Is our CREATOR interested with the events in Jerusalem? Is He interested in the relationship of the Arabs and the Jews or between the United States and the Jews? Is He even interested with the happenings on Planet Earth? Alternatively, does He even care what happens here? He has a plan for man and He wants you to Quest for the knowledge of His Plan.5
There are no other people on earth, who even remotely fulfill this great Scepter (NameSake) prophecy/promise! Except for the Jewish people who fulfill it precisely! Moreover, there are no other people on earth, who even remotely fulfill this great Birthright prophecy/promise! Except the American and British Commonwealth peoples who fulfill it precisely!
Take note that the “pride of our power” began to be BROKEN in the 1950’s and it is continuing. In addition, our peoples continue to lose their foreign sea gates and possessions around the earth—this focal prophecy alone represents giant PROOF as to where the modern “remnant” of the peoples of Israel reside today! Thus because it happened exactly as the Mighty One of Israel stated, this is also a proof of Him!
Punishment on All Nations!
We have made plain—from ETERNAL’s own warning prophecies—that this greatest multiplied intensity of corrective punishment will fall on America, Britain—including British peoples in Commonwealth countries, and the Jewish people in Jerusalem. Moreover, it will strike the Jews down first! Backing up a bit to Micah, ETERNAL states:
Micah 5:15. “And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury on the [foreign] nations that have not heard.”
This will take place at the very END of this age, after the Advent of King David, the Mashiach. Moreover, the modern Israelites and Jews will not be the only nations to suffer corrective disaster. The Mighty One is Creator of all other nations, too! Our CREATOR is concerned about the people and races we have called “heathen.” They, too, are human. They, too, are made in CREATOR’s own likeness, with the potential of being molded into ETERNAL’s spiritual and character IMAGE.
ALL MANKIND has rebelled against, rejected, and turned from our loving CREATOR and His ways! There can never be peace on earth until all nations have turned to ETERNAL and His ways, ruled by His Supreme Government with King David, the Mashiach, at the helm!
All humanity, right now, is caught in the vortex of the swiftly accelerating crisis marking utter destruction of this world’s man-built, satan-inspired civilization. Through Jeremiah the Mighty One says:
Jeremiah 25:31-32. “‘A noise will come to the ends of the earth; for ETERNAL has a controversy with the nations. He will plead His case with all flesh. --How?-- He will give those who are wicked to the sword,’ says ETERNAL. ‘...Behold, disaster shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the farthest parts of the earth.’”
We are entering a time of world trouble, utter world chaos! There is war, strife, violence in Asia, Africa, South America—as well as Europe and North America. However, as salvation is given first to Israel, so is corrective punishment!
Daughter Religion of Babylon
Notice Jeremiah’s prophecy concerning the end time:
Jeremiah 30:5-7. “For thus says ETERNAL: ‘We have heard a voice of trembling, Of fear, and not of peace. Ask now, and see, whether a man is ever in labor with child? So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale? For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the Time of Jacob’s Trouble...’”
The Time of Jacob’s Trouble will fall on all of Jacob’s children—that is why it is called JACOB’S TROUBLE. Remember, in passing on the promises to Abraham, the Birthright went to the two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh (U.S. and Britain Genesis 48:16) and the NameSake promise to Judah (the Jews Genesis 49:8). This shows WHO WILL BEAR THE BRUNT of this most terrible of national calamities that will ever fall on any nation. But when is it to fall? Do not assume this is referring to anything that has happened to ancient Israel or Judah. Read right on—see when this prophecy is to be fulfilled!
Jeremiah 30:7. “...it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.” --But, only after he has learned his lesson while IN it!
...8-9. “‘For it shall come to pass in that day,’ Says ETERNAL of hosts, ‘That I will break his YOKE from your neck [yoke of slavery], and will burst your bonds; foreigners shall no more enslave them. But they shall serve ETERNAL their SOVEREIGN, And David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
Thus, the time is just before Mashiach’s Advent—to liberate our peoples—even as Moses liberated ancient Israel from Egyptian slavery. This intense punishment is to fall on Britain, America, and the Jews. As Moses and Aaron delivered the ancient Israelites from Egyptian slavery, so the Mashiach and the Prophet are coming to deliver modern Britain, America, and Judah (Jews) from the now impending slavery.6
Jeremiah described it as a “YOKE” on the necks of our peoples. WHOSE “YOKE” of slavery? Isaiah tells us! To understand Isaiah’s words we must realize that during his life span Israel was captured by the Assyrians and carried away. He fully understood the reason of their captivity, which was their forsaking the worship of the Mighty One of Israel and not keeping His Sabbath—the 7th day of the week. He understood that the Israelites worshiped the sun god and kept his day—the 1st day of the week. The religious sun worship of the Israelites was a DAUGHTER of the even more ancient worship of the sun god of Ancient Egypt and Babylon, where the worship of the three “baals” began as the Babylon Mystery Religion.7 In the next verse the prophetic message is addressed to the daughter of Babylon:
Isaiah 47:1-5. “Come down and sit in the dust, O VIRGIN DAUGHTER OF BABYLON; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, take off the skirt, uncover the thigh, pass through the rivers. Your nakedness shall be uncovered, Yes, your shame will be seen; I will take vengeance, and I will not arbitrate with a man. As for our Redeemer, ETERNAL of hosts is His name, the Set-apart One of Israel. Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no longer be called “The Lady of Kingdoms.”
This IS NOT the nation of Babylon of ancient days. Not Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon that later captured Judah, but a DAUGHTER RELIGION of that Babylon’s Mystery Religion. This woman or daughter is a religious organization that will last until the Advent of the Mashiach and Kind David will destroy it.
The “lady” of this prophecy is pictured as a harlot and “a lady of kingdoms,” that is a great religious church organization ruling over nations. In other words, it is the Babylonian Mystery Religion—the same religion of ancient Babylon—but now grown GREAT and ruling over many nations of different languages. Her KINGDOMS, over which she ruled, were later called “The Holy Roman Empire” and its various revivals, which last into this the twenty-first century. Now back to Isaiah 47; ETERNAL states:
Isaiah 47:6 “I was angry with My people [Israel—Britain, America], I have profaned My inheritance, and Chinease and given them into your hand [false religion]. You showed them no mercy; on the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.”
The government that supported the “daughter” of the Babylonian Mystery Religion put on that yoke. It will happen again to the U.S., Britain, and this time to the Jews also! The prophecy does not literally say so, but in all probability, by present indications, the head of this New World Order may be in central Europe and it may precipitate World War III. Could it be by using Islamic, Chinese, and Mexican extremists? This time they will be allowed to succeed!
Many of the ancient Assyrians migrated NORTHWEST from their ancient land south of the Caspian Sea and settled in central Europe, just as the House of Israel migrated from the land of their captivity to the coastlands of northwest Europe. Therefore, when you read about Assyria in prophecies that pertain to now, they refer to central Europe.
It was ancient Assyria which invaded the House of Israel, and carried them out of Samaria into the Assyrians’ own land. So is history to repeat?
Where, today, are the ancient BABYLONIANS—the Chaldeans? Armstrong says, “They migrated west and settled in ITALY. Their religion was the Assyrian-Babylonian MYSTERY religion.”
Let us pause for a moment and get a background on the people who lived in Samaria The story is in 2 Kings 17:24-33. Once the Assyrians removed ancient Israel from the land of Samaria, they repopulated the land with people from five different countries—each having its own brand of the original Babylonian mysteries—and none worshipped the Mighty One of Israel. Thus, the Mighty One sent lions among the Samaritans, who then asked the king of Assyria to send them an Israelite priest to “teach them the manner of the Mighty One of the land.” The king sent a priest to teach them to “fear ETERNAL.” Verse 33 is the key “they feared ETERNAL and at the same time served their own gods.” Therefore, ever since the time that Israel was taken captive and replaced, the new religion in Samaria was a smattering of Torah Hebrew faith mixed with an amalgamation of various daughter forms of the Babylon Mysteries. This is even born out in the NT when the woman at the well said that “Our fathers worshiped on this mountain” and asked “Are you greater than our father Jacob is (John 4:14-20)?” Their father was not Jacob, but from the time of the priests from Assyria, they claimed to be the true people. This can also be confirmed in the book of Ezra and Nehemiah who had dealings with the same people.
Back to the woman at the well, she was told that the man she lived with was not her husband, and now see “her connection to Simon Magus. The story is that he was accompanied by a Helena, whom he claimed to be the reborn Helen of Troy.”8 Simon Magus of Samaria was the leader of the Samaritans’ religion. Notice what he is called in Acts:
Acts 8:9-10, (NRSV) “Now a certain man named Simon had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he was someone great. All of them, from the least to the greatest, listened to him eagerly, saying, “This man is the power of ‘God’ that is called Great ”[#G3137].
The English word “Great” comes from the Greek word “megas” (Strong’s #G3173 meg’-as) with its root word meaning “greatest or very great” or maximum. The etymology of the word “maximum” is the Latin word “Maximus.” Thus, this is telling us that Simon Magus was the “Pontiff Maximus” of the Samaritan amalgamated Mystery Religion.
“Paul and Simon Magus were regarded as the same person and Paul was referred to as Simon Magus in early writings. The fact that Paul is really Simon Magus is now accepted by scholars, despite many desperate attempts to resist this conclusion realizing how profound would be the conclusions of such an admission.”
Armstrong also states, "The Latin surname, 'Favored One,' was bestowed on Simon Magus early in the Christian era. It is going to come as a breathtaking, awesome, shocking surprise when the world learns that Simon; the sorcerer of Samaria, was the Pontiff Maximus of the Samaritan daughter of the Babylonian mystery religion in Rome. The religion he resided over was already a mixture of Hebrew Scriptures and their brand of the Mysteries. He had the title of PATER or PETER, meaning PAPA, and actually appropriated the title of 'Christos' which means 'the Anointed or Messiah' and was none other than Paul, who started what was later called 'Christianity.'"
Continued in Chapter 16