Israel serves the global false god, kills unborn children, faces the wrath of God, and needs Jesus Christ.

Ezekiel 20:27-49

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• Israel worships on the high places after arriving to the promised land.
  • Israel has blasphemed God in their unfaithfulness to Him.
  • Israel worships the false God of this world.
  • What is the high place that Israel serves?
• Israel kills their children as a sacrifice to a god.
  • Israel defiles themselves in the same way as their ancestors.
  • Israel is defiled by killing the unborn as a service to the false god.
  • Israel wants to conform to the global culture that serves the false god.
• God gathers the Jewish people to the State of Israel to unleash His fury on them.
  • God gathers the Jewish people to the State of Israel with fury poured out.
  • God deals with the State of Israel like He dealt with their ancestors.
• The Jewish people are to accept the authority of Jesus Christ.
  • The Jewish people are brought under the rod of God through Jesus Christ.
  • Those who rebel against the authority of Jesus Christ are not part of the family of God.
  • God tells Israel to go ahead and serve their false god but not in His name.
• The promised land comes in the new heaven and earth in the New Jerusalem.
  • Israel is accepted on the Holy Mountain where God requires fruits of repentance.
  • God accepts us as He gathers us into the promised land of the New Jerusalem.
  • We know He is Lord when we are brought into the promised land of the New Jerusalem.
  • In God’s Holy place we repent of our sin through his Son Jesus Christ.
  • God does not deal with us as sinners but as His children through Jesus Christ.
• Destruction comes to this present heaven and earth.
  • A prophecy is spoken against the forest land of the south of the false god.
  • A fire devours the land of the anti-Christian global culture.
  • The whole world will see that the word of God is true.

Israel worships on the high places after arriving to the promised land.
Israel has blasphemed God in their unfaithfulness to Him. “Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “In this too your fathers have blasphemed Me, by being unfaithful to Me.” Ezekiel 20:27

The Israelites of the Old Testament are the forefathers of the Jewish people of today. The Jewish people of today are blaspheming God in the same way as their forefathers. That blaspheme is to live against God when they were given the word of God, and they know better. This also includes the rejection of Jesus Christ and the habitual suppression of the Holy Spirit who points to Jesus Christ as the Savior. They reject the entire New Testament, which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and live only by the Old Testament.

Israel worships the false God of this world. “When I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their offerings. There they also sent up their sweet aroma and poured out their drink offerings.” Ezekiel 20:28

The earthly land promised to the Israelites is the same territory as the State of Israel of today, as seen in the pictures at the bottom of this post. The Jewish people were gathered there in 1948 when the State of Israel was established. The “high hills and thick trees” were ideal places for serving the false god in high places. For the government of the State of Israel, those “high hills and thick trees” were the international prestige of being a member of the United Nations, having a partnership with America, one of the most powerful nations in the world, and growing an international economy. They serve in the high places of this world but refuse to serve God through Jesus Christ. They give their sweet offerings to, make sacrifices for, and pour themselves out to their standing as an independent state on a global scale. These blasphemous actions on the part of the government of the State of Israel provokes the fury of God.

The earthly land promised to the Israelites is seen in the picture on the right. The picture to the left is how the State of Israel looks today. The State of Israel is the earthly promised land where the Jewish people were gathered to in 1948. The maps below draw a comparison of the territory of the original promised land to the territory of the State of Israel. The light tan area, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, is the territory of Israel today. The purple/blue area in the middle of the tan territory is the West Bank today. When the Israelites entered Canaan, the West Bank was part of Israel. The tiny blue/purple area, in the southwest corner of Israel by the Mediterranean Sea, is the Gaza Strip. That was part of Israel when the Israelites entered Canaan. The purple and green areas surrounding Israel was part of the promised land when the Israelites entered Canaan. The allotment of the promised land is also seen in a picture in the post on Ezekiel 48.

What is the high place that Israel serves?. “Then I said to them, ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.”’ Ezekiel 20:29

“Bamah” is the Hebrew word for “high place”, but what is this high place that drives the world government and its global culture, while causing Israel to seek powerful partnerships in those high places?

This high place is a place to the north and above the clouds, but also among the populations of the people on this earth. This high place is the seat of power for Satan, as his aspiration is to be like God, as quoted, “For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregations on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’“ Isaiah 14:13-14

Ezekiel describes this high place in his vision of the space satellites, space station, and space shuttles in Ezekiel Chapter 1. This is the entity that has power over physiology to give people what to think, feel, say, and do. This entity enables the image of the beast to speak and live through the population of people in every city around the world. The masses of the global culture are groomed to the ark of the beast by what they say and do.

Like Ezekiel, Zachariah also describes exactly what the high place is, “This is their resemblance throughout the earth: Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket”; then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover over its mouth. Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.“ Zachariah 5:6-9 full post.

“…the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience…” Ephesians 2:2

Israel kills their children as a sacrifice to a god.
Israel is defiled in the same way as their ancestors. “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Are you defiling yourselves in the manner of your fathers, and committing harlotry according to their abominations? For when you offer your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live,” says the Lord God, “I will not be inquired of by you.” Ezekiel 20:30-31

God had Ezekiel to have the Israelites look into the mirror by looking at the harlotry and abominations of their forefathers. Today, God wants the Jewish people to look into the mirror of their forefathers to see a glimpse of their own abominations and harlotry. They are committing harlotry by giving themselves to their Jewish culture while abandoning the will of God for them to receive Jesus Christ as their identity. Abominations are behaviors that God intensely dislikes, which the Jewish people are doing by not believing God, rejecting Jesus Christ, and suppressing the presence of the Holy Spirit.

The forefathers of today’s Jewish people literally sent their children through the fire as a sacrifice to the false gods of the countries around them. Looking in that mirror, the Israelis are killing their unborn children with the most liberal abortion rights in the world. They are following the idol of this world, which is the entity giving them what to feel, think, say, and do as they join the values of the global culture. The masses of the global culture are in alignment with the agenda of the United Nations to promote abortion rights as part of their “sustainability goals” to sustain population growth.

The Lord does not allow Himself to be inquired of by those who mock Him by rejecting Jesus Christ. Jesus is the only way that God hears our inquiries because Jesus is our mediator and intercessor, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus…” 1 Timothy 2:5 “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” Romans 8:26-27

As followers of Jesus Christ, we need to be more than just someone who hears the word of God, but we need to live by His word through the Holy Spirit living within us. If we do not walk in the Spirit, but choose the ways of the flesh instead, we are like those who look into the mirror but as soon as we walk away, we forget what type of person we were. Like the Jewish people of today who forget their own detestable behaviors that mirrors the detestable ways of their forefathers. We need to look at ourselves through the mirror of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to see the reflection of His mercy, grace, truth, and forgiveness. In Jesus Christ, we see His liberty, blessings, and eternal life. “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” John 8L36

 “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.” James 1:23-25

Israel wants to conform to the global culture that serves the false god. “What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, ‘We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in other countries, serving wood and stone.’ As I live,” says the Lord God, “surely with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out, I will rule over you.” Ezekiel 20:32-33

The Israelites had it in their mind to be like all of the other countries around them, countries without the Ten Commandments and other laws of God. The Israelites wanted to be led by the false gods made with human hands instead of living by the will of the Living God. However, in His Holiness, God does not allow that to happen because He pours out His fury on those who serve false gods.

Today, God knows what is in the mind of the Israeli citizens, He knows their thoughts are being given to them by the entity that has power over physiology to give them what to think. The Israelis want to be part of the family of the global culture that exists in other countries all across the globe. In fact, as I type this, the Israelis are rioting and protesting against their own government, the State of Israel. They are demanding that the government of Israel conform to the will of the members of the United Nations. The Israeli citizens have aligned with the family of the global culture who are protesting against the existence of the independence of Israel. The Israelis have even adopted the global goal of liberal abortion rights and the promotion of the LGBQT community.

The Lord makes it clear that the Jewish people will never be part of the plans of the world government and its global culture. God is and will be unleashing the fury of His judgment against Israel, through the hand of the world government and its global culture. In fact, the reason God brought the Jewish people to the State of Israel is to unleash the fury of His judgment on them, “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.” Ezekiel 22:19-20 That is also said in the next verses of this chapter, 34 and 35.

The State of Irael is totally destroyed in the Battle of Armageddon, with only a very few remnants saved, as seen in the post on the Day After the Battle of Armageddon in Ezekiel 39.

Today, the world government has it in mind to build its global family culture on the entity that gives people what to think, feel, do, and say. The blueprint does not include associations with the Living God, nor forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, nor the presence of the Holy Spirit. The entity with power over physiology replaces the human spirit and conscience to enable the image of the beast to speak and live through people in every city across the globe. They are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

Jesus Christ is the only way to the eternal Garden of Eden, which is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth, as Jesus say, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6

The world government’s thoughts of an earthly Garden of Eden will never be accomplished. The fury of God’s judgment is already here against them. Global warming is here and is the Fourth Plague of Revelation 16:8-9. The more powerful the United Nations becomes as the one world government the hotter and more intense the heat of global warming becomes. Global warming is instrumental in bringing the destruction of the power center of the beast as the Fifth Plague in revelation 16:10-11. That means there will be no more uncanny knowledge, nor heightened intuition, nor uncanny authority over others, nor extraordinary skills and talents, nor amazing physical abilities etc. The entity with power over physiology to give thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors will not be functioning. That powerlessness leads to the Battle of Armageddon in the Sixth Plague. This leads to the Day of the Lord and the return of Jesus Christ. Click here for a list of the Seven Plagues.

God gathers the Jewish people to the State of Israel to unleash His fury on them.
God gathers the Jewish people to the State of Israel with fury poured out. “I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will plead My case with you face to face. Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you,” says the Lord God.” Ezekiel 20:34-36

In this verse, God promises to bring the Jewish people out from the countries where they were scattered and to gather them. They were gathered to the newly established State of Israel in 1948, after the end of WW2 in 1945. This is the place where God unleashes the fury of His judgment on them. This is also said in the verses of Ezekiel 22:19-20 that clearly says that God gathers the Jewish people to the State of Israel to unleash the fury of His judgment on them. The verse in Ezekiel 36:22 says plainly that the Jewish people have profaned the name of God, so He gathers them to the State of Israel, not for their benefit but for His purpose. The Holiness of God unleashes Hus fury on profanity.

The Middle East is the “wilderness of the peoples” where God is pleading His case with the Jewish people that He is indeed Lord. He requires the Jewish people to receive Jesus Christ as their Savior. He dealt with the Israelites in a similar way when they rejected His word in the wilderness, and only a remnant was permitted to enter the promised land. Since the Jewish people were gathered to the State of Israel in 1948, they have been in 18 wars, including in the year 1948, Click for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page.

The “wilderness of the people” also includes Israel being surrounded by the hostilities of the members of the United Nations, the hostilities of the global culture, and even the opposition of America. The members of the United Nations have opened a case of genocide against the Israeli government, World Court to hear Genocide Case Against Israel. They have also sought arrest warrants for Israeli government officials for alleged war crimes. Around the world, the masses of the global culture riot and protest against the existence of Israel as an independent state. On top of that, America has sided with the laws of the United Nations that it is illegal for Israelis to live in the West Bank. Click here for news article on “White House reverses West Bank policy, calling Israeli settlements illegal“. Also, US Imposes Sanctions On Israeli Settler Outposts.

The reason the Jewish people were gathered to the State of Israel to face God’s fury is because they exalted their Jewish culture above the will of God for them to live for Jesus Christ. If they had followed Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, they would have been Christian and not Jewish, and the Jewish State of Israel would not have ever existed. As Christians, we do not have a nation on this earth to call our own, our nation is in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.

In Isaiah 8:11-15, God warned the Jewish people not to think that belief in Jesus Christ was a conspiracy against the Jewish culture. He came to save not to destroy. They were cautioned not to be afraid of the threats of the Pharisees, who made belief in Jesus a literal crime. They feared. The Jewish people were warned that Jesus Christ would be an offense to them, and they would stumble. They were offended and stumbled. They were told that Israel would be broken because of their rejection of Him. They are being broken.

The Jewish people are to accept the authority of Jesus Christ.
The Jewish people are brought under the rod of God through Jesus Christ. “I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;” Ezekiel 20:37

This verse means that God is using His rod to hold the Jewish people to the bond of the covenant He made with them in the Old Testament. The bond of the covenant is that if the Jewish people would have kept His word, they would have been a special treasure to Him above all people. If not, His Holiness brings retribution to the sin of turning away from Him, Exodus 19:5-6 and Deuteronomy 7:9-11.

When God gathered the Jewish people to the State of Israel, that was the hand of God making them to pass under the rod. He is holding them to the covenant that promises retribution for breaking the covenant and rejecting His word. When the Jewish people rejected Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, they broke the covenant with Him by not believing that He sent Jesus as their Messiah. This is the bond of the covenant that we are all held to by the rod of God, “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 3:16 To reject Jesus Christ is to break the bond of the covenant that God has made with us, and He will hold us to that in the resurrection beyond the grave.

Today, God has sent global warming as a sign of His authority to lead us to pass under the rod of His authority, which means to live for Him through Jesus Christ. He is bringing all of humanity into the bond of the covenant, which is that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life and will not perish in eternal hell, “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” Revelation 16:8-9

Those who rebel against the authority of Jesus Christ are not part of the family of God. “I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” Ezekiel 20:38

Today, we know the promised land is not the State of Israel but is the eternal New Jerusalem that we inherit for living for God through Jesus Christ. This verse is referring to the land of Israel as the promised land of the New Jerusalem. Not everyone who lives in this country called earth will enter the New Jerusalem. God purges out the rebels and transgressors that rejects His will for them to believe in His Son Jesus Christ.

This verse can be understood by realizing that most of the Israelites in the wilderness were rebels against the word of God, like the Ten Commandments and other laws. Their behaviors were against the will of God. None of them among the rebels and transgressors entered into the promised land. Also, since the coming of Jesus Christ to this world in the flesh, rebels and transgressors against God are those who reject Jesus. Those who believe in Jesus Christ are those who will enter into the promised land of the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth, “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 10:32-33

This world is the country where all humanity lives. Every one of us will be brought out of this country when the resurrection of the dead happens, but those who rebel and transgress against God’s Son Jesus Christ will not enter into Heaven, “...and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to
shame and everlasting contempt.” Daniel 12:2

Jesus Christ speaks to us of how the chaff is separated from the wheat so that the chaff is burned in the fire and the wheat is gathered into the barn. The rebels who reject Jesus Christ will be burned in the fire of hell, but we who believe in Jesus will inherit eternal life. Click here for the parable of the wheat and the chaff. Our Lord Jesus also speaks to us about the separation of the goats and sheep, where the sheep are given eternal life and the goats are not, click here for the parable of the goats and the sheep.

“The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 13:41-42

God tells Israel to go ahead and serve their false god but not in His name. “As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord God: “Go, serve every one of you his idols—and hereafter—if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.” Ezekiel 20:39 

God said to the Israelites that they must decide whether to serve Him or their idols. If they chose to serve their idols, then God wanted no more of their gifts. He does not allow for His Holiness to be corrupted by the worship of a false god. As Jesus Christ says, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.” Matthew 6:24 

We see how the Israelis have chosen to serve their idols and are far from God who wants them to serve Jesus Christ. The Israeli government of the State of Israel has chosen their war god over Jesus Christ, but God says to them and us, “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.” Zachariah 4:6 The Israelis have been in 18 wars since the year the State of Israel was established in 1948, Click for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page.

On top of all the wars of the Israeli government, the Israeli citizens have chosen the god of this world that gives them what to think, feel, do, and say as they are propelled to protest and riot against their own government of the State of Israel. They demand conformity to the will of the United Nations that establishes a global culture in the process of becoming the one world government. The Israelis have the most liberal abortion rights in the world along with promoting the rights of the LGBQT lifestyles, and both are goals of the United Nations for establishing the global culture.

Today, we see the judgment of God coming against Israel at the hands of the world government and its global culture. In His Holiness, God does not permit His name to be profaned by those who reject Him, who discard Jesus Christ, and suppresses the Holy Spirit. We also see the judgment of God coming against this present world system as global warming is here. Global warming is the Fourth Plague, as revealed in Revelation 16:8-9. The more powerful the United Nations become as the one world government, the hotter and more intense global warming becomes.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we can hear Him saying to the world, “…as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” We are of the house of Jesus Christ, and in His Spirit, we say with him, “…as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15

The promised land comes in the new heaven and earth in the New Jerusalem.
Israel is accepted on the Holy Mountain where God requires fruits of repentance. “For on My holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel,” says the Lord God, “there all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me; there I will accept them, and there I will require your offerings and the firstfruits of your sacrifices, together with all your holy things.” Ezekiel 20:40

The Holy Mountain of Israel is often referred to as Mount Zion. This is the City of the Living God known as the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth. As quoted, “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.” Hebrews 12:22-24

Followers of Jesus Christ have written may songs about the Holy Mountain, Mount Zion, like this verse, “We’re marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion; We’re marching upward to Zion, the beautiful city of God.” And also this one, “Mount Zion heavenly Jerusalem, I can hear the angels singing On Mount Zion, heavenly Jerusalem”

Today, there are no blessings for the Jewish people mentioned in the New Jerusalem, not unless they serve God through Jesus Christ and live in the Holy Spirit, as Jesus says, “…for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” Matthew 23:39 All of the blessings spoken for Israel in the Old Testament has been transferred to those who believe Jesus Christ, as quoted, “For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed shall be called.” That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed…And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Romans 9:6-8, Galatians 3:29

All of the house of Israel includes everyone who serves God through Jesus Christ in the presence of the Holy Spirit. We are those who will serve God on the “mountain height of Israel,” which is on Mount Zion, the Holy City of the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth. We are those who inherit eternal life by believing Jesus Christ. On this earth, we serve God through the Holiness of our Lord Jesus, and through Him we give our offerings to God. We give to Him the best from our spirit and soul, the firstfruits of the fruit of the Spirit, along with all Holy things. In other words, we don’t give God our leftovers or seconds because that would grieve the Holy Spirit. We do not make Jesus Christ second to the ways of the world, but He is always first and number one in our life.

God accepts us as He gathers us into the promised land of the New Jerusalem. “I will accept you as a sweet aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered; and I will be hallowed in you before the Gentiles. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I raised My hand in an oath to give to your fathers.” Ezekiel 20:41-42

God accepts the Jewish people as a sweet aroma to Himself when they are regathered to the land of Israel, the State of Israel. That’s because He is fulfilling His word for all the world to see of all He said He would do and will do for and to the Jewish people.

The land given to the Israelis in 1948, called the State of Israel, is the same land that God promised to give to their forefathers, the Israelites. From reading the Old Testament, the Jewish people should know better than anyone how God did what He promised He would do by gathering them from all around the world to the State of Israel. They should know that He is indeed the Lord.

The part the Jewish people seem to be ignoring is that the Holiness of God comes against sin and that is how He hallows Himself among them in front of the eyes of the world. The Jewish people are living in sin because they rebelled against the word of God and rejected Jesus Christ as their Savior. The Jewish people were gathered to the State of Israel where God unleashes the fury of His judgment on them, which is clearly said, “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As men gather silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin into the midst of a furnace, to blow fire on it, to melt it; so I will gather you in My anger and in My fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.” Ezekiel 22:19-20. And also, in the previous verses of Ezekiel 20:34-36, and also in Ezekiel 36:22.

The land of the State of Israel is the same territory that Ezekiel describes in Chapter 48. The only difference is that the West Bank and the Gaza Strip has eaten into the original territory, which God said He would cause to happen. The picture to the left is the State of Israel, and to the right the earthly promised land.

There are no blessings mentioned in the New Testament for the Jewish people, not until they acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Messiah, as Jesus said, “See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” Matthew 23:38-39 The blessings promised to the Jewish people in the Old Testament have been transferred to us who serve God through Jesus Christ and embrace the presence of the Holy Spirit.

God accepts as a sweet aroma everyone who believes Jesus Christ. When our Lord Jesus returns, all believers will be gathered from wherever we are and be brought to Him into eternal life. The dead who believed Jesus Christ will be resurrected from their graves just an instant before the believers who are still alive are lifted up to be with Jesus. The resurrected believers and those still alive will meet one another in the air to be with our Lord Jesus eternally in the New Jerusalem. The unbelievers {Gentiles) will witness that event, just before this world system is destroyed with them in it. We will be hallowed in the sight of those who rejected Jesus Christ. The eternal New Jerusalem is the promised land that God said he would give to everyone who believes Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ clearly said that those who have faith in Him will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the New Jerusalem, but the Jewish people [sons of the kingdom] will be cast out into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, “And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matther 8:11-12

God does not deal with us as sinners but as His children through Jesus Christ. . “And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings with which you were defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have committed. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have dealt with you for My name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways nor according to your corrupt doings, O house of Israel,” says the Lord God.’” Ezekiel 20:43-44

In the day after the Battle of Armageddon in Ezekiel 39, a remnant of the Jewish people survives, and God has always promised that a few would be saved. I would say that this is the time when the remnant of the Jewish people remembers what they had done to defile themselves. They will remember that they rejected Jesus Christ and tossed Him out of their Jewish culture. They will loath themselves because of all the evils they committed leading up to the day after the Battle of Armageddon. At that time, they will know that He is the Lord and Jesus Christ is His Son whom He sent as their Messiah. The mercy and grace of God is extended to them at this time for the sake of His Holy name, not according to their past wickedness and corruption.

Today, God promises that whoever calls on the name of Jesus Christ will be saved, Jewish or non-Jewish, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13

When we remember our defiled ways and loathe ourselves for the evils we have committed in this life, and we come to Jesus Christ for the repentance of sin, He hears us. “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.” 2 Corinthians 7:10 Jesus Christ forgives our sin at that point, and we begin to grow in the knowledge that our God is indeed Lord.

God deals with us in His mercy and grace not according to what we deserve according to our wicked ways and corruption, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23

There is a piece of the promised land within our soul because our Lord Jesus gives us the Holy Spirit. We are brought to that land within our soul as a guarantee of our inheritance in the eternal promised land of the New Jerusalem, “In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.” Ephesians 1:13-14 We are the “purchased possession”, bought with the blood of Jesus Christ, and we will be redeemed with a new eternal body in the New Jerusalem.

Destruction comes to this present heaven and earth.
A prophecy is spoken against the forest land of the south of the false god. “Furthermore, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face toward the south; preach against the south and prophesy against the forest land, the South, and say to the forest of the South, ‘Hear the word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree and every dry tree in you; the blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be scorched by it.” Ezekiel 20:45-47

We know that God does not send prophecies against trees of the forests to prod them into repentance because Jesus Christ did not come to save trees but to save the spirit and soul of human beings. Therefore, the Lord is directing Ezekiel to bring a prophecy against a forest of people, the whole forest. When God sends a prophecy against an entire “forest”, it’s because they live as atheists with no belief in God, they scoff at the need for the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, and they suppress the presence of the Holy Spirit. That “forest” describes the global culture of today. There will be a fire kindled in the global culture, every tree will be set on fire, and that fire will not be quenched. Israel will be set afire in that blaze. The fire that devours them and will never be quenched is the fire of eternal hell.

We live in a world where everyone in every city lives for the entity giving them what to think, feel, say, and do. “All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Revelation 13:8 The “him” in this verse is the beast of the image and mark of the beast. This entity enables the image of the beast to speak and live through the global culture and by what they say and do they deny God, detest Jesus Christ, and grieve the Holy Spirit. The forest of the global culture is groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

Those who make their body the home of the entity giving them what to think, feel, do, and say will be destroyed for destroying the body as the home of the Holy Spirit, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 The world will be filled with the fires of lawlessness as the Holy Spirit is defunded, because He is the one who restrains lawlessness, “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed…” 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8

There will also be literal fires on this earth globally, as mentioned in the events of the Seven Trumpets in Revelation 8, 9, and 11. We also know that the heat of global warming is already the cause of many forest fires around the world, and global warming is the Fourth Plague in Revelation 16:8-9. “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” The more powerful the United Nations become as the one world government the more intense the heat of global warming becomes.

All the world can see that the Lord has kindled the fire. “All flesh shall see that I, the Lord, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched. Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! They say of me, ‘Does he not speak parables?’”” Ezekiel 20:48-49

Today, every person can see that the prophecies of the Bible are being fulfilled, believers and non-believers alike. The hand of the Lord is definitely behind the fires being kindled in this unbelieving world and those fires will not be quenched. If anyone closes their eyes to what is happening globally, they are hearing and seeing as if hearing and seeing parables.

Below are the obvious signs in this world that any person can see,

• Jesus Christ has come in the flesh 2000 years ago to fulfill the prophecies of the Bible.
• The Jewish people have been gathered to the State of Israel in 1948, where God unleashes the fury of His judgment on them, as described in Ezekiel 22:19-20, Ezekiel 36:22, and Ezekiel 20:34.
• The global government of the United Nations was established in 1945, immediately after WW2, which brought the government of the beast with it, as described in Daniel 8 and also Revelation 17.
• The entity that has power over physiology to give people what to think, feel, do, and say is here. This entity enables the image of the beast to speak and live through people in every city around the world. The masses of the global culture are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do. This is described in Revelation 13.
• Global warming is here and is the Fourth Plagued mentioned in Revelation 16:8-9. Global warming is instrumental in destroying the power center of the beast [Fifth Plague], rendering the world government and its global culture powerless. This leads to the Battle of Armageddon in the Sixth Plague, followed by the Day of the Lord and the return of Jesus Christ. Click for a full post on the Seven Plagues.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11