Prophetic Word & Vision - 8th August 2021
There Will Be A Reversal of the Edict, I Am Making Churches of Nations.
This Prophetic Word is Part 2 of the vision that God showed me of a buried gold crown.
Following on from this, God told me for the third time, that there will be a reversal of the edict and the Prophetic Word linked to this can be found below.
There Will Be A Reversal of The Edict
In addition, God followed this with a further Word, "I am making churches of nations."
Following on from Part 1, we will continue to understand the history of Israel and Ishmael and God's plan for mankind.
Then, we will explore the second part which can be found in Ezekiel Chapters 1 to 7.
The People of Israel Are God's Witnesses & His Servant
The people of Israel are God's witnesses and His servant, whom He has chosen, so that they may know and believe Him and understand that He is God. Before Him no god was formed, nor will there be one after Him (Isaiah 43:10).
God set Jerusalem in the centre of the nations, with countries all around her (Ezekiel 5:5).
He has set them apart from the nations (Leviticus 20:24), for the Israelites are a people holy to the LORD their God, and He has chosen them out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be His people, His treasured possession.
God did not set his affection on them and choose them because they were more numerous than other peoples, for they were the fewest of all peoples, it was because He loved them and kept the oath He swore to their ancestors.
God told them that they must know therefore that the LORD their God is God; He is faithful, keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments (Deuteronomy 7:7-9).
Why The Canaanites Had To Be Destroyed
Before Israel could establish itself under the guidance and leadership of the one true God, all remnants of the pagan culture had to be destroyed.
Whilst God did order the total destruction of everyone in the land, with no mercy, this act was about driving out sin and unbelief and establishing God's kingdom.
God's instructions to mankind has been clear from the beginning, we are to follow His commandments, laws and decrees and they are for our benefit, that all may go well with us.
In addition, God has always been clear about the penalty for disobedience.
God's order to destroy everyone was not a genocide, but a divine judgment, and serves as a warning and a clarion call to repentance.
The Canaanites Rejected the God of Israel
The people that lived in Canaan were not innocent. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to Him, their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles (Romans 1:21-23).
When Joshua sent two spies to look over the Promised Land, Rahab the prostitute told them that she knew that the Lord had given them this land and that a great fear of them had fallen on them, so that all who live in that country were melting in fear because of them.
They had heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for them when they came out of Egypt, and what they did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom they completely destroyed.
And their hearts melted in fear and everyone’s courage failed because of them, for the Lord their God is God in heaven above and on the earth below (Joshua 2:8-11).
The Consequences of Sin
The consequences of sin are far reaching and result in degradation, defilement, distortion, disgrace, perversion, sexual immorality, prostitution, violence and brutality.
The goodness of God is conditional upon us following His commands, laws and decrees, for we were created to be in fellowship with Him, not the lusts of our flesh.
Worshiping idols causes people to do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates, even burning children in the fire as sacrifices (Deuteronomy 12:31).
Sin causes us to behave in ways that are evil in the eyes of the Lord (2 Kings 21:2) and causes us to fall away from God.
When we sin, in addition to sinning against our own bodies, we sin against each other and ultimately, we sin against God, and this is a great affront to His mighty goodness, akin to spitting in His face.
The Report of The Land of Canaan
When God told Moses to send one leader from each tribe to explore Canaan, the land He was giving to the Israelites, they reported back that the people who lived there were powerful, the cities were fortified and very large and they saw descendants of Anak there (Numbers 13:28), who came from the Nephilim (Numbers 13:33).
Out of the 12 men who went, Caleb said that they should go up and take possession of the land, for they can certainly do it.
But the other men said that they couldn't attack those people as they were stronger than they were and they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored.
They said that the land devoured those living in it, that all the people they saw there were of great size and they seemed like grasshoppers in their own eyes, and they looked the same to them (Numbers 13:32-33).
They discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that God had given them and the Lord's anger was aroused that day and burned against them (Numbers 32:9-13).
The Israelites Rebelled Against God
Despite the fact that God had proved Himself to the Israelites time and time again, despite having seen His signs and wonders, heard His voice and seen His Presence, they did not trust or obey Him (Deuteronomy 9:23).
That night all the members of the community raised their voices, wept aloud, grumbled against Moses and Aaron, wishing they had died in Egypt or in the wilderness, and discussed choosing a leader and going back to Egypt, to slavery.
Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of the whole gathering and Joshua and Caleb, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes (a symbol of mourning).
They told them that if the LORD was pleased with them, He will lead them into that land and will give it to them, only they must not rebel against Him, and they reminded them not to be afraid of the people of the land, because the Israelites will devour them as their protection was gone, and the LORD was with them.
But the whole community talked about stoning them (Numbers 14:1-10)
God Swore On Oath That The Israelites Will Never See The Promised Land
Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites and the Lord asked Moses how long these people would treat Him with contempt and how long they would refuse to believe in Him, in spite of all the signs He had performed among them.
God said that He will strike them down with a plague and destroy them but once again, Moses interceded, pleading with Him not to carry out His wrath and reasoning with Him to deliver them for His glory, and once again, God relented and forgave them.
Nevertheless, God said that as surely as He lives and as surely as the glory of the Lord fills the whole earth, not one of those who saw His glory and the signs He performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed Him and tested Him 10 times—not one of them will ever see the land He promised on oath to their ancestors.
No one who had treated Him with contempt will ever see it (Numbers 14:10-23), because they had not followed Him wholeheartedly.
And he made them wander in the wilderness 40 years, until all who had done evil in his sight was gone (Numbers 32:11-13).
God Did To Them The Very Thing He Heard Them Say
God said that He had heard their complaints and that as surely as He lives, He would do to them the very thing He heard them say, and they would meet their end in that wilderness.
As for their children that they said would be taken as plunder, He would bring them in to enjoy the land they had rejected, but first they would be shepherds there for 40 years, for their unfaithfulness.
40 years, 1 year for each of the 40 days they explored the land, they would suffer and know what it was like to have God against them.
The LORD had spoken, and said He would surely do those things to this wicked community, which had banded together against Him.
So the men Moses had sent to explore the land, who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by spreading a bad report, were struck down and died of a plague (Numbers 14:26-37).
God Rewards The Faithful
Because God's servant Caleb had a different spirit and followed Him wholeheartedly, God said that He will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it (Numbers 14:24).
Of the men who went to explore the land (12), only Joshua and Caleb survived (Numbers 14:38).
God had proved Himself time and time again, showing that not only could He be trusted, but He was faithful and His hand of protection was upon them in the most extraordinary way.
The stiff-necked Israelites brought about their own self-fulfilling prophecy because of their unbelief.
Without belief in God, there is no point to our existence, as the sole purpose of being here, is to bring glory to God and to ultimately, return to Him, having fulfilled God's plan for us (Jeremiah 29:11).
God Removes His Hand of Protection
When Moses reported this to all the Israelites, they mourned bitterly and early the next morning they set out, saying they were ready to go up to the land the Lord promised and that surely they had sinned.
But Moses asked them why they were disobeying the Lord’s command and told them that they will not succeed and not to go up.
Because they had turned away from the Lord, the Lord would not be with them and they would fall by the sword.
Nevertheless, in their presumption they went, though neither Moses nor the ark of the Lord’s covenant moved from the camp.
The Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived there attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah (Numbers 14:39-45).
Forgiveness & Cutting Off
God told Moses to speak to the Israelites to tell them about presenting various offerings for various occasions, together with instructions as to how this must be done.
These offerings included food offerings, freewill offerings, festival offerings, grain offerings and offerings for unintentional sin.
Everyone who sinned unintentionally, either individually or as a community, must bring the necessary offering, and the priest must make atonement for them before the LORD, and when atonement had been made, that person or community would be forgiven.
But anyone who sins deliberately, blasphemes the LORD and must be cut off.
Because they had despised the LORD's word and broken His commands, they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them (Numbers 15:1-31).
Consecration To The LORD
The laws for the sabbath and the tassels on garments were for the purpose of consecrating ourselves to the LORD.
God wants us to remember His commands, laws and decrees and to honour them.
He wants us to remember all the commands of the LORD, that we may obey them and not prostitute ourselves by chasing after the lusts of our own hearts and eyes.
Then we will remember to obey all His commands and will be consecrated to our God.
For He is the LORD our God, who brought us out of Egypt to be our God (Numbers 15:32-40).
Banding Together Against The Lord
Korah, Dathan, Abiram and On became insolent and rose up against Moses, and with them 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council.
They came to oppose Moses and Aaron saying they had gone too far, that the whole community was holy and the Lord was with them, and asking them why they set themselves above the Lord’s assembly (Numbers 16:1-3).
They had forgotten that God had appointed Moses and Aaron, that they had requested God speak to them through Moses because they were afraid to speak to God directly and all the times that Moses had stood for them to intercede when God had wanted to destroy them because of their stiff necks, and their hearts had become proud.
When Moses heard this, he fell facedown. Then he told Korah and all his followers that in the morning, the Lord will show them who belongs to Him and who is holy, and He will have that person come near Him, and he told Korah and all his followers to take censers and the following day put burning coals and incense in them before the Lord, telling them that it was them who had gone too far.
Moses reminded Korah that God had separated him from the rest of the Israelites and brought him and his fellow Levites near Himself to work at the Lord’s tabernacle and to stand before the community and minister to them, but not being enough, Korah was trying to get the priesthood too, and he and his followers had banded together not against him and Aaron, but against the Lord (Numbers 16:1-11).
God Separates Wheat & Chaff
Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, but they said they wouldn't come and told him that he had brought them up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill them in the wilderness and accusing him of wanting to lord it over them (Numbers 16:12-14).
In their hardness of heart they were believing a false narrative and were unable to see all the blessings that God had rained down on them and were unable to step into the promise God had for them.
Then Moses became very angry and told the Lord not to accept their offering as he had not wronged any of them.
Moses told Korah that he and his followers were to appear before the Lord, together with Aaron, and that each man was to take his censer and put incense in it, 250 in all, and present it before the Lord.
So each of them did this and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the tent of meeting (Numbers 16:12-18).
God Decides Who Is Holy, Not Man
When Korah had gathered all his followers at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the glory of the Lord appeared to the entire assembly.
The Lord told Moses and Aaron to separate themselves so He can put an end to them at once, but Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out to God, beseeching Him not to be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins.
Then the Lord told Moses to tell the assembly to move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.
Moses warned the assembly to move back from the tents of these wicked men and told them not to touch anything belonging to them, or they will be swept away because of all their sins.
So they moved away and Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children and little ones at the entrances to their tents (Numbers 16:19-27).
The Penalty For Treating The Lord With Contempt
Then Moses told them that if these men died a natural death, then the Lord had not sent him and it was all his idea.
But if the Lord brought about something totally new, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with all their belongings, and they went down alive into the realm of the dead, then they would know that they had treated the Lord with contempt.
As soon as he finished saying this, the ground under them split apart and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.
They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished.
All the Israelites around them fled, shouting that the earth was going to swallow them too. And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense (Numbers 16:28-35).
Remembering God & All That Is Holy
The Lord told Moses to tell Eleazar, the priest, to remove the censers from the charred remains, for the censers were holy.
God told him to hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar, for they were presented before the Lord and had become holy.
They were to be a sign to the Israelites.
So Eleazar collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar, as the Lord directed him through Moses.
This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the Lord, or he would become like Korah and his followers (Numbers 16:36-40).
Continued Disobedience Results In Divine Judgement
The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron saying that they had killed the Lord’s people.
But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the tent of meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the Lord appeared.
Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting, and the Lord told Moses to get away from the assembly so He can put an end to them at once, and they fell facedown.
Moses told Aaron to take his censer and put incense in it, along with burning coals from the altar, and hurry to make atonement for them as wrath had come out from the Lord and the plague had started.
Aaron ran into the midst of the assembly and offered the incense and made atonement for them, standing between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped, but 14,700 people died, in addition to those who had died because of Korah (Numbers 16:41-50).
Disobedience Has Far Reaching Consequences
The Israelites refusal to trust God and follow His commands, and the contempt they showed towards Him had far reaching consequences.
Their failure to believe God's promise resulted in them despising the pleasant land, losing their inheritance, falling in the wilderness and being scattered throughout the lands.
Their refusal to worship God and their yoking of themselves to idols and lifeless gods aroused the Lord's anger.
Their refusal to totally destroy everyone upon entering the Promised Land, as per God's instruction, and instead mingling with the nations and adopting their customs, resulted in their downfall, exactly as God had warned (Psalm 106:24-35).
When we grumble against the Lord and fail to see the blessings that He so richly bestows upon us, we grumble not against man, but against God Himself, calling curses down on our own heads.
God Left The Pagan Nations To Test Israel
The angel of the Lord told the Israelites that because they disobeyed Him, He will not drive the nations out before them; they will become traps, and their gods will become snares (Judges 2:1-3).
God was very angry with Israel because they had violated the covenant He ordained and said He will use the pagan nations to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the Lord.
God allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua (Judges 2:20-23).
When God gives an order, He gives it for a reason and His divine judgment is just.
God's mighty power can be clearly heard, seen and felt, there is no mistaking the Almighty Presence of the living God, He will bring us to our knees and we will fall on our face in reverence, fear and respect.
God Is With Israel
God told Jacob not to be afraid, and declared that He was with him and will surely save him and his descendants and that he will again have peace and security, and no one will make him afraid.
He completely destroyed all the nations among which He scattered them, but He will not completely destroy the Israelites and will discipline them in due measure (Jeremiah 46:27-28).
God said that He will gather Israel from the nations and bring them back from the countries where they had been scattered, and He will give them back the land of Israel again.
Then, God gave Israel an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them, removing their heart of stone and giving them a heart of flesh, then they will follow His decrees and be careful to keep His laws, and they will be His people and He will be their God (Ezekiel 11:17-19).
No-one will be able to stand against them all the days of their life, and God will never leave them nor forsake them (Joshua 1:4-5), whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, and whoever curses Israel will be cursed (Numbers 24:9).
If My People Will Turn
God's intention is to draw His people to Him and bless them, through the seed of Abraham.
But people’s hearts have become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes (Matthew 13:15).
We must seek God's wisdom, receive His warning, open our ears and listen to Him and find pleasure in His Word (Jeremiah 6:10).
For the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart (Hebrews 4:12).
God will get His people to the Promised Land, if we but turn our ears, eyes and hearts to Him, and allow Him to heal us.
Ezekiel Chapters 1 to 7
Ezekiel was a priest (Ezekiel 1:3), a Levite, from the tribe specifically consecrated to God for the service of the LORD.
He lived during one of the tumultuous times of Israel as the kingdom had split in two and gone downhill from there.
Ezekiel chapters 1 to 7 describe his vision of God, his call to be a prophet, his task as a watchman, the siege of Jerusalem symbolised, God's razor of judgement, doom for the mountains of Israel and the coming of the end.
I wrestled with this Word initially as I found it challenging to decipher, but as always, I let the Holy Spirit lead and God never disappoints and never ceases to amaze.
It's important to keep the prophetic Word and vision in mind as we unpack this, and the focus is therefore on the buried crown, God issuing a reversal of the edict and making churches of nations.
Ezekiel's Visions of God
The heavens were opened and Ezekiel saw visions of God. He looked and saw a windstorm, an immense cloud with flashing lighting, surrounded by brilliant light.
The centre of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like 4 living creatures with human form, but each with 4 faces (a human being, a lion, an ox and an eagle) and 4 wings.
Their appearance was like burning coals of fire or like torches, with fire that moved back and forth among them and they had wheels which sparkled like topaz with rims that were high and awesome, and full of eyes all around.
Then came a voice from above and what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above was a figure like that of a man, with from what appeared to be his waist up looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him.
Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of God and when Ezekiel saw it, he fell facedown, and heard the voice of the one speaking (Ezekiel 1).
Ezekiel's Call To Be A Prophet
God spoke to Ezekiel and told him that He was sending him to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation who had been in revolt against Him.
He then told him not to be afraid of what they said or be terrified by them and that he must speak His words to them, whether they listened or failed to listen and that he must not rebel like them.
God told Ezekiel to eat a scroll that He unrolled before him, written on both sides with words of lament, mourning and woe (Ezekiel 2).
This ties in perfectly with Part 1, where God tells us what a stiff-necked people the Israelites were, how angry He was with them and how many times He wanted to destroy them, and because of their continued disobedience and contempt for Him, He did.
The scroll that Ezekiel ate contained the Word that God wanted Him to tell them, the instructions that He was to follow and the judgement that He was going to enforce.
Ezekiel's Task As A Watchman
Ezekiel ate it and it tasted as sweet as honey in his mouth (Ezekiel 3:3) and God told him to go to the people of Israel and speak His words to them.
God told Ezekiel that they would not be willing to listen to him because they were not willing to listen to Him, for they were all hardened and obstinate, and that He would make him as unyielding and hardened as they were.
When the Spirit lifted him up and took him away, he went in bitterness and in the anger of his spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD on him, and he came to the exiles who lived at Tel Aviv near the Kebar River and sat among them for 7 days, deeply distressed.
Then, the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel and God told him that He had made him a watchman and that he must hear the word He speaks and give both the righteous and the wicked Israelites warning to turn away from their evil ways in order to save their life.
If Ezekiel didn't warn them, he would be held accountable for their blood. If he did warn them and they didn't turn away, they would die for their sins but Ezekiel would be spared (Ezekiel 3).
Siege of Jerusalem Symbolised
Then, the Spirit came into Ezekiel, raised him to his feet and told him to go and shut himself inside his house.
God told him to take a block of clay and lay siege to it with a ramp, camps, battering rams and an iron wall as a sign.
He then told him to put the sin of the people of Israel upon himself and bear it for the same number of days as the years of their sin, 390 days for Israel and 40 days for Judah, 1 day for each year.
God then told Ezekiel to prophesy against them as He was about to cut off their food supply and food and water would be scarce.
The people would eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair. They would be appalled at the sight of the other and would waste away because of their sin (Ezekiel 4).
God's Razor of Judgement Symbolised
God told Ezekiel to take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor to shave his head and beard and to divide up the hair, burning ⅓, striking ⅓ with a sword, scattering ⅓ to the wind, tucking a few into the folds of his garment, and from those, throwing a few into the fire.
This symbolised Jerusalem, which God had set in the centre of the nations, with countries all around her.
Yet in her wickedness, she had rebelled against and rejected God's laws and decrees more than the nations and countries around her and had not followed Him.
Therefore, God declared that He Himself was against Jerusalem and would inflict punishment on her in the sight of all the nations.
Because of all her detestable idols, He would do to her what He had never done before and would never do again (Ezekiel 5:9).
God's Anger & Vengeance
In her midst parents would eat their children and children would eat their parents. God Himself would shave her and would not look on her with pity or spare her.
Then, God's anger would cease and His wrath against them would subside, and He would be avenged.
And when He had spent His wrath on them, they would know that He, the LORD, had spoken in His zeal.
He would make her a ruin and a reproach among the nations around her, a taunt, a warning and an object of horror.
When God shoots at her with His deadly and destructive arrows of famine, He would shoot to destroy her (Ezekiel 5:10-17).
Doom For The Mountain of Israel
Next, God told Ezekiel to prophesy against the mountains of Israel, telling them that God was about to bring a sword against them.
Their altars would be demolished and their incense altars would be smashed, and God would slay their people in front of their idols and scatter their bones around their altars.
But God would spare some, and in the nations where they had been carried captive, those who escaped would remember God - how He had been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which had turned away from Him, and by their eyes, which had lusted after their idols.
They would loathe themselves for the evil they had done and for all their detestable practices.
And they would know that God is the LORD; He did not threaten in vain to bring this calamity on them (Ezekiel 6).
The End Has Come
God told Ezekiel to tell the land of Israel that the end had come upon her and He would unleash His anger, judging her according to her conduct and repaying her for all her detestable practices.
He would not look on her with pity and would not spare her. Unheard of disaster and doom was coming and there was panic as doom had burst forth, the rod has budded and arrogance had blossomed.
Violence had arisen, a rod to the punish the wicked. None of the people would be left, none of their wealth, nothing of value. For the vision would not be reversed.
Because of their sins, not one of them would preserve their life. The land was full of bloodshed, and the city was full of violence.
God will put an end to the pride of the mighty, then they will know that God is the LORD (Ezekiel 7).
There Will Be A Reversal of The Edict
These chapters relate to the first part of this Prophetic Word "There will be a reversal of the edict."
This refers to Esther 8:4-14 which was the issuing of a new edict cancelling the plans that Haman wanted to inflict on the Jews, and culminating in Haman's own death together with the death of his 10 sons and 75,800 of the enemies of the Jews.
God said that the vision in Ezekiel would not be reversed and God's word is final, but His hand is always against the wicked, and in the same way that the king could not reverse the edict he issued in Esther 8:4-14, he issued another cancelling the first edict out, which in effect, reversed it.
This vision is exactly what was happening in Gaza at the time when I received this Word, and it seems that God brought this prophesy on His enemies, in the same way that the edict against the Jews in the book of Esther was brought against the enemies of the Jews.
Evil cannot stand, and God's wrath will always be poured out on the wicked, who will be judged according to their conduct and repaid for all their detestable practices.
God's Judgement Is Bitter Sweet
I found this post extremely difficult to write as it was so harrowing and the extent of God's unrelenting wrath both scared and scarred me as I began to get a sense of the pain, despair, devastation and anguish that the people of Palestine were facing.
The mountains of Israel that are referred to in this Word have multiple meanings and relate to the physical mountains, the leadership mountains and the religious mountains of ideology.
We are all sinners, none of us are clean, and when God's wrath comes upon us, it's devastating.
This is why we must pray for our enemies, we must humble ourselves before Him and we must turn from our wicked ways.
God will humble everyone and everything that comes against Him, and before Him every knee shall bow.
Return To God & He Will Return To Us
Unable to continue, and deeply concerned for Israel, I asked for further revelation and God showed me that in relation to Israel, the book of Ezekiel was part of the Old Testament.
The New Testament resulted in a New Covenant and God making significant changes, which included grace, and throughout the Old Testament, God tells us to return to Him and He will return to us.
The Lord’s anger burns against his people; His hand is raised and He strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets.
Yet for all this, His anger is not turned away, His hand is still upraised.
He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, He whistles for those at the ends of the earth (Isaiah 5:25-26).
A Change of The Law
The New Testament resulted in a change of the law when the priesthood changed from the Levitical priesthood to one in the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:11-12).
The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God (Hebrews 7:18-19).
For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another (Hebrews 8:7).
By calling this covenant “new,” He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear (Hebrews 8:13).
God sealed this new covenant with an oath that made Jesus a priest forever and the guarantor of a better covenant. Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede (Hebrews 7:20-24).
Our Task As Watchmen
I became aware of what it means to be our brother’s keeper, for the purpose of saving both the lives of others and ourselves, and if we really want to protect others, we must be a watchman.
We are the body and God is the head (1 Corinthians 12-27), that means we must listen, feel and act in accordance with God's will.
We cannot stand idly by whilst the ship goes down, we cannot give people power over us, we cannot cave in to fear, which is not of God and we all have the ability to distinguish right from wrong as it is written on our hearts and in our minds (Hebrews 8:10).
If we know in our heart that what others are doing is wrong, we have a duty and an obligation to speak out, and if we aren’t sure about something, we must seek the truth.
This is what it means to protect ourselves and others - not what the media will have us believe.
Each Person Rewarded According To Their Conduct
But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, God will bring down on their own heads what they have done (Ezekiel 11:19-21).
God searches the heart and examines the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve (Jeremiah 17:10).
His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will clear his threshing floor, gathering His wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire (Matthew 3:12).
We are facing a time of God’s wrath, this is a call for repentance, and we have much to repent for; we cannot buy salvation, and medicine, money and material things will not save us.
It is time for us all to take a long hard look at ourselves and either make the necessary changes, or pay the price.
I Am Making Churches of Nations - Part 3
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