‘Thus says the Lord God: “Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.  For anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols IN HIS HEART and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, then comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I the Lord will answer him by Myself.  I will set My face against that man and make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

“And if the prophet is induced to speak anything, I the Lord have induced that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.  And they shall bear their iniquity; the punishment of the prophet shall be the same as the punishment of the one who inquired, that the house of Israel may NO LONGER STRAY FROM ME, nor be profaned anymore with ALL THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS, but that they may be My people and I may be their God,” says the Lord God.’ ” - Ezekiel 6-11

“Son of man, when A LAND sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it. Even if these three men, NOAH, DANIEL, AND JOB, were in it, they would deliver ONLY THEMSELVES BY THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS,” says the Lord God.’ - Ezekiel 13 and 14

These days, there is much advice given as to what we should do in peaceful retaliation to the illuminati and the wicked rulers of this age.  The best of that advice is certainly very practical and full of wisdom; the most sensible of such advice coinciding with the wisdom given to us by the Law, just as we are told, concerning "the righteousness which is of the law," that “The man who does those things shall live by them", meaning, of course, that he shall prosper by its good council (Romans 10:5); but it is important to note that the most important advice of all, which is of inestimable worth to the Christian, and which must therefore be emphatically stressed, is for each one of us to live righteously before God, and to keep His New Testament commandments, which are the very Spirit of the Law: “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds” – 1 Corinthians 10:4.  Remember the conversation between God and “His friend” Abraham, in Genesis 18, how for merely 10 righteous individuals Sodom and Gomorrah would have been spared destruction.  Is not the Sodom and Gomorrah of then but a representation of all pagan nations to come after it?  Is not the man, Lot, of those days, but a figure of the Christian today in the midst of spiritual Babylon, in the midst of spiritual Sodom, just as the more righteous Daniel likewise served as an illustration of?  Has not the Lord, "Jesus Christ", Who "is the same yesterday, today, and forever"—(Hebrews 13:8)—"declared the end from the beginning"?—Isaiah 46:10.

Remember that all throughout the Bible, very much as a redundant message, God emphasized to His people that He alone was the One who fought their battles, that He was the One who gave His people victory, lest they put their faith in methods and in practices and in skillsets and not in Him alone; that they should walk by faith rather than by sight, as the righteous in Christ are called.  And He staked the victories He gave them upon nothing more than their faithfulness to Him, which is to say on their righteousness; on whether or not they kept His word, which is to say His commands; on whether or not they "abided in Him", to use the spoken words of Jesus when He walked the earth bodily.

Let us heed the words of 2 Chronicles 7:14, where God says: “If My people”—who exactly are His people here?—“WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME”—yes: that is, anyone professing to be a believer in Christ—if such a people “will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways,”—that is, if we would turn from disobeying His New Testament commandments—“then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land”—on this condition alone will He vanquish or keep at bay our oppressors; these are the conditions of our fleshly victory over those who are “destroying the earth” – Revelation 11:18.  After-all, as we are informed in Proverbs 21:1, “The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes,” no differently than He manipulated the king of Assyria (Isaiah 37:29), or Pharaoh (Exodus 9:16) and Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4:31 and 32).  Never forget, “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much,” just as we saw with “Elijah” who “was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.” – James 5:16 and 17.  And who was Elijah, as judged in the eyes of men, but a cave-dweller?—but a “voice crying in the wilderness”? (Isaiah 40:3 and John 1:23)—but one of the many prefigures of John the Baptist who but prefigured Christ?—but a man fed by ravens, who had “nowhere to lay his head” (Matthew 8:20), just as our master Christ did not?  What were his methods of retaliation against the Illuminati of his day, but FAITH in the power of God?—but holding to His commandments?—while so many in Israel—(apart from the 7000 whom God likewise reserved for Himself)—while the majority of Israel bowed to pagan ways, as 1 Kings 19:18 apprises us.

For all the good advice which the many of us circulate and receive, let us place above all the good things that we exhort the seriousness of repenting for our lack of faith and the necessity of ever working—(individually, as our foremost priority)—to abide by the commandments of Christ.  Otherwise, in the words of Jesus Himself, “Why” then “do [we] call [Him] ‘Lord, Lord’ and do not the things which [He] says?” – Luke 6:46.  Let us repent, therefore—(the very best of us together with the very worst)—just as righteous Daniel, (a man distinguished by God Himself for his righteousness)—just as righteous Daniel humbly and meekly prayed in the ninth chapter of his book; and let us also pray for the ability, which we most undoubtedly lack in and of ourselves, to properly serve our Maker and to do the things which please our Father in Heaven, just as Christ, our perfect example, did.