CHAPTER LXXI
PUT A MARK ON EVERY MAN AND WOMAN THAT SIGHS AND CRIES FOR THE ABOMINATIONS DONE IN THE LAND
(Ezek.==9th Chapter.)
Sermon by Mrs. M. B. Woodworth-Etter, Petoskey, Mich.,
July, 1916
In the vision that the Lord gave the prophet nearly 2,700 years ago, the same things are taking place today that took place at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem. He cried also in my ears with a Loud Voice. Cause them that have charge over the city to draw nigh. Even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. He refers to the great army which destroyed Jerusalem. Behold six men came from the way of the Higher Gate (men of authority), which lieth toward the north, and every man had a slaughter weapon in his hand. One man among them was clothed in white linen with a writer’s ink horn by his side. (He represents the baptized saints before the destruction of Jerusalem, with the Holy Ghost in them, going around baptizing people with blood and fire.) And he called to the man clothed with white linen which had the writer’s ink horn (he represents the church today) “Go through the midst of the city, go through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and cry for the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. And he said to the others in my hearing, “Go after him through the city and smite. Let not your eye spare, neither have pity, slay utterly old and young, both maids and little children, and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark, and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house and said unto them, defile the house and fill the courts with the slain, go forth. And they went forth and slew in the city. And it came to pass while they were slaying them and I was left I
fell upon my face and cried and said, O: Lord God, wilt thou
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