Ezekiel Chapter 12 "Signs." This
Bible Study is written by Roger Christopherson, and it's
transcription/ location Ezekiel 12:1 "The word of the Lord also came unto me, saying,"Ezekiel 12:2 "Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house." This house is stubborn, self-righteous, and they don't care about anyone but themselves. God's Word is there amongst them, and they have no idea in the world what it means. They can read the words, and hear the sermons, but still they simply don't comprehend the meanings. Can your ears hear the Spirit speaking to you and your eyes see the truth, or are you covered over with a satanic wax build up that leaves you in the dark, spiritually? This generation has no more sense then to snort the poisons of drugs, right into their head, and let it fry their brain like an egg. God could not use them even he wanted to, but under their repentance and turning from those way, God will use them. It is time for all of us to get our act together, and live as God would have us live in these end times, or it will be to late for hope. We are living in the end times, and the time of decisions is coming to a close. Ezekiel 12:3 "Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house," God is telling Ezekiel that these people are stupid, and He is going to have Ezekiel act out something for them. Ezekiel is going to act out for this house of Israel exactly what is going to happen to them. Ezekiel 12:4 "Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity." God told Ezekiel to get your baggage and pack it up in their sight, and make believe that you are moving. Do it is their sight, because they are stupid and not to bright, and He wants them to see what is going to happen to them. . Then if this rebellious people see you doing this, they might ask you what your doing. However they didn't even stop to think what is being done. So now God tells Ezekiel to wait until the evening, when they are all out on their porch, then you follow through with the act again; fill those bags and and walk down the street, and make sure everyone can see you going. This act of Ezekiel is an example of the captivity is coming their way. It is what all of them will be doing. Ezekiel is telling them, you won't believe my word, now watch what I'm doing for this is what is going to happen to all of you. When the ancient house of Israel was warned, they mocked the prophets, then when Jeremiah warned the House of Judah of the coming captivity, they acted just as the brethren to the north did. Friend, it is no difference today then it was then. Today when we warn of the coming captivity of the modern Babylon, the one World System, and the Antichrist that will rule over it; these sleepy puffs today say, "Oh brother you don't understand, we are going to fly away out of here, we won't be here." How stupid, it is even worse then believing in a fairy tale you made up, for God's word has given us the warning and we had better be ready. It is written in God's word that Satan will come as the false Messiah before the sounding of the seventh trump, and the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is time now to prepare for the events that are coming to pass. Ezekiel 12:5 "Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby." Ezekiel was not to go out the gate, but dig through the wall, and show the people how they will go. The gate will not be there and the walls will be shambles when they leave as captives. This is how Ezekiel is going to complete his departure from the town. Today the message is to dig through the walls of deception and tradition that are going to be there when they go into captivity shortly, and show your family the truth. The lies and deceptions are real walls, as much as if it was made of stone. Get to the basics within the scripture, and show those you care about the truth. If they receive it, fine: If they do not; their blood is not on your hands. It is important that we try. Ezekiel 12:6 "In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel." Within the knowledge and the plan of the Word of God, Ezekiel is about to go into great detail in acting out what is about to happen to us in this final generation. Remember this is not directed to the Jews, but to the house of Israel. those Christian nations of today. At the time of this happening, the House of Israel had been long scattered for over three centuries, so this is for a time so far in the future for Ezekiel's time, you might say, why did he care? It is still part of God's plan to warn you, so simple that even a child can understand. God is trying to tell those that can understand, What do you think about your people? Do you care what happens to them? God is saying that He is going to march them right into captivity, and the Christians false doctrines and traditions are the walls that will fall right on top of all of them. Are you going to warn them? It is time to stand up and be that visual sign to our people, to voice God's view, when they are not getting it from the church houses today. It is time to let that foundation, which is Christ that is in you come alive. The hunger today is not for food, but for the true Word of God. Ezekiel 12:7 "And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight." When Ezekiel went he took all his things with him, to show the people just how complete the captivity would be. What is interesting here; is that this is exactly what happened to King Zedekiah, he watched as the city was sacked and in the evening he left by a hole he dug in the ground. He did not get to far though, for he waited to long to leave. Ezekiel 12:8 "And in the morning came the word of the Lord unto me, saying," Ezekiel 12:9 "Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, 'What doest thou?" Can't you see this old prophet, walking down the road with all his property slung over his shoulders, and heading for the wall; these people think he is crazy. They run up to him and tell him that there is nothing to fear, we are safe within the walls of our protection. Today they would even add, "brother haven't you heard, we are going to fly away." This is a sign, not to the Jews, but to the House of Israel, the Christian nations. Friend if you don't know that Satan is coming as the Antichrist, and that he is a counterfeit of the true Christ, this will also be a problem to you. For the only way you can identify Satan, the Antichrist is to know about him, and how he operates. We can know about when he arrives, for God has given us the signs, the times and the seasons that will surround his coming. And there is one sure way of not being deceived, because if you are still in your flesh body, you will NOT see the True Christ. If the hospitals are going strong, and you desire something to eat, then that man calling himself the Christ is not the True Christ, but a fake. Know the signs and the season so that you not be deceived. WATCH JERUSALEM for the key to end time prophecy will come from that city. Ezekiel 12:10 "Say thou unto them, 'Thus saith the Lord God; this burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them." Who is the prince in Jerusalem? King Zedekiah, and his whole family, except his daughters are involved with this prophecy. They are part of another covenant that God had with Jeremiah. They transplanted the throne from Jerusalem to Spain, and Ireland. We will include a chart of the British throne that will show how the royal scepter went from Jerusalem, to Ireland, to Scotland, and then in the end to London, with Queen Elizabeth II now on that royal throne. Ezekiel 12:11 "Say, ' I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity." This prophecy concerning King Zedekiah and his family is not a prophecy for a short time, but for then and now. Ezekiel is now giving us a sign that we of the end times can use. Ezekiel 12:12 "And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes." There is a good reason that Zedekiah could not see the ground with his eyes. After the king dug under the wall and escaped, Nebuchadnezzar's forces caught him outside the wall, and put his eyes out. This is what God is telling the House of Israel through this sign that Ezekiel is acting out. This is a lesson to us today; do you get the lesson being taught here? Just like Zedekiah went into Babylon with no vision, so also the house of Israel will go into captivity with the Nebuchadnezzar of the end times blind as a bat. Their minds will be closed, and their brains will be mush like they have been hit by a scorpion. God has given them signs, and acted those signs out for them, Most Christians say that they know the words of the bible, yet the knowledge of the signs are foreign to them; because they prefer to have the Kenites do their thinking for them. God is telling us that the Christian world still will not learn form signs that He is giving to them. Ezekiel 12:13 "My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in My snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there." Zedekiah was brought to Babylon, but he never saw it, God will also bring many to the Babylon of these end times, and most will never see it because this net that God will place over their minds will not allow them to see the truth of His word, and understand the signs of the times. Why? because they refuse to study, and follow the abominations and false doctrines of the world. Many people will blindly enter into the New World religious order, and think they are entering heaven, yet they will spiritually die there. They make the signs of the time so complicated, that they overlook the signs and events that come about before there eyes. Ezekiel 12:14 "And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them." Though Nebuchadnezzar scattered Judah, he took care of them, as we read in the book of Daniel, in fact Nebuchadnezzar was converted to God, and wrote the fourth chapter of Daniel. However the Nebuchadznezzar of the end times [Satan] will not be converted, but he and his system will provide all the physical worldly things that all of the people on earth are in need of. Ezekiel 12:15 "And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries." When the house of Israel was scattered around the world, and now live in all the parts of the world, they do know the True God, and they call themselves by his name, "Christians". The whole reason for the dispersion was to draw them to Him, that they will come to know Christ. Today they don't know where they came from, or anything about their ancestors beyond a few generation, yet in the places where they are, they are known as "the sons of the living God". Christians]. the House of Israel doesn't even know their race, but they identify themselves by an event. They call themselves "Caucasians", after an event that occurred six to seven centuries before Christ. That event was when their ancestors were scattered by the Assyrians, and migrated through the Caucasus Mountains, and fanned out over Europe, and the Americas under many different names. However the one name that stuck with all of the tribes down through the centuries, was "Caucasians". This is why Caucasians are given greater numbers in America, when it comes to immigration. Ezekiel 12:16 "But I will leave a few men of them for the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the Lord." Though this is a sign of the end, it is also history, as Jeremiah, and King Zedekiah's daughters, and a few of the good men from Jerusalem escaped to Egypt, and went on to Spain, and Ireland. Ezekiel 12:17 "Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying," Ezekiel 12:18 "Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;" the bread and the water are the truths and teachings of the bible, it includes the entire plan of God. When you plan to handle that Word, and take in the food and drink of the Word of God, you had better handle it carefully. It is time to rightly divide the word of truth. Ezekiel 12:19 "And say unto the People of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein." This is another sign, and it is directed to the "inhabitants of Jerusalem". It doesn't say the tribes or the houses of Israel, for it is aimed at the Kenites that now control the city of Jerusalem and the land of Israel. The violence is the abominations that they are not only allowing to happen, but promoting. What is taught about Israel, Jerusalem, and the promises to them that control these places are an abomination to God. I love the brethren of Judah, as well as our Christian brothers, but it hurts to see the traditions that both have locked themselves in with. How do you tell who are the good ones? You tell by the way the quote the Word of God, and if they handle it chapter by chapter, verse by verse. Also how are they handling the abominations that God spoke of in Ezekiel chapters eight and nine, as well as thirteen. Do you know the difference between the true bread of God's Word, and the polluted stuff given out today? Ezekiel 12:20 "And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord." Are the cities going to be physically destroyed? No, but the destruction is a spiritual destruction, because the truth will be gone from the cities. Friend, if you know the truth, and are marked with the knowledge, when you see this happen, recognize it for what it is, It is a sign from God that you will know that He is the Lord. God wants all His children to know that He is their Father. It means a great deal to Him that you do not go into confusion, and enter into that desolation. This is given to you so that you can prepare now for what is coming, and that you can fix in your mind that which is coming, so you can stand as a pillar for your people when the truth is dried up. You are to be a witness for Him. We are to place the markings [the knowledge of the Word] in the minds of people now, and in that day of the Antichrist and his system, Mark 13:11 tells you what you will be doing then. Mark 13:11; "But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do you premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy ghost." Do you understand? This will be a time of great spiritual battle, and it has already started. When you think of the times huge numbers of lives were lost lost in modern warfare, this will not start to compare with the uncountable numbers of souls that will be ushered into eternity, and destroyed. Satan is out to claim all the souls that he can, and he fights a wicked spiritual battle. This is why the only way to protect yourself, and stand against him in victory, is with your full armor of God on, and in place. That Armor is listed in Ephesians 6:10-20. Read it closely, and apply it to yourself. The king of Babylon took king Zedekiah and put out his eyes, so he would enter that ancient world kingdom blindly; and that is what is happening today. Most people are entering the most critical period of all times, and they are going in blindly, with no protection, and unable to see any of the signs, and events that God has warned us against. Ezekiel 12:21 "And the word of the Lord came unto me saying," Ezekiel 12:22 "Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying,'the days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?" This is a sign that is present everywhere today; God is telling Ezekiel that when we start to hear this proverb, the time of the end is coming close. That proverb is "There is no God!", "It is today as it has always been", and "God's word will not come to pass". Friend this filthy dogma is what modern day education has it's foundation on. It is practiced in our schools, and has been taught for the past two generation. It is called "Progressive education, and is the foundation for removing the Bible from not only our school, but every fabric of our lives. Today it is the basis of evolution in the science class, and the removal of all absolute standards that God requires of us, in the rest of the classes. Every time you hear this filth and abominations passed off in public, mark it well, for it is a sign of the end times. God will stand for only so much, then the new system will come in. How will it come in? Through a world wide religious order, by a counterfeit christ. I'm talking about Satan the Antichrist. In II Peter 3:3-5; "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, [3] And saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." {evolution} [4] for this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of god the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:" [5] and so on. This is a sign of the last days, and I faced it forty years ago in biology class, when it was just getting started. If you don't believe in the creation of the worlds, and the souls men and women, why would you believe in any part of the Bible? If God is a liar in one thing, then His word is void, and friend, His Word is true on all points written therein. Failure to believe that, dooms your soul, regardless what the church on the corner says. If you are already wrapped up in the rapture doctrine, you are carrying the mark of the beast, and if it makes you feel good, and gives you confidence, then you are part of Satan's New World religious order, and there will be nothing you can do, unless you get that abomination out of your mind before it is to late. If this paragraph hurts you, go to Ezekiel thirteen and see the documentation for what I have just said about the rapture dogma. Are you man or woman enough to seek out the truth? Ezekiel 12:23 "Tell them therefore, 'Thus saith the Lord God; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, "The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision' ." This is God talking to you directly in anger, He is going to put a stop to this proverb that there is nothing to His word, and it won't come to pass. God is telling you and I to respond to this proverb and say, the days are at hand for every prophecy to be seen." This generation will see every prophecy come to pass before they are changed at the coming of our Lord at the sounding of the seventh and last trump. They all will be fulfilled to the last letter, and then Jesus Christ will come, and not one moment prior. Ezekiel 12:24 "For there shall be no more vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel." There are more false prophets of God giving off their flattering divinations today then ever before. The book stores are filled with their lies, and these false prophets growing rich over them. Every year they have to revise their lies because what the said simply doesn't come true. We are not talking about the House of Judah [Jews] here, but the House of Israel, the Christian nation of the world, of which the United States is the leader. Ezekiel 12:25 "For I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord God." God is saying that what He says always happens. At the appointed time all prophecy will move swiftly to completion. Friend, all these signs are moving past us at an alarming rate, and the time will be here when you will be marked as God's elect and ready to stand against Satan, or your soul will be given over to the Antichrist by God Himself. [Revelation 9:4] If you want to know what is going to happen in the near future, then you better buckle down and study God's Word, for that is the only thing you can count on. These false prophesies are only another sign that the final generation will witness. Ezekiel 12:26 "Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying," God is giving Ezekiel all kinds of signs that the end is near. When God is speaking to Ezekiel, He is speaking directly to you. Ezekiel 12:27 "Son of man, behold they of the house of Israel say, 'The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off." Ezekiel 12:28 "Therefore say unto them, 'Thus saith the Lord God; 'There shall none of My words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord God." This is absolutely correct, the signs and events will come to pass exactly as they are written, and in the order that they are prophesied. Jesus gave us the key to when the final generation would begin, when he said to "learn the Parable of the Fig tree" {Matthew 24:32], then He told us; "Verily I way unto you, This generation shall not pass [die], till all these thing be fulfilled." [Matthew 24:33] God's prophecies will all come to pass just as they are written, for Jesus said; "Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. but of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no not the angels which are in the heaven, neither the Son, but the Father" [Mark 13:31-32].
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