THE DAY OF THE LORD

On May 6, 2010, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, gave a remarkable speech according to the following report:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says she believes she must pursue public policies “in keeping with the values” of Jesus Christ, ”The Word made Flesh.”

Pelosi, who is a Catholic and who favors legalized abortion, voted against the ban on partial-birth abortion that was enacted into law in 2003.
 
At a May 6 Catholic Community Conference on Capitol Hill, the speaker said: “They ask me all the time, ‘What is your favorite this? What is your favorite that? What is your favorite that?’ And one time, ‘What is your favorite word?’ And I said, ‘My favorite word? That is really easy. My favorite word is the Word, is the Word. And that is everything. It says it all for us. And you know the biblical reference, you know the Gospel reference of the Word.”  From CNSNews

Pelosi’s speech exemplifies why judgment must come.  She speaks just as the Iraelite “believers” did in 730 BC and Judahites did in 600 BC as they sacrificed their children to Molech (like abortion) and engaged in every other abomination God had forbidden. This lawlessness, idolatry, and apostasy is what Ezekiel talks about throughout much of his book.

Your mother is like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches. But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. And fire has gone out of a rod of her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation. (Ezekiel 19:10-14 KJ2000)

Who is Ezekiel talking to here? Verse 19:1 tells us he speaks to “the princes of Israel.” The context of this passage shows us these represent the disobedient leaders of God’s people. They include the lawless leaders of the “lost” ten tribes, Northern Israel, the idol worshippers of Southern Israel, Judah, and, typologically (prophetically) to the idolatrous Catholic Church and her children of harlotry, the apostate protestant churches.

An who is the Mother Ezekiel contemplates here?  She is a mystery.  She is Babylon the Great of Revelation 17.

And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come here; I will show unto you the judgment of the great harlot that sits upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder. And the angel said unto me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. And here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short time. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition. And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he said unto me, The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which you saw upon the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. (Revelation 17:1-16 KJ2000)

The mother of the princes of Israel is false religion.  She encompasses all who use the Name of GOD as they perform abominable and lawless acts of immorality, theft, and oppression.  She uses the LORD’s Name in vain.  She includes all religions of the world, from Judaism to Hinduism to Buddhism to Christianity to Islam to Molech to Illuminism to Satanism.  And how does this Mother propagate her faith throughout the world? By using the power of the beast, the governments of man.

Revelation 17 and 18 illustrate in greater depth Ezekiel’s lamenation of Ezekiel 19.  Revelation describes the ultimate destruction of false religion by describing her various fruits that will fail.  Ezekiel, though more briefly, says the same thing.

[S]he was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them. And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground. And fire has gone out of a rod of her branches, which has devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

The rod of wickedness, as exhibited by the blasphemous words of Nancy Pelosi, has budded.  Her fruit has been exposed as rotten to the core.  The Day of the LORD has come and the time of her rod’s burning is at hand.  In the place of her rule (her rod) shall arise The Shepherd’s Rod.