The Boiling Pot - Moriel Ministries

Feature Article – Continued
Recently in England, at the Anglican
Synod in London, one hundred twenty
Anglican pastors—vicars, put their signatures
to a document demanding the right to
perform same-sex marriages. Remember,
America was evangelized by Britain, the
mother country spiritually as well as politically.
The Church of England (also called
the Anglicans or Episcopalians), the United
Reformed Church, the Church of Scotland,
the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist
Church are all ordaining homosexuals
and lesbians, but even the Roman Catholic
Church would not officially do that. What
they do and what they teach are two different
things, but if we were to look at a Roman
Catholic book of theology, we would
not find a single Roman Catholic scholar
or theologian who would deny the historicity
of the virgin birth or a literal resurrection.
Not one. But we have no shortage at
Yale Divinity School, or Princeton Divinity
School, or Harvard, or so-called Protestants
denying these truths. Protestantism
has become worse than Catholicism, worse
than what it set out to reform. It is more
morally depraved and spiritually bankrupt
than what it came from. So, too, Oholibah
became worse than Oholah; Judah became
worse than Israel.
Look at the money preachers, what they
do, and their complete lack of ethics. There
are unsaved people who would not prey
on the poor and uneducated and elderly
the way those money preachers do on TV.
There are unsaved people who have more
ethics than those predators of Satan.
This is what took place in the last days
of Judah, and that is what happens in the
Last Days, full stop. It is what happens in
the last days of the Church, and it is what
happens in the last days of the Jews before
the Messiah comes. This is the background
of “Ezekiel”—“the strength of God.”
The Beginning of the End
And the word of the LORD came to me
in the ninth year, in the tenth month,
on the tenth of the month, saying,
(Ezekiel 24:1)
I do not speculate on dates of the return
of Jesus, but this is a superscription—it
tells us the timeframe in which these events
took place when this prophecy came true. I
only mention this in passing, but that date
by the Hebrew calendar and how far it was
into the Captivity may be an indication
about the time when the Antichrist will be
revealed.
“…the word of the LORD came…” Jesus
is the Word. In Greek He is the “Logos,”
in Hebrew He is the “D’var.” False
prophets will always give us a word which
is not prophecy but clairvoyance. “The
word came”—Jesus came. It was an Old
Testament revelation of Christ by the Holy
Spirit. Unlike in the New Testament, of
course, in the Old Covenant the Holy Spirit
was only for certain people at certain times:
high priests, prophets, kings, judges and
patriarchs. The message came from an encounter
with the Lord. If a message does
not come from an encounter with the Lord,
it is a false message; they are putting the focus
on the message instead of on the Lord.
The focus should be on the Lord, not the
message. False prophets will always give
someone a word; true prophets will always
point them to the Word. There is nothing
the Lord has to reveal to any of us, predictively
or otherwise, that will not be doctrinally
based on what is already revealed
in Scripture, and the focus will always be
on the Lord Himself, not on the message.
Once that happens, then the message is real
and we can act on it.
The King of Babylon
“Son of man…”
(Again, this is an eschatological type of
Christ. When we see “son of man,” it is
pointing to the Last Days in some way.)
“… write the name of the day, this
very day. The king of Babylon has laid
siege to Jerusalem this very day. (Ezekiel
24:2)
Nebuchadnezzar was worshiped in the
Book of Daniel as God. Whenever we see
a human being other than Jesus deified and
worshiped, be it the pagan emperors of
Rome or in this case the king of Babylon, it
is a shadow or picture of the Antichrist. As
Jesus was God and became a man who was
worshipped, the Antichrist will be Satan, as
it were, in an incarnated form, seeking worship.
That the king of Babylon is directly
associated with Satan is further confirmed
by other Scripture.
that you will take up this taunt against
the king of Babylon, and say, “How
the oppressor has ceased, And how
fury has ceased! The LORD has broken
the staff of the wicked, The scepter
of rulers
(As we see in Daniel, when Jesus comes
back, He will put an end to human government.)
Which used to strike the peoples in
fury with unceasing strokes, Which
subdued the nations in anger with
unrestrained persecution. The whole
earth is at rest and is quiet; They
break forth into shouts of joy. Even the
cypress trees rejoice over you, and the
cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you
were laid low, no tree cutter comes up
against us.’
Remember, the trees of the field will clap
their hands (Is. 55:12); we shall be trees of
righteousness (Ps. 1). These cypress trees
and cedars that Hiram sent down from Lebanon
were used in the main construction of
the Temple. The Church is described seven
times in the New Testament as the temple,
and these “Gentile” trees which came from
Hiram when the Gentiles were at peace with
the Jews under David and Solomon are figures
of believers. When Jesus opened the
eyes of the blind man, the man saw men as
trees walking (Mk. 8:24). A good tree cannot
bear bad fruit (Mt. 7:18). The trees are
going to be happy when Satan is judged.
“Sheol from beneath is excited over you to
meet you when you come; It arouses for you
the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the
earth; It raises all the kings of the nations
from their thrones. They will all respond
and say to you, ‘Even you have been made
weak as we, You have become like us. Your
pomp and the music of your harps Have
been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are
spread out as your bed beneath you And
worms are your covering.’
God has a sense of humor which is sardonic
and satirical; He mocks His enemies.
On the cross, Jesus, the King of kings, was
mocked. The way Jesus was mocked on the
cross is the way Satan is going to be belittled
and ridiculed for all eternity. Part of the
judgment of Satan is that he is going to be
perpetually mocked, ridiculed and belittled
for all eternity (Is. 14:16). His first sin was
pride and that is where judgment is going
to fall on him in large part.
Your pomp and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
(This very closely parallels Daniel 2
when they had to worship the image.)
“How you have fallen from heaven,
O star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!
Notice how Satan tries to counterfeit Jesus.
Whereas Jesus is “the bright and morning
star,” (Rev. 22:16) what is Satan called
here? “Star of the morning” and “son of the
dawn.” Jesus rose at dawn. Antichrist will
attempt to counterfeit Christ and he will put
on a resounding imitation.
When we understand Luciferian theosophy,
their argument becomes (and this is
even incorporated into elements of Freemasonry)
that they see God and Satan as
the same. Because we are imago dei, beings
made in God’s image and likeness,
and because there is good and evil in us,
they think there must be good and evil in
God. They reason, “How can we have light
without dark? How can we have good without
evil? God requires evil so there can be
Moriel Quarterly • June 2012