Man’s Dung
Ezekiel chapter
4
One day in early April 1997 I was sitting around not doing anything
special, when for no reason that I can remember I opened my scriptures
to Ezekiel chapter 4. As I began to read the scriptures I began to
understand what it was saying. The prophet was told, “Take a tile and
portray upon it the city of Jerusalem, and to lay siege against it, and
to build a fort against it. And cast a mount against it, and battering
rams against it round about. And the city will be besieged. Then
lay upon your left side and the iniquity of the house of Israel upon
it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel”. This you shall do for
three hundred and ninety days. And he was to bear the Iniquity of the
house of Israel. Then when he has accomplished those days, he was to
lie again on his right side and to bear the iniquity of the house of
Judah forty days. Then he was told to “take wheat and barley, and
beans, and lentils, millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel,
and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that
thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou
eat thereof. And thy meat, which thou shalt eat, shall be by weight,
twenty shekels a day. From time to time shalt thou eat it. Thou shalt
drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time
shalt thou drink. And thou shall eat it as barley cakes, and you
shalt BAKE (Meaning to GYRATE or MIX) it with dung that cometh
out of a man in their sight.” And YHVH said even THUS (Meaning
this is how it will happen to them.) shall the children of Israel eat
their defiled bread (Spiritual Food) among the Gentiles where I will
drive them. (The word that is translated Bake, is ‘uwg.) This
word is found nowhere else in the scriptures and the word bake or baked
is not translated from it anywhere else. The root word means to gyrate,
or to turn in circles, or to mix. So here we see the children of
Israel, eating their defiled food (scripture teachings) mixed with mans
dung, (lies) in another land, among the Gentiles. For 390 years some
where that YHVH has driven them. Then I got to thinking, Just how long
has the House of Israel been in this country, among the Gentiles. I
went to my encyclopedia and looked up Jamestown, the first English
settlement on this continent. I found that they settled here May 8th
1607 (Jamestown = Jacobstown is no accident) so I counted forward 390
years from that date and came to May 8, 1997 less then a month
from the time that this was shown to me. I was excited; I went to find
my son in laws to tell them about what was about to happen. I thought
that some great thing worldwide was going to happen; little did I know
that a very important thing to Israel was about to happen. They would
not have to eat their spiritual food mixed with man’s dung. I thought
that they would be happy to know this and would start to believe the
scriptures and get away from the false things (man’s dung) that the
churches have been feeding them for the last 390 years. But I missed
one thing; they have acquired a taste for man’s dung. They love it and
don’t want to give it up. This makes some other scriptures make more
sense. For instance Amos chapter 8:11-14 “Behold the days come saith
YHVH that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread nor a
thirst for water, but of hearing the words of YHVH. And they will
wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east, they shall
run to and fro to seek the word of YHVH and shall not find it”. Another
is Ezekiel chapter 37 the dry bones how the whole house of Israel say
our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our
parts. This has happened and been fulfilled.
I want to interject something here that I feel is important to know.
Your body can be deceived as well as your mind. I remember the first
time that I was introduced to cigarettes, I was walking home from Jr.
high School and one of my buddies gave me one, and told me how good
they were, but when I took a puff on it, it felt like my head was going
to come off, I was choked and it made me dizzy and I felt sick at my
stomach. But I was afraid to act like I did not like it; I wanted to be
like the cool group I was running with. It was not long that I was
thinking that they tasted great, and could not wait until school was
let out so I could go smoke with my friends. A little later I was
introduced to beer, I remember the first time I took a drink, it tasted
awful the closes thing that I could come up with that it tasted like
was what urine smelled like. But again I was afraid to not be cool, so
I continued to drink it and it was not long that I said a ‘cool one”
sure would go good on a hot day. I was deceived and my body was
deceived. This is exactly the way our minds have been deceived and the
way that we have acquired the taste for “man’s dung” to us seems good,
this is why even after a person has come out of the false churches that
they bring baggage with them, whether it is the trinity of the
“godhead” or speaking in tongues as evidence of the Holy Spirit, or the
traditions if Judaism or many other things. Just try to get an ex
Pentecostal to sit at dinner and have a glass of wine with you. Or an
ex Seventh day Adventist to eat a steak. We have all eaten our
spiritual food mixed with Mans Dung. And we all bring Baggage with us
when we come out of the churches. We must try to get our beliefs out of
the scriptures, and quit trying to put our beliefs in the scriptures. I
remember one time some time ago that a lady was telling me about
something she believed, and I said to her sister that is not true,
where do you find that in the scriptures? She said I don’t know but I
will sure find one. And that is the way it is today, sometimes we get
an idea of something then go to the scriptures to find something that
we think will prove it. As an exercise I gave a scripture class an
assignment, I assigned each student an outrageous topic, and told them
to go to the scriptures and prove that it was right to do what ever
their assignment was. I remember that I assigned one of my son in laws
to prove it was right to kill your In laws, he and the rest of the
young people came up with things that would never of entered my mind,
but they found things that could be believed by some one that wanted to
believe it. I believe this is where all of the different beliefs come
from today.
Now I guess YHVH is going to rise up another generation
that has not acquired this taste for man’s dung. A generation that will
love his pure word. But the time of this curse has past and no one is
required to eat his bread with man’s dung, unless he just wants to.
I thought about this and tried to think of anytime in the past history
of the world and the true people of the House of Israel. That they
would be in one place together living among the Gentiles. And could not
come up with any other time, at the time that Ezekiel wrote this
Prophecy the House of Israel had been carried away by Assyria about 100
years before. And was not heard from in the scriptures, or in most
history books.
But YHVH continued to talk to them through his prophets and by
Yahshua himself. Most of the prophets speak to the House of Israel as
if they are still a
nation.
If you look at the prophets many of them were written, after Israel was
carried away (Approximately 700 BC). And some of them were written at
least a 100 years after that. Some were written after Judah was carried
away to Babylon. Approximately 600 BC But they
still speak to Israel and Judah as two separate people.
Then there is the 40 days that the prophet was to lay on his right
side. He was told that Jerusalem was to be besieged and a fort against
it, with battering rams. For 40 years. So I thought back through
history of just when would of Judah be in control of Jerusalem, from
the time of Ezekiel until now, first Babylon, then the Meads and
Persia, then the Greeks, then the Romans, then the Turks, and the Arabs
controlled the city. Not until 1967 has Judah governed Jerusalem. So
the 40 years of siege had to start then. The city has been and still is
being attacked from all sides. And they do eat their spiritual food by
weight and with care. This is why they do not accept Yahshua as the
Messiah. They are in a famine for the true word and can not accept it,
even when it is brought to them until June of 2007, they will remain in
their curse as a nation until that time passes.
I believe that in 2007 YHVH will return to his people Israel, and deal
only with them, and only them of the nation of Israel, and the nation
of Judah. Heb. 8:7-13. I do not mean that I believe that Yahshua will
return at that time, I’m talking about turning back to them and dealing
with them, and not to the Gentiles anymore. I believe that first
there will be time of trouble for Israel and Judah, that will bring
them to a place where they will cry for him to come and to help them.
And then Yahshua will come back to the earth. For he said that
Jerusalem would not see his face until they say, “blessed is he that
comes in the name of YHVH”. That time won’t come until there has been a
time of trouble, which will drive them to their savior. Hosea 5:15 “I
will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence,
and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early”.
So in closing I want to remind you that each of us have to consider the
fact that we ALL have eaten our spiritual bread mixed with man dung,
(been fed false doctrine). This is nothing to be ashamed of, it has
happened to all of us. The problem is that many of us have pride and
refuse to go back and check out the things we have been taught as
truths. And many of us just love the taste of man’s dung, and don’t
want to give it up.
I believe this is a last day revelation and that we had better adhere
to it, as we will have to answer for it. You don’t have to eat man’s
dung anymore.
May YHVH bless you.
D. W. “Buddy” Arthur
Assembly of Yahshua
212 Thunder Rd
Interlachen, Fla.
Ph. 386 684
1452