Bible Believers' Newsletter 755
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word. Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott
The Department of Homeland Security is dismantling the US Bill of Rights, not men in turbans. Wall Street's banksters of the 'City of London' and globalists are flooding America with immigrants, preventing Americans from defending their borders and enacting selective free trade agreements designed to collapse the world economy with world depression, war and depopulation.
In our main Article. God's Everlasting Covenant we look at Israel and the Temple examining types and antitypes as they apply to Christ's Bride of all Ages, and to Israel in the coming tribulation, "the time of Jacob's trouble" when her elect once again travails in birth, not of Messiah but of a "nation in one day."
This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.
Libya's Green Resistance did It... and NATO Powers are Covering Up
September 20, 2012 — The NATO powers and the bureaucrats they installed in Libya want you to think that all 5.6 million Libyans are happy that NATO and its proxy terrorists destroyed Libya, whose standard of living had been Africa's highest under Gaddafi. They want you to think that NATO brought 'freedom and democracy' to Libya, not chaos and death. They want you to think that there is no Green Resistance [Gaddafi loyalists] to the NATO imperialists or NATO's Islamist allies in Benghazi.
In reality, the Resistance has been increasingly active since shortly after the murder of Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011, as will be shown below. They strike any NATO target they can, and they execute key Libyans who betrayed Gaddafi and sided with NATO. The Benghazi incident was merely their latest blow against what they see as NATO's illegal occupation of their country. . .
As for US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, he had promoted Libya's destruction, having arrived in Benghazi in April 2011 for that purpose, and remained there throughout the NATO seven-month aerial bombardment of Libya. His job was to coordinate the NATO-backed terrorists. . . Meanwhile, the NATO powers do not want the Western public to realize any of this awkward truth. They want you to think that all Libyans are happy under NATO's 'liberation' with their Islamist terrorist proxies. Some 50,000 Libyans lost their lives due to NATO's bombing and ground campaign during 2011. And for what? Only for a Resistance to rise up to illustrate to the world that Libyans had their country stolen from them by NATO powers in a criminal war of aggression. . . Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: The journal of murdered ambassador Christopher Stevens found it at the crime scene was released by CNN. It states clearly that Stevens had asked for more security support just weeks before the attack, having information that he was targeted for execution. The White House (which gave billions and bombed Libya to help the Muslim Brotherhood overthrow Gaddafi) did nothing about it. Gaddafi loyalists did.
The execution was pre-planned and had nothing to do with a spontaneous reaction to the video about Muslims. There were no protesters at all.
Al-Qaeda Does Not Exist!! – Former CIA Officer Michael Scheuer Speaks Out!!
September 20, 2012 — Al Qaeda does NOT exist outside the CIA—working toward World War III between (innocent) Political Islam and Political Zion (i.e. the Judaeo-Christian false church). Full story: thetruthseeker.co.uk
Comment: Matthew 4:8-9 was no idle boast. The Jewish banksters' Federal Reserve has the United States on a string as the value of the dollar is supported by the Jewish house of Saud, so Arco's Alaskan oil was sold to BP and capped then BP's Gulf of Mexico fiasco helped maintain US dependence on imported oil, high oil prices and the value of the US dollar. As pawns of the 'City of London' the House of Saud and Israel have America trapped into fighting wars against otherwise friendly nations in order to enforce oil sales in US dollars and push for the totalitarian one world government demanded by Lucifer's Babylonian Talmud. By trading oil for gold, Iran. China and Russia are threatening to collapse the dollar and the criminal Federal Reserve. Hence the armada in the Gulf and the aggression of Qatar, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Thus an apostate Christian 'front' is fomenting religious war against innocent Islam in service to "the synagogue of Satan."
Are You seeing What I'm Seeing?
September 17, 2012 — Is it just me, or are the signs of consumer collapse as clear as a Lowes parking lot on a Saturday afternoon? . . . Connecting the dots between my anecdotal observations of suburbia and a critical review of the true non-manipulated data bestows me with a not optimistic outlook for the coming decade. Is what I'm seeing just the view of a pessimist, or are you seeing the same thing?
My trip to my local Lowes last weekend gave me a glimpse into a future of failure and futility. . . A few powerful men have hijacked our economic, financial and political structure. They aren't socialists or capitalists. They're criminals. They created the culture of materialism, greed and debt, sustained by prodigious levels of media propaganda. Our culture has been led to believe that debt financed consumption over morality and justice is the path to success. In reality, we've condemned ourselves to a slow painful death spiral of debasement and despair. . . Full story: theburningplatform.com
Comment: This article demands serious study. It shows the certain short-term economic collapse of the US economy, the inevitable 'hot stage' of World War II and depression prophesied by Brother Branham. This will make Revelation 3:17 real, very real to you, whoever you are and wherever you live.
The Holocaust Lie and Hitler's War
By David Irving
1923: Out of the 161 banks in Berlin 150 are Jewish-owned. The International Jewish Banks in New York cause the German Reichsmark to crash, bankrupting the country within weeks.
1924: The German currency (Reichsmark) which is tied into the International Exchange rate, plunges into a dive. Within months the Reichsmark is worthless. Unable to feed their families or pay rent millions of Germans are forced to sell all they own. The altered exchange rates means that $1 US dollar is worth many TRILLIONS of Reichsmark for only a few dollars. Jewish-American investors bought German Businesses, industries, homes, lands, art works and the Jewish investors become incredibly rich.
By the end of the year the German government manages to create a new currency and the madness is halted. Millions of Germans have lost everything they own and many tens of thousands have starved to death. The Germans still do nothing against these speculators. Just the opposite. Many of the Jews gain high political and respectable positions in Germany society.
Jewish influence and material wealth was so great during the time of the Weimar Republic that some Germans referred to it as the "Judenrepublik" (Jewish Republic) although Jews comprised only about 1% of its population. To mention only one small example. Over 30% of the faculty of the University of Berlin was Jewish in 1932.
Adolf Hitler—who was truly a champion of traditional German culture and of Christianity—things which all Jews everywhere despise, was not the only such politician to gain a following in the wake of the Judaization of Germany, where engagements in pornography and substance addiction were rapidly becoming the norm (things which are hallmarks of the Jewish domination over culture wherever they appear). Hitler's eventual success was nothing but a reaction to the Jewish-dominated society of the Weimar republic, and the fear among Germans of eventual communist domination. Certainly the average German was well aware of the destruction of millions of Christians occurring in the Soviet Union under the Bolshevik Jews and Stalin, who himself was a Jew by race. Yet Hitler was not the only one who attempted to take Germany back from such Jewish domination. Other nationalist, Christian and conservative politicians in Germany were beaten down at their own meetings by Marxist thugs.
It was commonplace for Marxists in Weimar Germany to look for conservative political gatherings, and to disrupt them with violence. This happened with regularity while the government turned a blind eye to the violence perpetrated by the Marxists. But Hitler was one of the only opposing politicians who successfully countered them. The Sturmabteilung (SA), commonly called the Brownshirts, were formed out of a need to protect the fledgling party's rights of free speech and assembly from Marxist thugs who wish to reserve that right exclusively for themselves. The Brownshirts were the German equivalent to the American idea of the militia. Where the government refuses to maintain order and uphold the basic rights of the people, the people must retain the right to do it themselves.
When Hitler finally gained power, he took the German economy back into the hands of the German people, refused to allow a Jewish-controlled central bank to run the nation, and had undertaken a program of freeing Germany from all jewish influence. Jews had been weeded out of government, media, law, schools, and other areas of economic and cultural life in Germany. Immediately World Jewry openly declared war against Germany.
In 1933 the Jews formed an international boycott of German goods which was especially effective in some areas since the retail trade in many countries was and is in Jewish hands. An encirclement of Germany was enacted, where no food could flow into Germany, and no goods could flow out either.
A few years prior to this in 1932-33 the Jewish led Soviets encircled the Ukraine and stopped anyone from leaving, then they took all food grown in the Ukraine and shipped it out, forcing 10,000,000 Ukrainians to starve to death. Germany was pretty much right next to the Ukraine and saw the mass starvations taking place. Now the same thing done to Ukraine was being done to Germany and the German people became scared.
The Nazi party was a reactionary party, it was a RESPONSE to the Jewish-dominated society of the Weimar republic, and the fear among Germans of eventual communist domination. When you learn more about the The Treaty of Versailles, the Danzig Massacre, and the mass starvation of 10 million Ukrainians in the early 1930s, with the food embargo on Germany, you will understand the real reasons for World War II.
The Jews wanted to destroy Germany for the same reasons that they destroyed the czar: Hitler dared defy the Jews and not let them control the German economy. Using the English and the US, the jews won, and they have controlled the whole world ever since! . . . Full story: zionistjewfedreserve.com
Comment: John 8:32. "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." This essential historical truth exposes the BIG LIE that manipulates, perverts and disempowers Goyim from cradle to grave, spread by education, entertainment, the most compliant politicians money can buy and the Jewish-controlled mainstream media to enslave your mind and chain your heart in sin. Right now colonies of the Jews' City of London, the so-called 'FREE' world, are repeating the rapine and genocide of Tsarist Russia and Germany after World Wars I and II upon Islamic countries Jewry has made their enemy and African or developing nations rich in natural resources.
These unpaid mercenary colonies, Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, etc., have voluntarily destroyed their own culture, religion and race through miscegenation deceitfully misnamed 'multiculturalism' historically resulting from defeat at arms. Furthermore, they have expatriated their productive economies for 'services' they will soon be unable to purchase with their debauched currencies. This time it is not Weimar Germany they will plunder with greenbacks; their power will be gold, a US dollar refinanced by Jewish and Vatican gold will enslave the world as taught by Daniel 9:27, Revelation 17:12-18, and expounded from by the Prophet. (See Protocols 1, 4, 5, 10:16, 20:17, and 22).
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, my Christian Brother it tolls for thee!
Anti-Islamic Advertisements to Hit NYC
September 20, 2012 — As early as next Monday, ten NYC subway stations will showcase adverts declaring, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad." The campaign was created by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an organization considered a hate group by [Jewish hate meisters] the Southern Poverty Law Center watch group. Pamela Geller, the executive director of the AFDI, stands by her signage despite rampant complaints circulating before the campaign has even begun. . . Full story: rt.com
Comment: No servant of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would encourage 'multiculturalism' which is miscegenation and genocide to Adam's race whatever the colour of their skin, a repetition of the original sin and the sin for which God let men of the race He set at enmity with Himself and Adam's descendants destroy earth by the Great Flood (Genesis 3:15). Geller is facilitating the aim of those behind SPLS: the 'hot stage' of World War III between political (innocent) Islam and political Zion fighting with the blood of brainwashed nominal Christians funded by Jewish banksters to establish "greater Israel" and Lucifer's totalitarian one world government. The latter objective will be achieved under their antichrist Judaeo-Roman false church.
Money, money, money, money, money, money, filthy lucre makes the world go 'round youtube.com.
September 23, Worldwide Jewish Prayer for Peace with Mashiach
September 23, 2012 — URGENT! SEPTEMBER 23 2012, Tishrei 7, SIMULTANEOUS Worldwide Jewish Prayer for Peace, through the coming of Mashiach, announced in our tradition. Based on Israel Time 17:00, New York 11:00, Los Angeles 8:00, Paris 17:00, Sydney 1:00 Sept 24. . .
ALL JEWS AS ONE: This unique event in Jewish history has been impulsed by motivated Jewish people with help and blessings of rabbis around the world of all affiliations (Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Chassidim) with a strong desire that all Jews will be united at the same instant, observant or not, whatever beliefs, affiliation, age, nationality to end all suffering and to welcome the revelation of Hashem's (G-d) Name. With blessings of great tsaddik Rabbi Kaniewsky [Hebrew name?] from Israel too. Full story: alljewsasone.com
Comment: Messiah has come twice and He is present now. Soon, but not before evening on Nisan 14 one year, "the time of Jacob's trouble," also known as the Great Tribulation will commence. When He returns to the land of the Covenant it will not be non-Semitic anti-Semitic self-styled Jews to whom He reveals Himself, but to an election of 144,000 blood descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Israel who "for fear of the Jews" have not returned to Israel but remain in the Muslim lands subject to "ethnic cleansing" by Jewry. Three and half years after His return to Israel through the mouth of the two Hebrew prophets of Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11 the 144,000 will recognize him and be born-again, after which they will be hunted down like dogs and martyred for the one and only faith, which is the mind of God.
The Road to World War III
September 11, 2012 — We are on a road that leads straight to the World War III, but in order to see that and to fully understand what is at stake you have to look at the big picture and connect the dots. This video examines the history of the dollar, its relation to oil, and the real motives behind the wars of the past two decades. Full story: youtube.com
Comment: Privately, [Henry] Ford said: "I know who caused the war—the [non-Semitic] German-Jewish bankers"! . . . (traces.org). "The love of money is the root of all evil" (I Timothy 6:10). The film is accurate, however there is no stopping this war.
Mapping Drone Proliferation: UAVs in 76 Countries
September 18, 2012 — A new US Congress report on the proliferation of drones has confirmed a huge rise in the number of countries that now have military unmanned aerial systems. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published an unclassified version of its February 2012 report on the proliferation of UAVs. The report examines both the proliferation of UAVs, commonly known as drones, and examines US and multilateral controls on the export of drone technology.
The report states that between 2005 and December 2011, the number of countries that posses drones rose from 41 to 76 (see here for full list). . .
Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: Since 2004, up to 884 innocent civilians, including at least 176 children, have died from US drone strikes in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan. A new report from the Stanford and New York University law schools finds drone use has caused widespread post-tramatic stress disorder and an overall breakdown of functional society in North Waziristan. In addition, the report finds the use of a "double tap" procedure, in which a drone strikes once and strikes again not long after, has led to deaths of rescuers and medical professionals. Many interviewees told the researchers they didn't know what America was before drones. Now what they know of America is drones, death and terror. The whole purpose of drone strikes is to create anger and the need for revenge in order to hasten the 'hot stage' of the City of London's long-planned World War III.
Full story: youtube.com
Climatists not Fair Dinkum?
September 24, 2012 — A "greenhouse gas" is one capable of absorbing infra-red (IR) radiation. The most common atmospheric gases with such properties are water vapour and carbon dioxide (CO2). Water vapour is far more abundant with an average of 20,000 parts-per-million (ppm) in the atmosphere compared to just 395 ppm of CO2. Moreover water vapour is more effective as a greenhouse gas because it can absorb IR radiation over far more bands of the IR spectrum.
Therefore, if man-made CO2 causes dangerous global warming, (a dubious proposition anyway), then man-made water vapour is far more dangerous.
The two main electricity generation fuels in Australia are coal and gas. Coal is a dense fuel with a high carbon content which, when burnt, produces mainly CO2 with some water vapour. Natural gas has more hydrogen and less carbon and produces a higher proportion of water vapour, the main greenhouse gas. Thus if the climate alarmists are really scared of man-made greenhouse gases, they should be promoting coal instead of gas or systems that need 100% gas backup, such as wind. Gas generates copious quantities of both "greenhouse gases." And if they believe a tax on man-made greenhouse gases will control the climate, a tax on steam makes more sense than a tax on carbon dioxide.
Finally, if they want "zero emissions" of either greenhouse gas, the only significant energy sources that qualify are nuclear, hydro and geothermal. Naturally the only one unlikely to prove widely useful in Australia, geothermal, is the only one promoted by the greens.
Maybe the climatists are not fair dinkum? Or maybe the whole man-made global warming scare is an unscientific fraud? For a look at how well the IPCC forecasts of dangerous man-made global warming are working out see: Satellite temperatures confirm zero impact of CO2 since 1997. Australian Government carbon tax [depopulation] scam http://kzoo.co/VfEZvW. Full story: carbon-sense.com
The Everlasting Covenant
Please open your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 24 which marks Israel's awakening and her purging before the Lord fulfills the everlasting Covenant and commences His reign on Mount Zion.
In Matthew 24:3 Jesus' disciples asked, "What shall be the sign of the consummation of the Ages, or the end of man's day?" In this service we'll join Isaiah who like John, Daniel, you and me, was caught up in the Spirit into the Lord's day, which is Daniel's Seventieth Week and the end of all things, after the close of the Gentile dispensation (Revelation 1:10). Israel's restoration to Palestine in unbelief was the sign of the end. Jesus said the generation that sees that sign would not expire through old age before the Millennium begins.
As God destroyed the nation of Israel and dispersed the people for their disobedience (Deuteronomy 4:26-27), He will depopulate, devastate and through natural cataclysm lay waste the entire earth of her inhabitants without respect of persons.
Isaiah 24:2-3, "And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress (Hosea 4:9) . . . The land will be utterly emptied, and utterly looted: for the Lord has spoken this Word."
Indeed the devastation will be such the very land appears to mourn because of the blood-guiltiness of its inhabitants.
Isaiah 24:5, "The earth is defiled because it is under the dominion of sinful inhabitants who have transgressed the laws, disregarded the statutes, and broken the everlasting Covenant."
Remember, this will take place in the time of Daniel's Seventieth Week when God is dealing exclusively with an election among the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the Land of Israel, which is defiled by blood-guiltiness.
Numbers 35:30-34, "The murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of two or more witnesses. You shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death: but he shall be put to death. And you shall take no ransom for one who has fled to a city of refuge to enable him to return to the land before the death of the priest [who is a type of the Church Age Messenger]. Thus you shall not pollute the Land of Israel: for blood defiles the land which can't be cleansed of the shed blood, except by the blood of he who shed it. Don't defile the Land of Israel, where I will live, for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel."
Israel defiled the land of the Covenant by murdering her Messiah. The whole congregation laid hands on Him as with the Passover lamb and swore the oath: "His blood be on us, and on our children." And it has been ever since. But there's another way in which they have defiled the Land and which resulted in the murder of Messiah.
Jeremiah 3:1-2, 9, "There is a law that if a man divorces a woman, and she remarries another man, if he takes her back the land will be greatly polluted? but [Jehovah's wife] Israel has played the harlot with many lovers; "Yet return again to Me," says the Lord. Lift up your eyes to the high places, is there any place where you have been that you have not defiled by your spiritual adultery? You sit by the road like a Bedouin whore in the desert; you've polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness . . . Israel treated her whoredom so lightly she defiled the land by committing adultery with stones and with stocks."
Even without a Bible, nature tells man what is right and what is unacceptable (Acts 14:17; Romans 1:20). But God revealed His Law and ordinances to Israel as a nation and He has revealed His will us Gentiles as individuals. Let us take a look at the everlasting Covenant and what it is, as He concludes both in unbelief.
We first read of the everlasting Covenant in Genesis 9:8-17. God established His Covenant with Noah and his seed and every living creature that was in the ark that he would never again destroy all life by a universal flood. And God signified it with the rainbow.
Then in Genesis 17:2-13, God made His unconditional Covenant with Abraham, saying he would be father of many nations, and that He would be God to Abraham and his seed and they would possess the land of Canaan. And He signified this everlasting Covenant to Abraham by the sign of circumcision, and later to Isaac and to Jacob (Psalms 105:8-11; I Chronicles 16:16-18; Genesis 26:3; 28:13-15).
Leviticus 24:1-9 interests me because it follows the great harvest festivals of the Hebrew sacred calendar in chapter 23, ending with the Feast of Tabernacles which signifies the final ingathering of souls, the final disposition of sin and new heavens and new earth on the eighth day. Leviticus 24 instructs Israel what to do with the produce of the harvest. Grain was for the showbread, choicest olives for the lamps, and grapes for the joy of salvation, and these were to be set in order continually before the Lord, typing Christ, His elect Gentile Bride and the 144,000 Israelites.
Leviticus 25 which follows, sets forth the dispensation changes, the sabbatical years, and jubilee year of release and rest.
"The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, to beat and bring you pure olive oil for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually from evening until morning outside the veil of the Holy of Holies, in the tent of meeting. Aaron shall order it from the evening to morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations. He shall order the lamps upon the pure golden lampstand before the Lord."
The oil for the lampstand was supplied by the people themselves. All the congregation were to be holy and contribute to a ministry in the Presence. The olives were beaten to produce the character of pure oil that would furnish the Light Jesus was shining in the saints of each of the Seven Church Ages represented by the seven golden lampstands.
Only the high priest, or Church Age Messenger represented by Aaron, could transfer Light from one Lamp or Church Age to its successor. The holy Fire, came from the altar of sacrifice lit by God when Moses dedicated the Tabernacle in the Wilderness.
Revelation 1:12-13 shows this golden Lampstand, representing the Church in the Holy Place in the heavenly Tabernacle with our High Priest robed as judge, signifying the elect Church drawn out from all Seven Church Ages (I Corinthians 6:2-3). What is the Bride but the Bridegroom reproduced in a many-membered Form. Christ walks up and down after the manner of Aaron, in the midst of the mixed multitude called the church, constantly cleansing and tending our Light-life.
The Church is the only Spiritual Light in the world, as the golden lampstand was the only illumination in the gloom of the Holy Place which was without windows. Here the saints, like Aaron's sons, walk and minister daily, for flesh and blood cannot go into the Holy of Holies where our Forerunner and High Priest has entered, until the Body is complete and resurrected saints unite with members who are translated (I Corinthians 4:16-17).
The golden lampstand reflected its Light from the southern side of the Holy Place onto the bread of the Presence on the north and the golden altar of incense before the Holy of Holies, as the Light of the Gospel will one day pass from the Church to Israel. But only to an election from the blood descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Holy Place (i.e. observing the teachings of Moses and the prophets and not the Babylonian or the Palestinian Talmud).
Revelation 11:1, "And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein."
The Bread of the Presence represents the resurrected Jesus who was wounded in the house of His friends (Zechariah 13:6); the golden altar and its incense signify Jesus exalted and accepted.
"You shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes: two tenth deals shall be in each cake. And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure golden table before the Lord."
"And you shall put pure frankincense in a bowl by row, that it may be with the bread as a memorial, an offering to be made by fire to the Lord. Every sabbath Aaron shall set it in order before the Lord continually, on behalf of the Israelites by an everlasting Covenant. And it shall be Aaron's and his sons; they shall eat it in the Holy Place: for it is Most Holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute."
Like the oil for the holy lamps, the flour for the showbread was an offering of the people—part of the service in which Israel sanctified its life and labor to God—not just at the compulsory feasts, but every day—so every Israelite had an interest in the unseen work of the Sanctuary. The flour passed through twelve sieves, each one finer than the former, to produce twenty-four deals of the finest flour of uniform quality, representing Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever. The dough was kneaded then shaped in three golden molds ten by five handbreadths by one finger deep. The bread was square at each end and each loaf was two omers (over 6lbs or 3Kg)—a day's food for a man and his neighbor—signifying the all-sufficiency of Jesus.
These large loaves were baked each Friday afternoon and replaced on Saturday, (Friday evening by our reckoning), having lain in the Presence seven days. They were stacked on their sides in two rows of six loaves, separated by hollow golden rods to allow the air to circulate and prevent mold. The two bowls of frankincense were placed between the two rows of six loaves, indicating acceptance. Every Saturday the frankincense was burned as an offering of fire, then the old unleavened bread was eaten by Aaron and his sons (who type Christ and His children to God) in the Holy Place, indicating our fellowship in oneness and access as the children of God.
We see in this bread a type of Christ, who, like Joseph, suffered to save the life of His brethren, and has lain in the Presence for Seven Church Ages awaiting Israel to come to Him for bread. Psalm 23:5, "You prepared a table before Me in the presence of mine enemies: You anointed My head with oil; My cup runs over."
Whereas the altar of sacrifice might sometimes be empty of a meat offering, the table of showbread with one cake for each Tribe, lay continually before the Lord. The table represented Christ in the union of his humanity and humility symbolized in the shittim wood with His deity and glorification in the golden cover.
Leviticus 24:1-9 speaks of God's "everlasting Covenant" with the Spiritual seed of Abraham in the form of the true Church (Galatians 3:26-29) and the elect 144,000 Israelites. Signified by the furniture and produce of the land used in the sanctuary.
In Numbers 18:1-19 we learn that the Lord separated Aaron and his sons to bear and to cleanse the sanctuary of the iniquity of the nation and to purge their own uncleanliness as priests. Their brethren, the Tribe of Levi, were separated from Israel as a gift to Aaron and his sons, to do the menial work of the tabernacle. Aaron and his sons were to attend the altar of burnt offering, the altar of incense and the Holy of Holies within the veil. Their priesthood was a gift from God to Israel. All who approached these places other than Moses, Aaron or his sons, was a stranger (zuwr), and put to death.
By reason of their separation and anointing, God gave them the heave and wave offerings and the dedicated offerings to eat with their families in a sanctified place. The firstfruits of grain, oil and wine plus the first born clean animals were devoted to the Lord. This was an everlasting or indissoluble Covenant of salt between God and Aaron, typing Christ and His Bride who are joint heirs with Him in the things of God, and sealed to the day of their redemption (Romans 8:17; Ephesians 4:30).
God made an "everlasting Covenant" with David in II Samuel 23:5, that his Seed should rule Israel forever (II Samuel 7:11-17; Psalms 89:34-37). It was called "the sure mercies of David" (Isaiah 55:3; Acts 13:34), and was a prophecy concerning our Lord Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 54 and 55 build upon these very Scriptures and describe Israel's restoration to grace after the close of the Gentile dispensation. God speaks of Israel suffering reproach for barrenness because she was put away by her Husband. He says Israel will be restored to the land once desolate and occupied by the Gentiles and reveals that her Husband is not only her God and her Redeemer, but the God of the whole earth and therefore the God of the Gentiles. As will be realized when the 144,000 recognize their Messiah with His Queen.
Isaiah 54:9-10, "For this is as the waters of Noah to me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more flood the whole earth; [now I swear that I will no longer pour out My anger on you as I have in the Trumpet plagues during the Gentile dispensation]. Though the mountains depart, and the hills be shaken; My kindness shall not depart from you, My Covenant relationship shall never be broken." The shaking of the mountains heralds the return of the Lord to Israel, her new birth and the restoration of the Kingdom (Zechariah 14:4; Matthew 24:30). Isaiah next describes the beauty of the New Jerusalem whose walls and foundations are represented by the 144,000 (Isaiah 54:11-12). Also see Revelation 21:11-15, where Christ has the golden rod of the fullness of the Word to measure the City, and which He gave us in Revelation 11:1 to measure the 144,000.
God is faithful to the everlasting Covenant He made with Abraham and his seed forever. Isaiah 54:13, "All your children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be their peace in Covenant relationship" through their new birth. Jesus quoted this verse in John 6:43-47, speaking of all the elect.
Isaiah 54:17 paraphrases the Covenant of Genesis 12:3: "No weapon formed against you shall prosper; every tongue that speaks against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of Me, says the Lord."
In Isaiah 55:1-3 we come to the 144,000 receiving their atonement, "Listen, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; he who has no money; come, buy, and eat; Spiritual wine and milk without money and without price, just surrender self to accept the blessing. Why spend money on denominational food that has no nutrition? and your earnings for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and fattens up the soul. Incline your ear, and come to Me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David" by the blood of the everlasting Covenant (Hebrews 13:20).
This is the sabbath for the soul that Jesus offered and Israel rejected 2,000 years ago (Matthew 11:28-30). At their new birth Israel will crown Messiah King by their revelation, and He will stand for them, and destroy His enemies, bringing-in the Millennium in the second half of Daniel's Seventieth Week (Daniel 12:1; Ezekiel 38:18-23; Micah 5:4).
Turn back to Isaiah 24:5-6 and follow along in your Bibles.
Israel had broken the everlasting Covenant and defiled the Land by spiritual adulteries against the Laws and ordinances of God until He put her away and turned to we Gentiles to take from them a people for His Name, a Bride. Now we are at the end of the Gentile dispensation, and the Gentiles, too, have transgressed His Laws, the whole earth is defiled and few there be who are not under the curse of God. Or as Jesus expressed it in Revelation 13:8, "All that dwell upon the earth whose names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life shall worship the Devil—incarnate in the Pope."
Only the 144,000 elect Israelites are free from curse of Malachi 4:6 on the earth. The city of confusion, Los Angeles, the Babylon of the west, is violently shattered—as is Jerusalem in the east (Zechariah 14:5-6). There is no joy in wine, music or song, the city is left desolate, her markets are deserted.
Isaiah 24:13-16, "For so shall it be throughout the land, as the shaking of an olive tree, and gleaning of grapes when vintage is done, only a remnant of 144,000 will remain [(Revelation 14:12-20). This physical shaking will come from an earthquake and the Spiritual shaking from Israel's revelation]. She will sing and rejoice at the majesty of the Lord. Those restored to the Land from the west shall cry aloud, and those from the east shall glorify the Name of the Lord God of Israel. From the uttermost parts of the earth we heard songs glorifying God as the righteousness of His Trumpet judgments is revealed to the 144,000":
Revelation 15:3-4, "And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are Your ways, You King of the Gentiles [or nations]. Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your Name? For You alone are holy: all nations shall come and worship before You; for Your righteous Trumpet judgments upon Israel are made manifest to our understanding."
After this, the mystery of the Seven Vials will be revealed to the 144,000, to enable them to distinguish the foolish virgin from the false church through the Ages (Revelation 15:5-16:21).
Isaiah 24:16, "From the uttermost parts of the earth we've heard songs glorifying God's righteousness as His Trumpet judgments were revealed to the 144,000. But I grow faint, woe is me! treachery prevails everywhere; [and because iniquity shall abound, the godly love of many Israelites shall grow cold (Matthew 24:12-13)], provoking judgment."
And in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week when Rome breaks her agreement with the self-styled Jews, she will force the mark of the beast: most Jews will become Roman Catholic, and the 144,000 will be betrayed by the Judases among their brethren as Jesus was betrayed by His kinsman, Judas Iscariot.
The following two verses speak of successive catastrophes. If one escapes the first, the second will catch him. For the windows of heaven are opened figuratively to pour out destruction "as it was in the days of Noah," and the earth is shaken beneath us in the catastrophic upset of nature at the first resurrection.
Isaiah 24:20-22, "The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, it shakes like a tent in a storm; [when a man puts forth his hand to steady himself, the wall will not support him], for the rebellion presses heavily upon it; it shall fall, and not rise again" (Isaiah 1:8; Hebrews 12:26).
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will punish the host of the high ones that are on high, [Satan, the prince of the power of the air will be cast down to earth where he will incarnate the Pope], and the kings of the earth [or Black Nobility who will support the pope until he breaks his covenant with the self-styled Jews in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week shall be punished] upon the earth" at Armageddon (Revelation 12:9; 16:14; 17:12-18; Ephesians 6:12).
Satan will be cast down to earth at the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary for the Homecoming of Christ's Bride to the Wedding Supper in the air. Then the foolish virgin and the elect 144,000 will be purged, and earth will be cleansed in preparation for the Millennium.
Isaiah 24:22, "And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days [that is, one thousand years] they shall be visited" (Daniel 7:12; Revelation 20:5).
Sometimes people say the Millennium is not Scriptural. Well, there it is in the Old Testament. Praise God. And it will be followed by the general resurrection, judgment and final disposition of sin.
Isaiah 14:9-12, "Hell from beneath is moved to meet you [Lucifer] at your coming: great men of earth long deceased raise from their thrones in astonishment at your humbled condition. With one voice they taunt, Have you become weak as we are? . . . How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning . . ."
Revelation 20:1-3, "Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key to the bottomless pit and a heavy chain in his hand. And he seized the dragon—that old serpent, the Devil, Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished: after that he will be released for a little while."
Isaiah 24:23, "Then the glory of the Son of David reigning from Zion will outshine the moon and the sun in the sight of the twenty-four elders" (Revelation 21:23-25).
Gives you a good feeling, doesn't it? To know you'll be seated in the throne with Christ and the saints of all Ages. And at the Bema seat before the Wedding Supper when we're introduced to Jesus and all of the saints, He'll say, "It was well done, My good and faithful Brother. Well done, My precious loyal Sister. Enter in to the joy of the Lord." bb990106.htm
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