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WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD SUPPORT ISRAEL by Pastor John Hagee
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Jerusalem Declaration!
Jerusalem Declaration!
The event of Wednesday 6th of December 2017 was an
event of colossal magnitude, gigantic; politically, historically, biblically
and prophetically.
Jerusalem is "the center of the earth."
Not only is Jerusalem "the center of the earth",
it is the center of Christianity.
December 2016, Barack Obama was still
president; at the very end of his term, he helped engineered a UN vote of which
he instructed the US Ambassador to let it go through.
What was that resolution?
It was a UN Resolution called: "Israel
the Occupying Power" (just like calling America "the Occupying Power
of Washington DC").
This was stating that ‘Israel had no real
right to Jerusalem’. And America went with it!
Further, it condemned all measures of Israel
to do anything in the city of Jerusalem—declaring it to be a 'violation'.
It specifically called 'East Jerusalem'
Palestinian territory.
And there
was the UN RESOLUTION 2334
In 2016
Donald Trump called on President Obama to veto that resolution, Obama refused!
Trump said
that if he becomes president, he would address it.
That's what
America did in the past administration.
That's how
that administration ended.
This is one
of the reasons why Donald Trump won the presidential election.
GOD Almighty
raised him up at this time for His divine will and purpose.
United Nations Security Council Resolution
2334 was adopted on 23 December 2016. It concerns the Israeli settlements in
"Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East
Jerusalem".
Date: 23 December 2016
Code: S/RES/2334 (Document)
Meeting no: 7853
Result: Adopted
Voting summary: 14 voted for; None voted
against; 1 abstained
The UN
Security Council claims that: Israel’s Settlements have no legal validity, and constituteflagrant violation of international law.
Resolution
2334 in effect prejudges the outcome of negotiations on the crucial topics of
borders, Jerusalem, and settlements. It does so in favor of the Palestinians,
thereby circumventing and undermining the Oslo peace process that former U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry professed to protect and foster. The resolution
rewards Palestinians for violating their commitment to negotiate directly with
Israel and teaches them the (false) lesson that they can unilaterally impose
their preferred outcome on Israel through international pressure. Therefore,
Resolution 2334 removes the incentive for the Palestinians to return to
bilateral negotiations with Israel.
The United
Nations assembly on Thursday, 21st December 2017 voted against US
recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The motion
by UN General Assembly adopted a vote of 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions
rejecting the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
President
Donald Trump warned on Wednesday, 20th December 2017 to withhold aid
to any country which voted against US decision on Jerusalem.
Mali
withdrew their sponsorship of the resolution, in response to the US threats of
retaliation.
But, US
allies including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and South Africa added their names at
the last minute to the document condemning the decision.
The
resolution was vetoed by the United States in the 15-member UN Security Council
on Monday, 18th December 2017 but the US cannot veto a general
assembly resolution, which require a simple majority to be adopted.
Nikki Haley,
US ambassador to the UN, used her speech ahead of the vote to emphasis that the
United States is the single largest contributor to the UN and its agencies, and
said that in return it expected support for its decision.
“The
arguments have already been made. The decision was in accordance to US law
dating back to 1995. The decision does not prejudge any final status agreement.
The decision does nothing to harm peace efforts,” she said.
“The United
States will remember this day when it was singled out in the United Nations for
the act of exercising our sovereignty.
“America
will put our embassy in Jerusalem. It is what the American people want us to
do.
“This vote
will make a difference at how America looks at the UN, and how we look at
countries who disrespect us at the UN.”
But Riyad
al-Maliki, foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority, told the assembly:
“We meet today not due to any animosity towards the United States, but because
of a decision that counts as an aggression.
“The
decision will not affect the status of Jerusalem. Rather it affects the status
of the United States as a mediator of peace.”
He said they
had ignored warnings about inflaming tensions, and described the decision as
“illegal” and “provocative”.
On the eve
of the vote, Mrs. Haley had sent a letter warning countries against voting to
censure the US, and said that the US will be “taking names”.
Despite threats by US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley and
Donald Trump, threatening to stop funding countries who vote against the
decision, diplomats gathered in New York City and approved a nonbinding
resolution calling on countries to avoid moving their embassies to Jerusalem.
Nikki Haley had said:
"The United States will remember this day in which it
was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of
exercising our right as a sovereign nation".
"We will remember it when we are called upon to once
again make the world's largest contribution to the United Nations. And we will
remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to
pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit."
Among the countries that voted in favor of the resolution
are many traditional U.S. allies, including the United Kingdom and France.
Israel, which celebrated Trump's decision earlier this month, joined the U.S.
in voting against the measure. Thirty-five countries abstained, including U.S.
allies Canada and Australia. Mexico, Togo and a host of other countries, stayed
away from voting as well. Nigeria, Russia and China voted against the US, in
favor of the resolution not to move embassies from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem.
Even though they voted against the resolution, it still
won't change the fact that Jerusalem is still the capital of Israel. This is
more of a political statement than anything else.
Prime
Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the UN vote against US
decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Netanyahu,
however, expressed satisfaction at the number of countries that didn’t vote for
the measure.
The Israeli
leader added in a Hebrew-language statement, saying: “We reject the decision of
the UN but we are satisfied by the high number of countries that didn’t vote in
favor of this decision.”
In 1948, Jordan took Jerusalem by force and kept it for 19 years, and literally destroyed the Jewish quarter.
They didn't
allow any Jew to worship, they made the holy site into a garbage dump.
How many
condemnations did the United Nations pass against that?
The answer
is: 0
The Knesset, or parliament, moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
in 1950.
In 1947, the United Nations drew up a proposal to partition
Palestine and allow for the creation of Israel. In the plan, Jerusalem was
under international administration.
Events overtook the plan, however. After the 1948
Arab-Israeli war, fought between the new state of Israel and its Arab
neighbors, Jerusalem was divided between Israel and Jordan. In the 1967 war,
again between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Israel captured the whole of
Jerusalem.
Although the US is often thought of as Israel’s biggest ally,
the idea of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is so controversial that even
Republican presidents like George W Bush have not recognized it as such.
Successive US governments felt that to do so would be to jeopardize any claim
to impartiality in Israel-Palestine peace talks.
Senior US Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, has written to Trump
imploring him not to go down this route. She argued: “If you break with this
long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy, you’ll erode American credibility
as an unbiased mediator, alienate us from our international partners – such as
Jordan – and undermine any remaining hope for a two-state solution.”
However, voters seem to feel differently. During his
campaign, Trump promised to move the embassy to “the eternal capital for the Jewish people, Jerusalem.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital a “red line” for Muslims. He also called on Washington to reverse its move to
recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in line with the UN General
Assembly's vote to reject Trump's decision.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on "world
Christians to listen to the true voices of the indigenous Christians from the
Holy Land ... that strongly rejected the US recognition of Jerusalem as
Israel's capital," in a statement ahead of Christmas.
Malysian leader Najib Razak headed a protest involving
thousands of Muslims against Trump's decision in the country's capital,
Putrajaya, on Friday.
He told demonstrators that Malaysia will do all it can to
save Jerusalem and will not be cowed by the US or quietened by his close ties with
US President Donald Trump.
Nabil Abu Rudeina, spokesman for Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas said in a statement following the resolution: "This decision
reaffirms once again that the just Palestinian cause enjoys the support of the
international community, and no decisions made by any side could change the
reality, that Jerusalem is an occupied territory under international law."
Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian chief negotiator, said the UN
vote showed respect for the rule of law:
"It's a day of shame to those who stood shoulder to
shoulder with the occupation and settlements against international law. But we
appreciate very much that the majority of the international community decided,
in spite of the threats and intimidation of the US, to stand tall with wisdom,
far-sightedness, international law and the rule of law - and not the rule of
the jungle," he said.
Gholamali Khoshroo, Iran's UN envoy, said: "The Israeli
occupation lies at the centre of all crises and conflicts in the Middle East
and beyond, a fact which has long been acknowledged at the UN.
"The appalling tragedy and the old wound of our region
in the past 100 years which began with the conspiracy of the Balfour
Declaration has entered a new phase with the politically incorrect, illegal and
unlawful promise of the US president to move the American embassy to the Holy
City of al-Quds [Jerusalem].
"We strongly condemn this reckless unilateral act by
the US to distort the historical facts and replace them with fiction."
Following the vote, Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif also
weighed in, calling the resolution "a resounding global NO to Trump
regime's thuggish intimidation" in a tweet.
Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, told
the body's General Assembly: "This resolution only encourages more
violence and instability…. We know that Jerusalem is sacred to billions around
the world. Israel respects all religions and encourages everyone to visit and
pray in the holy city.
"I have no doubt that today's resolution will also end
up in the trash bin of history. I have no doubt that the day will come when the
entire international community will finally come to recognize Jerusalem as the
eternal capital of the state of Israel.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said at the
emergency UN General Assembly meeting on Jerusalem: "For so many times, we
have came here to say the Palestinians have the right to live like the rest of
us; they have the right to be free and secure; they have the right to
prosperous; and they have the right to enjoy what is their own. Yet our words
couldn't make a change. The illegal occupation continues. And Palestinians
cannot enjoy their basic rights…
"Turkey will never let al-Quds [Jerusalem] down. The
Palestinian people will never be left alone."
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki told
the emergency UN General Assembly session on the US' Jerusalem move: "We
cannot help but ask: what does this decision serve? It serves the Israeli
government on implementing its colonial plans. It serves the powers of extremism
and terrorism in the region and the world. Who could imagine there would be any
credibility to a peace plan where Jerusalem is excluded. Is there any voice
that supports peace?"
Palestinians called for "day of rage" protests at
sites where there is Israeli military presence. A central rally was planned on
Wednesday at the Qalandiya checkpoint, connecting Ramallah to Jerusalem.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with King Salman and
Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman on Wednesday to discuss the latest develoments
on Jerusalem.
Abbas then travel to France and met Macron on Friday
morning, mainly to urge an EU recognition of Palestinian statehood.
Senior Palestinian officials have also been dispatched to
Moscow and Beijing in an effort to find a new international sponsor for
negotiations.
In a meeting in Ramallah, held as the UN Security Council
was voting on a draft resolution rejecting Washington's recognition of
Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
announces that it will no longer accept the US as a partner in the peace
process.
The PLO also promises to seek full membership for Palestine
at the UN, despite a previous push failed to do so in 2011.
The United Nations Security Council resolution called for
the withdrawal of US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem
as the capital of Israel, diplomats say, a move likely to face a Washington
veto.
Zion
- Jerusalem, is the place from where the KING of kings will reign over the earth!
Therefore, all you kings
and rulers, GOD Almighty - the GOD of Abraham Isaac and Jacob has a Word for
you:
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain
thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take
counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from
us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have
them in derision.
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his
sore displeasure.
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art
my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them
in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of
the earth.
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when
his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in
him.
Psalm 2
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Turning Point for Israel
PROPHECY HAPPENING NOW 2017
Turning Point for
Israel
Jerusalem Division Soon
As was
Prophesied!
UN RESOLUTION 2334
Initiated by
the UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
23RD
DECEMBER 2016
14 COUNTRIES
VOTED FOR
1 COUNTRY
ABSTAINED - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
If USA Voted
"NO" there would have been
NO RESOLUTION...but Obama's Admin Refused!
JERUSALEM WILL BE CUNNINGLY DIVIDED SOON!
UN 2334 WILL
PLAY A MAJOR ROLE IN THE DIVISION
IT WAS ALL
PLANNED TO START THIS YEAR...
1947
+ 70 = 2017
OBAMA'S
ADMINISTRATION INITIATED THE PLAN AND LATER ABSTAINED TO VETO ON 23/12/2016
THEREBY
BETRAYING GOD'S NATION
THERE WILL BE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES ON THE USA
USA WILL BE
DEVASTED ACCORDING TO PROPHECY!
NATIONS THAT
INITIATED UN 2334...
CHINA, FRANCE, USA, RUSSIA & THE UK
USA
ABSTAINED WHEN THEY COULD HAVE VETOED!
ALL THE
COUNTRIES THAT VOTED YES;
CHINA, ANGOLA, EGYPT, JAPAN, MALAYSIA, SENEGAL, NEW
ZEALAND, SPAIN, UKRAINE, URUGUAY, RUSSIA, UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE, VENEZUELA.
JUDGMENT IS COMING ON NORTHERN EUROPE!
FLESH
EATING DISEASE WILL SPREAD AS A RESULT OF GOD'S JUDGMENT FOR TOUCHING &
DIVIDING THE APPLE OF HIS EYE—JERUSALEM
COUNTRIES IN
EUROPE THAT VOTED "YES":
SPAIN, FRANCE & UKRAINE
ALL
THESE EVENTS WILL TRIGGER ‘END-TIME PROPHECIES’ RELATING TO ISRAEL & THE
RISE OF THE BEAST
Arise Shine!
Arise,
shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
For, behold,
the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD
shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee.
And the
Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Isaiah 60:1-3
Heavenly Counsels
Heavenly Counsels
GOD’s Gathering
For who hath stood in the Counsel of the LORD, and hath
perceived and heard His Word? who hath marked His Word, and heard it?
Jeremiah 23:18
In the Scriptures
we see series of heavenly counsels both in the Old Testament and in the New
Testament.
Hebrews 12:1 mentions “a cloud of
witnesses”. Verse 22 says: “But ye are come
unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to an innumerable company of angels.”
Verse 23 talks of “the general
assembly,” “Church of the First Born,” God the Judge of all, “the spirits of
just men made perfect” (glorified-saints).
Verse 24: Jesus the Mediator of the New
Covenant and also refers to ‘the Blood of the Lamb’ (Blood of the Covenant).
Waiting on God, knowing His plans, participating in
heavenly counsels and revealing God's plans and will, are privileges for the
sons of GOD.
Early in the morning, the prophet Habakkuk goes right up to
the tower and he stands there, and he looks up to the heaven, waiting for
God—to hear what God would speak to him.
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will
watch to see what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am
reproved (Hab.2:1).
When you wait on God, you will participate in "one"
of 'three gatherings.'
This is one of the privileges of walking with GOD.
Basically, there are ‘three kinds of heavenly counsels,’
but we will be taking a look at only ‘two’.
Two
Kinds of Heavenly Counsels:
1.)
GOD's
Gathering (the Gathering of GOD)
Job 1:6
Job 2:1
Isaiah 6:1-8
Isaiah 42:9
I Kings 22:19-23
This is a gathering of saints in Heaven
(glorified-saints), and saints on earth, caught up in Heaven—and they
participate in this gathering before GOD.
Where proclamations are made.
Where the Will of GOD is made known.
Some of the saints on the earth who wait on GOD, have this
experience.
In this gathering, announcements are made.
In this kind; you participate in “the gathering of GOD”.
2.)
The
Prophets’ Counsel
This is the second kind of heavenly gathering.
Amos 3:7
Jer.23:18
Some of 'the choice prophets of God'
are in the counsel.
True prophets of GOD in the earth are
privileged by the many grace of God to participate in this counsel.
As a member of the counsel, you hear
decisions they make.
And they discuss about issues of
nations.
Elders in Heaven like Abraham, are
usually chosen to chair this counsel.
In this counsel, they discuss matters
already decided in the heavenly courts; from the throne of GOD.
Now,
let’s take a look at the first kind of heavenly counsel: GOD's Gathering (the
Gathering of GOD)
Prophet Isaiah, in his life-time on earth—amidst the days of
his prophetic ministry, took part in some of ‘the heavenly counsels’.
Isaiah 6:1 states, “In the year that king Uzziah died, Prophet Isaiah saw
the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the
temple”
Verse 2 says, Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings;
with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with
twain he did fly.
Verse 3: And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy,
is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory.
Verses 4 to 7:
And the posts of the door moved at the Voice of Him that cried,
and the house was filled with smoke.
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine
eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in
his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched
thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
In the following verses, Prophet Isaiah records:
Also I heard the Voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send,
and who will go for Us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
And He said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but
understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy,
and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Then said I, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities
be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be
utterly desolate,
And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great
forsaking in the midst of the land (v.v.8-12).
Verse 13 says, But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it
shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose
substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the Holy Seed shall be
the substance thereof.
Jesus Christ is “the Holy Seed.” For John 1:1 declares: In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He is ‘the express image of the Father’ (Heb.1:3);"the Seed
of Abraham".
The whole Bible is about the revelation of Him.
Jesus Christ Was the Holy
Seed in the Stump of Ancient Israel. In Isaiah 6:13 the prophet paints a picture of the
context in which the Messiah would come.
That is, the Israelite
nation would be felled as a great tree (and indeed it fell to Nebuchadnezzar in
587 B.C.). Only the stump would
remain. Yet from the stump would come
“the Holy Seed”: the Messiah. This “Seed” was first promised in Genesis
3:15, and this promise was renewed in the promises to Abraham (a fact noted by
the apostle Paul in Galatians 3:16).
Indeed by New Testament
times, Israel was a stump, ruled by the great Roman Empire. And just as Isaiah had prophesied, “the Holy
Seed” came from that stump – as the New Testament testifies.
In “GOD’s Gathering”, the Voice of GOD is heard.
“Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I
declare…” (Isaiah 42:9)
GOD’s Counsel stands forever.
The Counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of His
heart to all generations (Psalm 33:11).
In Job 1, we read that 'there was a day when the angels of
GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present
themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them (Job 1:6).
Let’s see what happened in the following verses:
And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan
answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from
walking up and down in it.
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant
Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for
nought?
Hast not Thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and
about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands,
and his substance is increased in the land.
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he
will curse Thee to thy face.
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy
power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the
presence of the LORD (verses 7-12).
Job enjoyed a five-fold divine protection—an hedge about:
Job
his household
his possessions
the work of his
hands
and, his substance
After this discourse, the divine protection over Job’s
resources, possessions, household, livelihood and influence were removed.
Job in his day, was the greatest of all the men of the east
(read verse 3).
The LORD said unto satan, “Behold, all that he hath is in thy power…
(v.12)”
In verse 13 through 19, we read of the troubles of Job.
In verse 20, Job worshipped GOD.
In Verse 21, he declared: “Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and
naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away;
blessed be the Name of the LORD.”
And, verse 22 says: In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Again, on a different day, an angelic host came to present themselves
before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present
themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself
before the LORD (Job 2:1).
See what followed:
And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan
answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from
walking up and down in it.
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant
Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his
integrity, although thou movedst Me against him, to destroy him without cause.
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all
that a man hath will he give for his life.
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh,
and he will curse Thee to thy face.
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but
save his life.
So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job
with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown (verses 2-7).
GOD commended Job twice before satan (first in chapter 1
and secondly in chapter 2). Notice that in this second time, the LORD went
further to say of Job:
“…and still he holdeth
fast his integrity, although thou movedst Me against him, to destroy him
without cause” (v.3)
In verse 6, the LORD said unto satan, “Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his
life.”
In chapter 1, Job’s wealth, his possessions, his 7 sons and
3 daughters, and his servants were lost.
In chapter 2, satan afflicted Job’s health.
Job’s grief was very great. In chapter 3, he caused the day
he was born.
Remember that Isaiah saw the King, the LORD of hosts on His
throne. He saw the seraphims who cried: "Holy, holy, holy..."
Note also that, in First Kings 22, Micaiah saw the LORD
sitting on His heavenly throne, and all the host of Heaven standing by Him on
His right hand and on His left.
And he said, Hear thou therefore the Word of the LORD: I saw the
LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His
right hand and on His left.
And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up
and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that
manner.
And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
said, I will persuade him.
And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go
forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And He
said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so (verses 19-22).
This passage is yet another record of a ‘heavenly
gathering’.
It’s sufficing to note that in some of the gatherings that
take place in Heaven, some fallen-angels are permitted to present
themselves before the LORD; as we read in this passage. And there came forth a spirit, and stood
before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him (v.21)
‘The spirit that came forth’ became ‘a lying spirit in the
mouth of Ahab’s prophets’ (v.22).
This plot succeeded because the LORD said, “thou shalt
persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so” (v.22).
The death of Ahab in Ramoth-gilead was recorded in verses
29 to 35.
Micaiah prophesied against the false prophets saying that a
lying spirit has spoken through them to persuade the king to go up to his
death, which is certain anyway.
Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the
mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee
(verse 23)
The prophets don’t take kindly to the indictment and one of
them in verse 24 actually strikes Micaiah with his hand.
GOD’s Counsel prevails over the will of men; His
proclamations brings the counsel of the heathen to nought. Psalm 33:13 says: The LORD
looketh from Heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men.
From the place of His habitation He looketh upon all the
inhabitants of the earth.
Psalm 33:14
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he
maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Psalm 33:10
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man
is not delivered by much strength.
An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver
any by his great strength (Psalm 33:16-17).
The Prophets' Counsel
The Prophets’ Counsel
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret
unto His servants the prophets
Amos 3:7
“The Prophets’ Counsel” is the second kind of
heavenly gathering.
GOD Almighty, indeed, will do nothing if He has not
revealed His secret to His prophets.
‘The prophet’ is GOD’s mouth-piece—GOD speaks to people, He
speaks to the nations through the ministry of His prophets. The prophetic
ministry is GOD’s agency in the world, by which He unveils His will, plan and
purposes; as they are written in His Word.
He declares “the Mystery of GOD” to His servants the
prophets (read Rev. 10:7).
Prophet Jeremiah wrote in Jeremiah 23:
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.
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.
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in My house have I
found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the
darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon
them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they
prophesied in Baal, and caused My people Israel to err.
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing:
they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of
evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto
Me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah (verses 9-14).
“The prophets of Samaria” prophesied in the name of Baal
(verse 13).
“The prophets of Jerusalem” committed adultery, and walked
in lies: they strengthened also the hands of evildoers… (v.14) Because of this
horrible thing, the LORD said: “they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the
inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.”
Verse 15 states, Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the
prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water
of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all
the land.
Wormwood is mentioned seven times in the Hebrew Bible,
always with the implication of bitterness.
The word “wormwood” appears several times in the Old
Testament, translated from the Hebrew term (la'anah, which means
"curse" in Hebrew).
Wormwood is only mentioned once in the Book of Revelation:
"The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star,
blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the
springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters
turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter"
(Rev 8:10–11).
Verse 16 says, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words
of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision
of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
Verse 17: They say still unto them that despise Me, The LORD hath
said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the
imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
Verse 18 declares, For who hath stood in the Counsel of the LORD, and hath
perceived and heard His Word? who hath marked His Word, and heard it?
The prophet perceives the divine thoughts of GOD’s heart
and hears a Word of Prophecy or ‘Word of Knowledge’ from GOD, on behalf of the
nations and the people.
Continuing this passage as is on record:
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a
grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until He have executed,
and till He have performed the thoughts of His heart: in the latter days ye
shall consider it perfectly.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken
to them, yet they prophesied.
But if they had stood in My counsel, and had caused My people to
hear My Words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from
the evil of their doings.
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him?
saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in My
Name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that
prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
Which think to cause My people to forget My Name by their dreams
which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten My
Name for Baal.
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that
hath My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?
saith the LORD.
Is not My Word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer
that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD,
that steal My Words every one from his neighbour.
Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use
their tongues, and say, He saith.
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the
LORD, and do tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies, and by their
lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not
profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask
thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them,
What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that
shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to
his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every
man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the Words of the Living
God, of the LORD of hosts our God.
Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered
thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?
But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith
the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent
unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I
will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you
out of My presence:
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a
perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten (vv.19-40)
The true prophet stands in the LORD’s Counsel.
But if they had stood in My counsel, and had caused My people to
hear My Words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from
the evil of their doings (Jer. 23:22).
GOD's Word is like fire!
His Word is like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces.
“The Prophets’ Counsel” is ‘the LORD’s
Counsel’. This
is why Amos 3:7 declares:
Surely the Lord GOD will
do nothing, but He revealeth His secret
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