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

nothing of the Vatican city standing when he burns it. The professional music used to evoke her deceiving emotional responses of the flesh will be silenced. Her city will never be rebuilt by any craftsmen, no mills and communion bread will ever be made in her again, no candles will ever be lit in her sanctuaries, no weddings will occur in her halls. Above all, the beguiling “sorcery” of her prolific spell-binding rhetoric and religious symbols, including the statues she causes her people to pray before, will be gone forever. For she will pay for her murders of countless innocent lives, whom she slaughtered because they spoke God’s truths, even for all the deaths caused by Roman humanists throughout history, since she caused even atheistic secular humanism to spread throughout the earth.

But the death of the worst sinners, those who deceive in God’s name through false churches, will not be the end of all the wicked on earth. It will soon be followed by the end the beast’s secular kingdom and all the non-elect on earth. Jesus will come within a few weeks or months after this, and He will destroy her destroyer too, the beast and his kingdom. Then neither will the non-elect children of Satan be allowed to remain on the earth either. Only after about a thousand years after Jesus returns will He allow Satan to return and give birth to some non-elect spirits, who will join the rebellion of Gog and Magog against Jesus and His elect. And that last sight of the non-elect will end of all the lies and delusions of all four of Satan’s religious kingdoms spawned in Babylon. Still, the end of the Great Prostitute, and the beast’s influences, will spell the end of Roman humanism, which is the worst form of that religion, so its human gods and hierarchical system will never trouble us again.

By the time the Great Prostitute perishes, all her harlot daughter churches will have died too. There will be no more false churches with mere men as their heads, preaching a humanistic Gospel of god-like “free will,” ignoring God’s will, salvation, truth and love. All those false churches once obsessed about their mother, the Great Prostitute, either in jealous hatred or ignorant admiration. Yet, even the false churches who hated her still respected her, desiring to be rich and powerful like her, longing to know all her “secrets.” All false churches recognized the Roman Catholic church as an ancient founder of their extremely dysfunctional family. So all the elect, whom those harlot daughters snared with tight cords of religious lies learned from their mother, also developed a little affinity with that mother prostitute, in the backs of their minds of flesh, even a little in their spirits. For it is difficult to forget her brainwashing and the incessant trauma of her delusional violence of self-promotion in willful acts of blasphemy. But, when that Great Prostitute faces the demonic beast, and reveals how much she will compromise to spare her life from his wrath, exposing her loveless inner thoughts to the world, her burning will burn all of her lying rhetoric out of the hearts and minds of all the elect.

After the beast annihilates the Great Prostitute, the sleeping elect in her will be awakened and purified, freed from all her lies of fake humanistic religion. Then all the elect in the world will have entered the true church of Israel, and all will be ready to receive their Bridegroom. All the elect on earth will have been prepared to serve God’s creations with Jesus, as one body with His body. Once all the elect see how this prophecy was fulfilled against the Roman Catholic church, and recognize her as the Great Prostitute, there will no longer be any doubts in any of their minds about the evils of her magic “sacraments” performed by robed sinners. All the elect in His true church will seek only the salvation of having their spirits personally taught and trained directly by the Holy Spirit of Jesus.

Once God calls the last of the elect out of the final and worst of all false churches, only His one true church will remain, whose only Head is Jesus, where the only inheritance of its priesthood will be the real God Himself. Then, within several weeks, Jesus will return and remove all the non-elect destroyers from the earth. So no false church will ever exist again on earth again. We will never again see a robed or suited wanna-be god on a raised pulpit, uttering lies about God and His ways, seeking to rob us and the world for personal gain, striving to exert power over our hearts and lives.

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Then we shall only see humbled elect souls laboring together in one mind and for one purpose, building up a just, equitable life for all their siblings in the family of humankind, through a God-like and sacrificial kind of love within their spirits. All the arrogant insanity and all the exploitative lies of humanistic religions will fade into the Creator’s clarity, like fog in bright and warming sunlight.

Somehow, even the churches that claim to be “Bible based” seem to forget that the supposedly saving “sacraments” of the Great Prostitute are merely modified magic pagan Roman rituals formed in earlier centuries by a ruthless slave society. So the Bible actually defines those “sacraments” as the practice of sorcery, just like the magic words and rituals performed by pagan priests in Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, in their attempts to manipulate the decisions and actions of their demonic pagan gods. Through these magic “sacraments,” the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters have always thought they could control the decisions and actions of the real God of the Bible. Many have actually believed that God only grants His grace to souls having been physically “baptized” by humanly authorized magic officials, by their own particular modified magic rituals involving ordinary water. And they refuse to even acknowledge the biblical kind of baptism, a prayer of faith, an acknowledgment that Jesus has washed one’s sins away. Worse yet, their emphasis on their physical rituals and magic words distracts elect spirits away from seeking the teaching and training of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, for His real salvation. So those fake churches are actually working against God and against His real salvation. They are not servants of God, but enemies of our God.

We must not superstitiously fear the criticism of false churches, nor feel that we must protect them from God’s wrath. Naturally, false churches will say, “Do not condemn us, since we are the apple of God’s eye, and anyone who curses us will be cursed by God.” But that is a total lie, and they have not hesitated to condemn those who speak the truths of God, nor the people whom God’s covenant has forever called His priesthood. They have actually hated God and His just, loving ways, since God and His ways were too “Jewish” for Roman humanists, who hated Jews. Throughout history, those fake churches have only ever loved and promoted vengeful pagan Roman laws and the pagan traditions, including pagan magic. They have always hindered real the real justice, equity, love and salvation of Jesus, everywhere they went. Instead, they have kept elect spirits focused upon human heads ruling over hierarchical class systems and other carnally appealing lusts of the flesh. They lead elect souls away from Jesus, and away from all that His Holy Spirit is able to teach to their spirits.

So, instead of looking at the judgment of the Roman Catholic church with fear and horror, let us see her condemnation as a time for us to rejoice, a time when enslaved elect souls will finally be freed from her despotic slavery. When this false church and her harlot daughters die, elect souls shall no longer be deceived, but will begin to build new and fulfilling lives in the real kingdom of God, in His true church after the sixth seal’s revival. And let us remember that the works of our loving God Jesus include the nullifying and tearing down of Satan’s works on earth, including that devil’s fake humanistic churches. I know that many will say the Great Prostitute cannot be the “holy” and “good” Roman Catholic church. But they are very wrong, and very deluded. There is absolutely nothing “holy” or “good” about that spiritual prostitute, and we must not listen to their feeble attempts to justify her, or to their dubious alternative theories about who this Great Prostitute might represent.

Jesus told the false teachers in the church of His day: “You consent to the deeds of your fathers ... so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah” (Luke 11:48,50,51, ESV). Thus, if anyone agrees with the false doctrines which led to persecutions and murders of the past, then God will judge against those who adopt those false teachings. God will condemn those who condone those false teachings for the past crimes which past criminals committed falsely in the name of God

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through those false teachings. Those who promote the false doctrines causing those past crimes are just as guilty as those who actually struck the blows against those past victims. So, if we believe the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church, the teachings which incited the murdering of God’s Gentile and Jewish servants throughout history, then we partake in all of her past and present persecutions and murders. And the Roman Catholics has never truly repented from any of those false doctrines, into the truths about themselves or God’s ways. Nor has that false church born any real fruits of repentance. And they never will. So let us not be fooled by her or her supporters, lest we partake in her sins. Let us repent into the truths about her, and rejoice when Jesus will justly judge her crimes.

False teachers and false prophets willfully remain ignorant of God’s condemnation of the other false teachers and false prophets of the past. They do not fall into their errors accidentally. Rather, they are deliberate liars, knowing that history has repeatedly revealed the deadly effects of their lies and delusions which they borrowed from past liars. They refuse to let history teach them to repent, and instead learn from past liars how to exploit and profit themselves by causing the suffering of others. They are also without excuse because the ways and attributes of God are written in His spiritual and physical creations as well, revealing the harmful effects of evil and the good effects of God’s ways.

Thus, the sins of teaching false doctrines or uttering false prophecies in false churches are indeed willful and deliberate abuses of God’s name. They sin by taking God’s name in vain to gain personal benefits, for evil motives like esteem, money or power. And, since they never change their inner intentions through their spirits’ repentance, they cannot receive any forgiveness, cannot restor their relationships with God. So they will only reap God’s eternal wrath against their cherished lies and delusions. Then we also need to realize that all who agree with the lies and delusions of the false teachers and false prophets of the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughter churches, also partake in all their deliberate sins, which have caused millenniums of pain and deaths. Both those liars and their supporters will be condemned for every murder of every innocent soul caused by their churches in all history. Consequently, we should realize that there will be very many church-goers who definitely will be condemned to hell for all eternity, no matter how many “sacraments” they received, and even if they did say a “Sinner’s Prayer” with all the “sincere” emotions their minds of flesh could muster.

And, since this is true, then the elect must no longer join churches and church-goers, seeking their fellowship and help for survival, since no good will come of it. Instead, the elect must seek those whom Jesus chooses to save for their cooperating communities, only those beginning to bear fruits of His Holy Spirit, which spirits whom He is personally and directly teaching and training to be just, equitable and loving. For, whether or not they claim to be “Christians” is irrelevant, and only His works in them and through them are relevant. Only these truly just and loving elect can effectively work together and partake in the joy of our Lord, even in hard times, facing the deaths of our flesh.

When the tribulations of the end times come, we will not be able to rely on humanistic churches, but solely upon our God Jesus and His true people. For the Roman church and her harlot daughters will be doing the same things they have always done, creating exploitative hierarchies and abusing souls to serve an elite minority of wanna-be human gods. But the true elect must work together as one body in the one mind of Jesus, to wisely nullify the works of Satan and build up His just, equitable, loving kingdom on earth, where even His plants and animals share in the bounty of His providence.

It is always a good time to obey our God Jesus in heaven, and “come out” of the Roman church, as well as out of her humanistic daughter churches. But, during the last days of the beast’s reign, it will be the last chance He gives the elect to flee from her, and from the other fake churches born in her image. And then, if the elect do not cast her aside, they will share in God’s wrath against her. So let

 

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the elect take up their responsibility to learn the truth about her and her harlot daughters, for it is a serious sin of omission whenever anyone possesses the ability to read and think, but forsakes that duty. And make no mistake, she and her daughters have indeed either directly or indirectly killed so very many innocent souls that they cannot even be counted. And they continue to murder loving and just souls to this day. So the elect must not support or participate in those sins against God’s people.

We must realize that many of the secular humanists who also murdered, enslaved, plundered and destroyed the lives of the innocent employed the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters to commit their crimes in their names, and in God’s name. From Constantine to the Hitlers of our day, the fake churches have enabled those vain, psychopathic wanna-be gods to violently steal the God-given lives of honest souls and exploit the people for their own gain. The Great Prostitute and her daughters corrupted God’s Word to justify their crimes, then snuffed out any light which could have prevented them. It is impossible to even begin to describe how much loss, suffering and death they caused through their religious lies and delusions, or how much guilt we share with them when we supported their deceptions. This must stop. Now it is time to abandon those Roman churches, time to repent into God’s truth and replace their vengeful Roman injustices with God’s loving, restorative justice.

It was because of the false doctrines taught by false churches that God’s light seldom shone with its justice, or exposed the evil motives and intentions of secular destroyers. But, whenever His real truth was proclaimed by God’s true churches in a land, God’s power strengthened and raised up just and equitable love in those lands, even through the faith of a tiny minority of His true elect. God’s power began to reform justice systems, eliminate slavery, distribute His providence among all “classes” of people, straightened crooked ways and even rescued His animal creations from the cruelty of Roman wanna-be gods. And God would have suppressed evil in every land, overcoming all His enemies through His wisdom and works, if the true Gospel of His fulfilled Law was preached in them. For God actually did this many times in history, in ancient Israel and Babylon, in ancient Persia, Greece and Rome, and helped a faithful few overcome the Roman elite in Briton during the revival of the eighteenth century. But then fake humanistic churches gradually suppressed God’s truths, betrayed God to support the Roman-like despots who promised to give them a little power and income. Thus, God handed those lands back over to Satan’s delusions, to destruction and death, until they repented.

God can never use His power to work good in lands that support fake humanistic churches, since His help would glorify those fake churches and condone their lies. So the lands of those false churches are handed over to insane delusions, wars, rebellions, poverty, famines, oppressive rulers and utter destruction. For the sake of His good name, our just and loving God must withdraw His saving power from those fake churches, and from the secular despots who employ those fake churches for their own gain. Then, because those fake churches corrupt God’s words and suppress His truths, the wicked are able to take over the land, with unbridled power, to destroy their people and even kill themselves in the process. Deliberately turning away from God and His just ways, just to gain Satan’s rewards of power and irresponsible pleasures for the flesh, has always caused nothing but loss, suffering and death. And fake churches partake in this by slandering God's name and His ways, through lies about Him and His words. Consequently, since the day Jesus first brought the Gospel to Israel, all resulting injustices worked in all lands are ultimately due to the lies of the false churches. Thus, all those false churches have more blood on their hands than anyone could possibly imagine, and we must forsake them, lest we partake in their many sins and share in God’s wrath against them.

Revelation 19:1-5 (ESV): “After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great

multitude in heaven, crying out, ‘Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our

God, for His judgments are true and just; for He has judged the great prostitute who

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corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of His servants.’

Once more they cried out, ‘Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.’ And

the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshipped God who was

seated on the throne, saying, ‘Amen. Hallelujah!’ And from the throne came a voice saying,

‘Praise our God, all you His servants, you who fear Him, small and great.’”

Now some do not like to admit that this Great Prostitute is the Roman Catholic church, nor that the Protestant false churches who adopted her humanistic doctrines are her harlot daughters. But we know God’s Word called Israel and Judah spiritual “prostitutes,” after they became false churches who claimed to be God’s bride, yet worshipped false gods at the same time. Likewise, God even called the Gentile land of Nineveh a spiritual “prostitute” after she began to worship Him in Jonah’s day, then also began to worship false gods. So the word “prostitute” is the biblical and ecclesiastical term referring to a people who commit spiritual adultery by worshiping false gods while claiming to worship the real God. That is, the “Great Prostitute” refers to a “great” false church in this prophecy.

Then consider how God called this entity by the title of “the Great Prostitute,” in the context of how she “corrupted the earth with her immorality.” And, by saying this, God meant that this Great Prostitute “corrupted” His people, that is, she corrupted His church and His elect throughout the world. But God never accused any secular entity of being a “prostitute” who “corrupted” His people. For God and His people generally ignored secular entities, since those pagans did not know God and, therefore, did not invent false teachings and false prophecies that they claimed to come from God, in order to “corrupt” the religious beliefs of His priesthood. Thus, we know, with all certainty, that this Great Prostitute must be a “great” or huge, world-wide, very influential, very evil and corrupt false church associated with Rome, with the city that stood on seven hills in the first century. All other theories about her identity are not biblical and are not helpful for the interpretation of this prophecy.

So the extremely humanistic Roman Catholic church must be the corrupting Great Prostitute. And she has definitely been a false church. For she interpreted God’s Word through the lens of pagan Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, corrupting every teaching in it, from its anthropological doctrines all the way up to its soteriological doctrines. She taught that salvation, glory and power belong to her alone, that only she can grant salvation. She hypocritically utters religious rhetoric to make dupes think she honors God as the Savior, as the only one who deserves all glory and honor. But, in reality, she wants everyone to believe, “I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.” She tells the elect that only she is able to determine who will be saved and who will go to hell. Then she also proclaims the Neoplatonic doctrine of god-like “free will,” that the elect are able to choose to save themselves, but only through her magic words and deeds, only through the magic physical “sacraments” that the sinful hands of her human priests administer through her authority.

But, in the above prophecy, the “multitude in heaven” cried out saying “Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,” then declared that “His judgments are true and just” (19:1c). God always told us that He alone will judge all humans, that He alone will decide whom He will save. And God always judges by the motives and intentions of a spirit, by whether or not a spirit was created with the ability to learn to love in His just, responsible, equitable ways. Also, our God Jesus rose from the dead. So Jesus now lives to judge all who dwell on earth, with the power to see all and make His judgments in perfectly right and just ways. Furthermore, He called the last day at the gates of heaven the “judgment day,” not a day of casting souls into heaven or hell according to the dictates of a deluded wanna-be human god who thinks he is the vicarious Messiah and God on earth. And Jesus’ judgments of souls on that last day will be biblical judgments, with teachings to cause repentance

 

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into His truths, for literally all of His elect, exactly like all His judgments were throughout history on earth. Thus, all our faith rests upon Jesus, on His teaching and training of our spirits, and on no other.

Truly, the Roman church and her harlot daughters have corrupted God’s Word, and the minds of very many of the Father’s elect children. And she has done this unrepentant and unforgivable sin while she has also terrorized and murdered an uncountable number of souls, just to gain more power and income for herself. Then she trained her priests to glorify and esteem themselves above all the other children of God, to put on the clerical robes of upper-class pagan priests from Roman hierarchies and take titles of esteem for themselves. Yet all true servants of the real God spend their time, efforts and resources in serving God and His creations as equal stewards of His property, together with all their other siblings in the family of humankind. This false church also arrogantly insisted that she alone bore the power and authority to invent the laws and ways which bind all in her church, then chose only vengeful, destructive, Roman laws for her lands. But God alone created all just laws and ways, as the Head of every man. God alone wrote those laws in His spiritual and physical creations, as well as in His Word. And we are to judge others in the same way God judges, taking into account the motives and intentions of offending spirits, granting them full mercy and no penalty if they repent.

Considering all this, is it any wonder that “the multitude in heaven” twice cried out, “Hallelujah!” when they saw how God had “judged the Great Prostitute who corrupted the earth,” after God had “avenged on her the blood of His servants,” once they saw her members cast into hell where “the smoke from her goes up forever and ever” (19:2-3, ESV). In heaven, the elect will no longer be deceived by the lies and delusions of the Roman Catholic church or her harlot daughters. In heaven, Jesus will clear away that fog, cause them to see her real essence in the light of His created realities. Jesus will expose all her false teachings to those multitudes of elect in heaven, all her destructive traditions and ways, and all the sins she did in all history, up to the day of her destruction. And, of course, the 24 elders, who are the 12 sons of Jacob and the 12 apostles sent out by Jesus, along with the “four living creatures” who attend God’s throne, will also announce, “Amen! Hallelujah!” when they see the judgment of the Great Prostitute. They too will rejoice and praise our God Jesus for His righteous and just judgment against that ruthless deceiver. Likewise, let us also shout “Hallelujah!”

I know that many like to justify the Roman Catholic church and her harlot daughters, then think it would be a great tragedy if she and her daughters perished. But the 24 elders and the four powerful angels attending God’s throne, together with all the awakened elect who worship the real Creator God in their spirits and in truth, will see the destruction of that Great Prostitute and her daughter churches as a great blessing from God. These will worship God when they see how He will judge that monstrous false church. And, when the elect see her burn to the ground, the elders and angels will command all the elect of the world: “Praise our God, all you His servants, you who fear Him, small and great” (19:5). Then we will obey this command in joy, not through feelings of vengeance, but through the relief it brings to our souls, knowing that Great Prostitute will no longer cause God’s elect children to sin, no longer murder and oppress because of her lies and delusions. Nor will she ever ride on the backs of any despots, who employ her members as their own murdering criminals.

God surely will cause the beast to destroy the Great Prostitute at the very end of his seven-year reign. But the beast and his ten rulers will not harm her before then, although they will all despise her from the beginning. One reason for delaying her destruction will be because killing her will be very unpopular among his people, who will mourn for her after he burns her. But the main reason the beast’s kingdom will only destroy the Roman church at the very end of his reign will be because that is when God will have called His elect out of her (Rev. 18:4). Then that false church will no longer be able to deceive and trap any elect souls in her. Since the demonic beast will always be able to get

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the non-elect to worship him, he only needs the fake “Christianity” of the Great Prostitute to trick the elect into serving him and his causes, as well as to provide some additional income for his kingdom. Thus, when the Great Prostitute can no longer deceive the lucrative elect into her, as well as into the service of the beast, he will see her as an expensive and profitless appendage on his kingdom, which he can eliminate, to make his kingdom more efficient during His war against God and God’s people.

Of course, the beast will be very careful about allowing any opposition to him in his lands, since he will have enemies striving to infiltrate his government. For instance, humanistic nations to the north and east of the beast’s lands will be warring against the beast. Therefore, if he causes too much trouble too soon, such as destroying his Great Prostitute, he could lose his hold on some of his own people and some might even side with his enemies. Thus, he will be forced to wait almost seven years before he finds an opportunity to destroy that false church, and will wait until she can no longer bring in any economic gain and a labour force by deceiving the elect. The we see how the other rival nations to the north and east will also join the beast in the end, when the beast goes to Armageddon. So these other humanistic nations may oppose the beast, and even make war against him, solely because he tolerates the Great Prostitute for economic purposes. Then those other nations might join the beast in the very end primarily because he destroy that great false church. For the beast’s enemies likely will be typical secular humanists, who despise all other religions except their own sect of secular humanism. Thus, we can see how deluding demons who promote the religion of secular humanism will be able to do their work effectively at that time, to help the beast raise up an international army against Israel and the Christian nations in the Middle East at the end of his reign.

In the Scriptures, we can find no reason for the other God-hating nations in the east and in the north to war against the beast. So the reason might actually be because that beast will tolerate the theistic humanism of the Great Prostitute. Nor can we find any reason, other than the influence of demons, for them suddenly joining him, after he kills the Great Prostitute. Therefore, it is feasible to speculate that: (1) since those rival nations to the north and east join the beast in the very end since those God-hating nations are also secular humanists, who approve of the beast because he is a strong secular humanist like them, and also hates all other gods and all other religions; but (2) those secular humanist nations to the north and east never even thought about joining the beast until that beast destroyed the Great Prostitute. Any way we look at it, the prophecies clearly indicate that the other nations will only join the beast at Armageddon after he completely annihilates the Roman church.

The beast would surely know that a significant portion of his people would not want him to destroy the Roman church. So he would delay that deed as long as possible, until he felt coerced to do it. Yet the beast will always think his kingdom and his power are threatened by other religions or other human gods, particularly by the true Judea-Christian religion. For paranoia is always an aspect of Satan’s false religions, especially the beast’s religion of Roman secular humanism. Also, the secular beast would not be able to distinguish between biblical pure churches and non-biblical humanistic churches, but would only know that some churches sided with him while other churches opposed him. Thus, although the humanistic Roman church will support his ruthless, criminal policies and partake in his sins, he will always remain suspicious of them. The beast will think they might betray him at any time. And some elect trapped in that Roman church likely will betray the beast at that time, just like some elect from the humanistic churches of Germany betrayed Hitler during the second world war, by hiding Jews and Christians from his persecutions. So the beast and his council of ten rulers will never fully trust the Great Prostitute riding on their back, and shall be more than willing to utterly destroy her in the end, when their land falls into chaos and darkness during the

 

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plagues of God’s seven bowls of wrath. That fake church will be a good scapegoat to use when his people are feeling pressured, a good thing to blame for all the suffering he has been causing them.

Finally, after killing the Roman church, other secular humanists will join the beast. Then, in his extreme paranoia and rage at the Judea-Christian nations of the Middle East, who dared to rebel against his “perfect” psychopathic governing systems, he will be able to gather massive international armies at Armageddon in Israel, to destroy that rival religion once and for all time. At least, all those secular humanists will think they can do this. As previously mentioned, Israel and other nations of the south, consisting of Muslims which converted to Christianity, likely rebelled sometime after the beast withdrew his armies from their area about three and a half years before this second invasion by the beast. So the beast may have been worried that their rebellion could possibly stir up the other Christian nations of the world to also oppose him, that is, what some versions of the Bible call the “coastlands” or “islands” who worship Yahweh, the far-off Christian nations in other parts the world. And the beast will surely have plans to rule the entire world. So the rebellion of Christian lands near him, in the Mediterranean basin, will cause him great anxieties regarding his world-wide ambitions.

Realizing that crushing the rebellion in the Middle East could be a very difficult and costly war, and that it would require the total annihilation of all its Jewish and Christian people to prevent their religion from rising up again, the beast would feel a need to gather many allies. Yet those other humanistic nations would not cooperate with him unless he gave in to some of their demands. And, I repeat, it seems that one of their major requirements will be that the beast must first destroy the Great Prostitute. So the beast will do so, so those other secular humanists will send troops with him to Armageddon, to war against Christ and all of God’s people, both the Jews and Christians. But it will actually be God who will gather the strength of all those Roman humanists together in that place, so God might first crush what they rely on and worship the most, that is, the sword held in the hands of warriors who think they are gods, who terrorize their people into submission with violence.

Also, God’s bowls of wrath will be pouring out on the beast’s seven nations during the last weeks of of the beast's seven-year reign, and those plagues will only end after the beast is physically located in Israel, at Armageddon. So it is likely that his destruction of the Great Prostitute in his homeland will occur quickly, in haste, either before or during the plagues of the seven bowls of wrath. And it would be impossible for the beast to kill her while the sixth and seventh bowls of wrath are poured out, since the beast will be in Israel by that time. So he will probably kill her before then. The Great Prostitute’s destruction will probably occur while the first five bowls of wrath are being poured out. But I doubt that the beast will be absent when it is done. For he will want to lead that action, and want to be seen by all the world as the “great god” who did the deed, especially by his potential allies to the north and to the east. It may be true that the beast and his council will be very distracted by their own troubles from the seven bowls of God’s wrath then. But this will not stop them, only incite them to kill her more rapidly and thoroughly, both as a scapegoat to appease their suffering people and to cajole their potential allies into sending their antisemitic, anti-christian troops to them.

It is also interesting that, after announcing the Great Prostitute’s destruction, the prophecy of the Revelation immediately mentions that God’s real church had made herself ready for the coming of the Lord Jesus. This seems to deliberately draw a great contrast between the two kinds of churches existing during end times. On the one hand, the Roman church has made herself so odious to the elect trapped in her that God will now be able to call them out of her, as well as so repulsive to the beast that he will utterly destroy her. On the other hand, Jesus’ true church of the sixth seal’s revival will gather in the last of the repentant elect fleeing from that false church, and will have grown so pure and pleasing to our just and loving God by this time that they will shine like a bride in gleaming

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white garments. And it also indicates that the time of the Great Prostitute's destruction will be shortly before Jesus returns, at the end of the beast's reign, within only a few weeks or months of His arrival.

Revelation 19:6-10 (ESV): “Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude,

like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,

'Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and exult and give Him

the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His Bride has made herself ready ; it

was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure '—for the fine linen is the

righteous deeds of the saints. And the angel said to me, 'Write this: Blessed are those who are

invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.' And he said to me, ‘These are the true words

of God .’ Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, ‘You must not do

that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus.

Worship God.’ For the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.”

Jesus’ real church believes that He is God, who reigns over all existence, even over the lives of the wicked. The true church also knows that He elects those whom He will save through the teaching and training of their spirits. For He created all elect spirits for that purpose, to be saved in the end, on the final judgment day. Then, after He awakens, calls, teach, trains and matures their elect spirits, very little hypocrisy will be left in them. For God has granted them repentance into the truth, so they might serve Him as His priests, as His body on earth. And they will then know, directly from the spirits in their hearts, that God is their loving Father and oldest Brother. Then they will worship Him according to His intended meaning of His own words, according to “the true words of God,” which He personally and directly teaches to their spirits. They will worship Him in truth and in their spirits.

True Christians do not merely act through their intellects and emotions from their minds of flesh. The fake humanistic churches do that, and intentionally distract their people from anything which is truly spiritual, even by redefining physical things as being “spiritual.” Rather, true Christians learn from Jesus’ Holy Spirit to let their spirits manage their minds of flesh in the chamber of their souls, then use their flesh for God’s good purposes, according to His will. And His will is that His elect will apply His truths wisely. He trains His children to do His works in the same just and loving ways that He does, with joy. He makes the true elect rejoice from deep within, from their very spirits, exulting and glorifying Him in their hearts. Through love, they nullify the works of Satan and build up the just, equitable, merciful and loving kingdom of God on earth, for the benefit of all God’s creations.

So notice how this uses the passive voice when it says, “it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure—for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints” (19:8, ESV). When it says His true church “was granted” this, it is, of course, employing a theological passive, indicating that our God Jesus grants this righteousness to His church. But He does this in a particular way, by causing her to “clothe herself” with that equitable kind of true and biblical justice. She must put on those garments. This is His training of our spirits, because He knows that we must learn by doing.

God creates the wills and essences of our elect spirits, with an inherent ability to become like Him, and a desire to act through just and God-like love. Then God Himself, the Holy Spirit of Jesus, awakens, calls, teaches and trains our elect spirits, until our spirits trust His words, until a knowledge of His truth causes us to walk according to our spirits, to spontaneously do the just, loving works that His Spirit calls our spirits to do. As we begin to clearly see His created spiritual and physical realities all around us, we realize that, without His Holy Spirit, we have no power nor knowledge to do any truly good works on earth or in heaven through pure, just love. So we learn to need Him. Thus, it is

 

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through this faith, which Jesus teaches us to place in Himself, that our knowledge and wisdom can grow, that we learn how to love, that we make ourselves ready to receive Him, by doing His works.

But this marriage of the Lamb with His purified bride (the church) was not to occur in John’s day, not in the first century with the true apostolic church. Instead, this marriage was to occur long after that, in the end times, and only after Christ’s church made herself ready in the era of the seventh seal, even decades after the revival of the church during the era of the sixth seal, and shortly before Jesus returned. Second, the angel seemed to be defensive or apologetic when he stated, “These are the true words of/from God.” For this angel spoke as though, at that time, others were not speaking the “true words of God,” so he felt obligated to assure John that his words were indeed the “true words from God.” This suggests that many churches in John’s day, in the first century, were already starting to preach untrue words, which they falsely claimed to have originated from God and from His Word.

Then we see how John sinned by falling at the feet of the angel to “worship him” (προσκυνῆσαι αὐτῷ, “to fall before him with reverence”). And this was a sin of humanists, to “worship” and bow before artificially esteemed humans or other equal peers in this way. But the angel stood his ground in righteousness, rebuking John and firmly declaring that such reverence granted to an angel is a sin. Then the angel explained why it is a sin to grant an angel this kind of high esteem, because all elect angels are simply “fellow slaves” (σύνδουλος) of the Lord Jesus. Thus, the angel equated the status of elect human beings, those living in flesh on earth, with the status of elect angels, since he called both the slaves of God. For we shall not be adopted as children and heirs of God until Jesus perfects and completes us on the last day. Angels are merely laborers who work together with Jesus’ true disciples, not their lords who rule over them. Also, this angel called John one of the “brothers.” And the word “brother” was used here a technical term referring to the disciples of Jesus, to all “who hold to the testimony of Jesus.” So the angel called John, who was a very old elder of the church by this time, a disciple, with the same status as all the other disciples. And John did not have his own disciples, nor did any of the other apostles. Rather, all believers were the disciples of only one Head Teacher, Jesus. All male and female disciples of Jesus had different gifts, but all had the same status.

In those days, children held about the same status as a slave, until they came of age. Neither slaves nor children had the right to exert decision-making authority over the estate, nor over any workers in the estate. Likewise, in God’s eyes, His children do not possess enough knowledge, wisdom, right or ability to make any truly critical decisions. So the only difference between angels and His children, while His elect live in flesh on earth, is that His children have less knowledge and are less wise than most angels, although His children are being made ready to bear wise and loving decision-making authority, through the teaching and training of their spirits directly and personally by God Himself.

After the spirits of His elect children are perfected and completed on the judgment day, they will all receive the right to make authoritative decisions, since they will make those decisions through wise, just, equitable love, in the same way God does. But, before that time, their status is even a little lower than the elect angels, since God’s elect human children often sin and fail to do what is right, through the opposition of their amoral and self-seeking flesh. While living on earth, none of God’s human children are nearly as knowledgeable or capable as elect angels. But all knowledge, wisdom and skills originate from God and are empowered by Him. Likewise, all weaknesses and failures are also granted and controlled by Him, for the teaching and training of His children’s spirits. Therefore, God’s children are often placed under the greater power and authority of certain angels, and must obey them. But neither is “superior” to the other, not in God’s eyes. And these elect angels know the eternal spirits of God’s human children shall grow wiser and stronger than them, after the last day.

 

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Elect humans are created in the image of their Father, God, who labors incessantly through His love for the elect spirits He created to live with Him. Then all of an elect angel’s joys come from serving God, in all His creations. So the worst horror that any elect angel could ever imagine would be to become useless to God, like the fallen angels will become once they are cast into hell. Thus, this teaching angel exhorted John to worship God alone, and the biblical definition of “worship” is to serve and esteem. To this angel, it was horrifying to see a human being, especially a true believer like John, esteem and serve an angel, or another equally sinful human being. John must esteem and serve only his God Jesus, by doing the joyful works that Jesus wanted him to do for His creations.

This leads to another implication found here. In the context of the exhortation to “rejoice and exult and give [God] the glory,” along with the rebuke against John, this first century prophecy hints at how the future false church, the Great Prostitute, sins. For the worst sin of that humanistic Great Prostitute is the same sin that the apostle John committed. That is, the Great Prostitute worships (esteems and serves) herself and other human beings, any who benefit her in some way, any who gratify her selfish ambitions. She does not rejoice in God, only in those who give her esteem and glory. She bows before and serves human gods, even as she falsely claims to serve God. She even worships fallen angels, demonic spirits who are “familiar” with the souls of deceased human sinners. For the Great Prostitute is a theistic humanist, whose goal is to make every soul unequal, who exults the worst of human sinners as her gods and divides the rest into subservient classes in her oppressive hierarchical systems. She did this from the beginning. She has always been a fake church worshiping humans according to Greco-Roman doctrines of humanistic Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism.

Each member of that fake Roman church worships self and elite human sinners as the only gods who able to determine one’s own eternal destiny. Then each assigns the real Creator God to a subservient role which must cater to the “free wills” of those human gods. So they reject the biblical truths about the true omniscience and omnipotence of the real Creator God, as well as the realities which reveal the utter incapacity of humans to save themselves. But Jesus is indeed our one and only God, our only Head Teacher and the only authority governing every individual’s physical and eternal destiny.

Jesus is one with the Father of our spirits and one with the Holy Spirit of God. All three are one God, ministering as three Persons in the lives of His creations, especially in three different relationships with His elect children. But each Person of God is the whole of God, and not diminished from the other Persons of God, not in the least, since all three are thee one God. So we must worship God as: (1) our Father above us all, (2) our Brother among us all, and (3) our personal Counsellor within each of us. We need to know that the Spirit in Jesus is not a human spirit, but the sinless and holy Spirit of the Creator God Himself. Thus, we need to worship Him, to esteem and serve Him for the joy and fulfillment of our spirits. And He alone can teach and train our spirits for our true salvation.

We must never worship human beings, who are all ignorant sinners. And, if we find any real good in any human being, it is a free gift from God, not from any other source. We also must not worship even the elect angels, although they are sinless, since all they have and all they do is also a free gift from God, granted through His life-giving grace alone. Angels are not gods, merely “fellow slaves” of God, just like all His elect children living on this earth, until we come of age on the judgment day.

Jesus did not come to save those who worship human gods, who place all of their faith in the magic “sacraments” that the sinful hands of human gods perform, or in the words their sinful mouthes tell their worshiping dupes to recite. Rather, Jesus came to walk among us as our Head Teacher, to make equally cherished disciples of the human spirits whom He created with an ability to love and serve in the same just way their Father loves and serves them. Jesus did not come to establish class systems,

 

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with elite human gods exploiting their “inferiors.” Rather, Jesus came to nullify those works of the devil. The angel declared, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb” (19:9, ESV). And that “marriage supper” is for the purified bride, for the true church alone. It is the time of her final perfecting and completing at the gates of heaven on the last day. So only His elect servants, who learn His ways, shall be welcomed, taught, perfected and completed on that last day.

Now look at how the angel first told John, “I am a fellow [slave] with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God,” then immediately added: “For the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy” (19:10, ESV). So how is the testimony or witness of Jesus the same thing as “the Spirit of prophecy”? Well, to begin with, the biblical definition of a prophecy can be: “a revealed utterance from God’s own mind and mouth.” Therefore, those “who hold the testimony of Jesus” also hold the Holy Spirit of God in their hearts and souls, dwelling together with their human spirits. And this Holy Spirit of God is “the Spirit of prophecy.” That Holy Spirit reveals the very utterances of the Creator God to awakened elect spirits. Then consider how God also declared: “My word that goes out of My mouth: it will not return to Me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do” (Is. 55:11, WEB). So the elect in the true church, “who hold to the testimony of Jesus,” also “hold to … the Spirit of prophecy,” and that prophecy consists of words originating directly from God’s mouth. So those words will invariably accomplish the salvation that God sent them to work inside our spirits, and cannot fail to save us.

The true worship of God can only be done by the spirits who are “fellow slaves” (σύνδουλος) of God, by those who actually serve God according to His words and His will. Only those who accept Jesus as the only Lord and Master of their lives are His true servants. All His true disciples, all true Christians, trust Jesus is their only Head Teacher, the only One bearing final authority in all matters of life and faith, the final Judge who decides what is right and what is wrong, the Creator who alone can ultimately determine what is real or not real. Only Jesus’ Spirit can rightly and personally teach the intended meaning of His own words directly to our spirits, and individually train our spirits. So His Holy Spirit is “the Spirit of prophecy,” the revealer of God’s words directly to our human spirits.

But we must also maintain the correct definition of prophecy to comprehend this statement. For a prophecy is not merely inspired preaching, as some say. The Bible defines prophecy as uttering words directly received from God Himself, and doing so in the precise way God commands, only to the person or persons to whom God commands one to speak. In Deuteronomy 18:18, God defined a “prophet” as: (1) a person whom He Himself raised up among the people, not a person speaking by any other authority; (2) a person in whom He grants His words; and (3) a person whom He Himself commands to utter those words in His name. Then His “words” refer to the concepts God reveals to one’s spirit. These concepts may be revealed through visions, dreams or symbols, but always with God’s explanations granted to the mind of one’s spirit. Then the person’s mind and mouth of flesh strive to accurately and clearly convey those concepts from God in one’s own language of the flesh.

A host of other Scriptures confirm and exemplify this definition. There we see how God compels His prophets to prophesy, such when God virtually forced Jonah to prophesy to Nineveh, although Jonah did not want to reveal God’s words to them. Then we saw how a prophet chose to go his own way, thinking it would be safer, and did not do exactly what God commanded him to say and do. But that prophet was killed by God for slandering Him, for attempting to make the people think God did not know what He was doing (see I Kings 13). And every time we hear a true prophet, he declares that the word of God came to him, from God, and that his words are not from his own imagination or through his own reasoning. Thus, a true prophet utters the precise words or concepts that God

 

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Himself grants to him or her, words which God commanded that one to utter in a specific way to a certain person or persons. A true prophecy “quotes” God, in a precise and totally authoritative way.

So “the Spirit of prophecy” is Jesus’ Holy Spirit who testifies about God, who bears witness about God’s will to our spirits, who provides evidence of Him and His truths. This testimony of Jesus in our hearts has produced the Scriptures and interprets them for us, as He has done for many others throughout history. This is not ordinary “inspiration,” which comes through observations with eyes of flesh interpreted by thoughts from intellects of flesh. Rather, these are spiritual concepts given directly to our spirits, in ways that our minds of flesh cannot even comprehend, and will sometimes include physical insights for our flesh. These concepts originate from an infallible external source, from the Spirit of God. Jesus is always teaching our spirits, always training us to love in His ways.

So, if our spirits trust His words, believe this evidence of Him and His attributes, this proof that the Scriptures are true, our spirits will grow in knowledge, wisdom and just love. By faith, our Creator God Jesus pours His “words” into the minds of our spirits and writes them on our hearts. This is our eternal salvation, the preparation of our spirits for heaven. Then His Spirit also compels us to act upon and testify about that truth, for the training and fitness of our spirits. Only those whose spirits receive this teaching and training from Jesus’ Spirit are actually able to esteem and truly serve Jesus as His disciples, as Christians, through their spirits and in genuine truths from God. For only God has created and defined all spiritual truths and physical realities, and Jesus is God, our only Teacher.

This 19th chapter of the Revelation indicates that Jesus will return: (1) after a revived, true and faithful church on earth is established and made ready as an entirely purified bride of Jesus, through God’s Spirit working a spiritual process, which begins during the “sealing” of the saints in the sixth seal’s era; (2) after the Great Prostitute is destroyed; and implies that she will be destroyed (3) after the angels pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath upon the beast's kingdom. Now the pouring out of the bowls of wrath will last only a few weeks or months and, during or immediately prior to that time, the beast will destroy the Great Prostitute. So the signs of her destruction and the bowls of wrath will provide us with hope that Jesus will arrive very soon, within weeks or months. But the revived, true and faithful church will rise up at the beginning of the end times, following the world-wide earthquakes and striking meteors of the sixth seal. And Jesus told us that there will be only one generation, about 40 years, from the beginning of the end times until He returns. So this sign of a revived true church will provide hope for His elect during the entire end times, with the knowledge that some in our true church will live to see the body of Jesus set His feet upon the Mount of Olives.

Other Scriptures also prophesy about the destruction of the Great Prostitute, the false humanistic Gentile church which is also named “Babylon.” But those Scriptures allude to the destruction of all the false humanistic churches originating in “Babylon,” as well as their false pastors (i.e., the word “pastor” is Latin for “shepherd”), and also say this will occur in the end times, before the Messiah Jesus returns in glory to rule the earth. Both the Jewish and Gentile branches of the church of Israel will be purged of the fakes, because both the Old and New Covenant branches are one in God’s eyes.

Ezekiel 34:1-31 (ESV): “The word of [Yahweh] came to me: ‘Son of man, prophesy

against the shepherds of Israel; ‘Prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus

says the Lord [Yahweh]: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should

not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you

slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. The weak you have not strengthened,

the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not

brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled

 

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them. So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all

the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every

high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek

for them.

“‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of [Yahweh]: As I live, declares the Lord

[Yahweh], surely because My sheep have become a prey, and My sheep have become food

for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because My shepherds have not

searched for My sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed My sheep,

therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of [Yahweh]: Thus says the Lord [Yahweh], Behold,

I am against the shepherds, and I will require My sheep at their hand and put a stop to

their feeding the sheep. [This signals the end of false churches.] No longer shall the shepherds

feed themselves. I will rescue My sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for

them. [This signals that God will revive His true church of Israel.]

“‘For thus says the Lord [Yahweh]: Behold, I, I Myself will search for My sheep and will

seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have

been scattered , so will I seek out My sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where

they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. And I will bring them out

from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land.

And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited

places of the country. I Myself will be the Shepherd of My sheep, and I Myself will make

them lie down, declares the Lord [Yahweh]. I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the

strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the

strong I will destroy . I will feed them in justice .

“‘As for you, My flock, thus says the Lord [Yahweh]: Behold, I judge between sheep and

sheep, between rams and male goats. Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture,

that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water,

that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet? And must My sheep eat what you

have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet? Therefore,

thus says the Lord [Yahweh] to them: Behold, I, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep

and the lean sheep . Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with

your horns, till you have scattered them abroad, I will rescue My flock; they shall no longer

be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.

“‘And I will set up over them one Shepherd, My servant David, and He shall feed them:

He shall feed them and be their Shepherd. And I, [Yahweh], will be their God, and My

Servant David shall be Prince among them. I am [Yahweh]; I have spoken. I will make with

them a covenant of peace [Here Ezekiel is talking about the New Covenant, since (1) it is a covenant that

God ‘will make’ in the future, so it cannot be the Old Covenant that existed in Ezekiel’s day, and (2) it is a

covenant that He will make with Israel after ‘David,’ the Messiah, comes in glory to rule Israel.] and banish

wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the

woods. And I will make them and the places all around My hill [i.e., this ‘hill’ is the temple mount

in Jerusalem] a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be

showers of blessing. And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield

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“And they shall know that I am [Yahweh], when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver

them from the hand of those who enslaved them. They shall no more be a prey to the nations,

nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make

them afraid. [This is the millennium of Jesus ruling Israel and the whole earth.] And I will provide for

them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land,

and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations. And they shall know that I am [Yahweh]

their God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people, declares the Lord

[Yahweh]. And you are My sheep, human sheep of My pasture, and I am your God,

declares the Lord [Yahweh].’”

This prophecy consists of God’s words. God Himself is speaking against the “shepherds of Israel” and against the “fat sheep” in His priesthood of Israel. And, although this prophecy is primarily about the natural Israel, about the Jews, the New Covenant Israel includes every church that claims to worship the God of the Bible. Clearly, we see here that God is against the selfish pastors who teach false doctrines through selfish ambitions, while claiming to worship Him. And God is against the wealthy and aggressive members who bully and trample the other weaker members, solely to gratify their own egos and make a profit. Thus, if God is against them, then Jesus is against them too, for Jesus is God. In fact, Jesus told those fake humanistic pastors: “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father” (John 8:44, WEB), and they are “not of God” (John 8:47) Therefore, if Jesus is against those false teachers, His true disciples must also join Jesus in His words and works against them. So let no one, least of all those false shepherds themselves, dare to declare that none must criticize their supposedly “holy” churches or the supposedly “anointed servants of God” who pastor those false churches. They are liars. But God’s faithful servants are duty-bound to call a spade a spade, to admit the truth. True Christians are against the shepherds who feed only themselves, and are against the bullying sheep who trample any souls anywhere on earth.

This prophecy reveals God’s wrath against the teachers or pastors of both the Old and New Covenant branches of the church of Israel, and declares that He will destroy them during the end times. For this prophecy is about the end times, about the Messiah’s glorious second advent, and about God’s one and only church of Israel. The time will come when God will do exactly what He said He would do, and He said: “I will require My sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep” (Ezek. 34:10a, ESV). All false churches and their false teachers will be destroyed by God, and God will punish those false teachers for lying to His sheep. Then God will revive His true church with His own hands, for He proclaimed, “I will rescue My sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them” (34:10b). Jesus’ Holy Spirit will become their Teacher, the shepherd of all elect lives.

This condemns all the “shepherds” existing before the Messiah’s second advent, before He comes in glory to rule Israel and the whole earth with His peace and loving justice. So those self-indulgent shepherds include most pastors, priests, rabbis, elders and church leaders since the first century, as well as those who still teach in today’s churches and synagogues, but especially those in the future, until He destroys them all. God is very concerned about the teachers or guides in His church, since literally every aspect of His people’s lives are affected by their words. Ultimately, even all the laws of their lands and all the ways their societies maintains life and order are also affected by their teachings as well. For all the laws and behaviors of a people are always based on a religion of some kind, and no law or judgment exists without some kind of moral or religious belief at its foundation.

So the doctrines that false “shepherds” teach always shape the laws and behaviors their people. And all those teachers proclaim doctrines of some kind, even if they say their doctrines are not doctrines. All people form their laws, rules, judgments, behaviors and even their physical infrastructures

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around a set of moral and, therefore, spiritual principles. Some humanists may claim to be secular and “objective,” denying that their blind faith in human gods is a religion. But many are actually religious to the extreme, and zealously murder for their faith. Also remember, this does not confine God’s condemnation to the “shepherds” of churches or synagogues. For the Scriptures also call all the authoritative policy makers in the government His “shepherds” or teaching guides. The kings and judges, all the way down to the lowliest civil servants, are called “God’s religious ministers” (such as the λειτουργοι θεου, see Rom. 13:6). So various souls in out governments are “shepherds” who are all duty-bound to serve God for the good of His people and all His creations, although governments must tolerate all religions and only enforce a set of God’s natural laws, merely to keep general order.

This prophecy is against all self-serving shepherds. These “shepherds” even include all business owners and managers, all who have influencing authority over any people in the land, all who affect the spiritual or moral views of the people. All are owned by God, and must serve Him as His honest and faithful stewards in charge of His properties, for the well-being of His people and His lands. All owners of anything are stewards of His property. And, if their words affect the ways of other people, they are “shepherds” who must answer to God for all they say. All these will be held accountable for whoever and whatever is placed under their care, for all whom they employ or manage, for all whom they serve through their authority, for all who depend on their works. But, of course, this prophecy particularly applies to the shepherds of churches and synagogues, since the inner lives of the people depend on them to provide true, just and loving spiritual and moral teachings that God will uphold for their benefits. And, if those shepherds fail to do this, the people and the land will suffer greatly.

All the physical aspects of life remain subordinate to the spiritual aspects of life. All physical health is ultimately the result of spiritual health, resulting from a spirit’s commitment to act humbly, modestly, justly and in the balanced spiritual ways of God. For the immoral not only destroy others, but themselves as well. Murderers are murdered. Those who indulge in themselves fall into dark delusions and destroy themselves. But moral and spiritual health, with right beliefs in our spirits, always produces justice and peace, with benefits equitably distributed to all people and all creations.

If the spirits of the sheep are fed rotting spiritual food and forced to drink muddy, diseased waters, while being bullied and injured, the flock will live an empty, futile, unjust, oppressive, chaotic and destructive existence, then perish. If moral and spiritual shepherds are not chosen, called, taught, trained and sent by Jesus, they will fail to teach and administer genuine truth and drag their people, even their whole land, into death. God will hand them all over to self-destructive delusions and allow pathetic little prototypes of the Roman beast, like Hitler and Trump, to herd their flesh into the abyss.

Only if many of God’s differently gifted and real shepherds consistently feed God’s nourishing truth to the people, then lead them to His clean, still waters of a peaceful, just and loving life, can a land become healthy and strong. So, until Jesus revives His true church, which He will surely do during the era of the sixth seal, and makes it even better than the true apostolic church of the first century, we will not see healthy, sane, strong, just and loving Christians in peaceful, stable, just lands. And, until Jesus destroys the Great Prostitute, and all her harlot daughter churches, we will not see Him return to embrace His bride, the true church. For Jesus will not come to a mess of deluded, lying, sinful, humanistic fake Christians and fake Jews. His rebukes against the fake “shepherds of Israel” must complete their works before He returns to rule Israel and world in His wise, just, loving ways.

God said, in this prophecy about the end times, “Ah, shepherds of Israel, who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. The weak you have not strengthened,

 

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the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up.the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshess you have ruled them. So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them” (Ezek. 34:2-, ESV). This is more true today than it was at any other time in history. For the churches and synagogues, through cruel hypocrisy and selfishness, have driven away so many potentially loving and just elect souls from them that there are now far more elect who hate and flee from them than there are in them. And those remaining in churches and synagogues are deluded, exploited, weak, starving, dying wretches.

Instead of strengthening the weak, churches chase them away, because they cost too much to feed. For they want only tithing members, only those favored by Satan’s world order. As for the sick, they leave them to die and oppose free healthcare. Rather than bind the injured in safe places, free from predators, they leave them out for the wolves to eat. And, if the elect are lured away from the flock by deceivers, they do not undo those works of the devil, but let them go. Nor do they seek the lost elect, only the non-elect who can pay their wages. They spend less time leading the strays back to the flock than they do counting their money. Then they preach the “austerity measures” that always end up impoverishing and weakening them and their lands, driving them further into failures and needless deaths. For they somehow think money is their chief god. But their demon Mammon is a murderer of souls, not a savior, and he only ever rules “with force and harshness” to destroy all life.

If the people are spiritually and physically healthy, the land will prosper. If they are not, the land will die. It is always about the people, not money, nor about gratifying the lusts of an elite minority in a hierarchy. Not only God’s Word, but also all hard evidence from every moment of history proves this to be true. Yet the shepherds refuse to hear God or any real evidence, because their selfish ambitions and willful minds of flesh make them deaf and blind. So we have always seen this kind of hypocrisy among the shepherds, from the days of Ezekiel in the sixth century BC until today. Shepherds have always been far more concerned about themselves than they ever were about God’s sheep. In utter vanity, they worry far more about whether the people will esteem them highly enough, but never concern themselves with God’s guidance and approval of their works. Yes, some will dream that God shall tell them, “Well done good and faithful servant!” But God never says that to self-worshiping humanists who lie and feed only their own flesh. And they will never truly bow before Him in adoration and wonder, since they only bow before man-made idols they call by the names of God, idols they created in their own images, or before the human gods that are most like those evil idols.

The result of this hypocrisy is always devastation in the lives of the people, by horrifying injustice, oppression and death. Thus, just as Israel was scattered among the Gentiles, so are all the elect Gentile sheep on earth. The potentially loving and just elect have been scattered as food for the wolves, who eat them alive. God’s sheep are now abused, exploited and killed everywhere. So, when God finally revives His true Israel for these elect to flee into, a true church with His own chosen shepherds caring for them, then sends His wrath against the fake shepherds, there will be no tears for those liars and their false churches. And now it is time for them to be afraid. For the end times are near, and who will defend them against God? Can their money and comfy homes save them? Who will stop God from destroying them? God is now dividing the elect from the non-elect, and casting those false churches and synagogues ever deeper into dark delusions. So those false shepherds will not win their battle against Him! They are utterly doomed, unless God grants a few deep repentance.

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this threat now, but they will regret their heedless vanity later. Becoming a true teacher of God’s Word is one of the most critical callings that our God Jesus can possibly give to a man. Yet this calling makes him into the lowliest of men, a servant of literally all human beings, one whom the world order mocks and often despises, a man who is forbidden by God to allow anyone to call him by any title of respect. He cannot be called Pastor, Rabbi, Teacher, Doctor, Father or anything else (Mat. 23:8-12). So the world sees him as a person lacking a position in Satan’s world order, as the lowest of classes in its hierarchical system. Yet such a man serves God alone, and directly conveys the words of the King of kings to His people. So such a man must never serve Mammon, nor his own flesh. His sole purpose in life is to lead all to Jesus, to his God, and into God’s ways of truth, so He will greatly bless them, so Jesus will be each man’s only esteemed Teacher and Head (I Cor. 11:3).

A true shepherd turns away all esteem from himself and away from all other men, so he might turn all esteem towards God, to Jesus the Messiah. So he does all kinds of works that the world calls lowly and unprofessional, to become the most professional, disciplined, humble worker for all their sakes. But the shepherds of both the Old and New Covenant branches of Israel only pretend to be professional teachers of God’s Word, and know nothing of the real God or His ways. Therefore, God is against them. Their doom is certain, and they will indeed be judged more strictly than all others.

In the end times, God will surely strike down all false churches, then finish off their humanistic mother, the Great Prostitute. God will abandon their mother to be destroyed by the beast, by the head of Satan’s world order, whom she cherishes so much. Of course, the beast and world order will also kill the elect, but very many of the awakened elect who die in those end times will return to the earth during the first resurrection, then enter heaven after that. Those false shepherds will do neither. Hell awaits most of them. And, before the judgment of the false shepherds will occur, there must be a true church for the elect to flee into, once Jesus destroys the false churches. For what good would it do for God to destroy all the false churches if there was no true church? And even now, as we live in this era of the fifth seal, we see the false churches beginning their destruction, and the true church being formed. Most of the elect still have only false churches to gratify their interest in Jesus and His Word. And God can even use false churches in a complex structure that allows each kind of false church to guard one or two truths or aspects of His kingdom, even while all thosse false churches are being handed over to delusions. So the elect still gain a little from false churches, but not much.

Therefore, if God destroyed the false churches and unfaithful shepherds right now, before the revival of His true church during the beginning of the end times, many more elect would be lost without any place to go. And new false churches would simply rise up to replace the old false churches. Thus, His destruction of the false churches cannot occur until He first revives His true church in the end times, through the sealing of the saints during the era of the sixth seal. Since we are nearing the end of the fifth seal’s era, the process of destroying the false churches and building up His true church has begun. But, after His true church is fully formed by the sixth seal’s revival, and matures a little, He will utterly destroy the false churches, even while His true church shall also suffer persecution.

This gradual process will culminate in the death of the Great Prostitute at the end of the beast’s seven-year reign, shortly before Jesus returns to destroy the beast himself. Thus, God will soon require all false churches and all their faithless shepherds to pay for all His sheep who perished in their care. Of course, there are a few false pastors, priests and rabbis who are God’s elect children, although they proclaim a false god and a fake salvation together with the non-elect shepherds. So these deceived elect shepherds will endure Christ’s very painful and fiery rebukes in the near future and on the judgment day. Nonetheless, the vast majority of unfaithful shepherds in the churches and synagogues throughout history are not the elect, certainly not their core leaders. So most will be sent

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to the deepest depths of hell on that final day, below most secular sinners. It would have been better for them to become criminals than to have crept into God’s church to deceive God’s beloved elect with their false, self-serving doctrines. For God will judge the worst spiritual sinners most harshly.

Yahweh God declared, “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My sheep at their hands and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue My sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them” (34:9-10, ESV). Clearly, if God Himself will “put a stop to their feeding the sheep,” it means that He will force them to cease from preaching false doctrines and destroy their false churches. They will no longer gain an income from false churches, to “feed themselves,” because those churches will be destroyed by God. For God will punish them, and “require” them to pay for both the spiritual and physical losses they had caused for His elect. But God also proclaimed that He Himself will “rescue” (Hebrew = natsal, “rescue, deliver, snatch away”) His elect from the lies uttered by the “mouths” of false shepherds. And God will do this by sending His own true shepherds to them, by reviving His true church on earth during the era of the sixth seal, so His elect will no longer be food for those false shepherds.

Jesus is the Good Shepherd and Owner of the sheep, and His Holy Spirit will dwell among His sheep while they are scattered. God who will search for and save His sheep, not men, although He may use some humans as agents who will perform minor duties in this task. Likewise, Jesus claimed that He would do exactly the same things that God claimed He would do (e.g., John 10:11-12), since Jesus is Yahweh God in a body of flesh. And, since our Good Shepherd said He would be “among His sheep that have been scattered,” it also implies what other prophecies have stated more explicitly, that God will dwell in a body of flesh among His people on earth, after they were divided and scattered by the false churches. The Messiah did come once, after the elect Jews had been driven from God’s safe pastures by sects of false Judaism. And His Holy Spirit has indeed been working among all the Jewish and Gentile elect, to teach them His just and loving ways for their salvation, even all these intervening centuries. But Jesus will come to us in the flesh again, and His body will dwell among us until the earth ends. Yet He will only come the second time after He annihilates all false religions.

Jesus remains with His elect, though they have been scattered as food for the wolves by innumerable sects of false Christianity and fake Judaism. Now the time is coming when Yahweh Jesus will search for and rescue His sheep, eliminating all the divisions caused by worldliness and selfish ambitions. During the revival of the end times, Jesus will begin this search and rescue operation for all who bear the potential to love in His just and equitable ways. Then, when His sheep are gathered together as one body, and are no longer scattered, He Himself, His Holy Spirit, will prepare them to join in His labors, to serve as one with His body on earth, as His holy bride. Jesus will return to His temple in Jerusalem, which represents His Spirit in His body, to live in body of flesh among us once more.

Then Yahweh Jesus will both physically and spiritually dwell on earth, to serve as the “Good Shepherd,” as the only true Head Shepherd of all the elect. And, although this prophecy of Ezekiel does not mention the first resurrection, many elect who died during the end times, and possibly some of the other elect in history as well, will rise to live on earth with Him, and apparently some will remain alive during the entire millennium of His rule on earth. And also notice, if He comes to save the lost, strayed, injured and weak in those prophesied end times, then it means that the elect will be lost, strayed, injured and weak before He comes to “rescue” them. It means there will no be no true world-wide church that serves as His true body on earth, that seeks the lost, brings back the strayed through repentance into the real truth, heals the physically, emotionally and spiritually injured, and strengthens the weak with nourishing food and drink for their hearts. Still, I pray that churches and synagogues today will not be too arrogant, and not think too highly of themselves. For the wrath of

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the real God is beginning to fall on them, and they will soon be destroyed, if they do not repent into the real truths of God and His Word. And we must now prepare for the revival of the sixth seal’s era.

We see the very high self-esteem of false shepherds, of bullies among the flock in the churches and synagogues today. They act like gods who own the flock, who can do whatever they want with the flock, for their own selfish purposes. And they all love the doctrines of humanism, the antichrist’s religion, the worship of man in hierarchical class systems. But that religion destroys the people, and those human gods themselves. Humanism has brought the whole earth to the brink of destruction. So all we truly need is to esteem serve the real Creator God, the just, equitable, loving Jesus. Literally every human being on earth is utterly dependent on God’s mercy as a sinner, equal to all the others who have been caused to sin, even to murder. So we should esteem no person. God may allow us to modestly respect whatever good work He allows a person’s hands to do. But we need to remember that all the effectiveness, skill, intelligence and inspiration of all good works originates from God alone. Only God grants elect spirits, bodies and minds both the ability and circumstances to do any truly good work. Then only He can make a work effective and bear good fruit. So, if we rejoice in a good work, we actually esteem God Himself, even as we address the one administering that good work as an equal sinner, with no title of esteem, and treat him as an equal sibling, sharing all things with him as we do with all others, helping him make right decisions and do His works for our God.

We do not need a humanistic, back-stabbing, dog-eat-dog hierarchy of men, making one man into the god of other men, so he can beat down the others into subservience. For humanism is Satanic. Rather, the Head of every man must be Jesus alone, and even the highest authorities must humbly accept the rebukes of God and His equal human servants, just as the king, David, did when God sent Nathan to soundly rebuke him. In the end, only Jesus can possibly shepherd us rightly and justly.

Jesus is God. And God said: “Behold, I, I Myself will search for My sheep and will seek them out…. I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on the day of clouds and thick darkness [i.e., in the end times, God will gather the elect into His true church]. And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land [i.e., after Jesus returns, He will also gather all Jews into Israel]…. I will feed them with good pasture … I Myself will be the Shepherd of My sheep, and I Myself will make them lie down … I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice” (Ezek. 34:11-16, ESV). Here Yahweh God is very clear. He alone will do all this, not the hands of human beings. There can be no theocracy of wanna-be human gods to make this happen. Only our God Himself, in Jesus, can do all of this. Yes, He will employ His chosen agents to partake in His works, as minor helpers. But all of these works must be done by Him alone, and His agents can only act in His name, by His command, according to His will alone. For no name under heaven bears a right to be thee shepherd of God’s personal sheep.

As to the wanna-be human gods, who pretend to own God’s sheep, our God Jesus said: “Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats. Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet? And must My sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?” (34:17-19, ESV). False shepherds, those who control the people through the demon Mammon or by their influence and authority over them, do not live modest lives, enjoying the fruits of God’s green earth. No, they want more than all the others, and their greed knows no bounds. So they trample the land and pollute the waters to gain ever more power for themselves, never considering how their covetousness affects the lives of others. And, if anyone gets in their way, they attack that one. But a ram is a male sheep with

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very large horns, and a male goat also has horns, not usually as large, but often just as deadly. So they severely injure or even kill those who try to stop their destructive folly. So most put up with it.

Therefore, our God declared: “Behold, I, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad, I will rescue My flock; they shall no long be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep. And I will set up over them one Shepherd, My Servant David, and He shall feed them: He shall feed them and be their Shepherd. And I, Yahweh, will be their God, and My Servant David shall be Prince [i.e., Hebrew = nawsee, ‘chief, king’] among them” (34:20-24, ESV). So all this implies that God will judge the shepherds, both the religious and secular exploiters, just before He establishes “David,” who is the Messiah Jesus, as the King of all the earth. God will judge each sheep, and slaughter the unrepentant who refuse to stop their insane foolishness. And notice here that, although Yahweh God called Himself the only Shepherd of His flock, He also calls the Messiah or “David” the Shepherd of His flock. So Yahweh is the Messiah and the Messiah is Yahweh God. It is Jesus who will cast the earth into judgment during the end times, destroying the power of both the secular and religious shepherds who bully His elect, until all of those wanna-be human gods perish.

This judgment once more alludes to God’s slaughter of the wicked throughout the end times, until He completes this work on the day Jesus returns. And Jesus’ judgment is God’s judgment, and not a judgment by men. Therefore, even the most cleverly disguised false shepherds will be condemned and destroyed by that day, when Jesus returns. Also, during this judgment, the lost, strayed, injured and weak elect shall be found, returned, healed and strengthened, brought into His revived true church of Israel. For all judgments of God strive to right all wrongs, to correct all errors and restore all losses. This, above all, is the first priority of all biblical judgments and all God’s judgments. And punishing the wicked is the last priority in all godly, biblical judgments, only administered when it is necessary to protect His flock. But the non-elect cannot and will not repent at that time, nor before then. So God Himself will mostly kill the non-elect, although some unrepentant elect will remain among those whom God will destroy. Now, since the purpose of God’s judgment will be principally to right all wrongs, any condemnation it bears will be first directed against the false shepherds who steal into His church of Israel, since they commit the worst spiritual sins. So we should watch for this, and flee from fake religious shepherds and their false churches even now, as soon as possible.

This is why God mentions His sheep first. It is one thing to deceive from outside of a church that claims to worship Him, as secular servants of the devil. But, in the eyes of God, it is far more evil to dare to deceive His sheep in His name. The servants of Satan who pretend to be God’s servants will receive a far more painful condemnation and punishment from God than most secular tempters. And none of these religious wolves in sheep’s clothing will escape His eternal wrath. For this and other prophecies confirm that God will destroy those fake shepherds and their false sheep, both the Great Prostitute and her daughters. Very soon after that, Jesus will destroy the beast and all the rest of the wicked on earth, on the day of His return. And, since none will escape His wrath, let the elect flee from those fakes right now, so they can spend the rest of their short lives becoming truly saved.

When God is talking about judging “between sheep and sheep,” He emphasizes that, although the false shepherds may think they are superior human gods, they too are merely sheep, who blindly follow the flock and are led into sins by the most minor distractions. Then the context indicates that He will judge between the elect and non-elect, but that both will claim to be members of His church of Israel, in either His Old or New covenant branches of His church. And if God Himself judges, it will be without error, with absolute finality and with serious eternal consequences. There will be real deaths for the wicked liars, then the very real eternal darkness of their lies and delusions in a very

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real hell for the non-elect. So we must now ask ourselves what God meant when He said He would judge against the “fat sheep” who “tread down” the pasture, who harm and scatter the other sheep?

In a shepherd’s language, the “fat sheep” are the dominant sheep, the deluded sheep who claim “ownership” of the good pasture for themselves, who do not allow the smaller “lean sheep” to feed in peace. They “hog” the pasture for themselves and drive out the other sheep, so the others will go hungry and remain weak, to be easily bullied by them, while the fat sheep become bigger and stronger, even more able to bully the other sheep. Then, once the “lean sheep” are driven out of the good pasture, and are scattered all over the place, looking for food, they become easy prey for predators, while the “fat sheep” remain secure, since the predators feed to their full on the “lean sheep.” Also, the scattered “lean sheep” eat whatever they can find, even noxious weeds that make them sick or kill them. For a shepherd only removes noxious weeds from his good pasture, where the bullying “fat sheep” eat. This is why good shepherds discipline their sheep, and may even break the leg of a stubborn bullying sheep, or slaughter it, to stop it from harming or scattering the other sheep.

Now, among humans, who are very much like sheep, there are those who claim “ownership” of God’s pasture, His church, although God commands that all His sheep should feed there, with equal opportunity, kept safe from predators by His own mighty hands and all-seeing eyes. Still, in spite of knowing that no human can really own anything, not even one’s own body, some humans delude themselves into thinking they can take over God’s church, and His other properties on earth. They actually believe they bear the “right” to bully the other sheep, the “right” to scatter them into places where they starve, are eaten alive by predators and will often eat noxious weeds that make them sick or kill them. At first, God will “break their legs,” to stop them from this engaging in that insanity. That is, God causes them to suffer much for their arrogance, and they are required to painfully spend an inordinate amount of their time and strength to continue their bullying. But if they do not repent even after God “breaks their legs,” and after many warnings, God will send them to be slaughtered.

Here God is basically condemning the way the rich get richer at the expense of the rest of the sheep, taking all the good things of their lands for themselves through unbalanced justice, health care and service systems, while leaving the other sheep with little or nothing. The rich and powerful are the “fat sheep,” whom God will slaughter. For the “fat sheep” assert their dominance over the other sheep, to the detriment of the other sheep. In particular, God is most angry with the inequitable distribution of goods and services among the members of His priesthood of Israel, who have His Law and His counsel that forbids this kind of inequity. But God hates this kind of unjust bullying throughout humankind, and will punish all the “fat sheep” in the world very soon. Our loving and just God condemns all hierarchical class systems where human gods are worshiped, which is why Satan’s world order focuses on building such systems. This is why our God Jesus warned us that it is easier for a large animal like a camel to pass through the eye of an ordinary sewing needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Rather, He hands most rich people over to their own delusions of self-entitlement, self-worship and the justification of all their ruthless sins of omission.

Godly Jewish communities all had elders and Levites who formed “schools,” primarily to teach both the children and adults about God’s Word, about God’s loving justice. And all learned these truths throughout their lives. Then God’s Word was often likened to good food for the soul and to the pure waters we need to drink for our survival. So, figuratively, this prophecy is saying that the rich and powerful prominent members of His church deny a good and equitable religious education to His people, then corrupt whatever biblical teachings they do let the poorer and weaker sheep receive. For, if the vast majority of sheep found out what God’s Word actually did teach and command, then those masses would demand accountability from the rich and powerful. And God commands that all

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humans bear a responsibility to equitably and justly share all that He owns and provides for them, as well as carefully tend the “garden” of the entire earth and provide a good life for all the creatures He placed upon it. God wants each person to receive what one needs and tells each to give all the excess to one’s Owner, to Him, so none are left to suffer or die (II Cor. 8::12-15). And, to accomplish this just and loving equity, God wants, above all, for all to receive the whole and rightly taught counsel of His Word, without corruption. So, by the time our God Jesus returns, the earth will have all this.

God commands His sheep to stop bullying one another, or there will be dire consequences. God will judge any churches who falsely claim to bear His name, who speak lies about what He has openly proclaimed in His Word. Liars will perish before Jesus returns. Just as God handed apostate Israel over to destruction by their pagan Assyrian and Babylonian lovers in the past, God will soon hand false members of churches over to the beast and his kingdom in the end times, to be utterly crushed by them. And, just as the primary reason God gave for doing this was because Israel and Judah had trampled and bullied the poor and the weak, all those fake church will be killed for these same sins.

Now Ezekiel prophesied before 560 BC, long after David had died. Yet, in this prophecy, God declared that David would become the “one Shepherd” and “Prince/King” of Israel. Thus, this prophecy is clearly talking about the Messiah, whose body of flesh is a descendant and direct heir of David’s throne. And, since this Messiah is coming to the people of Israel in a body of flesh which descended from David, to serve as Israel’s Ruler, this prophecy must be about the second and glorious advent of the Messiah Jesus. Then notice again how Yahweh God first told us, with great emphasis, that He Himself would be Israel’s only Shepherd. Yet God then declared, “I will set up over them one Shepherd,” referring to the Messiah in the flesh. Thus, we can only draw one possible conclusion: Since God is a Spirit, this indicates that the Messiah is actually Yahweh, God’s Spirit in the human body of the Messiah. Only the Messiah’s body of flesh will descend from David, not the life-giving Spirit inside Him. The Messiah Jesus will be the whole of Yahweh God, who is a Spirit, dwelling in a body of human flesh among us. For God created this temporary material time and space, so He is not subject to the limitations of this time and space, but can be multiple places at the same time. In fact, God must be ubiquitous and omnipresent for His power to maintain the universe.

Now, since this is speaking about a time when the Messiah Jesus comes to rule Israel and the whole earth, we must also conclude that God’s judgment of the sheep of Israel, His church, shall occur sometime before Jesus returns. God will destroy the “fat sheep” and the “goats” who claim to be members of His church of Israel during the end times. And He will judge the whole “house of Israel,” both the Jewish natural branches and the grafted-in Gentile branches, after a process which dichotomizes the elect from the non-elect, after He “calls out” the elect from the fake non-elect members of those churches. And, when Jesus comes to His elect, He will be “their God with them,” and they shall be His people. For the two principal promises of God’s New Covenant with His church of Israel are: (1) God, Jesus, will serve them as their God and (2) God’s people will serve their God, Jesus, as faithful servants. So His elect will be the “sheep of His pasture.” For the true church belongs to God, not to men. We, weakened by our minds of flesh, need Him to shepherd us.

Zechariah 11:4-17 (ESV): “Thus said [Yahweh] my God: ‘Become shepherd of the flock

doomed to slaughter. Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who

sell them say, “Blessed be Yahweh, I have become rich,” and their own shepherds have no

pity on them. For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares Yahweh.

Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand

of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.’

 

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“So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I

took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep. In one

month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also

detested me. So I said, ‘I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be

destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.’

“And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with

all the peoples. So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching

me, knew that it was the word of [Yahweh]. Then I said to them, ‘If it seems good to you,

give me my wages; but if not, keep them.’ And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of

silver. Then [Yahweh] said to me, ‘Throw it to the potter’—the lordly price at which I was

priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of

[Yahweh], to the potter. Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood

between Judah and Israel.

“Then [Yahweh] said to me, ‘Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. For

behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed,

[This might also be translated as: ‘For behold, I will raise up [some] in the land to shepherd those being

destroyed, [by each] who does not care ...’] or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the

healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs. ‘Woe to My

worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye!

Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!’”

In our day, there are so many false shepherds who feed off of the blood and flesh of their abused sheep, then say, “Blessed be God! I have become rich.” But they are cursed, handed over to deep and dark delusions. And they will pay for their ill-gotten gain, by spending eternity in the darkness of those delusions, which shall never be gratified in the least, throughout eternity. Of course, in this prophecy, the flock refers to the Jews, to the southern tribes in Judah in particular. But, as an end-time prophecy about world-wide events, this flock represents all who claim to belong to God’s church of Israel, from Jesus’ first advent up to the day He returns. This is talking about how the false churches, the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters, are doomed, along with all the selfish false shepherds in them. The false churches in the end times will include both a corrupt Old Covenant Jewish branch of the church, represented by Israel, and a corrupt New Covenant Gentile church, represented by Jesus’ tribe of Judah. Then Zechariah represents the Messiah’s first advent as thee Shepherd, who shall not unite them nor show those false churches any favor. Until Jesus returns, both will be rejected by the Messiah, cursed by Him, doomed to suffer His wrath for their sins.

The exploitative, false shepherds are the teachers and leaders of the false churches and synagogues, those we often call pastors, priests or rabbis. And I repeat, the word “pastor” is the Latin word for “shepherd.” Also remember, this definitely is not speaking about false shepherds in other religions, only those in the Judea-Christian religion, since these false shepherds claim to worship Yahweh, the God of the Bible. For all these false shepherds use the name of the real God, “Yahweh.” Yet these pastors seek only their own gain and personal wealth from the flock. To them, shepherding God’s people is a career, not God’s calling. But God truly called Zechariah, His honest and faithful servant, to “become shepherd of the flock,” to teach His hired staff and the flock for a time. Then, while he was shepherding them, he “destroyed the three shepherds” in one month, in the time it took for the birth of the new moon to grow and die again. A month represented one generation, but also the time from the Messiah’s first advent to His second advent. In biblical terms, these three shepherds seemed to represent (1) secular authorities, (2) Levitical priests and (3) teaching elders raised up from the

 

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other tribes of Israel. These existed at the time of Jesus’ first advent, but corrupt secular authorities, priest-like authorities and lay minister will also exist until His second advent. So it seems that Jesus, represented by Zechariah, together with His true servants in His true church, will do the works of removing or nullifying the sins of these three kinds of false servants of God during the last days, between the times of His first and second advents. And He will complet this work when He returns.

Jesus will also make a staff called “Favor” and another staff called “Union,” when He comes the first time. For He will come with favor for the Jews, then also unite His Gentile elect with them in His New Covenant church, but for only one generation. Then Jesus will break the staff called “Favor,” because both the Jews and the Gentiles He gathers into His priesthood of Israel will become ruthless and corrupt. Our God Jesus will no longer show favor to either the Jewish or Gentile churches, since they will claim to act in His name, but will not heed their chief Shepherd. These will “detest” and frustrate Him instead. Jesus will not show favor and continue to shepherd false churches who resist Him and His counsel, although He promised in His covenant that He would favor His true church forever, the faithful elect Jews and Gentiles who heed His words. He will not keep that promise until He revives His true church. He will only keep that promise with His true church. Then Jesus also broke the staff called “Union.” For His natural Jewish elect and His Gentile elect were to be united in His one and only church of Israel. And they will be after He returns. But, until then, there will be no union between the New Covenant church called “Judah” and the Old Covenant church called “Israel.” This great divide between them began in about AD 70, about 40 years or one generation after Jesus ascended into heaven. And that division in the Judea-Christian church still exists today.

Of course, it is impossible for any true and faithful pastor to serve a false church for any length of time, since the most influential people in it will love darkness rather than light, because their deeds will be evil (John 3:20). They will only tolerate the lies that appeal to the desires of their flesh, and only allow their church to have false pastors who tickle their ears with motivational speeches and praise for their self-indulgent lives. Those inherently drawn to false churches, and seek to become esteemed members, despise those who speak real truths from God. And this is exactly what happened when Zechariah became a pastor of a false church by God’s command. For one thing, three of the other shepherds associated with that church were not doing their jobs, yet the sheep preferred them to Zechariah. The only thing those false shepherds wanted to do was fatten a few of the sheep to slaughter for meat, or sell them to others who would slaughter them, so they could grow rich through their thefts of those sheep which did not belong to them. And they cared nothing for the sheep because the sheep did not belong to them, but belonged only to God, since they were the sheep designated for the temple sacrifices. Thus, those shepherds were not allowed to slaughter or sell even one sheep. Rather, those sheep had to healthy and flawless to be used as temple sacrifices. So their shepherds had to be the best, trained to properly discipline, feed, water, heal and protect the sheep.

Now keep in mind that God raises His sheep for sacrifice, but wants His sheep to be without any blemishes, though they live and die for God’s name, just like God did in His body of Jesus. And the the flesh of His temple sacrifices had to be shared with the poor and with His entire true priesthood, to nourish them. But only God Himself could appoint His sheep for slaughter, and His unblemished sheep are only killed so they can receive eternal life in heaven’s perfect pasture. However, although these particular sheep had been raised by false shepherds, and did not know the Good Shepherd. So they only loved the ones they knew well, and did not love the Good Shepherd, nor seek to be loved by Him. Instead, they ran to their false shepherds, to be neglected, abused and sold by those thieves.

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on earth. So these shepherds were only to sheer the excess growth of wool from them, so they would not be weighed down and overheated in the summers. These sheep were not raised to be sold for a profit, not to be butchered for private gluttony, but were only for the feeding of God’s people in an equitable way administered by His faithful priests, whose only inheritance was to be God Himself.

In this end-time prophecy, Zechariah was saying that we will see fake shepherds and false churches steal God’s sheep. Then they will reject the Good Shepherd when He comes, and value Him for only 30 pieces of silver. Those fakes, who neglect their duties, will persist until shortly before their God, the Good Shepherd, returns. And throughout history, fake shepherds have fed their flocks the same old trampled, well-rehearsed words, music and displays of their great superiority, all carefully designed to appeal to the flesh of the sheep. They feed them a polluted temporary gratification of their carnal appetites, by providing stirring emotional experiences enhanced by professional music and appealing rhetoric, all designed to lure them into their traps. This is all they give, nothing else, until the starving people grow utterly dependent on their empty calories that satisfy their hunger only for a moment at a time, and never make them truly healthy and strong. Since the people cannot find any good food anywhere, they become dupes addicted to those fake pastors and their false churches.

On a continuous diet of lies and contradicting philosophies about gods, faith and life, the people are no longer able to think straight. They cannot make right decisions for themselves, nor even begin to worship the real God in their spirits, based on real truths about Him, about themselves, about others and about His creations. Rather, the fake shepherds become their decision-making gods, whom they rely on for their delusions about all matters of life and faith. Once the elect are addicted to the filthy garbage that false shepherds feed them, food from the Good Shepherd seems too flavorful and too hard to digest. And they cannot recognize His voice, since they can no longer even recognize the voices of their own spirits within them. So their hyped up minds of flesh can no longer submit to their own spirits, and their spirits will not allow Jesus’ Holy Spirit to educated and counsel them.

This is why even the elect in fake churches and Satan’s world order so often turn away from the real Jesus, who is the only one who can lead them into a wise, loving, just and godly life. As they bow their heads of flesh and shut their eyes of flesh to pray with these fake shepherds, their spirits remain asleep, set aside and locked within their hearts, unable to utter a single word in the chambers of their souls. Only their enslaved minds of flesh are allowed to do all their thinking in those souls. They become spiritually blind and deaf, unable to see or hear Jesus, their true God, standing beside them.

Meanwhile, the fake shepherds demand more and more time, effort and money from elect flesh, to force their flesh to become too busy and too burdened to hear the pounding of their spirits trying to escape the locked chambers of their hearts. Then some fake shepherds tell them that their painful “sacrifices” are God’s works, although most of their sacrifices are used for the self-indulgence of those fake shepherds themselves. Almost nothing helps the needy or is used for other truly good works of God. Yet the elect believe those lies of the fake shepherds, and actually believe they are serving God, although it is blatantly obvious that they are only serving the elite in the hierarchies of Satan’s world order, not God at all. And, by these sinful sacrifices to human gods and Satan, through a false worship conducted solely through deeds of their flesh, these elect greatly offend God, in the worst ways possible. So is it any wonder that God calls His elect out of their false churches and out of Satan’s world order? And how can we accuse our just God of being cruel when He declares that He will condemn those fake shepherds most, because they committed their deliberate sins of causing His elect to become food for wolves? Do those false pastors of fake churches and governing officials not deserve to perish in the flesh, and in the darkness of their lies and delusions for all of eternity?

 

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The wealth of these fake shepherds comes from the sale of their people. Secular servants of Satan’s world order—ruthless business people, politicians and others—also offer money and favors to fake pastors. They bribe those fake pastors to hand their flocks over to them. And these fake pastors are all willing to sell God’s flocks to those wolves in sheep’s clothing, although those secular demons slaughter their sheep, as offerings to Satan himself. The false pastors profit from business leaders and politicians, even as those politicians and business leaders drain the lifeblood out of their sheep and consume their flesh, as they slaughter their flocks through selfish ambitions. Those fake pastors, who sell their flocks for personal gain, will be held accountable for the multitudes who died a slow and painful death throughout history. While Satan’s world order rules their lands, they may “go unpunished, and those who sell them say, “Blessed be Yahweh, I have become rich.”’ But life on earth is very short, and soon all will face the real Jesus, who will not hear their lies nor acquit them.

The Creator God Yahweh will not condemn anyone who repents into the truth, who flees to Him, to the real Jesus, to their teaching Judge. Yet this salvation never happens through false churches. For their fake pastors teach their people to pray something like this: “O god in heaven, your greater gods, our church pastors and other shepherds, teach us that you are a mindless power controlled by them. So bless our worshiped shepherds with your rewards that Satan’s world order so highly esteems. For we believe that the more money and power you give them, the more scraps we can scrounge from their garbage cans. Then, since our shepherds tell us that all our pains and deaths are our own faults, forgive us, and help us to worship our shepherds better. For our shepherds say they are never at fault, and we believe this. For this is why they have earned the right to be served by us, the right to take all our money, the right to commit whatever sins they desire and the right to be glorified as our highest gods. Help them steal even more lives, even the lives of our loved ones, so they can save everyone.”

I know that most so-called Christians throughout history will think the above prayer is a good one, and most churches of the world order, who now support the current smart Hitlers and dumb Trumps as their secular saviors, will see absolutely nothing wrong with that prayer. However, the reality remains: That prayer is pure blasphemy! It is almost the opposite of what the real God Jesus wants the elect in His true church to pray. For the real God is the wise Controller and Determiner of every tiny event in the entire Universe. And no human, nor any heavenly entity, will ever be able to alter, manipulate or control the thoughts of the real God. His predetermined will and His plans for this entire universe, which He made in the very beginning, shall be done precisely in the way they were originally set, for the teaching and training of His chosen spirits. And His education is His only reward for His elect spirits. As for the deceiving, empty rewards of Satan’s world order, they are merely temporary perceptions granted to sinful human spirits, as delusions. When false Christians and others do not love the truths about God and His creations, God grants them even more sinful and deluded souls to rule over them, to be esteemed, served and worshiped as their human gods. Then those human gods teach those delusions and lies to those sinners, so both those gods and their people will destroy their own flesh. Then those who cannot repent on the last day, will bear the darkness of those delusions and lies in painful frustration forever, in a tiny reserved part of God’s spiritual realm.

So how is the real Yahweh God supposed to rescue His own sheep who pray like that? How can He tolerate those kinds of lies and delusions, which esteem fake shepherds? For the Creator is an honest God, and cannot condone nor cater to lies and delusions. So the only thing God is able to do is call His elect out of those false churches and out of Satan’s world order, into His true church and into His just and loving kingdom. God will always continue to rebuke the prayers of those sheep in those fake churches, and will not hear those delusional prayers. God will also keep sending some of His faithful servants to teach the real truth to His elect, so some might repent, no matter how many times those

 

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fake human gods and their deluded dupes kill His servants. Soon God will violently shake the entire earth, to wake up His elect from their drugged stupor, so they might come to Him and learn from Him. In the end, He will shake all those deluders and their deluded dupes off of this planet. God will destroy all false churches and Satan’s entire world order. So it is time for the elect to start repenting.

For two thousand years we have seen the four horsemen riding upon the earth. First the wanna-be human god go out to conquer with the first rider. Then the second rider causes the initial effects of that conquering, by prompting neighbors to kill one another, each one in the name of his worshiped conquering or conquered human god. In all this chaos, the third rider enters with famine, since so few workers are left to plant the crops, and many remaining crops are destroyed. Then, if the people continue to worship their human gods, and do not repent into the peace of God, the fourth rider comes to work the final destruction of their lands, through murders, starvation and utterly lawless violence. We have clearly seen these four riders effectively carry out their punishing deeds around the world for the last two millennia, but have not seen much repentance into the truths about God and His ways. And, for more than a century, we have seen the fifth seal opened, where the false religions and secular leaders of Satan’s world order prepare for the end times by trying to kill off all of God’s elect, both the unconscious and conscious elect, all who speak the truths of God. But Jesus is about to open the sixth seal, to begin the end times, and none can stop Him. So there will be some elect who shall prepare for those end times, by submitting their spirits to the teaching and training of Jesus’ Holy Spirit. Then Jesus will finally, fully and forever revive His true church, soon after the sixth seal’s world-wide earthquakes and striking meteors destroy the systems of Satan’s world order.

In Zechariah’s prophecy about the end times, God said: “For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land … Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand” (Zech. 11:6, ESV). So this says, “the inhabitants of this land ... shall crush the land,” in the end times. But God used the Hebrew word erets, which is translated as “land” here, but can also refer to the whole earth, and He did not use the demonstrative pronoun (“this”) either. So, considering the context of the previous chapter and the beginning of this chapter, the geographical scope of this prophecy is actually the entire earth. God “will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth,” and “they shall crush or break into pieces the whole earth.” And, when Zechariah broke the staffs called Favor and Union as a prophecy against the flocks and shepherds who “despised” the Good Shepherd, he also must have been referring to all the false churches on earth, not just the church in the land of Israel. Churches around the world will no longer experience the merciful tolerance or favor of God, but will divide and destroy themselves. The churches claiming to belong to the tribe of Jesus, to Judah, will become even more antisemitic, will turn against the Old Covenant branch of Israel. During the end times, the whole of Satan’s world order will crush, break apart and destroy itself, even while all the false churches become more divisive, until they destroy themselves too.

God often hands false churches, and the nations they live in, over to ruthless shepherds who have no pity on them. Then their fake pastors and selfishly ambitious secular rulers crush them, or divide them, break them into smaller groups whom they can manipulate or destroy. And, since the people refuse to repent into the truth, God will not deliver them. Zechariah, who symbolically played the role of the Messiah, came to them and was “despised” by them. So He had to quit his job as a shepherd, as a prophecy that God would no longer have pity on “the inhabitants of the earth,’ nor upon the flock of the church of Israel, which he came to teach about God and God’s words, though they “despised” Him. Zechariah also represented all the true shepherds whom God calls and sends at various times in history, as well as our God Jesus Himself. So, when he walked away from the flock

 

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of the church, it was according to God’s command and was a prophetic illustration indicating that all true, faithful servants of God, and God Himself, will abandon the false churches, will no longer have pity on them, as they perish under the hands of the false shepherds they preferred instead of Jesus.

Since neither their false shepherds nor God’s true shepherds, not even God Himself, will have pity on them, the flocks of the false churches will have absolutely no one to show them any mercy or favor, but will divide and fight among one another until they destroy themselves. Although their esteemed false shepherds, whom they worship as their highest gods, will smile with friendly faces, those wolves in sheep’s clothing certainly will not have any pity on them, even while God’s wrath is striking them all down. For those fake shepherds never had any real pity or love for their flocks from the beginning. All they ever really wanted was to obtain an income from the flock. Those false shepherds all walked according to their flesh and taught their people to do the same. None walked according to their spirits, except the demonic non-elect shepherds who submitted to Satan. None were the elect who submitted their spirits to Jesus’ Holy Spirit, so their spirits could wisely manage their minds of flesh within the chambers of their souls. None were true servants of God to the flock.

By gratifying only their flesh, and by refusing to let their spirits seek the eternal kingdom of God, the shepherds of those false churches could never know nor preach about God’s just love. Those false churches could only doom themselves to destruction through infighting, wars and the other effects of their lies and sins. Throughout history, over and over again, God has reached out to the churches, sending them shepherds like Zechariah. Yet, even the few times when they did hear them, they soon forgot their truths and returned to their lies. For they loved the emotions and lusts which their false pastors stirred up in their flesh, but despised the spiritual realities that reject the rewards of Satan’s world order, and only favored holy, modest, loving lives. Even among the elect trapped in those fake churches, their flesh became so strong, and their spirits became so weak, that God could no longer reason with them. Thus, God eventually stopped having pity on the elect and non-elect among them.

To be healed, the elect need to utterly abandon fake pastors and false churches, which is exactly what Jesus commanded. For their teachings, conversations, works, practices and prayers corrupt thoughts about God and life, in ways that negatively affect the spirit’s relationship with the real God. They turn one’s thinking almost entirely towards the emotions and reasoning of the mind of flesh. And their corrupt and loveless flesh remains completely unwilling to allow their spirits to think or hear the Spirit of God, primarily because of their anthropological doctrines from Roman humanism, that is, because none of them really know who or what they actually are. Most do not even realize that they have two minds vying for control over their thoughts and decisions in the chambers of their souls. So even the elect among them learn become content with the vain, selfish, godless lives that their false shepherds teach them to live. And none can escape that trap, until Jesus awakens their spirits, then begins to teach and train their spirits for their real salvation, to prepare them for heaven.

The longer the fake humanistic churches exist, the more they become hardened against spiritual realities and the real God. And some of the elect trapped among them can also become so carnally brainwashed and fearful that their flesh will not allow their spirits to hear anything from God. Then the only way those elect can be saved is by removing their spirits from their flesh, in physical death, by taking their spirits to His throne of judgment in heaven, so those elect spirits can be purified by the fires of His hot rebukes. Some elect spirits will only repent into a knowledge of the real truth when they are taken to the gates of heaven, when their spirits are put in spiritual bodies that can see our God Jesus face to face. For, on earth, we can only see Him dimly, as through a frosted window.

 

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In this prophecy about the world in the end times, God tells us that He will cause each soul “to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand” (11:6, ESV). That is, the hatred and divisions in lands around the world will grow so great that neighbor will kill neighbor and governments will kill their own people, mostly because the churches have become so corrupt. Jesus also gave us this same prophecy, telling us that councils of false churches, corrupt kings and even deluded family members will persecute His awakened elect and put some to death (e.g., Mat. 10:17-23). This persecution will occur during the entire last days, during the eras of all seven seals. But it will increase during the fifth seal’s era and during last three and a half years of the beast’s seven-year reign. Godless, ruthless rulers will crush their own people and their own lands, ultimately causing their own destruction. And the false churches who supported those lying and murdering rulers, even all the fake shepherds who sold their flocks for personal gain, will kill die too. All these servants of Satan may persecute the awakened elect for a time, but God will find them all and punish all whose spirits cannot repent into the truth.

But God will call many deceived elect out from false churches, and deliver many from the hands of false shepherds, by causing their spirits to repent into the truth, to realize that the fake shepherds are not human gods who can save them. Once His elect begin to know the truth, the sixth seal’s era will begin. The sealing by our God Jesus will bring the revival of His true New Covenant church, which will be very much like the true apostolic church of the first century. At that time, many elect shall repent into a knowledge of God’s Word, in the way His Holy Spirit interprets it. And His true church will rise from the ashes of many false churches, which will perish very soon after His true church is revived. Then His true church, His bride, can begin to prepare herself for the return of her Husband.

Here God called Zechariah to become a shepherd of a doomed flock. God called him to be a true pastor for a church that had become so false and hardened that God already had condemned it to destruction. And keep in mind that Zechariah penned this part of the prophecy in about 480 BC, long after Babylon conquered Judah and scattered its people in 586 BC. So he was not prophesying about how Babylon would take Judah captive, but about how some other nation will take Judah captive in the future. And, since he differentiates between Judah and Israel (in v. 14), it cannot be about Rome’s destruction of Israel either. This prophecy must be about the end times, since it about the Messiah’s glorious advent. Later we see that, when Zechariah became a shepherd of a doomed flock, he also prophesied about the Messiah’s first advent, about when Jesus came to His flock of Israel, when He preached the Gospel of His New Covenant relationship with His elect, but was “despised” for it. For God had hardened Jewish hearts at that time, which doomed their land to a temporary destruction worked by the hands of the humanistic Roman beast. And our God Jesus hardened the Jews so His Gentile elect would pay more attention to His New Covenant salvation and focus on Him, rather than the people and physical traditions of Old Covenant Judaism, so a far greater number of Gentile elect would enter His church of Israel without distractions. So, when the full number of Gentile elect have entered His priesthood of the New Covenant Israel in the end times, this hardening will cease.

But a false church had already risen up in Zechariah’s day, through the influence of primitive forms of humanism, which the Jews had adopted from Babylon and Persia. By this time, they were already perceiving preferred religious and secular shepherds as their saviors and gods, and had established hierarchical class systems of supposedly “superior” men ruling over “inferiors.” They no longer judged an individual by their own true or false perceptions of that one’s words and deeds, based on the spiritual “laws” or principles they had been taught by either the real God or a false spiritual god. Now all their judgments were based on far more superficial and physical criteria, such as by the class into which a person was born, by the amount of wealth and power Satan had “blessed” one with as

 

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an esteemed citizen of his world order, or by how much humanistic propaganda one could quote from the greatest of their human gods. And the humanistic fake Jewish church in Zechariah’s day still exists, and even multiplied into thousands of Gentile humanistic churches throughout history.

So that false humanistic church “despised” the preacher of the humbling truths from God, the true prophet Zechariah, because they “despised” the real, serving, humble Creator God, whom Zechariah faithfully served, because they were self-worshiping and human-worshiping humanists. Likewise, that false humanistic church also hated their Creator God when He came to them in a body of human flesh the first time, the Messiah whom Zechariah symbolically represented as their chief shepherd. And those humanistic Jewish churches will continue to “despise” Jesus until they are no longer humanists, until they learn to “despise” the humanism of the ultimate humanist called the beast, that is, until the glorious return of their Messiah, Jesus. Once the elect Jews see their humanistic false shepherds betray them to the beast, then rid themselves of those human gods they had worshiped, and also see Jesus strike them down as He strikes down the armies of the humanistic beast, literally all the elect spirits of those surviving elect Jews will truly repent to Jesus on the very day He returns.

This false church was likened to Israel after it split from Judah, when Israel became unfaithful and apostate. And the reason God called Zechariah to serve as a pastor of that false church was not to turn it around, not to revive and reform it, not to lead it into repentance. For not one of the false humanistic churches can be transformed into true, biblical, purely theistic churches. This is because all the core foundational doctrines of a humanistic church are ultimately taught by Satan and define the entire humanistic church itself. Then, if all those core false doctrines are destroyed, it means that the entire humanistic church itself will be completely destroyed. So no humanistic false church can ever become true church of God, filled only with the awakened and honest elect, without first being completely destroyed, along with all its core false doctrines and those who believe those lies. Not one humanistic false church can ever be revived or reformed into a true church. Thus, Zechariah was sent to that false humanistic church to expose its lies and sins to the elect, so those elect would no longer have anything to do with those false churches. Zechariah was calling the elect out of them.

When we harmonize this prophecy with others, we see how Zechariah was called to expose the sins of that false church, so that two things could happen: (1) so God’s favor could be removed from it at an unspecified time before the Messiah’s first advent and (2) so its falsely perceived union with God’s true church could be eliminated in the minds of His elect at an unspecified before Jesus’ second advent. God has never intended to revive any false humanistic churches in the end times. He never will reform and save them. But God will awaken and revive His elect throughout the world, after calling them to come out of those false churches. And any who attempt to revive humanistic false churches are trying to perform a hopeless task which will not receive God’s help. For God has always intended to destroy those false churches, including the mother of all Gentile false churches, the Great Prostitute. God’s promised revival is only for His elect, whom He will call out of the Great Prostitute and out of her harlot daughters, before He will utterly destroy literally all those churches.

The true elect will be persecuted and driven out of the false churches, without any possibility of ever reviving or reforming them. And, after some elect become His true church, more of the elect who are trapped in those false churches will recognize that God is working His favor and union among the members of His true church, and will be drawn to their just, loving teachings and truly good works. Those elect will leave the false churches in droves, will come out and be separated from them. For the elect will no longer want to partake in the lies and other sins of those false churches, nor in the plagues that God will surely pour upon them. And, after the elect flee from those false churches, the remaining non-elect in them will go from bad to worse, until they destroy themselves, or until Jesus

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must destroy them. Nothing but doom awaits those false humanistic churches. So we must leave those blind guides, and let them lead their doomed flocks into the dark bottomless pit of eternal hell.

God’s favor and unity are critical for achieving a fruitful, joyful, abundant life of truly loving and being loved. First of all, His favor involves teaching and training our spirits to love in the same way He loves. Then this causes us all to acknowledge the truth of His words, according to His intended meanings of those words. And it is this common and shared understanding of His truths and wisdom, all originating from the same immutable and consistent Holy Spirit of Jesus, which fully unites us. For His harmonious teachings make the minds of our spirits function as one mind, and our lives as the one body of the one and only Messiah Jesus. So only through these works of Jesus can we hope to do His genuine will, which is what brings His favor and produces our unity, as His true church.

After we begin to gain knowledge of real truth, Jesus trains us to wisely apply that truth through our experiences in life. This training process will cause some older men to serve as elders, to assist Jesus in teaching and judging, and some older women to help Him cement the church together as a united body. Then it will cause all the others, with various other gifts from God, to build up the spiritual and physical health, security and general well-being of the church, protecting and providing for those ministries which are vulnerable to deprivation or attacks. After we all acknowledge and embrace the one real body of truth, we become one in thought and mind, united by all that He writes upon the minds of our spirits. Then, when we all work together as one body to work for His purposes, as a united people, His just, equitable, pure love thrives with His spiritual blessings in heavenly places.

Thus, we need the favor and unity from our God Jesus. Then we also need the wrath and vexation which His Holy Spirit raises up in our elect spirits whenever we see the deadly injustice of the evil works done by Satan’s servants, although we do not need any impulsive, foolish, vain thoughts and actions of our flesh to accompany that rage. Rather, we need to act wisely, according to His Holy Spirit, attacking the logistics enabling that injustice and nullifying the perpetrators who perform Satan’s works. For we saw this kind of zealous wrath in all the prophets and apostles. In fact, the way God commanded Zechariah to break those two staffs representing His favor and unity, was through this wrath from God. But Zechariah, representing the Messiah Jesus, wisely broke them before the eyes of the false shepherds and the dupes in their false churches, tempered by God’s Spirit, to warn the elect trapped in those false churches. And he had to act wisely, not through the power of numbers, since there are always so few who truly stand with God and His true servants, like Zechariah. The largest numbers always stand under Satan’s banner, because it is always far easier for liars to gather disciples for that devil, from the dull and spiritually asleep masses, than it is for God’s honest laborers to convince the elect to be taught and trained by God’s Holy Spirit. But God will always cause some elect to repent to Him eventually. So His servants must keep serving.

God must continue to punish those false churches and the chief deceivers in them, by casting them into self-destructive delusions. For He cannot grant His favor or blessings to false churches which unite through submission to wicked men, to human gods that serve their only their own human wills and purposes, as they are guided and manipulated by their lord Satan. For those are the most vain, irrational, self-worshiping spiritual adulterers and parasites existing on this earth. And God can only work His unity and enabling favors among His true disciples, for those who do His just, loving will and purposes, who hear and heed the concepts which His Spirit pours into the minds of their spirits.

This prophecy also suggests that, through His faithful and obedient shepherds in His true church of Israel, Jesus shall eliminate three kinds of false shepherds during the last days, likely most within a short and contiguous period of time, as indicated by Zechariah doing this in a “month”. He will

 

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nullify the wicked works of (1) corrupt secular authorities, (2) false priests claiming to administer salvation through rituals, and (3) fake teachers or prophets falsely claiming to speak in God’s name.

Most of these false shepherds will be eliminated in a “month,” within what is represented by one cycle of the moon, a symbol of the cycle of the end times (the period lasting from the days when some world-wide tragedies initiate the revival of His true church on earth, until the final plagues before Jesus returns to complete that work). It suggests that His revived true church will be given the power to eliminate some evil secular governments in some lands, those supported by fake priests and teachers from false churches. Some churches will establish just, loving governments in some lands, ruled by God’s natural laws alone, thus providing freedoms of conscience, speech and religion for all. The events of Zechariah’s works as a chief shepherd, who bore the authority to get rid of corrupt workers, implies that all three kinds of false shepherds will be cast out before Christ’s second advent.

For we see clearly (in Zech. 11:8-14), that this event began just prior to the Messiah being rejected and crucified by those three kinds of false shepherds, that is, while Jesus was preaching the Gospel of salvation and condemning the false shepherds. For it occurred just before the payment of the prophetic thirty pieces of silver, which indicated the death and resurrection of the Messiah. Jesus’ death on the cross initiated the breaking of the staff of God’ s favor. He ended His special protection and providence for Israel, and began to treat them like any other pagan land, as long as they put up with and condoned the lies of thier false shepherds. Then it was after this that the Messiah Jesus, represented by Zechariah, also broke the staff call Union, which began two millennia of violently opposed factions caused by false shepherds, where secular authorities in many lands warred against the false churches, where many factions of the fake New Covenant churches warred against the many factions of fake Old Covenant churches, and where each faction in both of these two major divisions of the false Israel were also violently persecuting one another as well. But God also sent His servants to expose the lies of those fake shepherds during the entire history of those last two thousand years, causing many reforms. Now, in the end times, they will become far more effective.

Now we must understand these prophecies based on the context of all the other Scriptures and on the right historical context too. Yet various writers claim that these three false shepherds, whom the prophet Zechariah symbolically “destroyed,” were either: (a) The three kings whom Antiochus IV destroyed through intrigues and by assassination before he took the throne of the Seleucid Empire and instigated the Maccabean rebellion, that is, the three kinds named Seleucus IV, Heliodorus and Demetrius; (b) The three high priests whom the Gentile rulers of Judah appointed between 174 and 159 BC, who were Jason, Menelaus and Alcimus; (c) The leaders of three Jewish sects in AD 70, who were Eleazar, John and Simon; or (d) some other speculated three men or identifiable groups.

But these speculations are not based on the other Messianic prophecies of Scriptural or historical evidence which fits the messages of this prophecy. For the main point of this Messianic end-time prophecy was that God, at an unspecified time before the great and glorious coming of the Messiah to rule the earth, would “destroy” three false unnamed shepherds due to their extreme dereliction of their duties, which are specified elsewhere in this prophecy, and which are all associated with the kinds of sins committed by the three kinds of men called shepherds by the existing church of Isral at that time. Then God also told Zechariah to “take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd” (11:15), of a shepherd who bears no hope of reforming the church of Israel to God’s sheep in it. At the same time, God declared that He Himself would send Israel “a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young of heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs” (11:16, ESV). Thus, it indicated that the time of the false shepherds would continue after the Messiah’s first advent, until God sent Jesus to destroy them.

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But make no mistake, God will also send a true shepherd, like Zechariah, to each generation of the deceived elect throughout history, and to each body of a false church which hypocritically heeds the doctrines taught by fake shepherds, falsely in God’s name. And, if we reach into all the prophecies of God through Zechariah, and see how they are Messianic prophecies, we will realize that all the true shepherds sent by God shall proclaim truths from our Messiah and God Jesus, through faith in Him. Still, each of these faithful shepherds will be “foolish,” knowing that he has no hope of reforming the false shepherds. Yet each shall still perform the task of shepherding, for the sakes of the trapped elect in those false churches, for all those who possess the potential to love God and God’s just ways.