FOX's IN THE DESERT

FOX's IN THE DESERTEzekiel 13:4 "O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts."The subject of this entire chapter is false teachers, [false prophets]. In the Song of Solomon 2:15, the lover says, "..the foxes knock the tender blossoms from the vine." Before the little blossom has a chance to fully develop, and be firm, the foxes run by and knock the tender flower from the vine. When the dear soul is reborn from above, and before they have a chance to become fully grounded in the Word; along come the Tares and false prophets to knock these dear souls from the true vine, which is Christ. They draw them over to the doctrines of men and devils, Just as Antichrist will do. They transplant them into a foreign vine.Ezekiel 13:5 "Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord."Remember that this prophecy is directed to the "House of Israel", and not the House of Judah. This is important When God says the Whole House of Israel that is all 12 tribes that is the church and the jews Don't try to apply this prophecy to early times, for many of the false doctrines were not around in the early 1800s. This chapter is aimed at us today, living in the latter days, and given that we can make a "stand in the battle in the day of the Lord". The day of the Lord is the final day of this earth age, and not referring to a Sunday or Saturday.The "gaps" spoken of here, are the places where the hedge fences are broken down, and leave a gap for the foxes to enter. Ezekiel is saying that when the hedge fence, or doctrines have false ideas that are against God's word, creeping in, the church has not gone to mend the fence, and restore the doctrine, or teaching so that God's people will not be misled.Today the fences are laying wide open, with gaps of error in much of the doctrines that Christ taught. This is what the subject is, you haven't eliminated the false teaching, when these false prophets entered, but let the error stand unchallenged.Ezekiel 13:6 "They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, 'The Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word."Lying divination is a form of a false divine thing. It takes something that looks religious, and tries to make something holy out of it, when it is demonic. The only standard to compare if a thing is divine and of God, or a lying divination is God's holy Word. The "vanity" is any thing that is empty, with no bases, of support to back it up. (this should remind you of pre-trib rapture)God told Ezekiel that these injections of false demonic doctrines, and vain hope that isn't there. These false prophets tell the people of the Christian churches that they are speaking from the word, when in fact it is their teachings are doctrines of demons and false hope.Ezekiel 13:7 "Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The Lord saith it; albeit I have not spoken'?"God is saying your "vain vision" is what you are imagining, and what you have spoken in your teaching is nothing but a big lie. You speak your lies, and make it sound religious, and then say that God said it; God is letting you know that He has not spoken it, it is a lie, and any time anyone says that I have spoken and it isn't backed by His word, that minister is a false prophet.It is to bad that people won't study and know the truth, so when these false prophets come along they can spot him from the start by his words.We must prepare ourselves to be able to discern the truth from a lie.Ezekiel 13:8 "Therefore thus saith the Lord God; 'Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God."God is telling you that when one of these false prophets comes along and speaks his lies and vanities to you, and you don't have enough discernment to know the truth from a lie, God is saying that He is not only against that lying prophet, but He is against you also for listening and believing. God doesn't like it when His people play church, and create their own teaching, and make up their own religious forms that are not in His Word.Ezekiel 13:9 "And Mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of My People, neither shall they be written in the writing of the House of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord God."theres that term again house of Israel that is you today the church is part of the house of Israel God is saying that these lying prophets will have no authority in the Kingdom of God, when Christ sets up His millennium Kingdom. Though they walk around counting the souls that they have saved for Jesus, they will not even be there, for God says that they will not be in that kingdom, nor even written in the book that records His people. This will happen for the purpose the those that are there will know that Christ is the Lord God.Ezekiel 13:10 "Because, even because they have seduced My People, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:""Untempered morter" is whitewash. It is creating a form or doctrine that looks so good from the outside, and the way it is presented makes it look so religious, but at the core of the doctrine it is from the devil. When the first test of God's true word comes to test it, the wall is washed clean. God is telling us that He not only hates the ones that painted the whitewash on the wall, but His hate is equal to those that come along afterwards, gave support to the whitewash job. It make these people feel so good to come along an view at this white wall.Again notice this wording saying peace but there is no peace this is the same warning we are given for today so dont make the mistake of thinking these verse's are just written to early Jews Gods wording places these warning straight on the church and you todayGod sent the whole word, from cover to cover, for you to learn, and that is your wall of protection when the battle before the day of the Lord comes.