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THE GREAT PLAN OF ALMIGHTY GOD

Chapter 10

By Neville V. Stevens

New International Version used throughout unless otherwise specified.

God announced that the House of Israel would end their days in terror. No sooner had He done this and His servants duly reported it, than terror struck and the War on Terror began in earnest. God announced it, and it is rapidly being fulfilled. God appointed a premier nation to conduct His affairs and even referred to that nation as a son. And a mighty son indeed it is! No other nation dares to stand against them in open combat or challenge them in all-out war. The nations tremble when this mighty son speaks, yet the hatred for this mighty nation by the entire world is almost complete. Did you ever stop to wonder why it is that America – the mighty Ephraim – is so hated by so many? Is it something they have done? Which nation or people could fairly and rationally state that the mighty United States of America has mistreated them? There is not one! All of the nations on the face of the earth have been blessed in one way or another by this mighty power.

The root of kindness that God imparted to this nation has been spread to all parts of the world, and many people have been the recipients of this inherent kindness; and the magnanimous kindness by America to all people can be clearly seen by all who are willing to acknowledge it. One glaring example was the earthquake in Iran in January 2004. Which nation eclipsed America in the outpouring of aid and assistance to these people? Not one! Food, equipment and aid workers were rushed to the stricken city by America, and all this to a nation that openly expresses hatred for America! What other nation is there on earth that feeds and comforts their enemies? And which oil-rich Arab state attempted any form of like assistance to these stricken people? There were none! Sure there were a few token gestures by some Arab states, but nothing on the scale of U.S. aid. They were too busy spitting their venom against the U.S. to engage in any real assistance to their own Moslem kinsmen. There are many examples of Ephraim’s kindness and compassion, but these all get lost in the storm of hatred that emanates from the world of Islam, and increasingly the whole world.

All of which brings us to a major point. Can the whole world be unified under the qualities of compassion and kindness, and change their views towards those who extend such virtues? At what point is the rest of the world likely to acknowledge that this way is best and fervently embrace it? Are they ever likely to embrace America’s benevolence and acknowledge them as a righteous nation?

The answer can be found in America itself. Half the American people engage in petty grandstanding against their own nation, and continually – and unjustly – find fault with their own administration. When America acts to bring peace to the most degenerate of nations, and to cleanse it of evil, these subversives go ballistic in their opposition to it all. Some Democrats literally foamed at the mouth against the war in Iraq. They were prepared to dance with the devil to prevent it happening. In this regard, they were prepared to side with nations who are unfriendly, and in some cases, outright enemies of the U.S. and adopt their reasoning to prevent the war. Sure it has a lot to do with politics and electioneering, but doesn’t this still make them hypocrites?

With the first flush of success of the war against Babylon of old, suddenly the Democrats began to think they had better start being patriotic. Their knife-edge reasoning was that they supported the troops in the field, but not the administration that sent them. They refused to concede any reason for going to Iraq in the first place. They thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction just as everyone else did, but in their minds this was not sufficient reason to depose this dictator. Later, when finding weapons of mass destruction proved elusive, they claimed that this was the only justifiable reason for going to war, and that the motivation had been based on a false premise.

As for weapons of mass destruction, of course Saddam Hussein had them; anthrax, VX nerve gas and other biological agents were being produced, and this is well documented. What Saddam Hussein lacked was the delivery system to use them. He needed time to curry favour with, and bribe the nations that could supply him; namely, Russia, France and Germany, all of whom were happy to supply him at inflated prices, and under the guise of secrecy. The timing of the invasion was bad for all those who were on the wrong side of the ledger. They were about to be accused of acting against UN resolutions in continuing to supply and do business with him. And of course, the extent of their duplicity is now becoming very evident.

Remember the pathetic accusations against Haliburton, the oil industry supply company that was accused of overcharging the U.S. for Iraqi oil? The only reason for these accusations for minor misjudgments in accounting procedure was that Vice President Dick Cheney was once the CEO of the company. It seems these contrived allegations died a quick death in the wake of the real scandal that emerged. The UN became the melting pot of the most scandalous behaviour in the history of the world, with tens of billions of dollars being creamed off into the coffers of UN criminals and Islamic groups for the express purpose of bringing about the destruction of Americans and Israelis.

We now know who the principle beneficiaries of the ‘oil for food’ program were. Russia and France received much wealth by trading with Saddam under the guise of ‘oil for food’ program. Others too, like Kofi Annan and his bunch of crooked henchmen in the UN administration. These creatures were in cahoots with the devil himself. Estimates of between 10 and 20 billion dollars went into the coffers of these thieves. Little wonder that so many were unified in their opposition to the war in Iraq. Their duplicity was about to be discovered! Their outward concern for the plight of the Iraqi people was classic hypocrisy in action, since it was they who were bleeding off any benefit they may have received from the ‘oil for food’ program.

It’s hard to imagine what the purpose of the United Nations is when they openly support some of the most evil dictators on earth, and insist on their right to continue to rule. Considering the high standards by which they judge America, how can they continue to support such evil regimes as that of Saddam Hussein? Doesn’t justice cry out from the graves of the millions of people he has slaughtered? There is civilization and barbarism, and nothing in between. The hope that Saddam Hussein would reform and join the world community (as it was commonly stated) does not mitigate for the vile crimes he has committed. On this reasoning, perhaps Ted Bundy might have reformed if they had allowed him to go on killing for a while. Why consider the victims when there is a chance the killer will reform? This is the type of reasoning of evil degenerates. I would imagine that the opinions of some of these people would change if they were sitting in one of Saddam’s torture chambers. Men like Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Josef Stalin, Ayatollah Homeini are all evil monsters. All of them tortured and killed their own people for purely personal reasons. Mercy and justice are not within the range of their mentality. All of these vile creatures were rulers of the heavenly realms and had no regard for any form of decency or mercy, and they openly flaunted their power over others. But not all rulers of the heavenly realms are so blatantly and obviously evil. Some of them appear as angels of light in order to deceive. They are just as evil, but they mask their evil and present a mask of virtue. They like to be feted as virtuous leaders and to walk the hallways of respectability. This gives them the opportunity to regulate world opinion by having a voice in the UN.

Kofi Annan is one such man. It’s almost beyond belief that this man should have made it to the top echelon of this organization without being detected of his previous vile abuses of power. The Rhwanda slaughter was one such event that was again magnified on the tenth anniversary in 2004. In 1994, Kofi Annan held the position of UN administrator of the UN peacekeeping forces around the world, and also the UN distribution of food aid to starving nations. Even at that time, the whole world knew that the food aid was going directly to the militant groups wherever it was distributed, and in the case of Rhwanda, it went directly to the Islamic Hutu, who engaged in the slaughter of the Christian Tutsis. During the 100 days of this slaughter, absolutely no effort was made to make peace, and to prevent the slaughter. Kofi Annan insisted that his UN peacekeeping force had no mandate to keep the peace. It’s hard to believe that a peacekeeping force could have no mandate to keep the peace. If not to keep the peace, what was the purpose of their presence?

Under Annan’s watch, Tutsis gathered in churches for sanctuary, which made it all the easier for Islamic beasts to slaughter them. One million Christian Tutsis were hacked to death with machetes, or shot down, or burned alive – and the UN peacekeeping force stood by and watched without intervention. Perhaps like me, you still recall those blood-curdling images that were shown at that time of Moslems hacking Christian women to death in a village while UN soldiers stood by and watched without intervention.

The United States of America urgently sought a new mandate in the UN to stop the killing by giving the ‘peacekeeping force’ powers to intervene. But the proposed mandate was blocked and deferred for weeks, during which time the slaughter of the Tutsis was completed. It was Kofi Annan that insisted on citing a certain clause in the existing mandate that prevented intervention. The Satanic influence that was involved in this whole episode was obvious.

Perhaps not so obvious is why Satan decided to slaughter the Christian Tutsis. Given half a chance, Satan would slaughter every Christian and Jew on the face of the earth. The Tutsis just happened to occupy a strategic position on the African continent adjacent to the Islamic behemoth of the Middle East. He wanted to set an example to all African states that Christianity is not welcome, and what it can expect as long as it continues to exist. His example was that Christians and Jews must be slaughtered wherever they exist.

Long, long ago, Almighty God foresaw a scenario playing out in the African continent. He prophesied of these tall, smooth-skinned people, characterized by the Christian Tutsis, who originated in the land divided by rivers – Ethiopia. These people are fine-featured and tall, as opposed to the average African black with their broad noses and round-faced appearance. So they are easily identified. The former Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie knew the origins of his people and claimed descent from King Solomon through his union with the Queen of Sheba. He even presumed to call himself the ‘Lion of the Tribe of Judah’ – a title of Christ Himself. The people of Judah – the Israelis – actually ransomed many of these people, paying tens of millions of dollars to go and pick them up and transport them to Israel to live in freedom. It may surprise some to know that these Ethiopians have maintained a Christian priesthood in and around Jerusalem for centuries, and share real estate with Roman Catholics and Eastern Ordodox priesthoods in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

Satan wants to convey the impression that there is safety in being a Moslem, but extreme danger in being a Christian or a Jew. By sheer weight of numbers, he plans to make Christianity feel his wrath, and recant their religious views. Christians generally are weak today, with no determination to actually serve God, but they merely acknowledge Him for any benefits they might derive from their beliefs. Foremost is their hope of further life in the hereafter and the reunion with loved ones. They’d have a very hard time finding support for their views in the Bible based on their present understanding. Eventually, they will find out that God is not the fool they thought He was. The Mighty Christ set the example of unshakeable and dedicated obedience to God even in the face of death. It was He who said that man must live by every word of God. So anyone who thinks they can continue to do as they please and still retain favour with God are going to find themselves tragically mistaken!

In the days of Daniel, God made it very clear that He would set up a Kingdom that would never be destroyed, and that it would eventually fill the whole earth. But it was never suggested that the Kingdom would burst on the scene with a great visual display of pageantry. On the contrary, Jesus said that the Kingdom would start among the Jews in the Holy Land. He also said that it would begin as a tiny mustard seed that would grow into a giant tree, and eventually fill the earth. Jesus also made it clear that with the establishment of His Kingdom His servants will fight, and at that time, they will defend the City that bears God’s Name. His servants will have the title of Sons of Jerusalem, and Almighty God will be their God.

As for any suggestion that the Kingdom will arrive with great pageantry, the early stages will see some very humble beginnings, not least of which is a reenactment of the arrival of the King as it was portrayed by the Christ two thousand years ago. Jesus fulfilled the part of the prophecy relevant to that time when He rode a donkey into Jerusalem. He plans to do it again when Ephraim and Judah are in serious trouble. It’s the latter part of the prophecy of Zechariah 9:9 that remains to be fulfilled. And the time is rapidly approaching, and is about to be fulfilled: Zech 9:9 "Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem, and the battle-bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River (margin: Euphrates) to the ends of the earth. As for you (Daughter of Zion), because of the Blood of my Covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, O prisoners of hope; even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you. I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and make you like a warrior’s sword." At the time when the Daughter of Zion will rejoice to see their King arrive on a donkey, they will be prisoners about to be freed. God’s battle-bow will be filled with Judah and Ephraim when God rouses his Sons of Jerusalem for battle against the king of Greece. There is a clear distinction here between the Sons of Jerusalem and the Daughters of Jerusalem. God mentions the Blood of His Covenant in relation to the Daughters of Jerusalem, and calls them prisoners of hope. They will enter into captivity with the hope of being rescued (note the words: and having salvation). Perhaps in the past, your ideas of salvation have been a little different from God’s – yet it should not be! The Scriptures are very clear, and the prophets of old declared it, salvation means salvation from our enemies (see Luke 1: 69-71).

Now is a very good time for the Churches to speak of the hope of salvation, provided they make it clear what the Bible definition of salvation is, because it is about to become a life and death issue. When this occurs, these prisoners of hope will be rescued, and God has announced that He will restore twice as much to them. This is a clear indication that they will lose everything they own, and forfeit all their rights to freedom in the hope of being rescued by God. When they’re rescued, they will find themselves in another place, and a better place, and they will truly know who God’s enemies are. In this newfound environment, they will fulfill what God has said to the Churches: Rev 2:26-29 "To him that overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations – he will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery – just as I have received from my Father. I will also give him the Morning Star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches." This Spirit is now telling the Churches, and this Spirit is the Spirit of Prophecy – the Testimony of Jesus (Rev 19:10).

One thing that is abundantly clear is that what the Churches have been teaching for years is not prophecy, but foolish fabrications that have been generated from their own minds. They have taken woeful liberties with God’s Word in concocting their wild ideas. Now is the time to repent of their foolishness and to start waking up to themselves. What did they hope to gain? Surely not salvation! As long as they persist with their lies against God’s best interests, there is no hope of them being rescued. And this comes from the mouth of the one who is appointed to rescue (see Luke 1:69 again). As a point of interest, the words spoken by Zechariah the father of John, were spoken six months before the Messiah was born. Those Church leaders who desire to hold their respective congregations together, let them do it with Truth, and give credit to God that He has mounted the rescue bid for all those who live in hope, and are the recipients of the Blood of the Covenant.

You may be surprised to know that the vacancies in the Brotherhood of the Sons of Jerusalem are fast being filled, and the cut-off point is fast approaching. Even in the vast sea of humanity today, a description of a tiny mustard seed can only be a small number. The comparison of a mustard seed to the tree it produces shows that God will get the job done with a very small number initially. God doesn’t rely on great hordes of people, but favours a small group whose minds are attuned to His Way. In time, all of humanity will see the advantage of having the mind of God.

Continuing in the Book of Zechariah we find that after the Christ’s second appearance on a donkey entering Jerusalem, the iron bar will be smashing people to pieces like pottery as God’s mounting fury gets underway, and will culminate with the Christ challenging all nations to come to Jerusalem for a showdown (Zech 14:1-3). The iron bar smashing pottery is a figure of speech to show how utterly destroyed God’s enemies will be. In fact, the weapons of God are far more sophisticated, and unlike anything on earth today. Zech 9:14 "Then the LORD will appear over them; His arrow will flash like lightning. The Sovereign LORD will sound the trumpet; He will march in the storms of the south (see Isa 63:1-6 for a more complete account of this), and the LORD Almighty will shield them (the Sons of Jerusalem – see V13, last part). They will destroy and overcome with slingstones." When the Sons of Jerusalem destroy God’s enemies, it will be no contest with the LORD Almighty shielding them, and if armed with only slingstones, the result would be the same. In terms of destroying, which is God’s overall objective – to wipe out Satan’s brood – God’s enemies – and to establish the House of Israel as the premier nation on earth, God has appointed a destroyer – one who will rank with the mightiest of warriors. In fact, he and his brothers will be fellow servants with the mightiest of God’s warriors (Rev 19:10, Zech 12:8).

In the same theme where the Sons of Jerusalem are mentioned as being taught by God (Isa 54:13), God also mentions the destroyer that He has equipped and armed for the task. Concerning the Sons of Jerusalem, God says this in the next verse: Isa 54:14-15 "In righteousness you will be established; tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you. If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you." It’s always comforting to know the outcome in advance. At that time, there are sure to be some who want to make a name for themselves by attacking the Army of the Living God. God will enforce their surrender. At that time, these captives will be stripped naked, jailed, whipped and humiliated for all the world to see, and the pictures will be circulated to the Moslem media as a deterrent to anyone else who thinks they can challenge God’s army. Some may even be dragged through the streets and then strung up from a bridge. After these Moslem scum have publicly admitted their evil, and apologized, they will be dispatched in the same way that Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl was, and their bodies cast on a dung heap. Then they will have the opportunity to test Satan’s lies about the 70 virgins in heaven. Their eagerness to get at them will be a disappointment! Justice will be done, and retribution will be swift. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth will be the standard when dealing with God’s enemies. God’s servants will not be blindsided into believing that God’s enemies must be treated with kindness when captured. God’s servants will demonstrate to all that any of God’s enemies can expect no mercy. What these Muslim scum have done will be brought down on their heads tenfold. There will be no thoughts of treating such prisoners humanely under the false premise that they might do the same to allied prisoners. Retribution will be ramped up to the point that God’s enemies will fear to harm their captives knowing what the outcome will be when retribution follows. Any attack on the occupants of the Holy Land will result in devastating destruction and slaughter, and the guilty will never be spared! Did God ever suggest that His sons of Jerusalem will weak? No, He plainly said that they would be notably strong! As for that cute little document everyone refers to as the Geneva Convention, only God’s people Israel upheld it, while God’s enemies continued to violate it to this very day! In the day of rescue – the day of salvation – it will become abundantly clear to all why the Sons of Jerusalem don’t uphold the Geneva Convention, because those who hope to be rescued with have seen plenty of violations of this Convention in the most vile form, and will know that it was designed against them, in order to protect God’s enemies.

Continuing in Isa 54:16 "See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into a flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc; no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me" declares the LORD." Just remember that this is speaking of the Sons of Jerusalem – the very ones that Jesus said would be taught by God (John 6:44-45). I hope that no-one is silly enough to imagine that their pathetic ‘prophecies’ of the past had any connections with the teachings of God Almighty! The only coals that were fanned into a flame by the mindless dribble of so many wannabees in the Churches, is God’s anger against them for their wanton disregard for His Living Word.

As a point of interest, Judas Maccabee was called ‘The Blacksmith’ because of his efforts to clear the Holy Land of insurgents. In those days, Judas Maccabee was thought to be fulfilling Scripture of the establishment of the Kingdom, but he was over two thousand years too early. But at least the Jewish people did, at the time, understand the nature of the coming blacksmith, and the role he would play. Even today, they long for the arrival of the Messiah, the Mighty Commander who will fulfill all prophecy and establish the Kingdom of God that will last forever. What most people don’t seem to realize is that the vast majority of the Jewish people had to reject the Messiah at His first coming. And don’t forget that it was the minority of Jewish people that took the Gospel into the whole world after the men of Galilee delivered it. Why should it seem strange to some that the Jews rejected Jesus? Hasn’t the whole of Christianity rejected the real Jesus in favour of a weak substitute devised by them? Jesus didn’t come as a warrior the first time, but with a message, and this message was largely that He was the Messiah who would arise to fight and to establish the Kingdom of God.

What everyone needs to know is that wars will continue to the end when the Mighty Christ finally hands over the Kingdom to the Father (1Cor 15:24). And God doesn’t intend to be on the losing end of these wars, otherwise how would the Kingdom be established? It’s true that nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and victories and losses will abound. But when God wages war in the interests of His emerging Kingdom, things will be very different. Presently, God is awaiting the vilest of outrages by Satan and his demons (Rev 12:7-10), and once this happens, all bets are off! While God’s servants will be engaged in fighting the whole world, God will set equalizers in place to even the odds. Satan will be earth-bound, but God’s servants will not! They will be highly visible in the air, like an eagle flying overhead, and their firepower from the sky will be unlike anything that could be imagined. Anyone who tries to harm them will receive an instant and devastating response. Isa 40:29-31 "He gives strength to the weary, and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on eagles wings; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Why should anyone doubt God’s intentions to make those who trust and hope in the LORD like His Mighty Son Jesus? Would God send them on potentially dangerous missions but not equip them with the strength and vigor to handle it? God makes the point that even youths grow weary, but says that those who hope in the LORD will not grow weary. There is an example of this in the Bible; this was when Elijah outran a galloping horse over a distance of twenty miles (1Kings 18:45-46). God wants everyone to know this, and to understand what it means.

Let’s not kid ourselves that self-righteous platitudes will ever sway Satan or his brood! Don’t think for one moment that God has any expectations that Satan and his offspring could even be remotely decent or compassionate. Let’s dispel any thoughts of favourable or compassionate behaviour from any human beings that have aligned their philosophies with the mind of Satan. Those who put their hope in the LORD, rather than the concepts of men, will soon learn the wisdom of such actions. God envisages a whole new world through the establishment of a Righteous Kingdom – a Kingdom that will not rely on the hopes and dreams of those who never knew God. At the most crucial moment of His time on earth, the Christ made it clear that His servants would fight to establish the Kingdom of God (John 18:36). Jesus had previously said this: Matt 11:12 "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing and forceful men lay hold of it. For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. He who has ears, let him hear." John’s father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied concerning his son (Luke 1:67). What he said through the Holy Spirit concerning his son (Luke 1:68-80) was not fulfilled at that time. John the Baptist died prematurely, just as Jesus did, before fulfilling all that is written of them both. As John 18:36 indicates, there is a future time when forceful men will establish the Kingdom of God. If this is unclear to some, just remember that hours before His death, Jesus instructed His disciples to arm themselves with swords to give the appearance of being transgressors. He pointed out that this was to fulfill a certain prophecy, which is found in Isa 53:12. The lying scribes and even the Churches of God today, cannot bring themselves to believe what Jesus said, when He spoke of fulfilling that which is written in the Book of Isaiah. They tried to camouflage the meaning to support their own sickly, weak doctrine. Isa 53:12 "Therefore I will give Him a portion among the great, and He will divide the spoils [of war] with the strong, because He poured out His life unto death, and was numbered with transgressors. For He bore the sin of many (not the whole world) and made intercession for the transgressors." Who were these ‘transgressors’? They were His own disciples! The whole world will consider them to be transgressors, because they won’t be living according to the standards of this world. Jesus was numbered with these; so was Jesus also a transgressor? You should know that He was not! So it was the perception of others that caused this tag to be applied. Who are the ‘transgressors’ for whom Jesus makes intercession to the Father? We are given the first clue in Isa 53:10 "Yet it was the LORD’S will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer, and though the LORD makes His life a guilt offering, He will see His offspring and prolong His days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in His hand." So the ‘transgressors’ are those who are patterned after the Son, and who become His offspring. And what is Jesus the Christ that must be emulated by His offspring? He’s a Mighty and Just Warrior of God who will deliver a righteous Kingdom to the Father. Jesus is no transgressor, so who is it that loves to accuse His offspring of being transgressors? It’s none other than Satan the devil, and all his offspring who love to falsely accuse: Rev 12:10 "Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the Power and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. They overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb and by the Word of their Testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. Therefore rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows his time is short." What follows in the next five verses identifies the object of Satan’s hatred – a woman and her offspring.

As a point of interest, there is no Mark 15:28 in the NIV. This reference to transgressors was deliberately inserted in the KJV, to put a completely different meaning to the prophecy. John Mark’s book was sloppily written, and has almost no references to the Old Testament, but it was most likely lying scribes who added V28 and which has been omitted from the NIV. Presumably, they wanted to add their own ideas to the meaning of the Scriptures that Christ used.

So what will prompt Satan’s venom against the woman and her offspring? I can tell you this that it is not because they sing Christmas carols about the baby Jesus! Rather it’s because for all the peoples on the face of the earth, only this woman has arisen in defense of God and His reputation, and the reputation of His Son Jesus. Only these have stood steadfast in the face of lying wannabe’s who twist and pervert the Scriptures to their own advantage. Only the woman serves their Creator faithfully and upholds His values. And only the woman knows who the children of the devil are, and who the children of God are (1John 3:10) and only these know the reason why Christ came (V8). Everyone else has neither understood nor cared! They neither cared about God’s kingdom nor took any interest. They cared only for their own welfare and reputations. Satan doesn’t bother to persecute and accuse those who present no threat to him among Christianity (though he still hates all of Christianity), but his venom is reserved for those who pose a threat to him. Slowly it began to dawn on him which direction this threat would come from. His capability of deceiving the whole world is beginning to erode as he realizes that God has appointed a ‘woman’ that can’t be deceived (see Matt 24:24 – and note the words ‘if it were possible’). They know that Satan will resort to lying wonders and deception, and he will deceive a lot of people, in fact, he has deceived the whole world in one way or the other. Sure, Satan has picked off some even in this Brotherhood over the years, but only by using his devices that appeal to towering egos and the love of money. But God knows how to refine His people like silver and gold, and to prepare them to withstand the most vicious attacks of Satan and the rulers of the Heavenly realms. Most of the refining process (Mal 3:3) comes from believing God and the desire to serve Him to the exclusion of all else. And these sons who serve Him are described in Mal 3:16. Remember how Satan offered great power and cities and wealth to Jesus if He would fall down and worship Him? Jesus treated him with the contempt he deserved. No amount of inducement could persuade Jesus, and the same is true of His faithful offspring. Why would this Brotherhood care about the riches of this world, when they will be administering in the Kingdom that will girdle the world? What could Satan possibly offer that would be of any worth? What about life itself? Satan can’t even offer this, but he can offer death forever. And this is the reward for those who are beguiled by him.

You would think that after WW2 and the Hitler experience, appeasement policies towards evil dictators would never again be considered, but this was before looney-left liberalism made its debut. Suddenly, everyone wanted to be an intellectual, and liberalism sounds so much more intelligent than rational thought, because it gives them grounds for being controversial, and empowers the pretender to devise arguments against the norm. Their arguments are always weak, but seem to have the favour of the gullible. The more evil the act, the more rights the perpetrator seems to have.

There’s a wild one raging at the moment. The Senate inquiry into 9-11 is looking to blame someone for not catching the Moslem scum before they committed the atrocity. Naturally enough, it’s the President’s head they want. Presumably, the President should have ordered every Moslem in America to be rounded up and jailed before it happened. That would have fixed the problem. But of course, this would not have been acceptable to anyone – but it would have been a solution. But no, the senate inquiry is seeking different grounds for their criticism. They seem to be suggesting that suspects should have been tried before they were arrested to protect their rights and to guard against wrongful arrest.

You’ll recall the case of Zaccarias Moussaoui, one of the plotters of the 9-11 hijacking, and how after he was arrested the liberals screamed that his rights would be violated if his laptop computer was accessed. What special rights does Moussaoui have that ordinary Americans don’t have? Well it seems that he has plenty! There is something seriously wrong with the whole justice system in America.

As an aside, a bit of trivia has just crossed the news wires. Marsha Stewart was finally convicted by a jury, not of insider trading, but of ‘lying’ to investigators. It seems that lying by investigators in their appeals to media sources to generate support for their prosecution was not taken into account. What no-one was told was that the Imclone stock suffered a temporary set-back when a drug they planned to market was not approved by the Federal Drug Administration on the basis of evidence supplied as to its effectiveness. They required more information. This information was provided and a few months later the drug was approved, and Imclone stock soared once more. The insider trading of this company stock was sourced from the very company itself. No-one else was privy to the information of how the FDA verdict would go, and the first to know this information outside of the directors of this company was a stockbroker, who, under instruction, began selling the stock before it plunged. Marsha Stewart was a long way down the information chain of this whole sordid saga, but it was she who became the scapegoat and took the fall. With the approval now of the Imclone pharmaceutical product by the FDA, the Imclone stock is now trading at former levels. But this is no longer important now that the halls of justice have claimed their victim.

You may be beginning to wonder what all of this has to do with God’s Great Plan. It may seem to be far removed from any purpose that God has for mankind. But in fact, God is conditioning His people to form a righteous nation that will continue forever, and to be citizens of the Kingdom of God. In order to augment this, God is calling certain people to duty beginning with the Tribe of Levi, followed by the Tribe of Judah, and afterwards, joined by Ephraim. The first crop, or the firstfruits, will be the Levites who have forsaken the evil that would be detrimental to sound government. Just as Adam and Eve succumbed to the knowledge of evil and corrupted their minds, so God is vigilant for those who reject the call of evil and hold to righteousness in all its forms. The first step in rejecting evil in all its forms is to be able to recognize it. It’s not enough to do what seems right, because, increasingly, what seems right is becoming the norm, and it actually leads to death just as God has said (Pro 14:12). This is just as true of nations as it is of individuals, because it’s individuals that pervert the course of nations. When individuals pervert nations, they do it by doing what seems right and structure their arguments to win others to their cause.

The Apostle Paul made a very good observation in this regard in Rom 8:5-7 "Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God." Doing what seems right leads to death, and crooked pathways lead nowhere, but Paul went on to advise on the correct path in V7 "It (the sinful or hostile mind) does not submit to God’s Law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God." Lawlessness marks all those who are sinful and hostile to God’s Spirit. For this reason, God plans to write His Laws in the hearts and minds of all those He saves and redeems from death. At that time, all those who were receptive to God’s Laws will find rest and stability, and after God writes His Laws into their hearts and minds and pours out His Spirit upon them (Eze 36:26-27), they will rejoice at the perfection of those Laws. The lawless, however, will have no place of rest, and in their distress will seek death. They will quickly find that there is no place on this earth for those who treat God as a fool.

God oversees a most favoured nation, and He identifies this nation as Ephraim – a prince over his brothers. Ephraim was the son of Joseph – a prophet of God. Joseph was elevated over his brothers in Egypt, and his children, Ephraim and Manasseh, were princes. Under the hands of Jacob, these two princes were blessed, and those blessings became binding. At the time that Ephraim and Manasseh became the princes over their brothers, things were about to get tough for the children of Jacob. Within a generation or so, they became slaves to the Egyptians. The Egyptians quickly forgot how they had been saved from starvation through the wisdom and efforts of Joseph, and soon they were enslaving his offspring, and his brothers. In time, all the brothers developed into a nation of about two million people – all of whom were harshly treated as slaves. In their distress, God raised up a Levite and a prophet – Moses – to rescue them and bring them into the Promised Land. We all know of the mighty power that God imparted to Moses in order to carry this out.

Once out of Egypt, God used a series of miracles to reestablish His Laws, and to demonstrate which days were holy to Him. The Levitical Priesthood was established to oversee these requirements, and a temporary facility was established, which was called the Tabernacle. This facility was fashioned as an exact replica of the one in Heaven (Heb 8:5), where the High Priest of God administers to His Father. It was vitally important that everything was made as a perfect reproduction of what exists in the Heavenly Sanctuary. And those who ministered in this earthly sanctuary had to stand in the place of the High Priest of Heaven. In so doing, they were the Christ’s surrogates, so the standard had to be very high.

Eventually, this great nation of people, the House of Israel, crossed the Jordan River and settled in the Holy Land. It wasn’t easy, and they spent years driving out and slaughtering the occupants in order to reclaim God’s Holy Land. The problem was that many settled down and quickly forgot their commitment to God to completely clear the land of degenerates. The fact is that they divided along tribal lines, and sought their own self-interest. And while initially, they agreed to a unified force to drive out the inhabitants, the reality was quite different. Self-interest overrode duty. The result was that they had to endure 400 years under the judges, with very little respite from troubles and conflict. Some of the judges were indeed men of war, and, at times, brought relief from the conflicts, but generally, the people preferred to negotiate their way out of trouble in order to buy peace.

But is this what God intended? Wars are won by fighting – not talking! And God’s intentions, and His instructions, were clear. So the House of Israel learned their lesson the hard way, and found themselves in constant conflict with God’s enemies. All this served as an example for those on whom the end of the age has come (1Cor 10:11). It all had to be done differently, and God’s instructions would finally be done to the letter. Those who are created don’t have the right to tell the Creator how things should be done. God is God – and He will be obeyed!

If Ephraim is a son of God – and he is – is it likely that the nation of Ephraim will win the respect of the nations by promoting the Godly qualities that God has imparted to them? Can the battle be won to win ‘the hearts and minds’ of such degenerate nations? An honest, yet naïve observer would conclude that surely this must happen. And it will happen eventually, but not in the present political climate, and not while the real rulers of nations remain unrestrained, and this is the baffling part of the equation that cannot be resolved. At a later time, when these rulers are restrained and the House of Israel is established in the Holy Land that God gave to the Patriarchs, human reasoning will be unobstructed by the influence of these spirit rulers. Many nations who are now the enemies of God will have a change of heart and begin to recognize the qualities that God imparted to Ephraim. In fact, the whole House of Israel will be recognized as the people of God – after God has poured out His Spirit on all the Tribes of Israel and they become one nation.

Of course, Ephraim today doesn’t recognize that God imparted these qualities and steered them on their current course of action. They don’t realize that it was God that made them so mighty, or that He lavished such blessings upon them. If they did, then they would understand that God had a reason for doing so. Yet God wants to make it known to all that kindness and benevolence are not enough to tame the offspring of Satan – the vicious brood that he has been preparing for thousands of years for a final showdown.

God is making it very clear that Satan’s brood are wild animals – even snakes and vipers – that have no thoughts of decency and human kindness. They are never grateful for any kindness shown them, and from the least to the greatest of them, they are all evil. Men, women and children have been engaged to kill Americans and Israelis, and increasingly, European Israelites.

Over three thousand years ago, God instructed the House of Israel to go and slaughter all the inhabitants of the Holy Land – men, women and children – and utterly clear it of Satan’s degenerates. They didn’t do it! No doubt some of the Israelites decided that compassion overrode instruction – even God’s instruction! They were beguiled by the persuasive pleas of these degenerate nations, and imagined that they could live in harmony with them. Such thoughts should have set warning bells ringing in the face of God’s specific instructions – but no! They thought they knew best, and they imagined that the remnant of Satan’s brood could be tamed and incorporated into their nation. They soon discovered the error of their ways, and for hundreds of years afterward, they were engaging the Philistines in battle with a tragic loss of life. In time the Philistines became their masters.

And has the House of Israel learned their lesson? Not so! Gaza today, the traditional home of the Philistines, is still the thorn in the side of the Jewish occupants of the Holy Land. They are still there, and they are still plotting the destruction of God’s people Israel. In all these thousands of years, have these satanic scum learned to live in peace? Have they made any attempt to live in peace, and conduct themselves in a decent manner? They never have, and they never will!

So what is the solution? Well, God’s instructions still stand! And His instructions will be carried out – totally and completely. No ifs or buts, no flushes of sanctimony, no hesitancy in regard to collateral damage. Just totally and completely! The instruction is that they have got to go – and this will be carried out. But who is going to do it? Certainly not America who have buried God’s instruction in a sea of contrived compassion that overrides any form of logic, and a constant concern for collateral damage! The Israelis would, but not in the current political climate with the U.S. enforcing their views on taming Satan’s brood, and bringing them prosperity.

No, God will have to appoint His own army to do this, and He has already set His plans in motion. God is presently preparing His commanders to do the job. And commanders they are – of devastating weaponry that this world could not imagine. The fire that comes down from the sky at that time will not be AC-130 Spectre gunships. Such weaponry will look like toys compared to the devastating armaments of God. Initially, God will not put His commanders up close and personal with the enemy, where they might allow a worldly compassion to override God’s instructions. God intends for His human sons – His commanders – and their wives and children to be very strong in the eyes of all observers. After the first few salvos, whenever the world sees the eagle overhead (see Isa 40:31 again) they will tremble and choke with fear. God intends to make His mighty power known! And He intends to make the nations really tremble; not with words or threats, but with action!

And the first to acknowledge God’s Army will be the leaders of Judah. These are the ones who have been forced to fight with both hands tied behind their back because of the opinions of the world. Just remember that the Palestinians have again and again declared a holy war (jihad) against the Israelis! Yet the Israelis have continued to offer peace and co-existence, but all to no avail. The mindset of the Palestinians is total destruction of the Israelis, and nothing short of this will suffice.

We’ve all seen the futility of trying to make peace with them. Incredibly, Washington theorized that if the Israelis armed and equipped 40,000 Palestinians as a security force, then they would police their own people. There has never been one attempt from this security force to arrest any suicide bombers. Instead, these security police have constantly engaged the Israelis in firefights, and dedicated their time to sniping, inciting riots and causing general unrest. The idea was a complete failure, and one that caused the deaths of many Israelis, and now it’s proving impossible to get the weapons back. So whose crazy idea was it to give weapons to an avowed enemy? Well, it happened during the eight years of the Clinton administration, and this says it all. Has the U.S. administration learned from this? They are doing exactly the same thing in Afghanistan and Iraq. They are equipping the enemy with weapons to police their own people, but the weapons are being used against America! How long does it take to learn a simple lesson like this?

Leaving aside all the baloney of peace overtures towards these degenerates, is anyone listening to their avowed intentions? Haven’t they openly stated that there will be no solution to this present crisis until the Israelis are wiped off the face of the earth. Didn’t they reinforce these views when they danced in the streets at the deaths of thousands of Americans on September 11? These were Palestinian men, women and children – the whole accursed brood – who delighted at the atrocity of the deaths of Americans. How much more do you think they would rejoice at the mass destruction of the Israelis? They want sovereign rights over all the Holy Land, and Christians and Jews, whom they call infidels, are not welcome.

History is not written to honour the dead but to inspire the living. And if we cannot learn from the lessons of history, then history will be repeated – surely and inexorably! The very satanic brood that caused the Tribes of Israel so much trouble millennia ago are in the process of repeating the outrage. As the Apostle Paul noted in Eph 6:12 "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the power of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm." These are the rulers of the spirit realm – that unseen dimension, but they are real and they are the rulers, they wield authority over lesser beings, and they exercise the power of this dark world. They are the evil motivating force behind all outrages, and it’s their declared intention to wipe the Tribes of Israel from the face of the earth. While our struggle is against them, it’s through their brood that outrages are committed. Incredibly, there are some who not only deny their existence, but can’t imagine that anyone would be involved in a struggle with them. God’s true servants will tell you differently! They know all too well who the enemy is, and they stand ready at all times to combat their vile schemes. Paul made it clear that we should be equipped with the armour of God to ‘extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one’ (V16). All of which is the precursor for the reality that is about to unfold.

But it runs much deeper than this. God has called upon His true servants to be raised to the rank of the mighty spirit commanders of God. These commanders of God are mighty warriors, and the Bible gives us two very good examples in Michael and Gabriel, and the measure of their battle prowess is found in Dan 10:20. The prophets of God come equipped with the Testimony of Jesus. The Apostle John, the last remaining Apostle of that era, was also a prophet. In the twilight of his years he was raised to the rank equal to the mighty commanders of God: Rev 19:20 "At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a fellow-servant with you and with your brothers who hold to the Testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy." You may have noticed that at this most extreme time in all of history, the Churches do not have the Spirit of Prophecy! In fact, all their contrived ‘prophecies’ have been an offence to God. They all failed dismally!

God intends to make clear who His servants are, and in a manner that cannot be refuted. When you see the eagle flying overhead, you will have no explanation for what you see, but you will know that it is nothing like any man-made object. The eagle is a combat craft with far-seeing ‘eyes’, and it also has devastating weaponry – unlike anything on earth. Didn’t God forewarn of this? He spoke of his sons, all of whom are taught by God, and He also spoke of their appearance in Jerusalem at a time of great chaos and confusion (Zech 12:5). One of their first tasks will be to hammer the nations that surround the Holy Land and turn them into ashes to be trampled underfoot (Mal 4:1-3). So who are the Sons of Jerusalem to be like? God tells us! Zech 12:8 "On that day, the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest of them will be like David, and the House of David will be like God, like the Angel of the LORD going before them. On that day, I will set out to destroy the nations that attack Jerusalem." At that time, these people will already be living in Jerusalem, and their great power will cause the leaders of Judah to say, "The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the LORD is their God" (Zech 12:5). Then the Jewish people will be called upon to consume nations like flaming torches among sheaves of wheat (V6). Note the words: "They will consume right and left and the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place." As a student of the Bible, you no doubt know who surrounds the Holy Land! They are all Moslems! And Judah (the Jews) will join the Sons of Jerusalem in destroying them. And why is this so hard for some to believe? Hasn’t there been enough evidence of their rampant evil? They claim to be doing all this evil in the Name of Almighty God, but they completely reject the Bible in favour of the Koran their most ‘holy’ book. They don’t honour God’s Name, but instead use the parochial word for the oak tree – Allah! Clearly, this is their hostile way of discrediting God’s use of the olive tree as a symbol. Olives and acorns are similar in appearance, but markedly different in substance. This is yet another example of Satan’s mindless fakery. Generally speaking, Muslims are as thick as two bricks when it comes to intelligence. Have you ever wondered why? In the madrasses in Pakistan for instance, they learn nothing except the Koran. They sit bobbing up and down reciting the Koran for year after year. They have to memorize it in order to become a mullah. Even if they do succeed in memorizing it, they still finish up with an IQ of less than their hat size. Pakistan has 80,000 madrasses (schools), so Islam generally has generated a fair crop of idiots who can’t think for themselves.

In the light of all that God has said, it’s incredible that the Churches of God could have believed that they would bypass all these events in favour of their funny ‘rapture’ theory of a place of safety, where, presumably they would sit it out in nonchalance and with a sense of well-being. Their spurious ideas were spawned to generate income to support the lifestyle of the upper echelon of the hierarchy. It was the carrot and stick approach, and nothing more, and of course, the donkey always takes the carrot. The ultimate goal became a ‘place of safety’. We’ll examine this spurious idea shortly. Oddly enough, it’s those who have suffered the most and remained faithful to God that will be granted the promised Rest among the Churches of God and the whole House of Israel.

The Almighty God is a compassionate God – to all those He has chosen as His own. And of all the families on the face of the earth, He has chosen only the offspring of the Patriarchs, the children of Israel. Yet He has left the door open to any Gentile who desires to be grafted into the tree and follow God’s instruction to His people Israel. And eventually, there will be a great number of these.

In time, the premier nation of the earth will be established in the Holy Land. Ephraim will end their days in terror – just as God has said, but the remnant will return when they are rescued and will join the Sons of Jerusalem and Judah, and together they will fight against the surrounding nations. The boundaries of the Holy Land will be greatly expanded, and will eventually fill the whole earth. And all of this will be achieved by conquest rather than foolish talkfests. In the interim, many people will begin to understand just how derelict they have been in understanding God’s objectives.

Compassion and mercy will be extended to those who are worthy of it, but such virtues will not be squandered on the undeserving. God has set the standards, and those who fail to live up to them will not be welcomed into God’s Kingdom. Evil-doers and trouble-makers benefit no-one, and lawlessness will become a thing of the past. But in the interim, the vast majority of all Bible prophecy has yet to be fulfilled.

Mainstream Christianity will fall over when they realize what is happening, and how unprepared they are for the events that will occur. Some may even begin to understand what anti-Christs they have been, and how treacherously they have dealt with God’s Word. God has suggested that they will look up and curse Him when they see how little their endless litany of sanctimony has benefited them. When they realize how well they have served themselves, and how faithful service to God was non-existent, they will have pause to reflect. In the foolishness of their teachings, and the pathetic utterances of their own perceived prophecies, they will realize that they had no light in them.

At the end of a long dark night, there will be a new dawn. The Apostles and prophets spoke of it, and longed to see that day: Luke 17:20 "Then He said to His disciples, "The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. Men will tell you ‘There He is!’ or ‘Here He is!’ Do not go running off with them. For the Son of Man in His Day will be like the lightning that flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other." Lightning, of course, flashes briefly, but it does light up the sky momentarily. This is what one of the days of the Christ will be like. In fact, great flashes of light will consume left and right the enemies of God, and they will be ashes underfoot, just as God has said in Mal 4:3. This is the day that the Apostles won’t see, because all of this will occur before the resurrection of the saints. It’s almost beyond belief that any erstwhile student of the Bible could have failed to realize this. Preachers have been so preoccupied with pumping up the emotions of their congregations with promises of glorious outcomes for doing nothing, that they have send them all into a deep slumber. They reason that there is no need to check any further; after all, they’ve got all they need from God. They believe that their reward is eternal occupation in heaven, but strangely, none of them are too keen to get there!

So what is the outcome? Will America win the war on terror? Will their desire to curry favour with God’s enemies win the day? Will the whole world rejoice to have peace and security and prosperity? Will it happen? The answer is an emphatic no! Those to whom America wants to bring peace and security are just as treacherous as they have always been. No amount of kindness will change that fact. Can a leopard change its spots? No, and neither can these degenerate Moslem beasts change their ways. I would have thought Jesus’ advice would prove this point in Matt 7:6 "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces." Jesus made it clear which dogs He was talking about (Matt 15:26), He was speaking to a Canaanite.

Hasn’t God provided abundant evidence of this? Look at the Palestinians. There is no more poignant example of evil treachery than in these degenerates. Every concession has been made to these evil creatures, but nothing is acceptable – except the total destruction of the Israelis! They want every member of the House of Israel out of Arab lands, and this is the avowed intention of the entire Arab world. But you no longer have to believe me, because they have been plainly stating it themselves. The only concession that any would be willing to make to any Israelite is have them there as slaves – to mistreat, torture and kill them at will.

Anciently, Babylon became the hellhole of rebellion against God. Successively despots, starting with their first king Nimrod, have ruled it. Not surprisingly, God hated Babylon from the very outset. Satan wielded great power and control in that region over all the masses, and built a city to his glory – the city of Babylon. In this city he generated hostility to God and induced his brood to worship idols in defiance of God. But God vowed to remember this city at the end of Satan’s allotted days (six millennial days) and bring it to absolute ruin – never to be found again. Well this hasn’t happened yet, as many U.S. soldiers today can attest. They have been in that ancient city and have seen it for themselves. They have also seen the restructuring this city has undergone through the efforts of Saddam Hussein. When God destroys this city, it will never be found again, because it will be buried in an abyss of a great earthquake that will swallow it up.

Let’s be sensible enough to understand that God means what He says when He speaks of Babylon! No amount of fanciful theorizing will get around it. Rome, New York or even Washington don’t cut it as a human devised substitute for what God has said, and this type of mindless fabrication of the Scriptures has no currency of the facts. What it does do is make God look like a fool and a liar, but in view of the lying distortions that currently exist among the religious, it is not likely to affect the views of those who are openly hostile to God and His Word.

PLACE OF SAFETY – OR PLACE OF REST?

Have you ever wondered what God really has in mind concerning His Great Plan? If it were as simple as most of Christianity believe, then why was it necessary to deliver the Book of Revelation long after God’s Plan had been fulfilled according to prevailing views? The Book of Revelation doesn’t reflect the pleasantries upheld by the platitudes of mainstream Christianity. Rather it speaks in terms of stark horror and foreboding. Throughout Christian history it has never been understood, although this has not stopped many people from putting their own interpretation on it.

Firstly, the whole Book is for the Churches of God as the opening chapters show. And this is confirmed in the final chapter by these words: Rev 22:16 "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this Testimony for the Churches. I am the Root and Offspring of David, and the Bright Morning Star. The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take of the free gift of the Water of Life." So it’s very clear that the Churches of God have a very significant role to play in the Kingdom of God. What has never been clear to them is what this role is! To this very day they’ve continued to put their own spin on everything without any concern for all that God has spoken of throughout the Bible. The only prophecy they want fulfilled is anything that is beneficial to them. Actually engaging in strategy to ensure that all prophecy is fulfilled is totally alien to them. Their idea is that if God wants to do something – then let Him do it Himself. We can be thankful that Moses and all the great men of God were not this way. God’s servants do everything in their power to ensure that all Scripture is fulfilled – just as the Christ did (Matt 26:53).

God has withheld knowledge until the very endtime when He planned to drop the bombshell of what He requires of all humanity, and what He has done to prepare His true servants for His service. Every true Bible student knows that God sends His servants the prophets to warn.

In the wake of all that has happened throughout 6,000 years of human turmoil, God has raised up a son to serve Him. This son is one of the Tribes of Israel – the son of Joseph. This son has been given wealth and power and prestige above all the nations of the earth. From the humblest of beginnings this son has become the most powerful and influential nation on earth. No nation can stand against him when he goes out to war as the armies of the Living God. But this mighty son doesn’t know how to bring peace. They should know since Almighty God has given them enough examples of how to deal with those who reject God’s model for humanity. While this son has all the wealth, power, prestige and strength above any other nation, they lack one vital ingredient: Wisdom! And this is the Wisdom of God – which is also the Testimony of Jesus – and the Spirit of prophecy! (See Rev 19:10). At a precise moment, another Son will arise who will receive all the gifted qualities of Ephraim: Rev 5:12 "In a loud voice they sang, "Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and Wisdom and strength and honour and glory and praise."" In this, God is foreshadowing the removal of His prodigal son, in favour of One who is worthy of praise and honour!

We have come to the time when prophecy must be fulfilled relating to this son of God. Their sins have been stored up (Hos 13:12) until the time of discipline: Jer 31:18 "I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me like an unruly calf, and I have been disciplined. Restore me, and I will return, because you are the LORD my God. After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’ Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him," says the LORD."

Ephraim is like a silly dove (Hos 7:11), easily deceived and senseless – always trying to bring peace to nations who have never understood the meaning of the word. God’s instructions are clear to the House of Israel: When they go in to possess the land that God is giving them, they were to drive out or utterly destroy the inhabitants and not leave any to regenerate and turn and cause them trouble. They were to remember that the House of Israel is God’s chosen nation for populating the earth and that no other people anywhere have any rights to life – except if God grants it. In order to be granted life, Gentiles must be grafted into the genealogical tree and become grafted Israelites. God has held out the olive branch to all those who willingly obey Him, and who choose to live as His people Israel – their heirs and successors – and according to Law.

Almighty God has never departed from His Plan to make all Israel the heirs of all the earth. From the very outset He created a division of mankind (Gen 3:16) and declared His intention to create a nation patterned after His Son – the Word of God – His Spokesman. He placed it all in His hands to bring a righteous nation to fruition. And this is what all the Scriptures speak about. God intends to restore the House of Israel as the premier nation on earth and to teach the Gentile nations the Way of God. But this won’t be accomplished until they come to understand – and beat their breast! Ephraim is presently steering a course away from God and His Way. God has made Ephraim the premier nation on earth, but the more God calls them the further they go from Him (Hos 11:2). They sanction evil in all its forms, and care nothing for upholding God’s Law and instructions. They devise roadmaps for peace – but never deliver peace! They seem obsessed with only bringing peace to God’s enemies! They have yet to understand that there is no real ‘roadmap for peace’ according to their philosophy! They are never going to bring peace to God’s enemies, and because they insist on doing so, God will bring destruction on them!

Not surprisingly, God gave Ephraim time to try their own methods in order to understand the futility of it all. He has given them time to reflect on the utter futility of trying to tame such evil beasts and to understand that they don’t want peace – only destruction of all the House of Israel! These unreasoning beasts can never be persuaded to live in peace because they never have, and they never will! Unfortunately, only God and His servants understand this, because only His servants have been taught by Him. All of Christendom has insisted that the quest for peace continues, even in the face of boundless evidence of constant failure. Against God’s express instructions, they believe that the pursuit of peace by peaceful means is the only solution.

Because they have refused to acknowledge God’s Way and have devised ways of their own, these have led to crooked pathways. Their efforts will be expended in vain, and will never achieve the desired objective. Long ago, God instructed the House of Israel through the Levite priesthood. God chose the Levites for this very role. The priesthood was still in effect when John the Baptist arrived on the scene, but had become corrupted, with simony filling the seats of the priests. John was the son of a Levite priest, and was a true Levite priest, but he disdained the Pharisaical priesthood as being corrupt and called them vipers – a term used by the Christ on a number of occasions – meaning the offspring of the Serpent Satan. The Apostle John identified them as the children of the devil (John 3:10). And truly they were! They were greedy, self-serving hypocrites who loved the approbation of men. These vipers were the same creatures that were present when Cain killed Abel (Matt 23:33-36). These vipers ruled over the Jewish people and sought every occasion to make their burden heavier, but they didn’t raise even their smallest finger to uphold their own fabricated laws. They were lovers of money, honour and prestige, and would not accept any challenge to their authority. While they held John to be a prophet, and acknowledged that he was also a true Levite priest – something that they themselves could not claim – they were somewhat hostile towards John for refusing to align with them or even dress like them.

When John identified his cousin Jesus as the Son of God, and they heard this confirmed by the Holy Spirit, they interpreted this as a challenge to their authority, and began to plan the death and destruction of the Christ and all His disciples. But they had to tread lightly for fear of the people, who recognized the Power of God in Jesus, and the total absence of anything like this in those who claimed to be the religious leaders. These religious leaders saw their authority being whittled away and sought to field all sorts of trick questions to discredit Jesus.

But don’t be too quick to judge the Jewish people for the conduct of the Jewish leaders in Christ’s time. They had been manipulated by the forces of evil – by the rulers of the heavenly realms. Satan chose those who were easily flattered by power and the approbation of people, and who guarded their power and prestige against all reasoning. Not all people fall into this category, and Satan’s obvious targets are limited. Generally speaking, the Jewish people were receptive to Christ’s teachings, and the early converts were all Jews. It was through the efforts of these that Christianity reached the rest of the world.

The very nature of humanity is to know good and evil and it was left to the Son to demonstrate the right choices. Generally speaking, Christianity believes they have made the right choices and enjoy the favour of God. By periodically generating emotional fervour they feel convinced that they have fulfilled their obligations towards God.

Throughout the days of the Apostles there was a perception of imminence, of a quick end to human rule and the return of Jesus Christ. These were the men who knew and understood the teachings of the Christ and lived their lives believing that His return was imminent. Around 66 years later, probably 96 AD, John, the last remaining Apostle, received the Book of Revelation. Again the theme of imminence is present, and the Church is instructed that the Christ will come quickly. The whole Book speaks of prophetic events, which will culminate in the rule on earth of the Father and the Son. Though the Apostles were aware of many prophetic events that needed to be fulfilled prior to Christ’s return, the Book of Revelation enumerated them in far greater detail. But of all the Apostles, John was the only one still alive to receive this instruction (John 21:22). With the passing of John, the Book of Revelation was left to gather dust as far as the fulfillment of the prophecies were concerned. Generation after generation continued for many centuries without any indication of the final fulfillment.

A THOUSAND YEARS LATER…

One millennial day later, the Knights Templar realized who the real enemy was and rallied the nations to fight for the Holy Land against the Moslem insurgents. But as it turned out, they were one millennial day too early, and there was no lasting peace and no Kingdom of God established. But God commended them for their service, and consequently, Satan rallied the rulers of the heavenly realms to destroy them. Later, there were thousands martyred and their properties seized, and many were burned at the stake. Many were driven out of France and England and many found themselves exiled in Spain. But Satan was not finished even yet, and led Torquemada the Inquisitor to pursue them through the Spanish Inquisition. Torquemada’s net swept widely, and Templars, Jews, and Huguenots and others were caught in it. Tens of thousands were subjected to this purge, and while the object was to rid the realm of judaisers as they called Celtic Christianity, it didn’t hurt the coffers of Gentile Christianity when the wealthiest were targeted first and their properties seized. And this just happened to be the Templars and the Jews (God knows why but He’s not telling).

But God had yet another job for the remnant to perform. This job entailed providing the pathway to the Americas and the establishment of the mighty nation of Ephraim, and history provides the means by which God accomplished this. And so the fledgling nation of Ephraim emerged to become the mightiest nation on earth, and in time all the Gentile nations would tremble when the mighty Ephraim spoke. No other nation has equaled the power of this mighty nation. It became a safe haven for all the Tribes of Israel to live in peace and safety among their own brothers, and particularly the Jewish people who found peace and prosperity, and today their numbers far exceed their Jewish brothers who live in little Israel.

A casual observer might conclude that God has again established the Tribes of Israel in their own homeland. And the evidence of this is true. But it is not the Promised Land! Because of things unknown to humanity at this time, this is neither the time nor the place for the gathering of all the Tribes of Israel in accordance with Bible Prophecy. To be sure, all the Tribes of Israel occupy transitional lands, which God has given them and where He has settled them, but they have yet to understand that God plans to establish them in the land that He promised to the Patriarchs. And nothing is going to change God’s resolve! It’s true that Ephraim had to become the prince of all his brothers in the endtime, and that he had to pursue the nations to the ends of the earth, and duly, Ephraim accomplished this.

The Bible speaks again and again of Ephraim in the capacity of being a prince among his brothers. The rest of the Tribes scattered throughout Western Europe receive far less mentioning. Ephraim and Manasseh were the sons of Joseph the son of Jacob. Joseph became a prince over his brothers in Egypt just as Joseph’s dream had foretold (Gen 37:9-11). At the time of the dream, Jacob chastised his young son, but kept the dream in mind in anticipation of its fulfillment. When it was fulfilled, Jacob himself bestowed firstborn status on the youngest of Joseph’s sons – Ephraim was the prince over his brothers.

When the time came to deliver the House of Israel from slavery in Egypt though, God didn’t choose the Ephraimites to do it. Instead, He chose Moses of the Tribe of Levi. Ephraim seemed to drift out of the spotlight of prophecy for hundreds of years. Some 450 years later, Ephraim began to make his move through his descendants to wrench away ten of the Tribes from the mother City of Jerusalem. Under the auspices of Jeroboam, an Ephraimite, the House of Israel was divided into two nations – the northern and the southern nations. The northern ten Tribes rapidly descended into paganism. The southern two Tribes remained faithful to God and His City despite the fact that they had the tyrant Rehoboam ruling over them.

To make matters worse, in time the northern ten Tribes allied themselves with God’s enemies, notably Syria (Arameans), and declared war on the southern two Tribes. Just beyond Syria, to the north and east, a behemoth was arising – the Assyrian Empire. The Assyrian Empire controlled the territory throughout Eastern Turkey, Iraq and Iran. King Ahaz of Judah bought their alliance against his foes by stripping the gold and silver from the Temple and offering it as a bribe to the Assyrians. But to summarize, the Northern Tribes were defeated by the Assyrians and driven into captivity. Finally, the remaining two Southern Tribes were conquered and taken into captivity by the Babylonian Empire. After seventy years, which were mentioned by Jeremiah, they reemerged as a fledgling nation in the Holy Land. They never lost their love of the Holy Land and their desire to return was undiminished.

The Northern Ten Tribes however, had no desire to return, and sought their own destiny in other lands, notably Europe. Their pagan ways had alienated them from any desire to serve God or to return to Him. Perhaps they would have remained alienated from God forever, except for a very special event in the Holy Land – the appearance of the Christ. News of this and all that He did, filtered through to them, and they were to learn that the Christ had specifically come with a message for them – the ‘lost sheep of Israel’, and a new devotion for God developed. In time, Christianity spread throughout Europe, while rapidly declining in the Holy Land.

Satan and his forces reasoned that as long as they had mastery in the Holy Land, Christianity would only be a foolish aberration among the Europeans, and would eventually fall into the slipstream of the rampant paganism of the Saxons and others. Satan reasoned that Christianity would fail to gain momentum among people who had been severely corrupted. But God had other ideas. Jesus had come with a specific message for them, concerning them and future prophecy, which had to be fulfilled. So it was not the slam-dunk that Satan had envisaged. Against all odds, Europe proceeded to yield to God, though with a variety of outcomes of factionalism and dissention. All of this caught Satan somewhat flatfooted and so he took steps to corrupt Christian beliefs, and lead them down a faulty pathway. The biggest impediment to his ambitions was the British – the original inhabitants of the British Isles, who held to a view of their origins and associations to the Tribes of Israel. He had to eliminate the Celts and destroy their reputation making them a curse and a byword among all the other Tribes. He rallied Saxons, Angles and Danes against them, and drove them into the western provinces of Wales and to the northern extremities of the Island to Scotland, and to Brittany in France. Eventually, the mighty Celts were conquered as an independent nation, and Satan’s counterfeit Christianity gained preeminence. With the false doctrine came the eradiction of all knowledge of the ‘lost Tribes of Israel’. And this is exactly what happened. Mainstream Christianity, under the auspices of Satan, vehemently repudiated the importance of God’s chosen Family of all the families on the face of the earth, and sought to unify them under the banner of a controlled environment – a doctrine of his own devising. And any dissenters would be pursued and killed. All Christians would conduct their affairs his way – or else! Importantly, any suggestion that Europe was the ‘lost Tribes of Israel’ would he harshly dealt with, until all suggestions ceased to exist, and they truly became ‘lost’ as to their origins.

Today, the Tribes of Israel have no idea who they are, but with one exception: the Tribe of Judah has never forgotten that they are the people of God. And the reason is that they continued to honour God’s Sabbath Day and all of His Holy Days. This has continued to be God’s identifying sign down through the ages: Isa 58:13-14 "If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my Holy Day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD’S Holy Day honourable, and if you honour it by not doing your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the Land and to Feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob." The mouth of the LORD has spoken."

It was very clear to Isaiah to expect a future time of God’s intervention, like when the mountains quaked at the time of Moses – a special time when they would see the mighty Power of God: Isa 64:1 "Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! As when the fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your Name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you. Since ancient times no-one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. You come to the help of those who gladly do right, who REMEMBER your ways." And just to put things into context, Isaiah spoke of the new heavens and the new earth, and this will definitely cause the mountains to tremble. Isa 65:17 "Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth." God plans to renew the face of the earth. It will be as it once was – a symbol of the Power and Might of Almighty God. Isaiah had previously spoken of this in Isa 40:3-4 "A voice of one calling: "In the desert prepare the way for the LORD, make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the Glory of God will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken." Isaiah’s words recorded here were to become the frontispiece of the Message of the one whom Jesus identified as the Elijah to come – John the Baptist (Luke 3:2-9), and he spoke of the axe being laid at the root of the tree, and that every tree that does not produce good fruit will be thrown into the fire (V9). This certainly doesn’t sound like God is kidding around, does it?

When God comes down and shakes the earth again, He’s going to make His Great Name and reputation known to all. Not to do them good, but to repay them for their evil! The created ones don’t dictate to the Creator how they will behave. The Creator Himself makes the rules! He makes the distinction between those who are good and those who are evil. In Isaiah, chapter 63, following right after the great slaughter of those in the land of Mecca and Medina (the cities holy to Moslems), detailed in V1-6, God begins to remind the House of Israel (V7) of all that He did for them. He says: V7 "I will tell you of all the kindnesses of the LORD, the deeds for which He is to praised, according to all the LORD has done for the House of Israel, according to His compassion and many kindnesses. He said, "Surely they are my people, sons who will not be false to me", and so He became their Saviour. In all their distress He too was distressed, and the angel of His presence saved them. In His love and mercy He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. Yet they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them." We have not yet seen the bloodbath of Mecca and Medina in the ancient homeland of Edom (Esau). This is still to come. But the timing is identified as: V4 "For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redemption has come." Surely it’s no surprise that God would act to take vengeance Himself against the cities of His enemies. Especially since the House of Israel has refused to do so! Even worse, the House of Israel is now paving the way for the most evil of cities to arise: Babylon! The House of Israel is intent on doing the Babylonians good, rather than repaying them for their evil. The Mighty Christ will set the example of destroying the ‘holy’ cities of Islam, and later, after Babylon has served God’s purpose of punishing the House of Israel, it too will be destroyed, and in a spectacular way.

God said, "Surely they are my people, sons who will not be false to me." Would a faithful son side with his father’s enemies? Would they side with a religion that is plotting the destruction of the people of God? They’re sending their sons and daughters to be killed by a foreign god, and for the express purpose of honouring that foreign god and his religion. The House of Israel should have remembered that God is a jealous God (Exo 20:5). They should have made some attempt to understand what provokes Him! The House of Israel refused to honour God’s Sabbath, and now they’ve sought to honour a foreign god who has supplanted God’s Sabbath with the sixth day – Friday. And they’ve chosen to honour this god! Are they crazy or what?

In the past when God destroyed the northern Ten Tribes of Israel, it was because of the religion of the nations around them that they became enamored with, and chose to forsake their God. They loved all the pageantry and the fornication that went with it, and they lost their minds in the realm of evil. That realm of evil pervades them even today, and everyone wants the right to do as they please, even those things that are against the very course of nature. Somehow they’ve developed the mind to support any evil, but have a mindset against doing those things that God has proclaimed as good. The first day or the sixth day of the week is OK by them, but the Seventh Day? They’ll have none of it! Little wonder they never understood the principle behind it! It was the precursor to the Millennial Sabbath – the Day of the LORD – and that Day is here. Mind you, the start of the seventh millennium in 2001 (which is the correct way of calculating millennial beginnings) brought some severe warnings to the ‘lost sheep of Israel’ when the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were hit by Satan and his rulers of the heavenly realms. It was planned to put ten aircraft into action, with the fourth destroying the White House in Washington, but the timing was out as far as fulfilling the prophecy concerning this city (Isa 28:1-3). The Babylonians had to be beaten down one more time.

Outside of this Brotherhood, the connection was not made as to its significance of the 9-11 disaster. And it occurred just seven days before the Feast of Trumpets in that year. This also is significant – but only to this Brotherhood of the Sons of Jerusalem! The significance of it all has to be withheld so as not to forewarn Satan and his rulers, who might otherwise tumble to it and go all out to confound prophecy to cause it to fail. Like the whole House of Israel, Satan and his rulers know nothing and they understand nothing. This Brotherhood likes to keep it this way, until the precise moment arises.

As the Lord’s Day dawned, the Seventh Millennium, God permitted an outrage to draw attention to His enemies, and to test Ephraim’s determination to punish them. Would they understand God’s warning and recognize the enemies of God? It seemed at first that they would. But they began the campaign in Afghanistan by first making friends with Pakistan who were already an enemy, and buying their favour. For billions of dollars in bribes, Pakistan made all the right noises, and offered token support for the campaign. The rest of Islam didn’t react to Pakistan’s actions, and there was a reason for this. Behind the scenes, Pakistan’s national hero, their nuclear bomb-maker, was actively engaged with a consortium of Moslem countries to build nuclear weapons. It now emerges that Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria were actively conspiring to build nuclear weapons using the expertise of Pakistan and their celebrated bombmaker. It was only the rank-and-file Pakistani Moslems that were outraged at Musharef, the President of Pakistan, because they were not in the loop, but the Moslem leaders of the evil Islamic nations were, and knew that Musharef was being duplicitous with the U.S. The proposed nuclear weapons joint-program was seen as their ticket to the destruction of America and Israel. This story actually broke in the media on the Feast of Pentecost, 2004, and is covered more fully in the next chapter of this article. The realization that all this has been occurring has sent the U.S. Administration into shock that their intelligence agencies had not uncovered it. They were too busy focusing on Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden to know what was happening elsewhere. The blame game started immediately and heads began to roll. George Tennant, director of the CIA quit, presumably for family reasons. The U.S. Administration was shell-shocked that this had gone on undetected, and right under their noses.

But it presented other problems as well. Whereas the Whitehouse and the Pentagon had carefully crafted the belief that the ‘War on Terrorism’ was against just a few phantom terrorists who never really had a public face and who were really operating independently of their respective countries. Islamic countries – they would assure everyone – were really onboard in the war on terrorism, and had nothing to do with terrorism themselves. Now that it has emerged that their special relationship with Egypt, for example, has been duplicitous and deceptive, the U.S. is having a hard time un-muddying the water. America has issues with Iraq (as we all know), Iran (who they don’t trust, and have accused them of being a part of an axis of evil), Libya (who have been considered to be pariahs for years), Syria (who are well-known to be harboring known terrorists, and are known to be sympathetic to terrorist groups), and Saudi Arabia (who are known to be the clearing house of terrorist funding, yet always seem to get under the radar of suspicion – officially!). Then there are the Pakistanis who openly express hatred for America and the Israelis in their madrasses and mosques. But for unknown reasons are now considered to be friends. Afghanistan is filled with incoherent lunatics, who are completely unpredictable, except in their determination to produce Heroin for shipment to the U.S. for the underworld drug trade. The Afghanis are a ruthless and dangerous people, and both the former Soviet Union and the U.S. has found this out through experience.

But the real dark horse is Egypt who likes to appear statesman-like to the world while continuing to plot against America and the Israelis. Just remember that since 1948 Egypt has spearheaded three major attacks against the Israelis in the hope of destroying them. It’s Egypt that will be a dominant player as the King of the South, when the King of the North arises in power. So Egypt’s ambition is well-stated in the Bible, and God has detailed the outcome. The King of the North will come like a whirlwind and secure the northern region of the Middle East, and Egypt will marshal the southern regions to hold out against him. But God will give the victory to the King of the North. At that time, the might and power of Ephraim will be just a fading memory. With the un-ceremonial exit of Ephraim, the nations will do as they please, and their hearts will be set on conquest.

So despite all efforts to sanitize the behavior of these Moslem nations, they continue to prove to be enemies of all Christians and Jews, but most particularly Americans and Israelis. And no amount of window-dressing is able to disguise this fact. But vengeance is in God’s heart and He will repay His enemies, and the Mighty Christ can’t wait to get started! Once the fire is kindled, it will become an inferno: Luke 12:49 "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division." So much for the petty and mindless nonsense being taught today by those who never knew God or His Christ!

Endtime Bible prophecy speaks a great deal of the two southern Tribes, Judah and Levi, but of the Ten Northern Tribes, the so-called ‘lost Tribes’, the only Tribe that features prominently is the Tribe of Joseph, and especially Ephraim. In fact, the Book of Hosea could be described as Ephraim’s Book, since it speaks almost exclusively of them.

God appointed a mighty saviour to come to the rescue of the Tribes of Israel in times of conflict. This is the surrogate son who regulates the conduct of the nations, and has the power and might to do it. Those nations who don’t like Ephraim dictating terms of peace will certainly not like God doing the same thing. They neither like Ephraim or God ruling over them! And any lip-service to God is on the condition that God reacts according to their own views on how things should be done.

On the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, all of Europe paused to reflect on the outcome of that war if God’s mighty son had not acted. The allied European forces knew they faced certain defeat unless America entered the war. But God had in mind for a lesson to be learned, and He delayed their entry, and allowed Britain and Europe to plead and wait. While the outcome was assured, much severe fighting resulted before victory was declared. But the whole world now knows who won that war. It was God’s son, the mighty Ephraim.

And now, sixty years later, is the world grateful to Ephraim? Do they honour this mighty power and savior? Not at all! And neither will they honour God’s other Saviour – His Son Jesus when He acts to bring peace through the crucible of war. This time, God will appoint a different army – one that is attuned to God’s Way of doing things. This army will strike down left and right sparing no-one among Satan’s brood. A clear Plan will be in place, and this Plan will detail what it will take to bring lasting peace. Because of the actions of God’s army, there will be reactions by Satan’s brood against the exposed flanks of the exposed House of Israel. Duly, the House of Israel will blame God’s army for the retaliatory hostilities. But they will be reminded that it would not be occurring if they had done the job right in the first place. God’s army will be doing what they failed to do, and they will begin in the Holy Land and spread to the surrounding nations – and then take the fight to the whole world. The ‘lost sheep of Israel’ will have to wait for their turn to be rescued – and this will take years!

Unfortunately, the House of Israel did not receive any good advice from the Churches of God or any of Christianity generally. But this will gradually change as the intensity of war and terror increases and certain trainee ‘kings and priests’ will begin to understand the error of their ways and repent of their former beliefs – the leavening of Satan, and turn to God in earnest. These will begin to instruct many among the House of Israel, and lead them to expect salvation at the appointed time. For their faithful service (even though belatedly), and this service is detailed in Dan 7:21, 25, they will afterwards inherit the Kingdom of God (V27). These are a special people who will bring many others to salvation, to be rescued and brought back to their ancient Homeland – the Holy Land. As the offspring of the Woman (Rev 12:17) – the Woman is the people of Jerusalem – and their offspring will receive some very special help. They will receive the Testimony of Jesus – the Spirit of Prophecy (Rev 19:10), and they will be known as faithful Commandment-keepers of the Almighty God. Their service will bring many others into the fold. God has made it clear that those who reject knowledge now can only look forward to destruction now and death forever. The unforgivable sin is the sin against the Holy Spirit, and those who fail to acknowledge God’s Holy Spirit in those whom God has appointed to detail His Will as His Holy Spirit leads them, will get what their actions deserve (2Cor 11:13-15). God couldn’t be clearer on making His intentions known. For those who turn away, there is no further sacrifice for them! For those who once had God’s Holy Spirit, they can only expect to face a raging fire, which will consume them. Then they will know the consequences of treating God like a fool!

It’s true that for a long time God winked at (as Paul put it - KJV) or overlooked ignorance, but the time has come to repent of such ignorance (Acts 17:30). Even the sins of Ephraim were overlooked – though kept on record (Hos 13:12), but now God insists on everyone coming to their senses and repenting of their outrageous views of His proposed salvation.

Did you even wonder why the blessings of Moses the man of God did not include the Tribe of Simeon (Germany) in Deut 33? Or why Dan is described as being like a young lion cub among the flocks of Bashan? A young lion cub kills for the sake of killing, and when set among the sheep for which Bashan was famous, was determined to destroy the flock. The Tribe of Dan you will recall is omitted from the Blessings of the House of Israel in Rev 7:5-8, but Simeon is included there. What must Simeon have thought of Moses’ omission? And particularly since Moses departed immediately for Mount Nebo in Jordan, and there he died and was buried in the valley opposite Beth Peor. So Simeon was left with the stigma of receiving no blessing or mention. It’s my guess that this was the start of Simeon’s long-lasting jealousy and arrogance towards his brothers. This arrogance was to raise its ugly head many times throughout history. Almighty God exploited this arrogance in Simeon, and provided us with many lessons – foremost among these was Simeon’s (Germany’s) arrogance towards his brothers. Germany never stopped trying to gain ascendancy over all his brother Tribes. So there are compelling reasons for Moses’ omission of Simeon from the blessings. Yet in the final carve-up mentioned in Rev 7 Simeon is once again in great favour. All that happens to bring about this change of heart is another story entirely which has yet to unfold.

There is even a strong indication that Judas Iscariot was of the Tribe of Simeon. He loved money, power and prestige, and couldn’t live without it! As it turned out, he died without it! And he suffered the fate of the accursed. Judas was a greedy, self-serving thief, a crafty, cunning manipulator, who cared only about himself. This man was an eye-witness to all the wonders that had been done, but he couldn’t retain knowledge and quickly forgot all about the wonders he had witnessed as the prospect of making thirty pieces of silver overrode all other considerations. He became emboldened when the Christ spoke of His disciples eating His flesh and drinking His blood, and this alienated many followers. Jesus didn’t explain what He meant at that time, but chose to wait and see who departed following what they believed was offensive. They had uncovered what they believed was a fault with Christ. The more they discussed it the greater it became magnified. They reasoned that if Jesus were truly of God then He would not have said such a thing. In their minds, Jesus had advocated cannibalism and this was totally unacceptable. Later of course, they realized they had jumped the gun, and had falsely accused Jesus. They had been tested and had failed the test! They came limping back after they learned of the Passover that Jesus had desired to keep with the 12 Apostles, and the explanation of the meaning of the symbols used, but it was too late to participate in that all important Passover!

Only eleven of the Apostles remained faithful and confessed that Jesus was the Christ and held the key to life. Nothing would turn them from their resolve to serve the Father and His Christ. And, of course, their faith was vindicated prior to His death and departure when He said: Luke 22:15 "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer." Jesus then went on to show that He was the Passover Lamb, and they had to eat of His body and drink of His blood. Those who ate the traditional sacrificial lamb had to eat the lamb, but not the blood because the life is in the blood. But under the terms of the New Covenant it was a requirement to drink the blood of the Lamb of God in order to impart life to the receiver. The eating of the Passover Lamb and the drinking of His blood was the new Passover. There was no need to purchase a lamb; the Passover Lamb was already there. It remained only to eat His flesh and drink His blood. It was the drinking of the blood that imparted life. There are some today that deny that Jesus is the Lamb of God – the Passover Lamb – that must be eaten in remembrance of Him as the Passover Lamb. Those who fail to observe the New Passover as He instructed have no part of Him, and neither are they His. This is what He says: Luke 22:19-20 "And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the New Covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you." If the life is in the blood, then you have to wonder why some people seem to think they have rights to life when they refuse the very blood that can impart it!

The whole point of the New Passover was to partake of the very body and life of Jesus the Christ. No-one can have any part of the Christ or the Kingdom of God if they are not seeded with His bloodline. Since babies don’t choose their parents, God provided another way for anyone to become a part of the bloodline of His Glorious Son. And the New Passover is it! It’s a glorious blessing to all those who participate, but a mailed-fist to all those who do it unworthily. The New Passover is the first step in participating in the body and life of the Christ, and a reminder that God plans to populate this earth with the offspring of His Glorious Son. Almighty God is less concerned with the circumstances of our birth than He is with the circumstances of our minds. The New Passover is the first step in developing the mind of Christ, and actually being a part of His Body. God intends that this new body has no hint or trace of the mind of Satan or his body. The offspring of Christ must be a whole new entity by the renewal of the mind. And none can come to the Father except through the Son, and none can come to the Son except the Father draws them (John 6:44). It’s these who are drawn by the Father and received by the Son who are taught by God (same verse). As Isaiah points out in Isa 54:13, these are the Sons of Jerusalem. How evident this is becoming today! You only have to read what the religious pretenders are teaching today to know they have not been taught by God! And neither do they have any concern for the instruction of God’s Spirit.

In the context of the Passover, the offspring of Christ is mentioned in Isa 53:10 "Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and cause Him to suffer, and though the LORD makes His life a guilt offering, He will see His offspring and prolong His days, and the Will of the LORD will prosper in His hand."

In order to participate in the New Passover, each potential seed or offspring of Christ should have every trace of the contamination of Satan washed away in baptism – or – at the very least, their feet should be washed as a prelude to participation. The feet are a symbol of the true Gospel of peace (Eph 6:15). The washing of feet symbolizes a commitment to walk in the ways of Christ. Remember how Jesus said to Peter that he could not have any part of Him, except his feet are washed by Him? And how Peter responded with ‘not only my feet, but my hands and head also’ (John 13:7-9). It was an interesting and thoughtful statement by Peter, and whatever our hands do, and whatever we think with our minds, it should be to the glory of God. Self-interest should be far-removed from the offspring of Christ. Unfortunately, self-interest is endemic in the churches of this world. They seem intent on making everyone in their congregations twice the sons of hell as they are. If you follow their line of reasoning, you would have to believe that God’s only purpose is to give everyone on earth a clean bill of health, and to welcome them into everlasting pastures. The blood on their hands, and the mindless rhetoric of their feeble understanding, they believe should not be an issue, as long as their lip-service is compatible with the emotional fe