They hated his constant offering of reproof and rebuke. Can we, today, stand with Jeremiah when he says,
―Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit" (Jer 16:19)? Or will we
stand with ―this people" and say, this man is ―worthy to die"?
There is no doubt that our world embraces the Babylonian culture that was prominent in Ezekiel's time; but
do we have Prophets like Ezekiel who can speak to the pastors of our day and say, ―Her priests have
violated My Law, and have profaned Mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and
profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes
from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them" (Ezek 22:26)? Still, many of you reading this Scripture
cannot and will not recognise it as YHWH's Word spoken through a holy Prophet. Or you may say it is
YHWH's Word, but spoken for another time and another people. ―For I am YHWH, I change not" were the
words of YHWH spoken through Malachi. YHWH told Ezekiel, ―I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy
mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house" (Ezek
3:26). It's as if the written words of the Prophets have been made dumb. They cannot reprove us because
we are not listening! The words of Ezekiel will always be dead to a people who are in rebellion to His ways.
Ezekiel and the rest of YHWH's Prophets would not make the top ten list of choices for the pastor search
committee. YHWH spoke through Isaiah saying, ―(9) That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children
that will not hear the Law of YHWH: (10) Which say to the seers, See not; and to the Prophets, prophesy not
unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits" (Isaiah 30: 9 - 10). This worldly flesh we
have will fight to the end before it will succumb to the ―right things" which will bring us to repentance. We
enjoy the ―smooth things" that make us feel good about who we are and where we are going. The ―smooth
things‖ teach us that once we have recited the "four spiritual laws", we are saved and at that moment we
gain eternal security in heaven with a holy and righteous Elohim; and any abominable thing we do after that
is covered by "the blood". As the spiritual leaders of this world "prophesy deceits", the Holy Prophets of
YHWH are still crying out from the pages of the Scriptures, ―O that thou hadst hearkened to My
commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea" (Isaiah
48:18).
Can we stand before the judgment seat of YHWH and say, "We were ignorant of Your warnings!" YHWH
said through Hosea, ―My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge,
I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me: seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy Elohim, I
will also forget thy children" (Hos 4:6). Many of our leaders have chosen to reject the Law of YHWH and say
that it has been abolished and done away with. If you choose to stand with your priest, pastor, rabbi, family
or friend and reject the word of the Prophets, you will also be destroyed.
The Word of YHWH came to Zechariah as he said, ―Yea, they (the priests) made their hearts as an adamant
stone, lest they should hear the Law, and the words which YHWH hath sent in His Spirit by the former
Prophets: therefore came a great wrath from YHWH" (Zech 7:12). We have heard the false teachings from
the pulpit and our religious periodicals for so long that our hearts have become as an adamant stone. When
we see the truth of the Prophets next to the lies of the priest, we choose the lies because we cannot "hear
the Law". When you come into agreement with these lies, you have ―made a covenant with death, and with
hell" and "when the overflowing scourge (judgment) shall pass through", you will say, ―it shall not come to us:
for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves" (Isaiah 28:15). The false
teachings of the harlot church will cause many "good" people to knowingly and unknowingly make a
covenant with death and hell; and just as it did from the beginning of time, it started with a lie. Shaul (Paul)
said, ―With all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of
the truth, that they might be saved" (2 Thes 2:10). If we do not love the truth, we cannot hear the
truth; and if we do not love the truth, how can we be saved?
The voice of Isaiah was finally stopped when King Manasseh brutally put him to death. Tradition says he was
sawed in half. Many of the Prophets died unmercifully in the hands of those that would not listen to their
harsh reproofs any longer. When we do not heed the words of the Prophets, are we not participating in the
death of those Prophets? Listen again as YHWH speaks through the unyielding Prophet, ―So shall My Word
be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it" (Isaiah 55:11). Many pastors have used this verse
to validate their own teachings, but please hear me: the Scripture says YHWH's Word, not man's words, will
not return void.
Y‘shua said, ―Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to
fulfill" (Matt 5:17). Many in the Messianic faith have held on to this verse to validate our understanding
of the need to be obedient to YHWH's Torah. Our Messiah also established in this verse the importance of
the Prophets. The key to understanding the Messiah lies in the words of the Torah and the Prophets. The