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

those lands too. For, since the days of the true apostles, and especially during the last few centuries, the truths and ways of God have also been disseminated throughout the earth. And some lands practice much of God’s justice, even without knowing the true source of that truth, which came from God’s Law during the 15th century BC, then through the teachings of Jesus in the first century AD.

Humanistic dictators can now finally monitor the personal lives of almost all individuals through technologies using artificial intelligence, with machines lacking hearts or souls, with thinking tools that remain blindly loyal to their owners, since they are programmed by their owners and are mere extensions of the minds of their owners. Now one solitary agent can effectively monitor, manipulate and murder more people for a humanistic dictator than a thousand agents could for a similar dictator in previous centuries. Of course, God’s people also have access to this technology, and can also use it to nullify those works of Satan, and to build up God’s just, equitable kingdom on earth. So the battle continues on a much higher level than ever before, through political, educational and judicial systems, or even through forms of mass media and entertainment. But this kind of battle will not last too long. For the earthquakes and bombing meteors all over the world at the beginning of the sixth seal’s era will destroy most of that technology, providing a reprieve for God’s people. Then, after about 20 years, when humanistic systems begin to recover, the plagues of the seventh seal will begin to tear them down again, and utterly destroy them all, with their kingdoms, on the day Jesus returns.

Now humanists can watch and invade everyone’s life, with no hiding place left for the innocent. Now they possess effective means of control over all the people, in greater ways than have ever existed in history, and are attempting to develop an inescapable stranglehold on the lives of all the people. They spread their deceptive propaganda everywhere, in every private home, inciting all to war against God and His people, and to hate His beneficial wisdom. Before the twentieth century, there were always places to hide from the watchful eyes of the beast’s kingdom, and places one could go to escape. But now all hope seems lost. Yet Christ is indeed God. Humanists have grossly underestimated the power of Jesus. They think their worldly power makes them invincible. But they will realize how weak they truly are when God’s wrath starts to fall upon the whole earth, beginning with a world-wide earthquake and meteors striking the ground like bombs as the era of the sixth seal is opened. Then they will find out how easily all their systems can fall apart. Their trust in man will fail them on that day, and their systems are already starting to fail even now, through the works of God and His elect. As they worship themselves for their own glory, they will destroy themselves.

Then Jesus will raise up a true church, washed in the waters of His Holy Spirit’s truth, forgiven and cleansed, brought close to Him through the atonement He purchased with His blood. After this, both the secular and theistic humanists will persecute the church again, even with greater intensity. And their demonic messiah, the beast, will be sent to them seven years before Jesus returns. But the plagues God will cast upon them during the seventh seal will hammer them down, more and more, until the day of Christ’s return, when the last of them will perish by His hands. So all we need to do now are our small daily works as we wait upon Him, heeding His every word to our spirits. And we know our persecutions from the humanists will end soon, since Isaiah prophesied that they will end not long after “truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey” (Is. 59:15a, ESV). These are definitely the times when “truth is lacking” in most churches, synagogues and governments, due to the propaganda of humanists. And, because of this, those who do find the truth become the “prey” of humanists. Then this lying propaganda with its persecutions will revive during the seven-year reign of the beast in Europe, and with his influence around the world. But, starting in next line (v. 16b), Isaiah began to prophesy about the last generation living before before Jesus, the Messiah, returns. The rest of this chapter is about Jesus saving the elect and destroying humanism.

 

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Zechariah's prophecy also tells us about the future great repentance of all the Jews in the world. This is the same event that Moses called the circumcision of their hearts, what Ezekiel described as the cleansing of their hearts, what Jeremiah called the fulfilling of God’s New Covenant promises to Israel, and what Isaiah also called God’s “covenant with them,” with “His Spirit” upon them, and with His “words” that He Himself will put in the mouths of them and their offspring (Is 59:21). And in Zechariah’s prophecy, we see that many Jews will be living in Israel on the same day that the Messiah will come and “destroy all the nations that come against [the Jews in] Jerusalem.” That is, since this destruction of the armies attacking Jerusalem, which John’s book of the Revelation calls Armageddon, will occur on the day Jesus returns. Zechariah is talking about the destruction of the beast and his armies in the valleys of the land of Israel, where Jews are living. Consequently, we must then conclude that most of the Jews in Israel and in the world will not be circumcised of heart and cleansed until that day, because Zechariah and the other prophecies all indicate that this is true.

We are forced to conclude that, since most Jews in Israel and in the world will enter a New Covenant relationship with God on the day Jesus returns—at a time when many Jews will already be living in Jerusalem and in the rest of Israel, and even after the great revival of at least 144,000 Jews during the sixth seal’s era—there will still be mostly apostate Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora. Therefore, the first Jews whom God returns to Israel, long before Jesus returns, will be mostly secular or theistic humanists, not pure biblical Jews. Since most Jews will only repent on the day when Jesus returns, the Jews who are returned to Israel before Christ’s second advent definitely will not all be Christians, as the false churches teach, and the current Israel definitely is not what they like to call a “bastard state.” Clearly, God declared that He will begin the process of returning very many Jews to Israel before Jesus returns and before He causes their repentance, just as the prophets declared. Only after their Messiah returns will the remainder of elect apostate Jews repent. And, by the way, I should exegete Zechariah’s prophecy in my chapter about the seventh seal, where I discuss Christ’s return and the destruction of the beast. But I will do so here and now, to counter the false teachings which claim that all the Jews must repent to Jesus before they return to Israel. I feel a need to show that the current return of Jews to Israel does indeed fulfill all the prophecies of Scripture right now.

Zechariah 12:1-14 (ESV): “The burden of the word of the [Yahweh] concerning Israel:

Thus declares the [Yahweh], who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed

the spirit of man within him: ‘Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to

all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. [The beast’s

armies will not come to simply destroy Jerusalem, but all of Judah, to wipe out the whole nation of Israel.] On

that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples . All who lift it will surely

hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth [or this can also be translated as: “all kinds of

nations on the earth”] will gather against it.

“‘On that day , declares [Yahweh], I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with

madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep My eyes open, when I strike

every horse of the peoples with blindness. Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves,

“The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through [Yahweh] of hosts, their God. On that

day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming

torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding

peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.

“‘And [Yahweh] will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house

of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.

On that day [Yahweh] will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among

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them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the

angel of [Yahweh], going before them.

“‘And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem . [This is

the destruction of the beast’s international armies at Armageddon, while Jews are living in Jerusalem.] And I

will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a Spirit of grace and

pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on Me, on Him whom they have pierced, they

shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over Him, as

one weeps over a firstborn.

“‘On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-

rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. The land [i.e., the Jews in the physical land of Israel] shall mourn,

each family by itself [indicating an inward, personal repentance]: the family of the house of David

by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their

wives by themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by

themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; and all the

families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.’”

First we must understand that this prophecy is definitely about the natural Israel, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It cannot be about the Gentile elect whom God gathered into Israel, whom fake humanistic churches falsely claim to have replaced Israel. For Zechariah specifies that he is talking about the families of many notable Jewish men from the past, real physical descendants of those men who existed in his day. And notice how Zechariah, like all the true prophets and apostles, believed that God created the earth and universe, then formed a spirit in each person (Zech. 12:1). So all believed that God made Himself the Father of each elect spirit, and thus took on the responsibility of creating literally all the attributes of each elect spirit, as well as the duty of educating and shaping each elect spirit throughout each one’s life. So none of the prophets or apostles believed that human beings created their own spirits, or that they could recreate their own spirits into elect spirits through the power of their own “free wills,” as today’s humanistic churches do. Thus, none of the prophets and apostles believed that God could not create elect Jews in the end times, that God had rejected all Jews because their supposed “free wills” rejected Him and recreated their spirits into non-elect spirits, while all the Gentiles in fake humanistic churches recreated their own spirits into elect spirits.

And we must realize that, if one does not also believe what the prophets knew about the true God, then one cannot possibly gain anything useful from their prophecies, which originated directly from the the mind of the true God. For, if one only believes some of their words, and only chooses what one wants to believe, then one’s beliefs will be based on faith in oneself, as a humanist, and not on true saving faith in God. Then one’s faith will be founded upon self-serving lies of the pagan religion of humanism, through a faith in the doctrines of Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, through the humanistic methods of existential hermeneutics, for the purpose of creating self-esteeming and self-serving opinions by manipulating God’s Word as one chooses. And, if one does this, then one will actually judging judging God Himself, who gave these words to the prophets and apostles, as an inferior Teacher to yourself, declaring yourself to be a wiser and more correct teacher than He is.

In fact, if one invents one’s own Scriptures, in a way which defines a new creator and god which one prefers more than the actual God defined by the prophets and apostles, as one’s own self-serving god, then one has become just another one of the pagan idolaters who war against the real God, even if one audaciously calls one’s own invented fake god by the names of the real God, like “Yahweh” or “Jesus.” And, by making God’s Word into a self-serving book which justifies one’s own false beliefs,

 

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lies, delusions and sins, one is making oneself into a higher god than God Himself, by granting more authority to oneself than one is granting to God Himself. If one places most of one’s faith in one’s own revelations to oneself, one is not placing all one’s faith in the ability of God to pour His truths into the mind of one’s spirit, nor His ability to teach one’s spirit about His own intended meanings of His own words in His own Scriptures, as well as the meanings of His truths written in His creations.

Since all human beings are sinners and, therefore, also very weak and infantile fools, one is actually inventing meaningless nonsense by interpreting God’s Word in ways that appease the ego of one’s own flesh. Those false interpretations will never help or save oneself or anyone else, especially when the end-time tribulations come. Instead, one is destroying oneself and all who are affected by one’s privately preferred interpretations, since those lies will affect all of one’s words and deeds in very negative and even deadly ways. Therefore, we need to avoid all the humanists which habitually and incessantly do such things, and never become any kind of humanist who does such things ourselves.

Now, when Zechariah repeated prophesied that God will fulfill all these prophecies “on that day,” He was declaring that there will be a precise appointed time for all these events. And, as we see later, that appointed time will occur when the Messiah arrives to rule Israel and the world. Then notice how he described the attempt by “all the surrounding peoples,” all the nations attacking Jerusalem and Judah, as a “cup of staggering,” that is, as something which they do like drunks who mindlessly war against God’s people without true cognition of their actions. And God will make their attempts to destroy or conquer Jerusalem like lifting a “heavy stone”—possibly to throw it on the ground and break it, or take possession of it and enslave it in the construction of some kind of wall or building.

But that “heavy stone” will be God’s elect Jews in that land, and those enemy nations will not be able to lift those very heavy stones to serve their own nefarious purposes. They will find it utterly impossible to lift the Jews out of their place. Yet who are these enemies attacking Jews in Jerusalem and Judah? The expression, “all the peoples,” would refer to “all the Gentiles” from everywhere on earth, that is, especially all the humanists of the world. For God calls Jerusalem the center of the entire earth. So the “surrounding peoples” of God’s center of the earth would include every other nation on earth, but primarily refer to the Muslims and Europeans who remain friends of the future antisemitic and demonically possessed leader of the dominant world power, who is called the beast.

The prophecies say that very many nations will join the beast in his final battle against God, which will occur in the land of Israel, and end just outside of Jerusalem in the hills of Judah. The last stand of the beast and his allies from various parts of the world will happen during his attempt to conquer and destroy God’s people in Jerusalem and Judah. As John also prophesied, “all the nations of the earth will gather” with the beast to war against Israel (Rev. 16:14). But they will only remain alive and together for a few weeks before Jesus returns to destroy them. All who come against Jerusalem and Judah, to remove the memory of Yahweh from the earth, will cause their own destruction, even all the Roman humanists in other nations who do not belong to the beast’s own Roman kingdom.

Israel and the whole earth, including the nations who convert to Christianity before that last battle takes place (such as Egypt, Syria and other nations, some of whom will be “far-of lands) will suffer greatly in those days. And only about a third of all people on earth will survive the end times, or even fewer than than a third. But we know that not one of those who join the beast’s religion of Roman humanism will live beyond the day of Christ’s advent. So the generation of elect who live during the eras of the sixth and seventh seal will go through an even greater tribulation than the elect who are now being persecuted and killed during this current era of the fifth seal. And there will be no escape from it, such as through a mythical “rapture” into the safety of heaven. Above all, there will

 

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be no escape from death and suffering by clinging to the humanistic doctrines of false churches and synagogues, who will be destroyed first, before all the secular humanists of the beast and his allies.

Zechariah likely penned these words from God near the end of his life, in about 480 BC, which was long after the Babylonian captivity began. So he received these visions and concepts from God after the Jews began to be corrupted by even the most basic forms of Babylonian humanism. And he was obviously writing about a siege of Jerusalem and Judah in the very distant future, since he described a failed attack by many nations just as the Messiah came to Jerusalem, not a past successful attack by the Babylonians when they actually conquered Jerusalem. Nor could Zechariah possibly be referring to the successful future Roman conquests of Jerusalem and Judah in AD 70 or AD 135. Zechariah’s future prophesied siege of Jerusalem and Judah was to involve “all the nations of the earth,” not just one nation, not just Babylon or Rome, and Daniel identified Rome as Babylon’s fourth kingdom, which simply perpetuated and extended the previous Babylonian captivity. Clearly, Zechariah prophesied that Jerusalem and Judah were not going to be destroyed by those future attackers. Rather, all their enemies from everywhere on earth would be destroyed instead. But that definitely is not what happened when when either Babylon or its Romans offspring attacked them.

Zechariah obviously prophesied about an attack against Jerusalem and Judah at a time when Jewish people were living in Israel, and when an entire international army would be destroyed. Thus, we know this prophecy definitely has not yet been fulfilled, since nothing even resembling that kind of failed attack has ever occurred since Rome forced almost all the Jews to dwell in the Diaspora, that is, after Rome expelled them from Jerusalem in about AD 135. Not nearly enough Jews have ever returned to their land to warrant any kind of attack by an army from all over the world, where all their enemies perished in that attack. Even now, after over a century of Jews returning to Israel, there still are not enough Jews living there to warrant the kind of attack described in Zachariah’s prophecy.

However, this prophecy of Zechariah shall be fulfilled within a few generations. As for the other interpretations, which speculate about about all kinds of things, such as a figurative attack against a Gentile Christian church, we must realize that Zechariah clearly indicated that this would be an attack against both Jerusalem and Judah. It was clearly about the Jewish people in the land around the physical city of Jerusalem. And most Jews there today are descendants from the tribe of Judah, including most who have now returned to Jerusalem and to that land of Israel which God eternally granted them. He was clearly speaking to the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Then notice how Zechariah’s prophecy began with a firm declaration about Yahweh God, saying that He “stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him” (v.1). This seems to be in opposition against the core doctrines of secular humanism found throughout the world today, with its false teachings about the Big Bang, evolution and the completely materialistic nature of man. It is almost as though God had revealed to Zechariah what the people of that future time would believe, then called Zechariah to begin this prophecy with a counter argument against those beliefs. Of course, Daniel also described the religion of the end times in more detail, and he definitely described it as what we would now call the religion of humanism. For those people in the future would hate God and worship humans instead. They would not believe that God created all that exists, nor that God “formed the spirit of man within him,” a spirit with a mind and a will which is separate and distinct from the mind and will of the flesh, in which a spirit is formed. And this kind of secular humanism only began with the Greeks, then was fully developed only by Roman humanists.

The blindest of all blind faiths is the religion of humanism developed through Rome. Both its secular and theistic sects refuse to acknowledge the existence of any genuine evidence which indicates the

 

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possibility that they might be wrong, even blatant realities that overtly prove them to be wrong. One sect lives by an arrogant insistence that their Platonic speculations are “science,” and the other sect lives by an arrogant insistence that their Platonic speculations are facts about a god they invented in their own minds. But both sects are basically the same, since both place man at the center of control over all God’s creations and over human destinies. Then both deny any distinction between the spirit and the flesh. Both esteem and serve the greatness of humanity, by worshiping self and other people as their creators, owners, lords, saviors, chief educators and principal counselors. And both try to force everyone to walk according to the thoughts of an elite human being’s mind of flesh, while they also train, manipulate and coerce all into suppressing the thoughts from the minds of their spirits.

It is this Roman humanism which has now reached literally every nation on earth during this era of the fifth seal, just in time for the prophesied end times to begin. But this era is also the time when scientists are realizing that a massive intelligence regulates and maintains the laws of the universe to prevent it from collapsing into chaos; that biological life is designed, programmed and harmonized in ways that cannot be random; and that a non-material or spiritual reality governs all that we call true love, hate, morality and the incentive to live. This is also a time when countless humanistic religious charlatans are dividing false churches into warring factions, even as secular deceivers are doing the same, causing great destruction everywhere. So now the elect are almost ready to meet the Spirit of their Creator, Yahweh, the Ruler over all material perceptions in the minds of their spirits.

It seems that God knew His people would read this prophecy in Zechariah when the end times were about to begin, and caused that prophet to declare that He “stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him.” God gave His people these words to remind them that He, not man, rules the destinies of all human beings. These words were made for these days when both secular and the theistic humanists deny these foundational truths. But humanism had already begun to develop in the days of Zechariah, through the influence of Babylon and Persia. Some had already started to believe the delusion that man could rule over his own destiny, and be the creator of all laws, so he could judge all human beings according to his own lusts of his own flesh.

It will be our God who will help the Jews in Israel, by destroying the humanistic armies from everywhere on earth, even by crushing their spirits, which He created for hell. It is not man but God who remains in control of the earth and all that occurs upon it. And God will judge all, condemning the humanists who created their own unjust laws to oppress their brothers and sisters for their own profit. When this prophecy states that “all the nations of the earth” will attack a Jewish Jerusalem, it clearly refers to the same event that Daniel and John prophesied about. Zechariah was talking about the armies of the beast and his allies from all over the earth, gathering at Armageddon. All these will be secular humanists who join the beast, in his vain attempt to stop our God Jesus from returning to rule over all the earth. Although the religion of humanism is founded on competing carnal egos, and is highly factious due to the propensity of vain human gods to stab one another in the back, all of those secular humanists will unite at that time. For Satan will send his demons to unite them in their common beliefs. So Jesus will be condemn and destroy them all together on the day that He returns.

This prophecy also hints that their attackers will be secular humanists because, while the foreign armies attack them, “the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through [Yahweh] of hosts, their God’” (Zech. 12:5, ESV). So the Jews at that time will remind themselves that they do not rely on their own human strength—while their enemies rely on the strength of their vast numbers of soldiers empowered by physical instruments of war, just as humanists always do. Yet God will “strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness,” even “every horse of the peoples with blindness,” as God keeps His “eyes open” (v.4). God will overcome

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their minds and eyes, so they will cause their own destruction. And, by the way, the future attacking armies may even be riding on ordinary animal horses, since much of the world’s technology would be destroyed by then, after the world is devastated by the plagues of the sixth and seventh seals. Or, after seeing the vision of that battle, Zechariah simply may have figuratively called modern military vehicles “horses,” since a prophet in 500 BC would not know what else to call them. At any rate, each enemy’s “horse” will run in a way that indicates “panic” (Hebrew = timmahon, “confusion”), and each rider’s mind will be full of “madness” (Hebrew = shiggaon, “madness, craziness, fury”).

Since this prophecy is “concerning Israel” (v. 1) and “the clans of Judah” (v. 5,6), these inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah during the end times, in the final days before Jesus returns, definitely will be Jews who have previously returned to their land—the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But we also know that not all the Jews in the world will return to Israel by then. Most will not return to Israel until later, until after Jesus returns. Still, a significant number of Jews would need to return before that last battle could begin, and before Jesus returns. Otherwise, why would a huge army gather from all over the world to destroy them? If there were only a few Jews in the land, only a small army would be required. Since a massive army comes to war against these Jews of Judah, there must not only be a significant population of Jews there, and possibly many allies with them.

By the time of this last battle, some allies of the Jews will be Egypt and the nations associated with ancient Assyria, since those nations are prophesied to convert to Christianity before this time. Yet only a surviving remnant of the first-returned Jews, consisting of the truly elect among them, will give Yahweh God all the glory after He destroys their enemies. The rest of the surviving elect Jews will not yet give God the glory or be saved out of their apostasy, not until Jesus actually arrives and walks among them. Therefore, we can assume that many Jews living in Israel will die during that attempted invasion, and many non-elect Jews will also die at the hands of Jesus on the day He returns to take away all the wicked from the face of the earth. Still, both the apostate elect Jewish remnant in Judah, and the apostate elect Jewish remnant scattered throughout the world, will repent to Jesus as He returns, but not before that day. Then other prophecies tell us that all the remnant of elect Jews, who are scattered throughout the world, will also repent and will be saved by our God.

For this prophecy says: “And [Yahweh] will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah…. ‘And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a Spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on Me, on Him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over Him, as one weeps over a firstborn’” (Zech. 12:7,10, ESV). So some of the surviving remnant of Jews in Jerusalem will not be saved until they actually see their God Jesus, until they look on Yahweh walking among them in His body of human flesh. Then they shall mourn for “Him whom they have pierced” on the cross, when they were still humanists in the first century, and still under the influence of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. For many of those elect Jews shall remain humanists until that day of His return. The Holy Spirit of Jesus will have mercy on their spirits, causing godly sorrow leading to repentance, into the truths about their Messiah Jesus. And, after that day of Jesus returning, which will be after the fullness of the Gentile elect have been gathered into the priesthood of Israel with them, “all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, ‘There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob’” (Rom. 11:26, WEB). All the surviving elect descendants of Jacob in the Diaspora will also repent into the truths about their Messiah Jesus when He walks on earth again.

Consequently, we are forced to conclude that God will keep His eyes wide open, to guard literally all these apostate elect Jews before they repent, even as they are attacked by the beast’s armies who

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share the same demonic religion of humanism with them. God will destroy the beast’s international armies at Armageddon to save many unsaved elect Jews through His grace. Therefore, we must also conclude that the physical survival and salvation of any elect Gentile or any elect Jew does not really depend on one’s own “free will.” No church sacrament or “Sinner’s Prayer” is required before an elect soul will receive God’s protection or salvation. Rather, a will to survive and repent, as well as the knowledge and circumstances required to survive and repent, come exclusively from God alone. And it is after God causes us to repent that we realize that He has protected us all our lives, because He predestined our salvation, even into an eternal life together with Him in the more real eternal lands of His heavenly home. And, immediately after saving all of the true Israel, He will remove all non-elect spirits from the earth, no matter how strong they think their god-like “free wills” might be.

We have already seen the beginnings of this prophecy being fulfilled. Here Zechariah speaks of “the clans of Judah,” because faithful believers from all the tribes of Israel fled into Judah after the apostasy of Jeroboam and after Assyria conquered the northern lands of Israel. Thus, Zechariah spoke as though Judah represented all of Israel. For, at that time, after the invasion of Babylon, only the land of Judah remained in the hands of the Jews, and all the tribes of Israel lived in it. So he was saying that God would someday make all the Jewish people into a mighty nation again, one that would “devour ... all the surrounding peoples” and again inhabit Jerusalem. This has been happening since Israel’s war of independence in 1948, and is still occurring right now. To start this process, God used many nations and two world wars, as well as much insane antisemitism, to cause many Jewish people to return to their land of Israel. By God’s rebuke, Jews now live in Jerusalem and throughout Judah, and have spread out into many other regions of Israel, and they even became a nation again.

God ignited the Middle East too, and no one has ever been able to restore peace there. For God Himself is causing the wars there, purging the lands in His wrath against all who slander His name through the lies of humanism, greed, selfish ambition and pride. Antisemitic nations and people in the Middle East have warred against Israel to their own peril. God’s fire, often working through Israel, has devoured them. All who curse God’s people of Israel, all nations and all false churches, have been cursed by God, cast into dark and Satanic delusions which are destroying their own flesh.

Many loving elect Jews and Gentiles have also perished in those wars, and will be devoured in future wars. For God graciously removes elect spirits from their flesh too, into His eternal peace and solid reality, away from an earthly life of deluding hate. Still, there will be many elect Jews and Gentiles who remain alive on the day Jesus returns, after the fire of the Messiah consumes all the hating non-elect, to leave the world in peace. After He returns, all wars will end, and only the elect shall remain on the earth. Then all the elect will see, hear and heed the counsel of God for a thousand years. Then “Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem” (Zech. 12:6). Once more, His Jewish priesthood, the offspring of Jacob, will continuously dwell in the capital city of His priestly nation.

Yet this prophecy, “Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem,” is odd. Why did God prophesy that Jerusalem “again” will be “in its place” or “under [tachath] its own place,” and why did He repeat the name of Jerusalem twice? This redundant repetition of the name of Jerusalem seems to suggest that, at some time after Zechariah made this prophecy, Jerusalem would no longer be called by the name of Jerusalem, and that the Jews would not continuously dwell in it. And more than 500 years after Zechariah died, that did happen. In the second century AD, Jews were expelled from Jerusalem, Rome renamed it Aelia Capitolina, and very few were allowed to live there until the 19th century, until these latter days which he was prophesying about. Then, throughout the centuries, much was built over the ruins of the original Jerusalem which Zechariah knew in his day. Thus, the

 

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original Jerusalem he knew is now “under” the current Jerusalem existing in our day. Perhaps I am reading too much into this verse, but it does imply something like this in the way it was constructed.

Only in the end times, sometime before the Messiah’s glorious return, will Jerusalem become the true Jerusalem again, on its foundation and with the Jewish temple of God in it. By about AD 325, the city was again called Jerusalem, but prohibitions against Jews did not change much, and only a few Jews could live there. It was not until the 19th and 20th centuries, when Jews began to return to Israel, that they began to think of restoring Jerusalem as the capital city of their land. And, by 1949, they made Jerusalem into the capital of Israel again. But, more importantly, after they took the Western Wall and Jewish Quarter in 1967 and 1968, it became Israel’s center of worship. This also prepared the way for God’s temple to be rebuilt there eventually. And it will be built there before Jesus returns and grants them repentance. For many of the end-time prophecies clearly indicate that a third temple period will exist in Jerusalem for a period of more than seven years before Jesus returns.

Right now, during this era of the fifth seal, some say that none of these events can occur because so many secular Jews live in Israel, and because the religious Jews there reject Jesus as their Messiah. But, first of all, most of the Gentiles who call themselves “Christians” are not true “Christians” at all either. So it would be foolish to insist that the Jews in Israel must reject their secular or Jewish sects of humanism to join the humanistic sects of the fake Gentile churches which falsely call themselves “Christians.” And we need to realized that God saves. We do not and cannot possibly save ourselves.

Like all the Scriptures, this prophecy states, “Yahweh will give salvation” to the Jews in Israel, and after He destroys their enemies. For God’s Holy Spirit is the Creator of the human spirits in all of His elect, and His power alone can redeem them, can awaken their spirits and open the eyes of their spirits to see Him and His truths. Then God declares, “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness” (Zech. 13:1, ESV). But it will not be the physical water in that fountain which cleanses from sin and unclean thoughts or deeds. For even our physical acts of going to the mikveh in that fountain will simply be acts of remembrance and faith in what God Himself can do for us. Thus, even when we perform rituals commanded by God, it is only God’s will and His grace that can cleanse our spirits.

God’s gift of salvation and cleansing from sin is never granted through a choice and decision of man,

as theistic humanists declare.4 And God also grants His salvation in His own planned and appointed times, not according to our own wills. For notice in this prophecy, on the day Jesus returns, God declared that He will grant salvation to “the tents of Judah first,” so that the glory of Judah would surpass “the house of David” and “the inhabitants of Jerusalem.” God’s purpose for saving Judah before all other Jews was so that the descendants of David and the people living in the capital city of Jerusalem would not exalt themselves over the other Jews in the land. For God desires full equality.

And, based on other prophecies, when God said He would save “the tents of Judah first,” He seems to be talking about the salvation of all the Jews remaining alive on the earth, all the Jews in the Diaspora. Literally all the elect Jewish people remaining alive until the day Jesus returns, that is, after Jesus destroys all the non-elect on earth, will be saved into an eternal knowledge of the truth. So the salvation of all the Jews may be in this order: (1) During the revival of the sixth seal, many Jews will be saved by God, at least 144,000, at least 12,000 from each tribe of Jacob’s descendants; (2) not long before Jesus returns, and even while He descends from the sky (which may take more than just one day), all the other Jews will be saved, except those in Jerusalem and those belonging to the “house of David” (which may actually refer to the Messianic Jews in our day); and (3) lastly,

 

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when Jesus sets His feet upon the Mount of Olives, then walks into Jerusalem’s temple, all the Jews in Jerusalem and all the Jews belonging to the “house of David” will be saved, after all the others.

God tells us His reason for saving the Jews living in “the tents of Judah” before He saves the Jews from the “house of David” and in Jerusalem. His reason will be so He can increase the glory of Judah, so He can make Judah’s glory equal to a supposedly greater glory somehow granted (or soon to be granted) to the Jews living in the “house of David” and in Jerusalem. So now we need to figure out which Jews of the world will belong to each of these three categories. Why did this prophecy make these distinctions between these three kinds of Jewish people? What exactly did God mean when He said He will save the Jews of Judah first, so their “glory” (which is God’s good opinion) will then be equal to the glory of Jews in “the house of David” and the Jews in Jerusalem? Since all the hardened elect Jews on earth will be physically and spiritually saved on the day the Messiah returns, but none of these Jews will have been saved before that day, we must conclude that these three categories cannot include the 144,000 Jews who will be awakened during era of the sixth seal, nor any of the other Jews who will have repented to Jesus at any time before the day Jesus returns.

So who exactly are these three kinds of Jews? First, we should recognize that Zechariah did not distinguish between the Jews from the tribe of Judah and Jews from all the other tribes. And other prophecies confirm that there shall be no tribal distinctions or rivalries in the end times. So all three categories are not likely based on tribal genealogies nor upon locations in the land of Israel. When Zechariah prophesied about the “tents of Judah” in the end times, it would include Jews from all twelve tribes of Israel, the Jews scattered among the Diaspora, the Jews living outside of Israel, in temporary “tents” or synagogues as they wait for their Messiah to bring them home to Israel. Also, we should also realize that many Jews are descended from Gentiles who converted to Judaism. So some Jews have very little Jewish blood in them. Furthermore, most Gentiles converts to Judaism, ever since the days of Moses, have been gathered into the tribe of Judah. Ultimately, this is because Judah is the Messiah’s tribe, and the Messiah is the Savior of the entire world. Only the Messiah can fulfill Israel’s primary mission in God’s covenants, to become a blessing to all the nations on earth.

Next, we need to ask which Jews belong to the “house of David”? These cannot simply be physical descendants of David since, in our day, there are no longer any Jews who can possibly know whether or not they are direct descendants of David. For one thing, all genealogical records were destroyed by the Romans when they burned down the temple in AD 70. Then, by our time, David’s lineage would have become so diluted and confused over the past two millenniums no one would ever be able to tell if they descended from David. Therefore, this prophecy could not be referring to a “house of David” consisting of the physical descendants of David during the end times. This “house of David” in the end times must be something else. Yet, whatever it is, it must be related to King David.

The word “house” suggests a more permanent status for these people, more than the word “tent” used to describe the people called “Judah.” Now, since David ruled the whole of Israel before it split into two nations during the time of his grandson, and since the “house of David” must be a more permanent dwelling place for these Jews, yet likely referred to Jews living within the land of Israel, but outside of Jerusalem, it may refer to Messianic Jews in Israel. For “David” in Zechariah’s day was a title of the Messiah back them, hundreds of years after King David had died. And God did not want the Jews in the “house of David” to feel superior to the Jews in Judah, that is, in the Diaspora, since Messianic Jewish beliefs are very similar those of both humanistic religious Jews and Gentiles.

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their homes, the people in Jerusalem will not be forced to flee in those days, but will shelter the other Jewish refugees. Although the beast’s armies will surround Jerusalem at that time, the Messiah will descend upon Jerusalem before the beast is able to enter and destroy the city. Now, since this prophecy is talking about both a physical and spiritual salvation, it seems to indicate that Jesus will protect and save the physical lives of the elect Jews in Jerusalem last of all. So Jesus will save the inhabitants of Jerusalem after the rest of the Jews scattered throughout the world, and any other Jews living in Israel, mourn and repent. But all this will occur within a very short time. His descent from the sky will only take a few days at the most, and His visible descent upon Jerusalem will likely occur during a few hours of one day. When Jesus first appears in the sky, the beast’s armies will be stunned and weakened by fear, while the Jews will be strengthened. Before Jesus’ feet even touch the ground, while He is in the air above them, He will begin to destroy the beast’s armies, starting with those farthest from Jerusalem. While this is happening, the non-elect all over the earth will begin to drop dead, suddenly, wherever they are standing. Then, as the beast’s warfare is still occurring near the city of Jerusalem, Jesus will cast that beast alive into hell. Then Jesus set His feet on the Mount of Olives and walk across the Kidron Valley into Jerusalem, after the last of the beast’s soldiers die.

It seems as though Jesus will destroy the enemies closest to Jerusalem last because He will not want Jews in Jerusalem to receive a greater glory than the rest of the Jews. Jesus will not want some Jews to think they are superior to others. The Jews of the Diaspora will be rescued and turn to Jesus first. Since their immediate threat from their enemies will be relieved first, they will be able to turn their attention to Jesus first. Although they will be the last to go to Israel and walk with the Messiah in Jerusalem, they will be the first to be safe and saved. But the last to be safe and saved shall be the first to walk beside their Messiah. Thus, the first shall be last on that day, and the last shall be first, so neither the first nor last will have a greater reward or greater good opinion from God than the rest, just as Jesus explained in His parable of the laborers, which is about His judgments (Mat. 20:1-16).

This is an interpretation which seems to fit the context and harmonize this prophecy with all the other Scriptures. Yet there is one other thing that some might ask: What advantage will there be for Jews who are the first to follow Jesus, for those saved in the era of the sixth seal? And are those the Jews whom this prophecy called the “house of David”? Jews will be saved during the sixth seal’s revival before the seventh seal’s plagues even begin, and long before Jesus returns. But the “house of David” will not be saved at that time, since they will only be saved as Jesus is returning, and after the plagues of the seventh seal. So the two are not the same. Rather, the Jews saved during the sixth seal’s revival will be set apart to serve Jesus, to testify against lies, and most of these will become martyred, although they will be among the dead saints returning with Jesus in the first resurrection.

Now some will say that none of these distinctions matter. And they think that all we need to know is how to be basically moral enough to get to heaven, as we strive to gain as much wealth and power as we can while we are still alive on earth. Some do not want to know about the predestined plans of God for Israel and the world. They are content to be ignorant, to live without spiritual preparations for life in spiritually aware communities which actually love God, love all His people, and love one another in ways that bring joy to all. When they hear prophecies about appointed times for God’s salvation and His predestined plans to shape each individual elect spirit for a life in heaven, they seem to think it is all nonsense. And some even think there is an advantage to remaining unsaved as long as possible, since they see salvation as a mere “moral” obligation. But those who think in this way do not understand what real salvation actually is. Nor do they know what time is, nor how God teaches and trains our spirits in real spiritual time. But the awakened elect need to be aware of how God lays out His plans for our lives, and realize that all His spiritual works serve for our own good.

 

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We must know that a lifetime on this earth lasts only as long as a blink of an eye, while a second of fully experiencing love and beauty in one’s spirit, during one’s lifetime, is eternal and cannot end, not ever. The more concrete and everlasting spiritual realities must not be dismissed through a preference for things of our far-less-real, brief, shadowy, vaporous, physical perceptions of earthly space-time by our spirits. Yes, our perceptions of earthly life are real, because God causes them. All our earthly pains and pleasures do indeed exist, in God. But He grants us perceptions of the flesh for eternal spiritual purposes only. Then all awakened elect spirits can begin to see and comprehend why we perceive them, as we experience them in this earthly life. But it is a very dull and sleeping spirit which cannot see beyond physical existence, a deluded spirit. Anyone who thinks in terms of a short or long earthly existence, then seeks worldly gain and power within their own allotted moment of material perceptions, has a blind spirit. For all real reality is non-material. All super-real space, time and power is spiritual, and is nothing like energy defining the flow of time in space on earth has any real purpose other than to teach and train one’s spirit. Then all that God does for one spirit will truly affect all other spirits in the end. Literally all that occurs on earth affects all for all of our eternities.

So there is an advantage to learning what God has done for all His elect children on earth throughout history, and what He is about to do for them. For God and all His elect children are one family, and we all learn from God as well as from all our siblings in this family, in ways that affect our current lives on earth and the eternal lives of our spirits living together with Him. For we are spirits living in the eternal spiritual realm while we are also living in flesh in this material space-time continuum. So, when we study the prophecies telling us how and why God saves in a certain order, to maintain equality among His elect children, let us learn about that just equality from God’s prophecies, for our own sakes. We must recognize the fact that our Creator God and Owner does not want us to live in ways that discriminate against our brothers and sisters, but love all elect Jews and Gentiles equally.

We are not to live like the deluded, blind souls who embrace Satan’s religion of humanism. We are not to form hierarchies of falsely perceived “superiors” trying to be the gods of supposed “inferiors.” And the purpose of God’s salvation is to rescue our dull, blind, empty, ignorant spirits from the lies, delusions and sins of demonic humanistic churches and synagogues , not to draw us into their lies, delusions and sins. God’s salvation awakens our spirits, opens the eyes and ears of our spirits, causes us to see and hear eternal and far more real realities than their delusions about earthly perceptions.

Right now, we are heavily burdened by lying religious leaders. They say we are “independent” with “free wills,” while they try to make us totally dependent on them, so they can enslave the wills of our flesh and oppress the wills of our spirits. They say we should help one another. But, in the same breath, they say we, as a family of people forming a governments of elders to watch over us, should only have a few elite psychopaths as our elders, and those elders should not take any responsibility for providing for the needy in the family, nor provide health care for them. Meanwhile, God’s Law says that God alone owns the people and governments of all nations, and that His people are the governments of all nations. Therefore, God commanded us to choose our teachers, organizers, care givers, judges, wise and loving managers and protectors from the elders He chose for us, for our good governing. For only those whom God made able to do those works should be allowed to help the people survive and thrive, by providing for the needy and those who become weak. That is why God raised up governments of His chosen servants such as Moses, Samuel, David and so on, people working together with other people to serve as a government family, all serving together as a body which cares for all the various organs withing it, ensuring that no organ suffers or perishes in it.

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else. Since a government is just an extended family of all the people, its elders are fully responsible for the welfare of all in that family, just as every parent is also responsible for one’s own children.

It is time to understand the interconnectedness of all spirits and the spiritual gift of salvation, which also directly relates to our physical lives, since the whole purpose of God granting us our physical perceptions is to teach and train our spirits to love in a just, equitable way, in the way He loves. And soon the tribulations of the end times will fall upon us. Yet the churches and synagogues are still wallowing in the muck and mire of humanism, with all of its backwards delusions and lies. God’s salvation is not a reward of Satan’s world order, not something which makes anyone “superior” to others in a humanistic kind of hierarchy. Rather, the New Covenant salvation, through the works of our God Jesus, causes our spirits to esteem, emulate and serve our God according to the principles of truth He teaches to us, which is the definition of true worship. And the more God causes our spirits to do this, the more He will also be able to justly protect, guide and provide for us as our loving God.

So God has saves some elect first, before He saves other elect. In fact, God will only save some of the elect after He removes their perceptions of earthly life from their spirits. He will only save some elect after death, at the gates of heaven on the judgment day. For God knows the infantile spirits of human beings, and how they think. So, to maintain humility and equality among all of His children, He has appointed different times for each one’s salvation into the truth. Likewise, in the end times, some elect Jews shall be the first to know the comfort of their God, the first to dwell in His love and holiness, the first to find peace in their hearts through the works of God upon their spirits. And this is reward enough, far greater than anything of human pride or esteem. Then, lastly, Jesus will save the elect who exalt their own “spiritual” worth the most, so they will comprehend that salvation is not through their own wills, but is entirely a work of God inside them. Any of the elect who trust those liars who rely upon rituals and other works of their flesh for salvation, shall be saved last among all.

But, on the day Jesus arrives to destroy the beast’s armies and all Satan’s children, literally all the elect Jews who are still living on earth will be saved. Every single one of them will will be entirely sanctified, counseled and comforted. All will joyfully serve Yahweh Jesus as one body after that day. All will be humbled, ready and willing to nullify the inequitable, unjust works of Satan’s religion of Roman humanism, prepared to provide the teachings, counsel and even the physical hospitality that will be required for all the elect Gentiles coming to worship Jesus in Jerusalem and in all of Israel.

On that day, God will pour out His Holy Spirit “of grace and pleases for mercy,” so that all the elect Jews, all who will not yet have repented into the truth, will mourn with the godly sorrow over “Him whom they have pierced.” All the humanistic elect Old Covenant and secular Jews will repent into the truths about their God Jesus. In a moment, their spirits shall awaken as they see the bright light of Jesus descending from the sky, and know He is Yahweh, whose very heart “they have pierced” with their carnal words and rituals, with all they said and did against Him. For here Zechariah was indeed calling the coming Messiah by the name of Yahweh, the Creator God. And he was writing this just as he was dictated to write it by Yahweh. Since the antecedent of the pronoun “Me” (Hebrew = ayth) is Yahweh, and prophesied that the Jews “pierced” Yahweh, but the only Messiah they had ever actually “pierced” was Jesus, then Zechariah was prophesying that Jesus is Yahweh.

And here Zechariah is obviously prophesying about how the Messiah will come to Jerusalem, just as many other Messianic prophecies do. So this prophecy clearly equates Yahweh God with the Jewish Messiah. It is saying that Yahweh is the Messiah and the Messiah is Yahweh. Also, since Yahweh must have come to the Jews sometime before this glorious appearance during the end times, that the Messiah must have previously come to Israel at a time when He was “pierced” by the Jews,, then

 

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Zechariah is also prophesying here that the Messiah shall come twice to Israel: once to be pierced and once to save them from their greatest enemy in the end times, that is, from the beast’s armies.

On that day of His return, Yahweh Jesus will not only turn Jewish hearts back to Him, but will also destroy the armies of the beast at Armageddon. Although God hardened Jewish hearts until the full number of Gentiles had entered into His church of Israel (Rom. 11:25, which occurs after the sixth seal’s revival and most of the seventh seal’s plagues), He will now pour out His Holy Spirit upon all Israel. Our God Jesus will cause their repentance, through His “Spirit of grace and pleas for mercy.” And there will be no need for any intercession by any mainline or Evangelical churches like those existing today. In fact, all of those fake churches will be superseded and gone by that glorious day.

Through God’s mercy pouring concepts of truth into the minds of their spirits to cause repentance, the entire remnant of Jews who remain alive at that time will be inwardly sanctified, set apart for God’s purposes, circumcised of heart. So they will then do God’s will on earth. They will be truly saved from their slavery to sins, religious lies and worldly delusions. Now some may object and insist that the Old and New Testaments never said the Messiah will be Yahweh God, only that He would be godly. But they are clearly wrong. Both the Old and New Testaments very often taught that the Messiah is Yahweh God, then provided many examples to prove that He is Yahweh God. The Scriptures never left any doubt about the full deity of the Messiah, as God dwelling in a human body.

Yahweh came to us in a body of human flesh and willingly allowed mankind, led by the Jews and by Satan’s fourth kingdom of Rome, to pierce His body on the cross. So Yahweh actually caused them to kill His own body on that cross, for the sakes of His beloved elect children (John 10:17-18). Then, on that future day, when the Messiah Jesus returns to Israel in that same body of flesh, all Jews will physically see Him, with their eyes of flesh. All will look upon God’s pierced, healed and resurrected physical body, just as they looked upon His body when it was “pierced” on the cross. But they will not feel guilty, since they themselves did not “pierce” Jesus with those nails and that spear on the cross back in the first century. Rather, only a minority of their ancestors actually called for Jesus to be crucified, not they themselves, nor the majority of their ancestors. But those future Jews will mourn for all the centuries they waited for their Messiah, for never having recognized Him as their Messiah, due to the false teachings of their religious leaders. I know the Jews will mourn like this, because many Gentile elect now mourn in this way too, after being deluded by their own humanistic Roman false religious teachers. It will not be guilt for the crimes of Jewish or Roman ancestors, but a deep sadness over all they missed in life through the lies and ignorance that wasted their past lives.

Jesus’ own power vicariously crucified Himself, to fully pay Satan’s demanded price for the sins of both the elect Jews and elect Gentiles. And the power of non-elect Jews and non-elect Romans could not have harmed Jesus at all, if He did not willingly choose to die. Yes, the inner choices of those malevolent non-elect spirits, who vengefully nailed Jesus to that cross for evil motives (in order to preserve their own incomes and power), will pay for their own guilt on the last day, and will not be counted as innocent for all they intentionally did to the utterly sinless flesh of our Lord and God (see John 19:11). Yet each of those non-elect Jewish and Roman murderers will only pay for his own unrepentant sins. None of their descendants will ever pay for any sins of their ancestors, nor for any sins they did not condone and partake in, nor for any sins that they have made unintentional through repentance. For God’s Law forbids such things, although literally all elect commit sins through their flesh inherited from Adam (Deut. 24:16; Ezek. 3:18-21; 18:19-24; Rom. 2:6; 5:12). And anyone who dares to say all Jews are guilty for the murder of Jesus, or that we are all guilty for the sins of Adam and Eve, are liars who do not know the living God, nor God’s intended meanings of His own words.

 

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It is so tiring to hear the Roman churches incessantly repeat the false doctrines of antisemitism and replacement theology, and their related false doctrines of original sin. One would think that, after two millennia, they would finally grow weary of telling those lies, or that the world would rebuke those lies, eventually. But, somehow, they continue without much opposition. Still, we need to reject those lies, so we can move on into the goal of our salvation, and prepare for the end times. We must realize that our God Jesus Himself will save literally all the surviving elect Jews when He returns, all the still-hardened elect Jews living at that time. All will see Jesus return to them in a human body, in glory. Then all those Jews will serve Jesus in better ways than anyone does in any fake church today.

So we must conclude that Zechariah knew the Messiah would come to Israel twice: once when His body would be pierced and killed, then again in glory, with unlimited power, to spiritually and physically save all the Jews. Zechariah might have realized this by studying the other prophecies of Scripture, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Or he may have been granted this knowledge by a direct revelation from God. Or it could have been both. But he did prophesy that the Messiah would come twice. And, to Zechariah, it made sense that Yahweh declared Himself to be the Messiah who would be pierced and killed in the flesh in order to free His people from their lies and sins, as Psalm 22:16 and Isaiah 53:5 had already prophesied. And he already knew the Messiah’s flesh had to be “cut off” in death, as Daniel 9:26 previously prophesied. But Zechariah made it most clear that the “pierced” Messiah and the glorious returning Messiah were the same Person, and He is Yahweh.

Yahweh, a Spirit, would dwelt in the Messiah’s physical body of flesh when it was “pierced” by men, by physical nails and a Roman spear during His crucifixion. And this crucifixion was primarily initiated by a rogue minority council of Jews who handed Jesus over to the Romans to be crucified for the nefarious purpose of preserving their incomes and power. Then all the Jews in history who followed the teachings of those Jews that crucified Jesus have become one with those who crucified Him, and have shared in that sin. But the elect among those Jews follow in ignorance, not knowing any better. All Jews who have not believed Jesus is their Messiah, all who ever lived since then, have spiritually joined hands with the Jews who demanded that the Romans must crucify Jesus, since they have all condoned the words and deeds of those Jews who actually condemned Christ. But all the Gentiles who have followed the false humanistic teachers of Roman Platonism in churches have also done the works of beating our God Jesus, whipping His flesh from His body, nailing His limbs to the cross and “piercing” Him with a spear to ensure He was dead, just as those Gentile Roman soldiers did in the first century, and for a more evil reason, solely for their own psychopathic entertainment.

Since many Old Covenant and secular Jews have not confessed the sins of their Jewish forefathers, and because some even condone those sins, many Jews have partaken in those sins of their fathers. Likewise, many Gentile so-called “Christians” have not confessed the injustice and inequity of the Romans, and even condone it. So they too have partaken in Christ’s murder. For the Law makes anyone guilty of any sins which their spirits admire and also would have done, guilty of aiding and abetting those sins. Every generation of humanistic Jews and Gentiles since the first century has taken up the sins of their forefathers who crucified their God and Messiah. Everyone who has not confessed the sins of the beast’s Roman Empire, especially that beast’s fascist sect of humanism, has aided and abetted the sins of the beast. And this is why so many will repent in grief during the end times, with much mourning. But the Gentile Romans, as a people, were the last to partake in the murder of our sinless God Jesus, and will be the first to repent. Then the Jews, as a people, initiated the murder, and will be the last to repent into the joy of a restored relationship with their God. Yet there will also be countless elect individual Jews and Gentiles who will know their God before then.

 

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Of course, during the crucifixion of Jesus in AD 28, one of the false arguments the rogue council of Jews threw against Jesus was a denial that He could be God, simply because He dwelt in a body of flesh. As Roman humanists, those prominent Jews irrationally limited God’s ability to do anything which their minds of flesh did not condone, since they believed that they alone ruled over the will and decisions of God, that they were the gods of God. Through false assumptions based on self-serving speculations, they decided that it would be impossible for God to dwell in a body of flesh. Then they quoted a Scripture which declared that no man can look upon God and live (Ex. 33:20-23), somehow thinking this proved their false assumptions. They falsely reasoned that the Messiah, whom they could easily look upon and remain alive, could not be Yahweh. Yet Yahweh had covered His true spiritual form in His “hand” and by a “rock” of material existence when He passed before the face of Moses, so Moses would not die. Thus, those foolish rabbis were wrong to think that God was not able to cloak His true spiritual form in a body of human flesh, so His people of Israel would not die when He walked among them in the first century. God had handed those fake rabbis over to irrational delusions, causing them to loose any ability to reason through even the most obvious lies.

Those vain humanistic rabbis completely overlooked all relevant factors and conditions, just so they could reduce their argument into this simplistic false argument: If one cannot see God and live, and one can see Jesus and live, then Jesus is not God. Yet these same Jews would get angry when secular humanists used the same kind of false logic whenever they stated the simplistic false argument that, if God created the earth and the earth is evil, then either God is evil or God is not powerful enough to stop evil. But both of these arguments are like saying: If all cows have four legs, and all milk comes from cows, then a four-legged female dog with milk is a cow. Clearly, those who reason like this are wailfully and intentionally ignoring critical information which is essential to sound, right reasoning.

Humanists should know that such arguments are based on false logic, because true logic takes into account all the relevant information, and does not merely choose a few convenient suppositions which point to the false conclusion they prefer. So some Jews corrected the secular humanists and declared a much more informed and logical argument: “If God created the temporary earth in a way that contains both good and evil, it is because He also created our permanent home in heaven, which contains only good. Then He first placed us on earth to learn about both good and evil, until we were ready for Him to take us home to heaven. So the earth’s evil always accomplishes an eternal good, by educating our eternal spirits, which is infinitely more valuable than the temporary cost of this temporary evil on earth. Thus, God is indeed very good, very complex in His thinking, very wise, very loving and certainly very powerful, because He chose to limit and control the amount of evil that we experience to our temporary earthly existence, for educational purposes, even without any mistakes.” Some Jews could understand this kind of complexity behind truths, and how simplistic false arguments were foolish. Yet many of these same Jews could not see how Jesus could be God.

But, if some could correct the false reasoning of secular humanists, they also need to correct their own false reasoning. For they also omit much relevant information which points to a conclusion they do not like. Yes, Yahweh said that anyone who would look upon Him would die in the flesh. But this would not mean the death of the eternal human spirit. It would simply mean that all the educational perceptions of earthly life could no longer continue after seeing the Spirit of God in all His glory within His spiritual realm. For the humanistic Jews back then, and to this day, have deliberately refused to admit that God, who is a Spirit, was really saying that a man’s flesh cannot see the “face” of His Spirit (i.e., the full, unveiled glory of God’s Spirit as He exists in His spiritual realm) and live.

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substances from the spiritual space-time continuum that die if they look on the full manifestation of God’s spiritual form. So human spirits, after they receive new, eternal, spiritual bodies to replace their earthly bodies of flesh, will also be able to look upon God and live. Only the temporary body of flesh will die if it looks upon the true spiritual “face” of God. Even so, if God covers His “face” with His “hand,” if God hides His Spirit behind a cloak of human flesh, if God causes us to perceive a body of flesh in which His Spirit dwells as the life force of that body, then He is causing us to perceive earthly existence in the same way He is causing us to perceive our own bodies of flesh. So there can be no death of our flesh, no loss of our earthly perceptions, if God has chosen to do this.

At this very moment, Abraham and all the patriarchs are looking upon Yahweh and remain more alive than they were while they lived in bodies of flesh on earth. Then there were many times when God allowed His Spirit, or an angel’s spirit, to temporarily receive and manifest the material energy or substances of earthly existence, in order to be seen by physical eyes. God walked in a body of human flesh with Adam and Eve, and at other times on earth. He came to Abraham with two angels at one time as well. But, other than that, only a body which is entirely made of a spiritual substances can see God’s true spiritual form, or can see any other spirits or spiritual substances, for that matter.

So one must depart from one’s body of flesh and receive a new body made of spiritual substances before one can look upon the full manifestation of God’s Spirit and live. However, if God, who is a Spirit, chooses to dwell in a body of flesh—in the same way our spirits (made in His image) dwell in a body of flesh—then our flesh can indeed see God’s flesh and live. We must consider all of this to truly and rationally interpret Exodus 33:20. And this interpretation, that God can indeed appear to us in a body of flesh, is confirmed by many other Scriptures. For I repeat, God’s Word says Yahweh, the one God Himself, walked in a human body seen by Adam and Eve, and in a human body which even ate the physical food of Abraham, on the day Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So the only reason some Jews in the first century did not believe God could come to them in a body of flesh was because they were humanists and did not believe God’s Word, just like many humanistic Jews today.

For more than two millennia, humanists have taught Plato’s anthropological doctrines, which portray all spirits as forces or vaporous entities which are far less real and far less rational than physical bodies and minds, and they usually like to imagine that spirits are mere imaginations from our minds of flesh. But God’s Word has always taught that the body and mind of flesh are temporary and highly irrational. The Scriptures define and portray non-material spirits as being eternal and far more real than anything material, each with a mind that is far more intelligent or rational than our minds of flesh, and with a will that is far more powerful. And the Creator’s non-material Spirit is the source of all knowledge, reason, logic and wisdom. So there has always been this conflict between the pagan Platonists and biblical views, between humanists and biblical believers, and it still exist to this day.

In our day, Platonic secular “scientists” believe the material universe is conscious and rational, that it intentionally regulates itself through its precise and intricately balanced laws to ensure its own maintenance and survival, like a rational entity with its own intentions and motives. And they refuse to believe that an intelligence exists outside of material existence, although empirical observations always indicate that all motives and intentions originate from outside of everything which is being regulated by laws for any kind of purpose, and even though their supposedly intelligent energy pops in an out of existence within the field of space, so it must be instantly wise. Thus, you can see their circular thinking. Because they blindly believe Platonic doctrines, they think only material existence can be rational and real. And, because they observe reason and rationality in the universe, they think it originates from material existence. But we believe that the motives of the material universe to maintain itself and survive originate from the intentions or purposes of a non-material or spiritual

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mind existing outside of our perceptions of material existence, that is, from the mind of God. And this foundational conflict of world views not only exists between secular Platonists and biblical believers. For the Platonic false churches and synagogues oppose biblical believers in similar ways.

Almost all churches and synagogues in our day believe in some kind of slightly hybrid form of Platonic anthropological doctrine, and see their own minds of flesh as the source of all knowledge, reason, logic and wisdom. Then they completely dismiss the fact that God’s Spirit can and does communicate His concepts of immutable truths and wisdom directly into the minds of their spirits, through His own purposeful will. Therefore, all their dull, irrational minds of flesh see God as a less rational Being than themselves, as a nebulous and less real Entity that can be ruled and manipulated by their supposedly far more rational minds of flesh. And, therefore, they all worship a man-made image of a very weak and limited Platonic kind of god created in their own irrational minds of flesh.

A Roman kind of Platonism, with its truncated and often circular reasoning, is the only reason the humanistic rabbis in Jesus’ day interpreted Exodus 33:20 irrationally and dishonestly. And the only reason both orthodox and secular Jews still do not believe that God can dwell in a human body of flesh is because they are still humanists. Their blind materialism will not allow them to believe. So the Jews today still partake in the lies and sins of their fathers, just as most Christians still partake in the lies and sins of their fathers who belonged to the beast’s fourth Roman kingdom. Since none of these humanists have not confessed the sins of their fathers and repented into the truth, they share in the guilt of their fathers, and will continue to share in that guilt if they continue to approve of the sins of their fathers, by not opposing and confessing those sins, by refusing to repent out of them.

However, all the elect spirits whom God awakens and causes to believe His words know that the real God can very easily dwell in a body of human flesh. For His Spirit is causing us to perceive all that we call material existence, through His will and His power. So His Spirit can cause us to perceive His body of flesh too. And nothing is more concrete and real that His spiritual creations. So there is nothing material which can possibly limit or confine anything spiritual, much less the very Spirit of the Creator Himself. Just as our spirits, created in His image, dwell in flesh, so can He dwell in flesh.

We know God dwelt in a physical body when He walked with Adam and Abraham, and when He walked with the apostles in the first century. For the minds of our spirits confirm that truth, because our spirits have also seen and heard the real Spirit of God, even if the irrational. Our spirits cannot help but believe what they have seen and heard, even if our unreliable and self-serving minds of our flesh do not want that truth to be true. And this truth was also known by the spirits of all the prophets and apostles who penned the Scriptures. In the first verse of this prophecy by Zechariah, God declared that He is the Creator of all things, the One who formed the spirits of men inside them. So God confirmed this kind of dualism that we teach; that man is two creations, a body and mind made of temporary flesh as well as a body and mind made of eternal spiritual substances. For Zechariah believed God and His words, not Platonic anthropological doctrines from the future Roman times.

God forms our eternal elect human spirits, each with a mind and will of its own, apart from the very fallible minds and wills of our temporary flesh. And the minds of our spirits simply perceive of our minds and bodies of flesh temporarily, in a way that shall soon end. So it is only our spirits that were created in His eternal image, and only He who put our spirits into our physical bodies. Furthermore, a spirit is only figuratively put “inside” a temporary perception of flesh, not literally. For a spirit is made of substances from a very different space-time continuum, and material energy, which defines our perceptions of space and time, is actually God’s spiritual power causing our perceptions of all

 

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that is material. Then God causes the minds of our spirits to communicate with our minds of flesh within the interfaces between the two space-time continua, within what God has called our “souls.”

Now, if God puts human spirits in our bodies of flesh, He certainly can choose to put His own Spirit in a body of flesh too. Why would God’s Spirit not be able to dwell in human flesh when our human spirits, made in the image of His Spirit, can dwell in human flesh? After all, God’s Spirit created time (i.e., He made the first day), as well as all energy which forms all matter and defines all time and space in the minds of our spirits. Therefore, before God created the material universe, God once existed outside of all material time, space, energy and matter. Thus, since God is, by definition, an immutable God, He cannot alter His attribute of existing outside of material time. Consequently, He can be in multiple bodies and places at the same time on earth, whenever He wills to be. Indeed, He must be everywhere in the entire material universe in order to maintain its existence by His power.

Before creating time in the material universe, and even before He created the non-linear time of the spiritual space-time continuum that we call heaven and hell, God existed in what we might call an “eternal now” or “eternal present state,” as an uncreated Spirit existing outside of all we perceive to be “times.” Then, since God is immutable, and must maintain both of these space-time continua in real time, He still exists outside of all that we perceive to be “times.” God will always exist outside of all created things, in a timeless “eternal now,” where nothing but the thoughts of God define all that we call “times,” and literally everything else. So, as the only uncreated entity, God cannot ever cause Himself to become a created entity, since all created things necessarily began at some kind of “time.” Even created eternal things must begin a some “time.” However, God can create a body at a particular time in any of His material or spiritual realms, then exist within that body which had a beginning. And God did this. He created a material body which could walk among His children on earth even before He created Adam. God also created spiritual bodies for His children in His created eternal realm of heaven, which they will receive after their temporary earthly bodies perish. Thus, God also created an eternal spiritual body for Himself too, so He could walk among them in heaven.

So, contrary to what humanistic churches claim to be “orthodox” doctrine, God’s body is not God. Jesus is not some kind of infusion of a pagan Platonically defined “soul/spirit” and a body of flesh. For the Spirit of God is not a “soul.” The biblically defined chamber of the “soul” is an impassive instrument, an interface which facilitates communication between the mind of a spirit and the mind of a body. The words “spirit” and “soul” are definitely not synonyms, as those pagan Platonists say. Nor is the body of flesh one with the “soul,” but merely a temporary perception caused by God. And, therefore, nothing but the Spirit in Jesus was God. His Spirit is and always will be the whole, real God, whether His Spirit dwells inside a body of flesh on earth or within a spiritual body in heaven.

Jesus’ body, which once dwelt among us on earth, was the only human body which did not have a created human spirit in it. Rather, that body, as well as His current body made of spiritual substances, which is now dwelling in heaven, were both animated and made alive by the uncreated Spirit of Yahweh God. Yet we can still say the whole of Jesus, His body and His Spirit functioning as one Person, is the whole of Yahweh God, although God is a non-material, uncreated Spirit, a Spirit who was not even created when He made His eternal spiritual realm. And He is not merely a part of Yahweh that entered the body of Jesus, but the entire whole of Yahweh, the Creator God. For God cannot ever be limited in any way by any kind of His created time and space. Likewise, the spirit of every human, functioning together with one’s body, is the whole, quintessential person, although the human spirit in flesh is temporary and one’s body made of spiritual substances is the real “self.” So we do not even try to reconcile pagan Platonic doctrines with God’s words in the Bible, but believe that our whole God Jesus, our saving Messiah, has all power and authority to save us by His will.

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Jesus is the entire one and only God. Through Jesus, the whole of Yahweh relates to mankind as a Man dwelling among us in a body that is just like our bodies. By dwelling in a body, Jesus forms a particular kind of relationship with us, as our eldest Brother. And this relationship as a Brother makes Jesus a Person who is distinct from God the Father of our spirits—who also is the whole Spirit of God at the same “time,” but without a human body, serving as our Head dwelling in our heavenly home, functioning in the role of the final Decision Maker presiding over Jesus and all of His children. Then the Holy Spirit is yet another Person of God at the same “time,” but with a different relationship. The Holy Spirit of Jesus and the Father is also the whole of God’s Spirit, but without a body, who speaks directly to our human spirits as He dwells inside our hearts, together with our spirits. His Holy Spirit inside us is our Counselor, not our Father, nor our eldest Brother.

At one and the same “time,” our uncreated God who exists outside of all “times” as well as in all “times.” But His Spirit is the only Spirit existing outside of all “times,” the only Being not limited by any “times,” the only Spirit who can relate to us as one Person and as three Persons at the same time. All other spirits were created in “times,” although our lives in heaven will not be limited by a flow of time as we experience on earth, but will experience multiple “times” and lives at the same “time,” as John did when he saw himself among the 24 elders. And absolutely nothing prevents God from forming relationships with each individual among us as three Persons, all at the same time. For all created time is relative to Him and subject to Him. He can apply, use or enter His created time in any way He chooses. In fact, God not only relates to us as three Persons at the same time, but also must exist literally everywhere at the same time (i.e., He must be omnipresent and ubiquitous to maintain the ongoing existence of His creations through His consciously directed power and will in real time).

This is why Yahweh God portrayed Himself as a Person by saying, “they will look on Me … they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only Child and weeps bitterly over Him, as one weeps over a firstborn” (Zech. 12:10). When some Jews and some Romans pierced Jesus’ body on the cross, because they wanted to make sure this perfect Teacher of God’s fulfilled Law was really dead, they were attempting to silence God Himself. Their dull, shallow, empty, willful, loveless, infantile spirits did not want Jesus to tell them how much ruthless pain they were causing for their siblings in the family of humankind. They were too stupid to hear the ways of God’s just, equitable love which Jesus taught and exemplified throughout His life, because they lived only for the income and power they could gain for their dying carcasses of flesh, not for their spirits. But all the moronic elect who marched out beside Satan and that devil’s non-elect brood to murder God, did possess at least some love for their children and other innocents. Their spirits were not entirely dead. Thus, when Jesus returns and wakes their dull spirits, they will clearly see how loveless, hurtful, stupid and ruthless they have been, even to their own children. But, most of all, they will suddenly realize that all true, pure, just, God-like love must be taught to their spirits by Jesus’ Holy Spirit, because they actually know absolutely nothing about love. And this epiphany this will rip their hearts in two, with such a great godly sorrow and pain in their souls that they’ll collapse in weakness and unconquerable grief.

All the elect, all who bear the mark of potential God-like love, will mourn over their incalculable loss of moments, years and decades, their forfeiting of fruitful love and joy throughout their lives. All will understand that they had been living in dark emptiness, because their dull spirits had not known the light of truth and wisdom, which builds up of love. That Jesus, who died to free them from their lies, delusions and loveless sins, will come to them again. Jesus will command the light of their heavenly Father’s irresistible Spirit to shine deeply into their souls, pouring His truths into the minds of their spirits, driving out all the terrified deceiving rhetoric and confusion from their hearts.

 

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Then their limbs of flesh will not stand, but relinquish their strength to Jesus. And the restored sight of their blind spirits shall see their sins, acknowledging truths about themselves, about others and about their God, with prostrate faces on the paths of repentance. The mourning experienced for a murdered only child or firstborn, even in that one’s bloom of youth, will not compare to their godly grief on that day. For there will be no muddled thoughts, nor any unanswered questionings of God, as in their past days of aching incessant sorrow. This mourning will be answered with pure flames of cleansing in the very minds of their spirits, leaving nothing unchallenged nor unclear within them.

This is the salvation that literally all the surviving elect Jews on earth will experience on that day of our God’s return in His body of human flesh. Then earthly life shall be lived in humility, knowing the weakness of amoral flesh, rising above that folly through the management of human spirits who submit to discipleship under the perfectly loving knowledge and wisdom of their oldest Brother. No more arrogance of humanistic hierarchies and their trappings will be found in Israel, only common and basic serving through the simplicity of wise love. This is the real Jesus we wait for so eagerly.

The human body of Jesus was the “firstborn” Son of God, since His body was created before Adam and He created Adam. Then, since God exists outside of time, God also chose to give birth to His body through a fully human woman in about 6 BC. For all past and all future time exist at once, in every present moment. Jesus is also the “uniquely born” (μονογενής) Son of God, because the term “Son,” in this context, indicates that God’s Spirit chose to dwell within a human body like the bodies of His other earthly children, and because God’s Spirit gave life to that body, instead of a created human spirit. So, in Zechariah’s prophecy, God alluded to the returning Messiah as though He was an “only” (Hebrew = yachid, “only, solitary,” or unique) “Firstborn Son” (Hebrew = bekor , “eldest son, firstborn son”). And, in Zechariah’s time, a human firstborn son usually inherited a double portion of his father’s estate, twice as much as his other brothers. This was because the oldest brother became the family patriarch after his father’s death, and took on all of his father’s responsibilities.

The firstborn brother received a double inheritance so he could use it to care for the surviving family members and to provide a godly spiritual and moral structure for the entire extended family. For his life was not his own, but belonged to God. A firstborn had to be the guide, counselor, teacher, judge, protector and provider of the extended family, had to serve as the elder and priest for all his younger brothers and sisters, and for the rest of his family. Only if the oldest brother was too foolish, immoral and godless to take on that role, would the father choose another son to become the new head of the family after his death. Or the family itself might choose a younger brother to be their head, a brother whom God had chosen to be their priest and elder, if the oldest brother was incompetent. And, since tribes and nations were also considered to be extended families in God’s eyes, they did the same. For God commanded a tribe or nation to choose the brother whom He had chosen for them, the brother who provided evidence that he had been adequately taught, trained and qualified by their heavenly Father, enough to become the loving, wise elder and priest of their tribe or nation. But Jesus is the perfect firstborn Son of our heavenly Father, uniquely qualified to serve as our chief teaching and judging Elder, our true, faithful, wise and loving High Priest. Jesus alone is the Head of all brothers on earth, the only God-chosen Brother from among all the brothers on earth, throughout all history.

From early childhood, a firstborn son was taught to take on the responsibility of becoming the elder and priest of his father’s family. But the promised Messiah’s Spirit already possessed literally all the spiritual knowledge, wisdom and love of our heavenly Father at birth, because the Spirit of the Father is one and the same Spirit which causes His body to live. As a baby, His body of flesh may have needed to grow mature, but His Spirit was already fully mature, infinitely more qualified to be our Head than any infantile created spirit in any mature human man who ever lived. Jesus was the

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only and unique Firstborn and Heir of our Father in heaven, and is now risen into life, existing now to serve us all as our oldest Brother. But, as the Father’s “only” and unique Son, Jesus will inherit all God’s property, Israel and the whole world, as well as all God’s eternal spiritual realm, both heaven and hell. Yet the Holy Spirit of Jesus is the Father who created elect humans to become His children, to become the siblings of Jesus. So He will gladly share His inheritance with those elect, then even grant the devil’s non-elect children a home where they can have all the darkness they love so much.

Before the first day of creation began, Jesus’ body was created outside of all existing times. Jesus was “in the beginning … with God” and He “was God,” so that “all things were made through Him” and “without Him, nothing was made that has been made” (John 1:1-3, WEB). Yahweh God, the Messiah Jesus, “was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world didn’t recognize Him” (John 1:10, WEB). Yahweh God “became flesh and lived among us” (John 1:14, WEB). Jesus is the perfect representation “of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things are held together. He is the Head of the body, the assembly, [Jesus] is the beginning, the Firstborn from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence” (Col. 1:15-18, WEB). This is what all our spirits will know at His returning.

Jesus was always destined to become the earth’s only Elder and High Priest, to care for and guide the whole family of God’s elect children, literally all the elect who have ever existed from the beginning. Jesus is not any of the gods invented by humanistic churches and synagogues, not a god who only loves those who partake in their cultic man-made rituals and traditions. Rather, Jesus is the only Lord and Owner of literally all the elect who ever lived, literally all those whose spirits bear the potential to love in a truly just, God-like way. And He is the Owner of all else too. Furthermore, Jesus has been taking responsibility for the entire elect family of God from the beginning, since the day He made the first two elect spirits in the bodies of Adam and Eve, from that day He created their two human spirits in His own image. Jesus has been loving, counseling, guiding, teaching, training and providing all the spiritual needs of the elect everywhere on earth throughout history, no matter what tribe, nation, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation or body of people any of them have ever falsely claimed to belong to. For He is their only Head, no matter what they might think through the delusions of their flesh. And this is why all mature elect spirits have come to the very same conclusions about spiritual or moral principles throughout history and throughout the entire world.

Jesus was to take responsibility for all the Father’s children and all the Father’s property, and began to do this work, as the Father’s oldest male Heir, from the beginning of time on earth. For thousands of years, since the days of Adam, we waited for Him to physically come to us, so He might teach us and care for us, so He might save our infantile spirits from the delusions, lies and ravaging of Satan’s unjust world order. But most of Israel did not recognize Him when He actually came, two thousand years ago. For God Himself hardened their hearts, temporarily, against their Messiah, until all the elect Gentiles could be gathered into His priesthood of Israel during the end times. And this inner hardening has not been easy for the natural Israel, whom God has kept separated and sanctified for His own earthly purposes. Rather, Satan’s brood has made it very difficult and painful for them all.

So all those centuries of forfeiting the blessings of God on earth will cause the Jewish people to weep with joy as well as with great sorrow, when the light of their God and Messiah shines on them at His glorious second coming, with all His revealing and saving power, when they realize that Jesus is their long-awaited Messiah. Forgetting the past, their spirits will wake and rush to Him, and all will receive the infinite eternal blessings of their God, who has again come to them in a body of

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human flesh. None will dwell on the past, but look upon Jesus in the same way that all the Jewish elect who previously died will run to Him at heaven’s gates on the last day, to abide in His warm embrace and comfort. And the Jews in Israel will also sigh with relief, in the safety of knowing that the Firstborn has crushed their enemies, all the beast’s raging Roman armies and all his evil allies.

But the arrival of Jesus will cause deep mourning both in the loving hearts of the elect Jews living in the city of Jerusalem, as well as in the psychopathic, fascist, non-elect hearts of their enemies. For, clearly, the “mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo” (Zech. 12:11) refers to the armies of the beast who will be gathered there. But those enemy armies will likely be grieving for their demonically possessed leader, whom our God Jesus will have cast alive into hell, just before He kills those antisemitic murderers too (Rev. 19:19-21). The beast’s armies and allies will be assembled there, and it will be their main base camp during their attack against Israel and Israel’s allies. Now John called that place “Armageddon” (Rev. 16:16, meaning “hill of Megiddo,” which would indicate both that hill and the plains of Megiddo below it). But its name was probably “Hadad-rimmon” in Zechariah’s day. The beast and his staff will likely camp up on the hill, while his vast armies settle in the winding valleys below. And, when Jesus casts the beast and his chief officer alive into hell, his armies will likely see it and grieve for him, but only for a few hours before Jesus destroys them too.

Also, “Hadad-rimmon” can refers to “a principal pagan god,” which since some say was equated with Baal, then later with Zeus, Jupiter and other principal gods. So it might be that Zechariah, after seeing a vision of the beast’s armies physically worshiping that beast as their chief god, and with the mark of the beast’s name or number on their hands and foreheads, was calling the beast himself by the name of “Hadad-rimmon.” But this prophecy would still mean that some kind of people would be mourning for that beast, after Jesus cast him alive into hell. And the only ones who would to that would be the beast’s armies and allies. So this prophecy actually confirms John’s prophecy about the beast and his armies dying at Armageddon on the day Jesus returns. And, since it says that some will mourn for him, it also means that some will still be alive after the beast is taken away. So Jesus must cast the beast into hell at least a few hours before He destroys the remainder of the beast’s armies.

Knowing all this helps us make sense of other prophecies too. For some prophecies (examined later in this book) seem to say that most of the beast’s armies will die because they will kill one another. Now, if Jesus casts the beast into hell sometime during the beginning of the day of His return, but leaves the beast’s army still alive at that point in time, then the beast’s disappearance would surely cause panic and furious infighting. For this last battle will have an international army, since the beast will unite non-elect soldiers from almost every nation on earth, all who hate God and want to fight in the beast’s war against Israel. Therefore, the beast’s sudden disappearance, as he is cast alive into hell, may cause some armies from some nations—especially those from lands that are north and east of the beast’s homeland, who are prophesied to be the previous enemies of the beast—to rise up in rebellion against the armies from the beast’s homeland, when the beast disappears. As those armies see an ominously threatening light descending from the sky, their anxiety would reach its limits after they found out their commander in chief, the beast, went missing. The foreign troops, the former enemies of the beast, might think the beast fled and abandoned them, since his body will not be found after he will be thrown alive into hell. So they may insult the name of the beast. At the same time, the beast’s native troops would defend his worshiped name. Thus, after the beast is cast into hell, the foreign troops may battle against the beast’s European troops, causing grief and mourning.

By the way, since all this will occur “on that day,” it also implies that the day of Christ’s return will be a very long day. Then Zechariah also suggests this in a later prophecy: “On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. And there shall be a unique day, which is known to [Yahweh], neither day nor

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night, but at evening there shall be light” (Zech. 14:6-7, ESV). When Zechariah saw a vision of the Messiah’s advent in the end times, and saw the numerous events of that day, a normal flow of earthly time did not exist. There was no rising or setting of the sun, no normal daylight until the “evening.” And the return of normal light likely refers to the moment when Jesus’ feet will touch the Mount of Olives, just before He will walk to the temple for evening sacrifices and preach to the crowds. Yet Zechariah did actually see what was happening on the earth during that day, in his vision of actual future time (and that future time, as scientists now know, already existed then). So he must have seen with some kind of light on that day. And that light would be the prophesied supernatural light with Jesus and His angels in the sky. Still, there will be no normal indication of an earthly day, and none of the prophets could measure hours by the light of the sun. Yes, all called it a “day,” and saw many sequential events, where each would require many hours to occur. But, since no earthly “light, cold or frost” will not exist, none could tell if morning, evening or any part of a day was occurring. Thus, that “day” might last for any number of hours (i.e., in the way we measure hours on earth). So Jesus’ descent down through the sky, in a way seen everywhere on earth, must occur over a period long enough for all the prophesied events to occur, and could take 24 hours, 72 hours, 144 hours, or more. Therefore, the term “day” here refers to an indeterminate period of time with a discernible beginning and end, not to a 24-hour period of time, and not to the daylight hours within one 24-hour period.

Now let me return to the term “house,” as it was used in Zechariah’s previous prophecy (12:12-14). Each “house” likely does not refer to the physical descendants of each man named. Yet it does refer to some Jews living in Israel on the day that the Messiah will return, a family or clan of Jews who are somehow related and bearing each man’s name. The prophecy actually lists four families, which will be gathered under the names of the forefathers called David, Nathan, Levi and Shimei. Then it mentions “all the families that are left,” all the other Jews gathered in families or clans, who do not associate themselves with those four names. So those four names and the others include all Jews.

David obviously refers to the king and ancestor of the Messiah’s body of flesh. Nathan might be either the son of David or the prophet sent by God to rebuke David when he sinned with Bathsheba. Levi must refer to the son of Jacob who was the ancestor of Moses, Aaron and the entire Levitical priesthood. Shimei might refer to the grandson of Levi. But the descendants of each of these men cannot be determined in our day, not with any kind of clarity and certainty, since no genealogical records exist and DNA testing can only prove a very diluted and mixed bloodline. Therefore, when this prophecy says “the family of the house” for each of these men “shall mourn ... by itself,” it cannot mean that the descendants of these four men, gathered into extended families or clans, will gather in groups numbering tens of thousands, to mourn when Jesus returns. For any attempt to do anything like this would be based on pure fictional lineages. Besides, the whole purpose of these verses (12:12-14) was to indicate how the mourning will be done privately, where each family will mourn “by itself,” and each of the women will mourn “by themselves.” Each “clan” (mishpachah) in the “land” (erets) of Israel shall mourn “by itself” or “alone” (Hebrew = bad), and with each “house” or nuclear “family” behind the door of its own dwelling place (bayith. singular), each family “alone” (Hebrew = bad), even with each of the “women” or “wives” by herself in each family’s own house.

Since this prophecy was talking about apostate individual elect Jews repenting to their Messiah Jesus through a very private and deep mourning process, through a profound grief which acknowledges spiritual truths and restores the relationship between each one’s own spirit and the Spirit of God, we need to reject the idea that the names listed in this prophecy merely referred to the physical ancestors or forefathers of Jews living in Israel during the end times. Not only is that physically impossible, but the pensive spiritual message of these verses does not align at all with a physically oriented

 

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interpretation like that. Rather, the names listed here must be symbolic of something far more spiritual. Of course, Zechariah heard those names during his vision, and knew that God wanted him to mention them. So those names bear deep significance of some kind. But each of those names must symbolically indicate one of four spiritual types of families living within Israel during the end times.

Now we know this prophecy refers to apostate elect Jews living in Israel at that time. So this would refer to both the secular humanists and religious humanists among the Jews, all of whom have been taught to hate or ignore Jesus and His words, both unconsciously and consciously. But, on that day, all will need to come to terms with that hatred and dismissal of their long-awaited Messiah and God, after they realize that all they perceived Him to be was a lie. So all mourn as though they had wrongly judged and rejected the one Person who could have provided them with the most important relationship they could have ever been able to develop in their lives. They will grieve because they had all lived their past lives in vain, for useless lies. So now the men would strive to come to terms with that loss by striving to build up a new internal spiritual perspective which accounts for this new revelation and relationship. Then the women would be trying to redefine themselves and their relationships with all the people in their lives. This will be the biggest life-changing experience they could ever have. Thus, the men and women will grieve slightly differently, apart from one another.

When we consider the names mentioned here, they obviously are names of the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This prophecy definitely is not talking about a Gentile church which supposedly replaced the physical descendants of Israel. It would be totally dishonest to interpret these verses as figuratively representing a completely Gentile church. So the symbolic nature of these names have nothing to do with that fictitious replacement theology. Here it tells us that all the elect Israelis who have not yet repented into a right and biblical understanding of God and His words, all the surviving apostate Jews in the “land” of Israel, shall personally mourn in repentance when the Messiah returns. So the symbolism of those four names must be something by which we will be able to differentiate at least four types of secular or falsely religious Jewish families or clans in Israel during the end times, four kinds of identifiable qualities which probably exist now, since the end times are near. They will be the four major types of apostate Jews, although others will exist too.

So the family or clan names indicate how the apostate Jews in Israel will delineate themselves from one another during the end times. And, since it refers to the repentance of apostate elect families or clans, each of the four names must also indicate the type of apostasy which each will commit during their lives before Jesus returns, and how each will repent. That is, these four names must identify why each family or clan did not repent sooner, where each name represents some kind of spiritual state of apostasy, some kind of false belief which prevented those types of families or clans from repenting during the sixth seal’s revival of more than 144,000 Jews, or during the plagues of the seventh seal’s era. Each name listed here must represent some kind of erroneous spiritual belief system which caused apostasy in each of the named men, as well as how and why each of those named men repented into the truth about God and His ways. So now we need to study the Bible and find out how David, Nathan, Levi and Shimei committed apostasy and how each repented from it.

It was obvious how David grew idle and self-indulgent while he lived in his palace, then committed adultery with Bathsheba and tried to cover it up by murdering her husband, along with a number of other innocent men in Israel. That was his most famous sin, although there were others. But that sin was the effect of his apostasy, not the apostasy itself. His actual abandonment of his trust in God and his forsaking of God’s works involved his obsession with seeking his own pleasures and comforts of his flesh. David became increasing materialist, living only according to the thoughts and lusts in his mind of flesh, as the mind of his spirit grew ever more dull, lethargic and silent. That abandonment

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of his faith in God, and not seeking God’s will, was his apostasy. So the “house of David” would refer to the elect Jewish families or clans in Israel who remained apostate due to their wealth and their focus on things of the flesh. And Zechariah listed them first, to emphasize them above all the other kinds of apostate Jews. So, since they would not be the biggest clan, they must be the worst.

But David did repent into the truth, out of his apostasy, away from his the kind of thinking which caused his great sins. And the way David repented into his renewed faith with a quickened spirit will be how the figurative “house of David” will repent into their renewed faith with awake spirits on the day Jesus returns. David repented after God sent Nathan the prophet to tell David a little parable. So Nathan figuratively described how a rich man, who owned many sheep, stole the one and only sheep belonging to a poor man, because that greedy rich man did not want to slaughter his own sheep to feed his guest. Of course, the rich man in this parable was David; the poor man was the husband of Bathsheba; the only stolen sheep represented both Bathsheba and her husband, since David stole Bathsheba from her husband, then slaughtered her husband to feed his “guest”; and the “guest” represented David’s flesh, which God temporarily gave to David in stewardship for His purposes.

Yet David did not know this was a parable, and thought Nathan was talking about some other man in Israel who committed this horrible crime of stealing a poor man’s only sheep. So he grew indignant and shouted: “As [Yahweh] lives, the man who has done this deserves to die!” (II Sam. 12:5, WEB). So the first step in this process of repentance was rousing anger against overt evil. Then the prophet said that greedy rich thief was David himself, and asked David, “Why have you despised [Yahweh’s] Word, to do that which is evil in His sight?” (12:9, WEB). God did not want to know what lusts and fears in David’s flesh caused his sins of adultery and murder, but why David slipped into apostasy by ignoring and even “despising” His Word, which David used to meditate upon day and night. For it was the abandonment of his faith in Him and His Word which caused David to live according to his mind of flesh, instead of by the mind of his elect spirit, as his human spirit communed with his God.

Then David knew he had sinned against Yahweh God Himself, in a way that was far worse than even his sins of murder and adultery against mere human beings. For David had taken the gifts of God’s stewardship, the difficult tasks of decision-making for God’s children, the most inwardly rewarding works any human spirit could ever be granted upon the face of this earth, and transformed them into a wicked, self-indulgent privilege for his temporary flesh. No sin could be so vile for an awakened elect spirit who had possessed full access to God’s Word! Then God made the child, whom David bore through Bathsheba during his apostasy, very ill. And David begged God to spare the fruit of his apostasy. But that child was a sign of the future Messiah who would die for the sins of apostasy that Israel would commit until He came to rule the world. So God did not grant the pleading prayers of mourning David. Nevertheless, through all this, David learned to pray directly from his spirit and in honesty, in truth, directly to the Holy Spirit of Yahweh. David was back on track, in a fully restored relationship with his God. So this seems to be the process of mourning and repentance which the prophet Zechariah was referring to when he spoke about the “house of David” during the end times.

Then Zechariah prophesied about “the family of the house of Nathan” next, after the “house of David.” So he seemed to be referring the lesser kind of apostasy committed by Nathan the prophet during a conversation with David. David told Nathan that he wanted to build a permanent structure as a temple for Yahweh, because the ark and sanctuary were still housed in a tent. And David wanted to do this before Yahweh revealed the location that He wanted His permanent temple to be built. So Nathan told David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you” (I Chron. 17:2, WEB). That was a careless and dangerous thing to say, especially for a true prophet. One should not tell any infantile elect spirit to do whatever “good work” one wants to do without first asking if God wants

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that “good work” to be done in the first place, as well as how, why, when, where and by whom He wants it to be done. For some “good works” can cause much loss and harm, or even enable enemies of God to do very evil works. Thus, when Nathan said this to David, he was trusting in a human being, in David, not in God. And Nathan was enabling David, encouraging David to do what God did not want David to do. So Nathan did not exactly commit a sin when he carelessly said this, but he did commit a form of apostasy, by trusting in a human being more than in God and by not seeking the counsel of God when he spoke to a king with the power to cause a huge loss of Israel’s resources.

Fortunately, God corrected that apostasy of Nathan very quickly, even that very night. God told Nathan to tell David a few things he should have thought of and remembered, if he was actually sound of faith in his heart. First of all, God said that He had never commanded anyone to build Him a temple, to replace the tents He used for His sanctuary. Thus, no one should presume to build Him a temple without His command, especially because God’s Law warned Israel that He would personally choose the exact location of His own temple, where His “name” and presence would dwell (Deut. 12:13-14,18; 14:23,25; 15:20; 16:2,6-7,15-16; 26:2; 31:11). Then God said He would allow David’s son to build Him a permanent temple, but not David, because David spilled innocent blood on his hands, even before David murdered Bathsheba’s husband. So Nathan repented from his apostasy and told David all these things. Likewise, there will be a “house of Nathan” in Israel during the last days, a people who do not seek the counsel of God or remember His Law, who enable the wealthy and powerful to do false “good works” which God has not commanded His stewards to do. On the day they see Jesus return, this type of person in Israel will repent and seek His counsel in all matters.

After this, Zechariah spoke about the mourning and repentance of apostate Jews from “the family of the house of Levi.” Levi was the father of the priesthood whom Yahweh dedicated in whole to His service, as the “tithe” of the wider priesthood of Israel. Levites could own no personal inheritance and were to share all things in common with all Jews and Gentiles in their land. Yet Levi and his descendants were prone to anger, impulsivity and violence, even while they were the most zealous for Yahweh and His truths. As priests for the priesthood of Israel, they taught, judged, counseled and led others into the true worship of Yahweh. But, at the same time, Levi’s impulsive violence in his zeal for justice caused his father to tell him: “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land ... I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house” (Gen. 34:30, WEB). Levi’s surrendering to the wrath of his flesh, without allowing his elect spirit to consider the counsel of God, nor any of the bad consequences to his own family and to the victims of his rage, was his apostasy. And, before Jesus returns, there will be elect Jews in Israel who will have taken up that kind of apostasy. But the elect spirit of Levi, throughout history, has often placed the palms of his hands upwards toward heaven, surrendering his anger to God, so he might faithfully serve his beloved family of humankind in the name of Yahweh. So too will the “house of Levi” mourn and repent into the truth as Jesus returns.

The fourth kind of apostate elect Jews remaining in Israel on the day Jesus returns will be “the family of the Shimeites.” Now the Shimeites were one of the Levitical clans, but here Zechariah is likely referring to the kind of elect Jews who commit the apostasy of Shiei, a Benjamite. As king David fled from a coup, Shimei proclaimed his support for the wicked usurper, Absalom, while also declaring that Yahweh cursed David for shedding the blood of Saul’s family (II Sam. 16:7-8). But Shimei was dead wrong about literally everything, and knew nothing real about what was actually occurring. Shimei was a foolish, misinformed dupe believing insane conspiracy theories through his carnal lust for revenge. For Yahweh caused the deaths of the arrogant, lawless family of Saul, and Yahweh certainly did not want a sociopathic liar like Absalom to be king. So Shimei considered

 

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himself to be good and wise man of God, boldly proclaiming God’s will and fighting for a godly government. But he was actually opposing God’s will and committing apostasy, much like American false churches that have supported Trump. For Shimei placed his faith in a liar and not in the real God. Likewise, in the last days, there will be elect Jews in Israel who zealously support wicked authorities, thinking they are serving God, while actually opposing God’s will through apostasy.

But Shimei did eventually grieve over his stupidity and repent. For he must have seen the wicked motives of Absalom, who even sexually abused his father’s concubines. Also, he saw how God deluded and struck down that usurper’s armies, then trapped Absalom in a tree, where he was executed while still hanging there, in a way indicating a curse from God (II Sam. 18:9,14; cf., Deut. 21:23). So, as David was on his way back to his throne in Jerusalem, Shimei bore the fruits of his repentance by rushing to be the first to greet him. And Shimei told David, “your servant knows that I have sinned” (II Sam. 19:20). And he knew his sin was apostasy, for he cursed Yahweh’s anointed king without believing what Yahweh was trying to tell his spirit about Absalom and about His will for all His people. Likewise, Israel will see some elect zealously support false rabbis and secular authorities in the end times, thinking they serve God, while their spirits refuse to hear God. But, on the day our God Jesus returns, they will see those wicked deceivers die at their feet, cursed by God for the lies they deliberately invented for their own gain. Then those duped elect, who shall survive by the unmerited grace of the Messiah, will repent into the truth about God and about themselves.

Lastly, Zechariah’s prophecy tells us about the private mourning and repentance of all the apostate elect Jews in Israel from “all the families that are left.” For there are many kinds of apostasy, and many reasons why elect spirits refuse to hear and believe the truths that the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus grants to them. But, whatever their reasons might be, Jesus will see their potential to love and spare their lives when He returns. Then He will peer into the minds of their elect spirits and cleanse them from all their lies and delusions. Jesus will open the ears of those spirits and cause them to hear and believe the eternal principles of His just, equitable, wise love. All the elect in Israel will be saved on that day, along with all the Jews in the Diaspora. All Jewish and Gentile elect will know Jesus as their Lord and God, serving Him as His one priesthood of Israel, by serving all of His creations well.

On that day, the Old Covenant relationship with God will end. For it will be replaced by the New Covenant relationship with God, by a new priesthood of the Messiah. For the New Covenant relationship entirely fulfills the shadowy and inadequate Old Covenant relationship, in ways that can reach infinitely truer, closer and deeper into the heart of Yahweh (see Heb. 7:12,18-19,22; 8:6-7,13). Thus, all the secular and religious Jews, who knew only man-made traditions that were not even right interpretations of the Old Covenant, will mourn and repent in their hearts, far more than they do on the day of atonement. For all the sins of all Gentiles and Jews will also be exposed by the revealing light of Christ’s Holy Spirit in their hearts on that day, when Jesus manifests His good opinion from our heavenly Father to the whole world again. But this repentance will not be just a time of godly sorrow. For its effect, after restoring their relationships with God, will be pure, inner, indescribable joy. And this is exactly what the Day of Atonement was actually meant to be. So, will the day Jesus returns occur on a Day of Atonement? Regardless, eagerly pray for that day to come.

During this era of the fifth seal, we have been seeing a severe persecution of both Gentile Christians and the Jewish people, although the vast majority are humanists, not pure, biblical theists. And the Gentile humanists, who falsely call themselves Christians, have been persecuting Jews for centuries, even as they have been persecuting other churches, other identifiable people-groups or other races as well. And these fake Christians refuse to believe that God clearly declared that all believing Gentiles are brought into His true church of Israel, into the very same elect or chosen people that are physical

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descendants of Jacob, who were established as God’s initial nation and kingdom through God’s covenant with Abraham. Then the persecutions of both Gentile Christians and Jews has also greatly increased through yet another body of theistic humanists that worship human beings, but somehow think they are God’s people, by those who call themselves Muslims. So the murdering of humanists by humanists continues today, and is growing worse, in these times before the sixth seal’s revival.

Then the worst persecutions in history have been by various factions of secular humanists during the last century, by secular capitalists, fascists and communists. They all hate their cousins, the theistic humanists of false churches, synagogues and mosques, or anyone with a social conscience. And they will continue to kill them too. Yet God will not help them much, because He cannot slander His own name together with them. But a time is coming, and is beginning even now, when God will cause repentance, first among a few and then among many. Then He will grant safety to His elect.

God has often prophesied against those false churches, with firm rebukes, declaring that they, as unfaithful slanderers of His name, must repent. Moses and other prophets made it perfectly clear that all of Israel—which includes all the Gentiles brought into Israel from the days of the Exodus until the end times—would eventually become a false, corrupt, unclean church together with the Jews, and remain so until shortly before the Messiah came to circumcise their hearts, until the revival of the sixth seal or the day Jesus returns to bring all the Jewish people into Christ’s New Covenant salvation. Therefore, we cannot deny that the churches we now see, during the era of the fifth seal, are actually these prophesied false churches, and that the Jews we see in our day are apostate Jews.

First God will bring all the remnant of elect Gentiles into His true church of Israel during the era of the sixth seal. Then, after the fullness of all the Gentile elect are grafted into Israel, Jesus will save the Jews, all the natural branches of Israel (Rom. 11:25). But Zechariah stated that this salvation of the Jews, through their repentance, will not occur until the day Jesus returns. And how can Israel be saved and repent so deeply on that day unless God keeps them apostate and hardened until that very day? And why would God do that without a purpose? For those hardened Jews will be the greatest warriors against all forms of humanism after they repent. And it was also prophesied that many repentant Jews will return to Israel, a few at a time, after Jesus returned. Now, since we know that most Jews will not repent to Jesus until the day Jesus returns, we can be absolutely certain that all the Jews who return to the land of Israel in the days prior to the end times, will be apostate, unclean and unfaithful, almost as bad as the false Gentile churches which God calls the Great Prostitute and her daughters. But all the elect Jews among them will repent to serve Jesus rightly after He returns, without any deceptions from any forms of humanism, to the end of earthly days, for a millennium.

As we harmonize biblical prophecies, we see how God’s promised the purification of His church of Israel through a very lengthy process involving many steps. And here is another Messianic prophecy about the days just before the end times, describing the fallen and apostate condition of the church, and what will occur to save that priesthood from its sins, which involves both His wrath and grace.

Isaiah 66:1-24 (ESV): “Thus says [Yahweh]: ‘Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My

footstool; what is the house that you would build for Me, and what is the place of My rest?

All these things My hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares [Yahweh].

But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles

at My word. He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb,

like one who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig's

blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol.