Ezekiel 14: 12 – 21: The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD. If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate. Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
God promised to destroy Judah and Jerusalem if the people turned their backs on God and pursued sin. The materialization of His judgment upon the land would be manifest in economic depression, war, and sickness and disease. Yet God promised that if there were some who remained faithful to Him in a time of national apostasy, they alone would find supernatural deliverance whilst the rest of the people perished.
God then named three outstanding men from the pages of biblical history, who, if they should have lived in the nation when God’s judgment was upon it, would only find salvation for themselves. These three men were Noah, Daniel, and Job. In fact, in the Book of Jeremiah, the LORD paints a similar picture to His prophet, but names two other men. This we read in Jeremiah 15: 1: Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. Both Ezekiel 14 and Jeremiah 15 speak of the Babylonian captivity for those who were not destroyed by the four judgments of sword, famine, beasts of the earth, and pestilence.
Before the Word-rejecting Jews lost all their rights, liberties, and freedoms, they firstly felt the effects of the Babylonian siege. The siege against Jerusalem restricted the movement of the Jews, limiting their ability to travel. The resulting economic slowdown created a depression because of the Babylonian stranglehold on all imports and exports. The scarcity of food and goods pushed the price of everything upward, causing inflation to skyrocket. Coupled to this was the outbreak of sickness and disease that could not be treated because of the engineered siege they were all trapped in. Finally, when Babylon had broken Judah’s economy, it carried away captive many of the surviving Jews and put them under a new system in Babylon, where they lived under new laws and new restrictions, far greater than what they had experienced under the siege.
The great reset and the setting up of a new order that the Jews were subjected to, was but a shadow of the present-day great reset and setting up of a new world order and one world government that is currently underway as Mystery Babylon lays siege to the whole world. But God is also showing us that there will be a righteous group of people, an elected Bride who will be spared whilst living in the midst of the great siege that is upon the whole world, for the characteristics of Noah, Daniel, and Job are embodied in the believer of the last days.
Let us look at these three men for a moment. Noah lived in the last days of the antediluvian world; he found grace in the sight of God, and was given a message of deliverance that took him into a new world. Daniel lived in a Babylonian system and received angelic visitation and communication whilst living under that system. Though living under a new order, yet he refused to compromise and bow down to the edicts of a system that went contrary to God’s Word. Though threatened by the system, yet he was supernaturally delivered by God and watched the system fall when Persia came in and destroyed it. Then there is Job. He was a perfect man in the sight of God and had the right sacrifice. The stars and their constellations were the Bible that he read from, and when Satan was let loose upon him by God’s permission, yet he stayed faithful to God, and God would later make a special visitation to him, and from that visitation would come his restoration.
Again, when God commended Moses and Samuel to Jeremiah, it was because those two men also possessed outstanding qualities and each had a very special ministry. Moses led an exodus and demonstrated the character of Christ when he stood in the gap for his people that were under judgment. He was also the Lawgiver who showed Israel how God’s system is set up and how to approach God. Samuel was the same as Moses, because he brought the Word to a fragmented nation by an open vision, and introduced David as King. Moses and Samuel here are a shadow of the last days prophet who led an exodus, brought the Word by an open vision, and announced that Christ is here. As Moses and Samuel could not save Judah from its doom if they stood before the LORD, so the prophet in the last days quit praying for America, knowing that the nation had spurned mercy and was doomed to the judgment destined for it.
The world in which we live today is under judgment and will be destroyed. There is no crusade for Christ, nor national revival meetings, nor any amount of intercessory prayer that can stay God’s wrath upon this world. It will be destroyed, for the Bible makes plain its destruction in the Book of Revelation. Yet God is mindful of His sons and daughters living in a world that is under judgment, and He has promised to care for them, and provide for them, and deliver them whilst the whole world is coming apart at the seams. These special ones are a people who embody the lives of Noah, Daniel, and Job, for the times in which those men lived are repeating again on the earth, and the revelation those men had and the commendable lives they lived before God would be seen again in the Bride of the last days.