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If it is darkest before the dawn then we must be on the edge of sunrise. I look at the church and have seen something horrible. The watchmen stand in the night with arrows flying at them as they shout out the war cry...yet no one listens. The church is asleep in the midst of the darkest hour.

Look at us people! We have our own lives that we try to do well in. We are consumed with the drive for success and in doing we have become nothing but a clanging noise. Our love grows cold because of the wickedness of our ways.

How many can say they show love? The scripture sayes we are to be more concerned with each others lives then our own.

How many are hurting now, bound in prison in their minds?

Who visits them? Do we see them sunday and speak a kind word of "I'm praying for you." or are we with them monday morning on our knees?!

Church...the love of many is growing cold. I stand now as a watchman in pain and prison...I plead with you church...care more about each other than yourselves. Many are hurt, sick, bound, and tormented. Even Job had a friend who sat and prayed with him...but who has someone who will come to them and sit in ashes as well?
 

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The watchmen are for the purpose of warning God's people or they will have the responsibility on their own heads. Great subject. Here is everywhere the bible talks about the watchmen:


Psalm 127
A song of ascents. Of Solomon.
1 Unless the LORD builds the house,
its builders labor in vain.
Unless the LORD watches over the city,
the watchmen stand guard in vain.


Psalm 130:6
My soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.


Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen found me
as they made their rounds in the city.
"Have you seen the one my heart loves?"


Isaiah 52:8
Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices;
together they shout for joy.
When the LORD returns to Zion,
they will see it with their own eyes.

Isaiah 56:10
Israel's watchmen are blind,
they all lack knowledge;
they are all mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they lie around and dream,
they love to sleep.

Isaiah 62:6
I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the LORD,
give yourselves no rest,

Jeremiah 6:17
I appointed watchmen over you and said,
'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!'
But you said, 'We will not listen.'


Jeremiah 31:6
There will be a day when watchmen cry out
on the hills of Ephraim,
'Come, let us go up to Zion,
to the LORD our God.' "


Jeremiah 51:12
Lift up a banner against the walls of Babylon!
Reinforce the guard,
station the watchmen,
prepare an ambush!
The LORD will carry out his purpose,
his decree against the people of Babylon.

Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a brier,
the most upright worse than a thorn hedge.
The day of your watchmen has come,
the day God visits you.
Now is the time of their confusion.


Ezekiel 33:5-7

5 Since he heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning, his blood will be on his own head. If he had taken warning, he would have saved himself. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.'
7 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.


Ezekiel 33:7
"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.


John 10:3 The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
 
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Ezekiel 33:7
"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.

It is a fearful thing to be a watchman. You watch for yourself and for others. Many times if not always the people refuse to listen to your call...many times the watchman grows weary because he feels no one listens anyway and he wants to lay down and sleep.

I know this all too well.
 
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