Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:28:12 -0700 From: Heavenly Words <heavenlywords@angelofthelord.net> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: [Prophecy] October 16, 2014 Communique - Gog And Magog - Part III Message-ID: <LN7RBSR0-OI5C-UW1E-KXSA-BDVITASL34@angelofthelord.net>
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Christian Media Communiqu=E9 GOG AND MAGOG - Part III The Valley Of Dry Bones In our last installment examining the prophecies of Ezekiel preceding the famous Gog and Magog attack on Israel in Ezekiel 38 and 39, we showed how God pronounced judgment on Mount Seir, and the Idumaean identity, for their ongoing “envy” of Israel=2E This repudiation of the descendants of Esau, Abraham’s promissory descendant who wasted his preferential position, is confirmed in adjacent prophets, notably Isaiah, Obadiah, and Malachi=2E “…and they shall call them…The people against whom the Lord hath indignation forever” (Malachi 1:4)=2E Isaiah provides a 2nd witness to Ezekiel’s denunciation of “Mount Seir,” Esau’s ancestral home, saying it will be a land of eternal desolation, a dusty desolate locale which is to be the object of God’s eternal wrath: “And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch…from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever” (Isaiah 34:9)=2E This wrath of God against the Edomite identity (Idumaea is a variant name of Edomaea), occurs in the same chapter of Ezekiel, in which God promises to eternally bless the lost sheep of the house of Israel, through the work of “one shepherd” – who is associated with the house of David=2E This grace, which is to be Spiritually poured out upon Israel, in which God vows to install “a new heart” and “put my spirit within you,” occurs in the chapter preceding Ezekiel 37, where we find the astonishing prophecy of the LORD raising up a people out of a valley filled with dead and dry bones: “Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost…as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone, the skin covered them above…and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet…” (Ezekiel 37:11, 10)=2E Such passages expose those who insist on literal prophetic fulfillment as exceedingly foolish=2E However, metaphorically speaking, it is a historical fact that this was fulfilled long ago=2E Years after the time of Ezekiel, in the days of the Persian Union (well after the 70 years of the Babylonian captivity of Ezekiel and Daniel’s generations), Nehemiah received the “commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem” (Daniel 9:25) and, in the midst of fierce opposition, he achieved the re-settlement of Jewish exiles in Judaea and Jerusalem: “…when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ashdodites [all related to Edom] heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth=2E And conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it” (Nehemiah 4:7, 8)=2E After many years of hardship, with tremendous antagonism and significant violence arrayed against them, the Jews led by Nehemiah, were regathered in Jerusalem, and rebuilt the temple of the LORD -- but the entrance of the Spirit of the LORD would await the arrival of JESUS, many generations later=2E “…but there was no breath in them [the dry bones]=2E Then he said unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live” (Ezekiel 37: 8,9)=2E When the Word of God, Jesus Christ, arrived centuries later to regenerate Israel, the Jews had long forgotten the revival of their faith which had occurred in the days of Nehemiah=2E However, God had not forgotten His promises, given through Ezekiel, to “take away the stony heart” and place “a new spirit” (Ezekiel 36:26) within what was to become born again Israel: “…some seeds…=2Efell upon stony places, where they had not much earth…some fell by the way side, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it=2E But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold” (Matthew 13:4, 5, Luke 8:5, Matthew 13:8) The prophet Ezekiel, in the last chapter preceding the introduction of Gog and Magog as the ultimate enemy of God’s people Israel, clearly separated the regathering of Israel, from the breath of God which was to resurrect them: “…but there was no breath in them [the dry bones]=2E Then he said unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live” (Ezekiel 37: 8,9)=2E Thus, after His crucifixion and resurrection, as Jesus had assembled His temple of believers to give them His parting instructions, he told His disciples to remain in Jerusalem because there was one more phase of God’s ancient promise in Ezekiel, which was yet to come: “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high” (Luke 24:49)=2E Most believers know the astonishing story of how the disciples were all gathered together, when the promise of the Father to fill those dry bones with His Spirit was miraculously fulfilled: “And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting=2E And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance…and the same day were added unto them about three thousand souls” (Acts 2: 2, 41)=2E When the LORD’s Spirit was poured out, Jerusalem was hosting people from the surrounding nations, who had gathered for the feast of Pentecost: “And they were all amazed and marvelled…Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mosopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia=2E Phygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes=2E Cretess and Arabians…And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together…=2E” (Acts 2:7, 9-11, 6)=2E Thus, the passage of the Dry Bones, in which the LORD said He would gather together His people from the nations, and put “a new spirit” within them, a prophecy characterizing the Spirit of God as wind, was fulfilled: “For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries…=2EAfter many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste; but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them” (Ezekiel 36:24, 38:8)=2E Those who retained their “stony” heart, and those who mocked the amazing fulfillment of God’s promise to redeem the metaphoric “mountains of Israel,” became the Spiritual mountains of Idumaea (Ezekiel 35:2, 8, 15), even as rivers of living water flowed throughout the genuine Israel of God (Galatians 6:16, Romans 8:14) – the body of believers who heard and responded to the call of Jesus of Nazareth=2E -- James Lloyd Next: The Two Houses Of Israel And Judah Are Made One House With One King ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Dear Christian Friend, This prophecy article was sent to you by one of our volunteers – a person who believes the LORD is doing a very special work at the ministry which produces this writing=2E People need to receive this information, but the resistance is fierce in these end times=2E The Communique is but a part of the Christian Media ministry=2E A lot of people are trying to stop us from what we’re doing in Bible Prophecy, so if you’d like to read more along the lines of the present writing, we would love to send you the Communique in the future -- but we need to hear from you, as there are far too many people out there to continually send it on an unsolicited basis=2E To get the next installment of the Communique (it’s all free), just hit reply and put the word YES! in the subject line, and the person who forwarded this email to you will arrange for us to send you links on prophecy and predictions of things you can expect to see in the near future=2E We also stream prophecy audio 24/7 and have downloadable video shows as well, so a YES! response will get you all the links you need to access these materials=2E Some are convinced Christians should never send an Email to someone without permission (Did the Disciples of Jesus ask people for permission to tell them the Good News?), while others don’t consider prophecy important – and there are other reasons people don’t want to receive our material=2E If that’s the case, just reply with the word REMOVE in the subject line (that part is important as our software looks for that word), and we will cheerfully delete your name from our database=2E Thanks for reading this far, and we hope you’ll respond favorably, reply with a YES!, and take a look at what the LORD has shown us here at the Christian Media ministry=2E ________________________________________________________________________ __________________ Welcome To The World Of Christian Media! 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