Those without Christ are like salty marshes and swamps. 

Ezekiel 47:11

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“But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.” Ezekiel 47:11

Swamps and marshes are places of an abundance of water, but the land is useless for any productive purposes. Swamps and marshes can be considered to be where the waters of humanism flood the human being but makes the spirit and soul useless for growing the fruit of the Holy Spirit. For example, today’s culture pours on the need for human dignity, respect, love, support, tolerance, peace, etc. But they refer to the teachings of the Bible as being bigoted, intolerant, hateful, destructive to dignity, unloving, not caring, unsupportive, etc. Humanism is “…an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.”

Today’s culture is given over to the type of salt that does not allow belief in God, scoffs at the need for the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ and suppresses the presence of the Holy Spirit. Today’s culture serves the entity that gives them what to think, feel, do and say as the human spirit and conscience is hardened against Jesus Christ. They will not find healing of the spirit and soul because the entity they serve enables the image of the beast to speak and live through them. The masses of today’s culture are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do.

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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