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May 31, 2006
An End Is Come!
Hello everyone, and as always I thank you for being here. I have an unusual message today and I hope you enjoy it. I woke up yesterday and the name Jaazaniah kept coming to my mind; I had remembered reading about him but in a negative vein. I try to read the bible as much as I can daily, even if I have read the same thing as I did a week ago, I always learn something new. Today, I was reading in Ezekiel; for no particular reason, I really find it fascinating. I found some unusual things I hadn't see before in the light of the events happening around us these days. I hope you can find the message in it, as I did.
The first Chapter of Ezekiel1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirteenth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
Verse 4: And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire enfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
The rest of the chapter deals with the Glory of God and the appearance of the wheels within the wheels, the Cherubim and the four creatures that came out of the MIDST of the fire.
The next chapters deal with Ezekiel to lay siege to the city of Jerusalem and so forth. Then Ezekiel is instructed to do many things as a pre-figure of what was going to happen to Israel if they didn't repent. As we now know they didn't and everything The Lord told Ezekiel happened exactly like The Lord said it would to Israel, they starved, died of pestilence, and were killed, and a remnant were carried off into captivity.
I urge you to read all these chapters if you can find the time, but for brevity's sake, I am moving ahead to another set of visions.
Chapter 7:1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me saying,
2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end is come upon the 4 corners of the land. 3 Now the end is come upon thee, and I will send my anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and I will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
In light of the rest of this chapter and the severity of it, I believe it to be talking about the beginning of the Tribulation period, or at least I believe it to be a pre-figure of it. If you read all the chapters, a lot of them deal with Israelis' destruction but also their regathering.
Now, I want you to see something, just bear with me a while, please.
Ezekiel 7:5 Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold is come.
I believe this evil to be the time of Jacob's trouble, because it is an only evil, one of a kind.
6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold it is come. 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
Now remember when Aaron's rod budded when the Lord led the children of Israel up out of Egypt? That was a pre-figure of this evil also. Let me say why: The Lord speaks of the Assyrian as being the rod of His anger. If you remember in the first part of this story, the cloud enfolding in itself? I believe that was the Glory of the Lord but the enfolding cloud is not mentioned in chapter 10. It also came out of the North, as in Assyria. I think it's an atomic bomb and I have written a story sometime back called "The Wall will Fall" and I am almost 90% certain this will be the first horrific attack against Israel.
Ok, I don't want to lose you here go to Chapter 8 Verse 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.
Notice the date: One day before the sixth year, the sixth month, the sixth day of the month.
Ok, I know, but it is interesting. Look what happens to Ezekiel next! Verse 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.
Here's where it get really great!
Verse 3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lift 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 jealousy. 4 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
Notice, Ezekiel was taken up out of the earth. Remind you of anything?
Also there was an image in the Temple that provoked God. It's a type of the abomination of desolation.
Ok enough on that for a moment, now the name...
Jaazaniah.
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 Shapan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
These men were committing abominations in the House of God and said that "the Lord seeth us not." Then the bible lists greater abominations that they do down through the rest of the chapter
Chapter 9
The Lord cries in Ezekiel's ear with a loud voice,
9:2 And behold six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the North, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writers inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.
3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man which had the writers inkhorn by his side; 4 And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Type of the tribulation Saints.
10:2 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight.
I believe this was done for judgment in the tribulation; Jeremiah wrote down prophecies and had a prince throw them in the Jordan river.
Then the Glory of the God of Israel moves to the top of Mount Olive and then goes out of the earth. The same place Jesus Christ would later ascend into heaven, then Judgment fell on Israel.
One more thing:
Ezekiel 11:1 Moreover the spirit lift me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the Lord's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city.
I find it interesting that there are 2 Jaazaniahs in high political and Religious power here; it could be at some point in the tribulation that this man's name will show up again as a false shepherd to Israel, but then, maybe it's just a coincidence.
Thank you for being here, I urge each one of you, if you have family members and friends, please witness to them today, no one knows when the Lord will come back for us, but I can't imagine it being too much longer. Do it now, for Christ's sake, please.
love,
michael
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May 14, 2006
Body of the Sins of Our Flesh
Hope everyone had a good week and I'm thankful you have come to read with us today. This is a message I don't hear much of in the Church today and I think it is important for all of us to know what happened at the Cross when the lord Said, "It is Finished." I will do the best I can and I would like you to know that what I'm about to write is one of the most important steps in knowing who you are in Christ and how important and highly favored you are by the Lord, if you're saved.
The Apostle Paul had a great deal revealed to him in a rapture of some type when he was stoned in the book of Acts, he recalls throughout his Epistles the things revealed to him that know one else ever has received from the Lord. The following was a great example of that very thing.
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not of Christ.
Paul wrote this when he had learned of the state of the Church of the Colossians. They were trying to teach that you had to have faith in Christ, AND manmade practices that were physical, i.e., circumcision, eating, drinking, and observance of religious festivals, to be saved. They were very similar to the Galatians after Paul had taught them the truth and heard later that Judaizers had come in on them and contained them to go back under the law. The verses also point out to watch for vain philosophy and deceit, which if you turn on your TV. it won't take you long to see the very same thing is happening all over the World today. I'm talking about highly educated men of the cloth, seminary-proven and Ph.D.-carrying Doctors of the Bible.
Folks, I'm telling you now, they don't impress me; they used to until I learned the Truth. I could not understand how so many people flock to these "learned" pastors and teachers. Week after week and so on, how is it they can know so much of the Bible and still not know how to rightly divide the Word of Truth as they are told to do in 2 Timothy 2:15? How is it they never progress out of the Great Commission or the Gospel of the Kingdom, which does not include anywhere-forgiveness for your sins? It's either ignorance or it's intentional to keep people under religious rules so they have to keep walking the aisle. I suspect it has more to do with putting money in the plate than anything else, and in spite of the fact that you are told that all your sins are forgiven if you believe that Christ paid for all your sins at Calvary.
Maybe you are one of those, did you know ALL your sins were paid for? If you don't, then I ask you to prayerfully read the books of Romans through Philemon, that's where you're going to find spiritual growth for your life today, it is also the only place you are going to find the Gospel that tells you if you believe it, that your sins are all paid for. Preachers don't know it and if they do they don't want to let you know about it because they are afraid that you will quit going to their assembly.
Back to the body of Sins.
Ok, let's continue.
Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
One more thing, if when you are saved, you are complete in Him, what else can be added? What else can you need? These things are spiritual and you must claim them and accept them by faith, until the day we are taken out of this World.
11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ:
Folks when the sky turned dark on Calvary on that day I want you to see what happened there.
Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying ELOI, ELOI, SABACHTHANI? which is, being interpreted, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
In those hours while the sky was dark, your sins and mine were placed upon the Lord, and as such, God had to turn His back on His Son because our sins were on Him. God had to turn away and let Christ die because we could not be redeemed unless He died.
Something else happened there that day, verse 37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost. 38 And the veil of the temple was rent in twain for the top to the bottom. 39 And the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he cried out so and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.
As sure as anything, the centurion and one of the thieves were saved that day as well as all of us. But I want you to see what happened in the Temple. The veil was rent from top to bottom, that was done on purpose because if you read how the veil was made and how thick it was, it had to be rent By Almighty God. That signified that the Law was removed as far as you and I are concerned, but you would never find that out unless the Lord revealed it to the Apostle Paul later. Folks, a LOT of things happened at the Cross that day, a LOT.
The Lord told the Apostles when they asked Him for a sign, The Lord said, Matt. 29:39 But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Folks, the Lord went down into hell and represented each one of us He died for and somewhere between the time our sins were placed on the Lord and he rose from the lower parts of the earth, God as it were performed an operation on the Lord called "the circumcision made without hands." God the Father cut away all the sins of the people He died for in one lump, called The body of the sins of the flesh. The lord only knows where they went; they can never be brought up against you again, never, ever. They're all gone; Christ made us free.
Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
I want to mention that is spirit baptism, the baptism of death, no water in the verse.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
I want you to know today, you are FREE; you are an adopted child of The Lord Jesus Christ.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved!
Amen.
michael
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May 06, 2006
Time to Pray
Thank you all for being here today. Today I would like to ask each of you to pray for our Country; the very fabric of it is unraveling. I know that it is going to do so, leading into the end times, but that doesn't mean we should sit on our hands and watch it go by.
Another thing I would like you all to pray about is the Peace of Jerusalem. Tensions are mounting again and with the Iranian threat, this could turn into a mess in a hurry. While I am on this subject, how many of you would like for the U.S. and Israel to take out the Nuclear Facilities in Iran? Just a question.
In Daniel's time the Prince of Persia withstood the Angel of the Lord 21 days before Daniel could receive an answer to his prayer. It seems that very same spirit is back in full force again. As members of The Body of Christ, I know that prayer, especially all of us in one accord, can be a powerful influence in Government, preventing wars, promoting healings, leading souls to Christ. The only problem is we are going to have to unify and become a force of one with the Leadership of The Holy Spirit Guiding us.
The power of the Cross made us all the same in Christ. The Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
The hard thing is for all of us to do this and be in unity with each other. I pray we can all put our differences aside on issues that don't matter. I pray that all of you are saved and are teaching the same thing. 1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
Folks, that's the Gospel. Teach it, preach it, tell others about it, bind these words upon your heart and Trust that when Jesus Died, He paid for all your sins. It is Faith that will save you through Christ shed blood. Remember this, we WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT. Make them to be more than just words, look into the past and see the historical account of this event, know that it did really happen as the Bible clearly tells us. Know that Christ rose from the dead and revealed this message to the Apostle Paul from Glory. Know that no one else had ever known this truth until then. Know that the Lord is seated at the right hand of the Father until God makes the Lord's enemies his footstool. Know that if you are saved that you are sealed by The Holy Spirit until our day of redemption, that surely must be upon us.
When our vile bodies will be changed and made like unto His Glorious body and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Know that if you have served the Lord you are going to be rewarded for it, I mean I believe it's the real deal, I think it is jewels, gold, silver, precious stones, crowns. That will determine your realm of Glory forever and ever. Crowns, that you can lay at the Lord's feet and worship Him to show you cared enough that you won souls for Christ. That you helped people in need, prayed for the sick, helped people that were down, led them to Christ, studied your Bible so that you would know the Lord better and get wisdom on how to live this life the best you can for the Lord while you are hear.
Folks, there has to be a way for all of us to unite and speak the same thing, but religion has drawn some very severe lines in the Church. Week after week I try to show you the truth as best I can and I hope that somehow more and more people will come to see it. I hope that one day while we are still on this earth we can become an overwhelming force against evil with the leadership of the Holy Spirit, giving us wisdom on how to pray and what to pray for. Imagine a million Christians all praying for the same thing. Imagine!
Tonight also, I would like to pray for the Peace of the United States, the evil that this world is throwing at us is bound to catch up sooner or later. There seems to be evidence in the Intelligence Agencie that suggests anything could happen here at any moment. I would like to think the rapture would take us all away before those days come but calamity could break us apart and we would certainly be like scattered sheep. If that should happen, then it is all the more important we put our differences aside and stand together and pray for the Lord to keep us safe until He takes us home.
I have one selfish prayer request tonight. Please pray for a young lady named Moriah, she is in a coma from a car accident and is not responding to any treatment. She is a daughter of a friend of mine. Thank you.
Let everything that has breath, Praise the name of the Lord!
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