Okay….. Then Ezekiel views through the hole very hard things that the elders and leaders of the temple were committing against God in Chapter 8 of the Book of Ezekiel. They were worshiping idols that were painted on the wall….. I guess for today, it would be the internet, maybe pornography, games or movies, even business matters…. Anything that would be a abomination to the sight of our Lord that His people are allowing in their life that is deceitful and a lie against the Truth….. as it is with the head so goes the body….
What would you do if the Holy Spirit showed up behind you one day and took you to the pews of the current day church…. and then spoke to you…… Look behind the bibles in the holder. So you obey and lift the bible out and see a pornographic magazine there,( by the way, it had a brown paper covering the pix, but the title of a magazine was seen). You hear His sad voice say, child, this is how My people are living and they think that I do not see.
In Jeremiah 23:23, Am I a God near at hand, says the Lord, And not a God afar off? Can anyone hide himself in secret places, so I shall not see him?, says the Lord; Do I not fill heaven and earth?, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 23; 28, The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is chaff to the wheat?, says the Lord. Is not My word like a fire?, says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
As we read through the letter to Thyatira from Jesus Christ, the Son of God who has eyes like a flame of fire and His feet like fine brass, are we realizing WHEN the Word of God is being manipulated to suit peoples taste buds, and a tickling to the ear?
What if we only ate dessert day in and day out…. only did what we wanted to do as children always wanting to play? What if we really ate the Word of God so that we could be mature children of God. Mature ones that discern both good and evil as the writer of Hebrews chastises us to be.
If we ate dessert always, first of all, our teeth would rot as well as our insides. We would be good for nothing…Sort of like branches of a tree that are not producing fruit. They are so weak from lack of healthy nutrition that they are rotten…. Rotten branches fall during a storm.
We are not to live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. If we know the Truth of the word, we will know when deception and false teaching is being taught by false leaders; prophets, priests, apostles, pastors, teachers, evangelists, kings, and presidents.
We will have the discernment to identify false teaching; it is not burning me, it is not challenging me, it is not convicting me….. This word does not urge me to know or to love God more.
Let us put the word of God in our hearts deeply….. so when a rat comes along disguised as a person of God, we can tell a rat is a rat or a wolf is a wolf and not be deceived, even if they have a following. Remember, Satan has a great following by those chasing after signs and wonders, he can deceive by outward appearances and deceptive sweet words….to tickle the ears of the unlearned. Satan knows the Word of God. Check out chapter 13 of Revelation.
Those that have ears to hear, hear what the Spirit is saying to our hearts today. God is love and He is jealous over His people…. We do not want to despise His word and perish. His word is the knowledge of God illuminated by the Spirit. The word states that My people perish for lack of knowledge…. knowledge of who and what? God and His ways.
We do not want to fall into the hands of the living God. He hates those that commit adultery with Him, He is a jealous Husband…. As verse 21-23 of chapter 2 states: And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.
Adultery with the Lord is worshipping another false god….. as a god. It is putting some other thing, person, habit above Him….. as first place in our lives….. That is breaking the first commandment that He gave us to live by….. We are to love Him above all else and with all we got and what we don’t have, His grace will supply to complete the command…. (my paraphrase)….. God said it and that settles it.
Our God is a great and awesome God who deserves all honor, worship and all praise for evermore from His people….. Let us have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying today to us so that we may turn from our wicked ways and then He may heal our hearts and then our land. If He seems far away, the fault is not His. Our ways against Him have built a wall of separation. The wall is our doing, not His….. However, His blood will cleanse us from all sin, if we turn away from the sin and wickedness and ask His forgiveness……He is faithful and His love never fails!
If you study the Truth, you will know the counterfeit a mile away. Remember, God’s word lifts us up into the heavenlies, where we can see as God sees.
God’s grace is the strength of God, not to taken for granted or despised.
As Jesus Christ stated in verse 25-27, But hold fast what you have until I come. And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations- He shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like a potter’s vessels’ – as I have received from My Father.
God Almighty makes the rules and woe to the one who raises their fist to manipulate or try to change them and deceive mankind for their fame, name and gain. Selah!
As the sheep of our Lord Jesus Christ, let us only know and have ears that recognize the Lord’s words and ways….. Let us know Him, our Shepherd, above all else in our lives and be true to Him. As Jesus warned His disciples in Matthew 10;16, Behold, I send you out as sheep as in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Let us be wise in the ways of God, and not be as what Forrest Gump says, stupid is as stupid does. Selah…..
