Israel is no longer the scepter of God’s word, but Jesus Christ is, and He is marked to be extinguished from the world.

Ezekiel 21:13

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“Because it is a testing, and what if the sword despises even the scepter? The scepter shall be no more,” says the Lord God.” Ezekiel 21:13

The testing of the Israelites, in the days of Ezekiel, is God’s way of saying that no matter how bad things got for them, a part of them would go on to live in the future (But not as His scepter, or standard bearer of His word). In fact, only by sparing a remnant of the Israelites, after their captivity and destruction, would Jesus Christ be born, who is a Jew from the Tribe of Judah. His mother Mary and father Joseph were of the Tribe of Judah. Jesus has become God’s scepter.

When Ezekiel spoke these words, the Israelites were the scepter of God as the authority and standard bearer of His word, such as lifting up the Ten Commandments. However, they had become so spiritually corrupt that God said through Ezekiel, “What if the sword of the king of Babylon despises the Israelites?” He further said that Israel, as His standard bearer, would be no more. The Jewish culture was destroyed in captivity and was no longer the scepter of the word of God. Today, that is the word of prophecy spoken against Israel, that they will not be the scepter of God as the standard bearer of His word.

When Jesus Christ came to this earth, He replaced the Jewish people as the scepter of God. He lifts up the standard and authority of God’s will for us, which is, “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 In these days where Jesus Christ and His followers are despised, we are under severe testing, “For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” Hebrews 12:10-11

As we endure the despise of living for God through Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit says to us, “What if the anti-Christian global culture despises Jesus Christ?” “And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.” Mathew 10:22

Jesus Christ is being eradicated from the face of the earth, and what if He is no more in this world? We will still live for Him, we will still inherit eternal life, and our resurrected Lord Jesus still lives. The Holy Spirit has said to us that that a war has been made against Jesus Christ, and His followers are overcome, “Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 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 13:6-8

Click here for a post on the extermination of births born through Jesus Christ.

Jesus has said that night is coming when no one can work in His name, “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” John 9:4-5

We see how Jesus Christ is despised in this world and His followers endure testing constantly on a daily basis. Jesus Christ is despised so much by the global culture that the churches have abandoned His Gospel. Government lawmakers do not include the values of the Bible in their laws and policies. The educational system has tossed out the teaching of the Bible from the classrooms. And Christianity is unwelcomed in every sector of society.

Along with Jesus Christ being despised and eradicated from the face of the earth, so is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is being taken from this world to be no more, and He is who restrains lawlessness. When the Holy Spirit is no more, lawlessness is unleashed, “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, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.” Click here for a post on the “lawless one”.

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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