Hidden Eyes & Closed Ears Summary of article written by Joe Crews (on the Amazing Facts website). Very, very good in its entirety.
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May God grant you the courage to be a part of that remnant church which has the faith of Jesus, the testimony of Jesus, and keeps all of His commandments. These truly may be designated as the saints. In summary, note how link upon link of related texts show the fortunes and misfortunes of the wall-God's law.
1. The wall represents God's law. A breach in the wall represents breaking the law (iniquity). Isaiah 30:9-13, "This is a rebellious people ... children that will not hear the law of the Lord ... therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall."
2. False ministers did not repair the break. But they did try to mend the gap with weak, untempered mortar, a counterfeit material. Ezekiel 13:3-14, "Woe unto the foolish prophets ... ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge ... and one built up a wall, and lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar."
3. The breach in the wall was the Sabbath, which the preachers saw, but hid their eyes from it. Instead of restoring the true Sabbath, they used the pagan Sunday (untempered mortar) as a substitute, claiming that the Lord said it was all right, when "the Lord hath not spoken." Ezekiel 22:26-28, "Her priests have violated my law, and profaned mine holy things ... and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths ... and her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar ... saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken."
4. The counterfeit wall (Sunday) will be revealed and destroyed when the plagues fall (hail). Ezekiel 13:11, "Say unto them that daub it with untempered mortar that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall and a stormy wind shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it."
5. Hail is one of the seven last plagues. Revelation 16:21, "And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven ... and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great."
6. The plagues are called "the wrath of God." Revelation 15:1, "Seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God."
7. The wrath of God (plagues) fall on those who have the mark of the beast. Revelation 14:9, 10, "If any man worship the beast ... and receive his mark ... The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God."
8. God's wrath (plagues) fall on those who used the untempered mortar (Sunday). The plagues and destruction prove that these events take place at the end of the world and that these prophecies apply to our day. Ezekiel 13:13-15, "I will even rend it ... and great hailstones in my fury to consume it. So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar ... Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon them that have daubed it."
9. God looked for those who would repair the gap or breach in His law correctly. Ezekiel 22:30, "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me."
10. God finds those who will repair the breach. They will restore the true Sabbath to its right place. Isaiah 58:12, 13, "And they that shall be of thee ... shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of the paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day."
-- Ren
