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Pamphlet #6149  Isaiah KC 38-2  xxxxx

 " And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou
shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man,in their sight." Ezekiel 4:12

Isaiah 28:4
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
"Hasty fruit" refers to the first ripe figs that are taken before the harvest, i.e. they harvested out of season.
hasty, bikkuwr, bik-koor', Hebrew 1061; from Hebrew 1069 (bakar); the first-fruits of the crop :- first fruit (-ripe [figurative]), hasty fruit.
summer, qayits, kah'-yits, Hebrew 7019; from Hebrew 6972 (quwts); harvest (as the crop), whether the product (grain or fruit) or the (dry) season :- summer (fruit, house).
To better understand the depth of what is being said here,
one must be familiar with the "Parable of the Fig Tree"
that Jesus Christ commanded us to learn in Mat. 24 and Mark 13.


[5] In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
At the sound of the 7th Trump there shall be another trodding under feet...
even under the feet of the "residue of His people"
who are those who now love and serve God and hold fast to His Word of righteousness.

They are God's elect, the saints of the Most High,
who shall rule and reign with Jesus Christ during the Millennium
and thus shall they keep the drunkards "under foot" by use of His "rod of iron (Rev. 19:15)".

That simply means that they will teach the truth of God's Word
and "sit in judgment" enforcing His just ways (Ezek. 44:23).

[6] And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
The "them that turn the battle to the gate" are those who lead the charge to the enemy.

How prepared are you to take a stand against the enemy?

If you have the gospel armor on and in place then you are ready indeed to do battle
and take a stand against the fiery darts of the wicked one.

Ephes. 6:10-11 "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. [11] Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil."

Unfortunately most of our brothers and sisters do not have the spiritual "strength"
to do battle against the wicked one in these last days.

The reason is that America is led by a bunch of spiritual drunkards
who have gotten off the path of righteousness and are "out of the way",
out of the true way that leads to peace and happiness and provides liberty and justice for all!

They reel and they stumble at the law of God like a bunch of sots...
for they are void of the true wisdom that comes from the Word of God.

Isaiah 28:7
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
This next verse speaks concerning both Judah and Jerusalem declaring how "out of the way"
the spiritual leaders of this nation have become!

You "see", spiritually speaking the priesthood is to abstain from spiritual "strong drink" and "wine",
i.e. the intoxicating doctrines and traditions of men,
when they enter into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they die!

How's that for a WOE? This is serious business my friend!

Here are Father's instructions to the priesthood:

Leviticus 10:8
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying,

[9] Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:

Our Father doesn’t like the traditions of men,
man’s intoxicating religion which comes from strong drink
and the wine taken from the chalice cup of Babylon.

The duties of the priests are to educate the people in God's laws and statutes
that they might know the difference between the holy and the profane,
between the false messiah and the true messiah,
that they might be able to discern between the clean and the unclean.

They must be knowledgeable and remain sober minded in teaching His Word!

[10] And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

[11] And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.

They should offer only the pure bread of truth with sincerity
and cleanness of heart that our spiritually blind and sick and lame brothers and sisters
might be strengthened and healed by the Word of God.

But no, the tables from which they offer up sacrifices are full of so much garbage
and spiritual filthiness that there is nothing to be found that is clean and fit to eat.

Isaiah 28:8
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
These "tables" are the tables that the priests place their sacrifices upon.

The problem is that they offer processed bread polluted by man's traditions
and vain imaginations and thus our people are not only not strengthened and healed,
but they actually become more spiritually ill to the point of spiritual death!

Here is what our Father has to say to those who claim to be His messengers
but do not teach His pure Word chapter by chapter and line by line.

Mal 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
"Bread" is symbolic of the Bread of Life, Jesus Christ,
the true unleavened, un-spun, Word of God.

Now instead of serving that bread of life,
go ahead and offer polluted bread and then bring to the Lord your congregation
that is spiritually blind and lame and sick and see if it pleases Him!

In fact, try to pay your tribute (taxes) to the governor with sick
and diseased lambs and sheep and see how well he accepts it!

Mal 1:8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
Remember Jesus Christ told His disciples to beware of the leaven of the Sadducees and Pharisees!

Don't eat and don't serve that deadly junk food to your brothers and sisters.

Want to actually see what spiritually polluted bread converts to in a graphic earthly image?

Rom. 1:20 says the things which aren't seen, i.e. spiritual things, can be understood by the things that are seen.

Therefore, to help us "see" and understand this "polluted bread"
served by the false preachers and priests, our Father had His servant,
the watchmen Ezekiel,
bake an analogy before the people, in their sight!

Here it is:

Ezekiel 4:9,12-13
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

[12] And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

Yeeech!

The fact is... this exactly what the "bread"
served in the majority of the churches of our land is baked with... man's dung!

Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear know that the "man"
spoken of here is ultimately that "man of sin", the "son of perdition",
the one who leavened the true bread from the beginning, even in the first earth age,
with his spiritual "dung" and now his "children of disobedience", the scribes and Pharisees
"work in" the same smelly leaven!

And our "Biblically Challenged" brothers and sisters eat that "stuff"!

[13] And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
Yummy, yum!

By the way, the nice preachers and ministers who serve them to their congregations
usually put so much sugary sweet wordspin into their decorative cakes
that the people actually love to eat them.

In fact, many haven't missed a Sunday of going to church and eating dung cakes for a long, long time.

I hate to say it at this point, but you know... you are what you eat!

The point is that we should all study our Father's Word and check out what we are being taught,
i.e. where the bread we are being fed comes from?

It better be the "bread of life" which comes directly from the Word of God, not from church quarterlies.

If fact, if we do not check things out then we are actually part of the problem
in that we are being disobedient to the Word of God (1 Jn. 4:1, 2 Tim. 2:15).

The sad truth of the matter is that polluted bread is about all you can find
offered by the Christian priests and preachers
in most churches today.

That is not an opinion for the Word of God tells us that is how it shall be in the last days!

It is the famine which Christ spoke of in Mat. 24 and Mark 13 which is a SIGN of these times,
for those with eyes to see, and is explained in Amos 8:11-13
where he says the FAMINE in these last days will not be a famine for bread nor a thirst for water,
but for hearing of the words of the Lord.

Amos 8:11-13
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

[12] And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

The plain truth is that the lack of hearing God's Word
is caused by the lack of His pure words being spoken through those who claim to be His messengers!

This "famine" of truth has produced the great valley of the (spiritually) dry bones of Ezek. 37.

In other words, our brothers and sisters are spiritually dying
as a result of a lack of spiritual nutrition and a dearth of the living water taken from the fountain of life.

Shame on the priests and the ministers who stave our people of truth by feeding them polluted bread.

Then when someone like Isaiah, a true teacher of God's Word,
comes along and teaches Father's Word straight on,
as in chapter by chapter and line by line,
these same dung slingers mock and ridicule them.

Consider the next two verses spoken by those who would mock Isaiah, a true teacher of God's Word, and "mimic him as though he were teaching little children in school (See note on page 964 in the Companion Bible)".

Isaiah 28:9
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Many Christians have gone to church all their lives and should be mature and knowledgeable enough of God's Word
that they can lead and teach others.

Yet for the most part they remain as Biblically illiterate
as when they first went because they have not been taught the Word of God
chapter by chapter and line by line but have been led to follow after the traditions of men.

Furthermore, the only food they were fed week after week and year after year
was the milk of salvation and baptism.

So again, though many have faithfully attended church all their lives
they have remained spiritual babes and truly need to be taught the first principles of the oracles of God!

Read what Paul has to say about this in Hebrews chapter 5:

Hebrews 5:12-14
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Babes cannot eat full course meals, can they?

Neither can spiritual babes understand the meat of God's Word
because they have not matured beyond the milk and milk toast served by their preachers.

Yet they mock those who would teach them as little children and nourish them to mature in His Word.

[13] For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
If all you know is salvation and baptism, then you are indeed a babe and have need to be taught the Word of God chapter by chapter and verse by verse.
[14] But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
The Baby Boomers have been appropriately named for though they have "boomed and prospered"
they have remained spiritual babies and thus cannot "discern both good and evil".

That is precisely why the festering disease of liberalism
has been able to abound in our land because the "babes" know not the meat of God's Word
and therefore cannot "discern between that which is clean and that which unclean"!

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.


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