Introduction

 

How did Edom become rich? The book of Obadiah is examined and compared to PCG’s work…

 

 

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REFUGE IN THE ROCKS –OBADIAH

 

 

QUOTED FROM OBADIAH BOOKLET –GF –1996,  OUR COMMENTS IN BLACK AND BLUE.

 

PAGE 1--The major and minor prophets all have an end-time message .It contains most frightening message IN THE BIBLE FOR GOD’S CHURCH , AND ESPECIALLY HIS END TIME CHURCH!.

Obadiah  utterly condemned Esau or Edom.

Is PCG not the end time God’s church ?---OK we shall read on !

Page 2—para 2— GF quoted

Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever. And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel. ----(Mal 1:4-5)

 

  • THEY WANT TO BUILD WHAT WAS DESOLATED FROM HWA’S TIME –BUT GOD SAYS ---THEY SHALL BUILD ---I WILL THROW DOWN!
  • THEY SHALL CALL THEM THE BORDER OF  WICKEDNESS!---In this border the son of man is judged ---his wickedness is judged!------and see-- 
  • * THE LORD WILL BE  MAGNIFIED IN THIS SAME BORDER  !

The strangers are magnifying the Lord’s name---- * IN THIS SAME  BORDER --- !  PRAISE BE TO HIM –HE IS FAITHFUL IN WHAT HE SAYS !—

  • The strangers who are commissioned by God to be counsellors and judges (Isa 1:26) are  * calling this border ---  * the border of wickedness where the son of man is being judged ----the wickedness of the son of man of Ezk. who is leading the wicked shepherds---

 

And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of  * strangers, and will execute judgments among you. Ye shall fall by the sword; * I will judge you in * the border of Israel; and ye shall know that-- * I am the LORD. -----(Eze 11:9-10)

 

-ZION SHALL BE REDEEMED ONLY AFTER  *JUDGMENT ! ! !

Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. --(Isa 1:27)---JUDGED BY THOSE OF VERSE 26 !

 

WHY HAS THIS HAPPENED ?

And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in My statutes, neither executed My judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you. (Eze 11:12)

-YOU GOT CROWDS INTO CHURCH DESPISING GOD’S JUDGMENTS ---EXO: 34:15----PCG DECIDED AND TOOK IT’S OWN COUNSELLING---DID NOT CARE ABOUT GOD’S DECREES!---WHEN YOU DO SO IT IS WORSHIPPING OTHER GODS!—(VS 14 ) AND IT BECOMES A SNARE AMIDST YOU –(VS.12)---THEN YOU WILL DO ALL KINDS OF WRONG THINGS TO ESCAPE GOD’S JUDGMENTS ---THAT’S HOW YOU WERE EVEN AGAIST THE PEOPLE WHO INFORMED ABOUT IT  ---  ( gentiles of Rev.11:1--  informed you –God  acknowledges the gentiles  as faithful to God  ! ---EZK. 39:23 )

 

Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned Mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. ---(Eze 22:26)

THEREFORE GOD  PROFANED THE SANCTUARY WHERE SON OF MAN IS PRESENT WHOSE WIFE WAS  STRICKEN ---Ezk. 24: 21 , 16

 

SO EDOM IS PCG –WHERE THESE THINGS WHICH ARE SPOKEN IN THESE  

SCRIPTURES   ( Mal. 1:4,5 )ARE TAKING PLACEWe the genties of Rev.11 and

Ezk.39:23 ---speak of the border of wickedness  as God has shown us where the son of

Man has to be judged as in Ezk 11:2 -12---this son of man of Ezk.24:16

 

-REMEMBER GOD IS NOT A LIAR !—GOD ENLIGHTENS WHAT HAPPENED

IN ALL MINOR AND MAJOR PROPHETS ---GOD SENT THEM TO

MR.FLURRY---FOR A PARTICULAR REASON !----HE WANTED TO SAVE

GOD’S CHURCH !

1.  Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers. Howbeit I sent unto you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. (Jer 44:3-4)

 

2.  Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

Jer 26:2)

And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in My law, which I have set before you, To hearken to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them,( but ye have not hearkened); Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Jer 26:4-6)

TWO  REASONS WHY THE PROHETIC BOOKS WERE REVEALED TO GF---- 

 1. GOD PLEADED –DO NOT DO THIS ABOMINABLE THING THAT GOD HATES !

 2.  GOD SAYS ----GF HAS NOT HEARKENED TO GOD !---TO TELL THOSE OF CHURCH TO OBEY THE PROPHETS ---NOT TOLD  AS GODCOMMANDED. ----NOT CORRECTED THE BAMAH ABOMINATION !CHURCH DID NOT REPENT !

 

 

ALTHOUGH   G.FLURRY  BOASTS THAT HE WROTE ALL THE PROPHETIC BOOKLETS-- CAN YOU NOW UNDERSTAND WHY GOD HAS GIVEN  HIM THESE KNOWLEDGE TO WRITE THEM---

-IT IS FOR  GF TO CORRECT GOD’S CHURCH ----IT IS PCG WHO SINNED  IN THE LAST HOUR ----PCG WENT TO BURN INCENSE AND TO SERVE OTHER gods JUST AS JER.44. 3-4 SAYS ,THAT NEEDED CORRECTION , BY THE REPENTANCE OF THE WHOLE CHURCH---GF DIRECTED THE REVEALED PROPHECIES  AT WCG , BUT IT WAS PCG AT BRIDE LEVEL THAT NEEDED THE CORRECTION. GOD HAD TO RISE EARLY ---WHICH MEANS AN URGENT WORK FOR HIM TO GET JESUS CHRIST’S BRIDE CORRECTED ---SHE HAD GONE IN THE WRONG DIRECTION-----SHE WAS JUDGING OTHERS AND SHE DID THE SAME THING !-----GOD SENT ALL PROPHETS-----PLEADING WITH GF ----SAYING, OH ,  DO NOT DO THIS ABOMINABLE THING THAT I HATE !

 

BUT---GF DID NOT LISTEN TO GOD ---AS IN JER.26.5

THEREFORE AS IN VS. 6,9 ---GOD IS DEFINITE IN DOING WHAT HE SAYS ---THAT HE WILL MAKE PCG LIKE SHILOH AND WITHOUT INHABITANT.WE SHOULD REMEMBER EZK.24.16

WHICH WAS FORETOLD ----HAPPENED !-----SO THIS  TOO WILL HAPPEN ---SPIRITUALLY !

 

                

Obadiah page 4—para 5 ---GF writes---( judging WCG )

God is warning His spiritual birthright people . This is a big part of the subject in all the major and minor prophets.

 

Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. --(Eze 16:52)

 

PCG A KINGDOM

Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. ---(Eze 16:13)

GF SAID Ezek. 16 :1 -14---GOD SPOKE OF PCG ----how she was brought to royalty!---- VS.15 SHOWS HOW SHE COMMITTED HARLOTRY.

The king of PCG had to correct the kingdom of PCG ---God considers it as a kingdom ---Spiritual Israel nation is a kingdom in the sight of God –

 

NOW A HARLOT !—GOD CALLS HER SO !------God addresses PCG now as the harlot !---God’s church has become a harlot!Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: (Eze 16:35)—GOD CALLS HER—HARLOT !------It isclear ----

  • PCG WAS UNFAITHFUL TO GOD AND JESUS CHRIST.
  • GOD TRIED TO CORRECT THROUGH ALL MAJOR AND MINOR PROPHETS
  • GERALD FLURRY EXALTED HIMSELF—HE THOUGHT HE WAS GIVEN A DOUBLE PORTION OF WISDOM THAN MR.H.W.ARMSTRONG .VANITY GIVES THESE IDEAS !—he thought he was like Elisha !---he was blinded because of pride –and did not make righteous judgments when Bamah harlotry was initiated by the deceiver !
  • FAILED TO MEASURE  HIMSELF AND OTHER MINISTERS.
  • GOD IS NOW COMPARING HIM AND CHURCH AS  KINGS AND KINGDOMS  OR GREAT MEN OF ISRAEL WHO WENT AGAINST GOD –WENT AFTER other gods.
  • THIS IS THE SIN WHICH AROUSES HIS ANGER AND JEALOUSY ! For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: (Exo 34:14).

EDOM IS ONE OF SUCH !

 

(we showed how PCG was compared to Moab, in our  writings —

“KEY OF DAVID—MARCH  06---GERALD FLURRY---WHAT IS CHRIST DOING TODAY ?”)

 

FURTHER PROOF OF EDOM  FROM THE OBADIAH BOOKLET ----AND

BIBLE ---

PAGE 2 OF BOOKLET OBADIAH –para 2

EDOM IS ESAU ----Gen.25 :30

Page 2 --Para 5 ---Jacob represent an unconverted attitude in God’s own church today.

But   ESAU  Represent an even worse attitude. God has “INDIGNATION

FOREVER “against  him ! ---He  was  incorrigible ! Whatever   these Edomite  Laodiceans  try to

build ---God says He will tear down !--JUST THINK  FOR YOURSELVES !----WHO IS BUILDING

TODAY ?—-----WCG OR PCG  ? 

Last para –Esau sold his birth right for a bowl of soup ----

Page 3 –para 2---God’s first fruits have a birth right to be the bride of Christ ---like Esua many of

God’s people are selling their birth right for a bowl of soup .

-Now who has sold it ---IT IS PCG WHO DID IT FOR THE ----“BOWL OF BAMAH “---DID NOT GOD

SAY IN EZEK. 16---THE CHAPTER WHICH  DESCRIBES PCG. GF SAID SO AND IT IS CORRECT!

WE TESTIFY ACCORDING TO EZK.39:23  !We gentiles opposed having other gods, and stood for our

God, remained loyal ---so God built us up ---Jer.24 (basket of good figs )

VS. 1---14 SAYS OF PCG .---referring to vs.15 GF said the first fruits have to prove them selves !---and by

vs.16 ---God says  ---She had committed harlotry and thereafter in that whole chapter accuses PCG !

Assembly has explained this chapter earlier

 .

TP booklet page 115—writing about Obadiah’s end time vision---or revelation from God ---

4th para –“ THIS IS THE ONLY TIME IN THE BIBLE WHEN EDOM IS REFERRED TO AS  ‘ HER’

.WHY ?

SHE REPRESENTS GOD’S CHURCH---SPECIFICALLY THE

LAODICEANS WHO REFUSE TO REPENT ,EVEN IN THE TRIBULATION.

PCG HAS COMPLETED 7 YEARS 

,BURIED IN THE BAMAH SIN WITHOUT

REPENTING !

5TH PARA –THE MESSAGE IS AGAINST  “HER”  ---SPIRITUAL EDOM.---WE BATTLE AGAINST

THE MOTHER OF THE LAODICEANS !

IT IS THE GENTILES OF REV.11 WHO ARE BATTLING WITH THE LAODICEANS !

FURTHER DOWN IN THIS ARTICLE WE ARE PROVING FROM HIS WORD THAT PCG IS THE

MOTHER  OF ALL LAODEICEANS.

 

 

 

 

IDUMEA

THERE IS A JUDGMENT AND A GREAT SLAUGHTER IN THE LAND OF IDUMEA!(see below

GF’s comments on Idumea )

The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion. ---(Isa 34:6-8)

 

 

OBADIAH BOOKLET –PAGE 4—2ND PARA ---

“ Edom has a history of betraying  the nations of Jacob or Israel.The historian Josephus records that 20,000 Edomites or IDUMEANS ………….THEY BETRAYED THEIR OWN BROTHERS –BY ROBBING AND KILLING THEM !

 

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by robbery, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity. --(Eze 18:18)

 

As the ‘father’ of PCG ---he spoiled his elder brother Jesus Christ by robbing His bride !And also did wrong to His people ---so here is death prophecied to him ----SEVERE WARNINGS TO PCG leader ---7 years have passed since the abomination is found in the altar, and  the  stubborn attitude of unrepentance is marked !

SONS OF REBELLION ---REFUSING TO REPENT ---VERY STUBBORN –ATTITUDE NOT AT ALL FITTING FOR GOD’S PEOPLE ---

 

so Idumeans are Edomites ----Edomites are unrepenting  Laodicean church of God----of which the mother of Laodecians  is the PCG (Ezk. 16:55 will explain as stated below )

AND  PCG is IDUMEA ---and as Isa.34: 6-8 states

sword of the Lord which  is filled with blood is for PCG ---the slaughter  and sacrifice will be in PCG ( Bozrah is capital of Edom—ISBE  dictionary ) ----for it is the day of the lord’s vengeance –and the year of recompences for the controversy of zion!

 

Page 3 ---3rd and 4th paras –You and I urgently  need to understand why God judges them so harshly .We,ll see there is abundant evidence in the book of Obadiah to prove God is addressing His own

people today !

 

DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY THE GENTILES ARE TREADING DOWN PCG SO HARSHLY ?----DO YOU SEE JESUS CHRIST BEHIND THIS WORK TODAY ?----DID YOU EVER THINK WHO READ THE BOOKS GERALD FLURRY WROTE ?----IS IT THE WCG PEOPLE OR PCG PEOPLE ?  ---TO WHOM DID GOD GIVE IT ? IS IT NOT TO PCG  ? ?  ?  ? GF’S BOOKS ARE GIVEN TO PCG !

GOD IS ADDRESSING HIS OWN PEOPLE TODAY ! –TO THEM HE SENT PROPHETS ---GAVE IT THROUGH GF, WHO TURNED AGAINST GOD !

Put on eye salve to see clearly  !Rev.3 :18

 

 

Page 4 –para 1—

Edom was accepted into God’s congregation—(Deut. 23:7-8 ). So were the Edomite  Laodiceans .

 

WCG is nowhere now ! BUT PCG IS GOD’S CHURCH TODAY !---EVEN THOUGH SHE TURNED LAODICEAN ---SHE IS THE CHURCH OF THE LAST ERA ---THE LAOD. CHURCH.SHE WENT IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH WCG !

 

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. --(Eze 16:44)

UCG, LCG AND THE LIKE ARE THE SISTERS OF PCG !(VS.45)

VS.47—PCG is worse than wcg and others ---.Vs.52 –pcg judged others---and the exhibited lewedness !.

 

When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. ---(Eze 16:55)

 

ALL  SPIRITUAL ISRAEL WILL BE BROUGHT BACK BY GOD ---THAT MEANS ALL REPENTANT OF THE DIVIDED WCG ----UCG ,LCG,GCG-ETC. NOW THEY ARE SISTER CHURCHES OF PCG .

BUT WHEN ALL SP. ISRAEL ARE CORRECTED ---PCG WILL BE THE MOTHER ---SHE ONLY WAS BESTOWED WITH ROYALTY .

 

Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD. For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

 

(Eze 16:58-59)---AFTER KNOWING EVERY THING PCG SINNED ---LEWEDNESS GOING AFTER BAMAH  work  WAS STOPPED BY ASSEMBLY---EZK.23 :45 -49---THIS ACT OF PCG CAUSED TO BREAK THE COVENENT !

After that God punished GF and other punishments are  pouring in according to decrees of God –Cursings for disobedience !

 

NEVERTHELESS THE GOOD NEWS AT THE END IS THAT THE REPENTANT PCG WILL MOTHER THE NOW SISTERS ! EZK. 16:60 -63 EXPLAINS IT ALL. BUT PCG WILL NEVER OPEN IT’S MOUTH ---BECAUSE PCG WILL BEAR THE SHAME ETERNALLY !

THE PLAN OF GOD IS VERY CLEAR IN EZK.16.60 -63.

 

  1. Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with thee in the days of thy youth,
  2. and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
  3. Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed,
  4.  when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger:
  5.  and I will give them unto thee for daughters,
  6. but not by thy covenant.
  7. And I will establish My covenant with thee;
  8.  and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
  9.  That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame,
  10. when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD .SO THIS IS GOD’S PLAN!

 

 

GOD WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH ISRAEL --- HE IS SUCH A MERCIFUL FORGIVING GOD ----AFTER GOD DEALS WITH YOU, WHEN HE IS SATISFIED HOW HE DEALS WITH YOU –AND GET YOU TO REPENT AND COME BACK TO HIM---THEN HE WILL SAVE THE REPENTANT AND  THOSE WHO FEAR HIM . BUT ISRAEL COULD NOT  SAY THAT HE  remained LOYAL TO GOD when others failed !

 

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the elect hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded ----(Rom 11:5-7)

 

THEREFORE BY GRACE ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED ---NOT BY THEIR WORKS---because THEY WERE BLINDED.

And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is My covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. --(Rom 11:26-27)

 

THIS IS JESUS CHRIST’S NEW COVENANT---WHEN HE TAKES AWAY THEIR SINS

 

PAGE 4 ---PARA3—

God’s very elect are to do battle against a woman, or a sinning church of God, with the attitude of Esau.God’s very elect must fight against what these Edomite Laodiceans  are doing against God and His own church.

 

They have despised God and Jesus Christ !God’s very elect are the gentiles and those of little sanctuaries !They have to battle against this sinning church which is against God !

 

Therefore beware lest that come on you which is spoken of in the Prophets: "Behold, you despisers, and marvel, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no way believe, though a man declare it to you." ----(Act 13:40-41)

Laodiceans ---beware !---God has spoken to you through prophets ---the curses shall come upon you !

 

You will see Jesus Christ’s work ---in your day ---day of Anathoth---a work you will not believe ---almost all of PCG believe the work of PCG !----how many believe the work of God done through the gentiles  ?---the work of Rev.11 ?

This work will not be believed in no way even if it is declared to you.---But if

Anyone is wise he should understand that we gentiles cannot write what we write unless Jesus Christ directs.All praise be to Him and our Lord God !

 

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. ---(Rom 11:11)

 

Mr.Flurry writes –Obadiah booklet page 4 –para 4 ---

Esau drank upon God’s holy mountain (Obad.1:16)…….Only God’s church drinks spiritually upon God’s  holy mountain today.So this verse could only apply to God’s  begotten sons in these latter days. Only they are being judged with eternal consequences.

 

TODAY EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD COMMITTED INIQUITY PCG IS ALLOWED BY GOD TO BE A CHURCH---WCG OF YESTERYEAR IS NO MORE CONSIDERED GOD’S CHURCH  BY GOD ---IT IS FALLEN ---MANY OF THEM HAD JOINED OTHER WORLDLY CHURCHES ---PCG ONLY IS FUNCTIONING AS LAODICEAN CHURCH  FEEDING ON OLD REVELATIONS, AND THE WORK OF THEIR OWN !

TODAY THE OUTER COURT IS MEASURING THE INNER COURT  OF PCG----GENTILES ARE TREADING PCG INNER COURT --------HIS BEGOTTEN SONS ARE BEING JUDGED  WITH ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES .-------AND THIS IS JESUS CHRIST’S LAST WORK ON EARTH BEFORE WE COULD SAY -------- “-BEHOLD ,THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF THE LORD ------- AND THE REWARDS COME TO THOSE WHO FEARED HIS NAME !“

 

 

 

 

 

REFUGE IN THE ROCKS

 

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)

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

 

From the outer court of Rev.11 there is a strong warning  message to the inner court today.Do they listen to God ?---these are words of God what we show them according to Jesus Christ’s work !

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)

 

GF quoted above -- Oba.1:3

This verse  describes  the laodiceans ---

  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 ?

Hence this verse indicates their traits which are not mentioned as ADVERSE REPORTS.----PRIDE AND CLEFTS OF ROCKS!

 

Obadiah booklet---page 5—para  1

This para.reports about petra---the edomites found it to be the best place to protect themselves .IT WAS SO GOOD THAT THEIR PRIDE LED THEM TO BELIEVE THEY WERE INVULNERABLE.THAT ATTITUDE LED TO THEIR DOWNFALL !

This is exactly a description of the downfall of PCG !----Please read on to prove it !

 

3rd para of page 5----Gerald Flurry defines   ----- 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 Laodeceans know a great deal about Petra..But most are not receptive toward it as a place of refuge !

GF defines---the CLEFTS are---‘ places of refuge ‘ in this prophecy , and therefore become more interesting to  God’s very elect !

 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 !

 

AS OBADIAH 1:3 SAYS ---IS THERE ANY REASON FOR GOD TO PROTECT WHOM HE IS CRITICISING  ? JUST ASK YOUR SELVES !

THE PROUD EDOMITES ---WHO HAS GIVEN UP THEIR BIRTH-RIGHT FOR A BOWL OF SOUP----SOME USELESS BAMAH foreign gods !

WHO HAS  ROKEN THE COVENANT !

HIGH HOPES OF THESE PEOPLE !---WHY SHOULD GOD PROTECT THESE LAODICEANS ?---as  the above booklet –page 5 ---6th para ---GF says—“ They act like they don’t really need God. Their place of safety is a fantasy.  –they are so proud, nobody can correct them----NOT EVEN GOD !

 

 

GOD’S DEFINITION OF CLEFTS

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 ----which the then IDUMEAN PEOPLE  used to gather and live upon!

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  fleeing late to wilderness to desolate places where they could find

 

Some  sort of food as the following study notes of Gill describes ----

which is like unto a bramble, and grows in hedges and maritime places; the tops of which, when young and tender, are eaten, and the leaves boiled for food, and are eaten by poor people, being what soon filled the belly, and satisfied; and seem to be the same the Moors call "mallochia", and cry about the streets, as food for the poor to buy (y): however it appears upon the whole to be the tops or leaves of some sort of shrub, which Idumean people used to gather and live upon.

This story is similar to the now laodicean church which is experiencing the famine of food  and the nature of the Edomites ---- proud and foolish that God abhors !

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: ----(Pro 14:3)

 

THEREFORE CLEFTS ARE NOT PLACES OF SAFETY---GERALD FLURRY HAS PROPHECIED FALSELY !there place of safety is a fantasy !

PEOPLE WHO DID NOT HAVE FAITH WANDERED ABOUT IN CAVES!

 

(Heb 11:36-38-----(THIS IS THE FAITH CHAPTER ---THE FOLLOWING IS SPOKEN ABOUT OTHERS WHO ARE NOT HAVING ENOUGH FAITH IN GOD !)

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, and, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

ALL THESE HAPPENED for PCG LEADERS AS GENTILES OF REV,11  are  EXPLAINING !

 

Mockings and scourgings---Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: ---(Isa 28:15)

Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee,   as infamous and much vexed. --(Eze 22:5)

Bonds and imprisonments---Isa.24:5,22  , Jer.5:5,10

Stoned --And the  assembly shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. (Eze 23:47)---THE ASSEMBLY IS STILL DOING IT AS PROPHECIED IN Rev.11 .

Sawn asunder---And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Mat 24:51)

Were tempted ---by King of Babylon to go to Bamah in the  basket of bad figs—Jer.24.1

Were slain with sword ---Dan.11 :33 – and above  Ezk.23:47

Wandered about in sheep—skins,and goat skins---Gen.3:7-10 –they were hiding from God as they sinned,and understood that they were naked ---so out of mercy God gave them coats of skins !

Being destitute---Ezk.32: 15

Afflicted---Lam 1:3)  Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

Tormented---of whom the world was not worthy----JFB says—in Greek the  meaning is—in evil state

Wandered in desserts, and in mountains----

Mat 23:38)  Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

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.

 

ALL THESE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH IN THEIR RICHES RATHER THAN HAVING FAITH IN GOD !

 

 

2nd para ---Page 6 –obadiah booklet---GF

He has quoted ------“Though thou shalt exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou shalt set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. “------Oba 1:4)

In Rev.12:14 , we see that God’s people are going to be taken to a place of safety on “ two wings of a great eagle .”The laodiceans think that they have this miraculous help from God !-----but they don’t.

Obadiah says they are exalted as the eagle !

 

OUR LETTER ---PARABLE OF EAGLES EXPLAINS REV.12:14  --GOD SAYS HE SENT GOD’S PEOPLE TO SPIRITUAL BABYLON   ON TWO WINGS OF AN EAGLE –EZK.17:3,4,12  ,29:19 -----REMEMBER THE SINNING CHURCH IS CONSIDERED LIVING IN EGYPT !

 

LET’S SEE WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT  HOW  AN EAGLE  WILL EXALT ITSELF ?

Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own wisdom. Wilt thou set thy eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make to themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle towards heaven. ----(Pro 23:4-5)

 

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? ---(Job 4:6)

AN EAGLE

·        LABORS TO BE RICH

·        WISE IN HIS OWN EYES ---WILL NOT SEEK GOD’S COUNSELLING---TAKES HIS OWN DECISIONS IN CHURCH MATTERS

·        SET HIS EYES UPON THAT WHICH IS NOT ---WANTS TO DO UNRIGHTEOUS THINGS

·        RICHES GIVES THEM WINGS ---EDMOND RICHES ARE FAR TOO MUCH---THEY HAVE SPOILT GOD’S PEOPLE---GOD SAYS HOW THEY BUILT HOUSES ETC. ---ISA. 5:8,JER.29:28

·        SO THE WINGS MAKE IT FLY  SKY HIGH –TO EXALT ITSELF ---JUST WHT HAPPENED TO PCG –

·        INSTEAD  OF  FEARING GOD ---THE LUST FOR MONEY ---MAMMON BECOMES IT’S FEAR.

·        IT BECOMES  IT’S HOPE

·        IT’S CONFIDENCE

·        YOU START MEASURING RIGHTEOUSNESS BY  THE WORK YOU DO .GODLY FEAR IS VANISHED !

 GOD FINDS FAULT WITH PCG LEADER FOR EXALTING HIMSELF!---LIKE EDOM !IN ALL OUR LETTERS WE HAD BEEN EXPLAINING FROM THE WORD OF GOD AND HOW THEY HAPPENED IN  CHURCH !-----ANY QUESTIONS ARE WELCOME !

 

WHEN YOU BUY A PIECE OF LAND ?

And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife: and therefore I cannot come. ----(Luk 14:18-20)

 

BOUGHT A PIECE OF LAND ---Too much of work in the land of Edmond !---people there consider that’s the gretest work .—Building the spiritual is forgotten !Ask yourselves ?

Bought five oxen----In our day we buy machinery to do the work ----or the land has many projects

To get the maximum benefit of the same !----so lots of work ---like a city !---

Married a wife ---married to new work –people of Edmond work to show how best each one is ---

Their hearts are in the work they do ---

ALL THESE WORKS HAVE BECOME AN IDOL !  IDOLS FOR EACH PERSON !

 

HOW MANY ARE CONSIDERING THE BUILDING OF THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE ?

Heb 11:10)  For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

 

Col 3:1)  If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.Col 3:2)  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Col 3:12)  Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

 

SOME OF THE GODLY TRAITS TO PRACTICE !   ARE PCG LEADERS EXHIBITING THES QUALITIES ?

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. Mat 5:3-12)

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Mat 5:44-48)

 

SUMMARY

EDOM WANTS TO BUILD, BUT GOD SAYS HE WILL THROW DOWN !

 

EDOM SOLD HIS BIRTH RIGHT .----PCG SOLD ITS BIRTH RIGHT TO BE CHRIST’S WIFE!---BROKE THE COVENANT.GOD IS WARNING HIS SPIRITUAL BIRTH RIGHT PEOPLE .----THIS IS A BIG PART IN ALL MAJOR  AND MINOR PROPHETS ----IN ALL THESE BOOKS GOD IS PLEADING WITH HIS PEOPLE SAYING ---“ O DO NOT DO THIS ABOMINABLE THING  “---Jer.44:3 -4

This is why prophet was made to write all the prophetic books ---not to exalt a man --- but  to correct, warn and plead with God’s people !

 

In jer.26:4-9 ---God  Himself says prophet did not heed to all the prophetic warnings that God gave him rising early –very urgently to correct the whole church of having had worshiped foreign gods that God hates –

GERALD FLURRY HAS HAD BETRAYED GOD’S PEOPLE BY TAKING THEM ON A WRONG PATH ---GETTING THE WHOLE CHURCH FORSAKING GOD !—A SERIOUS  SIN AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT –GOD BEARS WITNESS IN SAYING THAT GF DID NOT HEED TO GOD’S COMMAND !

A curse for PCG from God ---it will become like Shiloh !

 

OH!  HOW ABOMINABLE ---THE GENTILE WITNESSES OF GOD SIGH!

 

King of PCG had faultered as PCG WAS A KINGDOM—ezk. 16 :13 –but now it’s a harlot –Ezk .16 :35  ----PCG HAS COMPLETED 7 YEARS , BURIED IN BAMAH SIN WITHOUT REPENTANCE !

 

In book  of Obadiah PCG is compared to Esau—Edom !  IDUMEANS ARE EDOMITES .OBADIAH BOOKLT EXPLAINS .But it should be applied to PCG  and not to WCG now.The warning was given when the book  was printed in 1996.

 

JUST LIKE ESAU DRANK FROM GOD’S HOLY MOUNTAIN---- (EVEN THOUGH HE SOLD HIS BIRTH  RIGHT  )----PCG IS ALLOWED TO BE IN GOD’S CHURCH----BUT GOD’S CHURCH OF LAST ERA ----THE LAODECEAN CHURCH OF GOD !

 

Like an eagle PCG leader exalts himself ---God explains how he does it ?

 

PCG IS THE MOTHER OF LAODICEAN CHURCHES .MOTHER HAS TO BE CORRECTED FIRST. SO MORE TRIBULATION FOR HER . THIS IS SPIRITUAL TRIBULATION  FIRST  FOLLOWED BY PHYSICAL .MORE ABOUT IT LATER !

 

Although its going to be a terrible time for PCG  ---the good news is that God will make a new covenant with repenting  Israel , saving by grace , and not by any of their works !---The repentant have to prove themselves building God’s character !

 

Assembly of Rev.11