God cuts off from His family those who live for the idol of the heart. 

Ezekiel 14:8

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“I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.” Ezekiel 14:8

The “man” whom God sets His face against is the one who separates himself from God and sets up an idol in the heart. This includes every person of the Jewish culture because they have turned away from the will of God for them to receive Jesus Christ. It can be said that they have made the Jewish nation their idol. They have been cut off from God’s people, and His people now includes those who live for Him through Jesus Christ, as quoted, “For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.” Romans 2:28-29

“Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” Luke 3:8-9

To be made a “sign and a proverb” is not a good thing, Israel is nation of people that everyone is talking about but not in a good way. In today’s world, no one wants to be like Israel because they have hostility coming at them from all directions. The masses of the global culture riot and protest against their existence and the members of the United Nations are also against the independence of the State of Israel.

In today’s culture, the masses of people have turned away from belief in God and have set up an idol in their heart. This idol is the entity that gives them what to think, feel, do, and say. It sets in the heart of people, the temple of God, as if it is God, “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Click for a post on the “man of sin”. God sets His face against every person who serves this entity, and they will not be part of the body of Christ, “But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 10:33-35

“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

Those of today’s global culture are a sign and a proverb referring to being seen as the global culture of the government of the beast. They are a sign and a proverb of tribulation and chaos. Global warming is here of Fourth Plague, which leads to the destruction of the power center of the beast in Fifth Plague, which leads to the Battle of Armageddon in the Sixth Plague, then the Day of the Lord and the return of Jesus Christ.

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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