The blossom of the rod and the budding of pride ushers in the end of times.

Ezekiel 7:10

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“‘Behold, the day! Behold, it has come! Doom has gone out; The rod has blossomed, pride has budded.” Ezekiel 7:10

“Rod” refers to authority and power. This verse refers to pride budding in the authority and power of a government system. When that happens, doom has gone out into the world.

Pride has already blossomed in the government system of today which glories in governing through physiology. The entity that governs through physiology by giving people what to think, feel, do, and say prides itself in being 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 here for a post on the “man of the sin”. The doom of Israel and of the world comes as a result, “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

“You who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.” Isaiah 14:13-15

Ezekiel 1 describes the space station and space satellites, associated with the entity that gives people their thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors.

“Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.” Proverbs 16:9

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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