The Foolish Shepherd, the Unfaithful Bride & the Devoted Soldier

Words of Woe and Warning to the 
Foolish Shepherd and the Unfaithful Bride &
Words of encouragement to the 
Devoted Soldier in the Army of the
 Church of Jesus Christ.

A Portrait of the Endtime Church in America


Read Ezekiel 7 and 8; Ezekiel 34; Isaiah 57; Jeremiah 9

We are re-entering the time of the Judges.  Our priests and kings have abandoned God and have gone a whoring after darkness.  The Shepherds have left the flock to wolves and have delivered the sheep of God’s pasture to the slaughter.  The Prophets falsely prophesy peace, peace, when a sword comes swiftly.  It is time for judgment; judgment begins at the house of God.

Those who call themselves Christ’s children, who claim to be of the household of faith in Jesus, must follow Judge Gideon’s call to break down his father’s altar to Baal (Judges 6), even those altars which are in our own homes. 

“NO,” you say, “we’ve no such altar in our homes!”

You are wrong, and you judge incorrectly when you say you’ve no such altar in your homes!

Who is this god of Hollywood whom you worship?  Did he bring you up from the pit?  Did he die for your sins?  Is he your creator?  Can he save you from death and Hell?  Who is this Stadium god who commands your worship on your Sabbaths and your holy days.  Who is this Nashville who entices you with his wickedness to bring praise to Lucifer himself?  Who is this Disney who entices you to witchcraft, sorcery and demon worship?  What are these books on your shelves telling you to use mystical secrets to reach me?

Why have you made this god of Hollywood (who is no god, but a demon) to be rich beyond measure with the riches with which I, your Lord, have provided?  You are on the brink of bankruptcy.  Your debts pile up, and your houses are devoured, because you have sowed into wickedness, and you have reaped corruption and poverty. 

Search the cabinets, the closets and the drawers, and see, and count the dollars you have spent on works of darkness, purchasing your idols.  You burn incense upon the altars of your entertainment centers to your gods of violence, destruction, profanity, lewdness, adultery, promiscuity, nakedness, and many blasphemies against God Almighty and Jesus Christ, whose name is continually used as a curse word by all who inhabit the wicked places of the temples of Satan which are the movie studios.  Have you not heard that even friendship with the world is enmity with God?  Yet you go a step further in your whoring and even worship these idols in your hearts, esteeming evil to be good and calling godliness and purity evil.

You wrongly reason in your foolish and adulterous hearts, that since you only watch, and partake only in the hallows of your mind, that you are not guilty of the sin and the worship of evil!  You foolish ones!  Has not our Lord Jesus said that to look upon a woman with lust is to have committed adultery?  It is from the wickedness of the heart that these profanities proceed.  The thoughts of a man betray him to God who knows all things.

You reason that you do not love evil and violence.  Again, you reason falsely.  Does the Lord even take pleasure in the destruction of the wicked?  Search the Scripture you claim to know and see if this be so.  Does God Almighty, the giver of life, take pleasure in blood and destruction, even of the wicked (or the ‘bad-guy’ as you call him)?

You take care to say, “Oh my gosh,” and “Oh my goodness,” and all manner of other sayings; telling yourself that you do not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain, and that your speech is not polluted.  Is it not in vain that you take His name upon yourself, calling yourself Christians, the Church, His Bride, His children, while giving place to darkness, evil, magic, wickedness, blasphemies, pornography, lusting after all types of pleasures and vanity in your very homes and hearts? 

Hollywood has become rich beyond measure, and you covet her success and riches, and all this is done with the help of My People.  A people who claim to be one body, who should care for one another’s physical burdens, who should have all things in common, who should esteem others as better than themselves, lording nothing over the other: these same ones have purchased profane things---heaps and heaps of profane things and tools of Satan in the form of movies, music, images/pictures, clothing, tattoos, books, subscriptions and the like.  My people have traded beauty, and the beauty of My Holiness, for ashes. 

How can we not weep, mourn and wail and cry out to God in Jesus’s name for forgiveness when we realize that we, HIS church, have strengthened the arm of the Devil himself!  We have paid God’s money (for all we have is HIS), to our oppressor and the accuser of the brethren.  We have made the enemy rich and have given him the needed provision, with which he daily produces more and more filth, destruction, sodomy, death, harlotry, hatred, reviling and blasphemy. 

The enemy then uses God’s money (which we, His children have offered as a sacrifice to the Devil in purchasing his wares); the enemy uses God’s money, I say, to then produce more filth, to sell your investment back to you at an even higher price!  You are funding Satan’s war against the children of God!!  We have become a stumbling block to all who would believe!!!  Who can blame them for their sneers.  Woe, Woe, Woe to us on the earth, for we are fools who have sold our birthright to Satan for a pottage of meat! (As did Esau-who lusted after flesh.)

Why does the church lament the state of the children, the youngest and most tender among us?  Do you not know why the kids are entranced, enraged, rebellious, reviling, selfish, and hateful?  Have we not purchased the tools of Satan, have we not distributed these stumbling blocks to our children?  Do we not know that in our present state, the only fitting thing to be done to us as a nation of ‘Christians’ is that we should be fitted with a millstone and thrown into the sea?? (Revelation 18:21)

We confess our sins, so we say, but are we not even unaware of the greatest of our sins??  To turn away, and to offend, these little ones who would love God, is to be Satan’s tools indeed.  We have brought upon ourselves the chastisement of God.  Does He not reprove and correct and chasten those He loves?  Are we better than the nation of Israel, upon whom God placed His Holy Name?   Do not be deceived and believe that we can lightly and falsely ‘repent.’  True repentance means turning away from that which is evil.  Truly repentant people would even willingly take their correction and a punishment (as did the thief on the cross who knew that he was there because of his own doings). 

But this church blames the world for the destruction of their own children.  Are we not the ones who deliver our children up to the public schools, because we cannot sacrifice an income in order to home-school our children?  Have churches not altogether left off educating children, abandoning the children to the public schools while churches sit empty all week long? 

Do we not purchase and deliver, to our children, phones and tablets and computers with internet pornography, mindless games, and evil entertainment and all manner of foolishness readily available to our children?  Do we not purchase cable TV and other subscriptions and deliver them to our children for their partaking?  Do we not escort the children to the temples of theater, wherein the children are instructed in violence, the occult, magic, witchcraft, killing, abuses, homosexuality, profanity, lewdness and blasphemy?  Do we not provide them with the god of virtual reality in video games, entrancing them with sounds, and instructing them in the art of killing, violence, and war?  Do we not buy them books filled with magic and sorcery, or take them to libraries and let them borrow these books?  Do we not run to and fro, escorting our children to all sorts of games and clubs and events? 

Oh, the last one will be the one most will openly and vehemently defend, to be sure!! But will you stand before God, and argue with Him in that day, that the time spent on sporting and clubs was not detrimental and squandered? 

Show me a child today who so loves God that he would rather read His Word than throw or kick a ball (or do just about anything else)!  You err.  You have not instilled a great love for the Lord in your children’s hearts.  This is because it is not first in your heart. 

You have limited time in a day; this is true.  How are you spending that time?  Does your Bible reading time, prayer time, singing to Jesus time compare at all to the time spent in all the fruitless works of the flesh?? 

I know, and I will assert, that it does not.  I have not witnessed, nor have any witnesses been brought forth to me, to prove that the American ‘Christian’ mothers and fathers are leading their children more to GOD than they are leading them to the useless things of this earth.  If surveys are to be believed (and they are heralded as true representatives of reality), then this nation has almost wholesale rejected Jesus Christ.  A nation that was once mostly Christian.  The reality is, that most believe no more than the devils themselves believe.  Even the demons tremble at the Word of the Lord.  Most “Christians” do not fear God.

Was not God right to instruct His newly born nation, when He told them to reject the ways and the gods and the worship of the heathen nations?  Give no place to the Devil---NONE, NO place.  What place is there for the pagan gods of superhero-dom in the house of the called and chosen and elect of God?  What place for pornography and lewd speech?  What place for worship of any man or woman?  Do you not know that your praise to God Almighty is incense to Him?  Why then do you ever praise man?  Do we offer incense to men?  Have men made us?  We cry aloud and shout and praise at our superheroes in the stadiums today, just as they did in Rome.  Satan lies to us and tells us that we are different, that our praise to these current men and women is somehow different.  Why do we twist the Scripture and prefer the admonishments of Satan, to the crystal-clear instructions from our Lord??

Who is there who will speak for the Lord?  Who will contend for Him?  Who will stand for the right and boldly proclaim against the wrong and the evil and the leaven of the Pharisee?  Is there not a prophet of God in the land that we may inquire of him and see what the Lord says?  Will we really believe that our enemy will be given into our hand in the day of battle, when we seek not to the Lord and to His prophets of old first?  Jesus said, “Why do you call me, LORD, yet do not what I say?”  Consider, Church, if these things be so.

Did Gideon receive help from the Lord against the oppressors of Midian without first destroying the altar of Baal in his own father’s house?  How then can we say we are on the Lord’s side when our own homes are full of filth? 

Do not say this is not so.  Do not reason with your own selves and say, “Nay, we have no wickedness here; no foolish, vain (empty), beguiling works of darkness in our own homes.” 

Search your shelves, cupboards, walls, phones, DVR’s, computers, yea, your very hearts, to see if there be any wrong thing within your temple or in your habitation.  Why will you not break off from the works of darkness to your own hurt?  Is not the filth all around you in this country adequate proof that something is very wrong in the house of God?  Are we too stupid to read the Old Testament and see what befell all of the wicked kings of Israel and Judah who refused to tear down the high places and idols of the land?

Your children’s eyes are on you.  They look to you.  Are you an ensign for the Lord?  Or do you worship at the altar of pleasure?  Does your heart go after violence, profanity, death, wickedness, foolishness and sporting?  Why have you discarded the better portion of sitting at the feet of Jesus?? 

You are not too busy!  You have simply chosen the pottage of meat, that thing which is dead, in favor of choosing life everlasting in the Word and in the Holy Spirit, which is supposed to be the great gift of Jesus sent to us to comfort us, guide us into all truth, preserve, protect and seal us unto the very day of the redemption of our physical bodies. 

The promise of abundant life is misunderstood by those who think themselves wise.  Seek the Scripture.  See what the Lord says!  Do not rely on others to seek for you.  You, yourselves, have not because you ask not; when you do ask, you ask amiss, seeking for the pleasures of the world instead of for the Holy Spirit of God as the new church did in the book of Acts. 

You prefer the muddied waters which your slovenly shepherds have lead you to; and you prefer the rationed portion of the Word of God, to your own hurt.  Because you will not take off the heavy burden the Pharisees have put on your neck and the yoke of sin, those works of the flesh you carry with you, so that you may be light of foot to ascend the mountain of God: for this reason you are left behind, with Aaron and the Golden Calf of pleasure, whom you worship with your skirts uncovered before God.

If we are to put to death the works of the flesh, and every sin which entangles is to be cast off, so that we may run the race and finish, and receive our crown from our Lord Jesus, why do we not break in two and burn the altars to Baal and Ishtar and Molech in our own homes??  Do you wrongly reason that the one who created the ear cannot hear what is played and said in your homes?  Can not the one who created the eye see all things (even into our very hearts and hidden closets and cabinets and the caches on our phones and computers)?

These works which elevate witchcraft, sorcery, pornography, death, profanity, drug use and the seeking after of Satanic power to morph and to transform the human into a super-human, demonic creature, are EVIL.  Man is created in God’s image and was not created to be as the angels.  Man will never evolve into a super-human.  It is evil to seek this power.  That is Satan’s plan to remake mankind into his own image. 

All the works of Marvel, DC Comics, Harry Potter, Tolkien, George Lucas, Disney and the likes (of which there are so very many) are used to deceive and to beguile the children and to cause them to seek after the power to be like God.  This is the stumbling block which we throw before our children; this stumbling block will later become the millstone used to throw down Mystery Babylon once and for all at the end of all things.  For Jesus’s words will be fulfilled.  Read the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John the Apostle for yourself.  The fall of Mystery Babylon, the great whore, with names of blasphemy written on her forehead, will be a great fall indeed.

Like ancient Israel, who had covenanted herself with God Almighty, and betrothed herself to Him; we, too, have gone a whoring after all manner of evil, vanity, violence, murder, profanity, putridness, pornography, lewdness and sodomy.  It will be because of God’s great mercy unto us that He will bring the chastisement and the shaking upon this nation, in order that a remnant will repent and be saved; for judgment begins with the house of God—then the nations of the world will be judged.

Do not be deceived.  Do not believe that we can serve two masters—God and money.  Do not say that you cannot destroy that wicked thing in your house because you paid money to buy that wicked thing!  It is better to cut off that hand which ‘makes’ you sin and to thereby enter Heaven as an amputee, then to enter into Hell as a whole person.  Better to cut off that foot which ‘makes’ you wander into sin; better to poke out that eye that ‘makes’ you look upon the evil thing, than to enter Hell in one piece.

Many will say, “Lord, Lord,” to Jesus in the day of judgment; many will hear, “depart from Me, I never knew you, you who work iniquity.”  We need to examine ourselves, daily, to see whether we be in the faith.  Read the admonishments to the seven churches in Revelation to hear the admonishments of the Lord to those whom He loves.  For God reproves the sons He loves. 

Return to God with a pure heart, with your whole heart, and all your mind, soul and strength.  Break down your father’s idols of impurity in your homes.  Cleanse your hand and your hearts.  The Lord is eager to show mercy to the contrite and broken spirit.  Mourn, each of you his sins, then will the Comforter (the Holy Spirit) be given you, to imbue you with power from on high to preach repentance and remission of sins to all who need a physician and who seek a cure.

Do not let that deceiver enter your ears and beguile you.  He only desires to take away your shield, your armour, your shoes and your sword; he starts first by unbuckling your belt of Truth!  Then the whole armour of God falls off, and you are open to receive greater lies and deception.  Soon you lay down your sword (if ever you had it), and your shield of faith, and then your gospel shoes and finally your helmet are surrendered.  See, you must receive a love of the truth first; or else your mind becomes reprobate, unable to reason; and like a brute animal, you surrender your breastplate of righteousness and trade it for a covering of filth.

Evil is Evil.  Sin is sin.  Wickedness, sorcery, pornography, lewdness, blasphemy, violence, the occult and spiritism, hatred, striving, gossiping, lying, idleness, sporting and all the vain and unprofitable works of the flesh have no place in the Lord’s army, in His temples (His people), or His places of worship. 

WE are at war.  The battle is the LORD’s; but if we are the Lord’s, then why do we give place to the flesh and to the empty pursuits of this kingdom of darkness?  The shear amount of time which is wasted, squandered by the Church of Jesus Christ is unspeakable.  The Devil’s got the church so busy doing absolutely nothing at all.  We are all as eunuchs, impotent, just as Satan desires. 

The power of the Holy Spirit is not on the greater portion of the “Church” of today, because the church has greatly grieved the Holy Spirit with all of its idols.  The faithful, many of the faithful, who truly seek God, who sit at Jesus’s feet and worship Him and learn of Him, have left off partaking with the loveless church of Ephesus, the money-loving, idolatrous church of Pergamos, the fornicating church of Thyatira, with Jezebel seducing the members to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols, the dead church of Sardis which claims to be alive, or the lukewarm church of Laodicea which is fit only to be vomited out.

No, the faithful church of Philadelphia is hard to find indeed.  There are members of it scattered here and there in among the tares and in the pews of the other churches.  But within those churches, the Philadelphians are silenced and oppressed.  Those who claim that “iron sharpens iron,” wish only to use their swords to cut down the faithful, rather than to be sharpened themselves on the stone of Jesus and His Word.  The unfaithful ones know not that they are persecuting Jesus when they persecute those with little strength, who have kept Jesus’s Word and protected it, and who have not denied Jesus’s name even in the face of hatred coming from fellow brethren. 

The blessed church of Smyrna, the suffering, persecuted church, those on the front lines of battle in other parts of the world (though some of our brothers here are persecuted and quietly killed); that blessed church is all but forsaken by us.  We do not fast, and mourn, and greatly plead with God and men for the physical salvation of our brother Joseph, who is in prison or hanging on the gallows.  We are like Judah, just before her final and utter destruction, not being moved by the destruction of Joseph (the Northern kingdom of Israel, after the Assyrians utterly destroyed them and took them away captive).  No, we are not concerned with those on the frontline—not in any meaningful way.  We say a quick prayer, maybe send a few bucks, but that is the extent of our concern, if there is any at all.  As to those on the front line, to those engaged in battle and doing the work of standing up for their faith, we are no real help at all.

There is an historical account, of King David’s life, which illustrates some very important truths about what is going on in the church today.  Bless the Lord, His Spirit has shown this to me today, for the first time, and it is an amazing picture of all that is wrong in the church in this country in particular.

If you remember, King David (who had enticed and taken Bath-sheba in sin and had impregnated her) wanted Bath-sheba’s husband Uriah, to engage in marital relations (works of the flesh), in order to cover David’s sins. 

Remember, at this time Israel was at war.    David, the king, and a type of Shepherd for Israel, sent out his captains to make war with Ammon (the descendants of Lot), but David retreated from the battle, to stay at home and rest.  Subsequently, the Shepherd King, in his idleness, allowed his eye to tempt him, and caused another man’s wife, Bath-sheba (the wife of captain Uriah, who was warring on behalf of Israel), to be brought to him and to sin with him.  And she apparently did not resist David and did not desire to be faithful to her husband.

Bath-sheba conceived in sin a child of David’s flesh.  To cover the sin, David wanted Bath-sheba to lie with her husband, Uriah, so that it would be thought that the child she carried in the womb was Uriah’s.  David called Uriah back from the front of the battle, and enticed him to engage in the works of the flesh (in this case, marital relations—which could bear no fruit, since she was already with child), while the rest of the soldiers battled for the Lord and the nation of Israel.  Righteous Uriah, out of respect to the rest of the army which was still engaged in battle, would not partake in the pleasure of the flesh, neither was he enticed to eat the great feast of meat (literal flesh), which David sent to Uriah’s house.  Uriah did not even wish to be distracted by looking at his own wife, and did not go into his own house, but slept outside at the gate.

David, asked of Uriah, why he would not go to his own house, seeing as he had made the journey home from the battle front (albeit Uriah had only come home from battle at his earthly master’s command).

Uriah’s reply is good.  He says, “The Ark, and Israel and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife?  As thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.”  Uriah saw that his fellow soldiers were not in comfortable situations, enjoying pleasures; no, they were in sparse conditions, with no comforts of home, battling for the safety of Israel.  Why then should he comfort himself when his fellow soldiers in the Lord’s army were embattled, encamped and being ready for war.

David responded evilly when he saw that he couldn’t entice Uriah to unwittingly cover David’s sins by engaging in pleasures of the flesh.  David called his servant Uriah to the castle to eat and drink, and become drunk with wine, in hopes that in drunkenness, Uriah would be given to sexual thoughts toward his wife Bath-sheba and thus finally cover David’s sin.  Uriah remained resolute, and did not go home to Bath-sheba.  David, left with no other option (so he thought) conspired to have Uriah killed in battle.

David’s pride was so great, that he would rather an innocent man die than that David should suffer a little shame and have his sin uncovered before his people.  His great pride blinded him and led him to believe that the only way out was to ensure his own self-preservation by having Uriah killed.  After all, how would it be, if the King who was supposedly a man after God’s own heart was found to be an adulterer, and this during a time when the woman’s husband was at war on David’s behalf?  David understood the ramifications of coming clean, and he was not prepared to suffer the humiliation.  No, his only option, all that he could see as a remedy, was the destruction of Uriah.  Uriah must be sacrificed so that David could keep his pride and not ‘fall’ in the eyes of the people.

So David proceeded to make sure that Uriah died in battle.  David had Uriah killed, but ‘appeared’ to keep his own hands clean from blood by making the Ammonite enemies kill Uriah in a legitimate battle.  Read II Samuel chapter 11 (and beyond) to see this for yourself.  David even enjoined his army general, Joab, in this great sin.  The letter from David the king instructing General Joab to get Uriah killed was even delivered to General Joab by Uriah (unbeknownst to the faithful captain Uriah).  The hardness of David’s heart at this point, and the level of pride needed to carry out such a thing is unseemly, especially considering that David was the chosen son to be the King of Israel.  David was a man after God’s own heart, but even a king can fall when he leaves off from fighting the Lord’s battle, and is given over to pleasures and works of the flesh.  Thankfully this was not the end of the story, and David repented under the heavy hand of God, and continued on to serve the Lord.

This historical passage is so deep that it is a struggle to try and put it into few words.  There is much here.

Zechariah 11: 17  Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock!  The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

I see slothful, lazy, lustful, covetous shepherds, who desire after the flesh and mammon instead of after the spirit of God.  They themselves do not shepherd the people of God as Jesus the Good and True Shepherd did.  They do not lay down their very lives for the sheep.  They do not forsake the pleasures of this earth in favor of being at the forefront of the battle to lead the sheep of God in this war against principalities of darkness.  They do not lead the sheep by fountains of living waters; no, they sprinkle with soft rain when a flood is what is needed to wash away the wickedness and to cleanse the hearts, lives and abodes of men.  They do not lead the flock by flowing and living waters from the fountain of the deep as Jesus did.  No, a muddy, shallow, infested pond is what they provide, which provides more fleshly and spiritual hurt than healing.  The waters are not stirred by the Holy Spirit, that true healing may come.  No, muddied, unclear waters are what are provided.  Not crystal clear wells, which are dug deep and which spring forth from living water.

They do not lead the sheep into pastures of living, green grasses that give life to the sheep.  No, dead, steaming silage and corn to make fat are all that are presented to the sheep.  The sheep are confined to the stall as cattle waiting to be slaughtered.  Yea, the sheep as to the slaughter are prepared by the shepherd.  As David lead Uriah to slaughter, so the false and evil shepherds lead My people, says the Lord.   Whereas Jesus lead those who would answer the call, out into the hillsides to be fed by Him manna from heaven, these shepherds confine the sheep, keep from them good food and living water, and instead fatten the flock that they may be delivered to the enemy for the final slaughter.

Jeremiah 11:21  For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

Lead My sheep, oh you shepherds!  Lead them to Me.  Entice them to come to the wilderness and to be comforted in Zion.   The Word of God is not for sale—do not sell it!!  I drove out the money changers from among you, and those who sold you doves.  My house shall be a house of prayer!  Do not bring back the sellers who will only make merchandise out of you.  I own the cattle on a thousand hills!  All the earth, and all that is in it are mine, says the LORD!  What can you bring Me; what have I need of?  You know, oh man.  Bring a contrite and broken heart.  A repentant and humble one will I receive.  But to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God, says the Lord.  But those who are proud, who need no physician, you shall remain outside and stand and see the judgment of Almighty God and of Jesus Christ when He returns in full battle array to judge, in righteousness and truth, the quick and the dead. (Revelation 19:11-15) 

God does not delight in sacrifices and offerings; no, He desires mercy, repentance, and that you stop offering up incense and money to the gods of entertainment, which you have vowed you will never stop seeking after. 

The Lord God takes no joy in the flesh of goats, nor in the destruction of the ungodly.  God is ready to forgive, to cleanse, to comfort, to heal, to take you under His wings and to shelter you.  But you must break off from the heathen, from the works of the heathen, from the love of the world.  Have NO fellowship with the works of darkness, but rather reprove them, says the LORD!  You are not to be partakers of the harlot’s sins.  Come out from among her My people, says the Lord, that you partake not of her plagues which are soon to be poured out, as on Sodom and Egypt in days of old. (Revelation 18)

Ezekiel 11:20  That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.  21  But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

Is it a small thing to ask—that you clean your own houses??  Why do you build Me sanctuaries and then profane them with your half-hearted repentance?  Why do you weary of breaking down and burning the idols in your homes and even in your churches?  Is it a small thing that a nation covenanted to God and betrothed to Christ Jesus has gone a whoring?? 

Blood-guiltiness is upon the house of God and of His Church for tolerating this evil.  Today is the day, tonight is the night to obey the angel of the Lord as Gideon did.  Rip down that altar to Baal.  You may be afraid what your fellow servants might say—but obey!  Is it right to fear men and forsake the fear of the LORD?? Or have you already that forgotten that it is the fear of the LORD that is the beginning of wisdom?  You quote Me and say, “My people perish for lack of knowledge.”  Yet you continue in your lack of knowledge.  Read My Words, says the LORD God Almighty, or I will take them from you.  And in that day there will be a famine of God’s Word.  You will seek to it, but you will not find it. 

Amos 8:11 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 the hearing of the words of the Lord.

The Lord’s Words are being spoken, but none are “hearing the words of the Lord.”

Oh how My children in other countries LONG for and pant for the Word of God; and you dare to trample this grace, this peace that was given your nation in My goodness.  I did this for My glory—not for yours, oh Harlot America!  Yet you have left off from the battle, as did My servant David in his day of transgression. 

And to heap up sins you have enticed my faithful ones to engage in fruitless works of the flesh in order to cover your own iniquity.  You have not wept for the destruction of Joseph your brother.  You have been enticed by the wicked one to engage in pleasure as a slothful and evil-eyed people.  You make up your eyes and get to your temples of theater and sport, and to your many markets and food courts to make merry and eat and be drunk with the blood of the saints, just as the whole world will make merry and celebrate when My two witnesses are killed by the beast which is to come.  (Revelation 11)

Amos 5:10  They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.  11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat (your tithes to your houses): ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.  13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.  14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.  15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Read: Matthew 23

Oh you foolish generation of vipers.  You strain at a gnat, and swallow the camel.  You pretend to follow, but your foot runs swiftly to evil.  You forget the cause of the orphan, the widow, the faithful soldier and your brother in battle.  How can you revel in pleasure when my faithful ones perish??  That you cannot see this evil, and the evil in your heart, therein is the reason you will need to be greatly, yes greatly, shaken.  Woe unto them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! (Amos 6:1)

Wake up out of your slumber!! Fill your lamps and bring extra oil.  When the time comes, you will not be able to take the oil from, nor to borrow it from your brothers who have been prepared.  Your brothers have prepared their hearts to seek Me and My face in all things.  I am with My faithful and wise virgins. 

Yes, be as the Philadelphians.  If you hear My voice---do not delay and say, “yet another day, when I am old, after my father has died and I have lived my life and enjoyed the pleasures of this wicked world, taken a wife, gotten children, stored up grain.”  Read Luke 9:57-62

Do you not know that today is the day of Salvation?  Today is the day of repentance.  Today is the day to obey the call of the LORD.  Perhaps this very night your life may be required of you.  If so, what will you say in that day?  Are you truly proud of your slovenliness?  Will you boast in the day you stand before My face and say that you have done your ALL?  Sell it all, sell it now! 

Because thou sayest, ‘I am rich, and increased with good, and have need of nothing;’ and knowest not that thou are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind and naked:  I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.  Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and He with me.  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I overcame, and am set down with my Father in His throne.  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.  Revelation 3:17-22

The unfruitful works of the flesh are rotting as manure in My temple.  This stink is not becoming of the children of God and the church of Jesus Christ.  Our prayers to God through Jesus are the incense we send up to God.  Therefore, clean your house, break down the altar to Baal as Gideon did, and then the Lord will be with you in battle and He alone will provide the victory and the salvation from the terrors to come.

Shepherds, be not as David, enticing Uriah into unfruitful works of the flesh.  If you will not repent from this, you will find yourself going as far as David did, yes even having his fellow servant and a captain of the Lord’s army killed, in order to cover his own sin.  Let not the slothful and envious shepherd rebuke his fellow servant who seeks the Lord.  If you covet the reward of Abel (that his sacrifice was acceptable to God), then do the work of Abel—don’t slay your brethren. 

The day will come, and is now here, when those who deliver the lambs to the slaughter will think they are doing God’s work.  Repent, pastors, shepherds of My flock.  Break down your own idols—break the union with Sodom—yes with Hollywood, with Nashville, with those who entice you to be drunk, carouse and engage in fruitless acts of uncleanness, with those who entice you into sporting and merrymaking during days of war and of battle.  Wrench the logs from your eyes, you pastors of my flock.  Perhaps then you will see clearly to help My sheep get the dust you have kicked up, out of their eyes!!  Then you may lead them to clear waters, to My whole and holy counsel in My Word.

If you will not leave off from this sin, if you will not break the idols of the flesh and the sorcery and the pornography by breaking with the kingdoms of blasphemy in this world, which are Hollywood and Nashville and Disney and in all the stadiums where men profane my Sabbaths screaming out their fanatical praises to men, and where men go to temples of theater to see My name profaned, blasphemed and to lay stumbling blocks before the little children who would come to me; yes, if you will not cease from this, and break off from the Harlot, I will strike you with a rod of iron, and your sheep will be scattered from your folds.  Your treasuries which you have built up onto yourselves will be raided by enemies and by the heathen with whom you will not break league, and you will not see salvation in that day.  No, even if you seek protection, you will not find it.  Just as the beast will hate the Harlot Woman who rides on its back, so will the beast on whose back you ride, buck you off and gore you with 10 horns and destroy you and stamp the residue with its feet until you are utterly destroyed.  “I am the Lord your God, and I am a jealous God,” says the Lord.  Fear Me and Give Me glory.  Come out from the Harlot so that you do not partake of her sins and that you will not partake of her plagues. (Revelation 17)

The days are evil.  Walk circumspectly (taking care to look all around you), and redeem (buy back) the time you’ve wasted and squandered in taking your inheritance early and taking your ease instead of being about the battle and the Father’s work. 

We are all guilty, we have all sinned in this.  The estate of the church in America is a result of corporate sin as well as individual sin.  We, in our ease, have forgotten our great need for God, and have thought ourselves rich when we are indeed poor as the Laodiceans and the whole house of Israel before us.  We have relied on our own right hand of strength instead of relying solely on the Lord Jesus Christ.  We forgot that God gave us all that we have.  We are poorer in the knowledge of the Word of God than ever before.  We have forgotten that we have an enemy, thus we have left off the battle and become friends with the world.  We all need to remember from whence we have fallen, repent, and realize that as long as the breath of life is in us, we can still glorify God and praise Jesus with clean hands and a pure heart. 

The enemy of our souls has gained so much ground, yet the vast majority of the church is not engaged in battle to take back that which was lost.  It’s true that we cannot win a battle ever without the Lord fighting it for us.  Just as in Gideon’s day, we must be sure whose side we are even on.  Do we desire to be tools of the Devil, whether willingly or unwittingly?  Must we enrich Satan’s coffers that he may wage ever more intense war against us?  Or are we on the Lord’s side?  If so, why do we do as the world does, and make friends with them and mimic their ways.  God’s ways are not our ways, and they certainly aren’t the world’s ways.

Are you a shepherd who has left off from protecting the sheep?  Are you at home, at ease while others battle to protect the sheep from the coming slaughter?  Are you enticing Bath-sheba (the majority) to backslide with you and engage in sin and thus conceive children who will also end up dying in sin?  If so, don’t try to entice Uriah (the faithful one) to come home from the battle and revel with you in pleasure, that he may cover for your sin and the sin of his backsliding wife who let herself be enticed by you.

Do you not see?  The shepherds, who themselves are not enjoined in the battle, will try to lead away silly women (an archetype of all those who wish to backslide as did Lot’s wife) and entice them to waste time in unprofitable things.  This has been done in the church for years.  You, yourselves, complain of the fruitlessness of your works.  You weary of all the work you do and cannot see a point in it.  For all of your striving, your programming, your seminars, your book-reading and writing, you do not see the fruit of the Spirit.  That is because what is conceived is of the flesh (David and Bath-sheba) and is not of the Holy Ghost. 

You do not wish to enjoin yourself to the battle by becoming men who are prayer warriors, who deny themselves pleasures and instead seek after the LORD with all of their might.  You do not wish to labor as Paul did; this is not your call, you say.  You do err.  The called are faithful.  To be a shepherd is no small thing.  To shepherd a flock is to give your very life for the sheep.  This is not an easy thing.  That we have a nation of pastors following after David in the days of his transgression, is a terrible thing.  Why not follow after David and repent, that the Lord may restore?  Do you need to see your child which was conceived in sin lying dead first, before you will repent? 

Please hear.  You, which have conceived in sin, according to the work of the flesh (adultery with the world, mixing with the world, burning incense to the world and glorifying men instead of GOD ONLY), you who have conceived children by enticing the wife of the faithful one to come away with you and engage in unfruitful, worthless works of the flesh, you will either repent now, or your fall will be just as David’s fall in days of old. 

Which is worse: to repent now, and to be briefly ashamed of yourselves and to be humbled, just as all men ought to be anyway, and to perhaps save the life of your children who are in Bath-sheba’s womb; or to remain stubborn, prideful and deny your sin, and continue trying to entice the faithful Uriah home to you, that he, too, may leave off from the Lord’s battle and His work, in order that your sin may be covered up?  I tell you, if you do not repent, you will even give up the faithful in the church to be killed by the Antichrist Beast and its system.  And your children will die (those converts in the pews which have been conceived by the flesh and not truly converted by the Holy Spirit to repent).

I tell you, Uriah will remain faithful to God, even though his wife (fellow Christians) will not stand up for him to plead his case to David the Shepherd, in order that Uriah’s life may be saved.  The Shepherd (Pastor) and the whoring wife will both stay in league and will pride-fully refuse to expose their own sins.  No, they will rather sacrifice up Uriah, the faithful soldier in God’s army, and deliver him to the Ammonites at the front of the battle, and then fall back from the fight and let Uriah be slain.  Is this what you desire for your legacy?  Is this that for which you have ‘labored?’ 

And must the child suffer, too, and die?  The children in your pews, your converts, who being conceived in sin (easy believe-ism), and not of the Holy Spirit, and not in true repentance, must they too suffer and die because you will not repent and suffer a little indignation, in order that the whole household of faith may be saved? 

I tell you, the faithful servants of God and Jesus Christ will by no means join you in your reveling and your reverie (sleeping), no matter how we are persecuted by you and called faithless by you;  we will not sup with you, and join you in taking your ease; nor will we be enticed even to fellowship with our lawful bride (which is to say our fellow servants of Christ, with whom we are one body, as the husband and wife are one body). 

Just as Uriah would have been in the right, lawfully, to go to his own wife and to commune with her, so shall we who are soldiering in God’s army on the front of the battle, in the right, when we would fellowship with our brethren in our own body.  But we will not be enticed to leave our posts.  We would rather sleep outside at the gate of the city then to be enticed to remain asleep in your pews or to go home to keep fellowship with the straying wife.

Just as Rome (Babylon) of today calls back her “protestant daughters,” so the Church of America calls to the individually, protestant ‘Uriahs,’ begging the faithful man to join them in their rest from the battle and settle into the church with the dead children of the erring shepherd and the faithless wife.  If you cannot see, I pray God that He opens your eyes to see what you are really doing.

That which is wrought by fasting (from evil, pleasures, and food), prayer and the Word of God (just as Elizabeth desired for God to give her a son, and Hannah pleaded with God for the same), that fruit will be alive and will be as John the Baptist and the prophet Samuel. (Hannah was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.  She vowed to God that if He gave her a son (gave her fruit), she would give that child to God.  That child was the great prophet of God, Samuel.) 

You cannot by man’s power and schemes bring about the work of God.  Your programs fail because they are not God’s program.  God’s program is very simple and it is very simply outlined in His Word.  His whole counsel is available to you.  Quit consulting men and wasting God’s money on men’s books.  Read your directions.  Follow your directions.  It’s not that the directions are unclear.  It’s that they ask an awful lot of you; that which you do not want to give of yourself.  Jesus spoke hard words because He was only interested in true disciples. 

If you are working for yourself, then so be it.  But if for Christ Jesus, then deny yourself everything and follow Him by doing as He did in all things.  Jesus fasted; He prayed; He denied himself and took up the cross for each of us.  Or does the servant now think he is greater than his Master and Lord and Saviour Jesus?

If you desire to be a king, to be lauded by the Bath-sheba’s and to get pleasure and earthly gain from her, then by all means, continue. 

If you desire to be the Lord’s pastor to the sheep of His fold (not yours), then you have a different course before you.  God will not stop a man from pursuing an evil course.  But God will surely judge a man who leads others astray from following after the whole counsel of God. 

Worse, God will surely judge for the fact that children, who would otherwise follow God with a whole and willing heart, are being led astray into pleasure, worldliness, sorceries, wickedness, violence, death, blasphemies, profanity, drugs, sexuality, and in the denial of very God and Christ Jesus.

Pastor, you have a pulpit—use it!!  Do not be as the false prophets of old comforting the nation of Israel with sayings of peace when destruction was at the door.  Repent from whatever idol(s) you yourself are elevating.  Break down the idols, or your father’s altar to Baal (worship of the things of this earth—earth worship), and be empowered by Almighty God via His Holy Spirit which comforts those who mourn for their sins. 

Buy back the years eaten by the locusts.  Buy back your squandered inheritance.  Come to the Father, not as a son, demanding the Father’s blessings; return as the prodigal did as a servant.  The prodigal understood that after having squandered the Father’s precious inheritance, the son was now only worthy to go back and ask for a wage-eanring job and to be a servant.  Not that your soul's salvation is of works of the flesh; do not twist my words.  It is just that you desire to be greatest in the kingdom and to have son ship and to be honored and provided for, but you yourselves do not desire to give all, to sacrifice all you have, and to be the servant of all.

Quit thinking the children owe it to you to provide for you.  Jesus said the children are free; it is the conquered nation who pays tribute (tax).  Why must you plunder God’s people, and guilt them into providing for you?  Do you not know that a man who will not work to provide food for his family is worse than an infidel (unbeliever)?  We, as the household of faith are to have all things in common and to share one another’s burdens.  We are not called to burden others; that is the leaven of the lazy Pharisee who wishes to burden the Father’s children with traditions of men and to plunder a widow’s house for a pretense!  Read Romans 8 and see that we are free.

Matthew 17:24  And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute (tax/offering) money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
25  He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
26  Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
27  Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

Render to Caesar that which is Caesar’s and to God that which is God’s.  You are God.  Offer up all of yourself to Him.

God wants to restore, but His method is not your method.  Covering sin, or trying to get the faithful Uriahs to cover for your sin (of reveling and reverie) is not God’s modus operandi. 

Sackcloth and ashes.  Mourning and wailing.  Prayer and fasting.  Do this today before the child conceived in the flesh is taken from you, just as David and Bath-Sheba's child was not allowed to live and be a blessing to David.  God will not forever allow the reward for your sins (the child/your flocks/your churches) to remain.  Do not think that just because you have conceived a child (a flock in the pews) that that child is a work of God.  Only children conceived of the spirit are alive and will live to produce fruit of their own.

Jesus will come and remove the lamp-stand of the disobedient churches.  (Revelation 2)  He will not forever suffer you to speak on His behalf if you speak wrongly. 

For some of the Davids (Shepherds) who do see great fruit (just as Bath-Sheba did conceive a child), that growth in your church, if it is of the flesh and not of the spirit, it is dead already.  Unless the fruit is conceived by the Holy Spirit, it will be dead fruit.  Many churches today are filled with unconverted converts.  I believe that most pastors recognize this sad reality.  Many pastors even lament it, but in the same breath fail to see their part in the conception and delivery process.  Tell me, can a child be conceived without a father?  Does a child come forth without travail (work)?  If that work is of the flesh, the work is dead.

Do you have children who love pleasure more than godliness?  Perhaps you, too, desire after the flesh more than after sackcloth and ashes and repentance.  Quit criticizing the flock for their complacency.  You are the one who called for Bath-Sheba to be brought to you.  You went in unto her.  You wined and dined her and caused her to bring forth fruit.  Do you wonder then, that her fruit is not in accordance with true repentance?  Please consider this and see if it is so.

Be about the battle, all true shepherds of God’s flock!!  Repent now, and even be humbled, lest you remain in your pride as Pharaoh did.  Remember that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart even more than Pharaoh had hardened his own heart.  Remember that Pharaoh’s first born was taken from him, just as David’s child with Bath-Sheba was killed.  (Read Romans 2:5) 

If God is chastening you, if He is trying to flood your crusty heart with water, allow Him to soften the soil of your heart that this root of rebellion may be rooted out, that you may be converted again as in the first estate of your conversion.  Remember the days of old, when your hearts were set aflame by the Holy Ghost (if indeed they were set aflame), and seek God and to Jesus that He may forgive your sins and heal your land.

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou has left thy first love. (As David did)
Remember therefore from whence thou are fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove they candlestick (church) out of this place, except thou repent.  Revelation 2:4-5

Today is a time of choosing and of turning and of returning. 

We have no need of a king to save us, for no king ever has. (Hosea 13) 

We need only a Lamb to redeem us, and He already has.  Hearken to His call.  Be wise and humble yourself under the Almighty hand of God so that He alone will lift you up.  Better to fall on the Cornerstone and to repent, than to remain in pride and be crushed to powder by the Stone.

The peace of God and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be upon all who are the called, the chosen and the faithful to His Word.  Grant to Your children repentance in this evil day, that we may return to You, Lord Jesus, with a whole heart, and that you will heal us and our land.

Isaiah 59:1  ¶Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4  None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5  They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6  Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
7  Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8  The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
9  ¶Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10  We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11  We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12  For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13  In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14  And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15  Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16  ¶And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17  For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
18  According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
19  So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
20  And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
21  As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and forever.


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