The Watchman

The watchman is a prophet and will speak only Gods words to whom God tells him to speak. Yes in this era of Gods church, a prophet will arise, hated by some in Gods church and not who most would imagine he will be. Most would probably think he will come from the higher ranks of Gods church, Why?

For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.

The above scripture shows that the watchman is a prophet, and that he will say, what the Lord God wants him to say. Most people today are very good at saying their own words, their own ideas, and interpretations. The watchman, however, will only say the words of God. These will not prove to be very popular in the church or in the nation of Israel which is where the warning message is to go.

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

God tells the watchman what is going to happen and then the watchman is to warn the people.

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

The watchman is going to the nations of Israel that speak his own language. That is to the English speaking nations of Israel, America, Australia, Great Britain New Zealand and Canada. Mr. Armstrong learned of the true identity of modern day Israel. He gave this knowledge to the church. That is how the watchman knows who the people of Israel are today.

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

The above scripture is amazing. The watchman is from Ephraim and is hated in the house of his God.

We must realize that we are now living in the end time and that the end time events could come very quickly. If you try to get into a conversation, with church people, about the end time events, many people will just say that these events are not for ages yet etc, or they say we have 20 or 30 years to go yet. This attitude is just not acceptable to God, we must be urgently about our Fathers business.

Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.

The above scripture confirms this amazing fact that people are just sound asleep, in a luke warm attitude as world events hot up and the end time looms closer and closer. We are the Laodicean era of the church and we have a luke warm attitude. Beware, the end time is closer now than when you first believed.

The watchman is to send a warning message to Israel, the English speaking nations, as mentioned above. Now notice the following scripture.

The warning message goes to Jacob, but the whole house of Israel hears it. This warning message will be well known around the world, when it goes out. It is not difficult to imagine how this will happen with T.V. Newspaper, and Internet. It is so easy for something to be known worldwide overnight, once God decides it is to happen, how and when will be up to Him to decide. The time of this warning message must be exact as the end time events follow very quickly behind the warning message.

When Sept. 11 occurred, the whole world new about it very quickly, God is in charge, He is bigger than any event in human history, He has a plan, He wants the nation of Israel and Judah warned of Jacobs trouble. It will not be hard for Him to open the doors for this to happen over night, if that is how He wants to do it. Remember, this will be up to God, not man.

Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

There is a double use of the word tarry, in the above scripture, but they are different in the Hebrew, the first word means delayed, the second means, it will not be deferred.

The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

It is so very clear that the nations of Israel will be told most clearly that there are terrible times ahead for them unless they change their ways.

Lets recap on what we have learned so far. The watchman is a prophet, he will say Gods words to the nations of modern day Israel, Australia, America, Great Britain, New Zealand, Canada.

The message of the watchman is a warning message of impending disaster on these nations. 2/3rds of the nations will die by war, pestilence, famine, and wild beasts. The remaining 1/3^rd of the population will be taken into captivity by a cruel nation. These captives will be cast all around the world.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

At present the population of modern day Israel is approximately 424,000,000. 2/3rds of these people will die which is 280,000,000. The remainder of the population is 141,000,000, these people go into captivity. Unfortunately only 1/10^th will come out of captivity alive.

14,000,000 will be alive out of 424,000,000. That is devastation at its worst. No wonder the watchman takes his calling seriously.

A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

The above scripture is speaking about the nations of Israel, but do not be fooled, the church has also got a severe warning notice the following.

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

2/3rds of the Church are to be cut off and die {spiritually and probably physically}some of this has already happened those who have fallen away from the truth no longer keep Holy Days etc. they are dead spiritually. The one third left will form the Laodicean church possibly around 50,000 people.

And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed

I would like to digress a little for a moment, regarding the way in which this warning must be spoken by the watchman.

If you were at a dinner and someone told you that a bomb was planted inside the building and was about to explode, and you had to warn the people. How would you do it.

Would you quietly enter the building, slowly come to the stage, apologise to the people for interrupting their dinner, excuse yourself and hope that no one would be offended by what you were about to say, hope that no one took it the wrong way, and that hopefully no one was upset or put out by what you were about to tell them. Then you quietly asked if everyone could just leave the building, after they finished their meal, so as not to cause indigestion, because there is a slight probability that there could be a small explosion, well may be not an explosion, maybe just a puff of smoke, and that there could be some damage to the building, well maybe not structural damage, just a few chairs, or something like that, and if they could leave when they were ready, because we have received a bomb threat of doubtful origin and we doubt if it is really a serious threat, only probably a hoax.

This person had the knowledge of impending disaster and gave a wishy washy half hearted warning to the people.

If you were in this persons shoes, I am sure you would race in, yell out loudly and clearly, to get out immediately, there is a bomb in the building. You would be urgent, clear, concise, you would state things clearly and take control, so as to save as many people as possible, with the warning and your quick actions.

This is not the time for worrying about people getting upset, about offending people, about treading on eggshells. Since Mr. Armstrongs death, we have about 100,000 people with 100,000 opinions, pretty well all of them different, pretty well all of them wrong. There is total confusion amid the church and no strong leader who believes God and is prepared to stand up for his beliefs. This chaos will not continue, Gods true church will be united under the truth, they will be drawn together by the truth of God. However this will be the Laodicean church and some of them will be luke warm, their hearts are far from the work of God.

We have been in Gods church long enough to know that we are now living in the end time.

Mr. Armstrong had the same urgent message to give to the church, he spoke boldly and gave a warning, a serious warning, he said exactly what was going to happen. There was no room for doubt, he was sincere, he simply understood incorrectly when this was to happen.

How many members believe that Israel will receive a spanking. {I read that recently in a church article}

If the death of 410 million people is a spanking, I hate to think what a belting would be. That was a totally rediculous thing to say.

God wants people in His church who are prepared to remain faithful forever. Gods people should be prepared to wait for the end times until they die. If the end does not come in their lifetime, so what, we should be prepared to wait for the return of the Father and Christ regardless of how long it takes. All of Gods people have thought they were living in the end time.

It all comes down to why we are in the church, are we in it to preach the gospel, learn and grow in grace and knowledge, develop the fruits of the spirit, develop perfect righteous character. If so, we will wait patiently for the return of the Father and Christ whenever that may be, we will be so doing.

Look how the church has been sifted, 1972 and 75 happened for a reason, all towards Gods plan, he knows our hearts and intentions, if we are in the church for the wrong reasons, they will soon surface and we will leave or our attitudes will give us away. God is not mocked.

God could have quite easily let these things happen, to see what was in our hearts.

Look at all the rubbish currently being printed about Mr. Armstrong, now that he is dead and unable to defend himself.

And amazingly, not a word is spoken about Mr. Tkach, who set about to take the church off the track and back to main stream religion. This of course has been followed by his son and we now see Worldwide almost unrecognizable from the beliefs it held under the faithful leadership of Mr. Armstrong.

I am not saying Mr. Armstrong was perfect, not at all, and he knew that, but he was a faithful servant of God, doing a massive job of preaching the gospel to the world. I would like to add that every person who came into Worldwide, learned everything from God through Mr. Armstrong. DONT FORGET THAT

It is very easy to criticize someone who is dead, because they cannot defend themselves. Mr. Armstrong was not in the church to save himself, he only cared about us, the membership. He took his commission seriously, he went many years without money, his family endured many years of hardship. You only have to read his autobiography to see that. Have you people forgotten about that, or don't you choose to read about his hard years serving for God with absolutely nothing in his pocket.

His whole heart and mind was focused on doing Gods will. He was not perfect, but he did a job better than you or I could do. God is well pleased with him.

We have to stand before God and answer for our thoughts and actions, Gods sees everything.

I hope I have explained the way the watchman will speak, he will not excuse his words, or apologize for them, he will not back track, and hope that no one takes offence. The stakes are too high. This is serious, we need to wake up and take notice of what is being said here.

Lets now look at who the watchman speaks to. We have already covered the fact that the warning message will go to the English speaking nations of Israel. But others are also spoken to by the watchman. Notice the following scriptures.

And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.

Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.

Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,

And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you

Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;

The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,