Introduction

DENS AND CAVES –clefts and rocks

Are these persecution,  protection or punishment ?

History has repeated , who are in Clefts and rocks? It shows that PCG has got a wound.PCG says it is getting persecuted, but in reality it is getting punished –There is an enemy coming up like a flood  to destroy God’s people. Ministry should examine God’s word !Prophecies are being fulfilled prior to Jesus Christ’s return.It is God who will save you ,and not your own work!

 

TRANSCRIPT – PERSECUTING GOD’S CHURCH (0522)

VOICEOVER:

The Key of David with Gerald Flurry

GERALD FLURRY:

 

·        PART   5---- They wandered in deserts, and in

mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

 

 Assembly Replying in black—and-- red ---( italics )

 

 

G.Flurry is  saying the church is getting persecuted as follows ------ .He is quoting  from Heb.11.

 

·        Cruel mockings      …and scourgings----

·        They were stoned, ------ They were sawn

asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword:

·        they wandered about

in sheepskins and goatskins; being

destitute, afflicted, tormented;

 

 

The above were explained earlier ---and in this letter

We would explain ---

·        They wandered in deserts, and in

mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth, clefts of the rock.

 

 

CLEFTS OF THE ROCK ----

(we shall first see how Gerald Flurry is helped by the Gesenius Lexicon !—

 

God has not given him  the understanding!--But  Gesenius  Lexicon !

 

 

 

Obadiah booklet

3rd para of page 5----Gerald Flurry WRITES   ----- CLEFTS

 

Edom dwelled in the clefts of the rock.

 

The Gesenius Lexicon defines  clefts  this way

(emphasis GF’s ) “places of refuge in the rocks ( perhaps dwellings carved in the rocks ).

 

If you have ever visited Petra ,as I have (GF) you know this is a perfect description of it’s estimated 10,000  caves.

Mr. Armstrong  believed the Bible  indicates Petra could be  the place God uses to protect His church during the great tribulation(Rev.12 :12 ,14 ).But he never stated that dogmatically !

 

GF continues –

Most of God’s Laodiceans know a great deal about Petra..But most are not receptive toward it as a place of refuge !

 

Last para-----However just going to such a desolate place would take strong faith .And we need to be building faith for such a journey . After all, it is prophesied !-----THAT TIME IS VERY NEAR !

 

Well ----the G.Lexicon helped him to say  clefts of the rocks are places of refuge !---GF says the time is very near –-- for

He says PCG people have to go there as it is prophesied ---but poor brethren ----GF their  leader says the brethren have to  build faith for that journey -----ohhhhh! –looks like Edmond people cannot live in rocks !---after all-- the food that is being prescribed by the evangelist  are also not there ! -----

 

 

but dear brethren

God says rocks are something else ------!

GF gives the brethren fouled food !---serpent’s food from which God has to protect His people!—Jude 11-13, 18 ---the leader is giving fouled waters –Ezk.32: 2----he is watering God’s land with his blood –ezk. 32:6,   29:21---He is teaching his own things and God’s words are thinned down ----watered down ! He is not giving biblical proof to what he say ! God has hidden these things from him ---

 

 

If you can only remember our writings of REFUGE IN ROCKS  !----some may perhaps do not have this writing ----so here we do repeat  it! ---------

 

 

GOD’S WORD EXPLAINS WHAT CLEFTS ARE -----JOB 30

GOD’S DEFINITION OF CLEFTS----NOT GESENIUS LEXICON’S !

 

Job30:3--  For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

 

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thief;) To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected. They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. ---(Job 30:5-8)

 

Chidren of fools –base men who are considered thieves were driven to live in clefts of valleys , in caves of the earth . They even were starving without proper food and had to find food by the bushes ----

 

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing late to the wilderness  desolate and waste. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and broom tree  roots for their food. (Job 30:3-4)

SOME PEOPLE  ARE fleeing late to wilderness to desolate places where they could find  Some  sort of food .---when they do not have new revelations ---proper food ---they go to the wilderness to seek cheap food !

 

 

 

In dens and caves ----

Isa 2:19)  And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

 

Isa 2:20)  In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

 

Isa 2:21)  To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

 

They try to find old food , some food –during the famine of the word – and when God is shaking the church with spiritual problems –and as they hide from the Lord as they have not repented ---but  seeking their own riches ---God says they are in spiritual caves and rocks !--------ALL THESE HAPPEN FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH IN THEIR RICHES RATHER THAN HAVING FAITH IN GOD !

 

 Ezk 33:24-32 -----the son of man is told that those in captivity are following idols etc. ---they do not please the Lord ---therefore they will be punished by God ---they are in caves ----and vs.27- 29 ---says God will surely punish with sword ---and lay them desolate ----the mountains of Israel (churches of God ) ---- will be desolate and by that reason the people---ministers of God will learn that God is God !

 

Vs.27  Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

 

28  For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

29  Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.

 

Then it is not persecution but because of abominations that they are in caves !

Jer.48:28-30  proud liars of Moab are dwelling in rocks --(moab is compared to PCG ---please refer assembly writings of 25th Feb .2006  in replying to KOD –What is Christ doing today )

 

Jer.49 :15  For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised

among men.(Rev.11 :2---the Laodecian church will be made small among gentiles )

 

16    Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

PCG’s  terribleness  made them to dwell in caves !---eagle work is the rich work which is wickedness !

Vs.17  Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

Assembly writings of 31-March 2006- Refuge in Rocks ----shows how Edom is compared to PCG by God and their eagle work .-Pro.23:4,5 ;

Job.4:6

 

Job 37:8  Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

Beasts are the ministers of God –says God ! ---Acts 20:28

 

Isa.2:8  Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

9  And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

10 ¶  Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

Here too God says the great men humbleth himself for idols  which is their own work ---like the full efforts that are put to make a physical building for God –without a spiritual building !---So they are in rock and dust  to hide from God !

 

Rev.6:15  And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

16  And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

17  For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

This is the plight of the great men of earth –who are the leaders of God’s church ---who will have to hide from the Lord !----It is those who worked against God ---who were not repentant and despised the word of God and who act as hypocrites ! they project a big work ---eagle work ---to show the world ---but they are not humble enough to

Repent before the true God !

 

Isa7:19--And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

 

 

Amos 6:12  Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

( Deut 29:18-20 –says gall is to turn away from God ---and that God will not spare him ) )horses –the ministers cannot run or in other words do God’s work----they cannot work with oxen !---their judgments are wrong !

 

 

vs.13  Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

They do not glorify God for what they do !

Vs.14  But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

Therefore God has raised up the assembly against the house of Israel ----and they shall afflict you says the Lord God of Hosts !

So this work of treading of Rev.11:2  is the work of the Lord and

God will see that you will repent before Him very soon !

 

AND GF SAYS ---

So, here we see that these people were hunted. God’s own people were hunted like animals and hid in caves like  animals because of persecution from this world, and God says this world wasn’t even worthy of those people. This whole world was not worthy of them. But when you read scriptures like that, and you think about, “Well, let’s see now, was it really that difficult for God’s people?

 

 

G Flurry says a completely   different story about clefts ,rocks  when you compare with God’s teachings ! ---this is what is known as fouled waters !---serpents food --- and  food for the poor ---plucked from the tops of  shrubs ---poor , immature food ---pH value cannot be tested even ---! ---the food values of these shrubs are not mentioned in the Food and Nutrition books ---OR IN THE RECOMMENDED FOOD LISTS OF THE EVANGELIST !

 

 

 

GF quotes ---pg.4 –obadiah booklet ---last para ---

Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised. (Oba 1:2)

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? --(Oba 1:3)

 

When you dwell in clefts ---

·        God places you among the gentiles as in Rev.11:2

·        they will be greatly despised !

 (Oba. 1:2)

 

GF quoted above -- Oba.1:3

This verse  describes  the laodicean traits ---

1.    Pride of thy heart hath deceived thee

2.    they dwell in clefts---whose habitation is high

3.    in pride she says—who shall bring me down to the ground ?

PRIDE deceived them and they now live in  CLEFTS OF ROCKS!—

GF  THROUGH PRIDE  only writes what favours his writings !(Joel Hilliker wrote to educate teens ---that people against God would write only verses that favour their teachings ----! )----IN OTHER WORDS JOEL HILLIKER SAID ABOUT THE PCG LEADER G.FLURRY !

 

 

 

GF says ---“These Laodiceans are so proud  they refuse to hear God’s warning message.

But PCG is so proud  --they refuse to hear God’s warning message to repent ---but through fear , they are hiding from the Lord !----they PCG are hypocrites !

 

 GOD SAYS HE HAD MADE PCG SMALL AMONG THE GENTILES !-----THAT ALONE PROVES OUR WORK ----THIS IS A WORK OF TREADING DOWN !----MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT ---GOD HAS FORMED US FOR THIS WORK ---we are to work like the following verse ! GOD WILL DO IT THROUGH US !

 

Have you not heard from afar? I made it from days of old, even I have formed it. Now I have caused it to come, and you are to cause fortified cities to crash into heaps, ruins. ---(Isa 37:26)

 

 

 

HISTORY HAS REPEATED ----CAVES AND ROCKS

Just as the kings and people spiritually are in Egypt and Assyria ---(history had repeated-)--they are now in caves ,rocks , pits when they--ISRAEL were distressed ---and we see that history in 1 Sam 13: 5,6

 

Vs.5---And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.  (strong  --  01007 ---AV-Bethaven 7; 7--- Beth-aven =" house of vanity")

Now the gentiles of Rev.11:2 have pitched eastward from the house of vanity –PCG-------GOD SPEAKS OF SPIRITUAL THINGS ----!

1 Sam.13:6 -- When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

 

(  The meaning of  ---STRAIT

Narrow, and difficult to pass, #Mt 7:13,14. This word should not be confounded with straight. To be "in a strait," is to have one's way beset with doubts or difficulties, to be at a loss, #1Sa 13:6 2Sa 24:14 Php 1:23 )

 

 

 

PCG HAS GOT A WOUND !

 

WHEN YOU COMMIT SPIRITUAL ADULTERY---BY GOING AFTER OTHER  gods  ----YOU GET A WOUND---AND DISH0NOUR

Pro 6:33-35  A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

THIS IS THE WAY HE WILL ACT  ----  IN HIS JEALOUSY ----IN THE DAY OF VENGEANCE ----THE WIFE WILL BE WOUNDED ----HE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY good offering   BUT ACT IN FURY OF HIS JEALOUSY !

THE WIFE WILL BE DISHONOURED -----THIS IS THE REASON WHY GOD’S PEOPLE ARE FACING DIFFICULTIES ¬

 

WHEN SHE GETS REPROACED ---MOCKED IT WILL  BE ALLOWED ----NOT REGARD THE RANSOM (UNLESS REPENTED )---THEIR OFFERINGS WILL NOT BE REGARDED !Isa.19:15

Pro 6:34  For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Pro 6:35  He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

 

 

 

WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL WOUND YOU GET ?

 

IT IS A CRUEL CHASTENING ----FOR THE MULTITUDE OF SINS –AFFLICTION AND SORROW !----NOW PCG  IS GETTING  IT----IT IS INCREASING !----AND GOD IS DOING IT –GOD SAYS ---I HAVE DONE IT !

Jer 30:14  All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

 

 

 

Jer 30:12  For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

 

 

 

 

GF says ---“Did they really have some trials like

this?” Certainly, the leading men did,

and some of the lay men did, as well.”

IN THE OLDEN DAYS –in the first century  THEY REALLY GOT PERSECUTED AS THEY SERVED GOD TRULY ! ---- But NOW THE CHURCH IS WICKED  AS GOD SAYS--- and the church is duly punished  ! ----

 

 

GF says ---“Cruel mockings. Can you imagine just

for obeying Jesus Christ receiving cruel

mockings? ”

 

If  they obeyed Jesus Christ then God would never have said all these things that are recorded because of false worship ---in saying that they obey God ---they are still sinning ---it is a lie that they obey ---they should repent when they do wickedly and when they are told about it !---do you think God is a liar ? ----NO ---HE WILL  NEVER

DO SO ----PCG IS LYING ALL THE TIME ! ! !

 

 

Jer 30:15  Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

 

GERALD FLURRY IS CRYING !------THE CHURCH IS GETTING CRUEL MOCKINGS !  and HE SAYS IT IS PERSECUTION ! ----he says they are lies ------

-BUT GOD SAYS IT IS CRUEL CHASTENING FROM GOD  !— so It is the truth ---they come –

-AS PUNISHMENTS FROM GOD !---It is an incurable wound !

 

 

GF SAYS ----“Christ’s parents took Him to Egypt.

They had to flee—flee to Egypt to save

the Christ-child. ”-----

YES JESUS CHRIST WAS SAVED IN EGYPT ----BUT PCG IS IN SPIRITUAL EGYPT  AND SPIRITUAL BABYLON  AND IS GETTING SPIRITUAL PUNISHMENTS !----PCG IS NOT SAVED THERE ----THEY HAVE TO WORK OUT THEIR SALVATION BY REPENTING AND PRODUCING FRUITS OF REPENTANCE AS WE HAVE SHOWN IN MANY OF OUR WRITINGS !

 

 

 

GF SAYS ---“during that Great Tribulation just before

Christ returns to this earth. God’s going

to protect His people again, take them to

some place of protection.”

 

No they are in spiritual clefts –in the wilderness ---wilderness is the place God chose to proptect His people from satan’s fouled food !

 

WOMAN WAS TAKEN BY KING OF BABYLON ---INTO THE SPIRITUAL  WILDERNESS !

 

Eze 17:2  Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

Eze 17:3  And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, long winged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

 

Eze 17:12  Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

 

GENTILES ARE NOURISHING THEM AS THEY ARE IN THEIR COURT ---OUTER COURT –Rev.11:2----

 

 

 From the face of the serpent ----

 

Isa 59:19  So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

His glory from the rising of the sun -----

Means ----from east –(-webster )---Asia Minor ,Syria , India ,Sri Lanka )---

So God’s glory is in this part of the world now  as He executes His judgments through the gentiles  !----

Until God’s people yield to him this will happen !

 

 

Enemy shall come up like a flood

In an organised public appearances CAMPAIGN--- he is giving more fouled food like a flood ---all  deceived brethren will think God is blessing ---they are so deceived they cannot  differentiate between God’s truth  and the liar’s lies !

 

----satan through the Laodicean leader sends lies like a flood ---Rev.12 :15

Rev 12:15  And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman,

 

 

 

BUT ---The liar will not prevail ---God is greater than him !

 

Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him ----

 

FROM THE EAST ----RISING OF THE SUN ----WHERE HIS GLORY IS NOW ----THE LORD WILL LIFT UP A STANDARD AND SEND HIS SPIRITUAL FOOD TO TURN  HIS PEOPLE BACK TO HIM -----THROUGH HIS SWORDS , SCOURGINGS , CLOUDS ,HAIL , FIRE , BRIMSTONE  HE WILL JUDGE THEM AND  GIVE THEM THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD !—Ezk 34:16 ,Isa.7:22

 

Isa 59:20  And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. -----REDEEMER ----JESUS CHRIST SHALL COME TO ZION ---TO THEM WHO REPENTS !

PRAISE BE TO HIM OUR SAVIOUR AND REDEEMER !

 

PCG LEADER IS CHEATING  GOD’S PEOPLE ----MINISTERS SHOULD REALISE !------REALISE AND ACT  !

 

Jer 8:9  The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

 

 

When God is chastening the shepherds , church ---the fouled waters say it is to the world !

GF says ----“ Watch over them through this nuclear holocaust

that’s coming, if men don’t wake up and see what God says in the scriptures and believe the Bible. Believe the Bible.

 

 “prove all things”—know where God is working and realize what a spectacular bargain you have just to KNOW GOD

and be honored to be a part of the very Work of God.”

Until next week, this is Gerald Flurry.

Goodbye, friends.

 

When God says He has  dishonoured the harlot turned church with a perpetual wound  ---she says she is honoured ! !  !

The wise men of God have rejected the word of the Lord ---they do not consider when God has said to repent ---FOULED WATERS THINK IT IS OK  ----that THERE IS NO NEED TO REPENT !---THUS ----GOD’S WORDS ARE DESPISED !

 

WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THE DAY OF ATONEMENT ?

MAY HIS CHASTENING BEAR FRUIT  AND ALL PRAISE BE TO THE ETERNAL GOD AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST !

 

THE GENTILE ASSEMBLY