Black History Told By The Prophets: Pt.3- 'Spiritual Death & Resurrection'

2/20/2021 ~ Teacher: Bro. Buie ~ The Israel of God ~ 520 W. 138th Street ~ Riverdale, IL. 60827 ~ PH: 800-96-BIBLE KJV Bible

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Prayer: Psalms 145:8-12 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. (9) The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. (10) All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee. (11) They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; (12) To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

Valley of Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-3 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, (2) And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. (3) And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Notes:

Dry Bones = Children of Israel Very Dry = Have been dead (spiritually) a long

time Israel ended up in the valley because they broke

God's Commandments and dealt with Paganism rather than God's Word.

Deuteronomy 30:1-4, 8, 10-19 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, (2) And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; (3) That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. (4) If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee: 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes

which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. (11) For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. (12) It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? (13) Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? (14) But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. (15) See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; (16) In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. (17) But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; (18) I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. (19) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Notes:

Heart = Mind Turn thy captivity = Reverse our captivity/set free Jesus will gather Israel at his appearing.

o Until then, Israel is still scattered. The same commandments 4000 years ago are the

same commandments we are supposed to keep even up to Jesus' return and after. There are 3 Types of Death: 1. Spiritual death of the mind 2. Physical death of the body (when God takes

away the breath of life and we die). This is a temporary state that is called `Sleep'. 3. Spiritual death of the body = Lake of Fire

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Matthew 19:16-17 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? (17) And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. Notes:

Jesus didn't call himself good because he inhabited a flesh and blood body. At that time only the Father was good (perfect).

Life = Eternal life (Salvation)

Proverbs 4:1-2, 4 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. (2) For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. Notes:

Doctrine = Set of guidelines, policy, canon

Jeremiah 7:21-24, 30 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. (22) For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: (23) But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. (24) But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. Notes:

The children of Israel have put pagan customs into the doctrine of God, which is wrong.

Hearkened = Listened Backward = To backslide

o The only people who can backslide are those with knowledge.

Jeremiah 8:3-6, 10-11, 15, 19-22 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. (4) Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? (5) Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. (6) I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. (11) For

they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? (20) The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. (21) For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. (22) Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Notes:

Death = Spiritual death Evil family = Children of Israel

o They are called evil because they chose not to keep God's commandments.

God doesn't love everybody, he loves those that fear him and keep his commandments.

There is no peace among the children of Israel because of the curse brought upon us for disobeying God.

Far country = All over the world Strange vanities = Odd or bizarre practices or

beliefs Balm = medicine, cure, which is the Word of God Truth = Word of God Physician = priests/preachers/ministers Health = Spiritual healing

Hosea 13:1-2 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. (2) And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. Notes:

Ephraim (Israel) died (spiritually) Baal = Paganism (False/Pagan gods) Israel's flag was the Ark of the Covenant. Ash Wednesday is a prototype of receiving the

'Mark of the Beast'. Calves represent pagan images today, i.e. the false

Christ with blue eyes and blond hair, the cross, etc.

Catholic Church

Protestant Church

Isaiah 65:1-5 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me,

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behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. (2) I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; (3) A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; (4) Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; (5) Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. Notes:

Rebellious people = Children of Israel Them = Other nations To my face = Purposely breaking God's law Graves = the spiritually dead Monuments = Churches of the spiritually dead Smoke = an irritation Swine's flesh = Pig/Pork Broth of abominable things = all of the animals

and sea creatures that God said not to eat.

Proverbs 21:2-3, 15-16 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. (3)To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. 15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. (16) The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. Notes:

Congregation of the dead = False Churches with Spiritually dead people inside.

Matthew 8:21-22 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. (22) But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead. Notes:

Let the (spiritually) dead bury the (physically) dead.

Israel ended up in the Valley of Dry Bones by sinning against God.

Ezekiel 37:3-8 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. (4) Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. (5) Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: (6) And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. (7) So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. (8) And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came

up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. Notes:

Bones = Children of Israel/People Breath = Word of God Sinews = Tendons, ligaments, muscles No breath in them = they love hearing the Word

but not living by it. They are spiritually dead.

Ezekiel 33:30-32 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD. (31) And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. (32) And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

Jeremiah 25:1-9 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; (2) The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, (3) From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened. (4) And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear. (5) They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever: (6) And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. (7) Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. (8) Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, (9) Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations. Notes:

Families of the North = Gentile Nations

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Ezekiel 37:9-10 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. (10) So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Notes:

The Four Winds = The Gentile Dynasty These slain = Spiritually dead Israelites Breathe = Harm, chastise, punish

The Four Gentile Kingdoms Taken from the book `The Four Winds of Heaven' ?IOG

Daniel 7:1-7, 11-18, 27 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. (2) Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. (3) And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. (4) The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the

wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. (5) And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. (6) After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. (7) After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. 11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. (12) As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. (13) I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. (14) And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. (15) I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. (16) I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things. (17) These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. (18) But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. 27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. Notes:

The 4 Winds' (Kingdoms) job is to inflict punishment upon the Children of Israel for their disobedience to God and for provoking him to anger.

Great sea = peoples, nations & tongues Lion = Babylon

o Babylon = Iraq o Man's heart = Nebuchadnezzar Bear with 3 ribs in its mouth = Medo-Persia o Medo = Russia o Persia = Iran Leopard with 4 wings like a fowl = Greece o Leopard = Alexander the great o 4 Wings = His 4 generals

1. CASSANDER = MACEDONIA 2. LYSIMACHUS = THRACE

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3. PTOLEMY = EGYPT (KING OF THE SOUTH)

4. SELEUCID = SYRIA (KING OF THE NORTH)

Terrible beast with iron teeth & 10 horns = Rome 1. HORN #1 HERULIANS 2. HORN #2 VANDALS 3. HORN #3 OSTROGOTHS 4. HORN #4 JUSTINIAN 5. HORN #5 CHARLEMAGNE 6. HORN #6 OTTO 7. HORN #7 CHARLES V 8. HORN #8 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 9. HORN #9 BENITO MUSSOLINI 10. HORN #10 THE BEAST (European Union)

Son of Man = Jesus Ancient of Days = The Father 4 Kings = 4 Kingdoms Saints of the Most High = People in the 1st

Resurrection Kingdom under heaven = Earth The Roman Empire destroys both physically

(temporally) & spiritually (religiously). From Rome came Christmas, Easter, Sunday worship,

you can eat anything just pray over it, and so on.

Jeremiah 4:1, 4-13 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. 4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. (5) Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities. (6) Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. (7) The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant. (8) For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. (9) And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder. (10) Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul. (11) At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse, (12) Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them. (13) Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his

horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled. Notes:

Circumcise = Change your way of thinking Evil from the north = Babylon Lion = Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon

o God sent him to destroy Judah. Destroyer of the Gentiles = Nebuchadnezzar Dry/Full wind = Gentile Dynasty

Hosea 13:3-8 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. (4) Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me. (5) I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. (6) According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. (7) Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: (8) I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. Notes:

Lion = Babylon Bear = Medo-Persia (Russia & Iran) Leopard = Greece Wild Beast = Rome The Lord brought the Gentile nations to punish

Israel for our sins. They are the bat in God's hand but they took it too

far and will have to answer for that at Jesus' return.

Hosea 5:14-15 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. (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. Notes:

Ephraim = Israel (lost tribes) Judah = Jerusalem (Judah, Levi & Benjamin) Offense = Breaking the Law/Transgression Affliction = Great Tribulation (3 1/2 years) As a people we have found solace in suffering. My place = the 3rd Heaven

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