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198. Who’s Blood is on Your Hands?

Last night during the service we attended, the Lord led me to Ezekiel 33. As I opened my Bible app, He highlighted Ezekiel 33:3-9. As I read those words, and that truth hit my heart, the weight of those words flooded my spirit in a way that I am finding it difficult to bring justice to with mere words. As I finished those scriptures, I heard the Lord speak clearly “Who’s blood is on your hands, Ash?” 

With those words from the Lord, my heart sank. Do we really understand the magnitude of the assignment that we have been given? Do we understand the urgency of the commission? My heart was breaking, I felt the weight of the Lord’s heart for his children. Every single one of them. As I’m struggling to hold back tears, my hands began to feel warm and wet, as I looked down I saw blood being spilled all over my hands. I couldn’t shake it off, I couldn’t wipe it off on my pants, I couldn’t get it to stop, it kept coming, dripping from my fingertips onto the floor. I looked down and saw blood pooling on the floor. 

As the pool of blood spread out in front of me, it melted the earth away like acid, giving the appearance of a sink hole, I don’t know how else to describe it. The darkness looking down, was engulfing. I could hear cries from hell, cries of agony, hopelessness, eternal despair. Cries of “why didn’t you tell me” began to rise up, overcoming every sense of my body, nauseating me, breaking my heart, doubling me over in my seat. I don’t have an answer. I didn’t have an answer to that question. The weight of that broke me for a good 20 mins. I was speechless, shaking my hands, looking like I might be losing it. Feeling every emotion all at once, and wondering how I’ll ever be able to convey this experience in the grave urgency I feel from the Lord. 

The Lord again highlighted 33:7-9 hitting me with an urgency to say what He’s speaking, then led me down to 33:30-33. There is a generation of prophets rising for gain, not realizing the blood that’s on their hands. Itching to speak scripture for gain but lacking the heart of the Lord, lacking the understanding of the weight their words carry. We forget that we are to fear and respect the Lord. 

The Lord is coming for lamp stands that aren’t rooted in His firm. foundation. It’s time to clean out your closets. To heck your hearts and motivations. Time to remove any unwanted distractions and to spend time vulnerable, naked, and honest with the Lord. It’s time to listen to the Lord, to follow the Holy Spirit and to stop holding back. 


He’s coming as a sword. Who’s blood is on your hands?

We cry for an outpouring of revival, but revival without repentance is just smoke and mirrors. The Lord is cleaning up His church. 

The Watchman and His Message

Ezekiel 33 Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman, 3 when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, 4 then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

7 “So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me. 8 When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. 9 Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

Ezekiel 33:17-20 

17 “Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ But it is their way which is not fair! 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it. 19 But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it. 20 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his own ways.”

Ezekiel 33:30-33

Hearing and Not Doing

30 “As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.’ 31 So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. 32 Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them. 33 And when this comes to pass—surely it will come—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

James 1:22-25

22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

Revelation 2:5

5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

Matthew 10:34 34 Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 

2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

Ezekiel 13:9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord God.

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