Last Days Timeline, A literal interpretation of biblical prophecy, second edition by Gregory Supina - HTML preview

 

“volunteer crops” of this prolifically seed-bearing hatred have thrived in each subsequent generation of Romans. Since those first-century persecutions, the beast’s kingdom has always looked for an excuse, or invented one, to oppress and kill the vulnerable elect of God. For they hate even the idea of God tempering their greed in order to provide for their homeless and starving siblings, or limiting their sexual lusts in order to prevent the exploitation of His female children. Since humanists want to be gods who can lie and commit sins with impunity, they want no God of just and pure love to teach and train their spirits. And, since the loving elect promote the name of God, they too must die. Also, since the awakening elect who escape their slavery refuse to build God’s kingdom through physical violence, like the beast’s people do, but strive to build loving lives in peace, they are easy targets.

Recently, during the past few centuries, Satan began to more earnestly stir up his dupes against all who glorify God’s name, since he realized that his time on the earth was growing short. Thus, a greatly increased persecution of Jews began with the Russian pogroms in the 19 th century, through slanderous propaganda to incite the masses against the Jews. For God’s spiritual works begin with the natural branches of His church, with the Jews (Rom. 1:16; 2:9-10). So Satan also begins his works against God by attacking the Jews. Then he attacks Israel’s other Gentile offspring. So, soon after the attacks on the Jews began, an increased persecution of Christians began as well. As the Revelation said, the dragon, Satan, first made war with Israel, who gave birth to the Savior of the world. Then, when the earth protected Israel, the dragon made war with the rest of Israel’s offspring, who are the truly elect Gentile Christians (Rev. 12:17). And those last two centuries were horrible.

For instance, not long after the Russian pogroms, the Ottoman Empire slaughtered the Christian Armenians. After varying degrees of defensive posturing, reverse discrimination and warfare, the persecutions of Christians increased exponentially during the 19th and 20th centuries, by humanists all over the world. Fascist Germany, communist Russia, communist China, radical Muslims and other humanists slaughtered, tortured, imprisoned and oppressed millions of Jews and Christians. Also, we must realize that many Roman Catholics and false Protestant “Christians” supported the Nazis and other humanistic movements, like the Eugenics programs and Communism. So, in the 20th century, more elect were killed for bearing God’s name or truths than in all the previous centuries combined.

Thus, the fifth era of greatly increased persecutions has an identifiable beginning in the 19th century, although it was gaining momentum even in the 16th century, or even earlier. And it will be marked with an even more clearly identifiable and sudden end. It will end on the day when the world-wide earthquake begins the era of the sixth seal. Then the persecutions will stop or slow down, but only for a short time, only while Satan’s world order is cast into disarray. This hiatus from humanistic persecutions will provide some time for the revival and the building up of God’s true church until the beast’s kingdom revives itself and faces God’s wrath during the era of the seventh seal. Still, the elect will have enough time to become a “visible” church once more, as in the days of the apostles.

For now, the fifth seal’s era continues, and it is occurring simultaneously within the eras of the first four seals. So those four eras will also end when the era of the fifth seal ends. Thus, this fifth seal’s era actually seems to signal the end of the nebulous eras of the first four seals. And all the first five seals were used for the same general purpose, to gradually build up the body of God’s truths in the world, in a way that would inevitably polarize the elect from the non-elect. This is why all of the first five eras were so similar and merged into one another, because they all served God’s same purposes.

So the fifth and most easily identifiable era which shares those two common purposes is actually a very effective signal to warn us about the imminent beginning of the “end times,” about the great tribulations which will soon tear apart the entire world during the eras of the sixth and seventh seals.

 

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Yes, it will be wondrous to finally see God rebuild His true visible church after the world-wide quakes and bombing meteors, a true church that will be even better than the true apostolic church in some ways, but established upon the identical truths. And it will be an even greater relief for elect souls when Jesus finally returns to rule the world through true justice and love, after He destroys all the wicked. But the processes involved in those greatest of all blessings will be very painful indeed!

The eras of the first five seals were also painful, although not nearly as bad as the eras of the sixth and seventh seals will be. But all those pains served to make the final blessings of the end times possible, by firmly establishing God’s truths on earth, complete with centuries of illustrations and proofs, even enough to now dichotomize the elect from the non-elect. Now God has thoroughly exposed the evils of Roman humanism, very clearly and very recently too. For the Ottoman Empire had claimed to be the new Roman Empire when they conquered Constantinople, but died an ignoble death in 1918. And Hitler’s Germany claimed to be the Third Reich or Third Roman Empire, but also died a wretched death in 1945. Over and over again, Satan’s Roman Empire has been trying to rise up and make itself “great again,” where it defines “greatness” as an ability to kill and oppress.

Now that we are nearing the end of the fifth seal’s era, God’s elect are beginning see clearly enough to separate themselves from Satan’s core people, from the non-elect humanistic psychopaths of his Roman world order. Yes, some elect are still being deceived by little Hitlers, like Trump. But not even the charismatic beast will be able to dupe the elect after sixth seal’s revival. Soon the hatred and destructive impulses of the humanistic elite and their institutions will be temporarily silenced. And God will do this because He has already proved to the elect that a man is not his own high god and cannot shape his own destiny; that a man is incapable of saving himself, and cannot prosper or even survive apart from God’s providence; and that men cannot invent their own laws and ways without causing the destruction of themselves and others. Now that the sham of humanism has been exposed as a self-destructive lie serving only the elite murderers of the innocent, we know God will end it soon. The sixth seal will damage and pause it, then the seventh seal will utterly eliminate it.

The approaching eras of the sixth and seventh seals will indeed serve a different purpose: to build up the true, visible church and to destroy the power of the beast’s demonic religious kingdom of Roman humanism. The era of the sixth seal shall bring a revival of the true church, a “visible” church which is even more spiritually gifted than the apostolic church of the first century was in its very brightest moments. In the sixth era, God will prepare and purify the elect to rebuild His true priesthood that serves the whole earth, making her ready to receive Jesus as His perfected Bride when He returns, and also better able to withstand the beast’s persecutions. Yet the sixth era will be very short, about 20 years. And most of the elect who live during that time will also see the seventh seal’s era begin.

Most of the elect born during the sixth seal’s era will witness the outpouring of God’s wrath against the humanistic world powers and fake churches. The plagues of the seventh seal shall kill 50 to 80 percent of the world’s entire population, literally billions of souls. But the era of the sixth seal will train God’s people to serve Jesus and prepare for the great tribulation of the seventh seal. In the meantime, the devil’s children will prepare to make their last stand against God, and will not accept the fact that they will be utterly destroyed after Jesus physically returns, and will not repent at all.

So the purpose of the eras of the first five seals have primarily been educational, to teach the elect about the dangers of conforming to Satan’s world order, especially to his most demonic religion of humanism, which has caused more wars and has done more evil on earth than all the other religions in history combined. Look at the damage done to the world by Romans, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Fascists, Communists, exploiting capitalists and other sects of Roman humanism. Then compare that

 

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to the damage done by Hinduism, Buddhism, animists and other religions, before they all became corrupted by Roman humanism. The difference is staggering. Truly Roman humanism is the favorite invention of Satan, the destroyer, for a reason. And I hope all God’s elect finally will acknowledge this enough to reject all the deceptions, delusions and lies of that devil’s religion, enough to come out and be separate. For the sixth and seventh seals—which this current era of increased persecutions is heralding in—will see Satan’s most violent attacks in all history against God and against His elect.

God granted many prophecies describing numerous details about the Messianic times, regarding all that would occur between the first and second advents of the Messiah, and during His millennial rule on earth after that. God wanted to tell His people all this to prepare them for their future trials, albeit He often revealed those future times in cryptic ecclesiastical] terms, so His enemies would not take the time or effort to decipher His words correctly. So it seems reasonable that our concerned and loving God would also reveal the future signs which would help us understand when the worst tribulations of the last days were about to begin. And He did this too. The increased persecutions of the elect during the fifth seal’ era, along with our recognition of the events occurring during the eras of the first four seals, are those signs, warning us that the end times, the eras of the sixth and seventh seals, are imminent. Although the nebulous first four seals did not have distinguishable beginnings or ends, and could not warn us about what was about to occur, the fifth seal’s persecutions obviously would complete the process of polarizing the elect from the non-elect. And this dichotomization of separating us leaves the non-elect ready to receive God’s wrath with the minimum elect casualties.

The lawless and loveless non-elect wanna-be human gods will drive out the just and the loving elect from among them. And their reasons for their persecutions during this fifth era are beginning to be questioned, found to be mere lies and delusions, and being opposed by the just and loving elect more than ever. Insane concepts like antisemitism, Roman class systems and racism, serving the ignorant whims or evil prejudices of worshiped human gods, bowing to the ruthless demon of unjust financial oppression, and many other stupid humanistic traditions are crumbling under the honest scrutiny of the loving elect. But, as the elect grow ever-more repulsed by those lies and delusions, the non-elect mindlessly cling to them with increasingly desperate zeal, because those lies and delusions are the only things which make them feel like human gods. So those non-elect war against and persecute the elect more now than they ever did before. And the elect are separating themselves from all those non-elect more than they ever did before. So all this indicates that the end times are about to begin.

The earth, by God’s hand, is now swallowing up the flood of propaganda which the dragon is now spewing out against the true elect who shall be gathered into the true church of Israel, against both the Jewish and Gentile elect. And the Gentile elect everywhere on earth are helping to guard the safety of the Jewish elect in the diaspora and in Israel, in a way that allows many of those Jews to survive in the wilderness of Gentile lands, although both kinds of elect sibling are persecuted (Rev. 12:15-17). This last century’s great increase in persecutions especially can be directly correlated to the apostasy that Jesus prophesied about, to all the lawless arrogance in the era of the fourth seal, as the state of inner death called “Hades” followed “Death.” For, during the era of the fourth seal, when God sent chaos and deaths of all kinds into the world, the non-elect began to say, “I cannot believe in a God who allows so much death and injustice in the world.” And the non-elect reasoned in this way even though they knew that they were the greedy warmongers who caused all this death and chaos.

The non-elect human gods demanded various forms of apostasy from both their elect dupes and their non-elect inferiors from the era of the fourth seal onward, disguised as philosophy, science, theology and so on. Yet those lies always causes the forsaking of God’s just, equitable, loving ways, always produces destructive and very deadly lawlessness. And, since lawlessness destroys every sense of

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social responsibility and equity, the fourth seal had to occur first, so the fifth seal’s senseless, unjust and socially irresponsible persecutions could begin. The Hades-like state of the fourth era, the great apostasy of most of mankind, enabled a great increase in the persecutions of the most useful people on the earth, who are the elect. This lack of concern for the benefits which they and their societies could receive from the very people they had been brainwashed to hate and kill, greatly damaged every land which zealously persecuted the Jewish and Gentile elect. All those persecuting fascist, communist, Muslim lands, as well as all other humanistic nations which were spiritually aligned with them, ended up outright perishing or becoming severely weakened by this stupidity. Yet, to this day, non-elect humanists still insist on propagating their lies and delusions against the loving, honest elect. This is why the Revelation suggests that the eras of the fourth and fifth seals are simultaneous; where the fourth era begins shortly before the fifth, but the fourth feeds the fifth, and where both the fourth and the fifth eras will end at the very same time, that is, when the era of the sixth seal begins.

It is clear that we are living in the eras of both the fourth and fifth seals. And we also see how the world is being prepared for the end times of the seventh seal’s era. For the religious doctrines of the Satan’s secular humanism are becoming immensely popular, especially the demon-inhabited beast’s ultimate form of human-worshiping humanism which we call fascism. The beast’s religion is now influencing the non-elect and even many elect dupes throughout the world. False prophets and fake religious gurus have risen up everywhere. The humanistic ecumenical movement also began to weaken true faith in God’s Word and strengthen the lies of fake religious leaders immeasurably, by uniting the humanistic religions and extending their outreach exponentially during the 20th century.

Clearly, the desperate humanists have been working very hard recently, hoping they can overcome the just, loving, wise truths and realities which more and more elect are beginning to understood and apply everywhere on earth. And, since their carefully crafted humanistic lies are becoming exposed and less effective for the duping of the elect, they are more heavily relying on their usual methods of censuring, suppressing and oppressing biblical Christianity and Judaism. Their persecutions have increased everywhere that successes have proved biblical truths, everywhere that sees a beneficial growth in justice, equity, freedoms of biblical democracy and the love of the real God. An obsession with becoming gods who maintain an autocratic control over their fellow man and nature, in ways they justify through false reasoning and pseudo-scientific speculations, is becoming stronger and more widespread to counter the proofs of God’s truths which the elect uphold. For, by the mid 20th century, Roman humanism had conquered the entire world, through their psychopathic colonialism which forced all other false religions on earth to develop humanistic hierarchies of worshiped human gods. So now Roman humanism is ruthlessly practiced by almost all nations on earth. Now almost all people ignorantly believe the myths of god-like “free will,” meritocracy, the service and esteem of elite human gods who unjustly and illicitly steal all their power and wealth for self-indulgent purposes, false “science,” and other spiritual teachings which they irrationally claim to be based on material needs and logic. However, while Satan’s ultimate religion of humanism was conquering the world, God’s just and loving kingdom was also expanding and filling the hearts of His elect as well.

The holy kingdom of God, both on earth and in heaven, is a spiritual kingdom. Thus, it dwells in elect spirits. But all human spirits on earth are limited by perceptions of material things through their bodies of flesh. So, although the non-elect could feel the threat of the spiritual kingdom of God and the human spirits it dwelt inside, their lazy, weak, non-elect human spirits could neither see nor fight it spiritually. So they had to resort to physical warfare. They had to slander works of love and justice done by God through His elect, and primarily did this through their fake churches which pretend to do works of “compassion” in God’s name, but in self-serving, ineffective and even destructive ways

 

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for those whom they claimed to “help.” Also, the secular humanists spread religious myths about a “big bang” and evolution, including ridiculous teachings about the survival of the fittest. These lies became the heart of their most blood-thirsty humanistic systems, and will be used to justify the deeds of the fascist beast. We saw a sign of this when evolution was a core doctrine of all Hitler’s systems. Hitler promoted a “superior race,” racism, eugenics programs and other persecutions based solely on evolutionary doctrines about the survival of the fittest. And those myths have not only spawned the core beliefs of fascism, but communism and brutally exploitative capitalism as well. It was during the last half of the 19th century, as evolutionary doctrines rose up, that racism grew most brutal and ruthless, with all of the humanistic attempts to “purify” their Roman-like races into a “master race.”

Humanists feel a need to slander biblical truths and God’s true elect, to persecute and kill outspoken true Jews and Christians, if they are can do so with impunity. For they know their beloved lies and delusions are being nullified by all the truths upheld by those elect. Since their whole souls urgently need those lies and delusions to help them pretend to be gods, they zealously support any system which will enable them to maintain those lies and delusions. And the non-elect especially enjoy the demon-inhabited beast’s religion of fascism, which grants them the power to enforce their beliefs in their beloved lies through terrorism, and permits them to murder any opposition with total impunity.

If we look at recent history, we see that, in the 19th century, the ruthless non-elect secular humanists of the French Revolution invented their own religion called the Cult of Reason, which was simply another form of modern secular humanism which also applied their carefully crafted false precepts through sound logical principles in order to produce the false conclusions which falsely justified their lies and delusions. Then the French imprisoned and executed Catholics and Protestants alike, along with anyone else who opposed their demonic religion, and without being held accountable for their actions. But, in the end, they reached an agreement with their brothers in the sects of theistic humanism, and allowed the Roman Catholics and other churches to continue lying, since both held a common goal, the creation of a humanistic world order. So, after the chaos of their wars, especially in Europe, theistic humanists were granted “freedom of religion,” but only in a way which did not question or oppose the authority and influence of the secular humanists who controlled governments, the media and the educational institutions, who dictated exactly what all their people must believe.

Nevertheless, “freedom of religion” and “freedom of conscience” are biblical principles too. For God always forbade His true priesthood to judge anyone outside of His true church and demanded that all His people must recognize Him as the one and only Savior of spirits and souls. The true Israel was never allowed to force their relition down the throats of outsiders through the coercion of the flesh, but had to allow God to convert the spirits trapped in false religions. In other words, God has never allowed humans to establish any kind of theocrasy, for He alone is wise and holy enough to legislate and enforce spiritual principles of worship through the spirit and in truth. And now the secular humanists also refused to allow the formation of theocracies, albeit for their own selfish reasons of maintaining their own power. And this “freedom of religion” provided for all that the true kingdom of God needed to grow in the spirits of the elect. So the secular humanists did not realize it, God manipulated them into laboring for the predestined fulfillment of God’s prophesied end times.

Not long after the French did this, most western humanistic authorities also began to legislate the “freedom of religion,” and for the same reasons, so their secular authorities could exert more control over the lives of their people. As a consequence, most of these secular governments also stopped the financial and legal support for the churches as well. And this meant that the state supported churches of theistic humanists, who rode on the backs of Roman humanists since the days of Constantine, lost much of their income. But, more importantly, those false churches lost the power of governmental

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laws and armies which protected them and even allowed them to kill honest elect critics. So this “freedom of religion,” even though it was not a genuine freedom, allowed many alternative beliefs to be proclaimed and disseminated into the world. Yes, it freed many lies too, but it also freed the real Gospel and the truths of God. God manipulated those secular wanna-be gods into limiting the power of their theistic siblings, blinded the secular humanists into thinking they did not need fake churches.

During the French Revolution, Napoleon discovered that his own peculiar sect of secular humanism was evolving, and that many of his allied secular humanists also belonged to sects which differed in their core beliefs. In addition to this, he also realized that the sects of theistic humanism could be just as useful to him as the various sect of secular humanism who allied themselves with him. So, once he admitted that he had no power to stop either true or false religions from attracting and holding the beliefs of his own soul, as well as the hearts of both his elect and non-elect citizens, he eventually stopped trying to eliminate every other secular or theistic religion which opposed the doctrines of his own particular sect of secular humanism. Napoleon was forced to allow the freedom of all religions in his empire. Since he could not even force himself to remain consistently loyal to the doctrines of his own sect of secular humanism, nor force his closest allies to change their doctrines whenever he did, it was impossible to maintain his power as a dictator without allowing for at least a limited “freedom of religion,” which would provide enough time for him to convince the people that they are wrong and he is right. Of course, Napoleon never was able to persuade everyone that he alone was right, since he was just another power-hungry fool who thought he was a god. But his system of allowing a limited freedom of religion did enable him to succeed in ways that he never could have otherwise. Consequently, many other secular humanist governments adopted the same policies too.

Now many elect were free to worship according to their consciences. For the first time in hundreds of years, secular states did not force the people to attend any church or legislate any religious beliefs for any church. Churches had to be supported entirely and directly by those who attended them. This also meant that each church had to treat their people better, since churches no longer had government support to work through systems of terrorism. If they were not nice to their people, then their people would not tithe, and those churches would have no income. If they did not preach in a more friendly and interesting way, their people would leave them, and could not be brainwashed by their lies. In a way, this was a good thing. But, at the same time, the money behind the church leaders came from the people who were most dedicated to the humanistic systems which allowed them to prosper. So all their doctrines ended up being designed to appease the most powerful and wealthy humanists in their congregations, not the common people, and certainly not the true elect. So the teachings of those fake humanistic churches were still false, definitely not honest, never originating from God.

So most churches became profitable businesses catering to people who possessed at least some wealth or power. Some served large congregations of middle class tithers, and some served smaller congregations of more wealthy people. But none served God, not yet. And all the people in most churches were constantly bombarded by propaganda from the humanistic state, which encouraged them to blindly support the secular humanists ruling over the Roman hierarchies in their lands. Yet secular humanist states mocked all true and false Christians and Jews, as they relentlessly promoted their own religion of secular humanism. With lies and intrigue, the secular states used their state-run educational systems and other public platforms to slander God and God’s Word, until they drove out all respect for God from their lands. Of course, as respect for God decreased, justice and the duty of social responsibility decreased in direct proportion. Then injustice caused the suffering and deaths of so many minorities that the majority fell into peril. Distrust, disunity, violence, escapism through alcohol and drugs, hopelessness, despair, anxieties and inner deadness, all that Hades cast upon

 

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them, filled their lands. All this was the high price the elite secular humanists were willing to pay for their power and wealth, as long as they themselves did not suffer. And fake churches helped them.

So, when churches were freed from a state sponsorship, it was both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, secular humanist states used their the economic and military power to force propaganda on everyone. They force-fed their doctrines to children attending their schools and pushed their beliefs through the press and various forms of mass media, which they controlled. So it was inevitable that they would convince, corrupt and enslave most people, since all were inundated with secular and theistic humanism from youth. If they could train everyone to believe in the ways of Satan’s world order from early childhood, they could control their hearts and minds for life. Or so they thought.

In reality, the minds of the elite secular and theistic human gods were being manipulated by demonic spirits, especially the great False Accuser and Mammon. All were like puppets on strings. Then God was manipulating every finger and toe of those demonic spirits, to accomplish His works of the fourth and fifth seals. And all those theistic and secular humanists fell under the hands of God’s most devastating punishment, by being handed over to complete delusions. God was causing all of those humanistic elite to prepare the non-elect for the beast’s kingdom, so they could all join in his final destruction. In the meantime, the humanists did even not realize how God was also causing them to disseminate the truths of God throughout the world, the principles He taught in the Bible as well as in His physical and spiritual creations, including truths God had illustrated throughout all of history.

During the times of these fourth and fifth seals, the non-elect have positioned themselves closer to the beast’s religious views of fascism, while God has been moving the elect closer to His truths. The gap between the loving elect and loveless non-elect has been widening every decade, and the speed in which they are dividing is increasing each year. Many of the non-elect are not even pretending to love any longer, not even with a fake conditional kind of love. After all, the no-elect are finding all the acceptance they desire within their crowds of like-minded fascists, and see no need to put on any show to gain societal acceptance. As for the elect, they are growing together at a slower pace, and are still somewhat shocked by this dichotomization occurring all around them, because many of them still believe the humanistic lies of “free will” and choosing to be good. But elect can only be deceived temporarily, and are waking up to the fact that they need to unite in a stand against the devil’s armies, and that they can only do so by rallying under the banner of Jesus. So, as more truth is revealed to them during this fifth era, they are being prepared for their communion in next era.

Humanists have always underestimated the influence of God’s Spirit upon the minds of elect spirits. For the thoughts of the non-elect primarily originate from their minds of flesh, and they spend most of their time in training their flesh to uphold their carnal traditions. The non-elect focus on producing rhetoric from their mouths of flesh to sway emotions of the flesh, which they use to incite physical violence through bodies of flesh. Then they use that physical violence to terrorize the emotionally manipulated bodies of flesh into submission and compliance. Although their lies bear evil and even deadly spiritual implications, both the theistic and secular non-elect humanists, zealously downplay all truly spiritual aspects of their traditions, lest their spirits’ vile motives and intentions might be exposed. Most humanists hide behind some form of systematized materialism, so they do not reveal their self-serving spiritual purposes even to themselves. Only a few true psychopaths among them possess spirits which openly commune with the real Satan. As a result, the vast majority of the non-elect minions in Satan’s kingdom know nothing about the true lord of their lives, and labor solely for rewards which feed and please their flesh. And this makes those armies of the devil extremely weak, volatile and highly factious, since each loveless hide will kill another for merely a little carnal gain.

 

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Since most non-elect are completely unaware of how God can pour His concepts into the minds of elect spirits whenever He desires, and think elect spirits are just as weak and factious as their own tiny spirits, Satan’s world order will never be able to stop God from preparing to gather His elect into His true church during the sixth seal’s revival. And God has already opened the way for the elect to receive a greater knowledge of the truth during this era of the fifth seal. For He manipulated the Roman beast’s kingdom into providing a “freedom of religion” which it thought it could control and use for its own purposes. Yet, from the days of Napoleon until now, they have lost control, such as through the Great Awakening in England and America. Then, after they lost control, all their efforts to regain control have failed, since they underestimated God’s power working through elect spirits.

This era of the fifth seal has witnessed so many persecutions and dangers, especially in some lands. And the tribulations are only going to grow exponentially worse for a time, for one generation which will be born not long from now, during the sixth seal’s era. But only a part of that generation’s life, likely only for about 40 years, will experience the destruction of the world order, then the return of our God Jesus in His body of flesh. Yet these terrifying times are a blessed wonder for elect spirits, for all who bear a strong desire to build a deeper, more inwardly fulfilling love upon genuine truths from God, for all who seek the kingdom of God and His loving righteousness. No other generation in history has had access to so much spiritual and physical truth. Our flesh thinks physical terrors and suffering are always bad. Yet the spirit receiving the perceptions of those pains and losses are always profoundly affected by them, because tribulations awaken a spirit and intensify its focus upon the spiritual. So a suffering elect spirit grows more like its loving heavenly Father, while a non-elect spirit transforms into more of a psychopath, like its father. So physical pain does have a spiritual purpose, even an eternal one, and the death of flesh releases a spirit into its eternal heavenly body.

As previously mentioned, it was a more biblical Christianity during the 16th century Reformation that actually began seeking freedoms of religion, conscience, speech and so on. God used very imperfect servants from that movement to disseminate those biblical concepts into the world long before vain secular humanists, like Napoleon and his French philosophers, actually implemented them through their desires for personal esteem, power and wealth in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Yet those freedoms still resembled the freedoms practiced by the awakened true elect in apostolic times and by Old Covenant prophets, even by some kings of Israel, like David. For the elect in the Reformation, particularly the Baptist puritans, based their concepts of these freedoms, as well as the idea that there needs to be a separation of church and state, on the Old and New Covenant writings, on God’s own teachings and the examples of His actions through His servants like the apostles, prophets and kings.

Then, once these biblical principles of the freedom of religion and freedom of conscience had been proclaimed in the world and applied, God did not allow them to be silenced or nullified. Rather, God ensured that these truths from His Spirit would prove to be effective in providing solid benefits for the lands which adopted them, for both loving authorities and the people in those lands. Only the most psychopathic and demonic non-elect opposed these biblical freedoms, since they weakened the autocratic power of the humanistic religious and political elite ruling over steep hierarchies. And the the intent of many secular humanists, when they implemented these freedoms, was to steal that kind of autocratic power from the humanistic churches. And those secular humanists were right. They did manage to achieve that goal by granting these freedoms. Yet these freedoms also resulted in God’s truth gaining ground throughout the world, which also resulted in secular humanists loosing their own despotic power. So God used the plots of the secular humanists against them. While humanists were striving to destroy the power of the false churches of the theistic humanists, so they could take control of the masses, they inadvertently allowed the true Gospel to escape into the world once more.

 

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God manipulated Satan and the Roman humanists on every level. In the earlier centuries, the theistic humanists in false churches were Satan’s principal agents used to disseminate and perpetuate his religion of his Roman beast. But God caused the Great Prostitute to become fat and lazy, to lose its focus on its mission. They cared so little about corrupting and destroying God’s intended meanings of His words in the Scriptures that those truths began to escape into the world, as soon as God began to quicken some of His elect. Of course, God’s Holy Spirit had been teaching His truths to some of His elect throughout history. And the presence of a widely dispersed and hidden body of awakened elect existed since Jesus sent His Spirit to some elect in AD 28. But, just prior to the Reformation, a “kuriakoi” of awakened elect belonging to the household of Jesus became a viable body again, one with all its members in place. And this terrified Satan. Then, although the devil needed his secular humanists to maintain power over the theistic humanists in order to prepare for his secular beast’s ascension to world dominance, by granting the freedoms of religion and conscience, he sill had to provide the services of the Great Prostitute. Satan had to nullify God’s Word as much as he possibly could under those circumstances. So he caused the Great Prostitute to bear many harlot daughters, many new false churches who would continue to proclaim the doctrines of theistic humanism and keep the elect on earth confused, weak and separated from God through a focus on their own flesh.

While the Roman theistic humanist were pretending to be God’s people and trying to nullify God’s Word, they also made another huge mistake. Both the fake Christians and false Jews allowed some obsessively compulsive scholars to preserve God’s Word accurately, in its original languages. In their eyes, this was a ruse, a way of pretending to be faithful to God. Since none of the common people could actually read those original texts, yet saw how their elite church gods appointed some scholars to carefully preserve the original words of the prophets and apostles, those common people assumed that their false teachers were faithfully exegeting those words. Of course, none of the false teachers were ever faithful. But that did not matter, because they appeared to be, and could fool the commoners into thinking they knew more than they did. Nevertheless, because God manipulated all those humanistic liars into carefully, effectively and accurately copying and preserving His Word in its original languages throughout the centuries, and in so many places, it could not be destroyed. So, when the secular humanists, who practiced the pure religion of the beast, gained power, but allowed the freedoms of religion and conscience, those original Scriptures were waiting for the faithful elect.

Also, theistic humanists pretended to glorify God’s Word, so they could glorify their elite church gods as the only keepers and interpreters of that glorified book. Thus the glory of God’s Word spread as the glory of the wicked false church rulers spread. Only God allowing secular humanists begin to build up the purest form of the beast’s religion, through destroyers since the 19th century, in a way that weakened the power of theistic humanists, stopped this hypocritical theft of God’s glory through the glory of His Word. Then some elect actually began to heed God’s Holy Spirit and began to learn some genuine truths from the preserved Word of God in its original languages, core truths such as the principles of the New Covenant salvation through faith in the unmerited grace of our God Jesus. Naturally, the “freedoms” espoused by secular humanists always strove for the suppression of any teachings against their lies and delusions. They sought to oppress good consciences and persecute all religions opposed to their approved humanistic religions. Yet, as their hypocritical concepts of these “freedoms” became entrenched in the mainstream of society, God winked at His children, since He had fooled the humanists. By allowing all this evil, God was preparing us for the sixth seal’s revival.

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acquired through free education, a freedom to practice any religion that does not proclaim lies to promote hatred and injustice, and a freedom to act upon good, just, equitable motives and intentions. All these freedoms were taught by God as far back as the days of Moses, through God’s Law which Jesus came to fulfill in us and through us. In fact, God commanded all these freedoms even before then, when He wrote His laws in His spiritual and physical creations. And God’s Law commanded that His religious laws given to Moses, those related to the first five of His Ten Commandments, were only for the members of His church of Israel. None of the pagan friends of Israel were to have absolutely no obligation to obey God’s religious laws. The pagan Kennites, friendly Hittites or other Gentiles living in Israel’s kingdom were only obliged to keep a subset of the “natural” laws which forbade sins like murder, rape, some forms of theft and extremely intentional and harmful slander.

After examining God’s Law itself, and all the subsequent illustrative actions of God throughout Israel’s history, as well as throughout the history of the world, all honest awakened elect must admit that God commanded them to provide a balanced and rational freedom of conscience, freedom of speech and freedom of religion for all who remain outside of their true church. Furthermore, all the honest elect also must admit that the only authoritative Head of every man in the true church is our God Jesus, and that all men, women and children are equals in terms of their spiritual worth and the providence of their physical needs. For, even up to the days of king David, God only allowed Israel to obligate a Gentile to practice God’s religious laws if that Gentile truly converted to Judaism and became a true Jew, a true member of God’s priesthood of Israel. And a Gentile could only become a true Jew who worshiped the real God Yahweh, if that one chose to do so through the compelling influence of Yahweh’s Spirit upon that one’s human spirit. This principle applies to all converts to true Christianity as well, even in a more fulfilled way. God never allows a conversion to Judaism or Christianity through the coercive or deceptive practices of fake humanistic churches or synagogues.

God severely rebuked Israel and its kings when they did not allow these freedoms for the Gentiles who obeyed God’s natural laws, who did not murder, rape, plunder or incite hatred through slander. God severely punished Israel when they tried to rid their land of harmless Gentiles, or tried to force Gentiles to convert to Judaism. God forbade any attempts by Israel to establish a theocracy and saw it as a great sin, because He alone is the Savior, not any man, and He alone is the Head and Lord of every man. If any man wants to enter heaven, wrestle God to the ground to steal all His authority and power over the earth and the heavens, so he can descend back to earth as the savior, judge and lord of other human beings, let him try. But we are to ignore those kinds of vain humanistic wanna-be gods until they actually succeed, and flee from their deep, dark, irrational and vain insanity. But the last time I checked, no mortal humanist or demon has ever successfully overpowered the real God.

The true apostolic church only expected willing and active members to believe the tenets of their faith, and never threatened or cast out visitors who did not claim to believe those doctrines, unless those visitors were forcefully pushing heretical views in the church. Even then, the apostolic church only expelled pushy heretics and did nothing to physically harm them. God Himself sometimes punished or even killed deceivers who tried to corrupt His true church. But God commanded His people to do nothing more than expel them. Only the false churches forbade the freedom of speech (Acts 5:28). And the apostles cried out to them, “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29, ESV), since the Head of every individual man in the true church is our God Jesus, and only Him, not any man. Against the churches that suppressed this freedom, God exhorted the true church: “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery” (Gal. 5:1, ESV). If someone does not believe, God simply has not joined that one to His true church.

 

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And the true apostles declared, through the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus, that the elect who are truly being saved, do not possess any right to judge anyone outside of His true church (e.g., I Cor. 5:9-13).

Even the worst sinner could enter a church gathering, especially during the teaching time, when all the men and the elders interactively discussed the Scriptures. Also, the church provided for the needs of even pagan Gentiles, not just other believers. And, if a member stopped believing (because his spirit was not actually taught the real truth by God’s Holy Spirit in the first place), that apostate member would simply leave the church, and would only be expelled from the church if he or she stubbornly demanded that others must conform to his or her heretical doctrines. Even then, contact with that apostate soul could still be maintained by the true members of the church. And it was this freedom to question the doctrines of the church which actually kept their faith pure and prevented hypocrisy, because multiple elders in the church would pray and wisely answer all those questions.

The integrity of teachings in the apostolic church was always maintained through freedom of speech. For they did not have human gods lecturing a passive audience from a podium like the pagans did. Only God’s Word stood on a podium, along with the one who read that Word. Then interactive discussions began on the floor, where any boy older than twelve, or any man, could voice opinions or ask questions, and where multiple elders who were actually called, taught, trained and sent by our God Jesus responded to those opinions and questions. So it was this kind of interactive teaching time, which many Jewish synagogues also practiced, that frequently exposed lies and hypocrisy in the church. The purity of their teaching were kept by openly debating difficult questions until the real truth was discovered and disseminated. But the people in those true churches never felt coerced to agree with any teachings they did not actually believe or understand, and there was no human lord who commanded them to believe anything. Rather, Jesus was each man’s only Lord, so each true elder’s spirit was compelled by Jesus to oppose any lies and delusions originating from the no-elect.

It was not until theistic humanists formed fake churches which bullied the true churches to death, that we began to see false preachers standing on podiums in the same way that the leaders of pagan Roman cults did. It was only after they took over that we saw the suppression of freedoms in their false churches. And they later grew so bold that resorted to physical violence so they could silence truly faithful elect, and not only drove those awakened elect out of their humanistic false churches, but tortured and murdered them. It was only a few centuries before the 16th century Reformation that a few Christians reiterated the need for these freedoms in Christ: the freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. And, in 1614, a Baptist named Leonard Busher published a letter to King James, explaining that, by forcing everyone to adhere to a state-endorsed religion, it would produce only hypocrisy, where those with the least conscience and the best ability to lie became its most esteemed members. Instead, a true church must “overcome evil with good” (Rom. 12:21, ESV) and “destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God” (II Cor. 10:5) through the “divine power” of God, who reveals His truths through His Word and all His creations.

Of course, by the end of the 18th century, both before and after the French Revolution, philosophers in France and elsewhere devised their own versions of the concepts of freedoms of conscience, speech and religion as well. But their purpose was to allow these freedoms until they gained a complete dominance over the minds of the people through their own omniscient understanding of all spiritual, moral and physical existence. In other words, they somehow thought they were human gods, since they were extremely zealous humanists. Then other humanists began to adopt and greatly modify other biblical teachings too. By 1851, a former student of theology, Karl Marx, and his friend, Friedrich Engels, borrowed the biblical concept of sharing all things in common for the good of all. But they transformed this into an economic principle, ruled by the ruthless demon Mammon,

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and utterly rejected the spiritual principle of sharing through the spirit’s love. The secular humanism of Marx’s Communist Manifesto even promoted the use of violent force to cause all such sharing.

In the Bible, God taught His true elect to fellowship in His true church, and in a way which allowed the freedoms of conscience, speech and religion, so each one could be personally taught and trained by Jesus’ Holy Spirit. And what Jesus taught to their elect spirits would gradually cause them all to voluntarily share all things with their siblings in humankind. All their good works would be done together, as they labored with one mind, and strictly through the love Jesus taught them and put in their hearts. For this was the only way they could share wisely, in ways where one gave to all according one’s personal ability, then received all that one needed for one’s health, works and life. Then none would live in self-indulgent luxury while their siblings starved. And this system not only worked well in providing for all the physical needs of the people in the church, but also provided for all their spiritual, emotional and other inner needs. The people in apostolic churches worked very effectively and efficiently to provide for all, then shared all things gladly, from the heart, since all shared a common Lord, Teacher and Judge. Jesus taught all their spirits the same truths until all believed the same truths, as with one mind. Then all worked for one purpose in Him. However, when secular humanists borrowed and corrupted all those teachings from the Bible, and used them to serve their own economic and power-grabbing purposes as human gods, even claiming glory as inventors of those biblical concepts which they perverted, they caused nothing but suffering and many deaths through their evil carnal applications of those principles. Nevertheless, God’s real truths were freed.

During the 19th century, theories of socialism began to proliferate around the globe, supported and falsely vindicated by the theory of evolution and its atheistic implications. Some fairly decent socialist states developed, where the people became the central power in democracies, and where authorities served the people, almost in a biblical way. But communism in Russia, China and other nations developed as well. These were ruled by dictators worse than Napoleon, and a terrorized people served those autocratic psychopaths, because each chose about ten percent to serve him as his elite villains, so he could murder millions and beat the rest of his people into submission. Then an even worse form of Marxist socialism developed in the 20th century, the beast’s religion of fascism. And fascism arrogantly committed all the sins of communism, but sadistically killing even more millions, yet without any pretense of equality among the people. By the 20th century, almost all secular humanists had adopted corrupted forms of biblical principles, yet sought the eradication of all other religions, especially Christianity, as they zealously promoted their own religion of secular humanism. And, at the same time, those secular humanist lied by categorically refusing to call their blind faith in their supposedly omnipotent, omniscient elite human gods a religion, insisting that their half-baked lies and destructive deeds were rational, scientific and served for the good of all.

Later, these humanists, who falsely claimed to be “freed” from all superstitions and religions, with all the blind faith they could hype up in their minds of flesh, superstitiously accused the innocent of crimes which were not crimes, then religiously imprisoned, tortured and murdered tens of millions of loving souls, including Jews and Christians. So the 20th century saw the worst religious persecutions in all history, with more deaths than in all the previous centuries combined. And those humanists did all this in an attempt to suppress God's truth, so their elite could rule over the masses in the typical Roman way, through a terrorizing elite. All the humanists increased their persecutions, not just the communists and fascists, but also theistic humanists in Muslim lands and the false churches that joined the fascists or became ruthless capitalists. And they have not stopped persecuting to this day.

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myths about evolution and “free will,” so all might bow to their elite human gods who ruled over their destinies. But they were not violent, although they did commit violence indirectly, through their sins of omission. And, oddly, those secular humanists pointed to the atrocities committed by their theistic humanistic siblings in the fake churches, and attempted to use those sins to illustrate how superior their own secular sects of humanism were, even as their own sects also exploited the poor and committed the same crimes. Nevertheless, their propaganda against God contained elements that opposed the sins which God hated more than their own similar sins. For God condemns the evil that false churches blasphemously do in His name far more than the same sins that are not done in His name. Thus, while those humanistic propagandists emotionally and spiritually persecuted both the false churches and the true elect alike, they also helped free some duped elect from false churches by exposing the evil which those false churches committed falsely in God’s name. And this actually served God’s purposes, since His loving elect could never really tolerate loveless secular humanism, but abhorred the evil in false churches more. So the elect were freed to eventually go to the real God.

Still, some secular humanists left their siblings in humanistic churches untouched and even allowed them financial benefits, while concentrating their persecutions of the most loving, trusting and awakened elect, those most opposed their lies and unjust deeds. In the past, before and during the Reformation, theistic humanists employed their dupes in their false churches to do their dirty works of murdering, oppressing and enslaving. And fake humanistic theists still do the same to this day, although mostly in Muslim lands. But later, in many places on earth, both theistic and secular humanists resorted to less physically violent methods, since the hypocrisy of their physical methods have been exposed by the elect. Now those humanists merely try to censure, legally oppress, lie, suppress, ridicule and emotionally or spiritually persecute biblical truths, because they still hate true Jews and Christians. But truths from God are upheld by God in their nations, as long as even a small minority of elect spirits are awake enough to obey His Holy Spirit by voicing and applying those truths. So the slander of humanistic propaganda and their attempts to make oppressive laws are often nullified. Naturally, Satan keeps whipping his children into obedience, so the non-elect slavishly keep on trying to silence or corrupt the truth. Yet God’s power, working through His awakening elect, will hold back those non-elect secular humanists in many lands, especially after the sixth seal’s revival. Only for a short time during the seventh seal’s era, will the demonically possessed Roman beast produce a fascist empire of seven nations, to dominate other secular humanist nations. And, when that beast succeeds in this, he will violently persecute true Jews and Christians again. But he will also be inundated by plagues of God’s wrath, and all humanists will perish when Jesus returns.

All this persecution by secular and theistic humanists is obviously causing, a clearer distinction to be made between God's elect children and the children of Satan. For the elect desire just, equitable love while the non-elect want to become self-serving human gods. A distinct dichotomy is forming in all the earth, although the dividing line still remains somewhat blurred. Now Satan’s most faithful children are becoming secular humanists, like the beast will be, but all say and do the typical lies and deeds that the devil’s Roman humanists have always said and done. They mock and ridicule all the effective truths which promote true justice, equity and love, and seek to physically terrorize or murder all honest souls whenever they have the power to do so. And all of the self-professed elite humanists terrorize souls into complete compliance whenever they can. It is clear that Satan's non-elect children, more than ever before, are gravitating towards either atheistic secular humanism or towards the doctrines of theistic humanism which support it. For we see how, in the second world war, the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters, including Evangelicals and Muslims, bowed before the feet the beast’s prototype named Hitler, and still uphold his doctrines of fascist secular

 

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humanism to this day. And, although many duped elect trapped among those theistic humanists remain bewildered, they are leaving those false churches in droves. For many long-forgotten biblical principles are now rising to the surface and are being proclaimed from the rooftops once again. Our God Jesus is awakening elect hearts, with a desire to form a truly biblical church in His final revival.

During this era of the fifth seal’s persecutions, we also began to feel a much stronger desire for Jesus to return soon. An interest in biblical prophecies regarding the end times (i.e., about the eras of the sixth and seventh seals) rose exponentially around the time of Napoleon’s wars in Europe. At that time, many elect began to feel that something big was about to occur. During the 19th century, as the persecution of God's people increased, more books were written about end-time prophecies than ever before—although most were useless, sensationalistic speculations to promote religious kingdoms of various theistic humanists. Nevertheless, this trend revealed a genuine increase in the desire of elect hearts to know more about the biblical prophecies regarding the very last days before Jesus returns.

This desire within the hearts of the true elect has not waned. Rather, it is now becoming a little more discerning and broadening into a desire to know more about the real prophecies and teachings of Jesus, not just emotional speculations about the end-times. Of course, one reason God’s people are seeking more knowledge, while they live in these these increasingly troubled and perilous times of the fourth and fifth seals, is because they unconsciously want to prepare their own hearts and lives for the future tribulations, as well as help their beloved children and grandchildren bear the hardships of those days. The elect inwardly sense that Jesus' return is imminent. Many elect do not yet realize it, but their suppressed spirits are praying more fervently for Jesus to return soon, to end the unjust chaos, injustice and unfaithfulness of Satan’s humanistic world order. So, while their minds of flesh are suppressing their spirits and falling into despair, the inner prayers of their spirits are expediting the dichotomizing process which will make it possible for His return. And all this polarizing of the elect from the non-elect will create His true church on earth during the revival in the sixth seal’s era, so that our God Jesus may finally judge and crush the devil’s humanistic kingdom before He returns.

In light of all this, we can assume that the era of the sixth seal is about to begin soon, and it will cause an even greater widening of the rift between God's people and the people belonging to Satan. The era of the fifth seal is indeed preparing the elect on earth for the time of the sixth seal, which shall complete the formation of a very clear and distinct dichotomy between the elect and non-elect. In the closing of the fourth and fifth seals’ eras, “Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined [This will be and is now the work of God. Yes, it is always done through the will of the elect human spirit. But the human elect spirit always wills to seek God solely because God has shaped that will by teaching His ways to that elect human spirit.], but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand” (Dan. 12:10, ESV, cf., Rev. 19:7-8). During the era of the sixth seal, God will “seal” the spirits of His elect with His Holy Spirit. This seal will be His mark on their spirits, His sign of ownership or, from the perspective of the elect, the sign that God has declared Himself to be their Father, that He will teach His children how to love as He loves.

One instinctive duty of all fathers has always been to teach their children about life, to provide a spiritual and moral structure they can use for the rest of their lives. Sometimes human fathers fail, or provide a warped, flimsy and unsound structure for their children. But God is a Father who always provides a perfect, harmonious, consistent, wise spiritual framework for His elect children, if their spirits will take the time to listen to His Spirit. And the Holy Spirit in the heavenly Father of our spirits is also the same Spirit in His oldest Son, in our oldest brother Jesus. Likewise, fathers defend their children, but not a child who willfully does what that father taught him not to do. Only if that father or that child admits to being wrong, then repents into the same spiritual and moral principle

 

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which caused their disagreement, will the father defend that child. Yet our heavenly Father always teaches us correctly, and can never defend us when we think He is wrong, when we intentionally do what His Holy Spirit declared to be wrong. We are always wrong when we think He is wrong. God is nothing like our spiritually infantile human fathers, and can never stand with us if we do something that His Holy Spirit has clearly condemned. Rather, it is up to us to listen to our Father, to correct our wrong thinking, to repent into the just, equitable, wise, loving truths which He teaches to our spirits.

Our heavenly Father and our oldest Brother have never defended the elect who join with the false churches to uphold the lies and evil works of humanistic wanna-be gods. Our God Jesus will not help them build hierarchies of artificially deemed “superiors” who exploit “inferiors,” nor have anything to do with the way they worship the demon Mammon so they can oppress their siblings in their family of humankind. All forms of injustice, all types of murder, terrorism, oppression, gas-lighting, racism, slander, fraud and geed are condemned by the heavenly Father, especially if those sins are committed falsely in His name. And there is no special kind of prayer that can possibly grant the elect a victory over their enemies while they intentionally lie and sin. Then any success God does allow a liar and sinner to receive from Satan’s world order is actually a punishment, where He hands that one, who did not love the truth, over to even greater and more destructive delusions. The utterly holy God will not defend the words or the lives of His elect children who oppose His honest Spirit. But He is constantly trying to teach the truth to their spirits, if they will only listen to His reasoning.

If we take the time to quiet our minds of flesh in our souls, so the minds of our spirits might hear God and do what He counsels us to do, God will defend our words and deeds. His power will even multiply some of our works and make them effective in building up His just, equitable kingdom on earth, as well help us nullify the works of the devil and his children. And He will defend our spirits against the attacks of the enemy, often even our bodies of flesh, if He wills that we should carry on His works in His earthly kingdom. For God takes great personal offense against any who dare to harm His elect, even if His children are trying to His works but are failing. For two thousand years now, His elect have spurned His words and His power, and sought only the salvation of human gods. But His elect will soon behave more like their heavenly Father and oldest Brother. And when they once more begin to truly represent Him and bear His name, He will stand by them to defend them.

In biblical or ecclesiastical language, when God “seals” a person, it means that His Spirit enters that one’s heart and soul. His Spirit comes to dwell beside that one’s spirit, and announces to all other spirits on earth and in heaven that this one is His beloved child. In other words, this sealing of the saints during the sixth seal’s era will be a permanent and great revival of God’s true church, and He will grant His true priesthood a far greater knowledge of His truth. Then His elect will act through a truly biblical faith which places all their confidence and trust in Him and His words. His true church will visibly exist again after the sixth seal’s world-wide earthquakes and its meteors striking the earth. But, after this revival, in the era of the seventh seal, spirits born of Satan will also put a physical mark on their flesh, the mark of the beast, to mock the spiritual seal of God. So the spirits of the elect will be marked by their God, the Creator of all existence. But the flesh of the non-elect will bear a mark of Satan’s ownership, since that devil will dwell in their human god called the beast.

Since non-elect souls walk only according to their flesh as Satan’s puppets, but the awakened elect walk according to their spirits as the disciples of our God Jesus, an irreconcilable difference will exist between the non-elect and elect after the sixth seal’s revival. The elect will be separated unto God and set aside for His purposes alone, entirely divided from the non-elect. Therefore, when that happens, the elect will no longer make covenants of love with the non-elect, as they do now, in error, then inevitably wound their own hearts, because the non-elect cannot reciprocate with their own

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covenants of love, but always defile the love from the elect. But, without any covenants of love from the elect, the non-elect will have no elect human “shields” to hide behind. Thus, God will be able to utterly destroy them all before He returns, without causing any elect spiritual casualties. As the wrath of God destroys the non-elect, the elect will watch in sorrow, but without any damage to their hearts.

However, right now, during this time of persecution, God is merely beginning to separate His elect of His kingdom from the non-elect in the beast's kingdom of Satan’s world order. All the elect now feel a growing enmity against the injustice and ruthlessness emanating from the beast's citizens, from his Roman kingdom of humanists. And we also see how this growing enmity is forming a clear-cut dichotomy, dividing God’s children from Satan’s children. Many false prophets, who are also called false teachers, have been rising up, attempting to lead the elect astray. Satan has sent countless liars to build their own religious kingdoms where they can be worshiped as human gods, and they are served by their dupes who do all their works in their names. Since the 19 th century, many pseudo-Christian cults arose, more than ever before in history, and some are so huge that they rival the size and wealth of their mother, the Great Prostitute. Nevertheless, their old Roman mother lives on, and is now bigger, after giving birth to those many psychopathic Roman daughters in the past centuries.

With this recent rapid increase in deceivers, Christ's name has been increasingly slandered too. In our day, most associate Jesus with only lies, deceit, hypocrisy, greed, oppression and the exploitative manipulation of the ignorant. And this is all due to the works of the Great Prostitute and her Roman daughters, who have been preaching falsely in Jesus’ name. Satan has done his work very well! And now many governments have been able to use all this evil done by those false churches and cults as false evidence against Jesus, and as an excuse to ignore God's just laws and loving ways. Then, after governments convince the people that God’s laws and ways are unjust and false, they can more easily and effectively replace God with themselves, and get the people to worship them instead. So all those fake churches have been very helpful in Satan’s war against God, even useful in helping that devil cause the elect to oppose God’s just and loving ways. For a time, Satan has even been able to cause the elect to help him persecute their own elect siblings. So lawlessness is everywhere now.

First came a growing disrespect for God, resulting from false interpretations and applications of God’s words by many false churches and cults. Then man invented his own self-serving laws to replace God’s just, equitable laws. But now the people are becoming disenchanted with their exploiting human gods and the self-contradicting laws invented by those self-serving fools. So the people are beginning to disregard the laws of those human gods as well. Thus, a greater and far more complete lawlessness has overtaken some lands, leaving the people in deadly chaos. Yet God's Law, as He Himself interprets it, remains loving and just, and will never perish from the earth. And, as long as it shows the elect how to truly love both God and all whom their lives touch in a pure and just way, the elect will return to it. So this state of lawless will not last forever, and cannot last very long in any land, since the lawless non-elect always end up killing one another, leaving only the elect to inherit the earth. So we will soon see the revival of the elect, the destruction of the non-elect and the return of Jesus to rule over the entire earth. Then the elect will inherit all and live by a just love.

All God’s laws are merciful, as well as just. For God requires no minimum penalties, but judges each individual and each sin according to the motives and intentions in a sinner’s spirit, then requires no penalty at all for completely unintentional sins without any evil motives. And God also legislated strict maximum penalties for each kind of totally intentional sin done through purely evil motives, so a penalty never exceeds the weight of the crime. Furthermore, God grants the complete forgiveness of intentional sins through a spirit’s repentance into the truth, which bears fruits of repentance to restore the relationship between the sinner and the victim. For an intentional sin is made inwardly

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unintentional through repentance, and the death of the body of our God Jesus on the cross paid the full penalty for all unintentional sins, once and for all time, just as God specified in His symbolic laws (Lev. 4). So the almighty Creator God forgives all repentant human sinners who ever lived in all past and future times on earth, and all who repent at the gates of heaven after death. Thus, no human property of God, nor the angels in heaven, have a right to withhold forgiveness for any of those whom God forgave, and none have a right to penalize any of the forgiven or the innocent.

Since an intentional sin or crime can become unintentional and without any penalty, so a repentant sinner and his victim can love one another again, the principal purpose of God’s Law is to restore love and peaceful order in a community. Thus, the rejection of God’s laws and ways inevitably lead to an unjust and crime-ridden community, without trust and without love. It causes the destruction of real love, if any love had ever existed in the hearts of the people to begin with. All true love in their entire lawless land “grows cold.” Even the true elect begin to forget what real love is like. For it can only be worked by a spirit grounded in real truth taught by God. Love can only grow through the light of a right knowledge about God’s created spiritual and physical realities. Without a foundation of genuine truths received through the awakening, teaching and training of God’s Holy Spirit, every individual’s body and house of love will collapse when any significant storm of lies and sins hits it.

This is why we seldom see true love today. We live in a time when false churches and governing bodies are being overwhelmed by propaganda from Satan’s fourth kingdom, from the unjust Roman humanists, especially fascist-like prototypes of the future beast. Thus, very few spirits are able to enter into true covenants of real love with other spirits. Spirits can no longer inwardly commit to cherishing and humbly serving other spirits. And, if they cannot even love the human spirits in visible bodies dwelling next to them, since they live only for the carnal rewards of Satan’s world order, not through love, then how will they ever love the utterly holy and just invisible Spirit of the living God? Yet true love can only be built up inside our spirits through God's gifts of inner honesty, righteousness and truth. Since even the elect now walk only according to the flesh, we see only false, fleshy and conditional kinds of love, built on lies, lusts and selfish desires, the same kind of fake love found in psychopaths. But the troubles and persecutions we are seeing during these eras of the fourth and fifth seals are waking up elect spirits, causing them to seek the knowledge of truth, even the just and equitable love of God’s kingdom on earth. And God is working towards this goal of now waking, teaching and training elect spirits for His sixth seal’s revival. So let us press on in this hope.

Return to Israel

One of the most clear signs of the approaching end times, which the whole world saw during this era of the fifth seal, was the prophesied return of almost a third of Jewish Diaspora to the land of Israel. For about a third had to return, establish towns and cities without walls, reestablish farming in their land which had become barren and deserted, then eventually rebuild God’s temple in Jerusalem before the return of the Messiah. And all this beginning to occur as a direct result of the fifth seal’s increased persecutions of God’s people. This is also beginning to cause some unity and a growing interest in the Bible among elect Jews too, in preparation for their prophesied unity and repentance to their Jewish Messiah Jesus. For the prophecies said this repentance to Jesus would partially occur during the sixth seal’s revival, then all the other Jews would repent on the day which Jesus returns.

Of course, disunity and many bitter factions still remain among the Jews, both in Israel and in the entire Diaspora scattered around the world. And this is due to the humanistic beliefs still held by both the religious and secular Jews since the days of their Babylonian captivity. Also, most Jews still remain highly secularized through the Napoleonic emancipation, which sent them into the secular

 

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humanistic universities and schools of Europe, or into schools influenced by Europe. So the secular humanistic propagandizing of the Jews has been strong since early in the 19th century, then continued unabated throughout the 20th century and is still ongoing to this day. But Jews were made susceptible to humanistic lies from the days of the Babylonian captivity, long before the days of the humanistic Greek influenced Maccabees, who brought humanistic beliefs into the Jewish Old Covenant branch of the church of Israel. Even by the time of Christ, many humanistic concepts were adopted by them.

By the beginning of the 19th century, Napoleon, the most powerful secular humanist in the world, began to promote the emancipation of Jews from their virtual slavery and oppression by European rulers. But this brought even more humanistic concepts into their Old Covenant branch of the church of Israel. Then many Jews also became secular humanists like Napoleon, and only saw their Jewishness as a worthless heritage of myths from their physical ancestors, although some clung to their Jewish traditions because their spirits longed for some kind of connection to a heritage which their minds of flesh had forgotten. Still, most Zionists immigrating to the land of Israel during the 19th century were atheistic secular humanists. And some of these Zionists felt no connection to the land of Israel at all. Some even wanted to form a Jewish nation in Africa, or anywhere else in the world, to avoid any association with their religious ancestors from Israel. Yet God caused these Zionists to choose their original homeland of Israel, since the deserted land there was a burden to the collapsing Ottoman Empire, who was eager to sell it to the Jews at ten times the market value. And that was how God manipulated those secular Jewish Zionists into settling in what was then called Palestine, ruled by the Muslim Ottoman Empire. And, clearly, the prophesied fifth seal persecutions had also forced those secular Jews to realize that their people would never stop being persecuted, so they had to create their own nation, where they could provide for their own freedom, and fight for it.

These secular Zionists were never truly united themselves, and they were also bitterly opposed by many other Jews, often by very religious Jews, even though the religious Jews longed to return to Israel, just as the Old Covenant prophecies told them they would. This was because religious Jews had developed their own misinterpretations of biblical prophecies to counter Christianity, and now feared that their return to Israel would only encourage Christian interpretations. Still, due to the Russian pogroms before and during the first World War, some of the religious Jews who resisted the Zionists, due to their rabbis’ false interpretations of prophecies, did return to Israel, while thinking it was not yet time for them to return. For they had to flee to someplace that was safe. So God Himself was causing both the secular and religious Jews to fulfill His prophecies in spite of their resistance.

And, of course, Hitler’s holocaust forced huge numbers of religious and secular Jews to flee to Israel as well. Thus, another secular humanist, a fascist who was even worse than Napoleon, helped to create the nation of Israel again, to cause the biblical prophecies to come true. In fact, at that time in Germany and in Hitler’s conquered European nations, some Jews did not even know they were Jews, not until Hitler began to search their genealogies to persecute them. So Hitler’s irrational hatred of the Jews gathered many Jews together in a way that would not have occurred without him. Hitler’s persecutions, and other Jewish persecutions throughout the world in the days of the fifth seal, had a profound effect upon the minds of Jewish people everywhere on earth. It caused even the secular Jews to see themselves as a distinct race of people who could never be fully joined to Satan’s Gentile world order. And this also caused even the most secular Jews to take pride in their Jewishness, which forced them to at least tolerate the religion and God’s Law which some of their siblings still clung to.

Of course, Moses and other prophets told us that Israel would begin to return to their land before the Messiah’s final and glorious return to rule the world. But none of the prophecies provided specific details which allowed anyone to calculate an exact time for their return. God only indicated that the

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Jews would gradually return to their land during an indeterminate lengthy period of time before the Messiah came to rule the earth. The Scriptures prophesied that, long before Jesus returned, some Jews would already be living in the land of Israel before His return, then all the rest of the Jews would return to their land, from all parts of the earth, after their Messiah came to rule the world.

For the prophecies told us that some Jews in Israel would build God’s temple in Jerusalem before the Messiah returned, and would even be making animal sacrifices in that third temple when the beast became the dominant world power, which was to occur before the Messiah destroyed that beast. So some Jews definitely were prophesied to return to their land many years before the seven years of the beast’s rule, and before their Messiah’s glorious return, since they would need to be there many years in order to build their cities and the temple before the beast came to defile their temple and attack their cities. Thus, their Messiah, who is Jesus, shall return immediately after the beast’s seven-year rule and save Israel from the beast’s greatest and final attack. Furthermore, Egypt, Assyria, Iraq and other lands were to convert to Christianity and become Israel’s allies sometime before the beast came into his kingdom, long before Jesus returned. Egypt and Assyria would even build a highway through Israel to join their lands, so they also might fellowship with one another. In Jerusalem. Yet this alliance would come after many wars, where Jews in Israel win those wars—although God would call Gentile Christians to help the Jews (Rom. 15:27)—since Jesus brings Gentile Christians into the church of Israel to share in both their blessings and their tribulation. Consequently, we know that, according to all the prophecies found in both the Old and New Testaments, the land of Israel had to be owned and occupied by the Jews, not by any Gentiles, long before the end times began.

And let the elect remember that, in His eternal covenant with the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, with all elect Jewish spiritual descendants of faithful Abraham in the true Israel, God promised: “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Gen. 12:3, ESV). God’s promise in His eternal covenant can never be nullified, revoked or changed at any time. And, since this was an unconditional covenant, it cannot be changed by any failures of Israel. So His eternal promise still stands. Yes, as some churches point out, this is also a promise for Gentile Christians, but only because God brings them into Israel, as elect siblings with the elect Jews, as the true spiritual heirs of this promise to Abraham. So this remains a covenant with the elect Jewish physical descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob, even with those who have not yet repented to Jesus, because God appointed a specific time for that repentance. And it is definitely not a promise to the non-elect who pretend to be Christians in false, humanistic churches. God has never been fickle enough to grow so angry with His elect in natural Israel that He broke His eternal and unconditional promise to them. God did not reject the Jews when He brought them into His eternal and unconditional New Covenant which fulfilled His eternal and unconditional Abrahamic Covenant. God has never replaced the Jews of His temporary and conditional Old Covenant with fake humanistic churchians, like their unjust and blasphemous doctrines of replacement theology or twisted supersessionism falsely claim. God’s promise applies to all the elect physical descendants of Abraham to this day, to all who still cling to an Old Covenant relationship with God, and to all the true elect who have not yet repented to Jesus.

Consequently, all who slander and attack the Jews will indeed be cursed by God. And it has always been evident that all antisemitic souls definitely have been cursed. For God's worst curse is to cast sinners into the darkness of delusions (II Thes. 2:9-12). Clearly, throughout history, God has always caused antisemitic groups, like the Nazis or ISIS, to fall into deep, dark, destructive delusions which cause the destruction of their own flesh and the destruction of the flesh of others. In every instance, they were handed over to Satan, who caused them to destroy themselves and all they touched. But,

 

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for those who bless Israel, who help the Jews in wise and God-led ways through Jesus' Holy Spirit, God grants His blessings of light, making them able to love and to see physical and spiritual verities in His creations, to learn God’s spiritual truths. These elect hear from God, whenever their spirits are willing. God grants them the ability to walk in wisdom with humility and honesty. Only these souls can become the light and life-givers of the world. All Israel, both the new and old branches, are the light of the world, a blessing to all the families on earth, God’s priests granted to this dying planet.

At any rate, many biblical prophecies required the Jewish people to return to Israel at a time long before the beast's seven-year rule, and long before Jesus returns to destroy the beast, so Jesus can rule the earth with them. God's Word repeatedly affirms this. And, in the 19th century, God already started the process of returning the natural descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to their land. Eventually, Israel even became a nation (May 14, 1948), with its own democratic government, as God commands in His law, although they did not always choose the man God chose for them. Of course, some are mistakenly convinced that the prophecies said God would bring all the Jews back to their land all at once, and all at the same time. But God never said that. If we look closely, we see that God clearly intended to bring the Jews back a few at a time, in a process lasting many decades.

Absolutely nothing in the Bible actually stated that God would bring His natural Israel back to their land all at once, within a short period of time. We only see prophecies about God gathering Israel back into their land in the same way a shepherd retrieves his scattered sheep, a few at a time. And, if God gathers them back into their homeland a few at a time, the process will be a long one. As we see in the prophecies, God declares that Jesus will come to Jews in Israel (and in Jerusalem in particular) after they have built a temple. Then we see how He gathers more into Israel after He returns. So it is impossible to rationally justify the doctrine that the return of Israel will be one, short, contiguous event occurring after Jesus returns. A harmonization of all biblical prophecies does not allow for it.

Ezekiel 34:11-16 (ESV): “For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I Myself will search for

My sheep and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his

sheep that have been scattered , so will I seek out My sheep, and I will rescue them from all

places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. And I will

bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them

into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in

all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them with good pasture, and on the

mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good

grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. I Myself will be

the Shepherd of My sheep, and I Myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord

[Yahweh]. I will seek the lost , and I will bring back the strayed , and I will bind up the

injured , and I will strengthen the weak and the fat and the strong I will destroy. , I will feed

them in justice.”

Notice God strongly emphasizes that He Himself will bring His people of Israel back to their land. In other words, the return of the Jews to Israel would not be because His people took the initiative to return , while living comfortable lives in the Diaspora. They would not cause their own return, even though God has kept that desire in the hearts of many Jews in Diaspora to this day. Their return was to be caused by God, just as we saw. God not only formed an inner desire in many of His people, but actually compelled their return through persecutions, wars and the opportunities provided by the Ottoman Empire to purchase land in Israel at the end of the 19th century. God caused circumstances which forced their return to that land, which was barren, treeless and desolate when they returned.

 

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Most of the first Jews to return, like most other Jews at that time, were deluded humanists, who were not aware of most spiritual or even physical realities around them, and certainly not consciously aware that it was God Himself compelling their return to their land. Yet it was indeed God who was returning them, in spite of their worldly delusions and their worship of religious and secular human gods, in spite of their idolatrous ways. And there is much evidence of God working for their return throughout the history of their land in Israel. Their return and subsequent survival, even their ability to form a nation in 1948, was obviously contrary to the wills of most Jews, and against the wills of most Gentiles on earth. Yet God manipulated them all and caused it to happen despite the opposition.

God also said, “I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness” (Ezek. 34:12, ESV). And, when He did rescue them, the pogroms in Europe were indeed a time “of clouds and thick darkness,” which soon transformed into the darker holocaust of Hitler. On the other hand, perhaps this “day” referred to the time when Rome cast them out of Israel in the 2nd century. Either way, when God said, “I will rescue them,” He was speaking to the natural Israel, to the Jews. And that rescue had to be from Gentile attacks and persecutions, like the Russian pogroms, Hitler’s Holocaust and general antisemitism, in order to gather them into their own land again. And God will be among His scattered sheep of Israel when this rescue will occur. God has always been among Israel’s people, and we definitely saw Him among them in their return.

God brought the Jews out from the Gentile nations “into their own land” because gave them that land eternally in the days of Abraham, before any of them existed. And God owns the earth and all who are upon it. So the stewards whom God appoints over a land will be the only ones whom God will allow to claim that land, while all other claimants will be expelled, or worse. God did not grant the land to natural Israel through a conditional promise, as some seem to think. The Abrahamic Covenant was a purely unconditional promise of God, which eternally granted those specified lands to Israel (e.g., Gen. 17:6-8). Some may say God’s command to be circumcised was a condition of this covenant, and that the Jews broke that covenant by becoming uncircumcised of heart, and that now the torturing, murdering, lying and idolatrous Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters are the circumcised of heart who inherited Israel. Yet God clearly stated that a physical circumcision would be merely a “sign” that He Himself made that eternal, unconditional covenant with physical Israel. So circumcision was not a condition, but a physical “sign” of what God Himself would do to fulfill the Abrahamic Covenant in the hearts of His people through His Messiah’s New Covenant salvation.

Since the Abrahamic Covenant was indeed unconditional and eternal, no other people on earth can ever truly own any part of Israel’s land, not even a square inch sold by scamming preachers. For God alone possesses the right to grant a stewardship of His land to His people. Naturally, men may see Israel’s stewardship of land as a kind of “ownership.” But, in reality, no person can ever truly own even one’s own body, much less anything else. A person can only be granted temporary stewardship over anything temporal and, if it is not taken away from him during life on earth, it certainly will be taken away as soon as one dies. All that anyone can ever own is one’s own eternal spirit and all that enters into it. Your spirit can eternally own love and truth, or else it can eternally own hate and lies.

So human ownership of land, animals and other people is actually a very damned and cursed lie that has led to nothing but more lies and sins, never to anything good. But taking a responsible position as a grateful steward of God’s property, and doing the kinds of works that one’s heart rejoices in doing because God has appointed one to those works according to one’s own inherent calling, then distributing the fruits of one’s labors according to God’s wise and beneficial will, always leads to the building up of God’s just, equitable and loving kingdom on earth. Even if a person practices good stewardship over one’s own body, in the name of God, according to God’s will and commands, that

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one will work the nullifying of Satan’s works on earth and contribute to God’s kingdom. And no one knows all of God’s will for anything which is given to one in stewardship, not even one’s own body. For God distributes the knowledge of His will and His truths to many souls, which makes each one dependent upon the others, and causes a need for all to share knowledge, which results in building up relationships with one another. So responsible stewardship is never a solitary task. In other words, all remain accountable to God alone for the stewardship of all, and all must be used for God’s works of caring for all His creations in the same way He does, wisely in a spiritually balanced equilibrium.

Now look at how Ezekiel prophesied that God “will seek the lost” Jews of Israel and “bring back the strayed” Jews to their homeland. Then he said that God would “bind up the injured” and “strengthen the weak.” Thus, God will do this gathering of natural Israel into their land while those physical descendants of Jacob are “lost” and have “strayed,” then later restore those “injured” and “weak” to health. Consequently, this return, which Ezekiel is prophesying about, cannot be the final return which others prophesied about. This cannot be the return of literally all the Jews on earth after the Messiah returns, after the Messiah removes the wicked from the earth and then miraculously heals and restores the entire world, including all the surviving Jews on earth. This prophecy of Ezekiel, these words from God Himself, cannot refer to the time when all Israel repents to the Messiah and are all “found” by God, because these Jews during this prophesied return are “lost” Jews who have “strayed” from doing God’s will, who are spiritually “injured” and “weak” when they come back.

Also, the process of returning these Jews to the land of Israel, this process recorded in this prophecy by Ezekiel, must be a lengthy process of seeking, finding, bringing back sheep individually or a few at a time, then shepherding them to health and strength, then sorting out the good from the bad, and finally feeding them “in justice,” by destroying the loveless “fat and strong” Jews, by removing the non-elect Jews, who only care for themselves, from that flock in Israel (v. 16). So this is a return of some Jews to Israel, through a long process of establishing a foundation of Jewish immigrants to the land of Israel, but only those who will not be self-indulgent, selfish, bullying Jews, only the portion of Jews who will become spiritually healthy and strong by the time the end time tribulations strike the earth. These Jews come before the Messiah returns, and before all surviving Jews on earth will be returned to Israel after the Messiah has already seated Himself upon His throne in Jerusalem.

In this prophecy through Ezekiel, we see here how God will gather His people of Israel one at a time or a few at a time, just like a human shepherd gathers the scattered sheep. And God will do this gathering of some Jews into Israel before Jesus returns. These Jews will prepare cities in Israel and cultivate the land in Israel to prepare for His return. These will be the Jews who shall build the third temple, either just before the end times begin or during the end times, just after the Muslim nations convert to Christianity and relinquish their false claim to the temple mount. And these Jews have already been experiencing God’s removal of non-elect Jews, who are “fat and strong” because they feed only themselves, then bully the other sheep of God’s pasture, chase weaker sheep away from the good pasture, and muddy the clean still waters that their Shepherd provides for their souls (Ezek. 34:17-19). When Jesus returns, there will be only the elect among these first-returned Jews, to see Him descend upon the Mount of Olives, since all the non-elect Jews among them will have already perished by that day. Then Jesus will sit on His throne in Zion, restore all the elect on the earth, call literally all the remnant of Jews scattered throughout the earth, settle all the natural Jews in His land to serve as His priesthood for all the earth, and rule the world in peace, through wise justice for all.

This prophecy (Ezek. 34:11-19) is about events which will occur not long before the second advent of Jesus. And, yes, our Messiah and God Jesus is thee Shepherd in this prophecy, who is Yahweh, thee one and only God. But so is our heavenly Father and His Holy Spirit this Good Shepherd. And

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this prophecy does not say that the Messiah has already returned when this process of gathering Jews back to their homeland begins. And, when this prophecy is harmonized with the other prophecies, the events occur in this order: (1) Jesus gradually gathers the descendants of Israel into their land before He returns; (2) He returns and destroys the wicked; and (3) He gathers the rest of natural Israel into their homeland. And, even after Jesus returns, He will not likely return all the descendants of Jacob to their land in one day, or all at the same time. Rather, He will gather them like a shepherd, giving attention to the needs of individuals and small groups, so they do not suffer in a mass frenzy.

Both before and after Jesus returns, God will not simply blow a whistle to call all his scattered sheep all at once, sheep who have dispersed over vast pasture lands stretching miles in every direction. A shepherd must search for each individual strayed sheep, and for small stray flocks consisting of only a few sheep. Then he personally leads each individual or small flock back into the fold, and ensures they are properly tended there before He sets out to bring in more sheep. This is the kind of return we should have been expecting. And this is the kind of return we have been seeing to this very day.

All interpretations of prophecies which claim that God will bring back all of Israel all at once, and only after they all repent to Jesus, are merely irrational speculations. And God has never worked that way among His people. Yes, God will often crush the wicked suddenly, within a very short period of time. But destruction is always easier and can be done on a massive scale, while building up a flock needs to be done carefully, with attention to each individual’s needs and character, and with much labor. God always teaches, trains and restores His elect children patiently and individually, over a long period of time. And God also gives His children His land a little at a time, lest it proves too much for them to handle (e.g., Deut. 7:22). God will seldom do His personal, spiritual works in a “day.” And God works even more gradually when He builds up, teaches and trains whole nations.

Also, let me repeat that those false interpretations do not account for the biblical prophecies about a third Jerusalem temple built by the Jews living in Israel long before Jesus returns. Surely many Jews will need to come to Israel before Jesus returns, since God’s temple must be built first, before He will arrive. And the prophesies also say that the rest of the Jews will not return to Israel until after Jesus returns. So, if only a few Jews exist in Israel before Jesus returns, or if only a few Jews in Israel do not receive support and labor from countless other Jews around the world, how could a costly and huge Jewish temple be built during the troublesome last days? Then we need to remember that Zechariah prophesied about Jews who are “inhabitants of Jerusalem,” as well as in other parts of “the land,” how they will mourn and repent to the Messiah at the very moment they see Him set His feet upon the land of Israel, grieving over Him whom they have pierced (Zech. 12:10). Also, some prophecies tell us that some Jews will worship Jesus before His return, such as the 144,000 male virgin Jews sealed during the era of the sixth seal. And, since these Jews are identified by their twelve tribes, it must refer to Jews settled in the lands allotted to the twelve tribes, since there is no way to identify members of each tribe genetically. Then other prophecies declare that the majority of Jews will be “hardened” and will not repent to Jesus until Jesus returns. And Ezekiel’s prophecy clearly did not say that God will first purify and “convert” all these Jews before He brings them back to the land of Israel. Nor do any prophecies in the entire Bible ever say God shall bring back literally all Jews to Israel on the same “day,” in one, short, contiguous period of time. That is merely a myth.

When we harmonize all the biblical teachings about Israel's return to their land, it indicates that God will first return some Jews to their land, then complete the sanctification of those Jews in Israel when the Messiah Jesus returns. As the Messiah returns, He will also sanctify all the other elect Jews and all the elect Gentiles on earth as well, all who have not yet repented into the truth, after He destroys all the non-elect. And, if God purifies many Jews with repentance to Jesus while they are in Israel,

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but also purifies the rest of the Jews scattered throughout the world before He returns them all to the land of Israel, then we obviously must conclude that God must return many Jews to Israel before Jesus returns. And those Jews who return first will be “lost” and “strayed” Jews, either secular Jews or Jews still in the Old Covenant branch of the church, Jews who have not yet accepted or believed in their Messiah Jesus. For it will only be long after the returning of a significant number of “lost” and “strayed” Jews (who are God’s elect, but deceived), that their Messiah Jesus returns. Then, after Jesus returns, will He gather all the rest of the scattered and repentant Jews into their land. Thus, logically, the return of the Jews must be a gradual process that begins long before Jesus returns, with at least enough returning first to build the cities, restore the desolate farmlands and build the temple.

If God waited until after the Messiah Jesus returned to bring all the Jews back to their land at the same time, how would they survive? Yes, He could miraculously construct housing for them all, and also restore the fertility of their land then build His temple, just as He has already done in the New Jerusalem in heaven. But wouldn’t that defeat the whole purpose of creating the earth? For God put us into these perceptions of earthly life, in bodies of flesh, to teach and train our spirits to love, to work beside one another in ways that build up our dependence upon one another, so we might learn to respect and cherish one another. So what would be the point of God magically restoring the land of Israel on earth, then magically flying all the Jews to Israel in a day? Since God could merely take all Jews and all Gentiles out of their earthly bodies and gather them all into the New Jerusalem, to provide them all with perfect homes, lands and Himself as their perfect temple, why would He do that on earth as well? No, God will do His earthly works upon our spirits in a way that serves His purposes for providing us all with earthly life, by having us labor together in our earthly works, so we can learn to love one another in a just, equitable way. He will do this for both Jews and Gentiles.

Then we must remember that the prophets also told us that God promised to make the land of Israel utterly desolate after He expelled them through the invasion of Satan’s fourth Roman kingdom. And God obviously did make the land desolate after the Bar Kokhba revolt against Rome (from about AD 132-135), especially during the days of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, who initially claimed to be the new Roman Empire. For the Ottoman Empire fought many destructive and depopulating wars, poisoned many water sources, taxed the trees to make the people cut them down, and ruined the farms lands. By the end of the 19th century, when the Zionists began to purchase land in Israel, the entire region was desolate and emptied of its people. So the first returning Jews had to rebuild it all.

The Romans, who worshiped human gods who were just like the final beast, did not heavily populate the land of Israel before God began to bring His natural priesthood of Israel back to the land He eternally gave to the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who had inherited the physical promises of the Abrahamic Covenant. And it was God who intentionally made the land of Israel into a barren wasteland, and kept it sparsely populated, which predisposed the Ottomans to sell that land to the Jews. For God permanently granted that land to Israel alone, and basically cursed all who kept it from the Jews, all who had slandered and persecuted the physical descendants of Jacob.

Especially as the Roman captivity of the Jews drew near its end, God prevented Roman humanists from restoring the fields and towns of Israel, and did not allow them prosper and heavily populate that land with Gentiles. The Ottoman Empire, founded in 1299, used the land of Israel as a symbolic gift to nobles, who never actually cared for the land, and seldom even set foot on it, except to battle for the important trade route through Israel. Only a few hundred thousand Gentiles lived there when the Jews began to return in the 19th century. Many more Gentiles came after the Jews began to settle in Israel and restore the land, to work for the Jews, because the Jews offered them three times the wage rate that their Muslim employers did. So Muslims from Egypt, Jordan, Syria and other lands

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also flooded into Palestine in the early 20th century, to help the Jews drain swamps, build towns and cities, establish irrigation and infrastructure systems, reclaim barren lands for agriculture, plant trees, build an economy and transform Palestine into a livable place again. But Jews in the land initiated, planned and did most of those works, while the investments and advocacy of the Jewish diaspora funded and gained approval for most of those works. So Palestine would still remain a desolate, underpopulated region if the Jews did not buy land and immigrate from the 19th century to this day.

But, since the land of Israel was indeed desolate before the Jews began to return, God not just dump tens of millions of Jewish men, women and children into that wasteland all at the same time. For the vast majority of them would have starved to death. This is why God promised to bring Israel back to their land like a shepherd, individually and a few at a time, slowly building up their numbers. The return of the Jews to Israel was a gradual process, beginning with the Zionist movement in the 19th century, with Jews who were “lost” and had “strayed,” who were not faithful to God, just as Ezekiel prophesied. In fact, most Zionists clung to the religion of secular humanism at that time, to the same religion of Hitler and other prototypes of the final Roman beast. But this gradual return of apostate Jews made possible all the other events that were prophesied to occur in Israel before Jesus returns.

Because the secular descendants of Jacob returned, so did the religious Jews who still kept an Old Covenant relationship with the God of Israel. And these Jewish secular and theistic humanists have made the reestablishment of Israel, as a nation again, into a reality. And the nation Israel had to exist before the end times began, because so many prophecies are about events happening to Jews in the nation of Israel. And none can say that, because those Jews are Christians, it cannot be a nation that God established through His manipulations and interventions, or that God prophesied about. For the prophecies indicate that there must be “lost” Jews living in Israel before Jesus returns. Otherwise, the prophecies would not say the Jews in Israel shall repent to Jesus on the day of His return, if they had already done so before He returned? Furthermore, Israel won battles in prophesied wars during their early years, while hopelessly outnumbered and with vastly inferior weapons. So, does this not also indicate that their return is God's work? For it seemed utterly impossible for their tiny nation to survive those onslaughts, and everyone predicted their extermination during those times. Thus, if God had not interceded for them, by confounding and weakening the vastly superior enemy forces, Israel would not exist today. But God kept victory from their enemies, and caused Israel to thrive.

Now look at the prophecy about the last days penned by Moses, the one which some claim to be their proof that God will only return the Jews to their land after they repent and begin to obey God through their supposed “free will.” For this return prophesied by Moses occurs when God causes them to recall the blessings and the curses He set before them. Many like to cite this prophecy to “prove” that the Jews will all be Christians before they return to Israel. But, if we look closer, Moses did not prophesy that the Jews would recall God’s blessings and curses, then return to Israel, as one event. Rather, Moses spoke of a very long process involving many steps outlined in this and other prophecies. And we must harmonize all prophecies to fully understand them. Now we can surely say that the Russian pogroms and Nazi Holocaust were some of those steps in this long process, those which reminded Jews of God’s curses and blessings. For those events reminded the Jews of the curse upon them if they forget the God whom they were to serve, and it also reminded their antisemitic enemies of God's curses upon those who harm God’s children, the Jews, the church of natural Israel. For the Nazis, the very instrument God used to curse unfaithful Jews, was itself obliterated by God. Later, Israel became more clearly focused on His blessings at every Passover Seder too, especially His promise to be their God, to protect them and to return them to their land and make them faithful.

 

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So now, during these current eras of the fourth and fifth seals, we are seeing this prophesied process of the Jews returning to their land and to God. But the Jews have not yet recalled their God in the full way that God promised, through the Messiah’s saving “circumcision of the heart,” through His works of His New Covenant. For this New Covenant salvation must occur during the midst of their return, that is, after many but not all return. It was not to occur before any of them returned. Their return to God, or to the Messiah, was not a prerequisite for their return, nor a prerequisite for any other works of God. After all, remembering God and their salvation, their return to God through the circumcision of their hearts, were to be an unconditional works done by God alone, through grace, just as all our Father’s loving works are done. So, if anyone interprets Moses’ prophecy as saying that the return of the Jews is conditional upon them first repenting to Jesus through “free will,” then they would never return. For it is impossible for any human being to return to the Lord and become sinless through the human will alone. Nothing but the works of God’s Spirit speaking to our spirits can cause our return to our God Jesus. And none can become sinless while living in a body of weak and rebellious flesh. The elect can only become sinless after the judgment day. Furthermore, if we interpret this prophecy of Moses in that way, it would contradict numerous other biblical prophecies.

If we look carefully at Moses’ prophecy, we find that Moses later delineates the following order of events: (1) God was to begin the return of His people to the land their “fathers possessed,” which means this prophecy is speaking about the Jews to Israel, the physical descendants of Jacob who came from Israel, and is not about a Gentile Christians, as some say; (2) God was going to make these Jews more prosperous and numerous than their fathers after they began to return, at a time before they would be circumcised of heart, implying that some of His blessings will be granted to them in the middle of a lengthy process of their return, and all blessings would be unconditionally granted, even the blessing of being purified of heart, not conditionally and instantaneously after they repented to Jesus, as some say; and (3) in the end, as His last and greatest unconditional gift of grace, God will circumcise their hearts, which is the New Covenant salvation in the Messiah, Jesus. Only as Jesus descends upon Jerusalem will the remnant of unbelieving Jews repent to Jesus. Clearly, all these things are to be granted to the Jews living in Israel and all over the world, all strictly through God’s unmerited, unconditional grace and through a process that obviously takes a very long time.

This is the real order of the events Moses prophesied about: (1) God begins to return the Jews to a desolate land, causing those pioneers to restore that land before they begin to prosper. And, since God prospers these pioneers at a later time, after they have already returned, it means that they will live in a relatively impoverished state when they first return, and prosper later. Their return must occur before God causes them to prosper. This is the only logical conclusion. (2) God continuously returns more Jews to their land, as the land becomes better able to support more. And, during this time, they gradually increase in prosperity and population. (3) All the Jews on earth repent to Jesus when He returns. (4) Jesus gradually returns all of the remaining diaspora to their fully restored land.

Not only is this the carefully extracted meaning of Moses’ prophecy, but it is also harmonized with all the biblical prophecies about the return of the Jews. Then we also see that, even though Moses told us God would make Israel prosper as they returned, he also said this as well: “The Lord your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you” (Deut 30:7). So God clearly prophesied about enemy persecutions occurring even as God was causing the returning Jews to prosper. And these persecutions imply wars, since the persecutors were “foes and enemies.” There were to be wars during the process of returning. Yet those persecutions and wars cannot possibly occur after the Jews are “circumcised of heart,” since their “circumcision of the heart” was to occur after their Messiah returned. And, from other prophecies, we know there cannot be any more wars or

 

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persecutions for a thousand years after He returns. Therefore, God could not “curse” their enemies and thwart their persecutions after Jesus returns, because all Israel’s “foes and enemies” will be destroyed at the very moment Jesus returns. Enemies cannot be “cursed” on earth after they are dead.

One of the most central aspects of Moses’ prophecy indicated that God was going to return the Jews and circumcise their hearts unconditionally. God did not say that He would return them only under the condition that they repented and made themselves sinless. He did not say they would circumcise their own hearts. God declared that He Himself would circumcise their hearts, cause them to become righteous. So this is their salvation from God, through their hearts’ circumcision. It is not a condition of their return. In reality, Moses prophesied that God would return the Jews to their land while they still remained uncircumcised of heart. Then God indicated that He would allow persecutions and wars to occur after they begun to return. Yet God would cause Israel to win those wars, because God would curse their enemies, even though the Jews themselves were not yet obeying Him, since they were not yet circumcised of heart. Other prophecies also tell us these wars and persecutions must occur before God circumcises their hearts, before Jesus returns to destroy their enemies. Obviously, there cannot be wars (nor fortified cities being built) after Jesus returns, when Israel lives in total peace for an entire millennium. If we logically and carefully analyze Moses’ prophecy, and also do so in the context of all other prophecies about the return of the Jews, we must conclude such things.

Deuteronomy 30:1-10 (ESV): “And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and

the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations

where [Yahweh] your God has driven you, and return to [Yahweh] your God, you and your

children, and obey His voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all

your soul [this time is prophesied to be at Christ’s second advent], then [Yahweh] your God will

restore your fortunes and have compassion on you, and He will gather you again from all the

peoples where [Yahweh] your God has scattered you. If your outcasts are in the uttermost

parts of heaven, from there [Yahweh] your God will gather you, and from there He will take

you. [This is a prelude to the rest of the prophecy, and this describes the time of the millennium after their

Messiah returns, which will be after they receive God’s circumcision of their hearts.]

“And [Step One] [Yahweh] your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed,

that you may possess it. And [Step Two] He will make you more prosperous and numerous

than your fathers. And [Step Three] [Yahweh] your God will circumcise your heart and the

heart of your offspring, so that you will love [Yahweh] your God with all your heart and with

all your soul, that you may live. [Step Four] And [Yahweh] your God will put all these curses

on your foes and enemies who persecuted you. [Step Five] And you shall again obey the voice

of [Yahweh] and keep all His commandments that I command you today.

“[Yahweh] your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in

the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For

[Yahweh] will again take delight in prospering you, as He took delight in your fathers, when

you obey the voice of [Yahweh] your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes that

are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to [Yahweh] your God with all your heart

and with all your soul.”

These were some of the last words from Moses before he passed away. And notice how often he uses the name of God, Yahweh. The spirit of Moses deeply loved Yahweh. Moses loved Yahweh with all his heart, soul and mind, and Yahweh personally loved Moses. The relationship between Yahweh and Moses had developed so much that each knew the very heart of the other. Thus, Moses could not

 

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help but repeat His name over and over again. And Moses longed for his siblings in Israel to know and love Yahweh just as he did, which is why he wrote this passage before going to heaven’s gates.

In the first part of this prophecy (vv. 1-4), Moses tells Israel the final goal of Yahweh God for them. Most told the Jews that, although they would be removed from their promised land and scattered throughout the world, treated like outcasts everywhere they went, God would gather them back into the land promised to them through Abraham. Even if Yahweh had to go to the uttermost parts of the earth to find each one, He will bring every individual Jew home to Israel where they will all prosper.

The time of this scattering of Israel into the uttermost parts of the earth, which Moses spoke about in these first four verses, must refer to the Roman exile of the Jews, to their final “captivity.” For he spoke about God’s final gathering of Israel into their land after they remembered Him, and after Yahweh Himself circumcised their hearts, cleansing them forever of their worldly ways. The implied scopes, durations and magnitudes of both God’s scattering and gathering cannot refer to the Assyrian or Babylonian captivities. For neither of those captivities saw Israel scattered to the uttermost parts of the earth and neither saw a complete return of all the Jews to Israel. But their very long Roman captivity definitely has seen Israel scattered to every inhabited continent on earth. And only the prophecies about the Messiah’s final and glorious return declare that God will gather literally all the scattered Jews who survive the deadly end times, into the land of Israel from everywhere on earth.

Israel was to be scattered among all the nations where God “has driven” or forced them to go, where they would be both blessed and cursed. And this is exactly what we have seen throughout history, since the first days of their Roman captivity. Persecutions have “driven” them out of many lands, and into many new lands. Then they have often prospered in safety, sometimes for many generations, before they were scattered again. However, after Jesus returns, after His Holy Spirit circumcises the heart of every individual elect Jewish person in the remnant surviving the end times tribulations, each Jew in every place on earth will be gathered into the land of Israel. After the whole heart, soul and mind of each truly loves and serves Yahweh God, all will become His priesthood ministering to the whole world. For this was God’s intention when He created Israel through Abraham’s children.

So this prophetic prelude (vv. 1-4) is not the beginning of a process explained later in the following verses of this prophecy. Rather, it describes the end result of the process outlined in the text below it. First Moses prophesied about the completion of their return, which will occur after Jesus returns. And Moses then talks about how some Jews will also begin to return to their land before they will be circumcised of heart in the end times, just before they will all be gathered into their land. In all the other prophecies, the circumcision of the heart (v. 6), which is the sanctification of all the Jews through the universal repentance of their elect remnant, is the last event before they are all gathered into their land forever. And this actually refers to the Messiah's New Covenant salvation by grace alone, where God Himself personally writes His Law upon each individual’s heart and in each mind.

So this salvation of the entire remnant of elect Jews will occur after some Jews have returned to Israel, but while most remain scattered in the uttermost parts of the earth, as well as after they have been made prosperous and numerous. This sanctification and salvation of spirits in all Jewish hearts will be completed on the day Jesus returns, although 144,000 virgin male Jews from all twelve tribes of Israel, together with other Jews and Gentiles throughout the earth, will be set apart for God and for His works on earth during the era of the sixth seal, about two decades before Jesus will return.

The actual order of events in this prophecy is what comes after the summary in the first four verses:

 

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1. “Yahweh your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed [which indicates that

Moses is giving this prophecy to the Jews, not to Gentiles], that you may possess it” (v. 5a). This does

not necessarily refer to literally all the Jews in the world. And, by harmonizing this with other

prophecies, we know it does not refer to literally all the Jews. Only some Jews will return to

the land which God promised to Abraham and possess it (i.e., the Hebrew word is yarash,

meaning “to seize and possess”). Some returning Jews will “seize” the land and “possess” it.

That is, Moses prophesied that those Jews will become an independent, self-governing

people in Israel, a sovereign nation, not a people ruled by foreigners in that land.

2. “And He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers” (v. 5b). So, after

the Jews possess their land again, they will prosper and become numerous. This implies they

will do so in that land. But this prophecy could also include Jews elsewhere on earth too,