Everyone knows babies start out in the womb. Everyone knows they live there for 9 months. The only reason people try to science-talk it away is because of a certain desire. The desire is power over life itself. No one wants to say, “Baby, thou must get hacked up and discarded for my convenience.” I know, child sacrifice has been a thing for many centuries. It is exactly what the end result was, when Israel and Judah strayed from God and His Way. But, it helps if one can present a noble cause for the homicide.
The pagan village picks someone, usually a child, as a sacrifice to appease their gods. Perhaps no one wants to volunteer their offspring, but the alternative is presented as a drought, a famine, a natural disaster.
For the most part, we see that as “illogical” or “primitive.” We think we have culturally or morally “evolved.”
Magicians Work Like Magic
Science was supposed to fix man’s reliance on magic to explain the world. Science was supposed to provide a mechanism for observing and verifying.
Magic says, “If I do this or say that, something completely unrelated will happen, just because.” Magic is alive and well today. Magic deceives all the time. The card trick is just that: a trick. The stage magician trains and practices in order to hide the real cause of the desired presentation and make the viewer believe it just happened on its own. The desired outcome for the magician is for you to look somewhere other than the actual causative force, like a hand or a hidden pocket in the sleeve.
Life Is A Masterpiece from The Master of Peace
I like the way the International Standard Version puts it:
For we are God's masterpiece, created in the Messiah Jesus to perform good actions that God prepared long ago to be our way of life. - Ephesians 2:10
Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. - Jeremiah 1:5 WEB
Our God desires shalom (peace) for you and hates violence.
the peace of The God, Who is greater than every mind, will keep your hearts and your minds by Yeshua The Messiah. - Philippians 4:7
Our land is full of violence. It is just like Israel and Judah were during the time of Ezekiel (Hmm, should I wear an “Ezekiel is my homeboy” T-Shirt?). America has just rescinded an institutional death penalty that was on babies. What has the response been? Public outcry by the bloodthirsty liberals, marxists, and pagans of our land. We have seen an attempted assassination on a supreme court judge, an angry mob spouting violent threats, and even officials (priests/judges) proclaiming death to the babies.
I can see blessings coming from lifting the widespread curse of abortion, but in much of the land, the bloodshed will carry on.
Judgement will be swift and true.
So many Americans think God doesn’t see this stuff.
The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood(shed), and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see. - Ez. 9:9
I am not sure how we will survive this intentional destruction of American life. I’m sure for many people, they have assumed that God has forgotten us. I believe the vision that the prophet was given holds a clue. I believe it gives us hope, even though the levels of despair can be overwhelming.
Mark His Words
Look, they may trust in taxes and battery operated chariots. But the Word of YHWH is living and 100% dependable. I’ll take Jesus any time. Give me His mark and you (the bad guys) can have your beast mark.
In Ezekiel Chapter 9, we see something that looks like Passover happening on a personal level. The destructive warriors (six of them) with weapons will be unleashed on the city (Jerusalem). But there is a man in the middle of them (think Revelation 1:13 “And among the lampstands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet,”) who was carrying a scribes ink horn. This man in white (think: not Johnny Cash, he was the Man In Black, not in prophecy, but on my Aunt Mary’s “Live at San Quentin” album cover) was to mark the foreheads. Note: The Jerusalem Bible (1966) states, “mark a cross.”
The mark of God and the mark of the beast thing was not new in the last book of the Bible. I think it is super important to have our bodies marked by Jesus and Him only. It can lead you down a few prairie dog holes if you just keep looking for the mark of the beast. Get you the scribe’s mark on your forehead! Then, that mark can say, “Space not available.”
Do you see the Passover significance. The blood of the Lamb was the life-saver.
Now, I have to point out this very important fact:
The ones who were marked with the sign on their heads which saved them in the day of judgement were those who - “deplore and disapproved of all the filth practiced.”
The bloodshed and filth must be opposed. We cannot approve of obvious debauchery. In this decree. Those who do the deeds, PLUS those who approve of it… they die. Father YHWH will not spare. Murder and mayhem will be fully judged.
America, we cannot save everyone. We must start, as God did, with the priests. When our spiritual leadership are blind, they spread blindness. We are told that the teachers will be judged more harshly. We must all repent and ask that our neck be not clothed with a millstone collar. If we lead people wrongly (yes, America leads many nations) we will perish, if we do not turn and pray.
My fellow Child of God, be marked for His glory. You will overcome. He promises it. Jesus takes away the cause and effect of our sin. Put your life under the sign of His mercy. He holds all the real cards.
And He has no need for magic tricks.
God have mercy on America.
America, bless God.
A little note here, if you are still with me. I have a desire to put up a billboard - a real live “America, Bless God” billboard. If you are interested in joining me, let’s talk. I don’t want to do a fundraiser if no one will see the pitch. I know that many will see the billboard and will be touched. If nothing else, it will remind thousands of people a day, to pray for America.
Thank you so much for reading.