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9-10-2017 Weekly Message

The contemplation of the week: Psalms 67:1-7

Text: Ezekiel 7:1-27

The title of the Word: God Will Judge His Church As He Did Against Israel

         God told the serpent, the devil that brought sin to bruise his head to save man in the destiny of death through the seed of woman.  God declared the first gospel to the world (3:15).

        God came down to the earth  to give the message of judgment to the devil who in rebelled in heaven and  brought sin to the man whom God himself made with his own hands in his own image.

         God declared, through the prophet Isaiah, that he did not make all the things he created, including man, in vain: ” Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. “(Isaiah 45: 8).

           God has planned in advance to give life to man  by knowing in advance that the man whom He created must die in the curse through taking away the sins, curses, and death that have caused man to die. But God of justice dwelt from the beginning with the Word God  and when He created man, He said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, as the Word God (John 1: 1-3) Through the work of the Holy Spirit he was conceived  in the body of a woman, not the man’s seed, but the seed of the woman, who will appear in this world and be the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29).

         God chose Abraham to send a woman’s seed to the world, and he chose Jacob, his grandson, and gave him the name Israel and consecrated him as his own people. Also, the Lord Jesus Christ, the woman’s seed, was born from the tribe of Judah, as he intended.

          God also made the Lord Jesus Christ the last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45), the last Adam to give life to those who were dead  by the first man, Adam. Therefore, the Israelites, whom God Himself chose, are no longer the descendants of Adam, nor more of the descendants of Moses, who descended from heaven and believed and received Him to become descendants of the Lord Jesus Christ, To become a priest nation of God and to be a holy nation ruling over the nations of the nations.

         But unfortunately they did not know Him and rebelled against Him and killed Him. But God has given Him the power to become children of God to all who believe and receive Him (John 1: 12-13). So God called the apostle Paul to preach the gospel of being God’s children. God has proclaimed the gospel of Christ through his mouth:

” For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” (Romans 1:16)

           To the Church of Ephesus about what it gains through the gospel of Christ giving to the Jews and the Greeks without discrimination:

” According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,” (Ephesians 1: 4-5)

          In other words, in order to fulfill His intended purpose before the foundation of the world in spite of the devil’s intervention, God will re-adopt the nation of Israel as a priest nation on earth as well as the sons of God, the many angels who fall with the devil. To make the believers a church of God:

” Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. “(Ephesians 1: 20-23).

            God made a plan for the heavens and the earth before the foundation of the world, consecrated the Israelites to fill all things, and made his own church to make his children fill the whole world with the Lord Jesus Christ given as the  head of the church.

But the ancient serpent devil, who lied in the Garden of Eden, is deceiving God’s people to worship Himself through His principalities and powers, who are constantly deceiving the people of Israel and the Church of God, so that they may not serve the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord is.

           The book of Ezekiel given unto  us today, shows that the thirty years had passed after the Israelites had served  Babylon without serving God, and were taken captive to Babylon. The prophet Ezekiel saw a whirlwind, a great cloud, and a fireball coming out of the northern sky. He had foreseen the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ who appeared to the people of Israel who were captured by the great Babylon after the great tribulation. At that time, the Israelites were captive to Babylon, but still did not repent of God. God sent Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon through the prophet Ezekiel and told them to judge them. This is the word of judgment against Israel that was captured in Babylon at that time, but it will be kept captive by the great Babylon when the Lord Jesus Christ will appear at the end of the Great Tribulation

It is also a message of judgment against the Jews.

           Ezekiel testified of God’s judgment:

 ” Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

4And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. “(Ezek. 7: 3-4).

God’s purpose for judgment is not to destroy them forever, but to have them  to repent, and to bring them to the Lord God back.

           In the judgment of God, he spoke of the things God  was  about to do: ”
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.“(Eze 7: 15-18)

            Not only did they testify that everything they have become obsolete:” They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. “(Eze 7:19).

          Then they testified that they would find the Word of God, but they would not hear it:

” Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.” (Eze 7:26)

           Like the Israelites who were captured in Babylon, who did not serve God, but served idols, the churches of God in  the last days  are now caught in the Great  Babylon that is the Roman church,  not understanding themselves  worshipping idols not trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ who will come back and judge the world coming as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords   They do not even realize that they  are disciplined by famine and plague, and now not even realize that the sword that is the  nuclear weapon facing their noses from  the  north.

             God  judges Israel that  still does not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will judge the unregenerated churches in the same way during the Great Tribulation. The apostle Paul testified concerning the judgment of God concerning Israel: ” But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. “(1 Corinthians 10: 5-11)

            Through this message of judgment, we must pray that the Korean churches in our home country to  repent no more worshiping idols in WCC, which is the net that Babylon had set up in this moment. Even though God is angry to judge the church of God, pray that he would not forget his mercy, and through the wrath to come, the churches will once again return to the pure faith of the early church, and  pray for the churches that were set up by the blood of many missionaries to  return to the holy churches. Amen! Hallelujah!