In January 2003 I had started teaching on the prophecies of Ezekiel; and what I had anticipated would take a few weeks has continued to this day. Not only did I present them to the group that met in our home, but, beginning in 2014 I put what I had taught into writing, resulting in seven volumes. Though I didn’t address the final chapters of the prophecies concerning the temple, still, I believe that I completed what the Lord is saying to those who have an ear to hear and who are willing to accept it. During the interim since I put out the seventh volume I attempted to work on a variety of other projects, as well as teaching on a variety of other subjects; but I’ve always ultimately returned to Ezekiel.
As I looked over what I had written, there are a couple of things that I realized. First: in the previous writings I had focused a good deal of the time upon Ezekiel and how those things that he experienced speak to us today. Consequently, I knew that I needed to present them in a different manner that addresses the days of the prophet less. And second: I need to present the various thoughts in a somewhat more concise manner. Along with that, since the Lord has opened my understanding and vision more in the past twenty years, then it’s not that the first messages were incorrect, but there have been points where I thought, “I wish I had known this or that when I started”, or “I wish that I had mentioned this or that at that time”. Now, there are a few things that I want to say here that I’ve said in the previous books.
First: the prophecies spoken by Ezekiel were hard words; and, therefore, the messages in this book are hard messages. They had to be in those days because of the attitudes and the actions of the natural Jews, and they have to be now because far too many spiritual Jews are repeating similar things. We have to realize that the Lord didn’t render judgment upon His people in the days of Ezekiel willingly, just as He doesn’t do so with His people today. Rather, He’s been left with no alternative. Since the natural Jews refused to heed the words of God through the prophets, to turn from their rebellious ways, to seek Him with everything within them, and to make Him their Lord, then what He had warned them about came to pass. And today there are those who are walking that same path and are on a collision course with the same judgments. You see, God’s people are protected in the palm of His hand. But, if we turn from following Him to seek after our own kingdoms and agendas and desires, then, in essence, we’re pushing His hand away, and He can no longer protect us from the onslaught of the enemy. It isn’t that He can’t; but, if He did, then that would be going against our will. Thus, He’d be forcing His will upon us, and that’s something that He won’t do.
Second: I’ll continually stress the point that the vast majority of believers are honest about their desire to follow the Lord, and the vast majority of ministers are the same. But there are far too many tares mixed in with them; and it’s those tares who are leavening the entire body of Christ. After all, God looks at His church as one body. So, if one part is sick, in His eyes the entire body is sick. Also, in our eyes, though the majority are honest followers, still, in the eyes of an all-perfect God, what we consider to be small imperfections or minor, harmless sins are major. Consequently, if He doesn’t confront them and judge them, He knows far better than we that those small things will ultimately become our eternal downfall.
Third: you won’t find any apologies within these pages. Yes: as I said, the prophecies that Ezekiel spoke were hard words; but they were given to him by the Lord. Therefore, I’m not about to sugarcoat what is written out of a concern for feelings and emotions. Because of the times that we’re in, and especially because far too many believers are naive and scripturally illiterate, then this is not the time for words that bolster the carnal fleshly man. The Lord’s intention with every single person who comes to Him is to destroy our fallen nature and to help us to conform to His image, and ultimately to establish His Kingdom in the earth though us. Therefore, the only way that He can do that is through judgment; and none of us will be free and clear.
And fourth: if you’re expecting to find some recommendations of this work from some well-renowned authors in the Christian field, you’re going to be disappointed. I have no affiliation with any large denominations, nor do I have any doctorates or titles, nor are any of my thirteen books best-sellers in the Christian market. In this website I post the messages which I bring forth, as well as a blog on which I post thoughts for your consideration; and both of these are very simple and far from professionally created. Along with that I have, for the past four decades, put into book form many of the things that the Lord has shown me. What I’m saying, then, is that the greatest part of my training and knowledge and understanding has come from the study of God’s Word during those years.
And it’s continuing.
There’s something else that I want to say. More often than not, whenever anyone seeks to bring forth a message from the book of Ezekiel, it usually concerns the valley of dry bones in the thirty-seventh chapter. Now, I’m not coming against that in any way whatsoever. What I AM saying, though, is that there’s so much more to the book than meets the eye. However, it’s like trying to expound upon the book of Revelation. Because there are so many symbols and mystical visions within each of them then it defies the understanding of far too many believers.
So the portion of Scripture that comes to mind which pretty well sums up the reason for this book is:
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. (Judges 21:25)
That came from over three millennia ago, but it speaks to us today. And though there are multitudes of so-called “experts” explaining why this or that is happening, they ignore the fact that Jesus in the Gospels and Paul in the first chapter of the book of Romans told us that it has always been and always will be until God’s Kingdom is reestablished in the earth. Though there’s a lot of good in the churches and in the world, there’s also an exorbitant amount of evil in varying degrees. As time goes on, however, and we come closer to the end of the reign of the enemy and of man, then it will continually get worse, and the division between light and dark will intensify.
This, then, is the reason that I’m revisiting the prophecies that Ezekiel spoke. Granted, they’re heavy messages with a lot of warnings and judgments; but those are what are necessary today. Those words that Ezekiel wrote some two-and-a-half millennia ago are as pertinent now as they were then. You see, there’s a lot happening in both the churches and in the world that the Lord is going to confront and eradicate. And though He’s concerned with the world as well as the church, His main focus right now is His church. Unfortunately, far too many in the ministry are so intent on drawing unbelievers, and/or catering to many of the perversions that are steadily infecting society, that they’re watering down or even reinterpreting the word that they bring forth.
It doesn’t take much reading to see that the majority of the warnings spoken by Ezekiel were directed to God’s people, the natural Jews. Now, Ezekiel was among the captives in the land of the Chaldeans, and Jeremiah prophesied in Jerusalem and Israel, but they were both speaking the same things and exhorting the people to return to the Lord. Consequently, I don’t have to go to as many churches as I can to understand what is happening. God’s Word speaks very plainly, and the current events corroborate, what is occurring in both the secular and the religious segments of society. As I said before, I want to clarify that when I say “the churches” I’m not referring to every one of them. There are a lot of good, honest believers and ministers. But Jesus told us that both wheat and tares are growing up together, and we really won’t know who is who until He reveals them. However, though the warnings were issued to the natural Jews and, by extension, to the church, they are also addressed to all people. You see, Christians have become sons of the living God; but ALL people belong to Him by reason of His authority over all of creation.
At the end of chapter one in the letter to the Romans, Paul wrote: “Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (verse 32). The Lord sees what is in the hearts of every person. Consequently, there are those who have been deceived by the enemy and are walking as they are, not intending to stand against God, but doing so because of the deception. Yet there are also those who definitely know what they’re doing. Either way, the bottom line is that they’re standing against Him. But there’s a difference between intentional and unintentional; and that will affect their response to the warnings and judgments that He’ll issue.
Right now we’re experiencing what can be called a perfect storm. We’re seeing a major decline in the belief in God, mixed together with a rise in hostility toward all authority, as well as a concerted effort to rewrite much of history to fit an agenda of division and strife. There is the intentional softening or elimination of law and the intentional indoctrination of children by this country’s administration toward “the new liberal world order” in an attempt to normalize every perversion that can be forced upon society. That, of course, isn’t all; but every organization that has any influence upon this nation and the world are working in tandem to try to institute everything that stands in direct opposition and rebellion to God. I realize that man has experienced many similar times throughout history; but the difference between them and today lies in the fact that we’re on the cusp of the transition from the limited authority of the kingdom of the enemy back to the unlimited authority of God’s Kingdom. That, then, means that we have relatively very little time left. The process of change will be devastating, but the end result will be glorious.
Again, the prophecies spoken and demonstrated by Ezekiel were hard and heavy to the flesh, but they were life to the spirit. We’re told that the blessings of Abraham belong to us as well as to the natural Jews; but very little seems to be mentioned about the judgments. However, all throughout the Word of God we find that combination. Remember: we’re in a covenant with the Lord, and there are responsibilities for each of the parties involved. Everything that God brought through Ezekiel were His attempts to redirect the Jews from the path to judgment that they were on and back to obedience to Him. He was drawing a line in the sand, throwing down the gauntlet, telling His people that they had to make a decision to either serve Him or to serve the enemy. But either way their choice had eternal consequences. And twenty-six centuries haven’t changed anything.
Many of the things found in the book of Ezekiel seem rather fantastic. They contradict our ideas of normality. But what is being forced upon people these days are the attempts of the enemy to normalize perversions and lies; whereas the only true normal is God’s normal. There have been many so-called “experts” who have refused to accept the truth of God’s Word because, due to their rebellious nature against Him, they’ve tried to dupe as many as possible with disproving it through their critical analysis or various other processes. I’m not going to get sucked into their cesspool of “reasoning”, because they’re nothing but deception and lies of the enemy; whereas the Word of God is, very simply, God’s Word of pure truth. So I’m taking what Ezekiel wrote as exactly what the Lord spoke and am giving you some thoughts to consider.
One last thing: I’m not going to attempt to get into the times of Ezekiel. Rather, though I’ll be referring to the various portions of the prophecies where needed, I’ll instead show you what I believe the Lord is saying to us today. After all, if we don’t understand how those things pertain to our time, then we’ll miss out on what He wants us to know. So I pray that He’ll open the eyes of your understanding, and that you realize that the hard words of the prophecies of Ezekiel are actually His words of love to us; because He’s trying to guide us “out of darkness into his marvellous light” (1 Peter 2:9).