Ezekiel Chapter 8 "Second Vision, the Condition of God's House." This
Bible Study is written by Roger Christopherson, and it's
transcription/ location Ezekiel 8:1 "And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me." These "elders of Judah", were the headers of the Jews, and even the chief priest that were in captivity at Tel-Abib. And when you see what they are doing at that time, the question that God wants us to derive from this is, can you trust them. The answer is yes if they follow God's Word, and no if they do not. Ezekiel 8:2 "Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of His loins even downward, fire; and from His loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber." The Massoretic text in the Hebrew says, "with the likeness as the appearance of "ish" a man." "Esh" is fire, and "ish" is man. This is a man, an angel of God, that has come to Ezekiel with a message from God. The amber would give the appearance of a glow. Ezekiel 8:3 "And He put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to to jealousy." This angel touched, or took hold of a lock of Ezekiel's hair, and "the spirit lifted me" and took Ezekiel to Jerusalem. Ezekiel is given another vision of God, about what is happening in Jerusalem. This is Bible prophecy. This image that is always coming in the gate of the side of the north, and causing our Heavenly Father to become Jealous, is spoken of in Isaiah 14. This chapter talks about the "shinning one" that always takes the side of the north. This is important to God, because it is at the gate of the side of the north [in Jerusalem] that our Heavenly Father's Temple sits. The name of the "shinning one" is "bright star", or "Lucifer" in the translation. This one Lucifer has always caused jealousy between God and His children, from the world that was, to this day. Problems will will continue right up to the time of judgment, and the lake of fire destroys him. The thing that destroyed Satan in the beginning was his self pride, and that same self pride is how he will cause us to fall, if we listen to his temptations, and believe them. Pride will cause you to fall faster then anything else in your life. Ezekiel 8:4 "And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain." When Ezekiel and this angelic messenger from God arrived in Jerusalem, "The God of Israel was there." Ezekiel 8:5 "Then said He unto me, "Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north." and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry." While Ezekiel and God were standing there, looking to the side of the north, God showed Ezekiel an image at the gate of entry there. To understand what the lesson that God is going to show Ezekiel, you must understand Isaiah 14, for there it tells us that Satan, the morning star, the Antichrist, or by what ever name you call him, is going to also set up his temple, and altar. It is there that Lucifer the Antichrist, will rule the world through his religious system. Ezekiel 8:6 "He said furthermore unto me, "Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from My sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations." Remember that Ezekiel is carried to the place where he can see into the future, and God is showing him what is going to take place just prior to His return. This now is the Temple of God that they are looking at, and God is saying that within this Temple of God there are so many abominations being committed, that He will not go near His own Temple. God won't even go near His own temple because of the Kenites. If that isn't bad enough, God is about to show Ezekiel even more abominations. There is only one thing that Satan wants, and that is to play God. This is what the Book of Revelation is about, Lucifer, playing god, and his children, the Kenites setting the stage for him to play that role. Now with this in mind we can see what these "greater abominations" are; it is God's people bowing down and worshipping Lucifer as God in ignorance. Ezekiel 8:7 "And He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall." Ezekiel 8:8 "Then said He unto me, "Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door." This wall in Satan's temple had a hole in it, and when Ezekiel came a little closer to investigate the hole, it was a hidden door. This is like Satan's temple, his religious form, it looks so perfect and right, yet when you get closer to it, there is a "hole in the wall" of that religious form. Then within that crack, or hole, we can see the hidden or trap door that would ensnare you into his system. Ezekiel 8:9 "And He said unto me, "Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here." Ezekiel went through the secret door, into this "house of God", and he saw the wicked abominations that were going on. Remember that an abomination is anything that is of Satan, and attributed to God, or of God, and you give Satan the credit for it. With that in mind lets see what these abominations were. Would you know them if you saw them? Ezekiel 8:10 "So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about." All these idols, beast and creeping things are on the walls, floors, ceiling and everywhere within the House of God. If you were a Bible scholar and there, you would probably see a leopard, a panther, a dragon, as well as all sorts of symbolic forms to remind the worshipper to focus his attention else where, instead of God. You might also see the sheet of all sorts of unclean things that came down before Peter, and God told Peter to eat. Then Peter said "no Lord, nothing unclean shall pass my lips," and God drew the sheet back up. The lesson was that the Gentile was no more to be called unclean if they accept Me. It had nothing to do with eating, yet many missed the entire lesson. These creeping things not only refer to symbols, and idols, but all sorts of wickedness that is going on, and we should use a little common sense to applying this verse. Look around the houses of God, and see the things going on in that place that deal with everything but the worship, and praising of God. Listen to the pastor and see the subject that he is promoting, is it some construction planed, money, his family, or stories that do not apply to the worship of God. Ezekiel 8:11 "And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up." This is the vision that God is giving to Ezekiel about the house of God in the latter days. It applies to us today. While Ezekiel is standing in this church of the end times, the preacher is called "Jaazaniah", and the word in the Hebrew means "heard of God". This man stands before the people and claims, "I heard from God today". Do you get the picture. This Jaazaniah is the son of Shaphan, which in the Hebrew means "rabbit". Maybe this is how the rabbits got in to the church easter services, and celebration. The other point that is important are those that stood before this one claiming to have the direct path from God, the are called "seventy men of the ancients". Remember from the book of Nehemiah, the "Nethinims" that moved in to take over the duties of the priests and scribes. They are the "Kenites", as spelled out in I Chronicles 2:55, and addressed by Jesus in Matthew 23:1-5. It is these same people, not of the House of Israel, that are giving directions to the old preacher, and he doesn't even know who they are. These Kenites are the offspring of Satan through Cain and Eve, and their mission is to deceive you into accepting the false christ [Satan] as the True Christ. "With every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense with up;" these are the religious forms that are an abomination to god, and their thick cloud of incense are their cloud of lies that went up. These so called pastors standing before their people spouting off, "I heard from God today, and He told me this and that;" and all it has to do is one preacher trying to show he is more righteous that another. God has spoken to all of us, and His words for this day are in His Word. that word is being spoken as you read your bible, and study to know the truths from it. We are to use a little discernment when listening to these one with a special message, that does not come from the scripture. Ezekiel 8:12 "Then said He unto me, "Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, 'The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.' " Look and see what these so-called pastors do that are within the "House of Israel's" churches, led by these Kenites that would indoctrinate them. We can hear their words from the pulpit, but when they are in their private chambers, they follow after their every imagination. Many stories have broke about different popular preachers doing all sorts of things, from homosexual acts, to chasing whores in the back streets, to even acts of indecency with children, to what ever you can name. Then when the stories break, the first thing that the church elders tried to do is cover it up. They act as if it is the world that is their judge, and they go through all sorts of religious form to show that they are correcting the matter. They act as if, "the Lord seeth us not", and when they finish with their punishment of this rascal for embarrassing their money making operation, they put him into a position where he can't hurt them again. Our Heavenly Father has not forsaken the earth, yet God is warning us to be on guard of those that claim that God has spoken to them in person. The visions that these men have is from their father, only their father is Lucifer. Ezekiel 8:13 "He said also unto me, "Turn thee you again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do." How bad can it get? Ezekiel 8:14 "Then He brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz." God is bringing Ezekiel back into the church house door, of the end times. The term "which was toward the north" indicates that God is not claming this to be His house, but Lucifer's. Do you know what Tammuz was? Following the death of Nimrod, of Genesis 10:9, 10; the people of the entire world mourned. At that time of mourning, Nimrods wife, Semiramis claimed him to be the Sun-god. Later when Semiramis gave birth to a child, she named him "Tammuz", and claimed that this child came from Nimrod, the Sun-god. and she claimed that Tammuz us Nimrod's rebirth to human form. This idea was easy to peddle, for Nimrod's death was a great loss to the people, and we are told in Genesis 3:15 that all the people were foretold of a coming Messiah. Semiramis then claimed Tammuz to be this supernaturally conceived child, the promised seed and savior of mankind. This is the religion that was developed in Ancient Babylon, and in that religion, the mother Semiramis, in human form claimed to be the go-between of the people and the gods, Nimrod and Tammuz. This practice then of worshipping both the mother and the son gods, became known as "Mystery Babylon". From Tammuz's death the golden calf became the symbol of Tammuz; while the sunburst was the symbol for the sun-god Nimrod. The images of Nimrod also were in the form of fish, trees, pillars, and other animals. This system form of "Mystery Babylon" spread to all nations for it was from here the people of the earth were scattered [Genesis 11:7-9]. So we see how all the people of the earth came to worship a false virgin birth, and a false Messiah, thousands of years before the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ's birth. The mindset of all religious forms adopted and took the symbols of this ancient Sumerian and Babylonian religion to be part of their own. The chanting in prayers, the Tammuz Rosary, even the order and names of the leaders, and what they wore were from this heathen Mystery Babylon. The sexual orgies, the statues, and even the idea of a divine mother can be seen as an off-shoot of the religions of Babel [Babylon]. The early Christians were slaughtered because of their resistance to allowing these religious forms to enter into worship of the Heavenly father, and His divine Son, Jesus Christ. However, when Emperor Constantine of Rome became a Christian, so did the empire. And following his death, all sorts of paganism flowed into the Catholic church. The birth of Tammuz has always been set at December 25, and in the early Church the birthday of Jesus Christ was not given any importance, for it was His death at Passover that was given reverence. So the early Roman Church of the fourth century after Christ, changed the truth of the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord, as well as His birthday, to conform to the pagan customs of the Empire. The two most important changes were to change Jesus birthday from the end of September, the time of the feast of the harvest, to December 25. The other change was to declare the Christ's resurrection from the Passover, to what is called "good Friday". In Matthew 16:21, and Mark 10:34 Jesus was giving the only sign to the Jews that He was the true Christ, spoken of by the prophets. That sign was the sign of Jonah, that He would be in the tomb, the same as Jonah was in the fish's belly; three days and three nights. With this in mind, are you starting to see the truth in the Ezekiel 8:14; "Behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz." The traditions, doctrine, times and symbols that the so-called "Christian church" have are heathen in origin, and are designed around Ancient Babylon even today. When the women cry in the church on easter, though they use the name of Christ, However, it is on the day and using the traditional form of Heathen Babylon. Even to the point of the Easter eggs and forms of fertility, which came from mother Semiramis. God is very angry at his people who have become so callused in their traditions, they have lost all reverence to what God holds dear. Ezekiel stands in that place, and he knew the filth that this represented in God's house. This is not from God's word, but old tradition called by a new name. Anytime you lead a people to a position, or tradition that they can be deceived you Satan, then you have led them to that throne to the north, when it will be occupied the Antichrist, and not the True Christ. You led them to the throne of God, only God is telling you that He has already left that throne to their rituals and traditions, and unclean imaginations. Ezekiel 8:15 "Then said He unto me, "Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these." How could that be? however these are even greater abominations to the Lord. Ezekiel 8:16 "And He brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east." Your right in that inner court, the holy of holies, and in these last days, it is the most precious thing that exist between Jesus Christ and his bride. These men are the twenty four men, of the twenty four courses of the living God of the Levitical priesthood: Along with the chief priest that makes twenty five. They all have their back upon God, as they are facing the east, and worshipping the sun. Friend, this is God's leaders, in God's house, and they have left the duties and worship of God as He has instructed, and they are facing the east, those old relics, traditions, times, symbols and so on that were part of old Mystery Babylon. How do you think that makes our Heavenly feel? Disgusted, and Jealous. Be very careful what you are worshipping, and know where it came from. What did the angel say concerning the grave Jesus and of the empty tomb, when Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw the empty tomb? Matthew 28:5,6; "And the angel answered and said unto the women, "Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. [5] He is not here: for He is risen, as He said, ..." We do not worship an empty tomb, but a risen Christ. We worship God in the manner that He has prescribed. The veil to the holy of Holies is gone, and we now come to Him directly and boldly, as sons [daughters] of the living God. and that is not as the heathen do through their idolatries, and traditional forms. The worst abominations of them all is when the very ministers and priests of God turn from the Word of God, and practice and teach the traditions of Babylon that these Kenites have taught them. This is a prophecy and warning to our generation, and the elect of God had better wake up to what is taking place. It is time to study and pay attention to what God is saying in His Word. Be sensitive to the likes and dislikes of our Heavenly Father. God loves all of His children, however, He is a just God, and cannot put up with what is going on, even in ignorance. Ezekiel 8:17 "Then He said unto me, "Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the House of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke Me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose." The house of Judah is also included in this abomination, it is a form of idolatry. This abomination is taking a branch, and cutting it and shaping it to a form, and it become an idol. Ezekiel 8:18 "Therefore will I also deal in fury: Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in Mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them." God is saying to Ezekiel, that they asked for it, they set their own pace, and I will give them what is coming to them. This is a time when God will not listen to His own children, because they are crying out to false god, their idol, and in the days to come in the near future, the image of the beast of Satan. Mankind will soon cry out to the system of Satan, and the image of the beast that will rule over them, and provide for them. No, God will not listen to the, but turn them over to them for they have rejected God. This is made clear in Revelation 9:4; "And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads." God is commanding of the army of locust [fallen angels] that will come during that final five month period, that they can have their way with all the people of the earth, only keep your hands off God's elect, those that have the seal [knowledge] of God's Word in their forehead. After Satan has his time of deception with these men of the earth in the first six trumpets, then the final trumpet will sound and this verse will come alive; "I will also deal in fury, Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, though they cry in Mine ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them." [verse 18] There is pity and an open ear now, for this is the time that the grace and mercy of God is offered; however that time is getting short. The thing that is important in these latter days, is that that is in your mind. It is the image of thought that gives the direction to you mind and your soul. When the things of God are void, and the Word of God has not been studied, then the images in the mind are formed by the traditions that are around us, and that is what caused these women to fall at the feet of Tammuz. Traditions feed the emotions which allows us to worship these images. It is time to get serious about what you are putting in your mind, and what you hole dear, for that is the images of your mind, and it had better go along with the word of God.
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