Submitted by: Cheryl Battles
Warning To:
Last Days Pastors and Teachers
by Drew Simmons -- excerpts
Analyzing Scripture re
Last Days False Prophets
A Warning to Teachers and Pastors
By Drew Simmons
from Drew Simmons Prophetic Book,
excerpted by CAB
Drew Simmons wrote this inspiring book over a decade ago. I decided to condense, for my mailing list, the 45-page chapter of this book Drew
titled “A Warning to Pastors and Teachers.” In this chapter, Drew discusses false prophets mentioned throughout scripture, the dire warnings and specially severe punishments they are bringing down on themselves -- and scriptural standards given for a teacher, a prophet, and any shepherd to God’s people. I suppose that would include parents to children, husbands to wives and vice versa, but especially pastors and teachers of God’s word as shepherds of God’s sheep. All of us are accountable for the influence we have on others, for good or evil. That means me too, for using my computer to share my views.
We should all be shaking in our boots over that fact. Yes?
Why did I decide to condense this 45 page chapter for you?
Answer:
Because we are living in the Last Days right now, and those days began on 9/23/17, when the Revelation 12 star sign was fulfilled. I don’t understand why more people don’t recognize this obvious fact. The Star Sign of Revelation 12 is irrefutable and amazing proof in and of itself.
The star sign of Revelation 12 was fulfilled once in 7000 years, according to computer sky canopy programs. Specifically, there are 5 ingredients to the fulfillment of that star sign:
(1) the woman (constellation Virgo);
(2) the crown (constellation Leo just above Virgo),
(3) Planet Jupiter retrograding in the womb,
(4) the 4 wandering stars lined-up,
(5) and lastly the red dragon hovering at the feet of the woman to devour her child.
All these signs were fulfilled, including the red dragon crouching at the feet of Virgo
to devour her child, on 9/23/17 and the clock began ticking on the last 14 years before the 2nd Coming.
(Note: Sky canopy programs blacked the great red dragon out at the time.
But you can see this in the video link below).
When it was announced that the Rev. 12 star sign was to be fulfilled, once in 7000 years (on 9/23/17), the detractors
scoffed, claimed that the star alighnment had happened many times before and not once in 7000 years.
They said that Leo never changed, that Jupiter often came to retrograde in Virgo, so what is the big deal?
The big deal is the 4 wandering stars lined up, and the red dragon hovering at Virgo’s feet waiting to devour the baby!
To put all the pieces together happens only once in 7000 years.
This is not astrology, but rather a star sign given to us by God.
Genesis 1:14 states that
God made the stars on the 4th day --
for signs and seasons, days and years.
We all know God gave a star sign
for the First Coming of Christ –
[there is much in the Bible about the Christmas star
and the 3 Wise Men who followed the star to find the Christ.]
This is a fact of history, and
our calendars are dated by
the birth and death of Jesus Christ!!
Today, we have computers to accurately
chart the stars,
and pinpoint any star sign date
God has given us in scripture.
The Second Coming of Christ is
the biggest,
most important event
in the history of the world.
And of course God would and did
provide a star sign for that event.
And God provided us with
a whole chapter in the Bible (Rev. 12)
laying out the specifics
of that certain star sign.
Who knew that computer sky canopy programs
could chart out any sky pattern
for any day of any year –
going forward and backward thousands of years –
and do this in a split second?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
(watch the video, (more than once!) …
once in 7000 years, per scripture, the Rev. 12 Star Sign.
Best star sign video made! [Discusses also the Great Red
Dragon part of the sign, which was omitted from
the videos of 2017 and blacked out of Google Sky]
If this video doesn’t jolt people into realizing this is for real,
that we are indeed living in the Last Days – then maybe watch it
twice or three times until the implications of the fulfillment
of the Revelation 12 star sign takes root. I say flat out it is
foolish to ignore this information.
This is God talking to us, from the Bible
and from the stars in the Heavens!
TIMELINE:
9/23/17 Rev. 12 Star Sign fulfilled, day one of Tribulation,
to consist of 7 good years to prepare for 7 years of Hell on earth
9/23/24 Mid Trib, USA is gone, no one can buy or sell without the chip
that will ‘wire us’ into Satan’s mind, so he can be ‘as God’ knowing all our thots.
Many will choose death instead, by beheading. I say instead, get out of USA.
Prepare, go someplace we do not need to buy or sell!
9/23/31 Second Coming of Christ (but Bible says He’s coming a bit sooner
‘or no flesh would be alive.’ If we’re alive at this time, Bible says, “Look
Up: your redemption draws nigh.”
The time to prepare for what is coming on the whole earth is NOW. We must go
where we can live simply, do not need money , and live primitively like many
people on the earth actually do now, and get along without money. The day is
soon coming when nobody can buy or sell without the (forbidden) chip of the
antichrist.
But there you have it. 4 ingredients (Virgo, Leo, Jupiter, and 4 wandering stars) … put them all together, and you get 3 important dates (for the price of one):
TIMELINE:
1. 9/23/17 .. Date of fulfillment of the Rev. 12 star sign, once in 7000 years: 9/23/17 – Beginning of the 7 GOOD YEARS PRECEDING the 7 year Tribulation.
2. 3/23/24 .. Date of 7 years following, beginning of the New World Order, world rule by antichrist from Jerusalem. Also end of the USA (aka Mystery Babylon, aka Hammer of the Whole Earth, Destroying Mountain, etc.) Worst time the earth has ever seen or will ever see again. Worship the antichrist or lose your head and no one can buy or sell without the Mark/chip, which means you lose your soul, which is why the Bible says, “They loved not their lives so much as to shrink from death (by guillotine, and the military has paraded their supply before us in convoys!). Military convoys are not keeping any secret of their stockpile of guillotines. Bible warns everyone DO NOT TAKE THE MARK (CHIP) OF THE BEAST OR YOU WILL FORFEIT YOUR SOUL. We also commanded to ‘flee out of Babylon (USA) “lest you partake of her sins and her plagues.” Jeremiah 50 and 51 describe the destruction of Last Days US of Babylon by ‘the assembly of great nations who come in from the north and none of their arrows” (missiles look like giant arrows) “shall miss their mark.” Rev. 18 describes merchants watching offshore ‘the smoke of her burning, in one hour is so great brought to naugh.’ The merchants will be weeping that they lost their best customer.
3. 9/23/31 .. Second Coming of Christ – Bible says Jesus will come sooner than this date or ‘no flesh would be alive’ but we who are alive are to be ‘looking up’ for ‘your redemption draws nigh.’ We won’t know the exact day or the hour.
Bottom line, all of us have until no later than 3/23/24 to relocate (from U.S. Babylon) and prepare to live 7 years without money (no one can buy or sell without taking the antichrist’s ‘chip’ -- and to take that chip means loss of our eternal soul, which is why people will ‘love not their lives so much as to shrink from death rather than take the Mark (chip?)” Rev. 12:11 Bible says when Jesus comes back at the 2nd Coming “Great Babylon came into remembrance, and will be sunken into the ocean.”
Rev, 16:19 Jeremiah 50 and 51, and Revelation 18 describe the total destruction of the United States “in one hour” by ‘the assembly of great nations who come in from the North’ and ‘none of their arrows (ie missiles look like giant arrows) shall miss their mark.” Afterwards, Bible says, there won’t be one stone fit to take away for a cornerstone (IOW, total rubble). There will be NO SURVIVORS, and also Bible says at the 2nd Coming that Jesus will cause US of Babylon to be sunken to the bottom of the ocean. Bible says we, US of Babylon, were ‘once a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, and we would have healed her, but she is not healed.’
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A WARNING from Drew Simmons: TO PASTORS AND TEACHERS: (45 pages excerpted from Drew Simmons’ book.) Chapter 12 of his book is entitled: A Warning to Pastors and Teachers. He goes through the Old and New Testaments providing scripture teachings on false prophets – the dangers of being a false teacher or false prophet, and that teachers are in great danger of terrible judgment from God if they mislead God’s people, who take them away from the Bible’s teachings, who lead God’s people into fairy tales and sweet lies.
This is an invaluable study given by Drew. Please forward this to pastors you know??!!?.
We are indeed living in the Last Days. It’s time everybody knew that! Everyone needs this time to get ready spiritually and materially for what lies before us! There is no reason to be blindsided by the times we are living in – not when we have signs in the skies, all these Bibles, Internet, sky canopy computer programs, etcetera. There is no excuse for being blind -- really. The Revelation 12 star sign is only one of many signs of the times -- but probably the most important, amazing, and definitive sign of the times we are living in.
God gave a star sign for the First Coming of Christ,
and God has given us another one
for the Second Coming!!!
God created every single star in the sky,
not to mention He holds all our atoms together.
And God doesn’t do anything without a very good reason.
This Star sign cannot possibly be an accident. This is exactly what
God told us would happen in the Last Days. We have a timeline we
can bet our souls upon and we better not try to laugh it off.
Best video, only 2.5 minutes, explaining the Rev. 12 star sign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Revelation 12 sign gives us a date certain for the beginning
of the Great Tribulation. From that date we can easily compute
two more:
Total Destruction of America
Second Coming of Christ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
(watch 2nd short video,
Star sign … amazing! More details, including dragon at
feet of virgin waiting to devour the child, censored out
at the time it was happening!! Don’t miss this one!)
Timeline:
9/23/17 Rev. 12 Star Sign fulfilled, day one of Tribulation,
to consist of 7 good years to prepare for 7 years of Hell on earth
9/23/24 Mid Trib, USA is gone, no one can buy or sell without the chip
that will ‘wire us’ into Satan’s mind, so he can be ‘as God’ knowing all our thots.
Many will choose death instead, by beheading. I say instead, get out of USA.
Prepare, go someplace we do not need to buy or sell!
9/23/31 Second Coming of Christ (but Bible says He’s coming a bit sooner
‘or no flesh would be alive.’ If we’re alive at this time, Bible says, “Look
Up: your redemption draws nigh.”
Chapter 12 – A Warning to Pastors and Teachers
By Drew Simmons
Condensed by CAB
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are. 1 Cor. 3:16-17
DREW SIMMONS: Isaiah 22 speaks of the beginning of the time of world-wide judgment known as the Tribulation, Day of the Lord. Verse 5 says: “Day of trouble, of treading down, and perplexity” and of ‘breaking down the walls.” The watchman is allowed to see that day approaching. Two other groups will be overtaken by that day – those who mock and the blind ministers who rejoice as that day of dread comes. Jeremiah talks of the two groups “I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand, for You have filled me with indignation.”
Jeremiah’s indignation was over the sin of God’s people. Jeremiah wrote to his generation and ours, and all the prophets did the same. The Bible is a living book meant to be applied throughout history.
JEREMIAH 23: 1, 9, 20: “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture” says the LORD…”My 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 has overcome, because of the LORD, and because of His holy words…In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.” Jeremiah 23:1, 9, 20
DREW SIMMONS: Jeremiah 23 is a scathing rebuke of most of the ministers of the Gospel. Many who we think they will be at the front of the line into heaven will be at the end if at all. Those who should get the greatest honor will get great dishonor “Many who are first will be last, and the last first.” I started comparing what I was hearing (from pastors) and what I was reading in the Bible. I kept coming across a common theme, with how displeased and angry God is with pastors. There are so many passages addressing the sin of pastors and prophets of our day that it’s hard to miss. Open the Bible randomly to any of the major or minor prophets and you’ll quickly come across one such rebuke. Those who misrepresent the holiness and honor of the name of our great Jehovah will see the error of their way and change before it’s too late. Otherwise, I don’t overemphasize the severity of judgment coming to these pastors is not overemphasized.”
1 Peter 4:17-18: For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
JAMES 3:1: My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.
DREW ANDREWS: Let not many of you become teachers. If you are a teacher in the church you had better make sure you are teaching the whole Truth – so help you God. “Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:19 Isaiah 22 is the beginning of Day of the Lord – the Last Day, and in Isaiah’s day it is the same as in ours today – instead of weeping and sackcloth and ashes it is mocking and self-promotion by Shebna. “Indeed, the LORD will throw you away violently, O mighty man, and will surely seize you. He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball into a large country; there you shall die, and there your glorious chariots shall be the shame of your master’s house. So I will drive you out of your office, and from your position he will pull you down.” Isaiah 22:17-19
GOD’S PEOPLE ARE GOD’S TREASURE – so BE NOT MANY TEACHERS, FOR YOU WILL RECEIVE A MORE SEVERE JUDGMENT: King David committed adultery and murder yet retained his throne. But Shebna is the mocker spoken of in Isaiah 22 who was to be severely punished by God. Shebna was a high authority who did not honor the treasure that was put in his hands: God’s people.
Hosea 12:10: God has given us “symbols through the witness of the prophets.”
DREW ANDREWS: “So comparing the prophet Shebna with today’s pastors, with Shebna being the symbol of these pastors:
Shebna was a leader, set over the church, like a senior pastor and had ruling authority, had shown he was trustworthy and was trusted. He was steward of God’s people with dominion and decision-making authority and was an example to others, representing God, and was expected to be knowledgeable in God’s Word and God’s ways, and be able to answer questions on God’s law and the prophets.
“Shebna’s sin compared to today’s pastors: He betrayed God’s true character, tried to carve out a legacy of honor for himself; he thought very highly of himself, was full of pride and wore it as a badge of honor; he promoted his own agenda and let his own pride determine his teaching of God’s Word. His pride and false teachings were like a cancer. His self-seeking and self-glorification came before his desire to glorify God, and he was not worried about Judgment Day. He didn’t have a clue how disappointed and angry God was with him, and had no fear of God or think he had any reason to fear God. He didn’t respect or live up to the high standards God has for his leaders and thought way more highly of himself than he should have. He was a fake. He misrepresented God and misled God’s people with a mixture of truth and lies. He was oblivious to the times he was living in and to his own coming judgment. He went about his business as usual in the face of impending doom, rejoicing in his own honor and expectation of more to come.
SHEBNA’S JUDGMENT: “Violent casting down, a mighty overthrow, rejection of his service and person. A double violent casting out (verse 17 and 18). Covered with a veil, tossed like a pile or ball, dying in the broad open country, his lofty doctrines resulting in the shame of his master’s house, his office being taken away violently and given to another who was faithful. A double judgment.
DREW ANDREWS cont: “Zechariah 5:8 speaks of the destruction of America at the Beginning of the Tribulation, when a scroll of judgment goes forth: Then he said, “This is Wickedness!! And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover over its mouth.”
‘A double judgment, veiling of iniquity, and the leaders will face the same judgment as the Christ rejecting people of America,” says Simmons, a ‘horrifying time of hunger, depravity, and hopelessness.’
DREW ANDREWS (page 199, Quenched Like a Wick): “Chariots in the Bible signify doctrinal things of good and truth and memory-knowleges of doctrines. The ‘glorious doctrines’ of the pastors are the reason for their demise. There is a very high price to pay for misleading God’s people.”
“But if they had stood in My counsel, and had caused My people to hear My words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.” Jeremiah 23:22
DREW ANDREWS: “Who does Jehovah hold accountable for the polluted body of Christ in America? The leaders of his house.”
Micah 1:5: “All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel.”
Isaiah 48:14-15 “Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. Your descendants also would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; His name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before Me.”
Isaiah 48:16 Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! With a voice of singing, declare, proclaim this, utter it to the end of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”
DREW ANDREWS: “Had God’s people remained pure, the curse would have never come. The land would not have to be judged. God would have taken care of the wicked. In fact, the wicked would never have gained traction in the first place.”
Simmons (on last days pastors): “I’m not talking about ‘bad’ pastors here or what we’d consider bad. I’m talking respectable, born-again pastors who think they’re in the will of God. Who are these rulers of God’s people?”
Isaiah 28:7, 14 The priest and the prophet have erred… Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, who rule this people.
DREW ANDREWS: “The context of Isaiah 28 is the destroying storm and overflowing scourge of the Tribulation.”
Jeremiah 5:31: The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?
1 Timothy 5:17: Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine.
DREW ANDREWS: “The Bible seems to address the pastors and prophets of our day as one large group, meaning MOST of them. I told one elder I disagreed with him, and he reminded me he was ‘worthy of double honor’ had learned things in seminary I did not know, but he ‘didn’t know how it was being taught on the Internet.’ As tho I could not read the Bible or interpret it myself!”
Jeremiah 25:34-36 Wail, shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, you leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled; you shall fall like a precious vessel. And the shepherds will have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape. A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the leaders to the flock will be heard. For the LORD has plundered their pasture.
DREW ANDREWS: “When a nation and a people sin against God, as we have in America and in the church in America, we fall under a curse. God sends lesser prophets and judgments to warn that nation to repent.”
Jeremiah 28:8-9 (Jeremiah speaking to false prophet Hananiah): “The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and great kingdoms—of war and disaster and pestilence. As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, the prophet will be known as one whom the LORD has truly sent.”
DREW ANDREWS: “Read through Deuteronomy. When a nation sins and turns from the Lord that nation can expect judgment from the Lord. Hananiah predicted peace, and that’s exactly what the majority of end-time teachers are doing today – well-known, honorable pastors, predicting peace for God’s people, even though God’s people are polluted. They wrongly conclude that faith in God equates to unrestrained mercy forever, which they call ‘grace.’ There is a very high price to pay for misleading God’s people: Hananiah died 2 months after this exchange. God killed him.
Jeremiah 28:15-17: Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Hear now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie. Therefore thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD.” So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
DREW ANDREWS: “Isaiah 28 gives more detail about the sin of Shebna, the leaders of God’s people filled with pride and drunk on false doctrine, blind to coming judgment, thinking they will escape the Tribulation unharmed. They believe they will be raptured out of the ‘overflowing scourge’ coming on the world. But instead, like Shebna, they will be trampled down – not exalted by abased, trampled down as the mire of the streets. Shebna made a covenant with death, that when he died he would be greatly honored, and multitudes of pastors and end-time prophets are telling people ‘no need to worry about the overflowing scourge, the Tribulation, we have the promise of the rapture. We will be snatched away to heaven.’ So people feel no need to get right with God. Therefore, the pastors have come into agreement with Hell. Verse 7 says they are ‘out of the way’ as tho drunk, teaching destructive doctrines which are the core of their beliefs, that their people do not need to repent and treat their sin as a very light thing. They treat spiritual cancer like a scrape on their knee.”
Jeremiah 6:14 NLT “They offer superficial treatments for my people’s mortal wound. They give assurances of peace when there is no peace.”
Hosea 7:2 “They do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness; now their own deeds have surrounded them; they are before My face.” Hosea 7:2
DREW ANDREWS: “They are drunk on the mercy and blessing that God has shown America. Let the good times roll! Everything will be all right. Don’t worry. Just trust God. No need to repent of gross sin and blatant rebellion. Once saved, always saved, just one drop of blood covers all sin, past, present and future. God is with us.
Micah 3:11: “Her heads judge for a bribe, her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.”
DREW SIMMONS: At this moment in time while pastors and prophets dig their graves with doctrines of demons, God pleads: “How can you say, ‘I am not polluted, I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley; know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways.” Jeremiah 2:23 For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD. Jeremiah 23:11 says “Woe be unto the pastors…” 23:2 “Behold I will attend to you for the evil of your doings.” 23:4 “I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them.” 23:12 Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery ways; in the darkness they shall be driven on and fall in them; for I will bring disaster on them, the year of their punishment,” says the LORD. 23:39 ‘therefore behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you and forsake you out of My presence.” 23:40: “And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.”
Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
DREW SIMMONS: Is Jeremiah 23 talking about our times, the Latter Days? Yes.
Jeremiah 23:20: The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart, in the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
Jeremiah 23:5 Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; a King shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
DREW ANDREWS: The Second Coming is that of a righteous judge. “I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.” Jeremiah 23:3 Majority of pastors and prophets have corrupted the flock of God with false doctrines, caused the people of God to believe a lie, taught rebellion against the Lord and polluted the bride with false teaching. God’s people believe them because they don’t read their Bibles and can’t tell between the truth and a lie. Their teachers mix truth with lies -- and after God’s people in America commit great sin and treachery against their Holy God they feel no need to turn from wicked ways.
“For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD. Jeremiah 23:11
pro-fane
adjective
1. Characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious
2. Not devoted to holy or religious purposes; unconsecrated; secular (opposed to sacred).
3. Unholy; heathen; pagan: profane rites.
Strong’s Concordance H2610, chaneph, khaw-nafe’
A primitive root; to soil, especially in a moral sense: - corrupt,
Defile, X greatly, pollute, profane.
Hebrews 10:29 “Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?”
Hebrews 10:38 “Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”
Grace:
Strong’s G5485, charis, khar’-ece
From G5463; graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act
(abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially
the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the
life; including ingratitude): - acceptable, benefit, favour, gift,
Grace (-ious), joy liberality, pleasure, thank(-s, -worthy).
DREW SIMMONS: When we choose to ignore his Word, despising His commandments, do our own thing and walk in our own ways we become polluted with the ways of the world and frustrate the Spirit of Grace. Pastors and prophets teach contrary to the whole Word of God, that God winks at sin. At the end of this age the bride of Christ is filthy but pastors and prophets teach this as a small thing while they chant ‘peace, peace’ .. they insist all the Christians will float up to Heaven when the trouble begins. God says, “I’m coming back for a spotless bride, not a bride that has been whoring with the world.” Pastors and prophets have misrepresented God’s holy name and scattered the sheep, making them prey.
Ezekiel 13:22: “Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have strengthenend the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life.”
DREW SIMMONS: When the great storm of tribulation arrives, the wall the pastors have built with half truths will crash down. Isaiah 28:20 says their doctrine is like a bed you can’t stretch out on, like a cover that’s too small that leaves you cold at night.
Ezekiel 13:10-11 “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, “Peace!’ when there is no peace—and one builds a wall, and they plaster it with untempered mortar—say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down.”
DREW ANDREWS: Who is the house of Israel? It’s the same lump of clay in Jeremiah 18 that had to be remade into a different vessel because the northern kingdom left and never returned. They rejected God and his law, so God divorced them. These are the lost sheep who Jesus was sent to recover (Matthew 15:24). They mixed with the Gentiles and became Gentiles themselves, migrated and filled the earth, and Abraham’s seed did become as the sand of the sea and stars of the sky. The Good Shepherd went looking for them and found the Church. And Ezekiel 13:5 says to the pastors “You have not gone up into the gaps to build a wall for the house of Israel to stand in battle on the day of the LORD.”
The day of the Lord is TODAY. And the church is built with untempered mortar, false doctrines that mislead the sheep ‘so he does not turn from his wicked ways to save his life’ (Matthew 15:24).
DREW ANDREWS (to the teachers): How is it that you didn’t build a strong wall for God’s people? That’s your job! For many it’s your full-time job! You are supposed to tell people the truth and let God worry about the rest. Your teaching should have been like a fortress to the people in the day of their visitation. You were supposed to be like an assayer of metals who removes the impurities so they can stand before the King blameless, without fault. Philippians 2:15, Jeremiah 6:27 False pastors and prophets who ‘speak peace when there is no peace’ prevent people from repenting of sin and turning to God with their whole heart. But the voice of truth is a fortress, a defense because it preaches about sin and repentance. The Day of the Lord is about judgment first for God’s people, and those who repent have a sure defense in that day. Those who turn away from sin and turn to God are God’s children. By failing to preach repentance the pastors and prophets become enemies of God and receive the reward of the wicked.
Ezekiel 34:2: “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD to the shepherds: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?”
Amos 5:18: What good is the day of the LORD to you? It will be darkness, and not light.
Joel 2:2 A day or darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
DREW ANDREWS: God tells us to understand the message of the last days ‘line upon line, precept on precept’ Isaiah 28:10. The whole Word of God must agree, and we cannot be like Hanania and contradict the basic precepts of the Word of God. There is a very high price for misleading God’s people.
Ezekiel 34:10-14: Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them.” ‘For thus says the Lord GOD: “Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out. “As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day.
DREW ANDREWS: Last day Exodus is spoken of in Jeremiah 50:4-6 when America is destroyed, God’s true people, the just who have lived by faith, will set their faces toward Zion, with weeping they shall come. This last day mass exodus, Exodus II, is confirmed throughout the Word of God.
Jeremiah 50:6: “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray; they have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.”
Jeremiah 25:34-36: “Wail shepherds, and cry! Roll about in the ashes, you leaders of the flock! For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions are fulfilled; you shall fall like a precious vessel. And the shepherds will have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape. A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the leaders of the flock will be heard. For the LORD has plundered their pasture.”
DREW ANDREWS: I’m amazed when pastors preach from Malachi 3 about robbing God by not tithing – but they skip over Malachi 2 which speaks of their own duties: “And now, O priests, this commandment is for you. If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to hear, to give glory to My name, says the LORD of hosts.” Malachi 2:1-2 The teachers and pastors and prophets are the ones who are stealing from God – not giving God glory, declaring his character and ways and leading the people in right living by example; rather, honoring themselves as Shebna did, preaching falsehood and polluting the body of Christ. Those who are lulled into complacency by their soothing words fall through the wide door leading to perdition. Malachi is speaking of our day, but pastors don’t teach on it, or when they do it’s about tithing. The day is coming when these same pastors will realize God’s Word really is the truth and that Malachi 2 is talking about them. You can praise the name of Jesus, sing all the hymns, teach forgiveness through Jesus, but if you don’t preach the whole Word you dishonor His great name.
Malachi 2:5: “My covenant was with him, one of life and peace, and I gave them to him that he might fear Me; so he feared Me and was reverent before My name.”
DREW ANDREWS: God’s people in America do not fear God, and America and the church both are under Deuteronomy’s curse. A faithful minister over the house turns many away from sin and the law of truth is in his mouth. There is no injustice, no iniquity on his lips, he teaches no false doctrines or half-truths, his words are pure words from God. He doesn’t care what everyone else teaches, but teaches the whole truth and leaves the outcome to God. He doesn’t teach people to insult the Spirit of Grace but trains in the whole Word of God. He doesn’t focus on the goodness of God and his teaching is balanced and teaches the sheep to fear and reverence God who is returning as righteous judge to give to each man what his deeds deserve. Romans 2:6 Malachi 2 says these teachers have ‘departed out of the way.’ They have caused many to stumble at the law of God, God’s character, holiness, and the reverence due Him. The result is broken homes, broken lives, children who want nothing to do with God. Isaiah 56 is a prelude to the Tribulation, as the context is established in verse 1: “My salvation is about to come, my righteousness is about to be revealed.” And who are the self-proclaimed ‘watchmen’ today? Those looking for the coming of the Tribulation, the majority of whom think they will be raptured at the start of that day. “And they are shepherds” who look only to their own gain, blind to their coming judgment, thinking tomorrow will be just like today.
Jeremiah 6:12-14 And their houses shall be turned over to others, fields and wives together; for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” says the LORD. “Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely. They have also healed the hurt of my people slightly, say, ‘Peace, peace!’ When there is no peace!’
DREW ANDREWS: Daniel learned and recorded that Jeremiah was commissioned by God to prophesy to two separate generations that would both be held captive for 70 years by a nation called Babylon. Just as there were false prophets of Jeremiah’s day (Hanaiah) so there are today leaders of God’s people who speak falsehood. In addition to feeding the sheep false doctrines of half-truths, they wink at the sin of God’s people.
Isaiah 1:6: From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment.
DREW ANDREWS: America’s gross sin and immoral behavior causes God not to see a lovely bride he’s about to marry, but a person covered in open sores and bruises and filth. He says the sores haven’t been closed or bound up, meaning the pastors of our day have not nursed us back to health by teaching us to live right, to turn from sin and be holy, for God is holy. The people of God have terminal cancer and false teachers treat this as a scrape on the knee.
Jeremiah 10:21: For the shepherds have become dull-hearted, and have not sought the LORD; Therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
Ezekiel 7:26: Disaster will come upon disaster, and rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
Ezekiel 22:26: Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
DREW ANDREWS: Both Ezekiel 13 and 34 deal with pastors and prophets of our day. Ezekiel 7 fits the same pattern as other texts discussing the ultimate and final destruction of the land where God’s people primarily dwell at the beginning of tribulation, America. The people will ask the prophets and shepherds what in the world is going on, but they will have no clue. Verse 4 of Ezekiel 22: “You have come to the end of your years,” and all the rest in this chapter applies also to America today. Idol worship, government corruption, making light of father and mother (civil unions). The whole land has become polluted, just as Revelation 18:2 says, she has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison for every foul spirit and a cage for every unclean and hated bird. Her priests, pastors have violated the law and profaned his holy things and have no idea how to honor our holy God, and only know of the goodness and forgiveness of Jesus, choosing to ignore the rest of God’s Holy Word describing God’s character and nature. Ezekiel 44 says the day is coming when God’s people will once again learn to tell the difference between clean and unclean, holy and unholy. Faithful shepherds will replace today’s imposters and teach God’s people about God’s character and the fear and reverence He is due.
DREW ANDREWS: HOSEA, ZECHARIAH, ZEPHANIAH, MALACHI, LAMENTATIONS, AMOS, MICAH, REVELATION (confirming text):
These prophets speak of the days we are living also, in perfect agreement, about the prophets and pastors of today, their rebellion and blatant disregard for God’s Word.
Hosea 4:5, 6, 9: Therefore you shall stumble in the day; the prophet also shall stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother. 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. 9 And it shall be: like people, like priest. So I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their deeds.
Hosea 8:1: Set the trumpet to your mouth! He shall come like an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law. 12: have written for him the great things of My law, but they were considered a strange thing.
Hosea 9:7-8 The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity. The watchman of Ephraim is with my God; but the prophet is a fowler’s snare in all his ways—Enmity in the house of his God.
Zechariah 7:12: Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
Zechariah 10:3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the goatherds. For the LORD of hosts will visit his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as His royal horse in the battle.
Zechariah 11:3-5: There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins. Thus says the LORD my God, “Feed the flock for slaughter, whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt; those who sell them say, “Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich’’; and their shepherds do not pity them.
Revelation 18:24: And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.
DREW ANDREWS: The downfall of America – and notice the word ‘saints.’ This verse refers to pastors and teachers in America who are worthy of God’s judgment on the day America is destroyed.
Jeremiah 6:16 Thus says the LORD: “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.’
Isaiah 1:16-18 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rebuke the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together” says the LORD.
Isaiah 33:1 Woe to you who plunder, though you have not been plundered; and you who deal treacherously, though they have not dealt treacherously with you! When you cease plundering, you will be plundered; when you make an end of dealing treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you.
DREW ANDREWS: Isaiah 33:1 fits with a time of ‘peace and safety’ and then America being destroyed ‘in one hour.’ The watchman must put trumpet to mouth in hope that some will heed. Whether they listen and heed is of no consequence to the watchman. He who has the Word of the Lord must speak it faithfully. The trumpet must be blown. God shows favor for his righteousness sake that his law which describes his character would once again be understood and revered by his people; it will be exalted and made honorable again. But what is that message from the law we are admonished to remember before that Day comes upon us?
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet; tell My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Zechariah 7:9-14 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion everyone to his brother. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart against his brother.’ But they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear. “Yes, they made their hearts like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great wrath came from the LORD of hosts. “Therefore it happened, that just as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so they called out and I would not listen,” says the LORD of hosts. “But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
DREW ANDREWS: A wicked generation, devoid of God’s holy Word, and by extension ignorant of his ways and character, needs a sign before they’ll believe. After seeing so many powerful signs a disciple came to Jesus asking him to show the Father so he could believe. Jesus said: “Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. Most assuredly I say to you, he who believes in Me the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do because I go to My Father. The day is coming when the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings to those who fear his name (Malachi 4:2). At the same time God brings healing to his people, their wickedness will also be exposed (Hosea 7:1) God desires his people to repent and turn from their wicked ways so he can spare them on the day America is destroyed.
JOEL 2:1-2 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the LORD is coming, for it is at hand: A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, the like of whom has never been; nor will there eer be any such after them, even for many successive generations.
JOEL 2:10-13 The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble; the sun and moon grow dark, and the stars diminish their brightness. The LORD gives voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for strong is the One who executes His word. For the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; who can endure it? “Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the LORD your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm.
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not; lift up your voice like a trumpet; tell My people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
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