God called Ezekiel to be a watchman.
He’s calling you to be one too.
A watchman, watches, wakes and warns.
The devil lusts to be worshipped and receives it by
deceiving people into addictions of pleasure and power.
Only personally knowing
the Only Lord God and Savior, can we find peace, joy, satisfaction and
pleasures forever more. Psalm 16:11.
Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying:
Literally, “Word Yahweh came near saying”
The phrase is repeated often by the prophets.
Which helps paint the beautiful portrait of our Lord throughout
Scripture.
God draws near and communicates with His
creation.
From, in the beginning, in the Garden, to walk with
the first couple, in the cool of the day.
To showing up one silent night and be called Immanuel,
meaning God with us.
To here and now, with and in, us who are
His.
2 “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and
prophesy against them,
The Lord calls Ezekiel “son of man” around 90
times. A generic term simply meaning son of mankind. That means we can and
should put ourselves in Zeke’s shoes.
Ezekiel is a captive in Babylon some 500 miles east of
the mountains of Israel.
No matter, for there is no distance with God and
prayer and prophesying.
The mountains represent all Israel yet specifically
point to the “high places” where Israel worshipped idols, committing spiritual
adultery against God.
Now, let’s listen to the Lord speak through Zeke, without
interruption.
3 and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord
God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and
to the valleys: “Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will
destroy your high places. 4 Then your altars shall be desolate, your incense
altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
5 And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and
I will scatter your bones all around your altars. 6 In all your dwelling places
the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that
your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and
made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
7 The slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
8 “Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who
escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the
countries. 9 Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations
where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart
which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their
idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all
their abominations. 10 And
they shall know that I am
the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon
them.”
11 ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Pound your fists and stamp your
feet, and say, ‘Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For
they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. 12 He who is far
off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he
who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. Thus will I spend My fury
upon them. 13 Then you shall
know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all
around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every
green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to
all their idols. 14 So I will stretch out My hand against them and make the
land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblah, in all
their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.’ ” ’ ”
Did you notice a theme? The phrase that all shall know that I AM the LORD
is repeated over 60 times in the book of Ezekiel.
God is Patient.
Have you ever told a child to do something, or not do
something, more than once?
Twice? Thrice? More than you’ll admit?
Eventually,
after counting to three...hundred, finally, you have enough “that’s
it!” You put your foot down.
If you have, you might just get that from your Father
God.
That wouldn’t work so well in business, or in the
military, or if you were the God Father, but with Father God, who is love, it’s
how it goes. (1 John 4:8).
The first attribute of Love in the Love Chapter, 1
Cor. 13:4, is, Love is patient...
God gives us room to grow, to run, to fall, to get
back up and come back home.
But not forever.
God called them (in Abraham) from a distant land, gave
them room to grow, to run, to fall, to get back up, to come back home.
He multiplied Israel into a great nation and blessed
them from sea to shining sea.
They were built by God, for God, on Godly principles.
When they were small in their own eyes, they depended
on God, appealed to heaven, and claimed in God we trust.
God protected them and prospered them.
But then they became big in their own eyes and got fat
and sassy.
Instead of remembering their Creator who blessed them
and gave them the Promise Land, they rejected Him and worshipped the very idols
God destroyed to make room for them in the land flowing with milk and honey.
Baal and Asherah: pleasure
They pursued pleasure over purity and turned to
Baal and Asherah, false gods of sex and fertility.
They defiled themselves in open sex with temple
prostitutes. They yielded to the lusts of their flesh and were overcome with
every kind of sexual perversion and wickedness.
For to whom you yield yourself servants to
obey, his servant you are. Romans 6:16.
Make no mistake, they were not worshipping gods named
Baal and Asherah, they were worshipping demons.
And in so doing, crushed God’s feelings.
Molech: Power
They not only turned from the one and only God in
pursuit of pleasure but also in pursuit of power.
How foolish!
They turned from the only Source of Power, the
Almighty, All Powerful God, in pursuit of power.
The false god of Molech, was said to be the god of
power, prosperity, self-preservation.
This was a deep dark demonic worship.
In their perverted passion for power, they sacrificed children
to Molech.
By so doing, they crushed God’s feelings.
The Bible is not only history, but also HIStory,
timeless, thus, ever timely. So, let’s bring it to the present and apply it to
US.
America
The names change, but the demons remain the same.
Our nation has followed in their footsteps.
God multiplied US into a great nation and blessed US
from sea to shining sea.
We were built by God, for God, on Godly principles.
When we were small in our own eyes, we depended on
God, “appealed to heaven,” the words on our first flags flown by George
Washingtons fleet.
We really believed what was printed on our money, “IN
GOD WE TRUST”.
God protected US and prospered US.
But when we became big in our own eyes, we got fat and
sassy.
Instead of remembering our Creator who blessed US and
gave US this Promise Land, we rejected Him.
Our nation has yielded to lusts of the flesh.
Addicted to pleasure and power.
Overcome with every kind of sexual perversion and
wickedness.
Worse than, a hundred times, no, a thousand, a million
times worse than they did back then.
Our previous White House aided and abetted sex
trafficking of thousands upon thousands of innocent children.
That crushed the feelings of God.
They openly mocked God by promoting child mutilation.
They flaunted that vile perverted lifestyle out in the
open, on the White House lawn, on Easter Sunday.
That crushed the heart of God.
They defended and funded and applauded the
slaughtering of multiplied millions of the most innocent of all.
That crushed God’s heart and feelings and must’ve
sorely tried His patience to not crush US then and there on the spot.
But that’s not all.
But first we must make one thing perfectly clear.
THE
LORD OUR GOD IS ONE.
THERE
IS NO OTHER.
There is only one God, the Creator of
everything.
He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as
described in His Holy Word, His Holy Bible.
There is no other Holy Word.
There is no other God.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth.
Colossians 1:16-17.
“For by Him all things were created that are in the heaven and that are on earth,
visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or
powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all
things, and in Him all things consist.”
THERE
IS ONLY ONE GOD. THE CREATOR OF EVERYTHING.
Elohim
is Hebrew for God.
YHWH, is His name, breathed,
not spoken by Jews, for His name, they say, is too Holy to utter.
We say, Yahweh.
Don’t yawn and think, I know all this already.
Pay attention. This is the great deception sweeping our nation and world. We’ll
see why in a moment. You need this Truth settled deep and unshakable in your
soul. Or, you will be deceived.
THERE
IS ONLY ONE GOD. THE CREATOR OF EVERYTHING.
Don’t take my word for it, take His:
Isaiah 45:5.
I am the LORD (YHWH), and there
is no other; There is no God (Elohim) besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me.
Deuteronomy 4:35 You
were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there
is no other besides Him.
Deuteronomy 32:39 See
now that I am He; there is no God besides Me.
I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can
deliver from My hand.
1 Kings 8:60 so
that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no
other!
1 Timothy 2:5.
For there is one God and one Mediator between God and
men, the Man Christ Jesus.
James 2:19. You
believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and
tremble!
The Lord our God is One. There is no
other.
Therefore, according to the Bible, there are no
other Gods.
Matt. 25:5, Mark 13:6, Luke 21:8, Jesus says of the
last days that many will come claiming to be Him, deceiving many.
So, any entity claiming to be God, is deceived or
demonic.
Any person claiming some entity other than God to be
God is demonically deceived.
So when, anti-constitution, Israel hating,
congresswoman, Ilhan Omar says "Praise be to Allah" over Marxist
Muslim Mayor Mamdani's win, and others...
She is not praising the one and only God.
Currently in America, Ilhan Omar, Zohran Mamdani, 42 Muslim Americans who just won historic elections from mayors to council members, and 4.5 million others, reject the God who built and blessed US and welcome and worship an entity that claims to be God.
That entity they worship is called by the same name that possessed the participants of October 7, and 911 slaughters. That entity is the enemy ever increasingly possessing people of power in our nation. That entity will possess one rising to power who the Bible calls the lawless one. 2 Thessalonians 2:8-10.
Okay, back to our text. Israel turned from God, to worship
foreign gods (idols), demons in disguise.
God eventually, after counting to three...for hundreds
of years, finally, had enough, “that’s it!” He put His foot down.
He lifted His hand of protection and prosperity and
peace.
Israel swiftly went from a powerful united state
to a divided kingdom.
Then, they were besieged by illegal aliens, foreign nations,
first Assyria, then Babylon.
Foreigners who worshipped foreign “gods” invaded their
land.
The invaders didn’t know it, but they were doing God’s
disciplining by tearing down all the high places of idol worship in Israel.
After the exile was over and Israel returned to their land, they continued to sin, they still killed the prophets, they eventually rejected Jesus, but they learned their lesson about idols. They never again worshipped idols. That’s why during the quickly approaching Great Tribulation they won’t be fooled when the antichrist sets up an idol in the 3rd temple.
Back when Israel was under siege, they ran to
their idols to pray and there they were slain. Their dead bodies defiled the
land and permeated the atmosphere with the stench of death.
That is where sin always leads.
To death.
However, there’s still some life and light left in
this picture.
The Remnant.
Even though God’s patience has an end, His mercy
endures forever.
God made an everlasting covenant with Abraham,
so He made sure a remnant remained.
Look again at Ezekiel 6:8-9.
“Yet I will leave a remnant,
so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are
scattered through the countries. 9
Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where
they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous
heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after
their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in
all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD;
Somewhere during the fiery tribulation brought on by
their own sin, the remnant remember their God.
The One who loved them and blessed them.
The one whom they crushed.
They see their filthy lust next to His beautiful love,
and they loathe their wretched selves.
A foreshadow of their descendants who after the great
tribulation see Him whom they pierced and mourn as for their only beloved Son.
Zech. 12:10. And all Israel will be saved. (Romans 11:26).
All of this, and all of that, so all shall know that I AM the LORD.
Psalm
16:11
You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of
joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Let’s pray.
Lord Jesus, thank You for drawing near and speaking. We pray that we are as the remnant that remembers You. Please forgive us for crushing Your heart. Help us loathe the vile wickedness of demonic idols. Open our eyes to see Your beauty and know You as our LORD.
Thank You.
We love You, forever.
Amen.
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