EZEKIEL 23

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The errors of Egypt

The limits of the Promised Land were for natural Israel to dwell in until they killed Messiah in AD 33 at Calvary.

The church then entered God’s Plan as spiritual Israel. Our Promise is the Holy Ghost baptism that reveals the true Word of God to us. Understanding, believing, and obeying Scripture give us the spiritual limits that we must dwell in. We are in the last church age, where the latter rain harvest will occur. That will pull the seed that is identical to the original seed of the apostles that was first planted, off the dead plant. For that to happen, we have to return to the beliefs of the first church age of the apostles.

But the Bible says few will find the right path because the seventh church age is blind and cannot understand the deeper mysteries of God.

How did the church lose their way? They made the same basic mistakes as Israel.

Egypt is symbolic of the world which has a powerful, long-lasting influence on church people. Egypt’s history goes back almost 3000 years before Christ.

The pull of worldliness is like the pull of gravity. It is continual and eventually people give up trying to oppose it. In 1900 women wore long dresses with sleeves and high necklines. They never wore pants. Look how things have changed. Worldly dress and behaviour have conquered the church, slowly and relentlessly. Just like gravity pulls things downwards because its influence never stops.

Egypt’s most famous monuments are the three pyramids of Gizeh, part of Cairo today.

This symbolizes the extremely powerful influence of the Trinity idea of one-God-in-three- Persons that has gripped the church since the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. This is a relentless downward pull on church beliefs. They happily worship a Trinity God that has no name because you cannot find one name for three Persons. They are so blind that they cannot tell the difference between three titles and a name.

What is the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? The church cannot provide a name. They then foolishly claim that “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” is a name.

Natural Israel in the Old Testament symbolized the spiritual path of the New Testament church. Moses led an Exodus out of Egypt. The last church age has to come out of worldly dress and out of Trinity beliefs and unscriptural church traditions.

But Egypt was a powerful nation that influenced Israel.

The Promised Land (originally called Israel) then split up into two kingdoms.

Israel in the North that set up golden calves to make their people reject the Temple worship that Solomon, the son of David, had set up.

The Northern kingdom of Israel then made up their own form of worship, with their focus on money-making to pay their hireling Priests.

The kingdom of Judah or Judea was in the South and they kept the Temple worship.

These two kingdoms represented the church splitting up into two groups, wise virgins and foolish virgins. Virgins are clean women, representing saved people in the churches. Being saved does not mean that the Devil cannot fool us into wrong beliefs. That explains why there are over 2000 different kinds of churches, all having different beliefs. Despite having saved people in many churches.

The foolish virgins, represented by the ten Northern tribes of Israel, are saved Christians who are sufficiently fooled to make up their own unscriptural beliefs, but they are motivated by church wealth. Being rich is their claim to being blessed of God. A prosperity Gospel. Your best days are now, as long as you give generously to the Pastor. There are more than 2000 different types of denominations and churches. All different. A real swamp of error where people cannot find deeper truth.

The errors of Assyria

Nineveh was their Capital.

Jonah went to Nineveh to get them to repent. God is not interested in harsh religions that specialize in making you shun and condemn people that you disagree with.

You can condemn wrong beliefs but do not condemn the people.

Love your enemies.

Assyria were just north of Babylon and the Assyrian Empire covered much of the same area as the Babylonian Empire.

The Assyrians conquered the Ten Tribes of Israel and killed and scattered them so thoroughly, that they never came back. This represents the murderous killing spirit that took over the church systems in the cruel Dark Ages, until tens of millions of their opponents were killed. They transferred Assyrians into the area called Samaria where they made a hybrid religion that was partly Jewish and partly pagan.

This was of their own making. It represents the brutal denominational system of putting a man in charge of a church as the head of the church. He destroys all opposition to his own will. He kicks out those who disagree with him and practices character assassination against any who try to be Scriptural. If you disagree with him on a doctrine, then you are an enemy. He is very friendly and charming to those who agree with him and are subject to his will.

Unscriptural Bible Schools keep pumping out Pastors who are trained to propagate certain beliefs and collect the church money. This system is very strong and makes sure that wrong beliefs stay in the church which ends up stagnating as people know very little of the Scriptures.

For instance, Roman Catholics call Peter the Rock although Peter denied Jesus and was publicly rebuked by Paul for not eating with Gentiles. Peter wrote two New Testament Books and Paul wrote 14 of the 27 New Testament Books. Paul far out-performed Peter as Peter was the apostle to the Jews and Paul was the apostle to the far more widespread Gentile nations.

By saying the word Rock, Jesus was referring to the revelation of Jesus that Peter had. Peter had a revelation that Jesus was God. That is why, when Jesus told them to baptize in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (Matthew 28:19), Peter baptized them in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38). Peter knew that the fulness of the Godhead dwelled bodily in Christ. (Colossians 2:9). Peter knew the name of God. The Catholic Church has fooled the people into losing the name of God. They cannot find one name for three people. The system of error has been firmly transplanted into the church systems, to make an alternative belief of their own.

EZEKIEL 23:4   “And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters.

Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.”

The Assyrians, transplanted into Samaria, became Samaritans and made up their own beliefs.

Pagan ideas like 25 December, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, rosary, and Lent got transplanted into the church.

Aholah means “her tent”. The Samaritans were a hybrid of Jews and Assyrians. They had their own pagan gods mixed with some of the Hebrew beliefs. Assyrians, represented by Aholah, were an older nation as they rose up about 2600 BC. The Israelites built their Temple about 960 BC.

Aholibah means “my tent is in her”. The Israelites had God’s Temple in Jerusalem.

Aholah and Aholibah represent sister churches born from the same denominational system or mother that produces domination by human leaders.

The Babylonian errors

EZEKIEL 23:15  “Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to,

after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,

the land of their nativity:”

EZEKIEL 23:23  “The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.”

Assyrians dominated from about 900 BC to 612 BC.

Babylonians dominated from 612 BC to 538 BC.

Domination produced the denomination spirit that now rules the churches.

Oholah (Samaria) means "her tent", she makes up her own doctrines and traditions.

and Oholibah (Jerusalem) means "my tent is in her." She had the Temple and corrupted it.

In 721 BC, Assyria conquered the ten tribes of Israel. They had their own idols (golden calves) set up in Dan and Ephraim.

Then Assyria took the ten tribes captive and dispersed them through their Empire.

This represents how churches can be taken captive into the denominational system and then form their own denominations with a Pastor as the head of a local church. The Pastor decides who can and who cannot preach and he collects all the tithes. Then you have to agree with his personal opinions as Pastors crush any different ideas. The denominational ideas that are unscriptural are things like Christmas, 25 December, Christmas tree, Santa Claus, flying reindeers, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Easter eggs, Easter bunnies, Good Friday, Sunday Sabbath, etc. These ideas are all unscriptural but the churches accept them and become unscriptural denominations in the process.

They then settled Assyrians in Samaria who had their own form of idol worship that was a corruption of the true Temple worship in Jerusalem. (her own tent). All the above wrong ideas were settled into the churches to replace the Scriptures.

Assyria ruled all the area of Babylon until 612 BC, when Babylon conquered Assyria.

But the Jews in Jerusalem had corrupted the Temple worship.

They had come closer to the truth as they had the Temple, but they still preferred pagan ideas.

Message churches came closer to the truth but they still managed to mess up by saying that brother Branham is Christ. They say brother Branham is the Absolute. They build their faith on his quotes, not on Scripture. They say the supernatural Cloud of 1963 was the coming of the Lord or the coming down of the mighty Angel of Revelation 10. They claim that the 7 Thunders have uttered or are uttering, although brother Branham never said that. So, the Message churches, with their unscriptural errors join the foolish virgins who have been fooled by having a Pastor as the head of a local church.

To make it worse, they then condemn the Bible teachers who are called to understand the Scriptures from the clues that brother Branham gave us.

In 606 BC, Babylon conquered Assyria and took over. They took the Jews captive into Babylon for 70 years. The Jews returned in 536 BC.

This area around Babylon was always called the people of the Chaldeans. They merged with the Assyrians and then with the Babylonians.

These three names, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Babylonians, represent the many denominational names of the various churches. They describe the people living in the area around Babylon at different times.

A woman represents a church.

Eve only got a name when she sinned.

The early church were only called Christians. Any other name, Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Message church, etc., simply means that they have sinned.

Israel was placed between Babylon (the denominations) and Egypt (the world). These are the major influences that plague modern-day Christians who seek the truth.

Christians today are influenced by unscriptural denominational ideas and church-goers who are taught by their Pastors to condemn genuine Bible teachers.

Egypt, symbolizing the world, encourages women to cut their hair, wear pants, paint their faces, paint their nails, and wear jewellery. Then they expose as much of their bodies as possible instead of being modestly dressed. God clothed Adam and Eve after they sinned. Only animals walk around undressed. The serpent, a mammal who was cleverer than the ape in the Garden of Eden, before being cursed and turned into a snake, has succeeded in dragging modern women down to the level of naked animals.

Israel was caught between the worldliness and Trinity of Egypt as well as the denominational deception of Babylon.

That symbolizes two things. The final end of Mystery, the spirit of Babylon that took over pagan Rome when the greatest Roman, Julius Caesar, became the Babylonian Pontiff or High Priest as well as the Dictator of pagan Rome. Then, around AD 382, the Roman Emperor Theodosius rejected the title of Pontiff and passed it onto his uncle Damasus, who was the Pope. The Babylonian mysteries entered the Roman Catholic church which became Mystery, as the pagan beliefs of Babylon took over the church.

The mystery is that the bad guys, the enemy, were becoming the leadership of the church.

Even today, great preachers have never understood the Trinity. Billy Graham and Dr David Regan, brilliant preachers, admit they cannot explain the mystery of the Trinity. How can three Persons, Who are each God, only make one God?”

Babylonians had one man, a Priest, as the head of each local Temple. It was a good business model. People paid him for a place in Heaven. They just had to be obedient to the Priest and not disagree with him.

One man, a Priest, would be the unscriptural head of a local church. This mystery would undermine the Roman Catholic church leadership for 2000 years, because it was unscriptural but never questioned. But the survival of the denominational system was more important than truth. The denominational system enabled the Roman Catholic church to survive for 2000 years. Then it was copied by the Protestant churches who made a Pastor the head of a local church. This never happened in the early church that was set up by the apostles.

Rome became the mother harlot of organized religion that gave birth to the Protestant daughter harlots who accepted her Babylonian beliefs.  Trinity. The Trinity God has got no name. You cannot find one name for three Persons. The Trinity is a complete mystery that cannot be understood. You must believe it because the Pastor says so.

REVELATION 17:5  “And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

Mystery is linked to harlot religions.

The Holy Ghost baptism is to reveal truth, not obscure truth in mystery beliefs.

JOHN 16:13  “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:”

DANIEL 12:10  “…  but the wise shall understand.”

The wise virgins will eventually understand the mysteries.

If we cannot understand the mysteries of Scripture, then we cannot claim to be the wise virgins who were ready for the coming of the Lord.

William Branham’s teachings came under intense corruption by Message followers.

Bible teachings that expose the truth are the biggest threat to Satan.

First mistake. Message-believers believe that brother Branham is infallible. Thus, they claim he cannot make a mistake and you can use his quotes to replace Scripture.

But brother Branham wrongly predicted that America would be destroyed by 1977.

His followers preached that the Lord would thus come by 1977. Jesus never arrived.

Deception creates dust to obscure its mistakes.

Message preachers, in 1978, launched a massive campaign to claim that the 7 Thunders of Revelation 10 had uttered. That alone would prepare us for the soon-coming of Jesus. But brother Branham never said that the 7 Thunders had uttered.

So, the Message-followers went from an emphasis of a wrong quote (1977) to making up a non-quote (the 7 Thunders have uttered).

That is Babylonian religion. A few subtle twists and the wheels fall off. Message churches have become increasingly unscriptural and have thus joined into the foolish virgins.

The Promised Land represents Christians today who are trapped between worldly lifestyles and denominational errors and deceptions.

Few will find the truth and be able to understand the mysteries of the Bible.

Wisdom is associated with understanding. Only the wise virgins make it to the Wedding Supper.

The Jews meet the Lord during great Tribulation

Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa,

and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.”

Pekod, Koa, and Shoa prophesy of the Jews in great Tribulation.

These three words are considered to be great enemies of the Jews.

But the irony of the end-time is that God uses disasters and enemies to save His people, Israel, by forcing the Jews to turn to Him as their enemies become so powerful that God alone can protect them.

Pekod means “to number”.

The number of the beast, is the number of a man, 666.

Believing denominational ideas because some man said so.

The main man that the Catholics build their church on is Peter. They call him the first Pope, even though Peter is a surname.

MARK 3:16  “And Simon he surnamed Peter;”

MATTHEW 16:16  “And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Simon was his first name. Peter was his surname. If he was a Pope, he would have been called Pope Simon.

The Jews, thanks to their huge Stock Exchange wealth, will make a covenant with the final Pope.

During the 3½ years of great tribulation the Jews will invest their Stock Exchange wealth in the manufacturing industries of the final Pope. That will enable the last Pope to dominate world finance and thus he will effectively rule the world.

Everyone will have to be part of his religious and financial system

REVELATION 13:17  “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

Shoa means destruction or Holocaust.

The exceptional cruelty of Hitler’s Nazi regime killed 6 million Jews during the Second World War, known as the Holocaust. The nations briefly felt sorry for the Jews, and in 1947, the United Nations allowed them to take back a small piece of their Promised Land.

The last Pope will break his financial covenant with the Jews and will attack them, killing two-thirds of the Jews which will be approximately eleven million Jews. This will be the second terrible Holocaust. But when Jesus stands up to protect the Jews, they will realize that Jesus is Messiah as nobody else will have His incredible power.

The horror and death of great tribulation will force the Jews to turn to Jesus as He alone has the amazing power needed to save them.

ZECHARIAH 13:8  “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.”

The last name is Koa. Which means hope, or prince, or tear down.

Jesus will use the battle of Armageddon to completely tear down all the structures and kingdoms of this world. That will dramatically demonstrate to the Jews that He is Messiah, their Prince.

Then their hope will be established in the 1000-year Kingdom of Peace that Jesus will establish. The Jews will be the main nation on earth.