Bible Believers' Newsletter #483
"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. Thank you for your fellowship in God's unchanging Word.
"They must find it difficult. . . Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than Truth as the Authority." Another Fourth of July has come and gone in which millions of Americans blindly celebrated an independence from the Empire of the City of London they have never had, and freedom to serve the diktats of an alien-controlled administration that conquered and enslaved England in 1689. Nancy Levant writes in her two-part essay, Your Global Usefulness Profile. Americans forgot that true independence and freedom means being a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
Antipodean "Defence Minister Dr. Brendan Nelson says securing the world's oil supply is one of the Federal Government's considerations as it decides how long to keep troops in Iraq." This is an absurd bare disguise for the horrible truth that it is a further step toward securing Lucifer's totalitarian one world government.
Please do not skip the links in this Newsletter, whose function is to enable you to "prove all things" to ensure you know Truth is the fount of your authority, but "study to show yourself approved of God, a workman who need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth".
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
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Will Hutton on the Chinese Bubble
June 30, 2007 – China's titanic rise is the biggest news since the Industrial Revolution. Developed nations are in awe. Some, like the United States, are in fear. However, according to writer and long time China-observer Will Hutton, Western anxieties are misplaced. Hutton sees China sitting on the edge of a very deep precipice. In a spirited naysaying of the Chinese revolution at a Sydney business breakfast Hutton cites endemic corruption, environmental depredation, widening inequality, and insufficient job creation as just some of the challenges threatening to bring China undone.
Full audio: abc.net.au
Comment: A "titanic rise" is bad feng shui.
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Russia to independently pursue its National Interests
June 25, 2007 – Russia will no longer take the lead from the United States but will pursue its national interests independently. This opinion was voiced by the President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce Yevgeny Primakov.
The announcement is bound to win the attention of both Washington and many other capitals. Academician Primakov is one of Russia’s most important political figures with years of professional experience. Speaker of the Soviet perestroika-era parliament, Mr. Primakov then went on to head Foreign Intelligence Service and then the Russian Foreign Ministry. And he was prime minister in the times of President Boris Yeltsin.
The announcement, though valuable in itself, reflects the official foreign policy of President Putin’s presidency which put an end to speculations that the country would enter the so-called civilized world under the lead of the United States. Supporting Moscow’s independence are all, and particularly the recent statements by the Russian president, including his address to parliament, the address he made at the international conference in Munich and the announcements he made at the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm. Mr. Putin has been making it a point that Moscow will now pursue an independent policy. . . Mr. Primakov believes that the new course will make a good warning to politicians and analysts in Washington in the run-up to the Russia-US summit overseas on the 1st and 2nd of July. Full story: ruvr.ru
Comment: New American Magazine (June 27, 2006) of the John Birch Society confirms what we have stated across the pulpit and in our fifteen year presence in cyberspace regarding the "peace offensive" (launched by Khrushchev in a 1956 speech at the Twentieth Party Congress inaugurating the strategy of "peaceful co-existence") as the means of achieving world-wide Judaeo-Communist dictatorship—an objective which clearly could not be achieved by a conventional military confrontation. This article demonstrates that Russia is still led by the City of London which governs the USA through such agencies as the CFR. Read Revelation 17:12-17.
This is how the power elite works. The US is controlled by the power elite to accomplish their aims and objectives. Hence the US overthrew Saddam who was replaced by a Muslim-controlled government, which allows persecution of Christians. This followed US intervention in the Balkans because Kosovo Muslims were being persecuted; and now the US supports Kosovo independence even though it would become a breeding ground for Al Qaeda (if it existed), which is said to be killing US soldiers in Iraq! Logically, it doesn’t make sense. But the power elite wants conflict (dialectical thesis versus antithesis) so that it can bring its New World Order (synthesis) out of it in the form of a World Socialist Government with a New World Religion (common faith), with which all can agree (and that would eliminate Jesus as Savior, because some disagree).
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Thriving in a Decadent Culture
June 11, 2007 – According to Christian film critic Ted Baehr and music legend Pat Boone in their book The Culture-Wise Family, from 1933 to 1966, a period of 33 years, every Hollywood script was read and reviewed by representatives from the Catholic church, the Southern Baptist Church and the Protestant Film Office. "The job of these individuals was to evaluate a movie in terms of the Motion Picture Code, if the film passed the Code, it received the Motion Picture Code Seal and was distributed. If it did not pass, theaters would not screen it." The reviewers made sure that the script did not contain material that was subversive in any one of a number of ways. For instance, the Motion Picture Code ensured that scripts upheld the value of human life, that sin and wrongdoing were not justified, that brutality, indecent exposure, and sexual relationships would not violate standards of common decency. However, in 1966 the churches withdrew from the entertainment industry and all manner of misfortune followed. "Violent crime has increased in the United States by 560 percent, illegitimate births have increased 419 percent, divorce rates have quadrupled, the percentage of children living in single-parent homes has tripled, the teenage suicide rate has increased more than 300 percent and SAT scores have dropped by almost 80 points. Rapes, murders, and gang violence have become common occurrences. . . It is clear that the mass media has had a significant influence on people. . ." (New American Magazine, p. 33-34).
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Bush, Mideast Wars and End-Time Prophecy
June 29, 2007 – "Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society." - Former President Thomas Jefferson.
President George W. Bush has become dangerously steeped in ideas of Armageddon, the Apocalypse, an imminent war with Satanic forces in the Middle East, and an urgency to construct an American theocracy to fulfill God's end-of-days plan, according to close observers. Historians and investigative journalists following the "end-time Christian" movement have grown alarmed at the impact it may be having on Bush's Middle East policies, including the current war in Iraq, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian crisis, the strife in Lebanon and the administration's repeated attempts to find a cause for war against Iran. . . Full story: truthout.org
Comment: There is not a single Christian among the many Jews and (so-called) ministers named in the article. Between them all, not one has a revelation of the end-time, or God's Message to the end-time. Were they to read their Bibles they would discover the insidious part prophesied for the City of London's US colony, and its utter destruction. A subsidiary article Who are the End-Time Christians? lists a number of "Prominent Groups and Individuals;" but not one is Christian.
"God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted or enforced in any civil state; which uniformity sooner or later is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants and of hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls." - Roger Williams, originator of either the first or second Baptist church established in America.
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America’s Holy Warriors
[We] may be further down this road than we care to admit. Erik Prince, the secretive, mega-millionaire, right-wing Christian founder of Blackwater, the private security firm that has built a formidable mercenary force in Iraq, champions his company as a patriotic extension of the US military. His employees, in an act as cynical as it is deceitful, take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution. These mercenary units in Iraq, including Blackwater, contain some 20,000 fighters. They unleash indiscriminate and wanton violence against unarmed Iraqis, have no accountability and are beyond the reach of legitimate authority. The appearance of these paramilitary fighters, heavily armed and wearing their trademark black uniforms, patrolling the streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, gave us a grim taste of the future. It was a stark reminder that the tyranny we impose on others we will one day impose on ourselves. . . Full story: truthdig.com
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Emergency Flood Appeal
Brother Ch. Sudheer Babu informs us of flooding that has devastated crops, damaged houses, destroyed cattle and taken many lives. Life is hard and people are suffering miserably. Please pray for them; kindly extend benevolence for the uplift of the flood victims with a generous heart in the love of Jesus. Email: Missionary Ch. Sudheer Babu for further information.
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The Feast of Trumpets - Part II
Isaiah 61:1-3, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified".
In the synagogue, Jesus read so far as, "To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord," and He closed the Book because the remainder of the verse pertains to His second or 'parousia' Coming to Israel after we Gentiles have "crucified the Son of God afresh" and rejected our Pentecostal Jubilee, which is "the acceptable day of the Lord" that the nation of Israel refused when it crucified Messiah.
"The day of vengeance of our God" will be the tribulation when He comes bearing a rod of iron to bring judgment on this Christ-rejecting world (Psalm 2:9; Revelation 2:27; 12:5; 19:15; Romans 11:32). The elect Israelites will recognize His 'parousia' in the month of Tishri and afflict their souls in horrified remorse at their personal unbelief and the nation's sin of rejecting Messiah hitherto (Leviticus 23:27-32; Jeremiah 31:9; Zechariah 12:9-13:6).
Sennacherib had conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 721BC and relocated her citizens throughout the Assyrian Empire where they will remain until the Feast of Trumpets gathers them back into the Homeland for their true Atonement. The antitype of the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles follows, which will be the Millennium when they return to earth with the saints of all Ages to step on the ashes of the wicked for a thousand years of peace. The mystery of Israel's Seven Trumpet Judgments will be revealed through the ministry of the two Hebrew prophets of Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11 during "the day of God's vengeance," or "Jacob's trouble," to explain how God sent these plagues upon Israel after Pentecost to call them out of Talmudic bondage in Spiritual Egypt into the liberty of Christ whom they should have recognized by His Messianic Sign. When Israel refused Paul's ministry, he shook the dust from his feet and turned to we Gentiles (Newsletter #359). Then God sent Rome's armies upon Jerusalem according to the prophesies of Daniel and Jesus, and as the Edomite Jews had betrayed Judea to Nebuchadnezzar, their treachery now enabled Titus to destroy the city, raze its Temple and expel the Hebrew people who "fell by the edge of the sword, and were led away captive into all nations" as Moses and Jesus forewarned (Deuteronomy 4:23-28; Nehemiah 1:8; Luke 21:20-24).
Luke 21:24-36, "Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled" (i.e. from the time of Nebuchadnezzar to the consummation — Daniel 9:27). But in our immediate future "there will be signs in the sun, moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves. (Tidal waves will sweep the world following the sinking of Los Angeles and 1,500x300-400 miles of California, an eruption of the Pacific Ring of Fire, and the splitting of the mount of Olives at the end of the Gentile dispensation). Men will suffer heart attacks in apprehension of nuclear warfare, for the powers of heaven shall be overthrown" when Lucifer is cast down to earth (Revelation 12:7-17). Then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. (The sign of Christ's 'parousia' Coming to Israel). And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near." Christ's end-time Bride and the foolish virgin will know the import of this sign because we are familiar with the Sign He manifest for us on February 28, 1963.
"Jesus gave this further illustration: Observe the fig tree, and all the trees; as soon as they come into leaf, you know that summer is near. Similarly, when you notice these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. I assure you that all this will happen before this generation passes away. Heaven and earth will change, but My Words shall not change."
In Scripture, trees represent nations; Israel is represented by the fig tree; her Spring time was in 1948 when the nation state was restored. Simultaneously the colonies of the imperial powers were gaining national independence, and God began a worldwide Spiritual revival that would "restore all things, which He has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began . . . and finish the mystery of God" (Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11; Acts 3:21; Revelation 10:7). Brother Branham said, "On May the 6th, 1946, that flag come back over Jerusalem. . . on May the 7th, 1946, the Angel of the Lord appeared. . . and sent me into all the world to bring forth a revival. . . the Angel of the Lord appeared here in the United States at the same time. "When you see the fig tree and the rest of the trees putting forth. . ." (C.O.D, p. 293).
Israel is God's timepiece, and surely sixty years is time enough to bestir the sleeping virgin. But God is gracious.
Luke 21:34-36, "Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with excess and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day takes you by surprise, for as a snare it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch at all times, praying that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things, and to stand before the Son of man." For the evil conditions of the days of Noah and the days of Lot have returned (Luke 17:26-37).
Writing seven years after Assyria had spoiled Israel, Isaiah records how Ethiopia had sent ambassadors to Jerusalem as her ally shortly thereafter, and by creating a diversion saved the city from Sennacherib who had already conquered and annexed the walled cities of Western Judah (Isaiah 36-37). Isaiah announces the overthrow of Sennacherib's hosts and desires the Ethiopian ambassadors, now in Jerusalem, to bring word of it to their own nation; and he calls on the whole world to witness the event, setting a type for the coming day when God sounds the Seventh Trumpet and an earthquake destroys the Dome of the Rock, signaling to all the world Israel is in her Homeland and God is with her (Ezekiel 38:14).
Isaiah 18:1-3, "Attention, Ethiopia, shadowing us with her wings, O land beyond the upper reaches of the Nile that sent ambassadors in fast papyrus boats, let swift messengers return to you, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, a people dreaded near and far; a conquering, destroying nation, whose land the blue and the white Nile divide! All inhabitants of the world, and dwellers upon earth, witness what Jehovah is about to do when He lifts up an ensign on the mountains of Jerusalem (Matthew 24:29-30); when He blows the trumpet, you will hear" (Matthew 24:31).
Brother Branham always referred to the Negroes as Ethiopians, whose symbol of sovereignty was a winged disk. She was shadowing or protecting the kingdom of Judah with those wings — the armies of Lower Egypt, which she ruled at this time, and Upper Egypt (Ethiopia). When Brother Branham used this Scripture as one of the texts for his teaching, "The Feast of the Trumpets," he applied this blowing of the trumpet to Israel's Seventh Trump at the close of the Gentile dispensation. He was employing the Supernatural defeat of the Assyrian host as a type of the coming defeat of the armies that will soon attack Jerusalem, for the Angel of the Lord smote 185,000 Assyrians as they slept (II Kings 19:35; Isaiah 37:36-38). The overthrow was terrible, Sennacherib was at the time with a part of his army on the Egyptian frontier, southwest of Palestine, and the sudden destruction of the host under Rabshakeh near Jerusalem, a considerable part of his whole army, as well as the advance of the Ethiopian Tirhakah, induced him to retreat.
The Lord did not immediately answer Hezekiah's prayer, but patiently waited, allowing Rabshakeh to reach the point of greatest prosperity, then destroyed his strength without hand in one night. Isaiah 18:5-7, "For before the harvest, when blossom time is over and the bud becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with pruning shears, and cut down the spreading tendrils. The mighty army will be left dead on the field for the mountain birds, and wild animals of the land: and the vultures will feed all summer upon them, and all the wild animals will winter upon them. In that time the present will be brought to the Lord of hosts of converts from a nation tall and smooth of skin, a people dreaded near and far; a conquering, destroying nation, whose land the blue and the white Nile have spoiled, to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord of hosts." There shall He pour on them "the spirit of grace and supplications" when Israel is born-again in one day (Zechariah 12:10; Isaiah 66:8).
It appears certain devout Ethiopians, wonderstruck at such an interposition of Jehovah in behalf of His people, converted to Yahwism. In the west of Abyssinia there has long existed a people called Falashas, or "immigrants" (akin to the synonym "Philistine"). They resemble the Semitic Arabs, trace their origin to Palestine and profess Yahwism. In Isaiah 18:7 they are representatives of all Israel soon to be restored to the Homeland. Cyrus restored Judeans removed to Egypt and Ethiopia under Pharaoh-necho, which was also an earnest of this future restoration in Daniel's Seventieth Week. In his preface to Kol Mebasser, or "Voice of the Messenger of Good News," the first printed version of Khazar correspondence contained in a Hebrew pamphlet, Isaac Abraham Akrish relates that in about 1512 during his travels in Egypt he had heard rumours of an independent Jewish kingdom. These rumours probably referred to Ethiopian Israelites, the Falashas of Abyssinia whose ancient religion to this day is Yahweh Torah and predates Talmudic Judaism, which they reject and as a consequence are themselves rejected by the non-Semitic so-called Jews.
When Bruce, the 19th century Abyssinian traveller was there, they had an Israelitish king, Gideon, and his queen, Judith. Acts 2:10 and 8:27 show how worshippers, perhaps descendants of these ancient proselytes, came up to Jerusalem from "Egypt" and "Ethiopia" to keep the feast of Pentecost. Abyssinian Christians such as the Ethiopian eunuch are probably in part converted Israelites. In the 4th century, Frumentius, an Egyptian, converted Abyssinia to Christianity; and a Christian church still flourishes there.
Jordan and Egypt are the only Arab states with which Israel has peace agreements. Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Algeria, Yemen (Sheba – Ezekiel 38:13) and Ethiopia (i.e. Abyssinia, Sudan, Somalia), are all Arab states where Semitic Israelites live in peace but are regarded by Jews as enemy states, demonstrating Esau's ongoing vendetta against Jacob in his aggressive endeavours to steal back the BIRTHRIGHT (Genesis 27:39-41). God blessed the house of Israel and the house of Judah with separate blessings, and the BIRTHRIGHT belongs to the ten-tribed Israel now the target of Edomite Jews whom God has cursed (Malachi 1:1-4; Isaiah 34; 63; Revelation 19:13). As explained in Newsletter #479:
The fact that Jacob’s two wives, Leah and Rachel, are spoken of as "building the House of Israel," of necessity divides the immediate household of Jacob into "two families." In Jeremiah 33:24 they are spoken of as "the two families which the Lord hath chosen." The Covenant promise of the BIRTHRIGHT was given to one of these families, and that of the SCEPTRE to the other family. Rachel was to be the mother of "thousands of millions" while Leah was to be the mother of royalty. Genesis 49:10 shows us that Judah represents the SCEPTRE family; and I Chronicles 5:2 tells us "THE BIRTHRIGHT is Joseph’s." Never try to apply a BIRTHRIGHT blessing to the Jews. Judah and the Jews were excluded from the BIRTHRIGHT promises, Joseph from the SCEPTRE. The BIRTHRIGHT people are not, and are never in the Scriptures called Jews.
In Ezekiel the 37th chapter we are told that "the two sticks" which are still separate, but which are yet to be reunited, represent Judah on the one hand, and Joseph and the "House of Israel" on the other. One of these sticks represents the SCEPTRE people and the other the BIRTHRIGHT people. Judah, the inheritor of the SCEPTRE, is only a half bother to Joseph, the inheritor of the BIRTHRIGHT. The SCEPTRE and the BIRTHRIGHT inheritors are "two families" with different mothers. How could the distinction between the SCEPTRE and the BIRTHRIGHT families Judah and Israel be more emphatic?
The prophet Balaam could only speak in God's Name what the Holy Spirit revealed to him. He could not curse what God had blessed, or bless what God had cursed. What then is the spirit on ministers in the circle of this Message that has enticed them to bless what God has cursed?
Esau's deadly enmity is accentuated by the fact Iranians are Japhetic, yet more Semitic Israelites live in Iran that in any other Middle Eastern state, including perhaps even Israel. Race differences are an integral part of the new feudal system in modern Israel where non-Ashkenazim are disdained. Edom assimilated with Judah before the birth of Messiah; their Khazar cousins assimilated in AD740, so that very few so-called Jews "are Israelites to whom belongs the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the worship, and the promises; whose fathers are the patriarchs, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came" (Romans 9:4-5). Miscegenation has all but annihilated the pure lineage of Judah and Benjamin, however the ten tribes of the house of Israel have been saved from Esau's vendetta by their isolation in Muslim lands. His medieval Crusades did not accomplish their objective, and he is hoping the present Crusade by colonial troops of "the City" will satisfy his bloody oath (Genesis 27:41).
Thousands of small children belonging to Sephardic Jewish immigrants to Israel were seized; thousands of Yemeni children were used in cruel medical experiments in Israeli hospitals, and radiation experimentation at Dimona in behalf of the United States. According to the Talmud, "Five things did Canaan charge his sons [in his last will]: love one another, love robbery, love lewdness, hate your masters, and do not speak the truth" (Peshachim 113b). As Benjamin Disraeli said, "No one must lightly dismiss the question of race. It is the key to world history and it is precisely for this reason that written history so often lacks clarity — it is written by those who do not understand the race question and what belongs to it. Language and religion do not make a race, only blood does that." Political correctness and compromise hide the fact there are two races on this earth: God has placed enmity between the accursed descendants of Cain and the children of Adam, and the enmity is extant (Genesis 3:15).
If you see this you will understand why the majority of mankind has no kinsman Redeemer, why miscegenation is accursed of God, and why blood Israelites are marked for destruction by the leaders of those who are their impersonators. The Lord's Supernatural intervention in the "hot" stage of World War III will preserve the dispersed Israelites and force an election back to the Homeland in the midst of their enemy. There in spite of persecution the Message of two prophets will expound such Scriptures as Isaiah 11:11-16, Ezekiel 38-39 and Daniel 11:36-45, and bring them to the birth, after which enemies "in the house of their friends" will kill them like they killed Messiah before them (Daniel 12:10; Revelation 6:11; 14:12-20).
However, the full accomplishment of Isaiah 18:7 is still in the future as Zephaniah 3:8-10 prophesied 100 years later, "The Lord says to the pious Judeans amidst all of the punishments upon their nation, Wait patiently upon Me, and look forward to the glorious time of restoration to be ushered in when I stand up as a witness: for My verdict is to gather all nations and assemble all kingdoms (against Jerusalem – Zechariah 14:2). To pour My indignation upon them (Joel 3:2; Zechariah 12:2, 3), all the heat of My fierce anger: for all the earth shall be consumed by the fire of My jealous wrath. Then (as a result of My Supernatural intervention) I will change the speech of (an election of) the people to a pure language, that they may all call upon the Name of the Lord, to serve Him with one mind (Isaiah 19:18 – confusion of languages and understanding was the penalty of sin – Genesis 11:7. The gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost enabled proselytes from every nation to "hear in their own tongue what was spoken in Galilean" – Acts 2:6-11 – in earnest of a future restoration of the earth's unity of language and heart. God will gather the elect Israelites to Jerusalem for their redemption. I believe this "one language" refers not to natural speech and hearing but to a clear revelation of the common faith by the teaching of the Holy Spirit through the anointed Message of Israel's two witnesses). From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia they will bring My suppliants (burners of incense, a metaphor for revelation – Psalms 141:2; Revelation 5:8; 8:3, 4), the daughter of My dispersed ones (i.e. a portion of the 144,000 elect Israelites), as a present for Me".
This brings to mind the antitype and full accomplishment of Isaiah 18:5-7 portrayed in Ezekiel 38:3-6, 39:2-5, "Thus saith the Lord God: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. I will put hooks into your jaws and pull you to your doom with your whole army, horses and horsemen, all clad in full armour, a great company with buckler and shield, and welding swords: Iran, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with you. . . I will turn you around and drive you from the distant north and lead you against the mountains of Israel. And I will strike your bow from your left hand, and cause your arrows to drop out of your right hand. You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the people that are with you: I will give you to the birds of prey, and wild animals will devour you. You shall fall in the open field: for I have spoken it, says the Lord God".
Isaiah 18:7 says, "in that time" — under the Seventh Trumpet and Sixth Seal, following the Supernatural defeat of Gog's armies — 144,000 elect Israelites, some from Ethiopia, will be gathered to Jerusalem "as a present or offering to the Lord," acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost through the ministry of His two prophets (Zephaniah 3:11-20; Revelation 12:17).
Isaiah 66:18-20 also speaks of the ingathering of blood Israelites (as distinct from non-Semitic self-styled Jews) mainly from countries that once formed part of the Assyrian Empire (Jeremiah 3:11-25; 16:15; 2:8; 31:8), from both the African and Babylonian Cush where they dwelt in Apostolic days (I Peter 1:1; 5:13). "I will gather all nations and tongues against Jerusalem; where they shall see My glory. And I will perform a mighty miracle against them, and I will send those who escape death to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the lands beyond the sea, that have not heard My fame, nor seen My glory; and there they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. And they shall bring back all of your Israelite brethren from every nation for a present or offering to the Lord. They shall return upon horses, and borne in litters, and on mules, and camels, to My holy mountain, to Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel used to bring their cereal offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord".
This is not a revival among the Gentiles, for the Gentile dispensation will be over, but as the Judeans brought the Message to the Gentiles, even so these Gentiles who have witnessed the power of Almighty God and survived the slaughter, will return to their northern homelands, to Egypt and North Africa, and compel the dispersed of the house of Israel and the house of Judah to leave their nations and return to Jerusalem. Such will be their fear of Israel's God they will provide transportation and other enticements as the Egyptians encouraged Israelites to depart in haste following the death of their firstborn (Exodus 12:31-36). And once these sons of Israel have returned to the Land of the Covenant, God will purify and purge an election by the present truth of their Message like a refiner of gold and silver (Malachi 3:2-7). This is expressed by the third Scripture Brother Branham read as a text for his teaching called, The Feast of the Trumpets:
Isaiah 27:12-13, "In the day of the Lord He shall beat off the dispersed blood Israelites as fruits shaken or beaten from trees with a stick like olives and gather them, not merely as a nation, but as elect individuals, one by one, from His vineyard which extends from the border of Assyria at the Euphrates River in the north-east to the Waddi-el-Arish at the border of Egypt in the south-west. In that day the great trumpet will be blown, and those perishing in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt shall worship the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem" (Isaiah 11:16; 19:23).
We are not yet in the Day of the Lord when God promised He would gather the house of Israel and the house of Judah together out of the north country. However a state of Israel has been re-established in the Promised Land by unbelieving political Zionists who are not blood Israelites, whose masters are trading on Bible prophecies they do not believe, in order to employ the superstitious and those who do believe as actors in their plans to usurp global hegemony. God is not mocked: "all things work together for the good of those who are His elect". Someone had to build the cities and plant the corn for Israel in this day just as someone had to build the cities and plant the corn for Israel in the days of Joshua.
Do not rest your calling and election upon Jewish fables, politically correct propaganda, or teachings built on the corrupt "letter" of our English Bibles or the Message without "proving all things and holding fast that which is good." You have only one opportunity for election, and that is in the live you are living today. Remember this is not yet "the day of the Lord:" do not misplace His promises for that future day in this present day.
The "great trumpet" is Israel's Seventh Trumpet that will signal the end of the Gentile dispensation. Its mystery will be revealed to Israel by the revelation of the Feast of the Trumpets preached by their two prophets, as a memorial reminding Israel of her Covenant and putting God in remembrance of His promises (Isaiah 43:22-28). It will be an announcement from the King that the glad sabbatical month has begun, and that the great day of atonement is at hand (Leviticus 23:24). Antitypically, it is the Gospel trumpet to which Israel will hearken in the last days (Revelation 11:15; Zechariah 12:10; 13:1; Romans 11:23). As the Passover in the first month answers to Christ's crucifixion, so the Day of Atonement and the idea of "salvation" connected with the Feast of Tabernacles in the seventh month answer to the crowning of "redemption" when 144,000 elect Israelites will recognize His 'parousia' Coming to them. nl483.htm
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Bible Believers' Newsletter #482
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
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Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When Adam joined Eve across the time-line and the Life-line he forfeited man's dominion over Earth, empowering Satan to lawfully offer Jesus "all the kingdoms of the world" if He would pay homage (Matthew 4:8-9): such profound reverence as would make him Jesus' god. Jesus deferred to the Word, for He was the Word manifest in virgin-born flesh, but He foretold two men who would surrender their souls to Satan and be known as "sons of perdition" (Jude 1:4). One was Judas Iscariot (John 17:12; 13:27). The other will be the last pope of the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church who rule the coming New World Order (Isaiah 14; Daniel 2:40-45; 7:19-28; 9:27; II Thessalonians 2:3; Revelation 17:8-11).
Scripture says, "All the world will worship Satan vicariously when he is incarnate in that man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, saying, Who is as great as the beast, and who is able to oppose him" (II Timothy 2:3-4; Revelation 13:4, 8; 17:8-11)?
How can it be that committed Christians and ministers of the Gospel will love the Lord Jesus and worship Satan vicariously?
Their love and commitment is to the storybook Jesus of their imagination and they have not received the love of Christ the anointed Word. They are sincere, and will lay down their lives during the tribulation "for the testimony of Jesus Christ," if they are "saved." But the deluded and "unsaved" majority who believe Satan's lie will be damned (II Thessalonians 2:9-12).
Many love God with all of their heart, but their knowledge of Him is intellectual: sincere philosophy and psychology without faith. That epitomizes the "lying spirit of strong delusion" of which Paul spoke. The Lord allowed such a lying spirit to persuade the prophets of Ahab who spoke their own thoughts to please the king, and not the mind of Christ (I Kings 22).
Please welcome our guest contributor, independent researcher and writer, Erica Carle BS. Mrs. Carle has been involved in radio and television writing and production, published several books, taught school, and as Education Editor wrote a weekly column, "Truth In Education," for the Wisconsin Report. The method of lion taming mentioned in her article is definitely not recommended for the faint of heart.
This article explains how Satan is stamping society with "the mark of the beast," which is wisdom against faith, employing government policy at taxpayer expense to coerce individuals to sacrifice their soul in order to satisfy the momentary lusts of their mortal spirit and corruptible flesh with things that perish with use. You see, it is all in the mind — perception, not reality. Ideas are planted into your mind through perverse education and entertainment that do your thinking for you, so that you live a second-hand life just as you will serve a second-hand religion unless you take the Prophet's words back to God's unchanging Word to understand what He meant, not what Brother Branham said.
Truth is hate to those who hate the truth, because if you "know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Oh, your body may be imprisoned in the world system, but your soul is emancipated: you are seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, in Jerusalem which is above and is free. A clear revelation of truth will overcome and give you victory over the world, sin, sickness, Satan and his social scientists. Truth is Absolute.
Just a little longer, and the Trumpet of God will sound.
Just a little longer, and we'll all be glory bound.
Look away to heaven, your redemption draweth nigh,
Just a little longer, and we'll meet Him in the sky.
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
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Quiet Transfer
June 28, 2007 – Last month two Israeli organisations, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel and B'tselem, and The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, issued a joint report on what the organisations describe as Israel's "quiet transfer" of Palestinians from the West Bank city of Hebron. This policy, the report notes, consists of three elements: the use of curfews and closing parts of the centre of the city to Palestinian vehicles and pedestrians, harassment and violence by Israeli soldiers, and a systematic failure to prevent Jewish settlers from attacking Palestinians living in the city.
The effect of this violence has been the depopulation and economic collapse of the Old City centre. More than a thousand Palestinian houses in the centre of the city have been abandoned and over 1,800 businesses forced to close.
Full story: abc.net.au
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Why Anti-Semitism?
A review of The Fatal Embrace: Ashkenazim and the State by Benjamin Ginsberg, University of Chicago Press, 1993. Henry Makow comments on a this review by Paul Grubach, originally published in the now defunct Instauration (April, 1995, p p. 12-14):
In simple terms, "Why Anti-Semitism?" is a question Ginsberg fails to answer satisfactorily because he did not consider the ultimate implications of this research. He openly admits Jews amass tremendous power in a state, and then use that state to advance their own selfish interests to the detriment of the host culture. What Ginsberg fails to see—or refuses to consider—is that the destructive, anti-Gentile characteristics of Jewry are a major cause of anti-Semitism. In this regard, many anti-Jewish reactions are normal, self-preserving responses on the part of non-Jews to the collective behavior of large groupings of Jews.
In their sojourn in America, Zionist Jews are again setting the stage for the aftermath of another "fatal embrace." The pro-Zionist government was and is detrimental to the interests of the American Majority at large. Is it any wonder that "anti-Semitic" movements should arise to challenge pro-Zionist policies? What Ginsberg labels as "anti-Semitism" is actually in many cases a healthy concern for the welfare of America, plus a critical attitude towards the Jewish power elite which props up a government harmful to Majority interests. Perhaps it is an intense Jewish ethnocentrism which blinds Professor Ginsberg from seeing the legitimacy of many "anti-Semitic" movements.
All things considered, Fatal Embrace is a step in the right direction. It strips away Jewry's aura of saintliness and shows readers the ulterior reality which lies behind the propaganda façade. As long as Jewish and Gentile politicians and intellectuals refuse to see the destructive aspects of Jewry and the legitimate side of "anti-Semitic" complaints, there will never be an open and honest discussion concerning the undeniable problems which burden Jewish-Gentile relations. Nor will these problems ever be resolved in a manner which is rational, humane, and acceptable to both Jews and Gentiles. . .
Full story: savethemales.ca.
Comment: "Why Anti-Semitism?" Why indeed, since your Bible, Jewish historians and Encyclopedias establish that almost 100% of "so-called Jews," are as Jesus Messiah said (Matthew 23:33-35; Revelation 2:9; 3:9), not a Semitic people. Under the heading of "A brief History of the Terms for Jew" in the 1980 Jewish Almanac (page 3) we read: "Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an Ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew".
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FBI's 9/11 Saudi Flight Documents Released
June, 22 2007 – Newly released documents reveal the FBI suspected that a plane hired to transport members of the bin Laden family from the United States back to Saudi Arabia might have been chartered by Osama bin Laden himself. . . A heavily redacted FBI report on the incident begins by describing a private jet that was hired to pick up members of the bin Laden family that were in the US eight days after the 9/11 attacks. "The plane was chartered either by the Saudi Arabian Royal Family or Osama bin Laden". . . PENTTBOMB (page 3). Subsequent references to the chartered flight in the released documents state that it was "chartered by the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington, DC" (page 106). . .
Full story: truthout.org
Comment: The 'hidden hand' control both sides of every conflict.
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NASA exposes their Apollo Moon landing Hoax!
June 20, 2007 – Was it an accident? Did they realize what they were doing? Or are some NASA employees getting tired of supporting the lies? This image at the NASA site is a scale drawing of what Earth's sky would look like during the daytime if the atmosphere did not scatter sunlight. NASA admits that even with the sun shining, the stars would be visible. Yet for decades NASA has been claiming that it is nearly impossible for astronauts to see stars, however now their "Astronomy Picture of the Day" admits that without an atmosphere, we would see stars even when the sun was shining. Have you seen the Apollo press conference when Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins said they didn't see stars? . .
Full story: iamthewitness.com
Comment: Brother Branham said, "They ain't going to get there. I don't believe, with all my heart, they'll ever get there".
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Anatomy of a Solar Storm
May 2007 – The worst solar-storm season in half a century starts this year. These fiery explosions – which unleash as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs – could, under the right conditions, black out cities and fry satellites. But new solar scopes can give us advance warning.
Last December, a colossal wave swept across the entire solar surface within minutes, bulldozing everything in its path. The rare tsunami- like shockwave formed on the heels of a major flare that erupted from an Earth-size sunspot 15 minutes earlier. Though that storm didn't have a major impact on Earth, we aren't always so lucky. . . Full story: popsci.com
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Google asks Gov't to Fight Censorship
Washington, June 22, 2007 – Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide.
The online search giant is taking a novel approach to the problem by asking US trade officials to treat Internet restrictions as international trade barriers, similar to other hurdles to global commerce, such as tariffs.
Google sees the dramatic increase in government Net censorship, particularly in Asia and the Middle East, as a potential threat to its advertising-driven business model, and wants government officials to consider the issue in economic, rather than just political, terms. Full story: apnews.myway.com
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Errors or Treason?
Our history has a cloudy, if not sordid past and we can't forget the army passing out smallpox infected blankets to the Sioux. . . Full story: newswithviews.com
Comment: Some important truths revealing how past history has been planned over the long term, and if you read between the lines you will recognize the identity of the Christ-hating 'hidden hand' behind the plan. And in relation to the "plan," an analysis of film footage shows explosions in real time at the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center.
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Training Teens to Twist the Truth
"You can only have a new society. . . if you change the education of the younger generation. . ." (Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy , (New York: J.P. Tarcher, Inc.,1980) p. 280).
Meanwhile Promise Keepers "are launching a rite-of-passage offshoot for teenage boys:"
"Hoping to capture what organizers fear could be a lost generation of evangelical Christians, 'Passage' uses Christian rock bands, hip-hop artists, extreme sports exhibitions. . . Randy Phillips. . . says a youth revival is possible if the Christian message is repackaged in a more relevant form. . . '[T]hey are rejecting the current expression of the church. . .'" (Teens' Rite of Passage Can Include Their Faith).
"Instead of destroying and ridiculing the native names of the Creator God [of other religions], we. . . should introduce Jesus as the Son of their creator God." (Daniel Kikawa, Perpetuated in Righteousness, 1994, page 27. More information in this book review. See also "Culture Specific Evangelism Conference").
"Fundamentalism is a worldwide threat. . . So how do we counter it? The key is to change the view that salvation depends on playing by certain religious rules: everyone is saved."(Dominic Peccoud, Adviser for Socio-Religious Affairs, Religion as a Global Phenomenon for the New Millennium, World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting, 01.02.1999). . .
Full story: crossroad.to
Comment: Again, if you read between the lines you will the identify the Christ-hating 'hidden hand' behind these plans.
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Robotizing (Skinnerizing) of America
by Erica Carle © 2007 - All Rights Reserved
Do you have free will?
You may think that is a stupid question. However, many materialist philosophers and social scientists believe that free will does not exist. They state that all human action is automatic at all times, that nothing can be credited to human will, inner control, or volition. They say we became what we are by the process of evolution, and everything we do depends on material conditions. Heredity and environment determine our destiny. We have no real part in making ourselves what we are or what we will become.
I heard a religious broadcaster protest that idea. He said that we do have free will because God allows us to sin. Sorry, but that proves nothing. We don't need free will to help us give in to sin, bad habits, or stupidity. Persons who lie, cheat, steal, murder, commit adultery, envy, intoxicate and drug themselves, are slothful, who blaspheme, exhibit violent temper, betray trusts, etc., are not demonstrating free will when they do these things. They are reacting to their environments like biological robots or automatons. They actually become unrestrained and uninspired biological machines. Free will is not involved. They do automatically what they think will give them pleasure and avoid what they think might cause them pain. Consideration of others is non existent in their reactions. No cerebral activity, inner control, or effort at restraint is required.
Free will is needed to build character and resist temptations — not to give in to them.
Will is not self-abandonment, but self-control. Instead of saying that God allows us to sin, the preacher should have said that we have free will because God gives us the power NOT TO SIN.
There was a good deal of literature, discussion, and debate about this subject in the later part of the 19th Century. On the one hand, materialists such as Harriet Martineau, Professors Huxley and Clifford claimed that the feeling of volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but merely its symbol in consciousness. It signals, but does not cause the action. This idea was compared to the blowing of a steam whistle on a locomotive. It signals, but does not cause, the starting of the locomotive.
In opposition, physician/biologist William B. Carpenter agreed that there are many human actions that are purely automatic and others that become automatic after much practice, and repetition. There are also persons having little or no self-control who, for most of their lives, might be compared to biological machines.
In his book, Principles of Mental Physiology with their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind and the Study of its Morbid Conditions 1. Carpenter wrote, "It is in the control he acquires over the automatism in his nature, that man's freedom of choice essentially consists; whilst on the other hand, it is in virtue of his want of power to gain a complete control, that his freedom is limited."
At the time Carpenter's book appeared, the so-called social sciences were gaining prominence. Through them the idea was promoted that right was merely behavior of which Society, the Great Being, approved; and wrong was what Society, disapproved. According to social science — Scripture, the Ten Commandments, and the Golden Rule are no longer relevant. Public opinion replaces them, and social scientists direct and control public opinion. Free will and personality have to be phased out.
Auguste Comte, the father of social science stated, "We must get rid of personality in every shape . . . if we would found a powerful and enduring discipline in the name of humanity" (System of Positive Polity, Vol.IV. p. 249).
More recently, Harvard psychology professor, the late B. F. Skinner, argued that free will, if it exists, is not only useless, but dangerous and destructive to "social scientists'" plans to redesign culture for the future of the human race. Skinner wrote:
1. A scientific analysis of behavior dispossesses autonomous man and turns the control he has been said to exert over to the environment. The individual may then seem particularly vulnerable. He is henceforth to be controlled by the world around him, and in large part by other men . . . environmental contingencies now take over functions once attributed to autonomous man, and certain questions arise. Is man then abolished? Certainly not as a species or as an individual achiever. It is the autonomous inner man who is abolished, and that is a step forward . . . His abolition has been long overdue (Beyond Freedom and Dignity, B. F. Skinner; Bantam/Vantage Book, 1971, p.196, 205. NOTE: This book is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health)!!!
2. We want to know why men behave as they do. Any condition or event which can be shown to have an effect upon behavior must be taken into account. By discovering and analyzing these causes we can predict behavior; to the extent that we can manipulate them, we can control behavior (Science and Human Behavior; B. F. Skinner; The Macmillan Company, 1953, New York, p. 23).
3. A government may prevent defection by making life more interesting — by providing bread and circuses and by encouraging sports, gambling, the use of alcohol and other drugs, and various kinds of sexual behavior, where the effect is to keep people within reach of aversive sanctions. The Goncourt brothers noted the rise of pornography in the France of their day: "Pornographic literature," they wrote, "serves a Bas-Empire . . . one tames people as one tames lions, by masturbation" (Beyond Freedom and Dignity, p. 32).
Skinner sought to control people by studying the stimuli which influence behavior. But he sought much more than that. His long term goal, the same as Auguste Comte's, was to change the entire culture by shifting control by the "organism itself" to that of its environment. To do this the culture designers need to be in control of the environment—both the human and the natural environment. They need to tame the people and control the use of their property. This, they call social science.
Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity was published in 1971. Since it was required reading for college courses all across the nation it became an immediate million copy best seller. After the 1970's millions of the young were trained and taught that they should make their own individual moral codes. What this meant was that they could adopt any behavior they wished to experiment with, or that had been suggested to them, and claim it as part of their personal morality.
With no rules or guidelines to defend them from vice and self indulgences, their desires became their morality, and no one had the right to tell them otherwise. They were Skinnerized — robbed of free will and self control. They became environmentally-controlled automatons who thought they were free spirits. Parents of "free spirit" students could not understand the changes in the behavior of their offspring. Some young people were permanently damaged. Others did not survive their moral experimentation. Hardly a family was unaffected. It was, and is, an ongoing national tragedy, supported legally, financially, and philosophically by all branches of the U.S. government.
The 1970 White House Conference on Children was one example of the support for sociological culture change. Participants claimed:
1. It is now clear that children and their families must be involved in the decision-making process if we are to increase the chances that positive innovations will be accepted. Any set of recommendations should be predicated on support for diversity in family life styles. Punitive measures and tactics toward those family forms that differ from the traditional must be eliminated and experimentation in ways of living accepted. Attempts to prejudge and restrict the future shape of society should be discouraged (Report to the President White House Conference on Children, Washington D. C. 1970. p. 232).
2. One of our most destructive educational assumptions is that "teachers know and children don't . . . The educational consequence of this myth is teacher-oriented rather than student-oriented schools.
And the rapidity with which the known world now changes provides new perspectives and reduces the "stability" of previous knowledge, so that a teacher may frequently have difficulty keeping up with changes in our society—changes about which students may be more informed (ibid p. 124).
Since the 1970s millions of Americans' minds have been vandalized and robbed of the ability to control their own thoughts and feelings. They have become biological machines tamed and trained for the cultural change of the New World Order. They have been skinnerized 2. Some of those who have been skinnerized in the 1970s and after now occupy high positions in business, education, government, and the media. Most of them are intelligent, but they lack free will. They are easily managed by behavior modifiers who know what behavior buttons to push to gain cooperation for the culture changes necessary to bring about the New World Order.
Those who are skinnerized no longer believe that individuals are responsible for their conduct. Responsibility is shifted to the environment. Credit and blame are no longer assigned to individuals. To a skinnerite it is the environment that is responsible for all types of behavior. Loading children on buses and transporting them away from schools in their own neighborhoods is an example of a skinnerite solution to what sociologists determined to be a problem. Airport security, as it is now being conducted, is another example of a skinnerite solution. The environment must be changed for every traveler. Every traveler must be considered to be an enemy. Blame cannot be assigned to any individual or type of individual. Old people in wheel chairs must be patted down, and must remove their shoes. Baby bottles must be checked for explosives and confiscated if they contain too much liquid. We all must submit to this new environment.
Like the bite of the fictional vampire, skinnerites seek to afflict others with their own disability of will and conscience. One who is skinnerized will lie when he deems it necessary, and betray those to whom he owes personal obligations. He has no consistent principles—only goals. Many skinnerites not only ignore, but hate, the Bible, the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, and make every effort to deprive others of their protection.
No matter where they are you can learn to recognize skinnerites by their talk and behavior, and by their attempts to turn individual problems into universal problems. Are you a skinnerized biological robot? Is your neighbor? A member of your family? Your teacher? Your congressman? Your mayor? Your governor? Your president? Is your behavior being modified for the New World Order? Will you allow culture redesigners to deprive you and future generations of free will and self control? Will you continue to allow skinnerized robots to rule? These are questions all of us will have to answer and act on. It is of vital importance that we retain and restore the ability to make right choices.
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1. Reprints of this book are now available. It has been republished by Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints www.kessinger.net
2. A word I recently coined. It means means robotized. One who has been skinnerized is called a skinnerite. Skinnerites lack free will, love of truth, and independence of thought. Skinnerites have been tamed and trained to surrender their personality to the culture changers of the New World Order. If you find skinnerized, skinnerite and skinnerism to be useful words, they are yours to use at any time. nl482.htm
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ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When Adam joined Eve across the time-line and the Life-line he forfeited man's dominion over Earth, empowering Satan to lawfully offer Jesus "all the kingdoms of the world" if He would pay homage (Matthew 4:8-9): such profound reverence as would make him Jesus' god. Jesus deferred to the Word, for He was the Word manifest in virgin-born flesh, but He foretold two men who would surrender their souls to Satan and be known as "sons of perdition" (Jude 1:4). One was Judas Iscariot (John 17:12; 13:27). The other will be the last pope of the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church who rule the coming New World Order (Isaiah 14; Daniel 2:40-45; 7:19-28; 9:27; II Thessalonians 2:3; Revelation 17:8-11).
Scripture says, "All the world will worship Satan vicariously when he is incarnate in that man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, saying, Who is as great as the beast, and who is able to oppose him" (II Timothy 2:3-4; Revelation 13:4, 8; 17:8-11)?
How can it be that committed Christians and ministers of the Gospel will love the Lord Jesus and worship Satan vicariously?
Their love and commitment is to the storybook Jesus of their imagination and they have not received the love of Christ the anointed Word. They are sincere, and will lay down their lives during the tribulation "for the testimony of Jesus Christ," if they are "saved." But the deluded and "unsaved" majority who believe Satan's lie will be damned (II Thessalonians 2:9-12).
Many love God with all of their heart, but their knowledge of Him is intellectual: sincere philosophy and psychology without faith. That epitomizes the "lying spirit of strong delusion" of which Paul spoke. The Lord allowed such a lying spirit to persuade the prophets of Ahab who spoke their own thoughts to please the king, and not the mind of Christ (I Kings 22).
Please welcome our guest contributor, independent researcher and writer, Erica Carle BS. Mrs. Carle has been involved in radio and television writing and production, published several books, taught school, and as Education Editor wrote a weekly column, "Truth In Education," for the Wisconsin Report. The method of lion taming mentioned in her article is definitely not recommended for the faint of heart.
This article explains how Satan is stamping society with "the mark of the beast," which is wisdom against faith, employing government policy at taxpayer expense to coerce individuals to sacrifice their soul in order to satisfy the momentary lusts of their mortal spirit and corruptible flesh with things that perish with use. You see, it is all in the mind — perception, not reality. Ideas are planted into your mind through perverse education and entertainment that do your thinking for you, so that you live a second-hand life just as you will serve a second-hand religion unless you take the Prophet's words back to God's unchanging Word to understand what He meant, not what Brother Branham said.
Truth is hate to those who hate the truth, because if you "know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Oh, your body may be imprisoned in the world system, but your soul is emancipated: you are seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, in Jerusalem which is above and is free. A clear revelation of truth will overcome and give you victory over the world, sin, sickness, Satan and his social scientists. Truth is Absolute.
Just a little longer, and the Trumpet of God will sound.
Just a little longer, and we'll all be glory bound.
Look away to heaven, your redemption draweth nigh,
Just a little longer, and we'll meet Him in the sky.
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
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Quiet Transfer
June 28, 2007 – Last month two Israeli organisations, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel and B'tselem, and The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, issued a joint report on what the organisations describe as Israel's "quiet transfer" of Palestinians from the West Bank city of Hebron. This policy, the report notes, consists of three elements: the use of curfews and closing parts of the centre of the city to Palestinian vehicles and pedestrians, harassment and violence by Israeli soldiers, and a systematic failure to prevent Jewish settlers from attacking Palestinians living in the city.
The effect of this violence has been the depopulation and economic collapse of the Old City centre. More than a thousand Palestinian houses in the centre of the city have been abandoned and over 1,800 businesses forced to close.
Full story: abc.net.au
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Why Anti-Semitism?
A review of The Fatal Embrace: Ashkenazim and the State by Benjamin Ginsberg, University of Chicago Press, 1993. Henry Makow comments on a this review by Paul Grubach, originally published in the now defunct Instauration (April, 1995, p p. 12-14):
In simple terms, "Why Anti-Semitism?" is a question Ginsberg fails to answer satisfactorily because he did not consider the ultimate implications of this research. He openly admits Jews amass tremendous power in a state, and then use that state to advance their own selfish interests to the detriment of the host culture. What Ginsberg fails to see—or refuses to consider—is that the destructive, anti-Gentile characteristics of Jewry are a major cause of anti-Semitism. In this regard, many anti-Jewish reactions are normal, self-preserving responses on the part of non-Jews to the collective behavior of large groupings of Jews.
In their sojourn in America, Zionist Jews are again setting the stage for the aftermath of another "fatal embrace." The pro-Zionist government was and is detrimental to the interests of the American Majority at large. Is it any wonder that "anti-Semitic" movements should arise to challenge pro-Zionist policies? What Ginsberg labels as "anti-Semitism" is actually in many cases a healthy concern for the welfare of America, plus a critical attitude towards the Jewish power elite which props up a government harmful to Majority interests. Perhaps it is an intense Jewish ethnocentrism which blinds Professor Ginsberg from seeing the legitimacy of many "anti-Semitic" movements.
All things considered, Fatal Embrace is a step in the right direction. It strips away Jewry's aura of saintliness and shows readers the ulterior reality which lies behind the propaganda façade. As long as Jewish and Gentile politicians and intellectuals refuse to see the destructive aspects of Jewry and the legitimate side of "anti-Semitic" complaints, there will never be an open and honest discussion concerning the undeniable problems which burden Jewish-Gentile relations. Nor will these problems ever be resolved in a manner which is rational, humane, and acceptable to both Jews and Gentiles. . .
Full story: savethemales.ca.
Comment: "Why Anti-Semitism?" Why indeed, since your Bible, Jewish historians and Encyclopedias establish that almost 100% of "so-called Jews," are as Jesus Messiah said (Matthew 23:33-35; Revelation 2:9; 3:9), not a Semitic people. Under the heading of "A brief History of the Terms for Jew" in the 1980 Jewish Almanac (page 3) we read: "Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an Ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew".
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FBI's 9/11 Saudi Flight Documents Released
June, 22 2007 – Newly released documents reveal the FBI suspected that a plane hired to transport members of the bin Laden family from the United States back to Saudi Arabia might have been chartered by Osama bin Laden himself. . . A heavily redacted FBI report on the incident begins by describing a private jet that was hired to pick up members of the bin Laden family that were in the US eight days after the 9/11 attacks. "The plane was chartered either by the Saudi Arabian Royal Family or Osama bin Laden". . . PENTTBOMB (page 3). Subsequent references to the chartered flight in the released documents state that it was "chartered by the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington, DC" (page 106). . .
Full story: truthout.org
Comment: The 'hidden hand' control both sides of every conflict.
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NASA exposes their Apollo Moon landing Hoax!
June 20, 2007 – Was it an accident? Did they realize what they were doing? Or are some NASA employees getting tired of supporting the lies? This image at the NASA site is a scale drawing of what Earth's sky would look like during the daytime if the atmosphere did not scatter sunlight. NASA admits that even with the sun shining, the stars would be visible. Yet for decades NASA has been claiming that it is nearly impossible for astronauts to see stars, however now their "Astronomy Picture of the Day" admits that without an atmosphere, we would see stars even when the sun was shining. Have you seen the Apollo press conference when Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins said they didn't see stars? . .
Full story: iamthewitness.com
Comment: Brother Branham said, "They ain't going to get there. I don't believe, with all my heart, they'll ever get there".
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Anatomy of a Solar Storm
May 2007 – The worst solar-storm season in half a century starts this year. These fiery explosions – which unleash as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs – could, under the right conditions, black out cities and fry satellites. But new solar scopes can give us advance warning.
Last December, a colossal wave swept across the entire solar surface within minutes, bulldozing everything in its path. The rare tsunami- like shockwave formed on the heels of a major flare that erupted from an Earth-size sunspot 15 minutes earlier. Though that storm didn't have a major impact on Earth, we aren't always so lucky. . . Full story: popsci.com
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Google asks Gov't to Fight Censorship
Washington, June 22, 2007 – Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide.
The online search giant is taking a novel approach to the problem by asking US trade officials to treat Internet restrictions as international trade barriers, similar to other hurdles to global commerce, such as tariffs.
Google sees the dramatic increase in government Net censorship, particularly in Asia and the Middle East, as a potential threat to its advertising-driven business model, and wants government officials to consider the issue in economic, rather than just political, terms. Full story: apnews.myway.com
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Errors or Treason?
Our history has a cloudy, if not sordid past and we can't forget the army passing out smallpox infected blankets to the Sioux. . . Full story: newswithviews.com
Comment: Some important truths revealing how past history has been planned over the long term, and if you read between the lines you will recognize the identity of the Christ-hating 'hidden hand' behind the plan. And in relation to the "plan," an analysis of film footage shows explosions in real time at the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center.
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Training Teens to Twist the Truth
"You can only have a new society. . . if you change the education of the younger generation. . ." (Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy , (New York: J.P. Tarcher, Inc.,1980) p. 280).
Meanwhile Promise Keepers "are launching a rite-of-passage offshoot for teenage boys:"
"Hoping to capture what organizers fear could be a lost generation of evangelical Christians, 'Passage' uses Christian rock bands, hip-hop artists, extreme sports exhibitions. . . Randy Phillips. . . says a youth revival is possible if the Christian message is repackaged in a more relevant form. . . '[T]hey are rejecting the current expression of the church. . .'" (Teens' Rite of Passage Can Include Their Faith).
"Instead of destroying and ridiculing the native names of the Creator God [of other religions], we. . . should introduce Jesus as the Son of their creator God." (Daniel Kikawa, Perpetuated in Righteousness, 1994, page 27. More information in this book review. See also "Culture Specific Evangelism Conference").
"Fundamentalism is a worldwide threat. . . So how do we counter it? The key is to change the view that salvation depends on playing by certain religious rules: everyone is saved."(Dominic Peccoud, Adviser for Socio-Religious Affairs, Religion as a Global Phenomenon for the New Millennium, World Economic Forum, Annual Meeting, 01.02.1999). . .
Full story: crossroad.to
Comment: Again, if you read between the lines you will the identify the Christ-hating 'hidden hand' behind these plans.
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Robotizing (Skinnerizing) of America
by Erica Carle © 2007 - All Rights Reserved
Do you have free will?
You may think that is a stupid question. However, many materialist philosophers and social scientists believe that free will does not exist. They state that all human action is automatic at all times, that nothing can be credited to human will, inner control, or volition. They say we became what we are by the process of evolution, and everything we do depends on material conditions. Heredity and environment determine our destiny. We have no real part in making ourselves what we are or what we will become.
I heard a religious broadcaster protest that idea. He said that we do have free will because God allows us to sin. Sorry, but that proves nothing. We don't need free will to help us give in to sin, bad habits, or stupidity. Persons who lie, cheat, steal, murder, commit adultery, envy, intoxicate and drug themselves, are slothful, who blaspheme, exhibit violent temper, betray trusts, etc., are not demonstrating free will when they do these things. They are reacting to their environments like biological robots or automatons. They actually become unrestrained and uninspired biological machines. Free will is not involved. They do automatically what they think will give them pleasure and avoid what they think might cause them pain. Consideration of others is non existent in their reactions. No cerebral activity, inner control, or effort at restraint is required.
Free will is needed to build character and resist temptations — not to give in to them.
Will is not self-abandonment, but self-control. Instead of saying that God allows us to sin, the preacher should have said that we have free will because God gives us the power NOT TO SIN.
There was a good deal of literature, discussion, and debate about this subject in the later part of the 19th Century. On the one hand, materialists such as Harriet Martineau, Professors Huxley and Clifford claimed that the feeling of volition is not the cause of a voluntary act, but merely its symbol in consciousness. It signals, but does not cause the action. This idea was compared to the blowing of a steam whistle on a locomotive. It signals, but does not cause, the starting of the locomotive.
In opposition, physician/biologist William B. Carpenter agreed that there are many human actions that are purely automatic and others that become automatic after much practice, and repetition. There are also persons having little or no self-control who, for most of their lives, might be compared to biological machines.
In his book, Principles of Mental Physiology with their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the Mind and the Study of its Morbid Conditions 1. Carpenter wrote, "It is in the control he acquires over the automatism in his nature, that man's freedom of choice essentially consists; whilst on the other hand, it is in virtue of his want of power to gain a complete control, that his freedom is limited."
At the time Carpenter's book appeared, the so-called social sciences were gaining prominence. Through them the idea was promoted that right was merely behavior of which Society, the Great Being, approved; and wrong was what Society, disapproved. According to social science — Scripture, the Ten Commandments, and the Golden Rule are no longer relevant. Public opinion replaces them, and social scientists direct and control public opinion. Free will and personality have to be phased out.
Auguste Comte, the father of social science stated, "We must get rid of personality in every shape . . . if we would found a powerful and enduring discipline in the name of humanity" (System of Positive Polity, Vol.IV. p. 249).
More recently, Harvard psychology professor, the late B. F. Skinner, argued that free will, if it exists, is not only useless, but dangerous and destructive to "social scientists'" plans to redesign culture for the future of the human race. Skinner wrote:
1. A scientific analysis of behavior dispossesses autonomous man and turns the control he has been said to exert over to the environment. The individual may then seem particularly vulnerable. He is henceforth to be controlled by the world around him, and in large part by other men . . . environmental contingencies now take over functions once attributed to autonomous man, and certain questions arise. Is man then abolished? Certainly not as a species or as an individual achiever. It is the autonomous inner man who is abolished, and that is a step forward . . . His abolition has been long overdue (Beyond Freedom and Dignity, B. F. Skinner; Bantam/Vantage Book, 1971, p.196, 205. NOTE: This book is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health)!!!
2. We want to know why men behave as they do. Any condition or event which can be shown to have an effect upon behavior must be taken into account. By discovering and analyzing these causes we can predict behavior; to the extent that we can manipulate them, we can control behavior (Science and Human Behavior; B. F. Skinner; The Macmillan Company, 1953, New York, p. 23).
3. A government may prevent defection by making life more interesting — by providing bread and circuses and by encouraging sports, gambling, the use of alcohol and other drugs, and various kinds of sexual behavior, where the effect is to keep people within reach of aversive sanctions. The Goncourt brothers noted the rise of pornography in the France of their day: "Pornographic literature," they wrote, "serves a Bas-Empire . . . one tames people as one tames lions, by masturbation" (Beyond Freedom and Dignity, p. 32).
Skinner sought to control people by studying the stimuli which influence behavior. But he sought much more than that. His long term goal, the same as Auguste Comte's, was to change the entire culture by shifting control by the "organism itself" to that of its environment. To do this the culture designers need to be in control of the environment—both the human and the natural environment. They need to tame the people and control the use of their property. This, they call social science.
Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity was published in 1971. Since it was required reading for college courses all across the nation it became an immediate million copy best seller. After the 1970's millions of the young were trained and taught that they should make their own individual moral codes. What this meant was that they could adopt any behavior they wished to experiment with, or that had been suggested to them, and claim it as part of their personal morality.
With no rules or guidelines to defend them from vice and self indulgences, their desires became their morality, and no one had the right to tell them otherwise. They were Skinnerized — robbed of free will and self control. They became environmentally-controlled automatons who thought they were free spirits. Parents of "free spirit" students could not understand the changes in the behavior of their offspring. Some young people were permanently damaged. Others did not survive their moral experimentation. Hardly a family was unaffected. It was, and is, an ongoing national tragedy, supported legally, financially, and philosophically by all branches of the U.S. government.
The 1970 White House Conference on Children was one example of the support for sociological culture change. Participants claimed:
1. It is now clear that children and their families must be involved in the decision-making process if we are to increase the chances that positive innovations will be accepted. Any set of recommendations should be predicated on support for diversity in family life styles. Punitive measures and tactics toward those family forms that differ from the traditional must be eliminated and experimentation in ways of living accepted. Attempts to prejudge and restrict the future shape of society should be discouraged (Report to the President White House Conference on Children, Washington D. C. 1970. p. 232).
2. One of our most destructive educational assumptions is that "teachers know and children don't . . . The educational consequence of this myth is teacher-oriented rather than student-oriented schools.
And the rapidity with which the known world now changes provides new perspectives and reduces the "stability" of previous knowledge, so that a teacher may frequently have difficulty keeping up with changes in our society—changes about which students may be more informed (ibid p. 124).
Since the 1970s millions of Americans' minds have been vandalized and robbed of the ability to control their own thoughts and feelings. They have become biological machines tamed and trained for the cultural change of the New World Order. They have been skinnerized 2. Some of those who have been skinnerized in the 1970s and after now occupy high positions in business, education, government, and the media. Most of them are intelligent, but they lack free will. They are easily managed by behavior modifiers who know what behavior buttons to push to gain cooperation for the culture changes necessary to bring about the New World Order.
Those who are skinnerized no longer believe that individuals are responsible for their conduct. Responsibility is shifted to the environment. Credit and blame are no longer assigned to individuals. To a skinnerite it is the environment that is responsible for all types of behavior. Loading children on buses and transporting them away from schools in their own neighborhoods is an example of a skinnerite solution to what sociologists determined to be a problem. Airport security, as it is now being conducted, is another example of a skinnerite solution. The environment must be changed for every traveler. Every traveler must be considered to be an enemy. Blame cannot be assigned to any individual or type of individual. Old people in wheel chairs must be patted down, and must remove their shoes. Baby bottles must be checked for explosives and confiscated if they contain too much liquid. We all must submit to this new environment.
Like the bite of the fictional vampire, skinnerites seek to afflict others with their own disability of will and conscience. One who is skinnerized will lie when he deems it necessary, and betray those to whom he owes personal obligations. He has no consistent principles—only goals. Many skinnerites not only ignore, but hate, the Bible, the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, and make every effort to deprive others of their protection.
No matter where they are you can learn to recognize skinnerites by their talk and behavior, and by their attempts to turn individual problems into universal problems. Are you a skinnerized biological robot? Is your neighbor? A member of your family? Your teacher? Your congressman? Your mayor? Your governor? Your president? Is your behavior being modified for the New World Order? Will you allow culture redesigners to deprive you and future generations of free will and self control? Will you continue to allow skinnerized robots to rule? These are questions all of us will have to answer and act on. It is of vital importance that we retain and restore the ability to make right choices.
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1. Reprints of this book are now available. It has been republished by Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints www.kessinger.net
2. A word I recently coined. It means means robotized. One who has been skinnerized is called a skinnerite. Skinnerites lack free will, love of truth, and independence of thought. Skinnerites have been tamed and trained to surrender their personality to the culture changers of the New World Order. If you find skinnerized, skinnerite and skinnerism to be useful words, they are yours to use at any time. nl482.htm
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Friday, June 22, 2007
The Feast of Trumpets - Part I
Bible Believers' Newsletter #481
"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660
Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.
In this issue we will begin a study on Israel's Feast of Trumpets whose antitype will manifest following the soon-coming earthquakes that will sink Los Angeles, trigger the Pacific ring of fire and split the mount of Olives, demolishing the Dome of the Rock and al Aqsa Mosque to ignite the "hot" stage of World War III. These climactic events will signal the close of the Gentile dispensation and the commencement of Daniel's Seventieth Week in which the Lord will gather an elect remnant of the twelve tribes of Israel back to their Homeland for redemption. In this first installment of our study we will consider the groundwork set forth by Moses in Israel's great annual harvest festivals of Leviticus 23, which compelled all adult male Israelites to assemble under the covering blood of an innocent substitute. These natural festivals act out in pantomime the substance and reality of Spiritual antitypes in symbols to guide the believer back into Divine Presence and fellowship by expounding God's plan of redemption in the fulfillment of His promise to make Abraham the father of the Gentiles, and finally of an election of 144,000 blood Israelites.
The Feast of Trumpets concerns Israel's redemption. Israel is a nation of the blood of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God only deals with Israel in the land of the Covenant, which is of no effect to those outside the land. The only place Israel will find God is where they left Him. They are compelled to return to Jerusalem and confront the Blood of the Lamb they crucified. Joel 2:32, "It shall come to pass, that all who call on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said, and in the remnant whom the Lord has called. . . for whoever does not humble his soul in that day shall be cut off from His people" (Leviticus 29:3; Acts 3:22-23).
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
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Oil Industry scales back Refinery Plans
A push from Congress and the White House for huge increases in biofuels, such as ethanol, is prompting the oil industry to scale back its plans for refinery expansions. That could keep gasoline prices high, possibly for years to come. With President Bush calling for a 20 percent drop in gasoline use and the Senate now debating legislation for huge increases in ethanol production, oil companies see growing uncertainty about future gasoline demand and little need to expand refineries or build new ones. Full story: truthout.org
Comment: In conjunction with the cutback of production at the wellhead in Iraq, a diminution of refinery capacity will reduce fuel supplies, increasing price and oil company profitability. This planned dis-investment as per the "Global 2000 Report to the President," and "Global Future, a Time to Act" which are correctly understood as political statements of intent on the part of such policy centers as the CFR, Trilateral Commission and the IMF, follow the neo-Malthusian "Limits to Growth" policies set forth by the Club of Rome. These policies will result in massive depopulation by restricting scientific and technological development, restricting technology transfer to the developing countries, restricting food production and preventing nuclear energy development.
World population levels can be determined by people themselves by financial, economic and scientific-technological policies adopted by peoples and their governments. Diversion of land use to the production of biofuels will increase food prices and induce population decrease; droughts will cause shortages, inflating fuel and food prices that will lead to impoverishment, famine, depopulation and the return to serfdom. Truly a diabolical plan.
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9th Circuit Hate Speech
Sadly, by co-mingling international law into the US Code, the US federal court system has succeeded in converting the unconditional rights and liberty possessed by Americans under the Bill of Rights into the conditional rights found in the UN Declaration on Human Rights. Under the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for redress of grievances." All of the restrictions are placed on government. None on the people.
However, in Articles 13 and 14 of the UN Covenant on Human Rights, we see the restrictions are shifted to the people with government serving as the grantor of conditional rights—and possessing the right to arbitrarily alter those rights whenever it deems necessary. Article 13 says: "Freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations that are prescribed by law." Article 14 says: "The right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas carries with it special duties and responsibilities, and restrictions, but these shall be only as such as are provided by law". . . the courts no longer interpret our rights under the First Amendment as unconditional. Our "rights" are construed to be those provided under Articles 13 and 14 of the UN Covenant on Human Rights. . . The 9th Circuit understood something the US District Court hadn't grasped—the Bill of Rights has been replaced with a universal doctrine—the UN Covenant on Human Rights. And with that doctrine comes the "greater freedoms" of the communist-slanted totalitarian Orwellian New World Order. . . Full story: newswithviews.com
Comment: "As it was in the days of Lot" (Luke 17:28-30). Presidential edicts are pressing US citizens into the totalitarian one world government Jesus refused (Matthew 4:8-9).
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Pakistani Man can Personally sue FBI Director & Former US AG Ashcroft
Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim, was held for more than a year at a Brooklyn detention center after the September 11 attacks. . . abused and held for no legitimate reason. Full story: truthout.org
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Agent Orange, Mutagenic Weapons, and Big Pharma
June 14, 2007 - No less than 35 diseases and disorders are clearly connected to dioxin from generational birth deformities, chloracne, blindness, diabetes, mental retardation, and a number of cancers. Binding with protein molecules and not being water soluble, dioxin now sits deep in the soil, continually wreaking havoc on the environment and the populace, settling into the gene pool. . . Full story: truthout.org
Under the false pretense of improved food and drug safety the FDA is re-inventing itself as a kingpin drug company. This charade has so far hoodwinked virtually all members of Congress. The Senate has already approved this FDA transformation. The House will bring similar legislation out of committee next week, with a vote in the full House likely in July. The measure will then go to a conference committee to work out the differences. The final chapter in this transformation occurs when the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA becomes law, which is scheduled to happen some time before September 30, 2007. . .
The Bush administration figured out that the fastest way to get the FDA out of the way of Big Pharma’s profits was to appoint FDA critics to key positions, thereby changing the FDA from within. . . Full story: newswithviews.com
Comment: "For without new Jerusalem are dogs, and sorcerers. . . and whosoever loves and makes a lie" (Malachi 3:5; Revelation 9:21; 18:23; 21:8; 22:15). Sorcery (Gk.'pharmakeia') or the use or the administering of drugs, poisoning, sorcery, magical arts and remedies, often in connection with idolatry. Now you can see the objective of Codex Alimentarius, restrictions on natural vitamin sales, growth and sale of natural herbs, etc.,
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Things Your Media Momma didn't tell You
June 15, 2007 – The fact that most Americans oppose the war in Iraq, and want the president impeached, is testimony to the native intelligence and common sense of the citizens of this nation.
It sure isn't thanks to the quality of the news we're getting here in America! . . Full story: freemarketnews.com
Comment: Now you know why Americans are so insular. So who runs the Media in America and throughout the world? Who is responsible for the lies, subterfuge, equivocation and mental reservation that is the wolf dressed-up as news and education? That's what Moses and Jesus thought (Deuteronomy 33:29; Joshua 9:3-23; Matthew 23:33-35; John 8:44; Revelation 2:9; 3:9). This is supported by the Babylonian Talmud (Iore Dea 157:2; Babha Kama 113a, b; Kallah 1b, p. 18; Schabbouth Hag. 6d; Zohar 1, 160a; Peshachim 113b ).
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The Feast of Trumpets - Part I
Genesis 1:14, "God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for appointed seasons of meeting, and for days, and years".
Leviticus 23 establishes the chronological sequence and duration of the seasons of man's mortal journey through time to redemption and glorification in eternity, or loss. This is typed by the three feasts that fall at certain points in the harvest season and form part of an elaborate system of sacred times based on the sacred number seven, which signifies sabbath, completion, rest and redemption. (Eight signifies eternal rest, new creation, the last Adam's Kingdom in new Jerusalem on a renewed heaven and earth).
Every adult male Israelite was bound to attend these three feasts, beginning with Passover and the Feast of Unleavened bread at the opening of the barley harvest; followed eight days later by Pentecost and the commencement of the wheat harvest, and finally by the Feast of Tabernacles, which ended the harvest with the ripening of the fruit of the trees.
Leviticus 23:2-3, "Tell the children of Israel: These are the appointed times of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, My fixed, appointed times. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation when you shall do no work at all: it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings".
A "holy convocation" is a sacred assembly in which no servile work is to be done. Whereas the Church Age saints labored throughout seven sabbaths wherein the Book was shut (Leviticus 23:6-14; Revelation 1-3) trying to 'work out' the meaning of Scriptures, the revelation of the Seven Seals finished the mystery of God giving us the perfect interpretation of His Word (I Corinthians 13:10). When the Seven Church Ages and Christ's Mediation were fulfilled, those who constitute Christ's end-time Bride began to be born into the "holy convocation" of the fiftieth day of the Pentecostal Feast (Leviticus 23:15-19). We do no servile work but rest, like Ruth after her gleaning, waiting for the fulfillment of the promise when our Boaz, having received His claim (Revelation 5), returns to take us Home after the last member of the Bride has come in (Leviticus 23:20-21).
The sabbath is found in the history of creation (Genesis 2:3), which is the groundwork of Moses' inspiration. From time immemorial the week has been divided into seven days (Genesis 8:10-12; 29:27-28; Exodus 16:5, 23). An Assyrian calendar discovered by George Smith divided every month into four weeks, and marked out the seventh days as days in which no work should be done. This follows the pattern in which God divided His work into six portions and sanctified the seventh on which He rested and watched His spoken Word manifest what he had spoken. The Divine rest was not one of twenty-four hours, but an eternal sabbath signifying the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This is our earnest of eternal rest, not the observation of sabbath day (Isaiah 66:23; Ephesians 1:13-14; Hebrews 4:10).
All mankind is included in the seventh day rest for the body and mortal spirit, "for the rhythm of life is a powerful beat. . ." but only Israel is commanded to observe it, and on a Saturday (Exodus 20:10-11). Needless and avoidable work was forbidden, but like other feasts it was to be a day of enjoyment. The fact that God, speaking through His prophet David 500 years after Joshua had led the people of Israel into their rest in the Promised Land, speaks of another day in which His voice will call them to enter into His rest (Psalm 95:7-11; Hebrews 4:1-11) proves that the rest of God, which has existed since the creation, is not identical with the rest secured by Joshua (Exodus 38:14; Deuteronomy 3:20; Joshua 1:13-15).
God deals with Israel as a nation: their covenant is of no effect outside the Promised Land, and their sabbath day can only be observed in that place. Jesus came not to destroy but to fulfill and magnify the Law that was given to train a perverse nation devoid of faith (Deuteronomy 32:20; Isaiah 42:21; Matthew 5:17). Jesus said, "Come unto Me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you sabbath for your souls" (Matthew 11:28-30). We enter the rest of God when the Holy Ghost baptizes us into our place in His Body, making us written epistles of the present Truth of His Word. When Jesus overcame the works of the Devil, He ceased from His works as God did from His. So when we are baptized into Him, we too have overcome and entered the rest of God — that eternal sabbath of which new birth is the Token (II Corinthians 5:13-21; Ephesians 1:13-14; I John 3:5-10).
Those who claim to be Christians yet observe Israel's sabbath day deny Christ's resurrection and the baptism with the Holy Ghost. One day is as a thousand years with the Lord but because of the Fall man has not lived one day (Genesis 2:17), and expelled from rest, he is compelled to labour against sin through six days of a thousand years until the sabbath of the millennium for overcomers, followed by the eighth day, which is eternity. Christians are "seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus," or recognized in our place in the Logos, and potentially in the eighth day (Ephesians 2:6).
God can only redeem or "buy back" those who are a part of His creation: attributes of the Logos — a penitent people of faith who having lost their way have been found by grace. God can only redeem His own Word — the lineage of Adam. He cannot redeem the descendants of Seth's half-brother Cain who are not in Adam's race and have no kinsman Redeemer. The Book of Genesis traces the history of two lines of humanity from Eden, through the Flood, to the era of the Exodus when Israel became a nation separated to God from all other peoples of Adam's race because of Jehovah's respect to the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Miscegenation between Eve and the Satan-incarnate man-like animal called the Serpent produced a hybrid species in Cain and his offspring, who are not a part of God's creation. Here we see the groundwork of the reward for obedience promised in the second commandment, "You shall make for yourself no idol in the likeness of anything in the heavens above, or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love Me and keep My Commandments".
God is faithful. The first Israelites were several generations removed from the third and fourth generation of the patriarchs whose faith God honoured to their unmerited benefit. A similar promise is granted to the Spiritual descendants of the New Testament fathers. I Corinthians 7:14, "The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy." Brother Branham commanded us to keep the Token or evidence of the Life of Christ on display to sanctify our house and help maintain the names of our loved ones in the Book of Life thereby securing their salvation.
On the first Passover the faithful head of every Israelite household sacrificed a lamb and painted its blood on the lintel and door posts of his house, not on the threshold where it would be trodden underfoot. And the angel of death, seeing he had met God's requirement would pass over his house and spare the lives of the firstborn because all who entered that door were secure by his faith in God's promise and under the blood of the substitute. This was the evidence an innocent life had died in their stead as it had for Adam and Eve; a perfect type of Christ's sacrifice. Hold the Token over your house.
The life of the animal could not come back upon human beings as an evidence of salvation because animals do not possess a soul, but Christ had a soul and the baptism with the Holy Ghost is our Token that His Life has come back upon us. Jesus was no mere human being, He was God manifest in flesh. The Token is His Life on display in us and the evidence that we, like Him, are the Sons of God. The Token is our identification with God's Passover and His acceptance of our faith in His plan of redemption. Israel displayed the chemistry of animal blood as their evidence, the Church Age saints claimed the symbol of Christ's Blood; and since the opening of the Seven Seals has released the fullness of the Spirit to quicken the fullness of the Word, the Life of Christ on display is our Token. He met Jehovah's requirements at Calvary; you meet them on your knees by faith. There God gives you the Token that the Spirit that was upon Christ has returned into you. This is the guarantee of your resurrection and eternal Life. "These signs shall follow you who believe," and "the works that I do shall you do also." Your identification is to manifest the promised Word of this day by the same Spirit that manifested and quickened the Word then, showing that the Token, which is the resurrected Life of Jesus Christ, is living in you.
As Paul illustrates in Hebrews 11, God is powerless to redeem or heal anyone who does not possess faith. His Word can only work by faith. God reveals Himself in nature and symbols, communicating His will to His prophets through visions, dreams and inspired utterance. Thereafter it is recorded and propagated by men and women of faith: "faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the preaching of God's revealed Word" (Romans 10:17). Thus faith flourishes in families and communities of believing ears so when God is able to get one man completely under preeminence, say an Abraham who is sincere and can get people to believe him, His Word will bring forth fruit (Mark 4:20). The works will be reported, attracting men and women of faith to follow and watch as faith continues to unfold, then God will raise up other prophets through whom He can shine further Light on the prophecy. Abraham is called the father of faith, and is the father of faith to we Gentiles as his new name implies (Genesis 17:5).
Abraham's faith spread through his immediate family. His grandson Jacob went down to Egypt with seventy souls, and two hundred and ten years later at midnight on Nisan 15, Moses departed with a nation numbering about 1.8 million. In one night Israel was born as a natural nation, chosen to spread God's revelation to all of Adam's race.
Exodus 12:2-3, "Hereafter this month shall be for you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man shall take a lamb for his family, one lamb for each house".
The lamb was roasted whole so that not a bone of its body is broken (verse 46), and eaten by everyone under the blood within the house. They were to eat as a community, as the community of faith share the Lord's Supper, "for we being many are one bread and one Body; for we are all partakers of that one bread" (I Corinthians 10:17), and in readiness to start their journey as are we, having judged ourselves and tarried one for another. The seven days of unleavened bread was contemporaneous with the Passover and its real symbolism was the removal of Egyptian leaven, symbolizing an entire separation from everything Egyptian. God's Word calls for a total separation from unbelief. I Corinthians 5:6-8, "Your boasting in your own righteousness and sanctification is deplorable when you tolerate fornication in your midst. Don't you know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be another lump, pure and unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us: let us therefore celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven, and not with the leaven of iniquity and wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth". Leaven symbolizes transmission and fellowship, we are to eliminate the leaven of our old Egyptian character, corrupt doctrine, gossip, legalism or anything likely to diffuse its influence from our personal life throughout the congregation. Sin must not be tolerated, it must be excised.
The Passover was the greatest of all the annual festivals of Israel, and was the only one resting upon a distinct historical and miraculous event, and the only one, the neglect of which was accompanied with the penalty of excision (Numbers 9:18). The obligation to observe it was so emphatic that a second Passover was observed in the following month for those who were prevented from keeping it by reason of absence or defilement with a dead body, and all Israel is defiled by contact with the body of Jesus Messiah (Matthew 27:25; John 11:49-52).
The Passover commemorated the dreadful night of judgment and deliverance in which the nation of Israel was born, the Feast of Unleavened Bread signified Israel's separation from the fleshly lusts of Egypt (Numbers 11:15). In the antitype, Christ died as kinsman Redeemer taking our sins upon Himself and bearing them away. The unleavened bread was "bread of affliction" as it had been Israel's "affliction," and a mark of their bondage and subjection to the Egyptians, to be driven forth in such "haste" as not even to have time for leavening their bread (Deuteronomy 16:3; Exodus 12:33, 39). In the antitype the first day represents the pure Word of God Christ preached as a witness of judgment to souls imprisoned in chains of darkness, and vindication of deliverance to the Old Testament saints over the chasm in Paradise. The remaining six days represent the Alpha Age of Pentecost which held the pure faith once delivered to the apostolic saints unleavened by creed and tradition. As bread is the staff of natural life, Christ the Word is the Bread from heaven and staff of Spiritual Life, which if a man eat he shall never die.
After Christ the firstfruits of the new creation was "reaped" on Calvary's cross, His body was buried but His theophany descended into the place of the departed where he witnessed to the lost souls who had rejected the Message of God's prophets. On the Day of Pentecost He re-entered and resurrected His body in glorified form and was "waved" before the Lord as the firstfruits of those who had fallen asleep. He ascended on High and with His own blood cleansed the heavenly sanctuary of the sins of the Old Testament saints; then He descended, and raised the Old Testament saints who had been captives of death to glorified captives of eternal Life.
Leviticus 23:4-14 specifies when the Feast of Unleavened Bread should be held, lays down strict requirements for the first and last days, which are to be holy convocations, and appoints a special observance for the day after the Sabbath, which was resurrection Sunday, known to Israel as the Feast of First Fruits, on which the priests present the Lord with a wave offering consisting of a single sheaf of barley offered on behalf of the whole nation.
This represented the first produce of the barley harvest just then beginning. According to Leviticus 23:10-14, the bread was made of unleavened flour from the previous year's harvest. No significance or symbolism is attached to the flour's age, and there is no mention of which grain was used, nor is any specialty accorded the bread denoted in Scripture. It was simply bread. Nothing from the new harvest could be used or eaten until the offering was presented. The barley harvest in Nisan was the first harvest of the year. Since fruit of a single sheaf represents one Man in his risen state, we see in this a type of the resurrection of Messiah, who had to be waved and accepted as representative of the whole harvest before the Old Testament saints could partake the same eternal Life.
John 12:23-25, "Jesus said, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Truly, I assure you, unless a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone: but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. He who loves his life shall lose it; and he who hates his life in this world will preserve it to eternal Life.
Jesus was the original Seed, the forerunner and Spiritual progenitor of every Son of Adam willing to renounce this world for the promises of God, even at the cost of his life, with the assurance of eternal Life. Like a seed, he will not expire but progress to a superior form of life, and God will raise him to glory in an incorruptible body.
1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-44, "Some will ask, How are the dead restored to life, and what kind of bodies will they have? What a foolish question! You will find the answer in your own garden! What you sow does not grow into a plant unless it dies first. Nor is the seed you sow the body that is to be, but bare grain of wheat, or whatever it is you are planting: then God gives it the body of His choice according to the kind of seed. . . So is the resurrection of the dead, our earthly bodies which die and decay are different from the glorified bodies we will have in the resurrection. What was sown was perishable, what is raised is imperishable. The bodies we now have were sown in dishonour, for they become sick and die; but they will be full of glory when we come back to life again, for they will be raised in glory and strength. It was sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body".
Your present body is like random, perishable seed and no comparison to the glorified body you will inherit at the translation when you will be mature like ripened grain. And although the Church Age saints first returned to the earth in a kind of death pending the first resurrection, you will be changed in the atoms without death.
Unlike our day, which begins after midnight, the Hebrew day begins after 6.00 pm. God's Passover was slain and prepared between 3.00 pm and 6.00 pm on Friday, Nisan 14, and eaten some time after 6.00 pm the same night, which was Nisan 15, a sabbath and the commencement of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The Feast of Firstfruits fell on Nisan 16, which was resurrection Sunday as recorded in Matthew 28:1-6 (in which the words "In the end of the sabbath" belong to chapter 27), and in John 18:28 and 19:31.
The time of the Feast of Weeks was determined by the Passover and commenced on Nisan 16, or resurrection Sunday on which Messiah was waved before the Lord, I Corinthians 15:20, "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." Pentecost followed fifty-two days after Passover at the completion and close of the wheat harvest. It was celebrated with thanksgiving for it types the Pentecostal Jubilee and our meeting with the saints in the air. Whereas the Old Testament saints were represented by the harvest of barley — its inferiority to wheat being marked by the offering of barley in the ordeal of jealousy (Numbers 5:15; Hosea 3:2) — as Christ's "wheat Bride" and Israel's Queen we are represented by the most noble of grains.
We are ready to be offered as two loaves of bread baked with leaven and made with flour of the first fruits sifted fine, indicating Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. This new wave offering represents the Alpha Bride born of the apostolic faith and the Omega Bride born of the same faith restored by the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 (Romans 15:16). The Alpha and Omega Bride are identical as God showed Brother Branham in a vision recorded in The Masterpiece. The day after the earthquake sinks Los Angeles, which will be the same night by Hebrew reckoning, we will witness to our loved ones and all we meet as Jesus witnessed to the departed souls. The following day we will be waved before the Lord as Christ was waved on Nisan 16 two days after the earthquake that marked the breach in Jehovah's relationship with Israel (Daniel 9:26; I Peter 3:19-20; Jude 5-6). Our acceptance will signify God's consecration of the whole harvest of the Alpha and Omega Ages and the PART-Word saints in-between. Since we are "baked with the leaven" of corruptible flesh we cannot be offered as a burnt offering, an assurance Christ's Bride will not go through the tribulation. As the former rain began to fall on that first day of Pentecost, the latter rain will fall on this first day of Pentecost, initiating the resurrection of the sleeping saints and the manifestation of the living Sons of God. Then on the fiftieth day we shall be "changed and caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: so shall we forever be with the Lord".
The two wave loaves were seven palms in length and four in breadth, signifying "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" in His Bride of all Ages redeemed by the seven-fold Spirit of God under the first Four Seals. They were made the day prior to, or in the event of a sabbath preceding, two days before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, on Nisan 14. This shows (in type) that His end-time Bride with the perfect interpretation of the Word (I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:7) was fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary, for at the close of the Laodicean Church Age redemption is over. Whereas the saints of Pentecost and the Church Ages required Christ's mediation for their ignorance of the fullness of the Word, when He opened and revealed the Seven Seals, all seven sabbaths or Church Ages were fulfilled and there was no further delay for mediation, yet we were not born-again (Revelation 10:6). This proves that our dispensation is the holy convocation typed by the fiftieth day of the feast when all servile work is prohibited, including mediation for ignorance. But with "the true sayings of God" (Revelation 19:9; 22:10) we do not need mediation, and as we are all members of one Body, they cannot be resurrected and glorified without us. Brother Branham said, "These people who died in here are depending and waiting on us." Let us not keep them waiting.
One loaf was given to the high priest typing Christ the Principal Man, the other to the ordinary priests or seven shepherds who officiated during His absence. It was eaten that same night in the temple, and no fragment was suffered to remain till the morning, signifying that when we go Home we will not leave so much as a hoof left behind. Praise the Lord! Then the Angel of the Lord will reveal Himself to Israel in the office of Son of man (Revelation 7:1-2).
Pentecost signified the restoration of the Law to Israel, but the Pentecostal Feast was never celebrated until Israel had entered her natural rest in Canaan, God's provided place for them to live and worship (Leviticus 23:10). Canaan with its wars and killing does not type the millennium, but the time of overcoming, which in the antitype was the Church Ages when the full number of Spiritual Israel was gathered in to her promised rest. For Israel this will be the time of Jacob's trouble and the in-gathering of their 144,000 elect. After the catching-away of the Bride, God will anoint two Hebrew prophets with the Spirit that endued Moses and Elijah to reveal whence the nation fell. "Remember the Law of My servant Moses, the statutes and judgments which I commanded Him in Horeb for all Israel." They will place Scripture in history to expound their seven Trumpet judgments and introduce Messiah's 'parousia' Coming with His Bride, their Queen.
James 1:18, "Of His own will He gave us new birth by the Word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits in His Family." But after the harvest of the field, the husbandman was to leave some grain for the poor in revelation and those unfamiliar with the faith to glean during the tribulation and retain their names on the Book of Life (Leviticus 23:22).
Leviticus 23:23-25, "The Lord said to Moses, Tell the children of Israel, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. You shall do no servile work, and you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord".
Three of the appointed times of meeting fall in Tishri, the seventh month of the harvest season, and their antitypes apply exclusively to the nation of Israel as the work of redeeming the nation begun on the first Passover will conclude with the true Atonement of the nation on the tenth day of Tishri and the restoration of the kingdom to Israel typed by the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles, which speaks of that day of millennial rest no man has completed.
The first of Tishri was new year's day in the civil year and commenced the sabbatical month in which the sabbatical year and year of Jubilee completed the cycle of harvest feasts in the ecclesiastical year, the natural typing the Spiritual. It was the month of ingathering the last of the ripe fruits, the vintage and the olive, as well as ploughing and sowing at the start of a new cycle. The first of Tishri is a holy convocation, a Feast of Trumpets fashioned from the silver half shekel ransom of souls (Exodus 30:11-16; Numbers 10:2, 10). Their sound represents the Voice of God: to some it will be the joyous sound of redemption, to others foreboding judgment and doom (Isaiah 58:1; Hosea 8:1; Revelation 1:10; 4:1).
The Feast of Trumpets is a memorial that reminds Israel of their Covenant and puts God in remembrance of His promises (Isaiah 43:22-28), an announcement from the King that the glad sabbatical month has begun, and that the great day of atonement is at hand. In the modern service of the synagogue, Psalm 81 is read at the Feast of Trumpets which they regard as a commemoration of the creation, when "all the Sons of God shouted for joy" (Job 38:7). The rabbins may not understand that from the foundation of the world God foresaw us shouting for joy at the revelation of our redemption in Jesus Messiah and the promise of a renewed creation.
At the end our holy convocation and the Gentile dispensation, Israel's Seventh Trumpet will shatter the "silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" (Revelation 11:15-19), call the resurrection of the PART-Word Bride, the manifestation of the living Sons of God, and our translation and catching-away to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb in the Sky (I Corinthians 15:52; I Thessalonians 4:16). In Isaiah 26:13 it is called "the great trumpet".
As the ministry of the prophet of Revelation 10:7 revealed the mystery of the six written Seals in the exposition of the unwritten Seventh Seal, under the Seventh Trumpet two prophets will reveal the mystery of the previous Six Trumpet judgments upon Israel (Revelation 8:6-9:21; 11:15-19). Matthew 24:31, "Jesus Messiah will send His angels, (two Hebrew prophets), with the great sound of a trumpet, and their Message will gather His elect from the four winds (war and strife – Revelation 7:1-3), from one end of heaven to the other" into the 'Goshen' of Israel (Revelation 7:1-3; 11:3-6). These men are waiting for the manifestation of the Sixth Seal and Seventh Trumpet that will end the Gentile dispensation, then they will be anointed with the Spirit and authority that endued Moses and Elijah to reveal Israel's Trumpet mysteries. This three and a half-year ministry will be the antitype of the Feast of Trumpets, gathering an election of 144,000 from "the house of Judah and the house of Israel out of the north country into the land of their forefathers" (Jeremiah 3:18) for the revelation of their atonement. Then Israel will mourn the iniquity of Talmudic Judaism by which the Pharisees caused their forefathers to kill Messiah (Leviticus 23:32; Jeremiah 6:26; Amos 8:10; Zechariah 12:10-14:9; Matthew 15:9; 27:25; John 7:1; Revelation 1:7).
Leviticus 23:26-32, "The Lord said to Moses, The tenth day of the seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement: it shall be a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls and present an offering by fire to the Lord. On this day you shall do no work of any kind: for it is a day of Atonement, to make atonement for you in the Presence of the Lord your God. For whoever is not afflicted in this day shall be cut off from His people. And whosoever does any work on this same day, that soul will I destroy from among the people. You shall do no work whatever: it is an everlasting ordinance throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be for you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls on the ninth day of the month beginning at eventide; from evening to evening you shall keep your sabbath".
It was on this day of national humiliation, enjoined in law, that types Israel's soon-coming realization of her great sin and humiliation in the recognition of Christ's 'parousia,' repentance and rebirth in one day (Isaiah 66:8), and not on the first of the month, that the Jubilee was to be proclaimed and will soon be proclaimed. Thereafter "the remnant of the woman's seed that keep the commandments of God (the nation of 144,000 elect Israelites), and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (the foolish virgin and other groups of "saved" non-elect Gentiles), will be hunted down like dogs and give their life for their testimony" (Revelation 6:11; 12:11, 17).
This was a day of expiation and fasting from the evening of the ninth to the evening of the tenth, five days before the Feast of Tabernacles which implied rest in Israel's inheritance, and atonement must precede the realization of rest. This was a day upon which the holy convocation must have been kept in the home. It is significant that it should fall upon the tenth day: ten is the number of closed history, the reckoning of the double five, of well-used or badly-used free moral agency, the number of judgment — what Brother Branham called a "bad" number.
Leviticus 16 pronounces observance of the Day of Atonement as a day of national purification, a preliminary condition for participating in the great obligatory Feast of Tabernacles or ingathering (of souls). Yet all of its legal atonements could not bring full purification under the blood of bulls and goats as indicated by the goat for Azazel, with which the Levitical atonement sends inexpiated sins away to a future and real atonement (Romans 3:25; Hebrews 10:1-10). The two goats represented one sacrifice (as did the two turtledoves – Leviticus 14:4-7; 48-53); they represent Jesus Messiah who both died for our sins and carried them away to a place of no remembrance (Hebrews 9:28). We can only "joy in the Lord" when "through our Lord Jesus Christ we have now received the atonement" (Romans 5:11).
The high priest placed two lots into an urn, into which he put both his hands and took out a lot in each, while the two goats stood before him, one on the right, the other on the left; the lot in each hand belonged to the goat in corresponding position: when the lot "for Azazel" was in the right, it was a good omen. He then tied a tongue-shaped piece of scarlet cloth on the goat for complete sending away or removal, and according to the Gemara, "the red cloth ought to turn white as a token of God's acceptance of the atonement; which illustrates Isaiah 1:18, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow." No such change took place for 40 years before the destruction of Jerusalem; a signal testimony from Jewish authority to Messiah, as His ministry was precisely 40 years before the destruction of the holy city; the type ceased when the Antitype came.
"Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me.
Buried, He carried my sins far away.
Rising He justified freely forever:
One day He's coming — Oh glorious day!"
"Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice!" All of Israel's feasts were celebrations of joy before the Lord, except the fast of the Day of Atonement.
The sin of Israel having been removed, the Feast of Tabernacles occupied a week from the fifteenth to the twenty-second of the seventh month. The first day was a holy convocation as a memorial of Israel's wandering in the wilderness and dwelling in tents when God revealed His Attributes which would later identify Him in Messiah:
Jehovah-Jireh - the Lord our Provider (Exodus 16:11-16; Matthew 14:15-21).
Jehovah-Rapha - the Lord our Healer (Exodus 15:26; Matthew 4:23).
Jehovah-Nissi - the Lord our Banner (Exodus 17:8-15; Revelation 19:11-16).
Jehovah-Shalom - the Lord our Peace (Judges 6:22-24; Luke 19:38).
Jehovah-Raah - the Lord my Shepherd (Numbers 27:17; Matthew 26:31).
Jehovah-Tsidkenu - the Lord our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6; Romans 10:4).
Jehovah-Shammah - the Lord is Present (Ezekiel 48:35; Revelation 21:3).
Whereas Pentecost typed the firstfruits of the world's harvest in an ingathering of an election from all seventy nations, the Feast of Tabernacles typifies the completion of that final and universal harvest in a spiritual ingathering of the fruit of six thousand years for the millennium. Whereas the first day was a sabbath which Adam and Eve broke, the eighth day is an eternal sabbath that will never be broken. However, it is not our intention to teach in depth on the Feast of Tabernacles as our purpose is to lay the groundwork for a study of the antitype of the Feast of Trumpets.
The Feast of Tabernacles is referred to in John 7 where Jesus alludes to the custom of drawing water from Siloam in a gold goblet on the last day of the feast and pouring it mingled with wine on the sacrifice on the altar with great rejoicing. It was to the Words of Isaiah 12:3, which were repeated in commemoration of the water drawn from the rock in the desert, that Jesus said, "If any one thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. I am the living Rock of living water. For Scripture declares that rivers of living water shall flow from the innermost being of he who believes in Me." He spoke concerning the baptism with the Holy Spirit which was to come. Coming the next day at daybreak to the temple court as they were extinguishing the artificial lights, two colossal golden candlesticks in the centre of the temple court, recalling the pillar of fire in the wilderness, He said, "I am the Light of the world" (John 8:1-2, 13). As the sun by natural light was eclipsing the artificial lights, so Jesus implied, "I, the Sun of righteousness, am superseding your typical light".
"The great last day of the feast" is the eighth day marked by a service in memory of the dead and a special prayer for rain. Joy was the prominent feature, the feast was called Hosanna, "save we beseech Thee." This cry had accompanied Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the first day of the Feast, "And Jesus went into the temple of God, drove out the merchants, and overturned the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold doves. . . but when the chief priests and scribes saw His miracles of healing, and heard even little children in the temple shouting, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were indignant. . . In the morning as He was returning to the city, He was hungry, and noticed a fig tree besides the road. He went over to see if there were any figs, but there were only leaves. Then He said, Let there be no fruit on you forever, and instantly the tree withered" (Matthew 21). The fig tree, represented Israel, whose apostate chief priests, elders, and Pharisees caused the nation to reject and crucify their King who came not to destroy, but having salvation in Himself (Zechariah 9:9-13). "Behold, your temple is forsaken of God and desolate. For I tell you, You will not see Me again, until you say, Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord" (Matthew 23:38-39).
Zechariah 9:10 and Isaiah 11 refer to the future restoration of Israel after their long dispersion whereas the antitype of the Feast of Tabernacles connected with Isaiah 12 is the thanksgiving hymn of the born-again Israelites, just as the other two great feasts, Passover and Pentecost have their antitype respectively in Christ's sacrifice for we Gentiles, and in His writing His new law in our hearts.
The trumpet call on the first of Tishri was not only in connection with the central sanctuary as it was from time to time throughout the year, but on this day it was a universal proclamation throughout the land of Israel to announce the day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles are at hand, typing the full consummation of the Kingdom of God. In the antitype, the final sabbath month will result in Israel's repentance and Spiritual restoration, and the consequent reappearing of Israel's High Priest, Jesus Messiah from within the veil (Acts 3:19-21), or the recognition of His 'parousia' by 144,000 elect Israelites, followed by the harvest of the world (Revelation 14; 19) and reversal of the curse of Genesis 3:19-21.
In the antitype of Israel's Feast of Trumpets the Message of "Moses" and "Elijah" will call the nation out of spiritual Egypt by bringing the past to remembrance: their rejection of Abraham's grace Covenant at Kadesh, the conditional Covenant they dishonoured at Sinai, their disobedience to the prophets, the apostasy of Israel followed by Judah's apostasy, the development of Babylonian Pharisaism, assimilation and miscegenation with the Jebusites, Amorites, Hivites, Hittites, Perizzites and Edomites, the murder of Messiah at Calvary, assimilation and miscegenation with the Khazars, and their ongoing wickedness under the dominion of Edom. Their prophets will identify indisputable historical facts with prophetic truth as Bible Believers' Church has done in a more humble work based on the ministry of William Branham, the "Elijah" of Malachi 4:5-6. The fruit of their ministry will be the Spiritual awakening of 144,000 elect Israelites to repentance, pardon and true Atonement, or new birth, ensuring their part in the antitype of the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles, which will be the Millennium. But first they will be martyred by the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church and the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic so-called Jews. nl481.htm
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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.
In this issue we will begin a study on Israel's Feast of Trumpets whose antitype will manifest following the soon-coming earthquakes that will sink Los Angeles, trigger the Pacific ring of fire and split the mount of Olives, demolishing the Dome of the Rock and al Aqsa Mosque to ignite the "hot" stage of World War III. These climactic events will signal the close of the Gentile dispensation and the commencement of Daniel's Seventieth Week in which the Lord will gather an elect remnant of the twelve tribes of Israel back to their Homeland for redemption. In this first installment of our study we will consider the groundwork set forth by Moses in Israel's great annual harvest festivals of Leviticus 23, which compelled all adult male Israelites to assemble under the covering blood of an innocent substitute. These natural festivals act out in pantomime the substance and reality of Spiritual antitypes in symbols to guide the believer back into Divine Presence and fellowship by expounding God's plan of redemption in the fulfillment of His promise to make Abraham the father of the Gentiles, and finally of an election of 144,000 blood Israelites.
The Feast of Trumpets concerns Israel's redemption. Israel is a nation of the blood of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God only deals with Israel in the land of the Covenant, which is of no effect to those outside the land. The only place Israel will find God is where they left Him. They are compelled to return to Jerusalem and confront the Blood of the Lamb they crucified. Joel 2:32, "It shall come to pass, that all who call on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord has said, and in the remnant whom the Lord has called. . . for whoever does not humble his soul in that day shall be cut off from His people" (Leviticus 29:3; Acts 3:22-23).
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
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Oil Industry scales back Refinery Plans
A push from Congress and the White House for huge increases in biofuels, such as ethanol, is prompting the oil industry to scale back its plans for refinery expansions. That could keep gasoline prices high, possibly for years to come. With President Bush calling for a 20 percent drop in gasoline use and the Senate now debating legislation for huge increases in ethanol production, oil companies see growing uncertainty about future gasoline demand and little need to expand refineries or build new ones. Full story: truthout.org
Comment: In conjunction with the cutback of production at the wellhead in Iraq, a diminution of refinery capacity will reduce fuel supplies, increasing price and oil company profitability. This planned dis-investment as per the "Global 2000 Report to the President," and "Global Future, a Time to Act" which are correctly understood as political statements of intent on the part of such policy centers as the CFR, Trilateral Commission and the IMF, follow the neo-Malthusian "Limits to Growth" policies set forth by the Club of Rome. These policies will result in massive depopulation by restricting scientific and technological development, restricting technology transfer to the developing countries, restricting food production and preventing nuclear energy development.
World population levels can be determined by people themselves by financial, economic and scientific-technological policies adopted by peoples and their governments. Diversion of land use to the production of biofuels will increase food prices and induce population decrease; droughts will cause shortages, inflating fuel and food prices that will lead to impoverishment, famine, depopulation and the return to serfdom. Truly a diabolical plan.
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9th Circuit Hate Speech
Sadly, by co-mingling international law into the US Code, the US federal court system has succeeded in converting the unconditional rights and liberty possessed by Americans under the Bill of Rights into the conditional rights found in the UN Declaration on Human Rights. Under the First Amendment, "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for redress of grievances." All of the restrictions are placed on government. None on the people.
However, in Articles 13 and 14 of the UN Covenant on Human Rights, we see the restrictions are shifted to the people with government serving as the grantor of conditional rights—and possessing the right to arbitrarily alter those rights whenever it deems necessary. Article 13 says: "Freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs may be subject only to such limitations that are prescribed by law." Article 14 says: "The right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas carries with it special duties and responsibilities, and restrictions, but these shall be only as such as are provided by law". . . the courts no longer interpret our rights under the First Amendment as unconditional. Our "rights" are construed to be those provided under Articles 13 and 14 of the UN Covenant on Human Rights. . . The 9th Circuit understood something the US District Court hadn't grasped—the Bill of Rights has been replaced with a universal doctrine—the UN Covenant on Human Rights. And with that doctrine comes the "greater freedoms" of the communist-slanted totalitarian Orwellian New World Order. . . Full story: newswithviews.com
Comment: "As it was in the days of Lot" (Luke 17:28-30). Presidential edicts are pressing US citizens into the totalitarian one world government Jesus refused (Matthew 4:8-9).
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Pakistani Man can Personally sue FBI Director & Former US AG Ashcroft
Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim, was held for more than a year at a Brooklyn detention center after the September 11 attacks. . . abused and held for no legitimate reason. Full story: truthout.org
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Agent Orange, Mutagenic Weapons, and Big Pharma
June 14, 2007 - No less than 35 diseases and disorders are clearly connected to dioxin from generational birth deformities, chloracne, blindness, diabetes, mental retardation, and a number of cancers. Binding with protein molecules and not being water soluble, dioxin now sits deep in the soil, continually wreaking havoc on the environment and the populace, settling into the gene pool. . . Full story: truthout.org
Under the false pretense of improved food and drug safety the FDA is re-inventing itself as a kingpin drug company. This charade has so far hoodwinked virtually all members of Congress. The Senate has already approved this FDA transformation. The House will bring similar legislation out of committee next week, with a vote in the full House likely in July. The measure will then go to a conference committee to work out the differences. The final chapter in this transformation occurs when the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA becomes law, which is scheduled to happen some time before September 30, 2007. . .
The Bush administration figured out that the fastest way to get the FDA out of the way of Big Pharma’s profits was to appoint FDA critics to key positions, thereby changing the FDA from within. . . Full story: newswithviews.com
Comment: "For without new Jerusalem are dogs, and sorcerers. . . and whosoever loves and makes a lie" (Malachi 3:5; Revelation 9:21; 18:23; 21:8; 22:15). Sorcery (Gk.'pharmakeia') or the use or the administering of drugs, poisoning, sorcery, magical arts and remedies, often in connection with idolatry. Now you can see the objective of Codex Alimentarius, restrictions on natural vitamin sales, growth and sale of natural herbs, etc.,
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Things Your Media Momma didn't tell You
June 15, 2007 – The fact that most Americans oppose the war in Iraq, and want the president impeached, is testimony to the native intelligence and common sense of the citizens of this nation.
It sure isn't thanks to the quality of the news we're getting here in America! . . Full story: freemarketnews.com
Comment: Now you know why Americans are so insular. So who runs the Media in America and throughout the world? Who is responsible for the lies, subterfuge, equivocation and mental reservation that is the wolf dressed-up as news and education? That's what Moses and Jesus thought (Deuteronomy 33:29; Joshua 9:3-23; Matthew 23:33-35; John 8:44; Revelation 2:9; 3:9). This is supported by the Babylonian Talmud (Iore Dea 157:2; Babha Kama 113a, b; Kallah 1b, p. 18; Schabbouth Hag. 6d; Zohar 1, 160a; Peshachim 113b ).
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The Feast of Trumpets - Part I
Genesis 1:14, "God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for appointed seasons of meeting, and for days, and years".
Leviticus 23 establishes the chronological sequence and duration of the seasons of man's mortal journey through time to redemption and glorification in eternity, or loss. This is typed by the three feasts that fall at certain points in the harvest season and form part of an elaborate system of sacred times based on the sacred number seven, which signifies sabbath, completion, rest and redemption. (Eight signifies eternal rest, new creation, the last Adam's Kingdom in new Jerusalem on a renewed heaven and earth).
Every adult male Israelite was bound to attend these three feasts, beginning with Passover and the Feast of Unleavened bread at the opening of the barley harvest; followed eight days later by Pentecost and the commencement of the wheat harvest, and finally by the Feast of Tabernacles, which ended the harvest with the ripening of the fruit of the trees.
Leviticus 23:2-3, "Tell the children of Israel: These are the appointed times of the Lord, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, My fixed, appointed times. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation when you shall do no work at all: it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings".
A "holy convocation" is a sacred assembly in which no servile work is to be done. Whereas the Church Age saints labored throughout seven sabbaths wherein the Book was shut (Leviticus 23:6-14; Revelation 1-3) trying to 'work out' the meaning of Scriptures, the revelation of the Seven Seals finished the mystery of God giving us the perfect interpretation of His Word (I Corinthians 13:10). When the Seven Church Ages and Christ's Mediation were fulfilled, those who constitute Christ's end-time Bride began to be born into the "holy convocation" of the fiftieth day of the Pentecostal Feast (Leviticus 23:15-19). We do no servile work but rest, like Ruth after her gleaning, waiting for the fulfillment of the promise when our Boaz, having received His claim (Revelation 5), returns to take us Home after the last member of the Bride has come in (Leviticus 23:20-21).
The sabbath is found in the history of creation (Genesis 2:3), which is the groundwork of Moses' inspiration. From time immemorial the week has been divided into seven days (Genesis 8:10-12; 29:27-28; Exodus 16:5, 23). An Assyrian calendar discovered by George Smith divided every month into four weeks, and marked out the seventh days as days in which no work should be done. This follows the pattern in which God divided His work into six portions and sanctified the seventh on which He rested and watched His spoken Word manifest what he had spoken. The Divine rest was not one of twenty-four hours, but an eternal sabbath signifying the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This is our earnest of eternal rest, not the observation of sabbath day (Isaiah 66:23; Ephesians 1:13-14; Hebrews 4:10).
All mankind is included in the seventh day rest for the body and mortal spirit, "for the rhythm of life is a powerful beat. . ." but only Israel is commanded to observe it, and on a Saturday (Exodus 20:10-11). Needless and avoidable work was forbidden, but like other feasts it was to be a day of enjoyment. The fact that God, speaking through His prophet David 500 years after Joshua had led the people of Israel into their rest in the Promised Land, speaks of another day in which His voice will call them to enter into His rest (Psalm 95:7-11; Hebrews 4:1-11) proves that the rest of God, which has existed since the creation, is not identical with the rest secured by Joshua (Exodus 38:14; Deuteronomy 3:20; Joshua 1:13-15).
God deals with Israel as a nation: their covenant is of no effect outside the Promised Land, and their sabbath day can only be observed in that place. Jesus came not to destroy but to fulfill and magnify the Law that was given to train a perverse nation devoid of faith (Deuteronomy 32:20; Isaiah 42:21; Matthew 5:17). Jesus said, "Come unto Me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you sabbath for your souls" (Matthew 11:28-30). We enter the rest of God when the Holy Ghost baptizes us into our place in His Body, making us written epistles of the present Truth of His Word. When Jesus overcame the works of the Devil, He ceased from His works as God did from His. So when we are baptized into Him, we too have overcome and entered the rest of God — that eternal sabbath of which new birth is the Token (II Corinthians 5:13-21; Ephesians 1:13-14; I John 3:5-10).
Those who claim to be Christians yet observe Israel's sabbath day deny Christ's resurrection and the baptism with the Holy Ghost. One day is as a thousand years with the Lord but because of the Fall man has not lived one day (Genesis 2:17), and expelled from rest, he is compelled to labour against sin through six days of a thousand years until the sabbath of the millennium for overcomers, followed by the eighth day, which is eternity. Christians are "seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus," or recognized in our place in the Logos, and potentially in the eighth day (Ephesians 2:6).
God can only redeem or "buy back" those who are a part of His creation: attributes of the Logos — a penitent people of faith who having lost their way have been found by grace. God can only redeem His own Word — the lineage of Adam. He cannot redeem the descendants of Seth's half-brother Cain who are not in Adam's race and have no kinsman Redeemer. The Book of Genesis traces the history of two lines of humanity from Eden, through the Flood, to the era of the Exodus when Israel became a nation separated to God from all other peoples of Adam's race because of Jehovah's respect to the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Miscegenation between Eve and the Satan-incarnate man-like animal called the Serpent produced a hybrid species in Cain and his offspring, who are not a part of God's creation. Here we see the groundwork of the reward for obedience promised in the second commandment, "You shall make for yourself no idol in the likeness of anything in the heavens above, or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love Me and keep My Commandments".
God is faithful. The first Israelites were several generations removed from the third and fourth generation of the patriarchs whose faith God honoured to their unmerited benefit. A similar promise is granted to the Spiritual descendants of the New Testament fathers. I Corinthians 7:14, "The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy." Brother Branham commanded us to keep the Token or evidence of the Life of Christ on display to sanctify our house and help maintain the names of our loved ones in the Book of Life thereby securing their salvation.
On the first Passover the faithful head of every Israelite household sacrificed a lamb and painted its blood on the lintel and door posts of his house, not on the threshold where it would be trodden underfoot. And the angel of death, seeing he had met God's requirement would pass over his house and spare the lives of the firstborn because all who entered that door were secure by his faith in God's promise and under the blood of the substitute. This was the evidence an innocent life had died in their stead as it had for Adam and Eve; a perfect type of Christ's sacrifice. Hold the Token over your house.
The life of the animal could not come back upon human beings as an evidence of salvation because animals do not possess a soul, but Christ had a soul and the baptism with the Holy Ghost is our Token that His Life has come back upon us. Jesus was no mere human being, He was God manifest in flesh. The Token is His Life on display in us and the evidence that we, like Him, are the Sons of God. The Token is our identification with God's Passover and His acceptance of our faith in His plan of redemption. Israel displayed the chemistry of animal blood as their evidence, the Church Age saints claimed the symbol of Christ's Blood; and since the opening of the Seven Seals has released the fullness of the Spirit to quicken the fullness of the Word, the Life of Christ on display is our Token. He met Jehovah's requirements at Calvary; you meet them on your knees by faith. There God gives you the Token that the Spirit that was upon Christ has returned into you. This is the guarantee of your resurrection and eternal Life. "These signs shall follow you who believe," and "the works that I do shall you do also." Your identification is to manifest the promised Word of this day by the same Spirit that manifested and quickened the Word then, showing that the Token, which is the resurrected Life of Jesus Christ, is living in you.
As Paul illustrates in Hebrews 11, God is powerless to redeem or heal anyone who does not possess faith. His Word can only work by faith. God reveals Himself in nature and symbols, communicating His will to His prophets through visions, dreams and inspired utterance. Thereafter it is recorded and propagated by men and women of faith: "faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the preaching of God's revealed Word" (Romans 10:17). Thus faith flourishes in families and communities of believing ears so when God is able to get one man completely under preeminence, say an Abraham who is sincere and can get people to believe him, His Word will bring forth fruit (Mark 4:20). The works will be reported, attracting men and women of faith to follow and watch as faith continues to unfold, then God will raise up other prophets through whom He can shine further Light on the prophecy. Abraham is called the father of faith, and is the father of faith to we Gentiles as his new name implies (Genesis 17:5).
Abraham's faith spread through his immediate family. His grandson Jacob went down to Egypt with seventy souls, and two hundred and ten years later at midnight on Nisan 15, Moses departed with a nation numbering about 1.8 million. In one night Israel was born as a natural nation, chosen to spread God's revelation to all of Adam's race.
Exodus 12:2-3, "Hereafter this month shall be for you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man shall take a lamb for his family, one lamb for each house".
The lamb was roasted whole so that not a bone of its body is broken (verse 46), and eaten by everyone under the blood within the house. They were to eat as a community, as the community of faith share the Lord's Supper, "for we being many are one bread and one Body; for we are all partakers of that one bread" (I Corinthians 10:17), and in readiness to start their journey as are we, having judged ourselves and tarried one for another. The seven days of unleavened bread was contemporaneous with the Passover and its real symbolism was the removal of Egyptian leaven, symbolizing an entire separation from everything Egyptian. God's Word calls for a total separation from unbelief. I Corinthians 5:6-8, "Your boasting in your own righteousness and sanctification is deplorable when you tolerate fornication in your midst. Don't you know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be another lump, pure and unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us: let us therefore celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven, and not with the leaven of iniquity and wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth". Leaven symbolizes transmission and fellowship, we are to eliminate the leaven of our old Egyptian character, corrupt doctrine, gossip, legalism or anything likely to diffuse its influence from our personal life throughout the congregation. Sin must not be tolerated, it must be excised.
The Passover was the greatest of all the annual festivals of Israel, and was the only one resting upon a distinct historical and miraculous event, and the only one, the neglect of which was accompanied with the penalty of excision (Numbers 9:18). The obligation to observe it was so emphatic that a second Passover was observed in the following month for those who were prevented from keeping it by reason of absence or defilement with a dead body, and all Israel is defiled by contact with the body of Jesus Messiah (Matthew 27:25; John 11:49-52).
The Passover commemorated the dreadful night of judgment and deliverance in which the nation of Israel was born, the Feast of Unleavened Bread signified Israel's separation from the fleshly lusts of Egypt (Numbers 11:15). In the antitype, Christ died as kinsman Redeemer taking our sins upon Himself and bearing them away. The unleavened bread was "bread of affliction" as it had been Israel's "affliction," and a mark of their bondage and subjection to the Egyptians, to be driven forth in such "haste" as not even to have time for leavening their bread (Deuteronomy 16:3; Exodus 12:33, 39). In the antitype the first day represents the pure Word of God Christ preached as a witness of judgment to souls imprisoned in chains of darkness, and vindication of deliverance to the Old Testament saints over the chasm in Paradise. The remaining six days represent the Alpha Age of Pentecost which held the pure faith once delivered to the apostolic saints unleavened by creed and tradition. As bread is the staff of natural life, Christ the Word is the Bread from heaven and staff of Spiritual Life, which if a man eat he shall never die.
After Christ the firstfruits of the new creation was "reaped" on Calvary's cross, His body was buried but His theophany descended into the place of the departed where he witnessed to the lost souls who had rejected the Message of God's prophets. On the Day of Pentecost He re-entered and resurrected His body in glorified form and was "waved" before the Lord as the firstfruits of those who had fallen asleep. He ascended on High and with His own blood cleansed the heavenly sanctuary of the sins of the Old Testament saints; then He descended, and raised the Old Testament saints who had been captives of death to glorified captives of eternal Life.
Leviticus 23:4-14 specifies when the Feast of Unleavened Bread should be held, lays down strict requirements for the first and last days, which are to be holy convocations, and appoints a special observance for the day after the Sabbath, which was resurrection Sunday, known to Israel as the Feast of First Fruits, on which the priests present the Lord with a wave offering consisting of a single sheaf of barley offered on behalf of the whole nation.
This represented the first produce of the barley harvest just then beginning. According to Leviticus 23:10-14, the bread was made of unleavened flour from the previous year's harvest. No significance or symbolism is attached to the flour's age, and there is no mention of which grain was used, nor is any specialty accorded the bread denoted in Scripture. It was simply bread. Nothing from the new harvest could be used or eaten until the offering was presented. The barley harvest in Nisan was the first harvest of the year. Since fruit of a single sheaf represents one Man in his risen state, we see in this a type of the resurrection of Messiah, who had to be waved and accepted as representative of the whole harvest before the Old Testament saints could partake the same eternal Life.
John 12:23-25, "Jesus said, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Truly, I assure you, unless a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone: but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. He who loves his life shall lose it; and he who hates his life in this world will preserve it to eternal Life.
Jesus was the original Seed, the forerunner and Spiritual progenitor of every Son of Adam willing to renounce this world for the promises of God, even at the cost of his life, with the assurance of eternal Life. Like a seed, he will not expire but progress to a superior form of life, and God will raise him to glory in an incorruptible body.
1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-44, "Some will ask, How are the dead restored to life, and what kind of bodies will they have? What a foolish question! You will find the answer in your own garden! What you sow does not grow into a plant unless it dies first. Nor is the seed you sow the body that is to be, but bare grain of wheat, or whatever it is you are planting: then God gives it the body of His choice according to the kind of seed. . . So is the resurrection of the dead, our earthly bodies which die and decay are different from the glorified bodies we will have in the resurrection. What was sown was perishable, what is raised is imperishable. The bodies we now have were sown in dishonour, for they become sick and die; but they will be full of glory when we come back to life again, for they will be raised in glory and strength. It was sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body".
Your present body is like random, perishable seed and no comparison to the glorified body you will inherit at the translation when you will be mature like ripened grain. And although the Church Age saints first returned to the earth in a kind of death pending the first resurrection, you will be changed in the atoms without death.
Unlike our day, which begins after midnight, the Hebrew day begins after 6.00 pm. God's Passover was slain and prepared between 3.00 pm and 6.00 pm on Friday, Nisan 14, and eaten some time after 6.00 pm the same night, which was Nisan 15, a sabbath and the commencement of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The Feast of Firstfruits fell on Nisan 16, which was resurrection Sunday as recorded in Matthew 28:1-6 (in which the words "In the end of the sabbath" belong to chapter 27), and in John 18:28 and 19:31.
The time of the Feast of Weeks was determined by the Passover and commenced on Nisan 16, or resurrection Sunday on which Messiah was waved before the Lord, I Corinthians 15:20, "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." Pentecost followed fifty-two days after Passover at the completion and close of the wheat harvest. It was celebrated with thanksgiving for it types the Pentecostal Jubilee and our meeting with the saints in the air. Whereas the Old Testament saints were represented by the harvest of barley — its inferiority to wheat being marked by the offering of barley in the ordeal of jealousy (Numbers 5:15; Hosea 3:2) — as Christ's "wheat Bride" and Israel's Queen we are represented by the most noble of grains.
We are ready to be offered as two loaves of bread baked with leaven and made with flour of the first fruits sifted fine, indicating Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. This new wave offering represents the Alpha Bride born of the apostolic faith and the Omega Bride born of the same faith restored by the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 (Romans 15:16). The Alpha and Omega Bride are identical as God showed Brother Branham in a vision recorded in The Masterpiece. The day after the earthquake sinks Los Angeles, which will be the same night by Hebrew reckoning, we will witness to our loved ones and all we meet as Jesus witnessed to the departed souls. The following day we will be waved before the Lord as Christ was waved on Nisan 16 two days after the earthquake that marked the breach in Jehovah's relationship with Israel (Daniel 9:26; I Peter 3:19-20; Jude 5-6). Our acceptance will signify God's consecration of the whole harvest of the Alpha and Omega Ages and the PART-Word saints in-between. Since we are "baked with the leaven" of corruptible flesh we cannot be offered as a burnt offering, an assurance Christ's Bride will not go through the tribulation. As the former rain began to fall on that first day of Pentecost, the latter rain will fall on this first day of Pentecost, initiating the resurrection of the sleeping saints and the manifestation of the living Sons of God. Then on the fiftieth day we shall be "changed and caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: so shall we forever be with the Lord".
The two wave loaves were seven palms in length and four in breadth, signifying "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" in His Bride of all Ages redeemed by the seven-fold Spirit of God under the first Four Seals. They were made the day prior to, or in the event of a sabbath preceding, two days before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, on Nisan 14. This shows (in type) that His end-time Bride with the perfect interpretation of the Word (I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:7) was fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary, for at the close of the Laodicean Church Age redemption is over. Whereas the saints of Pentecost and the Church Ages required Christ's mediation for their ignorance of the fullness of the Word, when He opened and revealed the Seven Seals, all seven sabbaths or Church Ages were fulfilled and there was no further delay for mediation, yet we were not born-again (Revelation 10:6). This proves that our dispensation is the holy convocation typed by the fiftieth day of the feast when all servile work is prohibited, including mediation for ignorance. But with "the true sayings of God" (Revelation 19:9; 22:10) we do not need mediation, and as we are all members of one Body, they cannot be resurrected and glorified without us. Brother Branham said, "These people who died in here are depending and waiting on us." Let us not keep them waiting.
One loaf was given to the high priest typing Christ the Principal Man, the other to the ordinary priests or seven shepherds who officiated during His absence. It was eaten that same night in the temple, and no fragment was suffered to remain till the morning, signifying that when we go Home we will not leave so much as a hoof left behind. Praise the Lord! Then the Angel of the Lord will reveal Himself to Israel in the office of Son of man (Revelation 7:1-2).
Pentecost signified the restoration of the Law to Israel, but the Pentecostal Feast was never celebrated until Israel had entered her natural rest in Canaan, God's provided place for them to live and worship (Leviticus 23:10). Canaan with its wars and killing does not type the millennium, but the time of overcoming, which in the antitype was the Church Ages when the full number of Spiritual Israel was gathered in to her promised rest. For Israel this will be the time of Jacob's trouble and the in-gathering of their 144,000 elect. After the catching-away of the Bride, God will anoint two Hebrew prophets with the Spirit that endued Moses and Elijah to reveal whence the nation fell. "Remember the Law of My servant Moses, the statutes and judgments which I commanded Him in Horeb for all Israel." They will place Scripture in history to expound their seven Trumpet judgments and introduce Messiah's 'parousia' Coming with His Bride, their Queen.
James 1:18, "Of His own will He gave us new birth by the Word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits in His Family." But after the harvest of the field, the husbandman was to leave some grain for the poor in revelation and those unfamiliar with the faith to glean during the tribulation and retain their names on the Book of Life (Leviticus 23:22).
Leviticus 23:23-25, "The Lord said to Moses, Tell the children of Israel, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. You shall do no servile work, and you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord".
Three of the appointed times of meeting fall in Tishri, the seventh month of the harvest season, and their antitypes apply exclusively to the nation of Israel as the work of redeeming the nation begun on the first Passover will conclude with the true Atonement of the nation on the tenth day of Tishri and the restoration of the kingdom to Israel typed by the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles, which speaks of that day of millennial rest no man has completed.
The first of Tishri was new year's day in the civil year and commenced the sabbatical month in which the sabbatical year and year of Jubilee completed the cycle of harvest feasts in the ecclesiastical year, the natural typing the Spiritual. It was the month of ingathering the last of the ripe fruits, the vintage and the olive, as well as ploughing and sowing at the start of a new cycle. The first of Tishri is a holy convocation, a Feast of Trumpets fashioned from the silver half shekel ransom of souls (Exodus 30:11-16; Numbers 10:2, 10). Their sound represents the Voice of God: to some it will be the joyous sound of redemption, to others foreboding judgment and doom (Isaiah 58:1; Hosea 8:1; Revelation 1:10; 4:1).
The Feast of Trumpets is a memorial that reminds Israel of their Covenant and puts God in remembrance of His promises (Isaiah 43:22-28), an announcement from the King that the glad sabbatical month has begun, and that the great day of atonement is at hand. In the modern service of the synagogue, Psalm 81 is read at the Feast of Trumpets which they regard as a commemoration of the creation, when "all the Sons of God shouted for joy" (Job 38:7). The rabbins may not understand that from the foundation of the world God foresaw us shouting for joy at the revelation of our redemption in Jesus Messiah and the promise of a renewed creation.
At the end our holy convocation and the Gentile dispensation, Israel's Seventh Trumpet will shatter the "silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" (Revelation 11:15-19), call the resurrection of the PART-Word Bride, the manifestation of the living Sons of God, and our translation and catching-away to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb in the Sky (I Corinthians 15:52; I Thessalonians 4:16). In Isaiah 26:13 it is called "the great trumpet".
As the ministry of the prophet of Revelation 10:7 revealed the mystery of the six written Seals in the exposition of the unwritten Seventh Seal, under the Seventh Trumpet two prophets will reveal the mystery of the previous Six Trumpet judgments upon Israel (Revelation 8:6-9:21; 11:15-19). Matthew 24:31, "Jesus Messiah will send His angels, (two Hebrew prophets), with the great sound of a trumpet, and their Message will gather His elect from the four winds (war and strife – Revelation 7:1-3), from one end of heaven to the other" into the 'Goshen' of Israel (Revelation 7:1-3; 11:3-6). These men are waiting for the manifestation of the Sixth Seal and Seventh Trumpet that will end the Gentile dispensation, then they will be anointed with the Spirit and authority that endued Moses and Elijah to reveal Israel's Trumpet mysteries. This three and a half-year ministry will be the antitype of the Feast of Trumpets, gathering an election of 144,000 from "the house of Judah and the house of Israel out of the north country into the land of their forefathers" (Jeremiah 3:18) for the revelation of their atonement. Then Israel will mourn the iniquity of Talmudic Judaism by which the Pharisees caused their forefathers to kill Messiah (Leviticus 23:32; Jeremiah 6:26; Amos 8:10; Zechariah 12:10-14:9; Matthew 15:9; 27:25; John 7:1; Revelation 1:7).
Leviticus 23:26-32, "The Lord said to Moses, The tenth day of the seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement: it shall be a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls and present an offering by fire to the Lord. On this day you shall do no work of any kind: for it is a day of Atonement, to make atonement for you in the Presence of the Lord your God. For whoever is not afflicted in this day shall be cut off from His people. And whosoever does any work on this same day, that soul will I destroy from among the people. You shall do no work whatever: it is an everlasting ordinance throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be for you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls on the ninth day of the month beginning at eventide; from evening to evening you shall keep your sabbath".
It was on this day of national humiliation, enjoined in law, that types Israel's soon-coming realization of her great sin and humiliation in the recognition of Christ's 'parousia,' repentance and rebirth in one day (Isaiah 66:8), and not on the first of the month, that the Jubilee was to be proclaimed and will soon be proclaimed. Thereafter "the remnant of the woman's seed that keep the commandments of God (the nation of 144,000 elect Israelites), and have the testimony of Jesus Christ (the foolish virgin and other groups of "saved" non-elect Gentiles), will be hunted down like dogs and give their life for their testimony" (Revelation 6:11; 12:11, 17).
This was a day of expiation and fasting from the evening of the ninth to the evening of the tenth, five days before the Feast of Tabernacles which implied rest in Israel's inheritance, and atonement must precede the realization of rest. This was a day upon which the holy convocation must have been kept in the home. It is significant that it should fall upon the tenth day: ten is the number of closed history, the reckoning of the double five, of well-used or badly-used free moral agency, the number of judgment — what Brother Branham called a "bad" number.
Leviticus 16 pronounces observance of the Day of Atonement as a day of national purification, a preliminary condition for participating in the great obligatory Feast of Tabernacles or ingathering (of souls). Yet all of its legal atonements could not bring full purification under the blood of bulls and goats as indicated by the goat for Azazel, with which the Levitical atonement sends inexpiated sins away to a future and real atonement (Romans 3:25; Hebrews 10:1-10). The two goats represented one sacrifice (as did the two turtledoves – Leviticus 14:4-7; 48-53); they represent Jesus Messiah who both died for our sins and carried them away to a place of no remembrance (Hebrews 9:28). We can only "joy in the Lord" when "through our Lord Jesus Christ we have now received the atonement" (Romans 5:11).
The high priest placed two lots into an urn, into which he put both his hands and took out a lot in each, while the two goats stood before him, one on the right, the other on the left; the lot in each hand belonged to the goat in corresponding position: when the lot "for Azazel" was in the right, it was a good omen. He then tied a tongue-shaped piece of scarlet cloth on the goat for complete sending away or removal, and according to the Gemara, "the red cloth ought to turn white as a token of God's acceptance of the atonement; which illustrates Isaiah 1:18, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow." No such change took place for 40 years before the destruction of Jerusalem; a signal testimony from Jewish authority to Messiah, as His ministry was precisely 40 years before the destruction of the holy city; the type ceased when the Antitype came.
"Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me.
Buried, He carried my sins far away.
Rising He justified freely forever:
One day He's coming — Oh glorious day!"
"Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice!" All of Israel's feasts were celebrations of joy before the Lord, except the fast of the Day of Atonement.
The sin of Israel having been removed, the Feast of Tabernacles occupied a week from the fifteenth to the twenty-second of the seventh month. The first day was a holy convocation as a memorial of Israel's wandering in the wilderness and dwelling in tents when God revealed His Attributes which would later identify Him in Messiah:
Jehovah-Jireh - the Lord our Provider (Exodus 16:11-16; Matthew 14:15-21).
Jehovah-Rapha - the Lord our Healer (Exodus 15:26; Matthew 4:23).
Jehovah-Nissi - the Lord our Banner (Exodus 17:8-15; Revelation 19:11-16).
Jehovah-Shalom - the Lord our Peace (Judges 6:22-24; Luke 19:38).
Jehovah-Raah - the Lord my Shepherd (Numbers 27:17; Matthew 26:31).
Jehovah-Tsidkenu - the Lord our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6; Romans 10:4).
Jehovah-Shammah - the Lord is Present (Ezekiel 48:35; Revelation 21:3).
Whereas Pentecost typed the firstfruits of the world's harvest in an ingathering of an election from all seventy nations, the Feast of Tabernacles typifies the completion of that final and universal harvest in a spiritual ingathering of the fruit of six thousand years for the millennium. Whereas the first day was a sabbath which Adam and Eve broke, the eighth day is an eternal sabbath that will never be broken. However, it is not our intention to teach in depth on the Feast of Tabernacles as our purpose is to lay the groundwork for a study of the antitype of the Feast of Trumpets.
The Feast of Tabernacles is referred to in John 7 where Jesus alludes to the custom of drawing water from Siloam in a gold goblet on the last day of the feast and pouring it mingled with wine on the sacrifice on the altar with great rejoicing. It was to the Words of Isaiah 12:3, which were repeated in commemoration of the water drawn from the rock in the desert, that Jesus said, "If any one thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. I am the living Rock of living water. For Scripture declares that rivers of living water shall flow from the innermost being of he who believes in Me." He spoke concerning the baptism with the Holy Spirit which was to come. Coming the next day at daybreak to the temple court as they were extinguishing the artificial lights, two colossal golden candlesticks in the centre of the temple court, recalling the pillar of fire in the wilderness, He said, "I am the Light of the world" (John 8:1-2, 13). As the sun by natural light was eclipsing the artificial lights, so Jesus implied, "I, the Sun of righteousness, am superseding your typical light".
"The great last day of the feast" is the eighth day marked by a service in memory of the dead and a special prayer for rain. Joy was the prominent feature, the feast was called Hosanna, "save we beseech Thee." This cry had accompanied Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem on the first day of the Feast, "And Jesus went into the temple of God, drove out the merchants, and overturned the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of those who sold doves. . . but when the chief priests and scribes saw His miracles of healing, and heard even little children in the temple shouting, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were indignant. . . In the morning as He was returning to the city, He was hungry, and noticed a fig tree besides the road. He went over to see if there were any figs, but there were only leaves. Then He said, Let there be no fruit on you forever, and instantly the tree withered" (Matthew 21). The fig tree, represented Israel, whose apostate chief priests, elders, and Pharisees caused the nation to reject and crucify their King who came not to destroy, but having salvation in Himself (Zechariah 9:9-13). "Behold, your temple is forsaken of God and desolate. For I tell you, You will not see Me again, until you say, Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord" (Matthew 23:38-39).
Zechariah 9:10 and Isaiah 11 refer to the future restoration of Israel after their long dispersion whereas the antitype of the Feast of Tabernacles connected with Isaiah 12 is the thanksgiving hymn of the born-again Israelites, just as the other two great feasts, Passover and Pentecost have their antitype respectively in Christ's sacrifice for we Gentiles, and in His writing His new law in our hearts.
The trumpet call on the first of Tishri was not only in connection with the central sanctuary as it was from time to time throughout the year, but on this day it was a universal proclamation throughout the land of Israel to announce the day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles are at hand, typing the full consummation of the Kingdom of God. In the antitype, the final sabbath month will result in Israel's repentance and Spiritual restoration, and the consequent reappearing of Israel's High Priest, Jesus Messiah from within the veil (Acts 3:19-21), or the recognition of His 'parousia' by 144,000 elect Israelites, followed by the harvest of the world (Revelation 14; 19) and reversal of the curse of Genesis 3:19-21.
In the antitype of Israel's Feast of Trumpets the Message of "Moses" and "Elijah" will call the nation out of spiritual Egypt by bringing the past to remembrance: their rejection of Abraham's grace Covenant at Kadesh, the conditional Covenant they dishonoured at Sinai, their disobedience to the prophets, the apostasy of Israel followed by Judah's apostasy, the development of Babylonian Pharisaism, assimilation and miscegenation with the Jebusites, Amorites, Hivites, Hittites, Perizzites and Edomites, the murder of Messiah at Calvary, assimilation and miscegenation with the Khazars, and their ongoing wickedness under the dominion of Edom. Their prophets will identify indisputable historical facts with prophetic truth as Bible Believers' Church has done in a more humble work based on the ministry of William Branham, the "Elijah" of Malachi 4:5-6. The fruit of their ministry will be the Spiritual awakening of 144,000 elect Israelites to repentance, pardon and true Atonement, or new birth, ensuring their part in the antitype of the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles, which will be the Millennium. But first they will be martyred by the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church and the non-Semitic, anti-Semitic so-called Jews. nl481.htm
Homework: Please review Old Testament Shadows and Types.
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