Thursday, August 29, 2019

Esau/Edom, and the Trail of the Serpent - VIII

Bible Believers' Newsletter 1086

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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.

Android PhoneToday we will follow the elect from Abraham to Jacob/Israel and from the Patriarchs to Judah, to David, the division of the kingdom, the prophecies of Balaam, "the times of the Gentiles" and Abraham's seed Jesus Messiah. We will place Christ's three Comings, the return of the descendants of Jacob/Israel to the Land of their Covenant in the first half of Daniel's Seventieth Week, the birth of the Israel nation in one day in the second half of the week, and the Restoration of the Kingdom to Israel in the Millennium. Meantime dangerous times lie before Christ's end-time Bride and this apostate world in which "there shall be a famine not only for bread and a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord" (Amos 8:11).

This week we received two letters from America. One said, "I'm sticking with the Bible. I don't think there are any honest politicians out there. In fact, I don't see many honest pastors out there either. This world is just plain evil." The second letter (from a Message believer) was written in a similar vein.

Brother Branham said, "There's three isms" trying to take a hold of the world today: Fascism, Nazism, and Communism . . . Keep your eyes on Russia . . . it'll all wind up in Catholicism in the end time. That's exactly right. That's at the battle of Armageddon, right over in here when Christ comes Himself [and the pope is cast into the Lake of Fire]" (The Seventieth Week of Daniel, p. 120:219-220; Revelation 19:19-21).

As far back as 1950, Dmitri Manuilsky, Russian delegate to the United Nations who succeeded Lenin as leader of the World Revolutionary Movement, or Free Masons, spoke of "launching the most spectacular peace movement on record." Its objective was to "put the bourgeoisie to sleep," so that the final take-over of the entire world by the Communists would succeed through the element of surprise. This "peace offensive" was launched by Khrushchev in 1956 . . . at the Twentieth Party Congress that inaugurated the strategy of "peaceful co-existence" as the means of achieving world-wide Communist dictatorship—an objective which could not be gained by conventional military confrontation. Mikhail Gorbachev brought it to fruition; the International Jews are funding it at taxpayer expense through tax-exempt foundations, and agencies such as the International Monetary Fund, UN and World Bank (The Woman Clothed with the Sun).

According to Pew Research 61% of Americans aged between 18 and 24 have a positive reaction to the word "socialism"—beating out "capitalism" at 58%. Overall, 39% of Americans are well-disposed toward socialism, but the gulf remains wide for men and those aged over 55 (nymag.com).

Jew-ruled USA, other colonies of the City of London and the Judaeo-Roman church will FORCE Russia back under Judaeo-Communism (Revelation 13:15-18; 16:13-16; 17:12 – 18:20) as they will FORCE peaceful Semitic Iran to invade belligerent non-Semitic, anti-Semitic faux Israel (Ezekiel 38:5) as the USA FORCED Japan into World War II. The Talmud says, "The best among the idolaters [Christians] deserves to be killed"—as human cattle Goys may be culled. We commit genocide against our kindred in Jewish wars; the best politicians money can buy permit oligarchs to expatriate our productive economy, enriching themselves and bankrupting our nations.

This is the horror of apostasy. Jesus prophesied "they will be materially rich and in need of nothing, but know not that spiritually they are wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked".

China's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative is a bold, ingenious and constructive expression of communism by the Jewish-controlled East, more friendly, much smarter than the coarse, destructive belligerence projected by the undisguised gunboat diplomacy of the Jewish-controlled West, but perhaps the iron hand in the velvet glove.

Before 2030, US deficits will hit $2 trillion per year and total federal debt will go over $40 trillion. Sometime in the months ahead, a stock market crash and a recession are inevitable and the Federal Reserve may not have 100 basis points (1%) to trim from its lending rate and will wind up the printing presses and expand the deficit (bonnerandpartners.com).

The world is headed for the greater than Great Depression prophesied by Brother Branham. We are awaiting a circumstance such as the sinking of Los Angeles and the invasion of mainland USA that will unite the world religious system against Communism virtually overnight. The (once) Christian world has replaced the love of Christ with compound interest and materialism, instead of "saving souls" they try to buy friendship but when foreign aid stops so will their friendship, and they will be communists after all.

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.
Your brother-in-Christ
Anthony Grigor-Scott

'Shadow Statistics': US Govt. fudging Numbers on Unemployment, GDP & Inflation

August 26, 2019 — One of my early clients was a large manufacturer of commercial airplanes, who had developed an econometric model for predicting revenue passenger miles. The level of revenue passenger miles was their primary sales forecasting tool, and the model was heavily dependent on the GNP/GDP as reported by the Department of Commerce. Suddenly, their model stopped working, and they asked me if I could fix it. I realized the GNP numbers were faulty, corrected them for my client . . . and the model worked again, at least for a while, until GNP methodological changes eventually made the underlying data worthless.

For a number of years I conducted surveys among business economists as to the quality of government statistics (the vast majority thought it was pretty bad), and my results led to front page stories in 1989 in the New York Times and Investors Daily (now Investor's Business Daily).

In 2004 he started Shadow Statistics and runs a blog with updates on what he calculates to be the real US government statistics . . . between 1997 and 1999 the government understated inflation and as a result inflation-indexed payments for social security didn't escalate as they should have and the government saved millions. The effect is the same in many contracts where payments are inflation indexed; between retired people and pension funds, between corporations and labour unions. Lower inflation rates, real or fictitious, save many corporations money.

On his web site you can check what he says are the correct figures today; unemployment in the United States, which the government says is under 5%, he says is about 22% . . . Inflation which the government says is about 2% is slightly over 5% . . . Shadow Stats broad outlook in the weeks and months ahead remains for: (1) a rapidly intensifying US economic downturn, reflected in (2) mounting selling pressure on the US dollar, (3) flight to safety in precious metals, with upside pressures on gold and silver prices, and (4) increasingly high risk of extraordinarily heavy stock-market selling. Full story: globalresearch.ca

The Great Switch: the Geo-Politics of Looming Recession

$1 Trump
August 26, 2019 — Is the prospect of looming global recession merely an economic matter . . . Or, is there a wider pattern of geo-political markers that may be deduced ahead of its arrival? . . . Trump is a zero-interest, bail-out man. But this extreme swing in the opposite direction, however, is likely induce . . . competitive devaluation, and attempted deflation-export . . . amplified by a collapsing oil price, toppling Middle Eastern states . . . The United States . . . has weaponised the financial system so thoroughly that the US will never yield on the dollar status . . . do China and Russia have the political will—and capability—to assume the task of mounting a different financial order? . . . the system had proved a gold-mine for the weapons-manufacturing oligarchs, and America was mightily taken with the unfolding prospect of its leading the world: the "American century" ahead . . .

In 1916, the US output surpassed that of the entire British Empire. Ninety-eight years later, US output supremacy (in Purchasing Power Parity terms) came to an end. China surpassed America. Will a more fractured, increasingly belligerent US domestic polity be able to fix the financial order, as the latter careers from one extreme to a disordered, sanctioned and tariffed other? America most likely, will once again be wedded to a "conservative" [i.e. Hobbesian] vision of pursuing its own future. Full story: strategic-culture.org

Comment: American imperialism or wars until the entire planet has become controlled by "the unto the beast," itself controlled by America's billionaires, the City of London, and the Judaeo-Roman Universal church? Russia will have the ability and take the opportunity to stop this insanity when the earthquake sinks Los Angeles sinks in the Pacific. Then it will invade mainland USA but in covenant with Jewry who are "Guardians of the Vatican Treasury" (Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 497) Rome will refinance the US dollar and a then Devil-incarnate Pope will be acclaimed inaugural president of world government (Daniel 9:27; Revelation 17:11-18).

Trump's other Wall. The 'Wall of Money.' Towards a Global Currency War

August 26, 2019 — Trump brags about the 'wall of money' now flowing into the US from abroad—from Europe, Asia, emerging market economies—as the global economy slides into recession there faster than in the US . . . his provoking of a global currency war, his monetary policy of forcing the Fed to lower rates all exacerbate the Wall of Money inflow to the US which hastens the decline of the global economy.

Behind the Wall of Money inflow is $17 trillion in negative interest rates in Europe and Japan that is driving money out of those economies and into US Treasuries as a 'safe haven,' causing a rise in the dollar relative to other currencies and causing currencies worldwide outside the US to fall in turn. As other currencies fall, capital flight from their economies (Europe, Latin America, Asia) sends still more dollars to the US—driving the dollar higher still . . . declining currencies leads to more capital flight . . . Investment collapses and recessions deepen further outside the US . . . China is already responding by allowing the Yuan to slowly devalue to offset Trump's tariffs on China exports . . . in Europe and Japan that means even deeper negative rates and more capital flight to US Treasuries and an even higher US$. Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: Around $90 billion in value has been vaporised from the Australian Stock Exchange in just two days. Iron ore prices immediately tumbled below $US100 a tonne for the first time since June. Profitability in Chinese steel mills is back to being marginal and an escalation in the trade war will only make things worse. The fall in the Yuan though has stoked major worries for the Chinese and world economy. Given the domestic pain it would cause and the problems in servicing its debt China would not want let it fall too far.

Deutsche Bank has Trump's tax records sought by House Democrats

August 28, 2019 — The letter of disclosure was filed in response to an appeals court order as part of a legal battle between Congress and the president over access to Trump's business records, per the Washington Post. The court is considering a request by Trump to block access to financial records at the German bank and Capital One Financial Corp., Bloomberg notes. The bank's public redacted response does not identify its client by name . . .
Full story: axios.com

G7 at Odds on Iran? Macron to lead G7 Discussions with Tehran in defiance of Washington?

August 27, 2019 — G7 nations Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and US are united in one respect. They're profoundly undemocratic while pretending otherwise. They're united for privileged interests over beneficial social change. They operate as virtual US colonies . . . important is the refusal of Western nations to join a Trump regime anti-Iran Persian Gulf coalition, lessening the possibility of war . . .

Russia was absent from G7 talks, excluded from the club since 2014 over nonexistent aggression in Ukraine . . . China, the world's second largest economy, is excluded from G7 participation . . . "No member of the G7 wants Iran to get a nuclear bomb" . . . Britain, France and the US have nuclear arsenals. The Islamic Republic has none, doesn't want one, never did, and urges elimination of these destructive weapons.

Judge them by their actions. G7 countries abhor "stability and peace in the" Middle East and elsewhere while pretending otherwise. They back endless US wars of aggression in multiple theatres. The Islamic Republic is at peace with other countries. It never attacked another nation, seeking cooperative relations regionally and globally . . . Despite increasing its uranium enrichment, Iran remains in compliance with the agreement. Trump illegally pulled out and Europe continues to breach its obligations . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Amazonian Fake News

August 26, 2019 — Just before the opening of the Biarritz G7, an intense disinformation campaign was launched in the international press with the complicity of French President, Emmanuel Macron and the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. It aims to allow Europeans to control the Amazon, its minerals, its pharmaceutical treasures and its precious woods.

Its purpose is to distort the problem before providing a false solution. In the first place, the campaigners reiterated that the Amazon is "the green lung of the planet," a fallacious formula that suggests that this forest would absorb most of the CO2 produced on Earth, which is absurd.

Second, they have consistently claimed that the Amazon rainforest is burning so fast that it will disappear. The media amplify by giving absurd figures on devastated surfaces. However, the Amazonian forest is a wetland, extremely slow to burn. The devastated areas are not in the forest itself, but in deforested areas. In a few months after the felling of the trees, the tropical flora grows back. These areas are then covered with fallen trunks and new trees that burn rapidly. Full story: voltairenet.org

How Well do Scientists understand Global Warming?

March 14, 2019 — Global warming shapes public policy, taxation, and spending. So how well do scientists really understand global warming and/or climate change? And do 97% of scientists really agree that it's caused by human activity? Full story: youtube.com

Comment: World Wars I, II, III and the 1947 Roswell incident were all meticulously planned and directed by earthlings intent on global hegemony and controlled by the 'hidden hand.' The holocaust of 6 million Jews claimed in World War I was revised to zero, the slaughter of 6 million Jews by Jew-ruled USSR between the wars was the real genocide of 60 million nominal Christians by Jews, and the holocaust of 6 million Jews claimed in World War II, like Orson Welles' 1938 fictional invasion of New Jersey by men from Mars never took place. And seventy-five years later no nation possesses the technology required to make it happen.

These politically and financially lucrative psychological experiments have since been eclipsed by the long-planned hole in the ozone layer, global cooling, global warming, climate change hoax. Nature requires more, much, much more CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2 cannot possible cause global warming: the Sun's natural Milankovitch Cycle is the cause as all behind this Machiavellian scheme that has let out sufficient rope for egotistical politicians, conceited and corrupt scientists (so-called) to de-industrialise and bankrupt the developed world, depopulate the planet and return the remnant to serfdom under Lucifer's one world government (Matthew 4:8-9).


Esau/Edom, and the Trail of the Serpent - VIII

We'll commence tonight's service with Jacob's prophetic blessing upon the patriarchs: his pronouncement over Judah speaks of Jesus Messiah's second physical return or third Coming "to step out on the nuclear ashes of the wicked" with His glorified Bride, the Church of elect Israelites and Gentiles, and of the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel for a thousand years of peace.

Genesis 49:8-12, "Judah, your brethren shall praise you: you shall destroy your enemies; your father's children shall bow before you. Judah is like a lion's cub that has captured his prey and carried it up the mountainside to devour; who will dare rouse him from his rest? He is as dangerous as a mature lion or a lioness jealous for her cubs".

This victory is announced in Revelation 5:5. The elders command John, who represents the end-time Bride who will not see death, "Stop weeping, for the Lion of the Tribe of Judah has overcome and conquered all of His enemies, including Death [and mortally bruised Satan's head]. He is worthy to take the Book and to open its Seven Seals, His brethren shall praise Him. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth and under the earth, and in the sea, cried, Blessing and honour, and glory and power, to Him Who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb for eternity" (Genesis 3:15; Revelation 5:13; Daniel 7:12-14).

After gathering His Bride of all Ages to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb in the Sky, Jesus will reveal Himself to "His father's children" in the latter part of the second half of Daniel's Seventieth Week when the United States of America and Vatican City State have been blasted from the face of the earth. The Old Testament saints with the twenty-four elders and four living creatures of both Testaments will fall down in worship before the throne. The 144,000 elect Israelites having recognized their King Messiah by faith not by sight, will bow their hearts before Him in one day, admonished by their glorified Old Testament kinsmen, for they are all God's servant nation. The 144,000 will be martyred and the heavens will open to a grand theophany showing Jesus Christ mounted on a white horse, His robes dipped in the blood of His enemies leading armies of saints to destroy His enemies, "and every eye shall see Him" (Isaiah 66:8; Ezekiel 39:17-29; Revelation 1:7; 19:1-21).

"The sceptre [kingship] shall not depart from Judah [to another tribe], nor an expounder of the law from among his descendants, until Shiloh Sheloh ["He to whom it belongs"] comes; and to Him shall be the gathering of His KIN-folk." His elect 144,000 will be blood descendents of Jacob predestinated to partake the fullness of millennial blessings at the perfection of Judah's lordship in Jesus Messiah. Not one of the 144,000 will be a Jew; the day of grace for Jews of Adam's race has been the Gentile dispensation. You'll recall from our study in Ezekiel 40-48 that the Millennium Temple will not be a building made with human hands but 144,000 elect Israelites gathered to Messiah (Ezekiel 48; Revelation 7:1-8). Judah has not been ruled by an independent king since Nebuchadnezzar's conquest and will be ruled by Rome until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled (Daniel 9:24; Luke 21:22; Romans 11:25-26).

Revelation 5 was fulfilled in 1963 when our Lord Jesus claimed the Book, loosed its Seven Seals and revealed the Seven UNWRITTEN Thunder mysteries through His prophet, William Branham. Isaiah 11:1, 10-16 explains that once the Gentiles have found rest Christ's 'parousia' will be revealed to 144,000 elect Israelites for their regeneration in Daniel's Seventieth Week: "There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse [King David's father], for the Kingdom [of Judah] shall be cut off and a green shoot or Branch [Jesus Christ] shall grow out of his roots" (Acts 2:22-36; Revelation 22:16).

Isaiah 11:11, "it shall come to pass in that day, [when the Church has entered her rest] the Lord will set his hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people." They will not be gathered from Khazaria (Ukraine and Georgia), Russia, Poland, Germany, France, England, the United States, Canada or Australia. God has no covenant with those non-Semitic, anti-Semitic impostors who have no history in the Middle East. He will recover the remnant of Jacob/Israel from North Africa and the Middle East whereon the apostate (once) Christian Gentile nations of the Jew-ruled "Coalition of the Willing" have been committing genocide upon the heirs of God's Sinaitic Covenant as Judea's Edomite King Herod the Great sought to murder the infant Prince Jesus, rightful heir to David's throne.

Greater Israel, so-called". . . the remnant of His people, which shall be left" after the genocidal bombing and cold-blooded murder by 'the allies' in behalf of the modern state of faux Israel as exposed by the courageous Private Manning and honest Julian Assange, the objective of which is to steal Ashkenazi 'leiberstraum' according to these land-napping cover devised by Oded Yinon and Bernard Lewis for Greater Israel. No longer "strictly a Zionist Project for the Middle East, it is an integral part of US foreign policy, its strategic objective is extend US hegemony as well as fracture and balkanize the Middle East. Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital is intended to trigger political instability throughout all the region. According to [Moses and] the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, "the area of the Jewish State stretches: "From the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates" [at Tiphsah (I Kings 4:24)]. According to Rabbi Fischmann, "The Promised Land extends from the River of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria and Lebanon".

According to Isaiah 11:11-16 and the maps in your Bible, "the remnant of God's people Israel, which shall be left [will be gathered] from Assyria (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq), and from Egypt, and from Pathros (Upper Egypt), and from Cush (the Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti), and from Elam (Iran), and from Shinar (Iraq), and from Hamath (Syria), and from the coastlands of the Mediterranean Sea (Southern Turkey and North Africa: Libya, Algeria and Morocco)".

God first recovered the remnant of His people after the Babylonian Captivity. This time "the dispersed of Judah will be gathered together from the four corners of the earth" by two Hebrew prophets in Israel. One anointed by the Spirit that endued Moses will restore the statutes and judgments of Mosaic Law. A second, anointed by the Spirit that rested on Elijah, will expound Israel's Feast of Trumpets through 2,000 years of history to lead them to Christ. Hereby an election will recognize Christ's parousia Coming to Israel, and the nation—all 144,000 of them—will be born-again in one day (Isaiah 66:8; Romans 11:25-27). Verses 13-16 describe how, once reunited, the twelve tribes will quickly swoop down like a bird of prey upon the Philistines in the west and spoil the children of the east (Midianites—Arab descendants of Abraham and Keturah and the Amalekites—Serpent's seed descendents of Esau's son Eliphaz by his Hittitess wife Adah (Bashemath); then they shall conquer Edom and Moab, subdue and bring Ammon under submission.

The compound verses of Genesis 49:8-12 denote the ideal terminus where Judah's lordship reaches its glorious perfection. They show how Christ's glorious rest is to be accomplished. First Messiah is implicitly set forth in "the seed of the woman," then with Seth and Shem, then with Abraham and his seed, thereafter with Jacob and Israel, and finally here with Judah.

Judah's King comes home to travel no more but to tarry, having won His Kingdom. His eyes no longer flash with eagerness to do battle but have a darker fire than wine; His teeth are whiter than milk. He's finished His conflicts, and in confident peace, He now enjoys the abundance of His land.

Judah means "praise," his hand shall be on the neck of his enemies. His power in speech corresponds to his greatness in war. All of his father's children shall bow down before him, not merely the Patriarchs. The innate lion-like nature that Judah and his tribe have displayed from their youth held no malicious design but growing and advancing in strength and size through the prey that the lion takes back to the hills, Judah's growth in warlike deeds of heroism, forms a compares with the quiet yet fearful ambush of the lion. The old lion is stronger than the young lion; and more fearful still is the lioness, especially in defence of her young. So lies the strong growth of Judah, who shall venture to attack. This prophetic lion figure is especially realized in the victorious dominion of David; although even in the wilderness, the tribe of Judah marched before the other tribes.

Now let's go back in time so we can bring Balaam's prophecies into the context of history, and their fulfilment in the near future.

Esau and his family left Canaan and went to live in Seir among the Horites whose name vanished to be replaced by that of Edomite. The Horites were kinsmen of the Amalekites after whom Eliphaz, the son of Esau, named his son. The Amalekites were the cause of the first war waged by Israel and it is of singular importance to note that the Lord God Almighty swore that "Because theirs is a hand against the throne of the Lord. He will war with Amalek from generation to generation" (Exodus 17:16); or until Esau is destroyed and the day of the Lord ushers in the age of Jacob/Israel, which will be the millennium.

When Moses sent spies from Kadesh Barnea to search out the land they returned with the evidence of its fruitfulness but lacked faith in God's ability to deliver it into their hand. They complained that they were as grasshoppers in comparison to the Canaanites and Amalekites. God declared that because of unbelief the adults would not enter the Promised Land but march around the desert until they perished. And when Moses informed his people they decided to take the Land by their might and power without the Spirit of the Lord, and against His command that they should not enter the Land. But they presumed to do battle, and the Amalekites and Canaanites smote them (Numbers 13-14; Hebrews 3-4).

When Moses petitioned the Amorite king to permit Israel to pass through his land. He refused, made battle and God destroyed his nation by the sword (Numbers 21). Israel advanced into Moab, his blood cousin by Lot's daughter who was raised in the faith of Abraham. Instead of welcome and hospitality Moab hired the prophet Balaam to curse Israel. A perfect type of our denominational cousins. God never forgave Moab and like those who encounter and reject the Message of Brother Branham, a Moabite shall never be in the election (Deuteronomy 23:4; Nehemiah 13:2; Matthew 12:32).

We will look at Balaam's prophecies because they pertain to the near future, tie back to and unfold Jacob's prophetic blessing upon the Patriarchs. I'll read Balaam's first oracle:

Numbers 23:9-10, "For from the top of the rocks I see Israel, and from the hills I behold him: lo, his people shall dwell alone, and shall not be counted among the nations. [As Christ's people dwell alone and are not countered among the denominations]. Who can count the dust of Jacob and number the fourth part of Israel's camp? [You'll recall the Tribes were divided into four orders of three around the Ark and Tabernacle of the Presence]. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like Israel's!" — Glory!

In his vision from the Lord the prophet Balaam saw Christ's 'parousia' Coming to the 144,000 in the second half of Daniel's Seventieth Week after Jewry's antichrist covenant with Rome has been abrogated and the Jews are at last exposed. But the world will not know that there is a racial difference between Jews and Israelites so when Rome and her allies send their troops to force their mark of the beast, which is the Babylonian trinity, Jews will take the mark which all God-fearing, Word-abiding Israelites will refuse and be martyred (Acts 3:23; Revelation 6:11; 7:9; 14:13; 15:1-4). But as they come against the city to destroy it, there will appear in the heavens the sign of the 'parousia' Coming of the Son of Man with His mighty armies to destroy them who have been destroying the earth. With the enemy repulsed, Jesus then comes and presents Himself to the 144,000 by faith. Having seen His mighty acts of salvation, they've come to know His power. But also seeing His wounds and knowing that they had rejected Him even to that moment, causes them to cry out in the agony of terror and fear, even as did their brethren of old when they stood before Joseph, being sore afraid that they would be killed (Genesis 45:1-9; Seven Church Ages, 41; Zechariah 12:9; Revelation 11:18; 12:9-17; 19:11-14).

In Numbers 23:19-24 king Balak again asks Balaam to curse Israel. He replied, "God is not a man, that He should lie and He doesn't change His mind as we do. What He has promised He will accomplish. He told me to bless them as He has blessed them; and I can't reverse that."

"He hasn't beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen mischief in Israel: the Lord his God is leading Israel to victory as King among them. God brought them out of Egypt; Israel has the strength of a wild ox so that no curse can be placed upon Jacob, neither any divination against Israel. In due season, and even now, it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, "What wonders God has done for them!" [Jacob's blessing of Judah is transferred to the whole people]. "If you are Christ's [and Judah's promised Heir is Jesus], then are you Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise"
(Galatians 3:29).

"The people shall rise up as a great lion, and shall not lie down until he has devoured his prey, and drunk the blood of the slain."

What a discouragement for king Balak. Balaam saw the tents of Israel in Tribal order. Under the anointing He looked through the eyes of Melchisedec and described them as God sees them. Numbers 24:5-9, "How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, and your dwellings O Israel! Spread before Me as green valleys, as fragrant gardens by the riverside, as lign aloes and shady cedar trees the Lord has planted beside the waters."

"Israel shall be pour out an abundance of water [essential to fertility] from his own resources of rich blessing and plenty
(Genesis 12:3); his offspring will dwell in many places, and his king shall be higher than Agag [the title of the Amalekite kings as Pharaoh was the title off the Egyptian, and Abimelech the title of Philistine kings], and his kingdom shall be exalted."

"God brought Israel out of Egypt; he has strength like a wild ox: he shall eat up the nations that oppose him, break their bones and pierce them through with his arrows. He sleeps as a lion and who dares arouse him? Blessed is he that blesses Israel, and cursed is he that curses Israel".


Israel is the weapon in God's hand in His warfare against the enemies of the dominion of His spoken Word upon earth. Only as the arrows of God, does Israel have victorious power over the nations.

Finally Balaam told Moab's King Balak, "Here's what Israel will do to your people in the latter days." Speaking of Israel's coming King Messiah prefigured by David, he said, "I shall see Him, but not now: I shall look for Him, but not near at hand: there shall come a Star [signifying a king] out of Jacob (Matthew 2:1-2), [Abraham's promised Seed, singular, was to come through Isaac, Jacob, Judah and the Royal line of David] and a Sceptre [or rod of authority signifying a ruler or king] shall rise out of Israel, and smite the whole country of Moab from one side to the other, and destroy all the sons of Sheth [tumult]. And Israel will possess all of Edom and Seir (Genesis 27:37); and overcome their enemies. Out of Jacob will come One having dominion, and shall destroy the survivors" (Numbers 24:14, 17-24).

This partly came to pass in the time of David when he killed two thirds of the Moabite men (II Samuel 8:2). And his armies killed every adult male in Edom (II Samuel 8:13-14; I Kings 11:15-16; I Chronicles 18:11-13). David was a type of Christ. This shows what Christ will do when He tramples his enemies underfoot (Revelation 19:11-21; I Corinthians 15:25). It's a type foreshadowing a future antitype.

The Moabites who were Israel's cousins and worshipped Israel's God type our denominational cousins, the natural church that worships the same God as us but by organization without the Spirit. As Moab's natural birth was illegitimate, spiritual birth in a denomination is illegitimate because it is carnal form impersonating the Word for a day gone by. Fundamentally they know how to approach God but are the enemies of His Church as Moab understood and mimicked Israel's approach through sacrifice but organized their own formal system and withstood the Words of a vindicated prophet.

Israel typed Christ's non-denominational Bride in the liberty of His Word, free from organization, journeying to our Promised Land of the millennium. Edom types the denominations who potentially possessed but rejected the birthright, against whom the Lord has perpetual hatred. Like Esau the Gentiles are fast approaching a time of no more repentance.

"And when Balaam looked upon the dwellings of the Amalekites, he prophesied, Amalek is the foremost of the neighbouring nations; but its destiny shall be destruction." [As we stated early in our lesson, Amalek was absorbed into Edom. So the first of the Canaanite tribes who impiously sought to measure their strength with the cause and people of God were likewise the first to lose their national existence].

"When Balaam looked upon the Canaanites, he said, Strong is your dwelling place, your nest is in the rocks. [Because he foresaw how they would join to Israel in the mountainous country of Naphtali]. Nevertheless you shall be wasted until Assyria finally takes you away captive." And he took up this parable, and said, Alas, who shall live when God does this and establishes Assyria!" Balaam's prophesying 700 years into the future to the time when Tiglath-Pilesar would carry away both the Canaanites and Israel (II Kings 15:29).

"And Greek and Roman ships shall come from the coast of Cyprus, and oppress both Assyria and all of the Hebrew people, including Israel: then they too must be destroyed."

Balaam saw the new threat from the Western people under Alexander and Rome. The overthrow of the last power of the world connects his prophecy with the prophecies of Daniel and Jesus Christ, bringing us to the present day.

Wise men from the East believed Balaam's prophecy and when they saw the Shekinah like a star they followed it for two years until it led them to Bethlehem where they paid homage to the infant Prince, Jesus. "I shall see Him, but not now: I shall look for Him, but not near at hand: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth [tumult]"  (Numbers 24:17).

This explains why they journeyed to Jerusalem, the religious headquarters and Israel's capital, crying: "Where is He that is born King of the Jews? for we've seen His star in the East, and are come to worship Him" (Matthew 2:2). This explains why Judea's Edomite king Herod believed the magi. He knew Balaam was the vindicated prophet who prophesied this King would utterly destroy his people and his nation. He was also familiar with Jacob's prophecy that "the hand of this King would be in the neck of his enemies" (Genesis 49:8-12).

Balaam foresaw a Star rise out of Jacob and said, "I shall see the King, but not now [because He is way off in the future]: I shall behold Him," but He was "not nigh" in Balaam's day. The magi could say, "We have seen His Star." Brother Branham saw the same Star in the West; so did several thousand people on the banks of the Ohio River when he was baptizing on June 16, 1933, and a Voice out of the heavens said, "As John the Baptist foreran My first Coming, your Message will forerun My second Coming".

In our previous lesson we read from Ezekiel 35 how Esau/Edom exploited every opportunity to spill Israel's blood by the enmity God placed between the seed of the Serpent and the seed of Adam (Genesis 3:15). Thereby Edom disregarded God's Covenant with Israel and will be utterly destroyed. We read how Esau was trying to steal back the birthright he had legally sold to Jacob, justifying his own wrong by Israel's disregard for God. By the destruction of Esau/Edom God will reveal His faithfulness to the Covenant and His love for Jacob/Israel.

Israel CrestGod said "When the whole earth rejoices, I will make Esau/Edom desolate" (Ezekiel 35:14-15). This will herald the millennium when Satan will be bound a thousand years, and the Kingdom is restored to Israel (Acts 1:6). This will bring in "everlasting righteousness . . . and the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea" (Daniel 9:24; Habakkuk 2:14).

Ezekiel 36 speaks of Israel's prospective revival and prosperity as the people of the Old Covenant, and continues God's prophecies against Mount Seir. Edom is accursed of God and the heathen nations have no interest in the power and faithfulness of God, in consequence of this Israel's heritage must revive and flourish.

Ezekiel 36:1-15, "Because the enemy sneered at Israel's mountains and claimed your ancient heights as theirs, and destroyed you on every side and sent you away as slaves to many lands." Esau/Edom sold captured Israelites as slaves to the Phoenicians, who on-sold and often transported them overseas. Modern history students who are familiar with the slave trade between Africa and North America will know it was conducted by these Edomite Jews. The same people were behind the Opium trade, and push illegal drugs through the banks and trading operations they established under the reign of the Jews' East India Company. Read biblebelievers.org.au (by the Editors of EIR).

Today they manage the slave trade through their UN, by instruments of policy such as LIMA and GATT. Globalization is destroying labour and industry by employing the Talmudic idea that the goy are human cattle fit only for labour paid at or below subsistence level and that industrial capacity should be leeched-out of the advanced sector and new plants built in the Third World for their looting, but not for their development. And with the strictest cost-accounting slashing living standards in the developed nations, as workers are forced to reduce their hourly rates in a downward spiral to retain their jobs, their own governments (until recently) waived duties on imported product that is cannibalizing their economy and citizens. The objective is to de-industrialise and impoverish the developed world by expatriating their productive economy and bankrupting the home country.

An illustration is General Motors' manufacture of motor vehicles in Mexico where the hourly rate varies from US$0.52 – US$1:10/hour as against US$20.00/hour for the same worker in the US, or $35.00 when the various benefits are included. Neither the Developed or the Underdeveloped nation benefits from this rape of resources, as labour prices are bid down as demonstrated when Mexico took over from China as the major supplier of clothing and textiles to the US.

Would you like to buy a Japanese TV set? Forget it! The Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese manufacturers cannot compete with labour costs in Mexico, Vietnam and Indonesia, and that's where they manufacture today.

Such cost-cutting is an assault against national sovereignty. If a society destroys the living standard of the productive labour force it destroys the elements necessary for its physical and cultural reproduction and existence. World depopulation and the return of serfdom is UN policy—slavery!

Under this recycling of labour, a worker earning US20.00/hour, plus other benefits, is fired and then re-hired for the same job on an individual contract at, US$10.00/hour or even US$25.00/hour but on different conditions and with less or no benefits. Once more he is fired, and hired again, at US$7.00/hour, with almost no benefits.

This "labour recycling" was pioneered in the Jewish-owned factories of Nazi Germany. Their last step was the labour camps as today in the USA it is manufacturing in the private prisons. The Edomite bankers are driving these Nazi "labour recycling" policies for loot to keep the speculative financial bubble from bursting until they have all the players in place, as they had several "false starts" to the First World War. They will then collapse the present money system, and commence a new game, at our expense.

This is enslavement by policy like President Trump's wars by policy! Now back to our subject, Ezekiel 36:3:

"You are mocked and slandered. . . Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Surely in the fire of My jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and especially Edom, for grabbing My Land with relish in utter contempt for Me, to take it for themselves."

"Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains and hills, rivers and valleys, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am furious because you have suffered shame and the reproach of the surrounding nations: so I have sworn, that those heathen that are about you, shall bear their shame. As for Israel, there will be abundant crops of fruit to prepare for the return of My people from Captivity in Babylon. For, behold, I am for you, and I will come to help you; and you shall prepare the ground and sow: and I will greatly increase your population throughout all Israel, and the ruined cities shall be restored and reinhabited. I will also increase your flocks and herds: and I will fill you with homes. I will do even more for you than before. Then you'll know I am the Lord."

"My people will walk upon you once again, as you'll belong to them again; and no more bereave them of children for idol sacrifices."

"Thus saith the Lord God; Because they taunt you, saying, Israel is a land that devours her people in idol sacrifices [to Moloch]! Therefore you shall devour men no more. No longer will those nations sneer, for you'll no longer be a nation of sinners".


Edom's envy of Israel's possession (inheritance), led them to want to overcome it and bring Israel subject to themselves and to the other heathen. But once again God indicts them for overriding his faithfulness to His Covenant and Isaac's blessing, in consequence of which, Israel's heritage must revive and flourish, and the hopes of the heathen concerning it must be dashed.

Ezekiel 36:16-21 explains that the reason why God brought judgment upon the people and land of the Covenant was because of their wickedness and the necessity of God honouring His Own holiness by judging them. "The Word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land they defiled it by their evil deeds: their worship was as a menstruous cloth. They polluted the land with murder and idol worship, so I poured My fury upon them and exiled them among the heathen in many lands: that is how I punished them for their evil lives. But when they were so scattered, they profaned My holy Name because the heathens said, These are the people of the Lord, yet they had to leave His land because He couldn't protect them. But I had regard to My reputation, which the house of Israel ruined wherever they went."

Ezekiel 36:22-33 explains God's purpose, both for His Own Name's sake, and for Israel's future blessing, is to revive His cause among His people by sanctifying them. "Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; I am bringing you back again: not because you deserve it, but to protect My holy Name which you have profaned among the heathen. I will sanctify My great Name that you defiled, and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord when I am honoured before their eyes by delivering you from exile among them. For I will restore you again to the land of Israel [unconverted and in unbelief])."

"Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your filthiness, and from all your idolatry."

Verse 25 has a compound meaning. We see it as prophesying the ministry of the Hebrew prophet with the anointing that was upon Moses, restoring the 144,000 back to sanctification under the orthodox faith of the Law and the prophets whence they have fallen. And verse 26 foretelling the ministry of the Hebrew prophet who will be anointed with the Spirit that was upon Elijah, apprising Israel of "the present Truth" (II Peter 1:12).

"And I will give you a new heart, and put a new Spirit within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to obey My laws, and keep My judgments and do whatever I command."

This is speaking of the time of the end, of Daniel's Seventieth Week after the self-styled Israeli Jews have abandoned the land of the Covenant and genuine blood Israelites—no longer welcome in the Muslim lands of the ancient Babylonian and Assyrian Empires since the earthquakes destroyed al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock—have returned to the Land of their Covenant and are sanctifying in expectation of their redemption.

"And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be My people, and I will be your God."

This shows the folly of British Israel, Christian Identity (so-called) and other theories claiming natural Israel is somehow the United States or Britain and the Commonwealth. None of those countries are Israel, but colonies of the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews of the City of London who have no claims on Israel, upon God, or upon any Covenant of God. Malachi calls them, "the people against whom the Lord has indignation forever".

"I will cleanse away your sins, I will abolish crop failures and famine. I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field; never again will the surrounding heathens scoff at your land for its famines. Then you will remember your past sins and loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations."

"Bear in mind that it's not for your sakes that I do this, and be repentant for what you have done."

"Thus saith the Lord; When I cleanse you from your iniquities, I will bring you home to Israel, and rebuild the ruins."

Ezekiel 36:34-38 summarizes the general result. "Acreage that lay desolate will be cultivated again. People shall say, This land that was desolate is like the Garden of Eden. The once ruined cities are walled and inhabited. Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, the Lord, rebuilt the ruined places, and replanted that which was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it."

"Thus saith the Lord God; I am ready to hear Israel's prayers for these blessings, and to grant their requests. I will increase them with men like the consecrated flocks of sanctified sheep that fill Jerusalem's streets at the time of her appointed feasts."


[Ezekiel 36:37 – 37:14 is read in the Synagogue during Passover. Verse 37 points to the great accumulation of sacrificial sheep for the Passover (II Chronicles 35:7; Mark 15:6) to which the 144,000 restored of Israel are compared.

In Romans 12:1 Paul says, "I implore you, brethren, in view of the mercies of God that you present all of your members and faculties as a living sacrifice, consecrated and pleasing to God, as is your reasonable service"].

"The ruined cities will be crowded once more and everyone shall know that I am the Lord [or Sovereign Ruler, calling forth loyalty and obedient service]."


Ezekiel 37 makes particular reference to the restoration of Israel to the Promised Land in these last days, symbolized as dry bones. It mentions the dispensation Change, regeneration of the 144,000, and the millennial reign of Jesus as Son of David.

Ezekiel 37:7, 14, "I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I spoke there was a rattling noise, then an earthquake, and the bones came together, bone to his bone." Oh my! This is speaking of the return and reunion of the twelve tribes in Daniel's Seventieth Week. Let's GO!

Assisi meetingThis brings us back to Isaiah 11:11-16 and the earthquakes that will sink Los Angeles and split the Mount of Olives marking the close of the Gentile Dispensation at the Seventh Trump, calling the first resurrection after three days, and igniting the Muslim invasion of Jerusalem to defend the now demolished al Aqsa Mosque and es Sakhra, the Dome of the Rock upon Temple Mount. The utter defeat of the modern State of faux Israel and the mass exodus of non-Semitic self-styled Israeli Jews will enable the genuine blood descendants of Jacob/Israel to return to the Land of their Covenant without "fear of the Jews." Hence the "rattling of the bones" of the twelve tribes. The global scope of this unprecedented natural catastrophe producing earthquakes, volcanic eruptions—even upon the moon, and tidal waves accompanying Satan's supernatural casting down to earth will be the catalyst that activates the confederacy of world religions organized at Vatican II.

Jewish Jesuit Malachi MartinBefore his untimely death in 1999, Jewish Jesuit Dr. Malachi Martin, who was with Vatican intelligence assessing things in Israel, and an adviser to three popes, told Uri Dowbenko, "I think that from the very start John Paul II for whatever reasons has sought after one thing and one thing only. The formation of what now appears to be in his mind, a universal assemblage of Catholics at the core; grouped with them the Protestant denominations, sects and churches; grouped around them believing Jews, believing Muslims, believing Hindus, believing Buddhists. And that would be a universal religious assembly that could have a powerful dynamic kick in civilization and in solving the problems of men and women today. That is the only thing you can really say this man has sought heart and soul and body with all his travelling. . ." (Uri Dowbenko, Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy, ISBN 0971004218, p. 213).
Brother Branham said, they're now being gathered together for the burning. Did you notice, Jesus said, "First, gather them together, bundle them, and then put all the bundles in one pile, and I'll burn them" (Matthew 13:30). There's a little bundle called Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, they're all gathering together in the World Council of Churches (Revelation 13:13-18). What is it? "Gather them first!" Hallelujah! Did you notice, He gathers the tares first, gets them away from the wheat, separates them, "Gather them together and burn them." They're all to be burned with the judgments of God, for sowing discrepancy among the people . . . Having a form of godliness, and denying the Power thereof, denying the Word, just to hold up some religious rites, of some dogma that somebody's injected in, trying to put in the Word of God. It won't work. It's a discrepancy" (The Seed of Discrepancy, p. 14:75).

The Third Pull, has now been vindicated . . . it's just happened, so it could identify its presence among you, see, but it will not be used in a great way until this Council begins to tighten up . . . But when that time comes, when the squeeze comes down, then you'll see, what you've seen temporarily, be manifested in the fullness of its power" (Look Away to Jesus, p. 5:38-39).

This is what Christians are anticipating, but like Israelites denominational believers have been blinded, "lest they should be converted and Christ should heal them" (Matthew 13:13-15; II Timothy 4:3-4; Revelation 3:17-20).

"And I shall put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord."

Where is Israel when he's born-again? "In his own land." God cannot deal with Israel outside the Land of the Covenant.

Ezekiel 37:24-25, "David My servant shall be King over them; [that's our Lord Jesus Christ, and this is during the Millennium]; and they all shall have One Shepherd: they shall also obey My laws and all My wishes. They shall live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where their fathers lived. [Not Britain, America or the Commonwealth]. They and their children after them: and My servant David, their Messiah, shall be their Prince forever."

How close are we, Brethren? In Matthew 24:32-34 Jesus said, "The generation [or race of Jacob/Israel—not Jewry] that saw Israel restored to the Promised Land in 1948 will not die-out through old age before the Millennium begins." And Jesus takes His Bride Home for the Wedding Supper seven years beforehand. nl1086.htm

Pass it on . . . please send this article to someone you knowBrother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.

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Thursday, August 22, 2019

Esau/Edom, and the Trail of the Serpent – VII

Bible Believers' Newsletter 1085

"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; it's good to see you. We appreciate your company around the Tree of Life.

Android PhoneIn addition to a selection of current news items we have a question concerning "the Day of vengeance of our Lord" proclaimed by God's Prophet, William Branham, in accord with Isaiah 61:2b. Our main article, "Esau/Edom, and the Trail of the Serpent," discusses Christ's three Comings and defines His countless "appearings"; after addressing the geography of Palestine we examine Pharisaism or Judaism, the antitheses of Christianity. We explain how Esau/Edom was assimilated with Judea and now rule the world by the Babylonian fractional reserve banking swindle of the City of London.

An astute correspondent wrote, "Markets and economies are hard to predict. But politicians are panes of glass. They have two major goals—re-election and larceny. The aim of the former is merely to enable the latter." It seems political leaders worldwide irrespective of party policy owe fealty to a higher authority than electors, nation or province and that their objective is high office in Lucifer's coming world government. They are doing their utmost to destroy the world economy and bankrupt the nations. Should they persist the world will see depression before Los Angeles sinks (Amos 8:11), and when the dust settles we will have a world bifurcated between Judaeo-Communism and Judaeo-Romanism.

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.
Your brother-in-Christ
Anthony Grigor-Scott

The Successes of Russian diplomacy in the Middle East

August 20, 2019 — The political changes which have been transforming the Middle East for the last two months are not the result of the destruction of any of the protagonists, but the evolution of the Iranian, Turkish and Emirati points of view. Where the military might of the United States has failed, the subtlety of Russian diplomacy has succeeded. Refusing to comment on the crimes of one party or the other, Moscow is slowly managing to pacify the region . . . Unlike the United States, Russia is not seeking to impose its own vision on the world. It begins on the contrary with the culture of its interlocutors, which it modifies by small touches at its contact . . . with time, the objectives of each protagonist have been organised into a hierarchy and are becoming clearer.

In conformity with its tradition, Russian diplomacy, unlike that of the United States, is not attempting to redefine frontiers and alliances. It is working to untie the contradictory objectives of its partners. Thus it helped the ex-Ottoman Empire and the ex-Persian Empire distance themselves from their religious definition—(the Muslim Brotherhood for the former, and Shi-ism for the latter—and return to a post-Imperial national definition . . . clearly visible in Turkey, but supposes a change of leaders in Iran in order to become operational. Moscow is not seeking to 'change the regimes,' but to change some aspects of the mentalities. Full story: voltairenet.org

Criminal War Propaganda directed against Iraq & Syria: 'We think the Price is worth It'

August 19, 2019 — When we play their game we will always lose and they will always win. 'They' are the largely unelected 'Permanent State' . . . the 'Deep State.' 'They' are the publicly bailed-out transnational, corporate monopolies and their political fronts that destroy domestic and foreign economies with their supranational 'trade' agreements, their parasitical 'neoliberal', publicly bailed-out 'privatization' schemes, their permanent war making, and their terrorism.

A large part of their game is indoctrination. They are experts at war propaganda. They can make broad-based domestic audiences believe almost anything. And they are doing it now. They have largely succeeded in fabricating Canadian consent to support ISIS and al Qaeda and affiliated terrorists. We must break free from their words, their stories, their criminal war propaganda. Nomenclature is important.

The pre-planned NATO war of aggression against Syria is not a 'civil war.' The term 'civil war' connotes a false equivalency between both sides, an internal conflict. It is a war lie. The terrorists are Western-supported, they are al Qaeda and ISIS, the Syrian people overwhelmingly reject them. The elected Syrian government is legitimate, the terrorists are not . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Syrian Security deprive CIA Terrorists of 400,000 Captagon Pills

William Branham
August 17, 2019 — Syrian security forces have deprived CIA terrorists of more than 400,000 Captagon pills. On 17 August, authorities in the suburbs of Damascus seized a truck with hidden compartments filled with a large quantity of this Amphetamine-type Stimulant (ATS) known as Captagon . . . Watch this video . . . CIA-sponsored terrorists from Al-Qaeda, FSA, ISIS, whatever names the CIA finds suitable for them, were actively working on planting, manufacturing, and cross-border trafficking of this lucrative business . . . NATO terrorists operating in Syria use it to enable them kill Syrians, maim living people and dead bodies, even blow themselves up with civilians with no remorse, committing unimaginable heinous crimes under influence . . . Full story: syrianews.cc     Comment: CIA; CIA.

Hong Kong in Crosshairs of Global Power and Ideological Struggles

August 19, 2019 — Hong Kong is one of the most extreme examples of big finance, neoliberal capitalism in the world. As a result, many people in Hong Kong are suffering from great economic insecurity in a city with 93 billionaires, second-most of any city . . . Hong Kong is a centre for big finance and also a centre of financial crimes. Between 2013 and 2017, the number of suspicious transactions reported to law enforcement agencies rocketed from 32,907 to 92,115. There has been a small number of prosecutions . . . The stated cause of the recent protests is an extradition bill proposed because there is no legal way to prevent criminals from escaping charges when they flee to Hong Kong. The bill was proposed by the Hong Kong government in February 2019 to establish a mechanism to transfer fugitives in Hong Kong to Taiwan, Macau or Mainland China . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: The escalating demonstrations are linked to the US trade war, tariffs and military encirclement of China. Four hundred—half—of the 800 US overseas military bases surround China. Aircraft carriers, destroyers, nuclear submarines, jet aircraft, Terminal High Altitude Area Defence missile batteries, and satellite surveillance infrastructures are positioned in the South China Sea, close to Hong Kong. Media demonization is needed to justify and intensify this military presence . . . Funding from the NED, the Ford, Rockefeller, Soros and numerous other corporate foundations, christian [sic] churches of every denomination, and generous British funding, is behind this hostile, subversive network orchestrating the Hong Kong protests . . . (globalresearch.ca).

Australian Investigative Journalist exposes Guardian/New York Times betrayal of Assange

August 10, 2019 — Australian journalist Mark Davis revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the lies both publications have used to smear the WikiLeaks founder . . . he was present when WikiLeaks worked closely with media partners . . . in the publication of the Afghan War logs . . . leaked by the courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning, comprised 90,000 incident and intelligence reports from the US military . . . at least 200 civilian deaths at the hands of US and allied forces that had previously been hidden from the public, along with clear evidence of war crimes, including the existence of a secret "black unit" within the US military, tasked with carrying out illegal assassinations . . . David Leigh and Nick Davies, senior Guardian journalists, who worked closely with Assange in the publication of the logs . . . played a key role in the attempts by the corporate media to smear Assange, and dovetail with US government claims that the 2010 publications "aided the enemy." In reality, the US and Australian militaries have been compelled to admit that release of the Afghan war logs did not result in a single individual coming to physical harm . . . The Guardian journalists . . . frequently engaged in "gallows humour" . . . Assange had not . . . "Julian removed 10,000 names by himself, not the Guardian" . . . Full story: wsws.org

A Question from a Subscriber

Question: Concerning Isaiah 61, when is the Day of Vengeance of our Lord? Is it now or when He comes to take us Home?

Response: The Day of vengeance of our God is not a solar day, it is "the Day of the Lord" which follows the present day of man, ending the Gentile dispensation of grace as the Lord turns His heart to the remnant of His servant nation Israel to fulfil Daniel's Seventieth Week. Israel's Seventh Trumpet will herald the first resurrection and signal blood Israelites—not non-Semitic self-styled Jews who are exempt from the Sinai Covenant—to return to the Land of their Covenant for redemption by the revelation of their Feast of Trumpets expounded by two Hebrew prophets anointed with the Spirit that endued Moses and Elijah (Zechariah 4:11-14; Matthew 24:31; Revelation 11:3-12). At this time the Sixth Seal will manifest sinking Los Angeles and a huge segment of earth's crust one Nisan 14 (Good Friday) in the near future, and the Seventh Vial will be poured upon nominal Christian make-believers and un-believers to distinguish them to 144,000 elect Israelites from the Sons of God.

All of the churches, denominational and independent, have been apostate since Jesus opened the Seven Seals after His priestly ministry of intercession as the Son of God. Their priests, ministers and congregations have been blinded just as Israel was blinded and they know it not (Isaiah 6:9-13; Luke 18:8; Romans 11:7-32; II Timothy 4:3-4; Revelation 3:17-20). "The days (plural) of vengeance" upon Israel commenced with the sounding of the First Trumpet when the legions of Roman General Titus invested Jerusalem (Luke 21:22; Revelation 8:7).

William BranhamBrother Branham was the greatest prophet since Enoch who foretold the Great Flood and revealed God's one provided way to escape. William Branham warned of the consummation by fire when he "proclaimed the Day of vengeance of our God" and revealed God's one provided way of escape (Isaiah 2:12; 13:6; 34:2, 8; 35:4; 47:3; 59:16-21; 63:4; Malachi 4:5; Revelation 18:4). Compare Exodus 25:5-6 with Mark 16:16 "he that believes not shall be damned," and the vengeance He will exact upon all who neglect to heed Brother Branham's warning to heart will take place in the Day of the Lord (Malachi 4:1-3; Matthew 24:21-28; II Thessalonians 1:8; Hebrews 10:26-31).

Amos 3:7 God always sends prophet with warning before judgment. Noah was a sign of the coming judgment. Moses was a sign to Egypt, Elijah was a sign to Ahab, Daniel was a sign to Babylon, John the Baptist was a sign to the Israelites, and William Branham was a sign to the churches of Laodicea. The Lord instructed Israel the precise hour, day, week, month and year in which they would slaughter Him on Calvary (Exodus 12:1-13; Daniel 9:25-26). Jesus rebuked the Jews and His disciples for not understanding the prophecies relating to His first Advent (Matthew 16:8; Luke 11:52; 24:25; John 5:39, 46). His great eschatological discourse in Matthew 24:4, 15, 24-25, 33 was delivered to be studied to forewarn the people. And by scripture and prophecy He foretold the date of His second or (Gk.) parousia Coming, which in hindsight was March 8, 1963 (Malachi 4:5, 6b; Matthew 17:11; 24:3-28; 25:6; I Thessalonians 4:14-16; 5:1-3; II Thessalonians 2:1-12; II Timothy 4:3-4; Revelation 3:14-20; 10:1-7; 16:12-16).

In several places the Bible and Brother Branham directed our attention to a period of "one year." Deuteronomy 24:5, "When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he has taken." Brother Branham told a parable of the little Armour girl who was a type of Christ's end-time Bride; she made herself ready and waited one year from her betrothal for her Bridegroom to carry her home.

Revelation 19:7-9 speaks of Christ's "new Wife," the elect Church of all Ages. "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb came to pass [on March 8, 1963 when Laodicea, Christ's mediation and redemption were over] and His Wife has made Herself ready. [The marriage is the new birth or invisible union of Christ the Head with His Body the Church; it has been over for fifty-six years. Christ's end-time Bride was redeemed and married in Christ on Calvary, we are just waiting for the last member of the Body to recognize who they are]. And to Her was granted that She should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for fine linen signifies the righteous works of the saints. And Brother Branham [the angel of Revelation 1:1, 3:14 and 10:7] told me, Write, Blessed are they who are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. [We are not going to the Wedding which is PAST, we are going to the Sky Lounge for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb]. And the Prophet assured me, This is THUS SAITH THE LORD".

Customarily there was one year of preparation for women entering a harem, and the usual length of a betrothal was one year [which we have emphasised as the last year before the end of the Christian dispensation]. Brother Branham said, "Oh, brother, give me a church full of the Holy Ghost. God will do in one year what all theology's failed to do in two thousand years. You wait till the anointing of the church really strikes home to that faithful the little remnant. After the doors of the Gentiles is closed, oh, God will anoint a church then. "He who's filthy, let him be filthy still. He who's righteous let him be righteous still, and he who's holy let him be holy still." And God will anoint the church with the power of God, and things will be taken place [Romans 8:19]. Not only that then, but He's doing it now. During this time she was considered married to her new baal (or master), and infidelity was adultery and punishable by death (Revelation 16:19). She could not be freed without a formal writ of divorcement, and if the husband died, she automatically became betrothed to his oldest brother.

pyramid-shaped rock cur out by the WhirlwindIn 1964 Brother Branham was again hunting javelina on Sunset Mountain in the Coronado Forest, Arizona, where He had been caught up into the Pillar of Cloud one year ago in March 1963, and told to return to his Church at Jeffersonville and preach the Seven Seals which would be revealed to him. The Lord said, tell Brother Wood to throw up a rock (as in Jeremiah 51:63-64 and Revelation 18:21). When it came down he said, "Within a day and a night you're going to see the glory of God." And the next day a whirlwind came out of the skies. When it went up "It spoke three words in three great blasts." The men only heard the blasting. I understood what it said, and said, "Judgment striking West Coast!" Two days after that Alaska almost sunk. The magnitude 9.2 earthquake that struck Alaska on March 27, 1964 was the second-largest earthquake recorded in modern times and the largest in the written history of North America. It released 100 times as much energy as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and was followed by tsunamis.

"Since that earthquake, there is a two- or three-inch crack that come in the earth, starting in Alaska . . ." the 'third pull' has been spoken, even to the destruction of California, coming up now, and all these other things. How many days it would be where this big earthquake happened in Alaska, and that would be the beginning of the sign of time, and what would take place." Two or three is a witness, the Alaska earthquake was an evidence Los Angeles will sink.

Israel was given rest on the Day of Pentecost under the Law en-route to Canaan (Exodus 19). Israel should have journeyed to the border of the Promised Land from Mount Sinai in 11 days (Deuteronomy 1:2), a precise number; they failed because of unbelief. They left Sinai on the twentieth day of the second month and God intended them to arrive at the border on the first day of the third month, Sivan, which was the anniversary of their arrival at Sinai exactly one year earlier (Numbers 10:11). This leads us to speculate that after three days' sanctification, as they cleansed themselves at Sinai (Exodus 19:14-16; 24:4, and ultimately Joshua 3:1-5; 4:19), they would then have crossed the Jordan to Jericho and the feast of Pentecost, typing the three Church Ages of the Reformation before the Seventh Seal introduced Christ, and we crossed over our Jordan into the fullness of the Word and our Holy Convocation (The Restoration of the Bride Tree, p. 75:6 - 76:2). Pentecost is the sixty-fifth day of the year, the fifth day of the third month. Seven-weeks will be counted from Nisan 16 to the holy convocation of the fiftieth day and the antitypical resurrection.

When the final one year of our Christian sojourn expires with the sinking of Los Angeles one Good Friday, the resurrection of the sleeping Church Age saints in their glorified bodies will commence after three days "when the Day of Pentecost has full come [again]" (Matthew 27:50-50; Acts 2:1).

Brother Branham said, "And though many may feel that this is an irresponsible statement in view of the fact that Jesus said that "no man knoweth the day nor the hour." I still maintain this prediction after thirty years because, Jesus did NOT say no man could know the year, month or week in which His coming was to be completed" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 322:4).

Under the Law "a man living in a walled city had one year in which to redeem his non-Levitical dwelling house, after which it shall be established forever to him that bought it throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee" (Leviticus 25:23-30). Walled cities type denominations which will not go out in the jubilee; those who ignore the "midnight cry" of Matthew 25:6 which was the "shout" of the Prophet's Message (I Thessalonians 4:16) waking the sleeping virgins and introducing Christ's second or (Gk.) 'parousia' Coming will never hear the revelation again. Their ear having been "pierced through with an aul"  (Exodus 21:6; Deuteronomy 15:17; Titus 3:10-11). His Message was echoed by the heavenly Voice of Revelation 18:4 calling them OUT from Rome and her apostate (once) Protestant daughter churches "into the unity of the faith for the manifestation of the Sons of God and the translation" (Ephesians 4:13; Romans 8:19; I Corinthians 15:50-58).

"Modern Events are Made Clear by Prophecy" instructs us to keep abreast of current affairs in order that we can identify Scripture being transformed into history and recognize "the present Truth" of God's Word. God told Abraham tell Sarah, "Our bodies will be renewed, and in one year from now you will embrace your promised son Isaac" (Genesis 18:9-14; Desperation p. 24:105; Respects p. 22:142). Old Testament shadows and types assure us of God's unequivocal promise to Christ's end-time Bride. One of these days we will be able to say within ourselves, "within one year our bodies will be renewed and we will embrace our Promised Son".

Omar, Tlaib, & the United States of Israel

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August 21, 2019 — I'm trying to remember when Israel wasn't the fifty-first state. It receives my tax money and a blank check by the United States government to torture, ethnically cleanse, and murder Palestinians. I'm not fond of the identity politics pushed by Rep. Omar and Tlaib. However, they are one hundred percent spot on about Israel.

Israelis are apparently more important and cherished than Americans, who are here just to pay the bills and donate their children for the next war cooked up by the Israel-first neocons and their Demopublican allies in Congress. It is now approaching a time when criticizing Israel for its abhorrent behaviour will be illegal, a punishable crime . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca


Esau/Edom, and the Trail of the Serpent – VII

God bless you Brethren, today we'll have a lesson in geography and history as well as some revelation of what Jesus is doing now.

Acts 1:9-13, "While they beheld, Jesus was taken up; and a Cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, two men dressed in white stood by and said, You men of Galilee, [the disciples were men of Galilee, NOT Jews], why stand gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, Who is taken up from you into heaven, will return in like manner as you have seen Him go into heaven."

Life Magazine May 17, 1963Christ's second or unseen (Gk.) parousia Coming was not Jesus the Man but the fullness of the anointed W_O_R_D preceded by the public appearance of this heavenly sign over Arizona on February 28, 1963 (Psalm 19:1-7). Because the Bible was sealed from the foundation of the world Christ's second or (Gk.) 'parousia' Coming could not take place until He claimed the Book of Redemption and loosed the Seals to open the fullness of the Word (Revelation 4, 5, 6, and 10:1-6). He descended upon Mount Sunset in the Coronado Forest on March 8, 1963 "With the little Book open in His left hand," and caught Brother Branham up into a Supernatural Cloud of glory like that which received Him up into heaven (Daniel 7:9; Matthew 26:64; Acts 1:9-11; I Thessalonians 4:14; Jude 14; Revelation 1:7, 14; 4; 5; 6; 10:1-4]. His parousia Coming to Israel will be marked by a similar manifestation over the Mount of Olives, and a further manifestation will announce the consummation at the close of Daniel's Seventieth Week (Daniel 7:13; Zechariah 12:9-14; Matthew 16:27 – 17:8; 24:30; 26:64; Revelation 1:7; 10:1-4).

William BranhamChrist comes only three times. First He came through the womb of a virgin, a physical (Gk.) 'erchomai' Coming to redeem His elect. Second, He came in W_O_R_D form through the mouth of His Prophet who revealed the mysteries of the Seven Thunders which were the revelations contained in the Seven Seals. Christ has been present with us gathering His elect into the rapture for the past fifty-six years (I Corinthians 13:10). This was a (Gk.) parousia Coming; after the close of the Gentile dispensation and the resurrection and translation of the Church, Christ's parousia Coming to Israel will be in the Pillar of Cloud (Matthew 17:1-9; 24:30; Revelation 1:7), and before the consummation "every eye shall see His parousia Coming" (Revelation 19:11-21). Christ's third Coming with be His second physical (Gk.) erchomai return with the glorified saints of all Ages to step out on the nuclear ashes of the wicked for a thousand years of peace (Isaiah 13:9; Malachi 4:1-3; Revelation 20:1-5).

The Greek word 'epiphanaea' which means appearing, or shining forth, was often used of the glorious manifestation of the—'gods'—and especially of their advent to help as in the continuous manifestation of the Supernatural signs and wonders in Brother Branham's ministry revealing the Son of man as prophesied in Luke 17:28-30 by Hebrews 4:12 and 13:8. Also in your own blessed experiences, and by the shining forth of Christ's Presence and power in the appearings of the Pillar of Cloud in the days of His parousia to us now, then to Israel, and finally to "every eye." Here are three illustrations.

II Thessalonians 2:3, 6-8 prophesy that after the first resurrection and translation "that [Devil-incarnate] man of sin, the son of perdition . . . will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the Spirit of His mouth, and shall consume with the (Gk.) epiphanaea [brightness, shining forth, appearing] of His (Gk.) parousia Coming" (Isaiah 11:4; Revelation 19:11-15).

I Timothy 6:1-14 Paul commanded, "That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the (Gk.) epiphanaea appearing, [brightness, shining forth] of our Lord Jesus Christ".

Titus 2:11, "For the grace of God that brings salvation has (Gk.) appeared [or shone forth, giving Spiritual Light] to all men".

Continuing our opening scripture: "Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount of Olives, which was a sabbath day's journey. And when they had entered the city they went into an upper room, where they would abide indefinitely until they received the Promise of the new birth. Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James".

Galilee means "Circuit." Under Rome it applied to a large province although it was originally confined to a little "circuit" of country around Kedesh-Naphtali (north-east of the Sea of Galilee), in which were situated the twenty towns Solomon gave to Hiram king of Tyre as payment for his work in conveying timber from Lebanon to Jerusalem (I Kings 9:11).

In the time of our Lord, Palestine was divided into three provinces: Judea, Samaria and Galilee (Luke 17:11; Acts 9:31). The latter included the whole northern section of the country, including the ancient territories of Issachar, Zebulun, Asher and Naphtali. Its western boundary was the territory of Ptolemais that probably included the plain of Akka to the foot of Carmel. The southern border ran along the base of Carmel and the hills of Samaria to Mount Gilboa, then descended the valley of Jezreel to the Jordan. The river Jordan, Sea of Galilee and upper Jordan to the fountain at Dan formed the eastern border; and the northern border ran from Dan westward across the mountain ridge till it touched the territory of the Phoenicians.

Galilee was divided into two sections, "Lower" and "Upper." Lower Galilee included the great plain of Esdraelon with its offshoots, which run down to the Jordan and the Lake of Tiberias, and the hill-country adjoining it on the north to the foot of the mountain range. It was thus one of the richest and most beautiful sections of Palestine. Upper Galilee embraced the whole mountain range lying between the upper Jordan and Phoenicia. To this region the name "Galilee of the Gentiles" is given in both the Old and New Testaments (Isaiah 9:1; Matthew 4:15-16).

In 732BC Tiglath Pileser III annexed Galilee to the Assyrian province of Meggido which lends its name to the soon-coming final battle. It seems improbable the whole population of Galilee was deported, as the ancient rulers were keen to have agricultural production continue and to tax revenues.

Galilee was conquered by John Hyrcanus (175-104BC) and included in Jewish territory. Under pressure from Egyptian and Roman invaders, national patriotism developed rapidly and it became as intensively Jewish as Jerusalem itself. The Province of Galilee was actually a part of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. I'll warrant you've never considered that before now.

The greater part of Jesus' private life and public acts took place within the borders of Galilee. The first three Gospels are chiefly taken up with our Lord's ministrations in this province, while the Gospel of John dwells more upon those in Judea.

With the possible exception of Judas Iscariot (meaning Judas, a man from Kerioth, a village in southern Judah), the disciples were doubtless natives of this fertile area. At that time, Galilee was inhabited by a mixed population. There were Judeans, grafted no doubt on a substratum of Israelites, Syrians and Canaanites. There was the cultivated class inhabiting the Greek cities, and the military representatives of Rome.

Yet it was the common people who heard Jesus gladly, and doubtless these Israelites in the villages of Samaria and Galilee were more receptive to the His Message than they of Judea where Jesus feared to walk openly among the Jews (John 11:54). The Province of Judea took in Samaria, but we noted, Galilee was excluded.

In Judea, the Galileans were looked down upon. Nathanael said to Philip, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth" (John 1:46)? The Pharisees said, "This people who know not the Law are cursed." And when Nicodemus stood up for impartial justice they said, Are you also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee comes no prophet" (John 7:49-52).

Galilaeans spoke a dialect of Aramean differing from the dialects used in Samaria and Judea which betrayed Peter when he endeavoured to deny his discipleship. "And those who stood by came to Peter and said, Surely you're also one of them; for your speech betrays you" (Matthew 26:73; Acts 2:7).

When "Jesus cast out a dumb spirit, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowd was amazed, but the Pharisees accused him of casting the demon out by the prince of demons, Beelzebub," (lord of the house), a Philistine god of Ekron, 25 miles west of Jerusalem (Luke 11:14).

Like the Sadducees, the Pharisees were initially a political party but became a religious party among the Jews. The word means 'separated.' The chief sects among the Jews were the Pharisees (or Formalists), the Sadducees (or Freethinkers), and the Essenes (or Puritans).

Christ's teaching was in some respects thoroughly antagonistic to that of the Pharisees whom He denounced in the bitterest language, calling them self-righteous hypocrites who sought their own power and glory, and were in the lineage of Cain who was Serpent's seed (Matthew 23:1-32, 33-36).

To understand the Pharisees is by contrast an aid to understanding the spirit of uncorrupted Christianity:
    1. The fundamental principle of Pharisaism common among all modern orthodox Jews, is that alongside the written Law, an oral law was given to Moses on Mount Sinai that explains it, and Moses transmitted this by word of mouth. The first portion of the Talmud, called the Mishna or "second Law," and codified by about AD200, contains this oral law. It is a digest of the Jewish traditions and a compendium of the whole ritual law that was completed about AD500, and which came at length to be esteemed far above the sacred text although it must be the most lewd literature in print.

    This tradition, Talmudic Judaism, was very different to the true religion of the Old Testament (Matthew 15:1-9). The late Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who was chief Rabbi of the United States, stated clearly. "The return from Babylon, and the adoption of the Babylonian Talmud, marks the end of Hebrewism, and the beginning of Judaism".

    2. While it was Jesus' aim to call men to the Law of God itself as life's supreme guide, the Pharisees on pretence of maintaining it intact, multiplied minute precepts and distinctions to the extent that the whole life of the Israelite was hemmed in and burdened on every side by instructions so numerous and trifling that the Law was itself lost sight of.

    Innumerable instances of these "traditions of men" may be found in the Mishna. Such as the washings before they could eat bread, and the special minuteness with which the forms of this washing were prescribed; their bathing upon returning from market; washings of cups, pots, or brazen vessels; their twice weekly fastings (Luke 18:12); their tithings; and, finally the minute and vexatious extensions to the law of the Sabbath, converting God's gracious ordinance of rest into a burden (Matthew 12:1-13).

    3. It was a leading aim of Christ to teach that true piety consisted not of forms, but in substance, not in outward observances, but in an inward spirit. The whole system of the Pharisaic piety led to exactly the opposite conclusions. The Pharisees sought mainly to attract attention and excite the admiration of men (Matthew 6) and the whole spirit of their religion is summed up, not in confession of sin and in humility, but in a proud self-righteousness at variance with any true conception of man's relation to either God or his fellow creatures.

    4. With all their pretences to piety, they were in reality sensual, avaricious and dissolute (Matthew 23:25; John 8:7). They looked with contempt upon every nation but their own although Israel was charged to be a vessel of God's grace, "a Light to the Gentiles" (Luke 10:29; John 7:49). Finally, instead of endeavouring to fulfil the great end of the dispensation whose truths they professed to teach, thus bringing men to the Hope of Israel, they devoted their energies to making converts to their own denominational views, who with all the zeal of proselytes were more exclusive and bitterly opposed to the truth than they were themselves (Matthew 22:15).

    5. Under Rome the Pharisees secured popular favour and political influence, obtaining a majority in the Sanhedrin under the Herods. In the time of Jesus they were themselves divided by doctrine into several schools, among which those of Hillel and Shammai were the most noted.

    6. They believed in a future state and in "a divine Providence acting side by side with the free will of man" (Schaff).

    7. It would be a great mistake to suppose that the Pharisees were wealthy and luxurious rather than that they had degenerated into the vices which were imputed to some of the Roman popes and cardinals preceding the Reformation. Josephus compared the Pharisees to the sect of the Stoics. He says that they lived frugally, in no respect giving in to luxury. We are not to suppose that there were not many individuals among them who were upright and pure, for there were such men as Nicodemus, Gamaliel, Joseph of Arimathea and Paul.
In the Gospel accounts it is clear that among these claiming to be true Israel, who continually set themselves against the Lord, were the rejected Edomite line. Their king was an Edomite and the land was called Idumea. The remnant of Judah, Benjamin and Levi which returned from Babylonian captivity had sometimes married among the Canaanites with whom Esau intermarried, and according to the Jewish Encyclopaedia (1905 Edition), "Henceforth Jewish life was regulated by the teachings of the Pharisees and the whole history of Judaism was reconstructed from the Pharisaic point of view."

Small wonder our Lord said "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourself" (Matthew 23:15). Esau/Edom well knew what they purposed when they plotted Jesus' murder for He had exposed their fraudulent claims to Jacob/Israel's blessing.

No study of the "end times" is complete without considering these people, for throughout history Esau has conspired to undermine all institutions that stand as pillars of stability and truth. They have undermined the Bible, fomented unrest and revolution, encouraged drug-taking and sponsored miscegenation, debased the curricula for education, perverted history, destroyed culture and the morals of entire generations striving for world dominion. By their insidious ways they would fain be victims of injustice and persecution, and multitudes are deceived by their propaganda when in fact they are the perpetrators of these evils. Yes, upon their own kind for the end justifies the means.

Examples of this duplicity and plotting are seen clearly in their apparent opposition to Communism; to Nazism, to Islam and the Roman Catholic Church, all of which Scripture says, is Esau at work, striving to destroy Jacob to obtain world dominion. Esau is committed to world tyranny and enslavement while Jacob-Israel, is ordained to bring the true Light of God in Christ to whosoever will receive it among all nations of Adam's fallen sons.

Esau and his family left Canaan and went to live in Seir among the Horites whose name vanished to be replaced by that of Edomite. The Horites were kinsmen of the Amalekites after whom Eliphaz, the son of Esau, named his son. The Amalekites were the cause of the first war waged by Israel and it is of singular importance to note that the Lord God Almighty swore that "Because theirs is a hand against the throne of the Lord. He will war with Amalek from generation to generation" (Exodus 17:16). Or until Esau ends the days of man and the day of the Lord ushers in the age of Jacob-Israel, which will be the Millennium.

The Edomite Jews are intent on exterminating Israel. According to Matthew 24:9-13 and Revelation 6:11; 14; 15 many will become Roman Catholic and be complicit in the murder of the 144,000 Israelites. We're going study some prophecy that's about to be fulfilled.

In Genesis 32:3 Jacob sent messengers to Esau his brother ". . . unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom." Deuteronomy 2:5 confirms Mount Seir was given to Esau for a possession, and Scripture says, "Esau is Edom."

Edom bordered Palestine and in Ezekiel 35, God says, "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, saying, Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, O mount Seir, I am against you, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and make you most desolate and flatten your cities . . ."

The reason is in verse 5: "Because you have had perpetual enmity for Jacob/Israel, and delivered them to the sword when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem" (Ezekiel 25:12-14; 36:5). God said in Genesis 3:15 that He would put "enmity between the seed of the Serpent and the seed of Adam." That enmity motivated Edom in Ezekiel's day, it drove them to Calvary in the days of our Lord, and it is their obsession today.

As Edom was intent on putting Israel to the sword, God will have his blood (Genesis 27:41). "As I live, I will prepare you for slaughter, and since you could not bear to live without bloodshed, bloodshed shall pursue you. I will make mount Seir desolate, killing all who escape and those who return. I will fill his mountains, hills, valleys, and all his rivers with Edomites slain with the sword. I will make Edom perpetual desolations, your cities shall never be rebuilt and you shall know that I am the Lord." The Sovereign Ruler calling forth loyalty and obedient service.

This chapter does not relate entirely to the days of Jerusalem's defeat by Nebuchadnezzar and later Titus. It speaks of the coming destruction of this world in Armageddon, for Edom rules the world today. See Ezekiel 35-36 and Isaiah 63:1-6:

"Who is this coming from Edom, in crimson-stained garments from the city of Bozrah? Glorious in His apparel, striding triumphantly in the greatness of his strength" (Revelation 19:13)?

"It is I Who speaks in righteousness, mighty to save, vindicating My Own Word".

"Why are your clothes red like one who treads out grapes?"

"I have trodden the winepress alone. No one was there to help Me. In My wrath I have trodden My foe like grapes; in My fury I have trampled My foes. It is their blood you see on My clothes, and I will stain all My raiment. For the time of vengeance is in My heart, [which Brother Branham proclaimed (Isaiah 61:2b; 34:5-8)] and the year of My redeemed has come. I looked but no one came to help them; I was amazed and appalled that no one should support truth and right. So My Own arm brought victory, and My wrath sustained Me. I trod down the heathen in My anger, and made them drink the cup of My wrath until intoxicated, and I spilled their lifeblood on the ground."

There will be a sacrifice of slaughter upon the earth in the last days. Symbolically, Christ will be sprinkled with the blood of the guilty as Aaron and his sons were sprinkled with the blood of the innocent victims (Exodus 29:21; 40:15). This will be a sacrifice of sinful men for the animals, "Fill yourself of all the flesh of mighty men" (Proving His Word, p. 44:236; Ezekiel 39:17-20).

The same image is found in Revelation 14:14-20 and 19:11-21, "and His Name is called The Word of God."

Ezekiel 35:10, "Because you've said, Israel and Judah and their countries shall be mine, and we will take possession. We care not that the Lord is there."

Godless Esau/Edom cares nought for the faithfulness of God and His Covenant with Jacob/Israel. He's determined to enslave the people and steal their possessions.

Ezekiel 35:11, "Therefore as I live, says the Lord God, I will repay the anger and envy expressed by your enmity for Israel; and honour My Name among the elect of Israel by My punishment of Edom."

Esau/Edom recognized that the desolation of the land was due to Jacob/Israel's sin, calling to remembrance Jacob's injury to Esau, but forgetting God's Covenant and His grace. He will punish Israel but He will also punish Edom, and reveal Himself to Israel through their judgment. Now I don't want you casting your mind back into history when God destroyed Edom, because Ezekiel is looking forward to the time when God will bring the 144,000 to the new birth (chapter 36), and when He'll slay the multitude of Edom who attack Israel – chapter 38.

Ezekiel 35:12, "Then Edom shall know that I am Sovereign, and that I have heard the blasphemies they have spoken against the mountains of Israel [contrasted with the mountains of Seir], saying, Israel is desolate, they are given us to consume. In so-saying you have boasted against Me, and I have heard every Word. Thus saith the Lord God; when the whole earth rejoices, I will make Esau/Edom desolate. As you rejoiced when the inheritance of Israel was made desolate, so will I rejoice at your destruction, O mount Seir, and all Edom. Then you shall know that I am the Lord".

When God returns to Israel in the Day of vengeance, the first resurrection and the manifestation of the Sons of God will have passed.

Romans 8:19, 22-25, "The earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God . . . For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the full adoption which is the redemption of our body. For we are saved with this hope: but hope, the object of which is seen, is not hope: for how can one hope for what he already sees? But we hope for what is yet unseen, and patiently await it with confidence."

The whole world of creation rejoices therefore at the prospect of the Feast of Tabernacles after the 144,000 Israelites receive the revelation of their Atonement, prior to their martyrdom for this will be a rejoicing of the whole earth returning to Eden.

These things take place at the sounding of the Seventh Trumpet at the dispensation change. Revelation 12:12, "Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the Devil is come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time".

Revelation 18:20, "Rejoice over Rome heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her".

Revelation 19:7, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb is come, and His wife has made herself ready".

Deuteronomy 32:43, "Rejoice with His people you Gentile saints, for He will avenge the blood of His servant nation, and inflict vengeance on His enemies, and will be merciful to His land, and to His people".

When all that bears the name of Edom is subjected to "Cherem"—or utter destruction for the glory of God's holiness—the world shall rejoice as Edom rejoiced at Israel's fall when they imagined they saw an opportunity whereby they might steal the birthright or inheritance of Israel. This new rejoicing has to do with Israel's restoration and Edom's destruction.

Because Edom was included in the Jewish community Idumeans formed most of the nation, and in Jesus' day, Judah's kings were Idumean. But Edom is a symbolic type—Edom today controls the world by the Judaeo-Roman church, the money power, Judaeo-Communism and their United Nations.

Communism is JewishWhen the Gentile dispensation ends, "He who is filthy shall be filthy still." Russia will invade mainland USA and the nations will be made to choose between a Judaeo-Communist or a Judaeo-Roman Catholic one world government. As explained in Newsletter 1082 the decision will favour Rome because her incarnate pope will confirm the covenant Jesuit Jewish President Shimon Peres has made with the modern Israel state as informed by our correspondent, the late Barry Chamish in previous issues of this Newsletter (Daniel 9:27; UN Resolution 181 of November 29, 1947). Born in Poland Szymon Perski—Peres or Perez is a Spanish name meaning "son of Pero or Pedro (Peter)" and a surname popular among Sephardim (Moorish Berber, Bedouin, Canaanite) self-styled Jews. The Hebrew Pharez means "breach." True to his name Shimon Peres' duplicitous diplomacy has temporarily cemented the breach between Judaism, Judaeo-Islam and Judaeo-Romanism as Vatican II regathered the apostate (once) Protestant daughters and the heathens. The incarnate pope will refinance the US dollar with gold backing, thus preserving Crescent and the Crossthe wealth of the Jewish banksters, and enabling the world economy to recover. The United Nations in New York City will acclaim the pope inaugural President of the world government headquartered in Jerusalem Jesus declined (Acts of the Holy Spirit, p. 12:87; Matthew 4:8-9). This will place the Catholic church in full control of the United States before the bomb comes that explodes her (Hybrid Religion, p. 160:6; Church Ages, p. 322:3). UN Resolution 181 will be enforced granting Palestinian Statehood with Jerusalem a "corpus separatum," and the diminution of self-styled Jews will allow blood Israelites and Semitic Palestinians to co-exist peacefully as they did for thousands of years prior to Rothschild's colonisation of Palestine.

Communism is JewishEsau/Edom will abandon the Land of Palestine and the self-styled Jews will be doomed along with all whose names are not in the Book of Life, because God will only be dealing with an election of the blood of Jacob/Israel, and only in the Promised Land. In the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week Rome and her apostate daughter churches will force her mark of the beast which is trinitarianism (Revelation 13:15-18; 14:9-10; 19:20). The so-called Jews and the Black Nobility will abrogate their covenant with Rome, align with re-communised Russia and blast Vatican City State and the United States from the face of the earth (Revelation 17:12 - 18:20). Then the whole apostate world will be Edom. Edom means red, and red signifies Judaeo-Communism.

William BranhamBrother Branham said red signifies bloodshed, royalty, sin, prostitution and danger. According to the Cabala, red signifies justice for the Jew (The Jewish Encyclopedia (1905), Vol. IV, p. 178). The name "Rothschild" means "red shield," hence the Communists have a red flag and "Gog" is associated with Jewry. The giants Gog and Magog, with the Russian Bear are the 'in your face' guardians of the City of London which lays claim to every asset on Earth including the bodies of animals and humans. Worldwide US$217 trillion was owed to the City of London in 2017. Like Vatican City and Washington DC, it is a Tax Free, Sovereign Territory not beholden to laws of any nation.

Christ's parousia to Israel will be the dissolution of the Jewish nation, represented in Ezekiel 35 and 36 by Edom and Seir. As we have stated above, Rome will break her Agreement with the Jews, forcing the mark of the beast, and most Jews in Israel will become Catholic. God raised Communism to destroy the false church as He raised Nebuchadnezzar to destroy Israel. After the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week when Rome breaks the agreement she will make with the Jews, their Communism will blow the Vatican off the map.

Now prove these things in your own Bibles. By God's grace, we'll follow the trail of the Serpent a little further next week. Please pray for me and for each other. nl1085.htm

Pass it on . . . please send this article to someone you knowBrother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.

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