Great waters will be clear, and the rivers run like oil. 

Ezekiel 32:14-15

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“Then I will make their waters clear, and make their rivers run like oil,” Says the Lord God. When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country is destitute of all that once filled it, when I strike all who dwell in it, then they shall know that I am the Lord.” Ezekiel 32:14-15

In Ezekiel 29:12-16, the word of God reveals to us that America will be made desolate and the whole country destitute of inhabitants. For “40 years”, America will be left desolate and destitute, possibly due to some type of contamination. After those “40 years”, America will be repopulated and revitalized, but as a “third world country”, never to rise again as a global power. Israel and no other country will ever again be able look to America for their help. Click here for a post on Ezekiel 29.

With America being desolate and destitute, the rivers it once muddied with military aid, military campaigns, and military prowess around the world will be made clean. The once muddied rivers will be made clear and run like oil with peace and stability. This is God’s way of showing without a doubt that His word is true, and He is indeed the Lord. The fury of God’s judgment that comes against America comes by the hand of the world government of the beast, that self-righteously proclaims to be on track to making the world flow like clean water and as smooth as oil with peace and stability. They have a form of Godliness but deny the power of God, scoffs at the need for the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, and oppresses the presence of the Holy Spirit. They too will be made desolate and destitute and will come to their ultimate end on the Day of the Lord.

The Holy Spirit speaks these words to us, “Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;” Hebrews 12:14-15

We can assess that Jesus Christ is returning to bring us into the eternal New Jerusalem where the waters are clean rivers of life and flow as smooth as oil. The diagnosis is that this world has muddied the rivers with atheism where there is no belief in the living God, where the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ is scoffed at, and the Holy Spirit is shut out. We plan to live in the presence of the Holy Spirit who cleanses our heart, soul, and mind with a meek and gentle spirit of peace. We implement that plan by believing that God loves us enough to send His Son Jesus Christ that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. We know that plan is successful when we pursue peace with all people, we pursue a life of Holiness, and bitterness and trouble is not a part of who we are.

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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