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

Chapter 14: “Behold, a day is coming for [Yahweh], when the spoil taken from you will be

divided in your midst. For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the

city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go

out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off [killed] from the city. [The Romans in

AD 70.]

“Then [Yahweh] will go out and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of

battle. [Against the Romans surrounding Jerusalem again in the end times.] On that day His feet shall

stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of

Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the

Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley

of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. [Azal is a town on the other

side of the Mount of Olives.] And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of

Uzziah king of Judah. Then [Yahweh] My God will come , and all the holy ones with Him .

“On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. And there shall be a unique day, which is

known to [Yahweh], neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light. On that

day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of

them to the western sea. [This is possible. From the west side of Jerusalem, waters would flow west to the

western Mediterranean Sea, through valleys in the Hills of Judea, possibly along the Sorek River. On the other

side of Jerusalem, waters would flow east to the Jordan and eastern Dead Sea.] It shall continue in

summer as in winter. [Many rivers in Israel dry up during the summer, but not these rivers.] And

[ Yahweh ] will be King over all the earth . On that day [Yahweh] will be one and His name

one. The whole land shall be turned into a plain [Hebrew = kaarabah, ‘uninhabited place.’ This is not

saying all Israel will be a plain, without hills, nor that the specified boundaries will become level land. Rather,

it seems to be talking about all this land surrounding Jerusalem becoming ‘uninhabited,’ without houses, a

park, where people can walk but where not live there.] from Geba [about 9 k. or 5.5 mi. north of Jerusalem,

on the border between the lands allotted to Judah and Benjamin, now called Jeba] to Rimmon south of

Jerusalem. [About five places were called Rimmon in Israel, and this one is about 56 k. or 35 mi. south of

Jerusalem and 21 k. or 13 mi. south-west of Hebron.] But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from

the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower

of Hananel to the king's winepresses. And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be

a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security.

 

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“And this shall be the plague with which [Yahweh] will strike all the peoples that wage war

against Jerusalem: their flesh [In the context of soldiers fighting in a battle, the word ‘flesh’ (Hebrew =

bawsawr) would refer to their muscles, not their skin] will rot [the Hebrew word mawkak may mean, ‘will be

wasted away and useless’] while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot [this may

mean, ‘will be wasted away and useless’] in their sockets, and their tongues will rot [this too may

mean, ‘will be wasted away and useless’] in their mouths. And on that day a great panic from

[Yahweh] shall fall on them , so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of

the one will be raised against the hand of the other. Even [or ‘also’] Even Judah will fight

at Jerusalem.

“And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments

in great abundance. And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the

camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps. Then everyone who

survives of all the nations [Gentiles] that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after

year to worship the King, [Yahweh] of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths. And if any

of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, [Yahweh] of hosts,

there will be no rain on them. And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present

themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which

[Yahweh] afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. This shall be the

punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast

of Booths. [This feast represents wandering in the wilderness until entering the promised land.]

“And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, ‘Holy to [Yahweh].’ And

the pots in the house of [Yahweh] shall be as the bowls before the altar. And every pot in

Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to [Yahweh] of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may

come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer

be a trader [buyer or seller] in the house of [Yahweh] of hosts on that day.”

These prophecies through Zechariah were clearly about the distant future of Israel, and about “that day” of the Messiah. The Messiah is Yahweh coming as Israel’s King in a body of flesh who will slay their last enemy, the beast, then usher in a time of world peace. But that will be the second advent of the Messiah. And this also prophesies about the first advent of the Messiah. The second and final coming of the Messiah will be at some time after the days of Zechariah, who lived during the time of the Persian Empire. And it was to be after the days when Israel defeated the Greeks with their own armies, which they did in the Macabean Revolt (167-160 BC). Persia and Greece were the second and third of the four kingdoms of the beast which, more than a century before Zechariah, Daniel prophesied about. Yet Zechariah was not clear about the times of the Messiah’s first and second advents, so we must look at the previous prophecies to obtain the right order in the timeline.

Now Daniel said the Messiah would be “cut off” or killed in troubled times after the second temple period began, just before the fourth kingdom destroyed that temple again, and when God would make “an end of sins” and “reconciliation for iniquity,” and also in a way that would “bring in everlasting righteousness” (Dan. 9:24-26). Then God said, through Isaiah, that the Messiah, who is His Servant, “poured out His soul to death” by being “pierced for our transgressions” and “crushed for our iniquities,” even “as a lamb that is led to the slaughter,” yet would live to receive “a portion with the great” and “divide the plunder [of the wicked] with the strong” (Is. 52:13 to 53:12). And, as we saw previously, Yahweh God prophesied, through Zechariah, that Israel would “look to Me whom they have pierced” (Zech. 12:10), since Yahweh is the Messiah, and His final second advent would also be in the human body of Jesus, whom they pierced, just as Isaiah’s prophecy said. And God also

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prophesied this through Zechariah: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, your King is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is He, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey” (Zech. 9:9, ESV). But there is no context we can use to determine when this will occur, except the other prophecies, which tell us that His second, final and victorious advent will be on a horse, and the Messiah will then walk into the temple. So that is how we know the “humble” advent of the Messiah, “mounted on a donkey,” was at His first advent, when He died for our transgressions and iniquities, to bring us everlasting righteousness.

When God granted Zechariah knowledge about the future, He emphasized big events that would occur after his current times (c. 480 BC) and the Persian kingdom he lived in. Babylon and Persia would be followed by the next two kingdoms of the beast which Daniel prophesied about, the Greek and Roman Empires. These next two would begin with Alexander’s conquests of Jerusalem and Egypt in 332 BC. And Alexander also rapidly took Tyre, Sidon, Gaza and its cities, Syria and its cities along with all of Persia (see Zech. 9:1-8). For he was “a male goat came from the west over the surface of the whole earth, and didn’t touch the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes [i.e., Alexander was a powerful Greek king]…. The male goat magnified himself exceedingly [he even claimed to be a god]. When he was strong, the great horn was broken [he died young, in 323]; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of the sky” (Dan. 8:5,8, WEB). So the Greeks became the next dominant world power, ruling through four or principal kingdoms. And, after the Greeks conquered most of the Mediterranean Basin, they were succeeded by a Greek colony called Rome, who took over those four Greek kingdoms, and eventually the whole world too.

At this point in the prophecy, Zechariah prophesied about the first and second advent of the Messiah (Zech. 9:9-10). For the Messiah would come in the time of the fourth Roman kingdom of Babylon. Jesus would come the first time when Rome was in its infancy and had established its first fascist dictator. And the sole purpose of His first advent was to establish His internal salvation from lies and sins, His everlasting salvation of righteousness through His personal discipleship of Jewish and Gentile elect spirits by His Holy Spirit of God. Then the Messiah would come again to crush the entire physical humanistic Roman Empire, to end it as it was gasping for its last dying breath under the rule of its final fascist dictator, the demonically controlled beast. After Rome fell because of His second advent in power, and after a couple thousand years of spreading His own Gospel truths throughout the world while it was being conquered by Roman humanism, Jesus would rule the world through His just love. And the whole world would see the difference between the rule of Satan through human gods in hierarchical class systems, and rule of God in equitable, just, loving ways.

Then God interrupted this vision of next two Greek and Roman kingdoms, with a prophecy about the intermediary times. He began by telling Zechariah and his people of Israel: “As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double. For I have bent Judah as My bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword” (Zech. 9:11-13, ESV). So God was telling Israel that they would no longer be a captive people without a nation, scattered in the Assyrian lands ruled by Babylon and Persia in his day. For the sake of His temporary Old Covenant of the blood of symbolic animal sacrifices, soon to be replaced by His eternal New Covenant of His blood, God would free them from Persia’s “waterless pit” of an empty carnal life, where they remained in hope, but as “prisoners” who could not realize that hope. God would return them to the “stronghold” of Jerusalem with its temple of His presence, “restore” them “double” or the second time, as a nation with an increased population and a national identity as a recognizable people with their own religion.

 

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After their restoration as a nation, Israel would oppose the Greeks, including the Greeks of Rome. This would begin with the Maccabean war (167-160 BC) against the Greek Seleucid Empire, who occupied the a former Persian territory. But, at the same time, Israel remained apostate, steeped in the demonic humanistic religion of Babylon, Persia and Greece. For Israel was also friendly at times, and also conquered at times, by the Greek Ptolemaic Empire existing in Egypt. Then, because of this war with the Seleucids, the Romans then occupied their land. And these Romans all spoke Greek at that time, even until the second century AD, since they were originally a Greek colony and one of the minor Greek kingdoms which split from the Greek Empire after Alexander’s death. Still, Israel would war against Greece and Rome through mere human power. So, although God made them a permanent nation again through those wars with the Greeks—as well as through their Messiah Jesus, or actually through their opposition to their Messiah—they would fail to hold their land. Rome would win for a time, in terms of physical conquering. They would live there until the end times, but Israel would not become an independent nation again until just before the beast came, not until 1948.

Still, Yahweh God, in their Messiah, did maintain Israel as a nation while they were scattered in the Roman Diaspora. Then, at the appointed time, their God and Messiah would return to physically destroy the humanistic Greco-Roman Empire, which had since conquered the entire world. Also, by that appointed time of His return, His New Covenant salvation would have spread throughout the world too. So Israel would repent to their Messiah on the day of His return, when all God’s words of prophecy were fulfilled in Jesus. And the entire world would then be ruled by Jesus forever after.

For God gave Zechariah this prophecy: “Then Yahweh will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning: the Lord Yahweh will sound the trumpet [i.e., the seventh trumpet during the era of the seventh seal, causing the seven bowls of His wrath to pour out against the beast’s Roman kingdom] and will march forth in whirlwind of the south [Jesus will return to Jerusalem from over the south, from over parts of Jordan, northwest Saudi Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula]. Yahweh of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones, and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar [i.e., with blood]. On that day [i.e., the phrase “that day” is a common biblical way of referring to the second advent of the Messiah] Yahweh their God will save them, as the flock of His people; for like jewels of a crown they shall shine on His land [meaning they will then be righteous, a glory to God]. For how great is His goodness, and how great His beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women” (Zech. 9:14-17, ESV). This is obviously about the second coming of the Messiah Jesus, whose life-giving Spirit is the Spirit of Yahweh God.

During the end times, the fourth kingdom of Rome became the completed beast, Christ’s greatest enemy. Rome eventually consisted of the worst secular religious fascist delusions gleaned from the first three kingdoms of Babylon, Persia and Greece. So the Roman religion of secular humanism, with its fully fascist human gods ruling over a financially controlled hierarchical class systems, was to be the final of the four kingdoms raised out of Babylon, and Rome had to endure until the Messiah came to destroy it. However, Zechariah’s prophecies tell us very little about this fourth and final Roman kingdom, and he saw it as a Greek kingdom, since it was originally one of the minor Greek kingdoms after Alexander’s death, although it became the largest and most enduring kingdom of all.

So these prophecies through Zechariah leap forward from the days of the Greeks to the end times, to the last moments of the fourth kingdom. Now, regarding the prophecy above (9:1-7), was about how the Greeks would conquer all the lands around Israel, including Persia, through Alexander the Great. And it was fulfilled after the armies of Alexander defeated the Persian king, Darius III, in a critical battle at Issus in about 333 BC. For the Greeks needed funds to support their army. And they knew that Darius had sent his baggage-train—with massive amounts of gold, many domestic servants and

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his wife—to Damascus just prior to the Battle of Issus. So some of Alexander’s men swiftly sped off to plunder that baggage-train. And this must be what Zechariah had prophesied about Damascus. For they had to travel through what Zachariah called the land of Hadrach. In former times, Hadrach had been the capital of the area, which included the cities of Damascus and Hamath. And, since the army of Alexander did not destroy Damascus, yet basically claimed the region as his Greek territory, one could say Damascus was the “resting place” of Alexander’s flag, the centre of his control over the region of Hadrach. Later, when Alexander headed north again, to conquer the rest of Persia, and after an extended stay in Egypt, he passed through Damascus once more, asserting his claim to the whole region. But before Alexander went to Egypt, he had to subjugate the coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon.

So Alexander besieged Tyre and did indeed “strip her of her possessions and strike down her power on the sea”. Once his navy overcame Tyre’s ships, his army killed her soldiers, plundered her, burned her, crucified about 2,000 of her people and sold about 30,000 into slavery. Then Sidon surrendered without a fight. Yet Tyre was rebuilt and both Tyre and Sidon exist today. And Rome took over the conquests of Greece under Alexander, to become the final Babylonian kingdom. And both Tyre and Sidon in Lebanon may perish again before Jesus returns, along with Damascus and other cities in the Middle East, through the beast’s wars initial wars there at the beginning of his seven-year reign. For those former Assyrian and Egyptian lands will be Christian lands then, and hated by the final beast.

Remember, these chapters are primarily about the end times and the Messiah’s glorious advent. In verses 5 to 8, we see how God had promised to turn the Philistines into “a mixed people,” whom we now call the Palestinians, who are now mostly Egyptian, Jordanian and other peoples of the Middle East. Then, in the end times, God will save a “remnant” of the Palestinians, transforming them into His people, that is, into the Messiah’s people, whom we call Christians. The survivors will become “a remnant for our God” and like “a clan in Judah,” since Judah is the tribe of David and his eternal heir to the throne of Israel, the Messiah. But, since the word “remnant” is used here, it means there will be many deaths before then. Only some survivors will repent to the Messiah Jesus, after wars kill many, including wars with the beast. Then Jesus will remove all the non-elect from the earth, allowing only the elect Palestinians to live with Him during the millennium. But after this remnant worships Jesus, even during those wars, He will protect them. First He will remove all their pagan ways. Then He will “guard” them at His second advent, along with all of Israel, so no enemy will ever “march to and fro” in their streets ever again, and “no oppressor shall again march over them.”

After Jesus returns, a remnant of Palestinians shall live in peace until the world ends. But God started to perform these prophesied works among the Palestinians long ago, during the time of the third kingdom of the beast, in the days of Alexander the Great and the Greek Empire. At the time Zechariah prophesied, in about 480 BC, the five original Philistine city-states had been significantly weakened by Assyria and Babylon. About a century before Zechariah wrote this prophecy, the Assyrians and Babylonians did to Philistia what they had done to Israel and Judah—they killed the Philistine kings and many natives, then deported many survivors to other lands and brought other new populations to settle in Philistia. But, since that time, the four Philistine city-states had been repopulated and rebuilt by the Persians, who also granted them some independence along with Israel. So, in the days of Zechariah, these Philistine city-states were still populated by some of the original Philistine people, and certain Philistines may have been their rulers or kings. But this did not last.

These cities were no longer populated entirely by the original sea people, that is, by the great enemies of Israel who conquered and settled these lands in the 12th century BC. Nevertheless, many descendants of the original Philistines would have lived there. So they were not yet a fully “mixed people,” as they are today. It was not until a couple centuries after Zechariah’s prophecy that the

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Greeks, led by Alexander, conquered those original Philistine people. He killed many and replaced many with foreigners who promised to be more loyal Greek subjects. Thus, these Philistine cities became Hellenistic city-states that were entirely populated by “a mixed people,” just as Zechariah prophesied. It was then that the truly Philistine kings “perished” forever. Hellenized city-states, with a new breed of Philistine people, belonged to the Greek Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires for a few centuries, and were heavily influenced by them. Later, the Romans, Judeans, Muslims, Crusaders and Israelis occupied Philistia. During the Roman occupation, this region of “mixed people” was called “Palestine,” which is a Latinized form of “Philistia,” a name still used to this day. Therefore, Philistia exists to this day, and further became “a mixed people,” especially after wars with Israel.

The history of Ashkelon was tumultuous, never at rest, just as Zechariah prophesied. It was one of the cities Alexander took in 332 BC and became Hellenized. The Jewish Macabeans also took the city in the second century BC, and it became a free city in 104 BC. It was a fairly important city and Herod the Great built many structures there during the first century BC. It continued to survive for centuries, but primarily under the control of Muslim empires and the Crusaders. And, if some insist that Zechariah’s prophecy said it would become “uninhabited,” it was that too. In about AD 1270, the Municipality of Ashkelon was utterly destroyed and remained uninhabited for decades. But it was repopulated and renamed Majdal within a century or two. After the Zionists and Europeans started coming to Palestine in the nineteenth century, the region’s population grew exponentially, with many Muslims immigrating to that city from the surrounding nations to look for work and land.

Eventually Majdal became the seventh largest city in Palestine. Then, during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, the Israelis violently displaced most Muslims in it. A few thousand returned, but the Israelis confined them to what some called a “ghetto,” just as the Jews themselves had been confined to ghettos in European cities. Soon even those Muslims were deported to the Gaza strip. By 1953, the city was entirely Jewish and its original name, Ashkelon, was restored. Gaza itself had also suffered under Assyrian and Babylonian captivity, but was restored by the Persians before the time of Zechariah’s prophecies, since it was located on an important trade route from Egypt to Persia. At that time, a Greek trading post also existed there, which hinted at the rising of the Greeks as an international military and economic power, as the third of the beast’s four kingdoms. In 332 BC, Alexander laid siege to Gaza for five months before destroying it. Thus, Gaza did “writhe in anguish,” as Zechariah prophesied. All four of the Philistine cities mentioned by Zechariah suffered greatly throughout history. (And notice that Zechariah did not mention the fifth major Philistine city, Gath, since it seems to have been fully destroyed by the Assyrians and no longer existed in his day.)

The Romans rebuilt Gaza in about 57 BC, but a little south of the original site. There it became an important and strategic Hellenized city with “a mixed people,” and sits there to this day. Ekron, in Zechariah’s day, was very weak and only a few people lived there. It had been destroyed by Babylon in 604 BC and not many of the original Philistines lived there. As the most northern Philistine city, Alexander would have conquered it before he took Ashdod in 332 BC. After Alexander’s Greeks caused the city to “writhe in anguish,” like the rest of Gaza, “its hopes” were indeed “confounded.” Ekron never fully recovered. Then the city simply disappeared in the second century BC, after the Maccabean Revolt. As a city bordering Israel, its people seem to have been absorbed into Israel, just as the Jebusites were absorbed into Judah after David had conquered Jerusalem. Thus, Zecharaiah’s prophecy came true, when he said “Ekron shall be like the Jebusites,” who entered the tribe of Judah.

The history of Ashdod is similar. The Persians rebuilt Ashdod in Zechariah’s lifetime, by 530 BC, after Babylon had destroyed it in 605 BC. But Alexander took it in 332 BC and, soon after this, the last of the original Philistine people were assimilated into the general population. It became entirely

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Hellenized, with “a mixed people” dwelling in it. After the Macabean Revolt, in about 147 BC, Israel conquered and claimed the city for Israel. By 55 BC, the Romans restored the independence of Ashdod and rebuilt the city. The Crusaders also took Ashdod for a time, but the Muslims destroyed it after that. Later, during the rule of the Ottoman Empire, it became a pleasant village, and then grew throughout the 19th century, achieving a population of about 4,620 Muslims and 290 Jews by 1945. However, after a heavy bombing, the Israelis took Ashdod in 1948, causing most of the Muslims to flee. The remainder were soon driven out too. In 1956, the Jewish city of Ashdod was established.

Now, since this is primarily a prophecy about the end times, just before the Messiah’s second advent, we might conclude that these cities shall “writhe in anguish again,” during the time of the future beast. In the first half of the beast’s seven-year reign, he will conquer the whole region, including Israel, Palestine and other lands in the Middle East and eastern Africa. Then he will withdraw for a time, only to return at the end of his reign, when he shall be destroyed by Jesus. Some time before the seven-year reign of the beast, the Palestinians will repent to Jesus, becoming a Christian nation along with Egypt, Syria and other nations that previously belonged to the ancient Assyrian Empire. Then, especially after Jesus returns, Palestinians will become “like a clan in Judah,” a part of Israel, and Jesus will protect them. This means Gaza will be serving Jesus much like Israel will at that time.

This prophecy portrayed the Messiah as a mighty Conqueror who comes in glory to destroy God’s enemies. But one particular part of the prophecy tells us the Messianic King comes to the Jews in Zion, in Jerusalem, peacefully, as one who is “righteous and having salvation,” even “humble/lowly and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey” (Zech. 9:9). And this is the opposite of coming to kill and conquer. In those days, a king who humbly rode a donkey into a city meant that he was coming to rule over the city as the servant of the people, for their good. Here God did not contradict Himself. For there is a time for all things under the sun, a time for the elect to live and a time to die, a time to learn lessons for the spirit and a time when those lessons end. The elect will die and go to the judgment day, to complete their teaching and training for heaven. As for the non-elect, a time will also come when they shall no longer be required to be loveless examples of evil for the elect, when they complete their works of arrogance, to prove to the elect that the humility of their serving God is truly abundant life. So there is also a time for the non-elect to go home in darkness.

This prophecy was indicating that the Messiah would come twice. The first time He came in peace, to bring salvation to His elect, by teaching elect spirits, by putting His Law inside their hearts and minds, preparing them for His eternal life above. Then He would come again, in war, conquering His enemies to save His elect, destroying all who would dare to murder His people, slaughtering all who fought against His inner kind of peace and against His righteous kind of love. In about AD 28, the Messiah humbly entered Jerusalem in peace, as a lowly Savior King and God riding on a donkey, to bring the New Covenant salvation to His Jewish and Gentile priesthood of Israel, and to ratify it with His blood shed on the cross. This was the true salvation that would teach the minds of their spirits about His ways, to prepare their spirits for an eternity of serving heaven just as He also served the life there. Later Jesus will return riding upon a white horse and full of wrath, charging down from heaven to kill all His enemies on that day, including the non-elect traitors still residing in Jerusalem.

Nevertheless, His second advent will bring peace to the earth, since He will eliminate all enemies of peace. This is God’s way. There is a time to tear down life and a time to build up life. His judgments are first and foremost about teaching offenders, so all who are able to repent into the truth may do so, and be forgiven for the atonement of their relationship with Him, freed from any and all penalties of His Law. But, for deliberate sinners whose spirits love darkness of lies rather than light of truth, who

 

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can never truly repent into truth, the full penalty of His Law will forever separate them from all of His good creations. And this is a lesson that every family, church and nation must learn from God.

It is impossible to build peace through force alone, although some carefully directed force may be necessary in the end, after the teaching of the truth, and after the foolish and infantile elect have time to digest and internalize that truth. To build up a joyful, peaceful, just and loving land, the first and most necessary thing that the people must have is education, to be taught God’s ways, how to live in truly loving and just peace throughout their lives. Only after the people are taught and trained to justly love one another, can an abundant life of peace in just, equitable love possibly function among the people. Then those who remain the willful enemies of peaceful and loving principles of God will need to be effectively subdued or eliminated. First all who have the potential to repent into a life of just, loving peace must learn how to realize that potential. Then the deliberate and unrepentant sinners can be dealt with. Otherwise, if the lessons of His salvation are not taught first, even the elect, who have the potential to live good and loving lives, will fall into death with the non-elect.

First comes the educating salvation of the elect, who are able to repent. First the elect must be taught the truth so they will act on truth, so they will not remain deceived by the wicked, and will not remain enemies of God. First comes the truth and salvation from lies and sins. Then comes the tearing down of those who spread lies and work evil. There can be no peace without the sacrificial works of bringing right teaching to the people. No matter how much force one might apply against the wicked and stubbornly unrepentant, new lies and sins will rise up, if there is no real truth to shine into that darkness and overcome it. There is simply no point in destroying the enemies of God until all the potentially just and loving elect are first rescued from lies and sins, until all the friends of God hidden in their midst are ready to stand on the truths of God, through His will and almighty power.

If an army begins by trying to destroy the evil ones, it will end up destroying literally all the people and themselves. The land that army tries to save will have no one left to save. For we must realize that “none is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one” (Rom. 3:10-12). All are sinners, even the elect, even those who have the potential to live just, loving, peaceful lives.

Therefore, all the people must be taught God’s ways before anyone attempts to destroy sinners. Then all those with elect spirits may begin to enter God’s righteousness and His loving kingdom, but as humble sinners, as those who know they are limited, with no right to kill sinners, who war against the stubbornly evil ones with humility and mercy, leaving judgment to our God Jesus alone. If His elect do this, then God Himself will lend them His almighty and cleansing power to war against evil. Now let all the elect remember this, and abandon the bullying tactics of arrogant humanism, then learn to do all things in the ways God does them, through His genuine truth, in His serving humility.

So we see why this prophecy first said our God and Messiah came in humility on the foal of a donkey to make disciples of His elect. And His first advent had to be more than 2,000 years before came to “cut off the chariot” and “the battle bow” with violence, then “speak peace to the nations,” so “His rule shall be from sea to sea” and “to the ends oof the earth” (Zech. 9:10, ESV). This second advent of the Messiah, with death for the willfully unrepentant, first waited for millenniums until the Gospel of His salvation reached every elect soul on earth, and gave each one the time to understand it for repentance. First He had to accomplish a complete dichotomization, separating the elect from the non-elect. Then He would come to war against His enemies, slaughtering each and every one.

Jesus will come from the sky, passing over the lands south of Jerusalem, over the Sinai Peninsula. Yet it also says He will “cut off the chariot from Ephraim” (9:10), and destroy the war vehicles there.

 

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But Ephraim is north of Jerusalem, that is, on the road to Armageddon, where the international armies of the beast and his allies shall gather. So the Messiah Jesus will first destroy those who block the retreat of His people, because they are the most wicked. For it is one thing to attack, but it is far worse to trap a people so you can slaughter them all. Then He will come past Jerusalem to annihilate the attackers, whose motives and intentions are evil to the core of their self-worshiping spirits. Last but not least, Jesus will remove the earthly lives from all the non-elect and stubbornly unrepentant souls everywhere on earth. For they too will be serving Satan, even in Jerusalem itself, as traitors of God and His true church. He will kill all the Gentiles and Jews who will bow to the fascist beast.

Jesus will “cut off” or destroy the people, weapons and machinery belonging to His enemies. That equipment is phenomenologically referred to as chariots, war horses and battle bows. But, since ancient men like Zachariah had no names for what he saw in his vision from God in his language, they would indicate whatever military vehicles and weapons the beast’s armies will use in the future. Then, after His enemies are all dead and their military equipment falls from their hands, “He shall speak peace to the nations.” The Messiah Jesus will teach the survivors of all the nations, who will all be His elect siblings, about His just and loving ways, so they will no longer harm, exploit, oppress or murder one another. The arrogant ways of humanism will be expunged from all the earth.

All the elect on earth, all with spirits capable of God-like love, will then be able to fulfill their destinies and do what God meant them do throughout their lives, in the way God intended them to do it. Jesus will ensure this through His rule “from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.” All the elect will know Him and long to serve Him, in whatever ways they are able to serve Him. Therefore, all the elect will be free to what they want, since all that they will want to do will be good and beneficial for His creations. Aside from an occasional correction, when their flesh leads them astray into selfish lies or deeds, there will be true freedom on earth at last; freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of choice and freedom of conscience. Real liberty, the kind that takes loving responsibility for all of God’s creations, will be granted everywhere upon the whole earth.

But here God was giving us a prophecy about the end times, about the era of the seventh seal and the last few years before the day of the Messiah’s return. So He told us that it would be “because of the blood of My covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free” (Zech. 9:11, ESV). And this must refer to the blood of the new and everlasting covenant of the Messiah which Jeremiah previously prophesied about. But the “blood of My covenant” originally referred to the blood that Moses sprinkled on the people of the church of Israel to ratify the temporary Old Covenant (Ex. 24:8), to seal it with the people. Yet that blood to ratify the Old Covenant in the days of Moses was just a sign, a symbol which indicated that God’s permanent New Covenant would be sealed, confirmed and put into effect by blood as well, that is, by the blood of God’s body of flesh, by the blood of the Messiah.

For it was not the Old Covenant, but the Messiah and His New Covenant, that would free the elect in the church of Israel. For all remained prisoners of lies and sins, in the “waterless pit” where the spirit sat in their dark hearts, without the clean, living waters of God’s Holy Spirits to lift them out to the bright and Son-lit surface, to the wide-open lands of liberty in the Messiah Jesus. Jesus would make them “free from the waterless pit,” from the lies of the beast’s four humanistic kingdoms, especially from the oppressive religious power of the Greco-Roman empire, with its hierarchical class system of human gods oppressing and inventing self-serving laws for their supposedly “inferior” siblings.

Here God also commanded, “Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope” (Zech. 9:12), meaning He ordained the return of the Jews to His land of Israel. For Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome had made them spiritual prisoners of their false religion and forced them to live in Gentile lands. The

 

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natural Israel always possessed the hope of their salvation into loving peace, and their return to God’s land, through God’s promises in the books of Moses and in the writings of all the prophets. Here Zachariah repeats that “today,” in his own lifetime, God once more promised to restore His natural branch of the church of Israel into His care, into His truth and into His lands reserved for His priesthood of the earth. Not only would God bring both the northern and southern tribes together into their own land as one nation to serve the world again, but He would also give them back “double” of what they possessed in the days of prosperity, twice as many blessings and twice as many people.

Nevertheless, we are once again told that, just after God brings them back to Israel, there will be war, until some time has passed after their return. For, immediately after they begin to return, God will “bend Judah” (the southern tribes of Israel) as His bow, then use Ephraim (the northern tribes of Israel) as an “arrow” against God’s enemies. So the northern and southern tribes of Israel will be united against their enemies in those end times. Together, all the tribes of Israel were to be “a warrior’s sword” in God’s hand against “Greece” (Zech. 9:13, ESV). That is, God predestined a time when He would send all the returning Jews, all those in the land of Israel, as a united people, out to battle against God’s enemies from the humanistic kingdom of the beast, against the kingdoms Daniel prophesied about. God would “stir up” the “sons” of Zion, the men of Israel who worshiped God in Jerusalem, to war against Greece, who are God’s enemies. But Greece including the Greco-Romans.

Of course, when Zechariah wrote down this prophecy in about 480 BC, only the names of the first three of the four kingdoms of the beast were known. And the last kingdom Daniel mentioned was Greece. For the fourth kingdom of Rome was not really a world power of any kind in the sixth century BC, when Daniel penned his prophecies. Rome had barely established itself as a nation by that time, and was not really known as a military power until the third century BC. In the days of these prophets, not even Greece was too powerful, and had not yet overtaken Persia to become the third kingdom of the beast. Yet Greece had been rebelling against Persia by the days of Daniel and Zechariah, and Zechariah knew Greece had defeated Persia at the Battle of Marathon in about 490 BC. Likely in the very year Zechariah was writing this prophecy (480 BC), a mere 300 Spartans and a thousand other Greeks were able to stop the onslaught of a massive Persian army consisting of about 150,000 soldiers at a critical, narrow pass near Thermopylae. So surely this was a sign that Persia’s power was waning, while the power of Greece was waxing, just as Daniel had prophesied.

Not too long after this, the Greeks defeated Persia in other major battles. So it was becoming clear that Greece, the third of Daniel’s four humanistic kingdoms of the beast, would soon rise up to war against God too. So God was going to stir up His natural Israel against Greece in the end times. And there would also be a time, during the Maccabean Revolt (from 167-160 BC), when Israel would defeat one of the four Greek empires, the Seleucids. But, more importantly, Zechariah was telling us that Israel would rise to defeat the final demonically controlled beast in the end times. For here Zechariah was not just talking about Greece, but the whole of the Greco-Roman empire, which still exists through its religion of humanism. To Zechariah, Greece represented the final and completed four kingdoms of the beast, since Greece was the last name of the beast’s kingdom known to him.

In the end times, and only for a short time of about seven years, the beast will win battles against God and Israel, but during a time when many plagues of God’s wrath fall upon the earth and more specifically upon his Roman kingdom. Then, in the very end, when the Messiah returns and brings all of the Jewish people into His New Covenant relationship, God will finish off the beast’s entire kingdom, and Israel will be freed from the beast. Then the Messiah will rule the earth from Israel.

 

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When the beast attacks Israel in the end times, this prophecy says, “Yahweh will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord Yahweh will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south” (Zech. 9:14, ESV). Yahweh will appear “over them,” in the sky over Israel, then kill His enemies who are attacking His people, the descendants of Jacob, in their homeland. And, if we interpret this in the light of all the other Old and New Covenant prophecies, it clearly refers to the second advent of Israel’s Messiah, Jesus. Thus, the Messiah, Jesus, is here called by the name of the one and only God, Yahweh. “For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather” (Mat. 24:27-28, ESV). So Jesus will approach Jerusalem from the south, to face the beast who will be primarily attacking Jerusalem from the north, marching through the valleys of Armageddon. Then Christ’s “lightning” will destroy the western lands of the beast’s kingdom from the east over Israel. Rome and the seven nations of the beast will perish, as well as the beast and his armies in Israel, leaving their corpses as food for the birds, since none will be left alive to bury them.

A trumpet will also sound at that time, about three and a half years after the beast rises to power, and about 42 months before the second advent of Jesus (Rev. 11:15). Whether this will be a trumpet sounding from heaven in a way all the earth can physically hear or not, I do not know. But a trumpet shall sound to direct the armies of God in their attack, so they shall be effective and triumphant. This will be the beginning of the beast’s end. For it will be when “the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his [Messiah] has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night” (Rev. 12:10, WEB). The seven bowls of God’s wrath shall be poured out against the beast’s Roman kingdom during the last few weeks or months of his seven-year reign (Rev. 15:1,6-7), utterly destroying his people and land.

Like whirlwinds, which blind the enemy, the hosts of Christ’s willing warriors will attack, with a vengeance that shall be fed by a full knowledge of the ruthless evil in the hearts of those loveless, unjust, selfish God-haters. And the omnipotent power of Jesus will protect His elect from all harm from that day on. The angels will all swing their swords without fear. The enemy’s “sling stones” and missiles will fall harmlessly at their feet. Nothing will hold them back. “They shall devour” the wicked ones with a great hunger for righteousness, and drink in their deaths with a great thirst for justice. So their feet and hands will be “drenched” in the blood of God’s and mankind’s foes, and their extremities will look “like the corners of the alter,” where the blood of sacrifice is smeared.

“On that day” Israel’s God Jesus “will save them, as the flock of His people.” Then He will open the eyes of all the remnant of Israel and soften their hearts to Him. He will teach Israel His truth, and they will repent into the light of that truth, so “they shall shine on His land.” All the survivors of that day, all the elect Jews on earth, will see “how great is His goodness, and how great His beauty.” Never again will His people suffer in want. For Jesus will rule the earth justly, restoring all His creations to a state of productive balance, gifting prosperity to all living souls. Here it tells us that the Jewish soldiers will kill a great number of the beast’s international troops on that day. But they will not win the victory and will be surrounded in Jerusalem until Yahweh Jesus destroys their enemies.

After Jesus returns to rule the world as their only King, the elect will “ask rain from Yahweh in the season of the spring rain, from Yahweh who makes the storm clouds, and He will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field” (Zech. 10:1, ESV). The times of drought and famine will end for all who serve the Messiah. The times of floods and devastation will no longer plague the earth. For all those acts of nature are indeed controlled by God, and are not accidental actions of an autonomous and mindless universe. The Spirit of God in Jesus will administer all the occurs upon

 

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the earth. He will restore the devastated earth after the plagues of the end times, both miraculously and through His works with His people. For He and the elect will serve His creations after that day.

Then God reasoned with us, telling us why we should come to Him rather than seek other gods: “For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for Yahweh of of hosts cares for His flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like His majestic steed in battle. From Him shall come the Cornerstone, from Him the tent peg, from Him the battle bow, from Him every ruler—all of them together. They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because Yahweh is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses” (Zech. 10:2-5, ESV). Since this prophecy is about the end times and the Messiah’s victory at Armageddon, God is not talking about “household gods” and false “shepherds” in Zechariah’s day, but the “gods” we choose to rule over the thoughts in our homes today, and the useless “shepherds” we follow now.

In our day, it is very popular for the most helpless, codependent sheep, whose souls cannot think a solitary thought or walk a single step without the dictates of their human gods, to deride all the other more useful and interdependent sheep by calling them a supposedly derogatory term “sheep.” Then they proudly strut around as though they are not the most sheepish of all sheep. But the fact remains that all humans need the Good Shepherd, our God and Messiah, Jesus. For He alone is wise and practical in all matters of life and faith. He alone can refute the “utter nonsense” and “lies” of fakes with proven laws and ways that produce true good for all His creations, and end the devastation of those lying demonic “gods.” Without this Good Shepherd, the most foolish sheep will bully the other sheep, knock them over so they cannot rise again, and die. And the foolish sheep also lead the other sheep to the same overgrazed pasture over and over again, until all the sheep starve to death. To have healthy and strong sheep, which are not continuously afflicted and torn into pieces by predators, the Good Shepherd must guard them, then feed them truths and principles that have always benefitted all life since time began, remove toxic weeds of lies from their pastures, and lead them through a wise and well-managed grazing pattern so their diverse needs are always met. For the minds of all human spirits are infantile, and their minds of flesh are far worse. All are sheep, needing a Good Shepherd.

Some like to think they have no “household gods,” like to believe they are not “superstitious.” But they govern their whole lives, and the lives of their families, according to the demands of esteemed and served shepherds, selfish ambitions, senseless and vain hopes, and other worshiped gods. Then they love their loveless exploiters. They also prefer to see their blinded slavery to the doctrines of those fools, who lead them into destruction and death, as well as their slavery to money and other things they depend on with their lives, as liberty and freedom. But the reality of their words and actions reveal their blind stupidity, and the ruining of their lives exposes their gods and shepherds as fakes. The empirical evidence exposes them to be merely duped sheep. Yet God’s wrath will not seek them as much as their false shepherds, whom God’s own hand will cast into the deepest fires of hell.

During the end times, when God’s anger strikes against the corruption of the whole earth, there will be many false churches and many self-serving, ignorant, foolish, immoral, lawless, worthless false shepherds who are worthy of God’s wrath, just as there have always been throughout history. And the Great Prostitute will still be the mother of the false Gentile humanistic churches, while the Jewish churches will have their own humanistic false shepherds. Then, during the era of the sixth seal, God will “seal” many of His elect, marking them as His own children, to separate them from the non-elect brood of Satan. So His true Israel will be revived at the beginning of the end times. But

 

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most of these elect will be Gentiles, because God ordained that the full number of elect Gentiles must enter His true New Covenant church of Israel during the end times, by the time Jesus returns.

All the elect Gentiles must enter the true and eternal New Covenant church, which fulfills the Abrahamic Covenant, before the rest of the natural Israel. For God’s covenant with Abraham was to make a national priesthood that serves the whole world, not just themselves. Thus, God will not allow Israel’s pride to destroy the predestined purposes of His Jewish priesthood. Still, 144,000 Jews will also be “sealed” by Jesus at that time, during the era of the sixth seal. So these virgin male Jews will turn away from the false humanistic shepherds of natural Israel before Christ’s return, and sow the seeds of true faith in God among their people. Then, on the day Jesus ascends to the Mount of Olives, all of the true Israel, all elect Jews, will recognize Jesus, whom the 144,000 preached about, and repent to Him. After this, God will indeed hear their prayers for all worthwhile things, like rain for their crops. When they heed their Good Shepherd, when they hear the teachings and guidance of their God Jesus, and do His will on earth through His counsel and power, they will receive all they need for life. Until then—if they look to other gods, especially to men as their gods—they will receive only nonsense from their human gods, only lies, deceiving dreams and empty consolations.

But all that empty foolishness found in humanistic Jewish synagogues is exactly what we get from all our false so-called “Christian” churches too, as well as from the gurus of other religions and from almost all authorities or “shepherds” in the world. This is why “the people wander like sheep” and “are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.” There is no one who truly cares for them, no shepherd who will tell them the real truth. And they do not need human beings to be their shepherds. For the most that any human being can be is a sheep serving the good of the flock together with all the others. What we really need is the awakening of our spirits, so our spirits will heed the Holy Spirit of God, who will teach and train us to do His will on earth as it is done in heaven. But most do not want this yet, since false shepherds convince them that His direct shepherding not possible, and they need human gods to be their shepherds and saviors, although those shepherds devour those sheep at self-indulgent feasts to glorify themselves. This is why God will soon pour out His wrath against those religious, political and other “shepherds” in the end times, as well as the souls who blindly follow those false shepherds through a willful ignorance, refusing to acknowledge any inconvenient truths.

Our laws must come from God, from what He wrote in His creations and in His Word, because only these laws are just, equitable, truly beneficial for all, producing an abundant life of loving and being loved. And God’s laws cannot be interpreted by men, but only by His own Spirit. So we cannot think that theocracies led by humanistic church leaders, by wanna-be human gods, will ever suffice. Nor can we think that secular humanists, the rich and powerful wanna-be human gods who exploit the people and demand to be worshiped, will ever produce anything good. Rather, we must let God do all the teaching and training of spiritual and moral truths in the hearts of all people, allowing for freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, since human gods cannot teach other human spirits. And we must have democracies, as God instructed us through Moses, where we choose the vetted human authorities whom God has chosen, such as Moses himself, who proved to be a voice who taught what God taught him to say. Then God will empower His faithful elect to speak the truth with power that overcomes the liars. Then God Himself will rule our lands and provide for all our needs.

God will punish those wanna-be human gods, who falsely claim to be saviors and shepherds, who devour God’s flock and care nothing for their welfare. Those liars will indeed perish in the plagues of the seven trumpets and by the seven bowls of His wrath sent against the demonic beast’s Roman kingdom. Not one will survive the day that Jesus returns. Jesus will personally remove all those wicked liars from the earth, in the death of their flesh. Then they wait in a sleeping stupor of dread

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until the millennium ends, until they wake to cower before His judgment seat in heaven, knowing their only reward will be the darkness of their own lies and delusions for all eternity. Since Jesus passionately cares for His elect, He cannot forever tolerate the way false shepherds abuse His beloved children on earth, and He will never allow that for even a moment in His heavenly home. So Jesus will destroy those loveless and self-indulgent deceivers at the appointed time on earth. Then He will teach and train all His elect to completion and perfection, so they can mature and go home.

Even before His second advent, Jesus will empower His elect to war against the children of Satan, and to raise up the kinds of decision-making sheep He has chosen for His flock. He will make many of His faithful elect “like His majestic steed in battle” (10:3). From the God of Israel shall come the “Cornerstone,” Jesus, against whom all the other stones measure themselves and find their place in the whole of the social structure. Our God Jesus will also provide the “tent peg” to anchor our earthly lives, to prevent us from blowing away in the winds of false teachings. Jesus will also arm His elect with the “battle bow,” with the strongest kind of bow, used to hurl arrows through the shields of enemies and destroy them. In the truly New Covenant Christian lands, “every ruler, all of them together … shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets,” and “shall fight because Yahweh is with them, and they shall shame the rider on horses” (10:4-5). Yes, some of these truly Christian lands in the Middle East and Africa will have temporary setbacks from the beast, during the first half of his reign. But all of them will survive and thrive after Jesus returns.

Just before and after Yahweh Jesus returns, all His decision-making sheep of every kind will be chosen, called, taught, trained, raised up and set in place by His Holy Spirit, by Him alone. After the revival of His true church during the end times, every ruler and authority of every kind, in all the truly Christian nations on earth, will be chosen from those whom God has chosen. So all will be carefully prepared for their tasks by Yahweh Jesus, especially after His body is seated on His throne in Zion. Then our God also declared: “I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I AM Yahweh their God and I will answer them. Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in Yahweh. I will whistle for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as many as they were before. Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember Me, and with their children they shall live and return” (Zech. 10:6-9, ESV). Here the terms “Judah,” “Joseph” and “Ephraim” include all twelve of the northern and southern tribes of Israel, and there will be no “lost tribes of Israel” in the end times.

When God gave this prophecy through Zechariah, He was saying that He would bring back literally all the surviving elect Jews to Israel, and that Israel would then include all the lands He promised to Abraham, a much larger territory than Israel had during the time of David. And there shall be many Jews, “as many as they were before” at any other time in history. So they will need that extended territory, which will be empty by the time Jesus returns. Now, of course, the priesthood or church of Israel will include truly Christian Gentiles from all over the world too, those whom Jesus Himself has brought into His tribe of Judah, since they became one with His body of flesh on the cross. But the Jews in Israel will become the hosts of all those Gentiles who come to see our God Jesus in their land. And the teaching elders among the Jews will become experts in God’s Law as well, which Jesus shall fulfill in and through all His elect. So they will help and confirm the right teachings of the Gentile teaching elders. For there was indeed God’s planned purpose in leaving the Jews in His Old Covenant relationship until the fulness of the Gentiles came into Israel, so Jews could become the

 

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hosts and helping teachers of Jesus during the millennium. They have been learning patience and the depths of His Law for three thousand years, to become the most ideal hosts and teachers of His Law.

In the end times, all God’s awakened elect “shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets,” and “they shall fight because Yahweh is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.” This implies that the “riders on horses” will be better equipped and better trained soldiers of the enemy. Yet those enemy soldiers shall fall when God’s elect strike them. For God Himself will strengthen His people and make them wise. And notice how God said He would bring back His people of Israel to their land and have compassion on them, even while all this warfare is taking place. So it is clear here that God will bring only some Jews back to the land of Israel before Jesus returns, so they may fight those wars in their own land of Israel. But the rest of the Jews from the Diaspora will return after Jesus returns, after He brings peace to Israel and restores their lands. Yet one thing is certain, God cannot make mistakes and He has never rejected the Jews after His first advent. For here it says He will return the Jews to their land, fight for them as their God and answer their prayers, both before and after Jesus returns. So the replacement theology of false humanistic churches is definitely wrong, and clearly refuted by the words of our Creator God.

Humanistic churches love to assert the wills of their human gods, and put words into the mouths of their man-invented supernatural gods, whom they call by the names of the real God and Jesus. But they made a big mistake in choosing their fickle false gods, who rejected and cursed the Jews. For they turned the real Creator God, who is in Jesus, against them. For the real God is the God who created the priesthood of Israel for Himself, to serve the entire world in His name. And God does not ever make mistakes or go back against His own words. So those fake humanistic churches and their human gods might have had some psychopathic “fun” when they tortured, pillaged and murdered God’s priesthood of Jewish men, women and children. But that “fun” ended with their very short perceptions of earthly life. Then they will all pay for that “fun” for all eternity. Clearly, God Himself, along with all the Jewish prophets and all the apostles through whom the real God wrote His Word, disagrees with the lies from their humanistic, Greco-Roman, human gods and their other false gods.

When Zechariah wrote down this prophecy from God in about 480 BC, more than 100 years after the Babylonians took captive and deported Judah in 586 BC, and more than 240 years after Assyria took captive and deported the northern tribes of Israel in about 720 BC, most of the Jews on earth lived in the Diaspora. And most still do, scattered throughout the entire globe. But, throughout all those centuries, God has never forgotten His deported and scattered children of Israel, neither the northern tribes nor the southern tribes. And all that time is but a moment in His eyes, so He never will forget them. To this day, God knows and watches over every individual Jewish descendant of the men and women of Israel who were taken from their homeland, from the land God eternally granted to them through His everlasting and unconditional covenant promise to Abraham and his descendants (Gen. 15:18-21; 26:3; 28:13; Ex. 23:31). Although many elect Jews do not know Yahweh, and some do not even know they are Jews, God knows. And God will return all of them to their land, to the promised land, which includes everything south of the Euphrates River to a river that will one day flow with water again in the Sinai Peninsula, and from the Mediterranean coast to the lands beyond the Jordan River, where the deserts of Arabia begin. Then all those Jews will eagerly and joyfully return to their land, since all will then know Jesus as their God Yahweh in a body of flesh, and crave His presence.

Of course, many whom God calls His chosen people of Israel have Gentile blood in them, and some have mostly Gentile ancestors. But we must realize that God created the church of Israel through a Gentile man named Abraham, a Chaldean. Then God also brought Kenites, Kenizzites, Cushites, Jebusites, Hittites, Canaanites, Moabites and many other Gentiles into His people of Israel, both

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during the Exodus and long after that. God even brought Gentiles into Israel from the populations He was destroying for their violent and unjust ways or extremely exploitative immorality, after He warned those Gentiles to repent and sent His servants to reason with them for more than 400 years.

So, yes, literally all Jews are Gentile in origin, and some more than others. Yet Israel did not become Israel through genetics, but through the hand of God. God chose certain people to become the hosts of all elect on earth and experts in His Law, to become His more immediate and personal priesthood of Israel for the days after His return. And many of those whom the Jews call Gentiles are actually Jews in the eyes of God, the true spiritual descendants of Abraham, who was a host to the needy and a teacher of God’s truths. In fact, some Gentiles are even more related to Abraham through physical genetics than some proudly Jewish people, although that does not matter much to God. Thus, in the end, all the territory promised to Abraham by God will collectively belong to the Jews in Israel and shall be ruled by their Messiah Jesus during the millennium, after Jesus returns. As this and other prophecies indicate, the entire remnant of elect Jews, all whom Yahweh chose in the world—all with the same kind of flesh and spirit that God put in Abraham, all whom God destined to serve Him as His personal priests—will return to Israel, and likely through a long process of gradual immigration.

This process of God bringing the Jews back to Israel began with many wars, which will continue until Jesus returns to bring peace to the world through a war and many deaths. For it says Ephraim, a tribe of Joseph representing all the northern tribes of Israel, “shall become like a mighty warrior.” And so will the southern tribes, represented by the tribe of Judah. Therefore, it is certain that the first Jews who return to Israel, before the second coming of Jesus, will be fighting wars. Only after Jesus returns, will there be peace in all the earth, and no need for a “mighty warrior.” Later, after Jesus returns, “their hearts shall be glad as with wine.” Since this is a Messianic prophecy, the obvious reason they will be glad is because they will see Yahweh God in the Messiah Jesus, when He returns.

It also says, “Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in Yahweh.” So, clearly, the returning Jews will be living in the land with their families, and bearing children there. They will live in Israel a long time before their wars end and before they become glad in Yahweh the Messiah. And their children will not be the first generation born in Israel after their captivity. The descendants of the Jews will live in Israel for many generations after Jesus returns, until the earth ends. For, if we harmonize this with the other prophecies, it must be several generations after the first Jews return before they become “mighty warriors” and bear children, then finally see Jesus come to make them glad. Then note how God, not man, “will whistle for them and gather them in” from the Diaspora scattered all over the world, like a shepherd whistles to a sheep or a small bunch of sheep when he wants them to return to the main flock. God will put the idea or compulsion to return to Israel in the hearts and minds of a few Jews at a time. God will cause them to leave Gentile lands, where He had scattered them and prepared them for their return. Thus, only God Himself will be able to say, “I have redeemed them.” In the end, although we think we rule our own lives, God rules over all things.

God began to return the Jews to Israel in the 19th century. And as soon as He did, others attacked the Jews, just as they did in the sixth century BC, when they returned from the Persian Diaspora. For the people of those lands did not want God to send and teach His priesthood of Israel to work together with them for the prosperity of the land. Rather, the people of Islam and some western nations, like the fascists in Germany, wanted to destroy God and His people. For the spirit of the demonic beast was in those humanists. So the Jews fought their predestined and prophesied wars in Israel, even as those Jews remained apostate humanists themselves, and lacked any real faith in God. For it would be God and God alone who would save them from lies and sins, then declare, “I have redeemed.”

 

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All these wars and other events are part of God’s long process of redeeming His beloved elect Jewish remnant, His world-wide priesthood for their Messiah Jesus. God made the Jews to be like the Aaronic part of the Levitical priesthood should have been, but never quite became. They will be the inner priesthood serving the outer priesthood of the Gentiles, after Jesus returns. And both the southern and northern tribes of Israel shall be one priestly people serving the Messiah. God scattered the Jews like seeds among Gentile lands, after they sinned. But it was necessary for God’s priesthood to be sent out into Gentile lands, and unified as one people there, so they could function as a blessed reminder of God. During those centuries, the beast’s religion of humanism was trying to assimilate the entire world into its man-made laws and hierarchies. But God kept the Jews from assimilating, and reminded the elect Gentiles that God was not the god of the humanistic churches. So the Jews served as a tempering force against humanism throughout the world, although they too were actually humanists themselves. And Jews could not help but remain separate, because God worked in them and through them, since He predestined them to be a blessing to all the peoples on earth (Gen. 12:3).

Therefore, God’s Jewish people first had to know and love all the different peoples on the earth before their Messiah returned to rule the earth, before Jesus would send them out to teach and minister to the Gentiles in the world. Yet now, in these last days before Jesus returns, the scattered Jews will first need to remember their homeland. Then, later, they will give up their humanistic ways and learn to fulfill God’s Law through the Holy Spirit of Jesus. But that time of hosting the world for Jesus will come in its ordained time. In the ESV translation, it said God declared, “in far countries they shall remember Me.” But the pronoun “Me” is not found in the text, and I doubt if this is a correct interpretation. More likely, God actually declared that all Jews would someday remember their homeland, Israel. Then they will return to their homeland and “live with their children” in Israel, but as apostates, as humanists for a time. Then Jesus will return in the end times, after wars with Islamic humanists and the demonic beast himself. Then all Jews on earth will repent to Jesus.

It is also interesting to see how God promised to bring all the Jews back from Egypt and Assyria (see Zech. 10:10). In our day, some Jews still live in Egypt and in some of the lands previously belonging to ancient Assyria. But many have been forced to leave those lands and return to their homeland. Soon all the Jews will leave those lands and return to Israel, as well as from Africa and the rest of the world where they fled long ago. Also, look at how God promised to bring the Jews into the lands Zechariah called Gilead and Lebanon. Of course, those lands do not currently belong to Israel. What we now call Lebanon actually has a very diverse population, although the Hezbollah are attempting to take it over as the enemy of God and Israel. Yet the Golan Heights are now controlled by Israel, even while the most populated regions of Jordan and Syria, south of Damascus, are very antisemitic.

Of course, as previously mentioned, all those lands were included in God’s original promise of a homeland for the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. All those lands will someday belong to Israel, but not through humanistic bullying, only through the hand and power of God. And very little of that land was ever conquered by the human power of Israel throughout history, not before nor after the days of Zachariah. Then the little that has been conquered has been delivered into Jewish hands only very recently, and only to meet their current needs. Yet we should also realize that the wars occurring until Jesus returns are signaling that all those lands will soon will belong to Israel, and by God’s will alone. So this means that Israel must ensure that they will take those lands justly, in God’s ways, forfeiting the unjust practices of humanism. For God will not help even His beloved elect Jews commit unjust deeds. If Jews want to conquer, they must ensure justice for their siblings in the family of humankind. For Israel is to be a priestly nation of God, His representatives on earth,

 

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not just another facsimile of the demonic humanistic beast. Israel must learn to be just and loving, to fulfill God’s intended meaning of His Law, to serve the earth as God Himself also serves the earth.

Now, since this is a Messianic prophecy, and we are living just before the beginning of the end times, when Jesus returns, we might assume that Israel, “like a mighty warrior,” will conquer Gilead and Lebanon fairly soon, very likely within this century. And they would do so before the beast conquers the Middle East and parts of Africa, before the first year of the beast’s seven-year reign. But, even with this expansion of Israel into some parts of its originally promised borders through warfare, Egypt, Lebanon, Gilead and other nations in the Middle East will become Israel’s allies. They will soon become truly Christian nations and build a highway from Egypt, through Israel, extending to the major cities of the lands that once belonged to the ancient Assyrian Empire (Syria, Iraq, Kuwait and parts of Iran, Turkey, etc.). And those previously Muslim lands will build this highway so they can worship the Messiah together with the Jews in Jerusalem, during the new third temple period.

As for the lands God promised to Israel, the returning Jews of the world will fill those lands so much that there will be no more room for all of them. And this will happen within a few generations after Jesus returns. For Jesus will continue to bring Jews back to Israel after He returns, and will even bring back the Jews who do not know they are Jews. Jesus will bring back the Jews who were “lost” during the Assyrian captivity, although I doubt if the northern tribes were ever truly lost. There may more than twenty or thirty million Jews living in Israel within a couple of generations after Jesus returns. Then they will continue to multiply after that. But long before Jesus brings back all the Jews, Ephraim (the northern tribes of Israel) will fight many wars, together with Judah (the southern tribes of Israel). God says they “shall pass through the sea of troubles and strike down the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart” (Zech. 10:11, ESV). In Zechariah’s time, Israel still called Babylon and Persia “Assyria,” because they were the descendants of Assyria. Babylon was Assyria before it took over Assyria. Then Persia was ruled by Babylon before it conquered Babylon. So this prophecy is saying Israel will fight great wars with the nations we now call Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran and so on.

Soon Israel shall win those wars. At sometime during Israel’s wars with Egypt, God will also dry up the Nile, which is the lifeblood of Egypt. So God is about to bring great famine and hardship upon Egypt, sometime before Israel conquers them. And the drying up of the Nile is entirely possible now that a damn has been built in Ethiopia. However, since Israel itself will “pass through the sea of troubles,” those wars will be devastating to Israel as well. Those wars will take many lives on both sides. Also, we should realize that the “waves of the sea” are the waters of the sea itself. In other words, Egypt and the lands that were formerly parts of Assyria, will instigate those wars and all the resulting troubles. Then, after they raise up those waves, Israel will “strike down” those waves, until the lands of Assyria are humbled and Egypt looses its power, that is, its “scepter” of its sovereignty.

We have been seeing this endless “sea of troubles” for a century in the Middle East, including Israel’s wars with Egypt and with the lands previously belonging to ancient Assyria. Since the very day Israel declared itself to be a nation, on May 14, 1948, wars and threats of wars have not ceased. And this prophecy warns us that these wars will not end either, not until the now Muslim lands of Egypt and ancient Assyria succumb, which will likely be the same time that most Muslims convert to pure and biblical Christianity. And, like other prophecies, God declared this about Egypt and the former Assyrian lands: “I will make them strong in Yahweh, and they shall walk in His name,” (10:12) where “His name” refers to Yahweh the Messiah. This does not mean they will convert from their humanistic Islamic faith to that of humanistic false churches. Rather, it means that Yahweh God Himself will become each man’s personal Teacher, that the spirits of people in those Muslim nations

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will trust in the Holy Spirit of Jesus to teach them about God’s Law, causing them to fulfill it. For God said: “I will make them strong in Yahweh.” The people of Egypt and the former lands of ancient Assyria will receive the New Covenant salvation of Yahweh. So Egypt and the Assyrian lands shall become allies of Israel when they convert to biblical Christianity, as was written in other prophecies.

This conversion of Egypt and Assyria, and Israel’s peace with them, will allow Israel to build their temple in Jerusalem. For there will be no more Islamic resistance to them building that temple on the “mountain” in Jerusalem. And that temple must be built and fully functional sometime before the beast begins his seven-year reign. For the beast will commit “the abomination” in that temple and stop sacrifices there. So the end of the Islamic religion is coming soon. If we consider that it will take about a decade to build the third temple, but the end times will only last one generation of about 40 years, and the temple must be built before the last seven years of the beast’s reign during those end times, it means that the third temple will start construction approximately 23 years after the end times begin, plus or minus a few years. Since we are nearing the end of the fifth seal’s era, and the end times will soon begin with the sixth seal’s era, it means that Islam will fall, many nations in the Middle East and Africa will become truly Christian nations, and the Jews will begin to build the third temple within a generation or so. Then, after Jesus returns and destroys the beast’s kingdom, He will enter that temple, to the praise and glory of Israel, Egypt, Assyria and the elect throughout the world.

Then God said this: “Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars! Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled! The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!” (Zech. 11:1-3, ESV). Here the “trees” represent notable or strong men, usually warriors. And these trees are in Lebanon and Bashan, an area on the western border of Lebanon, west of the Golan Heights, a part of Syria and extending into northeastern Jordan. Two kinds of trees fall in Lebanon and another kind in Bashan. So it seems that this is a prophecy about three kinds of armies. The everlasting cedar falls in Lebanon and is mourned by the cypress, a symbol of everlasting life. In other words, warriors will fall in Lebanon when they are expected to stand forever. Then a large, strong army, a “thick forest” of oaks, will fall in Syria.

These three verses in chapter eleven continue the prophecy started in verse seven of the previous chapter. In the previous chapter God said that, in the end times: (1) Israel will fight wars in the Middle East; (2) Jews will settle in Lebanon and Gilead (Jordan and southwestern Syria); (3) both Egypt and the lands previously belonging to ancient Assyria will be humbled, yet strengthened and saved by Yahweh, to walk in His name (i.e., they will genuinely convert to the New Covenant sect of Judaism before the Messiah returns and will practice a pure, biblical form of Christianity); and (4) Yahweh the Messiah will return and bring all the rest of the Jews back to Israel. So, in these first three verses of chapter eleven, it reiterates the parts of the previous prophecy, that tribulations will fall upon the lands of Lebanon and Syria (Bashan) during this same time period. Fires of war will devour many warriors in Lebanon, an army that most expected to stand forever. And strong armies, with many soldiers, will be cut down in Syria. Then the “shepherds” or authorities in those lands will “wail” in anguish, because “their glory is ruined.” Their armies were like “lions” hunting in “the thicket of the Jordan,” but they will all perish, so those “shepherds” will have lost all their power.

This prophecy might also refer to the plague of fire that will occur during the time of the first trumpet (Rev. 8:7), since that plague will likely burn various places throughout the earth, and will probably not burn a contiguous area covering a third of the earth. However, it most likely refers to fires of war. For the acts of cutting down trees seem to be done by the armies of Israel. So it seems to indicate that Israel’s soldiers will defeat and destroy armies in Lebanon and Syria (Bashan). Now,

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since this would be relatively inconsequential in light of the other massive, deadly, world-wide plagues of the end times, we must ask why these relatively small wars in Lebanon and Syria were deemed so important that God granted this specific prophecy about them. And there may be two reasons: First, they suggest that Jews will then be able to live in Lebanon, Jordan and the southern parts of Syria, in the lands God promised to them, in all the lands south of the Euphrates river. And second, these three verses (11:1-3) also introduce Zechariah’s next prophecies about God striking down the false shepherds in Israel and removing deceivers from the land. Those prophecies (Zech. 11:4-17; 13:1-9) were to occur in the time of Rome, and will also occur just before Jesus returns, in the days of the final beast, as explained above, just after the beast will destroy the Great Prostitute.

Then, in chapter 14 of Zechariah, God continues the prophecy about Him returning, as the Messiah, to destroy the beast: “Behold, a day is coming for Yahweh, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst. For I will gather all [or ‘all kinds of’] the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations as when He fights on a day of battle. On that day His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. [Azal is due east of the Temple Mount, across the Kidron Valley, near the peak of the Mount of Olives.] And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him” (Zech. 14:1-5, ESV).

So Yahweh told Zechariah that “a day is coming for Yahweh,” a day for the Spirit of God called Yahweh in the Messiah, when the “feet” of His body of human flesh “shall stand on the Mount of Olives.” And that day will be after Yahweh “will gather all kinds of [Hebrew = kol, “the whole, all manner of, any of, etc.”] nations against Jerusalem to battle.” This refers to the first attack of the beast, during the first year of his seven-year reign. The beast will come with armies from his seven nations in his new Roman Empire to conquer Israel, as well as other lands in the Middle East and parts of western Africa. At that time, they will take Jerusalem, plunder the houses, rape women and send half of the city into exile. So the beast’s armies will be typical humanistic oppressors, just as psychopathic as Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome were in ancient times. Now, in this prophecy, it skips the details about the subsequent years of the beast’s occupation, and simply states: “Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations” and “on that day His feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives.” But, from other prophecies, we know the beast’s armies will leave the region after a few years, to fight against enemies from the north and east, providing an opportunity for Israel and some other nations to cast off his rule over them. Then, in a rage, at the end of his seven-year reign, the Roman beast will return with an even larger international army to destroy all traces of God and His people in Israel. And that is the day when Yahweh, the Messiah Jesus, will return to destroy the beast’s armies.

The beast will be the head of a council of ten rulers who govern seven European nations, each with a different culture and language. Then, because the beast will be a charismatic leader and will become the dominant world power, humanists from all over the world will join him in the end, when he goes out to destroy all supposedly “religious superstition” of what will be the world’s other dominant religion at that time. That is, in the name of Satan’s religion of humanism and self-worship, all the secular nations will be eventually ruled by the lies and delusions of the fascist beast, and join that beast in his attempt to annihilate Israel, the temple and all that he somehow thinks are the physical causes of Judaism and Christianity. For the beast will superstitiously believe that Judaism and its

 

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New Covenant branch of biblical Christianity will collapse if the city of Jerusalem is destroyed, just like Islam collapsed when Mecca was destroyed. But faith in God never ended in the past, when the beast’s ancestors in Babylon and Rome destroyed Jerusalem. And that beast will know nothing about the power of God’s real Holy Spirit to teach and train elect spirits to fulfill His Old Covenant Law for their salvation from lies and sins. Thus, the beast and his minions will march to their deaths at Armageddon based on a fantasy, and will be too stupid to account for spiritual truths and realities.

God Himself will delude and gather the beast’s armies against Jerusalem for their slaughter. And Jerusalem will be greatly divided in those days. Half of the people will be unbelievers, either secular or theistic humanists who place their faith in the beast. But the rest will be the elect who place at least some faith in the real God, and hate the injustice and psychopathy of the beast. When the beast and his armies invade, those who wait for the beast will gather in “safe” places in various parts of the city, when the beast surrounds Jerusalem, thinking he will spare them as he murders all the resisting citizens of Jerusalem. For the beast and his thugs will be just like most humanistic conquerors in history, like the Roman and Nazi armies, promising salvation for those who join them in murdering and plundering their siblings in the family of humankind. Like Satan, the beast will kill whomever refuses to bow to his will and worship him for his own selfish political purposes. But the elect will realize that life would not be worth living, neither for them nor for future generations, if the fascist beast became the sole god of their lives. So they will war against that beast to their last dying breath.

After the beast conquers the Middle East, half the citizens of Jerusalem will be exiled, and they will be those who stand up for God’s kind of just, equitable love, especially the awakened elect. And the half that remain will make an oath to the beast, declaring that they will uphold the beast’s perverted forms of “law and order.” But, when the secular nations to the north and east start a world war and kill a third of the earth’s population (Rev. 9:15-18), the beast will go out to stop that war and to take over those other world powers, leaving Israel and his other lands in that region with a bare minimum of occupying forces. So all the elect Jews of Israel will regain access to Jerusalem and its temple, which they will cleanse of the beast’s abominations. These Jews will have peace for about three years, while the beast is gone. And it is also many of the coerced Jews will then forsake their oaths to the beast and realize that it is better to die resisting the beast than it is to live under his psychopathic rule. But the beast will overcome his enemies to the north and east, then return in a rage to reconquer the lands he took at the beginning of his reign. And this time, the beast will not simply exile the Jews and Christians who believe in God or His ways, but will intend to execute them all. But Jesus will return at that time. And our God Jesus will further delude those international armies, causing them to turn against one another and kill one another. And, after that, Jesus will take the lives of all surviving non-elect in Israel and the world. Then He will set His feet on the Mount of Olives, near the temple.

Many Jews will be humanists, and will side with the beast. But some humanistic Jews will become disenchanted with the beast after he and his armies continue to kill, rape and pillage even other Jewish humanists in Israel. Their faith in man as the ruler of his own destiny, their religion of humanism, will be shaken. Thus, God will prepare the elect among them to open their hearts to His truths. Then some of those Jews, those whose spirits desire Yahweh and His loving ways, will join the Jews who resist the beast. We come to this conclusion when we assess a rational harmonization of the end-time prophecies, and because we have seen the same thing in other humanistic lands ruled by little beasts or anti-Christs. Now Daniel prophesied that this beast, at the beginning of his seven-year reign, will conquer Israel, Egypt and other lands in the Middle East and Africa (Dan. 11:40-45). So a similar thing will occur in some other lands too, further dividing the elect from the non-elect.

 

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John prophesied that Gentiles, the armies of the beast, will trample the city of Jerusalem during the first half of that beast’s seven-year reign, while two prophets proclaim God’s words in Jerusalem (Rev. 11:2). This means the beast’s armies will plunder, rape and do whatever they desire to Israel’s citizens. Of course, as with all psychopaths, the beast’s actions will severely divide the people while he rules Israel. As God’s two prophets and their supporters are drawing the elect closer to God, the beast, as a fascist secular humanist who despises God and all religions, will be very busy trying to draw the non-elect Jewish secular and theistic humanists, all who worship human gods and want to be human gods themselves, to himself, while he slanders all who do not worship him. Then the beast and most of his army will be forced leave Israel after three and a half years, to engage in a conflict with lands to the north and to the east of his homeland. But, before the beast’s main body of troops leave, they will commit the prophesied “abomination of desolation” in Jerusalem’s temple for the sakes of the Jewish humanists who made a “covenant” to worship him (Dan. 9:27). At that time, he will also kill the two prophets, then likely broadcast a video of their dead bodies lying on the ground for three and a half days, until God’s Spirit raises those two prophets from the dead (Rev. 11:7-11).

After the beast and most of his troops leave the Middle East and Africa, Israel will regain control of Jerusalem. Then the beast and his international army will not be able to return and reconquer Israel until the very end of his reign. And, when he does return at the end of his seven-year reign, Jesus will allow the beast’s armies to drive all the elect into the area around Jerusalem, where the beast’s armies will surround them. Then it says the Messiah shall return and set His feet on the Mount of Olives. But it also says: “the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah. Then Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him” (Zech. 14:4-5, ESV). So our God and Messiah Jesus will return sometime after the Mount of Olives is split in two. And God’s purpose for splitting that Mount in two, and forming a “very wide valley” between its northern and southern halves, will be to provide a large protected area for the fleeing elect to hide and defend themselves when the beast has surrounded Jerusalem. Only after they flee into that “very wide valley,” will Jesus return with “all the holy ones with Him” (i.e., with all the saints of the first resurrection and all the angels with Him).

So there are two things we need to understand here. One is that the “very wide valley” will “reach to Azal,” which is located almost due east of the southern side of the Temple Mount, where the third temple will be built. So that new valley will provide a good view of the third temple, but will be hidden from the beast’s armies to the east, since it will lay behind the peak of the Mount of Olives to the east, since that valley will only reach to Azal, which is near the peak of the Mount of Olives. This will provide a “wall” around the elect who flee to Jerusalem, to those who cannot fit in the city itself.

Also, God told these elect that “you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah.” But how did they flee at that time? For no biblical references to this earthquake exist, except this prophecy in Zechariah, and the archaeological evidence of it (they found evidence of a severe earthquake, with a magnitude of up to about 8.2 on the Richter scale, in the Jerusalem area during the 8th century BC). Now Uzziah was a relatively good king, reigning from about 792 to 740 BC. And the reason given for that earthquake is often attributed to this: “But when [Uzzaiah] was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly and he trespassed against [Yahweh] his God, for he went into [Yahweh’s] temple to burn incense on the altar of incense” (II Chron. 26:16, WEB). God had always demanded a firm separation of church and state. The secular king was to handle secular affairs alone, and none but God’s chosen Aaronic priests could do the works of

 

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interceding between Him and His people, such as by burning incense with prayers in the temple. So, when Uzziah did this, the Aaronic priests kicked that king out of the temple and Uzziah was so angry and arrogant that he did not repent. Thus, God gave him leprosy, as a sign that he was spiritually unclean. “Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from [Yahweh’s] house. Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land” (II Chron. 26:21, WEB). However, during the reign of Uzziah and Jotham, the Scriptures also said, “The people still acted corruptly” (II Chron. 27:2). And this is when Jewish history claims that the great earthquake occurred, and when archaeological evidence indicates that it happened. Therefore, the Jews of that time fled while they were apostate and unfaithful to their God.

In other words, when God gave Zechariah the prophecy, saying that the Jews of Israel would flee into the valley as they did in the “in the days of Uzziah,” He was saying they would flee as a people who “acted corruptly.” By His unmerited grace, God will form a protective and “very wide valley” by splitting the Mount of Olives up to Azal, under the shadow of His temple presence, even while those Jews remain apostate and unfaithful. Although most in Israel will still be unjust, vindictive and cruel humanists, who do not judge according to the motives and intents of individual spirits, God will still protect them when they flee from the beast into the Jerusalem area. Then, when our God and Messiah Jesus returns, He will land right in front of that valley and walk from the end of that valley in the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron Valley, so He can enter the east gate of His temple.

And Jesus will destroy that beast and all his armies before they can set foot in Jerusalem, while they are flooding the valleys of Armageddon and surrounding Jerusalem. Therefore, since Jesus will kill them all before they can enter Jerusalem the second time, the beast will not exert any control over that city during the last half of his reign. The beast will still be popular with non-elect humanists of the city and the world. And pockets of loyal fans of the beast will gather to wait for him to enter the city, and will be faithful to their “covenant” with him. But they too will die when Jesus returns. So, as soon as the beast’s main body of troops leave Israel, Yahweh will stir up the devout Jews and their now-Christian (formerly Muslim) neighbors to overcome the remainder of the beast’s occupying forces, since there will be only a few of the beast’s troops left in the land, likely the weakest troops.

Our God Jesus will cause all the non-elect Jews who sided with the beast to die, because He will purify Jerusalem, Israel and the entire world as He returns to rule as their King. But He will cause all elect Jews to repent, to admit that they are worse sinners than they ever thought they were. God will divide His elect from the non-elect throughout the end times, starting with the revival of His true church at the beginning of the end times, during the era of the sixth seal. But He will continue to cause the repentance of the elect throughout the end times, as He has in all history, up to the day of day of His return when causes all elect Jews on earth to repent, and even past then, during the last day of judgment at the gates of heaven. Throughout the eras of the seven seals, God has been separating the elect from the non-elect, forming a dichotomy on earth, in preparation for the day He will destroy all the wicked non-elect in the world, then rule the elect with loving justice and equity.

This prophecy is clearly about the second coming of Jesus Christ, our God Yahweh. And Yahweh’s physical feet shall touch the physical ground of the physical Mount of Olives, meaning that Yahweh shall be coming to Israel in a body of human flesh. The body of Jesus is Yahweh’s body of flesh. The same Jesus we saw in a body of flesh in the first century shall descend upon the Mount of Olives, likely near Gethsemane, near the very garden where they took Him captive on the night of the Passover, before Rome beat and crucified Him to pay for our sins. From there, He will have a good view of the new temple in Jerusalem. Then Jesus will walk to the Golden Gate and into the temple grounds. But, sometime not long before His feet touch the ground, there will be a great earthquake

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will split the Mount of Olives into northern and southern halves, in an east-west line. Yet this cannot be a severe earthquake that will damage the nearby temple before Jesus enters it. Rather, it would entail some kind cave-in of the Mount of Olives into an underground cavern which forms the valley, causing the earth around the Mount to tremble like an earthquake. Then the collapsing earth would possibly increase underground water pressure. Then the pressured water may open new underground passageway for the water to flow beneath Jerusalem and burst out somewhere above some valley.

Thus, this prophecy says, “On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter” (Zech. 14:8, ESV). So the formation of the valley between the Mount of Olives will not cause the waters to flow from Jerusalem immediately, but will begin to flow on the day Jesus returns. And these “living waters” (i.e., clean, potable, flowing waters) will not depend on the winter rains, but the source of this water will come from underground, and will flow even in the hot, dry summer. Then half of these waters will go to the “eastern sea” (to the Dead Sea and to the Red Sea when that overflows), and half to the “western sea” (to the Mediterranean Sea). Yet, for these waters to flow that distance and in both directions, the flow would need to be a substantial amount of water. So this will be a full, powerful river of valuable living waters coming out of Jerusalem, not merely a little trickling stream.

So we see how many events will occur on the “day” Yahweh Jesus returns. He will cause the beast’s international armies to war against one another for a time, kill the survivors of that internal war, eliminate all the other non-elect on earth, open an underground channel for a river to flow from Jerusalem, cause the repentance of all the elect Jews in the world to Him, and will do much more, all on the same “day.” Now most imagine that His ascension from the sky will last only a few minutes or hours during a regular “day.” But, as previously mentioned, this prophecy declares: “On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost. And there shall be a unique day, which is known to Yahweh, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light” (14:6, ESV). So the sun will not shine, nor the moon and stars on that day. All the light will come directly from our God Jesus, until He lands on earth for the evening sacrifices at the temple. And that “unique day” will be when “cold” or “frost” is expected, which is from late November to early March. Since the Day of Atonement is in late September or early October, when there is no frost, His return might not be then, as many seem to think. So will it be at Hanukkah or Purim or at a time when no Jewish holiday is celebrated? It seems strange that Yahweh Jesus might not return on a day that His Law does not set aside as a day of celebration, but He might, to create a new holiday that celebrates His New Covenant salvation.

Also, the Jews likely will build the temple as an earthquake-proof structure, since earthquakes are fairly common in the region, because it is near the fault line which follows the Dead Sea Rift (the Jordan Valley). So the third temple will stand when the Mount of Olives splits to form a valley stretching to the temple area. And the builders of the temple might even disturb the underground structures of caverns or underground rivers beneath the Mount of Olives, when they build a deep flexible pad under the temple structure to make it earthquake proofed. And the construction of this pad may eventually collapse the Mount of Olives all the way to its peak near Azal, forming the wide protective valley sometime before the beast’s second attack against Israel. Thus, as the people of Israel will flee the beast’s armies and gather for their last stand in Jerusalem, many will be able to camp in the open spaces of that protective valley, next to the Kidron Valley, across from the Temple Mount, since both known as God’s mountains. There they will see Jesus return in glory to save them.

The historian Josephus, in his book called Antiquities, also reiterated a version of the Jewish historical tradition about Uzziah and the earthquake. But Josephus said that Uzziah was attempting to make a sacrifice in an unlawful manner, but was being rebuked by the priests. Then Uzziah was so

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angry that he threatened to kill the priests. And it was then that “a great earthquake shook the ground ... leprosy seized upon him immediately ... and before the city, at a place called Eroge, half [i.e., ‘a large piece of’] the mountain broke off from the rest on the west, and rolled itself four furlongs, and stood still at the east mountain, till the roads, as well as the king’s gardens, were spoiled by the obstruction” (book IX, chapter X, paragraph 4). Archaeologists confirmed this earthquake did indeed occur, with a magnitude of about 8 and an epicenter somewhere in Lebanon, in bout 750 BC, that is, about ten years before Uzzaiah died. Two geologists also located the landslide at Uzziah’s garden.

So, although the Jewish account that Josephus may have had details that might have been wrong, the earthquake that Zechariah spoke about in Uzzaiah’s time was correct. It did occur where the Kidron and Hinnom valleys meet, just south of the Mount of Olives. The Hebrew name of this place is Nahal Atzal/Azal (see Wikipedia article on Azal). And this also suggests that Zechariah’s prophecy was from God, since he spoke the confirmed truth. Therefore, we will see the people of Israel flee into that wide valley. Many will be assembled there, below the Temple Mount, when Yahweh, the God of Zechariah, comes in a body of flesh and sets His feet on the Mount of Olives. There will be many Jews in that valley who will see Jesus physically descend to the Mount of Olives on that day.

Furthermore, Zechariah states that Yahweh Jesus will have “all the holy ones with Him.” Since Jesus Yahweh will come down from heaven, through the sky of the earth, “all the holy ones with Him” will come from heaven. Some will be angels, but there will also be souls of the departed, those whom the beast and other enemies of God killed in the past and will be granted new bodies of earthly flesh, so they can live with Jesus and the survivors during the millennium. Here Zechariah was referring to the first resurrection of the dead. Most of these “holy ones” will be the elect who were beheaded by the beast during the last half of his seven-year reign. But there might be other elect souls from the past who will be brought with them. And these resurrected souls will become priests of God, who shall teach and govern with Jesus on earth during the millennium (Rev. 20:6).

This prophecy then proclaims: “And Yahweh will be King over all the earth. On that day Yahweh will be one and His name one” (Zech. 14:9, ESV). Jews today do not pronounce the name of God, and simply refer to Him as “the name” (Hebrew = shem), despite the fact that God commanded them to use His name often, such as in prayers, like all the prophets did. And fake humanistic churches also distort God’s name through their Platonic anthropological doctrines, and have divided the name of Jesus from the name of Yahweh. Both separate God’s name from God Himself. But the one Creator God is an eternal Spirit, without a beginning and without an end. And all that exists in both the material space-time continuum and in the spiritual space-time continuum exists solely through His will, and by His power causing it all to exist, including His name. So God is fully able to exist in a body of flesh or in His name, since He can be in any “size” of space at any “time,” and He Himself and He alone defines all space and time, causing everything to be whatever He wills it to be. So the whole of Yahweh God’s Spirit is in Jesus’ body and in His name, as well as everywhere else, in both the spiritual and material realms, all at once. And the name of Jesus is one with the name of Yahweh. So Jesus will be Yahweh, the King of all the earth and all of heaven, together with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, all three at once. There will be no distinction between Jesus and Yahweh on the day of His return, nor forever after that. All on earth will know that Jesus is Yahweh on that day.

The fifth bowl of God’s wrath against the beast’s Roman kingdom will have been poured out just before that beast calls the armies of the world to join him in his attempt to utterly destroy Israel and Jerusalem (Rev. 16:10). And it seems that this darkness will follow the beast and his international armies of humanists to Armageddon in Israel. Then Jesus will come and His light will shine into that darkness, dissipating and overcoming it. It will be “a unique day, which is known to Yahweh.” Since

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many Old and New Testament prophecies indicate that the Messiah will come in the sky, shining with a very bright light, like lightning from one end of the sky to the other, the Messiah shall begin a new day and a new era for Israel and all the earth. And when it says “living waters” will flow from Jerusalem “on that day,” it means the life-giving figurative waters of His Holy Spirit will also flow from Jerusalem, where Jesus sits on His throne, from that day and forever after, into all the world.

Next, look at how this ESV translation says: “The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate f Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Nananel to the king’s winepresses. And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security” (Zech. 14:10-11, ESV). But another translation might be: “The whole area will be made an uninhabited region, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem [from the area about 10 kilometers (6 mi.) northeast of Jerusalem to about 56 kilometers (35 mi.) into the hills in the Negev south of Jerusalem]. But Jerusalem will remain aloft on its site ... And it shall be inhabited ...” This basically seems to be saying that, on the day Jesus returns, the area around Jerusalem, from Geba to Rimmon, will be empty. All the residents will have either perished or evacuated during the beast’s seige of Jerusalem, and all the buildings likely will have been destroyed by the beast, or demolished after the war. So it will be turned into a wilderness or national park. But Jerusalem will remain full and secure. For Jerusalem will not evacuate when the beast’s armies surround it (i.e., prophecies say the beast’s troops will bypass Jerusalem to areas south of it, up to the Dead Sea, to surround Jerusalem).

Most people in the region between Geba and Rimmon will no longer live there, after the wars devastate their homes. And, although the population of Israel will grow exponentially (with Jews immigrating from the Diaspora), a few will live in Jerusalem, but most will live in the depopulated areas of the promised land, from the Negev to the Euphrates River. And a huge park and agricultural lands around Jerusalem will be necessary around the capital city of the world. There will be a need for basically uninhabited areas, with scattered homes and facilities, so visitors to Jerusalem can set up tents there, such as during the Feast of Booths. Then those visitors of Jesus will also have the freedom to walk in nature and pray. For our God Jesus speaks to our spirits through His natural creations as much as He does through words spoken to our flesh. So those coming for His counsel will need to tend the garden of the earth and take responsibility for its creatures as well as hear Him.

If we look at the wording of this prophecy, we must conclude that the beast will not have come close enough to harm the center of Jerusalem before Jesus returns. Jerusalem will be smaller, “from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.” Most of these places are on the north wall of the city, facing the direction from which the main body of the beast’s armies will attack. So most of the places is north of them would be destroyed by the beast. Then the winepresses are just south of the old city, where many of the beast’s advance forces will likely be held back. Thus, the city of Jerusalem will be much smaller than it is now, but the temple and the ancient parts of it will be kept intact. And the vain beast will not bomb nor burn those “religious” parts, but preserve them, until he can personally supervise their defilement for his own vindictive pleasure. After all, the beast will be a Roman psychopath who does that sort of thing. Yet his plans will backfire, because God will use the beast’s obsessive hatred for the Judaeo-Christian religion to preserve His temple for Himself and for all the elect coming to Him.

By saying all these places in Jerusalem will “remain aloft,” unmoved from their site, it means that the beast’s armies, up to the moment Jesus comes to destroy them, will not draw close enough to do any damage to Jerusalem’s central parts, from its north side to its south side. And after that day, “There shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security.” Jesus

 

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will rule Israel and the whole earth for a thousand years from His throne in Jerusalem. And, from the day on, Jesus will ensure that Jerusalem is the safest place on earth for His elect. But the rest of the world will still practice some of the traditions of humanism that Jesus came to destroy on earth, some of the loveless pride of Babylon. So, after a thousand years, Jesus will release Satan to expose those lies and sins. And Satan will create new non-elect souls in Gog and Magog, who rise up against Jesus and come to destroy Jerusalem, after the millennium. But, after those rebels prove that the loveless ways of Babylon are indeed evil, Jesus will destroy them, before they can harm any in the city of Jerusalem. Gog and Magog will perish, and will burn with fire. Then the world will see this and know that literally all the oppressive economic and threatening ways of Babylon are foolish.

After the perfectly just and loving rule of our God Jesus on earth, there will be no excuse for seeking the unjust and unloving ways of Babylon. So the non-elect will not be shown mercy. “And this shall be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths” (14:12, ESV). For they lived for the lusts of their flesh, the lusts of their eyes and the pride of earthly life, speaking vile lies to justify their sins against God’s creations.

In the days of Gog and Magog, God’s enemies will suffer the same fate as the armies of the beast a thousand years before them. “And on that day a great panic from Yahweh shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other. Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance. And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, and whatever beasts may be in those camps” (14:13-15, ESV). As is common among the loveless humanists, they will turn against one another as soon as they feel any threat to themselves, and murder one another. Then even their innocent animals used for battle will die through man’s obsession to be gods. And notice how it says that “even Judah will fight,” in order to save the people of Jerusalem. Even the most peace loving souls serving Jesus Himself will take up arms to war and kill, in order to preserve the freedoms of our God Jesus. And they shall win, since the almighty God will fight with them. Then they shall reuse the plunder from those evil oppressors, and not let things go to waste. They will plunder the plunderers, and redeem what was used for evil.

But notice what Jesus calls all the world to do after the enemies of God have perished, and after the last remnants of humanism have been expunged from the face of the earth: “Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem [and against our God Jesus in that city] shall go up year after year to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts [who is the Messiah Jesus], and to keep the Feast of Booths. And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, there will be no rain on them. And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which Yahweh afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths. This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths” (14:16-19, ESV). First, notice how Zechariah almost exclusively calls the Messiah and King by the name of the one Creator God, “Yahweh.” Then notice how he calls nations, like Egypt, “families,” because all nations are to be governed in the same way God ordained extended families to be governed, with love for one another, led by the elderly who have learned to love in a just, equitable and godly way.

But why will God require all the “families” of the world to keep the Feast of Booths (Lev. 23:39-43)? Well, it will be because the great lie and sin of Satan’s humanism was its almost exclusive focus on becoming gods who could live only for the lusts of their flesh, the lusts of their eyes and the pride of life, solely for things of the earth. So the Feast of Booths will reminds us that our lives on earth

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are extremely short and temporary, like living in tents, “tabernacles” or booths as we travel through a foreign land away from our permanent homes in heaven. For God gave this as the reason for wanting us to celebrate the Feast of Booths: “that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt” (Lev. 23:43, WEB). That is, when God frees us from the bondage of lies and sins in Satan’s world order, He wants us to realize that our bodies of flesh on earth are “temporary shelters,” not our eternal homes.

The Feast of Booths occurs five days after the Day of Atonement, a day set aside for repentance and the reconciliation of our relationship with God, after the harvest has filled our houses with food for the coming year, in the seventh month of the Jewish lunar calendar (i.e., in September or October). So, after we repent and bear fruits of repentance for five days, to undo our sins, and after we have meditated on what we need to change in our lives for our atonement, we go to a Sabbath day of “solemn rest” in “temporary shelters” (in tents or booths, Lev. 23:42). For we must understand that life on earth is fleeting and brief, as we live, eat and drink in a tent or booth for a week. Then we leave the tent and go to another Sabbath day of “solemn rest” on the eighth day, in our regular homes, remembering that those longer lasting homes are also temporary. This is why this Feast of Booths is also called “the Feast of Yahweh” (Lev. 23:39,41) and a time to “rejoice before Yahweh” (Lev. 23:40). For, if we remind ourselves that our true, everlasting and real home is with our heavenly Father in heaven, not on earth, we can face even our deaths in the flesh with great joy.

Some may think that when it says Yahweh will also strike His enemy’s horses, mules, camels and donkeys, this must be speaking about an ancient battle, not a future battle, since we now use only machinery for transporting troops and supplies in wars. But we must remember that this is speaking about the end times after the plagues in the eras of the sixth and seventh seals. So, by that time, the armies of Gog and Magog, and possibly even the beast’s armies, will need to rely on horses and other animals for transportation. For the world’s economy, along with the means to produce and transport oil and fuel, will have been destroyed by previous plagues. Then, when Jesus rules the earth, times will be slower and more natural, likely without much machinery. And we must also remember that even some Russian troops in our day had to rely on horses, camels and donkeys in their war with Ukraine, since their motorized vehicles were destroyed by Ukraine. So, when times will be much worse in the end times, with a lack of infrastructure to provide fuel and maintenance for war machinery, it is highly likely that God’s enemies will rely on animals like horses and such.

Then we are told that “a great panic from Yahweh shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other.” God will cause these soldiers to kill one another. For God will put them in a state of complete panic. For God is able to cause either intense fear or calm inside a person’s soul, int both the minds of their spirits and in the minds of their flesh. God can do this at any time He chooses. These soldiers of the beast will still be standing on their feet, but all the strength of their flesh (muscles) will be used to kill one another.

And it seems that this infighting will also occur when the beast surrounds Jerusalem as well, when Jesus casts the beast alive into hell, together with Satan (Rev. 20:1-3). For, after the beast and Satan are gone, the human god of those loveless non-elect psychopathic armies, and their indwelling evil spirits, will no longer be able to unite those God-haters. There will be nothing to keep them together for the purpose of their worshiped beast. So they will be loyal only to themselves. Then God will utter words of judgment against their souls, and His condemnation will proclaim their doom, causing them to panic. And their souls will no longer be falsely comforted by the self-affirming lies of the beast and Satan. Thus, in their uncontrollable panic, not only will they kill one another, but the armies of Judah will more effectively fight against them as well. Then Jesus will finish off any

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survivors. As a result, the armies of the beast and his world-wide allies, who vastly outnumbered the Israeli armies, will all perish before they touch the central parts of Jerusalem. Before Jesus lands on the Mount of Olives, likely just before the temple’s evening sacrifice, all the non-elect on earth will be gone. All their demeaning and dehumanizing slander will end, all their bullying and terrorizing will cease, and all the hearts of the elect will be freed from their artificially induced obligations to them. And even the trauma of those lies and sins eventually will be washed from elect minds of flesh by the Holy Spirit of Jesus, including the dark thoughts and rage which that trauma triggers in them.

In the days following the return of Christ, all the wealth and useful things owned by the people of the beast’s kingdom will be left behind for the elect to take as plunder. For millenniums, the beast’s four religious kingdoms have exploited the elect and all God’s creations. Babylon, Persia, Greece and all the humanists since the Roman Empire became the dominant world power, have terrorized, killed, enslaved, oppressed, plundered and deceived God’s people. Now their power is waning and drawing to an end. Soon Jesus will return and all the power of Satan’s entire world order will perish forever.

Even though Egypt will have become a truly Christian nation in the end times, long before Jesus returns, and will likely war against the beast as Israel’s allies in the days of the seventh trumpet, they will not be exempt from His decree to celebrate the Feast of Booths. For literally all families, all the nations of the world, will have had some deceased siblings who were enemies of God and His church of Israel. So all families will need to go to Jerusalem to keep the Feast of the Booths, to be reminded that life on earth is lived in temporary tents or “tabernacles” of flesh. For the Feast of Booths was the last of three feasts which God’s Law commanded His people to celebrate at the temple in Jerusalem, if possible. (The first two are the Passover in the spring and the Pentecost in the summer.) So Jesus first brought us the New Covenant at a Passover in AD 28. Then He gave us His teaching and training by His Holy Spirit at the Pentecost, 49 days later. After that, He waited for the harvest of the end times. And this long summer of hard work, laboring to grow the fruits of His truth throughout the world, is about to end. The harvest or gathering together of all His elect and all of His biblical truths will begin with the great revival of His true New Covenant church of Israel, during the era of the sixth seal. Then it will continue through the plagues of the seventh seal’s era, as He removes all the chaff and dirt from that harvest at the same time. And, after the last of the chaff and dirt has been removed, Yahweh, our God and Messiah Jesus, will return to rule as our loving King.

Then look at these last words of Yahweh through Zechariah, and how they relate to the Feast of Booths in the temple: “And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, ‘Holy to Yahweh.’ And the pots in the house of Yahweh [i.e., in the temple] shall be as the bowls before the altar. And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to Yahweh of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and oil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader [Hebrew = Kna’aniy, meaning ‘Canaanite, merchant, salesman’] in the house of Yahweh of hosts on that day” (14:20-21, ESV). So Gentiles from all nations will come to Jerusalem to see Jesus and celebrate the Feast of Booths, likely camping in tents on the uninhabited parklands extended south from Geba to Rimmon. And they will travel to Jerusalem and the temple on horses, which will have celebratory bells on them, ringing out “Holy to Yahweh” with every step. Then every pot that cooks the meat of the sacrifices in Jerusalem and all of Judah will be “holy to Yahweh of hosts,” meaning that the Jews will cook the meat in their own tents and feed their Gentile guests with the sacrificial meat and food offerings (like “oil”). In other words, the Jews will be hosts of the Gentiles coming to worship Yahweh Jesus and to celebrate the Feast of Booths. Also, there will be no “trader” or salesman from which they will purchase sacrifices or food offerings, meaning all will be distributed freely, without

 

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requiring anyone to buy any of it. All that will be offered to Yahweh Jesus in the temple, then taken home to be prepared for meals, will be granted without the use of any of Satan’s invention of money.

At this Feast of Booths, all God’s people, both the Jews and visiting Gentiles, will live in temporary shelters and rejoice in the providence of God by giving food offerings and by making sacrifices to Yahweh at the temple. Then these offerings and sacrifices will be a feast shared by the priests of Israel, who will include all elect Jews and all elect Gentiles. And the Jews will host everyone, without any discrimination, all year and every year. But, during the feast, they will host the Gentiles in tents or booths for seven days, where the first and last days are Sabbaths, set aside to serve God alone, by serving all His creations, as they will when they dwell in their permanent homes of heaven.

After Jesus returns, all the Jews will become sanctified and chosen priests directly serving our God Jesus, like the Aaronic priests were in Old Covenant times. So each will deny all of one’s own selfish interests, like good priests do, and so will the elders among the Gentiles. Then, like all the feasts and rituals God has ever commanded, the purpose of the Feast of Booths will be to remind the people about God, about His attributes and about His works for them. The specific reason God gave for this feast was so all “generations may know that [He] made the people of Israel dwell in booths/tents,” to remember that their lives on earth are temporary, and also to remember that He “brought them out of the land of Egypt,” out of slavery to the lies and sins of Satan’s world order. God wants all of us to continuously remember that earthly life is for the teaching and training of our spirits by His Holy Spirit, so we will live to learn how to practice His kind of just love, and not solely for our own flesh.

God also commanded all who had members of their families that “have come against Jerusalem” to celebrate this Feast of Booths. All must remind themselves that they are sinners like their forefathers, who did not trust in God. All were once like Israel, who turned back from entering the promised land and who were forced to wander in the wilderness, living in tents or booths for forty years, until all of that generation died—that is, all died except Joshua and Caleb, who were the only men of faith from that generation. And this feast is also a good time to remember that faithful Caleb was a Gentile brought into the tribe of Judah, who was then chosen to represent the tribe of Judah. And all Gentile elect today are brought into the tribe of Judah through Jesus, when He grants them faith, because the tribe of Jesus is Judah. This feast is a time for all the Jews to remember that they did not enter their promised land because they were unfaithful to God, but His unmerited grace grants faith. Then all the elect Gentiles must also remember that they too will enter God’s priesthood of Israel through His grace alone. This is why all the elect must come to worship Yahweh, their King Jesus, because all had always chosen to follow human kings instead of God. God the only King of every individual.

Ultimately, the real purpose of the Feast of Booths was to remind God’s Jewish and Gentile elect of their mortality and a future time at home in heaven, where God will be their only King, when their spirits will abandon their earthly perceptions and dwell in new bodies made of spiritual substances. There they will be well taught and trained, without any lies, sinfulness and unfaithfulness, and never have a human king again, only Yahweh in body like their own. Since these are the purposes of the Feast of Booths, Yahweh Jesus will require all survivors of all Jewish and Gentile families that had members who fought against Israel in the days before His second coming, to come to Israel every year. All must celebrate their mortality, the fact that their spirits will not always need to endure the perceptions of earthly life, with its great imperfections, with the presence of evil. All the elect will rejoice in the fact that they will go to a day of completing and perfecting, then to a forever home.

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remembrance of Jesus’ New Covenant salvation and deliverance from lies and sins. Then the day of the Pentecost (Shavuot) has become the personal and daily teaching and training of our spirits by the Holy Spirit of the Creator God Himself. So this Feast of Booths will remind all the elect, who all had humanistic family members who fought against God, that Jesus is their only eternal King. And the Jews will also remember that only Joshua, whose name is also Jesus in the Greek language, was truly faithful to God, along with Caleb, their Gentile siblings in the family of God living on earth.

Gentiles were never required to celebrate the Passover or the Pentecost in Jerusalem, since they will only need the Feast of Booths to remind them of all they need to remember. Every fall, the tents of Jews and Gentiles will be scattered throughout fields around Jerusalem, stretching from Geba into Rimmon. All the elect in the priesthood of Israel together, both Jews and Gentiles, will “go up year after year to worship the King,” to esteem and serve Yahweh in Jesus. But, when this prophecy specifies that “everyone who survives” must go to this feast, this seems to exclude this requirement from the offspring or future generations of those survivors. Future generations definitely will come, voluntarily, without any need for threats, through their growing love for Jesus. But it appears that only those who had to endure the end times before Jesus returned, who had been deeply traumatized by the persecutions and wars instigated by fascist humanists, will be absolutely required to go to the Feast in Jerusalem, or at least send family representatives. For internal scars, in our fragile brains of flesh, and therefore in our souls, never really heal. And these cause recurring pains throughout one’s life. These nightmares might fade a little in time, but can never be entirely entirely eliminated from our flesh, not until we cast this flesh aside, until we receive new spiritual bodies in heaven, until we are able to see all things clearly. And the required Feast of Booths each year will remind the scarred souls of the survivors that they will soon receive the relief of those new bodies in heaven. The very existence of this feast, with the preaching of our God Jesus, will comfort those tortured elect souls.

Those elect survivors had seen their nations and their own family members war against God, against God’s one true church of Israel and against Jerusalem. So they will be required to go to the Feast of Tents for their healing, to eat and walk in prayer through the natural wonders of the lands from Geba to Rimmon. Their descendants, those born in the peace of the Messiah’s world, will likely not be required to come. But, since the survivors saw their siblings in humankind, their people from their own nations, join the beast in his attack on Jerusalem, they will need to go to that feast, for their own good. At the very least, each must put it in one’s mind a representative will go there each year. On the other hand, perhaps a few Gentile nations will be exempt, if absolutely no one from those nations ever warred against Israel or Jerusalem, at least not in any way that served the Roman humanism which has spread throughout the world today. But that seems unlikely. For there are non-elect in all nations or tribes, in all extended families of people. And all those non-elect are irresistibly drawn to their hellish father’s religion of self-worship and hierarchical class systems. They all seek esteem and want to be served as gods, then esteem and serve other human gods, instead of the real Creator.

Prophecies indicate that some peoples on earth will become truly Christian nations, after the revival in the era of the sixth seal. And those nations will have nothing to do with the beast, nor his religion of humanism. Those nations will utterly reject the doctrines and precepts of the fascist beast. But they will all have some non-elect among them, loveless souls who condone the humanistic teachings of the beast. Only the elect survivors from those truly Christian nations will be left behind on earth, and all the non-elect will perish on the day Jesus returns. All who once were enemies of Jesus and of Israel, who either inwardly or physically fought alongside the beast in the war of Armageddon, will die and “sleep” until the final judgment day. But all who witnessed the tragedies caused by those

 

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non-elect, all their heartbreaking betrayals, slandering, hate and vengeful injustice, must go “to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts,” and remember that those memories will soon be washed away.

Each year, the traumatized survivors will rest and rejoice at the Feast of Booths, remembering that they will soon be freed from their past horrors. And the elect who have suffered in the way those future elect shall during the end times, know how refreshing and uplifting thoughts of being freed from their past, long-endured fears and tragedies can be. The works of life on earth are rewarding, and loves on earth make it worth living here. But death can be so welcome and comforting, with its total release from pain, with it infinite gain in the eternal homelands. This why such a large park area will be established around Jerusalem, “from Geba to Rimmon,” to accommodate the thousands of tents holding the surviving elect Jews and Gentiles who come to Jesus during the Feast of Booths.

God tells us that “if any families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, there will be no rain on them.” Rain brings life to the earth. But earthly life is not worth living if we do not remember our mortality and our reason for living. Our only purpose in life is learn to love in a just, equitable way, to serve God’s creations as God Himself does in heaven. And even all the spirits that give life to all plants and creatures on earth are here to learn love. So, if the elect forget this purpose, although their spirits were made in God’s image, made able to love more than all the other spirits of life on earth, they will basically forfeit their whole destiny and reason for living. Then the traumas of the elect who survived the end time will inhibit their ability to learn. So they will not learn as freely and openly as they should, since the horrors they saw will cause inner rage and distracting thoughts. Thus, if the surviving elect forget the Feast of Booths, they will be reminded of death through a lack of rain, with droughts, which shall not bring any rejoicing and will provide far fewer explicit reminders of a heavenly future than the Feast of Booths can elicit in them.

In this prophecy, the word “family” (Hebrew = mishpachah, “clan, tribe, family, circle of relatives”) is used synonymously with the word “nation” (Hebrew = goy, “nation, people”). For the nations are families and are to be governed like families, where all look out for the welfare of the others in their land as they should with brothers and sisters in their own nuclear families. Then Egypt, which will become a Christian land before Jesus returns, was given as an example of this kind of “family.” And, in Zechariah’s day, male elders or heads represented their families in many matters of life and faith, binding their families to covenants with God and forming the spiritual, moral structures of their families. Thus, those surviving elders and heads need to be of a right mind and heart, even more than all the other family members, because their role in life is to help the other family members be of a right mind and heart. So the traumatized elders and heads of families will need to celebrate the Feast of Booths and worship Jesus more than anyone, if possible, in Jerusalem where Jesus will be living.

But there would be no room in Jerusalem or the surrounding area for all mature men and their families of the entire world to come and live in tents or booths for eight days! And, with travel time and so on, the entire world cannot be abandoned for two weeks or more. Thus, we conclude that: (1) only a few representative families from each nation will come to Jerusalem each year; (2) families will take turns in going to Jerusalem each year, likely with the oldest families coming first; (3) most families will celebrate the Feast of Booths in their own homelands; and (4) there will not be very many survivors from the nations who warred with Israel or who joined the beast to attack Jerusalem, since most elect will be killed before Jesus returns. And the selected representatives from each nation coming every year will likely include some of their governing (teaching and judging) elders, to indicate that Jesus, not they themselves, will always serve as the Head Teacher and King of every individual man. But, if any nation will not send any representatives, that nation will be appropriately punished by a drought. If they will not celebrate their harvest at the Feast of Booths, and worship the

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King, giving Him thanks for His providence and remembering their eternal lives in heaven, mostly by sharing all the fruits of their land with all of His people in joy, then God will not give them any rain to produce a harvest. Then they will need to humble themselves and beg for food and water from other faithful nations. For God must keep the whole world working together as a united people.

Now let me repeat that, from other biblical prophecies, we know that the “King” who is called Yahweh, will be the Messiah, a man dwelling among us in a body of flesh. For the Messiah Jesus is Yahweh, the one Creator God. Jesus does not have a created human spirit in his body, only God’s uncreated Spirit, the non-material Spirit who created both the spiritual space-time continuum and the material space-time continuum, the Spirit who maintains the existence of both realms in real time and remains outside of both realms at the same time. Think about this. Before the end times, God only required the Jewish members of His church of Israel to celebrate the Feast of Booths, not the Gentiles, although many Jews were converted Gentiles, even since the days of Jacob. Yet Jesus will require all the people on earth, all the elect survivors, to celebrate this feast after He will return.

Therefore, we must conclude that all the people on earth will be Jews, true members of His true church of Israel. Since Jesus will eliminate all the non-elect at His return, all the Gentile survivors will be God’s elect, awakened in their spirits and brought into God’s priesthood of Israel. All the survivors on earth will be siblings in God’s family. And, since God’s true priesthood or church will serve our Messiah, who is Yahweh God, and a priesthood cannot have any inheritance except God, all things on earth will be acknowledged as God’s property, and will be shared in common. Some will be granted stewardship over some things until they die, but they will use that property for God’s purposes, and will not be able to use it for their own selfish purposes. Also, the natural branches of the church (elect physical descendants of Abraham) will serve as priests of the Gentile priests (like the Aaronic priesthood among the other Levites). So the Jews, above all, will share all things in common. And this is why there will be no “traders” or merchants in Jerusalem, since all will be free.

The words, “Holy to Yahweh,” indicate sanctification, being set aside for God’s purposes and God’s works. So, when a high priest, representing the Messiah, had those words written in gold on his head covering, it signified that his head and life were to be dedicated solely to serving God (Ex. 28:36-38). And, when “Holy to Yahweh” will be written on the bells of horses after Jesus returns, it means the horses and their riders will be dedicated to God, as those worshipers go to Him in Jerusalem and the temple. Of course, animals simply do whatever they are caused to do, with spirits that are always aware of God. So the dedication of horses to God’s service is automatically the will of horses, and the work they do in God’s service, by carrying His worshipers to the temple, is actually through the will of God who owns them, and the volition of those who care for them. In other words, if the lives and works of horses are made “holy” and set apart for God’s purposes, then the lives of those who care for the horses also will be “holy” and set aside for God’s purposes as well. The workers who care for those horses will be as “Holy to Yahweh” as the horses they tend, given over to serving God by caring for the horses who provide transportation for worshipers. And, if this is true for those who do the work of caring for horses, then all workers for God’s creations and His people are just as holy.

All who do good works according to God’s will are equally “Hoy to Yahweh,” just as much as a high priest. For a high priest, other priests and elders did the work of teaching and judging the king and the other authorities in their land, keeping them honest. Then the king and other authorities did the work of teaching and judging everyone regarding the natural law, including elders, priests and one another. So, if all these did their works according to God’s will, their lives were “Holy to Yahweh,” set aside for His purposes. Meanwhile, other people constructed buildings, where the works of priests, elders, kings and other authorities lived and did their works for God, as well as the structures

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where all the others lived and worked. By doing this work of building, they enabled and partook in the works of God done by all. Thus, those construction workers were set apart as “Holy to Yahweh.” And the other builders of roads, water and sewage lines and other parts of the infrastructure were also enabling and partaking in all those works too. So they were “Holy to Yahweh.” Then those who grew the food and did all other necessary works also enabled all and partook in the works of all. So they too were “Holy to Yahweh.” Literally all workers of all kinds, as they do God’s will, are “Holy to Yahweh.” And all their good works done through love are forms of true worship from their spirits and in truth. Only those living to do works against God’s will cannot be called “Holy to Yahweh.”

So bells on horses will ring as they carry people, who came from all walks of life, to worship their Messiah Jesus at the temple in Jerusalem. And those bells will signify that the lives of all those worshipers are “Holy to Yahweh,” sanctified to God in Jesus, set apart for His purposes alone. And the bells will signal that they are drawing nearer to their help, wise counsel and eternal salvation with every step those horses take. Also note this low-tech means of transportation. It implies that life on earth will slow down to an organic pace after Jesus returns, where people walk or ride horses, and live like the animals, letting time move them instead of fighting against time and against God’s will. The insanity of modern life in dense urban centers, with families scattered around the globe and lengthy commutes to work, in countless polluting vehicles crowding the formerly agricultural lands, now turned to pavement, will be a thing of the past. Jesus will restore a spiritual perspective of time.

If every pot in Jerusalem and all of Judah is to be holy, dedicated solely to the service of Yahweh God, then everything cooked in those pots must be holy too. All must be sacrifices or offerings to God made in the ways His Law specified. For anything common or unholy, such as meat from livestock which was not butchered according to God’s Law, will defile the pots that are deemed holy. God’s Law declares that, if anything common or unholy touches the holy, the common or unholy thing defiles the holy thing, causing the holy to become common or unholy. So, if “every pot” is holy, no ordinary or common food will be allowed in Jerusalem or Judah. And some food offerings were alcoholic wines, from grapes that had to be grown according to ways God commanded in His Law. So even the vineyards in Judah will need to be established and managed in a particular way as well. Then, since all the food will be holy, it can only be eaten by those who are holy, by those who have been sanctified, set apart for God’s service. For God’s law does not allow any common or unconsecrated person to eat that which is holy or consecrated to Him (e.g., Ex. 29:33; Lev. 6:17-18).

Therefore, when Zechariah prophesied that every pot in Jerusalem and Judah “shall be holy to Yahweh,” he was declaring that everyone who goes to Jerusalem and Judah must be holy as well. Everyone there must be sanctified, serving Yahweh Jesus, on a mission to do His works. All must be priests of God, not allowed to selfishly serve their own selfish ambitions, in a way where they cannot seek any profit for themselves or even handle money. Every day must be a Sabbath for them, and money could not be handled on a Sabbath, since the day must be dedicated to serving God and not oneself. Yet Gentiles from every nation on earth will come to Jerusalem and Judah, to celebrate the Feast of Booths. So the Jews and Gentiles will all be priests of God. The whole true New Covenant church of Israel is the “royal priesthood” of God, where every day is holy and a Sabbath to them.

All the food offerings and sacrificed animals, all that will be processed, cooked and shared during the feasts, will be given to God and become His property. And no trader or seller will be allowed. So the people will not be able to purchase any of their food. Therefore, all who attend the Feast of Booths will eat only what belongs to God, and all that food will be freely given to them. In fact, from the Scriptures, we know that everyone on earth will freely receive all that is needed for a godly and modest life after Jesus returns. All of one’s food, clothing, shelter, education, training, tools,

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equipment, farmland, seeds, offices, workshops and so on will be freely provided. All will live like the Levitical priests, who received common lands and did all kinds of agricultural, construction, educational, policing, social works and so on, not only for one another, but also for widows, orphans, immigrants and the destitute, as their service to God. So the New Covenant priesthood of Jesus throughout the world will be what we now call “socialistic.” And all that is on the earth will belong to God alone. Satan’s invention of money will no longer be used to oppress and control the people.

When Jesus returns, each individual will do whatever works their hands joyfully find to do each day, giving all they produce in excess of their own needs to the Lord and His people. All will do all their own works as unto the Lord Jesus, like priests of God, to serve for the good of all God’s people and all His creations. Each will work according to one’s own God-given calling, aptitude and skills, to fulfill one’s own unique and God-given destiny. The “economy” of the entire world, its system of production and distribution, will function according to biblical principles, where God is the only Owner and Distributor of all that exists, including our own bodies. This system will be as the Scriptures clearly say: “For if the readiness is there, [anything one gives] is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness’ (II Cor. 8:12-14, ESV). So, if anyone lacks the ability to give material goods, one will not feel any need to give anything, but will receive all one needs for life and work. But if another produces more than one needs for a godly and modest life, one will give all the excess to God and His people. And this is true equity or “fairness” in the eyes of God. Equity is not where all receive the same amount, but where each individual receives whatever that particular one needs, and some will need more than others.

One who needs more food, such as a large man doing physical works, or needs expensive tools or assets to do one’s work, should not lack anything. One who needs less food, such as a woman who does sedentary works, or only needs inexpensive tools or assets to do one’s work, should not hoard one’s excess to make oneself wealthy, nor focus on self-indulgent things for the flesh. And Satan’s non-elect brood will not exist after Jesus returns. So there will be no one who uses Satan’s invention of money to rule over or manipulate the lives of others. From all that we see in the Scriptures, very little money, if any, will be used on earth after Jesus returns. Instead, the world will have a system which distributes goods and services strictly according to individual needs, where God owns all.

Non-elect Deaths and the First Resurrection

Jesus' first works, when He returns, will be to bring the unjustly executed elect back to live with Him on earth as He descends from the sky, then execute His judgment against the wicked non-elect. He will utterly destroy the beast’s religious kingdom of secular humanism. For peace on earth will be impossible to maintain without justice, and the non-elect will always refuse to be just. So Jesus will first destroy the beast at Armageddon, but His destruction will not stop there. For Jesus must then eliminate all the other blind, irrational, arrogant, unjust souls upon the earth too, before He can ever effectively and justly rule the earth in peace. Jesus would allow the “neutral” non-elect to live—any whose spirits are “asleep,” any who follow the dictates of their outer consciences formed according to acceptably just standards. But, the end times will awaken all spirits, so there will be no “neutral” non-elect souls. So He will kill the flesh of all the non-elect. And Jesus told us, in the Parable of the Vineyard Tenants, that He would kill all who abused His servants, all who tried to make the things of this earth into their own property, as though He was not the real Owner, and as though God had no

 

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right to decide who should serve as stewards of His own property (Mark 12:9). Then Jesus will give the stewardship of the earth to His elect, so they will no longer be oppressed by the unjust non-elect.

Some may ask why it will be necessary for Jesus to kill almost all the non-elect on the day of His return. To understand why, we first need to realize that the spirits of Satan’s brood are never able to repent into any real knowledge of God's just and loving truth, because the love the darkness of their self-serving lies and delusions far more than the light of realities and truths. Therefore, when Jesus returns, there will be no way to redeem the non-elect, especially since all those non-elect spirits will have been awakened by Satan and his beast. Thus, all the non-elect will be fully psychopathic in the end times. Some non-elect can be relatively compliant and obey the law through fear, if they have unawakened, dull spirits that do not act on their craving to be gods. These may not kill or torture to appease their lusts. But neither will they ever actually do anything spontaneously good and loving.

Without God’s help, the infantile spirits of God’s elect cannot wake themselves and truly repent into a knowledge of the truth, into God’s just ways that express pure, God-like love spontaneously. Nor can any human being significantly alter the core desires of one’s own spirit, especially not after one’s spirit has been wakened. All real and permanent changes to a person’s spirit must be made by God. And His changes begin from the inside, from the spirit at the core of one’s being, by altering the will of one’s spirit. Only greater spiritual powers, like the Father of elect spirits or the father of non-elect spirits, can alter the infantile and weak spirits of human beings. Only God, or Satan, can shape the wills and desires of human spirits, in ways that determine one’s thoughts and direction taken in life.

So, before God makes an elect soul free to make one’s own choices and live according to one’s own thoughts, without His close supervision and limitations, He must do His lengthy works of building a wakened, repentant spirit in each one’s heart. He must teach and train the willing spirits of His elect to joyfully fulfill their potential to love in just, equitable way, before He sets them free on earth or in heaven. And it is also true that Satan will need to condition the naturally selfish and unwilling spirits of his non-elect brood over a long period of time, until those souls become psychopathic. Thus, God can never allow the non-elect to be free, since all of their choices kill and destroy His good creations in their lusts to dominate and exert power, while pretending to be gods. Consequently, very few souls are free on earth, and only the elect are freed into heaven, but only after a biblical kind of judgement day at the gates of heaven. Humans may think they are free, but they are all manipulated like babies.

Or why would God force some elect to spend their days supervising the non-elect, listening to their cruel and filthy lies and delusions all day, constantly stopping them from escaping to harm or kill other human beings or God’s creations? Since all non-elect will be more fully awakened by the end times, none will be able to stop lying, deceiving, stealing, sexually exploiting, violently oppressing and murdering. So our God Jesus will eliminate almost all non-elect on the day of His return. There will be no other way to allow the elect to live in peace and safety. The non-elect must all die so that Jesus can establish a just government of His servants to administer His loving ways on all the earth.

Some may think that literally everyone can be reformed, even Satan and his demons. But they forget that some spirits were created defective and unable to love, then seek nothing but their own grandeur and power as a substitute. Loveless spirits want only to be their own gods. Then some forget that the earth and all material existence is temporary, a forcibly shared perception of many spirits, designed by God to teach and train elect spirits of humans, animals and plants. And God wants the spirits of His human children to learn to love Him and His just ways more than all other spirits, until they become able to serve His creations in the same way He does, with zealous love. And, to do this, God placed the loveless spirits into their shared perceptions of earth, so He could juxtapose just, truthful

 

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love next to unjust, lying lovelessness, so His elect could experience the differences, and learn to love more urgently, fully and rightly. Thus, it is not true that all can be redeemed. For redemption and restoration requires a spirit to repent into spiritual truths, so one can fulfill an inherent potential to love more. But, if a spirit was created without any ability to love, that spirit cannot be redeemed.

Both God’s Word and our own experiences in the eternal spiritual and temporary material realities we live in, prove that only some people are truly able to repent and be redeemed, while others can only be kept from doing evil by threats and the use of brute force. We also know that, right now, most spirits are not fully awake. So “sleeping” elect spirits do not build up God’s just, loving, earthly kingdom nor undo the works of the devil. And the “sleeping” brood of Satan do not behave nearly as badly as they potentially can. While non-elect spirits “sleep,” they submit to some laws, through a fear of the consequences. They still possess and follow an outer conscience, the traditions their families and societies taught to their minds of flesh. But the non-elect cannot develop an inner conscience, consisting of truths that God’s Holy Spirit teaches to the minds of their spirits. They do not and cannot understand nor fulfill God’s laws and ways spontaneously from heart. They cannot act through their loveless spirits’ love, nor fear that they might unjustly harm someone or something.

The outer conscience, formed in non-elect minds of flesh, will easily do evil whenever their flesh thinks they can get away with it, if they think they will not suffer any consequences, if they think it will not sever alliances those who benefit their flesh. Even the flesh of the elect will desire to do evil, if they can get away with it, until the inner conscience, formed by God in the minds of their spirits, awakens enough to prevent them from doing that evil. However, in the end times, most non-elect spirits will be wakened by their father, Satan. Most will be freed from their outer consciences, and will actively seek to do all the evil their loveless hearts desire. But God will also awaken most of His elect children, who will strive to undo the evil of the non-elect and build up God’s kingdom on earth.

In the end times, very few spirits will be allowed to “sleep,” since the tribulations of the world shall be so great. So the elect will need to contend with the non-elect who have become pure psychopaths. And, after that happens, Satan’s human brood will need to die after Jesus returns. Jesus will need to remove their evil souls from the earth by killing them, so His own children can live in peace and can love one another without the hindrance of those lying, deluded psychopaths. And, even before Jesus returns, some psychopaths will need to be executed, to preserve truth, peace, justice and elect lives.

So Jesus will justly slaughter the armies of the beast and his allies at Armageddon, and for a good and loving reason. Then, within hours, everywhere on earth, Jesus will kill almost all Satan’s offspring, the awakened non-elect, the lawless psychopaths who hate Jesus and His truths, who seek to make themselves into gods dominating the lives of others. And this will be to bring peace and safety to His fallible elect on earth, as well as to all His other living creations. When Jesus walked on earth, He told us that He would do this. Since then, false churches transformed those words into a mess of cruel and unjust lies, into a humanistic kind of vengeance from God. But no life ever really dies, not even the demons and non-elect humans. When perceptions of the flesh are taken from a spirit, and hard lessons are learned, that spirit awakens in its true, concrete and everlasting form. And it gets exactly what it desires most, but so does God. The non-elect spirits get to keep all their lies and delusions. Elect human, animal and plant spirits get to keep their love for other spirits. And God keeps both His educated elect spirits in His home of heaven, while He casts the non-elect spirits into the empty darkness of hell. Then God and His elect life will forever live in joy, loving one another.

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in that place. If they chose, they could even transform hell into another heaven. But that is actually the last thing they would ever want to do, because they hate heaven. Since all the non-elect want to be their own gods, the real God will allow them be their own gods. And they will indeed be able to create whatever they desire according to their own selfish, loveless, self-contradicting thoughts and desires. Yet all that those lawless spirits will create shall inevitably fall apart, since nothing they will make shall follow any kind of immutable laws of sustainability, and will not hold together for even a moment. This will torment them, worse than the frustrating anguish they felt when their hellish earthly kingdoms inevitably perished through their cruel, erratic, unjust management, or was taken from them when their flesh was removed. So hell will be both the eternal reward and everlasting punishment of the non-elect. But it is exactly what they want, and God is not cruel to give it to them.

In the meantime, elect angels and elect humans also possess creative spirits. And elect human spirits will be even more powerful than the elect angels, once they have been completed and perfected on the final judgment day. For human spirits were created in God’s image. But those human spirits will only want to build up God’s heavenly kingdom for the joy of all the beloved living spirits of plants and animals there, some of whom had lived on earth when they did. So the elect will build up all that exists there, but all according to God’s harmonious, immutable laws of sustainability, in that place without entropy or death. All will work together for the joy of heaven eternally, together with their Father, oldest Brother and one another, laboring in the fulfilling tasks of each one’s own true destiny.

Of course, in our day, humanistic churches, especially the dispensationalists (who preach the vain pretribulation rapture doctrines), twist Jesus’ teachings, sometimes even causing His words to mean the exact opposite of what He said. Dispensationalists now say that, before Jesus returns and before the great tribulation begins, Jesus will rapture (lift up) all the Gentiles who pay tithes to their humanistic churches, hiding all in a comfy place, leaving behind all the other Gentiles from other churches or religions, as well as all the Jews and even the lesser members of their own churches. But those churches will never confess their lies and heresies, their cold cruelty and arrogance towards the needy, their greed, their exploitation of others, their hypocrisy or any of their other sins. They dream, in their minds of flesh, that they are more righteous than others. But, of course, their own words and deeds prove otherwise. And to believe themselves to be righteous, even as they partake in the sins of ruthless, immoral psychopaths, requires much inward dishonesty and selfishness, a great delusion.

So, even if a pretribulation rapture might somehow occur for the righteous, literally all who preach that doctrine would definitely be “left behind.” And, if they continue on the path they are walking now, they will all be slaughtered by Jesus, together with all the other non-elect, on the day Jesus returns. We know this because we accept all Christ’s words and seek to understand them. So we admit that we are sinners, often far more ugly and unloving than some who never claimed to believe in Jesus. Yet we want to love in the way Jesus did, justly and equitably. And we also admit that Jesus said He would come after the great tribulation of the saints, then “take away” the wicked loveless and unjust rebels from the earth, by killing them. So we definitely recognize the unjust, unrepentant and loveless hypocrites in false churches will surely die with all the other unrepentant and loveless non-elect, when Jesus comes to teach and correct us, to establish His just, loving kingdom on earth.

Now let me exegete some end-time teachings about the destruction of the wicked, and even examine some more Gospel teachings, so we might fully comprehend what Jesus taught us about this subject.

II Thessalonians 1:3-12 (ESV): “We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers,

as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one

another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for

 

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your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are

enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered

worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—since indeed God considers

it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to grant relief to you who are

afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty

angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those

who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

“They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord

and from the glory of His might, when He comes on that day to be glorified in His saints, and

to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of His calling and

may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by His power, so that the

name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace

of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

First look at how Paul gives thanks to God “because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.” Therefore, it was God who was “growing” faith in these people, and it was God who was “increasing” their love for one another. All faith and just, God-like love originates from God, as His Holy Spirit teaches and trains our spirits. Our faith grows as our spirits learn to hear and trust His Holy Spirit. And our love increases as we learn to build it on the truths and principles His Spirit teaches us. And that kind of love fulfills His Law, which is our New Covenant salvation in our Messiah Jesus. Then the Gospel is the proclamation of that salvation.

The teaching that all good things originate from God permeates all the Scriptures, especially the New Covenant writings. Of course, in our day, we can seldom say what Paul wrote to these people in the Thessalonian church. But these kinds of blessings will be once more granted to true churches during the end times, after the revival in the era of the sixth seal. Our God Jesus truly and actively taught and trained the elect in His true apostolic churches back then, so the church in the end times would know what they should become. But those true churches were soon corrupted to death. Yet the Gospel truths lived on, and slowly spread throughout the world for 2,000 years, as Roman humanism also crushed every other land on earth through its factious empire. And now we exist at a time when God’s kingdom on earth is rising to the point where it will see that sixth seal’s revival, with His sealing of His elect once more. So Satan’s humanistic Roman kingdom is desperately fighting God, making its last stand. And soon its final demonically empowered beast will come. So now, in this era of the fifth seal, we must prepare to become loving, faithful communities of God once more, as they were in Paul’s day. We must get ready to form true churches, with Jesus as the only Head of all in it.

Remember, the main ministry of Jesus’ first advent was to gather disciples. Then His most capable male disciples worked as His teaching assistants, the apostles sent out by Him, to bring all the other loving elect men and women they could find to Jesus. Also, after Jesus died, rose and ascended into heaven, He sent His Spirit to His most mature male and female disciples. So “sent-out-ones” (the apostles) continued to be His assistant teachers, sending all the loving elect to Him. And all of His teaching and training was for one purpose, to make all just and loving like Himself. Then, as they saw His teachings bear good fruit, their trust in their Teacher grew abundantly, so they learned even more and increasingly love one another in a just, God-like way. But, after the true apostles died, up to the present times, God has been allowing false churches and Satan’s world order to think they were gaining a great victory over Him, through the power of their own flesh to deceive and terrorize.

 

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To this day, God even gave the flesh of Satan’s loveless brood the ability to suppress the physical preaching of His truths and let them physically oppress and persecute His elect, to heap up their own damnation. Yet the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus also preserved His Word in His original languages, then kept on teaching His truths to the spirits of His elect. And neither those truths nor elect spirits could ever die. So more and more of God’s truths escaped into all the nations of the earth, and has accumulated everywhere. Consequently, the world is now ready for Jesus to return for judgment.

Fake churches could never stop the Holy Spirit of Jesus from teaching the spirits of His elect about just, pure love, and could never stop Jesus from teaching His real truths to the spirits inside the elect. God merely allowed the flesh of the non-elect spirits to physically establish the rule of Satan’s world order on His earth, and keep their destructive lies functioning. But those lies and delusions actually imprisoned and destroyed those non-elect souls and all who joined them, more than they could ever oppress and kill others. And now, during this current era of the fifth seal, God is still letting the false churches and Satan’s world order force their lies and delusions upon other souls, through the power of delusions and the sword. For God is causing them to heap up their damnation more than ever, to increase the pain of their fearful inner darkness, their self-inflicted eternal punishment within the confines of hell on earth. For, at the same time God grants false churches and Satan’s world order this temporary victory, God is also preparing to hand them all over to an even greater delusion worked by Satan. The demonically empowered final beast will make them feel like gods and cause them to forget the darkness of their lives, or that their sins will make their eternal hell more hellish.

Due to the vile deeds of false churches and Satan’s world order, the faith of the true elect is being turned away from human gods in disgust and horror, from that devil’s religion of humanism. As the liars grow more and more deluded and dishonest, the truly loving elect see ever more of God’s truths and realities, then flee from the evil lies and delusions of the non-elect. The faith of the elect in the real God in the real Jesus, is searching more diligently for the real truth more than ever before, and growing stronger daily. Soon, after the revival and its dissemination of the true Gospel, the faith of the true elect will once more grow abundantly, with a greater purity and fervor than the earth has seen since the days of the apostles. Through that increased and purified faith in Jesus’ love, power and words, a just, pure, God-like love in elect spirits will increase exponentially for Jesus and our heavenly Father, as well as for one another and for all of God’s creations, even for their enemies.

The true Old and New Covenant branches of the church taught this maxim: “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord” (I Cor. 1:31, ESV). So, when any of the prophets or apostles boasted about God’s people, they fully realized that all those elect souls were useless sinners like themselves, but were being redeemed by the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus. So the prophets and apostles never actually boasted about “good people” in the way the world does. They never said, “Look at how these souls, through their own free wills, caused their own spirits to be born of God, and caused themselves to be chosen by God by transforming themselves into good people through their own strength.” In reality, the prophets and apostles boasted about the love, grace, forgiveness and power of God to create faith in the infantile, faithless spirits of His elect children, and His ability to teach and train thoroughly inept sinners to truly do His real, just and loving will and works on the earth, in spite of their own weaknesses and ignorance. And it actually was miraculous how, in even the most weak and cowardly elect souls, God produced a “steadfastness and faith in all [their] persecutions and in the afflictions that [they] are enduring.” It was not through the slavish “free will” taught by the deluded Middle Platonism of Satanic Roman humanism that the true apostolic church grew abundant faith and increased love. Rather, it was Jesus’ Holy Spirit that made them into true servants of the real God.

 

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Yes, through the flesh, these elect faltered often. For hours, or even days, their cowardly flesh might overcome and take captive their spirits, causing them to surrender to demands of their persecutors. But Jesus’ Holy Spirit kept on awakening those elect spirits, continued to teach them His truths as a foundation for love, and empowered them to stand up again for those truths. So some eventually even gave up the lives of their flesh for His truths, knowing that God’s kingdom would need those truths about just love to live abundant lives. For those elect saw the good effects of doing the just and loving works of God, and knew that His loving will can indeed be done on earth as it is in heaven, with His help. What an amazing blessing this was, the way Jesus can redeem our spirits.

In the Holy Spirit, Paul then wrote: “This is the evidence of the [just] judgment of God, [in order for you to] be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, [on behalf of whom] you are also suffering— since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who [oppress] you, and to grant relief to you who are [oppressed] as well as to us, [in the revelation of] the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, [now continuously] inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those not [ever heeding] the Gospel of our Lord Jesus” (II Thes. 1:5-8, based on the ESV). Here a genitive present participle form of δίδωμι is translated as “inflicting,” and indicates a continuous and current action of giving or inflicting vengeance. So it means that Jesus is always pouring out His vengeance on those who oppress His people, on those who do not experientially know Him nor heed His Gospel, which teaches us how to live an abundant life of loving and being loved. And this vengeance of our God Jesus, first and foremost, consists of the dark delusions that He casts them into. For you will never ever find a single rich, powerful oppressor who has any joy in his or her heart. Literally all of them are actually dark, empty loveless souls who are never truly loved by anyone, not even by their most deluded worshipers and equally darkened psychophants.

But how does our God Jesus “grant relief” to oppressed elect souls, whose spirits experience His Holy Spirit’s teaching and training, who truly know Him, who diligently, carefully and zealously trust in His Gospel truths? Their relief is “in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire.” This revelation brings rest to elect souls, when they realize that they are loved by Jesus, and will never be subjected to the fiery vengeance of Jesus and His angels. When the elect see how Jesus casts their oppressors into a furnace of dark delusions, obvious lies, desperate paranoia, stupid conspiracy theories, terrorizing fear from unreal threats, self-destructive hatred and countless other kinds of darkness, those elect say to themselves, “But for the grace of God, there go I.” The elect breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that Jesus will never permanently hand them over to Satan, to be deluded for the destruction of their flesh. Only their oppressors will be chained by that darkness, followed by an eternity in the prison of hell, where their beloved dark lies and delusions will torment them forever. And, after this relief from their anxieties, knowing that they cannot die and that Jesus will seize the final victory, the elect rise up in full strength. Then the elect simply continue doing their small daily works of nullifying the works of Satan, so they can continue to work together in one mind and with one purpose to build up the just, equitable, loving kingdom of God.

The faith and love that Jesus grants to elect spirits produces this “evidence of the just judgment of God, that [they] may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God.” Then elect spirits begin to fully realize that their stubbornly unrepentant and loveless oppressors “will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might, when He comes on that day to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed” (II Thes. 1:9-10, ESV). And some elect will even tell their oppressors, “Go to hell!” For they will go to hell at the predestined time. Of course, most elect flesh will die before seeing that day when Jesus will eliminate all the non-elect, then send them to

 

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“eternal destruction.” Their flesh will not see Jesus come to rule the entire earth with His omnipotent power, enforcing truly omniscient justice through His love. But spirits do not die when they stop experiencing the perceptions of this earthly life. And many awakened elect spirits will remain awake at the gates of heaven. Not all the elect will sleep in the skies of the eternal realm to await the judgment day. Thus, many elect will see all the events on earth after their flesh dies, while also being taught and trained about God’s ways of just love at the same time. Thus, those awake elect at the gates of heaven will also understand all that leads up to that appointed day of Jesus returning, while also deeply empathizing with all their suffering, oppressed brothers and sisters still living on earth.

In the past, God granted some elect elders, like the apostles, much knowledge. Then their deeply fallible, dying and rather smelly flesh taught those truths to the temporary and equally unimpressive flesh belonging to other elect souls. In terms of the flesh, those works were not glorious at all. But, with their not so faithful endurance, the flesh of those elders spoke and wrote down all that their spirits learned from the Holy Spirit of our God, which their still-living elect spirits have kept in them to this day, and will keep in heaven forever, even with a far more fulfilled understanding granted to them since then. Of course, the words of their verbal preaching on earth soon vanished into thin air, and even their written words, on perishable paper and parchment with fading ink, also were lost in time. But generations of faithful elect repeated those words and carefully copied their written works, in trained teams, in order to perfectly preserve them. So those truths did not perish. Thus, those same truths are still being taught by Jesus’ Holy Spirit to elect spirits, every day and up to this very day.

All the just or righteous judgments in God’s earthly kingdom begin with right teachings about purely spiritual principles and truths, about just and equitable love. These truths correct and straighten elect spirits, which bear an innate ability to repent and an inherent desire to learn to love. This ability and this desire is not of the flesh, which suffers entropy and ends in death, but of our eternal spirit alone. “The spirit is that which is making life. The flesh certainly does not benefit anything. The physical words which I utter to you are [uttered for the] spirit and are [making] life” (John 6:63, ALT). As we see in the context of Paul’s letter to the Thessalonian church, all “steadfastness and faith” originates from God. Faith or trust in God and His words is His gift for elect spirits, to build up the abundant lives of His children. And this faith in our spirits commands our flesh stand firmly upon God’s words of truth in the face of violent opposition. By the faith in our spirits we do His just, loving and wise works on earth, even if we must sacrifice our flesh. Our spirits employ our perceptions of flesh and material existence to learn to love in a just, equitable way. Then, as our spirits learn to love, they place even more confidence in the teachings from His Holy Spirit. So He grows more faith in us.

And these works of Jesus in our hearts cannot fail. By the end of the judgment day, our spirits will all be completed and perfected, entirely “worthy of the kingdom of God.” The faith He builds up in our spirits shall be completed on the judgment day, so we can live and work with our Father and our oldest Brother in heaven forever. Since this free gift of faith is what saves us from the fate of the loveless non-elect, it is “evidence of the righteous judgment of God.” And the just, equitable, God-like love produced by our faith is also “evidence of the righteous judgment of God” against all our oppressors and persecutors. The awakened elect, who speak His wise, effective, beneficial words and then do His loving, wise, just works on earth, need no more evidence than the fact that Jesus has decided to work in and upon our spirits. We may still be far from perfect as long as our infantile spirits live in these unruly bodies of flesh. But His inner and outer progress is manifestly evident.

Non-elect souls oppose God’s justice and truths, which He has made plain through His creations and His people, because they want to be gods who invent their own self-serving laws. Then the non-elect inevitably oppress God’s awakened elect, who cause all to see their lies, sins and eternal fates in hell.

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Yet God justly repays them with afflictions and tribulations. The lives of the wicked are dark, filled with anxious delusions, with nothing but unquenchable pride and lusts of the flesh to motivate them. Then God also provides strong evidence to let them know they will be justly punished. Not one day in their lives exists without fears and anxieties, knowing that other unjust souls, like themselves, may stab them in the back, in the same way they stabbed others in the back. Their beloved darkness of their lies and delusions always turns against them. Then every single one of those non-elect know that God will afflict them eternally on the final judgment day, that He will send them to dwell in the utter darkness of a vacuum forever, where they will own nothing but their own lies and delusions.

When Jesus returns to our perceptions of this earth, He will inflict a swift and merciful death upon those oppressors and persecutors. Yet the elect will grow abundantly in faith with increased love. Jesus will come to remind our spirits that His Holy Spirit can build up the wise power of love and the ability of that love to express itself rightly through our bodies and minds of flesh. This will be our reward on that day. And the millennium of His rule on earth will facilitate that long last day at the gates of heaven. So, as each one looks back at the past six millenniums, when God allowed Satan to rule a world order that granted power and success to deluded, wretched, psychopathic, slavish human lords and gods, each will say something like: “But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end. Truly [our God] set them in slippery places; [Jesus made] them fall to ruin” (Psalm 73:16-18, ESV).

The physical ease and prosperity of wicked souls is not easy and not beneficial to them. For their spirits are starved, impoverished things, lacking any love or nourishing truth to build up love. So let us go to the sanctuary of our God, to worship Him in our spirits, to let Him pour truth and love into our spirits. Only His Holy Spirit teaches His ways to our spirits, so we can be full and satisfied, so we can rejoice in the eternal treasures He continuously adds to build up the abundance of our lives.

As we can plainly see, the non-elect “suffer the punishment of eternal destruction” even while they live their dark, empty, deluded lives on earth. But this does not mean they will cease to exist nor stop their senseless, futile evil. Rather, it means their unquenchable lusts will drive them to do even more evil works on a larger scale, hoping in vain to satisfy their cravings, that is, unless the elect nullify those works. Then, after their flesh inevitably perishes, they will forever exist in that state of being destroyed, forever burning with the fires of their unholy desires, forever being eaten by the worms of their voracious lusts, in a never-ending cycle of frustration. Their hopeless hope to make themselves into their own gods will eternally torture their own spirits in their unjust hearts. For, in hell, there is no light, no sweet air to breath, no food to comfort hunger, to water to quench thirst, no ground to stand on, not a blade of grass to exploit, not even a tiny ant they may pretend to rule over as a god.

But the elect will never be separated from “the presence of the Lord,” from our God Jesus. And this means will receive love from our Lord Jesus forever, which is “the glory of His might.” All God’s good creations are “the glory of His might,” so we will love and be loved by all life forever too. The Word of God declares that this will begin, “when He comes on that day to be glorified in His saints,” after all His enemies are removed from the earth. God’s beloved elect children will look to the Lord ascending from the sky and marvel at His beauty, perfection and just love. And, by that time, all of His elect spirits will be awakened and separated from the non-elect through many hard blows, made able to trust in Jesus and the testimony of His humble, lowly servants, the prophets and apostles.

So now it is time for the elect to seek out true teaching and judging elders, sent by God. And those elders are not the kind with silver tongues on raised platforms in massive buildings, who trick souls into saying a magic “Sinner’s Prayer” or taking a magic so-called “sacrament,” from human flesh

 

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and for human flesh, to manipulate God. Rather, true elders teach the one and only true Gospel of Jesus Christ’s New Covenant salvation, the salvation entirely worked by the Creator’s grace and power upon the eternal spirits of His chosen children. True elders pray that God Himself will waken the spirits of His His elect, to open the eyes of their spirits, so they see all the spiritual and physical realities He created around them, and open the ears of their spirits to hear the words He whispers in their hearts. True elders pray that God Himself will personally write His Law on their hearts in the minds of their spirits, so He will be their God, so they become His faithful, just and loving people.

We pray that our Father Himself will impart faith to us, by sending the Holy Spirit of Jesus to teach and train our spirits. We pray that Jesus will choose more and more elect souls to become His own personal disciples. And true elders do not want disciples to heed and follow them, for they can only be extremely weak and fallible assistant teachers serving the resurrected and living Jesus as His mere disciples themselves. Only if our God Jesus Himself does His works in elect spirits, can they ever become “worthy of His calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and [do] every work of faith by His power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in [them], and [them] in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ” (II Thes. 1:11-12, based on the ESV).

All saving works must be done by God Himself, through His unmerited and unearned grace, since humans can do none of them. Even the infantile and ignorant wills of our spirits and flesh must be shaped by God, since we cannot shape our own wills. Humans have nothing in them that can ever possibly be called “free wills.” Literally everything their spirits desire and will to do is shaped by other spirits. Likewise, all the desires and wills of their flesh are initiated by their own spirits, their environment, their genetics and so on. So there can be no such thing as an autonomous will, a “blank slate” which, at the same time, inherently possesses enough knowledge, wisdom and power to shape itself into a that which is worthy of either God’s blessings or wrath. No human being can ever make oneself worthy of God’s salvation, able to do works that are truly pleasing to Him. Not one is able to earn salvation from lies, sins and eternal destruction. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them” (Eph. 2:10, WEB). The elect become the “workmanship” of God” for salvation, to do His predestined works on earth.

If any elect are their own workmanship, then they must be omniscient, omnipotent, creator gods. If elect are the workmanship of priests and pastors, then those priests and pastors must be omniscient, omnipotent, creator gods. For it requires an omniscient, omnipotent, creator god to recreate eternal spirits into loving, wise, just, equitable spirits, from sinners with infantile spirits in weak flesh. And make no mistake, literally every human that has ever lived on earth is a sinner with an ignorant and infantile spirit in a fragile, weak body that has a selfish, self-contradicting mind of flesh. Not even one human has ever been worthy of God’s praise nor ready for heaven, no matter how long that one lived on earth and regardless of how much that one forced one’s brain of flesh to study God’s Word.

Even the non-elect are not their own workmanship, but actually the workmanship of Satan, who created the inherent attributes of their spirits, then shaped those spirits into all they became. So how much more did the loving heavenly Father carefully and skillfully craft all the attributes of each of His own beloved eternally chosen children, then shape those spirits through earthly perceptions? And all who are not entirely the workmanship of Jesus Christ will go to their preferred home in hell. So we sometimes need to remind ourselves of this, so we do not place humanistic faith in ourselves, nor in other human beings, nor in the institutions of Satan’s world order. Yes, for now, we will need to work and communicate with Satan’s world order, often seizing their assets or even their lives to nullify the works of Satan. And God will help us do this, along with all who are His loving people,

 

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so we can build up His just, equitable, loving kingdom on earth. But we do not belong to Satan or his unjust world order. Rather, we belong to our heavenly Father who owns all governments in all lands.

We place our spirits’ hope, faith, trust and resolve in Jesus and His words, in His love for us and in His power to save. We remind ourselves that we can only be made worthy of salvation from lies, delusions and sins “according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Only through His free and unmerited favor and gifts, can we ever hope to realize the “steadfastness and faith” that will carry us through our persecutions and afflictions as a united body of Jesus, where each is granted different and unique skills and perspectives. Corporately, we will build a powerful whole. But false churches that preach various forms of theistic humanism, with self-contradicting doctrines, traditions and hierarchical class systems administered by humanly appointed lords and gods, belong to Satan’s world order. So they cannot help the elect, only hinder and sabotage them. We will only be able to accomplish anything good for God or for God’s elect children though our God Jesus Himself. And even the loving elect spirits who do not yet consciously know Jesus still seek the truth and do some of His good works. For Jesus made and shapes their spirits. So their spirits’ possess real faith in Him, granted by Him, even if they are trapped in false churches or other institutions belonging to Satan.

Soon all the elect will realize they are one people in God, and that the loveless non-elect are indeed warring against them. Starting with the great revival in the era of the sixth seal, the elect will begin to see that all must originate from God, from Jesus, and nothing from deluded, infantile humans. It is God alone who can “fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by His power,” even with great joy in the heart. For humans have no power to do that. So, by the time Jesus returns, almost all the elect on earth will give God all the glory, and leave no glory for any human. Then the name of our God Jesus will be truly glorified inside us, and we will receive His good opinion with His power.

Matthew 24:15-51: “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the

prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then let those who are

in Judea flee to the mountains. Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what

is in his house, and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. And alas for

women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! Pray that your

flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

“For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world

until now, no, and never will be. And if those days had not been cut short, no human being

would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. Then [i.e., at the

time of that great tribulation, which is the entire era of the seventh seal] if anyone says to you, ‘Look,

here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will

arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

“See, I have told you beforehand. So, if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the wilderness,’ do

not go out. If they say, ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightning

comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will

not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be

shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the

earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with

power and great glory. And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they

will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

 

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“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its

leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things [i.e., when we see

the signs of the end times mentioned in the previous verses and in all end-time prophecies.], you know that

He is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all

these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son,

but the Father only. As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For

as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in