.

 Luk 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

  The Earth Dwellers are caught in the snare

  Rev 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

  The “Snare” is also called the “hour of temptation”

  Zec 5:3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

  The snare is a curse,

  2Ti_4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

 Those with itching ears recieve exactly what they want, false doctrine. False doctrine is judgement. This is very important to remember.

 Rev 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

 Rev 11:10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

 Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

 Many references to “Them that dwell on the earth”

 Rev 13:12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

 Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

 Earth dwellers are the ones who worship the beast.

 Rev 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

 Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

 The 144000, first fruits, the barley, (harvested first) of the harvest are “redeemed from the earth”

 Rev 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

 Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

 Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

 Rev 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

 Right now the harvest is underway. This is why we see seperation taking place in the House of God. The 144000 are preaching the true, everlasting gospel to the apostate church telling thme to “fear God”

 Rev 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

  Rev 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

 As they respond they “come out” of the Harlot church and join the remnant in the wilderness. The song that the 144000 learn is the truth, this is spread and as the multitude respond they “come out” and join the 144,000, the remnant. The 144000 are virgins because they are no longer partaking in the harlots iniquties.

  Isa 21:10 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

  The threshing floor is deception. Deception is the tool God uses to separate his wheat from the tares. This process takes place on earth. The earth dwellers are seperated from those that are with Jesus on MT Sion, Jerusalem above. Gods sheep hear his voice, are not decieved, are not caught in the “snare”

  2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

  The snare is the strong delusion that God sends to “catch” if you will, those who “love not the truth”

  Jer 50:24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

  The notion that God is the one who sets the snare is foreign to most modern Christians who are the ones ironically that are caught in the snare. This is due to the fact Christians fail to understand the true nature of God. They have been sold a phony gospel that doesn’t consider Gods severity.

  Rom 11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

  This leads us to the understanding of the Mark of the Beast itself.

  Joh 2:16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.

  2Pe 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

  Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

  Rev 18:11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

  These 4 verses are all talking about the same thing. The doves in the Temple are the multitude. 2 Pet 2:3 “they make merchandise of you” Rev 13:17 no one may buy or sell, Rev 18 11 The merchants. (false shepards) weep and mourn. (because they are judged and damned) 2 Pet 2:3

  Deciding what to do with this message is actually the Mark of the Beast at work. When is it over? when is it too late? The marking is underway right now. The Mark of the Beast is a spiritual mark. The Serpents are the false teachers (forehead) the scorpions are the money changers (right hand) The Remnant Elect have the Mark of God on their forehead Rev 14 That leaves the multitudes.

  Joe 3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

  The right hand represents our deeds, the forehead, our thoughts.

  Deut 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

  7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

  8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

  As Deut. 6:8 says, tie them as a sign (symbols) on your hands and bind them on your foreheads

  H2903–frontlets
to-faw-faw‘
From an unused root meaning to go around or bind; a fillet for the forehead: – frontlet.

  So the seal of God marks those who belong to HIM and the mark of the beast marks those who belong to the world system of Satan. Why won’t the Christian multitude be able to buy and sell (participate or to redeem, for they have already been purchased by the Lord)(the doves refuse to be merchandised) They will refuse to worship the beast/world system. If one is truly worshipping our Lord in Truth…they will know the difference. They had not participated in the worship of the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. These will reign and rule with Christ a thousand years.

  Rev 13-15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

  16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

  Satan is involved in trafficking and merchandising. (buy and sell)

  Ezekiel Chapter 28—

LuciferG59

 αyοράζω
agorazō
ag-or-ad‘-zo
From 58 properly to go to market, that is, (by implication) to purchase; specifically to redeem:- buy, redeem.

16 By the multitude of thy (((merchandise))) they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

 H7404–of thy merchandise

  רכלּה
רְכוּלָּה

rekûllâh
rek-ool-law‘
Feminine passive participle of 7402 trade (as peddled): – merchandise, traffic.

 H7404–traffic

  rek-ool-law‘
Feminine passive participle of 7402 trade (as peddled): – merchandise, traffic.

 G59–buy
ag-or-ad‘-zo
From 58 properly to go to market, that is, (by implication) to purchase; specifically to redeem:- buy, redeem.

G58
ag-or-ah‘
From

α

 ̓γείρω “ageiro” (to gather; probably akin to 1453 ; properly the town square (as a place of public resort); by implication a market or thoroughfare: – market (-place), street.

 G4453–sell

  po-leh‘-o
Probably ultimately from

  πέλομαι pelomai (to

 be busy, to trade); to barter (as a pedlar), that is, to sell:- sell, whatever is sold.

 The purpose of the tribulation is the restore the aposate church.

  Zec 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

 Zec 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

 The church during the tribulation is divided into 3 parts. 2 parts are cut off, 1 part is refined with fire. This process is about 1 thing, stripping the idols from the multitude. Gods judgement on his people is to remove the idols from their lives.

 Rev 16:19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

To understand what is coming study Jer 50 and 51 this is the account of the destruction of Babylon.

 Jer 51:17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

 Jeremiah tells us that the lies we believe, false doctrine we hold onto are idols.

 1Co 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

 Watchmen Weekly Podcast: The Mark of the Beast

　http://watchmenweekly.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-mark-of-the-beast/ 

Lost Tribes

Few believers in this wicked and adulterous generation truly understand the concept of how just a slight variation in the truth of the Gospel will progressively deteriorate into what the New Testament calls “another Gospel” (II Corinthians 11:4) — and one of the most lethal strains of this theological leaven is found in the concept of the “lost tribes” of Israel.

An aberrant belief structure which dates back centuries, the story of the separation of the Northern tribes of Israel from the Southern tribes of Judah is Scriptural, but it is also complex, and requires a serious measure of Spiritual discernment — something that is sorely lacking in the halls of religion where the “lost tribes” are emphasized. The basic idea is related to the claim that when Israel was judged by the LORD in the 8th century BC (II Kings 17:23), and the 10 Northern tribes were scattered from their ancient homeland, their descendants became the dominant tribes which emerged as the proto-states of Europe, which would subsequently make many Americans and other nations at least partially descended from Israel as well.

Referred to with terms as diverse as everything from “British-Israelism,” to “Christian Identity” (or the term widely used which is “lost tribes”), the story is appealing, and intellectually stimulating on many levels. Indeed, the fact is, several scholarly historians have indeed traced an Israelite presence around the world– most notably American writer Stephen Collins, whose published work showing an Israelite presence in the ancient kingdoms of Phoenicia and Parthia are fascinating. However, the fact is, with the coming of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as revealed in the New Testament, the emphasis on the multi-generational physical lineage of the tribes, and the political development of the contemporary kingdoms of the last two millennia completely obscures the central issue of the true identity of Israel.

As a result, numerous pastoral false prophets have risen, who are using the basic data of the tribal migrations to present another version of the Gospel — but the prophetic paradigm created using the massive amount of data linking physical Israel to numerous kingdoms throughout history, culminates in the “gospel” of the Antichrist. Teachers such as David J Smith. the late Pastor Pete Peters, and even the various groups which were related to the Worldwide Church of God founded by the Herbert W Armstrong, are all preaching another Gospel generated through a Spiritually deficient view of this historical perspective.

Ironically, the research which traces the Israelite presence through England, Germany, Italy, France, the Scandinavian states, and the Americas reads like a membership list of NATO — which makes the prophetic interpretation offered by the false prophets even more credible. The situation is not dissimilar to that which is seen in the prophetic implications of the contemporary state of Israel, where the emergence of the Jewish state in these end times is extremely significant, but not for the reasons being promoted by the false prophets.

For example, one worldview says the tiny nation is pivotal to prophecy because it’s comprised of the descendants of the “chosen people,” so events are always geared around the idea that God will call His chosen to repent during a prophesied time of great hardship, viz, the tribulation. So too, the lost tribers, who identify the modern Jewish state prophetically as an end time’s form of “Judah” — as opposed to the American led cluster of Northern tribes of “Israel.” Following the false prophet’s version, after a terrible series of tribulational events and a great international repentance, the LORD will rejoin the two “houses,” and a new era will emerge as the two factions (Israel and Judah) are then said to be renewed Spiritually, in a spectacular fulfillment of a number of prophecies.

The truth is, as the “lost tribes” proponents have a considerable animosity towards the Jews (and vice versa), we are seeing the classical friction associated with the concept of the Dialectic, wherein two factions (Hegel’s thesis and antithesis) collide in order to produce an emergent synthesis. This formula is Satanic through and through, and the Spiritual signatures identifying the true nature of both factions are everywhere — if you have the Spiritual eyes to see. For example, any ministry which adorns itself with the Star of Moloch (Amos 5:26), referencing the Satanic symbol as the so called Star of David (chapter and verse, please), is clearly a vessel of dishonour.

In this rivalry, the Euro descended “Israelites” will tell you the Jews are not really the Jews, they are Kennites (descendants of Cain), Edomites (descendants of Esau), or even Khazars (an ancient Indo-Turkic people who converted to Judaism, then supposedly forgot they weren’t “real” Jews). Conversely, “Messianic” Jewish believers, and other evangelicals (such as the millions in the Rapture Cult) who believe the physical Jews have retained their “chosen” status even during the New Testament era, decry the British-Israelites as anti-Semites who are vying for the role of the “chosen people.” This conflict is already developing a synthesis incorporating elements from both perspectives, and the emergent system is called “Two House.”

As all the factions just described are completely inhabited by what the Apostle Paul called “the Mystery of Iniquity,” as evidenced by their participation in the process of the Dialectic, the Two House system is the inevitable end of this ongoing series of Dialectically driven conflicts. Theorists in both camps are commonly citing the prophecy in Ezekiel, wherein the prophet was told to take two sticks, representing Israel and Judah, and join them into one stick:

“Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah….then take another stick, and write upon it…for all the house of Israel…And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand” (Ezekiel 37:16,17).

The text goes on to say there will be one nation and “one king shall be king to them all” (Ezekiel 37:19). That one kingdom is a Spiritual kingdom, and the one king is JESUS — but this was fulfilled at the time of the arrival of Jesus Christ, for His “kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:376). By pushing this prophecy to a point in the future, the Two House Heresy is saying Jesus did not fulfill His role as the King of the united house of Israel — a classic characteristic of the unbelief emanating out of Christ-rejecting Israel (I John 2:22). 

The circumstances are profoundly similar to the prophecy in which David was told his son will build the temple of the LORD:

“David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts….it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will stablish his kingdom. He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever” (I Chronicles 17:7,11,12).

This was a prophecy fulfilled by Jesus Christ, as the “Son of David” (Luke 18:38), and the “house” that He built was made of “stone..cut without human hands” (Daniel 2:34), for it is a “kingdom [which] is not of this world” (John 18:36), as it is found in New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:2), which is on the other side of the “veil” (Hebrews 10:20) of His crucified body.

Solomon, as the physical son of David and the king of Israel, reasoned that he would be the one to fulfill this prophecy; and although he engineered a superb physical temple, all of his earthly energized efforts came to nought, as he ultimately defiled himself and turned to the devils masquerading as gods to sustain his worldly kingdom (I Kings 11:7). This is precisely what is going to occur as the Two House heretics rise to dominion at the end of the age.

The crucial fact is found in the New Testament truth which tells us that our position in Christ is not impacted by those who seek to use the prophets and the Bible to move an agenda forward. “The kingdom of God is within you” Jesus told us, and the idea that you may have any Israelite blood in your family line is completely irrelevant to the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The emphasis on a physical form of Israel — whether embedded within Euro-American history or found in present day Jerusalem — is a rabbit trail that turns the believer’s attention to the world, instead of the much deeper Gospel of the kingdom of God which is found in Jesus Christ.

– James Lloyd

http://christianmedianetwork.com/

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which I host, we recently revisited this most colorful of subjects — and in the process, the  Spirit of the LORD once again opened up new vistas of  understanding. For those unaware of the significance of the amazing  prophecy found in Ezekiel 5, it is a premier example of how the  language of prophetic metaphor serves to communicate depth and dimension to doctrine (which must also be revealed elsewhere in plain language). In the present instance, the doctrine of the Trinity is clearly taught in the New Testament, and the imagery seen in the story of Ezekiel’s Beard provides another witness to the triune nature of all things.
>
> However, the story of Ezekiel’s Beard is also profoundly prophetic,
> for it also shows the ongoing future of how the LORD works with His
> chosen. In the passage, we find the hair and beard of the prophet
> is to be cut and divided into thirds, as a way of predicting the
> tripartite nature of all creation, in what we call the Triuniverse:
>
> “And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a
> barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy
> beard: then take thee balances to weight, and divide the hair.
> Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city,
> and when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a
> third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou
> shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after
> them” (Ezekiel 5:1,2).
>
> Here we see a very precise picture of the mystery of thirds, in
> which two thirds are destroyed, and the final third is scattered
> into the “wind” — an early indicator this astonishing Word of the
> LORD is rich in detail, texture, and meaning. Of course, those who
> have zero Spiritual discernment, who have dismissed allegory and
> metaphor in favor of the stupidity which asserts all prophecy is
> literal, will manifest yet another example of those who have eyes,
> but cannot see, or ears which cannot hear:
>
> “Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see
> not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they
> understand” (Matthew 13:13)
>
> As the LORD also says through His prophets, by the mouth of two or
> three witnesses is a thing established, we hasten to point out the
> concept of thirds is confirmed in Zechariah, as the LORD
> communicates precisely the same formula of two parts cut off, and
> the third dispersed, purified, and redeemed:
>
> “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord,
> two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be
> left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and
> will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is
> tried; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will
> say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my
> God” (Zechariah 13:8,9).
>
> Back in Ezekiel, the first “third” is to be burned with fire, but
> the very same text elaborates on what that means, and provides us
> with crucial elaboration:
>
> “Surely because thou has defiled my sanctuary with all thy
> detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will
> I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I
> have any pity. A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence,
> and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a
> third part shall fall by the sword round about thee and I will
> scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a
> sword after them” (Ezekiel 5:11,12)
>
> One of the first things we see is that the first third is destroyed
> through “pestilence” and “famine,” whereas the earlier rendition of
> the same division simply said that first third was imaged as the
> third of Ezekiel’s Beard which the prophet was instructed to “burn
> with fire” — an indicator the concept of burning with fire is
> somehow related to famine and pestilence.
>
> This is proven by the fact that, in the second rendition of the
> same prophecy, the second third falls by the “sword,” which is
> consistent with the second third, articulated earlier — symbolized
> by the portion of Ezekiel’s Beard which he was told to “smite” with
> a “knife” (Ezekiel 5:2). The final third, in the second time the
> cycle is mentioned, is also said to be scattered “into all the
> winds,” which is exactly what was described earlier, so there
> really is no doubt about the matter.
>
> This is hugely important, because it plainly shows that when “fire”
> and “burning” is used to describe judgment, it is not at all
> inconsistent to associate that concept with “pestilence” and/or
> “famine,” because that is precisely what the LORD does when we
> compare verses 2 and 12 in this crucial fifth chapter of Ezekiel.
> This opens up all sorts of avenues for deciphering other passages
> where God decrees famine and pestilence, using the image of
> “fire.” And there is more.
>
> As the Father introduces the redundancy used to describe these
> judgments the second time, He tells Israel this judgment is to be
> meted out without pity, because of the LORD’s wrath over the fact
> that Israel has “defiled” His “sanctuary” with “detestable things”
> as well as a multitude of “abominations” — a very harsh statement
> considering the alleged believer in Jesus Christ is a Spiritual
> Israelite, whose body is the temple (read sanctuary), and the
> collective believers are the current object of this frightening
> denunciation.
>
> Of course, the so called “Christians” have no idea this verse is
> predicting what is about to happen to them, as they have long
> rejected their true identity, and filled their collective temples
> with “detestable” doctrines; but the LORD is faithful to keep His
> promise, and preserve a few who have heard His voice.
>
> We’ll describe those “few” in the next installment of Ezekiel’s Beard.
>
> — James Lloyd            http://christianmedianetwork.com/

Gal 6 is telling us a born again Christian is the Israel of God

Eph 2:11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Paul is refering to aliens from the commonwealth of Israel as people without Christ.

Gal 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Gal 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

Paul is telling us Jerusalem is now above

Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

The place where Christ was crucified is Sodom and Egypt. (which is referring to spiritual captivity, bondage to lies, deception.)

Deut 1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

The land is given to Abrahams seed

Gal 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Christians are Abrahams seed. Abrahams seed by faith.

Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

The land is spiritual, Sion above, heavenly Jerusalem

Rom 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

A Jew is someone who is a partaker of the everlasting Covenant with God which is symbolized by circumcision. When a person truly repents he enters into covenant with God.

Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Being born again means to have the covenant written on our hearts. God promised the covenant to Israel. This is when Israel was born again, after the cross. The church (never capitalized, never a proper noun, is born again Israel. The new testament congregation is not named “Church” church is not capitalized. Its name is Israel. Capitalized a proper noun. In scripture the church is a gathering of people not an institution. This is very important. The word church is ekklēsia
church G1577
ἐκκλησία
ekklēsia
ek-klay-see’-ah
From a compound of G1537 and a derivative of G2564; a calling out, that is, (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both): – assembly, church.

1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Scripture is clear the things of God are spiritually discerned.

Rom 11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace

We are chosen by grace, the new testament body is elected, chosen just like the old testament body.

Mat 20:16  So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Again the church, the ekklesia are the “called out ones” those who are called, chosen and faithful. Those that remain faithful, enduring to the end.
Rev 17:14  These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

The called, chosen and faithful are the ones who make it.

2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

We must be sure of our election, that we are one of the chosen.

2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Num 6:27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

Gods true covenant followers, were, are, and always will be The Chosen People, Israel.

Rom 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

While Paul teaches there is no difference between Jew or Gentile, todays modern church has divided the 2 again and continues to distinguish between Jew and Gentile. These doctrines originated from the Schofield Study Bible, and were distributed by Jesuit controlled Oxford Publishing into the seminaries. 100 years of conditioning and Satan has convinced Christians that there is a difference between Jew and Gentile. The church failing to realize “they” are jews and are Gods chosen people is very dangerous. When we see a common theme concerning those who forsake their heritage in scripture, we understand the magnitude of the effects of this false doctrine.

Cognitive Dissonance

The term cognitive dissonance is used to describe the feeling of discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs. When there is a discrepancy between beliefs and behaviors, something must change in order to eliminate or reduce the dissonance.

When we understand our identity as Israel we are able to rightly divide the word of truth. we realize the words of the prophets are addressed to us.

We understand that the book of Revelation is the account of the spiritual journey of the spiritual children of Israel up out of Egypt, the bondage of deception, false doctrine, lies, to Jerusalem above, the spiritual promised land.

Isa 11:15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
Isa 11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
1Co 10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
1Co 10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
1Co 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

The parallels in Revelation to the Exodus are there for those with discernment and eyes to see. We have the 7 new testament congregations of whom when purged become the 12 spiritual tribes.

Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

Now united as the prophecy of the 2 sticks is fulfilled.

Zec 11:14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Eze 37:19 Say unto them, Thus saith 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 mine hand.
Eze 37:20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
Eze 37:21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
Eze 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon 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:
Eze 37:23 Neither 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 dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Eze 37:24 And 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.

We have the 7 trumpet judgements breaking down the spiritual walls of Jericho preparing the spiritual children of God to enter the promised land.

Jos 6:4  And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
Jos 6:5  And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
Heb 11:30  By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

Rev 8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

We have the serpents and scorpions in the wilderness along the narrow path. Jesus give us power over them. The serpents and scorpions are the false teachers, the idol shephards and their false doctrine.

Deu 8:15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
Luk 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Rev 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Rev 9:19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

Satan and his mouth pieces function as one.

Isa 9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Deception is the threshing floor, the dividing mechanism God uses to separate his flock. His sheep hear his voice, his sheep, the elect, the chosen, are not decieved.

Psa 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet werethey drawn swords.

We have the servants the prophets the voices in the wilderness, in sackcloth and ashes proclaiming Gods truth to the Harlot Religious System.

Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

We have the 2 Witnesses, a type and shadow of Zerubabel, against spiritual Babylon, a symbol again of captivity, deception and bondage to lies, setting the plumbline in the midst of Jerusalem measuring the 7 churches, congregation, the house of God.

Zec 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
Rev 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

We have the plagues, now spiritual, as Gods wrath is poured out on the ungodly.

Rev 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Zec 1:4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

The 2 witnesses are former prophets, also known as the former rain. They have “power to shut heaven, and hold off the latter rain”. The pattern of the former prophets as the former rain, ministers of Gods moderate outpouring of understanding preparing the multiudes to receive the latter rain outpouring. The “ensample” of the disciples as the former prophets of the day preparing for the latter rain outpouring at pentecost, will replay at the “end of the world” this is written for our admonition. Today the “former prophets” are the lone voices in the wilderness calling modern Israel the apostate harlot church to repentance.

This journey ends standing with the Lord, for those who gain victory over the beast.

Rev 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
Rev 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, andover the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

The “sea”, the spiritual “Red Sea”, of great tribulation is now glass for those who “had gotten victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark and over the number of his name”.

Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

The “ensample” of the Political Religious System that crucified our saviour who’s deadly wound inflicted at the time of the first coming today has been healed.

Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

At the resurrection, Satan and his beast system, received it’s deadly wound. Satan was bound.

Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. The word thousand is symbolic

Thousand G5507
χίλιοι
chilioi
khil’-ee-oy
Plural of uncertain affinity; a thousand: – thousand.

Satan was bound by the power of the resurrection and held in his prison, the pit, by the gospel. Today the true covenant gospel has been replaced by a gospel of flatteries. Prosperity, unconditional grace, grace without truth, mingling with the world, defying the call for sanctification. Todays modern church is an abomination of false doctrine and lies. At the very foundation of the Great Apostasy, the Falling Away from truth is the forfeiting of our heritage as The Israel of God.

Dan 11:32  And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

The church has fallen away from sound doctrine, is doing wickedly against the covenant, the flatteries gospel has no restraining power, Satan has been released from his prison. Any doubt? Look around people.

2Th 2:3  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling
away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2Th 2:4  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Contemplate what 2 Thes 2 is saying when we understand what Paul has to say about the temple of God.

2Co 6:16  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

2Th 2:5  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2Th 2:6  And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

Letteth G2722
κατέχω
katechō
kat-ekh’-o
From G2596 and G2192; to hold down (fast), in various applications (literally or figuratively): – have, hold (fast), keep (in memory), let, X make toward, possess, retain, seize on, stay, take, withhold.

Satan is now loosed, he who “letteth” the restraining power of the true covenant gospel, has been taken out of the way, as allowing Satan to continue deceiving the nations, the deadly wound is healed. The word thousand is symbolic, it “means an indetermined number”

Isa 11:16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

Again for our admonition for whom the end of the world has come, these things are written.

Rom 9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnantt shall be save.

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Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Pro 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

Pro 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

You will find this woman in Proverbs described as the “strange woman” who flatters with words and forgets the covenant with her God.

Pro 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Pro 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

You will find her in Isaiah as the vineyard the Lord planted, tended, and then destroyed because she did not produce fruit.

Isa 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

You will find her in Joel as a city overtaken, and completely laid waste by an army of darkness (locusts) sent as a destruction from the Lord.

Joe 1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Joe 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

Joe 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

Jesus speaks of her when he prophesies that she will become a “great tree” in whose branches the powers of darkness (fowls of the air) will find a home and also, as a woman who mixes leaven (false doctrine) into her bread until its fully leavened.

Luk 13:18 Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?

Luk 13:19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.

Luk 13:20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?

Luk 13:21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

Fowls and unclean birds are not suppose to be in Gods kingdom.

Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

Jer 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

She is spoken of (prophetically) all throughout scripture and by the time we get to Revelation she is referred to as Babylon, the harlot, the “great city”.

Rev 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

She has done wickedly, corrupting the covenant preferring to be flattered by commandments of men and doctrines of devils. She is full of false gospels, and false doctrines, HEAPS of them!

Pro 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Pro 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Mat 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

Her bread is fully leavened and no good for spiritual growth.

Isa 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

She is a welcome place for the unsaved, and the powers of darkness. Rev 18:2

Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

True saints are not welcome there, she murders them. Rev 17:6

Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Joh 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

She is impressive to look at, large, loud, VERY visible and wealthy in the things of the world, but underneath her fine clothing and jewels she is a whore. Rev 17:4

Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

She believes she is married to Jesus and proudly claims she is a Queen and will never be a widow. Her pride blinds her to her true identity and the coming judgment on her.

Rev 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

This woman accomplishes her goals through the prince of this world, Satan and by “his” ways. She rides the beast.!

Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

Joh 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Her citizens have put a stop to the daily sacrifices, (the offering of their bodies, as a living sacrifice, in holiness and service unto the lord for HIS perfect will) and in its place are the abominations of her false doctrines and false Gods that have made her desolate!

Dan 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Her citizens bear the mark of the mind of their father on their foreheads and the mark of the deeds of their father on their hand. She rejects truth and is under the strong delusion that she loves God and is faithful to him.

Rev 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, (notice these people recieve this mark it is not forced on them. They want it!)

2Th 2:11-12 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (unrighteousness is simply to reject Gods will and do your own, this woman does HER will!)

She has completely fallen from the truth into apostasy and deception. Now Satan sits in her temple, opposing the one true God and exalting himself above God, being worshiped as though he were God. He shows himself in a way that makes her think he is God.

2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (apostacy)

2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Through her, Satan has accomplished his goal of sitting on the “mount of the congregation” and being “like” the most high. He has thoroughly deceived his woman, into worshiping him who is antichrist and she believes he is God.

Isa 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

When you finally “SEE” these things you are told to flee from her with haste!

Mar 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

Mar 13:15 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:

Mar 13:16 And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.

Please wake and see!

Pro 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

Pro 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

The people in the city of Jerusalem in 70 AD suffered a horrible fate. They did not see that they were in danger so they did not flee! They did not “hear” the words of Jesus and heed them, but those who did, fled to safety. This is no joke. The antichrist is seated in the temple, being worshiped by those who already have his mark, the daily sacrifices have all but ceased, the covenant (Gospel)is so corupted in her that it no longer has the power to save, the woman is riding the beast, SHE is bringing in the kingdom of the antichrist believing its going to be the kingdom of God, and the time to flee is growing shorter.

We are way into the story of Rev but you must have eyes to see it!

Gods true beloved flees from this city called Babylon.

Rev 18:4 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.

Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

The Woman who belongs to Jesus can be found in the wilderness. She is fed THERE!

Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Rev 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

This is a flood of deception but you can escape it if you flee to the wilderness and allow Jesus to feed you there. Dan 11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

Dan 11:33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

Either way the road ahead is not easy, severe persecution is coming, but only one way leads to eternal life. What does it profit to gain the world and lose your soul?