God’s four sore judgments

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God’s four sore judgments

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““Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: As surely as I live, those who are among the city ruins in Israel will be killed in war. I will cause those who live in the country to be eaten by wild animals. People hiding in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.” Ezekiel 33:27 (NCV)


““I held back the rain from you three months before harvest time. Then I let it rain on one city but not on another. Rain fell on one field, but another field got none and dried up. People weak from thirst went from town to town for water, but they could not get enough to drink. Still you did not come back to me,” says the LORD. “I made your crops die from disease and mildew. When your gardens and your vineyards got larger, locusts ate your fig and olive trees. But still you did not come back to me,” says the LORD. “I sent disasters against you, as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with swords, and your horses were taken from you. I made you smell the stink from all the dead bodies, but still you did not come back to me,” says the LORD. “I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick pulled from a fire, but still you did not come back to me,” says the LORD. “So this is what I will do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, get ready to meet your God, Israel.”” Amos 4:7–12 (NCV)


“I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.” Revelation 6:8 (NCV)

“I will send a time of hunger and wild animals against you, and they will kill your children. Disease and death will sweep through your people, and I will bring the sword against you to kill you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”” Ezekiel 5:17 (NCV)


““This is what the Lord GOD says: My plans for Jerusalem are much worse! I will send my four terrible punishments against it—war, hunger, wild animals, and disease—to destroy its people and animals.” Ezekiel 14:21 (NCV)

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War, famine Pestilence/plague, wild beasts





How much of God’s four sore judgments have we seen in our lifetimes? How much are we seeing now? How much more can we expect to see?

If we study all that plagues the human race, it seems all but accidents fall into one of these four categories. And we know God controls accidents too. The wild beasts seem far removed unless we include the transmission of disease from animals to humans. Like bats and rats spreading plagues. War is unending today. Famine hangs in a fragile balance.

Not Just for the Jews of old. Revelation universalizes it.

If we study the Book of Revelation on a spiritual level we see vivid symbols of the judgments. The bearing up under God’s wrath happening all around us. Especially in the flu epidemics now becoming a pandemics. All the seals, trumpets and bowls represent God’s judgment in endless cycles of pain and suffering of the human race culminating in the fiery end of the world.

Does the Old Testament shape your world view? How do you understand the suffering in the world around you?
 
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God’s four sore judgments

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Dave L

““Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: As surely as I live, those who are among the city ruins in Israel will be killed in war. I will cause those who live in the country to be eaten by wild animals. People hiding in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.” Ezekiel 33:27 (NCV)


““I held back the rain from you three months before harvest time. Then I let it rain on one city but not on another. Rain fell on one field, but another field got none and dried up. People weak from thirst went from town to town for water, but they could not get enough to drink. Still you did not come back to me,” says the LORD. “I made your crops die from disease and mildew. When your gardens and your vineyards got larger, locusts ate your fig and olive trees. But still you did not come back to me,” says the LORD. “I sent disasters against you, as I did to Egypt. I killed your young men with swords, and your horses were taken from you. I made you smell the stink from all the dead bodies, but still you did not come back to me,” says the LORD. “I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick pulled from a fire, but still you did not come back to me,” says the LORD. “So this is what I will do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, get ready to meet your God, Israel.”” Amos 4:7–12 (NCV)


“I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.” Revelation 6:8 (NCV)

“I will send a time of hunger and wild animals against you, and they will kill your children. Disease and death will sweep through your people, and I will bring the sword against you to kill you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”” Ezekiel 5:17 (NCV)


““This is what the Lord GOD says: My plans for Jerusalem are much worse! I will send my four terrible punishments against it—war, hunger, wild animals, and disease—to destroy its people and animals.” Ezekiel 14:21 (NCV)


War, famine Pestilence/plague, wild beasts





How much of God’s four sore judgments have we seen in our lifetimes? How much are we seeing now? How much more can we expect to see?

If we study all that plagues the human race, it seems all but accidents fall into one of these four categories. And we know God controls accidents too. The wild beasts seem far removed unless we include the transmission of disease from animals to humans. Like bats and rats spreading plagues. War is unending today. Famine hangs in a fragile balance.

Not Just for the Jews of old. Revelation universalizes it.

If we study the Book of Revelation on a spiritual level we see vivid symbols of the judgments. The bearing up under God’s wrath happening all around us. Especially in the flu epidemics now becoming a pandemics. All the seals, trumpets and bowls represent God’s judgment in endless cycles of pain and suffering of the human race culminating in the fiery end of the world.

Does the Old Testament shape your world view? How do you understand the suffering in the world around you?
As more sin increases & the world turns from GOD , the More GOD pulls HIS protection power from the world.
 
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The more the world rejects GOD and HIS ways ,The more that Satan gets his ways in this world & to cause the pain and suffering that we are seeing, Just like with Job , when GOD pulled HIS protection back . To let him be tried I guess ,Or to correct him in some his thinking maybe, don't know for sure, GOD bless as HE sees fit
 
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The sufferings are the pangs of living hell . The wrath of God revealed from heaven .A dying creation condemned to death under the letter of the law . The glory had departed and will be reinstalled on the last day in the new incorruptible heaven and earth . Then the Sun and the moon the two corruption times keepers, called under the Sun .They are then under the feet of the new creation.

The letter of the law death will not rise again and destroy a entire creation.No more sickness no more dying.
 
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The sufferings are the pangs of living hell . The wrath of God revealed from heaven .A dying creation condemned to death under the letter of the law . The glory had departed and will be reinstalled on the last day in the new incorruptible heaven and earth . Then the Sun and the moon the two corruption times keepers, called under the Sun .They are then under the feet of the new creation.

The letter of the law death will not rise again and destroy a entire creation.No more sickness no more dying.
I believe that it is the wrath of Satan that your seeing, Because he knows that he has just a short time left.
 

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I believe that it is the wrath of Satan that your seeing, Because he knows that he has just a short time left.
The verse say it is God that couse this punishment not satan

Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: As surely as I live, those who are among the city ruins in Israel will be killed in war. I will cause those who live in the country to be eaten by wild animals. People hiding in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.” Ezekiel 33:27 (NCV

Read with me the last sentence

I will couse............... mean

God will couse not satan
 
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The verse say it is God that couse this punishment not satan

Say to them: ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: As surely as I live, those who are among the city ruins in Israel will be killed in war. I will cause those who live in the country to be eaten by wild animals. People hiding in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.” Ezekiel 33:27 (NCV

Read with me the last sentence

I will couse............... mean
GOD said that HE movedst against Job, GOD said that HE slew Soul, GOD said that HE smited the Egyptians, GOD did it BY removing or not removing HIS protecting POWER. I think the one that said I didn't know what I was talking Should study these verses a little.
GOD doesn't Think like we do ,Before you tell somebody they are wrong you should check GODs WORD OUT on what they said before we tell them that they are wrong,
GOD dose thing BY taking HIS protection OF A lot of the time , And said that HE done it, And HE did do it, BY taking HIS protection off them. Like Job, Job 2:3 although thou movedst against him, to destroy him without cause,
1 chronicles 10:3 Then said Soul to his armourbearer draw thy sword, thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come in abuse me, but his armorbearer would not : for he was so sore afraid; so Soul took a sword, and fell upon it.
1 Chronicles 10 :14 And inquired not of the Lord :therefore he slew him, and turned the Kingdom unto David the of Jesse. EXODUS 12:23 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the side post, the Lord will pass over the door, in will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
I don't know what a curse is if Satan didn't curse Job, or , Soul or the Egpytians < Satan is the destroyer that went in and destroyed the Egpytians , That is what JESUS Celled Satan eadway, And I believe JESUS. GOD bless as HE sees fit.
 

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Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
 
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I believe that it is the wrath of Satan that your seeing, Because he knows that he has just a short time left.
The wrath of God ( death)is according to the letter of the law. Satan uses the letter of the law. But the law is not of him. The liar a murdered from the beginning.

You shall not surely die .He murdered Adam and Eve. Moved Cain to murder his brother Abel The first recorded martyr as a apostle sent by God .
 
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The more the world rejects GOD and HIS ways ,The more that Satan gets his ways in this world & to cause the pain and suffering that we are seeing, Just like with Job , when GOD pulled HIS protection back . To let him be tried I guess ,Or to correct him in some his thinking maybe, don't know for sure, GOD bless as HE sees fit
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Rev 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Sin will increase and people will exalt themselves more until the nations governments come together and stop the Gospel from being preached worldwide and cut out a personal God which allows Satan to rule the world by the man of sin, New Age Christ.

Satan is on a leash right now and can only influence so much but because of the world's sin condition it causes the man of sin to appear claiming to be God which then Satan is off his leash concerning the wicked which is referenced as the beast coming up from the bottomless pit.

The world loses God's influence and protection because of their increased wickedness.
 
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It always helps when we look at context of what is actually being said, we see in the verses just prior to these the following words

Ezek 33 NKJV 21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, on the fifth dayof the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has been captured!”
22 Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had opened my mouth; so when he came to me in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

The Cause of Judah’s Ruin
23 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 24 “Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.’
25 “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “You eat meat with blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? 26 You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile one another’s wives. Should you then possess the land?” ’
27 “Say thus to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “As I live, surely those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and caves shall die of the pestilence. 28 For I will make the land most desolate, [i]her arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through. 29 Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed

In doing this, we see this passage is talking about Gods punishment on Israel and Jerusalem at that time, not about anything today.