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

 

The thorns and briers of sin can only bear the seeds of thorns and briers. That is, sin seeds more sins. Thus, when God sees flesh-tearing thorns and briers, God cuts them down and burns them. God destroys or nullifies sins and the sources of sins. God nullifies the works of Satan. But the elect, those able to see and work for God’s truths, whose spirits desire just love, are good seeds sown by the God in the beginning (Mat. 13:24-30;36-43). Elect spirits are born of their Father in heaven, made in His likeness. So how can He destroy them? They are Him, from His Spirit. Therefore, in spite of their evil ways, God will revive His church of Israel in the era of the sixth seal, when He begins to destroy Satan’s world order. Then He will come in Jesus to make the earth into His vineyard. In the end, Israel will take root, learn loving righteousness, blossom and bear good fruit.

After our Messiah Jesus returns, the earth will be completely restored, will become a healthy and fruitful land, even a vineyard producing much wine for the soul’s comfort and joy. Then the renewed earth will include many elect Jews, the physical descendants of Jacob, who shall serve Jesus directly, hosting the guests of Jesus in Israel. “In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.” This “fruit” will be their labors for Jesus, as His loving and just teaching and judging elders sent into all the world, and as the custodians of His lands.

Isaiah 41:1-16 (ESV): “Listen to Me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their

strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment. Who

stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before

Him, so that He tramples kings underfoot; He makes them like dust with His sword, like

driven stubble with His bow. He [i.e., the Messiah] pursues them and passes on safely, by paths

His feet have not trod. Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the

beginning? I, [Yahweh], the first, and with the last; I am He.

“The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near

and come. Everyone [i.e., every nation that is an enemy of God and comes to Armageddon] helps his

neighbor and says to his brother, ‘Be strong!’ The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith, and

he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, ‘It is

good’; and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved. But you, Israel, My

servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, My friend; you whom I took

from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, ‘You are My

servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off’; fear not, for I am with you; be not

dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with

My righteous right hand. Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and

confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish. You shall seek

those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be

as nothing at all.

“For I, [Yahweh] your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, ‘Fear not, I am the

One who helps you.’ Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the One who helps

you, declares [Yahweh]; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. Behold, I make of you a

threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush

them, and you shall make the hills like chaff; [The mountains and hills are the armies of their

enemies.] you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall

scatter them. And you shall rejoice in [Yahweh]; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.”

Here the Hebrew word (iy) is translated as “coastlands,” and in other versions as “islands.” But that is a mistake. Here it should be translated as “distant [inhabited] lands,” because that is what this

 

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Hebrew word means in this prophecy and in many other places throughout the Bible. This Hebrew word was frequently used to refer to lands located far from Israel, and even indicated land-locked nations or whole continents. So here God is telling multiple foreign nations, all located far from Israel, even “from the ends of the earth” (41:5), to be silent. And God commands them to be silent because they seem to railing against Him and His priestly nation of Israel. Also, God is here saying that He will fight for the physical descendants of “Jacob, whom [Yahweh] has chosen, the offspring of Abraham” (41:8). This is not about the Gentiles in His church during the end times, but about the Jews when our Messiah Jesus returns. For God severely condemns the Satanic lies and antisemitism of replacement theology, which has always fed the evil of the nations railing against God and Israel.

God calling these arrogant evil nations to “renew their strength,” so they can approach the God of Israel and the whole world, and “speak” in their vain defense of their lies and their sins against Him and Israel. For God will set aside a time when He will command, “let us draw near for judgment” (41:1), which will be during the end times, in the eras of the sixth and seventh seals. And His wise, just judgments will not be favorable to those lying nations, but will purify and redeem all of Israel.

God’s prophecy through Isaiah asks, “Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step?” (41:2). An army of two million from the east will rise up during the time of the sixth trumpet and kill a third of the earth’s population (9:13-19). But the beast’s Roman kingdom will stop their advance at the Euphrates river. So this eastern land must be the one “whom victory meets at every step.” And the beast will not destroy that conquering eastern empire, merely stop their advance at the Euphrates, through something like threats or diplomacy. Then, when God sends seven bowls of His wrath at the end of the beast’s seven-year reign, those armies of the east will be called to join the beast’s international armies at Armageddon, in Israel. This will be the plague of the sixth bowl of wrath against the beast’s Roman kingdom, and against all the other enemies of God and Israel on earth. “The sixth [angel] poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise” (Rev. 16:12, WEB). These armies from the east and around the world will gather to be judged by God, even as the last plague of God’s wrath strikes the beast’s homeland. Then all these armies will be sentenced to death.

God dries up the Euphrates so that the strength of the godless nations, all their most capable youths, can come from the east and north to join in God’s judgement at Armageddon. And, since God will not leave anyone in those armies alive, this also implies that the elect will not be among the doomed souls in those armies. It suggests that those wicked lands, who side with the beast, will either exempt elect conscientious objectors, or consider the elect to be unsuitable for military service, or will have sent away the elect into exile or hiding. Either way, the ruthless non-elect in those armies from many nations will be handed over to Yahweh, who dwells in the Messiah, to be destroyed within Israel. All will die in the very land they so confidently came to annihilate, thinking they could somehow kill the Creator of the universe by killing His people and turning the land of His priesthood into a desolation.

Here God refers to Himself as Yahweh again, but is actually prophesying about the Messiah. So Jesus is the one who is “calling the generations from the beginning,” who declares, “I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last; I am He” (41:4). For Jesus told us, in His other prophecies, that He is this one whom Yahweh prophecies about in Isaiah’s book. For Jesus proclaimed this to John: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last” (Rev. 22:13, cf., 1:11,17; 2:8). And the name Yahweh basically means “I am,” indicating that He is the Creator Spirit who was before all existence, who maintains all existence, and will still exist even if after the earth ends. Our God Jesus has been calling elect souls to their destinies throughout history. He predestined their past and future generations to be taught and trained by their earthly perceptions, to educate His children for heaven.

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So the Messiah Jesus, who is Yahweh, will gather the non-elect from distant lands around the world to the place John called Armageddon, in Israel. And the soldiers from these far-off lands, as they march to Israel, “have seen and are afraid” (41:5). For, by the time they gather, they will have already witnessed the plagues of the sixth seal, the plagues of the first six trumpets, and the plagues of the first five bowls of God’s wrath (which occur during the time of the seventh trumpet). So these enemies of God and Israel will try to mentally prepare for their battle with the almighty Creator, and “everyone helps his neighbor and says ‘Be strong’” (41:6). They will need to psyche up one another after seeing the death and devastation God caused in the world. Also, this army will have some lay people in it, craftsmen and goldsmiths, besides its full-time professional army. Then these craftsmen and goldsmiths will make things, apparently to boost the morale of the army. Each army probably will make symbols representing its own nation, since they are sure to be “patriotic” fascist armies like the beast’s army. Then each army will proudly carry its golden symbol high on a pole in front of their ranks, just as the ancient armies once carried representations of their local war gods or kings.

In essence, this prophecy is saying that each of the beast’s international armies will make its own idol to worship, to strengthen them as they take their stand against the God of Israel at Armageddon. Ancient kingdoms, in Isaiah’s time, would create idols in temples or town squares, then “nail” or otherwise fasten them to a pedestal or plinth. Then the “goldsmiths” and “craftsmen” in their armies would also make an idol on a pole and “strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved” or fall off the pole (41:7), to carry up high, in front of their armies, just as Isaiah prophesied. But Isaiah did not identify what these goldsmiths and craftsmen made for their armies, which suggests that they were idols of a kind he did not recognize in his vision. Yet Isaiah would have explicitly stated that those golden images were their gods if they looked like gods. So this implies that those golden things they made may have been national symbols, which Isaiah could not recognize as gods. And, if a national symbol was violated in any way, the army who owned it, especially a fascist army, would kill the violator. So getting one army to destroy the national symbol of another army may be how Jesus will cause the international armies of the beast to war against one another on the day of His return, until they fill the valleys with rivers of blood. But this is just speculation again, and not a true prophecy.

Nonetheless, in this prophecy through Isaiah, it contrasts the real God with the man-made gods of the nations who come against Him and His people of Israel. The real God chose and created each individual in His priesthood of Israel. But the pagan armies coming against Israel choose and created their own gods, according to the desires of their own flesh. Then Yahweh calls each one serving as a priest in His church of Israel a “friend” (singular , see 41:8 in Hebrew). Yahweh came in Jesus to develop a very personal and loving New Covenant relationship with each of them. But a pagan god, such as a fascist nation, will never call a soldier, or anyone else, its friend. Rather, it treats each as an expendable commodity and is willing to sacrifice whole armies for its own benefit. Nor do pagans even want to be friends of their ruthless gods, since they simply want their gods to destroy their victims and give them the plunder. They simply appease their gods or nations, leaving them to do their wicked deeds until they are assigned to make sacrifices to help of their demon gods. Only then will they fearfully beg their cruel gods to spare them, and bribe their merciless gods to show mercy.

The real God has never cast off His people of Israel, though He did punish them for their unjust and loveless sins against their siblings in humankind. But the invented gods of pagans were always extremely fickle, never faithful to anyone who displeased them. And this is why the false “God” or fake “Jesus” of a humanistic pretending church promotes replacement theology, and blasphemously declares that it now hates all Jews. So, when those nations and far-off lands join the humanistic beast to come against Israel, and against the real God Himself, the real God in the Messiah Jesus will then

 

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destroy His non-elect enemies and their gods. In the end-time prophecies, Jesus will actually kill the devil’s loveless human children who war against Him twice, first on the day of His return and again at the battle against Gog and Magog. But here Isaiah is obviously talking about Israel being afraid when it is surrounded by the beast’s international armies, when the beast and the other humanistic nations gather at Armageddon. Not one of those enemies of God and Israel will survive that day.

Now, notice how this prophecy says Yahweh will destroy this enemy of Israel, but other prophecies in the Old and New Testaments clearly declare that the Messiah will destroy them. And the words from an immutable, omniscient, omnipotent God cannot possibly contradict themselves, or such a contradiction would destroy Himself and all His creations. Therefore, since His words proclaim that the destruction of Israel’s enemy will occur only once in all history, while His words also declare that Yahweh will destroy them but also that the Messiah will destroy them, we must conclude that Yahweh and the Messiah are one and the same Being. So, if anyone does not believe that the Messiah is Yahweh God, yet still claims to believe in the God of the Bible, then that one also must not believe that God wrote the Bible through His human agents (i.e., through the prophets and apostles). So that one logically must then treat the Scriptures as idle speculations, and worthless to one’s faith in God. But, if one does not believe the Bible contains the words of the biblical God, one also does not have faith in the God who claims to have written them. So one does not actually trust anything related to the biblical God. In fact, if one claims to believe in God, but does not believe the Bible is God’s Word, one is simply inventing a new god for oneself, and actually believes only in oneself as one’s own god, even as the creator of god. Thus, one is a humanist, and one definitely is not a believer in the God of the Bible at all. One is not a Christian nor a Jew, but merely a pagan.

More logic and many Scriptures are required to fill in all the reasoning of the previous paragraph and, to complete it, would require a book. However, in the end, it is absolutely true that only pagans believe that the Scriptures did not prophesy about the Messiah having the entire Spirit of Yahweh God, the Creator of the spiritual and material realms, inside His human body descended from David. Only humanistic false Jews and fake Christians think they are gods who can invent their own gods, and believe that the Messiah is not Yahweh. Literally all true Old Covenant Jews believe that the Messiah will be Yahweh God, and all true Christians believe that the Messiah Jesus is Yahweh God.

And the Messiah Jesus, who is Yahweh God, will destroy the beast’s armies and all the non-elect on earth when He returns. Jesus will not be a powerless entity in the sky, leaving the judgment and destruction of the enemies of a false church to popes or little so-called “vicarious Christs” on earth. Nor will Jesus sit on a throne in Jerusalem as a mere human being who is forced to leave the entire administration of the world to human “leaders” of false humanistic Protestant churches. Rather, Jesus will physically return in a human body to sit on His throne in Jerusalem and will personally rule the world, with the ability to see and judge every thought of every individual on earth at the same time. God in Jesus will bear the power to directly affect human thoughts, to teach and train His disciples all over the earth. And Jesus will also train some mature disciples, called elders, by sending them out to counsel those who need right teachings. For Jesus is both fully human and fully God.

Jesus will also cause His natural Israel to be mighty against the beast’s armies too, and overcome the beast’s first invasion, then survive his second invasion. And by Israel, I mean the Jews like those we see in Israel today, God’s “friend,” “the offspring of Abraham,” to whom God said, “You are My servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off.” God will “strengthen,” “help,” and “uphold” the Jews with His “righteous right hand,” and put their enemies to shame. Jesus will return to finish off that beast. Israel will put up a good fight, destroying many in the beast’s armies before Jerusalem will be surrounded. Then Jesus will come and kill the rest of the beast’s army. On that day, according

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to Zechariah and the New Testament Scriptures, all Israel will repent to Jesus, will recognize Him as their Messiah and God, with mourning hearts as they look upon the one they had pierced. But, after that day, they will rejoice in Yahweh, and glory in their Messiah, who is their “Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 43:1-21 (ESV): “But now thus says [Yahweh], He who created you, O Jacob, He who

formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are

Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they

shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame

shall not consume you. For I am [Yahweh] your God, the Holy One of Israel , your Savior . I

give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in

My eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for

your life. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the

west I will gather you. I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold;

bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called

by My name, whom I created for My glory, whom I formed and made.’

“Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears! All the

nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and

show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them

hear and say, It is true. ‘You are My witnesses,’ declares [Yahweh], ‘and My Servant whom I

have chosen, that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no

god was formed, nor shall there be any after Me. I, I am [Yahweh], and besides Me there is

no savior. I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you;

and you are My witnesses,’ declares [Yahweh], ‘and I am God. Also henceforth I am He;

there is none who can deliver from My hand; I work, and who can turn it back?’

“Thus says [Yahweh], your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: ‘For your sake I send to

Babylon and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they

rejoice. I am [Yahweh], your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.’ Thus says

[Yahweh], who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot

and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched

like a wick: ‘Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am

doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the

wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild beasts will honor Me, the jackals and the

ostriches, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen

people, the people whom I formed for Myself that they might declare My praise....’”

This prophecy sums up what God will do for His “created” priesthood of Jews, the natural “Israel” or “Jacob,” whom He “formed” through Abraham. Here God grants a prophecy about a time when He has “redeemed” and “called” them, which can only refer to the time when their Messiah returns in the end times. And this will happen after they “pass through the waters” and “walk through fire,” after a journey spanning millenniums of obstacles and hardships. And, while He tells them “fear not, for I am with you,” while they are still suffering, at a time before He has redeemed and called them, the first work that He personally promised to do for them was this: “I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. I will say to the north, ‘Give up,’ and to the south, ‘Do not withhold’; ‘Bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by My name, whom I created for My glory, whom I formed and made” (Is. 43:6-7). So here God was promising to return the genetically related progeny of Jacob to their physical land of Israel.

 

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God’s priesthood of Israel has always remained under His eternal Abrahamic Covenant as His priesthood for the world, which means that God will always protect them. So, even before they received a temporary Old Covenant relationship with Him, God devastated all of Egypt and killed their “strength,” which they deemed to be their “firstborn.” For God had to free His enslaved priesthood, which including Cushites and other Gentile slaves who joined Israel during the Exodus. Then an army of a million Ethiopians, the descendants of Cush and his son, Seba, later came out to annihilate Israel, presumably to take their land for their own expanding kingdom. This occurred in the days of Asa, a relatively good king in Judah. Therefore, Asa, who only had an army of half their size, fervently prayed for God’s help. “So [Yahweh] struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled” (II Chron. 14:12, WEB). Many times in history, up to this very day, God has destroyed the enemies of Israel, because Israel’s enemies are ultimately God’s enemies too.

However, many among those enemies of Israel were actually God’s beloved elect children, whose spirits could be taught to justly love, and God loathed to kill them. Yet,, those Gentiles opposed God and His priesthood for very carnal reasons, although God created Jacob for the spiritual benefit of the entire world. Thus, God had to kill those elect together with their non-elect deceivers, to preserve His priesthood of Israel. And this is why Yahweh God sorrowfully declared to the Jews: “I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in My eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life” (Is. 43:3b-4, ESV). God did not say this because the elect Jews and Gentiles in His church of Israel were better than His other elect on earth, but because He must preserve His family priesthood to serve all His eternal creations, to forever labor together with Him for all life through a just and God-like love.

This is yet another Scripture which denounces the doctrines of replacement theology. Here God assures natural Israel, the descendants of Jacob, that He will redeem them. And His redemption is salvation from slavery to lies and sins, a rescue from a state of having fallen captive to an ungodly way of life. So God clearly does not say that He will redeem Israel because they are already good and loving, free from lies and sins, but that He Himself will make them free from the lies and sins they are now committing. Though they are sinners, God will not abandon His Jewish elect, but will transform them into His faithful servants, into His true priesthood of Israel. God will call each elect spirit in Israel by name, individually redeem those elect, by personally teaching and training each one’s elect spirit. As soon as the Messiah Jesus returns, He will redeem all the surviving elect Jews.

As for Cush, it refers to a people who lived in what is now Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Ethiopia. Then Seba, the son of Cush, likely refers to people in modern Yemen, which used to be a part of a large African empire too. And remember, in the end times, the beast will conquer Egypt and the Nubians (Dan. 11:41-43), along with Israel, near the beginning of his seven-year reign, then occupy their lands during the entire first half of his reign. So this suggests that Sudan, Ethiopia and other African nations will make themselves into enemies of the beast simply because they have converted to true Christianity and have become allies of Israel, just like Egypt and Syria will have become in the end times. For true Christianity is God’s New Covenant sect of God’s true Israel, and the beast will hate both the Old and New Covenant branches of God’s priesthood of Israel, since he hates God. Thus, we know God will love and protect many elect in Cush and Seba during the end time, and will keep many of them alive to serve Him after He returns, to serve as His priests during the millennium.

After God said He would gather the Jews into their land, He commanded: “Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears! All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble” (43:8-9a, ESV). This would refer to the gathering of the “blind” and “deaf” secular humanists who join the beast’s international armies at Armageddon, so they can try to annihilate all

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of Israel and the God of Israel. And this will occur at the very end of the beast’s reign, just before Jesus returns to annihilate those armies and redeem all of His true Jews. So this will happen long after the initial gathering of the scattered apostate people of Israel back into their promised land, which began at the end of the 19th century. For the Jews must inhabit and build up Israel before the beast comes, and before Jesus returns. The Jews must also build the temple before the beast will be able to defile it in the middle of his reign. And the Jews must remain apostate until Jesus returns to redeem them. So Jews will be either theistic or secular humanists as they do all this, and some will practice a false humanistic form of Judaism until Jesus returns to their third temple to redeem them.

The non-elect, “who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears,” will join the beast at Armageddon, since their loveless spirits will war against the loving spirits of God and the people called by His name. And the non-elect will have some, like the beast, with both inferior intelligence in their minds of flesh and superior intelligence in their minds of their spirits. But they will rely on their minds of flesh more. So they will be a formidable foe against the elect. However, the elect will also have the same kinds of intelligence, and rely on God’s omniscient, wise Spirit to direct and guide their spirits. Then God’s power will delude the non-elect, and cause unfavorable circumstances for the non-elect, often through their lies and sins. So the elect Jews and Gentiles of the earth will gain many victories in nullifying and overcoming the non-elect, and they will survive Satan’s wars.

There is nothing in non-elect spirits which can see or hear God’s wise, beneficial, life-preserving truths. Since non-elect spirits were born of Satan, and focus on making themselves into their own destructive gods, just as Satan does, their plans and actions become foolish and ineffective. So they not only kill others, but themselves as well. Then God will manipulate the minds of the non-elect secular humanists to gather in Israel for their own doom, to become an eternal historical testimony in heaven, as an illustration of how vain, greedy, self-worship causes only evil and death. Their lives on earth will be used as a lesson to all who might begin to think that selfish ambition can accomplish anything good for oneself or anyone else. The entirety of all that the demonically controlled beast’s Roman kingdom ever thought and did throughout history will be exposed, revealed to be foolish and destructive, as rivers of their blood flow through dark valleys on the night after Jesus has returned.

Again, Isaiah is prophesying about an end-time world-wide event, where “all the nations gather together” (43:9). God Himself will assemble and destroy the spiritually blind and deaf from lands throughout the earth. And I can understand how people in the past would think this was not possible, since it would require years of planning and travel time. So they reasoned that Isaiah prophesied about a more local event. But, as we approach the end times, we see how travel over vast distances is now possible, with our vehicles, ships and aircraft. So the people can now more easily believe in these prophecies. God is definitely giving us a prophecy about the beast coming to Armageddon with the non-elect gathered from nations around the world. And this is clearly and end-times prophecy.

The blind non-elect will not see what is happening, will not understand that they are being drawn by the very hand of God to their own destruction at Armageddon. And, even as they die for their lies and sins, or on the judgment day, God will simply say, “Let them bring their witnesses to to prove them them right” (43:9). But they will have none, because they were wrong about everything, and nothing they believed was true. Yet God’s elect will understand, through the teaching and training of their spirits by the Creator’s Spirit, who formed all that is real and causes all to function according to His ways. Then God will tell His chosen servants, “You are My witnesses,” and they will testify against Satan and his non-elect brood. His elect will be “witnesses” both on earth and in heaven.

 

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The elect will see how God can manipulate the minds of Satan and his non-elect human brood into meeting their own doom, into marching towards God’s wrath. But this prophecy also tells us about another witness, the wise and very high one Yahweh called “My Servant whom I have chosen” (43:10a, cf., Is. 52:13). And Yahweh then said, “I am He,” where the antecedent of “He” seems to be “My Servant.” Also, this ecclesiastical language and in this context, “My Servant” is definitely a reference to the Messiah, who will return in glory during the end times. Then Yahweh tells us the reason we are to be “witnesses,” so “that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He” (43:10b). Yahweh seems to indicate here that He is the Messiah, His chosen “Servant,” while also telling His people that He is the God who will perform all these deeds that He promised to do in this prophecy. We are to know and believe that the Messiah is Yahweh God, then heed His words in faith. We are also to know and believe everything in this prophecy, all the events God spoke about.

Then this prophecy affirms certain truths that humanists, who think they are their own gods, and especially the beast who thinks he is the god of all the world, will soon discover. For our Creator God declared: “Before Me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after Me. I, I am Yahweh, and besides Me there is no savior. I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are My witnesses … and I am God” (Is. 43:10c-12, ESV). The fact that one God exists and saves is something that even scientists are beginning to discover. Physicists are now realizing that all time, all the past and all the future, exist at the same time. All the future exists now, and must be predestined. Thus, an omniscient genius mind of God must have purposefully created it all at once, and maintains it all at once, and knows it all at once, from its beginning to its end. Then something non-material in all of us must progressively perceive the flowing time in the material universe, but entirely according to God’s will and power. And why would an intelligent God create this perception of physical life for our obviously non-material and eternal spirits? It must be so He can teach and train our spirits for our eternal lives in His spiritual space-time continuum. And this is our salvation, the one God called His unconditional New Covenant salvation. Now let awakened elect spirits trust God’s prophecies granted through His honest and faithful awakened elect servants.

Through His priesthood of Israel, which God created through Abraham to serve the entire world, God “declared” His ways and His attributes in His Law. Then God came in the body of Jesus so that He Himself might personally teach and train His elect to “fulfill” that Law, both in their spirits as well as through their temporary earthly bodies, but ultimately through their eternal bodies, which they shall receive in heaven. God also “declared” what He would do in the future, both for His elect and against evil. All this knowledge about existing and effective truths or principles for living, as well as all He prophesied about the future, is now in Scriptures we can rely upon. But the foretelling or speculations of humans are all unreliable and may even be destructive, since some may originate from demonic sources. So we must discern between the two by comparing God’s intended meanings of His words with the words of humans. If there are any clear contradictions in moral and spiritual principles, or even in some historical and material facts, the words of those humans must be very carefully fact-checked, logically refuted or entirely dismissed, since God cannot contradict Himself.

Because God is the only one who created and maintains the future, God is also the only one who has ultimately won every war He has ever chosen to fight, and He always chooses to fight against lies and sins. Thus, God is the only one who will “save” anyone into heaven, into a life completely free from all lies and sins, as well as the only one who has ever “saved” any elect sinner from either one’s own captivity to lies and sins, or from harm and death by the lies and sins of others. Fake humanistic churches place most or all of our salvation upon ourselves, as though we are gods who control our own destinies. And those humanists refuse to acknowledge the fact that God as the only Savior who

 

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saves us by teaching and training our spirits to fulfill His loving and just Law, who also made and manipulated earthly circumstances and people in the past and in the future for our physical survival.

God also “proclaimed” His truths to His elect “when there was no strange god among” them. Even in the days of Adam and Eve, God walked in a body of flesh among them and personally taught them His ways. So, in the beginning, there was “no strange god among” them, no such thing as a god like Mammon, Baal, Nebu or a mortal celebrity worshiped by them. Then, long before God’s written Law came through Moses, God also taught His Law to the spirits of Abraham and Lot, who also knew no other god except the one Creator God. And, whenever His nation-priesthood of Israel was faithful, “there was no strange god among” them either. But now false churches worship every local pastor or rabbi, and many gods of the secular world too. Everyone is a humanist now, who worships oneself as well as celebrities, power, status, money, sex, knowledge, intellect and so on. All these are “strange gods.” And these humanists may think that, if they do not call those entities by the names of demons, like the worshipers in ancient times did, then they are not actually esteeming and serving those “strange gods” in worship. But, in reality, they do esteem and serve all of those “strange gods,” so humanists are indeed worshiping exactly the same “strange gods” that their ancient ancestors did.

Therefore, we have a God whom we can trust to care for and guide our spiritual and physical lives, as well as the words of this God written down by human spirits who listened to the Holy Spirit of this God. We have all we need to live fulfilled, abundant lives, where we justly and responsibly love others and our God with honest hearts, then can be loved in return. Yes, God will often physically save our earthly lives in spite of our foolishness and sins, because He will use those circumstances to teach and train our spirits to turn our faith towards Him. But, if our spirits actually do take the time to carefully listen to His Holy Spirit, and heed the concepts He pours into the minds of our spirits, we will walk in greater joy and learn far more about abundant life. For, if we only walk according to the minds of our flesh, our flesh will suppress our spirits in our souls, causing us to ignore God’s Spirit, resulting in a superficial, empty, irrational, foolish, confused, meaningless life. And minds of flesh do not know any other kind of life, only its own pleasures and survival, without requiring any rational justification for any of it. For all true logic is ultimately spiritual, and never solely material.

Then this prophecy tells us how God will strike down a very specific carnal, loveless enemy, whom He will assemble, and there is no one who can possibly deliver that enemy from His wrath inflicted by His hand. Furthermore, God tells His priesthood of Israel that He will do this for them. “For your sake I send to Babylon and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice. I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick” (Is. 43:14-17, ESV). This is obviously speaking about bringing Babylon of the Chaldeans “down as fugitives” to Israel. And this is actually saying that God will make a way for Babylon’s chariots and armies to come to Israel “in the ships” across the sea for their destruction. Yet the original Babylon, located in what is now Iraq, did not send its armies to Israel in ships over the sea, but by the far more practical and efficient land routes. And the original army of Babylon did not perish in Israel. Besides, this is an end-time prophecy, so this event was to occur long after the original Babylon no longer existed. Thus, this is a prophecy about the spiritual Chaldeans of Babylon, whose religion would exist in Babylon’s fourth kingdom, in the beast’s Roman empire.

What God is prophesying here is that the beast’s armies will come in ships across the Mediterranean Sea, from his European kingdom of seven nations, to meet his end at Armageddon in Israel. And secular humanists from “all the nations gather together” (43:9) with him. The Roman beast’s armies

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will also have “chariots” and “horses,” which would be a phenomenological description of Isaiah’s vision, but will probably be modern vehicles and motorcycles in the end times, operated by soldiers armed with modern weapons. Then, on the day that the Messiah and “King” (v. 15) and God Jesus returns, the beast and his entire international army will be “extinguished, quenched like a wick.”

After this, Jesus will restore Israel and the whole earth, some of it miraculously and some of it through the joyous labors of His elect, each working according to one’s own unique calling and God-given gifts. Then each will look ahead and not dwell on one’s own failures of the past. For our God Jesus will cause us to “remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old” (43:18). Our entire focus will be on building up God’s just and loving kingdom for the future. Jesus will proclaim: “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The wild beasts will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people, the people whom I formed for Myself that they might declare My praise” (43:19-20, ESV). God created His church of Israel to correctly repeat the intended meanings of His words in the Scriptures, so that the scattered elect throughout the world might know Him and His attributes, then praise His holy name.

No one has any ability to persuade God to change His mind about His appointed and predestined times. We sometimes think we have changed God’s mind because we see Him change His mood towards us at various times. But He only changes His mood through a predestined teaching and training process for our spirits. And no one has the power to transform non-elect spirits into elect spirits, although even the most loveless of elect sinners will inwardly want to love, and Jesus is able to teach and train that elect one’s spirit to love. Nor can anyone or anything actually alter the course of history, although even the smallest choices God causes us to make will appear to alter it. No power or authority exists in heaven or on earth can alter or overcome God’s power and authority.

Since biblical predestination is for the teaching and training of elect spirits, it definitely is not humanistic fatalism or determinism. Rather, God’s predestination is through His love, to build up His elect, so we can do His loving works beside Him forever, as His beloved children sharing His eternal life with Him. And, on earth, God’s kinds of works involve nullifying the works of Satan so we can build up His just, loving kingdom. So the awakened elect busy themselves with these works of God, for the teaching and training of their spirits. Predestination is not something they use with inflated egos to either justify inaction or their right to a higher status in a humanistic hierarchy, because biblical predestination’s purpose is to teach and train equal elect spirits to labor through love.

So the elect never sit back and do nothing because all things are indeed predestined, never reason that bad things are God’s will and good things will come simply by waiting for them, unless they are trapped in the irrational thought loops of humanistic fatalism or determinism. For they reason that, if biblical predestination is true, then their spirits are perceiving and experiencing earthly time in a way they cannot second-guess and for a very good reason. Yes, these elect accept the death of their flesh as the joyous awakening of their spirits at heaven’s gates, into an eternal Sabbath rest from pain and frustration. But the elect also rejoice in their works of love on earth, but also want to live to labor for their loved ones who are still required to experience their perceptions of earthly spiritual lessons.

But the beast and his allied armies from many nations gathered by God in Armageddon, as well as all the non-elect throughout history, are also predestined to be struck down by God’s hand, then sent to hell. So the awakened elect will not surrender to their might in the flesh, but will nullify all the works of Satan they can, while breath is still in their bodies. They will fight for their loved ones in God’s earthly kingdom, knowing that warring against the non-elect and their evil works will always

 

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be fruitful for their own eternal spirits and for the spirits of their loved ones. Building up God’s loving kingdom on earth, no matter how often the non-elect tear it down, will always reward them with everlasting treasures that cannot be plundered. But all that the loveless non-elect souls ever accomplish will be done in vain, since all they can ever really possess is the dark delusion of being their own gods. And that lie will forever torment them in hell, because they will have nothing in the vacuum of hell to rule as gods, and their impotence as little worms will deeply frustrate them there.

The natural Israel, the elect descendants of Jacob, will witness this contrast between the futility of non-elect warfare and selfish ambitions, as well as the predestined purposes of their lives on earth, which will build their faith in Yahweh Jesus and His words. Likewise, all the Gentile elect on earth will also witness this contrast. Then all the elect will know, believe and understand that Yahweh is their God and Savior Jesus, as He strikes down His blind and deaf enemies who come against Israel.

In this prophecy, Yahweh God declares that His descendants of Jacob will “know and believe Me and understand that I am” (43:10) the Messiah, after “all the nations gather together” (43:9) for their destruction at Armageddon. Israel will place their confidence in Yahweh Jesus after He strikes down their insurmountable enemy, after Jesus kills every soul in the beast’s massive international army which is obsessed with slaughtering all Jews, after those psychopathic murderers surround the relatively small number of Jews holding out in Jerusalem. Therefore, this prophecy seems to confirm other prophecies which tell us that Israel will only repent after Jesus returns and destroys the beast, and after the fulness of Gentiles has entered Israel. Once all the appointed elect Gentiles repent to Jesus through the sixth seal’s great revival and the calling out of God from false churches, then all of the natural Israel will repent into the truth, acknowledging that Jesus is God and His words are true.

Remember, this prophecy through Isaiah spoke about assembling “all the nations.” Yet it also says this prophecy is about “Babylon,” about the “Chaldeans” sent by God, brought in ships “down as fugitives” for their doom in Israel. Since this is obviously not speaking about the ancient physical Babylon, Isaiah is here prophesying about the spiritual and religious kingdom of the beast in the end times. And the beast’s kingdom will be the Roman empire of the end times, consisting of seven European nations that still remain the fourth kingdom that Daniel prophesied about. Since the head of that fourth kingdom will always be Babylon, the beast’s Roman kingdom is also called Babylon.

So, as John prophesied in the Revelation, the beast’s Roman kingdom will be the dominant world power and influence, drawing other secular humanists from around the world to him and his cause, when he sails across the Mediterranean sea to annihilate Israel. And all those humanists will be non-elect psychopaths, eager to kill innocent lives based on self-deluded biases. For all the Gentile elect will have already been gathered into the priesthood of Israel by this time, leaving only the Gentile non-elect to join the beast. Since Jesus spent two thousand years teaching His elect the truth, so He could divide them from the non-elect, not one of those psychopaths in the beast’s army will be an elect soul. Therefore, since the beast’s army will not be like the armies we see today, let no one feel any sorrow for them when Jesus comes to remove their life-giving spirits from their earthly flesh.

Since the days of the prophet Samuel, Israel wanted to be ruled by human kings (see I Sam. 8). So God gave them human kings, most of whom exploited the people and did not faithfully serve the High King, who is God. But, by asking for a human king, they rejected God as their only King, a King to whom even the poorest of the people could approach to ask for true and biblical justice (I Sam. 8:7). And every human king or decision-making authority was to be a subject king or authority under the High King, a man who justly and rightly administered God’s laws and ways. This authority was “set” or elected as the one whom God Himself chose for them, that is, as one whom God’s

 

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people recognized as a godly man, whose heart would not be lifted above his brethren (see Deut. 17:14-20). No authority was ever to seek “dishonest gain, take bribes or pervert justice,” like the sons of Samuel began to do. For every man was to submit to the High King, to God, and to all God’s laws. Even a king was to be held accountable for breaking God’s laws, as just another brother of all.

But the kings of Israel, and the people themselves, forgot all of this. Then, after the days of captivity under Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon, the Jews began to make themselves into human gods, like the Gentiles were starting to do in those days. For the four religious, humanistic kingdoms of the beast had begun to form. At that time, men began to rise up who not only claimed to rule over their own destinies, but even over the destinies of their brethren. They spurned God and His laws, invented their own laws, to provide themselves with dishonest gain. Some not only made themselves into the high kings and gods of all their own lands, but strove to increase the borders of their kingdoms, so they could be worshiped as the gods ruling over the destinies of ever more of God’s people and creations. Then, because of the terrorism of these wanna-be human gods, the frightened people did worship those human gods, did bow before those esteemed parasites and blindly served them. Soon the people entirely forgot about the real God and His just, loving, equitable ways of abundant life.

Yet a time is coming when God shall remind all the earth that He alone is the King of heaven and earth, over all that exists. And Jesus is that King, who will be enthroned in Israel. Jesus is Yahweh God who shall over the entire earth in a body of human flesh which empathizes with us in our flesh. In these prophecies, the purpose of God becomes clear. First God reveals His reason for assembling the nations together under the rule of Satan’s invented religion of secular humanism, which that devil formed through Babylon. Jesus will come to crush the humanistic hierarchical systems of Satan’s puppets trained to believe they are gods, to destroy the delusions of the weakest most manipulated inept souls on earth. And Jesus will kill the “army and warrior,” the most valued tools and strength of the world’s humanistic kings. Jesus will make a display of eliminating not only the ruling wanna-be gods, but also destroy all their power to terrorize the people into submission. Then Jesus will heal His elect and restore their lands, so they can live loving, just, equitable, abundant lives with Him.

The beast’s armies will be brought to Israel as terrified “fugitives” trying to escape from God and His laws, even trying to kill the “police” of God’s priesthood, who proclaim God’s laws, and even want to murder the High King Himself. But they cannot flee from His determined wrath. His seven bowls of wrath will pour out upon those psychopathic murderers, until they go out to face our God Jesus in Israel. Then Jesus will find them in Israel, where they will “lie down” and “cannot rise,” where they will be “extinguished, quenched like a wick.” Then Jesus will do a “new thing” after the battle of Armageddon. He shall come to restore and rule the earth Himself for a thousand years. Not only will Jesus bring true biblical, correcting, redeeming teachings and equitable justice for all, but He will restore nature itself. He will even make the deserts into well-watered lands after He returns.

Isaiah 46:12 to 47:15 (ESV): “‘Listen to Me [here God is speaking to Israel], you stubborn of

heart, you who are far from righteousness: I bring near My righteousness ; it is not far off,

and My salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel My glory .’ Come

down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O

daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. Take the

millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass

through the rivers. Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will

take vengeance, and I will spare no one. Our Redeemer —[Yahweh] of hosts is His name—is

the Holy One of Israel.

 

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“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be

called the mistress of kingdoms. I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage; I

gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke

exceedingly heavy. You said, ‘I shall be mistress forever,’ so that you did not lay these things

to heart or remember their end. Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit

securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a

widow or know the loss of children’: These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one

day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of

your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.

“You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, ‘No one sees me’; your wisdom and your

knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one besides me.’

But evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away; disaster shall

fall upon you, for which you will not be able to atone; and ruin shall come upon you

suddenly, of which you know nothing. Stand fast in your enchantments and your many

sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to

succeed; perhaps you may inspire terror.

“You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who

divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons make known what shall

come upon you. Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver

themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit

before! Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have done business with

you from your youth; they wander about each in his own direction; there is no one to save

you.”

Through Isaiah, God gave this prophecy about His own righteousness and equated it with His salvation, because His salvation causes us to work His loving righteousness more each day. And God would bring His salvation for His priesthood of Israel at His own designated and appointed time. That time would not be delayed, and would not be far off from 700 BC, when this prophecy was made. But a time that is not far off in God’s view of many thousands of years of the world’s history, is relative, and could be as long as a few thousand years in a human view of history. Then God also prophesied about the Chaldeans of Babylon, who beguiled as a “mistress of kingdoms,” including Israel, whom they took captive. But the Israelites would not be physically taken captive by Babylon for almost another hundred years after this prophecy, not until about 600 BC. And Babylon did not destroy Israel’s temple and take the majority of Israelites captive until about 586 BC. So here God was not to be Israel’s “Redeemer” from physical captivity in Babylon, but would save Israel from Babylon’s spiritual and religious captivity, and destroy Babylon in the future, when He would bring His salvation for Israel. That is, this prophecy is about the Messiah saving Israel in the end times, when Jesus will destroy the fourth empire descended from Babylon. This is about Jesus returning to slaughter the Roman beast’s kingdom and armies, when He restores and rules Israel and the world.

If we harmonize this prophecy with the rest of the Bible, we find that all the Scriptures agree that this time will occur in the end times, and on the day Jesus returns in glory to rule the world, not at any other time. Yet, even in Isaiah’s day, God was telling us that the day of the Messiah’s glorious advent, in the end times, “is not far off” and His salvation through the Messiah “will not delay.” So here we see that God’s perspective on time must span many thousands of years, even millions of years, since about three thousand years until the Messiah’s salvation of Israel, in the end times, “is not far off,” in His perspective. Also, it means that God views all earthly time at once, otherwise He

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could not see the future and compare it to the present time and to all time in history, to say a certain future time is “not far off.” Then this means that all time in the material space-time continuum exists at one time, in the mind of God. Also, when God tells us that He “will not delay,” it means that the time of Israel’s salvation, in the end times, will be an appointed and predestined time, which shall occur precisely when God wants it to happen, no sooner or no later, at the time He chose it to occur.

God brought His forgiveness and atonement through the Messiah’s New Covenant within only about 700 years after this prophecy was made. And God also told us about this first advent of the Messiah Jesus through Isaiah’s prophecies as well (e.g., Is. 52:13 to 53:12; 55:1-13). But it would be more than 2,700 years after this particular prophecy, before the end times would begin. For the present time stands at the edge of when the plagues of the sixth seal’s era shall strike, which will initiate the end times. Then it will be another generation (about 40 years) after that, before Jesus will return to destroy the beast’s kingdom, save all of Israel, and rule the world. For all of Israel cannot be saved until all the elect Gentiles of the world are first saved through God’s personal and internal works of His New Covenant, until after they are all brought into His priesthood of Israel. So this prophecy about the “Redeemer” coming to Israel, and destroying “Babylon,” is indeed about a “far off” future in our human eyes, although a few thousand years of earthly time is a short time in the eyes of God.

To understand why God declares that this time is near, we must understand that He is speaking to our spirits, not to our flesh. The minds of our flesh can barely comprehend a hundred years, since our flesh will likely die before then. But our spirits are eternal. And spirits exist in a different time and place, in what we might call a different space-time continuum. So our spirits know spirits who lived in flesh on earth thousands of years ago, and on the other side of this physical planet. Our spirits even know spirits who have not yet been granted bodies of flesh on earth, but are already created in the non-linear time line of the spiritual realm. For literally all future and all past time in the material space-time continuum already exist in heaven, all at once, in God’s perception of earthly time, in one moment or “now” of spiritual time. And, since our spirits were created in God’s image, our spirits also see all earthly time as one moment of spiritual time, as one “now.” In the greater reality of the spiritual realm, our spirits perceive a few thousand years like our flesh perceives a few days, and see the distance to the end of the universe like our flesh sees something a few feet away. Since God talks to our spirits, and our spirits were made in His image, we also think the distant future is “not far off.”

Then God prophesied: “Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! … I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one. Our Redeemer—Yahweh of hosts is His name—is the Holy One of Israel.” So this event, the destruction of Babylon, will only occur after God has become the “Redeemer” of Israel. Then the four kingdoms of Babylon are a “daughter” of the human race, born into the family of humankind. But, as a nation and empire, Babylon is a “virgin” (Hebrew=bethulah, “virgin”), because she is not the bride of God, not like the Old Covenant Israel and all the New Covenant elect from around the world will be at that time. In fact, Babylon will be no one’s bride, since Satan and the demons have no brides, only abused children. Some elect may be within the physical borders of the four kingdoms of Babylon in the end times, and persecuted by their governments. Yet they will not be her citizens. Rather, in the end times, when our God Jesus comes to destroy Babylon and redeem Isael, all the elect of the world will will be true citizens in God’s priestly nation of Israel, and His bride. Only after God removes all His elect from Babylon, will He “take vengeance” on her and “spare no one.”

Actually, a “daughter” of Babylon may also refer to another nation or empire belonging to Babylon, to a nation or empire born from her. And the mother of a “virgin daughter” still governed the virgin daughter’s life in those days, since a virgin daughter had to remain in the household of her mother.

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So this prophecy may imply that it is not just about ancient Babylon herself, especially since Babylon was a “virgin daughter” of Assyria herself, during Isaiah’s lifetime, that is, city state or empire subject to the Assyrian Empire until about 612 BC. So God, this prophecy, might be talking about a future nation or empire born of Babylon. Or, as Daniel put it, it may be talking about the beast, his four kingdoms whose head is Babylon. That is, it seems to be about the Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome in the beast, the empire which would become the enemy of God and of Israel.

In this prophecy, God speaks in the past tense about future events, as though He had already seen it happen. Before it occurred, God said that He handed Israel over to Babylonian captivity, which did happen within another hundred years after Isaiah penned this prophecy. But, of course, this prophecy must be about future times, about the Messianic times, about the end times within Israel’s spiritual Babylonian captivity, but long after her physical captivity in ancient Babylon. For this is a world-wide event described here, and it involves the redemption of Israel after God destroys all of Babylon.

This prophecy is about the arrogance of a virgin daughter of Babylon, after she is no longer “tender and delicate,” after she has become a “mistress of kingdoms,” of multiple nations ruled by demons, and after she has given birth to them. Through all this time, she also mercilessly sabotages God’s church of Israel. And, clearly, John believed this prophecy was actually about the end-time too. For look at how John paraphrased a verse from Isaiah: “For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning’” (Rev. 18:7, WEB). And, through John, Jesus was talking about the Great Prostitute of Babylon, the mother of all false humanistic churches who commit spiritual harlotry. Now compare what Jesus wrote through John to what God proclaimed to Babylon through Isaiah: “Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I [AM], and there is no on besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children” (Is. 47:8, ESV). In both, a spiritual or religious entity called Babylon confidently feels as though she is sovereign over all that exists, and has replaced the God Yahweh, whose name means “I AM.” The only difference is that the Great Prostitute of Babylon calls herself a “queen,” since she rides upon the king, on the beast. Either way, Babylon obviously has gone out into all the world and feels that she has won her spiritual warfare, that all the people on earth now believe her lies and she sits securely on her throne, as the only ruling liar over all. And she also believes that God will never destroy her lying psychopathic children, that they will always continue to murder through her lies.

Of course, in the Revelation, Jesus was only speaking about the false church of Babylon, not the whole of Babylon, not about the secular Babylon. But the beast’s secular Roman kingdom ruled over the Great Prostitute, and relied on her to spread his religion of humanism into all the earth. Still, both parts of Babylon believe exactly the same thing, that they are too great and too powerful to ever be destroyed or become a widow who must also mourn for the deaths of their children. Both are sects of humanism, who trust in their own human power to save themselves and control their own destinies like gods. Both belong to the same humanistic religious kingdom of Babylon. And both prophecies will prove true. First that false church will fall in a day, burned by the beast, after God causes that beast to react against her in his deluded paranoia. Then, a few weeks or months later, the secular beast and his entire kingdom will also fall in a day, when our God Jesus returns to utterly destroy it.

Notice how, after linking the Great Prostitute to Isaiah’s prophecy, Jesus also referred to Babylon’s sorcery, declaring “with your sorcery all the nations were deceived” (Rev. 18:23, WEB). For God, in Isaiah’s prophecy, also declared Babylon’s sorcery, when He told her: “These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments” (Is. 47:9, ESV). So God, through both Isaiah and John, indicated that all humanists, that all of Babylon, will practice

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sorcery. And, in context, the definition of “sorcery” here means that they will believe they can exert control over nature and spirits, that they can cause natural or spiritual events through their words and deeds. Then, in humanistic churches, they believe they can use their own magic rituals and words to control their own eternal and material destinies, even the decisions and actions of God, although they are actually being manipulated by demons, and empowered by demons to deceive or occasionally to even work miracles, which they pretend are from God. Either way, all humanists do indeed practice sorcery, all day and every day, as pretending gods who think they remain in control of all existence.

Therefore, no matter how ignorant, totally deluded and irrational they are in reality, humanists will always feel that they alone are wise, that only they know all things. Their self-confidence—in spite of the fact that they are most often proven wrong, ineffective and outright destructive—is amazing to behold. This is truly awe-inspiring stupidity and arrogance, in a jaw-dropping way that make one wonder how human beings could be so much more irrational than even the most lowly of parasitic bugs. But the biblical definition of sorcery is basically the attempt to do things, such as save oneself or others from God’s wrath, through any kind of human or supernatural power that can manipulate or control material things or spirits. It is an attempt to use a power which is not from the Creator God who owns all His creations and always remains sovereign over all, to keep all loving, just and able to serve one another beneficially, as He does. It is an attempt to be gods who are not ruled by God’s will, but is ruled by one’s own human will. And it is humanism, the religion of Babylon, which has always practiced this kind of sorcery, from the days of king Nebuchadnezzar (the king of Babylon and founder of humanism), then throughout the times of Persia, Greece and Rome, up to this day.

Because of their belief that humans are the gods of their own destinies, humanists have also always tried to create, exalt and cause the worship of human heroes, of “supermen” and “superwomen” who are actually spiritually wretches that usually become morally bankrupt, where some even transform into demonically controlled psychopaths. Yet humanists portray these human “gods” as invincible, deeming them to be right and worthy of glory, though they are worthy of nothing in reality, not even the right to live on earth. They strive to make these esteemed and served human beings into the gods of the people, the bearers of unwarranted and excessive powers who are said to possess great insight into how all should conduct their lives. So the common people worship these human gods with an inordinately high esteem and loyally serve them with blind obedience. And this is one of the kinds of vile sorcery God is condemning here, a kind practiced by Babylon and all who were born from her.

Babylon will never be able to save herself. Yet she continuously strives to make God her enemy, the only God who is actually able to save anyone. Humanists have always been arrogant, believing in the power of their own minds and hands to either save or destroy. They always glorify themselves by saying, “Look what we can do!” Humanists continually tell themselves, and all others, that they have acquired the power and knowledge to save the world, if only all others would believe in them and worship the omniscient human god they chose for themselves on this particular day of the week.

Yet humanists have brought into the world nothing but more wars, destruction, oppression and the corruption of all they have touched. Now the whole earth is filled with pollution, and all are at war with one another, as vain, self-seeking human gods rule everywhere. All hope in man is fading, yet all humanist still hope in man, and ignore or violently war against God and His just, loving people. But, because hope in human gods is dying, the world will soon change. Soon the elect will turn their hope toward our humanly empathic God Jesus, after He opens the sixth seal and revives His true church of Israel. Yes, the non-elect will continue to place all their hope in hopeless human gods, but the elect will come out. Then a dichotomy between the elect and non-elect will form on earth, until Jesus comes to remove all the non-elect. But the elect will live on as one people and one priesthood

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of Israel, even eternally, and all will see their inner hopes entirely fulfilled in Jesus, their God. For all who hope in Him are placing their spirits’ faith in what is certain and true, since it is not possible for our God Jesus to fail in fulfilling the spiritual hopes of His elect. He will save literally all His elect.

Isaiah 51:17 to 52:15 (ESV): “Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you

who have drunk from the hand of [Yahweh] the cup of His wrath, who have drunk to the

dregs the bowl, the cup of staggering. There is none to guide her among all the sons she has

borne; there is none to take her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up. These two

things have happened to you—who will console you?—devastation and destruction, famine

and sword; who will comfort you? Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street

like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of [Yahweh], the rebuke of your God.

Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine: Thus says your

Lord, [Yahweh], your God who pleads the cause of His people: ‘Behold, I have taken from

your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of My wrath you shall drink no more; and I will

put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, “Bow down, that we may

pass over”; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass

over.’

“Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem,

the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Shake yourself from the dust and arise; be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your

neck, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus says [Yahweh]: ‘You were sold for nothing, and

you shall be redeemed without money.’ For thus says the Lord [Yahweh]: ‘My people went

down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.’

‘Now therefore what have I here,’ declares [Yahweh], ‘seeing that My people are taken away

for nothing?’ ‘Their rulers wail,’ declares [Yahweh], ‘and continually all the day My name is

despised. Therefore My people shall know My name . Therefore in that day they shall know

that it is I who speak; here am I.’

“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes

peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your

God reigns.’ The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice; together they sing for

joy; for eye to eye they see the return of [Yahweh] to Zion. Break forth together into

singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for [Yahweh] has comforted His people; He has

redeemed Jerusalem. [Yahweh] has bared His holy arm before the eyes of all the nations,

and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

“Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her;

purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of [Yahweh]. For you shall not go out in haste,

and you shall not go in flight, for [Yahweh] will go before you, and the God of Israel will be

your rear guard. Behold, My Servant [the Mesiah,Jesus] shall act wisely; He shall be high

and lifted up, and shall be exalted . As many were astonished at You—His appearance was

so marred, beyond human semblance, and His form beyond that of the children of mankind—

so shall He sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of Him; for that

which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.”

After telling Israel that He is the almighty God the Creator of the heavens and the earth, who put His words in their mouths, who formed the words their prophets, who calls Israel His people, Yahweh God rebuked them. For their spirits were asleep and they needed to wake up and stand up. If they

 

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continued to walk only according to their minds of flesh, seeking only the pleasures and survival of their flesh. while suppressing the righteous and loving desires of their elect spirits, their flesh would continue to feel His wrath against their flesh, until their flesh allowed their spirits to wake This state of spiritual slumber was characteristic of almost all Israel and Jerusalem in the days of Isaiah, and is also the state of most churches around the world, and will be until the sixth seal’s revival. For both the church and secular world still looks for human beings to “guide” them, instead of the wise God.

The humanistic churches and secular world seeks human gods as their guides and saviors, though those human gods are often psychopathic. And those lying human gods are actually very willing to rise up and falsely claim that they are able to guide and save the people, for the right price, although none of those vile sinners actually possess any real knowledge or power to guide or save even themselves, much less all the dupes who blindly place their faith in them. For our God Jesus is the only one who can guide and save effectively, through His omniscient wisdom and almighty power.

Isaiah lived in a time when there were still some devout Jews who tried to follow God’s Law and did not allow themselves to be cajoled, bribed or coerced into sins. Yet even these did not meditate upon God’s Law, to see how their principles harmonized with one another. Nor did they judge according to the way they saw, in the Scriptures and in their own lives, that God Himself judged. So even these devout Jews did not judge rightly, according to a spirit’s motives and intentions, showing mercy to those who sinned without bad intentions or in ignorance. Nor did they plead for the sinners who truly repented. But it is these kinds of right judgments that are the effects of the guidance God was talking about when He said this about Israel at that time: “There is none to guide her, among all the sons she has borne” (51:18). And, of course, it is the same today in all our churches. There is not one true teaching and judging elder among them, to guide them into right judgments that truly please God.

So even the most devout in Israel offended God, by committing the crimes of unjust judgements, which God hates with a passion, especially when they are done in His name. For God expected that, if the devout were too lazy, shallow and loveless to truly seek Him for a deeper understanding of His Law, they should refrain from teaching and judging others. Yet they did not refrain, but did judge harshly and unjustly, trampling the poor and the stranger, depriving the widow and the orphan of their rights in the Law. So, if even the devout deeply sinned against God, then the rest of Israel also definitely sinned against God too. Thus, there was no one left to guide anyone in the land, not even when God rebuked them through His faithful prophets like Isaiah. So the only thing God could do was pour His wrath upon His sinning priesthood, causing devastation with famine and destruction with war, hoping it would turn them away from walking according to their superficial minds of flesh, and wake their spirits so they would seek Him for true and wise guidance, to be taught and trained to become just and loving like Him. Then God would comfort their souls, both their spirits and their flesh, bringing joy to their whole beings. Yet Israel did not repent, but lived only for their own flesh.

God had to remind Israel that their time of repentance would come, that He Himself would cause their hearts to turn to Him. For His human Messianic form would someday come to save them. Their condition would not always remain the same. God declared: “Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God. Therefore, hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine: Thus says your Lord, Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of His people: ‘Behold, I have taken from you hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of My wrath you shall drink no more; and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over” (Is. 51:20-23, ESV). Even the

 

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strength of Israel, their “sons,” had “fainted” and bowed down to the wanna-be gods of Babylon, to be trampled like a street. But the Messiah would come in the end times to deliver Israel from this.

Now, since Yahweh “pleads the cause of His people” (v. 22), we must ask, to whom does He make this plea? God “pleads” (Hebrew = rib, meaning to “strive, contend, toss, grapple with, wrangle, chide, contend against, defend, debate with, plead with, rebuke”) “the cause of His people” to no one but Himself. For God does not rely on any human or angel to save His people, since He alone is their Savior and God. So God “pleads” or “defends” their cause only to Himself, “strives” and “contends” against His own need to enforce loving justice, while He also must make His sinning elect become loving and just. And this is a Messianic prophecy about the end times, when God will actually make His natural priesthood of Israel, the Jews, into His loving and just people, through the Messiah’s New Covenant works for them. So here it portrays the one God relating to His people and to His creation as multiple Persons at the same time. For Yahweh the Messiah shall plead the cause of sinning Israel to the utterly holy and uncompromising heavenly Father. Jesus will defend the cause of sinning Israel by offering up His sinless body as a sin sacrifice, to fully justify His holy work of sending His Holy Spirit to teach and train their ignorant and sinning spirits, to fully redeem them.

The pleading one is called Yahweh here. But He is the redeeming Messiah Jesus, who saves the elect in Israel, who defends their cause. And, logically, we must conclude that Yahweh the Messiah makes this plea to Yahweh the Father. For it would not be possible for Yahweh the Messiah to make any plea at all, if not to the utterly holy and just Father. Therefore, the Messiah Jesus acts as a Person of the one God for His elect siblings in the family of God, and “pleads the cause of His people” to the heavenly Father. And the Father also acts a Person of the one God, who hears those pleas for His elect children and then provides all that is needed for their redemption. But this plea needs to be a complete and perfect solution to the dilemma of sin in His elect siblings, because the one and only mind of the one and only God in both the Messiah and the Father must fully agree with that plea, since God cannot compromise any of His perfect and utterly holy thoughts, nor contradict Himself at any time. And Yahweh the Messiah actually accomplished this perfectly just and agreeable plea after first making an acceptable sacrifice of His sinless body on the cross for their repented sins, which became unintentional and forgivable sins after repentance. Thus, Yahweh Jesus could then send His Holy Spirit into the hearts and souls of His elect, to teach and train them to be loving and just like He is, and redeem them. Then He will complete and perfect that work at heaven’s gates on the last day.

This is an end-time prophesy about the Messiah Jesus returning to save all of the natural Israel from lies and sins. And all the other prophecies of Scripture make it clear that He will only save the Jews, will only turn them back to their God in the Messiah and will only deliver Israel from her enemies in the end times. Also, all this will only occur after all the Gentile elect of the world have been safely brought into their priesthood of Israel. Only on that day of the Messiah’s final return, will their God in the body of that Messiah Jesus say to the natural Israel, “the bowl of My wrath you shall drink no more; and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors” (Is. 51:22c-23a, ESV). Those “tormentors” will still be Babylon, but the fourth kingdom of Babylon, the beast’s Roman Empire in the end times. And those “tormentors” of Israel shall forced to drink seven bowls of God’s wrath, until they all die.

Once Israel’s Messiah Jesus returns in glory to crush Israel’s “tormentors,” He will say to the Jews: “Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean” (Is. 52:1, ESV). And their spirits will indeed awaken, to look upon the One whom they have pierced, and mourn in true repentance, embracing their saving Messiah. For all people living in the land of Israel will have gathered in Jerusalem, to make a hopeless last stand against the beast’s massive international army,

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which has surrounded them. But Jesus will turn those armies against one another, then take the life away from all that enemy’s survivors. No more will any “uncircumcised” and “unclean” Gentiles enter Jerusalem or any part of Israel. Only the elect Gentiles who have been gathered into the church of Israel, the “circumcized of heart” made clean by the blood of the Lamb, will be hosted by Israel.

Then Israel will cast aside the lies of Roman humanism, will no longer judge harshly and unjustly, will no longer trample the poor, will no longer leave the widow and orphan without providence and guidance. The elect of Israel will be taught and trained in true righteous, will put on the “beautiful garments,” for, like all the elect on earth, it will be “given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints” (Rev. 19:8, WEB). The spirits of all the surviving elect Jews on earth shall wear the garments of the bride of our God Jesus.

Here, way back in Isaiah’s day, in about 700 BC, God provided Israel with a hope for their future, and they have never forgotten that hope of their Messiah’s deliverance. To this day, the natural Israel still recalls the promise of their Messiah, such as at every Passover Seder, albeit with some errors and misconceptions about Him. And very soon, within only a few generations, their faces will look upon the physical face of their Messiah. And His Holy Spirit in them will enable them to put on the garments of celebration and feasting; the garments of a clean conscience and grace from God for the forgiveness of all their sins, faults and failures; the garments of truth and righteousness. Their elect spirits will be taught and trained by their God, who shall walk among them in a body of human flesh, and shall send His Spirit into their hearts and souls. Very soon the Messiah will return to destroy the enemies of natural Israel, who are also the enemies of the elect Gentiles brought into her priesthood. Israel’s Messiah will redeem all His chosen ones and restore their spirits to righteousness with love.

When the beast conquers Israel and the Middle East in the first year of his seven-year reign, he will place many humanistic restrictions on the people of Israel, regulations designed to destroy their faith in God. The elect Jewish spirits in Israel will be cast down to the ground and sit in the dust of unholy streets, with the devil’s chains around their necks, with the worship of God choked out of them. But God will lure most of the beast’s armies away from Israel and the Middle East, because that beast will need to defend His homeland and empire from the opposition of lands to the north and the east.

Then God will command Israel: “Shake yourself from the dust and arise; be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus says Yahweh, ‘You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money’” (Is. 52:2-3, ESV). So Jewish authorities, seated in Jerusalem, will call the “captive daughter of Zion,” who is the whole population of Israel, to rise up against the few occupying armies of the beast remaining in their land. And they will “loose the bonds” of the beast from their necks. And this prophecy implies that, although the beast will have plundered the wealth of Israel, they will “be redeemed without money.” Yes, they will also be freely redeemed when Jesus returns. But, at that time of their rebellion from the beast, they will not have money either, yet will free and redeem themselves from the beast’s influences forever, until the day when Jesus returns to complete their redemption. So we might be able to speculate that the beast will leave many weapons in Israel, which the Jews will appropriate for their rebellion against that beast.

Together with their recently converted Christian allies in Egypt, Assyria and other Middle Eastern lands, the entire occupied region will rebel against the remnant of the beast’s armies left behind. And most of those lands, or all of them, seem to succeed, and free themselves. So Israel and her allies will be able to shake off the dust and rise from the ground where the beast cast them. Their elders will be able to sit in their own councils again and throw off the bonds of their people. And I repeat, all this entirely harmonizes with what Daniel prophesied, when God told him that the beast would

 

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attack many lands in the Middle East during the first half of his seven-year reign, and conquer Israel. Of course, after the beast tramples Israel for three and a half years, Daniel’s prophecy also said the beast will hastily leave the Middle East to defend his homeland. Then he will return to annihilate all of Israel at the end of his reign. But he will fail. So Israel and the Middle East will remain free even then, since the beast and all his armies will meet their end before they even set a foot in Jerusalem.

When this says that Israel was “sold for nothing,” it could mean that she was taken captive as a slave of Babylon’s four kingdoms, and not purchased, and that the beast who conquered and enslaved her took her in a war that did not cost him anything, when offset by the plunder he gained from his victory. But the same will apply when our God Jesus redeems Israel. First Israel will free and begin to redeem themselves from the beast’s anti-God ways and oppression “without money,” since the beast will allow no one to buy or sell unless they worship him by placing the mark of his name on their hands or foreheads, and that beast will have plundered all the wealth of their land too. So Israel will have no money, but will likely appropriate some weapons for their rebellion from those the beast will leave behind in his hasty withdrawal. Then their allies in distant land may also provide some weapons for them as well. At any rate, Israel will forever free themselves from Babylon’s four kingdoms at that time, and the completion of their redemption will come on the day Jesus returns.

Also, it will not cost Yahweh, the Messiah, any of the devil’s invention of money to conquer the beast’s armies, nor to complete the redemption of Israel, to save her from her humanistic lies and sins. All this will be an easy victory for our almighty God Jesus, who never needs any of Satan’s invention of money to do any of His saving works upon the spirits of His people. And it will not be Israel that redeems herself through her own strength and sacrifice. She will not earn her redemption or pay for it. Rather, Jesus shall redeem her through His own pure, unmerited, unearned grace alone. For our God Jesus will draw the beast away from her in haste, then strengthen the faith of true Israel.

In this prophecy, God is defines a very long time frame for Israel’s redemption, extending from the distant past into the distant future. “For thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there [i.e., before 1800 BC], and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing [i.e., in 721 BC, in Isaiah’s day, when Babylonians were Assyrians] . Now what do I have here,’ declares Yahweh, ‘seeing that My people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and continually all day My name is despised. Therefore, My people shall know My name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I AM” (52:4-6, ESV). So God speaks of a very long process of redemption for Israel, extending all the way back to when Jacob and his twelve sons entered Egypt, and extending to “that day they shall know that it is I who speak,” which will be the day their Messiah and God Jesus returns in the future end times. But, until then, many in Israel will accuse God of causing their suffering and oppression, and despise His “name,” hate His just and loving attributes and character. However, their pain mostly originated from sinful humans, and was only allowed by God because of their own sins. Still, in the end, His priesthood of Israel will realize that they must learn from the past, then serve God by serving the world through just love, since the wages of sin are death, and their God never caused their own sins nor the sins of their oppressors.

In this prophecy, God brought up Israel’s entire history; the time when they received their name of “Israel” from the father of their twelve tribes, as he entered Egypt, to the current time of Isaiah, the prophet who was voicing God’s words to them. And God pointed out how His priesthood of Israel had endured oppression throughout that time, from Egypt in the past, even up to their current time when Assyria, and Babylon in Assyria, enslaved them. But God also declared that neither vain Egypt nor Babylon earned any right to enslave them. No one has a right to enslave any other equal sibling in the family of humankind, since God alone owns and lovingly serves all those siblings. Thus, His

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priesthood of Israel was “sold for nothing” to the Egyptians and Assyrians. For all were sinners who refused to serve their Creator justly, through God-like like love. No people were more holy and more favored by God than the other. And those who despised the true God, who worshiped themselves and the gods they invented in their own minds, were abandoned to Satan, to the devil’s delusions which destroyed the flesh, causing all to lie and abuse one another until they all received the wages of sin.

At one time, Egypt loved Joseph, the son of Israel, and favored God’s priesthood of Israel. Then the Assyrians, from their capital city of Nineveh during the time of Jonah, once repented to Yahweh, to the God of Israel and the God of all the earth. But this did not earn either of them the right to oppress Israel. For neither was more righteous than Israel. And, if they were more righteous than Israel, then they would have merely rebuked that priesthood of God, for failing to serve the world rightly and justly in God’s name. They would not have murdered and enslaved them. So, although a thread of God’s truth has always run through Egypt and Assyria, as well as through Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome who were all formed through Egypt and Assyria, none of those empires have ever truly been the least bit faithful to the loving justice they learned from God. Yet God chose those empires to be the main persecutors of His priesthood of Israel, only the empires who had been touched by Him through His priesthood of Israel. And God did not raise up the Hittite, Phoenician or other empires, so they could conquer and enslave Israel, so they might become the enemies of Himself and His church of Israel. Thus, God has a warning in these choices He made. If the Creator God touches you, if He reveals Himself and His just ways of love to you, respond to Him, hear Him, and act upon the truths He created and pours into the mind of your spirit. Otherwise, His just wrath will pour out against you. If you know the just and loving God at all, and the entire earth has now been touched by Him and His words, then you must either choose Him or be abandoned to the delusions of the devil.

None of the oppressors of God’s people, none who persecute the elect who voice the truths that God’s Holy Spirit pours into their spirits, has ever earned the right to do any evil to them. For one cannot ever earn the right to do evil, only the right to do good, through God’s help and providence. And all who come against God’s chosen people, earn God’s wrath, especially if they deliberately lie and sin, after having acquired some knowledge of God’s truths. If any sin in complete ignorance, or through deception and coercion, then the motives and intentions of their hearts can change through repentance into God’s just and loving truths. But those who lie and sin intentionally, when they know and reject God’s just and loving truths, are doomed to God’s wrath. Intentional liars and sinners will be handed over to the delusions of Satan for the destruction of their flesh. Their dark, empty and futile lives will go from bad to worse. Nothing worthy or fruitful will come of them, only loss and destruction, until they fall into the abyss after their parasitic flesh dies. This is a certain fact of life.

Certainly the humanistic secular Roman beast, as well as the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughter churches, have all seen and heard the just and loving ways of God, even from ancient times. But they utterly rejected those truths, and worshiped themselves as their own gods, then also esteemed, loved and served demonic gods of money, power, sex and so on. Therefore, does anyone still wonder why they became so deluded and irrational, why they became so destructive to others and to themselves?

As usual, God will let the beast cause most of his own destruction, and divide his own armies until they kill one another, after he burns his own false humanistic churches and other deceivers in his kingdom. And we have seen God do this with the other little copies of the beast, like Hitler, and will see it again with wanna-be beasts like Trump. Then God will come in Jesus to finish off the final beast, to cast him into hell and slaughter all the survivors of his kingdom. For all Israel’s enemies are merely disposable non-elect enemies of God, dead branches and dried weeds found on the ground, the fuel of eternal fires. All are intentional sinners who can be easily manipulated by God, used for a

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time to train or discipline God’s disciples. Then those enemies, all who are not the elect and have not repented and joined His true church of Israel, will be destroyed after God has no more use for them.

Then God prophecies about the return of the Messiah Jesus: “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns.’ The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of Yahweh to Zion. Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for Yahweh has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem. Yahweh has bared His holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God” (Is. 52:7-10, ESV). So this is a world-wide event where “all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God,” because all those left upon the earth will be God’s elect children, and all the non-elect will be taken away from the earth. And this is when all will “see the return of Yahweh to Zion,” when our God Jesus returns to Jerusalem, descending in a visible body of flesh from the sky, with bright light and in holy glory.

This “return of Yahweh,” who is the Messiah Jesus, will be “beautiful upon the mountains” of Israel, as the physical “feet of Him” brings the Gospel of His unconditional New Covenant salvation to the Jews. For most of the Jews in Israel and in the Diaspora scattered around the world at that time will still think they are bound under God’s temporary Old Covenant, other than the 144,000 virgin male servants of God and some other Jews who have served Jesus since the sixth seal’s revival. So these will rejoice when Jesus will “publish” or “proclaim” peace and salvation to them, since both are one and the same, because His salvation works peace inside the soul. Jesus will bring “good news,” with much “happiness” or “gladness” to Israel, because His Gospel refreshes the spirit in the heart. And, after they see Jesus destroy the beast’s massive international armies surrounding them when they had made their last stand in Jerusalem, Jesus will assure them that “Your God reigns.” But God not only rules over their physical lives, and saves their flesh. He is also sovereign over their spirits. And it is God’s works within their hearts and minds which saves them from lies and sins, which will gather them into the homes He prepared for each one in heaven. God, not they themselves, nor any of their physical deeds and rituals, will save their bodies and spirits from destruction, into an abundant life.

Even “the waste places of Jerusalem,” the parts where desolation, famine and hopelessness took hold of the people, will “break forth together into singing” when Jesus descends on the Mount of Olives and walks into their temple gates. For His redemption from the beast’s oppression, and from their humanistic hierarchies and other errant ways, will greatly comfort them. But Jesus will also bare “His holy arm before the eyes of all the nations” in the world as well, to destroy all the enslaving humanistic hierarchies and their human gods, even all the non-elect on earth. Then “all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of God,” as Jesus teaches them. For only the elect, who are able to love and repent into His just and equitable truths, will be left alive on earth. And all these surviving and resurrect elect souls will be safe in the knowledge and understanding of their God Jesus, as His words pour into the minds of their spirits. So abundant lives of loving and being loved will be as common on earth after Jesus returns as the common empty, vacant and loveless lives we see today.

After the ends of the earth see the Messiah’s salvation, and after He enters the temple in Jerusalem, He will call all the Jews of the Diaspora back to their land. In all the Gentile nations where the Jews have been scattered since the days of Assyria and Babylon in Isaiah’s time, they will hear Jesus’ Holy Spirit call them, saying: “Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh. For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for Yahweh will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard” (Is. 52:11-12, ESV). Through miracles and the labors of the Jewish people, the

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whole land of Israel promised to Abraham will become a well-watered garden, with comfort and joy in all its homes. Then the natural Israel will serve their Messiah Jesus as His true priesthood, as the hosts of all the Gentile elect on earth, as an example of how to live just, humble and loving lives.

Then, to our Messiah and God Jesus, Yahweh will say: “Behold, My Servant shall act wisely; He shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. As many were astonished at you—His appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and His form beyond that of the children of mankind—so shall He sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths because of Him, for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand” (Is. 52:13-15, ESV).

Here, through Isaiah the prophet in about 700 BC, God reminds us that our Messiah’s flesh, in a body like the bodies “of the children of mankind,” would be “marred” or disfigured “beyond human semblance.” This would happen at some time before His glorious return to save the Jews surrounded by the beast in Jerusalem, before He would come in the end times with salvation for the ends of the earth. Before the glory of His second advent, the Messiah’s first advent would see His appearance and form disfigured more than any man, more than the sons of men. And, as this prophecy continued (in chapter 53 of Isaiah), God explained that the first coming of the Messiah, His Servant, would be “despised and rejected,” by both the Jews and Gentiles. And reliable witnesses in the first century saw this event, saw the Messiah violently beaten and crucified by both the false Jewish church and the Roman beast’s occupying armies. But this prophecy said the Messiah would be “pierced for our transgressions,” and “upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace” with our God, so that “with His wounds we are healed” of our lies and sins (see 53:5). And that first sin sacrifice of our Messiah had made it possible for Him to save all His elect Jews and Gentiles at His second advent.

It would require all of the last days, all of the eras of the seven seals, before the Messiah was able to separate His elect from the non-elect, then rescue them out of the beast’s enslavement. It took two millennia of proclaiming His Gospel wisdom and truths throughout the world, while the beast’s fourth kingdom also spread its demonic religion of humanism at the same time, before Jesus could finally build up His true church of Israel and cause that generation of elect to come out of the beast, at last. But His works of salvation for the eternal spirits of His loving elect are sure, and cannot be stopped. So Jesus will come again in glory, to defeat Satan and his brood on earth, to establish His just, equitable, loving kingdom over all the earth, and restore all that was lost through evil ambitions.

The final demonically controlled beast will be well-known for his blasphemies against God. And, up to the day of Israel’s deliverance from that beast, God’s people will be oppressed “for nothing.” The beast’s kingdom of Babylon (which was Assyria in Isaiah’s day) hated God, His just ways and His people. And God also let Babylon, and her next four kingdoms, get away with oppressing His elect for a time, without paying the full price for their lies and sins. Also, God will not even immediately strike down the beast in the end times, like He struck down the Assyrians in Isaiah’s day, when they railed against Yahweh and dared to compare Him to the demons and the man-made gods of their pagan lands (see II Kings 18:13 to 19:37). Yet the beast will also slander God in the end times. But God will destroy him with a far more overt condemnation, through the plagues of the seven bowls of His wrath, which all the world shall witness, so all might know how evil the beast’s beliefs had been.

Although the works of God’s priesthood of Israel involve undoing the works of Satan, the elect do no always or rightly do this work, not according to God’s just, equitable and loving will. So God’s enemies are not always immediately punished for their blasphemy and evil, even as they persecute His people. For God’s children forget His name, His character and attributes, then act like Satan’s children, emulating and serving the devil instead. But God’s enemies do not always immediately pay

 

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for their sins for another reason, because God allows them to heap up their own damnation. That is, God hands them over to an ever-increasing darkness of lies and delusions so they can then take that darkness with them into hell, all the lies and delusion that shall frustrate them throughout eternity. So God sometimes gives the non-elect spirits what they most desire as their punishment. But, in the end, when all is redeemed and restored for the elect in heaven, and Satan’s kingdom possesses all the lies and delusions it desires in hell, God is proved just, and His mercies for His sinful elect are justified.

God is not unjust when He condemns Satan and his kingdom to a painful eternity in hell, where they will wallow in the darkness of their own beloved, cherished delusions and lies forever. Now God rightly will not put any of His good creations in hell, to be abused by those wanna-be gods in Satan’s kingdom. And this will cause painful frustration for those loveless spirits, through their impotence, since they will not be able to assert power over anything. But their own evil desires will cause their own pain, and not allowing them to be cruel does not mean God is cruel. For God will grant them all the darkness they desired, but within the limits of His compassion for His good creations. And, yes, God created those spirits to be defective, without love, and thus condemned them all to hell before they even existed. But, in the end, those spirits will call hell their home, and will hate the light and love in heaven far more than hell. So God created those non-elect spirits of Satan and his kingdom to teach His elect to hate evil, to reject all that is not aligned with His attributes. But then God also gave those non-elect spirits all the rewards they desired for their works, though none can enjoy their most highly coveted rewards, since the non-elect possess no love that will enable them to enjoy anything.

As for the suffering of the elect on earth, God is not nearly as worried as we are about our flesh, since our Father did not place His children in bodies of flesh to live on earth forever, but only for an extremely brief time. And our short days on earth are not that real, although God causes our spirits to perceive these times on earth as real. For the temporary material existence we experience on earth is not eternal and not nearly as solid and real as our bodies and homes in the spiritual realm. And elect spirits of humans and other living creatures on earth only experience earthly perceptions in order to be taught the difference between what is God’s will and what is not God’s will. Then, since human elect spirits were born of God’s Spirit as His children, they will use their earthly perceptions at the gates of heaven on the judgment day, to learn discernment between God’s attributes and all that falls short of His attributes. So all elect spirits passing through perceptions of earthly lives will be taught to know God better, so all will love Him more, even in a way that sinless heaven cannot teach them.

Earthly life prepares elect spirits for their eternal lives at home in heaven. Yes, our Father cares for our flesh too, and sees that our bodies have enough to do the works we need to do, to maintain a modest existence on earth, so we can love on another. But in reality, and in the completely honest eyes of God, our flesh is not our main concern. Only the elect spirit in a body of flesh has any true value, both to God and to us. And soon enough—if not while we live on earth, then certainly on the judgment day—all the non-elect God haters and persecutors of our flesh shall eternally wail with internal torment, forever frustrated by their ungratified lusts to become gods ruling over us. But all elect spirits born of the Father will fully know His name, all that is Him, all of His beautiful wonder.

In the end times, the true Gospel (or “good news”) shall be preached throughout the entire world, although not without great opposition from Satan’s world order. Even Israel—whom God has now temporarily hardened until the fulness of the Gentiles has entered her—will see God send 144,000 virgin male preachers proclaim the Gospel message of Jesus, the Messiah’s New Covenant salvation that will soon be granted to all of Israel’s elect children. How beautiful will be the feet of them be upon the mountains of Israel! For they will come in the likeness of Jesus, although, compared to the light of Jesus, they will be dim. Yet, by them, we will know that our Lord Jesus shall return soon.

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On a day when watchmen will be posted along the walls of Jerusalem—because the beast will be surrounding that city and attacking from his camp in the valleys of Armageddon—those watchmen and all Israel, even all the world, will see “the return of Yahweh to Zion,” in the physical body of Jesus, who was once marred beyond recognition. And this is clearly speaking about the “return of Yahweh” in a visible and physical body of a human man, which will also result in the visible and physical destruction of Israel’s enemies. The coming Messiah in the end times, whom Isaiah is here prophesying about, is indeed “Yahweh,” who will return in a body of flesh that can be seen by men. And we must conclude that this Messiah will “return” to Zion, since the Hebrew word shoob means “return, turn or come back again.” So God prophesied through Isaiah that He, in the Messiah, would come twice, and His glorious advent to save Israel and the world in the end times will be His second coming. For Yahweh also visibly came to Jerusalem a first time, in a body of flesh that was seen by Jerusalem when He brought His New Covenant to His elect, so His relationship with His elect could be ratified by His blood and by His resurrection. Then this same Messiah Jesus will “return” during the end times, when Jerusalem is surrounded by the beast’s armies, just as other prophecies affirm.

Here God prophesied both advents of the Messiah. First the Messiah would come as God’s “despised and rejected” Servant, who died for the sins of His people, yet lived, since He “makes intercession for the transgressors” after He dies in the flesh (Is. 52:13 to 53:12). Then He will “return” in glory, and finally known for who He truly is. Then Israel and the world will realize that Jesus is Yahweh in a human body, and kings will bow before him, administering His loving justice in all of their lands.

Obviously, this is not a prophecy about a mere local event that occurred long ago, since it says it will occur “before the eyes of all the nations,” then emphatically reiterates, “and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.” Rather, this is about a great, world-wide event, about Christ’s return and His salvation for everyone remaining alive on earth, for all who will survive until the day of His return. And that day will bring a permanent redemption from the enemy of God and Israel, the total destruction of the beast and his entire kingdom, of the entire fourth kingdom of Babylon. This prophecy is not about the destruction of Assyria’s physical empire, nor Babylon’s empire in Assyria. For the empire of Assyria and Babylon exists to this day, through Persia, Greece and Rome. And neither Israel nor the world have been saved from that beast. But we all will be forever saved from that evil religious empire of humanism on the day Jesus physically returns to us in His body of flesh.

And parts of this prophecy (Is. 52:11-12) also seem to refer to God’s call to the Diaspora, telling them to come out of the nations and return to their homeland. All the Jewish people on earth shall depart from all the nations and from the ends of the earth mentioned previously (in v. 10). All the Jews will return to the land of Israel to become “vessels of Yahweh.” And this will be a gradual return, since they “shall not go out in haste,” and “shall not go in flight” (v. 11). But the Diaspora will return to Israel after many Jews are already living there, when the beast is attacking those Jews in Israel. So this first partial return of the Jews has already begun, even in the 19th century, and is well under way. Then the rest of the Diaspora will come back to Israel only after Jesus has returned.

Yahweh the Messiah will “sprinkle many nations” for their spiritual cleansing. That is, Jesus will disperse the effective blood of His sin sacrifice from His cross to all people, for the forgiveness of their lies and sins through repentance into the truth, since He paid for their atonement into a fully restored relationship with their Creator God. And it is because this Servant of God saves us, all the survivors on earth shall esteem Him, as their wise King and beloved High Priest, as the only one that is truly “high and lifted up.” This Servant will be “exalted” above all kings and decision-making servants of the people, causing them to “shut their mouths because of Him,” to heed all His words.

 

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Now we know God does not exalt any mortal man in the way He esteemed His Servant, the Messiah. Actually, God only exalts Himself like this, and only for our sakes, so He can effectively serve us, so we will listen to Him as He teaches and trains us to practise His just and loving ways. Since all elect spirits are infantile and completely dependent on our Father and oldest Brother Jesus, and literally all human beings are sinners, God cannot exalt any mortal human above another. God will only gifts each of us differently and uniquely, and with many spiritual and physical flaws, so all of us working together can learn to be like Him. And we also tend to emulate the exalted ones. Thus, God wants us to emulate only the perfectly sinless Messiah, not the sinful, shallow, beast-like human gods that Roman humanism exalts. Since God alone is perfect, He exalts none but Himself. Therefore, this high, lifted up, exalted Servant of Yahweh must be Yahweh God Himself in the body of this Man.

Also look at how this Servant shall “sprinkle many nations.” To seal a covenant, the blood of an animal sacrifice was sprinkled on those with whom the covenant was made, seemingly to signify that the covenant was made with lifeblood that purified the spirit from its sins of the flesh, so the spirit could make a loving covenant without the corruption of sin. For the spirit made covenants, and the promises of a covenant would be kept even at the cost of the covenant maker’s flesh and lifeblood.

To ratify the Old Covenant, the blood of a sacrifice was sprinkled on the people (Ex. 24:7-8). And the Messiah’s New Covenant of salvation is the same, but not with the symbolic blood of sinless animals. Rather, the New Covenant is sealed for the elect by the blood of the sinless Servant. The Messiah sprinkles blood on many nations (Gentiles), in a way that would ratify and establish God’s New Covenant relationship with them. The blood of this Servant of Yahweh—who is exalted over kings and all men, in a way that only God can be—was once “marred beyond human semblance.” Then, as we read in the next chapter of this same prophecy, God tells us that His Servant would be killed for the iniquities and sins of His people. So the blood God’s Servant was to be His own blood of His own body of flesh on earth, sprinkled on the nations for their forgiveness and atonement. His own death sealed Yahweh’s New Covenant with His elect on earth, for salvation into abudnant lives.

Isaiah 59:14-21 (ESV): “Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away stands far

away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter. Truth is

lacking and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. [Yahweh] saw it, and it

displeased Him that there was no justice. He saw that there was no man, and wondered that

there was no one to intercede; then His own arm brought him [i.e., brough man] salvation,

and His righteousness upheld him [i.e., upheld man]. He put on righteousness as a breastplate,

and a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and

wrapped Himself in zeal as a cloak. According to their deeds, so will He repay, wrath to His

adversaries, repayment to His enemies; to the coastlands [i.e., ‘coastlands’ or ‘islands’ refer to far-

off lands] He will render repayment.

“So they shall fear the name of [Yahweh] from the west, and His glory from the rising of the

sun; for He will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of [Yahweh] drives. ‘And a

Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,’ declares

[Yahweh]. ‘And as for Me, this is My covenant with them [i.e., the New Covenant],’ says

[Yahweh]: ‘My Spirit that is upon you, and My words that I have put in your mouth,

shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth

of your children's offspring,’ says [Yahweh], ‘from this time forth and forevermore.’”

This prophecy is obviously about God’s judgment of the entire earth, through the Messiah’s second advent in the end times, when “truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey”

 

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of wicked liars. Yet it is about Yahweh God coming Himself, with wrath to the earth, to slay all His enemies, all the unjust liars who prey on those who repent from lies and evil. In other words, here God is speaking about the day Jesus will return to destroy the beast at Armageddon, and slaughter his armies, then also kill all the wicked non-elect on earth. For, since His glory reaches all the elect “from the west” to “the rising sun,” all who fear His name, it indicates a world-wide scope. This is not a merely a local event that frees Israel from Assyria or Babylon. Rather, it is about the day Jesus returns, when His wrath will destroy all those on earth who suppress the truth. The only survivors He will leave behind on earth will be the elect, who fear His name, those with enough truth and love left in their spirits to be able to repent from the lies and injustice that is practiced by the rest of the world.

God “saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one intercede.” A wise and true man’s principal role in life is to provide a spiritual and moral structure for his family, including his family of all humankind. But, in the end times, God found no man fulfilling this role. A real man is a priest of God for his family, and intercedes on behalf of his people before God, as well as intercedes on behalf of God before his people. Yet God found “no one to intercede.” Now we have many little Hitlers and Trumps who ruthlessly turn back justice and righteousness, make truth stumble until it is lacking everywhere, and hunt those who depart from evil as their prey. And, yes, those who oppose these Satanic and beast-like little anti-Christs are their prey. But there are few, if any, among that prey who set aside distractions of the flesh to build up spiritual and moral structures which their people need, or intercede on behalf of their people before God, to learn how to overcome those little fascist wanna-be gods. Rather, they want carnally comfortable solutions. They reject God’s “radical” and “leftist” counsel, then seek only “conservative” solutions that allow the rich, who pay them a good income, to exploit their people, without addressing the horrifying problems of overt injustice, exploitation and death, which their people face. So the lying fascists win, since no man is willing to build any true spiritual and moral structures, nor intercede before God with an honest, humble spirit.

Thus, Yahweh will choose to come as a sinless, wise, worthy and true man a second time. But this time our God Jesus will not come as a Priest to intercede for His natural family of Israel and the Gentile elect brought into her. This time He shall come as a King, to war against the unjust, lying enemies of His people. Jesus will “put on righteousness as a breastplate,” to deflect the arrows of unjust lies, so they fall harmlessly to the ground. He will place the “helmet of salvation on His head,” so the blows of deceivers will not extinguish the teachings He pours into the minds of elect spirits. “Garments of vengeance” will be His “clothing,” with much “zeal” wrapping His angry visage like a “cloak.” God in Jesus will come to crush all unjust liars. The mighty arm of our God Jesus will bring salvation for His people. Then His own righteousness, which He will write in the hearts and minds of His elect, which He will pour into the minds of their spirits, shall uphold them.

This prophecy also tells us how Jesus will judge the evil-doers: “according to their deeds, so will He repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to His enemies” (59:18). By the motives and intentions of their biased hearts against their siblings in the family of humankind, and through their inner hatred of loving, responsible, just, equitable truths written by God in all His creations, they had murdered and plundered the innocent. So they will be found guilty of their lies and iniquities, utterly lacking any repentance, void of love. Then our God Jesus will cast their life-giving spirits from their flesh into the skies of the spiritual realm, to sleep until the appointed time of their sentencing to hell. And His wrath against the ruthless non-elect liars will reach all who live on earth, up “to the coastlands,” up to the lands most distant from Jerusalem, far from where He shall set His feet. For, by the day of His return, He will have separated His elect from the non-elect, leaving those liars free to indulge in

 

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the darkness of their cherished lies and delusions, set apart for their own well-earned destruction, lacking any emotional or spiritual connections with the elect, who may have kept them from sins.

Then the only ones left on earth will be the elect survivors. But their numbers will be bolstered by the deceased elect, whom Jesus will bring back to life on earth with Him at His return, during the first resurrection. “So they shall fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun; for He will come like a rushing stream, which the wind/Spirit of Yahweh drives. And a Redeemer will come to Zion/Jerusalem, to those in Jacob/Israel who turn from transgression” (Is. 59:19-20, ESV). The natural Israel in all the world, from east to west, literally all descendants of Jacob, all the Jews in the land of Israel and the scattered Diaspora, will “turn from transgression.” On the day Jesus returns, all will abandon the humanistic ways of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome they have been taught, forsake their hierarchical systems and worshiped rabbis, give up their system of human gods trying to earn their own salvation. Instead, they will then realize that salvation is the New Covenant work of God in their spirits, teaching and training their spirits to become like He is.