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thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; be not thou rebellious
like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.”
JEREMIAH 3:16, “And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, the ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.”
Can you handle what God is telling us now, you and I, without getting mad, angry, defensive, excusably sickening or ready to fight? Are you one of those kinds that would rather fight than switch? Good or Bad!!!! Fighting the devil, Satan, OK! Fighting God, that’s a No-No!!!!
With everything God has shown us to date, has it sunk in yet? Now see what He is doing now! He is calling us, as He is calling Judah, from backsliding. Some of you, as I was, might not even know what backsliding was or is. You, my generation, the vast majority of us, never attended church at all or we had to and when we were old enough and ‘smart enough’, we stopped going! I just never went over a couple of times. Our generation parents, mine included, were after World War II parents. All the modern comforts of home were invented during the war and it was time to just relax and play! Satan couldn’t kill us in the war so he came at us with excuses and logical reasons why we shouldn’t go to church!!!!
WE AGREED! Now, my generation is paying for it with the rest of America. Taking away prayer in school in 1962 capped America’s backsliding which started in 1945. Then again in 1973, when we, you and I, allowed abortion on demand. We have MURDERED OVER 30 MILLION BABIES: Samuels, Isaiah’s, Jeremiahs, David’s, Solomon’s and Tom’s, Jane’s, Betty’s or Billy’s. This just put the icing on the cake and it is still burning!!!!!
This witness is as guilty as any one else, this is my generation which did this and I just sat back and let it happen. It doesn’t matter if I’m not involved in politics or that I was not in church then. I was still, as God is telling us now, in a backslidden state, not serving God, because if we had not been backslidden and some still today backslidden, in this state, we would not have been this way, the way we are now! Just watching these things happen around us, by God’s PERMISSION!!!
We have become, as Israel, with our excuses and reasoning's, where we are today, in a world, Satan’s world, of trouble. “And the Lord said unto me, the backsliding Israel (Could this be the good old U.S.A., also?) hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Go (God said) and proclaim these words (God’s words) toward the north, and say, return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I (God) will not cause Mine anger to fall upon you (Is this what is happening to you?) : for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.” 3:11 and 12. God wants to forgive, but He says He won’t keep His anger in control for ever!
Are we, you and I, and the United States as a government, founded on God’s words and ways, where we and or are we where we are supposed to be???? I DO NOT THINK SO!!! Wake up, God will not keep His anger in long, that is a promise! But the merciful part of God says, “Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed My voice, saith the Lord.” 3:13. We have sinned against God and He has seen, that we have gone to every one else, but to Him, and sought advice; and, He says, you have not come to Me, nor obeyed Me!!!
Have you ever pleaded with a spouse or children, or is this beneath you also, not to do this or do that, because: ...? God does and He is still pleading with you now, do not follow those strange gods, do not give in to Satan, be aware of his lies, and listen and follow Me. God is telling us, “Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: and I will give you pastors according to Mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.” 3:14 and 15. God says, pastors, and I see pastors in a role of building providers instead of people’s providers, God’s children! But God is talking to His children, those He is married to and now to those Jesus will be married to, you and I, His bride, possibly!!!
In Jeremiah 3:16, God really tells it like it is, “And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land (As America is today, prosperous.), in those days, saith the Lord, they (You and I) shall say no more, the ark of the covenant of the Lord (Will we say we do not need God anymore, I am doing just fine without Him?): neither shall it come to mind (No thoughts will be of God.): neither shall they remember it (As we, today, have nothing that was ever put it, to remember.): neither shall they visit it (As are churches today, empty.); neither shall that be done any more.” It will not be done any more, visiting churches, or remembering it, or giving it any thought!!!! God forbid, have mercy on our souls, all ye backslidden children of God!!!! If you expect to be a part of Jesus’ bride, which is soon to be, HE WILL NOT take you as His bride while you are in your backslidden state! PROMISED!
Are you ready now for another promise in 3:17 and 18? “At that time (When you return from your backslidden ways to Me.) they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.” GOD IS STILL TRYING TO GET US WHERE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE!!!!!! Is this pertaining to the people, nation and or churches full of denominations????
God is all power and understanding, but He said His anger He will not hold forever. God is asking you a question now, pay attention to Him for once! God wants to know, “But I said, how shalt I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? And I said, thou shalt call Me, My Father; and shalt not turn away from Me.” 3:19. Did you understand God’s question and the ONLY answer acceptable to Him????
I prayerfully hope so! In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Father, I’m a sinner, backslidden and undone to You. Forgive me, I repent, I want to never turn away from You again. Amen.
Do not forget, now you have a thought in your mind to remember, feed it with God’s pastors teaching knowledge and understanding, not denominations!!!! He is calling us all together as one, let Him!!!!!!!
“A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God. Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.” 3:21 and 22. Amen.
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LAMENTATIONS 3:16, “He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath covered me with ashes.”
The Lord has just continued on from the book of Jeremiah on our 3:16 trek! Jeremiah was called the weeping prophet and in his lamentations he portrayed tearfully the funeral or death of the once proud Jerusalem. Are we witnessing the death and the funeral of a once proud nation, the United States of America???
This call was put out to Israel to return from their backslidden ways and the call has been put out by God’s pastors, called according to His own heart, to feed you with knowledge and understanding. Have you listened and returned from your backslidden state??? If you have, then this tear-stained cry of a funeral is not necessary for you! If you haven’t, then beware, pay heed to God calling you unto repentance!
This witness, me, has said many times I feel like this weeping prophet calling out to a backslidden church and they are still in their WALLED church! LORD HELP US!!! Let’s go now to Lamentations and see a funeral in the next 3:16 which God is taking us on. PRAISE YOU JESUS!!!
Jeremiah is crying out a cry of despair in 3:1 - 18. Verse 16 is just one of many laments of Jeremiah. As Jeremiah did, so do we, but we do not necessarily call out exactly like he did!!! He starts out in 3:1 by saying “I am a man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.” God’s wrath?????! Was Jeremiah an evil person, backslidden, that God poured out His wrath upon? NO! Jeremiah, a prophet of God, sees the entire nation of Israel under God’s wrath. He did not give up either in 60 plus years of ministry. Go get your Bibles and read 3:2 - 18 and finish reading the cries of despair for his country!!! Israel was in deep trouble, backslidden and way far into sin.
Jeremiah loved God, and his country, he cared for their well being and souls. He cried out for them even though they didn’t themselves! Has God called up now some Jeremiah’s???? YES, they are everywhere, those that are standing in the gap and praying, lamenting, over this country of ours and their fellow man’s souls!!!!
In 3:16, Jeremiah said He has covered me in ashes, this lamentation of Jeremiah represents the deepest sufferings, contains a confession of sin, an acknowledgment of God’s justice and a prayer of faith for forgiveness. This is sort of like our testimonies, telling everyone how God brought us through and we hung on by our faith, through our tribulations. God desires our heartfelt pain, and for ourselves and others, our own confessions, lifting Him up with glory and praise, acknowledging His Divine mercy and a prayer of faith that God will forgive our sins against His ways, statutes and commandments.
You probably have never felt this before, but how do you think you would feel if you cried your eyes out, hurting and praying for someone else? Do you think it would humble you? By faith in God, then, “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness.” 3:22 and 23. And, “The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him, it is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.” 3:25 and 26. Can you quietly, right now, cry out to God for your nation and the souls of every man therein???? Can you pray for His forgiveness of your sins? Can you humble yourself to God and wait for the salvation of the Lord???
This witness cries out for, not only the lost souls, but the souls of those in churches which cannot be as one nation under God serving Him anymore, instead of serving man’s doctrines and their silly little rituals! These doctrines and rituals are not all harmful, but when man says that if you do not do it my way and believe as I do, and do as I do, then you’re of the devil and going to hell! This is this witness’s cry!!!! MAN BELIEVES MAN AND HIS IDEAS OVER GOD AND HIS WORDS!!! MY CRY? Yes, it hurts, it pains, it makes me sad for God that His children have to be so nitpicky in their own ways that they can not join together and fight our common foe, SATAN!!! Satan has had these tactics for a long time, divide and conquer, divide and conquer! LORD HELP US!!!!! It hurts! Am I a Jeremiah, I don’t know, but I do know I hurt and it doesn’t feel very good! I’m covered in ashes!!!!!
Sinners, saints, backslidden, church goers, repent of your sins and your nitpicking ways, man’s ways, and follow after God, not man. If you want a chance in hell, then just keep following man! But, if you want to be with God, repent. Father, I’m a sinner, forgive me of my sins, I repent, make me what You want me to be, not what I want to be!!!!! Help us Father to be Jeremiahs, praying, seeking, crying, for all others, Jesus’ name! Amen. GLORY TO GOD, THANK YOU JESUS!!!!
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EZEKIEL 3:16, “And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,”. Praise You Father, thank You Lord!!!! For what You are doing in me and my brain, in my heart and spirit, it is wonderful!!!!! YES MY LORD, I WANT TO BE YOUR WATCHMAN!!!!
The Spirit of the Lord entered Ezekiel and gave him certain instructions, “And the Spirit entered into me when He spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard Him that spake unto me.” 2:2. On further in Chapter 2 the Spirit gave this to Ezekiel, I’m sending you, to the children of Israel.
WOW, ALL RIGHT!!!! To God’s own children!!!!! But the Spirit said a REBELLIOUS NATION that has rebelled and sinned against Me. Where is the United States and our churches in this picture????? The Spirit, God, said, they are an impudent and a hard headed and a hard hearted bunch of kids!!!! God said whether they hear or not, they will have heard about Me through you, My prophet. He went on and told Ezekiel not to be afraid of them, their words or their looks. AHA!!! Here is a word for Ezekiel now, a warning, a commandment in Chapter 2 verse 8, “But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.”
God sends people, you and I, all the time now in our country’s rebellious state, and some prophets or pastors will fall to their rebellious state, which is to say, to Satan. But God is telling this prophet, Ezekiel, “Moreover He said unto me, son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.” 3:1. AND THIS WAS NOT A BROWN N’ SERVE ROLL! It was a book or scroll that God had given him. In this roll or book or scroll was written everything, “within and without”, lamentations, mournings and woes!!!! God said to digest and learn this, eat it up with understanding. “And He said unto me, son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.” 3:3.
God told him to understand all that is in this book, you will need it!!!!! For I AM NOT sending you to a strange people that surely would listen to you; but, I am sending you to MY PEOPLE, MY CHILDREN’S HOUSE, THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. For they will not listen to you, because they do not listen to Me! They are a bunch of hard headed and hard hearted people … And God said to Ezekiel,
I have prepared you, I have made your face as theirs, your boldness will be as theirs and you will be able to cope with them by your hard, stubborn and unyielding ways. God even said I will make you as a diamond, the hardest of stones, you should be able to cut right through their hard hearts!!!! WHO HAS GOD CALLED UP LIKE THIS? DO YOU KNOW ANYONE THAT WILL CRAWL UP IN THEIR WHISKERS WHEN NEEDED???
God told him also that ALL MY WORDS THAT I SPEAK TO YOU, you receive in your heart and hear with your ears. Now, “And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, thus saith the Lord God; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.” 3:11. Go tell them anyway all the words which you ate and I have told you, it is up to them whether they will listen or not.
Ezekiel had his orders from God Himself. I am not, this witness, an Ezekiel; but, I do know what and how he must have felt, and how God speaks. On many occasions, I have been sent to people to tell them things, whether orally or written. It is not a pleasant thing or a rewarding thing to do, but I had to do it. These people cried out, called out, had ridden an altar for change in their lives. God had heard them as was all Israel’s written down in this scroll. And as God told Ezekiel they will NOT LISTEN to you because they have not listened to Me, they also did not listen and obey.
They are still crying out, under bondage to Satan, and they can not give up what they are doing and receive their change God is offering!!!! No wonder God told Ezekiel they will not listen to you, He has been doing it a long time, God knows; but, God is still trying!!!! God is fair and just and very longsuffering! “So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.” 3:14. He was angry at seeing the condition of God’s people and their attitude against God.
He was ready, he was going to lower the boom on them for the way they treated God. Remember God giving him, just as they, what the children of Israel had: stubbornness and the like, so he was filled with this ‘righteous indignation’ and not an holier than thou attitude; but, a very willingness to serve God, in a very real pain he felt from the way God’s children treated Him.
The Spirit sat him down in the midst of the captivity, Israel, at a place called Telabib, and Ezekiel said, “… and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,” 3:15 and 16. It took Ezekiel from being so amazed, stunned, surprised and astonished just from seeing them and their sinful, in bondage and their evil ways; God told him they were hard headed and hard hearted, but it still caught Ezekiel by surprise, it took 7 DAYS for Ezekiel to get his senses and listen to God!!!! It was just that bad! YOU ARE SAYING; THAT, IT IS NOT THAT BAD HERE!!! GOD DOESN’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT US! WE HAVE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE GOD SENDS US AN EZEKIEL!!!! You might be right!
Surprised, that I agreed with you? But my questions are, why wait till we get there???? Why do you want to be an Ezekiel? Why not stop it, your sinful ways now? Are you this rebellious people that God sent a prophet to? Are you hard hearted because of the lies of Satan? Are you hard-headed because you want it your way? And not God’s way!? ARE YOU??? Then repent before God WILL send you your match, Satan, just as hard headed and rebellious. God will send you to HELL with Satan; but, not as your match; but, as your better when it comes to rebellious!!!! And this is where you will be, if you are not serving God!!!! Maybe not as an Ezekiel, but just serving God and His commandments! And if you cannot do this God’s way, then be prepared to meet your better, Satan, in HELL, for an eternity, no coming back, always under bondage! HAVE MERCY DEAR LORD!!!!
For all of you Ezekiel’s, Jeremiah’s and men of God, and this means you Tom, Jerry, Larry or Bill, etc. “Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at My mouth, and give them warning from Me.” 3:17. Finish reading what God said to Ezekiel, it contains the same information for you in 3:18 through 21. Now, where is the blood of their sin, on your hands???
Then let God have the last say and then you obey God further. God speaking to Ezekiel, “… I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, thus saith the Lord God; he that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.” 3:27. God is in the house: He is in control, no arguing, bickering, or trying to make a point, by your way or else;it will not change anything, in which God didn’t send you to do!
To these many people, which God has told me to be a witness to, because of one thing or another, I still hurt when I see them in the same old bondage, or worse, as they were in when God sent me to them. Don’t give up on the ones that God sends you to, until God says so. Remember THIS witness, one full year it took for me, by one of God’s Ezekiel’s. I was hard-headed and I still am today, but 100% the opposite!!!! PRAISE YOU JESUS, THANK YOU LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!!!!
You to whom I witnessed, or you who wants a change in your life FOR THE BETTER, and not by your better, REPENT, Father, forgive me, my hard hearted and hard headed rebellious ways. I want to change, I repent!!! Change me, send my Ezekiel if necessary and talk to me as I need! Amen. Don’t wait until God sends an Ezekiel, it is better!!!! GLORY TO GOD, THANK YOU JESUS for continuing our 3:16 journey. Can you now, maybe see where God is taking us?
Answer, wherever He wants to!
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DANIEL 3:16, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnazzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.” They did what God said to do? Did they speak God’s words? Did they stand by God as by their faith?
We didn’t finish the story of Ezekiel which God told him to do, how he fared with the rebellious, hard hearted, hard headed, children of Israel, God’s own children. I guess you will just have to find out yourself if you are interested. But I can tell you, God had His way with Ezekiel; the rest, you’ll have to find out.
Now, next in our 3:16 trek, God takes us to more Ezekiel types, God’s ministers and to a pagan country, not God’s own children! To the book of Daniel and to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and to King Nebuchadnazzar. Right in line, step by step with God’s guidance for our needs and faith!!!!
This chapter starts out with this king Nebuchadnazzar of Babylon, a pagan king serving all kinds of gods. “Nebuchadnazzar the King made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits (90 feet), and the breadeth thereof six cubits (6 feet): he set it in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. … Then an herald cried aloud, to you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnazzar the King hath set up: and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.” 3:1,4,5 and 6.
As one who has seen different gods by visiting different churches and denominations, I must tell you that these kings are pastors of different churches: their kingdom is their church, their princes, governors, captains, judges, treasure, councilors, sheriffs, and rulers are their congregation and family!!! If you do not do what this king and people decree and fall down and worship as I do you will be persecuted as “Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image: and whosoever falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.” 3:10 and 11. Different churches, even of the same denomination doctrine, worship differently, depending upon their king. Some kingdoms, certain denominations, will not allow praise and worship to God, they will tell you ‘that’ is not allowed here! No wonder so many people are so confused and messed up!!!! It is the same GOD, JESUS CHRIST that we are serving, but their little kingdoms, where visitors are supposedly welcomed are not allowed to worship their God, the same God, they way they feel they should. What kind of love and god is this, in these churches, they are worshipping????
God’s Ezekiel’s find it extremely difficult to minister His words and give them God’s statutes and commandments because this is not what they have been taught by the king of this or that church!!!! Just in a small telephone book under churches in the yellow pages are listed many, many different type of kingdoms: Assembly of God, Baptist, Baptist ABA, Baptist Missionary, Baptist Southern, Catholic, Christian, Church of Christ, Church of Christ Holiness, Church of Jesus Christ, Episcopal, Full Gospel, Jehovah Witnesses, Lutheran ECLA, Lutheran Missouri Synod, Methodist United, Non-Denominational, Pentecostal Church of God, Pentecostal Holiness, Pentecostal United, Presbyterian, and various other denominations, WHEW!!!! These are just the ones which have a telephone number listed! Wow, a lot of kingdoms and nations!!!? And that is what they are if they can’t allow a Christian, one who has accepted Christ into their heart and made open profession of Him and are trying to change from evil to righteousness, to worship God the way that God wants them to worship Him!!!! Who is this to judge and rule over a Christian worshipping God????
What did God tell Ezekiel about the rebellious house in Ezekiel 2:6? “And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.”
In 3:12 comes more Ezekiel types, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. “There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O King, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.” ‘They are not doing your highness’s things or programs you set up. I’m going to tell on them! I’m going to TELL!!!!!’ says the congregation of the “in” clique!’ So “Nebuchadnazzar spake and said unto them, is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do ye not serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?” 3:14. I don’t know about you, but I can feel for King Nebuchadnazzar. Did you hear him, “O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, …”? He didn’t want to say or see this or believe, but to keep harmony in his kingdom or church even though he was the king or pastor, and he had the power to do so, he still was and is today controlled by his people! He just couldn’t change even though he was maybe believing otherwise, sort of like the kings of the churches today?! Most in FEAR of upsetting their tithes and offerings or numbers, will just bow down to their commands. The kingdom has to be supported and I can’t hurt their feelings!!!!
Nebuchadnazzar even gave them another chance because he didn’t want to burn them. In 3:15, “Now if ye be ready that at which time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if you worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?” Can you sense his begging; well, please …??? Remember God telling Ezekiel be not afraid of words, briers and thorns, or even their looks. Well these younger Ezekiel types believed in God a step further. They believed, that not even a fiery furnace would hurt them!!! Their Ezekiel abilities which God gave them, and He will also give them to you if you are willing to stand against rebellion, sin, idolatry and all the other sin against God, God will give you. This 3:16 really puts the bite into God’s words if you haven’t received it yet from the other 3:16’s!
These younger boys, teenagers, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, or Tom, Dick or Harry, stood for God in 3:16, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the King, O Nebuchadnazzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.” We have no need through your fear of this fiery furnace to answer this question of yours. So, we will not bow down to your golden image!!!! They said in 3:17 and 18 “If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image, which thou hast set up.” If you have not read this or know about it, in short, the king was angered and mad and threw them into the furnace.
They were bound and tossed into the furnace that was stoked to ‘exceedingly hot’ with their coats on, their socks on, their hats on and all theirother clothing. Later the king was asked, did we just throw three men into the fiery furnace because THERE WERE FOUR IN THERE WALKING AROUND IN THE MIDST OF THE FURNACE PRAISING AND WORSHIPPING GOD!!!! That fourth man; well, He was GOD HIMSELF backing up what He said, nothing will harm you!!!! Not even their clothing or hair burned nor even smelled of fire or smoke, just their bonds that held them bound were burned!!! PRAISE YOU JESUS, THANK YOU FATHER!!!
I can see them in that furnace, shoes off, walking on Holy ground with God, hands raised and praising God!!!! GLORY HALLELUJAH!!! Well folks, this is what it is all about, God’s words do not lie, “Then Nebuchadnazzar spake, and said, blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent His angel, and delivered His servants that trusted in Him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God. Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other god that can deliver after this sort.” 3:28 and 29.
This brought back to my mind Romans 12:1 where we are to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service! Do you think it would bring people to their senses if God did this, this way, today? He can, if He so desired! I now, want to show you, in a way, how God works today.
This witness, yesterday after writing some of this chapter, had to drive another person somewhere. During this trip, of course, God came into the conversation! This was after writing about not being allowed to worship like God wants us to do in other churches or kingdoms. This lady is of a denomination. She asked me what denomination I belonged to? I told her, I am a Christian, without hesitation; and, this is how God confirms things, she told me she appreciated that answer. She said this is what it should be about, being a Christian instead of a __________. She said her church feels this way and it is nice to go there. Can you see how God works things out, writing this particular chapter, then stopping midway, and being reinforced the way I was by a different witness??? ISN’T GOD JUST AWESOME???? All under control! Do you want to be a part of God’s Kingdom where JESUS CHRIST is KING???? Then repent, confess your sins to Jesus, the One who paid for them, for you!!!! Father, I’m a sinner, I repent, forgive me of my sins. Change me to where I am supposed to be in Your Kingdom, not man’s denominational kingdoms! Amen.
This witness will go and visit her church and see if she is right about this kingdom of man, to see if it is really a kingdom of God! GLORY HALLELUJAH!!! Are you a modern day Ezekiel or the such as Shadrach, Meshach or Abednego, standing up for God by your faith in Him? Do you want to go with me? Let us go for God, not man! THANK YOU, FATHER!!!!
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