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

Then Yahweh Jesus will declare: “And as for Me, this is My covenant with them … 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 … from this time forth and forever” (Is. 59:21, ESV). From that day into all eternity, even after God removes all perceptions of the material universe from all spirits and the earth ends, even in the spiritual realm forever after that day, Jesus will guard the hearts and minds of His elect. There will be no non-elect deceivers who shall ever deceive them again. The non-elect will only deceive other non-elect, as their hellish father deceives them. But the elect will all be guarded by the counsel of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, and His truth will be poured into the minds of their willing and eagerly receiving spirits. Then that priesthood of His children, His true church, will serve beside Jesus and their heavenly Father in their homeland of heaven forever. They will be like Jesus, serving all the living creations in heaven through just love.

In the dry land of Israel, potable water was precious, but clear, flowing water was extraordinary. Yet all life needed this pure kind of water to brighten their outlook and thoughts. Therefore, the prophets often portrayed God’s Spirit, as well as the truth and life He gave them, as water like a “rushing stream” (59:19), as a river of clean “living” water. Then the Hebrew word “ruach,” translated here as “wind” (59:19), is the same word they used to refer to a “spirit” (i.e., the unseen, eternal, life-giving part of a being). So, in this prophecy, God was telling us that a “rushing stream” will come to us, driven by the “Spirit of Yahweh,” which will sweep away the wicked and their lies, to also refresh and revive the spirits of His people. And, in this prophecy of Isaiah, God was speaking about doing this for His people in Jerusalem in particular, for the Jews in “Zion,” for “those in Jacob/Israel who turn from transgression,” who fled to Jerusalem because they were surrounded by the beast’s international armies who wanted to kill them all. It is saying that Jesus will rescue the Jews, even before they “turn from transgression,” and that they will repent after He saves them from the beast.

So this harmonizes with what Yahweh prophesied through Zechariah: “It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. I will pour on David’s house and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit [i.e., the Holy Spirit of Himself] of grace and of supplication. They will look to Me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for his firstborn” (12:9-10, WEB). When Jesus comes to redeem Jerusalem “in that day,” all the Jews will repent to Him, and turn away from their transgressions. By the way, the prophecy in Isaiah simply states that the descendants of Jacob will repent (“turn from transgression”), and does not explicitly say that God, the Messiah, will cause this repentance. However, in other passages from Isaiah (and in the whole of the Scriptures) we see

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that it will be God who turns their spirits to Him and away from sin. For this is the New Covenant promise of God, that He Himself will work this change in our hearts and minds, that He will save us.

Isaiah 61:1-11 (ESV): “The Spirit of [Yahweh] God is upon Me, because [Yahweh] has

anointed Me [The word ‘Messiah’ means ‘anointed one.’ Here, in context, Isaiah is not speaking himself, but

rather uttering the words of Yahweh the Messiah or Anointed One in first person. When Jesus came the first

time, He confirmed that Isaiah was speaking on His behalf, as the Messiah, see Luke 4:18-21; cf. Mat. 11:4-6.]

to bring good news to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim

liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the

year of [Yahweh’s] favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to

grant to those who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the

oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they

may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of [Yahweh], that He may be glorified.

“They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall

repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations. Strangers shall stand and tend

your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers; but you shall be called the

priests of [Yahweh] ; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God ; you shall eat the

wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast. Instead of your shame there shall be

a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they

shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.

“For I [Yahweh] love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their

recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. Their offspring shall be

known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see

them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring [Yahweh] has blessed. I will greatly

rejoice in [Yahweh]; My soul shall exult in My God, for He has clothed Me with the

garments of salvation; He has covered Me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom

decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her

jewels. For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to

sprout up, so the Lord [Yahweh] will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all

the nations.”

When our God and Messiah Yahweh returns, He will bring justice to all the earth. And it will be Him, not man, who will “cause righteousness” for our salvation. There will be no more poverty, heartbreaking injustice, oppression, vengeful imprisonment or anything else of the devil’s world order. For where such things now exist, there is fear, and where there is fear, anger takes the minds of men captive. Fear becomes rage, and rage becomes dread, as any soldier will tell you, since every soldier is taught to transform fear into blind, unthinking, ruthless rage. But neither fear nor anger can hear reason, and neither is able to act justly. Yet our spirits must hear God’s rational and beneficial words of equitable justice and love, must learn His reasoning and wisdom, to build the abundant life of His kingdom on earth and nullify the works of Satan. So He calls us to reason together with Him.

Satan’s world order keeps us in fear and anger, so it can transform us all into brute, ignorant, unjust, foolish dupes, enslaved by his lies, which cause unreasoning fear and anger. However, the “year of Yahweh’s favor” is coming. The day of the Messiah’s arrival in Israel is near, when our God Jesus will rule as the King over our perceptions of this material existence on earth, and restore all justice and reasoning of the world’s population within a short year. And when He returns, He will also bring the “vengeance of our God” with Him, to annihilate the deceivers and murderers who strove to

 

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annihilate us. Before all else, before He sets His feet upon the Mount of Olives, He will destroy the beast’s armies in the valleys below Armageddon and slaughter all the unbridled and uninhibited evil non-elect upon the earth, who will have been removed from all of the constraints worked by the influences of the just and loving elect. Satan and his beast will be cast into hell and the world order, with its military and economic systems, will no longer exist. The ruthless demon Mammon will no longer dictate how we work and live. Instead, Jesus will grant each one all that one needs for one’s own fulfilling and joyful works, and all one needs for an abundant life of loving and being loved.

Jerusalem and all of Israel will become a place of peace and joy in the Lord Jesus. From there Jesus’ loving justice—worked through real truth and God-like insight from the motives of the spirit—shall flow out into all the world from His priesthood of Israel. The Jews will be “priests of Yahweh,” all serving Jesus. All mature and true Christian Gentiles, with real love and courage of the kind that acts through quietness and confidence of the spirit, through solid faith in Him, through a trust in Jesus that grants all praise to Him for what He utters to their spirits, will also be His priests. But Gentiles will know the Jews “as the ministers/servants” of their God Jesus, as those who serve as their hosts when they visit Jesus in Israel. And the Gentiles will bring gifts to the Jews, and help them labor in their fields and rebuild the ruins of their cities, after the beast has destroyed their land. “Strangers shall stand and tend” the flocks of Israel, “foreigners shall be [their] plowmen and vinedressers,” until all the land is restored. So the Jews “shall eat the wealth of the Gentiles,” and boast in the glory of those Gentiles, in how those Gentiles also serve their God, the Messiah Jesus. All antisemitism will cease in the world and, instead of shame and dishonor, the Jews will receive a “double portion” of respect and “rejoice in their lot.” Finally, God’s Abrahamic promises will be completed to the full.

At the present time, as throughout history, there are ashes of mourning upon Jewish heads, because they experience the injustice and wars of the world order, which are taking a life-draining toll upon their lives. Now most do not inwardly know the true saving power of their Messiah, Yahweh Jesus, in their flesh, although some know it in their spirits, as His Holy Spirit teaches some of their spirits to love in a just and equitable way. But, when Jesus returns, all shall fully realize that Jesus is their God Yahweh, the Creator’s Spirit dwelling in Jesus’ body of flesh. For they will see the power and glory of that body descending from the sky on a unique day that is bright without a sun or moon. They will see Him destroy their enemies and fill them with His Holy Spirit, who shall pour the truth into the minds of their own spirits. They will all know Jesus from within, as their Savior and God.

Then the Jews will also stop seeking vengeance against their enemies, since they will then know that literally all vengeance belongs to God alone, who owns them and all that exists. Instead, they will administer true justice, which accounts for the motives and intentions of the spirit, which does not judge by outward appearances. They will continue to do God’s work of nullifying injustice in all the world, but also His work of building up His just and loving kingdom on earth. They will rebuke any lies which deceive souls into committing sins and crimes, especially any remaining lies of Roman humanism. But those Jews will also teach sinners for their repentance into the truth, whenever that is possible. And, once Jesus removes all the non-elect from the earth, repentance into the truth will always be possible, for all who live on earth, since all will be the elect, with love in their spirits that will enable all to truly repent. So there will be no need for prisons to keep the elect safe from the violence and lies of the non-elect, and all will be free. And there will be no more non-elect rich, who prevent the goods and services of the land and workers from benefiting their siblings in the family of humankind. For all the wealthy will be justly slaughtered by God. So each soul will receive all that one needs, and give back only what one is able to produce in return, so equity will replace inequity.

 

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Those who now know Jesus, who receive His truths pouring into the minds of their spirits, whose spirits have been granted some ability to make just and responsible covenants of love, are able to nullify some of Satan’s works and build up some aspects of God’s just and loving kingdom on this earth. For the power of our God Jesus puts that desire to do these works in their spirits, then also causes the circumstances which enable them to do such works. But most of these loving and just elect souls are corrupted by the lies of Roman humanism, and confused by false teachings from the false churches. Most do not even know that it is our Creator God Jesus who places those desires in their spirits, and many do not even realize that they have spirits, or that God is a Spirit. But all that will begin to change after the revival of His true church during the sixth seal’s revival, and all the elect Gentiles will know Jesus by the day of His return. Then Jesus will “bring good news to the poor … bind up the brokenhearted … proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.” Then all His elect, both Jews and Gentiles, will assist their Lord Jesus in all these works, and will be able to completely nullify the works of Satan, as well as build up a fully just and loving kingdom of God on earth. Then there will be nothing to stop any of this from happening.

After our almighty God and Creator Jesus returns to cleanse the earth of His enemies and restore all that they destroyed, including the lives of some elect they murdered, the Jewish and Gentile priests of Yahweh will “be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that He may be glorified” (61:3). For Jesus will rule over all the earth with His omniscient and omnipotent power. And Jesus “loves justice,” while He also will always “hate robbery and wrong” (61:8). And He especially hates the thefts of life and limb practiced by wanna-be human gods in humanistic hierarchies. So, after Jesus returns, He will also fill His people with a love of justice and a hatred of robbery and wrong. He will make them truly just, righteous and loving, as His Holy Spirit teaches and trains their spirits to be like His Spirit. Then it will said of all the elect that Jesus has “clothed [them] in the garments of salvation; He has covered [them] with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels” (Is. 61:10).

Jesus will wash and dress His elect for their priestly duties of physically and spiritually caring for the needy, anointing their faces with the “oil of gladness,” because loving works bring joy. Their spirits shall be strong and well-trained, taught the knowledge and wisdom of their one God. Deeply loving righteousness will pour from their souls, manifesting with every work of their hands and mouthes. The entire remnant of Jews and Gentiles upon the earth will be the elect, purged of false Jews and fake Christians. Only the spirits planted by Yahweh the Father and Yahweh the Son, growing in works for Yahweh’s glory, will remain among God’s people of the full Israel and Gentile nations.

In Israel today, before the coming of our Lord, we see many ancient ruins and modern ruined cities too, “devastations of many generations,” from generations of senseless wars, broken down through lying hate, negligence and folly. And there will be far more ruins after the beast ravages the land. But, after Jesus returns, the ruined cities and towns will be strategically rebuilt by the Jews, with much help from Gentiles. And all will be designed to accommodate the increased rainfall and the restored fertility of Israel, with the many frutful gardens and fields that grow there as a result. They will build all that is required for Israel to comfortably and pleasantly host thousands of guests coming to see Jesus and His skilled priesthood of Jews, with good food and drink for all people.

Now, as the apostles did the physical works of equitably distributing resources to feed and care for the needy, and waited on tables, the numbers of disciples requiring help increased so much that they did not have time to study God’s Word and seek answers from Jesus through prayer (Acts 6:1-4). But these men were chosen by Jesus to teach His Word, for the building up of abundant lives. So some non-teaching elders and counsellors were called to physical minister to the needy souls who were

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depending on others to feed their flesh as well as their spirits, and to provide a listening ear with solutions for their immediate emotional and physical problems. Then the teaching and judging elders, the apostles, were able to better provide the truths that gave meaning to their lives, and the long-term solutions to their spiritual and moral problems in life. It was essential for the apostles to have more time for this work, to seek the genuine truths of God’s Word for the sakes of the people, to build up their inner lives. For, if the real truth was not presented, all the good deeds for the flesh would come to nothing, and the people would fall back into the night, where their lives would be soon lost to the destroying darkness of Rome. So, through the interventions of their God Jesus, the apostles found elect souls full of wisdom from the Holy Spirit, to do the more physical ministry for the needy, to provide the food, clothing, shelter and personal counsel that some disciples lacked.

Then these apostles, who were called to be teaching and judging elders, said, “But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the Word” (Acts 6:4, ESV). And they knew how to do this critical task rightly, because Jesus taught them how to do it. And Jesus chose them because He had created their flesh and spirits, then trained them throughout life, to do this kind of work. They knew how to do this work because they were not chosen, taught and trained by men, but by their Creator God Jesus. And these true teaching and judging elders, the kinds who are real apostles, prophets, evangelists and local teachers, will once more be seen in Gentile churches after Jesus revives His real New Covenant church in the end times, in the era of the sixth seal. And such elders, just like the Jewish apostles, will also be seen among the Jews after Jesus returns. Jesus will call some Gentile and Jewish men to teach and judge, as His assistant teachers and judges, in His name and under His authority. Then He will also call many men and women, full of His Holy Spirit, to perform the tasks of equitably distributing resources and providing a physical livelihood, with counsel, for the elect who lack what they need. Jesus will provide for all our physical and spiritual needs after He returns.

So life during the millennium of Christ’s rule on earth will not be the life which rich, idle, deluded humanists desire, nothing like many think it will be. Nor will life in heaven be like that. For there is no joy, truth or love in that kind of life. Rather, life with Jesus will involve serving His creations in the same ways He serves His creations. And our God Jesus has never stopped serving His people and His other living creations since the beginning of time on earth and in heaven, through the joy of His love. Likewise, we too will serve His creations during the millennium and in heaven, through the joy of our love. Yes, each will serve in a different way, according to the destiny and calling of our God Jesus, some in more sedentary ways and some in more physical ways, but always in spiritual ways, to grow love for Him, for our siblings in the family of humankind, and for His other living creations.

The whole earth will be restored and become fruitful after Jesus returns. But we will not sit around and do nothing. Rather, we will serve as priests of God, each finding and fulfilling the destiny that God created for one. Like the Levitical priests, each will do what one was born to do, and often multiple kinds of works. For the Levites farmed the land, tended livestock, built homes and other structures, cooked and cleaned, cared for the needy, created artwork and crafts, sang and played musical instruments, taught physical skills and academic subjects, taught God’s Word and judged by it, and so on, sometimes as dedicated specialists, but most often performing or helping with many different kinds of works during their lives. For all the people of the world will still be human and will still be living in these frail and unruly bodies of flesh. So there will still be physical and spiritual needs, with frustrations and problems to contend with, although nothing like those we have now.

Yes, the world will be clean and productive during the millennium of Jesus’ rule, with much food and without wars, with an exponentially reduced number of crimes, lies and sins, without any of the pollution and waste that now plagues the earth. Then we will see the power of God, and the power of

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healing that He put into His natural creations, including us. Order and abundance, with spiritual and physical prosperity, will belong to all the nations, as each individual fulfills the calling of God upon his or her spirit, as each joyfully does the kind of work one was born to do. Each will give according to one’s means, and each will receive according to one’s needs. All that one requires for one’s work and life will be provided without money. As for natural Israel, the Jewish descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, all the nations shall help provide for them, so they can do their kind of service to the Lord Jesus, as they host the Gentile elect visiting their land, the home of our Messiah and God Jesus.

In Isaiah’s prophecy, it says that Israel will receive a “double portion” (61:7), and they will need it to host the tens of thousands of Gentile elect who come to see Jesus. We must understand that this refers to a spiritual and physical inheritance from the Father in heaven, and this is not for their own selfish purposes, but granted for them to do double the work for Jesus. For, first, all the Jews will be a priesthood of our God Jesus, and many of the wiser older Jewish men will be teaching elders that serves the Gentile priesthood, teaching the Gentile teaching elders and other people throughout the earth. And a priesthood has no inheritance but God, no personal physical property they can call their own or leave to their offspring, only a common land belonging to God, used by everyone in the priesthood. Second, Israel is portrayed as the oldest son in the family priesthood, and the eldest in Jewish tradition received a “double portion” of the Father’s inheritance, since he had to care for the rest of his siblings, and provide for their needs if any of them became unable to do so for themselves.

So the reason that Israel, as a priestly nation, will receive a “double portion” is not because they will have earned or merited it, and certainly not for personal wealth, but so they can serve our God Jesus by serving His people and His other creations in the entire world. For, until an oldest son himself died, he was the head of the family, responsible for keeping order and delegating duties for the rest of the family members, to see that all the needs of all members of the family were met. And this also meant that, when the oldest son asked a younger brother to do something, that younger brother even had to use his own portion of the inheritance to help the family as well. The point of inheritance, in God’s Law, was to provide for all, and to build up family resources for the sakes of all, not to gain money and power for selfish purposes. So we should realize all this when we read this prophecy.

In general, throughout the world, the Jews are currently dishonored, especially in the antisemitic nations who have adopted the precepts of Roman secular humanism, since Rome has hated the Jews since the Jewish rebellions brutally murdered unarmed Romans in the first and second centuries. But after Jesus returns, and the Jews serve as the chief ministers of His just and loving words and ways, all the nations on earth shall “rejoice in their lot” (61:7), and will give gifts to help the Jews do their works in Jesus’ name, until the Jews receive a “double portion.” For, when the Jews serve Jesus directly, in His presence, it will be the most spiritually gratifying work they could ever do on earth, and the Gentiles will abundantly benefit from that blessed and joyful work of those Jews in Israel.

Of course, this prophecy through Isaiah was written long after God made the Old Covenant with Israel. And the Old Covenant, throughout the Scriptures, was never called an everlasting covenant. Only the Abrahamic Covenant, and the New Covenant which fulfilled that Abrahamic Covenant, were called eternal and unconditional covenants or promises of God. For the Old Covenant was a temporary and conditional covenant designed to teach God’s attributes through His Law, to those who meditated upon that Law and emulated the way in which God Himself applied His own Law when dealing with His priesthood of Israel. Then the right and God-like interpretations of the laws of that Old Covenant were far superior to the laws of any pagans, although the mishandling of God’s laws caused much suffering and death. Furthermore, we should also realize that God granted elect

 

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pagans many truths and laws that are very similar to His laws of the Old Covenant, since God also loved His elect Gentiles and wrote His Law for them in all of His spiritual and natural creations too.

So God’s Old Covenant Law is the purest form of all truths and all laws on earth, better than all of the most just and equitable pagan laws developed by elect Gentiles, but also familiar and recognized by all elect Gentiles who walk according to the concepts that God pours into the minds of their elect spirits, who do not live solely according to the desires from their minds of flesh. But that Law of the Old Covenant is what our Messiah Jesus fulfills in us and through us, what He writes on our hearts and in our minds, but in greater detail and with more complete understanding. Therefore, since the elect Gentiles recognized the beauty and justice in the Old Covenant Law, even though Israel did not interpret it rightly and strayed from that Law, those Gentile elect will also recognize that Law when it is fulfilled in us and through us, when Jesus puts the garments of righteous love upon us, when He revives His true New Covenant church. Then those elect Gentiles all over the world will be drawn to us, and to the Jews who will also receive those garments after Jesus returns. And this will create a great division between the elect who love God’s loving righteousness and the non-elect who hate it.

For the Old Covenant, God gave Israel two stone tablets, summarizing all the laws of their land and their priesthood. These two tablets were just like those made by pagan kings, that is, one copy was for the people and one copy for the king. For God was to be the only King of Israel forever. And all laws were to be interpreted and applied according the precedents set by their King, by God, just like all laws in pagan lands were to be interpreted and applied by their king. No one was to interpret or apply any law according to one’s own interpretation, for one’s own benefit, only in the way God interpreted and applied His own laws. God was the example for all. Then God provided a maximum penalty for each offense against each law, to be applied when one deliberately sinned with evil motives and intentions, then refused to repent. But God set no minimum penalty, and completely forgave all who sinned unintentionally, without evil motives or intentions, and all whose spirits changed their intentions by repenting into the truths about their sins and about the rightness of God. In fact, God established a system of sin sacrifices for unintentional or repented sins, so Israel did not need to pay any penalty for those kinds of sins, so they could restore their relationship with Him through atonement (see Lev. 4). And now His eternal, unconditional New Covenant salvation also teaches and trains us to fulfill God’s laws and ways, in an even better way, through His own counsel.

That Old Covenant Law provided cases or examples, used to judge a variety of similar actions, but was not complete and definitely did not provide all the demands of true and God-like justice. It did not right all wrongs and restore all losses due to lies and sins, not adequately, especially regarding the teachings which corrected and restored elect sinners into repentance. So a new and everlasting covenant was required, with a more complete and full Law, all interpreted and applied by God Himself, by His Holy Spirit working in us and through us. Thus, our Creator God came to us in a body of human flesh, made a final sin sacrifice for our unintentional sins, and entirely restored our relationship with Him, so He could send His Holy Spirit into our hearts and souls. This new administration of His New Covenant causes us to do His works, to nullify the works of Satan and build up His kingdom, to right wrongs and restore losses, to teach and restore sinners to a good life.

Thus, God used the future tense when He prophesied through Isaiah, and said He “will make an everlasting covenant with them” (61:8), that is, with His church of Israel, consisting of both His natural branches of elect Jews and His grafted-in branches of elect Gentiles. Also, by declaring that His future covenant would be “everlasting,” He contrasted it with the current Old Covenant, which Isaiah knew in his day, since God never called that Old Covenant “everlasting.” And it also meant that His future covenant would replace His Old Covenant. And that future covenant would be the

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Messiah’s New Covenant of salvation, which would fulfill His Old Covenant Law, since that old Law was just a shadow of His attributes, but He would personally reveal all His attributes through His New Covenant’s personal teaching and training of elect spirits. And He shall make this New Covenant with the same people, with the same church or priesthood that He gave the Old Covenant.

God only made the promises of His New Covenant with His church of Israel. But, from the very beginning, and throughout all its history, God joined many Gentiles to her. God also made the Old Covenant, in the days of Moses, with both the natural Israel and all the Gentiles among them, such as the Gentile tribe of Caleb, some Cushites and other Gentile slaves who joined Israel during their Exodus from Egypt (Ex. 12:38), as well as with Canaanites like Rahab. God did not discriminate between the Jew and the Gentile converts to Judaism back then. Nor will God discriminate between the Jewish and the Gentile elect who enter His New Covenant church of Israel today, regarding His eternal salvation of personally teaching and training their spirits. And clearly, since these verses are indeed a Messianic prophecy. So the “everlasting covenant” mentioned here can only refer to the New Covenant ratified by the blood of the Messiah Jesus, and cannot refer to any other covenant.

Also, because this prophecy is about the second coming of Jesus, it indicates that most of the natural Israel, most Jews, will not enter into the New Covenant until Jesus returns, which is confirmed in other prophecies. But after Jesus returns, “all who see [the Jews] shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring Yahweh has blessed” (61:9). For Jews will become special priests of Jesus’ New Covenant church, and will be valued most highly for their loving wisdom. For the Jews have been discussing and arguing about God’s Law, which Jesus shall fulfill in all elect, for about 3,400 years. And all God’s laws have eternal spiritual implications and symbolic meanings that most Gentiles have never even begun to fathom. In fact, most Gentiles never seriously study God’s Law, and when they do, they always seem to interpret it by syncretizing it with pagan Roman laws. So the Gentiles’ complete ignorance of God’s Law, which Jesus came to fulfill in all of His elect, as well as their corruption of that Law, will need to be explained and corrected by Jews who truly know that Law.

Speaking as the voice of the Messiah and God, Isaiah likens himself to a “bridegroom” wearing garments of “salvation” and “righteousness,” who “decks himself like a priest” (61:10). Thus, Isaiah is portraying the Messiah as this “bridegroom” of Israel. But Isaiah previously prophesied, “For your Maker is your Husband, [Yahweh] of hosts is His name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer , the God of the whole earth He is called’ (Is. 54:5, ESV). So Isaiah equating the Messiah to Yahweh God, since this bride has only one Bridegroom or Husband, one Savior and Redeemer . She, Israel, has only one righteous Priest too. Her Messiah is her only eternal true High Priest who made a sinless sacrifice for her sins. Then Isaiah also portrays himself as “a bride” (61:10). For he also represented the church of Israel, both the natural and grafted-in branches, the bride of God, Yahweh the Messiah. And all the Jews and Gentiles in Israel also shall be dressed in the garments of righteousness, just as their Husband will be (see Rev. 19:7-8). When Jesus returns, He, as the Lord Yahweh, “will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all nations” (61:11). He will dress all His elect in just love. And this means that Israel will not cause her own righteousness or praise.

Isaiah 62:1-12 (ESV): “For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will

not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning

torch. The nations shall see your [Israel’s] righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you

shall be called by a new name that the mouth of [Yahweh] will give. You shall be a crown of

beauty in the hand of [Yahweh], and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no

more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be

called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for [Yahweh] delights in you, and your

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land shall be married. For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry

you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall

never be silent. You who put [Yahweh] in remembrance, take no rest, and give Him no rest

until He establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth. [Yahweh] has sworn by His

right hand and by His mighty arm: ‘I will not again give your grain to be food for your

enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored; but those who

garner it shall eat it and praise [Yahweh], and those who gather it shall drink it in the courts

of My sanctuary.’ Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up,

build up the highway; clear it of stones; lift up a signal over the peoples. Behold, [Yahweh]

has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation

comes; behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.’ And they shall be

called The Holy People, The Redeemed of [Yahweh]; and you shall be called Sought Out, A

City Not Forsaken.”

Again, this is a Messianic prophecy about His second advent, when our God Jesus rules the entire world. For here He tells His priesthood of Israel that it is about a time when “the nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory” (62:2), and when He “establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth” (62:7). Also, these prophesied events will occur when “Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion/Jerusalem, behold your salvation comes; behold His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him” (62:11). So it is about a time when all Israel is saved, which will not occur until the fulness of elect Gentiles have been gathered into Israel by the day of His return, and after His “recompense” has been accomplished against the beast’s Roman kingdom, and against all the loveless non-elect living upon the earth.

Yahweh God began by saying, “for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch” (62:1, ESV). God will not keep silent while injustice exists within His creations, especially not while lies and ruthless sins exist in His priesthood of Israel, in His Jerusalem temple representing the body of the Messiah where He dwells, the body which is also His church of Israel on earth. Throughout history, God has poured His truths, His righteous and just concepts, into the hearts and souls of His elect, both His Jewish and Gentile elect. And His elect have voiced God’s truths in the world, over and over again, although they often died in the flesh for that spiritual privilege and honor. Then God has also spoken through His wrath against lies and crimes, against the rejections of His clearly manifested truths. And His punishments fell first upon His more guilty church of Israel, then upon a secular world that sinned less, because the pagans offended God in greater ignorance. And Yahweh God will continue to speak His truths and His wrath until the earth ends, and until He saves literally all His elect children on the final judgement day. He will bring all of His elect children into a righteousness which acts through just, pure, God-like love.

But our God and Messiah Jesus already pronounced His victory on the cross. For, at that time, He stated it (see John 19:30) by using the verb Τετέλεσται (meaning, “[Victory] has been completed, with its ongoing effects now being experienced in an ongoing way,” since this verb is the perfect passive form, and the same expression shouted by the Greek-speaking Roman armies after the won a victory). So the righteousness of His salvation for His church of Israel, for both the natural and in-grafted branches, has been already won by Him in the past, with its current effects now occurring after its completion, even until the end of the earth and for eternity. Then, at His second coming, all the effects of His completed salvation, worked on His cross, will also finish fulfilling all His other

 

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promises of His eternal Abrahamic and New Covenants. For then Jesus will rule the earth in just and loving righteousness, and will correct and sanctify all the elect in Israel and everywhere on the earth.

The Jews will always be called “Israel.” But she shall also be “called by a new name that the mouth of Yahweh will give” (62:2, ESV). And, if the “mouth” of Yahweh shall give her that new name, then He will have a mouth in the human body of the Messiah when He returns to rule Israel and the entire world. And that name will be “My Delight is in Her” and “Married” (62:4). For, when Jesus returns, He will turn Israel towards just love, and will delight in her as His bride dressed in the garments of righteousness. She shall have new attributes, a whole new character, and will be respected above all nations on earth, which is what her “new name” will signify. This “new name” of His priesthood of Israel will identify the surviving elect Jews, and the elect Gentiles He gathers into her, as the faithful and sanctified servants of God, as the beloved of Yahweh who labor with Jesus to redeem the earth.

The future of Israel and the coming of her Messiah Jesus, can never be questioned, nor will it ever be conditional upon anything Israel does. Rather, it depends solely upon God’s will and power, worked through His unearned and unmerited grace towards them. And His will and power cannot be changed or thwarted by the will and power of anything in all of His spiritual and material creations. So her redemption and salvation is as certain and sure as the existence of the past, and all His predestined times will occur, in precisely the way He chooses to make them perceived by us. The only thing we can ever do, is allow the minds of our spirits to learn about Him and His ways, from our perceptions of these material brains and bodies of flesh. And we will not finish this education from these earthly perceptions until Jesus explains all that He illustrated through them in all history, which will occur through His teachings of His biblical kind of judgement on the last day. However, our spirits must even be taught and trained by our earthly perceptions now, while we are perceiving life on earth. We must begin to discern between good and evil, for our own sakes and for the sakes of our loved ones.

Here we see that God’s will is for the good of Israel, not against her. But, at the time of Isaiah, and in our day, she has been filled with apostasy and sin, even with Satan’s invented religion of humanism from Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. But God’s power and grace shall turn her away from her iniquities, lies, delusions, failures and inadequacies. Israel’s Messiah Jesus will make her righteous and strong, full of loving justice. She is predestined to be “a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God” (62:3). Israel will even be called “The Holy People, The Redeemed of Yahweh,” and Jerusalem will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken” (62:12). After the return of Jesus, Israel will serve Jesus as no other people can, since she will teach the Gentiles how Jesus’ Holy Spirit fulfills His Law in us and through us. Thus, they will become His “crown.” And nothing impure or humanistic will be found in them, for He will redeem them from their corruptions and make them “holy,” set apart from all that evil. Then Jerusalem, and the temple where Jesus shall be enthroned, will be sought out by all on earth, never forsaken again.

Nothing can ever alter this destiny of Israel, which has been inalterably appointed for her by the almighty God. But notice here that Jerusalem was to be called “Forsaken” before the return of her Messiah Jesus, before His promise was to be granted. And Israel was to be called “Desolate” before then. For many generations, both the secular and theistic humanists have cast out Israel and ravaged Jerusalem. By the time of the Ottoman Empire (1299-1918), Roman and Islamic humanists turned Israel into an utter wasteland, into deserts and marshlands, where few crops grew and few could survive. The population of the entire Palestinian region (Israel, Gaza and parts of Jordan) was about 5,600 by 1526, with about a 20% Jewish minority. Then Palestine reached a total of about 340,000 by 1850, but with a Jewish minority under 4%, even after Jews began to immigrate from Africa and the Middle East, since Jews were hated by Muslims and Christians living there in those days. And

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there were fewer than 9,000 people living in Jerusalem by about 1806, with a Jewish minority of about 20%. But, after massive immigrations of Jews (mostly from Europe) and Muslims (mostly from Egypt) during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the population of the Palestine region grew to about 1,764,520 by 1945, with a Jewish majority of about 31%. And Jerusalem’s population was over 157,000 in 1944, with about a 62% Jewish majority. Now the population of Palestine is difficult to estimate, since it was broken up into separate nations and regions. But the population of Israel and the West Bank in 2023 was about 9,842,000, with 73.6% Jews, 21.1% Arabs and 5.7% others. Then Jerusalem had a population of about 971,800 by 2022, with about 60% Jews and 40% Palestinians.

So we can clearly see how the prophecies about an apostate Jewish population coming to Israel before the return of their Messiah Jesus have been fulfilled. And soon her enemies will be called “Forsaken,” especially the Roman humanists who support the fascist beast. Then, when Jesus returns, Israel will be called by names that indicate “God’s delight and favor are in her.” The Jews in Israel will be “married” to God. The real Creator God, Yahweh in Jesus, has never rejected the Jews or their land of Israel, and never will. Rather, the real God Jesus delights in His loving and just elect within Israel. And He will work truth and loving justice in all Jewish and Gentile elect of the world.

God also said this to Israel, through the prophet Isaiah: “for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married. For, as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you” (62:4b-5, ESV). When this tells us that Israel’s sons will marry their land like a young man marries a young woman, it is saying that the Jews will return to their land of Israel, and will love that land. But it will be new to them, like virgin bride after a marriage ceremony. In other words, Isaiah was prophesying that, after the Jews left Israel during their long Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman captivity in the Diaspora, they would someday return again, and the land of Israel would become their beloved land, a land they would defend with their lives. Though all would be apostates until Jesus returned, many would emigrate from the Diaspora and love Israel, where God delighted and rejoiced in them.

The expulsion of Jews from their land began in about 722 BC, with the Assyrian invasion. Then the Babylonians in Assyria took over the empire, and the Babylonians removed more Jews from their land by about 586 BC. After this, Babylon gave birth to Persia, then Greece, then Rome. And Rome completed the captivity of the Jews in the second century, after the Bar Kokhba revolt against them, after about AD 135. A few Jews remained in Israel, but none in Jerusalem for a long time after that. The vast majority of Jews were scattered into the Roman Diaspora. And Rome did conquer the entire world, just as Daniel prophesied, with their core religious doctrines of humanism. So the Jews were also scattered throughout the world, together with their Roman captors. And the Jews syncretized Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman humanism with Judaism over the years. So they had all become apostate. This captivity lasted so long that, by the 1800s, no one thought it was possible that the Jews could return to their land of Israel. Also, no one thought the Jews could remain a separate and distinct people that long, without assimilating into the general Roman population of the world.

However, beginning early in the 19th century, the Jews began to return to their land, and their immigration into Israel increased exponentially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, after pogroms and state-sponsored holocausts drove them out of the Diaspora, during the prophesied era of the fifth seal’s increased persecutions of all God’s elect. Those Jews came to a barren, ravaged and desolate land, but as to a new place they deeply loved, as a young man loves his new bride. Within a hundred years, they fought off humanistic enemies of God, their land and their people. They permanently established themselves as a recognized and independent nation, as a land fully married to its Jewish people. And the Jews made their barren land so fertile, able to bear so much food, that they could sell

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and export its crops. Presently, the “sons” or heirs of Israel have not yet been able to rejoice in peace, but protect their land with their lives. But, in time, and not so long from now, and after their war with the beast, their Messiah Jesus will return to bring everlasting peace to Israel. Then all the surviving elect Jews of the world will know their Messiah and rejoice in Him, casting aside their humanistic religions. Jesus will fulfill the Law in and through them, so the Father will rejoice in those Jews too.

God has set watchmen over Israel and Jerusalem, forever. God has never let Israel remain in the hands of His enemies. For He has always deluded His enemies, until they made enemies of even their own friends, causing war after war in Israel. The humanistic empires that took Israel have never been just and willing to share the land of Israel with other humanists, but have always fomented animosity and divisions, since their common religion of humanism inherently incites jealousy and rivalry between human gods. So the Romans fought the Persians over it. Then the Muslims fought the eastern Roman Empire and won it. Then Muslims fought other Muslims, Roman Catholics fought Muslims, and Muslims continuously fought other Muslims to rule it, until the 20th century. Neither the humanistic Muslims or fake “Christians” would ever peacefully establish an international land bridge that stretched from Africa and the Middle East to Europe and Asia through Israel, through what the Romans called Palestine. Wars plagued the land of Israel since the Assyrians in Isaiah’s day attacked it, and since Satan invented humanism in the Assyrian’s city-state of Babylon.

God watchmen have also guarded His church of Israel throughout this time, especially by ensuring that His Word, in its original languages, was always be preserved for His elect Jews and Gentiles, so they might not be taken entirely captive in spirit to the lies and sins of Satan’s world order, so they will be freed from humanistic slavery at His appointed time. These watchmen sent by God, who are humans and angels, also remove our love for worldly rewards, tearing out selfish ambitions from our hearts, making us humble and needy, so we might seek God’s teachings for our spirits. Then this makes Satan’s world order, especially his prized Roman humanists, hate us, since we do not cherish the self-indulgent rewards of that devil like they do. So God’s elect are seldom left without troubles in their relationships with the natural citizens of Satan’s world order, those with loveless non-elect spirits born of that demonic spirit. All who love Satan’s world order hate, persecute, oppress, exploit and dehumanize God’s elect Jews and Gentiles. But the world order shall perish on the day Jesus returns. Then God’s children shall no longer be marginalized and downtrodden, but free and strong.

Although God does not often fulfill His covenants in the way our flesh wants Him to fulfill them, He has indeed kept His promise in this prophecy: “On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put Yahweh in remembrance, take no rest, and give Him no rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth” (62:6-7, ESV). Of course, the time when God “establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth” can only come after Jesus destroys her enemies and all the Jews in Jerusalem repent to Jesus. And all Jews will not repent to Jesus until the fulness of Gentile elect have entered into that Messiah’s true New Covenant church of Israel, which will not occur until Jesus calls the last remaining apostate Gentile elect out of the false church of the humanistic Great Prostitute. And Jesus will not call those Gentile elect out of that spiritual prostitute until just before He causes the Roman beast to burn that fake church, at the end of his seven-year reign, just days before Jesus returns to destroy that beast.

The walls of Jerusalem still stand to this very day, both the figurative spiritual walls and some of the physical walls. Then God’s promise to “set watchmen” on those walls has been kept too. For we have seen, throughout history, since the days of Isaiah and the Assyrian invasion, that God has sent His watchmen to proclaim His truths. Among His elect humans, some watchmen did not even consciously know, in their minds of flesh, that those truths had been taught to the minds of their

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spirits by the Holy Spirit of Yahweh in our God Jesus. Nevertheless, they proclaimed His truths, even surrendering their lives in the flesh to do so. And this has served God’s purposes, to divide the loving elect from the loveless non-elect, so Jesus can safely and justly judge the world in the end times. God also sent angels to strengthen and promote His truths through illustrative circumstances, while He commanded fallen angels to cause divisions and wars among Israel’s enemies, to weaken and destroy them. So, after the great revival in the sixth seal’s era, and after all the Gentile elect have entered the one true New Covenant church of Israel at the end of the beast’s seven-year reign, the city of Jerusalem will prove to have been defended by God. And the Jews who are making their last stand against the beast’s massive international armies will see Jesus descending from the sky, to destroy the beast’s armies and his Roman kingdom, even all Israel’s enemies in the world. On that day, all the surviving elect Jews will recognize their Messiah and enter His New Covenant, will all the elect Gentiles of the earth. And, with Jesus ruling Israel and the entire world from Jerusalem, while Jews are serving as His hosting priests, that city will become “a praise in the earth,” for all.

This is the justice that shall come with our God Jesus, when He returns to walk among us as our King and our High Priest, as our Judge and Teacher. Rich and powerful exploiters will no longer exist, nor will their favorite tool of oppression called money. Lies and injustice will be dealt with swiftly. His justice shall free us from all liars and criminal despots, through the unlimited power of His all-seeing throne, so we may joyously partake in the good, just and loving works that God calls our hands to do, each one according to one’s own destiny, abilities, inner propensities and desires.

God promised Israel and all the Gentile elect brought into her: “I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored; but those who garner it shall eat it and praise Yahweh, and those who gather it shall drink it in the courts of My sanctuary” (62:8-9, ESV). After Jesus returns, all His “enemies,” who are “foreigners” to Him and His, because they are the loveless non-elect from Satan’s world order, not loving citizens of His kingdom, will no longer be able to plunder and steal the fruits of our labors. For all will die on the day Jesus returns. So literally everything we produce or glean from God’s green earth, will belong to us. Then all our food and wine will be shared, just as temple sacrifices and offerings were equitably distributed and shared among the priests in His sanctuary during the Old Covenant times. For all the elect Jews and Gentiles will belong to His Royal Priesthood after that day. And each one will be a temple of our God Jesus, so the “courts of His sanctuary” will be all of us, collectively. Thus, we will all “praise Yahweh,” who dwells in Jesus, with every bite of our good food and each sip of our wine.

Before the end times, God will effectively cause His elect to “Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway; clear it of stones; lift up a signal over the peoples” (62:10). This is a command of God for His elect at a time occurring just before elect Gentiles and 144,000 Jewish virgin males enter the true New Covenant church of the Messiah Jesus, through the great revival of the sixth seal’s era. It is saying that the road to God will need to be built and cleared of many stones, of false teachings and lies which hinder His elect from coming to Him. God will cause some elect to enter His kingdom, into the gates of His true church of Israel and become taught and equipped, so they can build a highway to His presence and “lift up a signal over the peoples,” to all who love justice and hate evil. So this is an event which He will cause before He will begin the sixth seal’s era. It will occur during this current era of the fifth seal, during this time of the increased persecutions of God’s loving truth-sayers, when the lost elect will need to find their way to the real God. It is saying that God will cause this in our day. Yes, there will also be a physical “highway” built between the truly Christian nations of Egypt and Assyria too, but later, in the eras of

 

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the sixth or seventh seals. Yet this prophecy refers to a spiritual “highway,” to prepare the way for Him to gather up His elect during the sixth seal’s revival, to ready them for the beginning of the end.

It is important for the elect to understand that we need to prepare for the end times now, during these times when the persecutions of honest and loving elect have grown to staggering levels. And all the elect must receive the “signal” to gather in, from every religion and creed on earth, even the elect who think they are atheistic secular humanists in their minds of flesh, but their spirits remain angry with the lies, sins and crimes of fake churches and secular despots, because their spirits seek justice, truth and an abundant life of loving and being loved. The children of Satan have been very busy tearing down the “highway” to the real God, and blocking it with heavy stones of burdensome lies, since they want to hinder and stop the progress of loving, fair, equitable justice. For they want to keep on deceiving, oppressing and exploiting, to become wealthy and powerful gods who can steal the lives of the innocent to feed their own egos. They love to destroy and love to restrict the freedom of movement towards any kind genuine, loving, spiritual justice. For those wanna-be gods need to inhibit the works of God’s children, who nullify the works of Satan and build up the just, equitable, loving kingdom of God. The ruthless brood of Satan wants everything in God’s creation to belong to them, to be used only for themselves, and hate the fact that the serving God alone owns all existence.

Once we are found in Jesus, we can love because He first loved us. He will free us from lies and sins, make us able to go wherever He calls us to go. He will teach, train and equip us to serve the needs of His little children. The real Jesus, not the Jesus of fake humanistic churches, has always been the only true banner and “signal” for the peoples to heed and follow, the only genuine calling of all who desire true, equitable justice through God-like love. So the elect now need to abandon the magic fake salvations offered by false churches and walk down the “highway” to to the real God, to the real Jesus. And, if we do this, we will discover that our God Jesus says this to all the Gentile elect on this planet: “Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth; Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes; behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.’ And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of Yahweh; and you [Jerusalem] shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken” (Is. 62:11-12, ESV). Yahweh Jesus gave this command “to the end of the earth,” that is, to Gentiles in a far off land. And He told them to encourage “the daughter of Zion,” the daughter of His temple in Jerusalem, elect Jews. And we are to tell these Jews that their salvation is coming from Yahweh the Messiah, who will reward them and give recompense to His and their enemies, “before” He arrives with their salvation. Then those humanistic apostate Jews will be holy, because Yahweh Jesus will redeem them, and Jerusalem will be sought out, since their God Jesus will rule as High Priest and King of kings from there, the city never again forsaken.

The Bible always defines God’s promised New Covenant salvation in the Messiah as the writing of God’s Law upon the hearts of His elect by God Himself. In other words, salvation is worked entirely by God personally teaching His principles of loving justice to the minds of the spirits whom He Himself has chosen to save, for those who are called His elect. God Himself educates those chosen spirits about the principles of just love and trains them to rightly apply His truths. And that training involves going through trials and successes on earth, so our spirits can learn from our perceived experiences. This is the only kind of salvation that Jesus brought when He made disciples during His first advent, when died on the cross to enable His Holy Spirit to enter and teach them, when He rose from the dead to become their eternal High Priest and Teacher. This is the only kind of real salvation in which all the prophets and apostles placed their hope. And, as a spiritual salvation, its greatest rewards are eternal, for the spirit, not for the flesh. Salvation seeks eternal spiritual treasures of truth building love, which our eternal spirits can bring to heaven after we shed our unruly bodies of flesh.

 

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These rewards of spiritual blessings in heavenly places can only be seen by our spirits, but will be visibly manifested in the place we might now call the “space-time continuum” of heaven. They are not visible to the flesh on earth, although their effects on the flesh can be easily be detected by that flesh, everywhere and in everything alive. Naturally, because God created all that is upon this temporary earth, there will be physical benefits too, a modest and comfortable physical existence on earth, but filled with the joys of effectual love. So our focus is on a just, honest, loving life. That is, we primarily concern ourselves with the eternal life of our spirits, not on the short, temporary life of our flesh. But Satan’s loveless offspring live only for their flesh, and care nothing for the truth which builds up love. For they know their only reward will be to keep the lies and delusions of having been “gods” in their perceptions during their lives on earth. Thus, the non-elect want to stop the works of the elect, who partake in Christ’s works, since one of Christ’s works is to undo or nullify the works of Satan on earth, so He can build up His just and loving kingdom here. Since those non-elect slavishly perform the works of Satan, they want to nullify the works of the elect who nullify their works, and prevent the kingdom of God from existing on this earth, lest it might subjugate them.

But Satan, and his minions, all know that God is all-seeing and almighty, and they will receive their “recompense” for their sins of selfishness, arrogance, greed and deadly injustice. They know that, when Jesus returns, their lives, and their father Satan, will no longer exist on earth. Yet God’s elect children will receive the spiritual rewards of salvation at that time, as well as the physical fruits of their own labors in the flesh, which the non-elect had to steal from them to survive on earth. So Satan and his non-elect offspring now see that the return of our God Jesus is approaching, and they are stepping up their hopeless and futile attempt to destroy His elect and stop Jesus from returning. They are doing everything in their power and fighting to death, just to defend their hellish father’s “right” to maintain his kingdom of sinners on earth. But our God Jesus did not grant that subject kingdom to that chained and subjugated devil and his fallen angels forever. Nor did God promise to allow the earth to exist eternally. For Jesus created the earth to be a place where experiences of both good and evil could coexist, as a training ground for His elect human and non-human spirits. And He ordained a time when He would eliminate Satan’s kingdom from the earth, but allow the earth to continue its existence for another millennium, which will actually be more than a thousand years.

Before Jesus returns, He will revive His true New Covenant church and many nations will be ruled by true Christian democracies, who also allow a responsible freedom of conscience and religion, so that even the non-elect among them will be free, but limited in their ability to deceive and destroy. As Satan sees this, and the plagues in era of the seventh seal, he will panic. So that devil will enter the beast and rally his armies to eliminate God’s kingdom on earth, by killing all the elect. And the beast will kill many elect, but will not even begin to take over most Christian nations, only some in Middle East and Africa, and only for three and a half years. As the dominant world power, he will try to take over the entire world, to make everyone into God-hating secular humanists like himself. But he will not yet be the only humanistic kingdom on earth. So, as usual, the other humanistic kingdoms will divide and start a world war, which will interfere with Satan’s plans to destroy God’s kingdom on earth, since he will need to withdraw troops from Christian lands, to stop that world war, and to unite all humanists against God and God’s elect. That demonically possessed beast will actually succeed in uniting all humanists, but it will take him more than three years. So he will finally have a massive internal army to use in his goal of destroying God’s earthly kingdom, but it will be too late.

Thus, by this time, every soul on earth will need to pick a side, either the beast or God’s true church. And literally all the loving elect, even those not yet in His true church, will spiritually, emotionally and often physically separate themselves from the non-elect, since all the loveless non-elect will side

 

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with the murdering beast. Then the beast shall be secure and confident in His power to destroy God’s earthly kingdom and take over the entire world. So he will want to begin by utterly destroying the central focus of God’s kingdom, which is Israel. He will think that, after he utterly annihilates Israel, it will be easier to crush all the Christian nations on earth and complete his goal of beheading all the elect. But our God Jesus will also come to Israel at that time, to Jerusalem, where elect Jews shall gather to make a last stand against the beast. Since Jesus will be justified in His destruction of the non-elect who inwardly partake in the beast’s murdering rebellion against Him, He will destroy the beast and his international armies at Armageddon, then also all the non-elect siding with the beast.

Then our God and Savior Jesus, in a body of flesh, shall set His feet on Zion and enter the temple. From that day on, Jesus will administer justice everywhere on earth. And the true Israel, the elect Jews, as well as the elect Gentiles gathered into the true church of Israel, shall serve Jesus as His priests, by assisting in His works of teaching and discerning with judgment for the people of the earth. But literally all the elect, even those not in the church, will remain alive for the millennium.

Since this is speaking about the natural Israel before the Messiah returns, but they shall be called “The Redeemed of Yahweh” after He returns, we know they will not be “redeemed” by the Messiah until after He returns. Most of natural Israel, physically descended from Jacob, will remain hardened and apostate, full of humanistic traditions and concepts from Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. So they will not repent to Jesus until the day He returns. For they will be “redeemed” from a state of captivity to lies and sins. But, after the glorious coming of Yahweh the Messiah, all of the Jews “shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord,” and serve as hosting priests of Jesus.

Truly we, the elect, all fall into intentional lies and sins from the very moment we can begin to distinguish right from wrong, because we all deliberately choose wrong, with a full knowledge of it being wrong, and without any deception or coercion. For none of our infantile spirits, even when our flesh grows old, possesses enough wisdom or understanding to see the long-term consequences and fear those destructive consequences, or love enough, to choose right. So, we are all, from our youth, sold as sinners to the master of world order, to Satan. Literally all the elect begin life as the devil’s unwilling slaves, manipulated or forced into following his loveless, foolish, destructive ways, and without the full consent of our weak, ignorant, infantile, dull, sleeping elect spirits in our hearts. So we need our God’s Holy Spirit to awaken and quicken our spirits, to pour His concepts of truth and wisdom into our spirits, to nullify the works of Satan in us, to teach and train our spirits to build up His just, equitable, loving kingdom. And He will do this for literally all His elect on the last day, because that is what a biblical judgment does for spirits created with the ability to love and repent into the truth. But many elect will not see this work on earth, not until after they day their flesh is taken from their spirits. Yet blessed is the elect spirit whom He redeems during one’s life on earth.

At the present time, even the awakened elect are forced to live in the devil’s subject kingdom of the world order, partially set apart from God’s kingdom. Yet His just, loving kingdom also exists all around us and cannot be destroyed or become entirely absent. All lands and people belong to the High King alone, to our God Jesus, who rules all and limits the actions of Satan’s subject kingdom. And the awakened elect forced to live in Satan’s subject kingdom do so as captives, but are actually birth citizens of God’s kingdom. Even the sleeping elect who labour hard in lies and sins to earn the right to become naturalized citizens of the devil’s world order, who submit to the authority of Satan, remain birth citizens of God’s eternal kingdom and heirs of His heavenly home. Yet both the awake and sleeping elect, both the elect captives and elect naturalized citizens, are always being abused by Satan and his birth citizens, albeit only as much as our all-seeing almighty God allows for their training. So Jesus fully paid the price of all elect lies and sins, and purchased their lives from the

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devil’s captivity. Both the awakened sleeping elect, even the elect who have labored in lies and sins to become naturalized citizens of Satan’s kingdom, can freely come home to God’s earthly kingdom.

In the end times, the sealing of God’s elect on earth during the era of the sixth seal, will mark the elect spirits who have been removed from Satan’s world order and placed solely into God’s earthly kingdom, to serve Him as priests in His true eternal New Covenant church. And right now, during this era of the fifth seal, Jesus’ Holy Spirit has already sealed some elect who shall prepare for that revival during the era of the sixth seal. And Jesus purchased back all the lives of all the elect who have lived since the days of Adam, and all who will live to the end of the earth. So now we are all free, though most must still remain within Satan’s kingdom of the world order, in a way which puts all the elect in danger of wrath from the devil’s citizens. But all the Gentile elect will be freed from the devil’s world order, and repent into God’s kingdom during the eras of the sixth and seventh seals, by the day Jesus returns. And all the Jewish elect will repent into His kingdom on the day of His return. Then, on that glorious day, we shall see Satan cast from the earth altogether, along with all his loyal citizens and his entire kingdom. Then all lands on earth will be directly ruled by Yahweh Jesus.

All on earth will be subjects of the High King Jesus, and all lands will be territories of the kingdom of God. Then all the awakened elect will be well-taught, faithful and useful priests of the High Priest and Head Teacher, in His true New Covenant church. And literally all the elect shall walk in freedom, without fear, since our just, loving Jesus will sit enthroned in Zion, in Jerusalem, the capital city of all power on earth, the glorious and “Sought Out” city of God. Even the elect who had not been awakened before the day of His return, who had previously become naturalized citizens of Satan’s world order, will rejoice with all their hearts once they see Jesus ruling all from His throne.

Of course, aside from Isaiah, many other prophets also spoke about God destroying Israel’s enemies at an extremely critical time just as the Messiah arrives, followed by the Messiah’s rule of the earth. And all those prophecies are easily harmonized with one another, including all the New Testament prophecies, especially if we follow the order of events outlined in the Revelation to John. Therefore, the Old Testament prophets speak about the one Daniel and John called the beast, followed by the return of Jesus, although referring to the beast with terms like “Babylon” or in a figurative language.

Still, we can clearly discern who and what they are prophesying about through a knowledge of all the Scriptures, by harmonizing all the biblical prophecies. Since all Scripture must be interpreted in the light of all other Scriptures, where all its teachings must be harmonized, we know with certainty that the other prophecies are indeed talking about the destruction of the beast at Christ’s return. If any object to this kind of interpretation, then let them try to show how all the Scriptures together can be harmonized, and try to prove their alternative doctrines. But they cannot. And none of them have any right to say: “We can believe whatever we want! For human authorities gave us the right to make God’s Word say whatever we want it to say.” For God is everyone’s Owner and Lord, and He declared that the words of the Old and New Covenant Scriptures are His words, not the words of men and not under the authority of men. Then God commanded us to test this declaration, to see if the prophets were lying. And we did. But the awakened elect found the 66 books of the Bible to truly be God’s words, since all were harmonious and proven to bear truly effective results in life and faith.

So it is our duty to fully understand and learn from God. And no one has any right to invent their own truths and realities, and only has a right to acknowledge the truths and realities God created and upholds. Many defend their invented doctrines solely by trying to prove that God’s words are obscure, even by making them look meaningless or false. They attempt to confuse and nullify His words so they can preach their lies with impunity. But we must look for God’s own intended and

 

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authorized meanings, and not be duped by schemes to support false religions and the incomes of false preachers. So now let us all the loving and just spirits of the elect diligently labor to find the real meaning of God’s words. And, if some think I am wrong, let them give truly validated reasons!

Jeremiah 30:1-24 (ESV): “The word that came to Jeremiah from [Yahweh]: ‘Thus says

[Yahweh], the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. For

behold, days are coming, declares [Yahweh], when I will restore the fortunes of My people,

Israel and Judah, says [Yahweh], and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to

their fathers, and they shall take possession of it.’ These are the words that [Yahweh]

spoke concerning Israel and Judah: ‘Thus says [Yahweh]: We have heard a cry of panic, of

terror, and no peace. Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man

with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale? Alas!

That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be

saved out of it. And it shall come to pass in that day , declares [Yahweh] of hosts, that I will

break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more

make a servant of him. But they shall serve [Yahweh] their God and David their King,

whom I will raise up for them.

“‘Then fear not, O Jacob My servant, declares [Yahweh], nor be dismayed, O Israel; for

behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity.

Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid. For I am with

you to save you, declares [Yahweh]; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom

I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just

measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished. For thus says [Yahweh]: Your

hurt is incurable , and your wound is grievous. There is none to uphold your cause, no

medicine for your wound, no healing for you. All your lovers have forgotten you; they care

nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy , the punishment of a merciless

foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant. Why do you cry out over your

hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant, I

have done these things to you.

“‘Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured , and all your foes, every one of them,

shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I

will make a prey. For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares

[Yahweh], because they have called you an outcast: “It is Zion, for whom no one cares!”

Thus says [Yahweh]: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have

compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand

where it used to be. Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those

who celebrate. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and

they shall not be small. Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation

shall be established before Me, and I will punish all who oppress them. Their Prince shall

be one of themselves ; their Ruler shall come out from their midst; I will make Him draw

near, and He shall approach Me, for who would dare of himself to approach Me? declares

[Yahweh]. And you shall be My people, and I will be your God.’

“Behold the storm of [Yahweh]! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon

the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of [Yahweh] will not turn back until He has

executed and accomplished the intentions of His mind. In the latter days you will

understand this.”

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This prophecy from Yahweh God came to the Jews in Judah through Jeremiah in about 587 BC, not long before Daniel prophesied, but more than a hundred years after Isaiah’s prophecies. And Yahweh deemed this message to be important, since He told Jeremiah, “Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you” (Jer. 30:2), to keep this prophecy safe for the “latter days” (30:24), because His words were about “that day” (30:7,8), the earth’s greatest day of the Messiah’s return in glory. Yet Yahweh gave these words to Judah just as Nebuchadnezzar and his armies of Babylon were about to slaughter, plunder and take captive Judah, then destroy His temple. For this great tormentor, born of Assyria, was to be God’s instrument, used for Judah’s correction, since God told Jacob’s children: “I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished” (30:11, ESV). The Jews had syncretized the traditions and ways of Babylon with God’s Word and took this unholy mix into their own hearts. So God told those Jews, “Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you” (30:12-13, ESV). Only God Himself could heal them, after a long process. He would only heal them on “that day.” In the meantime, Babylon, through her subsequent kingdoms of Persia, Greece and Rome, would scatter the Jews into all the world. Still, as Babylon and her four other corrupting kingdoms did this, they fueled God’s wrath against them. So God would destroy but never restore those liars.

This enemy of God and His people was the same Babylon that Daniel and the apostle John called the beast. So here God was prophesying about Babylon who created the beast’s religion of humanism for its four kingdoms, for itself, Persia, Greece and Rome. This religion was destined to become the core power of that devil’s deceiving world order until its bitter end. Then the secular fascist sect of that demonic religion would guide the beast’s heart and mind in the very last days before Jesus returned. Still, when Yahweh Jesus came on “that day” to heal and restore His faithless humanistic Jews after their harsh discipline, He would heal them of Babylon’s wound, and fulfill a New Covenant with all elect Jews, complete with their forgiveness and the restoration of their relationship with Him (Jer. 31:31-34). On “that day” of Yahweh the Messiah, the day after all the elect Gentiles on earth had been saved and gathered into God’s New Covenant priesthood, all elect in Israel would be saved too.

Here Jeremiah wrote down an end-times prophecy which affirms and completely harmonizes with prophecies from Moses, Isaiah, Daniel, John and Jesus Himself. And the first sentence in this part of the prophecy also defines what we call the Scriptures or God’s Word. The Law of Moses and the writings of all the prophets in the Old Covenant, as well as all that is written in the New Covenant Scriptures, had to be words that came to mortals from God, just as this prophecy was “the word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh” (30:1). And Yahweh, the God of Israel, personally told him: “Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you” (30:2). And we still have that book, carefully copied every few hundred years to preserve its words. All 66 books in the Bible had to meet this standard. All had to be God’s words, not words of men from their intellects and imaginations. And, since the God who made and holds together all existence through the thoughts of His honest mind surely must be omniscient, He also cannot possibly make a mistake or contradict Himself, nor can His loving and true inner essence ever tell a lie to us. Therefore, if any words of anyone who claims to utter God’s words or claims to speak in God’s name might mistakenly or deliberately contradict any of God’s intended meanings of His words found in the other known and confirmed Scriptures, then that one must be a false prophet or a false teacher. This is the test of our God, to know whether we love Him, by guarding His Word in our hearts and souls (e.g., Deut. 4:2; 13:3-4; John 14:23-24).

The Scriptures have been tested by countless awakened elect who found them to be the words that God’s Holy Spirit spoke to the spirits of men, which the prophets and apostles then wrote down in their own languages through their minds and bodies of flesh. And they did this for our sakes, even

 

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suffering persecution and death in the flesh for all those works their spirits did for us. The Creator God, who is an eternal Spirit from the spiritual realm, outside of the times He created and without beginning or end, poured concepts directly into the spirits of human beings. Then those human spirits entered the chambers of their souls and told their minds of flesh to write down exactly what God told them to communicate to His people. And whenever a mind of flesh could not find the right words in its earthly language to express those spiritual concepts, God even told that spirit what to counsel its flesh to say or write, often in a figurative way. So God was the Author and Editor of all the words spoken and written by those prophets and apostles. All Scriptures are God’s written words.

And in this particular passage from the Scriptures, God Himself told the Jews of “Israel and Judah” that “I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it” (Jer. 30:3). For this was just as the Jews of Judah and Israel were about to enter their very long captivity among the four kingdoms of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, as the Diaspora scattered throughout the entire world. From this, we know two things: (1) This prophecy is God speaking to the physical descendants of Jacob, not to a Gentile church which supposedly replaced them, since it refers to a people returning to a physical land that God gave to their fathers; and (2) they will “take possession” of that physical land which God promised to those physical descendants of Abraham, which is the land of Israel. Also, the Hebrew word yawrash (“take possession of, inherit”) did not indicate a passive receiving of an inheritance. If Jeremiah wanted to indicate that, he could have used another verb like nahal. But Jeremiah used the verb yawrash, meaning “take,” implying that the Jews would “take” their land by driving away an opposing force, so they could occupy and truly “possess” that land. So this prophecy is saying that God will restore the fortunes of the Jews, but also implied that they would fight for their land. They would fight wars in order to take possession of it.

Therefore, this cannot refer to Jews returning to Israel in the days of the Persian king Cyrus, to Jews who lived there until one generation after the humanists among them betrayed Jesus. For, when the Persian king sent some Jews back to Israel, they did not “take possession” of their land through a war, nor did God “restore the fortunes” of all His people in any real or permanent way. For only a few returned at that time, while the majority remained in the captivity of the Diaspora. And the Jews who returned remained quite poor and threatened by their enemies. But Jeremiah prophesied about a prosperous and permanent return, a final possession of their land on “that day” of the Messiah. So the kind of return Jeremiah prophesied about, involving conflicts and wars until Yahweh the Messiah destroyed their enemies, did not even begin until the 19th century, and it only started a long process that would fulfill the prophecies about the end times over a period of many decades, ending in a war with the beast. Then, after these many wars, the Messiah King will come to grant them a permanent and undisputed stewardship of their land, so they can live a millennium on their own land in peace.

Clearly, this prophecy was not completed when Israel was brought “back to the land that [God] gave to their fathers” during the last century. It involves much more, events which have not happened yet. For there will be more times of terror and war, followed by Israel finally serving “David their king” (30:9), who is their Messiah and “Yahweh their God.” Then God was to “save” the rest of Israel “from the land of their captivity,” so they could live in “quiet and ease,” and none shall make [Jacob] afraid” (30:10). All this was to occur after the Jews, with an “incurable” and “grievous” “wound” (30:12) from being taken captive by Babylon in 586 BC. But God would heal their wounds and restore their fortune only after they began to serve their Messiah, which would be in the end times.

Jesus will be Israel’s Messiah and Prince and Ruler, after some Jews return to engage in many wars and conflicts. And “David,” their King/Prince and Ruler “shall be one of themselves” and “come from their midst” (30:21, cf. Deut. 17:14-15). That is, the Messiah and God Jesus will come to rule

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over Israel in a body of human flesh, coming to intercede before God on their behalf. For Yahweh God said: “I will make Him draw near, and He shall approach Me.” Also, after this “David,” their Messiah, came, God told Israel that “you shall be My people, and I will be your God” (30:22). Yet that is exactly the same promise of God for the Messiah’a salvation. This is identical to Jeremiah’s ongoing prophecy about the New Covenant (in the very next chapter), where God declared: “I will put My Law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be My people” (Jer. 31:33, WEB). So Jeremiah is here prophesying about Jesus’ second coming.

But this advent of the Messiah to bring all the Jews into His New Covenant salvation also comes at a time when this prophecy announces: “Behold, the storm of Yahweh! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of Yahweh will not turn back until He has executed and accomplished the intentions of His mind. In the latter days you will understand this” (Jer. 30:23-24, ESV). So the Messiah will come to save Israel while His wrath falls upon “the head (singular) of the wicked (plural).” That is, the Messiah will also come to destroy the leader or “head” of a wicked people, whom other prophets identified as the beast and his kingdom.

Now God told Israel, “all your lovers have forgotten you” (30:14), and her “lovers” were obviously the Babylonians. God proclaimed: “I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant” (30:14). For Judah had invited Babylonians into their homeland, loved their psychopathic ways and syncretized the demonic traditions of Babylon with their own biblical traditions, though they were meant to be God’s people, His sanctified priests teaching His ways to all the world. But Babylon did not love the Jews who became like them. Rather, in 586 BC, within a year after God gave this prophecy through Jeremiah, Babylon violently invaded Judah, destroyed the temple of Yahweh’s presence in Judah and took the Jews into captivity, scattering them among her own vast lands and the lands of her subsequent Gentile empires of Persia, Greece and Rome for more than 2,500 years. Babylon would always be the “head” of the beast and his kingdom. But “David,” Israel’s Messiah and God Jesus, would come in His wrath to destroy Babylon, even all the “wicked” in that beast’s kingdom, after that Babylon had become a world-wide religious kingdom of humanists through her fourth evil empire of Rome.

So God disciplined the Jews by sending them into the spiritual and physical captivity of their “lovers,” into Babylon’s four kingdoms. But “that day” of “David” the Messiah would free them, that is, the day in the end times when Jesus returns. For God said: “And it shall come to pass in that day, declares Yahweh of hosts, that I will break his [i.e., Babylon’s] yoke from off your neck [i.e., from the neck of Judah], and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him [i.e., of Jacob, the Jews]. But they [all God’s priesthood of Israel and Judah] shall serve Yahweh their God and David their King [i.e., the Messiah], whom I will raise up for them” (Jer. 30:8-9, ESV). So the army of “foreigners” from Babylon would place a yoke on the neck of God’s wayward priesthood of Israel, and bind them with the spiritual chains of their false religion, making Israel into their servants or slaves. But “that day” of Yahweh in “David” the Messiah would “burst” those bonds and free Israel.

God promised Israel and Judah: “I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return … For I am with you to save you … I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished” (30:10-11, ESV). First the Jews would “return” from their captivity in far-off lands. Then God would make a “full end” of all the nations or Gentiles where He scattered them, all the borders of nations set by feuding humanists, and all the non-elect, leaving only those God brought into His priesthood of Israel. But God would not make a “full end” of all Jews, though He would not leave those humanistic Jews unpunished for corrupting

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His words with the traditions of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. Rather, He would heal them of their “incurable” humanistic “wounds” from Babylon’s four kingdoms, and save the elect among them on “that day” of “David.” For, if He will not make a “full end” of the Jews, it means that He will make an end of some Jews, the non-elect false Jews in particular, saving only some elect Jews.

So “that day” is, of course, the day when the beast returns to Armageddon with armies from all over the world, from all nations. This beast is the one whom the apostle and prophet John called Babylon, but is Rome, the fourth kingdom of Babylon that rules the hearts and minds of the non-elect through its religion of humanism. The beast, who is Babylon, will have previously conquered Israel and the Middle East at the beginning of his seven-year reign, striving to once more place his original yoke of his own laws and ways upon the Jews who escaped to Israel, as well as upon the necks of all the Gentiles whom God brought into Israel. Yet the beast will need to withdraw most of his armies after only three and a half years, and lose possession of Israel, as well as the Christian lands, shortly after he withdraws, just as Daniel prophesied. Then, at the end of his seven-year reign, the enraged beast and his armies will return to Israel, bolstered by troops from around the world, and will easily sweep through the valleys of Israel, destroying everyone and everything. After he sets up his base camp at Armageddon, and is poised to finish off the surviving Jews he has surrounded in the Jerusalem area, the Messiah Jesus will return. And “that day” will see the “full end” of the beast and all the nations, all the non-elect on earth. And all the surviving Jews will repent to Jesus, to the truths they had all denied while they remained under the bondage of Babylon’s humanism. Only the elect Jews, as well as the elect Gentiles brought into Israel, consciously or unconsciously, will remain after “that day.”

In one day, the beast, all his armies, together with all the armies of his allies and even all the wicked upon the earth, will be annihilated by Christ Jesus. Then Jesus will be a King in a human body who will rule the whole earth for a millennium, and none shall ever conquer and enslave Israel ever again. For all the world “shall serve Yahweh their God and David their King,” their God who dwells in the human body of the Messiah. Obviously, this is an end-time prophecy about a time when God “will make a full end” of the pagan, Satanic, religious kingdom of Babylon, which has become the dominant religion of that devil’s world order, which rules all non-elect hearts and minds through the beast. The beast is Babylon. Then all who follow the religion of Babylon, the humanistic arrogance of Babylon’s king Nebuchadnezzar, will be brought to “a full end” by our Messiah and God, Jesus.

But, clearly, the Jews have remained captive to the humanistic traditions of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome for about 2,500 years. We can see this in their humanistic anthropological doctrines, in their hierarchical systems, in their Platonic teachings about “free will,” in their Babylonian and Persian prayer shawls and head coverings, as well as in many other ways. Since the days of the Assyrians, they have been adopting the unjust and loveless ways of pagans, although they were to be priests of God, examples and teachers of God’s attributes and ways for the Gentiles. Thus, we see why God, through Jeremiah, reminded Israel that they will justly suffer for her sins. God their Father and their oldest Brother Jesus will discipline them for all the evil they have done and continue to do.

But God will never destroy the whole of Israel. For God is their Father and their oldest Brother Jesus, who loves the true elect Jews. Still, no loving father leaves his children without correcting and educating discipline, since no loving father can utterly abandon his beloved children to eternal death in dark and self-destructive delusions. As God’s Word states, “If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons” (Hebrews 12:8, ESV). Even when an elect child falls too far to be redeemed on earth, God will hand that one over “to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord” (I Cor. 5:5, ESV). Literally all the Jewish and Gentile elect have sinned terribly. Both continually commit first,

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second, third and fourth order sins on a daily basis. And these kinds of sins are worse than murder, adultery and theft, because they slander God’s name, because they all inevitably lead to murder, adultery and theft, and often falsely in God’s name. So, if all are slaves to these greatest lies and sins, and all are incapable of freeing themselves, then who can save them? For they insist on the worship of man and the worship of other idols—by raising up self, other men and money as higher gods than God, setting these human gods and idols above the real God. For they make all their decisions based on the dictates of these human gods, money and idols rather than on the counsel of the real God’s Holy Spirit to their spirits, and even try to force God to bow before the wills of all those false gods.

Both the humanist false Jews and fake Christians esteem and serve anyone or anything except the real God. They are zealous to build up self-esteem, hierarchies of men, grand titles and offices for the honor of men, armies and chariots of steel to empower men. They all down before men and worship them like gods, by esteeming, emulating and serving them. Yet they offer little or nothing of their spirits’ esteem and service for the real God. Nor do they seek to emulate the God in whose image their spirits were made, the God who will eternally serve even the poorest sinners among all of sinful humankind, and all of His other living creations. In fact, synagogues and churches forbid anyone to truly honor the name of God or proclaim God’s intended meanings of His words, since that might offend their esteemed human gods and their demon gods like Mammon. All must be like Babylon, to please and appease Babylon, though Babylon does not love them, but enslaves them all.

So all the members of humanistic false synagogues and fake churches take God’s name in vain by heeding and teaching the doctrines of men rather than the words of God. And not one of the churches or synagogues remember the true Sabbath of the Lord, which is to set aside the works of selfish ambition and do only God’s works. Each is taught to work hard, seven days per week, to advance the selfish ambitions of their human gods and themselves, for the glory of those human gods and their own flesh. Not one is ever taught to set aside a single moment of selfless Sabbath service to God through works of pure, just love from one’s own spirit. Yet, in Christ, all the biblical Sabbath laws are to be fulfilled, not nullified, in us and through us. Thus, all members of God’s true church of Israel become priests who serve God seven days per week, and must not seek a worldly inheritance.

For millenniums, mostly through the humanism of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, synagogues and churches have become so deeply filled with lies, sins and evil, that the beautiful, harmonious, effective truths of God are completely foreign to them, incomprehensible and even feared or hated by them. Yet they think so highly of themselves, and somehow believe that God is on their side, as they lie and sin in His name, while they think so little of the real God that they actually believe they can manipulate Him with their magic “sacraments” and prayers. Then they even call it blasphemy whenever anyone dares to expose their lies and sins. Consequently, God can do nothing with most of them except send them to slaughter, so the weak and brainwashed elect captives among them can be freed, straightened and healed at the gates of heaven on the judgment day, after their foolish flesh dies. For their hearts are seared and cold. Those elect are so thoroughly enslaved by the fear of their human and demonic gods that their spirits do not dare to wake up and hear the true, wise counsel of God’s Holy Spirit. It is almost impossible to reason with them at all. They become so intent on worshipping themselves and other human gods, so fixated on consuming plates of poisoned garbage for their eternal health, though it actually kills them, that they are beyond help on earth, incurable.

So let it be known that the humanists, who deliberately corrupt the elect with their delusions and lies, who mock and jeer at the just and loving truths of God, who persecute and plunder God’s elect and God’s other beloved creations, shall not remain without rebuke. The humanistic fake churches and false synagogues will be slaughtered and destroyed first, by the hands of the Babylonian beast, by

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the secular humanist upon whom they sit. Then they will face the judgment of the by the Messiah in heaven, after the death of their flesh. And the “leaders” of most of those humanistic churches and synagogues will prove to be the non-elect sent by Satan on that last day. Then Jesus will send them far deeper into far darker delusions than they had on earth, into a more painful hell than the demonic secular humanists must endure after they die in the flesh. All loveless non-elect humanists will spend eternity in the ungratified lusts of their own dark delusions and lies, but the lies of the falsely religious ones will be the darkest of all, since they even perceived themselves to be the gods of God.

God will send all the loveless, lawless children and fallen angels ruled by Satan, especially the many despotic antichrists sent by Satan and that devil himself, into eternal captivity, because they strove to take captive God’s elect and His other living creations. All will fall into prisons of their own making, into the darkness of the lies and delusions they built up and carefully crafted on earth. But, during the millennium and on the final day at heaven’s, literally all the elect, all with spirits born in the image of Jesus and their heavenly Father, will be cleansed and purified, taught and trained until they are entirely fit for life in heaven. Jesus is able and will do this, no matter how damaged their brains of flesh might have been. All the useless things the elect sought on earth will receive Christ’s fiery rebukes and will have “burned” into nothing by the judgment day. But all elect spirits will be saved.

If any elect man spends his life building up lies and delusions for the Satanists in fake humanistic churches, then places his wife, children and loved ones in that dangerous, collapsing structure built on sand, he will cause much damage for them them and himself. But let that one know, that when one’s “work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire’ (I Cor. 3:15, ESV). And that fire will worse than anything anyone could do to his flesh, since it will be a far more painful spiritual fire. Nevertheless, not one of God’s elect will be cast out forever. Not one elect spirit will be unloved by Jesus and the heavenly Father, nor forgotten in hell. For all the elect were made in God’s image, made able to love in a God-like, pure, just, equitable manner. So, by the end of that last day, all shall love and serve God by serving His creation, even like Jesus.

Yet this prophecy is speaking about the spiritual health of an elect remnant of Jews on the day Jesus returns. And Jesus will be able to redeem and heal the earthly lives of apostate, stubborn elect Jews on the day of His return, causing them all to repent in just one day. For those elect Jews remaining in Jerusalem on “that day” will have had 144,000 Jewish virgin male Jews serving as preaching and teaching priests of Jesus among them, after the revival of His true New Covenant church for about four decades, since the sixth seal’s era. And, likely because of the preaching of those 144,000, those Jews will also know much about Jesus from the true Christians visiting from Egypt and from the lands of ancient Assyria too. For those elect Gentile Egyptians and Assyrians will build a highway to Jerusalem, and will talk with the Jews in their temple grounds set aside for the Gentile prayers. So the elect Jews in Israel, and in the Diaspora, will know much about Jesus and His ways. Then, when this remnant sees the Messiah’s face, they will repent to Him and into all of His just ways in one day.

One thing is certainly true about this prophecy. Especially since the second century AD, the citizens of Babylon’s fourth kingdom, both the Roman humanistic fake churches and secular humanists, have treated the Jews as outcasts, and declared them to be subhuman, as people whom neither God nor the people of Satan’s world order cares about. And, while it is definitely true that Satan’s predominantly humanist world order hates God’s priesthood of Israel, it is definitely not true that God hates them, and God clearly has never ever abandoned them, not matter how humanistic and apostate they have become. Through the Abrahamic and its fulfilling New Covenant, God eternally promised Israel, both its natural and in-grafted members, that He would cause them to serve Him as His people and that He would cause Himself to serve them as their God. Also, since God said He would do all the

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works required to fulfill these promises Himself, there were no conditions which His people had to fulfill in order for God Himself to fulfill these promises. God Himself would cause their elect spirits to repent into the truth, then truly worship Him in their spirits and in truth, not their own “free wills.”

God only made these unconditional promises in two covenants, in the Abrahamic Covenant, when He first created His world-wide priesthood of Israel, and in the New Covenant, when He was about to make Israel into His world-wide priesthood and fulfill His Abrahamic Covenant. Also, God only made both covenants with His world-wide priesthood or church of Israel, and with no one else, although our God Jesus gather many Gentiles into Israel, that is, into His own tribe of His own flesh descended from Judah and David within Israel. Then all must also admit that His entirely free and unconditional promises in these two covenants were not the conditional Old Covenant! So here, when God declares to Israel, “You shall be My people and I will be your God,” this is a prophecy about the New Covenant of the Messiah’s salvation, in which God reminds Israel that He will fulfill His greatest promise of the Abrahamic Covenant. Through Jeremiah, God’s prophecy also specifies how He Himself will fulfill these covenants in the next chapter, which describes the New Covenant.

God’s unconditional salvation shall be administered by the Messiah, who is the Prince/King or Ruler who “shall come out from their midst,” who would be a Jew in the flesh, and a descendant of David from the tribe of Judah. God the Father will cause this King to “draw near” to Him. For the Spirit of the one God is in this King, and He does not have a created human spirit. In the days of Moses, after Israel heard God speak on the mountain with frightening fire, smoke and thunder, each one of the descendants of Abraham and Gentiles brought into Israel said: “Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die” (Deut. 18:16, ESV). Therefore, God promised to send them the Great Prophet in flesh like their flesh, who is God the Messiah Jesus, who who God’s words to them, as God in a body of human flesh. God promised, in a solemn covenant before Moses and all those people of Israel, “I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him” (Deut. 18:18, ESV). Then God even sent other human men, and put His words in their mouths too, and some of those words were recorded in the Bible as the words of God. But God’s uniquely begotten flesh, as a Son of man, came to us as Jesus, God’s Spirit in a human body of Jewish flesh.

Yet synagogues and churches to this day, even orthodox synagogues and evangelical churches who falsely claim to believe God’s Word, hate those words from our God Jesus, the Messiah. Almost none guard His words in their hearts, as God repeated commanded in the Old and New Covenant times. So they do not serve God as His people, and God does not serve them as His people, since they serve only themselves and other men, then even serve the demon Mammon more than God. It is because they do this, that God cannot serve them with His truth, power and protection, nor grant them His spiritual gifts, like true prophecy and healing. Yet, some day soon, all the elect will serve God through Jesus, and God will serve them. Then natural Israel will be the foremost servant of Jesus, as the host of all the Gentile elect on earth. Everything in Israel will be restored, beautiful and prospering, as Jesus sits upon His throne in His temple. And never again will Israel’s enemies rise up to take them captive in spirit or in flesh. Our God Jesus will save all the elect from all lies and sins.

In about 587 BC, just before the worst invasion of Babylon, Jeremiah prophesied about God’s wrath, which would last until the Messiah came to Israel and Judah to save them in the end times, that is, in the eras of the sixth and seventh seals. He spoke about the final storm of God’s wrath “upon the head of the wicked,” and how “the fierce anger of Yahweh will not turn back until He has executed and accomplished the intentions of His mind.” And this would be a world-wide, an international event.

 

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Now all the prophets and apostles make it clear that Yahweh’s intentions would be to destroy the beast and all the wicked on earth, so He can save all the elect in Israel and in the world, so He can dwell in a peaceful Israel and a peaceful world by fulfilling all His promises of His New Covenant. Therefore, here Jeremiah definitely seems to be prophesying about God’s last deeds, about the seven bowls of God’s wrath and the second advent of Jesus, just as John did in the prophecies of the Revelation. Through Jeremiah, God also told Israel, “In the latter days you will understand this.” So this indicates: (1) the prophesies here would not be fulfilled until the “latter days” and (2) by the latter days, Israel would gain a more complete understanding of their Messiah Jesus and what was happening to them as they stubbornly remained apostate in their false humanistic forms of religion. God chose to keep them hardened until the full number of Gentiles came into Israel, which would not occur until the day Jesus returned. Then, on that day, the elect Jews would also “understand” the meaning of the end-time prophecies hidden from their comprehension even until those latter days.

In fact, very few in either the New Covenant nor the Old Covenant branches of the church of Israel have ever developed any kind of genuine “understanding” and comprehension of the prophesies about the last days at any time in history, to this day. Only a bits and pieces of real understanding of some parts of God’s Word have been evidenced, whenever God poured those concepts into the spirits of His elect at various times in history, since ancient Roman times. And those revelations of God, through both His religious and secular elect, have increased in these latter days, since the Reformation in Europe from the 13th to 15th centuries and after the 18th century Great Awakening in England and America. Then biblical concepts further increased, along with greater opposition and persecutions from the humanists, leading to this fifth seal’s era with its characteristic increase in the murdering of God’s elect. But now the fifth seal’s era is giving way to the sixth seal’s era, with the destruction of world-wide infrastructures to allow for the revival of God’s true church. So it is now time for the elect to prepare for that, especially inwardly, by “understanding” the real truths of God.

Micah 4:1 to 5:15 (ESV): “It shall come to pass in the latter days that the house of [Yahweh]

[i.e., God’s temple] shall be established as the highest [most esteemed] of the mountains, and it

shall be lifted up above the hills; and the peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall

come, and say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of [Yahweh], to the house of the God of

Jacob, that He may teach us His ways and that we my walk in His paths.’ For out of Zion

shall go forth the Law, and the Word of [Yahweh] from Jerusalem. He shall judge between

many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their

swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword

against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore; but they shall sit every man under his

vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of [Yahweh] of

hosts has spoken.

“For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of

[Yahweh] our God forever and ever. In that day [this signals the Messiah’s glorious advent],

declares [Yahweh], I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away

and those whom I have afflicted; and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were

cast off, a strong nation; and [Yahweh] will reign over them in Mount Zion [but this refers to the

Messiah, who is Yahweh God, because Yahweh is the Spirit of life in Him] , from this time forth and

forevermore. And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come,

the former dominion shall come, kingship [the Messiah] for the daughter of Jerusalem.

“Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no King [God] in you? Has your Counsellor perished,

that pain seized you like a woman in labor? Writhe and groan [i.e., repent], O daughter of Zion

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[A ‘daughter’ figuratively refers to a similar person or people who belong to, or originate from, a person or the

people of a city, state or some other entity. Here it refers to the people born of Zion, Jerusalem, where God

manifests His presence and character. So it refers to the elect Jews born of Israel.], like a woman in labor,

for now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to

Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there [Yahweh] will redeem you from the hand of your

enemies. Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, ‘Let her be defiled, and let

our eyes gaze upon Zion.’ But they do not know the thoughts of [Yahweh]; they do not

understand His plan, that He has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.

“Arise and thresh, O daughter o f Zion, for I will make your horn [strength, power, military

might] iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and

shall devote their gain to [Yahweh], their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth. Now muster

your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the Judge of

Israel on the cheek. But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah [the wife of the faithful Gentile who

represented Judah as a “spy” sent to Canaan in the days of Moses, who was the mother of the people of

Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, see I Chron. 2:50,54; 4:4] , who are too little to be among the clans

of Judah, from you shall come forth for Me one who is to be Ruler in Israel, whose origin is

from of old, from ancient days [i.e., the Messiah was “from ancient days,” from the beginning, as God].

“Therefore He [the Messiah] shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has

given birth; then the rest of His brothers [This refers to the brothers of the Messiah, to the men of Israel

and tribe of Judah.] shall return to the people of Israel. And He shall stand and shepherd His

flock in the strength of [Yahweh], in the majesty of the name of [Yahweh] His God. And they

shall dwell secure, for now He shall be great to the ends of the earth. And He shall be their

peace. When the Assyrian [which included Babylon in Assyria, and the four kingdoms of Babylon, that is,

also Persia, Greece and Rome] comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise

against him seven shepherds and eight princes [anointed rulers] of men; they shall shepherd the

land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; and He [the Messiah]

shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.

“Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from [Yahweh],

like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man.

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a

lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when

it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver. Your hand shall

be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.

“And in that day, declares [Yahweh] [i.e., this is clearly what God is declares to the anti-God Gentile

nations, to nations that are like Assyria and Babylon in Assyria], I will cut off your horses from among

you and will destroy your chariots; and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down

all your strongholds; and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more

tellers of fortunes; and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you,

and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands; and I will root out your Asherah

images from among you and destroy your cities. And in anger and wrath I will execute

vengeance on the nations that did not obey.”

God gave these prophecies to Micah in Judah just before and after the Assyrians invaded and took captive the northern tribes of Israel in 722 BC, then also tried to also invade Judah. And here Micah also described the millennium of the Messiah’s rule on earth. God’s temple in Jerusalem shall be highly esteemed by “many nations” who “flow to it” (4:1), meaning that awakened elect belonging

 

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to the Messiah’s true New Covenant church will remain alive in those nations during the millennium. But notice why they will come to the temple. They will come so the Messiah “may teach us His ways and that we may walk in His paths,” because “out of Zion shall go forth the Law, and the Word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.” After all, this is the New Covenant salvation. To save us from lies and sins, Yahweh God personally promised, “I will put My Law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart,” so the effects of His inner works will be: “I will be their God, and they shall be My people” (Jer. 31:33, WEB). And this is also why the Messiah Jesus said, “Don’t think that I came to destroy the Law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill” (Mat. 6:17, WEB). And this is also what He will do during the millennium, exactly the same saving works He did during His first advent. That is, Jesus will again make disciples of us, to teach and train us to both understand and apply God’s Law, because the Law reflects God’s attributes and we are to become like God, with His Law in our hearts and minds, so we walk in and fulfill His Law, so we justly love in our daily lives.

But the Messiah and King Jesus shall remain the Judge of all nation, a biblical kind of teaching Judge who “shall decide disputes for strong nations far away.” And this will bring peace to all the world, so “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore” (4:3). During the Millennium, each one will be satisfied with the work and profit of one’s own hand, and live in simplicity and moderation, each receiving what one needs while provides for the needy what one is able to give, through love and not by enforced rates of taxation. “No one shall make them afraid” (4:4). Then “we will walk in the name Yahweh our God, forever and ever,” even in heaven.

As for the Jews, “the tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion,” the children of the temple of God in Jerusalem, “the former dominion shall come, kingship [or the “kingdom”] for the daughter of Jerusalem” (4:8). The Jews will be watching out for the flock, including the Gentiles from the nations around the world, as a “tower” on a “hill,” overlooking all the earth. As Jesus rules the world, Jews shall be His main hosts for the world, the keepers of His truths, the experts on His Law, who relate the expounded meanings and harmony of principles in His Law, so all can fulfill it. In this way, they will have a spiritual “dominion” and will be the principal “kingship” or “kingdom” of the Messiah Jesus. They will be Jesus’ messengers and ambassadors and hosts to all the other nations.

But, at the time of Micah, Judah was crying aloud because the Assyrians, as though God were not their Protector and “King,” as though their wise God and “Counselor perished.” But He was still there, still seated on His heavenly throne ruling over all that exists on earth and in heaven. It was just that God’s will was not their own will. God looked upon the apostate Jews in Jerusalem, saw some faithful there, those who fled from the more apostate northern tribes, and gave them one more chance. God spared Judah from Assyria for a time. God miraculously destroyed the armies of Sennacherib and sent that Assyrian king fleeing back to Assyria, where he died. However, God knew the hearts of the Jews, that they easily fell for the lies and delusions of deceivers, that they would not remain faithful to Him, no matter how many miracles He performed for them. Thus, God would send the Assyrian city of Babylon to take Judah captive, within a little more than a hundred years from that time. And God told Judah: “now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country [land, nation]; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies” (4:10, ESV). So, after Babylon rose up and took over Assyria, to become the first of four Satanic kingdoms with class systems and psychopathic dictators, all the Jews would remain spiritual and physical captives of Babylonian religion and ways, until “that day” of their Messiah would “rescue” them and “redeem” them from the lies and delusions of Babylon.

God showed Micah end-time events which would lead to the second advent of the Messiah and the beginning of the millennium, but even alluded to His first advent with His birth in Bethlehem. And,

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of course, all the prophets were deeply loving and just, extremely concerned about how psychopathic kings sought great empires and gathered other psychopaths to fight in armies that murdered, tortured and enslaved the innocent through blind, deluded ambitions in Satan’s world order. So they often prayed for God to tell them what He would do to His enemies, to the ruthless Assyrians, and to the demonic beast of Babylon, who would conquer Assyria and give birth to merciless Persia, Greece and Rome. All those psychopathic empires put on such a good exterior show of power and wealth for the shallow hearted and empty headed, causing those impressed superficial souls to believe in their lies and delusions. But God gave the prophets the ability to see the dark, twisted, irrational, vain and entirely enslaved interiors of those psychopaths, how their puppet souls strove to own or destroy all God’s good creations around them, and ultimately themselves, in a futile attempt to become gods.

So God, through Micah, told us about the last Roman form of His principal enemy, the beast from Babylon, who would gather armies of like-minded psychopaths from all the nations in a vain attempt to finish off God and His people of Israel: “Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, ‘Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.’ But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh; they do not understand His plan, that He has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor” (4:11-12). While the beast stood on hill over Armageddon, the darkened souls of his blind worshippers would cheer in an emotional frenzy through the lusts of their flesh, certain of victory, plunder and the ability to rape, kill and plunder their victims, all to make them feel like gods. But God lured their souls to that land and to the square foot of ground where each would lay his or her head in death. Their bodies of flesh were stalks of cheap straw, and the grain of their spirits would be beaten out of that straw, threshed into the spiritual realm, to wait for their judgment and their eternal fires of hell.

Since Micah wrote down this prophecy late in the eighth century BC and early in the seventh century, about the same time Isaiah also prophesied, Micah obviously did not employ all of the same ecclesiastical terms as Isaiah and the subsequent prophets. Micah did not mention “the Messiah” (“Anointed One”), nor did he know Babylon would be four kingdoms or call it the “beast” as Daniel and John did. Micah did not even call the Messiah “God’s Servant” like Isaiah did, and simply called the Messiah by the name of Yahweh. Micah did not know the wicked in Israel would pierce this Servant and Messiah at some previous advent, to save Israel’s spirits, before He returned in glory, like Isaiah and Zechariah did. Yet God showed David how Yahweh the Messiah would die on a cross then live again for all the elect in all nations would worship Him in the future (Ps. 22). And David had this vision centuries before Micah was born. However, it is plain that Micah was speaking about Yahweh the Messiah and the beast at Armageddon in the end times when he recorded this prophecy.

In a previous verse (4:9), Micah asked why Israel was crying in hopelessness, and he asked this after God had comforted Israel by granting him prophecies about how she will be peaceful and joyful in the very end, when her Messiah comes to rule as her King. But Micah wrote this prophecy during the time when Assyria was invading Israel and Judah (beginning in 734 BC). And this was God’s way of punishing His priesthood of Israel for adopting the ruthless ways of Assyria, even though they knew that God had “shown you, O man, what is good. What does [Yahweh] require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God” (6:8). Nevertheless, His people of His church also should have known, “He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot,” and “will cast all [our] sins into the depths of the sea,” that Yahweh “will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham,” just as He swore to their fathers “from the days of old” (7:19-20).

In the days of this prophecy, Assyria conquered the northern tribes of Israel and took captive the remnant of Jews living there, marching them off into the Gentile lands of the north (722-721 BC). The Assyrians were also plundering the southern tribes of Judah, and even came right up to the gates

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of its capital, Jerusalem (701 BC). So the people of both Israel and Judah had good reason to “cry aloud.” But all this was happening to Israel and Judah because her people had forsaken their God, who was also their King and Counsellor. Of course, the Jews still pretended to worship Yahweh, but only through the words and deeds of their flesh, and through lies. They certainly did not worship Yahweh in their spirits and in truth. They refused to obey God even in the most basic matters of common justice, because they thoroughly corrupted the wise counsel of God’s Word. All of them mixed the teachings of God with the doctrines of the Assyrians’ false gods, with the demonic traditions of Baal and Asherah. Then they thought themselves righteous in all their lies and sins, just as the humanistic so-called “Christians” do in our day. Nonetheless, if they opened the eyes of their spirits, they would see that their God and King still stood among them, in their land. Their inner Counsellor had not perished. There was no need to panic. For Yahweh would make all things right in the very end. All God’s elect would be corrected and made holy, either in heaven on the judgment day or on earth, if not now, then at least by the millennium. As for that present time, the great need of Israel and Judah was to repent to God, into a knowledge of His truth. Otherwise the pain of that day would overcome them, both inwardly and in the flesh, leaving them utterly dark and hopeless.