Feed My Sheep
Jesus told Peter 3 times
Most Americans want some form of religious identity
so who are his sheep?
We first must start with understanding what happened in Genesis.
After the Flood, the descendant’s of Noah formed
70 Nations and built the Tower of Babel
1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelled there. 3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth. 5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 6And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there on the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad on the face of all the earth.
God scattered the nations
across the face of the earth
just as
the CHAFF of the threshing floor would be blown away by the wind;
Abraham, is called out of Babylon by God used to be the father of His Nation
Abraham and Sarai gave birth to Isaac.Isaac and Rebekah gave birth to Jacob.Jacob would be renamed to Israeland from him came the 12 tribes of Israel.
Deuteronomy 32 :
8When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
when he separated the sons of Adam,
he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness;
he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
The overarching narrative and redemptive story line after this, is the shepherd and his sheep,
which all traces back to Rachel,
“the wife Jacob loved most”,
and her 1st born son, Joseph,
who “Jacob loved the most out of the 12 tribes”.
[h7354] רָחֵל Râchêl Rachel= “ewe” (lamb)
GENESIS 29 : JACOB MEETS RACHEL
1Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. 2And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, see, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was on the well’s mouth. 3And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in his place. 4And Jacob said to them, My brothers, from where be you? And they said, Of Haran are we. 5And he said to them, Know you Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him. 6And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel[h7354] his daughter comes with the sheep. 7And he said, See, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water you the sheep, and go and feed them. 8And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.
Genesis 29 : Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
14And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he stayed with him the space of a month. 15And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? tell me, what shall your wages be? 16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. 18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. 19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. 20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
21And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her. 22And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. 23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in to her. 24And Laban gave to his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid. 25And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this you have done to me? did not I serve with you for Rachel? why then have you beguiled me? 26And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. 27Fulfill her week, and we will give you this also for the service which you shall serve with me yet seven other years. 28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. 29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. 30And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. 31And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
The 12 Tribes of Israel that came from Jacob
came by way of his 2 wives,
Leah and Rachel
and their 2 handmaids,
Zilphah, and Bilhah.
Handmaids
Bilhah : Rachel’s Handmaid
Zilpah : Leah’s Handmaid
Wives
Rachel
Leah
Rachel and Leah were the ones that built the house of Israel.
Ruth 4 : Boaz Redeems Ruth
11And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
Leah had the
1st 4 tribes of Israel :
1 Reuben
2 Simeon
3 Levi
4 Judah
Rachel became envious of Leah
because she was able to conceive
and give Jacob children and she couldn’t.
So she gave Jacob her handmaid
Bilhah to conceive who had :
5 Dan
6 Naphtali
Leah then gave Jacob her handmaid
Zilpah to conceive who had
7 Gad
8 Asher
Leah then had
9 Isaachar
10 Zebulon
Rachel finally had
11 Joseph
12 Benjamin
Rachel’s Sons
Benjamin (“son of the right hand”)
Paul who planted and established
the first churches
was from the tribe of Benjamin
Joseph (“God has added”)
Joseph, was the son that Jacob “loved the most.” He received the
1st born birthright promise
While they were in Canaan, Joseph was feeding the flock with the sons of Rachel and Leah’s handmaids, Jacob’s Concubines.
Joseph told them that he had dreamed
that they were binding sheaves in the field
and that their sheaf would
stand round about and bow down to his.
The interpretation meaning
that the fruit produced from the brothers
would bow down to the fruit produced from Joseph
Fruit can be defined as anything produced or accruing;
product, result, or effect;
return or profit:
fruit, produce (of the ground)
fruit, offspring, children, progeny (of the womb)
fruit (of actions) (figuratively)
Genesis 37 : Joseph’s Dreams
1And Jacob dwelled in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. 2These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought to his father their evil report. 3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors. 4And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him
5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brothers: and they hated him yet the more. 6And he said to them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed: 7For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, see, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. 8And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
9And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brothers, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. 10And he told it to his father, and to his brothers: and his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth? 11And his brothers envied[H7065] him; but his father observed the saying.
The brothers became Jealous of Joseph and they threw him into a pit and he was carried into Egypt.
Because of famine in Canaan, Jacob/Israel moved his family to the Land of Goshen, just outside of Egypt
The 70 souls
which came from Jacob
would multiply into over 600,000
which became the nation of Israel
70 nations scattered at babel
1 Soul redeemed by God
out of the 70 Nations
to father his own Nation
70 souls from Jacob go into egypt
1 Nation is redeemed by God,
70 souls multiplied into
600k+ souls & his new Nation of Israel
EXODUS 1: THE ISRAELITES MULTIPLY IN EGYPT
While in Egypt, Joseph gave birth to 2 sons,
Manassah and Ephraim
It is here where Israel blesses the sons of Joseph
who were born to him in Egypt.
Israel claims that’s Joseph’s sons
are to be treated as his.
They were “grandfathered in”
as part of the 12 tribes
1And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, your father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed. 3And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4And said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people; and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession. 5And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. 6And your issue, which you beget after them, shall be yours, and shall be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance. 7And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
8And Israel beheld Joseph’s sons, and said, Who are these? 9And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, w
hom God has given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray you, to me, and I will bless them. 10Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face: and, see, God has showed me also your seed. 12And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.14And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
15And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long to this day,
16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the middle of the earth.
17And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head. 19And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
20And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
21And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. 22Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Proverbs 17 : 6Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
EPHRAIM,
who received the 1st born blessing,
was prophesied to be the fullness of the nations,
those not belonging to God.
So from God’s perspective,
you are either
Gentile = “of the Nations”
(that are not Israel)
-or-
of the Nation of
Israel = “God prevails”
Jacob said Ephraim would be a fullness of the nations. Jacob was implying that the nations disinherited by God that were scattered at the Tower of Babel that left off building the city, would eventually come together again to try and finish what Nimrod had started. Once the fullness of the nations plan is complete, Ephraim at that time, would be scattered among the nations.
Revelation 18 : Babylon is Fallen
4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
So how did Joseph receive the 1st born birthright when he was 2nd to last one born of the 12 tribes?
After Rachel died, Reuben who was Jacob’s
actual 1st born son through Leah,
slept with Bilhah and defiled Jacob’s bed
Because of this,
Reuben lost his
1st Born Birth Right
and it was given to Joseph
the 1st born of Rachel
1 Chronicles 5 : Descendants of Reuben
1Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but for as much as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. 2For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)
birthright Promise
Joseph
and his 2 son’s:
Ephraim & Manassah
Scepter Promise
Judah
Joseph and Judah received the longest prophecy and blessings from Jacob.
Jacob’s prophecy of joseph
22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brothers.
jacob’s prophecy of judah
Genesis 49 : Jacob’s Prophecy of his sons
8Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you. 9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be. 11Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass’s colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk
The sheep came from Rachel
The shepherd came from Leah
Jesus, the stone of Israel,
came from the Tribe of Judah
He rules and shepherds his sheep with his scepter,
the Law and commandments that he wrote on our hearts with his Holy spirit.
His sheep are the sons of Rachel
Joseph and Benjamin,
and the 2 sons born to Joseph in Egypt,
Ephraim and Manassah
Gideon
was from the “Tribe of Manassah.”
Joshua,
was from the “Tribe of Ephraim.”,
who led the Israelite’s across the Jordan into the Promised Land
Joseph was prophecied to be a fruitful bough.
Fruit can be defined as anything produced or accruing;
product, result, or effect;
return or profit:
fruit, (of the ground) produce
fruit, (of the womb) offspring, children, progeny
fruit (of actions) (figuratively)
Ephraim, Joseph’s son born to him in Egypt
[h699] Ephrayim Ephraim = “double fruit (ash-heap)”
1st portion of Ephraim’s fruit
(of the womb)
Multiplying into a nation while in Egypt after God told them “to be fruitful and multiply.”
2nd portion of Ephraim’s fruit
(of actions)
the fruit of the Spirit
given to us by Christ’s Holy Spirit
Joseph received the longest blessing from Moses
moses’s blessing of joseph
Deuteronomy 33 : blessings of 12 tribes
13And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, 14And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, 15And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills, 16And for the precious things of the earth and fullness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelled in the bush: let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him that was separated from his brothers.
17His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
moses’s blessing of Jacob
Deuteronomy 33 : blessings of 12 tribes
7And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be you an help to him from his enemies.
EXODUS 1: THE ISRAELITES MULTIPLY IN EGYPT
After Israel had been fruitful and multiplied,
Joseph died and a Pharoah rose up and afflicted Israel.
God then uses Moses to lead the Exodus out of Egypt.
Israel became God’s Firstborn Son
.
EXODUS 4 : MOSES LEAVES FOR EGYPT
22And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus said the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
The Nation of Israel was considered by God His “Firstborn” because He disinherited the Nations that came together to build the tower of Babel and established His new seed with Abraham which had multiplied in Egypt.
Israel makes Exodus out of Egypt
1st born of egypt
Killed
1st born of God : Israel
EXODUS 11:7
that ye may know how that
the LORD doth put a difference
between the Egyptians and Israel.
Moses received the Law from God
The Law was given to Israel by God at Mt. Sinai.
God established His covenant with Israel at Mt. Sinai.
At that point He considered Israel as His “Bride”
because of the binding covenant they made.
Metaphorically Speaking
From God’s Point of View
Israel was the Firstborn of God
Israel was God’s Wife
From Israel’s Point of View
God was the Father of Israel
God was the Husband of Israel
Just before entering the promised land 40 years later,
we see God adding a new covenant,
to that which was given to the generation before.
The covenant that came to the first generation under Moses, were not so much the instructions,
but were an expansion of the blessings and curses that would result
pending the obedience or disobedience to the Law.
Covenant at Horeb / Sinai
which contained the Law and
the 10 commandments
as well as instructions
for setting up the tabernacle
Covenant at Moab
which contained
blessings or curses
pending obedience or
disobedience to the Law
After the covenant at Moab,Joshua, from the Tribe of Ephraim,led the Israelite’s across the Jordanand they began taking the land of Canaanwhich God had promised to give them.
Eventually Israel decided to have a king over them.
Under King Solomon rule, he led Israel to follow other gods. God said He would scatter them among the nations, if they didn’t follow his instructions.
So after Solomon died, He gave 10 tribes of Israel to Jeroboam and 2 to Judah.
Northern Kingdom of israel
led by Jeroboam
(from the tribe of Ephraim)
was given 10 tribes
and became known as
“The House of Joseph”
“The House of Israel”
and simply “Ephraim”
southern Kingdom of Judah
led by Solomon
(from the tribe of Judah)
was given 2 tribes
and became known as
“House of Judah”
Just like the US, Israel became divided in two into
the Northern and Southern Kingdoms,
but unlike the US,
Israel never came back together.
Ephraim that was promised to be
the fullness of the nations.
The Gentiles.
The fullness of those not belonging to God.
Here we see the prophesy of Ephraim begin to manifest.
Jeroboam (from tribe of Ephraim) rebelled and made 2 Golden Calves
when he was given control
of the Northern Kingdom of Israel
just as they made a golden calf
when brought out of Egypt
1 Kings 12 :
28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 29And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. 30And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even to Dan.
After 200 years of Idolatry,
God divorced
the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
The list of transgressions that caused God to divorce Israel and place them in exile is listed in 2 Kings 17.
Fearing other gods
Rejected God’s statutes and covenant
Walking in the statutes of the nations
Doing things secretly that were not right
Built high places in all their cities
Set up images and groves
Burnt incense in high places
Worked wicked things to provoke God
Served idols
Followed vanity and became vain
Left all the commandments
Made molten images, groves
Worshipped all the host of heaven and served baal
They caused their sons to pass therough the fire
Used divination and enchantment
Sold themselves to do evil
Hosea 4 : God’s Charges against Israel
1Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood. 3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yes, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. 4Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest. 5Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with you in the night, and I will destroy your mother. 6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. 7As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. 8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. 9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. 10For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit prostitution, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. 11Prostitution and wine and new wine take away the heart. 12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares to them: for the spirit of prostitutions has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. 13They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit prostitution, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14I will not punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that does not understand shall fall. 15Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not you to Gilgal, neither go you up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives. 16For Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. 17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. 18Their drink is sour: they have committed prostitution continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give you. 19The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Both Kingdoms ended up being banished from their land and taken into captivity.
NorTHern Kingdom of israel
“House of Israel”
was taken by the Assyrians.
Southern Kingdom of Judah
“House of Judah”
led into Exile in Babylon for 70 years
Hosea 9 : Hosea Announces Israel’s Punishment
13Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels. 16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. 17My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Even though Ephraimand the Northern Kingdomhad been divorced by Godand scattered among the Nations,because they had followed vanity,we see in the prophets,that it is God’s plan to seek them outfrom where he scattered them.
Hosea 4 : God’s Charges against Israel
6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
Luke 16 : The Law and the Prophets
14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15And he said to them, You are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. 16The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presses into it. 17And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one pronunciation mark of the law to fail.
Divorce (Deuteronomy 24:1-5; Matthew 5:31-32)
18Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery.
To understand the Law please read :
The Trial of Faith
This was what confused the rabbi’s because in His own Law it states that it is an abomination to remarry whom you have divorced.
Since Israel was his bride whom he divorced,
how could he could he seek out and restore the lost sheep while fulfilling the requirements of the Law at the same time?
DEUTERONOMY 24 : LAW OF DIVORCE
1When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. 3And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; 4Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
Paul goes onto say that we die in Christ, when we come into the faith, releasing both us and God from the requirement of the law as it relates to divorce and remarriage.
So Christ came down and died for the Lost Sheep in order to bring them back into the fold.
ROMANS 6 : DEAD TO SIN, ALIVE TO GOD
1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.7For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Israel : Ephraimbecause of disobedience.-vs-
Jesus
old Man :: Adam
Born of Flesh From Earth
Was made a Living Soul
Sin entered into the world
through 1 man’s offence
Death passed unto many
Death reigned by 1
By the offence of 1 judgement,
came condemnation unto all men
By the disobedience of 1,
many were made sinners
Sin reigned through death
The Law entered that the offence may abound
-vs-
New Man :: Jesus
Born of Spirit from Heaven
Was made a quickeninig Spirit
Grace entered into the world
through 1 man’s righteousness
Life passed unto many
Righteousness in life shall reign by 1
By the righteousness of 1 free gift,
came justification unto life of all men
By the obedience of 1,
many were made righteous
Grace reigned unto righteousness to life
But grace did much more abound
1 If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which you also walked some time, when you lived in them. 8 But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do you. 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfection. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body; and be you thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Joseph+
Joseph
To restore his lost sheep,
Jesus had to drink the bitter water
in the Garden of Gethsemene
that causes the curse prescribed
in the Law for Adultery in Numbers 5.
He knew what drinking the cup would bring
and this is why he prayed
LUKE 22 : JESUS PRAYS ON MOUNT OF OLIVES
42Saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but yours, be done.
To understand more clearly how this curse
was enacted upon Jesus for us please read
The Law of Adultery
has more conditional clauses in all of Moses Law
and is the Key to Understanding what Jesus did for us on the Cross as well as Revelation.
A woman suspected of adultery
would be brought before the priest at the entrance of the tabernacle.
The woman was to stand before the Lord,
who would act as her judge.
NUMBERS 5 : THE LAW OF JEALOUSY |The Adultery Test
11And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 12Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; 14And the spirit of jealousy[h7068] come on him, and he be jealous[h7065] of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy[h7068] come on him, and he be jealous[h7065] of his wife, and she be not defiled:15Then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: 17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: 18And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse: 19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman, If no man have lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your husband, be you free from this bitter water that causes the curse: 20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you be defiled, and some man have lain with you beside your husband:21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD does make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell; 22And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: 24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse: and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. 25Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it on the altar: 26And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. 27And when he has made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people. 28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;30Or when the spirit of jealousy[h7068]comes on him, and he be jealous[h7065]over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law. 31Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
Numbers 5 : The LAW OF JEALOUSIES – the adultery test
11And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 12Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them,
If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him, 13And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner; 14And the spirit of jealousy[h7068] come on him, and he be jealous[h7065] of his wife, and she be defiled:
or if the spirit of jealousy[h7068] come on him, and he be jealous[h7065] of his wife, and she be not defiled:
15Then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD: 17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water: 18And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causes the curse: 19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say to the woman,
If no man have lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your husband,:
Then be you free from this bitter water that causes the curse:
20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband,
and if you be defiled,
and some man have lain with you beside your husband:
21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD does make your thigh to rot, and your belly to swell; 22And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: 24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse: and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter. 25Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it on the altar: 26And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water. 27And when he has made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that,
If she be defiled,
and have done trespass against her husband,
Then the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;30Or when the spirit of jealousy[h7068]comes on him, and he be jealous[h7065]over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute on her all this law. 31Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
Both of these words
[h7067] קַנָּא qannâʼ,
jealous
[h7068] קִנְאָהqinʼâh
jealousy or envy
come from
the primitive
root word…
[h7065] קָנָא qânâ’ zealous
i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious:
to become Red
(occurs 33 times in 28 verses)
.
The 2nd occurrence of [h7065] קָנָא qânâ’
Occurs when Rachel envied Leah so she gave Jacob her handmaid Bilhah to conceive and she named him Dan
Genesis 30 : Dan and Naphtali
1And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied[H7065]her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
The 3rd occurrence of [h7065] קָנָא qânâ’
Occurs when Joseph’s brother’s envied him in GENESIS 37 after he dreamed that their fruit would bow down to his.
Genesis 37 : Joseph’s Dreams
11And his brothers envied[H7065] him; but his father observed the saying.
The 4th occurence of [h7065] קָנָא qânâ’
The Law of Jealousy
Rachel could not conceive and became jealous/envious of Leah so she gave Jacob her handmaid to conceive and she named the child Dan which means “Judge” because God had judged her. When God removed her reproach, she conceived and had Joseph.
Genesis 30 : Dan and Naphtali
1And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied[H7065]her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb? 3And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in to her; and she shall bear on my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in to her. 5And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son. 6And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
The Birth of Joseph
22And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. 23And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God has taken away my reproach: 24And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.
When Moses had brought Israel to Mount Sinai to receive the Law from God, he came down and saw that Israel had made a golden calf during the time he was gone. Moses saw they were naked because of this. Metaphorically Moses perceived Israel, the bride God had chosen, as being naked laying with another man.
EXODUS 32 : THE GOLDEN CALF (Deuteronomy 9:7-29)
1And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 2And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me. 3And all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. 4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a engraving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 5And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD. 6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
MOSES INFORMED OF ISRAEL’S SIN
7And the LORD said to Moses, Go, get you down; for your people, which you brought out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: 8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 9And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff necked people: 10Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of you a great nation.
11And Moses sought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does your wrath wax hot against your people, which you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand? 12Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people. 13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. 14And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do to his people.
MOSES DESCENDS WITH THE TABLETS
15And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 16And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven on the tables. 17And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 18And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
MOSES BREAKS THE TABLETS
19And it came to pass, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mount.
20And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder,
and strewed it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
21And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people to you, that you have brought so great a sin on them? 22And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: you know the people, that they are set on mischief. 23For they said to me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.24And I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. 25And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked to their shame among their enemies:)
26Then Moses stood in the GATE OF THE CAMP, and said, WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE?
let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. 27And he said to them, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. 28And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. 29For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, even every man on his son, and on his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day.
MOSES INTERCEDES FOR ISRAEL
30And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said to the people, You have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up to the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin. 31And Moses returned to the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32Yet now, if you will forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written. 33And the LORD said to Moses, Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.34Therefore now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you: behold, my Angel shall go before you: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin on them. 35And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
EXODUS 34 : THE TABLETS ARE REPLACED
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous[h7067], is a jealous[h7067] God.
Moses crushed the calf that they had made into powder and made the drink it just as the curse that is described in Law of Jealousy
NUMBERS 5 : THE LAW OF JEALOUSY | The Adultery Test
23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: 24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causes the curse: and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
Metaphorically Moses perceived Israel, the bride God had chosen, as being naked laying with another man. Just as in the garden of Eden, when Eve ate of the forbidden fruit and she realized she was naked. They were kicked out of the garden and clothed with coats of skin.
GENESIS 3: THE SERPENT’S DECEPTION
10And he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. 11And he said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded you that you should not eat?15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise [h7779] your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
[h7779] שׁוּף shûwph;
BRUISE = “break, bruise, cover, crush. “
break in pieces, crushed (like Powder)
God said that he would put enmity between the serpent seed and her seed,
and that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent’s head.
God killed the 1st born son of Egypt
-vs-
1st born of God is redeemed
A woman suspected of adultery
would be brought before the priest
at the entrance of the tabernacle.
-vs-
The woman was to stand before the Lord,
who would act as her judge.
There are 2 Tribes not mentioned in Revelation
DAN and EPHRAIM (Joseph’s Son).
The Tribe of Dan
(“a serpent by the way”)
who is the son of Bilhah,
Rachels Handmaid,
is left out because they are
“the Synagogue of Satan”
and “The Whore of Babylon”
The Tribe of Ephraim
(“double fruit”)
and Rachel’s Grandson
is left out because they are
“Israel”
and “the Bride of Christ.”
There were 2 Golden Calves made by Jeroboam (from tribe of Ephraim), when he was given control of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
1 Kings 12 :
28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
29And he set the one in Bethel,
and the other put he in Dan.
30And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even to Dan.
Dan = “judge”,
.
Bethel = “House of God”,
Matthew 7 : Do Not Judge
1Judge not, that you be not judged. 2For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why behold you the mote that is in your brother’s eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye? 4Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye; and, behold, a beam is in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother’s eye.
[h1835] דָּן Dân, dawn; Dan = “judge”
which comes from:
[h1777]דִּין dîyn, deen; “to rule;”
The “Judges”
and “Rulers of Darkness” of the world
the son born to Jacob through Rachel’s handmaid because she envied Leah. They were the scribes and Pharisees
The Tribe of Dan are the “UnJust Judges on earth” who have re-established Babylon
Dan whose name means “judge”
currently judges and are
the kings and rulers here on earth.
The United Nations
-vs-
Jesus from Tribe of Judah comes back to “Judge” the Judges in Righteousness and establish Jerusalem
Revelation 18 : Babylon is Fallen
8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
Revelation 19 : Rider on White Horse
11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.
15And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16And he has on his clothing and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
John 8 : Jesus Delivers the Adulterous Woman
1Jesus went to the mount of Olives. 2And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3And the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the middle,4They say to him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what say you? 6This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 7So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said to them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the oldest, even to the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the middle. 10When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said to her, Woman, where are those your accusers? has no man condemned you? 11She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more.
Jesus the Light of the World (1 John 1:5-10)
12Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 13The Pharisees therefore said to him, You bore record of yourself; your record is not true. 14Jesus answered and said to them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know from where I came, and where I go; but you cannot tell from where I come, and where I go. 15You judge after the flesh; I judge no man. 16And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. 17It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. 18I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me bears witness of me. 19Then said they to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me, nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also. 20These words spoke Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
21Then said Jesus again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I go, you cannot come.22Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he said, Where I go, you cannot come. 23And he said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world. 24I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sins. 25Then said they to him, Who are you? And Jesus said to them, Even the same that I said to you from the beginning. 26I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. 27They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father. 28Then said Jesus to them, When you have lifted up the Son of man, then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things. 29And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. 30As he spoke these words, many believed on him.
The Truth will Set You Free(2 John 1:4-6)
31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; 32And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how say you, You shall be made free?
34Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is the servant of sin. 35And the servant stays not in the house for ever: but the Son stays ever. 36If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. 37I know that you are Abraham’s seed; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. 38I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father.
39They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. 41You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
The Children of the Devil
42Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word. 44You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stayed not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not. 46Which of you convinces me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me? 47He that is of God hears God’s words: you therefore hear them not, because you are not of God.
John 12 : Some Believe in Jesus
1st Time
Jesus did not came to judge the world but to “save his lost sheep”, through his death and resurrection
2nd Time
He comes to Judge the Judges, Kings, and Rulers of Earth who have restored “the lost city” of Babylon
The Whore’s earthly City of Babylon is destroyed
Rev 17 : The Woman on the Beast
I will show to you the judgment of the great whore that sits on many waters
The New heavenly city of Jerusalem comes down prepared for the bride
Revelation 21 : The New Jerusalem
9And there came to me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
Revelation 17 : Woman on Beast
4And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 18And the woman which you saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth
The beast the woman rides on has
7 heads and 10 horns
The 7th Commandment :
Thou shall not commit Adultery
The 10th Commandment :
Thou shall not covet (envy, jealousy)
Time between
the birth of Christ,
until the time 2nd Temple was destroyed
The amount of time the
Southern Kingdom of Judah
spent in Babylonian captivity
after the 1st temple was destroyed
The amount of time we as the
Northern Kingdom of Israel | Ephraim
have been unknowingly in Babylonian Captivity, which started when they established the United Nations and a new world order in 1947.
JEREMIAH 29 : JEREMIAH’S LETTER TO THE EXILES
10For thus said the LORD, That after 70years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 12Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart. 14And I will be found of you, said the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, said the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.
70
The number of nations that came together
to build the first tower of Babylon.
70
is number of descendants that went
into Egypt from Jacob (Israel)
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
- You shall have no other gods before me.
- You shall not make to you any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
- You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments
- You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.
- Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on the land which the LORD your God gives you.
- You shall not kill.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighbor’s.
‘Tyre’ is personified as the final Babylon and who will be Judged at Judgement day.
At the end of 70 years, Tyre shall sing as a harlot
MATTHEW 11 : WOE TO THE UNREPENTANT
It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
ISAIAH 23 : THE FALL OF TYRE
7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. 8Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city,
whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? 9The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth. 10Pass through your land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength. 11He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof. 12And he said, You shall no more rejoice, O you oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shall you have no rest. 14Howl, you ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.
15And it shall come to pass in that day,
that Tyre shall be forgotten 70 years, according to the days of one king:
after the end of 70 years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16Take an harp, go about the city, you harlot that have been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
17And it shall come to pass after the end of 70 years,
that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire,
and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
18And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Psalm 45 : Your Throne is Forever (1 Kings 3:1-5; 2 Chronicles 1:1-6; Psalm 72:1-20)
1My heart is gushing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.
3Gird your sword on your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.
4And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.
5Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under you.
6Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter.
7You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
8All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.
9Kings’ daughters were among your honorable women: on your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
10Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father’s house;
11So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Lord; and worship you him.
12And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat your favor.
13The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of worked gold.
14She shall be brought to the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought to you.
15With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
16Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you may make princes in all the earth.
17I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you for ever and ever.
Trump : 45th President
Rachel : lived 45 years
Psalm 45 : 17 verses
ISAIAH 24 : GOD’S JUDGMENT ON THE EARTH
1Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof. 2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word. 4The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.6Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry hearted do sigh. 8The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends,the joy of the harp ceases. 9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. 10The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Tyre is where Mount Hermon is and where Jesus told Peter the gates of hell would not prevail against it.
THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR
THE “NEW GLOBAL BABYLON”
based off the technology
that came from the Nazi’s.
The Arizona senator said America is still the strongest nation in the world but it needs to prove it and not let Russian President Vladimir Putin undermine the “New World Order” that’s been in place for the 70 years since World War II.
~JOHN MCCAIN
THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES
is a granite monument erected in 1980 in Elbert County, Georgia, in the United States. A set of 10 guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient language scripts. A message consisting of a set of 10 guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones[8] in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.
THE 10 GUIDELINES FOR NEW WORLD ORDER
- Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
- Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
- Unite humanity with a living new language.
- Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
- Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
- Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
- Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
- Balance personal rights with social duties.
- Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
- Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature
After Pharaoh had the Israelite’s build Him their treasure cities he sought to kill them.
in perpetual balance with nature.”
Herod killed all males under 2 years old in Bethlehem
when he heard of Jesus being born.
2 PETER 2
19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
PSALM 44 : REDEEM US (Romans 8:35-39)
15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, 16For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger. 17All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way; 19Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 21Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart. 22Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.23Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. 24Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression? 25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth. 26Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.
2 Peter 2:
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb,
The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again;
and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
REVELATION 18 : BABYLON IS FALLEN
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double to her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.7How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
1ST TIME
Jesus did not came to judge the world but to “save his lost sheep”, through his death and resurrection on the cross and he went to go prepare a place for us.
2ND TIME
He comes to Judge the Judges, Kings, and Rulers of Earth who have re-built the lost city of Babylon
JOHN 12 : SOME BELIEVE IN JESUS
47And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48He that rejects me, and receives not my words, has one that judges him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
The Earthly City of Babylon
is destroyed
New Jerusalem comes down from Heaven,
which Jesus went to prepare for his bride.
JOHN 14 : JESUS COMFORTS THE DISCIPLES
1Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4And where I go you know, and the way you know.
The United Nations
.
LUKE 12 : DO NOT WORRY (Matthew 6:25-34)
29And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, neither be you of doubtful mind. 30For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knows that you have need of these things. 31But rather seek you the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added to you. 32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33Sell that you have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts. 34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
ISAIAH 40 :17
All nations before Him are as nothing,
and they are counted to him less than nothing,
and vanity.
MATTHEW 24:
and ye shall be hated
of all nations for my name’s sake.
We are
from the world,
.
because we are
with God through
His Son
2 Corinthians :
16Why from now on know we no man after the flesh: yes, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now from now on know we him no more. 17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them; and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be you reconciled to God. 21For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Matthew 10 : The Sword of the Gospel (Luke 12:49-53)
34Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
4You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
world UNity
-vs-
Unity of the Holy SPirit
Ephesians 4 : Unity in the Body (Psalm 133:1-3; 1 Corinthians 1:10-17)
1I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation with which you are called, 2With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love; 3Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; 5One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
1 John 1 : Overcoming the World
1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him. 2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4For whatever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. 5Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in wickedness.
John 1 : The Beginning (Genesis 1:1-2)
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
The Witness of John (Malachi 3:1-5)
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world. 10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11He came to his own, and his own received him not. 12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
1 John : Do Not Love the World
15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God stays for ever.
John 6 : Jesus the Bread of Life
26Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, You seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled. 27Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give to you: for him has God the Father sealed. 28Then said they to him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent. 30They said therefore to him, What sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work?31Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.33For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world. 34Then said they to him, Lord, ever more give us this bread.
35And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst. 36But I said to you, That you also have seen me, and believe not. 37All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out. 38For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. 39And this is the Father’s will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
41The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he said, I came down from heaven?43Jesus therefore answered and said to them, Murmur not among yourselves. 44No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 45It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes to me. 46Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has seen the Father. 47Truly, truly, I say to you, He that believes on me has everlasting life.48I am that bread of life. 49Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
52The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him. 57As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eats me, even he shall live by me. 58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eats of this bread shall live for ever.
We see that the shepherd will separate the sheep from the goats
when all the nations are gathered before him.
MATTHEW 25 : THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS
31When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: 32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats: 33And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
The Husk | Chaff
The Ear of grain | fruit
Prophecy of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
God ended up divorcing the Northern Kingdom in 721 BC.
Here in Ezekial we see the punishment handed down for them.
EZEKIAL 4 : THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PREDICTED
1You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it the city, even Jerusalem: 2And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3Moreover take you to you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4Lie you also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it: according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it you shall bear their iniquity. 5For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, 390 days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.7Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8And, behold, I will lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to another, till you have ended the days of your siege.
The Northern Kingdom should have begunbeing restored after 390 years,which is 331 BC.
However, history shows that the
Northern Kingdom never returned to their land.
So what else does Scripture give us that can shed light on this.
Which is
after 2 days
and in the 3rd
of the punishment.
2009 was the beginning of the processof the hearts of the Northern Kingdom,begin to come back to Him in large numbers.
Thus concluding the Northern Kingdom’s judgement.
The work of Christ started the restoration
but its in the 3rd day that He completes the restoration.
After 2 days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. (as it says in Hosea 6:2)
2009 the year the Northern Kingdom’s judgement concluded
2009was when my Grandfather passed away
and when God started to stir my heart.
2 Peter 3 : Christ’s Coming Judgment (Genesis 3:1-7; Genesis 7:1-5; Romans 5:12-21)
1This second letter, beloved, I now write to you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: 2That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,walking after their own lusts,
4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming?
Matthew 24 : Temple Destruction Foretold (Mark 13:1-9; Luke 21:5-9)
1And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.2And Jesus said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you, There shall not be left here one stone on another, that shall not be thrown down. 3And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying,
Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the world?
4And Jesus answered and said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
The lesson of the Fig Tree (Mark 13:28-31; Luke 21:29-33)
32Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near: 33So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34Truly I say to you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Be Ready at Any Hour (Genesis 6:1-7; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 12:35-48)
36But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. 37But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 40Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your Lord does come. 43But know this, that if the manager of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44Therefore be you also ready:for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes.
Before the Israelite’s were led
out of Egypt in the Exodus,
God appeared to Moses at Mt. Horeb
in a burning bush that was not consumed.
Exodus 3 : Moses at the Burning Bush
1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb[h2722]. 2And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush:
and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
3And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 5And he said, Draw not near here: put off your shoes from off your feet, for the place where on you stand is holy ground. 6Moreover he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look on God.
[h2722]חֹרֵב Chôrêb, kho-rabe’; Horeb =
(it occurs 17 times
in 17 verses)
“desolate” a generic name for Mt. Sinai where the Law was given to Moses by God;
When the Holy Spirit was sent at Pentecost,
which began the 2nd Exodus,
his disciples were able to speak in cloven tongues,
meaning they were able to speak in all the languages of the nations
that had been scattered from the incident at the Tower of Babel.
Acts 2 : The Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Joel 2:28-32; John 14:15-26; John 16:5-16; Acts 10:44-48; Acts 19:1-7)
1And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3And there appeared to them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat on each of them. 4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, 10Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, 11Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. 12And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What means this? 13Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
In Acts 2:17
Peter stood up to preach from the crowd
and he quoted Joel 2
Peter Preaches to the Crowd
14But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them, You men of Judaea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known to you, and listen to my words: 15For these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. 16But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
17And it shall come to pass in the last days, said God, I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
19And I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
20The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
21And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Here we see the double fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy.
11/22/2016 Dollywood employee finds burned Bible page after wildfires
Gatlinburg, Tn – “I just found this while helping our House and Grounds team clean different areas of Dollywood Theme Park. It was under a bench soaking wet. Talk about goosebumps….” ~ Isaac McCord
Exodus 3 : Moses at the Burning Bush
1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb[h2722]. 2And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
The page for Joel 2 found in the Gatlinburg Fire is burnt right through verse 17but the page is not consumed
The camp of Ephraim made up 17%
of the tribes population in the wilderness
“Elishima” was the Chief of the camp of Ephraim and his name occurs 17 times in Bible.
Shechem is 17 miles west of the Jordan River
17 was the age Joseph was when he was sold into the pit.
The first 2 dates in the bible are on the 17thof a month regarding the date of the flood and the date when the arc rested.
7 + 10 = 17
The beast in Revelation has
7 heads and 10 horns
The 7th Commandment :
Thou shall not commit Adultery
The 10th Commandment :
Thou shall not covet (envy, jealousy)
Joel 2 : RETURN WITH ALL YOUR HEART
12Therefore also now, said the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repents him of the evil. 14Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering to the LORD your God? 15Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: 16Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and
give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them:
why should they say among the people, Where is their God?
RESTORATION PROMISED
18Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. 19Yes, the LORD will answer and say to his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: 20But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill smell shall come up, because he has done great things. 21Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. 22Be not afraid, you beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. 23Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 26And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
27And
you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel,
and that I am the LORD your God, and none else:
and my people shall never be ashamed.
I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT
28And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: 29And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. 30And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come. 32And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
The Eclipse
33
days later
Revelation 12 Sign
(The day before Jupiter went into the womb of Virgo
at the end of November, 2016, an asteroid fell
into the Gulf of Mexico and the Gatlinburg fire occurred )
REVELATION 12 : THE WOMAN AND THE DRAGON
1And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars: 2And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads. 4And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up to God, and to his throne. 6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a 1260 days.
The sign in the heavens on 9/23/2017 was the dilineation marker for the beginning of the 3.5 year wilderness period where God will feed his sheep.
We are in the wilderness right now.
We being the woman, Israel, Ephraim.
Wilderness =
“as an uninhabited plan, fit for feeding flocks.”
Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away.
All the following occurence’s of everything being burnt
and destroyed except “the word of God”
happened over the last 3.5 years
2014 – 2018
BRENHAM, TX – Valerie Escalera says she has no explanation, no idea how such a thing could happen. A book, Escalera said, was sitting inside the cab of her burned-out pickup truck, on what used to be the back seat. She wasn’t expecting to find much when she finally got the nerve to inspect her beloved 1995 truck after it was destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon while her father Armondo was driving it on Highway 105. Escalera peeked through the windows and saw one item intact. There was a book sitting on the springs of the back seat, the wind flipping its pages.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God. What is this?” she said.
When the pages flipped back to reveal the cover, she knew immediately what it was. It was her leather-bound Bible, inscribed on the cover with her name and her ex-husband’s name. It sent a shiver up Escalera’s back.The Bible had survived a fire that fused the doors shut and melted away the dashboard.
Long-forgotten Bible survives fire
“You see images (of religious figures) and all that. But this is sitting in the back of our good old ranch truck. Everything burned and melted around it. There’s not even a steering wheel.“The leather cover is barely charred. The edges of the Bible are intact. “I’d put it in a cardboard box, and there’s no trace of that.”
1/6/2016
NEWPORT, TENN. (WVLT) — A Newport couple that lost almost everything they own in a house fire found a surprise in the ashes. Justin and Cynthia Wagner were just about to head to bed on Sunday night at their Trentham Road home when they smelled something burning coming from outside the house. Justin said he looked out his front porch and noticed the garage he converted into a makeshift apartment was engulfed in flames. The fire destroyed the Wagner’s garage, left their Mazda unrecognizable, and did extensive damage to the majority of their two-story home.
“Pretty much everything that we own is gone,” Wagner said. But then a friend found an unexpected surprise while he was helping the couple clean up on Wednesday morning. In the middle of the ashes was a Bible,opened up to JOHN 3:16.The verse reads, “For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” Wagner took that as a clear sign. “That tells you right there that God is still here with us, he’s still here for us,” he said.
The majority of the Bible was burned with the edges of the pages blackened and charred, but the words of the passage are nearly untouched and clearly visible. Wagner said he has no doubt in his mind that God saved he and his wife that night because there is still more work for them to do on this earth.
MEMPHIS, TN – An official showed off a bible that was recovered, unharmed, from a car that completely destroyed after it exploded and burst into flames. (Credit: WREG) A Tennessee man was rescued from a vehicle by good Samaritans and police on Sunday just moments before it exploded and caught fire. The crash happened on the eastbound side of I-385 near Memphis on Sunday afternoon. The 2014 Jeep Laredo struck a pole and burst into flames. The Memphis Police Department responded to the scene. An officer and several Good Samaritans were able to pull the trapped driver out of the vehicle right before the explosion.
Anita Irby wrote,THE ENTIRE EXPRESSWAY STOPPED and people ran from their cars trying to break the windows and open the doors of this mans car to free him; as they were, the others went up in prayer for God to deliver this man from the paws of the devil.[…] None of the flames touched him.”
2/22/2016
GAFFNEY, SOUTH CAROLINA – The sweltering blaze engulfed the car and everything in it. Those who witnessed it never guessed anything could survive such an intense car fire.
“When the fire was burning it was an intense fire,” said onlooker, TJ Felder. “Then it just blew up.”
But then firefighters pulled an intact Bible from the backseat.
“There was a bible in the backseat,” said Gaffney Fire Department Chief Jamie Caggiano.
“It was charred on the edges but not burnt up.”
11/22/2016
GATLINBURG, TN – “I just found this while helping our House and Grounds team clean different areas of Dollywood Theme Park. It was under a bench soaking wet. Talk about goosebumps….” ~ Isaac McCord .
JOEL 2 : THE ARMY OF LOCUSTS(Amos 7:1-9)
1Blow you the trumpet in Zion,and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD comes, for it is near at hand;
The trumpet was blown as a Warning Sign, and also as reminder of the ram offered for a burnt offering as ransom for Isaac.
1/24/2017
HATTIESBURG, MISS. —A tornado wreaked havoc on parts of southern Mississippi. The William Carey University campus in Hattiesburg was hit hard, with the gym destroyed and many other buildings having sustained extensive damage. The stained-glass window in the school’s Bass Chapel is gone — but it’s what was left inside the chapel that has many amazed.
The tornado left a Bible unharmedand open to PSALM 46, which begins,
“God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.”
Rick Wilemon, who teaches in the school’s art department, posted photos of the chapel and Bible to Facebook.
The tornado killed four people and injured more than 50 others, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
The William Carey University campus remains closed while the university works to rebuild and prepares to resume classes.
12/26/2017
HAUGHTON, LA –
A Haughton family loses everything in a house fire early Christmas morning, but they have found comfort after family Bibles are pulled from the rubble, intact.
The fire happened just after midnight Monday morning on Highway 164.
“Money, insurance cards, life insurance cards, deeds to the house. They’ve been staying here for like 30 years and everything they own is gone, all their clothes everything.”
Everything that had been a part of Tineke Brewer’s parents lives, now reduced to rubble.
On Christmas Eve, her 70-year-old mother chose to spend the night at the hospital with her 76-year-old husband, who’s fighting to live following brain surgery.
The only one inside was Tineke’s cousin.“She said something touched her and told her to get up,” explained Tineke, “so she said when she got up she walked out her door and she seen smoke and fire. Her window was hard to lift up, she said that she just kept on trying to pry it open and she jumped out the window.”
Looking at the pile of debris, Tineke can’t help but think “what if.”
“My son, he usually stays over here when my mom is at the hospital, and that night around 10 o’clock he came home and he said his head was hurting, so I gave him some medicine he laid on my couch and went to sleep.”
Two hours later, the fire erupted.
“My husband and my nephew were putting up a basketball goal at the back for the kids, and they ran over here and came knocking on the door saying my mom’s house was on fire. My child could’ve been there.”
But the only items to survive the blaze assures them that this is all part of God’s plan.
“The Bible is the only thing, everything else is crisp and burnt, but the Holy Bible never burns up, it’s a blessing.”
The charred edges reminding them to be strong, brave and to be thankful.
3/19/2018
NORTH AUGUSTA, SC –
A North Augusta family is rebuilding after a fire left them without a home. The family lost everything, including their 2 dogs, but among all the rubble one thing remained.
“I will never leave you or forsake you, and he hasn’t left us.” Homeowner Wendy Crawley told WJBF NewsChannel 6.
Crawley says she was on her way home, when she saw her life go up in smoke. Wet pages and minor smoke damage, but her bible survived the fire that destroyed the home and just about everything in it.
“Laying on my night stand, is where I kept it.” Crawley said. “It was the only thing I found that we really needed.”
The flames showed no mercy, claiming the lives of Crawley’s two dogs.
“One we’ve had one for 15 years and the other one was our son’s service dog.” She said.
Crawley says Sugar was very special to her 10-year-old, who was diagnosed with Autism 8 years ago.
“She was always there for him,” she said. “If he couldn’t figure out how to calm down, she would come and she would sit, and she would just lay on him and love on him.”
On Monday, the homeowner took our crew through what was left of her house.
For 17 years her family made memories there. Now they can only start over with their faith and the community’s support on their side.
“God didn’t start that fire, but he has certainly brought you through it.” She told WJBF NewsChannel 6.
Crawley says the bible is only one of the miracles she witnessed, that reminds her someone upstairs is keeping her and her family safe.
Fire Destroys South Carolina Home
But Bible Remains Intact Among Rubble
“Do you want to know something crazy? When we came over here, not an ash on that bed.” Crawley said. “Now the cabinet beside it, is messed up, but not an ash on his bed.”
Crawley does have homeowners insurance. At this time the cause of the fire has not been determined.
She tells WJBF NewsChannel 6 she hopes to find her son a new service dog.
Crawley and her family are currently staying with her parents in North Augusta.
1 CORINTHIANS 3 : CHRIST THE ONLY FOUNDATION (Isaiah 28:14-22; 1 Peter 2:4-12)
10According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon. 11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
Every man’s work shall be made manifest:
for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire;
and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:
but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
John 10 : Jesus the Good Shepherd
1Truly, truly, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2But he that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. 4And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. 6This parable spoke Jesus to them: but they understood not what things they were which he spoke to them.
7Then said Jesus to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
Revelation 3 : Message to the Church in Philadelphia
7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things said he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens;
8I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.
REvelation 3 : Message to Philadelphia
He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens,
“The Key of David”
is reference to the “shoulder”
Church of Philadelphia = “Brotherly Love”
(in reference to Ephraim and Manassah)
ISAIAH 22 : THE VALLEY OF VISION2 22And the key of the house of David will I lay on hisshoulder[H7926];so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut; and, and none shall open.
[h7926]שְׁכֶם shek-em’; SHOULDER;
the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdens; figuratively, the spur of a hill
GEN 48: JACOB BLESSES EPHRAIM & MANASSAH
20And he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers. 22Moreover I have given to you one portion [H7926] above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
The Ark of the Covenant
which contains the 10 Commandments
with staves on their “shoulders”
David went up against Goliath
with staves in the name of the Lord.
after God and kept his commandments
1 Samuel 17 : David Slays Goliath
41And the Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man that bore the shield went before him. 42And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 43And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. 45Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
[h7926] Shechem = “SHOULDER”;
Shechem is also the name of the city
where Abram 1st stopped
and the 1st place God appeared to him,
after being called out of Babylon
Abraham’s Journey out of Babylon took toward the West to Shechem
Shechem was where the 1st altar built to God by Abraham was
Shechem is where Jacob buried the strange gods that were with him here under this oak
Shechem was where God renamed Jacob to “Israel”
Sheckem was an inheritance for the son’s of Joseph.
Joseph and Joshua were buried here
Shechem was where Joshua (“from Tribe of Ephraim”) made a covenant with Israel that they would put away strange gods and wrote Moses Law and took a great stone and set it here under this oak
EZEKIAL 37 : The Valley of Dry Bones
1The hand of the LORD was on me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the middle of the valley which was full of bones, 2And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, see, they were very dry. 3And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, you know. 4Again he said to me, Prophesy on these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5Thus said the Lord GOD to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live: 6And I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 8And when I beheld, see, the sinews and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. 9Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus said the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live. 10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding great army.
The Vision Explained
11Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. 12Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, said the LORD.
ONE NATION WITH ONE KING
15The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 
16Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions:
then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in your hand.
18And when the children of your people shall speak to you, saying,
Will you not show us what you mean by these?
19Say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD;
Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.
20And the sticks where on you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.21And say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, where they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22And I will make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. 23Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelled; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. 26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the middle of them for ever more. 27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the middle of them for ever more.
ZECHARIAH 9 : DELIVERANCE OF JUDAH AND EPHRAIM
9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes to you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on an ass, and on a colt the foal of an ass. 10And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace to the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. 11As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. 12Turn you to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double to you;
13When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you as the sword of a mighty man.
THE LORD WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE (Isaiah 45:14-25)
14And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. 15The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar. 16And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign on his land. 17For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
“I have bent Judah for me,
filled the bow with Ephraim“
Ephraim = “double ash-heap: i shall be doubly fruitful”
When stationed in the wilderness after the Exodus out of Egypt, all of Rachel’s descendant’s were stationed together in the West and were known as the Camp of Ephraim, Joseph’s Son.
Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manassah
They were closest to the Ark of the Covenant
Psalm 80: Hear Us, Shepherd of Israel
1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.
2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us.
3Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.
REVELATION 3 : MESSAGE TO PHILADELPHIA
He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David,
who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:
8‘I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept My word, and have not denied My name.
The Keepers of “His Word”
:: THE BIBLE BELT
The “Bible Belt”
is also the largest and most dense
population of “Baptist” churches.
Nashville, Tn, the headquarters
of the Southern Baptist Convention
John the Baptist,
whose loins were
girded with truth (bible belt)
was the one crying in the wilderness
preparing the way for the Lord.
All these occurrences happened within the Bible Belt
and fall within blue area between the 2 eclipses.
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas
All of Paul’s Missionary Journeys,
who was from the Tribe of Benjamin,
Rachel’s other son, established all the churches “West” of Jerusalem
Right along the Arc
Jacob’s prophecy of joseph
22Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24But his bow stayed in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
26The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brothers.
jacob’s prophecy of Jacob
Genesis 49 : Jacob’s Prophecy of his sons
8Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall be in the neck of your enemies; your father’s children shall bow down before you. 9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and to him shall the gathering of the people be. 11Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass’s colt to the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk
The same path Abraham’s Journey out of Babylon took toward the West to Shechem
ZECHARIAH 10 : JUDAH AND ISRAEL WILL BE RESTORED
1Ask you of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. 2For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd. 3My anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts has visited his flock the house of Judah, and has made them as his goodly horse in the battle. 4Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together. 5And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
6And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph,
and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy on them:
and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
7And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine:
yes, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
8I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. 9And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. 10I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. 11And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away. 12And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, said the LORD.
MATTHEW 10 : REST FOR THE WEARY
28Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest to your souls.
30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the middle of the earth.
James 5 : Patience in Suffering (Job 1:1-5)
7Be patient therefore, brothers, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8Be you also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws near.
Ephraim prophesied by Jacob to be the Fullness of the Nations
Genesis 49 :
17And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head. 18And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head. 19And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.