Hence those who put their 'trust' in man, or in a Church 'building', instead of on The ROCK Jesus Christ, are in no better state than the non-believing Jews who put their trust in a rebuilt Temple and ordinances of animal sacrifices! This is also how God's woe upon "Ariel" applies for today.

Isa 29:15    Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, "Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?"
16    Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, "He made me not?" or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, "He had no understanding?"
17    Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

     Isn't it amazing how some Churches today are allowing themselves to be linked with the various religions of the world, and are accepting ideas that God once harshly punished Sodom and Gomorrah, and even old Israel for? Both 'houses' of Israel fell into false pagan idol worship and evil abominations of old;

 

 Ezekiel 6-8;

Ezek.23; 1        Read All.

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The evil influence has been with God's people for a long time, even as revealed through Old Testament Bible study. Is it occurring within some Churches today who have accepted Christ Jesus as their Saviour? It doesn't take a whole lot of Bible study to discover from whom, and where the abominations happening today first started. Those Kenites (sons of Cain), their false servants, and their various world brotherhoods who meet in secret will eventually be cast out of God's House

 

Zech. 14:21; Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

 

1 Kings 9:20-21: Read all.

All concerning remnants of Canaan which eventually became Nethinim scribes and priests that crept into the "house of Judah". Those are the "workers of iniquity" our Lord is speaking about with, "...them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark..." (Isa.29:15). Don't be deceived and think they and their hoodwinked stand-ins are not already nesting in God's House. It began as early as David's reign, and even before, when Israel failed in separating from the peoples of Canaan who were doing the abominations

 

Books of Joshua and Judges: Read All.

     So is there plotting against those who would hold to God's Truth, from those who hold secret counsels? When our Lord Jesus comes, it shall be discovered that their "fruitful field" is as an overgrown "forest" that can't produce fruit. Then those will recognize who held to and stayed in The Word, teaching the true "fruitful field" as our LORD intended.

Isa 29:18    And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
19    The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

     Is this historical? No, this event hasn't occurred yet, for these verses speak of our Lord Christ's return, and is when all the blinders upon the deceived today will be fully removed. This is after the 'change' of the "last trump"