MAKING GOD GREAT AGAIN

  Monarchies have three “estates.” The estates are classes of people within the kingdom. There is class warfare because of rivalry between the three classes of people. France sought to normalize relations by melding the three estates into the “estates general.” It was a noble endeavor, but due to resistance, heads rolled (from the guillotine.) Not only did heads roll from the nobility, but soon the clergy, and finally the citizens. Their “left-wing” (the Jacobins) made the heads roll.
  Others in the left wing were soon victims themselves as the less “progressive” left-wingers – the Girondons – were demolished by the blade. The far-left Jacobins began a reign of terror wherein any perceived opponent was guillotined. That was their way of “impeaching” their leaders as well! Before it was all over, the National Assembly consisted of the Communes. Thus, communism was born from the chaos in forming the French Republic. Just as always, communism became a new monarchy with an emperor named Napoleon Bonaparte. Like all autocrats, Napoleon sought power for himself at the expense of the common people and to the chagrin of all the nations that he ruined by war. (Socialism always leads to ruination!)
  The “first estate” was the clergy, the “second estate” were the nobility, and the “third estate” the commoner. During the socialist reign of terror (by then already concealed communism), the nobility was the first to taste death, the clergy the second, the commoners who disagreed the third, and the opposition of the same ideology the last. All the killings were class warfare and was extreme politics. The left-wing leaders fomented hatred and used divisive tactics to gain power.
  The three “estates” were not new to France as they existed in most ancient nations. Also, the three estates remain even in our Republic. France claimed to be establishing a republic, but theirs was a blatant democracy in the beginning. Democracies are governments wherein the majority rules. In the case of France, the commoner (the masses) became the rule of law.
  Because they could, they reigned with terror. Republics were created for the purpose of tempering the mob. In America today, democrat and republican forms of governing are still extant. The former represents the mob who want things their way and the latter represents civility by representing all of the three estates. Democratic ideology leads to insurrection by ideological bullies, and republicanism controls political bullying. Democracies create class warfare and republics assemble together in unison for the good of the most with protections for the few. In other words, democratic ideology uses minority support for their power, and republican ideology supports minority views. The electoral college was implemented to protect minority thought from majority abuse. Pure democracies often evolve into autocratic rule.
  Ancient Judah had the same three “estates:” (1) Priests, prophets, and elders, (2) princes and kings, and (3) the common people. It is to be noted that the majority, when all of Israel when ruled by fair judges, demanded a king. God frowned on that, but allowed the majority their way. Not only did Israel demand kings, but kings insisted on building for God a house. That’s what overly powerful governments do: insist on building unnecessary things!
  Look around this nation right now. The government has built so many unnecessary things! It was formed for two purposes: (1) For protection against enemies both foreign and domestic, and (2) to regulate commerce between states and nations. Look at all the institutions that have evolved since given a little power; the left has grown the second estate at the expense of the first estate as nourisher for the third estate. The progressive (sic) left has regressed to feudal times when the serfs were dependent on the nobility for sustenance.  Now back to ancient Judah.
  Judah was on the verge of destruction by the Babylonian Empire. Jeremiah prophesied bad things for king, priest, and country. Judah would be destroyed. The actual destruction was to come from a foreign enemy, but the root cause was rottenness within Judah. God used Nebuchadnezzar as his “tool” to disciple the unruly nation of Judah just as he used Assyria to discipline Israel (the northern kingdom) before.
  We have all been taught that Rome fell because of apathetic people and moral decline. France fell for the same reason. Ironically, they both were still as immoral after their fall if not more so! Likewise, Judah and Jerusalem fell because of moral decay, not because of weaker armies!

KEY VERSE: Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I (God) have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life. (Ezek 13:22)

  The nation of Judah was about to be destroyed and Ezekiel, as Jeremiah, warned them frequently. It was not Nebuchadnezzar’s army that was the real threat, but the wicked people of the nation. The northern nation had their kingdom end and the masses destroyed, and even their priests. However, Judah was about to lose their country, their king and princes, their priests and prophets, their commoners, and even the residence and Presence of the Lord God! All three estates would be destroyed, but God would not be. He just vacated His residence until a few could start a new “revolution” with Him as King! (That came about seventy years later for two reasons: God is just and God is good!
  How decayed was Judah? I suppose that Ezekiel was too righteous to be in the wicked Temple, so God gave him a vision of what was going on inside His House (supposedly His).

(1)    Condemned were prophets which, “prophesy out of their own hearts” (Ezek 13:2). They were not sharing God’s Will, but their own. Most of that was, we’ll be alright in the end, when God said they would not be. America, likewise, without God and righteousness, will not be alright. America is in decline. God sought only to return Judah to its greatness through Him, but the false prophets thought that they could remain evil and still be blessed. That didn’t happen! God said to them, “Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!” (Ezek 13:3). Note that the kings and the people had already accepted evil, and then the clergy followed suit. They did not take the Lord to the world, but the world to the Temple, although not to the Lord but to Baalim. We see this in modern times as the Church brings the culture and morals of the world into the churches. Lesbian pro-abortion women preachers have been ordained as priests, and Christians sit silently as they watch Baalim become the gods in God’s face! Clergy, take note: “Therefore thus saith the Lord God; ‘Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God’” (Ezek 13:8). You must cease with the nonsense!

(2)    “Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart” (Ezek 13:18a). The priesthood is the dominion of men. The first heresy in God’s House is allowing women to be dominant over the men. Genesis 3 recounts the original sin with the mother of all the living being deceived by a cunning Serpent. Adam stood by in silence as the world went awry! Note that many progressive churches have women clergy. I’m just the messenger but that is the truth. Feminism (division), abortion, sexual freedom, acceptance of same-sex marriage, and many other social issues have weaseled their way into God’s Houses through women whose desire is the have authority over men. Today, even eastern cultish religious practices have entered the church through psychology and practices such as open meditation and yoga. God said to Ezekiel, “Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls!” What is mediation and yoga? Union with some other god! (Yoga means “union” and a Yogi is in union.) Women also bring “magic” into the church (Ezek 17). How is that done? Dependence on the philosophy of men with an opposing religion (psychology). Also, with things such as astrology and such. All these things are in the church today.

(3)    Even the King was independent from God and civil authority: “And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel” (2 Chron 36:13b). There goes the leader of the second estate whose job it was to set the example and allow worship of the One True God. Today, our own government is made up mostly of elitists who have hardened their hearts against God – most Democrats and many Republicans. Believe it or not, but God wanted to make Judah great again, and that was to maintain His Greatness in His nation! Although Hitler had a different vision of making Germany great again, to make America great again is a good thing for that is what God wanted to do with Judah!

(4)    The priests and princes were doing abdominal things in the Lord’s House. The religious leaders were doing disgusting things: “Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth” (Ezek 8:12). They were worshiping idols, and oftentimes they even had male temple (homosexual) prostitutes. Homosexuality is an abomination (disgusting act) to the Lord, yet many liberal churches accept it into their church through advocation for same-sex marriage and turning a blind eye to the sin of homosexuality. Whereas, God can change anything… any behavior, psychologists say that homosexuality cannot be changed, and therefore is to be accepted. God was not into diversity in His House but unity. He was not into tolerance but obedience! The clergy was the first estate and the third to go the way of the world after the common people and the nobility. Even the priests thought what they did behind closed doors was acceptable. They had secret sins of the flesh. Clergy sexual abuse is rampant today in about any church. Satan always uses our sexual libido when all else fails.

(5)    “And He brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east” (Ezek 8:16). Those were the rulers. They were religious but not spiritual. Their focus was on the sun and had their backs turned to God. If that doesn’t describe progressives, nothing does. Our leadership is more worried about the Sun and global warming than they are God. There always has been and always will be climate change, and the world will be burned up, according to the revelation of John. However, global burning is not the end of it all, but a new beginning. The burned-up world will become a Garden Paradise again. Those who look more toward global warming than to God, worship the Sun and the Earth. God cries for them, but yet Christians as well as politicians worship the creation and not the Creator.

(6)    “Then He brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz” (Ezek 8:14). This happened to be women that Ezekiel saw. Probably because they are usually more tender-hearted, they were weeping for Tammuz. Tammuz was the “husband” of Innana (Ishtar), and they were weeping for him because Innana was deceived and became a corpse in the land of the dead. Rather than weeping for those who would perish in Hell, the women wept for the husband whose wife was already dead! Their priorities were wrong, and they focused on the human condition as Tammuz had been a human king. There, my readers, is the modern dogma of social justice within the church. It’s what the Catholic and Progressive churches teach rather than spiritual justice. Jesus said that we would always have the poor with us. That was ordained in Genesis 3 as a consequence of sin. However, those who focus on social justice are more concerned with the creature than the Creator. It is good to have charity, but charity does not buy salvation. Charity is a characteristic of righteous people, but “charity” is not taxation and it is not charitable to use other people’s money to demonstrate your love for others.

  I just touched on the abominations going on in God’s House in the time of Ezekiel. Similar things are in the modern church. When God’s House is defiled, then the nation will be destroyed. That’s Ezekiel’s message to King Zedekiah, and his message to us. Long before the first and second estates became corrupt, the masses had already. Even when they had judges rather than kings, each did what was right in their own eyes (Jud 17:6).
  The government and the clergy listened to the common people, and their principles changed. Rather than respecting God, they respected their heart’s desires, and perished. We find from scripture that righteousness is the circumcision of the heart. That is submitting our wills to God, and unity with God. With that, circumcised hearts are of one accord with God and others. Godly people are not divided, but in unity. The Devil’s tactic is to divide and conquer, and that’s socialist dogma as well!