The Church of God of Prophecy s3

THE GREAT SPECKLED BIRD 47 Pine Hill Centreville, AL 35042 MINISTER: Leonard Chance (205) 926-7706 (205) 717-1960 www.thegreatspeckledbird.org [email protected]

REBELLIOUS PEOPLE

There are actually people on earth that are the enemy of our God. I want you to understand the enemy of Our God is the enemy of The Church of God of Prophecy! You will know this enemy and the people that Desire to be with him. They all have one common love and both work for the Devil himself. Sometimes we say the devil deceived the angels. Sometimes you have to stop and look at other things and wonder which one deceived who. Did the Devil deceive one third of the angels or did the angels deceive the Devil? What was their profit? They searched for a profit. There are people that desire to go into the enemy of God for the same purpose.

EZEKIEL 28:14--Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

There was a day the Devil was a member of The Church of God. He was in the House of God. He was in Mount Zion, the Holy City of God. All the angels were there too. God had anointed him as an anointed Cherub and set him so. God set him over one third of the angels. The devil had a cover. You have to understand what his cover was. Many people today in The Body of Christ have sought after this cover just like the Devil who could go upon the Stones of Fire. He could walk up and down in the Stones of Fire. That is the Commandments and they are still the Stones of Fire! They will burn you up! They will set you on fire! They are hot! They came out of the mouth of a Fiery God! God is a Fire! He is a consuming Fire! These Commandments came out of a Fiery God! Everything God said set these Words afire and they will burn down into your Soul. They will not let you rest day or night. When you begin to kick against the pricks there is a Power that will let you know God is in Heaven and you are on earth.

1 If you don’t believe me ask ole Apostle Paul. It didn’t take long for ole Paul to realize there was more to God than condemnation. There was a Bright Light that shined down and said to Saul, “ What are you persecuting me for?”

Satan was boss over a third of the angels. He was their Commander in Chief. He was the anointed Cherub. We must know what the covering is. Satan was in control. He covered them with a covering. God put Satan over one third of the angels: God set him so. “Thou wast upon the Holy Mountain of God,” in The Church of God. All this was played out in Heaven way before it would ever be played out upon the earth. Satan was a member of Mount Zion, the Holy City of God. He could walk up and down in the Commandments.

EZEKIEL 28:15--Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

He was perfect in all his ways until: like many people they come into the Altar. They get Saved, Sanctified, and get the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. They saw the Light of the Lord in the House of God and they were Perfect in their ways until iniquity (sin) was found in them as it was in Satan. You can have Salvation! You can walk up and down in these Commandments and you can live happy ever after as long as there is no iniquity found in you! You can walk up and down in these Commandments! They are Bread and Meat: they are Life! Satan had power and control and he covered his angels.

EZEKIEL 28:16--By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

He was perfect in his way until iniquity was found in him. “By the multitude of thy merchandise,” here you have to ask yourself, did the Devil deceive the angels or did they deceive him? The fact that the Devil came down here by himself to make his plans sounds to me like there was a lot of talk that should have never happened between the Devil and his angels. Because of the multitude of your merchandise they, now who are they? There are no living people up there. They are the angles. “They have filled the midst of thee with violence.” They started talking to him. It appears the Devil and his angels did some planning. What does the Devil traffic in? The Devil traffics in Souls! He buys Souls! He sells iniquity, he preaches destruction and his aim is against the People of God! He will sell you and buy your Soul. He will give

2 you a little to get a lot. He will bring dissatisfaction. He will cause you to grumble.

The Devil will tell you he will help you. Just keep your ear in his mouth and he will guide you and show you. All you have to do is follow him. Along comes somebody that will add to what the Devil just said and make it so sweet. Before you know it you are dancing with the Devil and your ways aren’t so perfect anymore. When God sees you are Profane He too will cast you out of the Mountain of God! The Church Of God Of Prophecy is the Mountain of God! It is Mount Zion!

You can walk up and down in these Commandments and have liberty. They are food for your Soul. They are charming Words because God entertains His people. He feeds His people. He makes them know He loves them. Their healing is in His hands. He has given us the Holy Ghost! The Power of the Holy Ghost is working among the Children of God: in The Church of God of Prophecy! Don’t listen to profanity. Whatever you do keep the Devil out of your ear, walk away, speak out and correct. Tell the Devil you are in the Body of Christ and you are staying there! If you want your Soul use your tongue. Tell the Devil to get out of your face. You do your thing and I’ll do mine. I have a Vision and I’m going to hold onto it.

I have yet to find where Satan and his host of Devils had a problem because the Devil deceived them. They never went back to the ole Commander and said, “You were our cover how come you deceived us?” They’re all together and they all became profane. God cast them out of Mount Zion, the Holy Mountain of God! Remember he was their cover. He was their Commander. You will run into this again. It is only noted one more time in the entire Bible.

And “thou hast sinned,” some Preachers will say they have preached on sin. I tell them every Sunday about sin, I preach against sin. But tell me, what is Sin? It is the breaking of the COMMANDMENTS!! That is sin. Breaking any Commandment is a sin! Tell me not to commit adultery! Tell me not to commit fornication! Tell me not to kill, steal or rob! Tell me what sin is! They traffic in merchandise to collect all the tithes. They get in the pulpit and hop around. They are like a cold six-foot ice sickle, no Spirit, no Power and no Glory! Let me tell you something about Pharaoh and Egypt. When a man goes into ole Pharaoh, when he wraps himself in ole Pharaoh’s power, Pharaoh will become a shame to him. When he stands in the shadow of

3 Egypt, Egypt will become confusing to him. Now I know Pharaoh is dead and in hell, not in this sense.

Because you are trafficking in merchandise you are buying Souls. You are lying and deceiving like any other who will give you a great deal up front but give you nothing but darkness, despair and death! “And I will destroy thee, O covering Cherub,” that is what your end will be. In the end you will die lost without God. Remember when they leave the Body of Christ they will not return, but like the Devil and his angels they too shall be cast out of the Mountain of God forever!

PROVERBS 29:18 -- Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Does this mean the Vision is just for certain people? This Vision is given to all who will receive. It is given to whosoever will receive it. The promise is to all. “Where there is no Vision,” it doesn’t make any difference that you are upon the earth, “where there is no Vision the people perish.” “But he that keepeth the Law,” what is the Law? THE COMMANDMENTS! This is the Law of God, the Stones of Fire! God will let you know. The Scriptures will let you know when you’re getting too close to the edge. The Spirit will come and convict you and let you know.

What is your Vision? If you don’t like God’s Vision you can get your own. Everybody needs his own vision. That is not what this writer said. Ole Solomon said, “where there is no vision, the people parish but he that keeps the Law or Commandments, happy is he.” You know when you break the Commandments. You know when condemnation touches you. You know when God is correcting you. “He that keeps the Law happy is he.”

You can live happy and you can die happy as long as you keep the Vision. Now do you see the Vision? What is the Vision? This is the Vision. The Holy Ghost will reveal the Banner of Truth, the Banner of Love. He will teach you how to hold on to that Banner of Love, the Love of Christ, the one that gave it to you, His Love. This is the Love of God you’re dealing with and there is none other that can take its place. There may be many other flags but there is only One Banner of Truth! The Devil may fly a lot of things around you but there is only one Standard that will always stand against the enemies of God! You cannot carry this Banner out of the Church because God gave it to

4 Mount Zion! To keep the Love of God, you must keep the Vision! What is the Vision?

What about your Covenant? You didn’t just marry somebody you married the Son of God! You are to be a Chase and a Holy people! God doesn’t want any hypocrite people for His Sons! Open your mouth, tell the Devil by spirit or by flesh, “don’t talk to me about my Soul. I’m not changing. I don’t want to hear it any more.” Make your stand. Tell the Devil, “I am The Church of God of Prophecy and there I will live and die.” Stand up for the Vision of The Church of God of Prophecy! If you have it, Cherish it! If you have it, Prove it! If you have it tell them You Have It!

JEREMIAH 30:21--And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the Lord.

The Church of God of Prophecy will always be the Noble of God! Nothing will change this. There are only One Noble people! There is only One Vision! The Church of God of Prophecy is Unique! There is no other like it anywhere. “And the Nobles shall be of themselves.” We don’t have to run over to any other denomination to see what they are doing. We must do whatever God commands us to do! That’s what we can do. Whatever God has said we should do. “And their Governor shall proceed.” There are only One Noble People! There is but One Flag of Truth! There is but One Banner of Love! There is but One Church of God of Prophecy!

Satan could go up and down in the Stones of Fire at one time but not today. When people leave The Church of God of Prophecy they will see that what they have gotten into will be a shame to them and it will be a state of confusion. You don’t want to get over there and get ashamed or confused. God made Satan a chosen Cherub. God has made The Church of God of Prophecy a Chosen People! I don’t want you to become as ole Satan was. At one time he could live this Doctrine but God cast him out of the Holy Mountain of God, a profane thing!

The Government of The Church of God of Prophecy is the Commandments! The Government of The Church of God of Prophecy does not lie in the hands of men. It lies in the hand of the Saviour! “And their Governor shall proceed from the midst of them”. He is going to lead The Church of God of Prophecy!

5 “And I will cause him to draw near.” Somebody had to find The Church of God of Prophecy. God had just the man, A. J. Tomlinson! He chose him and proved it. Although everybody had evil to speak against the ole General, God upheld him! They wanted to beat him up, none ever did! They wanted to burn him down but none ever did! That big arm of God protected that ole man. The Church of God of Prophecy will remain and no one will destroy it!

God loves Praises! Let your voice be heard. Don’t be the quietest fellow in the House of God. Everything God said He said it LOUD! Be heard among God’s people. I will cause him to approach unto me. This is the ole General. God asked, “Who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me?” If you don’t tell Him, He might not know who you are. That is where it has to be, in the Heart, in the Mind and the Body! “I will cause HIM,” not THEM to approach unto me. God knew there would be wicked people in the Church. He knew there would be people that would not stay. He knew there would be people that would run after everybody else’s whatever.

JEREMIAH 30: 22--And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

If you have engaged your heart approach unto me, “ye will be my people and I will be your God.” Let these Words roll over in your mouth. Lord let me approach unto you, let me engage my heart. God will be our God and we will be His people!

JEREMIAH 30:23--Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind; it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

“Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord,” that whirlwind carried ole Elijah up to Heaven but this one will carry the wicked down to Hell! Everything doesn’t go up to Heaven. This whirlwind has God’s anger in it. Who is God angry with? With the people in The Church of God of Prophecy that want to go somewhere else. They allowed someone to lead them away. This whirlwind isn’t going to stop! It is a continuing whirlwind. “It shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.” The people that leave The Church of God of Prophecy are the head of the wicked!

JEREMIAH 30:24--The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.

6 You can rest assured that when all these people have gone they will have a day that He’s going to perform it. These are the Last Days and they are considering it now. They can take the flagpoles and cast them down, take out the literature, get rid of the printing presses and get rid of everything in the House of God but I want you to know that no matter what comes or goes this is what’s going to remain around The Church of God of Prophecy!

SONG OF SOLOMON 4:12--A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

You have to come in the Right Way; there is only one way in and one way out! There should be a spring of Righteousness bubbling up in your heart and Soul. You will know you are drinking the Water of Life. It is an overflowing Fountain shut up in The Church of God of Prophecy.

SONG OF SOLOMON 4:13-15--Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruit; camphire, with spikenard. Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

Thy Plants are Souls in The Church of God of Prophecy. They have all kinds of Shouts, all kinds of Praises and Glories. They have all kinds of sweet smelling savors. God pours out His milk and honey upon them, then you are going to see Shouting and Shaking of the Power of God in The Church of God of Prophecy again. You are going to fall into the Altars. Hey, they don’t have Altars! The Altars WILL be back in the Church! Everybody that cries for a Vision will get one. They are the people that will be praising, blessing, and giving God the Glory! The Fountain of Water will NEVER run dry!

ISAIAH 30:1--Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord. That take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin.

“Woe to the rebellious children,” they, like the Devil, have a cover. These are people over the people. They take counsel but not of my mouth, saith the Lord. They have a covering, but not of my Spirit. These people claim to have Salvation but add sin to sin.

7 ISAIAH 30:2--That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

They want to go down into Egypt. They want to get into the shadow of ole Pharaoh. There will be a lot of people that will come out of other denominations in a little while. They will fill up The Church of God of Prophecy! The people that leave the Church will not be among them. They are not coming back. God will take other people that have not heard or seen the Vision that will give them Eternal Life!

When they come their eyes will be open, their ears will be open, but not the people that want to go down into ole Pharaoh and his strength. They want to go down into Egypt and stand over there because they think they have better than us, more people than us.

ISAIAH 30:3-4--Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

When they get over there ole Pharaoh will be a shame to them. They will be ashamed. They went and they will be confused. That will happen to you if you go over there. You have gone down to ole Egypt and you are too confused to find you’re way back. When ole A. J. engaged his heart to approach unto God, his heart stayed engaged. That is why I told you to say, Let me approach unto my God, let my heart be engaged. I want it to stay engaged. That is the way the ole General died. So what is Hanes? Hanes is something that is not right. It is a Hanes thing. What is Zoan? Zoan isn’t Zion. It’s like Zion but it isn’t Zion. It’s like Zion but its princes are from Zoan.

ISAIAH 30:5--They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

Guess what? Your face will turn red, it will be a reproach unto you and you will be confused. These people are doing the very same thing that the devil and his angels did. They have a covering but not of His. They want counsel but not of my mouth. They are tired of what that ole Doctrine used to say. We don’t have time for their mouth in our ear. We’ll take what we have over there with our church houses, our membership.

8 But they need to understand that ole Pharaoh is going to be a shame unto them and ole Egypt will be confusing. They are not going to have anything like they think they are. There is no strength among those people. God is not in them. They are His enemy. They will want to go back but the Church will not be there for them. If you want to go you can leave Mount Zion just like the Devil did. He was once in The Church of God. He walked up and down in the Stone of Fire. What a great let down once these people get over there.

ISAIAH 30:6--The burden of the beasts of the south; into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

Along about this time things are going to fall into deep trouble. It is going to be a burden. When you get over there and find out you can’t come back it is going to be a burden. It will be a burden to know, hey, you mean I left The Church of God of Prophecy to come over here? You will be carrying a burden that you have never carried before. Where is that sucker that lied to me? They are never coming back.

“Whence come the young and old lion”, people that have been in the Church for years and the young lions that have just joined the Church, somebody talked to them. They made it so sweet for them. The viper and fiery serpent are snakes. When these people leave they will carry their riches with them to a people that cannot profit them and they are going to be ashamed and confused.

ISAIAH 30:7--For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

Those people are saying nothing; they are letting these people over here do the talking. Why should we rise up? We don’t have them yet but they are coming.

ISAIAH 30:8--Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

9 God was determined; He said, “go write it!” “Note it in a Book.” It is written down in this Book. “That it may be for the time to come,” and the time is about to come. It is just about ready.

ISAIAH 30:9--That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord.

These are rebellious people that will not hear. You cannot tell them anything. They do not want to know the Truth!