The Lord will personally deal with those who live for the idol within the heart. 

Ezekiel 14:4

Click for a description of the mark of the beast.
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“Therefore speak to them, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols,” Ezekiel 14:4

God says to Ezekiel that He will personally deal with those who set up idols in the heart. Ezekiel will not have to reply to those who come to him with bad intentions, spiritual corruption, and wickedness in their heart. That’s because God is the only One who can reach into the soul and spirit and deal with people accordingly. In God’s Holiness, His answer to sin, corruption, and wickedness is fury and wrath. “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

Today, the Jewish culture are so hardened against the will of God for them to accept Jesus Christ that only God can answer their sin from His Holiness. As we see happening in the State of Israel, the Israelis have been in 18 wars since the State of Israel was established in 1948, Click for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page. God is answering them according to their hardened and spiritually corrupt heart. If the Jewish people had opened their heart to receive Jesus Christ 2000 years ago, the Jewish State of Israel would never have existed. Instead of being Jewish, they would be Christian. As Christians, we do not have a nation on this earth to call our own, our nation is the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.

Today, everyone has set up an idol in their heart, and that idol is the entity giving people what to think, feel, do, and say. “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. The entity giving people what to think and feel enables the image of the beast to speak and live within people as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do. The Lord will answer their spiritual wickedness in the fury of His Holiness. “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

God is able to turn a hard and stony heart to flesh for those who believe Jesus Christ and receive the Holy Spirit, “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:18

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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