End Times, Ezekiel, Revelation
The letter above is the archaic Hebrew Taw, it meant salvation for people about 2400 years ago.
The Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 8
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Spirit lifted me up in the air and brought me in divine visions to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate, where stood the statue of jealousy which stirs up jealousy. a5
He said to me: Son of man, look toward the north! I looked toward the north and saw northward of the gate the altar of the statue of jealousy. b6
Son of man, he asked me, do you see what they are doing? Do you see the great abominations that the house of Israel is practicing here, so that I must depart from my sanctuary? But you shall see still greater abominations!7
Then he brought me to the entrance of the court, where I saw there was a hole in the wall.8
Son of man, he ordered, dig through the wall. I dug through the wall and saw a door.9
Enter, he said to me, and see the abominable evils which they are doing here.10
I entered and saw that all around upon the wall were pictured the figures of all kinds of creeping things and loathsome beasts (all the idols of the house of Israel). c11
Before these stood seventy of the elders of the house of Israel, among whom stood Jaazaniah, son of Shaphan, each of them with his censer in his hand, and the fragrance of the incense was rising upward.12
Then he said to me: Do you see, son of man, what each of these elders of the house of Israel is doing in his idol room? They think: "The LORD cannot see us; the LORD has forsaken the land."13
He continued: You shall see still greater abominations that they are practicing.14
Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the temple, and I saw sitting there the women who were weeping for Tammuz. d15
Then he said to me: Do you see this, son of man? You shall see other abominations, greater than these!16
Then he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and there at the door of the LORD’S temple, between the vestibule and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the LORD’S temple and their faces toward the east; they were bowing down to the sun. e17
Do you see, son of man? he asked me. Is it such a trivial matter for the house of Judah to do the abominable things they have done here—for they have filled the land with violence, and again and again they have provoked me—that now they must also put the branch to my nose? f18
Therefore I in turn will act furiously: I will not look upon them with pity nor will I show mercy.
The Prophet Ezekiel Chapter 9
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Then he cried loud for me to hear: Come, you scourges of the city!2
With that I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate which faces the north, each with a destroying weapon in his hand. In their midst was a man dressed in linen, with a writer’s case at his waist. They entered and stood beside the bronze altar.3
Then he called to the man dressed in linen with the writer’s case at his waist,4
saying to him: Pass through the city (through Jerusalem) and mark an X on the foreheads of those who moan and groan over all the abominations that are practiced within it. g5
To the others I heard him say: Pass through the city after him and strike! Do not look on them with pity nor show any mercy!6
Old men, youths and maidens, women and children—wipe them out! But do not touch any marked with the X; begin at my sanctuary. So they began with the men (the elders) who were in front of the temple.7
Defile the temple, he said to them, and fill the courts with the slain; then go out and strike in the city.8
As they began to strike, I was left alone. I fell prone, crying out, Alas, Lord GOD! Will you destroy all that is left of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?"9
He answered me: The sins of the house of Israel are great beyond measure; the land is filled with bloodshed, the city with lawlessness. They think that the LORD has forsaken the land, that he does not see them.10
I, however, will not look upon them with pity, nor show any mercy. I will bring down their conduct upon their heads.11
Then I saw the man dressed in linen with the writing case at his waist make his report: "I have done as you ordered."11:24
Spirit lifted me up and brought me back to the exilesin Chaldea (in a vision, by God’s spirit). Then the vision
I had seen left me,
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and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.The New American Bible
Footnotes from: The Holy Bible, The New American Bible, (Nashville, Tennessee: Confraternity of Christian Doctrine) 1997.
Yahweh had shown Ezekiel the worship of animals and the sun worship that Israel has been practicing. In Chapter 8 women were weeping for Tammuz and Yahweh declares these things to be abominations. Israel had changed the ordinances, broken the covenants, and had set themselves up for destruction. These people were killed, this happened.
This is the situation to be found after the falling away has occurred at the end of this Age. There will be a Great Delusion poured out upon people. People given up to their own lust, selfish, hardheaded, and unforgiving will be given up to delusions that will be horrible. Jesus will come for those who have not followed after other gods, have not changed the ordinances, or broken the covenants and save us from the destruction that will follow. God says specifically that trouble will come because:
Those two things will spell death and destruction.
The fact that the mark is the archaic Hebrew taw is significant as well as the fact that angels will mark those who will be spared from destruction. We are not to take any mark, the mark of the Beast specifically, to save ourselves from destruction. The Holy Angels are watching and we know that our part is to remain obedient to the LORD, seeking His Kingdom, His understanding, His wisdom, His knowledge, and a full knowledge of Him. Our relationship is with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ, and by His Holy Spirit. By the restraining of the Holy Spirit evil is held back, by which we may escape the Great Delusion to be poured out, and by which we may resist temptation.
Will the Holy Angels mark us with an invisible archaic Hebrew letter taw without us knowing it before the Rapture? The taw- x -is also the precursor to the sign of the Cross of Christ in Latin U. Interestingly the sign of the sun worshippers is a sun disk and the sign of Tammuz \ is a cross inside the sun disk or the variation with a sun disk atop the cross [.a Very little distinction, just a circle, but it defines the difference between life and destruction and death. The difference between accepting the mark of the Beast and refusing it will seem slight, especially if there is pressure and duress to accept it.
a W.E. Vine, Collected Writings of W.E. Vine [computer file], electronic ed., Logos Library System, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, ©1996 by W.E. Vine Copyright Ltd. of Bath, England.
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