When Solomon dedicated the temple, he spoke to God alot about men facing the temple.

[Ezekiel 8:17 BSB] - “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

[Ezekiel 8:17 AFV] - And He said to me, "Have you seen, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they do the hateful things which they do here? For they have filled the land with violence and have turned to provoke Me to anger still more. And lo, they put the branch to their nose.

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I said the peak of idolatry was not even the peak of abomination done by the 25 men worshiping the sun here, and mentioned denying God, Profaning His Temple, and Blaspheming God.

But in this Bible verse, even the abominations of the house of Judah were not enough, for they added violence (bloodshed, oppression and wickedness) to their abominations (idolatry, immorality, uncleanness) and to provoking God to anger through blaspheming or insulting the Lord God by an act of putting branch to their nose. That was the blaspheming I referred to, among the abominations of the 25 men.

See how the Almighty God is reporting this matter or complaining to the son of man, tabulating His grievances with a whole nation of His People to the prophet. This would bring Him justification when He judges the said people in the presence of the witness.

[Ezekiel 8:18 BSB] - Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My Ears, I will not listen to them.”

[Ezekiel 8:18 AFV] - Therefore I will also deal with fury; My Eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in My Ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them."

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Here I will relate more on how God being justified when He condemns or judges the sinners also shuts up voices of intercessors and of mercy. Mercy or Pity may no longer be considered or regarded because the Lord God is justified in judging, condemning or pouring out His fury without restraint. Prayers, no matter how loud, would not be heard on their behalf because God is justified in outpouring His wrath upon them. This was to let the son of man, Ezekiel, know that even he pray for them in Intercession the Lord would not hear him because Ezekiel has seen or was shown the things they do to provoke the Lord to anger.

It's like the Lord told Jeremiah He will not hear his prayer for the people because he has seen or was shown the things they do in honoring the “Queen of Heaven” that provokes the Lord to anger. As it is written,

[Jeremiah 7:16-20 FBV] — You, Jeremiah, are not to pray for these people. Don't cry out to Me in prayer for them, don't plead with Me on their behalf, because I won't listen to you. Can't you see how they're behaving in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children collect the firewood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and they pour out drink offerings to other gods to make Me angry and hurt. But is it really Me they're hurting? declares the Lord. Aren't they really hurting themselves and bringing shame on themselves? So this is what the Lord God says: Watch! My furious anger and will be poured out on this country, on people and animals, on the orchards and the crops in the field. It will burn and nobody will be able to put it out.

[Ezekiel 8:13 BSB] - “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”

[Ezekiel 8:13 FBV] - The Lord went on to tell me, “You're going to see them doing even more disgusting things than these!”

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I used to think that Satan the devil is specialist at accusing and exposing the sins of sinners among brethren before the Lord, while the Lord just sits as the presiding Judge until I came to know that the Lord also does expose the sins of sinners among brethren better than Satan the accuser of the brethren. Infact, Satan the devil does more of accusing and less of exposing sinners among brethren, but the Lord does more of exposing and less of accusing among brethren. Know the difference between both.

God is Light, and by default exposes or makes all things manifest: — There is nothing hidden, secret, covered or in darkness, that shall not be exposed by God - no exception.

In this Bible Chapter above, God was in His duty of exposing secret/hidden sins among brethren: And when it comes to exposing sins among brethren or people of God, He always does the works by Himself instead of sending angels to expose the sins of His people. And in the bible verse above, the Lord was still conducting the son of man through a journey of exposing the secret sins and abominations within the church, after taking care of the flight of the man of God from a far away country all the way to come and see the secret sins of the church in Judah or spy at their liberty and privacy.

There's an order the Lord was following in this His “Expository Series” — the order or pattern was a gradation of exposing/disclosing lesser before greater abominations. Therefore, He said in the verse above, the next abomination is greater than the former.

[Ezekiel 8:14 BSB] - Then He brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and I saw women sitting there, weeping for Tammuz.

[Ezekiel 8:14 GNT] - So He took me to the north gate of the Temple and showed me women weeping over the death of the god Tammuz.

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We used to say in church gathering, that the Lord said, “Where two or three are gathered in My Name, I'm there in their midst.” But from this Bible verse above:

[1.] Even if they are gathered but not in the name of the LORD, He will still be there (though not in their midst but there) even though He's not invited or called. Whether they are gathered in the name of “Tammuz” or in name of a demon, the Lord will still invite Himself though He may not interfere/participate. Present differs from partaker.

[2.] Even if they positioned gate men, demons or gate signs that would provoke the Lord to change His Mind and not enter the arena, the Lord will still enter there: — The north gate in the bible verse above was the same north gate entrance they positioned the “Image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy” with motive or intent to keep the Lord away from entering in [Ezekiel 8:5:6]. It's like putting a blood on the door post during passover to keep death from entering the house, or like Witches draw circle to keep of demons or alien spirits etc, so they were trying to ward off the Lord from coming inside by positioning the image of jealousy at the entrance of the north gate. Yet that, and whatever, could not keep the Lord from there in with a man by the gate.

[3.] Even if they were strictly gathering of “women only” and no man was allowed or no Lord God was allowed in this women group, yet the Lord and a man He brought came there. The Lord could bring a man into women's fellowship, and He could bring a woman into men's fellowship. In Christ is neither male nor female [Galatians 3:28].

Now, what where they doing as Ezekiel saw in the bible verse above? And how was what they were doing considered by God as “Greater abomination than abomination of the seventy elders in dark room doing “stations of the gods” to carved or portrait images of creeping animals, unclean beasts and idols of Israel on the walls?

This was what they were doing: — The women were sitted, weeping for Tammuz.
And this was how: — Women weeping for Tammuz was greater abomination than elderly men serving various idols on the walls, all within the house of God.

Even though all are abominations, yet the women's weeping ritual for Tammuz was a greater abomination than the men's incense obligations to various wall portraits of creatures and demonic figures. This is because weeping for Tammuz was an annual ritual of weeping for a dead gods that was killed over a thousand years ago, and yet there was annual remembrance or commemoration of his death through a ritual of weeping, mourning, yearly funeral rites/rituals and wake-keeping of the anniversary of his death — That ritual is believed to reward with seasons or fertility. Christians do commemorate the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ yearly, but in those days, Tammuz was the man that was slain but believed to rise into becoming one of the gods among the stars — and the period of commemorating his death was in June/July.

As for the abomination of serving incense and prayers to various gods or creatures:
☆☆ They were offering incense, but the women were offering tears/broken heart.
☆☆ They were giving divided attention to various gods like harlots, but the women were devoted to just one with all they had in high concentration.
☆☆ They were doing is as a cult (secret cult), but the women were doing it as a religion and were more openly because they were not inside a room but outside.

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[Ezekiel 8:10 KJV] - So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

[Ezekiel 8:10 NIV] - So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel.

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When Ezekiel went into the room, he saw all kinds of crawling/creeping animals, wild animals, and images that people (of Israel) admire so much that they take such images as idols. Not only would the idolatrous people of Israel idolize those images, even people who are artists would have admired the carvings on the walls, people who are zoologists/biologists would have appreciated the varieties of different species of living organisms captured on the walls, people who are archeologists and people who love Museums would appreciate such specimens. But as soon as the son of man, Ezekiel, saw those portraits, superscriptions and embeddings on the walls, he saw them as evil, abominations, detestable, unclean and hateful.

When you have seen God and you are united in His Holiness, you will also see those things on those walls as abominable, evil and unclean. as Ezekiel saw them to be. Behold, it is not just about seeing secret/hidden things, but also about seeing them the way the Holy Ones the heavens see and judge them to be.

Therefore in the bible verse above, Ezekiel achieved the “Two Perceptions:” [1.] He saw the hidden things, and [2.] He saw the nature and judgment of those hidden things

Now understand these:

☆1☆ It is abominable for the Walls of the Temple of God to have an graven image or engraving (carved) or portraits of any unclean animal or beast or demon or idol.

☆2☆ In same light, it is abominable for your body, which is the Temple of God to have “Tattoo” of graven image or engraving (carved) or portraits of any unclean animal or beast or demon or idol on your body or skin, just as on the Temple walls.

☆3☆ Beware of the mark of the Beast on your body, beware of the mark of any beast or animal on your body including the name of the beast, and flee idolatry.

☆4☆ In the Holy Temple of God, there is only one kind of Living Creatures and only one kind of Trees, that may be engraven, tattooed, or portrayed on the Walls and Doors of the Holy Temple of God, and that would not be abominable, evil, unclean or unholy.

The only Living Creatures that may be portrayed on the walls of the Holy Temple of God are “The Cherubim” and the only Trees or Plants ditto are “The Palm Tree.” For emphasis, I repeat only “Cherubim” and “Palm Tree” should be portrayed or engraved on the holy walls of the Temple of God. No other Angel, not even Michael, not Gabriel, not Raphael, not Uriel, not Sariel, not Raguel, not Ramiel (not Archangels), not Saints, not Mary, not Jesus Christ Himself, not Dove as Holy Spirit, not image of a dead man hanging on a cross etc., should be portrayed or engraved on Walls of Holy Temple.

Behold, in the top bible verse above, Ezekiel saw the portraits of those creatures on the walls as abominable: let us also see another occasion when the same Ezekiel saw the portraits of Cherubim and Palm Trees on the Walls and Doors of the Temple the Lord Jesus Christ would later build when He returns:

[b][‭Ezekiel 41:18-26 NIV‬] — were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces: the face of a human being toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other. They were carved all around the whole temple. From the floor to the area above the entrance, cherubim and palm trees were carved on the wall of the main hall. The main hall had a rectangular doorframe, and the one at the front of the Most Holy Place was similar. There was a wooden altar three cubits high and two cubits square; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.” Both the main hall and the Most Holy Place had double doors. Each door had two leaves—two hinged leaves for each door. And on the doors of the main hall were carved cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls, and there was a wooden overhang on the front of the portico. On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.[/b]

Now let's look at the Temple of Solomon, and see how the wisdom God gave him also incorporated Cherubim and Palm Trees in the design of that great Temple:

[1 Kings 6:29 AKJV] — And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

[Ezekiel 8:11 NKJV] - And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up.

[Ezekiel 8:11 NIV] - In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.

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If you have been in program called “Stations of the Cross” usually held in Roman Catholic Church, you will relate how various portraits arranged sequentially containing pictures of milestones in the events between the agony of the Lord Jesus Christ through His crucifixion on the cross, are hanged or fixed on the walls of the Church. Then the priest would be leading a procession of praying crowd from one portrait to the other sequentially according to the order of the Lord’s approach to His death. E.g. they would come to a station (portrait) on the wall call “Jesus fell the first time” before they arrive the station of “Jesus fell the second time” and “Jesus fell the third time.”

Whenever the priest gets to any station or portrait on the walls round the church, the priest would stir up the burning incense in the censer to release more cloud or smoke of the incense to the portrait, which’s station he and his crowd are currently serving. That's how those in the top bible verse above were doing “Stations of the gods” to the portraits or carved images of those idols, creeping Things and Beasts, on the walls. They were about 70 elderly men of Israel, led by Jaazaniah, who was a son of Shaphan. Shaphan was a man popular known as Shaphan the Scribe in the days of Josiah the king; and Shaphan the Scribe helped in the great Reformation of Josiah (2 Kings 22). Unfortunately, a son of Shaphan, was a leader of underworld cults or Church of Satan.

[Ezekiel 8:12 NKJV] - Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in his [secret] room of carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has abandoned the land.’ ”

[Ezekiel 8:12 NIV] - He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

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Those who work in darkness say “the Lord does not see us:” — Learn this, it's natural for one who is in darkness or shadows to see the person who is in the brighter light, more than the one in the brighter light can see one who's in darker or hidden shadows. But do not make the mistake of applying this same principle to the Lord and to the Watchers or Saints in heaven who dwell in far greater lights, and yet see far better the things in darkness more than the things in darkness see them in the lights.

Those who work in darkness say “the Lord does not see us:” Those who engage in underworld cults and operations of “Secret Societies” continue to do their things in darkness or secrecy even when they say God is dead or the Lord has abandoned the land. Even if God keeps off, and does not interfere, those who belong to the underworld secret cults and societies would still be afraid of coming out to the light for men to see the things they do in hiding or darkness. So they are not just dodging from the Lord, but they are also dodging from openness and exposition before men, yet they claim to be the enlightened ones. As such were Adam and Eve when they just ate of the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil, and began hiding in fear.

Always ensure whatever fellowship or group you belong are in the light, not shrouded in secrecy of darkness: Let your fellowship be in the light, and stop meetings in dark.

[‭Ephesians 5:11-13 NIV‬] — Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light.

[‭1 John 1:5-7 NIV‬] - This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

[Ezekiel 8:7 AKJV] - And He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

[Ezekiel 8:7 NIV] - Then He brought me to the entrance to the court. I looked, and I saw a hole in the wall.

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Learn this:

Even though God brought you to the entrance or to an open door, it still may not be a sign He is directing you to enter or go through that door or entrance. You may have to patiently wait and watch, for there may be another secret or hidden door, besides the obvious door, which the Lord would show you and directly tell you to enter through, even if it's a small hole you have to dig through to enter or it's an unattractive opening. Don't just sing God will make a way where there seems to be no way, but also know that God may make a way where there are different ways already. He does not only make way where there is no way, but He also makes way where there is way already existing, but leading through different paths. So walk closely with God and His Wisdom to choose the right way.

In the bible verse above, the Lord God brought Ezekiel to the entrance or doorway into the court of the temple, but Ezekiel was not rash to enter or go through the doorway: he wisely awaited the Lord’s instruction, and he was rewarded with unveiled eyes to discover a hole on the wall, which those who are impatient would not have easily seen or would have ignored on their way in.

[Ezekiel 8:8 AMP] - He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” And when I had dug into the wall, behold, there was an entrance.

[Ezekiel 8:8 NIV] - He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there.

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Who wrote the song, “This little light of mine, I am gonna let it shine?” Now applying that to the little hole or opening you found, you make work on the hole under the instruction of the Lord, digging through to enlarging your way until you turn the little hole into a opening to a doorway or passage that will take you faster, quicker and more direct to your discoveries and destinations. This is better than following the easier, the faster, the least resisting door, which may not have ever bring you into the place of such discoveries or destinations, but is sure the path that multitude do follow.

[‭Matthew 7:13-14 NIV‬] — “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

In the top bible verse here, the Lord God taught Ezekiel to dig through the narrow hole on the wall just by a broader and more obvious or conventional the entrance/doorway: and following the Lord’s instruction, he dug until the narrow or harder hole opened to another hidden or secret doorway inside the walls, but inconspicuous.

[Ezekiel 8:9 AMP] - And He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked, repulsive acts that they are committing here.”

[Ezekiel 8:9 NIV] - And He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.”

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Now the hurdles may not be over at just finding the secret right door after going through rigorous narrow or hard way: sometimes, you may approach the right and secret door you found, but reading the signs of where it leads or what to find if you enter through the door may also be scary or discouraging. Fear not, and be not discouraged: rather rest in knowing the Lord God is He who chose the door and leads you through, irrespective of the signs, horrors, unpleasantness etc, behind the door.

[‭Psalms 23:4 NIV‬] — Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

In the top bible verse here above, the Lord God Himself to Ezekiel the sign of what's contained behind the door or what kind of things he would see/experience when he goes into the door; and though the things would be unpleasant or heartbreaking, yet He instructed him to go through the door. In other cases different, but in this case it was: “Go in and behold iniquities, abominations and wickedness don't inside there.” Brethren, it's not to see these things. The bible says that the righteous man, Lot, in seeing and hearing the wickedness in Sodom vexed his soul daily (2 Peter 2:. It's not easy to be seeing and hearing the badnews, wickedness and sufferings in the world and in my country; and worst are those happening among believers or churches.

I remember in my childhood days, there was a Christian music in my language (Igbo) sang by “Bro Luke Ezeji;” (in those days, most of the recorded Christian music in my language were purely sermons, messages or preaching in songs and music instrument such that sinners would be warned and converted. Somehow most of waves of gospel music later dominated the churches that match the era of prosperity gospel preachers that have plagued the churches now were not so then. The kind of gospel songs then were centered in Christ, heaven, repentance, and judgment of God to come, and yet they were anointed and inspiring music despite carrying such messages).

Now the translation of the particular song (by Brother Luke Ezeji) in English would mean, “Go inside the holy house (temple) to see the things that are committed in there; If you go into the holy house (temple), you will see abominations done therein: some are holding grudges/malice, some are liars/fraudulent, some are gossipers or busybodies, some are idolaters, some are fornicators (etc): these are supposedly the ‘children of God’ who say they are believers… including those leaders who are supposed to oversee the holy house…”

Though I did not know why all those things were being said about the holy house or church of God, and they were scary for my young mind then to imagine such things in the holy house of God, feeling the singers were like some sort of Jehovah’s witnesses. But now I look back and feel what he was saying concerning the holy house and churches was an understatement. In the top bible verse here above, God Himself said similar things to Ezekiel, saying, “Go in and see the wicked, repulsive acts and abominations that they are committing here.”

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[Ezekiel 8:4 AFV] - And, behold! The glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

[Ezekiel 8:4 BBE] - And I saw the glory of the Lord there, as in the vision which I saw in the valley.
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If you are also interested in further illustration of the Triune God, here is one: This bible verse and the preceding verses to this one above:

1. In Verse 1 – Behold the “Hand of the LORD” was on Ezekiel while he sat with the elders in his house:
2. In Verse 2 – Behold the “Man-Like Burning Being” whom Ezekiel saw:
3. In Verse 3 – Behold the “Likeness of a Hand” and “The Spirit of God” that lifted Ezekiel between earth and heaven and brought Ezekiel towards the North gate at Jerusalem's temple court
4. In Verse 4 – Behold the “Glory of the God of Israel” was already there when the Spirit of God brought Ezekiel from the “Man-Like Burning Being” he saw at his house only to come and see the God of Israel in glory here again.

[2 Corinthians 3:17-18 BBE] - Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free. But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

In the top bible verses above, Ezekiel saw the glory of the Lord by the Spirit or by the Lord who is the Spirit. Ezekiel also likened this glory of the Lord God of Israel he saw here by the North Gate to the glory of the same Lord God he had seen in the Plain/Valley. Now you don’t get that often in the scriptures where a man of God had seen God multiple times to an extent of comparing God’s appearance or glory to God’s previous appearance or glory. This is because men of God rarely saw the appearance of God in glory even once, not to talk of seeing God’s appearance in glory multiple times. Few saw the appearance of God in glory as many times as Ezekiel saw. Let’s outline so far how many times Ezekiel have seen God in glory in the first eight chapters alone:

1. “The Vision by River Chebar” — In chapter one, he saw the LORD God in Glory as “Man-Like Burning Being” on the Throne with the Rabim.

2. “The Vision in the Plain/Valley” — In chapter three, he saw God in Glory and he testified the glory of God he saw in the plain was as the glory of God he saw in the vision by River Chebar: no change/difference in glory.

3. “The Vision in his house” — In chapter eight, he saw the LORD God in Glory as “Man-Like Burning Being:”

4. “The Vision in the North Gate in Jerusalem” — In this chapter and bible verse, he saw God in Glory and he testified the glory of God he saw in here was as the glory of God he saw in vision in the plain: no glory changed

He would yet see more of the direct glory of the Lord God Himself, and still like the level or degree of the glory of God to how he previously appeared to him in glory.

Now learn this: When you see the Lord in glory, and it appears His glory increased or reduced from how you previously saw Him — It does not mean the Lord or His glory has changed, but rather means you have changed to better or worse respectively than you had previously been when you first saw Him depending on whether your eyes have become more unveiled or more veiled respectively. God does not change in glory, but we are ever changing from glory to glory: God is the same forever, yet always glorified.


[Ezekiel 8:5 AFV] - And He said to me, "Son of man, lift up your eyes now to the way of the north." So I lifted up my eyes toward the way of the north, and behold, northward at the gate of the altar the image of jealousy was at the entrance.

[Ezekiel 8:5 BBE] - Then He said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in.
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The Lord God Himself wants us to see Him and keep looking at Him, but He also wants us to see the things He sees and the things He's showing to us. He did not bring the man all the way to come here just to keep looking at Him especially when the man could see Him or keep looking at Him where he was coming from. He brought the man all this way to reveal to him things and for a purpose.

In the bible here above, the Lord God Himself told the man beholding Him to turn around and behold His household in the direction of the north: The word used was “Lift up your eyes…” as the eyes of the man must be lifted up to see where or what God was showing him. Now this was not like Moses’ serpent on a pole, which the sick people had to lift up their eyes to see and be healed; but when Ezekiel lifted up his eyes from seeing the Lord to seeing where the Lord was directing his sight or vision to see, the man saw doorway or passage opened to access the Altar but there was the Image of jealousy (Idol) in the passage.

Paul was concerned that a great and effectual door was opened to him but there are many adversaries (1 Corinthians 16:9), here God was concerned that the North Door to the altar was opened but there was the Image of jealousy that provokes to jealousy. You know the Lord would stand at the door and knock (Revelation 3:20), but which is more painful to the Lord between “not opening the door for Him despite knocking” and “opening the door but position iniquity, idolatry or something that provokes Him to jealousy and anger on His way through the door?” Both would keep Him out the door.

Which is easier to deal with between closed Doors and open doors with wicked, evil, or heartless enemies as the gate men or porters, who would not want you to come in?

[Ezekiel 8:6 AFV] - And He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they do; even the great abominations which the house of Israel is doing here, that I should go far off from My sanctuary? But turn again, and you shall see greater abominations."

[Ezekiel 8:6 BBE] - And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing Me to go far away from My holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.
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You see another way the church kept God away from entering His Temple even though they opened the doors to Him (and He did not have to knock)? A nagging woman kept door open for her husband to come in, but he stayed out and did not come in because her nagging and troubles were by the door. Worse is when an adulteress positions the man she's in adultery with to be the lord of her doors when her husband comes.

Why does a church pray or sinh, “Come, come, come, Holy Ghost come” but they kept iniquity and idols in their midst that provokes to jealousy and anger?

[2 Corinthians 6:16 AFV] — And what agreement is there between a temple of God and idols? For you are a temple of the living God, exactly as God said: "I will dwell in them and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

May the Lord grant us the word and privilege to turn around to see the glories and praise of His Household and Sanctuary, for we ached from seeing her abominations.

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[‭Ezekiel 8:1 NIV‬] — In the sixth year, in the sixth month on the fifth day, while I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, the hand of the Sovereign Lord came on me there.

[‭Ezekiel 8:1 NKJV‬] — “And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.

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♤1♤ The Date:
♤2♤ The House and Ministry Office of Ezekiel:
♤3♤ The Elders of Judah and the inhabitants of Judah:
♤4♤ The Purpose for this laying on of the Hand of God on Ezekiel:
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♤1♤ The Date: The date in which the events of this chapter happened was on 6-6-5, not 6-6-6. Ezekiel had been one of the bests scripture writers at keeping tabs on the dates he received or encountered the Divine One and His Word. You may recall that he also gave the date of that event or encounter by the river Chebar as 30-4-5, which coincided with the 5th year of Jehoiachin in captivity. [Ezekiel 1:1-3]. You may see further his dairy of such spiritual/supernatural events and experiences, to learn date keeping, which is good “Dairy Manner” and “Data Base management.”

♤2♤ The House and Ministry Office of Ezekiel: There in exile or land of captivity, the man of God had his own house, where he was doing his ministry work. So his house was his office (ministry office), where he received people who came to consult the word of the Lord from his mouth, just as people would go to the Oracle to inquire of it. I mean to say Ezekiel was not must into operating a style of ministry where he would be the one reaching out or evangelizing from street to street, house to house, like the Lord Jesus; rather Ezekiel was more like a priest having the people come to his house and hear the messages of the Lord under his roof like house fellowship minister. E.g.

[Ezekiel 20:1 BSB] — In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and they sat down before me.

[Ezekiel 33:31-33 BSB] — So My people come to you (Ezekiel) as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain. Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice. So when it comes to pass—and surely it will come—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

[Malachi 2:7 BSB] — For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.



♤3♤ The Elders of Judah and the inhabitants of Judah: In this occasion, there came and sat with him, the elders of Judah before he received the Divine visitation. He was sitting before the elders of Judah when it happened, he was taken away and shown the inhabitants of Judah when it happened. The elders of Judah were sitting in exile within the house of Ezekiel, but the inhabitants of Judah were committing abomination in Judah against the Lord.

♤4♤ The Purpose for this laying on of the Hand of God on Ezekiel: While he was attending to those elders of Judah sitting before him, the Hand of God was upon Him. What was the purpose for this Hand or Power that came upon him while he was attending in home-office to the elders that sat before him? Was the Anointing, Power or Hand of God to endorse what he was doing then or to make him do more?

Actually the purpose of the Hand or Power of God upon him while he was on his “Sitting Pulpit” was to enable him to see the Lord God Himself in one of God's intense manifest realities without him dying or falling down as it used to be for those who to. Infact, this Hand of God on Ezekiel enabled him to still be sitting down while seeing such appearance of God—rarely do you find any man who has seen such appearance of God and still sitting down. So the purpose of the Hand of God here on him is to both open his eyes to see the Invisible and to stay him from collapsing. Another Hand of God will come with a different purpose from this One, which is to pull him by his lock from his sit and from his house (leaving the elders in his house).

[‭Ezekiel 8:2 NIV‬] — I looked, and I saw a figure like that of a man. From what appeared to be his waist down he was like fire, and from there up his appearance was as bright as glowing metal.

[‭Ezekiel 8:2 NKJV‬] — “Then I looked, and there was a likeness, like the appearance of fire—from the appearance of His waist and downward, fire; and from His waist and upward, like the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber.

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Remember, the Being was "Man-Like" but the Being was not "Man-Kind." In this Bible verse, the Seer (Ezekiel) subdivided the whole Body of the "Man-Like" Being on the Throne into two parts according to the diversity of their appearances, and then rejoined them as one Body in one Brightness (Light):

*1* From "Its" or "His" Waist (Loins) upward — The appearance of the upper Side of the Man-Like Being on the Throne was like Amber (Glowing hot Metal), having Fire burning within Him. To simplify this, His upper Side from His Waist upwards was like a Lantern or Lamp that has the burning Fire inside the enclosure and the enclosure is glowing or showing forth the Light but covering the Fire. It wants to cover the Fire but does not want to cover the Light from the Fire. Is that not what Lamp or Lantern does? Covering the Fire but Exposing the Light from the Fire. That was how the upper side of the Man-Like Being was like.
Hence, this side of "Him" was burning inwardly as Lamp/Lantern.

*2* From "Its" or "His" Waist (Loins) downward — The appearance of the lower Side (Legs) of the Man-Like Being on the Throne was like Furnace (Burning Fire), having Fire burning outward (not inside/within) Him. To simplify this, His Legs from His Waist downwards were basically Flames without Lamp or Lantern to cover or hide the Flames of Fire like the Pillars of Fire.

[‭Ezekiel 8:3 NIV‬] — He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood

[‭Ezekiel 8:3 NKJV‬] — “He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my hair; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy.

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This Hand of God had a to come with a different purpose from the earlier one of enabling him, which is to pull him by his lock from his sit and from his house (leaving the elders in his house), that he might be carried away to Jerusalem (for watching other people's sins in secret), by the Spirit of God that lifted him up above the earth, between earth and heaven, without eagle's wings.

Now consider this, a man God brought to a spy on the secret sins, iniquities and abominations, done in secrets and openly against the Lord: such as setting up the image of jealousy that provokes the Lord God Himself to jealousy.

So directly from his house in far exile or captivity, where he sat with elders of Judah, in less a minute, he was taken and conducted by God Himself to see what the inhabitants of Judah have done with their place, time, life and possessions, in Jerusalem and Judah.

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[‭Ezekiel 7:21 NKJV] — ‭I will give it as plunder into the hands of strangers, and to the wicked of the earth as spoil; And they shall defile it.

[‭Ezekiel 7:21 NIV] — ‭I will give their wealth as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile it.

Promises of God (like this one here above), are they all still considered as the gospel (goodnews)? In the bible verse above, wealth shall be taken away from one category of sinners, but given to another category of sinners (wicked) as plunder or spoil so that these plunderers or spoilers would defile the wealth.

Though both categories were of sinners (unrighteous peoples): the anger of God would rather take it away from the sinners who hold it as wealth, prude and idol, and give it to the sinners who will plunder them, violate and defile it. The former had some value, respect, appreciation, preciousness and memory for the treasures; but the latter have no respect nor regards for the treasures, and are even foreigners or strangers to them.

[‭Proverbs 5:10-12 NKJV‬] — Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner; And you mourn at last, When your flesh and your body are consumed, And say: “How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!

Therefore, the first category of sinners would rather prefer their wealth and treasures be given to the righteous that would sanctify them, than to the category of sinners that would defile and violate them. [Proverbs 13:22, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Job 27:16-17, Proverbs 28:8, James 5:1-3]

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[‭Ezekiel 7:22 AMP] — I will also turn My Face away from them, and they will desecrate My secret treasure (the Jerusalem temple); and robbers will enter [irreverently] into it (the Holy of Holies) and violate it.

[‭Ezekiel 7:22 NIV] — I will turn My Face away from the people, and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure. They will enter it and will defile it.

In the anger of God, even the holiness and sacredness of His earthly house, temple and treasures could be in jeopardy of violation and defilement. The Holy of Holies within the Tabernacles of men for God were given to robbers and strangers, who were having the mind to plunder, spoil, violate and defile, even the place and treasures God held sacred; and the Lord just looked away while these happened to His own house, temple and treasures. This is bigger than ‘Ichabod’ that happened to the Ark of the covenant. In the case of the Ichabod, they did not come inside but they captured the Ark and sent it into captivity to the shrines or house of their gods, still respecting its holiness or sacredness, just as Daniel was in captivity with the name a strange God but still allowed or respected for keeping and maintaining his holiness and undefileness. But in the bible verse above, the robbers and aliens shall enter even the Holy of Holies that high priests fear to enter but once in a year lest they die, and the robbers shall both plunder and defile all the holies and treasures therein without the Lord God striking them. Watch out for when the Abomination that makes desolate stand in the holy place and do whatever abominations it pleases to do in defiling and violating the holy place.

It therefore means that even the house of God, the temple of God, the altar or offering to God, must be afraid of the wrath of God: yes, the anger of God can tear values apart.

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[‭Ezekiel 7:23 AFV] — Make a chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

[‭Ezekiel 7:23 NIV] — “ ‘Prepare chains! For the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

There are chains forged, not just with ordinary fire, but with the fire of God's Wrath. Not that such chains were forged or made from the beginning and kept in store for when they would used. Rather, just like in the bible verse above, such Chains are being forged, made or prepared, when the crimes, the sins, the violence, the iniquities, that must be bound by the chains are committed. For instance,

In the bible verse above, the instruction to fabricate or make a chain was issued when the entire on which the chain would be used was already a land full of the crimes of bloodshed and the city on which the chain would bind was already city full of crimes of violence. It's not like the local handcuffs police or prison enforcers already have with them while waiting for the criminal yet to commit the crime and be captured; and sometimes, they chain or handcuff they use on one criminal is the same handcuff they used on a previous or next criminal. Rather, the Chain contemplated here in the bible verse above is prepared precisely after the specific criminal and his specific crimes.

In “Revelation 20” an angel came down from heaven with “Already Made Chain” to bind the dragon in the bottomless pit for a thousand years. But there were chains not literally mentioned there, which were those that bind whoever is being cast into the lake of fire, unlike the chain that binds whoever is being cast into the bottomless pit. In judging sinners by to the books, their chains were forged for the weight of their sins

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[‭Ezekiel 7:24 NIV] — I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

[‭Ezekiel 7:24 FBV] — So I'm going to bring the most evil of all the nations to take over their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the powerful, and their holy places will be made unclean.

What if colonialism was fulfilling the anger of God like in the bible verse above, and that such colonialism is not about more civilized/developed nations colonizing the lesser ones, but instead more or most wicked nations colonizing the host nation? What if the wicked nations are replaced with wicked evil spirits, and the host nation is this generation, and the colonialism is demons possession of this generation, and the goal or assignment remains the same as that which is in the bible verse above, which is to end the pride of the mighty and to desecrate the temple, defile the bodies, pollute the people and corrupt the minds of this generation?

[Matthew 12:43-45 BSB] — “When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ On its return, it finds the house vacant, swept clean, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”

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[‭Ezekiel 7:25 TS2009] — Destruction shall come. And they shall seek peace, but there is none.

[‭Ezekiel 7:25 NIV] — When terror comes, they will seek peace in vain.

Folly of some people who would seek peace but instead of peace destruction comes: O men, that Day is called the “Day of the LORD” not a “Sabbath day” and therefore it is neither a “Day of Rest (Sabbath)” nor a “Day of Peace (Shalom),” but the Day of the LORD. Don't deceive yourself into seeking rest or peace in the Day of the LORD

[1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 BSB] — For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.

Wisdom of God would say it this way, “It is appointed to man, once to die and after this, the judgment.” But the customs of men would say it this way, “It is appointed to man, once to die and after this, “Rest in Peace?” Men replaced “judgment” with “rest-in-peace” to one who recently died or on whom destruction came - seeking peace in vain when the destruction comes. They say good morning or good day to the living, but say “peace or rest (in peace)” to the dead.

[‭Ezekiel 7:25] — Destruction shall come: And they shall seek peace in vain.



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[‭Ezekiel 7:26 NIV] — Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will go searching for a vision from the prophet, priestly instruction in the law will cease, the counsel of the elders will come to an end.

[‭Ezekiel 7:26 TS2009] — Calamity upon calamity shall come, and report shall be upon report. And they shall seek a vision from a prophet. But the teaching has perished from the priest, and counsel from the elders!

Difference between last days and the day of the LORD includes: In the last days God poured out His Spirit upon all flesh, and so the gifts of the Spirit or His manifestations abound in the last days: hence, prophecies, Dreams, Visions, Knowledge, Wisdom, etc. But unlike in the last days, the day of the LORD is a day that inhibits or takes away the gifts of the Spirit. In the day of the LORD, Knowledge ceases, prophecy fails, gifts of the Spirit under Shutdown, like internet or server sometimes experiences Shutdown.

[1 Corinthians 13:8-10 BSB] - Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.

So when you read about these in “Joel 2:28-32,” it says in the lasts God pouring His Spirit upon all flesh and gave manifestations of the Spirit and signs, but in verse “31” it says all these “Last days” stuff would be before “The great Day of the LORD.” So what will happen to them when the last days give way for the Day of the LORD?

That is what the top bible verse above, “Ezekiel 7:26” highlights: Calamity shall be upon calamity, rumors upon rumors, spiritual gifts and communications Shutdown, and wisdom, counsel, knowledge and idea, suspended from among men, etc.

If there is any form of brightness in the Day of the LORD, then it's not fully the day of the LORD: See what the scripture says about brightness in the day of the LORD:

[Amos 5:20 AFV] — Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

Behold:

[Amos 8:11-12 FBV] — The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, or a lack of water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord. People will wander from sea to sea, from north to east, running to and fro searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.

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[‭Ezekiel 7:27 FBV] — ‭The king will mourn, the prince will be devastated, and no one in the country will know what to do. I will do to them as they have done to others; I will judge them as they have judged others. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

[‭Ezekiel 7:27 NIV] — The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. “ ‘Then they will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

When these happen rulers and princes would devastated for lack of interpretation, counsel or vision, more like Belshazzer was devastated when it seems no one in his realm could read and interpret the handwriting on the wall.

When no one would know what to do is when the Lord God Himself would be doing to them as they have done to others, repaying them in their own standards and coin.

[Matthew 7:12 BSB] — In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.

Why we must leave vengeance for God to revenge is also because when God revenges everything any man has done to any man in any time past, present or future, the revenge, repayment or payback, adds to the Praise, Glory and Lordship of the Lord; and all shall come to truly know Him as the Lord, not “Kama” or “Nemesis” but “The Lord.”

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[‭Ezekiel 7:16 KJV] — ‭But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

[‭Ezekiel 7:16 NIV] — ‭The fugitives who escape will flee to the mountains. Like doves of the valleys, they will all moan, each for their own sins.

There would still be sinners who though were unrighteous yet still they shall escape the destruction of sinners. There escape would not be because they were righteous or innocent, but will be because they were remnants chosen by God's grace, even though they remained sinners when the destruction came.

However, these were not saved from sin but escaped death or destruction of sin: they therefore shall be like doves of the valleys while dwelling on the mountains of escape, mourning and regretting for their sins and iniquities. They have not yet escaped into joy and rejoicing, but escaped into sorrow, mourning, weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Your goal should not be just to escape death, hell or destruction of sinners, but to be void of sin, to have no record of sin that would reproach you in the day of the LORD. Even if sins are forgiven and blotted out, the records of them written in eternal books will remain in those books. You saw in scriptures that righteous men of God who sinned and repented were forgiven, and yet records of their sins still remain written. The way some wounds that are healed still leave scars, so do sins leave marks not on the body, soul or spirit of the forgiven and sanctified, but on their history or record.

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[‭Ezekiel 7:17 AMP] — ‭All hands will hang limp and all knees will be as weak as water. [Is 13:7; Jer 6:24; Ezek 21:7]

[‭Ezekiel 7:17 FBV] — Every hand will go limp, and every knee will go weak.

Lest some nurture the thought of fleeing or escaping the destruction to the mountains that day, behold all hands and knees will be feeble and weak in the day of the LORD, and sinners would discover their usual natural abilities, muscles or strengths are gone from them when the Lord shows up to judge the living and the dead. So, in the context of those who escaped to the mountains, the ability to escape would be by grace, not of their strength, not by might nor by power. Who can stand in the day of the LORD?

[‭Psalms 33:13-22 FBV‬] — The Lord looks from heaven and sees the whole of humanity, from His throne He watches all those who live on earth. He created their minds, so He knows everything they do. Even the greatest army cannot save a king; the greatest strength cannot save a warrior. Don't deceive yourself: a warhorse can't give you victory—even its incredible strength won't save you. The Lord watches over those who reverently follow Him, those who place their hope in His trustworthy love to save them from death and to keep them alive when famine strikes. We place our confidence in the Lord; He is our help and our defender. We are so happy about Him, for we trust in His holy character. Lord, let your trustworthy Love rest upon us as we hope in You.”

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[‭Ezekiel 7:18 KJV] — They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

[‭Ezekiel 7:18 NIV] — They will put on sackcloth and be clothed with terror. Every face will be covered with shame, and every head will be shaved.

Not only will the sinners be stripped of their muscles and strength, but:

☆1☆ They shall also be stripped of their majesty and glory, and therefore they shall use sackcloth to cover their unclothedness as Adam and Eve used fig-leaves aprons.

☆2☆ Unlike the coats of skins that covered Adam and Eve instead, these sinners shall be covered with or by terror or horror.

☆3☆ Their faces shall be stripped of glory and countenance, and therefore covered with shame and disgrace.

☆4☆ Their heads stripped of crowns and hair for glory, and therefore baldness. Unlike Paul saying a man with long hair of head is a shame, in that day men with baldness of head without crowns, without hair and without anointing, are shame.

Therefore, the day of the LORD will not only bring pain to sinners, but also shame.

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[‭Ezekiel 7:19 KJV] — ‭They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

[‭Ezekiel 7:19 NIV] — ‭“‘They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be treated as a thing unclean. Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath. It will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs, for it has caused them to stumble into sin.

See what will happen to all the money In the day of the LORD: Money will be thrown out in the streets like rubbish, and though anyone can pick money or gold and silver on the streets like sand, no one would be interested in touching the money. Money, gold and silver, shall be regarded as unclean thing, as filth or dirt, which mankind would not want to even touch or have.

For money, gold and silver, will not be able to deliver anyone in the day of the LORD; in fact, not even to feed the hunger or quench thirst can money buy. All that “Money answers all things” shall not apply nor stand in the day of the LORD. All prosperities of money, gold and silver shall become vanity, less than vanity.

Money, gold and silver, were the root cause why those sinners stumbled into sin:

[1 Timothy 6:10 BS]- For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

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[‭Ezekiel 7:20 BSB] — His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

[‭Ezekiel 7:20 NIV] — They took pride in their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their detestable idols. They made it into vile images; therefore I will make it a thing unclean for them.

The phones, the gadgets, the ornaments and jewelries, God ordained for good use were abused by the people who took pride in those things and made them into idols and idolize them. Therefore, these too shall be like the unclean and filthy things that money, gold and silver, shall become. They have become idols or idolized by people, therefore the Lord God will desecrate those riches, treasures, jewelries, ornaments, phones, gadgets, etc, just as He desecrated idols and altars of high places.

The days come when these things that people serve, worship, pride in, and crave, shall be made unclean, worthless and despicable to men. That's also when the Lord judges Mammon. For those which are highly regarded among are already abomination to God, and shall soon become abomination to men also.

[Luke 16:13-15 FBV] - No servant can obey two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Money.” The Pharisees, who loved money, heard what Jesus said and laughed at Him. But Jesus told them, “You appear pious to people, but God knows what you're thinking. What people value highly is detested by God.

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[‭Ezekiel 7:7 AKJV] — ‭”The morning is come to you, O you that dwell in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

[‭Ezekiel 7:7 FBV] — ‭“You people living in the land, the consequences of your actions have come full circle. The time has come, the day is near— shouts of panic on the mountains and not shouts of joy.

Just remembered when a tutor described the great Tribulation as “Time of Jacob's Trouble” and he quoted “Jeremiah 30:7” to support the description and linked that to the endtimes tribulation. Here, looking at the bible verse above, to which different bible versions gave different substitution to the use of the word “Morning” in the bible above where King James Version mentioned "The morning is come to you.”

Joy comes in the morning, and renewing comes in the morning; but also morning completes the circle that was began in the previous day(s) — For it is “The Evening and The Morning” that were counted as “A Day” in the beginning. Therefore, Morning is both a new/fresh beginning and an ending of a circle or previous beginning. Morning is both like a time to sow (plant) in one sense and also like a time to harvest (reap) what is sown in another sense. It is in the sense of harvest or ending that the morning in the bible verse above is applied. In the bible verse above, using American-King James Version [AKJV]

The morning is come to you, O you that dwell in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

The morning that came to them (Jacob) was also called “The Time” and “The Day of Trouble;” and that Morning is not like the joyful sounds that come from the morning mountains, but rather the Morning is like gloominess that spreads on the mountains.

[Joel 2:2 AKJV] – “A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread on the mountains:...”

[Isaiah 21:11-12 AFV] — “The burden against Dumah: He calls to me out of Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night; if you will inquire, inquire, and come again."

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[‭Ezekiel 7:8 AKJV] — ‭”Now will I shortly pour out my fury on you, and accomplish my anger on you: and I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations.

[‭Ezekiel 7:8 FBV] — ‭“Very shortly I'm going to show you how angry I am with you. I will judge you by what you have done, and punish you for all your disgusting sins.

Understand that “Now” or “Today” inside the Morning of New Beginning and Salvation is different from the “Now” or “Today” inside the Morning of Ending the Circle of Time. Inside Morning of New/Fresh Beginning or Salvation, “Now” is the time of Acceptance, and “Today” is the day of Salvation. But inside the Morning of Endtime, “Now” is the time for breaking forth of the Anger, wrath and fury of God against all unrighteousness and sins previously committed, and “Today” is the day of the LORD.

Briefings on them:

¤ "I will unleash my anger against you": God's anger here reflects His righteous judgment against the sins and injustices of Israel. This anger is not arbitrary but is a response to their actions and speeches.

¤ "I will judge you according to your ways": This determines responsibility and accountability. Each individual will be judged based on their own actions and speeches.

¤ "Repay you for all your detestable practices": The repayment signifies divine retribution in accordance with their deeds, sins and carelessness. Repayment (wages) of sin is death, even second death. The Judge will repay for all sins and abominations.

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[‭Ezekiel 7:9 AFV‬] — ‭“And My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; I will repay you according to your ways and your abominations that are in your midst. And you shall know that I am the LORD who strikes.

[‭Ezekiel 7:9 FBV] — ‭“I won't have any pity for you or show you any mercy. I'm going to punish you for what you've done, for your disgusting sins. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is attacking you.

The Lord would not be showing one thing, but would be showing something else to those He would be repaying (punishing):

☆A☆ — Mercy (pity, sparing, favor) is what He will not be showing them, but

☆B☆ — He Himself is the One Striking, Smiting, Destroying them is what He will rather be showing them than showing them mercy/pity/sparing.

Sometimes, sparing, pitying, or being merciful, results in losing respect and loyalty; while other times reverse is the case as sparing, pitying, or being mercy, results in gaining respect and loyalty. In above bible verse here, the Lordship (Respect/Loyalty) of the Lord and Righteous Judge would be jeopardized if His Eye spares or shows mercy to certain sinners in the morning of harvest and reaping whatever a man sows. Justice may not be blindfolded, but must not allow its eye to do unrighteousness in judgment even for mercy. Oh, for His Lordship sake, the Lord will not spare or show mercy in judgment to certain sinners; neither will He show waiver or favor in punishment for their sins: Those who engage or continue in them undermine the Lordship of the Lord, disregarding Him.

[‭Jonah 2:8 NKJV‬] - Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own Mercy

[‭Isaiah 27:11 TLV‬] — “...for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore their Maker will show them no mercy—He who formed them will give them no grace.”

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[‭Ezekiel 7:10 AKJV] — ‭“Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod has blossomed, pride has budded.

[‭Ezekiel 7:10 FBV] — ‭“Can't you see? The day is here! It has arrived! The consequences of your actions have come full circle—the walking stick has blossomed, pride has come into full bloom.

Again what I earlier said about other Bible's English translation in the use of “Morning” applies here also.

“The Day” here is also called “The Morning:” It's not morning for planting or fresh beginning, but morning for harvest or reaping things that were planted or sown. As illustrated in the bible verse above, the rod has blossomed and pride has bloomed or budded - all that were sown have ripened in their full harvest morning: Everyone must reap both what he sowed and the fruits of what he did on earth and in his body.

[Galatians 6:7-9 GW] — Make no mistake about this: You can never make a fool out of God. Whatever you plant is what you’ll harvest. If you plant in ⌞the soil of⌟ your corrupt nature, you will harvest destruction. But if you plant in ⌞the soil of⌟ your spiritual nature, you will harvest everlasting life. We can’t allow ourselves to get tired of living the right way. Certainly, each of us will receive ⌞everlasting life⌟ at the proper time, if we don’t give up.

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[‭Ezekiel 7:11 AKJV] — ‭“Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them.

[‭Ezekiel 7:11 BSB] — ‭“Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.

Those who sowed violence in diverse ways will find what they sowed have increased into a rod of wickedness that shall damn them and consume all their increase in the day or morning of harvest. All the treasures of the wicked shall be wasted following the damnation of the wicked, who sowed violence on earth.

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[‭Ezekiel 7:1 NIV‬] — The word of the Lord came to me:

[‭Ezekiel 7:1 NKJV‬] — Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

To this man of God or son of man came the Word, and the man is about to open quote of the exact saying the Word of God spoke to him and through him, without adding or subtracting from the exact words used by the Word of God. Therefore, these that are about to be quoted are not just scriptures or bible, but are words of the Word of God.
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[‭Ezekiel 7:2 NIV‬] — ‭“Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says to the land of Israel: “ ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land!

[‭Ezekiel 7:2 NKJV‬] — ‭“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

The man of God quoted the Word of God, and the Word of God quoted the saying of the LORD God to the land of Israel. Let’s say, here I am quoting/citing the word of Ezekiel, in which Ezekiel was quoting/citing the Word of the Lord, in which the Word of the Lord was quoting/citing the word/saying of the Lord God to Israel. We Christians can now understand it this way, the Spirit of Christ came to Ezekiel quoting/citing to Ezekiel what the Spirit of God is saying to the land of Israel:
“The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land…”
It does not matter how many people recite or re-qoute the Words of God, they are true.

This was not just what He was saying concerning Israel, but saying to Israel. But as at the time Ezekiel was hearing this, perhaps no flesh in Israel had heard nor understood the Lord God saying that to Israel. Hence the need for the Word to come to the son of man who is given to receive, understand and prophesy the communication that already transpired in the spiritual and higher realms, declaring the end has come upon the four quadrants of the Promised land, that is, the land of Israel. The land of Israel is one of the lands on earth that experienced the end more than ones, and yet survived as habitation for mankind, unlike the lands of Sodom and Gomorrah. Another end ahead.
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[‭Ezekiel 7:3 AFV‬] — ‭“Now the end has come upon you, and I will send My anger upon you and will judge you according to your ways, and will lay upon you all your abominations.

[‭Ezekiel 7:3 BSB] — ‭“The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

Understand that “Endtime” or “The End” could be general for all or could be relative to one or few without affecting the others. One man or one nation's end may come upon some, while other men/nations are unaffected. As individuals, when a man dies, his end has come upon him. And, whether generally or privately, when end comes to any, these four things in the bible verse above also follows:
1. End of Grace period,
2. Anger of God,
3. Judgment,
4. Retribution or Reward.

Briefings on themm:

¤ "Now the end is upon you": This means an imminent conclusion to a period of grace or opportunity. That is, a point of no return has been reached.

¤ "I will unleash my anger against you": God's anger here reflects His righteous judgment against the sins and injustices of Israel. This anger is not arbitrary but is a response to their actions and speeches.

¤ "I will judge you according to your ways": This determines responsibility and accountability. Each individual will be judged based on their own actions and speeches.

¤ "Repay you for all your detestable practices": The repayment signifies divine retribution in accordance with their deeds, sins and carelessness. Repayment (wages) of sin is death, even second death. The Judge will repay for all sins and abominations.
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[‭Ezekiel 7:4 AFV‬] — ‭“And My Eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity. But I will repay your ways upon you, and your abominations shall be in your midst; and you shall know that I am the LORD.'

[‭Ezekiel 7:4 GNT] — ‭“‭I will not spare you or show you any mercy. I am going to punish you for the disgusting things you have done, so that you will know that I am the Lord.”

Sometimes, sparing, pitying, or being merciful, results in losing respect and loyalty; while other times reverse is the case as sparing, pitying, or being mercy, results in gaining respect and loyalty. In above bible verse here, the Lordship (Respect/Loyalty) of the Lord and Righteous Judge would be jeopardized if His Eye spares or shows mercy to certain sinners in final judgment of their end. Justice may not be blindfolded, but must not allow its eye to do unrighteousness in judgment even for mercy.

Oh, for His Lordship sake, the Lord will not spare or show mercy in judgment to certain sinners; neither will He show waiver or favor in punishment for their sins: Those who engage or continue in them undermine the Lordship of the Lord, disregarding Him.

[‭Jonah 2:8 NKJV‬] - Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own Mercy

[‭Isaiah 27:11 TLV‬] — “...for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore their Maker will show them no mercy—He who formed them will give them no grace.”
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[‭Ezekiel 7:5 TLV] — ‭“‭Thus says Adonai Elohim: An evil, a singular evil, behold, it comes.

[‭Ezekiel 7:5 NKJV] — ‭“Thus says the Lord God: ‘A disaster, a singular disaster; Behold, it has come!

Still quoting/citing the saying of the Lord God Himself, the Word of the Lord declared that evil, disaster or calamity, has arrived: and the seer is encouraged to behold it as it came. It came being singular or alone. But even though the evil or disaster was alone or singular, the Lord God Himself had to call out its presence twice as alarm to people.

Twice He called out: “An Evil (a disaster), A singular Evil (a singular disaster)” as if they were two or more when it was just a singular evil but worth mentioning twice because of the magnitude and impact of that evil or disaster. In the following Bible verse to the above, we understand that singular evil/disaster is basically "The End” that came.
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[‭Ezekiel 7:6 TLV] — ‭“‭An end has come, the end has come! It has awakened against you. Look, it is coming!

[‭Ezekiel 7:6 NKJV] — ‭“‭An end has come, The end has come; It has dawned for you; Behold, it has come!

That singular evil or disaster that was usually mentioned twice in article under the preceding Bible verse above is the same herein as “An End” also “The End” in both indefinite and definite articulation.

The End here is likened to a monster that had been in hibernation (sleeping) but just suddenly awoken and comes against the people to whom their end must come. When a man's end awakes from sleep against the man, it comes hunting for the man, who then falls into a different kind of sleep full of nightmares, not that of rest in peace.

You see, the end does not end the righteous or faithful in Christ; rather they are the ones who endure to the end. Whoever endures to the end shall be save. But if the end ends you, you are doomed. Death is never the end to the righteous and faithful in the Lord, but death is the end to the unrighteous as well as sinners. Remember, someone can be called Christian and still be unrighteous.

Whenever the message sounds like “The End comes” to the unrighteous, it sounds differently as “The Kingdom of God comes” or “Salvation comes” to the righteous.

[Isaiah 62:11 AFV] — Behold, the LORD has sent a message to the end of the earth, "Tell the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.' ”

[1 Corinthians 15:24 AFV] — Afterwards the end comes, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to Him Who is God and Father, when He shall have put an end to all rule and all authority and power.

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1 Adam and Eve - Chapter 38
1 Adam and Eve 38:1
After these things the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him:—
1 Adam and Eve 38:2
"O Adam, as to the fruit on the Tree of Life that you have asked for, I will not give it to you now, but only when the 5500 years are fulfilled. At that time I will give you fruit from the Tree of Life, and you will eat, and live forever, you, and Eve, and your righteous descendants.
1 Adam and Eve 38:3
But these forty-three days cannot make amends for the hour in which you transgressed My commandment.
1 Adam and Eve 38:4
O Adam, I gave you the fruit of the fig-tree to eat in which you hid yourself. Go and eat of it, you and Eve.
1 Adam and Eve 38:5
I will not deny your request, neither will I disappoint your hope; therefore, endure until the fulfillment of the covenant I made with you."
1 Adam and Eve 38:6
And God withdrew His Word from Adam.


[1 Adam+Eve 38:1] - After these things the Word of God came to Adam, and said to him:—
The Word of God coming to Adam after these things and speaking to Adam, does not mean Adam put these things before the Word, but means the Word of God came both before and after these things to Adam. If you placed the Word of God before these things, the Word will also come to you after these things.
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[1 Adam+Eve 38:2] - "O Adam, as to the fruit on the Tree of Life that you have asked for, I will not give it to you now, but only when the 5500 years are fulfilled. At that time I will give you fruit from the Tree of Life, and you will eat, and live forever, you, and Eve, and your righteous descendants.
According to this Word of God, the fruit of the Tree of Life, that Adam had prayed for, God will not grant that prayer then until 5500 years are fulfilled. When the days, the times or the years, are fulfilled the prayer will be exceedingly, abundantly, grant above how Adam asked or thought for it: For both Adam, Eve and all their righteous offspring will be given to eat of the Tree of Life, and live forever.


Understand these:
Adam and Eve were not necessarily needed to live up to 5500 years time; but even if they died before that time came, God lives forever and so is His Word and therefore the prayer of Adam and Eve would continue living before God (even when those who offered the prayer already died) until the prayer is fully granted as promised. Therefore, do not just pray prayers that must be granted before you die, but also invest in prayers that would live on beyond your days of living and dying on earth.


Some people use this saying, “Medicine After Death” to indicate that a solution or action came too late, and therefore cannot help or perform again because hope is already dead or gone from the situation. But behold, the “Tree of Life” is like a great and sure “Medicine After Death” that works even better than Medicine before death. Death is nothing before the Tree of Life: For God is Life, and both the living and the dead live to God.


[John 11:25-26 BSB] — Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”


Not that God does not keep to time nor regards time and deadlines as some men do; rather the way God keeps to Time is different from the way the men keep to time.


Men keep to time as hasting after time, but God keeps to time by waiting for time,


Men are running with time to fulfill things before time, but God is waiting for time to fulfill first before God fulfills things,


Because men approach from the beginning to end, they prefer and place things before time as definition of speed and success, but because God is the beginning and the end, fulfillment serves time before things.
To Adam He said, “5500 years (time) must be fulfilled before your prayer to eat of the Tree of Life is granted to you and Eve and your righteous offspring.”
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[1 Adam+Eve 38:3] - But these forty-three days cannot make amends for the hour in which you transgressed My commandment.
The idea of purgatory is flawed because it implies days or years of suffering can pay for or make amendment for few minutes, few hours or few days, of transgressing the Commandment of God. Not only were 43 days of mankind's suffering insufficient for his redemption of the transgressed Commandment of God, but also even the 5500 years would be insufficient unless the Lord comes as Son of man to pay the price of the one hour of sin and transgression of the Commandment of God.


It takes eternity to suffer for the transgression of a single commandment of God because the commandment of God is the Word of God that is eternal and carries the weight of eternity in endurance and consequence. Therefore, only Someone who is equal in eternity can pay for the transgression of the Commandment of God. And so you know, the Lord was only permitted to die once, and He had to choose between redeeming mankind and redeeming fallen angels: for His Suffering wouldn't pay for both the transgressions of mankind and the transgressions of angel-kind together. Two for the price of one did not apply.
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[1 Adam+Eve 38:4] - O Adam, I gave you the fruit of the fig-tree to eat in which you hid yourself. Go and eat of it, you and Eve.
The right or path to the Tree of Life is no longer about rejecting or refusing any tree or food as forbidden tree or forbidden food unlike how it was in the Garden of Eden. Man already ate of the forbidden tree, which was the worst food that can keep man away from the Tree of Life. Now, not what goes into a man defiles the man but what comes out of the man are things that could potentially defile the man. If God gives you any fruit or any meat to eat, even if that food/meat was once unclean/forbidden by God who now gives them to you to eat because you are hungry, do not hesitate to eat. Like to Adam and Eve here, and like to Simon Peter in the trance involving creatures to eat.
You don't say because Medicine After Death will fix it then you neglect Medicine before death. God promised them everlasting life after death, but God also wants them to live long life before death. The Fruit of the Tree of Life would come at the appointed time, but God has given you the fruit of the fig-tree to live on.
When the desirable will certainly not be available for now, then make the available desirable: this I apply only for eating and drinking, not in anyother case. In emergency you knew how to turn the fig-tree into an emergency hiding or covering for yourself, even though that was not the original purpose for which the fig-tree was made to serve. If you could convert the fig-tree to meet your hiding need which it was not primarily created to meet, why would you not also allow the same fig-tree to meet your food need which it's primarily created and given by God to meet?
[Psalms 127:2 AFV] — It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of toil; for He provides for His beloved even as they sleep.
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[1 Adam+Eve 38:5] - I will not deny your request, neither will I disappoint your hope; therefore, endure until the fulfillment of the covenant I made with you."
Eat with this assurance of God to you:
[Ecclesiastes 9:7-8 AFV] — Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works. Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment.
Also let your prayers have this assurance of God to you:
[1 Adam+Eve 38:5] - I will not deny your request, neither will I disappoint your hope; therefore, endure until the fulfillment of the covenant I made with you."
Some of you people stopped praying because you were hurt or afraid of getting denied or disappointed by God if He does not do the things you requested or hoped of Him. But even that fear of getting denied or disappointed is unbelief, which takes away true hope and joy in praying without ceasing. Just don't try to subject God to humans’ time approach, but be assured that He appoints the fulfillment of time to fulfill all you ask or think of in your prayers that came with faith and thanksgiving to Him in assurance.
[John 16:23-24 BSB] — In that day you will no longer ask Me anything. Truly, truly, I tell you, whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
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[1 Adam+Eve 38:6] - And God withdrew His Word from Adam.
Even when God withdrew His Word from Adam, the spoken Word of God he received continued to abide with Adam. While the sent Word of God may be withdrawn to return to God as soon as the Word is done delivering the message, the spoken Word of God on the other hand does not get withdrawn nor returns void until the Spoken Word out of the God's Mouth fulfills the purpose for which it was sent (not for which it was spoken)
[Isaiah 55:11 BSB] - so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:12 AMP ‬♨️ - ‭He who is far away will die of the virulent disease, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will spend My wrath on them.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:12 GNT ‬♨️ - Those far away will get sick and die; those nearby will be killed in war; those who survive will starve to death. They will feel all the force of my anger.

DIVERSE WAYS OF DEATH FOR NO PROXIMITY ADVANTAGE

Even though the sin that caused the anger of God was the same sin (Idolatry/spiritual fornication), the expression of the anger of God came in divers forms to all who sinned the same sin, according to means designed to reach them in their zones of proximity or security. It's usually not a must that two or more people who committed the same sin must die the same way or in the same time. Sin leads to death because death is the wages of the sin, but there are many ways by which sinners die, by various methods of death determined for the targeted sinner(s) without affecting unnecessary casualties.

Under such anger of God, those who are nearer to God do not enjoy any proximity or security benefits more than those who are further away from Him, or vice versa. No man under the same wrath of God is saved or delivered by how closer or by how distant away he is from God: The same ‘Peace’ He preached to those nearer to Him He also applied to those far off [Ephesians 2:17]. Same ‘No Peace’ to the wicked near/far:

[Isaiah 57:19-21 AFV] — I create the fruit of the lips; peace, peace, to him who is afar off, and to him who is near," says the LORD, "and I will heal him." But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."


♨️‭Ezekiel 6:13 FBV ‬♨️ - ‭Then you will know that I am the Lord — when the idol worshipers lie dead among their idols and altars on the top of every hill and mountain, and under every green tree and large oak. These were the pagan shrines where they offered sweet-smelling incense to all their idols.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:13 NKJV ‬♨️ - Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.

THE LORD’S “OFFERINGS OF DESECRATION” TO IDOLS

The true Lord (God) would be known by His “Offerings” at the high places or shrines: Not offerings made to worship or serve those idols, altars or shrines; rather “offerings” made to profane or to desecrate those idols, altars or shrines – for the “offerings” He would bring to them are not praise, not worship, not honor, not sacrifice, not gold or precious things, but rather the “offerings” the Lord would bring to those idols, altars and shrines, are the slain corpses, dead bodies, carcasses, rotten bones and corruption of the worshippers that had previously brought any good or precious offering to any of such idols or altar in those shrines. When the Lord would have made these terrible offerings or giftings of desecration and profanity in those high places and shrines, then witnesses shall know without any doubt that He is truly “The LORD.”

In the bible verse above, the Lord who is determined to make the said “Offerings of Profanity and Desecration” in all those shrines, pagan-high places or temples of idols, already knew much details about those places, those idols and their worshippers, and the exact locations of each of those shrines on mountains, hills, under trees, etc and the sweetness of the incense or oblation offered to the idols by their priests and their worshippers. The Lord knows, not only locations and activities of His Temples or Places of worship, but also those of His rivals like shrines or houses of spiritual fornication.


♨️‭Ezekiel 6:14 BSB ‬♨️ - I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:14 NKJV ‬♨️ - So I will stretch out My Hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ” ’ ”

AND THEY SHALL BE TO THEIR LANDS, ABOMINATIONS THAT MAKE DESOLATE

You may read or recall the vision, in which when some kind of people passed through the lands they turned those lands from being wilderness into becoming paradise like the garden of Eden: but when other kind of people passed through the lands they turned those lands from Paradise or Garden of Eden into wilderness, wastelands or desolate because they ruined everything they came across for they were destroyers:

[Joel 2:3] — “….The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is as a desolate desert wasteland - surely nothing will escape them.”

If Adam had not sinned, the Lord would not have cursed the ground for Adam's sake, nor turn the vicinity close to Garden of Eden into cursed ground throughout the days Adam lived. But behold worse than was done to the land Adam lived, the Lord in the top bible verse above would stretch out His Hand against the idolaters, and make all their lands or dwelling places in desolate wastelands more desolate than wilderness of Diblah. Surely, some deserts (wilderness) are better than others in degrees evil therein or desolation. Idolatrous Israelites then became the Abominations that make desolate any land they owned, possessed or even lived on. Nevertheless, even when these were happening, the signs were not for people to be calling them cursed or abominations that make desolate, rather the signs were for people to know the Maker is The LORD indeed: just as those in the same ship with Jonah that was reason for the storm knew that the Maker was the LORD and true God indeed, and they all worshipped the LORD.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:9 AMP ‬♨️ - “Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be exiled, how I have been broken by their lewdness and their adulterous hearts which have turned away from Me, and by their eyes which lust after their idols; and they will loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed, for all their repulsive acts.”

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:9 FBV ‬♨️ - ‭“Once they are there as prisoners in the nations, then the survivors will remember me. They will realize how sad they made me by their spiritual adultery as they deserted me with their eyes full of lust as they worshiped idols. They will hate themselves for the evil things they did, for all their disgusting sins.

THE LORD’S WAS BROKEN BY HER FORNICATION AND INFIDELITY, BUT SHE ALSO BEGAN TO MISS HIM IN AFAR

You may have felt any of these two feelings in relationship:

▪︎1▪︎ “Missing someone you love” especially when you're isolated by distance or walls

▪︎2▪︎ “Heart Broken by someone you love” especially for infidelity, unfaithfulness or cheating.

In the top bible verse here, the Lord was broken by the spiritual adultery (idolatry) of His people; and when He brought His sword to destroy them for it, He allowed some of them to escape or survive, but in captivity (prisoners) in other nations away from their home. Those who escaped or survived were not righteous or innocent than those who fell and were killed: so it's not for their righteousness they escaped death or survived the destruction. Moreover their escape or survival reduced them to being captives. Even so, though some people would eventually be saved, their salvation would reduce them to being like slaves or outcast in outer darkness, gnashing their teeth in regrets.

But another striking thing about this prophecy is that the escapees or survivors were given to escape in order for them to be made captives in exile of others nations, where they shall remember or miss the Lord and bear the guiltiness and regrets of their evil deeds to degrees where they would hate themselves or abhor themselves for doing those shameful and evil deeds against the Lord. If that's a reason to let them escape, it's worth it: — so that they would have to live with the shame of their old ways, even in captivity and in foreign countries.

Earlier, I was thinking of a couple of gospel singers in my childhood days, precisely about how their songs inspired millions in my country then, but they traveled out and settled in America, and since then they left off their ministry and it seems they went down away from the Lord (though I am not sure). Even though America has great and faithful churches and Christians thriving in there, those migrants went off it seems.

But in the bible verse above, reverse was the case: For while the escapees where in their land and home, they completely forgot the Lord and led lives of adultery and lusts of the eyes in idolatry. But when they were held in foreign lands where paganism or idolatry thrived, they suddenly met their revival, regrets, repentance, realization and remembrance, of the Lord and true God as people who “Sing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land.”

Even so, there have been people who while they were in church, home or holy places their heart was far from God; but somehow when they were among the strangers or sinners in places away from church, home or holy places, somehow their heart was back to God in realization and repentance. This was like how it happened to the prodigal son in far country away from his father's house to where there were harlots: there, being a captive of poverty and servant for swine, “He came to his senses,” like Nebuchadnezzar in the wild among donkeys came to his understanding of God.


♨️‭Ezekiel 6:10 AMP ‬♨️ - “‭Then they will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain that I would bring this disaster [as punishment] on them.” ’

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:10 FBV ‬♨️ - ‭“‭Then they will know that I am the Lord, and that I was not pretending when I warned them about bringing this disaster upon them.

THE LORD BY HIS WORDS

The way it had to happen to Nebuchadnezzar before he came to know the Most High rules, even so it had to happen to those infidels before they would know He is the Lord. Some people would never learn the knowledge of God until they are struck with the judgment of God.

[‭Isaiah 26:9-11 NIV‬] — My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. But when grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and do not regard the majesty of the Lord. Lord, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.

Both the Word of His Grace (Gospel) and the Word of His Judgment (Warning), prove He is the Lord: but unfortunately, wicked people and sinners take the Word of His grace in vain and would also take the Word of His Judgment in vain. One of the ten commandments says, “Do not take His name in vain;” and because He regards His Word above all His names, it is even more important to not take His Word in Vain. That His Name, “The Lord,” “Yahweh” “Adonai” “Jehovah” is sustained by His Words: If any of His Words fails or becomes vain, that His Name or Title becomes vain on Him.


♨️‭Ezekiel 6:11 TLV ‬♨️ - “‭Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Clap your hands, stamp your foot and cry, ‘Alas!’ because of all the vile abominations of the house of Israel who will fall by the sword, by famine and by plague.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:11 FBV ‬♨️ - This is what the Lord God says: Hit yourself with your hands, stomp your feet, and shout out ‘Oh no!’ Do this because of all the terrible wickedness of the people of Israel. They are going to die by the sword and famine and disease.

“ALAS” INSTEAD OF “AMEN”

As messenger bearing such prophecy that brings about the destruction and death of your people, you should lament, mourn or be afflicted, not in protesting against your own message but in proclaiming the message. You are not protesting, but proclaiming: yet you must be pained or afflicted because your prophecy of doom are surely inevitable. When the enemies say those things against the people of God, they would be happy saying them mockingly: but when you as members are saying them against other members of the Body, you should be as one troubled and afflicted too. Don't diminish, compromise or contradict the prophecy of doom; but don't rejoice saying it.

In the bible verse above, what the Lord God told son of man to do, and the reason he should do it, proves “The matter has gone from being a Warning to being an inevitability” - for warning means it can still be averted or changed; but when the Lord God tells His Prophets to take up a Lamentation or do similar to that which He told Ezekiel to do here above, it means case closed. Hence its Doom, and not Warning.

The Lord Jesus Christ wept, not just by Lazarus’ tomb, but He wept over Jerusalem, when leaving Jerusalem desolate became inevitable. So even if Paul wished, prayed or would rather be accursed for them to be saved and reinstated, because the Lord Jesus had wept, lamented and stamped it (not just with feet or shaking dust like Ezekiel but) with tears, that matter or case is closed until the disaster is accomplished upon her.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:6 NKJV ‬♨️ - In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:6 NIV ‬♨️ - Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.

DEVELOPMENTS AND DIETIES MARKED FOR DEMOLITION

Some deities, shrines, idols, altars, or demonic high places, would not go down without taking cities, towns, developments, and people, down with them. They go down with lots of casualties and losses in the places where they had deep roots and strongholds.

In the bible verse above, the cities, towns, developments and built environments, of the settlements of the people were automatically marked for demolition and desolation, in order to achieve the total desolation and desecration of their altars, their idols, and their works, that have been integrated with those places and developments. To destroy those deities, shrines, altars, idols, and their strongholds, surely the cities, the infrastructures, the built environment and developments, have to be laid waste, demolished and made desolate. This is because those infrastructures and developments have integration with the “Abominations that make desolate.”

Therefore, come out from among them, and be separate: Lest you partake of her ruins. Don't be like Lot's wife, who didn’t know how to come out of such cities/places without looking back. The same Lord Jesus Christ who told us to do His Holy Communion in remembrance of Him, also told us to “Remember Lot's Wife” (Luke 17:32).


♨️‭Ezekiel 6:7 NKJV ‬♨️ - The slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:7 NIV ‬♨️ - Your people will fall slain among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

HE'S THE LORD, EVEN WHEN HE KILLS AND DESTROYS

What does the Lord’s destroying or killing of people say about Him? Or what would the people, who witness the Lord’s killing or destruction of men, think or know about Him?

□◇□ Some people do not agree that the Lord (especially Jesus) kills or should a man.

□◇□ Some people think or know the Lord is terrorist, cruel or wicked for killing men,

□◇□ When the Lord was about to destroy all the Israelites in the wilderness and to raise the descendants of Moses in their stead, Moses was like speaking what he thought people would think or say about the Lord, saying, “The Egyptians would say You (the Lord) brought them out of Egypt with evil intent to consume (destroy) them” and “The nations around would say because You (the Lord) was unable to bring them into their promised land therefore You have found excuse to destroy them” [Exodus 32:12, Numbers 14:16].

These and suchlike impressions would people hold or know about the Lord when He kills His own People or men, after creating them. But on the contrary, there are people who would be offended if the Lord does not kill nor destroy men that should be destroyed. Some people see it as wickedness if the Lord kills or destroys, but others see it as injustice if the Lord refuses to kill or destroy. Imagine a Lion with a live prey: if the Lion kills the prey, the family of that prey would think or know the Lion as cruel, wicked or destroyer, that must be avoided; but on the other hand, if the Lion spares the prey and let it go without killing it, the family of the Lion would think or know the Lion is irresponsible or uncaring because it was not considering its own family that should be fed. So which of the two families’ opinion should the Lion side?

I am illustrating to you that while other sinners and worldly people view the destruction of sinners from God as cruel or wicked for one who claims to be God of Love or Goodness, on the other hand, the saints or righteous and heavenly minded people are crying to God for vengeance and for destruction of sinners and they would feel injustice. You see the way Jonah felt angry when God spared that wicked or sinful city called Nineveh, or the way the elder brother of the prodigal son felt unhappy when their father welcomed back the sinner (prodigal son) with feast, or how souls under the altar of heaven are crying for the Lord’s vengeance and avenging them on earth and pleading for His Judgment to come, etc.

*◇* In top bible verse above: When the Lord has made their slain to fall in their midst, He said “they shall know He is the Lord:” not they shall know He is cruel.

*◇* In Revelation 2:23: When the Lord Jesus shall kill the children of the adultress, He said “churches shall know He is the Lord who searches the and rewards everyone according to how their works shall be in future not according to how their works appears now:” not they shall know He is cruel.

*◇* In Psalms 136:16-17: When the Lord would have killed and destroyed kings and their armies, the redeemed shall say “His Mercy endures forever:” not they shall know He is merciless or cruel.



♨️‭Ezekiel 6:8 NKJV ‬♨️ - ‭“Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:8 NIV ‬♨️ - ‭“But I will spare some, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the lands and nations.

HE MAKES WAY OF ESCAPE

You may have heard it's a fearful thing to fall into the Hand of God, especially because no one can deliver a man from the Hand of God. God and everyone knows no one can rescue or deliver or cause to escape, any man on whom God's Hand destroys/punishes. However, God Himself had made provisions for escape from His own Hand or Wrath for remnants to always escape and be delivered by God from God, just as in above verse.

Behold the Role of the Lord Jesus Christ as Mediator between God and men, and as Savior of God for men to escape from the wrath and destruction from God: He is like the spoken gospel in the bible verse above, spoken for the escape and redemption of the preserved. Since the creation of men, God has always considered the provision of escape for remnants as prerequisite before God fully poured out His full wrath of destruction both in the flood of Noah and in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

However, not all aspects of the Lord Jesus Christ are for salvation and escape: There are aspects of the Lord that must judge the living and the dead when there shall be no more anywhere to escape to, though there's something to escape from. In the bible verse above, where to escape to was to other nations, escaping from the Sword of God. But to us, the aspect of the Lord Jesus Christ that's fully for escape and deliverance is the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ shed through His cross. Nevertheless, do not just seek to escape, but rather seek to repent: Repentance is better than Escape.

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♨️‭Ezekiel 6:3 AFV ‬♨️ - “And say, 'Mountains of Israel, hear the Word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys, "Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:3 TLV ‬♨️ - “‭Say: mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai!” Thus says Adonai Elohim concerning the mountains and concerning the hills, concerning the wadis and concerning the valleys: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you. I will destroy your high places.

SWORD TO DESTRUCTION OF HIGH PLACES

Prophets and Ministers of the Word of God were not only called to prophesy or speak the word to people, but also to the creation and creatures. Even if men would not listen to the Word of God, we will still preach and prophesy the Word of the Lord to the mountains and earth that bear them, to the houses and stones that shelter them, to air and water that sustain their lives, to their death and grave that shall damn them, and to everything and everywhere they sinned or committed iniquities against God.

Example, the man of God all the way from Judah to Bethel, came to prophesy the word of the Lord, but basically to altars in high places. As it is written,

[1 Kings 13:1-2] — And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD, to Bethel. And Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, "O, altar, altar, thus says the LORD. 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and upon you he shall offer the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burned upon you.' ”

In the top bible verse, the son of man began his ministering the Word of prophecies, which were addressed by God basically to objects in the word of the Lord and witness of men concerned. Later he would prophesy to even dry bones, but now he was directed to face and prophesy to the mountains of Israel, to the hills of Jacob, to the rivers and valleys of the place that was once a land flowing with milk and honey.

In his prophecy to these Geographical or Topological features, the word of the Lord through him promised to imminently bring a Sword on them: And with the Sword, the Lord will destroy the high places of those mountains of Israel. “High Places” then meant “Shrines” or ‘Temples/Altars’ for Idolatry/Idols/demons. The mountains of Israel were not Holy mountains because of the high places on them, as well as in their rivers and valleys. The Sword was not primarily meant to destroy those places, but to destroy the high places of those places. When you come to “Ezekiel 36” the son of man was again directed to still face and prophesy but good things or gospel to the same mountains, hills, rivers and valleys of Israel, after the high places in them are destroyed from them, for God to rebuild them after cleansing them from high places.

Now understand these:

☆A☆ We still prophesy or preach the gospel, the Word of the Lord, to every creature;

☆B☆ The Lord, even as Jesus Christ, brought Sword into the world in place of peace;

☆C☆ We moved from destroying the high places (shrines) to destroying the spiritual wickedness in high places, as well as principalities, powers, rulers of darkness of this world, strongholds and high things that exalt themselves against Knowledge of Christ.

It's not flesh or carnal destruction, but spiritual destruction of high places: especially now that the high places are integrated in some churches so that to destroy those high places would mean to destroy those churches integrated with idolatry and demons.



♨️‭Ezekiel 6:4 AFV ‬♨️ - “And your altars shall be desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken. And I will make your slain fall before your idols.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:4 NKJV ‬♨️ - “Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HIGH PLACES

The purported destruction of the high places spoken of, is hereby described in detail: There would be both physical aspects to it and spiritual aspects to it.

☆a — The Physical aspects to the destruction of the High Places ‐ These are covered in the bible verse above, and entails

Desolation and Brokenness of the Altars in the Shrines or High Places, and

Slaying or killing the worshippers/attendants, and piling up their carcasses before their idols.

Their idols will have their worshippers and believers killed before them, but those idols cannot raise them to live nor take vengeance for their own worshippers before them.

This prophecy of Ezekiel is also exactly the same with the prophecy of Moses, saying:

[‭Leviticus 26:30 NIV‬] — I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.



♨️‭Ezekiel 6:5 NKJV ‬♨️ - “‭And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

♨️‭Ezekiel 6:5 NIV ‬♨️ - “I will lay the dead bodies of the Israelites in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HIGH PLACES 2

In continuation of describing the purported destruction of the high places spoken of, here are the spiritual aspects to it.

☆a — The Spiritual aspects to the destruction of the High Places ‐ These are:

Desecration/Defilement of the Altars in the Shrines or High Places with the deadness and bones of the worshippers/attendants of those idols.

Recall the man of God from Judah to Bethel, prophesied against the altar of the high place there, saying those priests’, worshippers’ and men's bones shall be burned on the altar [1 Kings 13:1-2] — Josiah the king fulfilled that prophecy, defiling those altars.

What desecrating or defiling those altars and idols with the deadness/dead bones of the same people who worshipped/served them would achieve includes — reversing or voiding all the proceeds and profits those idols and altars that fed them received from the same dead people. All their previous renderings are canceled by such desecration. Just as the dead do not praise or worship the Lord (Psalms 115:17) unless they rise up from the dead (Psalms 88:10), even so dead worshippers by desecrating their idols and high places with stench instead of incense/worship, nullify their earlier renderings.

Behold how Josiah fulfilled the prophecy of the man of God from Judah in Bethel:

[b][‭2 Kings 23:5-20 NIV‬] — He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts. He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the graves of the common people. He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah. Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate. Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests. He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek. He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun. He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley. The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people of Ammon. Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones. Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also. Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things. The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?” The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.” “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones.” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria. Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the Lord’s anger. Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.[/b]

THE WORD: — THE MESSAGE AND THE MESSENGER

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[Daniel 4:36 AKJV] — At the same time my reason returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and brightness returned to me; and my counsellors and my lords sought to me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me.

[‭Daniel 4:36 AMP‬] — Now at the same time my reason returned to me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor were returned to me, and my counselors and my nobles began seeking me out; so I was re-established in my kingdom, and still more greatness [than before] was added to me.

(Daniel 4:36 TS2009‬) — At the same time my understanding returned to me, and for the preciousness of my reign, my esteem and splendour were returning to me. And my counsellors and nobles sought me out, and I was re-established to my reign, and excellent greatness was added to me.

Amazing! Wonderful! Marvelous! Thank You Most High for these You have done here! This top bible verse above is one of the bests in the Gospel of Restoration of God.

Recall Adam and Eve were naked but were both unaware and unashamed: then as soon as they had eaten of the forbidden tree, they realized they were naked and thus they were embarrassed. When their eyes were opened or certain knowledge or reason came on them, it came to expose them to their shame and their shame to them, without help but instead they lost their brightness, glory or honor, being aware in their own shame.

In contrast to that of Adam and Eve, that of Nebuchadnezzar in the top bible verse above was glorious Entrance of Understanding, Reawareness or Enlightenment because when the understanding (reason/sanity/knowledge) returned to the naked, mad, disgraced or humiliated, Nebuchadnezzar was at the same time when his kingdom glory and brightness, honor and majesty, nobles, princes, counsellors, re-establishment etc, returned to him, so that his shame or disgrace was covered as if it never existed or he was never aware of it. Basically, his understanding and that particular disgrace never coexistence together in him: when one was present in him the other was absent.

With what I know as an adult, I know that when I was child or baby I must have defecated or urinated shamefully and must have been naked and done shameful or foolish things as a baby — but I was not aware nor can I point out any particular occasion in my memory of doing any of those shameful things as a baby, unless if an older person who was a witness and aware taunts me with them; and even so, it would not even have any deep impact in me if the person taunts or mocks me because my understanding or awareness cannot relate whatever the person is saying about me to cause any impact, moreover cameras to video, snap or record me in my shame was not even common by then as they are now: so whether the person's saying is true or not, it will not matter or impact me because when I awoke in my understanding I found myself in clothedness, honor, fairness and among friends. To me, it's like those childhood shame never happened because though I was in it, I was never aware in it.

The exception to that would be if a much older woman tells me that she sexually took advantage of my private parts secretly or defiled me, even though I am not aware. A teenage girl, living with a family as househelp was sleeping deeply, and an older man in that house took advantage and uncovered her private part and saw what she was hiding without her being aware. When she woke up, she continued normally as nothing happened, and still preserving her honor that the man had never seen the colors of her inner pants (not knowing what transpired). But the man decided to confess his sin against her, for he was feeling guilty about it: he couldn't tell her plainly what he did or saw, but he advised her, saying to her, “Last time you were sleeping, you slept so carelessly that your skirt was opened and your private was easily seen. So next time you want to sleep, wear trouser or pants under your skirt or wrapper to avoid such; and shut your door.” The girl felt shy and defeated on being aware of this, and she became more apprehensive before and during sleeping (with one eye open) and began wearing trouser or long pants firmly tied before sleeping.

A drunkard who's shame was exposed in his/her drunkenness (stupor) but was not aware when sanity or soberness returned, is like:

[‭Proverbs 23:35 FBV‬] - “People punched me, but it didn't hurt me; they beat me, but I didn't feel a thing. I've got to get up because I need another drink.”

A church was busy celebrating her being rich, her having no need or no problems that she has not taken care of, and nothing that church lacked in all that money or riches can afford. It was as if there was no poor or needy man/woman in her. She was a church swimming in prosperity, but the Lord Jesus wrote an “Open Letter” to her exposing her shame and misery that she was unaware of, and He did not keep the letter private just between Him and that church, but made it open letter to go viral so that all the churches would be aware and learn. In the letter's, He said inter’alia:

[‭Revelation 3:17-19 NIV‬] — You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful unclothedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.

But behold how He helped and handled Nebuchadnezzar's unclothedness, wretchedness, and shame, vis-a-vis the returning of his understanding, awareness, as He did to Adam in Anastasia when He performed Procedure or Operation in his body to collect his rib and to form a woman for him, in such a way Adam woke up never feeling the pains.

As soon as Nebuchadnezzar's understanding or awareness returned, his kingdom (instead of his abasement), his honor (instead of his shame), his brightness (instead of his unclothedness), his nobles, princes, counsellors, wisemen, richmen, senators, seeking and coming to him (instead of the wild fleas and desolate forsaken loneliness in no man's land), and the addition of excellent majesty (beyond that which he ever had ago) — These all returned to him as convoys or escorts to his understanding returned. No time for him to dwell in the consciousness of his disgrace because he awoke or dwelt in the consciousness of his honor and brightness and glory etc., that were present with him when his understanding or sanity or awareness of sound mind re-entered him.

Solomon asked God for wisdom, which is understanding heart: — That Understanding came together with convoy or escorts, (which Solomon did not even ask for), because that understanding (wisdom) was a Kingdom Understanding or Understanding of Kings (not mere understanding). And as Kings go in convoy or escorts, so does Understanding of Kings goes or comes with Kingdom Convoy or Escorts:

☆1☆ When the Understanding of Kings came to Solomon, its convoys entail riche, long reign and dominion over his enemies, even though Solomon did not ask.

☆2☆ When the Understanding of Kings returned to Nebuchadnezzar, its convoys entail his kingdom, his glory and honor, his brightness, his attraction to princes, nobles and senators and Counsellors, and additional excellency and majesty, re-establishment.

☆3☆ When the Understanding of Kings comes to those worthy of Her, She brings the following convoys, some at Her Right Hand and some at Her Left: as it is written,

[b][‭Proverbs 3:13-18] — Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding; For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, And all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, And happy are all who retain her.

[‭Proverbs 8:14-21] — I am Understanding, I have strength: Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom. By Me kings reign, and rulers decree justice. By Me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth. I love those who love Me, And those who seek Me diligently will find Me. Riches and honor are with Me, Enduring riches and righteousness. My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, And My revenue than choice silver. I traverse the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice, That I may cause those who love Me to inherit wealth, That I may fill their treasuries.[/b]

HIS INFINITY AND SUPREMACY

[Daniel 4:35 NKJV] — All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, “What have You done?”

(Daniel 4:35 FBV) — Everyone who lives on earth is as nothing compared to Him. He does whatever He chooses among the heavenly host and among those who live on earth. No one can hold Him back from what He does, or ask Him, “What are You doing?”



Nebuchadnezzar witnessed these realities of the Most High God: In the preceding top Bible verse to this, Nebuchadnezzar spoke of the “Eternity of God,” while here he speaks of the “Infinity of God.” Behold the Infinity of God in Size and in Supremacy.



♧1♧ - All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing (compared to God):

All the Satan, Demons, Witches, Cultists, all the Nations, and all the Peoples on earth are as less than nothing and vanity compared to God in all ramifications or aspects. Put every living thing that roam the earth together in comparison to God, and they all shall be as insignificant and microscopic below the level of what one regards as nothing or vanity. They do not even amount to zero, but are in negative integers compared to the infinity of God.

[‭Isaiah 40:17-18 NKJV]‬ — All nations before Him are as nothing, And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless. To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him?”

There's no way to even see any significance of all men and devils combined when you have seen the manifest realities of the size and dimensions of God. God is just beyond Billions of Universes and Galaxies. And when you see the earth inside the whole map of just one galaxy, you will understand that the earth and all in it are truly less than a speck of one dust particle. The scriptures say that a thousand years is like a day to God, but I think even that is grossly an understatement: I think billions of light-years is like a day to God. There's just no worthy comparison we can make between God and His Creations from earthly perspective. [See Psalms 89:6].

[b][‭Isaiah 40:15, 17-18, 22-23, 25-26, 28 NKJV‬]
[15] Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, And are counted as the small dust on the scales; Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing. [17] All nations before Him are as nothing, And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless. [18] To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to Him? [22] It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. [23] He brings the princes to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth useless. [25] “To whom then will you liken Me, Or to whom shall I be equal?” says the Holy One. [26] Lift up your eyes on high, And see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, By the greatness of His might And the strength of His power; Not one is missing. [28] Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.



♧2♧ - He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth.[/b]

God does whatever He chooses among the heavenly host and among those who live on earth. No one else can do such both in heaven and on earth, not even Angels, Satan or Demons can do whatever pleases them in heaven and earth either by rebellion or by any means. All are bound by laws, principles or ordinances, so that even when a rebel or sinner does as he likes what he does is still bound by laws, ordinances and processes. Only God is Above the Laws.

[‭Psalms 115:3 NKJV‬] -But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He pleases.

We all were created for His Pleasure to please God or to do His Will on earth as it is in heaven. I have heard people say God gave man ‘sovereign will’. But in difference I say, the will of man is not sovereign and no nation or country is sovereign to God, which why all are subject to God's Judgment for Righteousness and Justice. But the Will of God is Sovereign, Supreme and is the Law or Constitution that governs all things, all realms and all kingdoms. The reason you cannot condemn the acts or deeds of God as sinful or as not being morally right is because God's doings are God's Will, and the Will of God is the definition of Righteousness and Morality. The way the Porter is always right in whatever the porter does to his clay, so is God to all and any of His Creations.



♧3♧ - No one can hold Him back from what He does, or ask Him, “What are You doing?”

Remember a king that (was also a Preacher) wrote, saying:

[Ecclesiastes 8:4] — Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who is going to question him, saying, “What are you doing?”

Let say that King is the Most High God Himself, King of Heaven, as Nebuchadnezzar testified in the top bible verse above - Who can ask or question Him, “What are You doing or what have You done?” But if that king is not the Lord and King of Heaven, surely there is One who will question that king on whatever the king says or does.

Again I say, the will of man is not sovereign, but are endorsed by Authorities which God ordains and regards in connection with such will. Spiritually, Authority is not Sovereignty, but endorsement of Ranks, Orders, Assignments, Titles and Honors.

[Psalms 62:9 AKJV] — Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

[‭Psalms 62:9 GNBDC‬] — Human beings are all like a puff of breath; great and small alike are worthless. Put them on the scales, and they weigh nothing; they are lighter than a mere breath.

Who are you to question God? Are you more righteous or wiser than God?

[‭Romans 9:18-24 NIV‬] — Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden. One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist His will?” But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? What if God, although choosing to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the objects of His wrath—prepared for destruction? What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the objects of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory— even us, whom He also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?