Ezekiel 4:4-8
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“Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year.” Ezekiel 4:4-6
The iniquity of the house of Israel is set to last for a specific amount of time and then the iniquity of Judah comes for a specific amount of time. Why is the iniquity of the house of Israel suffered for “390 years” and the iniquity of the house of Judah suffered for “40 years”? Because the house of Israel represents the Jewish people, and the house of Judah represents the followers of Jesus Christ. The house of Judah, Christianity, is much younger than the Jewish people.
Jesus Christ is from the Tribe of Judah, so all who reconcile to God through Jesus Christ are of the house of Judah. Since our Lord Jesus shed His blood and died on the Cross to atone for sin, He bears our sin. He has been bearing the sin of born-again Christians for “40 years”. God has been suffering the iniquity of the rebellion of the house of Israel for a very long time, “390 years”.
“Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.” Ezekiel 4:7
Today, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and corresponds to the government of the State of Israel. The prophecy of the siege against Israel is happening in plain daylight for all the world to see. The arm of God is uncovered in bringing the wrath of His judgment to the State of Israel. The Israelis have been in 18 wars since its existence in 1948, and there was even a war in 1948. Click for a list of those wars and scroll close to the bottom of the page. Jerusalem is in shambles in its divided condition between West and East Jerusalem. Part of it is within Israel and part of it is in the West Bank. Jerusalem is hardly the Holy place it was when King Solomon, the son of King David, built the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount isn’t even under the control of Israel anymore. It is situated in East Jerusalem, under the control of the Muslim/Islam Palestinians, and is called the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Jewish people are supposed to be Chrisitan, but they refused to humble themselves to receive Jesus Christ as their Messiah, Lord, and Savior. Because they exalted the Jewish culture over Jesus, God gathered them to their own nation, the State of Israel. That is where the wrath of God’s judgment is unleashed on them. If they were Christians, they would not be Jewish, and the State of Israel would not exist. Christians have no nation to call their own on this earth. Through Jesus Christ, we will inherit the nation of the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth.
Jerusalem also symbolizes the capital of our soul and spirit where God is supposed to sit within us through Jesus Christ. We are warned many times of the destruction of the temple of God and the day is here when Jesus Christ is walking out of the temple. When He walks out, destruction comes to the soul through sin and death. “Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple…assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Matthew 24:1-2 Today, Jesus Christ is not found in the churches as they no longer lift up His Gospel.
We are the temple of the Holy Spirit, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” 1 Corinthians 3:16 The temple of God is being besieged by the one, “…who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 Click here for a post on the “man of sin”. This entity sits in the capital of the soul (Jerusalem), which is the temple of God, by giving people their thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors. It enlivens the image of the beast to live and speak through people in every city around the world as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do.
A day is coming when the Holy Spirit is taken from this world which leaves the capital of the soul to the destruction of sin and death. The Holy Spirit is who restrains lawlessness, and when He is removed, lawlessness abounds, “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.” 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8
“And surely I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege.” Ezekiel 4:8
The State of Israel is a place where the Jewish people are being restrained. They cannot turn from one side to another. They cannot turn to the east because the West Bank, Syria, and Iran are in that direction. They cannot turn to the west because the Gaza Strip is there. They cannot turn to the north because Lebanon is there. They cannot turn to the south because Egypt is there. They will be in that “crock pot” until the days of their siege is over. It began with the first Israeli war in 1948, the year of the birth of the State of Israel, and there is no end in sight of the days of their siege.
The entity that gives people what to feel, think, say, and do is besieging the temple of God, our body as the home of the Holy Spirit. There is nothing that can humanly be done to turn it away from living within the physiology of the masses of people in this world. People cannot turn one way to another to escape its grasp. The beginning of the end of its days of siege starts with global warming as the Fourth Plague. Global warming is instrumental in destroying the power center of the beast as the Fifth Plague. That renders the world government of the beast powerless. In its loss of power, the Battle of Armageddon begins as the Sixth Plague.
“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11
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