Soul Hunters Beware! Ezekiel 13:17-23

“Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them,  ¹⁸ and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive? ¹⁹ And will you profane Me among My people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies?”

²⁰ ‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against your magic charms by which you hunt souls there like birds. I will tear them from your arms, and let the souls go, the souls you hunt like birds. ²¹ I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be as prey in your hand. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

²² “Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life. ²³ Therefore you shall no longer envision futility nor practice divination; for I will deliver My people out of your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

Set your face against, prophesy against, your people.

Ouch.

Stand against. Speak against. Your own people, family, friends.

As mentioned at the start of this chapter, God doesn’t agree with everybody. He’s not a big teddy bear saying, I’m okay, you’re okay, let’s just hug and coexist.

Jesus says it like this:

Matthew 10:34-36
“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. ³⁵ For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; ³⁶ and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’

 

We must make sure the Sword that divides, is the Word of God.

Nothing else is worth dividing over.

We must stand with God, with His Word, no matter what our people, our family, our friends, say.  

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

We must rightly divide that which rightly divides.

To split the Church over things like, the timing of the rapture, a particular Bible translation, the name on the door, the color of the carpet... is stupid, childish, devilish.

But regarding things like:

ü The One and only, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, Perfectly Holy Triune God of the Word,

ü The immutable, inerrant Word of God;

ü The fundamental principles of the Sanctity of Life,

ü Biblical definition of marriage,

ü The Gift of Salvation,

Of those things, and more, there can be no compromise.

Those are hills to die on.

When we stand with the Word of God, we will inevitably stand against, ways of the world... which may look a lot like our own people, family, friends.

Which will put us in positions to have hard, loving, Truth telling, conversations.

If preceded by prayer, seeded with love, grounded in the Word, those conversations will bring restoration and healing.

However, it’s up to them, to receive the restoration and healing.

Their response is not your responsibility.

God offers salvation, restoration and healing to all... few receive it.

No matter what, God is good.

All the time.

God always speaks the Truth in Love. 

Even when it hurts.

As children of God, we must aspire to do the same.

Plant the Seed.

Trust His Word.

Leave the results to Him.

Isaiah 55:10-11

For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Just as Ezekiel was told to prophesy against the false prophets, he was also told to prophesy against the false prophetesses, who prophesy out of their own heart.

Rather than God as their Guide, they were saying and doing whatever was right in their own eyes, following their own fleshly desires.

Which was nothing new. Way back before they ever had an earthly king, they rejected their Heavenly King, and did whatever was right in their own eyes. Deuteronomy 12:8, Judges 17:6, 21:25.

Proverbs 14:12
 There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.

In a sense, the same spirit drives the “No Kings” rallies.

They say they march against tyranny, which appears to be right.

Those prophesying out of their own hearts, in Ezekiel’s day,

Those protesting out of their own hearts, in our day.

They don’t know what spirit they are of, don’t know whose side they are on.

In Jesus’ day, some so blinded by hate, stood against, whatever He stood for...

Until they found themselves, standing against God, calling for His crucifixion.

Today, because of hate, many find themselves standing against fundamental Truths of God.  

God told Ezekiel to tell them:

Woe to you who hunt the souls of My people, who profane My name.

And for what?

A measly handful of grain, a little bread! (verses 18-19).

For a few fraudulent dollars, a few years in power, for THAT you protect murderers and rapists and child molesters? Gavin Newsom, Tim Walz, Jacob Frey...

For a few votes you willingly slaughter millions of innocent precious babies while still in the womb!

THAT SAME SENTIMENT FROM EZEKIEL’S DAY ECHOES SAYING WOE TO YOU WICKED PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH FOR PLAYING GOD THIS WEEK CLAIMING ABORTION IS A CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT TO BE FUNDED BY MEDICAID.

WOE TO THOSE WHO FILED THIS MURDEROUS LAWSUIT ALLEGHENY REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (reproductive health? More like, death). AND DEMONIZED PLANNED PARENTHOOD (more like murderhood). Your very names are vile demonic deceptions.

ESPECIALLY WOE TO WICKED CORRUPT MINDED JUDGE MATTHEW S WOLF (APPROPRIATE NAME FOR THIS WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING).

 He wrote:

“Those choices are the people’s, not the government’s... (As if slaughtering the innocent is a choice).

We agree with the (abortion) providers that recognizing this fundamental right, as the plurality did, is necessary to restrict state government to its proper sphere, thus protecting our liberty.”

RESTRICTING GOVERNMENT TO YOUR OWN SPHERE??? WHAT HYPOCRISY! YOU JUST STEPPED OUTSIDE YOUR SPHERE LIKE LUCIFER RAISING YOUR THRONE ABOVE THE MOST HIGH.

YOU SNAKE.

PROTECTIONG LIBERTY FOR WHAT? LIBERTY TO SLAUGHTER THE INNOCENT???  WHAT A DARK PERVERSION OF TRUTH!

WHAT ABOUT THE LIFE LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS YOU JUST STOLE KILLED AND DESTROYED!!!

THE BLOOD OF COUNTLESS INNOCENT BABIES IS ON YOUR HEAD YOU BROOD OF VIPERS. LIKE LUCIFER YOU SHALL BE THROWN DOWN TO THE PIT!!!

...UNLESS YOU REPENT AND TURN FROM YOUR WRETCHED WICKED WAYS.

They claim godliness while promoting and living in wickedness.

They claim to be on their way to heaven. Not according to the Word of God, but according to their own heart, their own mind, whatever is right in their own eyes.

But it doesn’t work like that.

This is not a Frank SINatra song.

It’s HIStory and He says it like this:

John 14:6
I AM the Way, the Truth, the Life, no man comes to the Father but by Me.

There is only One Way, for individuals and nations.

Proverbs 14:34
Godliness makes a nation great, but sin is a disgrace to any people” (NLT).

Making the nation great again wasn’t invented by republicans, but by God.

The Only Way to MAGA (make America great again) is to MAGA (make America Godly again).

Woe to those attempting to tear down America’s Godly foundation.

Woe to you who wish there would’ve been bloodshed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

You know who you are.

The Lord rebukes you and commands you to repent, today, or enter an eternity of tormenting regret.

Soul hunters beware!

¹⁸ ...Woe to the women who sew magic charms to hunt souls!

²⁰ Behold, I am against your magic charms by which you hunt souls like birds

Magic charms (pillows KJV): (Hebrew:Keseth): a cushioned band, used only in Ez. 13:18, 20.

The word comes from, the Hebrew word, Kasah, meaning to cover, conceal, hide, clothe; to plump, fill up hollows, (like a cushion or pillow). Which is found in Genesis 7:19: the waters of the flood covered (kasah) the mountains. Also in Genesis 9:23: Noah’s sons covered (kasah)) the nakedness of their father.

Archaeological discoveries reveal an assortment of charms (amulets), wristbands, and soft cushions used in incantations and healing rites, of spiritist, soothsayers, mediums, and the like.  

Texts from Mesopotamia describe cloth bands inscribed with spells, wrapped around limbs allegedly to bind spiritual forces.  

The Lord, through Ezekiel, rebuked the women who sewed and secured these charms to the arms and heads of souls they ensnared in their web of deception.

Even though they did the same things, these women were worse than the witches.

Why?

Because they pretend to be speak for the Lord. They desecrate His name. They’re wolves in sheep’s clothing, seducing weak, naïve, souls.

Their demons still speak, you’ve heard them saying things like:

Do you need protection? Provision? Peace? Healing? Just send your seed for your need today, and we’ll rush our healing cloth, our anointed anointing oil, our blessed miracle seed straight to your door. Hurry, get your miracle today. While supplies last.

So, according to them, they have God on contract to do a miracle for folks who send them money. No matter the condition of the sender’s heart or the reason for the need. Just send money and we’ll send God.

GOD IS NOT MOCKED AND CANNOT BE PUT IN A BOX.

THE LORD REBUKES YOUR LYING PROPHECY

HE IS NOT YOUR DANCING MONKEY

REPENT!

Beware to you who say, “I have a Word from the Lord for you.” Tread softly, humbly, fearfully, lest you speak from your own heart. Lest you find yourself doing whatever is right in your own eyes.

Worse yet, you false prophets and prophetesses that preach a charmed, cushiony, pillow gospel of hyper grace, without repentance or holiness, or the fear of God, or the fires of hell. Against nothing, for everything. You say everybody goes to heaven, there is no hell, I’m okay, you’re okay, sins okay, let’s just eat, drink and be merry in our sins. Jesus forgives.

BLASPHEMY!

You have birthed a Wordless, faithless, toothless, spineless, shadow of what is supposed to be God’s mighty Power filled, Ekklesia, His glorious Church without spot or wrinkle, standing tall and prevailing strong against the gates of hell and the wiles of the devil.

Thus says the Lord to you...

²⁰ ...“Behold, I am against your magic charms by which you hunt souls like birds. I will tear them from your arms, and let the souls go free. ²¹ I will also tear off your veils and deliver My people from your hand.

 THEN YOU SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD.

But will I know you?

Will you hear the words, “Well done, enter in...”

Or, “Depart from Me, I never knew you.”

 

Do that. 

Pray this: 

Have Thine own way Lord.

You are the Potter, I am the clay.

Mold me and make me after Thy will,

while I am waiting, yielded and still.

Fill me with Thy Spirit till all shall see

Christ only, always, living in me.

Amen.

 

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The Power of the Tongue, James 3:1-12

From works to words.

James just told us about the power of works (faith without works is dead, James 2:14-26).

Now he talks about the power of words.

We all hold a powerful tool. A mighty weapon. With it we can bring health or hurt. Delight or destruction. Life or death.

The power of our tongue.  

Words are powerful. There’s much more depth and power to the noise that flows (sometimes spews) from our mouths.

James half-brother to, the Word became flesh (Jesus), writes the most detailed description of the power of the word.

My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. 

Those who use words to influence others are held to greater accountability. So, there should be no dishonest politicians. Or, critical race theory, agenda driven, teachers, or professors.

Our once prestigious colleges were created to study the foundational Biblical Truths of the Word of God that founded our nation.

Dear Church, don’t be discouraged, but take courage, consider the Truth about how far we have fallen and pray for justice and demand stricter judgement and accountability on all pastors and teachers and leaders, and selves.

² For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. 

One’s character can be determined by how well they bridle this little powerful thing called the tongue.

³ Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. 

Before blabbering it, put a bit in it.

⁴ Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.  ⁵ Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things...

Like when my dad was in the navy. His job was to repeat the captain’s orders over the intercom system.

Once as they were coming into a port the captain gave an order regarding the speed of the ship. It was wrong, it was too fast, dad knew it, so he corrected the order, and they docked at the pier with no problem.

Until the captain came unglued and reprimanded dad, telling him to never change a word of his command.

So, the next time they were headed into port, the captain gave his command, it was wrong, again, only this time dad repeated exactly what the captain said.

The big ship crashed into the pier causing all kinds of destruction.

Words are powerful.  

⁵...See how great a forest a little fire kindles! ⁶ And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. ⁷ For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. ⁸ But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹ With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. ¹¹ Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? ¹² Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.

Words are powerful.

Words start and stop wars.

And fights at school.

A couple days ago one of our grandkids got in trouble, over words.

You know how it goes. Somebody says something. It escalates. The next thing you know, the principal is on the phone with the mom and dad.

When the young man got home, mom and dad used works and words. The rest of the afternoon, dad and lad, worked it out (extra chores) and talked it out.

Yesterday, at our Seniors and Law Enforcement Together (SALT) meeting, our guest speaker was Vikki Brown, the local librarian. Her entire career revolves around the power of words.    

It seems Divinely timed that this week we land on this powerful passage about the power of words, while also this week, the most powerful nation is reading the most powerful Word ever written from cover to cover. President Trump read 2 Chronicles 7:11-22. Which includes the most powerful words ever written to a nation:

Words are powerful.

By words the world was made. God said, “Let there be...” and there was.

Psalm 33:6
By the Word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

Hebrews 11:3
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

Words are powerful.

Don’t swing words around flippantly, irresponsibly, but handle like a loaded gun, respectfully, thoughtfully, cautiously.

Don’t pull the trigger without considering the trajectory.

The words said in jest, or in gossip, may wound and maim many beyond the immediate intended target.

Words are powerful.

 

God’s Word calls Jesus, the Word.

John 1:1-3, 14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made... ¹⁴ and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us...

The word, “word”, has much greater depth than just noise that flows, sometimes spews, from the mouths of humans.

Words are powerful.

The Word (Jesus) is All Powerful.

The reason we know these things is because God wants us to.

Because He loves us, He had scribes document His Word meticulously, every jot, every tittle.

And He miraculously, kept His written Word alive, for us to read.

And continues to add to the mountain of archeologically, geographically, medically, prophetically, undeniably, documentable, proofs, as to the authenticity and accuracy and power of His living, life giving, Word. HIStory told in advance.

Psalm 119:89
Forever, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven.

Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.

Matthew 24:35, Luke 21:33, Mark 13:31
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

1 Peter 1:25
But the word of the LORD endures forever.

Hebrews 4:12
For the Word (logos-written word) of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

We read the Word, but deeper still is that the Word reads us. Discerns the thoughts and intents, the motives, of our heart.

Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word (rhema-spoken word) of God (Christos).

In Matthew 4:1-11 we witness the Word (Jesus), skillfully wielding the two-edged sword of the Spirit with logos and rhema (written and spoken) words.

Man shall not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Thou shalt not put the Lord thy God to a foolish test.

GET BEHIND ME YOU SLIMY SNAKE. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve!

Matthew 4:1-11.

Jesus defeated the devil’s temptations by speaking (rhema) the Word (logos).

Words are powerful.

The Word (Jesus) is All Powerful.

The Word, (logos and rhema), is our most powerful weapon.

 Our words are powerful—IF—they align with God’s.

Did you know that folks speak an average of five million words per year.

Divide that by 80,000, (the average word count of a book) and you speak enough words each year to fill over 60 full size books.

What kind of books are you writing?

What are people reading when they’re hearing your words?

The Lord, the Author and Finisher, is listening.

Are your words worth remembering?

Are they book worthy?

Malachi 3:16
Then they that feared the Lord spoke often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name.

You may never write a book on earth but in heaven there may be a library full written in your name.

Pause and think about the words you’ve been speaking.

Okay, now imagine you’re standing before the Lord and He’s playing a recording of your words.

Do your words justify or condemn your presence in heaven?

Jesus says it like this:  

Matthew 12:35-37
A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. ³⁶ But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. ³⁷ For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

Your words are powerful.

Are they bringing healing or hurting?

 

Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health

Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

 

Your words are powerful.

Are they bringing life or death?

 

Proverbs 15:4
A soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit.

Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

We all hold a powerful tool.

A mighty weapon.

With it we can bring health or hurt. Delight or destruction. Life or death.

The power of our tongue.

What should we do if we’re starting more fires than quenching?

What if we’re spewing more salt water than fresh? 

The answer is always, the Word.

Matthew 12:34, Luke 6:45
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks

Whatever is in the well, comes out in the water.

Psalm 119:11
Your Word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

Lord help us fall in love with Your Word.

Psalm 119:105
Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

A lamp to my feet, illuminates one step at a time.  

It’s a process, a journey.

Not a one night stand. Not a quick fix.

It’s Seed planting and harvest.

That means there will be sunshine and rain. Cold and heat.

But His Word will not return void. It will prosper.

Isaiah 55:10-11

For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,
And do not return there,
But water the earth,
And make it bring forth and bud,
That it may give seed to the sower
And bread to the eater,
11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Know that.

Pray this:

Psalm 19:14
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.

Amen.

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Hear the Word of the Lord, Ezekiel 13:1-16

¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “Son of man...

Son of man. God’s nickname for Ezekiel.

Ezekiel was called by God to be a prophet of God.

So, the Word of the Lord came to him, to speak to the people.

That’s how it worked 2,618 years ago.

Hebrews 11:1-2a
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, ² has in these last days spoken to us by His Son...

²...prophesy against

Just to be clear, God doesn’t agree with everybody all the time.

He’s not a big teddy bear, I’m okay, you’re okay, let’s just hug and coexist.

But make no mistake. God is good. All the time.

As is His Word, every jot, every tittle. Even when it goes against the grain of the hearers.

God always speaks Truth in Love. Even when it hurts.

As children of God, we must strive to do the same.

We must get comfortable being uncomfortable, willing and able to have loving, peaceable, yet hard, Truthful, conversations.

To do that we must be disciples of His Word so we can rightly divide, wisely apply and articulate the Word of Truth.   

2 Timothy 3:16-17
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

² ...the prophets of Israel who prophesy,
 and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart,
‘Hear the word of the Lord!;”

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the dueling prophets.

In the right corner we have Ezekiel, the prophet of God, and in the left corner we have the prophets of man (Israel).

One is God anointed the other self-appointed.

The motive of one is obedience, the other is arrogance.

NLT ² “Son of man, prophesy against the false prophets of Israel who are inventing their own prophecies.
Say to them, ‘Listen to the Word of the Lord”

For Ezekiel to speak the Word of the Lord, he must hear the Word of the Lord.

SIDENOTE: Hearing the Word of the Lord comes with a bonus. Faith.

Romans 10:17 Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ.

So, as we receive this Word, listen for Christ. Ask Him, “Lord help me to hear You.”

NOW A WORD OF CAUTION: Be wary of anyone, pastor, teacher, preacher, mentor, anyone, who claims to be speaking for the Lord, but they say all too often: “Well, I think...”

We don’t care what you think.

We care what God thinks. We want to hear what God says. We would see Jesus. John 12:21.

God told Ezekiel to tell them (and us): “Listen to the Word of—”

Ezekiel? No!

“Listen to the Word of the Lord.”

Whoever speaks FOR the Lord must speak Words OF the Lord.

For everything we’ll ever need is found in the Word of the Lord.

Therein we find Him and come to know Him.

 2 Peter 1:3
His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue

So therefore, dear Saints...

2 Timothy 2:15
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

That is key.

Diligently pay attention, listen, hear the Word of the Lord, so when others speak superstitions of their own inventions, like foolish false prophets, we can say like Ezekiel, the prophet of God: “Hear the Word of the Lord...” And then, appropriately apply the Word of the Lord.

Do not say, “I cannot speak.”

Moses tried that. I-I c-c-cannot s-speak, I’m slow of tongue.

God said: Who made man’s tongue? I’ll be with you. Go! Ex. 4:10-12.

Jeremiah said: I’m just a kid. I don’t know what to say.

God basically told him, to stop making excuses. Get up and go. Speak to all I send you. Do not fear, I AM with you. Jer. 1:6-8.

Even Jesus said, I only say and do what I see and hear from My Father. John 5:19-20, 7:16, 12:49-50, 14:10, 24, 17:8. 

So don’t say, I can’t speak, God can’t use me, I’m too weak, slow, broken.

It’s not about your ability—God’s got that covered—it’s about your availability. Are you willing to say, “Lord, send me. Use me. Speak to and through, me.”

Since the first Pentecost after Jesus resurrection, the same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, is available to all born again believers who will receive Him.

He reminds us and teaches us and empowers us. Luke 12:12, John 14:6, 16:3.

He’s available. Are you?  

The Word of God is more available and more alive today than ever.

Every tribe, tongue and nation has at their fingertips, the living, breathing Word of God, as near as their smart phone.

Two free websites that have more translations, commentary, Bible studies, more access to the original Hebrew and Greek, than you will ever use in a lifetime.

 https://biblehub.com/

https://www.biblegateway.com/

The Word of God is literally available instantly around the world.

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

America Reads the Bible

Starting today, for the next seven days, April 19-25, various national leaders from all spheres of influence, from the most powerful nation on the planet, will read publicly and online, from our nation’s capital, the most powerful Book on the planet, from cover to cover, the entire Word of God, for the entire world to hear.

The most powerful man on the planet will read 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 on Tuesday, April 21 between 6 pm-7 pm ET from the Oval Office.

That text includes powerful nation changing verse 14 which reads:

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

If there ever was a day since the world began to raise your hand and say, “Lord send me, use me, speak to and through me—it’s today.”

³ Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing!

Rather than following the Spirit of God, they follow their own selfish desires, selling their soul to the highest bidder.

James 1:13-15. Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. ¹⁴ But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. ¹⁵ Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

 ⁴ O Israel, your prophets are like foxes in the deserts. ⁵ You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the Lord. 

NLT: ⁴ “O people of Israel, these prophets of yours are like jackals digging in the ruins. ⁵ They have done nothing to repair the breaks in the walls around the nation. They have not helped it to stand firm in battle on the day of the Lord.

These false prophets are scavengers, jackals, among the ruins searching for what they can steal for themselves.

They do not go up to stand in the gap, to pray, to intercede, to hear from the Lord for the people, like a prophet of God should.

They do not help to build broken walls or secure open borders.

In battle they do stand for Truth. They are doubleminded, ever changing, swaying whichever way will feed their greed and lust for power and money.

Are we talking about 2,600 years ago or today?

The Word is timeless, thus, ever timely.  

⁶ They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord!’ But the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed. ⁷ Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, ‘The Lord says,’ but I have not spoken.”

They pile lie upon lie and overcompensate with walls of flowery words claiming the Lord is endorsing their behavior, when all the while they are listening to the devil.

They are those who say: “Lord, Lord,  have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then Jesus will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” Matt. 7:21-23.

Many false prophets are wolves in sheep’s clothing. Matt. 7:15.

Test the spirits to see if they are from God. 1 John 4:1.

Do they line up with the Word of God? (This is why we must be disciples of His Word so we’re not deceived).

Do they draw people to themselves or the Lord?

What’s their motive? Jesus came not to be served, but to serve.

What’s their focus? Selfish, or selfless? Do they think godliness is a means of gain 1 Tim. 6:5. Do they focus on getting stuff from God for this life, or dying to self to prepare for Eternal Life?

⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have spoken nonsense and envisioned lies, therefore I am indeed against you,” says the Lord God. ⁹ “My hand will be against the prophets who envision futility and who divine lies; they shall not be in the assembly of My people, nor be written in the record of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter into the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord God.

You have reached the point of no return.

I am indeed against you.

1.    You shall never be among My people.

2.    Your name will not be found written with those who enter My house.

3.    You shall never set foot in the Promise Land I have prepared for My people.

Then, you shall know that I am the Lord God.

But, for you foolish prophets, it will be too late.

¹⁰ “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace—and one builds a wall, (false wall) and they plaster it with untempered mortar (whitewash)— ¹¹ say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down. ¹² Surely, when the wall has fallen, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the mortar with which you plastered it?’ ”

¹³ Therefore thus says the Lord God: “I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it. ¹⁴ So I will break down the wall you have plastered with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered; it will fall, and you shall be consumed in the midst of it. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁵ “Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, ‘The wall is no more, nor those who plastered it, ¹⁶ that is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’ ” says the Lord God.

These silver-tongued devils wax eloquent in their deceptions, hiding their wickedness behind a whitewashed façade of integrity and strength.

But the Lord knows the walls are a house of cards, built on lies, and He will bring them all crumbling down.

Within about six years, the wind and hail and flood came in the form of  Nebuchadnezzar besieging and destroying Jerusalem, her walls, her temple, almost all of her people.  

 

Matthew 7:24-27
“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: ²⁵ and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

²⁶ “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: ²⁷ and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

Many false walls have been built by false prophets against foundational principles of God’s Word.

Following are a few areas where many have been brainwashed by whitewashed walls. We the people of God must stand against them by building our lives on God’s Word.

Gender: male & female.

Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ²⁷ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 

Marriage: man & woman.

Genesis 1:28, 31, 2:21-25
²⁸ Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” ...31 and it was very good

2:21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. ²² Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

²³ And Adam said:

“This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”

²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

²⁵ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

 

Sanctity of Life. Prolife.

Jeremiah 1:5
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you...

Psalm 139:13
For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.

Ezekiel 33:11
As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways!

John 10:10
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Jesus Christ: Only Way.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

John 14:6
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

On Christ the Solid Rock we stand, all other ground is sinking sand.

 

Let’s pray.

Lord Jesus, thank You for Your Word that lives and abides forever. You know, our lives are the only Bible some people read. We pray for Your wisdom to understand and live Your Word, in such a way that our life is a simple read, that leads straight to You. So that, of all those You’ve given us, none are lost.

Thank You.

We love You, forever.

Amen.

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