Broken Vessels - UBM [David Eells]

Stan Patton wrote - 9/29/14: Last Friday night at 12:29 AM, Claudia and I both were awakened by a loud noise like a crash. Claudia said it sounded like breaking glass. (Clay or ceramic could sound similar.) We got up and looked all through the house for anything that might have fallen and/or broken and we found nothing. So in the morning we asked the Lord what it was about and got Ezeliel 36:22 (which is about repairing a broken vessel, as we shall see). Have you heard of anybody else getting anything at that time or about that same passage? (We had a similar experience which I will share.) According to the Karaite Korner, the new moon for this Rosh Hashanah was sighted on Sepember 26, the night we heard the noise.

David: Let's discuss this broken vessel on Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah, meaning "head of the year", is the Jewish New Year but not the Biblical New Year. It seems to be a product of their Babylonian captivity. Could this new Babylonish year be the year of the breaking of the vessels? A broken vessel identifies a person or a nation who is spiritually dead to God or righteousness because they are fallen in their sins. {Psa.31:12} I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. {Isa.30:14} And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern. {Jer.22:28} Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not? {48:38} On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein none delighteth, saith Jehovah. If a person literally dies in this state, they are reprobated, meaning rejected by God.

As in Stan's text given to him, which we will show below, some are delivered from this fallen state to follow God in much appreciation and humility. However, not every vessel will be saved from this fallen condition. Some are reprobated forever, never to return to God. For instance, we received a dream that a man was dying and then two more that he had died. Then another that he was "plucked up by the roots" as a tree. {Jud.12} These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. The potter's field was bought with Judas' ill-gotten gain. With the price he was paid for Jesus' life, he sold his soul and was reprobated. This field likely had many broken vessels rejected by the Potter.

{Mat.27:1} Now when morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: {2} and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate the governor. {3} Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, {4} saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou [to it]. {5} And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself. {6} And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood. {7} And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. {8} Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day. {9} Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was priced, whom [certain] of the children of Israel did price; {10} and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.

Here is Stan's text which describes God's chosen people being spiritually resurrected from a broken vessel state, which is seen in the text directly following this in the next chapter, 37. {Eze.36:22} Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I do not [this] for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, whither ye went. {23} And I will sanctify my great name, which hath been profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. (When God's people do not represent Him to the world by living in agreement with His word, they profane His name and they deny Him.)

{24} For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land. (God will deliver His people from having more in common with the nation we live in than the holy nation we are supposed to belong to -- our land.) {25} And I will sprinkle clean water (the true Word) upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. {26} A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. {27} And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep mine ordinances, and do them. {28} And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. {29} And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the grain, and will multiply it, and lay no famine upon you.

{30} And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations. {31} Then shall ye remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. {32} Nor for your sake do I [this], saith the Lord Jehovah, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel. This shame is necessary for true and lasting repentance. {33} Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded. {34} And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by. Our lives will be capable of receiving the seed of the Kingdom. {35} And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited. {36} Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, Jehovah, have builded the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and I will do it. {37} Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock. Revival. {38} As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. Rejoice for this restoration of all things for God's fallen people, which was also spoken of by the prophet Joel.

Just after this, God told how this filling with His Spirit and return to their land of promise would happen. Ezekiel, who was called "son of man", was a Man-child type and prophesied to a spiritual bone junkyard of Israel and the broken vessels were resurrected. We have received this text many times concerning the fallen and we are very encouraged.

{37:1} The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Jehovah, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. {2} And he 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 Jehovah, thou knowest. {4} Again he said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah. {5} Thus saith the Lord Jehovah 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 Jehovah. {7} So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. {8} And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. Revival coming with spiritual and physical earthquakes; i.e., shifting of the land or peoples.

{9} Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: 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. {11} Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off. {12} Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. {13} And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people. {14} And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it and performed it, saith Jehovah.

How is it that people end up as broken vessels, sometimes eternally? On Monday, before we received this revelation from Stan, Michael Hare and I went to a junkyard to look for a part. We were standing in the parking lot when we sighted a piece of paper floating down from pretty high up in the sky. It was about 5 inches by 11/2inches. It was corkscrewing and rolling sideways as it came down. There was no wind and the sky was clear. We wondered and spoke to each other of where this could be falling from. We thought of the possibility that it was in a dust devil but it wasn't circling parallel to the earth like it would in a dust devil. It came down almost to head level in front of us as it fell and then it stopped for a moment and hovered and then turned around and went back up, tumbling in the same manner, until it was out of sight. It was not a dust devil. There was no dust or debris with it, just clear sky and it didn't stir up any dust on the ground when it came close. We knew this wasn't naturally possible and asked the Lord what this meant.

I thought a message of warning and exhortation was sent from Heaven but was not received and the opportunity to receive it was taken back. Some texts came to me like "He that receiveth you, receiveth me" or "Who hath received our report", etc. The Lord impressed me that the junkyard represented the dead and broken cars or mobile vessels representing us humans. I believe we have spoken God's Word which has not been received by some, so the message as warnings and promises to those who repent is not being received by them. And the results will be many more broken vessels. I asked the Lord if we were missing something He was trying to tell us and got a "no", which He confirmed with two tails. I asked the Lord if this was a rebuke to those who have not received His Word through us and got a "yes", which He confirmed by two heads. I believe our words of reconciliation and warning have not been received by some who have lost their chance to repent and receive God's restoration.

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