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AR'I.EL
IS WHERE HUMANS WILL GAIN OR LOSE SPIRIT
Have you been waging war against
the Spirit of Almighty God?
""Woe to Ar'i.el, to Ar'i.el,
the town where David encamped! Add year upon year, you people; let the festivals
run the round. And I have to make things tight for Ar'i.el, and there
must come to be mourning and lamentation, and she must become to me as the
altar hearth of God. (1)
And I must encamp on all sides against you, and I must lay siege to you with a
palisade and raise up against you siegeworks. And you must become low so that
you will speak from the very earth, and as from the dust your saying will sound
low. And like a spirit your voice must become even from the earth, and from the
dust your own saying will chirp. And the crowd of those strange to you must
become just like fine powder, and the crowd of the tyrants just like the
chaff that is passing away. And it must occur in an instant, suddenly.
From Jehovah of armies you will have attention (2)
with thunder and with quaking
and with a great sound, stormwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring
fire." And it must occur just as in a dream, in a vision of the night,
regarding the crowd of all the nations that are waging war against Ar'i.el,
even all those waging war against her, and the siege towers against her and
those making things tight for her. Yes, it must occur just as when someone
hungry dreams and here he is eating, and he actually awakes and his soul is
empty; and just as when someone thirsty dreams and here he is drinking,
and
he actually awakes and here he is tired and his soul is dried out; (3)
thus it will occur with the crowd of all the nations that are waging war
against Mount Zion.
Linger, you men, and be amazed; blind yourselves, and be blinded. They have
become intoxicated, but not with wine; they have moved unsteadily, but not
because of intoxicating liquor. For upon you men Jehovah has poured a spirit of
deep sleep; and He closes your eyes, the prophets, and He has covered even your
heads, the visionaries. And for you men the vision of everything becomes like
the words of the book that has been sealed up, which they give to someone
knowing the writing, saying: "Read this out loud, please," and he has to say: "I
am unable, for it is sealed up"; and the book must be given to someone that does
not know writing, somebody saying: "Read this out loud, please," and he has to
say: "I do not know writing at all." And Jehovah says: "For the reason that this
people have come near with their mouth, and they have glorified Me merely with
their lips, and they have removed their heart itself far away from Me, (3)
and their fear toward Me becomes men's commandment that is being taught,
therefore here I am, the One that will act wonderfully again with this people,
in a wonderful manner and with something wonderful; and the wisdom of their wise
men must perish, and the very understanding of their discreet men will conceal itself."" (Isaiah 29:1 "This is what Jehovah has said, the One making a way through the sea itself and a roadway even through strong waters, the One bringing forth the war chariot and the horse, the military force and the strong ones at the same time: "They will lie down. They will not get up. They will certainly be extinguished. Like a flaxen wick they must be put out."" (4) (Isaiah 43:16,17). Those whose souls become "dried out" will have been given attention by Jehovah God. (2) (29:6). Their former lives will be as a dream to them, as if they had merely dreamed of being satisfied, waking to the reality of their warring disposition against the Spirit of Almighty God the Lifegiver and their subsequent "dried out" spirit. (3) But His poor and humble servants will rejoice. (29:19). Suddenly, "in an instant", enemies of Mount Zion shall crumble into dust and earth's tyrants fly like chaff when they are given attention from Jehovah of armies with thunder and quaking and their own defiant spirit as a "fire" consumes them. (29:5,6 NEB. 33:11). Are you thinking that your house, your car, or whatever else you have, is where you can acquire Spirit and live? These are things that will be put out like a "flaxen wick". (4) The Lord is coming as a thief to take what is His, leaving emptiness in the spirits of those warring against His Kingdom of 144,000 Spirit anointed priests and judges when they rule the earth from heavenly Mount Zion. (Rev 16:15 & 5:9,10).
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