An amazing event happened when I returned from a 2 week Christmas break at work. Beards. Beards on people who didn’t have any before the break. These weren’t the goatees half beards but full on beards.
The sign of the beard.
This is the reason why the enemies of Christ must destroy every one of his people – because of the sign of the beard.
What is the sign of the beard? Spontaneous group action guided and initiated by an external force. The external force that the enemies of Christ are concerned about is Jesus. All it takes is one sheep that is awake to wreck their plan – one Christian.
In Ezekiel 37:1-10 the dry bones prophecy. Ezekiel was a single person who by Jesus’ direction was able to awaken a mighty army.
That is why there’s the attitude I see of take no prisoners. The enemy has their hands in every aspects of life: government, health, food, money, entertainment, transportation, energy, employment, social, environment…. The goal is get rid of Christianity and Christians by either early death or converting them into a 2-fold more son of hell than they are.
Each point they touch they place a measure of control like Gulliver being tied down by one tiny rope after another. Each rope is tightened, making any movement impossible.
That is how the enemy is tying down Christians, one law after another. A law is passed but Christians are given an exemption but years later the rope is pulled tight and the exemption goes away. Over and over and over until a Christian can’t follow the bible without violating some laws of man.
One law at a time, one freedom gone.
Regards,
RSV Ezekiel 37:1-10
1 THE HAND of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; it was full of bones.
2 And he led me round among them; and behold, there were very many upon the valley; and lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, thou knowest.”
4 Again he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
8 And as I looked, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them.
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.”
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great host.