The land is filled with violence and the Lord is provoked to anger.

Ezekiel 8:17b-18

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“…for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.” Ezekiel 8:17b.

In the previous verse of the previous post, the question was asked, “Is it a light thing to commit abominations against God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit?” Certainly it is not, as the fury of the Lord is aroused, and this planet fills with violence.

What is happening within the State of Israel is a preview of what is going to happen to the world government and its global culture. The land of Israel is filled with violence, being in 18 wars since 1948, and even a war in that year.  Click for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page. There really hasn’t been a time of peace for Israel since the day they were declared a state. To put the “branch to the nose” is a practice used in worshipping a false god, nothing to do with worshipping the living God of Jesus Christ.

When this world system follows the will of the entity that governs through their thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors, it grieves the Holy Spirit, sears the conscience, and provokes the anger of the Lord. “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron”. 1 Timothy 4:1-2

The human spirit and conscience are replaced by the entity giving people what to think and feel, which builds a wall against the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ who gives peace, life and Salvation. The Holy Spirit is He who restrains lawlessness and anti-social behavior. When He is taken out of the way, this provokes the anger of the Lord as tribulation is unleashed. Click here for a post on the “lawless one”.

“Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.” Ezekiel 8:18

The State of Israel is not being spared today and will not be spared as the members of the United Nations establishes themselves as the one world government. God’s judgment comes against Israel through the world government. “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

What is happening to Israel will happen to the world government and its global culture. There will be no pity and the fury of God will not be held back and their meaningless prayers and cries will not be heard. “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.” Matthew 12:31 “If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:17 The world is and continues to be “…a dwelling for demons and a haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.” Revelation 18:2

God’s hand is already working in this world through global warming to bring His fury against the world government of the beast and its global culture. Global warming is the Fourth Plague and is instrumental in bringing the destruction of the power center of the beast in the Fifth Plague. That renders the government of the beast powerless with no ability to work through physiology to give people what to think, feel, do, and say. That means there will be no more power to enable the image of the beast to live and speak through people. There will be no power to hold people to a specific station in life through the mark of the beast. In that powerlessness, arises the Battle of Armageddon of the Sixth Plague. Jesus Christ returns soon after that. Whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. Click here for a post on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Plague.

The Day of the Lord 

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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, 3:1