A Study Of The "Day Of The Lord” In The Scriptures – All References Part 2 – Ezekiel, Joel Series

A STUDY OF THE “DAY OF THE LORD” IN THE SCRIPTURES – ALL REFERENCES PART 2 – EZEKIEL, JOEL

We continue to the next set in this examination of The Day of the LORD.

NUMBER 3

[03]. {{Ezekiel 13:5-6 “You have not gone up into the breaches, nor did you build the wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of the LORD. They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The LORD declares,’ when the LORD has not sent them yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.”}}

((There was a terrible misrepresentation of God’s word and false prophets were everywhere declaring lies and making evil prophecies. Ezekiel could say of them, {{Ezekiel 13:7 “Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said, ‘The LORD declares,’ but it is not I who have spoken?”}} These lying prophets held sway and their influence eroded the moral and spiritual values of Israel. In verse 4, the prophet called them “foxes among ruins”, sly and destructive. They denied events that were to come, and they prophesied of events that were never to happen. They openly lied and were demonically inspired.

The Day of the LORD will surely come, but Israel will not be prepared for they have not followed the Lord. In other words they have not healed the breaches of a spiritual relationship with Jehovah; nor have they built up the walls of decency and godliness. In the future, lying, false prophets will arise and mislead many. Jesus warned of this (and the setting is in the time of the Tribulation) – {{Matthew 24:4-5 Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you, for many will come in My name saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many.”}} {{Matthew 24:11 “Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.”}} During the Tribulation, when the world is in the Day of the LORD, Israel will be plagued by false prophets. These evil ones will do a destructive work. Jesus continued – {{Matthew 24:24 “for false christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect,”}} and the Lord then stated just one of these false claims that will be made – {{Matthew 24:26 “If therefore they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go forth, or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them.”}}

We can say with great certainty that in the time of The Day of the LORD, Israel will see an infestation of false prophets and advisors and leaders and religious leaders, sneaking all over the place like foxes among ruins. It won’t be just Israel that will suffer the contagion of false prophets and the demonic delusionists. The whole world will be under the False Prophet, the beast that rises from the land of Revelation 13. Nearly all the world will be deluded into receiving the mark of the beast. This evil satanic man to come will be more evil and putrid than any false prophet who has ever lived on earth.

It is interesting that in my own nation (Australia) in very recent times, several of the States have mandated that if you have not had a double Covid injection, you are not allowed to work (teachers, police, construction workers, etc. etc). I can’t speak for other countries. Now be careful, Covid is NOT the mark of the beast but it is interesting that God is allowing us to see what it is like not to go along with the dictates of the State – if you don’t accept the State’s mandate, you won’t be able to work (in order that you can buy or sell.) In case you wonder what my position is on Covid vaccines, well I don’t oppose them (I am in a very high risk category with lung problems) BUT I absolutely oppose any compulsion placed on people, because it hints of what will come into the world after the Church has been translated.

It is not accidental that today we also see the rise of false teachers and false cults and false prophets, all of which have this focus on eschatological matters, who seem to plague the television and come door to door and worm their way into churches. Be aware of these people! Both now and in the Tribulation there are, and will be, deceitfulness and acceptance of falsehood, lies and delusion. In the first few hundred years of the Christian church you had the rise of the heresies as the weeds of the Parable of the Tares, but today you have another increase in deceitfulness and the spread of false doctrines and false prophets. Those who proclaim themselves as prophets are false to start with because there are no prophets in our age in the sense of spelling out new revelations from God.))