Pride, corruption, idleness and neglect overcome Israel

Ezekiel 16:49-50

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“Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.” Ezekiel 16:49-50

God is comparing Israel to her Muslim sisters of the Middle East who are far from Him and do not live by His word, discards the need for Jesus Christ, and oppresses the presence of the Holy Spirit.

The Jewish people are filled with pride. 2000 years ago, they were so proud of the wholeness of their Jewish culture that they refused to humble themselves to receive Jesus Christ as their Savior. They valued their Jewish family more than becoming the family of God through Jesus Christ. If they would have become Christian, the Jewish State of Israel would never have existed. 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.

Because of the haughtiness and spiritual wickedness of Israel, they are being taken away as God sees fit, and that is why God has gathered the Jewish people to the State of Israel in 1948. There, God unleashes 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 16:19-20

The Jewish culture was filled with the fulness of food, but with that they had an abundance of idleness and does not strengthen the poor. Before Jesus Christ, the Israelites were the only people in this world with the word of God, which includes the “scarlet cord” pointing to Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world, and the Ten Commandments. The Jewish culture became filled with idleness in their faithfulness to the will of God and in that idleness, they could not comprehend Jesus Christ being their Messiah. Today, the Jewish people are not being nourished and strengthened through Jesus Christ who gives the Holy Spirit. The Jewish culture has thrown out the entire New Testament, which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They only live by the Old Testament.

The culture we live in today is filled with pride as they live for the entity with power over physiology that gives them what to think, feel, say, and do. They boast, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” Revelation 13:4 Today’s culture is filled with physiological food as the entity they serve feeds them as it enables the image of the beast to speak and live through them. However, there is global idleness and the poor and needy are not being strengthen who seeks food for the spirit and soul through Jesus Christ. The masses of the global culture are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.

Today’s world system will be taken away as God sees fit, and that will happen through global tribulation and the Day of the Lord. We already see lobal warming in the world and global warming is the Fourth Plague of Revelation 16:8-9. The stronger the United Nations become as the one world government the more intense the effect of global warming becomes. Global warming is instrumental in bringing the destruction of the power center of the beast in the Fifth Plague of Revelation 16:10-11. Without the power center of the beast, the world government and its global culture are rendered powerless. In that powerlessness, comes the Battle of Armageddon in the Sixth Plague of Revelation 16:12-17. After that, comes the Day of the Lord and the return of Jesus Christ. Click here for a 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