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HOW LIKE EZEKIEL'S PROPHECY!
It was sweet as honey in his mouth but BITTER in his stomach.
The message of the little book seems to be what the angel next
said, "Thou must prophesy [proclaim-preach-foretell] again before
many peoples, and nations, and tongues and KINGS!"
Now WHEN?
The message of the little book written on both sides of a
roll,
to be eaten and swallowed, takes us directly back to Ezekiel's
prophecy. Ezekiel himself, as I have shown, NEVER WENT TO ISRAEL,
NEVER DELIVERED THAT MESSAGE. It was not a prophecy for the
Israel of his day--but for OUR DAY, NOW. Ezekiel's prophecy was
NOT a message to MANY NATIONS, speaking different languages, and
to their KINGS. It was to the REBELLIOUS PEOPLE of the House of
Israel and it was emphasized to Ezekiel they were NOT of strange
speech--NOT foreign Gentile nations.
This WORK OF GOD did carry that message to those same people
in OUR DAY, prior to January, 1972.
I felt I had reason to believe it was POSSIBLE that OUR WORK
would be FINISHED by January, 1972. I wrote and printed that many
times. But I also said I WAS NOT SETTING DATES--it was not
CERTAIN!
It was a possibility.
But being HUMAN, many of those supporting me in this Work did
take it as a definite date. Up until then they sacrificed to send
in tithes and offerings for God's WORK. When the Work did NOT end
in January, 1972, some FOOLISHLY said, "Now I'm through going
without things I'd like to have--my Lord delayeth His coming!"
Read what God says of those who say and do that!
Now WHEN is the TIME of this prophecy in Revelation?
Read right on. Chapter 11 is merely a chapter division
written
by MEN. But John's book of Revelation continues right on. The
apostle, in his vision, is told now by this same angel to rise
and MEASURE THE TEMPLE. But LEAVE OUT the court which is for the
Gentiles, for they shall tread down the Holy City for 3 1/2 years.
So the TIME of our prophecy is at least 3 1/2 YEARS before Christ's
coming--before THE GREAT TRIBULATION, before the beginning of the
DAY OF THE LORD and before the seventh angel blows the last
trumpet!
Then it continues on into the message of the TWO WITNESSES--also
referred to and perhaps identified in Haggai and Zechariah. And
THEY SHALL PREACH A LAST WARNING TO THE WHOLE WORLD FOR 3 1/2
YEARS!
And it is not until after ALL THIS, that the time element
picks
back up with the sounding of the 7th trumpet in chapter 11:15.