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EZEKIEL
(600 B.C.)
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Ezek 1:2 On the fifth day of
the month – it was the fifth year of the exile of
King Jehoiachin – the word of the
Lord came to Ezekiel son of Buzi
(a priest).
Ezek 3:17 "O mortal, I appoint
you watchman (prophet) for the House of Israel;
and when you hear a word from My
mouth, you must warn them for
Me."
Ezek 3:27 "He who listens,
listens and he who will not shall not – for they are a
rebellious breed."
Ezek 4:10 "Parents shall eat
their children in your midst, and children shall eat
their parents. I will execute
judgment against you, and I will scatter
all your survivors in every
direction." (Fulfilled in AD 70 Roman war.)
Ezek 5:14 I will make you
(Judah, Jews) a ruin and a mockery among the nations
around you, in the sight of every
passerby…you shall be
a warning and a horror, to the
nations round about you:
Ezek 6: 8 Yet I will leave a
remnant…
And so, the persecution of the
Jews is foretold and now will be brought to an end at the
re-entry of Melchizedek, the long awaited Messiah of the
Jews. Note again how the prophet attributes the cause of
these negative events to God, but in reality the cause is
the rebelliousness of the people in removing themselves from
the guidance of God. God continues to love us, but knows
that we must learn for ourselves to choose good over evil.
Ezek 33:11 As I live – declares
the Lord God – it is not My desire that the wicked
shall die, but that the wicked turn
from their evil ways and live.
Ezek 34:1 The word of the Lord
came home: O mortal, prophesy against
the shepherds: Ah you shepherds of
Israel, who have been
tending yourselves!
…You partake of
the fat, you clothe yourselves with
the wool, and you slaughter the
fatlings; but you do not tend the
flock. You have not sustained the
weak, healed the sick, or bandaged
the injured; you have not brought
back the strayed, or looked for the
lost; but you have driven them with
harsh rigor,
Ezek 34:5 and they have been
scattered for want of anyone to tend them;…
The sheep are of course the people
and the leaders are the shepherds.
Ezek 34:6 My flock is scattered
all over the face of the earth…
Ezek 34:8 …the shepherds tended themselves instead of
tending the flock
Hear indeed, O shepherds, the word
of the Lord: I am going to
deal with the shepherds! I will
demand a reckoning of them for
My flock, and I will dismiss them
from tending the flock:…
Ezek 34:12 I will rescue them (the
people) from all the places to which they
were scattered on a day of cloud and
gloom. I will take them out from the
peoples and gather them from the countries,…I Myself
will graze My flock, and I Myself
will let them lie down – declares
the Lord. I will look for the lost,
and I will bring back the strayed,
I will bandage the injured and
sustain the weak.
The one who rescues and gathers
and is referred to as Lord is Melchizedek who will
personally do these things. The rescued people are the
remnants of "Israel," faithful people of the One God
throughout the countries of the world. The shepherds are the
leaders, makers and shakers, who "tend only themselves" and
not the flock from whom they derive their wealth. These
shepherds have been given much and much is expected. These
lines describe the upcoming messianic period because the
people are "scattered all over the world, in many countries"
and the Lord himself tends to the sheep. The "day of cloud
and doom" brings to mind mushroom clouds and nuclear
detonations. (I hope I’m wrong.)
Ezek 36:34 …and the ruined places
shall be rebuilt: and the desolate land, after
lying waste in the sight of every
passerby, shall again be tilled. And
men shall say, "That land, once
desolate, has become like the Garden
of Eden…And the nations that are
left shall know that I the Lord have
rebuilt the places and replanted the
desolate land.
The "Garden of Eden" reference
also indicates the messianic period of restoration. Also
notice that the land of Israel is devastated, this must be
due to the upcoming war when "all the nations" come against
Israel. Also, all the nations do not survive this war to
come – some are completely destroyed. To summarize, the "day
of cloud and doom" leaves devastation in the Middle East
with complete annihilation of some entire nations. The
remnant of Judah (the Jews) after this event is gathered
back to Canaan along with the globally scattered remnants of
"Israel." The army coming upon modern Israel from the north
is identified as Gog from the land of Magog of whom the Lord
says through his prophet:
Ezek 38:7 After a long time you
(Gog) will be summoned; in the distant future
you shall march against a land
restored from the sword (Modern
Israel)…liberated from the nations,
and now dwelling secure.
(My parenthesis)
On that
day, when Gog sets foot on the soil of Israel
(modern)…On
that day, a terrible earthquake
shall befall the land of Israel…and
every man’s sword shall be turned
against his brother…and I will
make Myself
known in the sight of many nations. (My parenthesis)
And so, as we reach that period
prophesied 2600 years ago we are startled by this prophecy
that foresaw a regathering of Jews from among many nations.
How can a logical mind not grasp and deal with
such well documented successes of prophecy. Most people do
not love truth and so they sacrifice it to maintain their
view of the way they want their universe to be, so we sweep
away any inconvenient facts to the contrary. Even the
majority of our scientists do this on a regular basis to
maintain their vested interests in a certain worldview. And
so despite many inconvenient facts scientists continue to
espouse a big bang cosmology and refuse to recognize cold
fusion and other new-energy devices that are already working
and producing energy. These very same scientists use
ridicule and power to silence any new ideas or viewpoints.
Again, our future comes through the "marginal" groups;
individuals that continue to search for truth despite the
conventional powers to be. Now, next is a line that also
bothers me:
Ezek 39:6 And I (the Lord) will
send a fire against Magog and against those who
dwell in the coastlands.
Again, I don’t believe that God or
Melchizedek eventuates such catastrophes, but irregardless,
the events themselves may be and have been accurate
prophecies. As I have tried to demonstrate elsewhere
"coastlands" has a strong chance of denoting the United
States of America, among others. I hope I am wrong here as
well, as "a fire" is likely to mean a nuclear event.
Ezek 39:25 Assuredly, thus said
the Lord God: I will now restore the fortunes
of Jacob and
take the whole House of Israel (Judah and Israel) back
in love;…when I have brought them
back from among the peoples
and gathered them out of the lands
of their enemies and have manifested
My holiness
through them in the sight of many nations.
Israel once again is united.
Faithful Christians and Jews, among others,are brought
together. God’s holiness has been manifested through "his
people"-- those that love and honor Him. The enemies are the
power holding leaders of the various nations who persecute
God's peoples because they resist the tyranny of the
powerful. Next, in chronologic line is Obadiah. |
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