Post by domagb on Jan 23, 2018 22:03:32 GMT -6
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The Judgment of the Church
As I was going through Ezekiel, I believe chapter 16 shows the judgment of the Church after the rapture, of that on the earth.
Ezekiel 16
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations.
4 And as for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you . And you were not salted, nor swaddled at all.
5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you. But you were thrown out into the open field, because your life was despised in the day that you were born.
The Church does not raise or disciple it’s offspring. They give them birth, salvation in Jesus work, but they do not show them the Father nor teach them the Lord’s ways!
7 I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you are grown, and you are great; and you come in the finest ornaments. Your breasts are formed, and hair is grown, yet you were naked and bare.
The Church has multiplied greatly!
11 And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands and a chain on your neck.
12 And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
13 And you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered work. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; and you were exceedingly beautiful. And you advanced to regal estate.
14 And your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty; for it was perfect in My beauty, which I had put on you, says the Lord Jehovah.
15 ¶ But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was his.
The Church has turned towards the world and has added many elements from the world to itself. It has partaken of immoral standards, homosexuality and other sins. Many churches have accepted into itself many of the world abominations and standards.
16 And you took from your clothes and adorned your high places with different colors, and fornicated on them, such as had not come, nor shall be.
17 And you have taken beautiful things of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made images of males, and fornicated with them.
Many churches have built up men’s “ministries” and have exalted these teachers who tickle ears!
21 You have slaughtered My sons and gave them to cause these to pass through the fire for them.
So not only has the church abandoned their spiritual young, and not raise them, but have fed them poisonous doctrines. Some churches even allow and promote abortion!
22 And in all your hateful deeds and your fornications you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and squirming in your blood.
Jesus has told the Church to remember their first love. That of knowing Him. And remembering what He did, but many have forgotten it and abandoned it. Sometimes even making it a social gospel only!
24 that you have also built yourself a mound, and you have made yourself a high place in every street.
25 You have built your high place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty to be despised, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and have multiplied your fornications.
How many grand cathedrals have been built by the church. Spending millions of dollars on buildings rather than on helping the poor, or preaching God’s word?
27 And, behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over you, and drew back your portion. And I gave you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way.
Here we see that God will allow the persecution of the church and it’s judgement to begin.
31 in that you build your mound at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street. Yet you have not been as a harlot, scorning wages.
32 Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers.
33 They give a gift to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from all around, for your fornication.
34 And in you was the opposite from those women in your fornications, since no one whores after you, and in your giving wages, and hire is not given to you. In this you are opposite.
How many times have we seen churches pay for famous people to come to speak to the church. It’s adultery and harlotry!
36 So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness was bared in your fornications with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your sons whom you gave to them;
37 behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have been pleased, even all whom you loved, with all whom you have hated; I will even gather them against you from all around, and will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.
38 And I will judge you with judgments of adulteresses, and with shedders of blood. And I will give you blood and fury and jealousy.
39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound, and will demolish your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful things, and leave you naked and bare.
40 They shall also raise a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and cut you with their swords.
41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. And I will make you stop whoring; and also, you shall not give hire again.
42 And I will make My fury to rest against you, and My jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no more.
43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have troubled Me in all these things ; so, behold, I will also repay your way on your head, says the Lord Jehovah. And you shall not commit this wickedness above all your abominations.
Just as we see judgment coming to the wickedness in Hollywood and Washington, of many men who have wrongly used women, so also many sins and crimes of the church will be laid bare after the rapture.
Churches will be ripped down, Christians persecuted, those who have done crimes punished.
58 You are bearing your wickedness and your abominations, says the LORD.
59 For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
60 ¶ But I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
61 And you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your older and your younger. And I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
62 And I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the LORD;
This judgment and persecution shall purify the Church and the church will become Holy and walk in God’s ways!
The Judgment of the Church
As I was going through Ezekiel, I believe chapter 16 shows the judgment of the Church after the rapture, of that on the earth.
Ezekiel 16
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations.
4 And as for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you . And you were not salted, nor swaddled at all.
5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you. But you were thrown out into the open field, because your life was despised in the day that you were born.
The Church does not raise or disciple it’s offspring. They give them birth, salvation in Jesus work, but they do not show them the Father nor teach them the Lord’s ways!
7 I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you are grown, and you are great; and you come in the finest ornaments. Your breasts are formed, and hair is grown, yet you were naked and bare.
The Church has multiplied greatly!
11 And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands and a chain on your neck.
12 And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
13 And you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered work. You ate fine flour and honey and oil; and you were exceedingly beautiful. And you advanced to regal estate.
14 And your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty; for it was perfect in My beauty, which I had put on you, says the Lord Jehovah.
15 ¶ But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was his.
The Church has turned towards the world and has added many elements from the world to itself. It has partaken of immoral standards, homosexuality and other sins. Many churches have accepted into itself many of the world abominations and standards.
16 And you took from your clothes and adorned your high places with different colors, and fornicated on them, such as had not come, nor shall be.
17 And you have taken beautiful things of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made images of males, and fornicated with them.
Many churches have built up men’s “ministries” and have exalted these teachers who tickle ears!
21 You have slaughtered My sons and gave them to cause these to pass through the fire for them.
So not only has the church abandoned their spiritual young, and not raise them, but have fed them poisonous doctrines. Some churches even allow and promote abortion!
22 And in all your hateful deeds and your fornications you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and squirming in your blood.
Jesus has told the Church to remember their first love. That of knowing Him. And remembering what He did, but many have forgotten it and abandoned it. Sometimes even making it a social gospel only!
24 that you have also built yourself a mound, and you have made yourself a high place in every street.
25 You have built your high place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty to be despised, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and have multiplied your fornications.
How many grand cathedrals have been built by the church. Spending millions of dollars on buildings rather than on helping the poor, or preaching God’s word?
27 And, behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over you, and drew back your portion. And I gave you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way.
Here we see that God will allow the persecution of the church and it’s judgement to begin.
31 in that you build your mound at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street. Yet you have not been as a harlot, scorning wages.
32 Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers.
33 They give a gift to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them to come to you from all around, for your fornication.
34 And in you was the opposite from those women in your fornications, since no one whores after you, and in your giving wages, and hire is not given to you. In this you are opposite.
How many times have we seen churches pay for famous people to come to speak to the church. It’s adultery and harlotry!
36 So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness was bared in your fornications with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your sons whom you gave to them;
37 behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have been pleased, even all whom you loved, with all whom you have hated; I will even gather them against you from all around, and will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.
38 And I will judge you with judgments of adulteresses, and with shedders of blood. And I will give you blood and fury and jealousy.
39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound, and will demolish your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful things, and leave you naked and bare.
40 They shall also raise a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and cut you with their swords.
41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. And I will make you stop whoring; and also, you shall not give hire again.
42 And I will make My fury to rest against you, and My jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no more.
43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have troubled Me in all these things ; so, behold, I will also repay your way on your head, says the Lord Jehovah. And you shall not commit this wickedness above all your abominations.
Just as we see judgment coming to the wickedness in Hollywood and Washington, of many men who have wrongly used women, so also many sins and crimes of the church will be laid bare after the rapture.
Churches will be ripped down, Christians persecuted, those who have done crimes punished.
58 You are bearing your wickedness and your abominations, says the LORD.
59 For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
60 ¶ But I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
61 And you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your older and your younger. And I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
62 And I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the LORD;
This judgment and persecution shall purify the Church and the church will become Holy and walk in God’s ways!