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The Other Gospel Of The American

Posted on February 18, 2012 by cmardern

The Other Gospel Of The American

Lost Tribes

Few believers in this wicked and adulterous generation truly understand the concept of how just a slight variation in the truth of the Gospel will progressively deteriorate into what the New Testament calls “another Gospel” (II Corinthians 11:4) — and one of the most lethal strains of this theological leaven is found in the concept of the “lost tribes” of Israel.

An aberrant belief structure which dates back centuries, the story of the separation of the Northern tribes of Israel from the Southern tribes of Judah is Scriptural, but it is also complex, and requires a serious measure of Spiritual discernment — something that is sorely lacking in the halls of religion where the “lost tribes” are emphasized. The basic idea is related to the claim that when Israel was judged by the LORD in the 8th century BC (II Kings 17:23), and the 10 Northern tribes were scattered from their ancient homeland, their descendants became the dominant tribes which emerged as the proto-states of Europe, which would subsequently make many Americans and other nations at least partially descended from Israel as well.

Referred to with terms as diverse as everything from “British-Israelism,” to “Christian Identity” (or the term widely used which is “lost tribes”), the story is appealing, and intellectually stimulating on many levels. Indeed, the fact is, several scholarly historians have indeed traced an Israelite presence around the world– most notably American writer Stephen Collins, whose published work showing an Israelite presence in the ancient kingdoms of Phoenicia and Parthia are fascinating. However, the fact is, with the coming of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as revealed in the New Testament, the emphasis on the multi-generational physical lineage of the tribes, and the political development of the contemporary kingdoms of the last two millennia completely obscures the central issue of the true identity of Israel.

As a result, numerous pastoral false prophets have risen, who are using the basic data of the tribal migrations to present another version of the Gospel — but the prophetic paradigm created using the massive amount of data linking physical Israel to numerous kingdoms throughout history, culminates in the “gospel” of the Antichrist. Teachers such as David J Smith. the late Pastor Pete Peters, and even the various groups which were related to the Worldwide Church of God founded by the Herbert W Armstrong, are all preaching another Gospel generated through a Spiritually deficient view of this historical perspective.

Ironically, the research which traces the Israelite presence through England, Germany, Italy, France, the Scandinavian states, and the Americas reads like a membership list of NATO — which makes the prophetic interpretation offered by the false prophets even more credible. The situation is not dissimilar to that which is seen in the prophetic implications of the contemporary state of Israel, where the emergence of the Jewish state in these end times is extremely significant, but not for the reasons being promoted by the false prophets.

For example, one worldview says the tiny nation is pivotal to prophecy because it’s comprised of the descendants of the “chosen people,” so events are always geared around the idea that God will call His chosen to repent during a prophesied time of great hardship, viz, the tribulation. So too, the lost tribers, who identify the modern Jewish state prophetically as an end time’s form of “Judah” — as opposed to the American led cluster of Northern tribes of “Israel.” Following the false prophet’s version, after a terrible series of tribulational events and a great international repentance, the LORD will rejoin the two “houses,” and a new era will emerge as the two factions (Israel and Judah) are then said to be renewed Spiritually, in a spectacular fulfillment of a number of prophecies.

The truth is, as the “lost tribes” proponents have a considerable animosity towards the Jews (and vice versa), we are seeing the classical friction associated with the concept of the Dialectic, wherein two factions (Hegel’s thesis and antithesis) collide in order to produce an emergent synthesis. This formula is Satanic through and through, and the Spiritual signatures identifying the true nature of both factions are everywhere — if you have the Spiritual eyes to see. For example, any ministry which adorns itself with the Star of Moloch (Amos 5:26), referencing the Satanic symbol as the so called Star of David (chapter and verse, please), is clearly a vessel of dishonour.

In this rivalry, the Euro descended “Israelites” will tell you the Jews are not really the Jews, they are Kennites (descendants of Cain), Edomites (descendants of Esau), or even Khazars (an ancient Indo-Turkic people who converted to Judaism, then supposedly forgot they weren’t “real” Jews). Conversely, “Messianic” Jewish believers, and other evangelicals (such as the millions in the Rapture Cult) who believe the physical Jews have retained their “chosen” status even during the New Testament era, decry the British-Israelites as anti-Semites who are vying for the role of the “chosen people.” This conflict is already developing a synthesis incorporating elements from both perspectives, and the emergent system is called “Two House.”

As all the factions just described are completely inhabited by what the Apostle Paul called “the Mystery of Iniquity,” as evidenced by their participation in the process of the Dialectic, the Two House system is the inevitable end of this ongoing series of Dialectically driven conflicts. Theorists in both camps are commonly citing the prophecy in Ezekiel, wherein the prophet was told to take two sticks, representing Israel and Judah, and join them into one stick:

“Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah….then take another stick, and write upon it…for all the house of Israel…And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand” (Ezekiel 37:16,17).

The text goes on to say there will be one nation and “one king shall be king to them all” (Ezekiel 37:19). That one kingdom is a Spiritual kingdom, and the one king is JESUS — but this was fulfilled at the time of the arrival of Jesus Christ, for His “kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:376). By pushing this prophecy to a point in the future, the Two House Heresy is saying Jesus did not fulfill His role as the King of the united house of Israel — a classic characteristic of the unbelief emanating out of Christ-rejecting Israel (I John 2:22).

The circumstances are profoundly similar to the prophecy in which David was told his son will build the temple of the LORD:

“David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts….it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will stablish his kingdom. He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever” (I Chronicles 17:7,11,12).

This was a prophecy fulfilled by Jesus Christ, as the “Son of David” (Luke 18:38), and the “house” that He built was made of “stone..cut without human hands” (Daniel 2:34), for it is a “kingdom [which] is not of this world” (John 18:36), as it is found in New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:2), which is on the other side of the “veil” (Hebrews 10:20) of His crucified body.

Solomon, as the physical son of David and the king of Israel, reasoned that he would be the one to fulfill this prophecy; and although he engineered a superb physical temple, all of his earthly energized efforts came to nought, as he ultimately defiled himself and turned to the devils masquerading as gods to sustain his worldly kingdom (I Kings 11:7). This is precisely what is going to occur as the Two House heretics rise to dominion at the end of the age.

The crucial fact is found in the New Testament truth which tells us that our position in Christ is not impacted by those who seek to use the prophets and the Bible to move an agenda forward. “The kingdom of God is within you” Jesus told us, and the idea that you may have any Israelite blood in your family line is completely irrelevant to the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The emphasis on a physical form of Israel — whether embedded within Euro-American history or found in present day Jerusalem — is a rabbit trail that turns the believer’s attention to the world, instead of the much deeper Gospel of the kingdom of God which is found in Jesus Christ.

— James Lloyd

http://christianmedianetwork.com/

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Ezekiel’s Beard

Posted on February 9, 2012 by cmardern

EZEKIEL’S BEARD by James Lloyd
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> On the Apocalypse Chronicles radio show

http://christianmedianetwork.com/

which I host, we recently revisited this most colorful of subjects — and in the process, the Spirit of the LORD once again opened up new vistas of understanding. For those unaware of the significance of the amazing prophecy found in Ezekiel 5, it is a premier example of how the language of prophetic metaphor serves to communicate depth and dimension to doctrine (which must also be revealed elsewhere in plain language). In the present instance, the doctrine of the Trinity is clearly taught in the New Testament, and the imagery seen in the story of Ezekiel’s Beard provides another witness to the triune nature of all things.
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> However, the story of Ezekiel’s Beard is also profoundly prophetic,
> for it also shows the ongoing future of how the LORD works with His
> chosen. In the passage, we find the hair and beard of the prophet
> is to be cut and divided into thirds, as a way of predicting the
> tripartite nature of all creation, in what we call the Triuniverse:
>
> “And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a
> barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy
> beard: then take thee balances to weight, and divide the hair.
> Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city,
> and when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a
> third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou
> shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after
> them” (Ezekiel 5:1,2).
>
> Here we see a very precise picture of the mystery of thirds, in
> which two thirds are destroyed, and the final third is scattered
> into the “wind” — an early indicator this astonishing Word of the
> LORD is rich in detail, texture, and meaning. Of course, those who
> have zero Spiritual discernment, who have dismissed allegory and
> metaphor in favor of the stupidity which asserts all prophecy is
> literal, will manifest yet another example of those who have eyes,
> but cannot see, or ears which cannot hear:
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> “Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see
> not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they
> understand” (Matthew 13:13)
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> As the LORD also says through His prophets, by the mouth of two or
> three witnesses is a thing established, we hasten to point out the
> concept of thirds is confirmed in Zechariah, as the LORD
> communicates precisely the same formula of two parts cut off, and
> the third dispersed, purified, and redeemed:
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> “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord,
> two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be
> left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and
> will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is
> tried; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will
> say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my
> God” (Zechariah 13:8,9).
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> Back in Ezekiel, the first “third” is to be burned with fire, but
> the very same text elaborates on what that means, and provides us
> with crucial elaboration:
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> “Surely because thou has defiled my sanctuary with all thy
> detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will
> I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I
> have any pity. A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence,
> and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a
> third part shall fall by the sword round about thee and I will
> scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a
> sword after them” (Ezekiel 5:11,12)
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> One of the first things we see is that the first third is destroyed
> through “pestilence” and “famine,” whereas the earlier rendition of
> the same division simply said that first third was imaged as the
> third of Ezekiel’s Beard which the prophet was instructed to “burn
> with fire” — an indicator the concept of burning with fire is
> somehow related to famine and pestilence.
>
> This is proven by the fact that, in the second rendition of the
> same prophecy, the second third falls by the “sword,” which is
> consistent with the second third, articulated earlier — symbolized
> by the portion of Ezekiel’s Beard which he was told to “smite” with
> a “knife” (Ezekiel 5:2). The final third, in the second time the
> cycle is mentioned, is also said to be scattered “into all the
> winds,” which is exactly what was described earlier, so there
> really is no doubt about the matter.
>
> This is hugely important, because it plainly shows that when “fire”
> and “burning” is used to describe judgment, it is not at all
> inconsistent to associate that concept with “pestilence” and/or
> “famine,” because that is precisely what the LORD does when we
> compare verses 2 and 12 in this crucial fifth chapter of Ezekiel.
> This opens up all sorts of avenues for deciphering other passages
> where God decrees famine and pestilence, using the image of
> “fire.” And there is more.
>
> As the Father introduces the redundancy used to describe these
> judgments the second time, He tells Israel this judgment is to be
> meted out without pity, because of the LORD’s wrath over the fact
> that Israel has “defiled” His “sanctuary” with “detestable things”
> as well as a multitude of “abominations” — a very harsh statement
> considering the alleged believer in Jesus Christ is a Spiritual
> Israelite, whose body is the temple (read sanctuary), and the
> collective believers are the current object of this frightening
> denunciation.
>
> Of course, the so called “Christians” have no idea this verse is
> predicting what is about to happen to them, as they have long
> rejected their true identity, and filled their collective temples
> with “detestable” doctrines; but the LORD is faithful to keep His
> promise, and preserve a few who have heard His voice.
>
> We’ll describe those “few” in the next installment of Ezekiel’s Beard.
>
> — James Lloyd http://christianmedianetwork.com/

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Jew or Greek?

Posted on February 2, 2012 by cmardern

Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Gal 6 is telling us a born again Christian is the Israel of God

Eph 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Paul is refering to aliens from the commonwealth of Israel as people without Christ.

Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Gal 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

Paul is telling us Jerusalem is now above

Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

The place where Christ was crucified is Sodom and Egypt. (which is referring to spiritual captivity, bondage to lies, deception.)

Deut 1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

The land is given to Abrahams seed

Gal 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Christians are Abrahams seed. Abrahams seed by faith.

Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

The land is spiritual, Sion above, heavenly Jerusalem

Rom 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

A Jew is someone who is a partaker of the everlasting Covenant with God which is symbolized by circumcision. When a person truly repents he enters into covenant with God.

Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Being born again means to have the covenant written on our hearts. God promised the covenant to Israel. This is when Israel was born again, after the cross. The church (never capitalized, never a proper noun, is born again Israel. The new testament congregation is not named “Church” church is not capitalized. Its name is Israel. Capitalized a proper noun. In scripture the church is a gathering of people not an institution. This is very important. The word church is ekklēsia
church G1577
ἐκκλησία
ekklēsia
ek-klay-see’-ah
From a compound of G1537 and a derivative of G2564; a calling out, that is, (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both): – assembly, church.

1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Scripture is clear the things of God are spiritually discerned.

Rom 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace

We are chosen by grace, the new testament body is elected, chosen just like the old testament body.

Mat 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Again the church, the ekklesia are the “called out ones” those who are called, chosen and faithful. Those that remain faithful, enduring to the end.
Rev 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

The called, chosen and faithful are the ones who make it.

2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

We must be sure of our election, that we are one of the chosen.

2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Num 6:27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

Gods true covenant followers, were, are, and always will be The Chosen People, Israel.

Rom 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

While Paul teaches there is no difference between Jew or Gentile, todays modern church has divided the 2 again and continues to distinguish between Jew and Gentile. These doctrines originated from the Schofield Study Bible, and were distributed by Jesuit controlled Oxford Publishing into the seminaries. 100 years of conditioning and Satan has convinced Christians that there is a difference between Jew and Gentile. The church failing to realize “they” are jews and are Gods chosen people is very dangerous. When we see a common theme concerning those who forsake their heritage in scripture, we understand the magnitude of the effects of this false doctrine.

Cognitive Dissonance

The term cognitive dissonance is used to describe the feeling of discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs. When there is a discrepancy between beliefs and behaviors, something must change in order to eliminate or reduce the dissonance.

When we understand our identity as Israel we are able to rightly divide the word of truth. we realize the words of the prophets are addressed to us.

We understand that the book of Revelation is the account of the spiritual journey of the spiritual children of Israel up out of Egypt, the bondage of deception, false doctrine, lies, to Jerusalem above, the spiritual promised land.

Isa 11:15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
Isa 11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
1Co 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
1Co 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
1Co 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

The parallels in Revelation to the Exodus are there for those with discernment and eyes to see. We have the 7 new testament congregations of whom when purged become the 12 spiritual tribes.

Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Now united as the prophecy of the 2 sticks is fulfilled.

Zec 11:14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Eze 37:19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
Eze 37:20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
Eze 37:21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
Eze 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
Eze 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Eze 37:24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

We have the 7 trumpet judgements breaking down the spiritual walls of Jericho preparing the spiritual children of God to enter the promised land.

Jos 6:4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
Jos 6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
Heb 11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

Rev 8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

We have the serpents and scorpions in the wilderness along the narrow path. Jesus give us power over them. The serpents and scorpions are the false teachers, the idol shephards and their false doctrine.

Deu 8:15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Luk 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Rev 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Rev 9:19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

Satan and his mouth pieces function as one.

Isa 9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Deception is the threshing floor, the dividing mechanism God uses to separate his flock. His sheep hear his voice, his sheep, the elect, the chosen, are not decieved.

Psa 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet werethey drawn swords.

We have the servants the prophets the voices in the wilderness, in sackcloth and ashes proclaiming Gods truth to the Harlot Religious System.

Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

We have the 2 Witnesses, a type and shadow of Zerubabel, against spiritual Babylon, a symbol again of captivity, deception and bondage to lies, setting the plumbline in the midst of Jerusalem measuring the 7 churches, congregation, the house of God.

Zec 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Rev 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

We have the plagues, now spiritual, as Gods wrath is poured out on the ungodly.

Rev 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Zec 1:4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

The 2 witnesses are former prophets, also known as the former rain. They have “power to shut heaven, and hold off the latter rain”. The pattern of the former prophets as the former rain, ministers of Gods moderate outpouring of understanding preparing the multiudes to receive the latter rain outpouring. The “ensample” of the disciples as the former prophets of the day preparing for the latter rain outpouring at pentecost, will replay at the “end of the world” this is written for our admonition. Today the “former prophets” are the lone voices in the wilderness calling modern Israel the apostate harlot church to repentance.

This journey ends standing with the Lord, for those who gain victory over the beast.

Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Rev 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, andover the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

The “sea”, the spiritual “Red Sea”, of great tribulation is now glass for those who “had gotten victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark and over the number of his name”.

Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

The “ensample” of the Political Religious System that crucified our saviour who’s deadly wound inflicted at the time of the first coming today has been healed.

Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

At the resurrection, Satan and his beast system, received it’s deadly wound. Satan was bound.

Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. The word thousand is symbolic

Thousand G5507
χίλιοι
chilioi
khil’-ee-oy
Plural of uncertain affinity; a thousand: – thousand.

Satan was bound by the power of the resurrection and held in his prison, the pit, by the gospel. Today the true covenant gospel has been replaced by a gospel of flatteries. Prosperity, unconditional grace, grace without truth, mingling with the world, defying the call for sanctification. Todays modern church is an abomination of false doctrine and lies. At the very foundation of the Great Apostasy, the Falling Away from truth is the forfeiting of our heritage as The Israel of God.

Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

The church has fallen away from sound doctrine, is doing wickedly against the covenant, the flatteries gospel has no restraining power, Satan has been released from his prison. Any doubt? Look around people.

2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling
away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Contemplate what 2 Thes 2 is saying when we understand what Paul has to say about the temple of God.

2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

Letteth G2722
κατέχω
katechō
kat-ekh’-o
From G2596 and G2192; to hold down (fast), in various applications (literally or figuratively): – have, hold (fast), keep (in memory), let, X make toward, possess, retain, seize on, stay, take, withhold.

Satan is now loosed, he who “letteth” the restraining power of the true covenant gospel, has been taken out of the way, as allowing Satan to continue deceiving the nations, the deadly wound is healed. The word thousand is symbolic, it “means an indetermined number”

Isa 11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

Again for our admonition for whom the end of the world has come, these things are written.

Rom 9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnantt shall be save.

This study will continue.

Chris http://www.soundoctrine.com

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Who is Israel?

Posted on January 21, 2012 by cmardern

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Have you seen this woman?

Posted on January 14, 2012 by cmardern

If you have ever read your bible you have seen this woman, but you may not have taken much notice of her. She is described from one end of the scriptures to another and yet she has been mostly obscure to us. God wanted it that way, but now he is uncovering her to all who are willing to “see.” NOW it is imperative that you recognize her or she may deceive you into believing she is something she is not, and continue to allure you. Please have a good look at her here.

Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Pro 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

Pro 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

You will find this woman in Proverbs described as the “strange woman” who flatters with words and forgets the covenant with her God.

Pro 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Pro 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

You will find her in Isaiah as the vineyard the Lord planted, tended, and then destroyed because she did not produce fruit.

Isa 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

You will find her in Joel as a city overtaken, and completely laid waste by an army of darkness (locusts) sent as a destruction from the Lord.

Joe 1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Joe 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

Joe 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

Jesus speaks of her when he prophesies that she will become a “great tree” in whose branches the powers of darkness (fowls of the air) will find a home and also, as a woman who mixes leaven (false doctrine) into her bread until its fully leavened.

Luk 13:18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?

Luk 13:19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.

Luk 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?

Luk 13:21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Fowls and unclean birds are not suppose to be in Gods kingdom.

Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

Jer 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

She is spoken of (prophetically) all throughout scripture and by the time we get to Revelation she is referred to as Babylon, the harlot, the “great city”.

Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

She has done wickedly, corrupting the covenant preferring to be flattered by commandments of men and doctrines of devils. She is full of false gospels, and false doctrines, HEAPS of them!

Pro 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Pro 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Mat 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

Her bread is fully leavened and no good for spiritual growth.

Isa 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

She is a welcome place for the unsaved, and the powers of darkness. Rev 18:2

True saints are not welcome there, she murders them. Rev 17:6

Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Joh 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

She is impressive to look at, large, loud, VERY visible and wealthy in the things of the world, but underneath her fine clothing and jewels she is a whore. Rev 17:4

Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

She believes she is married to Jesus and proudly claims she is a Queen and will never be a widow. Her pride blinds her to her true identity and the coming judgment on her.

Rev 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

This woman accomplishes her goals through the prince of this world, Satan and by “his” ways. She rides the beast.!

Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Joh 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Her citizens have put a stop to the daily sacrifices, (the offering of their bodies, as a living sacrifice, in holiness and service unto the lord for HIS perfect will) and in its place are the abominations of her false doctrines and false Gods that have made her desolate!

Dan 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Her citizens bear the mark of the mind of their father on their foreheads and the mark of the deeds of their father on their hand. She rejects truth and is under the strong delusion that she loves God and is faithful to him.

Rev 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, (notice these people recieve this mark it is not forced on them. They want it!)

2Th 2:11-12 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (unrighteousness is simply to reject Gods will and do your own, this woman does HER will!)

She has completely fallen from the truth into apostasy and deception. Now Satan sits in her temple, opposing the one true God and exalting himself above God, being worshiped as though he were God. He shows himself in a way that makes her think he is God.

2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (apostasy)

2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Through her, Satan has accomplished his goal of sitting on the “mount of the congregation” and being “like” the most high. He has thoroughly deceived his woman, into worshiping him who is antichrist and she believes he is God.

Isa 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

When you finally “SEE” these things you are told to flee from her with haste!

Mar 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

Mar 13:15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:

Mar 13:16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.

Please wake and see!

Pro 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

Pro 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

The people in the city of Jerusalem in 70 AD suffered a horrible fate. They did not see that they were in danger so they did not flee! They did not “hear” the words of Jesus and heed them, but those who did, fled to safety. This is no joke. The antichrist is seated in the temple, being worshiped by those who already have his mark, the daily sacrifices have all but ceased, the covenant (Gospel)is so corupted in her that it no longer has the power to save, the woman is riding the beast, SHE is bringing in the kingdom of the antichrist believing its going to be the kingdom of God, and the time to flee is growing shorter.

We are way into the story of Rev but you must have eyes to see it!

Gods true beloved flees from this city called Babylon.

Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

The Woman who belongs to Jesus can be found in the wilderness. She is fed THERE!

Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Rev 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

This is a flood of deception but you can escape it if you flee to the wilderness and allow Jesus to feed you there.

Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

Dan 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

Either way the road ahead is not easy, severe persecution is coming, but only one way leads to eternal life. What does it profit to gain the world and lose your soul?

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The Transition

Posted on January 13, 2012 by cmardern

The Transition
Audio Study by Sue Patterson Excellent archive Threshing Floor show from 2006

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Scoffers, where is the sign of his coming?

Posted on January 12, 2012 by cmardern

Exodus Chapter 32

1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

They dialect-ed and murmured amongst themselves as they perceived with in their own carnal minds that Moses was not going to return. This is what Peter says in 2 Peter ch 3. That men will scoff and walk after their own lust’s, while saying; what of His coming? This is exactly what they did here in verse 1 while Moses was on MT Sinai. gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, The people actually heaped the phalse prophet upon themselvesm just as it says in 1Timothy.

2 And Aaronsaid unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people brake off the golden earringswhich were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

.Break off the golden earrings; The ears are code for divided, or 2, as we have 2 ears.

Gold links to wealth, allegiance tithing and oblation to the beast. wives, of your sons, and of your daughters; this means everyone is participating. “aka” (de-global universalism) We can find this full family participation of Satan worship in Jeremiah 7:18.

and bring them unto me. Arron is the typology of the false prophet figure in the apostate church in this episode, or liken to the 2nd beast of Revelation 13. Aaron leads them back to worship the image of the first beast, which is Egypt. (today Egypt is the world). Same story repeated in Rev 13. You can find types of the 1st and 2nd beast in Acts ch 8, with Saul and Simon the sorcerer. Simon the sorcerer is the first false prophet of the NT.

The golden calf would be at that time an image of Pharaoh who was the 1st beast. Pharaoh’s image is tied to the bull god, (Baal) the golden calf is the spiritual god that the Corporation Church of today is dancing naked around, its connected with the world view, or our modern day echo of Egypt.

4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And he received them at their hand; The false prophet received the will of the peoples offering. As the book of Timoty says they will heap upon themselves false prophets having ithing ears. This is the will of the masses, to make apostate communion drink offerings, its what they want. They want to be deceived. Forgive them Father for they no not what they do.

fashioned it with a gravingtool; this types the works of man and all the imagination of his heart. They live and walk after the flesh having no spiritual eye sight, all the while hewning out broken cisterns with graven tools that can hold no water.. Man foolishly builds and fashons upon his own thoughts, and forms a spiritual image of the beast to worship. (the whole world system), this started big time after 1880. This is world PRIDE on steroids.

which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. the lifeless Corpus-delecti Church Construct is swimming in a flood of false gods up to their ears today.

5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altarbefore it; and Aaronmade proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feastto the LORD.6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

Arron the deceived false prophet perceived he was worshipng the LORD. Isaiah 56-11 and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

and rose up to play.Yes the whole system is a charade, best on the bill charade.

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Sabbath Rest

Posted on January 9, 2012 by cmardern

Sabbath rest; no day is esteemed above another day in Christ Jesus. Sunday is no better than Wednesday or Saturday.

Romans ch 14 –5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. 6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

Every day is a spiritual sacrifice unto the Lord to give thanks, not just one day over another. Every day is alike in the rest of Jesus Christ. No day has preference over another, we are in obedience to Christ and resting in His sabbath each everyday single day. Man lives in the flesh, but sabbath rest is only in eternity. 6 days is man in the flesh the 7the day is entering into Christ of which is eternity. You stay in the # 7 eternal praise of the LORD 24/7. The Holy ghost abides in you forever.

7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

It has nothing to do with fulfilling the flesh works of man. When we die in the flesh and the deeds of the flesh, our works are then to serve our LORD Jesus Christ, not to serve our own will, which is all in vain. Other wise we die to the flesh in vain by doing the ritual works of man.

2 Cor 3-6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

Notice It WAS glorious, but no longer is, and was to be DONE AWAY WITH. We are now under a new covenant of which Jesus Christs blood which was shed for us, so that which WAS GLORIOUS “ie” the letter is now waxed old and vanished away. The old waxeth away that the new should come. Hebrews 8:13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away

8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

By abiding in Christ in the NEW COVENANT is to be NOW GLORIOUS. Because that which was glorious is now waxed old and gone away. In the NT 9 of those 10 commandments are written in many places and are repeated to us again, and again. In Galatians ch 5 it lists 17 of them, which are now a more magnified law written in our heart by Christ than the old 9 that were written in stone. You will find this many at time repeated all over the 4 gospels, as well as the epistles. BUT NEVER ONCE HAS IT TOLD US TO KEEP A SABBATH DAY, —-FOR CHRIST HIMSELF IS THE SABBATH 24-7

Why does it repeat over, and over, in the NT all of the other 9 commandments, but NEVER ONCE mentions the sabbath day? Because that was written in stone to the OT Hebrews is now done away with. Christ has brought a NEW AND BETTER SABBATH REST.

12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:

Hebrews ch 3

17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Hebrews Chapter 4

1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Look back at Hebrews 3-17. In following Moses in the wilderness they died because of disobedience, because they transgressed the covenant. Today we are to follow Christ on Mt Sion wheresoever he goeth. when you hear the word of Christ follow Him and enter into that rest, that we not be counted for disobedience and the transgression of the covenant.

2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

Paul says; The gospel was preached to them, as well as it is preached to us today. But the word that was preached did not profit them because not having any faith in them that heard it. Remember it says they died in the wilderness in Acts ch 7 because of unbelief, which is the same as no faith.

3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief

He ended all of His works on the 7th day. Now he commands us to enter into His rest. Not a carved out day of the week in mans carnal understanding of which He tells us in Romans 14 that no day is esteemed above another. Those who walked before in the wilderness with Moses did not enter into God’s rest because of disobedience and unbelief.

7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

Man creating his own sabbath day, and placing it above another day, how arrogant is this?. Once again God said no day is esteemed above another. EVERYDAY is a day of sabbath rest and praise to the Lord almighty, resting in Christ is ceasing from sin, (mans works are all of the flesh which are sin and unbelief. This does not mean that we can not rest one or two days a week and draw near to the LORD, man was engineered to rest one day a week from his labours, but you salvation is not dependent upon it. Any day in which you can rest and study the scriptures is a good thing , and give praises to the Lord.

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

1 Cor 10- let these all be for examples and warnings upon whom the end of the age shall come.

Hebrews 4 –9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

There is the triune matrix formula of sabbath in verse 10.

These Old Testament shadows of, passover, animal sacrifice etc. including the sabbath point to Christ. When the Lord came, and his work was finished, making it possible the true fulfilment of God’s intention in the Sabbath. “It is finished’ Therefore, whatever the sabbath is, it is a perfect thing. Man choosing a day of the Roman pagan calender, and doing it his own way is by no means perfect, (this is a clue that something is wrong already) Sabbath rest is not something to grow and build into; it is something to step into and to discover it to be exactly what it always is “perfect”, “it is finished”.

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Man expresses his falling into unbelief by the works that he does, he does his own works, builds churchs, creates his own sabbath day, his own religious sacraments, religious holidays, etc. Gen ch 11. This is an example of their unbelief. you will know them by their fruits unbelievers are builders.. They refuse the rest and remain as ego driven Corporate busy bodies.

Jesus is the Law and it cannot be fulfilled unless it is written in the heart.

Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

This can be found in the final judgement of the GWT Rev 20, and also here in Matthew 25:31-46. There is nothing to do with keeping a physical sabbath day, but the sheep and the goats are judged upon the singal fact of how they loved their neighbour. Christianity has been avoiding this understanding for 1700 years. This is why they re-invented the sabbath earthly day ritual. –The sheep on His right hand said; Lord how did we do this? and Jesus answered; when you have loved one of my little ones you have loved me.

This is the Law that we all will be judged under, and it can only be fulfilled by walking in the Spirit. This law can only be full filled with Jesus Christ and His sabbath rest in you. Man is not capable of doing this on his own, or with his illusions of flesh religious rituals which are full of ceremonies to keep hidden the true Law of love thy neighbour.

Matthew 25-31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?40 And the Kingshall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

This is why Jesus questioned Saul ; Saul, Saul, why do you persecute“ME” ? Because Jesus is in the heart of the believer, He is also the Law and the Sabbath rest in that believer. Jesus asked the Pharasees: how do I teach you of heavenly things when i cannot even teach you of earthly things?

This is the LAW in which we will all be judged by, it is right here in this chapter Matt. 25. for it is impossible to truley love thy neighbour without loving God, as Jesus explains here the very samething Paul explained in Galatians ch 5. (the good Samaritan) These are those whose names are written in the book of life.

The one’s below are the tares. No matter how hard they tried to keep the law in the flesh with the rituals of man, it did not work. These are also the ones in the book”s” Rev ch 20, which will be judged under the old law of Mt Sanai

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Man forms 2 factional carnal understanding of his own imagination, and then establishes and projects an image of perfection that is quite the opposite of God’s purpose.( My ways are higher than you ways, saeth the Lord).(I am from above and you are from below, saeth the Lord) To say the holy scriptures are perfect; meaning it is implying that everything is there that needs to be there from Gods perspective, not mans perspective. It does not mean that it conforms to the standards of inerrant carnal understandings in which man holds on to.

The creation was good for God’s purposes when it was made, it was good because it was sufficient for God’s purpose as He stated at the end of chapter one. Having finished His work for His purposes He then rested. Man is always seeking his own ways to return to Eden. (a perfect paradise where there is no sin ). God never moves backwards in scripture, but rather He always moves forward, this is why the 2 witnesses cannot be Moses and Elijah as the popular carnal understanding among the apostate church. Man always wants to move backwards, an example is going back to the flesh secular Israel, and make it good for God while finishing the work that Jesus said HE ALREADY FINISHED. This is a major downfall of man helping out God with his visions of his own achievements through the double-minded carnal mind. When God created the heavens and the earth, after six days this work was done and He rested, meaning He did not go back and ‘fix’ it. It was perfect for His intentions and purposes as far as the Creator was concerned. There was no eveneing or morning of the 7th day.

God actually created the world to be a crucible for sin to fester for His purposes of which man has still not understood, yet it is all written there as witness for man to understand in the Holy Scriptures. William Tyndale understood this. Man continues to go back in search of lost Atlantis myths. This is the paradigm that America is now in, while looking for ways to return to the fable of the American dream which was unscriptual to start with. Man has always desired to get back to the garden, especially after he has destroyed everything he can get his hands on. (They subconsciously seek to return to the peace and safety prosperity kingdom of Solomon’s in an attempt to create global perfection) Religions also have been founded upon this principle (Nirvana). As they gathered on the plains of Shinar in Gen ch 10 they were even coming from the east when they were looking for a place to build the tower in Gen ch 11. They were seeking to get back to the place of Eden. Cain was cast out into the land of Nod to the east of Eden. But we can’t go back again. Eden has served it’s purpose and is been done away with as God established a new way “lest he stretch forth his hand and feed from the tree of life and live forever” (this is the rest in Jesus Christ)Jesus finished His work at the Cross. It was only good because His work accomplished what God had sent Him to do. Some would say the work isn’t complete because not all have entered into His rest, but that misses the point of His sacrifice. The crucifixion was all in the matter of His purpose to make it possible to enter into His rest. (All things are possible with God) Jesus, does not desire robots, but rather He desires followers to abide in HIS rest. He won’t drag us kicking and screaming into heaven to be His robot. Just because man wants to go to heaven mostly because he perceives it to be a heavenly version of worldly wants on steroids, this dose not mean that Jesus’ finished works guarantees that every man will enter there. This is a typical error especially made by establishing religions and denominations. They then approach spiritual works from a carnal fleshly perspective which is vanity Eph 4-17. They are looking for ways to perfect the laws of Moses and the 10 commandments. Jesus has already done this, he made a lighter yoke, but man insists on going back to the heavy yoke.

The word “rest” means to abode in, this is where we live and abide in Christ. We are no longer searching for a home, we now are seated in heavenly places with quickened spirits, while being translated into the kingdom of HIS dear son.. In no way can the works of the flesh, or the deeds of man improve on this perfection. Paul asked the Galatians a common sense question, (Now that you have been born of the Spirit, you are going to go backwards and be made perfect in the flesh?)

In other words you want to return to the laws of Sinai for you salvation. The Jews even failed in keeping the right sabbath day in the flesh. Jesus moved forward in Gods plans and has already nailed to the cross the works of the flesh. Spiritually this means that we no longer do our own works but instead we do those of the Master of the house wherein we abide. The servant abides not in the house forever, but the Son forever. Rev 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son”. we can not over come the world with the works of the flesh, this failed for the natural Israel in the first time line which was to be for our examples and warnings Paul said in 1st Cor. Now the same thing is failing for the apostate spiritual Israel as well. The more I have read Tyndale’s prologues the more I realize he was maybe the only one in the reformation movement who really understood the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Calvin didn’t get, neither did Luther, and most of the rest of the reformers missed it as well. They were just basically restablishing a dialectic carnal religion to oppose the beast system of Roman Catholicism. Mans religions are not rest, but rather busy hands of vain work. “Martha, Martha” Tyndale a martyr who brought forth the bible in English, and is hailed by Protestantism and even still so today, but he never intended to set up a religion to rival against Rome, his labour was in the works of God for the common man to have the holy scriptures and to help them in seeking God through these scriptures, and then to be guided by the Holy Spirit. All of his prologues declare this fact about him. The nature of man and the formation of religion aways seeks his own road and Tyndale knew this. Why Protestants hail Tyndale is a mystery to me. His understandings were not in any way built upon the concept organized religion.

Hebrews 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hathceased from his own works, as God did from his.11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword,piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discern of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Paul teaches that those who have entered into rest have ceased from his own works. Paul is teaching an ending to the old and progressing to a better and new phase of work. The “rest” that is spoken of here by Paul is in fact work, but it is the works of the LORD, and not of the works of the flesh. (Not of ourselves, lest any man should boast, but of and from the LORD who gives us our instruction). We cease from our own vain labours, and take up the cross and labour in the works of God of which He has guided us into. Note the wording here. He does not say ‘we are at rest’, rather he says we are to ‘enter into HIS rest’. The ENTERING IN is a labour we must perform as we take of HIS yoke, not the heavy yoke of the OT flesh works, but He brought us a new and better way. When we die, there is nothing more we can do on this earth. The story of the rich man and Lazarus teaches us this. The rich man desired to go back and warn his brothers. But he could not go; his work was ceased. Jesus did not promise a new Eden, but He did promise Paradise. Eden is a place which never saw sin (and once it did it ceased to be Eden). Jesus’ Paradise is a place that saw sin and dealt with the purging of it.

Psalms 95:7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Paul refers to this Psalm is several places. It describes the Israelites sojourning 40 years in the wilderness,
because they broke faith and would not be allowed to enter into the land of milk and honey by crossing over the Jordon. None from that generation except Joshua and Caleb crossed the Jordan into the promised land. They erred in their heart, so a succeeding generation would have to be given a new heart. The final birth pain of the man child (multitude that Christ be formed in them) is the last generation that receives this new heart. Everything grows out of the mustard seed of faith, the opposite of faith is unbelief. The book of acts teaches us that the OT patriarchs all moved with faith, and the children of Israel and the carcasses of those who rotted in the wilderness because of unbelief. Faith is the supreme act in which we can please God. Oh I must also conclude that Satan has made and excellent copy of faith that the apostate religion now teaches, it is of the carnal mind and is an illusion of faith.

THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH.

The true born again believers have ceased in their works (sin), and dwell daily in God’s rest (eternity), these are the partakers of the NEW COVENANT.

Signs of the covenant are shadows, all signs point to Jesus Christ. Gen 17 circumcision is a sign of the covenant, the 10 commandments are called a SING of the covenant. The sabbath is also called the sign of the covenant. the old waxeth away and the new should come. Signs have no substance but are SHADOWS. Did God drop the 4th commandment, why he speaks of the other 9 all over the NT? No, Jesus is the sabbath rest of eternity. Jesus rose on the 3rd day of the feast of unleavened bread, that day is eternity. By eating of HIS flesh and drinking His blood (entering into covenant by true faith) we then fulfil the Sabbath. This is not a suggestion or an option. To be saved we must enter into HIS rest and possess the land, that is a pure heart, being IN CHRIST JESUS. The law is good and the law is holy. Galatians 3 says the law is not contrary to the covenant. The law came to show us how sinful we are. It still stands today to bring judgment for transgressors and that is why when we commeth sin today, the wrath of God still abides upon the sons of disobedience (Col 3:6). But Galatians 5:18 says, IF you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law, but inter His grace. This by no means is a license to sin.

Exodus 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

During the old test sabbath day, no one was born again from above, Jesus is now the eternal sabbath, the pre-cross saints are still in their graves. It was a physical religion yet still by faith. Now it is spiritual by faith.

Col.2- 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

End of the law, He blotted out your sins, Daniel 9 24- take away sins, not for the whole world, most of the people who end up in hell is because of being under the law. Those in rest who trusted after they heard the word of truth, and walked in covenant with our Lord, were under the blood and Salvation of Christ. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word. It is God who does all the saving. The law is now spiritual. We fulfil the law, all of it when we are abiding IN CHRIST. This is truley the sabbath rest, we surrender our will and lay down at His feet our obedience to Him, and then continue in following Him. If we love God and love our neighbor that fulfils the entire law, this is the true higher, and deeper meaning in which God always had in mind. In the same way, adultery is just lusting in your heart, and murder hate in your heart, keeping the sabbath is resting from our works and being led by the Spirit of God. The spirit will not lead us into unrighteousnes.

15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. The shadow has no real substance, it is pointing to Christ. All cerimonies in the OT are shadows pointing to Christ. Christ fullfilled all the signs and shadows forever. These OT signs were only looking forward to the Messiah.

Hebrews Chapter 10

1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Lev ch 23-3 are the feasts to the Lord the very first one is the Sabbath which also belongs to the cerimonial law. we are forbidden to celebrate these cerimonial laws.

Galatians 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

As true worshippers we are free of all legal requirements but we do not turn that into an opportunity for the flesh and sin against God. The law is written on our hearts. We now know right from wrong, good from evil, the Spirit of God leads us into all truth. Salvation and a walk of holiness is JESUS ONLY. It is not JESUS plus other things. In a time, that is coming and is here now Jesus said in (John 4) when the true worshippers of God will worship Him in Spirit and in truth. Keep the feasts and observe a sabbath in the flesh if you want, God sees the heart and will honor that. But NONE of that is required of us. We are free in Christ. The law of spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set the believers free from the law of sin and death.

This was the error the Pharisees made. They made it all about being keeping it clean on the outside. Just as the Harlot in Rev 17 who is decked on the outside with diamonds and gold. The real battle and the furnace of affliction is on the inside. God is looking for true worshippers that will love HIM with all their heart. The result of all of this is sanctification and purification from all sin. This sanctification process is spoken of in the garden in John ch. 17. We obey because we are saved because we love God. Praise God from whom all blessings come.

ROMANS 13 – Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For this, “YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET,” You shall not bare FALSE WITNESS and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law

Staying home on a Saturday, Sunday or Wednesday and reading the scriptures, praying, and fasting are very noble things for anyone seeking the Lord God. But they have nothing to do with salvation today, as God is looking into our hearts and desiring a worship of Spirit and in truth.

1 Corenth. 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators.10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

Galatians 5

14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

This is the opposite of being led by the law. The cart infront of the horse.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Bill

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Gog Magog: Spiritual Warfare

Posted on January 8, 2012 by cmardern

With all eyes in the professing Christian world watching the events in the Middle East with varying degrees of understanding, it is my hope in this study to bring forth the spiritual rendering of the Gog Magog war. We’ll begin this study by looking at the core text used concerning the Gog Magog War.

Eze 38:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Eze 38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, Eze 38:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: Eze 38:4 and I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Eze 38:5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Eze 38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. Eze 38:7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. Eze 38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and isgathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

We’ll stop here and take a look at what is being presented in these first 8 verses of Ezekiel 38, we’ll be using scripture to understand scripture.

Hos 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

Amo 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

When approaching a difficult portion of prophetic scripture we must look to scripture itself for understanding, especially the metaphors, the similitudes, the Lord uses to bring forth his veiled truth. In this introduction to Ez 38 we see many metaphors. We’ll begin with verse 3 with the understanding that Gog is the son of Joel, the significance of this will become clear later in the study. We’ll start with “hook in thy jaw” A prior verse in Ezekiel will bring light to this.

Eze 29:3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Eze 29:4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

Eze 29:5 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

We see Pharoah King of Egypt, the great dragon. In 1 Cor 10 we’re taught

1Co 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

For our admonition, upon whom the end of the world are come, Pharoah is Satan, specifically “the dragon” When we see “dragon” we understand that is refering to Satan when he is seated in the temple of God shewing himself to be God. (2 Thes 2, and Isaiah 14) This ensample in Ezekiel is for our admonition. We also see the signature of Leviathan with his scales.

Job 41:15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as witha close seal.

Act 9:18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.

In a future study we will bring out the full understanding of “the beast out of the sea” found in Rev 13 but for now we will just connect the truth that the beastt out of the sea is about the pride of Pharoh, Saul, the Scribes and Pharasies. We see Leviathan as the signature of pride which is what has allowed the modern prophesing body of Christ to allow the dragon to take up residence in thier temple which is thier heart. The same pride that ultimately lead to the crucifiction of the Messiah. We will see that this is the foundational dynamic at work in Ez 38, the Gog Magog war.
To understand the full context of the metaphor of “hooks in thy jaws” we see in Ez 29:5 the reference to the beasts and the fowls.

Jer 5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

Dan 4:12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

Hos 4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Rev 19:21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Mar 4:32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

When our Lord told us that

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

It has only come into focus in these last days when the Lord has unsealed his word. Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea, Mark, John are all showing us understanding to the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field. As this is intended to be a blog post and not a book we must look at the overview of what the Lord is conveying. We see references to a cage, a snare, a hook. These are all pictures of the same thing. We are seeing a body of people being hooked, turned back, snared, caged. These are the apostate, the tares, that are being seperated from the wheat. In these days of tre3mendous peril, the common hope presented by the beast is “peace and safety” this notion comes from people who don’t study scripture. Jesus did not come to bring peace but a sword. We’ll continue looking at the swords being wielded by the “Army of Horsemen”

Isa 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Rev 2:16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Rev 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

Rev 19:21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

We noticed the reference to the tree of Babylon with the fowls in it’s branches, where “all flesh is feed of it” This is refering to the modern harlot church whose attention is on flesh. Fleshly stimulation from promises of prosperity to those who faithfully give to feed the 501C3 Corporate Beast, to those who get thier weekly recharge of conscience atempting to overcome the never ending conviction of the Holy Spirit hoping to cover the fact they are trampling the Son od God under foot willfully sinning as born again believers. (Heb 10 again a topic for another study) Todays fallen church in it’s attempts to reach the world with the gospel has exchanged growth for purging leaven. Today as taught in Mat 13 the kingdom of heaven, the church, is fully leavened, consumed with pride.

More metaphor to consider in the opening verses of Ezekiel 38, we see the Army equipped with swords, shields, helmets, armour. Any Christian with a 2nd grade sunday school education recognizes the connections here. We also realize this Army is from the North. Understanding the North is the key to understanding the Gog Magog war. Before we proceed we must make note of what is conspicuously absent from the Northern Armies equipment.

Psa 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Jer 4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Isa 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

What we are seeing here is Gog Magog, the Army out of the North. This army was on the road to Zion until they were caught and turned by the hook in thier jaw. The similitudes in the understanding of the Army out of the North is the key to understanding the times we live and understanding the dynamics taking place in heavenly realms. Protecting ourselves from this is the diference between spending eternity with our Lord in paradise or spending it in the lake of fire. The spiritual understandings are what affects the soul. These spiritual understanding do work out in the physical, but while the masses of apostate flesh minded christians are attempting to find each new missle installation on the Iranian border, in scripture, they fail to look inside at the spiritual condition of thier hearts and which army they are in. Most christians today have had the hook catch them, they are caught,

Jer 50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

Luk 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

These verses are impossible for todays modern evangelical to believe. Jeremiah tells that God himself sets this snare. Ezekiel prophecies that God himself puts the hook in the jaw. How can this be?

2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

2Th 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

For those who need an Ephesians 6 refresher course we noticed that the piece of armour conspicuously missing from their protection is the truth.

Joh 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

We are commanded to put on the full armour of God in Ephesians chapter 6 to be prepared to stand against Gog Magog, the apostate christians who while on their journey to Zion were turned, fell away, allowed that man of sin, the son of perdition, the dragon, to enter their hearts. Why? because they Love not the truth. For this cause God sends strong delusion, BECAUSE THIER LOINS WERE NOT GIRD WITH TRUTH. Jesus fulfilled the everlasting covenant, alowing us to have the law written on our hearts. Today’s modern christian has been taken into captivity, delusion because they are doing wickedly against the covenant. The missing piece of equipment from the Northern Army is “Truth” This Army must be distinguished from the Army in Ephesians 6 The masses of misslead Christians today are believe themselves saved trusting in the “all ya gotta do Gospel” Entering into covenant with God costs us everything, it costs us our life. Very few Christians understand this foundational truth of salvation.

Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

Todays modern Christian is trusting they are covered by grace but fail to have their loins gird with truth, in other words they are naked believing they are “saved” while doing wickedly against the covenant, being corrupted by flatteries. The depth of understanding at work in these first 8 verses are beyond the limits of this blog post, with that in mind we’ll continue.

Eze 38:9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

Here we see the dragon assending out of the bottomless pit, (Rev 9) assending to the mount of the congregation (Is 14)sitting in the temple of God shewing himself to be God.2 Thes 2

1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

As brutal as this following statement may sound it is the truth. Today most professing Christians believing they have Jesus living in thier hearts actually have allowed the deciever the counterfieter to come in. Those making lies thier refuge, hiding themselves in falsehood. False doctrine, lies. There are no liars in heaven. These fallen believers have no one to blame but themselves trust false shephards in place of studying to show thmselves approved. Rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 things we must realize, 1 is the level of deception Satan is capable of and 2 that God allows every bit of it, for his purpose. Deception is Gods means of seperation, his sheep hear HIS voice. Those that love not the truth can’t discern Satans voice from the Lords.

Eze 38:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, thatat the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

God sends strong delusion, manifest no more clearly today in the apostate group on the scene courting the antichrist, dominionist, christian right abomination, Joels Army. More on Joels Army later in the text.

Eze 38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

Pro 25:28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

The land of unwalled villages is the apostate church, living in the flesh with no rule over their spirit. More on walls later.

Eze 38:12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

Eze 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

2Pe 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. The merchants of Tarshish are the false prophets of todays modern harlot church, making merchandise of the cattle, the multitudes, taking a spoil, robbing them of sound doctrine, and taking a prey,

H962 Prey

בּזז

bâzaz

baw-zaz’

A primitive root; to plunder: – catch, gather, (take) for a prey, rob (-ber), spoil, take (away, spoil), X utterly.

Eze 38:14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know

it?

Dwelling safely

Luk 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, andsothat day come upon you unawares.

In context

Luk 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Luk 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

There’s that snare again

Eze 38:15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Rev 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

We’ll see conclusively by the end of this study that the Gog Magog war is the 5th trumpet. Thousand years is symbolic, Satan was bound at the cross. He was restrained by the sun a metaphor for the true gospel. This is why our times are so, so perilous.

2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

2Ti 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

2Ti 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, (more on creeping into houses later)

I couldn’t come up with a more accurate description of the baby boom generation if I tryed. We have seen the results over the past 60 years in society, the baby boom entitlement generations today is in complete spiritual depravity, the church is indistiguishable. Women consumed with the Jezebel spirit are controlling men, leading them around by the nose, willfully sinning disobeying, Gods ordinance, not without reason, spinless men refusing thier roll have become the moron Hollywood portrays them as, children have no fear of the fathers authority, 1/2 the families are broken through divorce, childrens lives shattered. Blatant disregard for scripture, trusting in false grace tollerating outright rebellion, divorced christians remarrying, 1/2 the men are addicted to porn with the leadership included. Liturature deteriorating from Pilgrims Progress to “The Shack”

Isa 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Eze 2:6 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

Eze 38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

The Gog Magog War comes aginst Israel, the Israel of God, the body of people who are in covenant with God, the purpose of this war is to sort out the wheat from the chaff, The whole house of God from the remnant, those who are abiding in Christ from those who are tramping the Son of God under foot.

Rom 9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

This war is between those who are wearing the full armour of God including their loins covered (under covenant) with truth and those who are wearing almost the full armour of God but love now the truth, leaving the 7 the sabath rest and going on to the 8th, going on to perdition. Rev 17, perdition, bottomless pit, MYSTERY BABYLON THE HARLOT. The Gog Magog war is fought with swords. We know the sword is the word. Ultimately this war is between truth and lies, between true rendering and false rendering of scripture.

2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2Th 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

Salvation is sanctification, set apart from the world, and belief of the truth. With repeated warning like one of three found in the olivette discourse

Mat 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

You think there would be more interest, more caution, warnings coming from todays pulpits.

Isa 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

Eze 38:17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days manyyears that I would bring thee against them?

The servants the prophets are as present today as any time in history.

Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

Rev 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

Rev 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

Declaring the “everlasting gospel”, which is a call to return to the everlasting covenant, saying with a loud voise, “fear God” to a body of professing believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who are dwelling safely, oblivious to the desolate state of spiritual depravity that has befallen them. Why do the servants the prophet need to say with a loud voice, “fear God” becaue the modern evangelical body of apostate believers has no fear of God. They have been corrupted by flatteries by their idol shephards with false hope in a false gospel involving selective reasoning, trusting in grace without truth.

Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

This is the fall of modern babylon which is the apostate church, the tree from Nebacanezers dream, the mustard seed of false doctrine that grows into the tree, where the fowls and beasts find refuge.

Ezek 38:18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.

Eze 38:19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

Eze 38:20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

Eze 38:21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

Gog Magog is a war with words, the swords are the words, lies against truth, brother against brother, raging today in your corner church. Mountains represent the high places, the positions of authority, structures are crumbling. The Crystal Cathedral where many of todays social, seeker freindly false doctrines, contrieved by 33 deg Freemason Robert Shuller, passed on to his serpent disciples, Bill Hybels and Rick Warren, has gone bankrupt. The Vatican has purchased the estate. Another story for another day, The communist agenda had on it’s list to take control of the churches and “transform” (now theres a evangelical buzz word for you) from folowing revelatory religion, to social religion. While we’re clearing up false doctrine we need to understand that Jesus called Peter the “rock” because he had the truth revealed to him about his identity from the father. The rock the church is built upon is divine revelation. This is not taught nor followed in today church.

Eze 38:22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that arewith him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

The tribulation is a storm. Isaiah 28 is a one chapter account of our condition today.

Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Isa 28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

Isa 28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

“Overflowing scourge will surely pass by us” this is the Rapture Cult, making lies thier refuge, fallinf backwards, (hook in the jaw) broken, snared taken, (one taken one left) those who are trusting they will be taken in a coming rapture, in Gods poetic irony, have already been taken, into captivity, by the sword of deception. “But the word of the Lord was upon them”…to bad they aren’t reading it!

Eze 38:23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Amen

Now we move on to Joel keeping in mind the North is a common doctrine throught scripture. We are focusing this study on Ezekiel and Joel.

Joe 1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Joe 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

Joe 1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

Joe 1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

Joe 1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast itaway; the branches thereof are made white.

Here we see an account of generation upon generation loosing something to the locusts, generation upon generation of locusts devouring. New wine, the Holy Spirit being cut off, drunkards drunk on false doctrine, the sound doctrine the locusts have devoured, lions with cheek teeth of a great lion laying the vine (New Covenant) waste, barking the fig tree, (the Old Covenant which the New confirmed)

Enter the fifth trumpet judgement, the first woe. (woe to you scribes and pharasies.) These opening verses in Joel are refering to the genrations of false doctrine that has built the “strong delusion

Rev 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

Rev 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Rev 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

Rev 9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Rev 9:9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Satans single biggest move concerning the final falling away was the Jesuits revenge for the reformation. The doctrines brought forth from the footnotes of the Schofield Bible, distributed by Jesuit controlled Oxford Publishing, were arguably the most significant work of Satan in history. Satan knows very well the doctrines to attack. Through criminal, Cyress Scofield, he successfully confounded the Body of Christs understanding of thier identiy as Born Again Israel, the Israel of God, with the law written on thier hearts, the single most important doctrine today for navigating todays deception and Satan has highjacked it. This failure on the part of the church to claim it’s birthright as Israel, giving it to a flesh race of people with a flesh “land” that is little more than a Freemasonic shell game. The true remnant of Israel are gathered to Jerusalem above, spiritual Zion.

Future studies on the Beast out of the Sea will bring forth the bitter sweet truth concerning the Beast, who’s deadly wound was healed, (in 1948) and the False Prophet who causes “them that dwell on the earth to wonder after the beast” The false prophet is the apostate church worshipping flesh Israel oblivious to the fact it is Spiritual Israel.

Jesuits? Catholic Church buying the Crystal Cathedral, The Council for National Policy and the CIA both dominated if not completely controlled by members of the Knights of Malta, controlling Christian Media through Salem Communication with luke warm zionist programming, dominating the Israelcentric Neocon crusaders? Reagan, Bush, Bush, Clinton, Kissenger, Brezinski, Ruppert Murdock, Billy Grahams controller, William Randolph Heart, Rick Joyner, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum …all Knights of Malta sworn in secrecy to protect the Pope? What the heck is going on here?

Why is this an important study? When we have phycopathic religious leaders like John Hagee and Benny Hinn praying for the war in the middle east to begin, we realize we are in much more danger than imagined. Ultimately “The Lie” in 2 Thes 2 has the bully in the playground, Satan himself, successfully fomenting world war 3. All as a result of the false doctrines brought forth from the raptue cult, Schofield bible which are working in lockstep with the Signs and Wonders, camp who’s docrines can be traced to the same time in history, the turn of the 20th century, genrations upon genrations of false doctrines, in this camp concieved in the Azusa Street Revivals, passed along to the point today with the Toronto Blessing and Lakeland Revivals which are demonic manifestations of “That man of sin the son of perdition sitting inthe Temple of God shewing himself to be God. Counterfieting “everything that is called God”

What this writer is describing is The Gog Magog war, the Mighty Men from the North coming against the true Israel of God. False prophets preaching false doctrine are Gog Magog. God in these end times is allowing his own church to judge itself. Gog Magog, when the church turns on itself. The false doctrines, brought forth by the Locusts Scorpions from the bottomless pit are the very instruments of judgement. Beautiful!

Back to Joel, father of Gog. Joel is prophecying the fifth trumpet which is the Gog Magog War. Locusts assending out of the bottomless pit, unto them was given power, (todays false prophets have power over the minds of the apostate with itching ears. Horses prepared for battle, (Ez 38) Lions laying bare the covenant. (vine and fig tree, barked, lost covering, loins once gird with truth, layed naked)

Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Wings the sounds of chariots, sorry Hal Lindsey this isn’t Apache hellicopters. We already understand the horses from the earlier part of the study.

Joel chapter 2 the trumpet

Joe 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

Joe 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

Joe 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

Joe 2:4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.

Joe 2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Joe 2:6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

Joe 2:7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:

Joe 2:8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

Joe 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

Joe 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

Here we have “Joels Army” locusts devouring sound doctrine, bringing upon the inhabitors of the earth, judgement. They run to and fro in the city, climb the walls, leaving unwalled villages. The sun, the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, blocked out by the locusts, (read plagues) the moon, the church, fallen into apostasy no longer reflecting the light of the true Gospel. The stars falling from the sky. The stars are Abrahams seed, fallen away.

In Gods infinite wisdom and majesty he’s gives us signatures of understanding. Today at the for of the apostasy lie 2 this devouring Army. On one end of the spectrum we have Rick Joyner coining the phrase “Joels Army” with his mascot Todd Bentley who has gone as far asto have tatooed “Jeols Army” into the image of a dog tag to his chest. Lance Walnue picking up the baton from 2 old men dreamers Lorne Cunningham and Bill Bright promoting the Seven Mountains Dominion Theology.

Jer_23:25 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

With scripture not even hinting of a notion of the church replacing MYSTERY BABYLON THE HARLOT on the 7 mountains, what are these decieved deciever thinking? Jeremiah says

Jer 51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

The nations are mad. We have the biggest movement of apostasy on the Christian scene today literally claiming to be Joel’s Army which is Gog Magog, oblivious to the implications as todays Christian has forsaken studying to show themselves approved. Satan is only able to pass these abominations today with the foundation of apostasy, generation upon generation of fasle doctrine consumating the great falling away only in the last 20 years. The years in which the modern dynamic equivelant, alexandrian text, New Age bible translations have passed the King James in sales. Ultimately manifesting today with occultic versions as the “Message” which is the favorite of UN marxist change agent Rick Warren. If we missed this in our face manifestation of the locusts lest we forget the Joel at the other end of the apostate spectrum, corrupting with flatteries promoting “Your Best Life Now”.

Joe 2:20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

The “stink” is the sins of Babylon

Jer 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

Joe 2:21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.

Joe 2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Joe 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

Joe 2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

Joe 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

In closing of this brief look at Gog Mogog, the Locust Army from the North we praise the Lord as he promises to remove far off from us the northern army. While todays modern harlot church is reaping what it has sown, getting exactly what it wanted, having itching ears.

2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

We see the former rain, the teachers from the former rain moderate outpouring of understanding, preparing the way for tha latter rain outpouring. This will be the true latter rain, again a most important but also a doctrine higjacked by Satan the Dragon.

Former Rain H4175

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môreh

mo-reh’

From

H3384; an archer; also teacher or teaching; also the early rain (see H3138): – (early) rain.

In Gods poetic brilliance He uses the very teachers to bring judgement to his own house. Our hope is found in scripture.

Dan 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, manydays.

Those that understand among the people will instruct many, not without consequences. We see the 5th trumpet all but fully manifest today we shutter to think what comes next as the 6th trumpet involves the martyrs.

Jer 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

Jer 30:11 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

Jer 30:12 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound isgrievous

As we see the fate for Jacob

Jer 51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.

Jer 51:20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

Gods remnant prevails they are His battle axe, as the Gog Magog war rages, Gods battle axe is his remnant body speaking the truth against the lies the false doctrine that the years of the “locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. “

Eze 37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

Rev 11:11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

We need to understand there are 2 armies here. Both are God’s for his purpose. The good guys and the bad guys. The Army in Ezekiel a37 and Rev 11 “Standing upon thier feet” is the waking apostate multitudes coming out of thier drunken false doctrine stupor, coming against the variety of “Locusts” in Joel.

Isa_29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

In these times of tremendous peril, deception coming at us like firey darts we need to be sure of our election.

2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Reprobates are those who have been sent strong delusion.

Scripture when understood though the metaphors is the same story told a thousand different ways. The true church against the false church, the wheat against the tares. As alway this account of the battle ends in the same place it always does, the harvest. Decption, false doctrine is Gods mechanism of seperation, his threshing floor, as the wheat is seperated from the chaff. His sheep hear his voice, his sheep are not decieved it isn’t possible.

Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, ifit were

possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

1Pe 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

“Scarcely Saved” my Pastor never told me that.

Chris

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2Ti_4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

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