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

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“These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations; I also will

choose harsh treatment for them and bring their fears upon them, because when I called, no

one answered, when I spoke they did not listen ; but they did what was evil in My eyes and

chose that in which I did not delight.’ Hear the word of [Yahweh], you who tremble at His

word: ‘Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for My name's sake have said, “Let

[Yahweh] be glorified, that we may see your joy”; but it is they who shall be put to shame .

“‘The sound of an uproar from the city! A sound from the temple! The sound of [Yahweh],

rendering recompense to His enemies! Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her

pain came upon her she delivered a Son. Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such

things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment?

For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the point of

birth and not cause to bring forth?’ says [Yahweh]; ‘shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the

womb?’ says your God.

“‘Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy,

all you who mourn over her; that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast;

that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance.’ For thus says

[Yahweh]: ‘Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an

overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced

upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be

comforted in Jerusalem. You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish

like the grass; and the hand of [Yahweh] shall be known to His servants, and He shall show

His indignation against His enemies.

“‘For behold, [Yahweh] will come in fire, and His chariots like the whirlwind, to render His

anger in fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire will [Yahweh] enter into

judgment, and by His sword, with all flesh; and those slain by [Yahweh] shall be many.

Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens [‘gardens’ were places of pagan

worship], following one in the midst, eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall

come to an end together, declares [Yahweh]. For I know their works and their thoughts, and

the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see My

glory, and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations,

to Tarshish [Tarshish may be a Phoenician port in Spain or North Africa. But it could also be a place in India

that Israel and Isaiah knew about, since Solomon’s ships once traded with a place in India, sending his ships

out from his port in the Gulf of Aqaba.], Pul [The location of Pul is unknown, but could be a place in Africa or

Yemen.], and Lud, who draw the bow, [Perhaps Lud is located west of Egypt, in Africa, where skilled

archers once dwelt.] to Tubal [This might be a nation east of the Black Sea.] and Javan [This may refer to

Ephesus, near Selcuk in Turkey.], to the coastlands afar off, that have not heard My fame or

seen My glory . And they shall declare My glory among the nations. And they shall bring all

your brothers from all the nations as an offering to [Yahweh], on horses and in chariots and in

litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to My holy mountain Jerusalem, says [Yahweh],

just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of [Yahweh]. And

some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says [Yahweh].

“For as the new heavens [i.e., this refers to ‘new skies’ above the earth] and the new earth that I

make shall remain before Me, says [Yahweh], so shall your offspring and your name remain.

From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship

before Me, declares [Yahweh]. And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men

 

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who have rebelled against Me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched,

and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.’”

The time of this prophecy was about 700 BC, after the Assyrian invasion of Israel (721 BC) and long before the Babylonian invasion (586 BC). So this prophecy is not about the corruption of biblical faith by humanism. Rather, at this time, the Jews were practicing a syncretism of both the teachings of men and doctrines of Baal with biblical teachings. Yet it was very similar to the way churches and synagogues merge the doctrines of humanism with the counsel of God’s Word today. Like all churches today, the Jews of Isaiah’s day actually thought they were worshiping Yahweh, the Creator of all existence, because they had built Him a temple, a “house” as “the place of [His] rest.” But God did not consider their pollution of His words and ways to be any kind of true worship at all. God deemed them all to be apostates, a people who had completely abandoned all of their faith in Him.

Israel had entirely nullified God’s teachings altogether. For, in their dull and carnal eyes, human beings and demons like Baal were the same. They believed men and demons could be judges and teachers equal to God Himself and equal to those whom that real God sent to speak in His name. They felt they all had a right to create new cults and new kinds of gods for themselves, with better ways than the ways God made for them. They were much like existentialists today, who each tell themselves that they can define themselves to be whatever they please, then believe whatever they choose to be the truth, whether their own invented lies are about God or anything else. But there is only one existing spiritual and moral reality from the one God who created it, a God who defined Himself and all that truly exists. And there is only one physical reality, where all past and future times already exist in precisely and exactly the way He created them in the beginning. There is only one truth, and all who arrogantly, intentionally refuse accept it are deluded and lying to themselves.

So Yahweh, the Creator, does not accept the worship of those who have decided that His attributes and ways shall be more like Baal and other demons. God will not help those who have decided that He will be like themselves, then declare that God approves of their orgies on hilltops, or allows their rich to trample the poor through the kinds of threats that criminal extortionists use, or by various kinds of theft like usury and price gouging. They might take some pride in a temple they built for a new kind of Yahweh, whom they invented in their own little minds of flesh. But the real Yahweh will tear down that abomination because it slanders His holy name, because it glorifies a false and unjust god whom they created for themselves, while they pretend that their own fake Yahweh is actually the real Yahweh. God turns His face away from all who arrogantly alter His words to please themselves, through spirits that love the darkness of lies and delusions. For the real God tells us, “But this is one to whom I will look, he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at My Word.” The one who seeks the one real truth that God wrote in all His creations and revealed in His Word is His beloved.

The selfish and unjust inclinations they embraced in about 700 BC were much like those of the fake churches that belong to what may be called the “Health and Wealth” movement, since Baal taught that he wanted everyone to be rich and prosperous, even if one had to exploit disadvantaged siblings in the family of humankind for one’s own personal gain. For hundreds of years, Israel routinely did such things, even while perceiving themselves to be a good, righteous and devout. They would not let anyone tell them they were false worshipers of Yahweh. These apostate Jews would continue to make temple sacrifices before the presence of Yahweh. But, when one offered an ox in the temple, Yahweh considered that liar to be “like one who kills a man,” because that one was murdering his own siblings through his sins. And a lamb offered for the birth of child was “like one who breaks a dog’s neck,” or a grain offering for the priests was “like one who offers pig’s blood.” Then a priest’s memorial offering of incense was “like one who blesses an idol.” None of their biblical rituals meant

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anything to the real Creator God, not when those who practiced them “have chosen their own ways and their soul delights in their abominations,” in financial and sexual exploitations of God’s people.

Nor would the apostate church let anyone freely hear and follow God’s real Word of truth, since all that truth demanded the kind of just love which they hated. They despised men like Isaiah, and rebuked them for being ignorant and narrow-minded, unwilling to acknowledge the “progress” they made in building up their economy through the practices of Baal worshipers from Assyria. So, since they treated Him and His true servants so harshly, Yahweh eventually declared, “I will choose harsh treatment for them and bring their fears upon them, because when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes and chose that in which I did not delight” (Is. 66:4, ESV). This prophecy was made about the time of Israel’s invasion by the very people whom they trusted to teach them about the ways of Baal, by the Assyrians. But this Messianic prophecy is universal, and is actually about the apostate churches and synagogues right up to the end times, until the day Jesus returns to cleanse the surviving elect from every similar kind of corruption.

So here God is saying that He will “choose harsh treatment” for all who syncretize false doctrines with what He has taught in His Word, and for all who use false religion to commit sins against their fellow human beings. And, yes, God will be just. He will show mercy to those who can truly plead some form of inescapable ignorance, such as illiteracy and inaccessibility to the written or audibly proclaimed Word of God. But the Jews heard His Word read in their temple and meeting places, and now almost everyone is literate, with access to a Bible, or can at least hear His Word read in their own vernacular by someone or something accessible to them. And God will also show mercy to those who are coerced into sins by the wicked, or those who commit such sins through some other unavoidable forces which make those sins unintentional. But these excuses have been take away from most Jews and Gentiles during this current era of the fifth seal. So God has begun to “choose harsh treatment” for all who falsely claim to worship Him while they syncretize pagan doctrines with His Word, for those who “have chosen their own ways” and “delight in their abominations.”

The sins Isaiah’s Messianic prophecy about the end times directly apply to the prophesied increase in persecutions during this era of the fifth seal. God has had to slaughter their stubborn souls, to get them to reevaluate exactly what they believe, so they might repent in time for the prophesied revival of the sixth seal’s era. So there is great hope in this persecution from the very humanists that the false churches and synagogues relied upon to learn their humanistic doctrines. And that hope is that, when we repent, God will begin to fight on our side. Instead of the secular humanists trampling over us, we will nullify their works of Satan, and we will be able to build up God’s just, loving kingdom.

Yet, even after God severely disciplined the apostate Israel through Assyria back then, the dog returned to its vomit. Israel returned to its vile practice of syncretism. For, about a century later, they began to learn and adopt the teachings and ways of Babylon in former Assyria. Then they did the same with the pagan teachings from Persia, Greece an Rome. So, in the first century, Jesus quoted Isaiah’s prophecy against Israel once more, saying, “This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me; in vain do they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men” (Mat. 15:8-9, ESV; cf., Is. 29:13). And Israel also worshiped Mammon, that ruthless demon who stands beside Satan and has been a central god of all slave societies and despots since ancient times. For Israel made many of their cruelest and most unjust decisions based on the soulless demands of money, instead of seeking to fulfill God’s teachings according to the counsel of God’s Holy Spirit.

Today, not much has changed, except the Jewish and Gentile churches have now replaced some of the old carnal, sexually exploitative Baal-esteem with a man-esteem taught by the demonic religion

 

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of humanism. Of course, humanists still worship Baal through their sexual immorality, and they still obey the demon Mammon’s ruthless dictates. Then their exploitative lusts of the flesh and ruthless greed are still called practical considerations and progressive, though such things destroy them and their children. But, since their flesh is gratified in their tiny, dark worlds of lies, they would never dream of seeking the bright, infinite expanse of the reality God created outside of those delusions.

It is also true that, just as the ancient church, who loved Baal more than God, could never become “contrite in spirit” or tremble at God’s words, neither can today’s churches or synagogues. The spirit of a self-worshiping humanist could never grieve over one’s own destructive sins, nor repent through the inner conviction of God’s Word. For a humanist has made oneself into what oneself considers to be righteous and good, then uses the Bible to justify one’s sins, since each one is one’s own creator god, possibly even the god of other human beings. Unjust human gods, who live only according to their minds of flesh, cannot interpret the humanly manipulated words of God fearfully, not while each reveres one’s own opinions and those of other human gods much more than God’s opinions. Instead, humanists interpret all existence to please themselves, no matter how unreal and irrational those lies might be. Humanists never want to know God’s intended meaning of His own words. In fact, most humanists refuse to even acknowledge that the Bible actually originated from God. So every church or synagogue of humanists today does nothing but put on a good show of fake religion.

But God sees that they do not take to heart the symbolic reminders of His truths in His commanded rituals, and how they have invented their own rituals as well. The words and actions of all rituals express concepts which those who practice them claim to believe. And God commanded rituals like the animal sacrifices to remind His priesthood that He alone is their God who forgives and cleanses from lies and sins, that He alone can restore and build up their relationship with Himself. Yet His servants to the lost world remain utterly blind to His teachings about just love. So their somber, formal and devoutly practiced rituals in His temple become just a filthy abomination in His eyes.

The chosen ways of the flesh delight in vile and destructive delusions and lies, because they provide excessive pleasures for the flesh, even at a cost to the elect spirits of life in God’s creations. But God’s just and loving ways of truth only provide modest pleasures of the flesh, accompanied by the pure joy of elect spirits. And, since both non-elect spirits and sleeping elect spirits have never really experienced anything like true inner joy, they all choose excessive pleasures of the flesh over a full and abundant life of their spirits being able to love and be loved. So, when a demon calls, they come running, then bow their filthy heads before its stinking feet. But, when the Spirit of their holy God calls to their sleeping, they completely ignore Him and continue to dream of nightmarish evils.

Every thought of their hearts turns away from God, toward the lusts of their flesh, the lusts of their eyes and the pride of life, only toward things desired by their untaught, untrained and mismanaged minds of flesh. And this is very odious to God. Yet, since this is a Messianic prophecy about the end times, and since Isaiah is addressing the natural Israel, this implies that the Jews will be like this just before the Messiah returns. And this also indicates that there will be apostate Jews making sacrifices at a temple in those days. For here it is actually comparing events occurring during Isaiah’s time, in the eighth century BC, to the events occurring in the end times, just before God saves some of them.

This prophecy is saying that most future Jews also will be apostate hypocrites in the days just prior to the Messiah’s glorious advent. The future Jews will have “chosen their own ways,” and will still not be listening to God’s Spirit from their spirits in their hearts. They will not know His thoughts, not choose what truly pleases His Spirit and not repent from their lies and sins. In the end times, they will do evil in His eyes, just as they have done so many times in the past, throughout the history of

 

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Israel. Because of this, God will treat them harshly. So this seems to prophesy the persecution of the Jews now, in this era of the fifth seal, in the end times. And the same harshness from God will be experienced by the humanistic churches of the Gentiles, by those called the Great Prostitute of Babylon and her harlot daughters. Then all the unrepentant, non-elect, false worshipers of God shall be destroyed in the end. But God will bring all elect Jews and Gentiles to repentance through His harsh treatment of those persecutions, as the era of the fifth seal ends, then during the revival of the sixth seal’s era, as well as during the plagues of the seventh seal, until all are saved when He returns.

So, when Yahweh God begins to speak to His elect in Isaiah’s prophecy, it is saying that God will begin to comfort repenting and faithful elect at sometime just before and during the end times, starting at the end of the fifth seal’s era. At that time, possibly even right now, God will pour the following concepts into the spirits of the elect: “Hear the word of [Yahweh] you who tremble at His Word: Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for My name’s sake have said, ‘Let [Yahweh] be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame” (Is. 66:5, ESV). So we will soon see some elect becoming deeply convicted by the teachings in God’s Word, trembling at how deceitful and sinful they have been. But these elect will be hated by their “brothers,” that is, by the members of their churches or synagogues, then “cast out” of those places. But these elect will be expelled for the sake of God’s name, which means that these elect will bear the attributes of God Himself. It means they will be doing God’s will according the commands of His Holy Spirit granted to their own elect spirits. Then the false churches or synagogues will mock these awakened elect, thinking they alone glorify Yahweh, claiming that Yahweh will be glorified by them, not by those faithful elect. And they will deride those repentant elect by saying, “Now let us see your joy in God, now that you can no longer fellowship with us!” However, no matter how much shame they might think they have caused for those truly saved elect, it will be those fakes whom God Himself shall put to shame. If they do not repent, that shame will not only be endured on earth, but also on the last day.

False worshipers usually pretend to desire the “glory of God.” But their words and actions betray their true intentions, which are to create a convenient religion and good time for themselves, and to glorify or develop a good opinion of themselves among the rest. Then they mock those who truly revere God, because true worshipers do not do their works to please themselves, nor to please others for personal gain, but seek to fulfill the will of the wise God. The spirits of true worshipers develop a truly good opinion of God and want others to do the same. Then God teaches, trains and coaches His awakened elect as they do their good works, and causes the circumstances which enable their works. God’s Holy Spirit may even call the spirits of His faithful elect to ask Him for His revelations of true prophecy and miraculous works. Then His power grants those spiritual gifts through His love for both those who ask and those who receive. For God often wills to inform and heal His elect children.

Our God Jesus works mightily and effectively in the hearts of true worshipers, proving to those elect hearts that they are sinners who must learn from Him. And His education is a long, slow process that builds up our relationships with Him. Very little is sudden and shocking, certainly not His loving miracles, since God never manipulates or forces us into accepting Him and His truths. Rather, God is a wise Teacher, not a self-serving dictator. God works quiet, humble, loving miracles in our lives, for the teaching and training of our spirits, not impressive and terrorizing feats of power to convince us to serve Him. This is why false churches have never really wanted God’s genuine miracles, worked according to His will and not according to their wills. For they want to put on a big and flashy show to convince dupes to esteem and serve themselves. Consequently, God never works His true miracles among them, no longer sends them His true prophets, and turns His face away from their vain egos.

 

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But, if God will not work miracles so they can convince dupes to give them money and serve them, then those men will create their own fake miracles, and some even go to Satan for power, knowing that the devil is willing to deceive the gullible into the sin of idolatry, and cause them to worship human gods. Satan is often eager to work the kinds of powerful signs and wonders which bind the ignorant and foolish to false and self-destructive religions. But those fake churches never allow any awakened elect to utter a word of exposing truth among them. In fact, I have seen false churches set guards at their doors, to interrogate and chase away anyone who looks honest and informed, because they only want dishonest dupes in their pews. Then, if any exposing truth somehow finds its way into their congregation, from a source they failed to censor or silence, those deceivers angrily rail against that truth, slander its source, and soundly rebuke that truth, proclaiming it to be a lie, no matter how obviously true and proven it might be. And since they have intentionally blinded their own eyes and deafened their own ears, God totally ignores their prayers and treats them harshly. So His awakened elect should do the same, leave those blind guides to lead the blind into a deep pit.

Because of the evil words and deeds of the fake shepherds in those fake churches, true worshipers of the real God never really want to fellowship with them. For even the sleeping but honest elect spirits cannot easily stomach the way those fake churches exploit their dupes, nor how they invent their own self-serving gods and twist the real God’s words to justify their unjust works. Still, fakes know the honest elect, especially those with awakened elect spirits, are a serious threat to their fraudulent and exploitative activities. For those elect often expose their crimes and lies, then make them pay the consequences of their evil. And that is why the fakes persecute the elect during this era of fifth seal, or take captive the elect who have weak and duped spirits. For the fakes will not be able to easily overcome the elect once God awakens their spirits, when He works powerfully in and through them.

Humanists will continue to war with one another to the end, then strive to humiliate and “brow-beat” the elect into submission. But, since elect true worshipers, especially after the sixth seal revival, will always love the truth, and their spirits are ultimately ruled by the real God, they will not always fall and submit to those liars. Then all true elect will eventually leave those humanists, since those liars will forever refuse to repent into the truth. After the awakened elect leave, the false worshipers in humanistic churches will go from bad to worse, seeking or inventing ever more ways to slander and dehumanize the elect true worshipers of God, in order to prevent their dupes from hearing the truth.

And if true worshipers attempt to defend the truth, the fake churches will not ask them to prove those truths with evidence and reasoning, because they care nothing for things like that. Rather, the fake worshipers will demand that the true worshiper perform dark deeds of carnal and loveless “signs and wonders,” to prove that a greater power serves them. For that is all they care about, power, not the truth which builds up love. And, although God’s loving, humble, quiet power will indeed work many miracles among His awakened elect through His grace, those fake churches will laugh at them, since they will not be loveless, psychopathic, raw displays of ruthless power, like they admire. So none of the true miracles of God will persuade the false churches that God’s presence rests among His true worshipers. The fake churches will simply mock the prophecies and miracles in the true churches, and slander God’s Holy Spirit who works them, sealing their eternal fates on the final judgment day.

Those liars will continue to defend their lies with more lies, and sometimes with deceiving signs and wonders worked by demons. With jeering tongues they will shout, “Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy,” as though they really knew the joy of the true God through their carnal hype at their worship services, through the emotions of their flesh stirred by hypnotic motivational speakers and professional music. To those who truly know God, it is strange to see those liars so often speak about joy, since the honest elect have never been able to find even a trace of true inner joy among

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them, only things like carnally hyped hope and delusions of self-esteeming pride in their gullible minds of flesh. And, when the true elect confess that they cannot manipulate their real God to serve their own wills of the flesh, cannot force God to work “signs and wonders” to glorify themselves, the easily deluded dupes in fake churches accuse them of being weak. Yet it is because God only does works according to His own will that those fake worshipers have been handed over by God to Satan, to be crushed by the delusions which that devil forces into their very weak enslaved minds of flesh.

The humanists are always trying to “own” the elect true worshipers, by inventing new lies and false reasoning to slander God’s created truths and supposedly “prove” the honest to be liars. Then they boast about their great victories over the truths they supposedly “crushed,” and over the loving elect they supposedly defamed by their lies. But the elect do not try to “own” anyone, because God owns all human beings. And there can be no “victory” over the realities God created, since verities simply exist and will always exist, regardless of whether or not anyone chooses to believe them. Then any denial of God’s true principles can only cause their own destruction, with possibly a number of other victims of their flesh, but never any kind of victory. And ruthlessly lying to dehumanize innocent souls only proves that they are loveless. So all the praise and accolades from other liars, which they hope to achieve through their lies, means absolutely nothing, if they have no love in their spirits. For all have been appointed to die in the flesh, and all they gained in the flesh will not only be lost, but will also testify against them on the last day. Only those who spoke and acted through pure motives and intentions of a loving spirit will survive the trial and teachings of that day, not the loveless ones.

Boasting against true worshipers, then falsely justifying themselves in their own eyes and in the eyes of other dupes, gains nothing and loses everything. And no one ever needs signs and wonders to believe in their God. We believe because we see how Jesus works in our hearts, how He is teaching and training our spirits to love in a just, equitable and truly beneficial way. We see how Jesus’ Spirit pours a full, harmonious, rational understanding of His Word and His creations into the minds our spirits, and how His power even helps those concepts flow from the minds of our spirits into our minds of flesh within our souls. We grow to trust Jesus, and increasingly look to Jesus, then love Jesus, because He is constantly doing these works in us. And, yes, I have seen the grace of God work real miracles. But none of them increased my faith, nor impressed me. Rather, miracles from my humble God simply manifested His love for me, sometimes with loving rebukes or warnings, and are normal aspects of the greater miracle of His salvation for my spirit, saving me from all lies and sins.

The Word of God, with all its laws that Jesus fulfills in us and through us, is a gentle, merciful and very loving wisdom, with effective and wise truths useful for all just and truly good works. But it must be seen in its whole, and interpreted through the insights which Jesus pours into our spirits. We cannot simply think it is a book of rules, or that, if our minds and bodies flesh obey those rules, we will go to heaven. For wrongly applied laws of God are indeed sins, which may cause the sinner to be cast into hell. And each event or situation in life requires the application of multiple laws and principles at the same time, with each prioritized properly, and all worked through a love for God and a love for God’s creations. Then judging by God’s Law must take into account a loving recovery for any possible victims of the sin, and also teach the truth for any possible redemption of the sinners themselves, through an understanding of the motives and intentions in a sinner’s spirit, as well as the sinner’s repentance or lack of repentance. But teachers who tell others to apply God’s Law wrongly, or authorities who judge wrongly, will be judged more harshly by God, and also may be sent to hell.

Therefore, it does some good if God’s appointed assistant teachers of His Word give out free Bibles, so they can reference His words as they teach the truth. And a Bible by itself can help an elect soul, if Jesus’ Holy Spirit then teaches the spirit of the reader to comprehend its principles. But, when pure

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humanists post the “Ten Commandments” in public places, expecting all to follow their own examples of how they cruelly and wrongly apply that Law, even in ways that murder innocent souls, then that public display of God’s Law is a great sin, and God will judge those who display it most severely. God will even justly accuse many of them of the worst sin of all, blaspheming His Holy Spirit, which is an unforgivable sin leading straight to hell. For publicly posting His Law without a right proclamation of its meaning and how to correctly apply it, might do very little harm, if any, and may even do a little good, if God’s Holy Spirit teaches and elect spirit about its meaning. But, when men who abuse God’s name publicly present His Law to justify their own sins, even murder, then they are slandering God’s Law and God’s Holy Spirit who wrote that Law, and are serving Satan.

God’s Word told us: “How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!’” (Rom. 10:14-15, WEB; cf. Is. 52:7). God works through His very fallible and infantile elect children, so all will learn to depend upon Him and one another. God knits His elect children together into a family by training them to love Him and one another, through their works for Him and for one another. And He sends appointed preachers to help us understand the Scriptures rightly, as well as to think critically and question the motives of our hearts as we read or hear those words from God. So working through His infantile children, who often sin or make errors, might be messy, but it is the most effective way of building up love and unity among us. And His miracles simply assist in this messy process of building love.

No one has ever been truly saved by God through “great signs and wonders,” but only by their spirits trusting in the teaching and training of God’s Holy Spirit throughout life. And anyone chasing after “signs and wonders” should know that God even allows Satan to perform them as a “test” of our inner metal (Deut. 13:1-5), and to lure away the falsely religious. The devil’s own psychopathic children come as “servants of righteousness (II Cor. 11:13-15) to perform those deceiving “signs and wonders.” So they can say “let God be glorified” all they want as they commit “abominations” and do evil in God’s eyes. But they shall be “put to shame,” not us. “By fire will [Yahweh] enter into judgment, and by His sword with all flesh; and those slain by [Yahweh] shall be many” (Is. 66:10, ESV), including those of the false churches, whom Jesus will caused to be burned by Satan’s beast.

Yes, we have genuine miracles that truly glorify the real God, done humbly and quietly through the love of God, according to God’s will, to inform, protect and heal His beloved elect children. But the awakened elect will never see a true miracle of God done on a stage to glorify some man or woman who is bilking the people in order to get rich. The only kind of true, powerful, genuine miracles the true elect will see shall be granted by our God Jesus according to His commands and His will in a quiet and humble way, for the good of His people, never to glorify a wanna-be human god. The just and pure love worked by God’s Word daily proves this, while the injustice and fake love of the self-indulgent humanistic churches proves them wrong daily. Regardless, the false churches persecute true believers, and have increased their persecutions during this era of the fifth seal, with impunity granted by secular humanists. So they will be put to shame soon, and definitely by the time Jesus returns. Jesus will grant no impunity to their greedy, unjust, ruthless, unrepentant souls! The false churches will fall first, even before Christ’s return, even before Jesus destroys the beast and the secular evil-doers of the world. For the beast himself will burn the false church of the Great Prostitute. And many of her harlot daughter churches, cradled in her arms, will perish with her.

On the day Jesus returns, there will be “The sound of an uproar from the city! A sound from the temple! The sound of [Yahweh] rendering recompense to his enemies!” (Is. 66:6, ESV). This is

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speaking about the “city” of Jerusalem on that day. So Jesus will not just be “rendering recompense” to Satan’s international armies of the secular beast on that day, but also to His Jewish enemies within Jerusalem and even in the temple. Many secular non-elect Jews and falsely religious non-elect Jews, will die on the streets of that city and in the temple, leaving only the elect Jews. And some of the elect Jews will have repented to the real Messiah Jesus, but some will remain hardened and apostate secular and falsely religious elect Jews. But these apostate elect Jews will repent on the day Jesus returns. As for the elect Gentiles, none will be hardened by God, so all will have repented to the real Jesus by then. A full dichotomization between elect and non-elect Gentiles will be completed. For, by then, there will longer be any excuse for the false religion, especially humanism, which slanders God’s name in all the earth. A knowledge of God and His intended meanings of His words will be freely accessible to all, so all will be without excuse. Thus, willful ignorance shall build up all false churches, and Jesus will justly destroy all those persecuting souls for their unrepentant intentions.

Also notice again that, because this prophecy is about Jerusalem and its temple in the end times, when the beast is attempting to destroy Israel at the end of His seven-year reign, there will be a third temple period established by then. In fact, during the middle of the beast’s reign, he will also commit a great sin in the temple, called the “abomination that causes desolation,” which Daniel and the Revelation prophesied about. Three and a half years earlier, the beast will desecrate God’s temple in a Jewish Jerusalem. So there will be a time of at least three and a half years when the apostate Jews begin to see that humanism is the beast’s religion, and that humanism will never be compatible with their worship of God. Then they will see the Messiah return from above on a unique day when the sun does not appear and normal times of day cannot be determined. And their Messiah will slay all the unrepentant secular and religious Jews who sided with the beast’s humanistic ways. Finally, they will see that this Messiah from the sky landing on the Mount of Olives, with scars on His hands and on His feet, scars that He intentionally will not remove, as a reminder that He is indeed thee Jesus.

In other words, our God Jesus will begin to soften the elect Jewish hearts He had hardened through centuries of Jewish apologetics and polemics against Him and Christianity. Jesus will begin to also discipline Israel for her syncretism, for merging the doctrines of humanism with His clearly revealed true religion, in much the same way as ancient Israel was disciplined for merging the doctrines of Assyria and Babylon with His Word in the past. Our God Jesus will complete His work of separating the sheep from the goats in Israel, the elect Jews from the non-elect Jews. For He must prepare His natural Israel for the His second and glorious advent. The Israel that is not the true Israel will follow the beast’s religion of humanism, and some will even cooperate with him. But the true Israel will be appalled by that beast’s thoughts, then resist the beast, and begin to more clearly understand how they have been deceived regarding God’s own intended meanings of His own laws and teachings.

While speaking about the day that our God Jesus returns, God states this about the land of Israel: “‘Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she delivered a Son. Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?’ says [Yahweh]; ‘shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?’ says your God” (Is. 66:7-9, ESV). When Jesus returns as the King and High Priest of Israel, He will establish a new “land” and a new “nation” which will host the elect from all lands and nations of the world, as the center of all laws and spiritual principles around the world. All this will occur “in one day,” and will be firmly set in place for a thousand years, although it will have been “brought forth in one moment,” as soon as Jesus sets a foot on the Mount of Olives. The “Son” will be “delivered” to Israel with all the authority, wisdom, power and love of a perfect King. And,

 

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since God has never allowed any kind of theocracy to be established by sinful men, because He alone can be the King of a true theocracy, our God Jesus will be the true King of a true theocracy.

But, some might say, Israel already became a “land” and a “nation” in 1948. Yes, this and other prophecies obviously indicate that there will be a nation of Jews called Israel before Jesus returns, and that He will walk into a Jewish temple filled with elect Jews on the day of His return. So, yes, there is a prophesied return of the Jews to their promised land of Israel, and they must become a nation long before the beast comes to invade their nation in the middle of his seven-year reign, and before that same beast comes to totally destroy that nation at the end of his reign. But it was also prophesied that Israel will be a primarily apostate nation before the childbirth as a new “nation.” And, this new holy nation of the Messiah will be born from that old nation of Israel. So, “as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children” of the new Messianic “nation” of Israel, where the “labor” represent the painful attack of the beast, Israel will deliver a Son as their eternal High King.

When Isaiah’s prophecy told us about Israel giving birth at a later time, after she has already been a “nation” attacked by the beast and other lands, it must refer to the Messiah Yahweh coming to rule Israel. And the “children” of this new “nation” would be the Jewish elect in the Messiah’s universal priesthood, those who shall serve all of the world from Jerusalem and the land of Israel. For this is what God promised in His eternal and unconditional Abrahamic Covenant, which includes all of the promises God made to Abraham throughout his life, not just some promises on one particular day in his life. The entire body of God, the true church, will include millions of Gentile elect all over the world. But this Jewish new “land” and new “nation” of Israel will be the governing ministry for the whole world, the loving, warm and well-informed host of all nations seeking the counsel of our God.

Israel was prophesied to become a nation again, after God had destroyed her and after God had removed her from her land, which Isaiah said would occur not long after his day, not long after the eighth century BC. Actually, the scattering of Israel into the Diaspora began with the Assyrian invasion of its northern lands in about 721 BC. And Israel began her real captivity in the Diaspora during the invasion and destruction of her first temple by the first of Satan’s four heads of the beast, that is, when Babylon emptied most of Judah in about 586 BC. Then the fourth of Satan’s kingdoms, Rome, completed the task of sending Israel into captivity. Rome destroyed all Israel and expelled almost all Jews in the first century AD. Then Israel learned all there was to know about the beast’s religion of humanism and about all the other nations of the world, in preparation for her revival when their Messiah returned to them. So it took about 700 years for God to complete the process of scattering His natural priesthood into the world. And now it has taken another 2,000 years to train His inner priesthood to serve as the host of all the rest of priesthood throughout the entire world.

Still, more than 2700 years is not long in God’s eyes. And now we are finally seeing how God’s promise through Isaiah is beginning to be fulfilled, and will end with the start of a new Israel serving their Messiah for more than a thousand years, possibly for 2,000 years. Within a few generations, at sometime before the beast establishes his kingdom, Israel shall once more build its third temple in preparation for their Messiah’s arrival. And small part of Israel did actually become a body of God again on May 14, 1948, when she was recognized by the world as a nation again. But this is only the “dry bones” standing up and growing flesh upon it. It is a nation in preparation for the Israel it will become when Israel has “delivered a Son,” after their Messiah’s body of flesh returns to her again. Jesus will become the King and High Priest of their new holy priesthood nation in a “day,” at the moment He lands in her, before her labor pains of all her warfare with the beast in the end times.

 

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Isaiah’s prophecy explains or defines what it meant when it said Israel gave birth. That birth was to occur when Israel became a “land” and “nation” again, “in one day,” in a very short period of time, in “one moment.” And these two phrases following one another, along with the figurative language about the woman of Israel giving birth as soon as she began labor, highly emphasized just how quickly Israel would become the priesthood of the Messiah Yahweh. It would literally occur in a day and in one moment, on the Jesus returned and at the moment His foot touched the Mount of Olives.

Now the Israel which had to exist and build the third temple also began on the very day the British pulled out of Palestine and the Jews declared themselves to be an independent nation, that is, on May 14, 1948. For the British relinquished their rule over Palestine and recognized her to be a nation, and so did all Britain’s allies. But everyone also knew Israel was about to be attacked by many Muslim nations surrounding them. So we have all seen how Israel has experienced a very long and extremely painful “labor” to become a nation in the world order, a “labor” which is still going on to this day. So this definitely is not the “land” or “nation” which Isaiah prophesied about. Rather, these are the birth pains of becoming the Israel which the Messiah will come to in the future. And these birth pains will not end until the Muslim nations around them become Israel’s close allies, when Egypt and Syria will build a highway to one another through Israel, so that the awakened elect in all three nations can worship Yahweh Jesus together. But today’s Israel still has not experienced its first and most intense birth pang which will signal the formation of its land as the priesthood nation of Yahweh Messiah, which will occur when the international armies of the beast attack their land sometime in the future.

And now we should realize how absolutely incredible and miraculous recent events have been. For, thousands of years before these events actually occurred, prophecies said the Messiah Yahweh shall return to Jews in Israel. But, even a hundred years ago, no one would have believed there could be a Jewish Israel for Jesus to come back to. Yet the Jews and their Old Covenant religion did survive as an identifiable people and religion throughout 1800 years of scattering into all nations, even with severe persecution, a feat no other people or religion has ever accomplished. Then their persecutions caused them to seek a homeland, even at the very time when the failing Ottoman Empire was willing to sell them land in their original homeland. Furthermore, those secular Zionists chose to name their purchased land by the biblical name of “Israel,” when they became an official nation in 1948. And, by naming it “Israel,” they fulfilled all the Scriptures prophesied about the end times. So, even now, as the era of the fifth seal is winding down and the end times are approaching, all of us can indeed declare, “Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?” But we will be more astounded when we see our God Jesus bodily return to Israel and transform it into His priestly nation in a day.

When was a nation utterly destroyed, along with its temple and center of worship, then scattered among other peoples and nations, yet remained an identifiable people and religion despite severe persecutions for more than 1800 years? When has a people and religion gone through all that, then returned to their homeland to reestablish themselves as a nation in a way that fulfilled prophecies made more than 2700 years ago? And what people declared themselves a nation while facing an inevitable war where they were hopelessly outnumbered and had far fewer soldiers and far less powerful weapons than the hordes of their enemies, then emerged as the victor who actually gained land, even while fighting that war far more ethically than their enemies? Any honest soul looking at these facts must admit that all of this surely was amazing. And now that we have seen this part of the end-time prophecies come true, despite impossible odds against it, we know the final phases of all those end-time prophecies will also be fulfilled by God. Our God Jesus will return to a Jewish Israel.

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apostate Israel will soon become the hosting priesthood of all the nations’ priesthoods, just as God proclaimed in His Abrahamic Covenant about 4,000 years ago. This Israel was prophesied to be an unbelieving land until Jesus returns, yet will always stand, because God Himself upholds her and stirs her people to action. Yes, the beast will invade her during the first half of his seven-year reign, and commit his abomination that causes desolation in her third temple. But Israel will recover from that blow, very soon after the beast withdraws. Then the beast will return after three and a half years, in an attempt to completely annihilate her. And that beast will bring a great international army with him to a place called Armageddon. But God will fight for His apostate Israel again, destroying the beast and all the utterly loveless non-elect upon earth, then save all true Israel in Israel on that day.

Israel shall exist as a nation until the end of the earth. And our God, Jesus, shall rule from Jerusalem in Israel until the very end. “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her” (Is. 66:10, ESV). This is a command of God, which Jesus now fulfills inside us, a command He trains our very spirits to zealously obey. Yes, we mourn for the wars and deaths in Israel and in all the Muslim nations around her. And we also mourn for Israel’s apostasy, as well as the similar apostasy of the humanistic Muslims. Nevertheless, God has shown us the future of both, and the priesthood of both. And it is for that future that we rejoice.

So we will not join the antisemitic humanists, neither the religious nor secular ones. And we will not join the humanists with biases against the Muslims either. We will not mourn or lament over the rise of Israel as a nation, nor oppose her and her God, the Creator of all existence. Neither will we treat the Muslims as anything less than our future siblings in family of our God Jesus. Yes, we strongly oppose any psychopathic non-elect Jews or Muslims, any who murder the innocent, or use women and children as shields in their attempts to murder the innocent. We will war against them! And God help us to remain just and loving throughout those wars. But we know God gave the Jews an eternal stewardship over their land, and God’s promises cannot be nullified by the wills of any mortal men, especially by humanists who foolishly delude themselves into thinking they are gods who control the destinies of God’s people. And we do know that the Muslims in the lands around Israel will one day worship Yahweh Jesus, together with many other Gentiles in every nation on earth. Therefore, we will rejoice with God and with Jerusalem, celebrating the return of apostate Jews to their land. And we also rejoice in the fact that so many elect Muslims are now repulsed by the vicious crimes of the non-elect among them, and will soon repent to Jesus, during the revival of pure Christianity in the era of the sixth seal. Within one generation after that, all of our current mourning will turn into joy.

Then Isaiah’s prophecy describes why God has preserved His Jewish people throughout the last two millenniums of cruel domination by the beast’s factious Roman kingdom. This prophecy defines God’s purpose for the Jews, the ministry they will perform for Jesus during the millennium of His rule in Israel over all the earth. God tells the rest of the world that all the surviving elect in Israel will be saved and become a new priestly nation for this reason, so “that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance” (Is. 66:11, ESV). The Jews in Israel will be a mother to all the surviving elect in all the other nations, serving and caring for them as a true priesthood for the rest of Jesus’ priesthood on earth. All the Gentile elect will receive the nurturing milk of kindness and love from her, and we will be fully satisfied by that gift from her body, never jealous or dissatisfied. We will “drink deeply with delight” because she will be granted “glorious abundance.” And that “abundance” will be spiritual, a true understanding of God’s intended meanings of His teachings, and a full awareness of how the four humanist kingdoms of Satan have corrupted God’s truths throughout all these past centuries. There will be no other nation on earth that more wisely ministers God’s holy, just, equitable love than her.

 

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Then the true Israel shall have peace at last, and Yahweh tells the elect in all nations: “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall four like the grass; and the hand of [Yahweh] shall be known to His servants” (Is. 66:12-14a, ESV). Elect Gentiles, whom our God Jesus gathered into His priesthood of Israel from around the world, will pour into the land of Israel like overflowing streams of good opinions about her. They will all come to behold the Messiah’s restoration of her people and her land, to share in her peace with God, which shall express itself in welcoming and peaceful streets, gardens, farmlands and forests. Israel will become the perfect host, who shall nurse all nations with the truth and wisdom of Yahweh Messiah, and she shall entertain them all with the joy of Jesus, like mother bouncing a thrilled baby on her knees. Israel will be mother to all, in a parent’s home for all.

Then our God Jesus Himself will comfort all those Gentile elect visiting in Jerusalem, healing their external and internal wounds, washing away the past torments and losses from their minds, guiding them into a new and abundant life. They shall see Him and their hearts will rejoice. Both their bones (their physical bodies) and their hearts (spirits) will flourish like well-watered grass in a fertile field. For all will know the power of God’s loving hand upon their lives, working to teach and train their spirits for eternal salvation. All will come as His serving disciples, to absorb their Teacher’s beauty.

When Jesus returns to the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, He will have finally fulfilled His promises of both the eternal and unconditional Abrahamic and New Covenants with Israel. Jesus will dwell with them, to serve them as Yahweh, their God, causing their spirits to worship Him in truth, so they might become a blessing to all the nations of the world. But, as Jesus descends to them from the sky, His apostate elect in Israel shall need a very physical deliverance from the beast’s armies. They will require their God to protect them from those overwhelming forces surrounding them and from the Jewish non-elect within their walls, who side with that beast. Therefore, while approaching in the sky above them, Isaiah’s prophecy tells us: “He shall show His indignation against His enemies. For behold, [Yahweh] will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render His Anger in fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire will [Yahweh] enter into judgment, and by His sword, with all flesh; and those slain by [Yahweh] shall be many” (Is. 66:14b-16, ESV). This is the other way our God Jesus shall fulfill His New Covenant promise to be the God of true Israel.

Then the elect of Israel will realize that their own “free wills” and hands will not be enough to save themselves this time, and that they do not manage their God’s help according to their own wills, as their humanistic rabbis told them. Rather, Yahweh God is Jesus, and protects them according to His own will, and at His chosen appointed times. Yet, as they see their internal and external enemies fall all around them, their hear will indeed be assured that their God’s hand is with them. From the roads and fields touching the doomed residents of Jerusalem, down through the valleys of Armageddon, God “shall show His indignation against His enemies,” although they were powerless to stop them.

But look at the strange way in which Isaiah describes the non-elect Jews in Israel, those whom we presume to be the betrayers that have adopted the beast’s religion of Roman secular humanism, even the beast’s sect of humanistic fascism in particular. These internal enemies of the true elect Israel, whom the “indignation” of our God Jesus will destroy, are portrayed in this odd way: “Those who sanctify [or dedicate] and purify [or purge] themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig’s flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares [Yahweh]. For I know their works and their thoughts” (Is. 66:17-18a, ESV). These Jews will gather in the “gardens” to eat unclean foods as some kind of ritual sanctification, dedication, purification

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and purging of themselves, seemingly to rid themselves of all that is Jewish or biblical. And they will gather to do all this just as the beast’s armies are surrounding Jerusalem, just as Jesus is about to destroy the beast and his armies, with all the non-elect on earth. So this may be a ritual gathering of the Jewish betrayers, because they made some kind of agreement with the beast, who said they will be spared as his armies slaughter all the other Jews who do not worship him. Yet, as they gather, Jesus will also be descending from the sky, and Jesus will know their thoughts. So, instead, Jesus will spare all truly elect Jews, but will destroy those non-elect and loveless Jews who gathered to worship the beast. Thus, those who seek to save themselves, will all “come to an end together.”

Then let us also remember that many of the elect Jews in Jerusalem and Israel whom Jesus will spare at His arrival, then save through repentance, will still be “hardened” and apostate before this. Yet all these apostate elect Jews will have heard the preaching of the 144,000 Jews who were “sealed” and saved into the New Covenant relationship with God during a revival, which occurred about 40 years prior to this day. They also would have heard the two prophets preaching in the temple grounds for about three and a half years, just before the two ascended into heaven three and a half years earlier.

So those elect Jews will have heard the Gospel of Jesus’ New Covenant salvation, but will have remained hardened by God until His return, so all might more thoroughly repent from humanism when Jesus arrived. Thus, when those seemingly doomed elect see Jesus slowly descend from the sky, over a period of many hours, then see how He casts the beast’s armies into complete chaos and finally slaughters the last of them in end, along with all the non-elect Jews among them, those elect Jews will be ready to repent. As soon as Jesus’ foot touches the Mount of Olives, and the ordinary sun begins to shine again, literally all of them will recognize Yahweh Messiah, and will truly repent.

God will soften the hearts of all true Israel, all the surviving elect Jews throughout the world. All will turn in repentance to Jesus. And He will comfort their godly sorrow, the mourning of their spirits that will lead them into repentance on the day of His return. Israel shall then see His truth of His Word, and their hearts will greatly rejoice in it. Then they will serve Yahweh Jesus, and will fulfill God’s promise to Abraham, by becoming a priesthood and a blessing to all the world. For Yahweh then declares: “And the time is coming to gather all nations and all tongues. And they shall come and shall see My glory, and I will set a sign among them. And from them [i.e., from Israel, because Israel will receive the sign of Jesus’ physical return for the sake of the Gentiles] I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands [i.e., to distant foreign lands] far away, that have not heard My fame or seen My glory [the glory of Jesus returning to teach at the Jerusalem temple and rule as the earth’s almighty King]. And they shall declare My glory among the nations” (Is. 66:18b-19, ESV). Since only the chosen of God will survive the coming of Jesus, all the nations on earth will become one loving kingdom of God. And Jews from Israel will be sent out to gather Gentiles into Israel and Jerusalem from all nations, His appointed Gentile teaching and judging elders who knew the “sign” of Jesus coming to Jerusalem in a body of flesh from the sky on that day.

Then Israel shall flourish to the end, after their God and Messiah Jesus is truly known to them, when they finally know how to serve as His true worshipers, as His children and heirs. Our God Jesus will not let Israel forget their Gentile siblings, for God told us: “And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations [i.e., elect Gentile men are brothers of elect Jews] as an offering to [Yahweh], on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to My holy mountain Jerusalem [i.e., to the Jerusalem temple, where Jesus shall teach] , says [Yahweh], just as Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel [i.e., in sanctified flesh] to the house of [Yahweh]. And some of them also I will take for priests and Levites, says [Yahweh]” (Is. 66:20-21, ESV). So Jesus’ purpose for bringing the Gentile “brothers” is to make them into “Levites.” The tribe of Levi was a tithe or an offering to God, whose

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whole lives were to be dedicated to Him, to serving His people and all His creations in His name, as priests of the greater priesthood of Israel. But all the elect Gentiles were already brought into the fulfilled New Covenant Israel before Jesus returned, as siblings of the Jews. Therefore, some of the Gentile men will now be brought to Israel as an “offering” to Yahweh Jesus, that is, to be taught and trained as true and faithful teaching and judging elders, to become “priests and Levites” whose entire lives will be dedicated to serving Yahweh, by serving all His people and His creations in His name.

Therefore, the Gentile elect will not be inferior to the Jewish elect, nor the Jewish elect inferior to the Gentile elect, after the Messiah comes to rule the earth. Thus, the evil replacement theology of humanistic churches is wrong and the teachings of humanistic rabbis are wrong. For, if God will cause Gentile men to become “priests and Levites” in the New Covenant universal church of Israel, even members of all ranks within that priesthood, including the equivalents to members of the Old Covenant Aaronic or royal priesthood within the Levitical priesthood, while Jewish men will also become elders of various ranks in the same New Covenant priesthood, then both are equal in the eyes of Yahweh Jesus. And, since the greatest among those teaching and judging elders will be expected to be humble servants of all people, then even the least among the rest of the elect Jews and elect Gentiles shall be equal to those elders, in terms of being valued through the love of Yahweh’s Holy Spirit and through the love of literally all elect human spirits. Each individual elect spirit will only desire to become what God created that spirit to desire, and each will become what each desires to become. Not all will want to become teaching and judging elders, but will want to dedicate their lives to some other destiny. Yet all those various destinies will be equally important to our God.

Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind” (John 9:39, ESV). Jesus also declared, “The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son” (John 5:22, ESV). So God’s kind of biblical judgment must involve teaching, because that kind of judgment causes the blind to see. It imparts knowledge and wisdom to those who had none. But a true biblical judgment also teaches in a way in which all who think they already possess a superior knowledge and wisdom, which differs from what God actually teaches in His Word and in His creations,will be cast further into the blindness of their own lies and delusions. Furthermore, this kind of judgment, by teaching minds of human spirits, can only be done by Jesus.

Therefore, no human being is ever allowed to judge whether or not anyone’s spirit has repented into the truth or will truly repent at sometime in the future, possibly even after the death of one’s flesh in the judgment day. For that day is solely for “judgment,” a day for biblical judgment, which provides teachings for repentance. And only Jesus will judge on that day, since only He bears that authority and right. All that any human can possess is some truth entirely granted by the Holy Spirit of Jesus, and those truths are never enough to make absolutely correct final judgments regarding the election or non-election of any individual, nor the eternal worth and value of any spirit in God’s eyes either.

For we cannot measure the past or future response of any human spirit to any kind of truth. So how can we say this one has a repentant elect spirit which shall be eternally saved and that one has a non-elect spirit which shall never repent and be eternally damned? But an individual’s spirit can know when His Holy Spirit is pouring truths into one’s own mind. Then that spirit can use those truths to recognize some love and some receptiveness to God’s truths present right now in other spirits. One can use the eyes and ears of one’s body to observe the fruits of another person, then judge whether or not those words and deeds reveal good or evil motives from that other person’s spirit. Those fruits can help us make tentative judgments about the current inner state of another person. But we also must be reasonably cautious about pretenders or outright deceivers, although we cannot be paranoid about this either, just simply trust and carefully listen to what His Holy Spirit tells us about others, so

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we can build up trust and, therefore, love for one another. And we must also use the few truths which God grants to our spirits to seek and make judgments about those whom God has granted more truths to their spirits, that is, so we might find out whom God Himself appointed to be serving elders.

Yet, if Jesus teaches some men more doctrinal truths than others, but those same men possess far fewer truths than others about other matters, then those whom God appointed for works in those other matters must also be sought, recognized and allowed to do their works in a community of the repentant elect. And there are always numerous other matters which God’s appointed teaching and judging elders were not appointed to do. Some of the best teaching elders possess very poor social skill, and must leave the counseling, comforting and communication of personal solutions for the people to others. Likewise, some teaching elders are not prophets, not able to perform the perpetual organization and management of works done by the people, and so on. So a teaching elder performs a small array of tasks, and each has a very limited subset of works to do in a church, while he utterly depends on the entire body of elect to do all other works of God. Yet, if it is true that every elder is only able to do a few of God’s works, and is utterly inept at others, then who is greater, the elder to whom God freely granted more truths, but created to be completely incapable of doing all His other works, or any of the other members who all have the very same limited scope of inherent abilities?

Since every elect individual remains extremely limited and utterly dependent upon God’s gift of truths to help them choose whom God has chosen for each specific work in His church, and there is no individual who can possibly thrive or even survive without each of the others doing the kinds of works God has appointed each to do, then all the elect are equal. And, all who have received the real truths of God must choose those whom God has chosen for each kind of work, including multiple teaching and judging elders, all with equal opportunities to teach and judge, because different elders possess different subsets of God’s truths. Each individual must be provided with free education and the opportunity to find and realize one’s own calling from God. Then each must be allowed to “vote” by either supporting or not supporting the works of those whom God has manifested as His chosen workers, by judging the fruits of each one’s labors. Each one must “vote” in the same way the people of Israel “voted” the chosen one’s of God, like Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Saul, David and Solomon, by either laboring and remaining with them, or by abandoning both their works and their fellowship.

Jesus created each with different aptitudes and desires, so each would seek to perform a different kind of work for Him and for all His creations. But all those different kinds of works are absolutely necessary for our spiritual and physical survival, and none can be eliminated without causing either spiritual or physical harm, even death. And inadequate or outright spiritual works, like the teaching of spiritual principles, even through visual arts, music and other less physical tasks, also inevitably lead to much physical harm or much physical good. So we cannot discount spiritual works and only emphasize physical works, as some materialistic humanists do, nor exalt spiritual workers above physical workers, as other humanists do. For all workers are equally valued by God and by all of us.

So, after He returns, Jesus will cause all the surviving elect “who do not see” to clearly see His truth. And one of the most critical aspects of His work in all these elect will be to grant loving, just, honest and faithful preachers to them. One of the first things Jesus will need to do is to thoroughly teach and train Jewish and Gentile assistant teachers, then appoint them to be teaching and judging elders, to be the “priests” and “Levites” of His greater priesthood of His universal church. Some of these men will take on the role of apostles. traveling great distances to preach. Some will become teaching and judging prophets. Some will be evangelists who preach throughout certain regions. And many shall be shepherds who teach and counsel in a local church. Each will be granted certain unique attributes, skills and specific areas of knowledge and wisdom. But all will work seamlessly together “for the

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perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into Him who is the Head, Christ, from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love” (Eph. 4:12-16, WEB). After being chosen, called, taught, trained and sent out from Jerusalem by the Messiah Jesus, He will use these men to build a consistent, unified, harmonious body of God on earth, from the individual sanctified elect on earth, as they teach each individual’s spirit to be taught and trained by Jesus’ Holy Spirit alone, to love justly and equitably.

This New Covenant church, which Jesus will establish after He returns to the earth, shall endure forever, not only until the earth ends, but eternally in God’s homeland after the earth ends. For we shall His body in the spiritual realm as well, serving beside Him for the welfare of His creations there as well. But Isaiah’s prophecy only speaks about Jesus’ New Covenant church lasting until the end of a renewed and restored earth, which will sit beneath the renewed and restored “heavens” (plural), that is, under both the atmosphere and outer space, especially this solar system. For God told Isaiah to write this: “For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before Me, says [Yahweh], so shall your offspring and you name remain. From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me, declares [Yahweh]” (Is. 66:22-23, ESV). And, by the way, if “all flesh” truly worships God, then only the elect will remain.

Then Isaiah ends this prophecy with a sobering passage: “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against Me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh” (Is. 66:24, ESV). Of course, when this says they “look on the dead bodies,” we need to realize that, in God’s fulfilled Law, all the remains of all those corpses must be disposed of through burial, or in crypts and containers of some kind. But God will call His people to “go out” and intentionally “look on” the burial places of those non-elect who hated them and tried to kill them. God will want them to meditate upon the fact that those non-elect continuously refused to repent into the truth presented to their own ears and eyes. They all willfully and deliberately “rebelled against” God and His truths. And they even knew the eternal consequence of doing this, that their spirits and eternal bodies after their earthly flesh died would forever be eaten by the worms of their unholy desires, and their never gratified cravings to exploit God’s creations would burn in them without ceasing, as they drifted in the bottomless darkness of all their delusions and lies. But why will God want His true elect to “go out” and “look on” the graves of the non-elect?

Our God Jesus will never want us to forget how the devil sowed non-elect spirits in human bodies on this earth, among His elect children. Then He also wants us to remember how He has always had to force His elect to part ways with those non-elect. He had to expose the entirely ruthless, loveless ways of the non-elect by allowing them to even murder some of His elect, before the elect were even willing to believe that those non-elect were not like them, that they should not believe the lies of those non-elect, nor partake in the sins of those non-elect. Throughout history, our God Jesus has been creating a dichotomy between the loving elect and the loveless non-elect, but even more during these eras just before His second advent. Jesus never wants us to forget true, blatantly honest history, namely how it proves that literally all of the elect had “once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air [i.e., Satan], the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience [who are otherwise known as the non-elect]” (Eph. 2:2, WEB). It has taken many

 

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senseless wars started by non-elect psychopaths through obviously evil motives to convince the elect that they should not support non-elect church and secular wanna-be gods like the popes and Hitler. But now the elect are finally abhorred by their evil, beginning to turn away from those humanists.

Our God Jesus will continue to separate His beloved elect, whose spirits are able to hear His words, from the non-elect, who have no ability to hear Him (John 8:42-47). But He begins that separation by teaching and training elect spirits, which often means getting their attention, by making it difficult for their flesh to maintain its friendship with the loveless non-elect. God will lift His elect out of the dungeons of dark emptiness and despair, where the non-elect hold all terrorized, faithless, stubbornly ignorant elect souls captive. But He cannot deliver them until their spirits first let go of the lies that the non-elect tell them, until their spirits heed His truths. For it does no good to deliver them from one hell if they immediately dig another hell to imprison themselves in it. First the elect must know God’s will for them, the kind of just and loving will which governs His heaven above. Then they need to abandon the lies and sins practiced in hell, especially those of humanism, so God can nullify the works of Satan and help them build His just, equitable, loving kingdom on earth for themselves.

Although the lies of the non-elect may trick or coerce elect minds of flesh to rebel against God’s truth for a time, and cause the flesh to suppress or “take captive” its own master, the spirit, this is never a permanent condition. Literally, all elect spirits bear an ability to hear truth, and eventually all will hear it, once the troubles of their flesh cause their flesh stop suppressing their spirits. Then those awakened elect will go to Jesus. All elect spirits will eventually hear and heed His Holy Spirit by the end of the judgment day, although some will only embrace Him and His truths in the very end, on that final day. And, up to recent times, it has seemed that most elect did not hear Him while on earth.

But times are changing. We are nearing the end of the fifth seal’s era, and soon the sixth seal’s revival will initiate a time when most elect spirits will hear and heed Jesus’ Holy Spirit. Then, by the time the plagues of the seventh seal end, all the surviving Gentile elect will know and love Jesus, followed by all the Jewish elect on the day Jesus returns. So, even now, Jesus has already begun to polarize and dichotomize, dividing the elect from the non-elect, although most humanistic churches have been choosing the wrong side. For His salvation does not come through through their lies, but only through His name, through the worship of elect spirits in the truths that He personally teaches.

We see this dichotomization more and more each day, separating the elect from the non-elect as His return approaches. For it must be completed before the day He will judge the entire living world, killing all the non-elect who trample His Word. As Jesus said, “Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left” (Mat. 24:40, ESV). On the day of His return, even as everyone is doing their daily works and carrying out their daily lives, the non-elect will die while the elect will live to see Jesus land in Jerusalem to rule the earth. All the spirits born of Satan together will see their own flesh perish, no matter where they might be on the earth, and not one will escape alive.

In Isaiah’s prophecy, God said, “they shall come and shall see My glory” (66:18). This refers to the Gentile elect from all nations and languages coming to learn from Jesus in Jerusalem, hosted by the elect Jews in Israel. And, ironically, this welcoming of Gentiles to Israel by elect Jews will occur very soon after Gentile non-elect from many of those lands had come to Israel with the beast’s armies to kill those very same elect Jews, but died instead at Armageddon. Nevertheless, it is actually those non-elect who will see the glory of Christ’s second coming most closely and brightly, although it will be the glory of His unstoppable wrath, as they perish. For they will be manipulated by God, to gather in Israel for their own public execution. Yet the Jewish elect in Israel will see that

 

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glory of Yahweh Messiah even more fully, since He will land among them. Then the Gentile elect coming to Israel will also behold that brightest glory as they see His presence in Jerusalem’s temple.

And when Isaiah listed the places where those Gentile elect will come from, to visit Israel and see the glory of Jesus, he recorded the farthest nations he knew about, and Yahweh confirmed that these would be nations who shall declare His glory. Then Isaiah included all the far-off lands that have not heard God’s fame or seen God’s glory. In other words, no matter how far from Israel any nation might be, only the elect will remain alive in those lands and all will declare God’s glory during that time, in the days of the future millennium, while Jesus rules the earth. Now, since the Jews will be in Israel to greet Jesus when He comes, then God will sent Jews out to bring Gentile elect home to Israel and serve as the hosts of countless Gentiles, even after very many Jews have died in Israel, then we must conclude that there will be millions of Jews who had come to Israel before the return of Jesus. And most must have been apostate Jews, since many will die as traitors to God in the gardens, but many others will only repent from their apostasy on the day Jesus returns. I am sorry to repeat these facts so often, but it is because so many false churches are denying these obvious truths.

So, as we have been seeing apostate Jews returning to Israel since the 19th century, this has been a very definite “sign” signaling the imminent destruction of the wicked and the subsequent world-wide rise in God’s esteem among the elect for the sixth seal’s revival. And the growth of the Jewish population in Israel is a “sign” that Israel is almost ready for Jesus to return, and the end of Satan’s world order, especially the end of his humanistic religion formed by his fourth kingdom of Rome. In the sixth seal’s era, which may come very soon, 144,000 Jewish male virgins in Israel, along with others, shall be “sealed” by Yahweh Jesus, dedicated to His service, as John described in the Revelation. Most of these will die, presumably in wars with the beast. However, it seems that most of these 144,000 will be brought back to life on earth during the first resurrection, to serve with Jesus, as his priests during the entire millennium. Yet a world-wide revival of the true church will occurs at that time as well, and the survivors will serve as the New Covenant priesthood, even with some Gentile elect serving as the equivalent of Old Covenant Levitical priests, until the earth ends. Then all will serve as His royal church family in heaven too, for no elect spirit can ever possibly die.

By referring to the “earth” several times, and to “all nations and tongues,” the world-wide scope of this prophecy is clear and definite. It is certain that, after the events described in this Messianic prophecy, literally “all flesh,” all the surving people on the earth, “shall come to worship before” Yahweh God, who is the Messiah Jesus in Jerusalem. And this means all the survivors will be God’s elect children, since none of the elect can worship God in any real way. Thus, all non-elect will die..

In the days immediately after Jesus returns, at the beginning of the millennium, the people of Israel and the world will be able to go to places where bones of the beast’s armies lie, and where the corpses of all the other non-elect lie everywhere else on earth. For it will not be possible to bury them all, not until many years have passed. And, as they look upon those who rebelled against God, they will remember their God’s wrath against them, but His grace for them. All those elect will have personally experienced how those wicked fools ruthlessly oppressed and murdered their brothers and sisters in the family of humankind, especially the non-elect who loved the fascist form of humanism practiced by the beast and false churches. But those haters of God and His elect will all lie silent, utterly incapable of doing any more evil on earth or in heaven above. The living, all of whom will be God’s elect, shall know those evil souls will spend eternity in hell, where “their worm shall not die and their fire shall not be quenched,” where their impotent darkness shall torment them forever. Then the elect will realize that their God Jesus, who defended them, is just, not a cruel and unjust God like the humanistic churches and secular mockers portrayed Him to be. Then they will know that, if any

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injustice existed on earth, it was due solely to the evil motives and intentions of human beings, or due to criminal negligence and a refusal to hear God’s warnings. So now let our elect spirits learn to hear and heed our God, because His grace seeks to freely save elect sinners from lies, sins and death.

Jeremiah 32:26-27,31-33,36-44 (ESV): “The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ‘Behold, I

am [Yahweh], the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for Me? [This is addressed to Jeremiah,

who is wondering how God could possibly save the people of Israel after they were utterly crushed by

Babylon.] … This city [Jerusalem] has aroused My anger and wrath, from the day it was built to

this day, so that I will remove it from My sight because of all the evil of the children of Israel

and the children of Judah that they did to provoke Me to anger—their kings and their

officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

They have turned to Me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them

persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction....

“‘Now therefore thus says [Yahweh], the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you

[Jeremiah] say, “It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by

pestilence”: Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in My

anger and My wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will

make them dwell in safety. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. I will

give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for their own good and the

good of their children after them. I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I

will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of Me in their hearts ,

that they may not turn from Me. I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in

this land in faithfulness, with all My heart and all My soul. For thus says [Yahweh]: Just as I

have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good

that I promise them. [Here the prophecy regresses, turns to a new subject. And the new subject is about

when God shall begin to bring His people back to their land.] Fields shall be bought in this land of

which you are saying, “It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the

Chaldeans.” [The Chaldeans are the Babylonians.] Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds

shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin [i.e., in lands near Jerusalem],

in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country [parts

of what is called the West Bank in Israel], in the cities of the Shephelah [the southwestern plains of Israel

up to the coastal lands, but not Philistine Gaza], and in the cities of the Negeb [or Negev, Sinai, south

Israel]; for I will restore their fortunes, declares [Yahweh].’”

This prophecy begins with God telling Jeremiah that He is “the God of all flesh,” that He rules over all minds and bodies of flesh. So it is He who raised Babylon to power, making it able to destroy Jerusalem in Judah. And it is He who handed Babylon’s flesh over to the manipulations, lies and delusions of Satan, so it would become willing and eager to do such a senseless and stupid thing. It is God who punishes both Babylon and Israel. God punished Babylon by granting them Satan as the ruler of their nation, to drive their elders mad with selfish ambition, greed and the terrors of being stabbed in the back by other elders, and to make the people into slaves of men rather than internally and externally blessed and free servants of God. Then God granted the Jews perceptions of suffering and death in their flesh, as correcting punishments, to grab the attention of the elect spirits among them, so those spirits might begin to learn something useful and good from His wise Holy Spirit. So a little matter like removing the power of Babylon and restoring abundant life for the His elect Jews in Jerusalem and all Israel would not be at task too hard for God. But first God would teach and train

 

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their spirits to hear and heed Him, to trust His truths and wisdom more than counsel of sinners, to fear the consequences of straying from that truth and wisdom, and to live by their spirits’ just love.

Then God told Jeremiah why He would destroy Jerusalem and its temple. It was because: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares [Yahweh]. This city has aroused My anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from My sight” (Jer. 32:30-31, ESV). Even Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were foolish and carnal at times, and did not always seek the counsel of God. Then, when God formed Israel into a family nation during their Exodus from Egypt, and granted them their first governing elders chosen by Himself, including a very humble and willing servant called Moses, those fools rebelled against their wise God over and over again. Throughout the history of those natural branches in the family tree of the priesthood of Israel, whom God sends out as a light to the whole earth, they “have done nothing but provoke [God] to anger by the work of their hands.” To this very day, they do the same. And their temple, which Solomon built before he fell into complete apostasy, was supposed to represent God’s presence among them. Yet they had always desecrated that temple, by teaching false doctrines which the syncretized with God’s Word, to those standing in that temple.

All human beings are extremely stupid creatures. Therefore, it takes a whole community, with various individuals each stupidly applying a very limited array of different God-given aptitudes and skills, for them to even survive. And the most stupid of all human beings are the non-elect, who somehow think that they can make themselves happy by exploiting, terrorizing and enslaving the far more gentle and mild elect, even though such things make them even more miserable, and always end up destroying both themselves and everyone around them. But the stupid elect allow those non-elect to do this, and do not listen to God or His Law. And God did warn them that it is a bad idea to let the non-elect do such things to them. His Law told them that they should only choose the elders whom He has chosen to be the governing elders of their nation families. For each individual in a family nation learns from that family. And it takes centuries or millenniums to change the patterns of thought within a family nation, where they seem to step back almost as much as they step forward.

Although Israel had an advantage among all the other family nations, because they were granted God’s Law and the prophets, they did not make much more progress than any of the other nations around them. For they wanted to be like the other nations, with a psychopathic “king” ruling over their flesh so they too could destroy themselves by seeking carnal pleasures of the flesh, while they suppressed the spirits of the elect. Their spirits had always stupidly ignored the wise teachings and counsel of God, so their minds of flesh could wallow in the muck of carnal impulses and Satan’s destructive counsel. Thus, God had to constantly strike ever more severe blows against their flesh, to wake up the elect spirits among them, to get those elect spirits to keep on listening to His counsel, so they might learn how to live just and abundantly loving lives from Him. But that family nation of Israel would take a very long time, with many blows to their flesh, to learn to reject the destructive counsel of Satan, to turn to the counsel of their God. For it is now about 2600 years since they began their Babylonian captivity, where more than two thirds of all Jews have remained scattered among pagan nations in the Diaspora. And now some have learned to reject humanist religious teachings from their rabbis, but most still wallow in Satan’s religion of humanism. Nevertheless, Israel has become a family nation again, and has witnessed the effects of the humanistic sect of the beast’s fascist humanism. They have not learned much, but they are drawing closer to God’s wise ways.

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was built in Jerusalem through David and Solomon, and from the day that God removed the temple from Jerusalem for the past two millennia, during the Roman invasion in AD 70. However, the Jews were always half-hearted or worse, even mixing the doctrines of Satanic humanism together with the teachings of God. Few have truly respected God, nor feared the ruthless cruelty and destruction they caused by ignoring His counsel. From their kings to the lowliest slaves, all ignored God’s teachings which He had granted to them through His prophets and apostles, until God could no longer send them any more prophets, because they even killed the body of God when He came to them Himself.

Therefore, God told the Jews that Jerusalem and its temple “is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence.” This began their 2600-year exile into Gentile nations over all the earth. A few Jews, about a third, returned to their land for about 600 years, but they too were scattered into the Diaspora with the rest, after they rejected their Messiah and God, so they could remain in the muck and mire of Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman humanism. But that was only a partial return, and temporary, not the full and final prophesied return of literally all the Jews to their land. That final return was to occur only after their Messiah and God ruled over their entire priesthood nation, after all the Jews in world willingly esteemed and served their God.

Then, immediately after announcing the doom of Jerusalem, God promised this to them: “Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in My anger and My wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever. Fore their own good and the good of their children after them. I will make an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of Me in their hearts, that they may not turn from Me. I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all My heart and all my soul” (Jer. 32:37-41, ESV). All these words deserve to be carefully studied during these times, as the era of the fifth seal is ending and giving way to the beginning of the end times. For times will be even harder then, and we need this hope.

So first notice that here God speaks about an “everlasting covenant” with Israel, where He promises to do all kinds of good for them. And also notice that not one of these good works, even the most internal alterations of their spirits, was conditional upon what they would do for Him or for their own salvation. God emphatically declared that literally all these promises would be His own works for them, in them and through them. God Himself will cause them to be gathered in the land of Israel and remove them from the Diaspora, for it was also God Himself who scattered them there, through His “anger … wrath and in great indignation,” since they heeded Satan’s destructive counsel instead of His own wise counsel, although they were to be His priesthood to the earth. God “will make them dwell in safety,” by destroying their enemies with His own hands. God will cause them to become His worshiping and faithful people, and will serve them as their providing and protecting God. And these are the two principal promises of His eternal and unconditional New Covenant, as well as the same two principal promises of the eternal Abrahamic Covenant, which His New Covenant fulfills.

God Himself will accomplish this salvation of all Israel by fulfilling His two principal promises, by collectively giving all the Jews “one heart and one way, that they may fear [Him] forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.” And one “heart” means that all their spirits in all their hearts will worship Him, by esteeming and serving Him, all in the same way, all in the “one way” God ordains for all. For then He will no longer need to “turn away from from doing good to them,” since they will no longer turn away from Him. Then look at how God proclaimed that, in the end, He will finally fulfill His New Covenant with all of His heart and soul. And, since neither the heavenly Father nor His Holy Spirit has a heart and soul of a body to dwell within, this means that

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Yahweh God will fulfill His New Covenant with His priesthood of Israel through His body in which He has dwelt in from the beginning, that is, in the body of His Messiah, who is our Lord God Jesus.

There is also an order of events in this prophecy. First God will bring the Jews back to their land, then He will fulfill His two principal promises, and gather them into the New Covenant relationship with Himself. And God also defined this “everlasting covenant in the previous chapter, where He called it the “New Covenant” (Jer. 31:31-34), where God also promised to serve as their God and to cause His people to respectfully serve Him for the good of all. And in that previous definition of His eternal New Covenant, God also ensured us that it was unconditional. It is clearly not a work of man, but a work which had to be done exclusively and solely by God Himself, through His own will and power. Therefore, any interference with God’s works by man can only hinder His works inside us.

So, as we see in this and all the other prophecies, God will not gather all of Israel into His New Covenant relationship until after some apostate Jews return to their land, and the rest after Jesus also returns to that land in glory, at His second advent. Then God will fulfill the two main promises of this New Covenant within the spirits of literally all surviving elect Jews. Then He will not turn away from them, but serve them as their God and transform them His faithful priesthood—by putting a fear of Him in their hearts. For both the brave and the cowardly need to fear God more than Satan and their enemies Otherwise, they will heed Satan and their enemies more than they seek and heed the counsel of God. Then they will destroy themselves, instead of finding safety and joy in Jesus.

This also means that we need to learn how to live according to way our spirits hear the Spirit of God, and not by our flesh. It means that the minds of our spirits must manage the minds of our flesh in the chambers of our souls, so our spirits can listen for and process the concepts which Jesus’ Holy Spirit pours into the minds of our spirits. It means we must not let demons and man manipulate the lusting and self-centered minds of our flesh, causing our flesh to take our spirits captive and push out all the thoughts of our spirits from our souls. Our amoral and selfish flesh needs to fear God, so it will set our spirits free to hear God. Our flesh needs to fear God’s wrath so much that it will set aside its very self-indulgent ways to serve our spirits, as our spirits serve God for the good of all our loved ones.

And notice how this New Covenant is about God’s own faithfulness producing the faithfulness of His people, albeit through a very long process of exacting His very severe wrath against their flesh. For His people never were collectively faithful to Him, which is why He states that He Himself will cause them to fear Him and cause them to become faithful. All faithfulness to God requires faith in God and in His words, a spirit’s confidence and trust in His love, steadfastness and guidance. But this can only be achieved if a spirit is freed from the suppression of its flesh, and after God Himself has faithfully taught and trained that spirit for some time, until that spirit learns to truly hear Him and trusts all that it receives from Him. So literally all of this resulting faithfulness originates from God, and none of it originates from a supposedly “free human will,” only from a child’s shaped and trained will, only from what an infantile spirit learns to do through the works of the heavenly Father.

However, God’s physical covenant promises for their return to the land did not seem so enticing. For, although Israel would someday return and “fields shall be bought in this land,” those Jews would say of their land, “It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given in the hand of the Chaldeans” (Jer. 32:43, ESV). And, for many years after the Jews purchased that land, in the late 19th century and during most of the 20th century, they said exactly this, as soon as they saw that land. For that land had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire, by the descendants of the Chaldeans. And those Chaldeans had mismanaged that land so badly that it did indeed become a “desolation, without man or beast,” a treeless and infertile wasteland with very few people or animals in it. Also, God said this purchasing

 

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of that land was to occur after the Chaldean or Babylonian captivity began, with their dispersal into the Diaspora. But God did not specify how long it would take before they would purchase their land which had become a “desolation.” God only assured them that their final return, with His gift of His New Covenant salvation, was not their partial return only about 70 years after their Babylonian captivity began. For that partial return was not to a land that was a “desolation, without man or beast,” but to a still fertile land with many men and beasts in it. Still, if God told them it would take 2600 years of captivity in the Diaspora before they even began to return, then more than another 100 years before He gathered them all into His New Covenant after that, it might be a little discouraging.

Also remember how Danial prophesied that Babylon, who were Chaldeans, were the head of all four kingdoms, including the following Persian, Greek and Roman empires. And this “desolation” of Israel did not actually occur until the days of the Ottoman Empire—about twelve centuries after the Romans destroyed Israel in AD 135, and deported most of the Jews who had returned to the region of Palestine in the 6th century BC. For the Ottoman Empire also proudly saw themselves as the new Roman Empire after they conquered Constantinople in 1453, but with a new religion that had not only replaced the Jews of the eternal Abrahamic Covenant, but also Gentiles of the New Covenant.

So this prophecy is actually describing how God gave Israel into the hands of all four kingdoms associated with the first and head of all four kingdoms, that is, not only Babylon, but also Persia, Greece and Rome. For Rome, the fourth and final form of Babylon, still exists today through its religious power of both secular and theistic humanism, which is the foundation for all humanistic laws, philosophies, traditions and practices. Rome lives on through its hierarchical institutions of most nations, as well as in the Roman Catholic church and its daughter churches, including the Muslim religion which adopted its false doctrines of replacement theology from the Roman Catholic church. And remember how John, the apostle in the first century AD, frequently called the Roman Empire, the city of Rome, and the prostitute church in Rome, by the name of its head, “Babylon” (Rev. 14:8;16:19;17:5;18:2,10,21). Therefore, when we are looking at the timeline of the prophecy through Jeremiah, we are definitely not able to interpret it as the period between the start of their Babylonian captivity and the return of about a small minority of the Diaspora 70 years later. What it is actually referring to is the current and final return of the Jews to their land, about 2600 years after their Babylonian captivity began. Only now have they purchased a “desolate” land, and are building it up in readiness for their Messiah’s return, which will save all Jews, then return all to their land.

Also, the desolation of the land of Israel by the Roman wanna-be Ottoman Empire had only been completed shortly before the Jews began to return to their land in the 19th century. Thus, it was only in the latter part of the 19th century that Jews began to purchase land there. Only then could the Jews return and begin to buy and restore their land to its original condition. So this part of the prophecy must be speaking about the beginning of their final return from their Roman captivity, the return we are witnessing today. For, with the detailed descriptions in this and other prophecies, we know that their final return cannot refer to at any other time since their Babylonian captivity began. At no time in history were the Jews able to purchase a land of “desolation” in Israel, then settle in all these named areas: “in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of Shephela [ southwestern plains of Israel up to the coastal lands, but not the Gaza strip], and the cities of the Negeb” (Jer. 32:44). Nor at any time during the past 2,000 years were Jews able to purchase land in way where God “restored their fortunes” (also v. 44). But we have seen Israel purchase land in all these places today, and with many of their fortunes restored.

But this still does not refer to the rest of the promised land that God gave to Israel, which will all be returned to her after their Messiah returns—including the land “from the river of Egypt to the great

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river, the river Euphrates’ (Gen. 15:18), and from the Mediterranean coast to some miles east of the Jordan river, even parts of what is now the Sinai, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. And the Messiah’s economy will not use money for the distribution of goods and services. Rather, after Jesus rules the earth, all goods and services will be distributed as each has a need, and granted by willing workers who help or hand out necessities as each is granted the ability to do so. Land will be distributed to those with an aptitude and desire to farm, and all will be provided for their work. So, because this prophecy indicates the purchase of land, it must refer only to the beginning of the return of the Jews to their land, at a time before Jesus returns, in preparation for His return. Then, in the next chapter, Jeremiah clarifies that Jesus will return after many Jews, perhaps a third, had previously returned.

Jeremiah 33:6-25: “Behold, I will bring to it [Jerusalem] health and healing, and I will heal

them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. I will restore the fortunes of

Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first . I will cleanse them

from all the guilt of their sin against Me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and

rebellion against Me. And this city shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before

all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear

and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.

“Thus says [Yahweh]: In this place of which you say, ‘It is a waste without man or beast,’ in

the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or

beast, there shall be heard again the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the

bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank

offerings to the house of [ Yahweh ]: ‘Give thanks to [Yahweh] of hosts, for [Yahweh] is

good, for His steadfast love endures forever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at

first, says [Yahweh]. Thus says [Yahweh] of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or

beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.

In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb,

in the land of Benjamin, the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, flocks shall

again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says [Yahweh].

“‘Behold, the days are coming, declares [Yahweh], when I will fulfill the promise I made to

the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will cause a

righteous Branch to spring up for David, and He shall execute justice and righteousness

in the land. In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this

is the name by which it will be called: ‘[Yahweh] our righteousness.’ For thus says

[Yahweh]: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, and the

Levitical priests shall never lack a man in My presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain

offerings, and to make sacrifices forever.’

“The word of [Yahweh] came to Jeremiah: “Thus says [Yahweh]: If you can break My

covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at

their appointed time, then also My covenant with David My servant may be broken, so that

he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and My covenant with the Levitical priests My

ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be

measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David My servant, and the Levitical priests who

minister to Me.’

“The word of [Yahweh] came to Jeremiah: ‘Have you not observed that these people are

saying, “[Yahweh] has rejected the two clans that He chose”? Thus they have despised My

 

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people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight. Thus says [Yahweh]: If I have not

established My covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth, then I

will reject the offspring of Jacob and David My servant and will not choose one of his

offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their

fortunes and will have mercy on them.’”

Jeremiah gave this prophecy while he was imprisoned by apostate Jews, and just before Babylon was about to destroy Jerusalem, then send the Jews into their long exile. At this time, God told him, “Call to Me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known” (Jer. 33:3, ESV). So Jeremiah did call on God. And he obviously wanted to know, after God hid His face from Jerusalem and Israel because of all their evil, would that city and its inhabitants ever become a faithful and joyful people of God again. Then God revealed His future plans for Jerusalem and His people of Israel, His plans for the days when the Messiah would rule Israel and restore all. God then promised that He Himself would do the work of cleansing His people of Israel from their own guilt against Him, forgive their rebellion, and restore His relationship with them. Then they would receive “health and healing,” as well as an “abundance of prosperity and security,” the very opposite of what Jeremiah saw all around him on that day. When the Messiah caused Jerusalem to become “a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth,” then God would “restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first,” where they would “tremble because of all the good and prosperity” He provided for them, knowing they were unworthy of it all.

But God would do this rebuilding through an extremely long, painful, arduous process of teaching His people about the evils of Babylon’s infant religion of humanism, not in a day. And, in the end, God will rebuild Jerusalem and Israel much bigger and better than they ever were at any other time, extending their land to the borders He promised to Abraham four thousand years ago. And notice here that God considered their false teachings and wicked deeds to be ultimately against Himself, to even be a rebellion against Himself. When they trampled over the poor and made them suffer under the yokes of the wealthy and powerful, they were trampling God’s property, because God owns all.

Therefore, since all their sins were ultimately against Him, He Himself, not they themselves, would need to cleanse them from all their guilt of their sins and rebellion. God would need to establish an abhorrence of all the evil they so routinely thought and did, so that they would never think or act in those ways ever again. And God not only needed to teach and train a few individuals, like Jeremiah and the other prophets, to think and act in just, equitable and loving ways. He also had to transform the collective thinking and actions of His entire priesthood of Israel. Only after the pervasive beliefs and behaviors of all His people, as His priests acting in His name, reflected His own thoughts and works, could God begin to restore them, could He begin to exalt them as His servants representing Him to all the earth. And nations are very stubborn, resistant to change, with many non-elect souls among them, with evil ones who thrive on inequity and injustice, who deceive the elect into thinking that evil is good and good is evil. So this collective education of His entire priesthood would require centuries of proving that the pagan ways are indeed destructive and wrong, before all the elect in Israel would repent into the truth. And this collective repentance of all the elect in Israel would not be completed until Jesus returned, until He exposed all the evils of Satan’s world order to all. Still, all elect Jewish individuals who died before His return also will be redeemed on the judgment day.

At no time in history was Jerusalem “a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all nations.” For it always had strife caused by greed and evil motives of a despotic elite who served only themselves. So, when this prophecy describes a time when all nations on earth see Jerusalem as the role model for all their own cities, as the praise and glory of their own people, it is clearly talking about the

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Jerusalem during millennium of Christ’s rule. Yet not all of this prophecy speaks about that time. I repeat, the return of the Jews to Israel is a long process. Jeremiah, who was suffering during the time of Babylon’s invasion, naturally emphasized the end result of God’s work, of returning the Jews to their land. But Jeremiah also wrote about another future time, before all would be restored. First would come a time when there would be “a waste without man or beast,” even in all “the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate.” Jeremiah already saw that happening in his own day, as Babylon was about to send his people into a captivity which would last 2,600 years.

After Babylon, the Jews never returned to their land. For a time, a few returned during the time of the beast’s second empire, Persia. And those Jews lived there until the third and fourth empires of the beast (Greece and Rome) reached their zenith. But the Jews in their land only reached about a third of their entire population, and always under conditions of oppression, with constant threats of war from Persia, Greece and Rome. So Jerusalem and the cities of Judah were never fully restored, and all ended up “desolate” in the end, after Rome exiled those few remaining Jews in the second century. Then, by the time the ancestors of the Chaldeans (Babylonians) in the Ottoman Empire had completed their destruction of that land in the 19th century, Jerusalem and the cities of Judah became truly “desolate,” with hardly a “man or beast” in them. Neither people nor animals wanted to live that dry, barren, hostile land, that is until the Jews began to return and transform it into fertile land.

So I repeat, this prophecy once more indicates that the Messiah will only return after the Jews return to their desolate land and begin to settle it. And, since the Jews of Jerusalem will “bring thank offerings to the house of Yahweh,” to the temple in Jerusalem when the Messiah rules there, it also indicates that the Jews will indeed build a temple in Jerusalem at sometime after they begin to return to their desolate land. A third temple period will begin before Jesus returns, since the Jerusalem temple will also exist during the entire seven-year reign of the beast, which ends on the day Jesus returns. It cannot be built before Islam fails, before Egypt and the former Assyrian lands convert to Christianity. However, the Jews around the world are already talking about building a temple there.

This is virtually the same prophecy we saw in the last chapter, reiterating that previous prophecy for emphasis. The final return of the Jews will begin with the initial return of a minority to a desolate and underpopulated land, the kind of return we saw in the last century. Then their Messiah will come back to the land of Israel and begin to restore their land. Only after Jesus returns, will He call all the rest of the Jews in the world back to their land. However, as the population of Israel grows to more than triple its size, and all those Jews also host myriads of Gentile worshipers in their land as well, they will obviously require a much larger land to live in. And, after about two thirds of the earth’s population has perished during the end times, the lands around this current Israel will be sparsely populated. Thus, Jesus will grant much of that surrounding land to Israel. He will grant the Jews literally all the land He promised to Abraham, since very few Gentiles will be living in those lands.

There are also significant points made in this prophecy. First, when it says God will fulfill His promise to the house of Israel and the house of Judah (42:14), it refers to God’s New Covenant promises that Jeremiah wrote about in a previous prophecy (31:31-34). And the way God will fulfill the principal promises of that New Covenant—to serve Israel as their God and to cause them to serve Him—is by sending their Messiah to them, who is the One whom Jeremiah calls the “righteous Branch to spring up for David” (42:15), meaning that a descendant of David’s flesh, the body of the Messiah, will rule Israel and the world with irresistible power to “execute justice and righteousness in the land” (also 42:15). Some may sin in other lands, but the land of Israel will be just and loving.

 

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Next, this prophecy says that “in those days,” that is, in the days of the Messiah, “Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will dwell securely” (42:16). So this indicates that Israel will not be “saved” before “those days,” or at least not all of Israel’s elect will be saved until the Messiah returns. Only after their Messiah returns in glory to rule Israel and the world will all Israel be “saved.” And, since this is talking about the salvation of “the house of Israel and the house of Judah,” it seems to be speaking about literally all of the natural Jews, all those from Israel cast into the Diaspora through the Assyrian invasion and all those from Judah who would enter the Diaspora after the Babylonian invasion that Jeremiah was witnessing. Literally every descendant of Jacob would be saved into the Messiah’s New Covenant at on the day of His return. And it is speaking about a spiritual salvation, since it is the kind of salvation which saves them from their guilt of sin and rebellion against God.

Therefore, if the land of Judah and Israel will be saved after the Messiah comes in His glory to rule Israel and the world, we must conclude that that (1) the Jews will already be living in the land of Judah and Israel at the time that Jesus returns, since Jeremiah is here addressing the Jews who have purchased deeds to property in the land of Judah and Israel, and (2) these Jews in the land will not be spiritually saved through the New Covenant until their Messiah comes in glory. And, since Jeremiah calls Jerusalem by the same name God gave to the Messiah (see 23:5-6), which is “Yahweh our righteousness,” then it implies that Jerusalem will serve the Messiah as His extended body on earth, as His faithful ministers of His will on earth. Furthermore, this also indicates that their righteousness, their just and pure love which is identical to that of the Messiah, will come from their Messiah and God. Their loving and just ways will not originate from the wills of men. For now human being is ever born with the knowledge, wisdom, power or ability to make himself or herself righteous in any genuine way, nor can any human ever be taught and trained into loving righteousness by any human teacher. For all humans are indeed foolish sinners. Literally every elect human being’s spirit must be taught all knowledge and wisdom by the Holy Spirit of Jesus, and also must have the will of one’s own elect spirit shaped and strengthened in righteousness by the experiential training of His Spirit.

This prophecy about the restoration and salvation of all Israel is clearly speaking about a time that has not existed since the day Jeremiah wrote it. For, even before the days of Jeremiah, Israel was split in two and many of its lands no longer belonged to David’s throne. Thus, there was no man “to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.” Also, from Jeremiah’s days onward, there were often false high priests or no high priests at all, and Israel has no real high priest to this day. For, when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem’s temple in AD 70, the records of the descendants of both the high priest and David were lost, because all the genealogical records of Israel were burned when Romans burned temple and killed their descendants. So no man make a valid claim to either office in our day.

It is impossible to accurately trace any Jewish man’s lineage, through his fathers, all the way back to David or the true high priest from the line of Aaron. Even genetic research can only determine whether or not someone is mostly Jewish, and possibly one’s tribe. We can tell whether or not someone is from the tribe of Judah or a Levite. But this is only approximate, because Jewish men often took Gentile wives and all twelve tribes of Israel dwelt in Judah by the time the Babylonian began. Then we must consider that many Gentiles converted to Judaism during the centuries. So some Jews bear only a trace of Jacob’s blood in them, and some have none, although their Jewish ancestry can be tracked back many generations. So it is impossible to confirm the descendants of each firstborn from David to find the heir to his throne, nor the descendant of Aaron whom God will choose to be the Old Covenant high priest. And this also means that it is impossible for a Messiah to be born and recognized as the Messiah in our day, since a major Messianic sign was that He would be David’s heir. Nor is it possible to establish sacrifices in the temple led by any true high priest.

 

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Yet, in this prophecy, God reiterated His promise made to David, and repeated: “David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel” (42:17). So the king over all Israel will be the true heir of David and sit on a throne in Jerusalem. This is not merely the king of the southern tribes in Judah, as the king was in Jeremiah’s day, but over both “the house of Israel and the house of Judah.” Likewise, this prophecy states that “the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in My presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offering, and to make sacrifices forever” (42:18). But God’s Law stipulated that only “sons of Aaron” could make these offerings and sacrifices, the high priest in particular. So this prophecy is saying that some kind of immortal man, whose lineage cannot be broken, will be this king and high priest for all of Israel. And, in this Messianic prophecy, it means the Messiah is to be both the King of all Israel and the High Priest in God’s presence for the Levitical priests, but the High Priest over a New Covenant priesthood, replacing the moral Old Covenant Aaronic high priest.

But how can God forever keep a descendant of David on the throne over all of Israel and make Him the High Priest over all Levitical priests if, as most Jews say, the heir to David’s throne has not yet appeared in the world? The time when their Messiah could have come has passed and genealogical records are all long gone. For Daniel prophesied when the Messiah would come, and his prophecy said the Messiah will come in the first century. And now no one’s direct lineage can be traced to either David or to Aaron. So there no one in our day who is able to fulfill all of God’s prophecies about the Messiah, unless it is someone who came in the first century, as Daniel prophesied, a man who will also return in the future, a man whose life or bloodline cannot end by any means. And the end times are approaching, since the Jews final return to Israel, when it becomes a nation again, has already begun. Now we know Israel definitely had genealogical records when Jesus was born. So we are certain that Jesus was actually the legitimate heir to David’s throne, since none of His critics dared to question those extant genealogical records. Those records proved that Jesus was David’s only legitimate heir to the throne, both through the genealogy of His virgin mother’s father (Heli, father of Mary, see Luke 3:23-31), and also through His surrogate father (Joseph, see Mat. 1:6-16).

So now the Jews have a big problem when it comes to identifying their true Messiah, the descendant and legitimate heir to David’s throne, not to mention what Jeremiah prophesied about the Messiah becoming their High Priest. So now those Jews simply say they cannot know who the real Messiah will be, and cannot believe any of the prophecies of Scriptures, because it is too late for any of that. Rather, they will simply guess the identity of the coming Messiah, through their own carnal cunning and through their own supposedly “free wills.” They totally ignore the Messianic prophecies because they know all the signs of the Messiah have been rendered mute since the second century. But all the elect Jews will believe all of those detailed prophecies when our immortal and risen Messiah Jesus returns to Jerusalem from the sky, with hosts of heavenly angels and myriads of resurrected elect Jews and elect Gentiles in His train. Then they will know all of the Messianic prophecies were true.

It can only be because Jesus rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and shall return in His body of flesh which shall never die, that, “David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.” Only in an immortal body of flesh, can Jesus will sit on the throne of all Israel until the end of the millennium, and also serve as the eternal High Priest throughout that length of time. Then He will live on, transfigured from earthly flesh into an eternal spiritual body, together with the rest of the elect, so He and His people may dwell forever in the New Jerusalem of heaven above. Jeremiah was prophesying that God’s Messiah, Jesus, would forever be the King of Israel and the world, even until the very end of the world and throughout eternity. And, clearly, all who say that Jesus will not physically return, or that the church alone will rule the world as His body, are not hearing his words.

 

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There will be many descendants of David in the last days, and many Levitical priests. And all will be doing God’s works, with a definite knowledge of who they are, when Jesus returns. For Jesus will be sure to reveal their identities to them, but not through bloodlines, only according to their inherent aptitudes and propensities to serve Him in those ways, since some in that Levitical priesthood will even be chosen from among the Gentiles. But there will only be one Messiah, one King of Israel and all the world, who lives forever. Jesus will be Israel’s King and High Priest forever. Levites will serve Jesus as priests to help counsel, guide, teach and judge the rest of the church of Israel, and the rest of Israel will serve as priests to serve one another in the world in every other way. This will not be a hierarchical system, but each will serve according to one’s own abilities granted by Jesus, and each will be provided for according to each one’s need. Jesus is the Head of every man, and will send whoever is able to minister to whomever has need. Each will serve whatever needs one is best able to serve, for the sake of whomever needs serving, all with humility, without esteem for men.

God promised all this and more in His Scriptures, revealing one promise after another, from the days of Moses to the days of the apostles. All of these promises are the New Covenant which God made with His priesthood of Israel and Judah. And, when God makes a promise in a covenant, it shall be done, since an omnipotent and omniscient God can never contradict Himself. And no other creation of God can ever cause Him to break His covenant. So God declared this about His covenant: “If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time, then also My covenant with David My servant may be broken, so that He shall not have a Son [i.e., with the Messiah] to reign on his throne, and My Covenant with the Levitical priests, My ministers” (Jer. 33:20-21, ESV). Since human beings cannot stop the day and night from coming in their appointed times, then Israel and Judah cannot possibly hinder or stop God from fulfilling His New Covenant promises through Jesus, the Son of David in the flesh. No amount of sin in Israel and Judah can nullify God’s New Covenant with them. So the replacement theology of the fake churches is dead wrong, and the Jews have not sinned so much that God has rejected them in any way. In reality, the New Covenant salvation never depended on Israel and Judah at all, nor upon the good works of any other people. It only depends on the will and power of our God.

Then God also affirmed that, when the Messiah returns, He will rule “the two clans that He chose,” although the surrounding Gentile nations thought Yahweh had rejected both “clans” (Jer. 33:24). These two “clans” were the northern tribes (later called Israel) and the southern tribes (later called Judah). But, at no time since the days of Rehoboam (931-913 BC), and certainly not since the days of the Babylonian captivity, have these “two clans” ever been ruled by one king. Still, both will be ruled by one King, by the Messiah Jesus, in the end times, just as David ruled both “clans” in his day. And we, for the first time in history, are now seeing the “clan” of Israel and the “clan” of Judah joined into one people in one land. When the Jews began to return to their land this time, they made no distinction between the “two clans,” just as Jeremiah and others prophesied. And they have been generally counting all Jews of all tribes and all creeds as one people since the great persecutions of this fifth seal’s era. Because the Gentile Roman humanists in this era have not made any distinctions between one Jew and another, all Jews had to band together for their own survival, although Jewish humanism is also factious, and still separates one group of Jews from another. But the point is that, only recently, in this fifth seal’s era of persecutions, have the Jews been united enough to form the one nation of Israel again. Only now have they been made ready to be ruled by their Messiah King.

For many centuries the Gentiles have been saying that God “rejected the two clans that He chose,” and that God now despises His people of Israel, “so that they are no longer a nation” (33:24). That is, at least this part of the fallacy of replacement theology is very ancient, dating all the way back to the

 

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days of Jeremiah (6th century BC). So God told Jeremiah: “If I have not established My covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth, then I will reject the offspring of Jacob and David My servant and will not choose one of his offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them” (Jer. 33:25-26, ESV). In other words, God will never reject the Jews, nor ever replace them with any other people, not with Gentile so-called “Christians” nor with Muslims. For God is ever faithful.

Antisemitism began with the people of the beast’s secular kingdom, Babylon. And it reared its very ugly head throughout all four kingdoms of the beast, culminating with Roman antisemitism, which has endured through its religion of humanism to this day. Rome grew bitter about the Jewish-Roman wars of the first and second centuries and, like all psychopaths, they have held on to that bitterness, and will never let it fade, but will keep stirring up that irrational hatred until God destroys them all, since hatred is loved by their spirits. Even the final beast will not let go of it, although the original false justification for that hatred has been long forgotten. Yet we must not heed the lies that the four kingdoms of the beast tells itself. Rather, we need to love our Jewish siblings in the family of God.

And remember, false churches belong to the beast’s kingdom, even though it is a factious kingdom where secular and theistic humanists hate one another. The Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters embraced the Roman beast’s blasphemous antisemitic lies as well, and have taught replacement theology for centuries. Since they despised God’s people and God’s promises to them, they have hated God Himself. Clearly, this prophecy about God’s redemption is speaking about the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David. It is not figurative in any way, not about a new Gentile humanistic church. It is about the natural Israel, the physical Jews, who shall be returned to their own land of Israel, to repossess it forever, not about Gentile churches that supposedly replaced the Jews. And, as this prophecy indicates, there will be many Jews in Israel, Judah and Jerusalem before God sends their Messiah. And the Messiah is a physical descendant of David, a Jew who will rule over Jews as their King, who will also save all elect Jews from their sins, as their High Priest.

Jeremiah 50:18-20 (ESV): “Therefore, thus says [Yahweh] of hosts, the God of Israel:

Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the

king of Assyria. I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and in

Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. In those days

and in that time, declares the Lord, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none.

And sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a

remnant.”

Even before these past five eras of the last days, we have seen God “bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land.” For the king of Babylon was the author and head of humanism, the first of the four kingdoms of the beast, and the namesake of all four. The humanistic kingdoms of Persia, Greece and Rome are Babylon have been handed over to the delusions of Satan since their beginnings, for the destruction of their people and lands. God’s punishments have rained down upon them since they began, but more and more as the end times approach. And, during this fifth seal’s era, as Babylon began to more intensely persecute God’s elect Jews and elect Gentiles who opposed their injustice and lies, God has also increased His punishments upon their lands. The more evil and ruthlessly a humanistic a land might be, the more it has become engulfed in wars, rebellions, famines and torments of every kind. And their punishments will not end until Jesus ends them at His return.

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restored, which has already begun in our day; and (3) in the days of Israel’s restoration, during the same time, a “remnant” of the restored land’s survivors will remain in the land, with all of their sins pardoned and forgiven, with all of her people are made righteous, which will occur after Jesus returns. And Jews now live in the regions of Carmel (between West Bank and Mediterranean) and Ephraim (approximately the West Bank). But Bashan and Gilead are in Syria, east of northern Israel and are not part of modern Israel. However, that might change, considering the troubles in Syria. So we are definitely seeing the second phase of this prophecy being fulfilled in our day. This means that third phase, with the return of Jesus, may occur within a few generations, possibly even the next one.

Since the third phase is definitely a prophecy about the end times, after Jesus returns, but all three promises of God are prophesied together, it seems to imply that it is talking about the sequential completion of all three phases in the future. The first phase is covered by the eras of the first four seals, the second phase begins in this fifth seals era, and the third completes the process in the era of the seventh seal. Since the kingdom of Satan’s beast, during the seventh seal’s era, is called Babylon, God will complete the destruction of Babylon on the day of His return. And during all seven eras, the humanistic empire called Babylon will continue to be punished with senseless wars and self-induced tribulations, caused by the delusions of the greedy and power-hungry human gods that they worship.

But first Israel must be physically restored, with a large and sinful population living in Judah, since God said He will “pardon those whom I leave as a remnant” in the land. Many Jews must first return, and they must be sinful when they do, if God is going to pardon their sins when the Messiah will return. Then they will endure some terrible wars and other tragedies, if only a “remnant” will survive by the time He does return. Somethings will greatly reduce their population in Israel, before God will pardon the sins of the surviving remnant. And Jeremiah clearly cannot be speaking about the first return of the Jews to Israel during the time of the Persian Empire in this prophecy, because he is prophesying about a time when “iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none.” But we know that never occurred after their return in the days of the Persian Empire, nor with any other church or nation since then. Thus, this prophecy can only be referring to the days after Jesus returns.

Ezekiel 11:17-20 (ESV): “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord [Yahweh]: I will gather you

from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I

will give you the land of Israel.’ And when they come there, they will remove from it all its

detestable things and all its abominations. And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I

will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart

of flesh, that they may walk in My statutes and keep My rules and obey them. And they shall

be My people, and I will be their God.”

Here Ezekiel quotes the two main promises of the New Covenant, which Jeremiah also prophesied about (Jer. 31:31-34). God told Ezekiel that there will come a time when: (1) God will serve Israel and Judah as their guiding, counseling, protecting and providing God; and (2) they shall serve God as His faithful people. And Ezekiel would almost surely have read or heard all of the prophecies of Jeremiah, since Jeremiah was still alive when Ezekiel was young. Thus, Ezekiel here quoted the two principal salvation promises of the New Covenant which was to be granted to Israel and Judah when the Messiah came. So now let us look at the sequential order of the events God revealed to Ezekiel.

At some time after Israel and Judah sinned and were dispersed among the Gentile nations by Satan’s kingdom of Babylon, God would gather an unspecified number of Jews from the lands where they had been scattered and assemble them in the land of Israel. Then, after they came (Hebrew = bo), they would remove all the detestable things and abominations from the land. But they shall do this

 

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because God has collectively granted them to take this action after He puts “one heart and a new spirit … within them.” This cleansing of their land will occur after Yahweh “will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in My statutes and keep My rules and obey them.” That is, Jesus came to fulfill God’s Law in us and through us, by writing His Law in the minds of our awakened, renewed spirits, as the salvation promise of His New Covenant.

So this process which Ezekiel prophesied about has begun in our day, in the era of the fifth seal. But it is not yet completed, and cannot be completed until the Messiah Jesus returns to puts a new spirit within the Jews. It is only after God does this work of the true New Covenant salvation in them that they shall consistently walk in God’s ways. Ezekiel reiterates this in other places as well, such as in 14:11. God, through His New Covenant, will make them righteous. So first God will bring the Jews back to the land of Israel as apostate sinners. Then the Messiah will come to spiritually restore them.

Hosea 1:10-11 (ESV): “Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the

sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them,

‘You are not My people,’ it shall be said to them, ‘Children of the living God.’ And the

children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint

for themselves one Head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of

Jezreel.”

The land of Israel is “the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people.’” Both God and other nations said this to Israel in the days of Hosea (8th century BC, before the Assyrian invasion), and God and the other nations are still saying it to this day. For Muslims, countless false “Christian” churches, as well as nations in Europe and around the world all continue to say this about the Jews, especially the Jews who have formed the nation of Israel. And God often says this to Israel as well, especially when they act ruthlessly and ignorantly against their enemies, without wisdom or mercy.

Furthermore, while the Jews were forming their nation of Israel again in the 20th century, their world-wide population definitely increased exponentially, “like the sand of the sea,” far greater than their population in Hosea’s time. So that part of Hosea’s prophecy is definitely fulfilled, but only in these recent times. Thus, Hosea’s prophecy is finally proving true, impossibly, after 2,700 years. Now Hosea began his prophecy by saying the apostate and sinful people of the northern tribes of Israel could no longer be called God’s people, and God would cause them to crushed and cast out of their land. This occurred when the Assyrians led them into captivity (722-721 BC). Then he also prophesied that, in the end, those tribes of Israel, and all other descendants of Jacob, would multiply and eventually be called “Children of the living God.” Also, they would be called His children “in the place where” they were once punished for being unfaithful, that is, within their land of Israel.

Hosea prophesied that both “the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together” in their land before being called “children of the living God.” Both will become God’s children, after both once more lived in the physical land of Israel. And, if the northern tribes of Israel will become God’s children in the land of Israel at some future time, after being expelled from their physical land by the Assyrians, then, logically, they must first return to their land. Also, they must return as an apostate people. They must first return as unbelievers whom God does not call “My people,” before God and the Gentile nations will call them God’s children, as well as after Israel has been joined together with the southern tribes of Judah. That final future return and Israel’s joining to Judah has been exactly what has begun to occur. So the time when all in the land of Israel will be called “children of the living God” is coming very soon, when our Messiah Jesus returns to Israel.

 

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First the Jewish Zionists, who were mostly secular humanists and did not even want to be called “God’s people,” returned to the land of Israel. Then God helped those unbelievers, together with anyone whom the Gentiles might call a Jew, form the nation of Israel again, just as Hosea and the other prophets prophesied. And, again, this was in preparation for when Jesus returns and all Israel will repent to Him, when all will be called “children of the living God.” Therefore, Hosea is yet another prophet who confirms that the current Israel is not a so-called “bastard Israel,” which the replacement theology of mainline churches claim. Israel was never permanently cast out by God.

When false churches teach replacement theology, they oppose God and nullify God’s Word. They denounce God’s promises to His people and slander Him. In reality, God only disciplines His children, usually more harshly than the pagans. But our Father never permanently rejects them. He made Israel to be His eternal priesthood of His church, His children who will serve beside Him in the permanent homeland forever. And salvation is not a lottery where only some will win a piece of real estate in heaven, but a process where God educates infantile elect spirits in the ways of love.

Of course, in the days of Hosea, the northern tribes of Israel had long since separated themselves from the southern tribes living in Judah, since the days of Rehoboam. But here Hosea prophesied that all the tribes would come together in the end, and “shall appoint for themselves one Head.” For, in those days, the kind of biblical democracy did not vote for elders by ballots, but by choosing to either acknowledge the teachings and judgments of a man, or leave the “camp” where that elder served the rest of the people. So Hosea’s prophecy does not mean that Israel will cast ballots to elect one Head, one King and High Priest to rule over both their secular and religious matters. Rather, it means they will all willingly choose to submit to one Head’s teachings and judgments, that is, to the Messiah Jesus. They shall all repent to Jesus, and follow Him as their only Head Teacher and Priest.

After Israel repents and chooses their Messiah, “they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.” This alludes to the time when Jehu, in the 9th century BC, rose up while he was in Jesreel, to slaughter the entire household of wicked Ahab and Jezebel, to free the land from their corruptions, just as Elijah prophesied. Then Jehu took the throne of the northern tribes of Israel and killed all the prophets of Baal. This was the last time God worked in that land for her good, and Jehu was the last king of these northern tribes who even began to heed the words of God. But, soon after that, even Jehu committed apostasy by worshiping Jeroboam’s golden calves in Yahweh’s name. So he and every subsequent king of the northern tribes of Israel were evil and idolatrous after that, until God had utterly destroyed them by 722 BC—killing many, taking thousands captive into Assyria and forcing all others to either flee into Judah, or hide in the rural areas until the land was safe enough to openly dwell in again. And, to this day, a remnant of all those northern tribes remains among the southern tribes of Judah. The Jews of today are from all twelve tribes of Israel. And, much sooner than most people think, all twelve tribes of Israel will repent to Jesus and voluntarily “appoint” Him to be their only Head of every individual man. All Israel will rejoice in Him, will serve Him in truth.

Hosea 2:13-23 (ESV): “And I will punish her [i.e., Israel] for the feast days of the Baals

when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went

after her lovers and forgot Me, declares [Yahweh]. Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and

bring her into the wilderness [i.e., captivity among the Gentile nations], and speak tenderly to her.

And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.

“And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of

the land of Egypt. And in that day, declares [Yahweh], you will call Me ‘my Husband,’ and

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mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more. And I will make for them a

covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping

things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will

make you lie down in safety. And I will betroth you to Me forever . I will betroth you to Me

in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to Me in

faithfulness. And you shall know [Yahweh].

“And in that day I will answer, declares [Yahweh], I will answer the heavens, and they shall

answer the earth, and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall

answer Jezreel [i.e., Jesreel refers to the northern tribes of Israel], and I will sow her for Myself in

the land. And I will have mercy on No-Mercy , and I will say to Not-My-People, ‘You are My

people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

First God said He would “punish” the northern tribes of Israel, because they “forgot” their Husband and Father, their Head and Teacher, their God Yahweh. And the Hebrew word translated as “punish” was pawkad, meaning “visit with hostile intent,” in this context. But God never said He would reject them forever. God simply said “I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness,” meaning He would scatter them into the Gentile nations when Assyria invaded. Then we saw above (Hos. 1:10-11) that this scattering would be temporary, because God would bring them back into their physical land of Israel, where all would soon repent into the truth. While in the “wilderness” of the Diaspora, God would begin to “speak tenderly to her.” That is when God “will giver her her vineyards,” that is, the vineyards Israel had once had in her own land. That is when God would return her to her land.

And when God returns Israel to her land, they will “make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.” This reference to that valley indicates that Israel will return to their land after a great curse had fallen upon them. In this prophecy, God was recalling the time when His power and wisdom refused to uphold Israel because they, and a man called Achan in particular, had “taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived” (Josh. 7:11, WEB). As a result, 36 men were killed by the enemy, Israel’s armies were defeated, and their enemies gained confidence, threatening to destroy all of Israel. So this was a serious curse against Israel. But, in the end, they prayed, found the stolen “devoted” treasures, then executed the principal offender in the Valley of Achor. Then God forgave Israel’s covetousness and their self-centered attitude, where they allowed each individual to strive for personal gain at the expense of their whole community. Then God restored His relationship with Israel and saved them from annihilation by their enemies. In this way, the Valley of Achor became “a door of hope,” much like the Nazi holocaust did in opening the door for the creation of the nation of Israel in 1948, after many displaced Jews from Europe flooded back into their land.

At this point, God told Hosea: “And there [i.e., in the land of Israel] she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt” (2:15b). Therefore, Israel will “answer” God from within their land, will repent after they have already returned to their land, not before they return to their land. God also declared, “in that day … you will call Me ‘my Husband,’ and no longer will you call Me ‘my Baal’” (2:16). So, “in that day” of answering God, they will no longer be apostate Jews, no longer call on God as though He were some kind of pagan god invented in the minds of their humanistic rabbis, in the same way Israel equated Yahweh with the demonic god Baal in Hosea’s day. “In that day,” while living in the land of Israel, Jews will realize that Yahweh God, who will come to them in the body of Jesus, is their Husband, their beloved, to whom they express their love by serving Him, by joining Him in His works for His purposes, to serve as the family priesthood of God in all the world. God “will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more” (2:17). And, after the Assyrian city state of

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Babylon became the four humanistic empires culminating in Rome, their Baals did indeed gain many different names, and are now called by names such as capitalism, communism, sexual prowess, financial independence, political power and so on. But, when Israel loves Yahweh Jesus at His return, all those names, all those covetous concepts of personal gain, will be forgotten by all.

The expression, “in that day,” means “during this event” or “during this period of time.” It cannot mean, “before this event occurs,” as replacement theology thinks it does. So the repentance of an apostate Israel will occur after the Jews from all twelve tribes begin to return to their land, after this final return that we have been witnessing during this era of the fifth seal. They will repent to Jesus while some live in the land of Israel, some during the time of the great sixth seal’s revival and all the rest, including all remaining in the Diaspora, on the day Jesus returns, as all the prophecies stated.

And this will be a true salvation of their spirits, entirely worked by God Himself, not some kind of humanistic ritual of the flesh, not by submitting to some kind of magic sacrament worked by the hands of deluded sinners, nor by a magic “Sinner’s Prayer” which supposedly manipulates God into assigning them a piece of real estate in heaven. God repeatedly declared, “I will” do all that will save Israel from their captivity to the lies, delusions and sins they were trapped in by Satan’s world order. These works of God will not depend upon the “free wills” of Israel, because their wills had already been enslaved by demonic spirits, had already been convinced that the Creator God Yahweh was just another cheap, little, dirty demon like Baal. Their slavish wills need the real omniscient, omnipotent God’s almighty power, teaching of real truth, discipline of training and alluring love to save them.

God makes it abundantly clear that He will do all that is necessary to save them. And it is interesting that the first aspect of their salvation was this: “I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground” (2:18a). In those days, these three archaic classifications (beasts, birds and creeping things) included literally all of the creatures living on land, every moving entity which is not a plant or fungi. And, since this is God’s covenant with these creatures, it is not referring to His New Covenant with Israel and Judah. Also, since He will make this covenant “on that day,” on the day of their repentance when Jesus returns, it will begin on that day. So this refers to God’s covenant to restore the earth to a productive natural state, and even cause the lion to lie down with the lamb, as the other prophecies say. Our God Jesus will need to do this because the entire earth, by the time He returns, will be devastated by His plagues and wars, even with many animals killing many human beings. And Hosea must have seen that devastation in a vision. So, one of the first things Jesus will need to do, upon His return, will be to miraculously restore nature into balance, so all His elect remnant will be able survive after that.

Then God proclaimed: “I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety” (2:18b). God, not man, will make war cease in Israel, on the day Yahweh Jesus returns. God will bring peace and safety to Israel forever, after Jesus begins to rule Israel and the world from Jerusalem. As we find out in other prophecies, Jesus will begin this process by casting Satan and the demon-possessed beast directly into hell, destroying their evil kingdom, and killing all the non-elect children of that devil, until none but the elect remains on earth. Then His Holy Spirit will teach and train these elect survivors to walk humbly, through love for all of their siblings in the family of humankind, in peace with God and one another. Thus, there will not be any more wars in the world, until Jesus releases Satan again at the end of the millennium, to erase the very last traces of humanism from the earth. Until then, Israel and all nations will dwell in safety.

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in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness. And you shall know Yahweh” (2:19-20). By the way, the word translated here as “betroth” was nothing like a modern betrothal, not merely being engaged to be married. It was a full and binding marriage covenant, a verbal or written contract that each spouse made with the other. It was the full marriage which entitled the man and woman to literally all the privileges of marriage, without limitations or restrictions, and it could only be broken through a legal divorce. So here Hosea is actually describing God’s eternal, unconditional New Covenant relationship with Israel, likening it to His completed “marriage” covenant with Israel.

God will call Israel His bride “forever,” even after her earthly bodies die and go to heaven. And, because God will write His Law into the minds of their eternal spirits, by personally teaching all His ways to their spirits, Israel will serve Him “in faithfulness,” as a bride who experientially knows her Husband, who loves Him and does all she can to become absorbed into His abundant life. Just as her Husband is equitable and just, she too will serve Him “in righteousness and justice.” And, just as her Husband’s love is steadfast toward her and always merciful, she too will serve “in steadfast love and mercy” toward all His people of the world, and toward all His other creations. For this will truly be a marriage made in heaven, a union of God and human beings ordained since the day He created their individual elect spirits to be exactly what they were, then shaped those spirits to be His holy bride.

God will take an apostate Israel and make her into His righteous, faithful bride, and cause her to walk steadfastly in justice, ministering God-like love together with their Messiah, serving Him as His priests, teaching His ways to the whole world, whom they will host together with Him. After God causes all this, just as He said “I will” cause all this, Israel will truly and inwardly know their God, Yahweh Jesus. He will be their familiar and beloved Father and Husband. “In that day” or during the time of Israel’s return to their land, God will “answer” (pay attention to, heed, respond to) Israel, and even restore the earth for them, making all lands bear good fruit. And God also declared, “I will sow her for Myself in the land” (2:23). After Jesus returns, He will plant all the Jews on earth in the land of Israel, “for Himself,” for His own loving purposes of hosting elect Gentile visitors in Jerusalem and in the rest of that land. Through all of these works, God will fulfill the two principal promises of His New Covenant salvation: (1) Israel and all elect Gentiles will become His people whom He loves, protects and provides for; and (2) all elect spirits will truly worship Him as their only God. And all the other promises of the Abrahamic and New Covenants will be fulfilled too.

Hosea 3:4-5 (ESV): “For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince,

without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods. Afterward the children of Israel

shall return and seek [Yahweh] their God, and David their King [i.e., this refers to their Messiah],

and they shall come in fear to [Yahweh] and to His goodness in the latter days.”

This prophesied that Israel would “dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.” And, in the context of this prophecy, this was likely about both the northern tribes of Israel and the previously mentioned southern tribes of Judah. So all the Jews were to remain scattered in Gentile nations without a national government or nation, without a temple where they could make sacrifices, and without a high priest wearing the ephod. On the other hand, they would also be without a pillar dedicated to pagan gods and without idols in their homes, meaning they would still worship the God of the Bible, or at least pretend to do so. This condition or state of Israel would last for an indefinite, long period of time, until three events would finally occur.

After a very long time, “in the latter days,” these three things will happen in order: (1) the children of Israel shall return” to their homeland; (2) they “shall seek Yahweh their God and David their King,” that is, this implies they will strive to become a nation with a religious identity, with a temple

 

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of Yahweh and seeking their Messiah’s return; and (3) “they shall come in fear to Yahweh and to His goodness,” meaning they will truly repent, with spirits approaching their true God Yahweh, in the Messiah, with respectful fear, receiving the “goodness” of His spiritual and physical blessings in every aspect of their lives. Thus, whenever we see this process begin, the “latter days” have begun.

This could not refer to Israel’s return from the Babylonian captivity, even though they did become a nation and build a temple, because the third step did not occur. For Israel remained highly factious and humanistic during that entire time, then rejected their Messiah Jesus when He did come to them. So they did not “come in fear to Yahweh” and did not receive “His goodness.” Rather, they ended up killing one another as the Romans were killing them, then saw their temple destroyed and the few Jews in Israel were cast out again into Gentile nations where they remained until the recent times.

But now the Jews, the descendants of all 12 tribes who existed in Judah since Assyria’s invasion, have returned once more. And they have been returning in a way and at a time which fulfills all the other prophecies about their final return, as discussed above. Israel has also become a nation again, with a government and with leaders. Furthermore, Israel is already talking about building their temple for Yahweh again, although they are waiting for God to destroy the humanistic religion of Islam first. Then we have seen the other signs of other prophecies fulfilled, and we know we are living in the era of the fifth seal. Therefore, those “latter days” of Hosea’s prophecy have begun.

Hosea 5:14 to 6:3 (ESV): “For I will be like a lion to Ephraim [i.e., the northern tribes of Israel],

and like a young lion to the house of Judah [i.e., the southern tribes of Israel]. I, even I, will tear

and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue. I will return again to My place, until

they acknowledge their guilt and seek My face, and in their distress earnestly seek Me.

‘Come, let us return to [Yahweh]; for He has torn us, that He may heal us; He has struck us

down, and He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will

raise us up, that we may live before Him. Let us know; let us press on to know [Yahweh];

His going out is sure as the dawn; He will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that

water the earth.’

God made it very clear that it was He who tore apart Israel and Judah like a lion tears apart its prey and “go away” from them, that He would “carry off” the remnant into the Diaspora and that no rescue from His wrath was possible. He declared “I, even I” would do all this, with emphasis. For it was ultimately God who raised up vicious Assyria, then the ruthless Babylon from within Assyria, as well as the fourth kingdom of Babylon, called Rome, to do His bidding against Israel and Judah, to brutally kill their people and carry them off into captivity. For they had forsaken God and His words, had committed idolatry, first with the Assyrian gods, then by worshiping human beings as gods since the days of Babylon, up to this very day. So the people of Israel and Judah were not yet ready to truly desire God and His just ways of peace through righteous, selfless love. Since His chosen people remained cold and unjust to one another and to all men, God gave them over to the cold and unjust Gentile nations whom they loved more than God. First the people whom He formed to become His priesthood nation, to serve the world in His name, had to learn how to serve all people in His name.

So Israel and Judah were to remain in their wretched and deadly state of constant peril “until they acknowledge[d] their guilt and [sought] My face, and in their distress earnestly [sought] Me.” So, surely we can admit that this is exactly what has happened throughout history. And it is also true that most people will remain in the same old rut of self-worship and apostasy until they are literally forced to repent. Some must suffer years “in their distress,” even generations of reaping a deadly harvest of all the sins they have sown, before they earnestly seek God. It is amazing how self-

 

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destructive and absolutely stupid people can be, and how much they willingly endure the pains and deaths of their own lies and sins, before they will confess their guilt before God and seek His face.

At this present time, the Jews still cling to humanism in an adulterated form of Judaism, with man-made rule upon man-made rule taught by rabbis whom they worship far more than God Himself, and whom they heed far more earnestly than they have ever heeded God’s words. Yet these sins bring them nothing but God’s wrath, because they slander His name by committing those sins in His name, as a people who claim to belong to Him. Yet, in spite of all the suffering and deaths they cause for themselves, they love their lies and sins, falsely claim to be obeying God’s Law as they lie and sin, and refuse to repent into the truths of God. They are just like the Trump worshipers in America right now, who justify their racism, cruelty to the poor, elderly and sick, support for the sins of the obscenely wealthy, and even their denial of scientifically proven realities of God’s creations, all based on a perverted, humanistic religion they blasphemously call Christianity. Consequently, as they harden themselves against God and His word, God casts them ever deeper in self-destructive delusions, and sends them sons of Satan to rule over them, liars and murderers just like their father.

But the false worship of the Jews, and its consequential pain with deaths, is rising to a final climax, and shall rapidly decline very soon. Now many are beginning to truly, honestly, inwardly seek the real God, Yahweh, as well as His own intended meanings of His Law and His teachings. For secular Jews have seen what the religion of secular humanism, the religion of Hitler and the future beast, has done. And religious Jews have seen the results of their humanistic, Pharisaic religion, which always substitutes the rules of human gods for the ways of the real God. And now that their various sects of humanism have placed them in great distress, the elect among them are earnestly seeking the real God and His real truths, both the truths found in His Word and in His creations. In fact, Gentile elect have felt the very same distress through their various sects of secular and religious humanism too, and many of them are doing the same as well. For this earnest seeking of the real God and His genuine ways of just love as the fifth seal’s era is ending is preparing the elect for the great revival during the sixth seal’s era, when most elect Gentiles and many elect Jews will repent into the truth.

This fifth seal’s era of increased persecutions against those who uphold the real truths of God, the elect whose spirits have been convicted to uphold God’s true and equitable justice for all of God’s creations, is seeing this phenomenon more than ever before. That is, now both Jewish and Gentile elect are saying, “Come, let us return to [Yahweh], for He has torn us, that He may heal us; He has struck us down, and He will bind us up” (6:1, ESV). At the present time, most elect minds of flesh are not fully aware that their spirits saying this, but their spirits are indeed saying this in their hearts. And most elect do not yet know Yahweh Jesus by His biblical names, but their elect spirits do indeed know and recognize the Holy Spirit of Yahweh who is speaking to their hearts, about the terrors and deaths they experience all around them, and about how He and His genuine biblical ways can heal them and bind up their wounds inflicted by His wrath against all lies and sins. And an awareness of what God’s Word actually teaches is growing throughout the world. So the days of the sixth seal are about to occur, when “He will revive us” and “He will raise us up, that we may live before Him.”

And notice how Hosea, whose concepts of this prophecy came directly from God’s Spirit, wrote: “After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live before Him” (Hos. 6:2, ESV). First, a “day” (Hebrew = yom) refers to an period of any length of time, from 24 hours to thousands of years, but time period defined by a beginning and end, just as a biblical day begins with darkness (evening) and ends in light (the daylight hours). And, in Hebrew, the first prepositional phrase translated as “after two days” can also be translated as, “continuously during two time periods lasting for an unspecified length of time.” During two of these time periods God

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will “revive” both His Jewish and Gentile elect. Then, not “after” or “during,” but “on” the third “time period lasting for an unspecified length of time,” God will “raise us up” or “make us stand” in a specific way or for a specified purpose. On the third time period, we will be raised up or standing “that we may live before Him” or to be “before His face,” that is, “in His presence.” Now, from the other prophecies, we know the third time period, when we will live in the presence of Yahweh Jesus dwelling in Jerusalem, will last for a thousand years. So it is likely that this prophecy also means that God has been reviving us “after” or “continuously during” two thousand years as well. And it has been almost two thousand years since Yahweh Jesus came to us in a body of flesh before our faces the first time, then ascended and left us in AD 28. Thus, the “third day” should arrive fairly soon.

The Jews taught that a thousand years is as a day and a day is as a thousand years with the Lord (II Pet. 3:8). Peter was not just quoting a Christian saying, but was quoting a derivative of a Jewish teachings. Long before Christ’s first advent, the Jews taught that the earth will exist for only a week of millenniums (for seven thousand years), where the first six “days” would be millenniums of trouble and labor, but the last millennium would be a Sabbath rest, the time of the Messiah’s rule on earth. By the Jewish calendar, it is now (in 2024) the year 5784, and some Jews think the Messiah will come to them about 216 years from now, in about AD 2240. However, based on a millennium per “day” theory, when Hosea prophesied the act of God raising up Israel to “live before Him” on the “third day,” it seems that he meant this it would occur after two millenniums pass, in the third millennium. Since Hosea prophesied this in the 8th century BC, or was referring to the time of the Assyrian exile in 722 BC, the third millennium would begin in about AD 1277 and end in 2277.

So, if Israel was to be raised up to stand before the face of Yahweh Messiah sometime within the third millennium, we have not seen it. Nothing even resembling that began in AD 1277, nor have we seen any sign that third third “day” would end sometime before 2277. That fits none of the other prophecies either. But if Hosea’s three millenniums were to begin after the final exile of all Israel, which his prophecies were primarily about, that is, if they would begin after the Romans cast the Jewish people out of Israel in about AD 135, then the third millennium would begin in 2135 and would not end until AD 3135. And that fits the the three millenniums per “day” prophecy better, as well as the timeline of all the other biblical prophecies. Then another three millennium theory would begin when the prophesied Messiah was rejected by most of the nation of Israel and crucified in AD 28, since all else was ultimately a result of that. Thus, the third “day” would begin in about 2028, which is too soon, although the end times of the sixth and seventh seals may actually begin by then.

Hosea’s prophecy does seem to indicate that the Messiah, who is Yahweh, will come to Israel and the Jews from Israel and Judah will dwell in their land, in His presence, as soon as the third millennium begins. So it is helpful prophecy in terms of determining the time of Christ’s return, but not precise. All we know from it is that Jesus may come sometime between 2028 and 2135. And the thousand years per day are approximate numbers of years which can vary within a margin of almost a hundred years. So it is impossible to calculate the exact year of Christ’s return from this prophecy. And that is not our goal. Our goal is to glean the more important truths granted by God through this prophecy. And those truths tells us that Israel will become more and more focused on returning to God, to Yahweh, after they return to their land, until Yahweh comes to them and they will live in their land before His face. It is more helpful for us to learn this from this prophecy than to speculate on the exact year Jesus will return, especially since the first event of Hosea’s prophecy has been fulfilled (the beginning of Israel’s return to their land). Now we can expect to see Israel seek God’s healing and revival during these times of strife, in this current fifth seal’s era and in the sixth seal’s revival.

 

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Today, even after many Jewish people have returned to their land, they are still being torn and struck down. They have been so very severely disciplined by their Father in heaven that no other people on earth can be compared to them. Truly God does discipline the flesh of children in His family priesthood the most severely, because He wants them to become the most well-taught and most well-trained people on the earth. As one Jewish apostle once told us, “the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and chastises every son whom He receives” (Heb. 12:6, ESV). Because of this strong discipline, designed to turn them away from destructive lies and sins, toward His beneficial truth and wise justice, we must conclude that the heavenly Father truly loves them, and that He must fully intend to ultimately welcome them into heaven, after He completes and perfects their spirits on the judgment day. And, very soon, He will also call them to work closely beside Him and before His face, to share in His very important works during the upcoming millennium. Otherwise, why would He be so careful to ensure that He disciplines and corrects them so much now, that He perfects them so much more thoroughly and carefully than He has for all the other people groups living on earth?

And the elect Jews are not the only people suffering from persecution and murder on this earth. So many elect Gentiles have suffered and died for the sake of the actual just, equitable truths found in God’s Word as well. This fifth seal’s era of persecutions has been a horror, with millions of Jews and even more millions of truth-saying elect crushed by Roman humanists throughout the world. And the times are only going to get worse. However, “let us know” our God and His Word better. And “let us press on to know [Yahweh]; His going out is sure as the dawn; He will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth” (6:3, ESV). Our elect spirits cannot stop His concepts of loving, wise truths about equitable justice from pouring into them, and can only resist His Holy Spirit at our own peril. So it is time to silence our selfish, amoral minds of flesh, so our elect spirits can heed all that our God Jesus says to our spirits, and grow in our New Covenant relationship with Him. Then He will renew our spirits with hope and zeal, like the rebirth of a dry, dead land after a spring rain.

Hosea 11:8-11 (ESV): “How can I give you up, O Ephraim [Ephraim is one northern tribe of

Israel, but here refers to all northern tribes.] ? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make

you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? [Admah and Zeboiim were two irredeemably

wicked cities burned to ashes and utterly destroyed by God, together with Sodom and Gomorrah.] My heart

recoils within Me; My compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute My burning

anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your

midst, and I will not come in wrath. They shall go after [Yahweh]; He will roar like a lion;

when He roars, His children shall come trembling from the west; they shall come trembling

like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their

homes, declares [Yahweh].”

Huge populations of Jews fled to Egypt, or were taken as captives into other parts of the Middle East, including the lands which were previously held by the Assyrian Empire, during the Babylonian invasions (6th century BC). And many Jews also fled to those lands, or were taken as captives into those lands, even earlier, during the Assyrian invasions (8th century BC). Also, Jews in those lands were actually from all twelve tribes of Israel, not just from the southern tribes in Judah. So there are no real “lost tribes of Israel.” God did not “destroy Ephraim,” nor any of the other tribes in northern Israel, although many Jews did become “Gentile” people groups known by other names, and might be called the “lost tribes.” And the majority of those Jews remained in Egypt and in those other lands which were formerly parts of the Assyrian Empire. Most did not leave those lands throughout the time that Israel temporarily became a nation again late in the 6th century, under Persian rule. And

 

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they stayed there during the times of the Greek and Roman empires. They remained there after Rome destroyed Israel in about AD 135. And the Jews remained there, in huge communities, until recently.

Then the Jews began to purchase land in Israel from the Ottoman Empire. And, after the Ottoman Empire fell, the British took over Palestine, then granted huge tracts of barren and under populated land to the Jews, because so many Jews were immigrating there, fleeing from European pogroms and persecutions. This angered the Muslims, because more of their people were immigrating to the area as well, after the Jews had been restoring the land, since their leaders felt that they had a right to steal the works of the Jews. Then, after even more Jews fled to Israel after the Nazi holocaust, the Muslims, who had aligned themselves with Hitler, grew even more angry with the Jews, especially after Israel became a nation in 1948. So the persecution of Jews in Muslims lands exponentially increased. By the time of the Suez war between Egypt and Israel in about 1956, persecutions forced a mass exodus of Jews from Egypt to Israel. And Jews from other Muslims nations also occurred due to Muslim persecution, particularly after the wars with those nations in the 1960’s. About 900,000 Jews fled to Israel during the 20th century. Now less than a hundred Jews remain in Egypt and very few, if any, in the other Muslim countries which previously belonged to the ancient Assyrian Empire.

So God, in Hosea’s time, before the Assyrian invasion, declared that: “His children shall come trembling from the west; they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes” (Hos. 11:10, ESV). So the northern tribes of Israel, who were taken captive or fled into the lands of the invading Assyrian Empire (including Egypt, Jordan, which is “west” of Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, parts of Arabia and Iran, and so on), came “trembling” back to Israel from those lands in the 20th century. And the tribes of Ephraim, who fled to Judah during Jeroboam's time or during the Assyrian invasion, who were also taken captive or fled into those same lands during the Babylonian invasion, also returned to the land of Israel during the 20 th th century. But the majority of them remained in those lands until the 20 century. So this part of the prophecy from Yahweh was not fulfilled until the 20th century, until this current era of the fifth seal’s persecutions. And now we will see the Jews “go after Yahweh.” Israel will soon seek Yahweh their God, and build His temple one Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. We will see the 144,000 Jewish male virgins, and many other Jews repent to Yahweh Jesus during the sealing of the sixth seal’s revival. Then we will see literally all the surviving elect Jews repent to Jesus on the day He returns.

Throughout all prophecies, God affirms His love for Israel. God will never give the natural Israel up and abandon her. Replacement theology can never honestly say that God has permanently rejected and replaced Israel with a new church. Both the Old and New Covenant Scriptures confirm that God maintains His love for her, though He punished her and cast out many generations from their land. God only reject the non-elect in Israel, only loveless, idolatrous spirits, whose sins were worked by evil motives from their spirits. But most of Israel, more than half the Jews, are indeed God’s beloved elect children whom He will never reject. “But of Israel He says, ‘All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people.’ I ask, then, has God rejected His people? By no means!” (Rom. 10:21-11:1, ESV). “God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew.... As regards the Gospel, they are enemies of God for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Rom. 11:2a,28-29, ESV). The enmity of Jews against the New Covenant salvation caused the Gentile elect in the Roman world, from the second century to the present day, to perceive the Gospel as acceptably non-Jewish, as a religion for Gentiles. And, without that false perception, God’s Word would never have been so broadly disseminated into the antisemitic world-wide Roman Empire. But times are changing. Now God is warring against the ignorance of Roman humanistic antisemitism, and is preparing to gather

 

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in the fullness of the Gentile elect from the entire world, into Israel, during the sixth seal’s revival and the seventh seal’s plagues against the whole earth. So humanistic fake churches will soon die.

In addition to this, God promised, through many prophets since the days of Moses, that He will return the natural Israel to their homes, in the land of Israel. Those prophecies have now begun to be fulfilled. Now, after almost two millenniums, God is bringing Jews back to Israel, and they are the apostate secular and religious Jews, all humanists, as prophesied. Yet, instead of rejoicing at the great power, love and faithfulness of God, who keeps His promises even when it seems impossible, many churches hate Israel, and the God who is bringing them back to their land. Look and see how far the churches have strayed from God and His truth! Churches and mosques preach replacement theology, which God curses, but refuse to enter God’s one and only church of Israel together with the Jews.

This current era of the fifth seal is coming to a close, and the end times are about to begin, likely within this or the next few generations. Therefore, we need to know what is coming, so we can then prepare for it, by developing truly loving, cooperating, just, equitable, strong and real Christian communities. For only a united people, working with one heart and one mind in the real Jesus, shall be able to endure those times of God’s devastation throughout the earth. As for the factious secular humanists and humanistic fake churches, God will hand them over to far too many delusions for any of them to survive, and those Romans will only concern themselves with Satan’s tasks of lying and murdering. Now is the time to learn God’s intended meanings of His loving Law, which Jesus came to fulfill in us and through us, as well as about the New Covenant works of our God Jesus for us, which is called the Gospel. And now is also the time to learn about the prophecies of the last days and end times, so we might prepare for them. We must not remain idle and ignorant of such things.

It is clear that many prophecies told us how the Jews would return to Israel at a time before Jesus returned. That return was to occur after the land of Israel became “desolate,” after a time when very few people or animals were living in Israel. And, of course, that desolation of Israel did not even begin to occur until the days of the Ottoman Empire. Nor was that desolation completed until the nineteenth century, not long before Ottoman Empire came to its end in 1918. And the nineteenth century is when the Jews began to return to their land. Prophecies also declare that the Jews will return before God circumcises their hearts, before God cleanses them and puts new spirits within them, before their spiritual salvation, before they enter the Messianic New Covenant relationship with God. And they definitely will not be members of the false humanistic churches, not converts to Roman Catholicism or Protestantism, before they return. So we must reject those churchy myths. We must realize that the current return of the Jews is actually the true beginning of all that fulfills God’s words to the prophets. What we are seeing in Israel and in the Middle East is exactly what had been prophesied in the Scriptures. And the time of their return, during the current eras of the fourth and fifth seals, is the time prophesied by God’s Word. Now it is almost time for the sixth seal to open.

 

Sixth Seal Prophecies

A World-Wide Cataclysm and Great Revival, likely to occur in the 21st century

We know the relatively short era of the sixth seal is coming soon because the increased persecutions of the fifth seal’s era have been occurring for a long time, and now seem to have come to a climax. Yet we also know the the end times have not yet begun, because it will start with a world-wide earthquake accompanied by “stars” falling on the earth to initiate the sixth seal’s era. And, clearly, John was not merely speaking figuratively about such events. Naturally, we realize that, when John

 

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was taken into the future, to actually observe those events as they occurred, he described them in the language of a first-century man. Thus, his descriptions are phenomenological, using the subjective terms of his day. So, while we insist that this prophecy needs to be interpreted literally, it must not be in a way that assumes John used the more objectively accurate terms used in our day. Rather, a faithful literal interpretation seeks his intended meaning. For instance, a first-century man may call meteors “falling stars.” Or, if John saw missiles falling from the sky, he would have no concept of how they could have been made by men and sent thousands of miles through the sky. So he might call them falling “stars” too. Thus, a literal interpretation—seeking John’s intended meaning—would account for all this, and realize that John actually wrote about glowing objects falling to the earth.

Revelation 6:12-17 (ESV): “When He opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was

a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,

and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a

gale. The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island

was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals

and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and

among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on [actually, the

imperative aorist active second person plural form of πίπτω might be better interpreted here as: ‘come bow

over’] us and hide us from the face of Him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of

the Lamb, for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who can stand?’”

This prophecy pertains to the whole earth, since it emphasizes that literally everyone on earth will hide themselves in “caves,” which includes what we might call basements, bomb shelters and other underground places. John’s comparison of “the stars of the sky [falling} to the earth,” to figs which fall intermittently at irregular times to the ground over a period of several days, suggests that these “stars” will not fall all at once, but over a prolonged period of time, likely over a number of days. And the way the people hide themselves in caves, indicates that these “stars” will definitely strike the ground when they fall, causing extensive damage and great danger. They will not burn up in the earth’s atmosphere, like most meteors do. And, if many “stars” strike the earth, this will cause small dust particles to enter and dissipate throughout the earth’s atmosphere. The dust from initial impacts will completely blot out the sun, for a brief time. Then, after it settles a little, the particles in the atmosphere will also make it impossible to see the stars, and cause the moon to turn red “like blood,” in the same way large forest fires and volcanoes cause the same phenomenon. It will be like “the sky vanished” at night. Then John describes a (singular) severe earthquake (σεισμὸς μέγας), but it will affect the whole world, since “every mountain and island was removed from its place,” on the earth. So this one earthquake at the beginning will actually be a series of earthquakes around the world, but all occurring at about the same time, just before the meteors begin to strike the earth just like bombs.

Such language cannot refer to a local earthquake or a few meteors striking the ground in one area. This is a world-wide earthquake, or series of earthquakes occurring at approximately the same time around the world. And it will be accompanied by things falling from the sky that actually strike the ground, causing literally “everyone” on earth to hide underground. For John says that even “kings of the earth,” or secular rulers (βασιλεύς), as well as “everyone” else, will hide themselves from these falling “stars.” Another curious thing about this sixth seal’s era is that the people of that time will say, “hide us from the face of Him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who can stand?” Thus, by the time the sixth era begins, most souls in all nations of the earth will recognize the signs of the sixth seal. Many will actually know enough to declare that the earthquake and falling stars are the prophesied events of the sixth

 

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seal, initiating the wrath of the ruling Creator God upon Satan’s world order, the wrath of God who came to us in the body of the Lamb. And that is fascinating, since the vast majority living at any time in history, and even in our day, do not know enough to say that. Yet the majority will know by then.

Then John prophesied about the sealing of the “servants” of God, which includes most of the elect living upon the earth at that time. And we know this sealing or sanctifying of the elect will begin during the era of the sixth seal because John began his description of that sealing with the words, “After this” (Μετὰ τοῦτο), that is, immediately after he saw Jesus open the sixth seal to begin that seal’s era. So the sealing of the elect, which is a revival of His true church, definitely is a sixth seal event. It begins to gather all the Gentile elect into the Messiah’s New Covenant church of Israel. And the fullness of Gentiles will have come into His true church by the day that Jesus returns. Then, after all the elect Gentiles have come in, all of the natural branches of Israel, all the elect who are physical descendants of Jacob, will be saved on the day of His return—although some Jews will repent during the sixth seal’s era too, at least 144,000 Jews. This sealing is the preparation for Jesus’ return, the process by which our God Jesus prepares His elect to serve Him when He rules over all the earth.

Revelation 7:1-3 (ESV): “After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the

earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or

against any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal

of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given

power to harm earth and sea, saying, ‘Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we

have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.’”

So the end times, which destroy the influence and power of Satan upon the earth, in order to fully establish God’s reign over all the earth through His Messiah Jesus, actually begins during the era of the sixth seal. The end times begin with the destruction of the systems and infrastructure of Satan’s world order through world-wide earthquakes and meteors striking the earth. And the end times begin with our God Jesus establishing His true church, consisting only of the elect, forever upon the earth.

A World-Wide Reset

The eras of sixth and seventh seals are the “end times,” where God begins the process of reversing the balance of power in the world, when the Rock of the Messiah Jesus methodically crushes Satan’s fourth Roman kingdom into dust. It will “end” the devil’s world order, tear down all his systems of unjust power and destroy the control of his hierarchical class systems. Yet these “end times” can also be called “the beginning” of a new world order. For, as God exposes and destroys Satan’s world order, His visible true church will be formed again, and grow even brighter than it was in apostolic times. This new order will be made loving, pure and strong, inwardly and outwardly, by its King, Jesus. For He will prepare His elect to rule the earth with Him for a thousand years, by sending them His Holy Spirit to teach, train, counsel, guide, heal and empower them. Then, by the days of the seventh trumpet, during the era of the seventh seal, Satan’s world order will be utterly annihilated and Jesus will return to physically rule the earth. That shall be the final “end” of “the prince of the air” and his evil rule upon the earth, so there might be a new beginning of our just God’s kingdom.

From the day Adam and Eve sinned, when we gained the power to discern between good and evil, God began a process of teaching and training the spirits of His elect children, to shape their wills in a way where they learned to choose what is just, right and loving. To do this, God allowed Satan to sow the spirits of his children upon the earth and establish his world order. Satan was granted the power to rule over every physical aspect of human society on earth, and was even allowed to poison