From the time of first Adam,  the people were in bondage to sin, and death entered through sin, Ro 5:12.

Present day ISRAEL who had the covenant of youth, Eze. 16: 8, broke that covenant at Bamah, Ez 20: 29, 44: 7, by bringing strangers into the LORD’s temple, the LORD does not approve when we break His Judgments! We gentiles know the iniquity of ISRAEL, says the LORD, Eze. 39: 21-23. because of their transgression they are in captivity, and Jerusalem is desolated as these writings would show.

That is why the LORD is making a New Jerusalem, Re 21.

LORD chose ISRAEL as a people for himself, so that He would dwell with Him in A TABERNACLE made by Him, Mr 14:58, Ac 7:48, 2Co 5:1, Heb 9:11, 24. LORD cannot dwell with sinful people, and therefore the LORD makes ISRAEL as having  no iniquity, Jer 50:20, Ps 65:3, Ps 85:2, Eze 36:25, wastes shall be built after cleansing, Eze 36:33, Isa 62: 4,5, cleanse them who were not cleansed, Joe 3:21 , Mic 7:18, He will turn again (which means He was gone away earlier, Ez 39: 21-23), Mic 7:19, LORD gives a fountain to cleanse from all sins, Zec 13:1, He redeems them, Isa 44:22, ---thus the LORD would accomplish building a NEW JERUSALEM with ISRAEL as new people, Rom 6: 3-5,  to worship Him in spirit and in truth, Joh 4:23, 24! New Jerusalem would be then an example to the rest of the world and they would be a blessing to the earth, Heb 6:7, De 28:12, Isa 55:11-13, Joe 2:22-26, Jas 5:7, Eze 34:26  And I will make them and the places round about My hill a blessing;

LORD POURS Righteousness UPON ISRAEL, Ho 10:12, to make them true worshippers, Joh 4:23. This He accomplishes through His death on the cross, His sacrifice of His blood, and the power f His resurrection, Rom 6: 3-7, 19,22.

THE LORD SEEKS ISRAEL TO WORSHIP HIM--Eze 20:40  For in Mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve Me: there will I accept them,-

And we see that the LORD accepts ISRAEL in Ezekiel temple, showing the mountain heights of ISRAEL----

Eze. 40: 2--In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain,

One could very well see in the above vss-that the LORD makes house of ISRAEL serve the LORD in a spiritually high mountain (-that is---they should be well taught how to worship the true God, how to exalt Him, praise Him and thank Him, obey Him, and reverence Him and exalt His Judgments-SO THAT PRIESTS HAVE PEACE WITH HIM TO SERVE HIM)---they would be made holy and righteous to stand before Him, Heb 12:14(without holiness no one would see Him).

----after teaching them giving all knowledge, He would accept them in Ezekiel temple as we had shown in our writings. (please refer to articles).

 THEREFORE THE PURPOSE OF THE LORD IS TO RESTORE HIS PEOPLE-

AS IT WAS NOT DONE EARLIER-people -prophets could not do so in last days-although the LORD gave them knowledge, Jer 44; 4,5

 Neither it was done in history--Ac 1:6  When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?7--And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons,

8--But ye shall receive power,9 -- And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

  THAT MEANS HE DID NOT RESTORE AT THAT TIME--

  THEN THE LORD HAS TO RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL!

Jer 7:7  "then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

Thus THE LORD HAS TO BRING TO PASS THE PROMISE OF INHERITANCE TO ISRAEL! -to give inheritance to ISRAEL -they are to be given God’s special things mentioned in Rom 9: 4,6-they are--- adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

5  Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all,  

Abraham -Isaac-Jacob-David are fathers-the promises to them concern JESUS CHRIST -and those blessings above mentioned in Rom 9: 4,6---would be given to those ISRAEL who will be sanctified and purified through the blood of JESUS CHRIST as His blood is the blood of the covenant, Zec 9:11, Heb 12:24, Mt 26:28, Lu 22:20, 1Co 11:25 (you should notice that we partake of the blood of the covenant during passover---and should realise that we should be concerned of preparing ourselves to make the new covenant at Passover, remembering His death, and  (Resurrection ---we should seek His salvation!) 

But------“none saith, Restore”-Isa 42:22 (nobody is interested to restore Jerusalem through accepting LORD’s sacrifice!).

Therefore, THE LORD HIMSELF WILL WORK OUT- TO RESTORE KINGDOM-

Isa 62: 1 -For Zion’s sake will I not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. (notice---salvation should be as a lamp that is burning!---IT IS A WORK!-people should work out their salvation, Php 2:12!-one has to learn who is the Saviour, how He saves, what must we do etc.)

2  And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, (gentiles see that LORD had sacrificed Himself to take our sins upon Himself, to make us rightoeus before Him, so that we could serve Him in newness of life, Rom 6: 3-5)

3  Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.4  Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: (the LORD’s work would pave the way for old Jerusalem to be revived, Isa 62: 4,5)

LORD DOES A SHORT WORK, ROM 9: 28, DURING GENTILES’ TIMES, Ez 30; 3

Isa 62: 6 -  I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

7  And give Him no rest, till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

As the ISRAEL is blind in part, Ro 11:25, gentiles were grafted, Rom 11: 17, and these gentiles were made watchmen who has to SEE THE Righteousness OF THE LORD and give His messages to ISRAEL . The gentiles are to watch the walls of Jerusalem until it is established by the LORD, they are not to keep silent, but work hard until LORD restores the walls of Jerusalem, thus walls of New Jerusalem will be built by the LORD, Re 21: 12, having names of ISRAEL written on gates.

Rom 11: 26  And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

27  For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED-UNGODLINESS OF ISRAEL WOULD BE TAKEN AWAY THROUGH LORD’S SACRIFICE -IT IS LORD’S COVENANT TO ISRAEL!

Therefore the LORD would RESTORE ISRAEL to be in His TABERNACLE, Re 21: 2,3!

THE ISRAEL OF ROM 9: 4,6 ARE TO RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY, AS TEMPLE PRIESTS WERE SENT INTO CAPTIVITY BY THE LORD HIMSELF, Eze. 12: 3-15, Eze. 39: 28, which the gentiles know, Eze. 39: 21-23.

Jer 33:7  And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

Am 9:14  And I will bring again the captivity of My people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities,

WE SEE THAT LORD WILLS TO RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL AFTER causing the captivity of Judah and ISRAEL return.

ISRAEL had to be sent into captivity because of sins of ISRAEL -no one is without sins! ---kingdom to be restored after He corrects the rulers of ISRAEL -the LORD requires the rulers in ISRAEL (in David’s throne, Jer 33: 25,26), to make just Judgments and rule the people justly and mercifully, otherwise the people would be unhappy. Therefore the rulers need to be made a royal priesthood, 1 Pet 2: 9, to rule ISRAEL His people JUSTLY. that is why the LORD rebuilds David’s throne which was fallen down, Acts 15: 16.

When the LORD is the temple, Re 21: 14, 22, the wall MADE UP OF ISRAEL, has to be of --precious stones, ---gold -or silver-pearls-Re 21: 17-22-(THAT WAS DONE BY THE PURIFICATION PROCESS done by JESUS CHRIST).

1 Cor 3: 11 - For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

16 -Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

NOBODY WAS PURE AS THOSE VSS SAY ---the work of men were tested by fire of the word of God, Jer 5: 14, 23: 29, DURING LORD’S DAY, Ez 30: 3, and found that men could not make themselves as precious stones, silver or gold!-THAT IS WHY THE LORD HAS TO PURIFY HIS PEOPLE WHEN THEY SIN, MAL 3: 3!---in Re 21: 14, 17- 21, AFTER THEY ARE PURIFIED, THE TWELVE TRIBES APPEAR AS PRECIOUS STONES, their names written in the WALL!

Unless the LORD build His house, NO ONE ELSE COULD BUILD LORD’S TEMPLE!  --WE SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD’S WORK!-and HOW DID HE DO IT?---by His own sacrifice through the death on the cross by shedding His blood as the blood of the covenant, Heb 12:24, Heb 13:20, eternal covenant is possible because of His BLOOD.

MEN NEED CLEANSING FROM THEIR SINS-SO THE LORD TOOK OVER SINS OF ISRAEL ON HIMSELF. Ga 1:4, Heb 1:3, Heb 5:3, Heb 7:27.  this is why Paul preached Him and Him crucified, 1Co 2:2, he preached Christ crucified, 1 Co 1: 17-31, we should glory in the LORD, vs. 31. Paul boasted on His cross, Ga 6:14, and therefore our “old men”crucified with Him , so that we are not slaves of sins anymore, Rom 6: 6. (read articles on the CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST).

Ec 7:20  For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

-          1Ki 8:46  If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,)

-          2Ch 6:36  If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

-          Job 15:14  What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

-          Job 15:15  Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

-          Job 15:16  How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

-          Ps 130:3  If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

-          Ps 143:2  - for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

-          Pr 20:9 - Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

-          Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

-          Ro 3:23  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

-          Jas 3:2  For in many things we offend all.

-          1Jo 1:8 -  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

-          1Jo 1:10  If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

-          Isa 64:6 -  But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. (when we are cleansed through His blood, we are to sin no more, 2 Tim 2: 19---then we would not be as filthy rags anymore!).

-          1Jo 1:9  If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

WHO SENT THE SPIRITUAL ISRAEL INTO CAPTIVITY/

Eze 39:28  Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.

-          2Ch 6:36  If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

When the LORD was angry with His church, He made PCG captive among gentiles! this is why the LORD built us the poor first born gentiles, Isa 14: 30 to SEND A SPIRITUAL BLAST TO PCG!

UNTIL LORD’S TIME, THE SINNERS WERE SENT TO Babylon --

Mic 4:10--O daughter of Zion,-- to Babylon you shall go.-- There the LORD will redeem you From the hand of your enemies.

Jer 27:22  ‘They shall be carried to Babylon, and there they shall be until the day that I visit them,’ says the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.’"

LEADER OF THE CHURCH WAS SENT INTO CAPTIVITY--

Eze 21:2  "Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, preach against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

Eze. 24: 24  Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do:

Eze 12:4  "By day you shall bring out your belongings in their sight, as though going into captivity; and at evening you shall go in their sight, like those who go into captivity.-- Eze 12:7  So I did as I was commanded.

THEY BECAME LAODECIAN

Eze 12:12  "And the prince who is among them shall bear his belongings on his shoulder at twilight and go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry them out through it. He shall cover his face, so that he cannot see the ground with his eyes.

THAT MEANS HE IS BLIND!

RE 3: 17  - and blind, and naked:

PROUD WILL BE HUMBLED--

Isa 10:32- He will shake His fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.     33  -- Those of high stature will be hewn down, And the haughty will be humbled.

 LORD CLEANSES ISRAEL WITH HIS FIRE OF WORDS, Jer 5: 14, 23: 29.

Isa 31:9  -- And his princes shall be afraid of the banner," Says the LORD, Whose fire is in Zion And whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

FROM WHERE WOULD THEY RETURN FROM CAPTIVITY?

-Jer 23 : 7-8-- Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

8  But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

That means it is not as the history of ISRAEL when the physical captives were brought from Egypt and Pharaoh -but saved from CAPTIVITY IN NORTH COUNTRY AND FROM ALL COUNTRIES! Then ISRAEL captives are in many spiritual countries!

(you find a list in Jer 25)

LORD SPEAKS IN PARABLES, HE NAMES CITIES AND PEOPLE, Ps. 87: 4-6, AND CALLS THE LEADER OF THOSE NATIONS, “MAN OF CITIES”, Jer 20: 16.

Next vss.after Jer 23: 7-8 tells us the reason---

9 -Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of His holiness.

10  For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

11  For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in My house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

THE PROPHET AND PRIEST IN GOD’S HOUSE ARE PROFANED!

SO THE PROPHET AND PRIESTS OF GOD’S HOUSE ARE DRIVEN TO MANY COUNTRIES BY GOD!-vs. 7-8.

LORD’S CONCERN FOR ZION IS VERY GREAT--

I have graven thee (ZION) upon the palms of My hands; thy walls are continually before Me-Isa 49: 14-17

One should understand the LORD’S CONCERN FOR ZION-HE WILLS TO BUILD UP THE WALLS OF ZION! -in Revelations 22: 17-22-you would see that the LORD is the TEMPLE, vs. 22, and the WALL of Jerusalem is built with PRECIOUS STONES! STONES REPRESENT ISRAEL, RE 21: 12----LORD PURPOSED TO BUILD THE WALL!

1 Cor 3: 11 - For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire;

We ought to build with precious stones-gold-and silver!

(to correct Jerusalem the LORD purposed to break down and tread the wall, Isa 5:5, He strengthened the poor to break the wall through their BLAST, Isa 25:4 (notice that the poor are terrible, also, Hab 1: 6-8 says of those of us, poor and afar, we too are Chaldeans as we went to Chaldea with PCG ministry in basket of good figs, Jer 24: 5, that is FOR OUR OWN GOOD! The LORD blessed us, Jer 24: 5-7 made us His people, made us to serve Him in His house of prayer, Isa 56: 4-6 as the LORD’s way is in a SANCTUARY, Ps. 77; 13.

PROPHECIES THAT ISRAEL WOULD GO INTO CAPTIVITY IN Babylon --

They shall be carried to Babylon,--- then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place-Jer 27:22

Mic 4:10-O daughter of Zion,-- thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee-

Zec 2:7  Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

Isa 46:2  They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

Na 3:10  Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Jer 20:6  And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

(please note that the LORD had given names to people, Ps. 87: 4-6, for His short work, Rom 9: 28, the word mentions in Rom 9: 17 that a “Pharaoh” would be created to show the LORD’s power! Thus the Pharaoh represent the “SWORD OF THE LEADER”, Jer 2: 30, Eze. 32: 2. {Pharaoh is the “lion” and the “lion” is the Pharaoh’s “own sword”} when leader speaks and does unbiblical things they are against God! Therefore they are sent into captivity!).

WHO KNOWS ABOUT THE CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL?

Eze 39:23  And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

LORD’S WORK-WHEN HE COMETH IN CLOUDS--

Jer 43:11  And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

Jer 15:2-- And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

Jer 22:22  The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

Eze 30:18  At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

THIS IS THE TIME OF GENTILES SERVING THE LORD, Eze. 30: 3

WHO WILL SERVE JESUS CHRIST TO FIGHT THE CAPTIVES?

Hab 1: 5 -Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

6  For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.(these are the gentiles who went to Chaldea for their own good, Jer 24: 2-5) the gentiles are described in the vss below--

7  They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

8  Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

9  They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

10  And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

11  Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

When the gentiles worked sending east wind, scoffing at the leaders, the leader’s mind changed, and he raised another god, H.W.Armstrong!

WHY ARE ISRAEL IN CAPTIVITY?

because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, Isa 5:13

Jer 30:16  Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

Jer 46:19  O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

(when ISRAEL of Rom 9: 4,6, broke covenant and sinned they DID NOT REPENT-therefore they dwell in “sin’ or “Egypt”-therefore they were sent into captivity. they are addressed as in captivity, in Jer 29: 1,20, whom the LORD sent from Jerusalem to Babylon!.

Jer 48:7  For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together. (when people of God have other gods, Chemosh is one of them, Nu 21:29, 1Ki 11:7, 1Ki 11:33, Chemosh the god of the Moabites,---God considers ISRAEL His people in Moab, {Isa 15:1-burden of Moab-Isa 16: 1-4, in vs. 4 the LORD’s out casts dwell with Moab-which means ISRAEL were sent to Moab by God -they are in captivity in Moab, having other god Chemosh---GOD SHOWS THAT THEY ARE NOT WORSHIPPING THE TRUE GOD!}

Judah IN CAPTIVITY

La 1:3  Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

La 1:5  Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

La 1:18  The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

FROM WHERE DID THEY GO INTO CAPTIVITY, AND WHAT TIME OF DAY WAS IT?

Eze 12:4  -- Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.

Eze 12:7  And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.

Eze 12:11  Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.

THE CAPTIVITY IN NIGHT, IN DARKNESS

AS NATIONS-the LORD  considers HIS CHOSEN ISRAEL AS CAPTIVES in many nations-therefore THOSE PLACES ARE A burden to the LORD-in prophecies one would find the word says---“the burden of Moab”-burden of “Damascus”---“the burden of Egypt”-the burden of Babylon”-“burden of wilderness of sea’-and many other--Isa 15:1, Isa 17:1, Isa 19:1, Isa 21:1 , Isa 21:11, Isa 21:13 , Isa 22:1, Isa 23:1-and so on. 

IN THE FOLLOWING PROPHECIES SUCH NATIONS ARE MENTIONED--  

• Jer 48:47  Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD.
• Jer 49:6  And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.-- 7 - Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

• 8--Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him. 

·         Eze 25:3  And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

·         Eze 29:14  And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom. 

• Jer 49:39  But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD 

• Am 1:6  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
• Am 1:9  Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

Am 1:15  And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD. 

• Am 5:27  Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts. 

• Am 7:17  Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

Am 9:4  And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. 

ALL THOSE NATIONS WERE WORKING AGAINST ISRAEL! THAT IS HOW THE LORD LOOKS AT IT! -WHEN THE LEADER GIVES HIS “OWN WORDS” AS A “LION” , Jer 2: 30,TO DESTROY THE LAND OF ISRAEL, LORD SCATTERED THEM IN NATIONS NOT KNOWN TO US, Eze. 32: 9, and above were a list of those nations WHICH WERE A BURDEN TO THE LORD!

LORD has to purify them and take them back to the REQUIRED STATUS OF LAND OF ISRAEL! -that is the people have to be having LORD’s Righteousness and holiness to stand before Him, Heb 12:14. and that Righteousness is only given through LORD’S DEATH---THAT IS WHY ALL ARE TO BE BAPTISED INTO HIS DEATH-RO 6: 3-7,19,22-COL 2: 11-12.

Col. 2: 11-12-- In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

12  Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.  

HE GATHERED ALL THOSE NATIONS TO BATTLE--

Zec 14:2  For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

ALL NATIONS WERE GATHERED IN VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT-

Joe 3:1  For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2  I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.  

THEY ARE ALSO GATHERED IN ARMAGEDDON, THEY FIGHT THE LORD, RE 16----the people of God without understanding LORD’s requirements in His land, fought Him by being talkers of “their own words”, Jer 2: 30, Eze 36:3, Tit 1:10-

When you do not listen to the words of JESUS CHRIST, you are fighting Him!  

WHAT HAD THE PROPHET AND PRIEST DONE ABOUT THE CAPTIVITY?

La 2:14  Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. 

Ezekiel WAS TOLD TO ACT DURING CAPTIVITY-

Eze 3:11  And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

Eze 3:15  Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

Eze 11:24  Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

Eze 11:25  Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me. 

ACCORDING TO THOSE WORDS,  LEADER DID GET THE Revelations FROM ALL PROPHETS, Jer 44: 4,  WHICH ARE FROM THE LORD TO MAKE ALL IN SPIRITUAL Jerusalem REPENT, Eze. 16: 2, Eze. 3: 11, Eze. 33, ---but the leader exalted himself saying he is a conduit of Revelations WITHOUT ACTING UPON THEM---THAT MEANS he did not get the church repent for the abominations! THEREBY HE FAILED TO GET THE BRIDE OF CHRIST PREPARE FOR THE MARRIAGE,

BUT HE GAVE HIS OWN WORDS (may be from H.W.Armstrong too), THOSE WORDS ARE HIS OWN SWORDS, Jer 2: 30 , THE “OWN SWORD” IS THE DESTROYING LION, Jer 2: 30, AND THE LION IS Pharaoh , Ez 32: 2.

The LORD taught him a hard lesson by taking his wife, Eze. 24: 16, yet he did not take it to heart, he was deceived! THEN THE LORD ACTED TO SAVE ISRAEL BY HIS WORK OF THE DAY OF THE LORD, duirng gentiles’ times, Eze. 30: 3, Re 11; 2-4. below are the scriptures proving that He works among ISRAEL--  

RESTORE JUDGES FIRST--

I will restore thy judges as at the first---Isa 1:26

JUDGES WERE THE ASSEMBLY-Eze. 16: 40-42 thereby the LORD does a work through the gentiles to restore ISRAEL-healing them--

Jer 30:17  For I will restore health unto thee,

Joe 2:25  And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Thus the LORD gives knowledge to ISRAEL, Isa 11: 9, Hab 2:14

Hab 2:14  For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

The LORD gives knowledge to ZION comparing the breach of ZION as “sea”, La 2: 13.-so the sea is covered with abundant knowledge of the LORD!  

Giving such knowledge,  

LORD WOULD BRING THEM BACK FROM CAPTIVITY-

Eze 16:53  When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

Jer 29:14  And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Jer 30:3  For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. 

LORD brings back His people into the same place from where they were taken captive-Jer 29: 14, Jer 30: 18

Jer 30:18  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

Jer 32:44--I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD. 

Jer 33: 25  Thus saith the LORD; If My covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

26  Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.  

Jer 46:27  But fear not thou, O My servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid 

Eze 39:25  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for My holy name;

Am 9:14  And I will bring again the captivity of My people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.  

ADDRESSING CAPTIVES-

Jer 29:16  Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

Jer 29:20  Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon: 

Jer 30:10  Therefore fear thou not, O My servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. 

LORD SPOKE ALL THOSE WORDS AGAINST ISRAEL, BECAUSE HE WAS ANGRY AND JEALOUS-

Ez 36: 6  Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:

8  But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.

9  For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

10  And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded: 

BLESSINGS AFETR CAPTIVITY 

Jer 31:23  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness. 

Jer 33:11  The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD. 

Zep 3:20  At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD. 

Hos 14 contains beautiful prophecies being the blessings after the return of captivity! 

WORD OF GOD HELPS THE HEARTS THAT WERE LED INTO CAPTIVITY!

Ro 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Ga 5:17  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

1Ti 6:11  But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Eph 4:8  Wherefore he saith, When He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

LORD’S DEATH AND RESURRECTION PAVED THE WAY TO RELEASE THE CAPTIVES, Zec 9: 11 TOO.  

OUR THOUGHTS ARE IN CAPTIVITY BECAUSE OF SIN-WE SIN WHEN WE DO NOT HONOUR JESUS CHRIST -WHEN WE DELAY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE HAD DONE TO SAVE US!

HE IS THE GOD OF WHOLE EARTH-THE HUSBAND OF ISRAEL,

Isa 54: 5-For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is His name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall He be called.

6 -For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

7  For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

8  In a little wrath I hid My face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

LORD is hiding for a moment, Eze. 39; 21-23, He had forsaken as wife of youth broke covenant, Eze. 16: 59, 44: 7, but He is working, Rom 9: 28, to save her, to gather her and then she would be no more forsaken, Isa 62: 4,5.  

LORD ACCOMPLISHES HIS WILL--

Isa 45:23  I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

Ro 14:11  For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

Php 2:10  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 

PLEASE READ THE ARTICLES OF THIS WEB SITE TO SEE HOW THE LORD HELPS HIS PEOPLE WHEN ONE TAKES HIS NAME AND BRINGS HIS THOUGHTS TO THE OBEDIENCE OF JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH BAPTISM INTO HIS DEATH, RO 6--- 

When LORD’s people of Ro 9: 4,6 understand all these things and do as He says, they would be part of HIS TABERNACLE. 

ALL PRAISE TO GOD..............Amen.

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