| "If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." II Chronicles 7:14; |
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Based on information from J. H. Allen and H. W. Armstrong
This material is free of charge as a nonprofit educational service.
| The Scriptural promises to Abraham have been grievously misunderstood. And no wonder, for the vital key, needed to unlock prophetic doors to understanding, had become lost! That key is a definite knowledge of the identity of the American, British, and Jewish peoples in Scripture and especially in prophecy. |
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Chapter 1 - The Master Key
Winston Churchill declared before the United States Congress: "He must indeed have a blind soul who cannot see that some great purpose and design is being worked out here below of which we have the honor to be the faithful servants." However, he did not understand that purpose! The Master-Mind of the universe MASTER-PLANNED that great purpose long ago.
There Is Purpose
It is true, though almost totally unrealized, that humankind was put on this earth for a PURPOSE! Moreover, the Maker of humankind sent along with His human product an Instruction Book to reveal that purpose and to guide humankind in happily, enjoyably, fulfilling it. However, the human race has rejected that revealed knowledge preferring to stumble on in the darkness of its own futile reasoning. That INSTRUCTION BOOK, the Hebrew Scriptures (OT) contains three basic types of revealed knowledge to humankind:- Basic education revealed to man to provide the necessary foundational knowledge otherwise undiscoverable and unknowable. The revealed knowledge of what man is, why he is, where his destiny will lead, how to reach it, and how to live happily along the way. In other words, it is the most necessary of all knowledge and is the foundation on which to build discoverable knowledge.
- History of those events and experiences fulfilling the master plan during the first four millennia on man's mortal sojourn, as examples for our admonition and guidance today.
- Prophecy is our Maker's revelation to humankind--writing the history of future events before they occur. The prophecies foretell future events, revealing how the great purpose is being brought to its completion.
Why This Ignorance?
Now see why heads of state, news analysts, and the great minds of our time do not comprehend the real meaning of world events as they are shaping up right now. The knowledge of the CREATOR's master plan, where in the progression of those foreordained events do we stand today, and of major happenings prophesied yet to occur. This is needed knowledge to understanding the significance and true meaning of today's dynamic world news.
Without this vital knowledge, neither the news media nor those who are responsible for government policies can understand where current world happenings are leading. The Shepherds are not leading the sheep in the right direction. Who are the shepherds? In ancient times, the king or leader was responsible for the physical protection of the people as well as their spiritual protection. Therefore, in today's world, all people who hold offices of a governmental or religious nature are the Shepherds of the people.* This includes ALL public officials, whether elected or appointed, as well as ALL theologians, preachers, ministers, pastors, or anyone who speaks in any religious capacity.
* See our article "Message to the Shepherds of Israel."
Sadly, not one Shepherd saddled with leadership responsibilities knows the purposed destination of humankind! Why? Two reasons, primarily:
- They are deceived by false education that is prejudicial to, with disdainful rejection, of the divine revelation, which alone can impart this understanding.
- The vital key necessary to unlock closed doors of Scriptural understanding had been lost.
Not knowing how or where these nations are specifically mentioned in basic and major prophecies; the educated of the world are utterly blinded to the plain and simple meaning of prophecy. Due to this lost key, the Scriptures have come to be discredited and rejected in this world's educational system. The unproved and unprovable theory of evolution has been substituted as the foundational concept as the supposed rational approach to knowledge. Thus, from little children our peoples have been falsely and deceptively educated. Thus in an era of advanced rationalism and enlightenment our people are actually groping around in the darkness of misunderstanding and confusion, fatally unaware of the earthshaking catastrophe into which they are being directly plunged.
The colossal tragedy of it! Our peoples have FORGOTTEN AND DEPARTED FAR from their Maker. They have shut their eyes and closed their ears to His dynamic revelation to humankind, which, to ears that can hear, thunders out the life-and-death warning to those in the responsible positions of power!
Is it too late? Have our leaders become so steeped in a deceptive false education, so stultified that they cannot be aroused from slumber? ETERNAL CREATOR help us now! Time is fast closing in on us!
We Now Know the All-important Master Key!
That key is knowledge of the astonishing identity of the American and British peoples--as well as the German--in Scriptural prophecies. This very eye-opening, astounding identity is the strongest proof of the inspiration and authority of the Hebrew Bible! It is, at the same time, the strongest proof of the very active existence of the living Almighty SOVEREIGN! The identity of the Jews is known it has not been lost, even through 70 years of captivity. Therefore, the first portion of this booklet will be devoted to understanding the identity of the American and British people, then we will see how these promises to Abraham also effect the Jews--and they do very greatly.An exciting, pulsating, large part of all Scripture is devoted to prophecy of which approximately 90% of all prophecy pertain to our time, now, in this latter time beginning of the Twenty-first Century! It is a warning to us--to our English-speaking peoples--of immediate life and death importance. The prophecies come alive once their doors are opened by this discovered master key! This understanding will open this heretofore closed, vital part of the Scriptures. No story of fiction ever was so strange, so fascinating, so absorbing, so packed with interest and suspense, as this gripping story of our identity--and our ancestry. Through it, our Almighty CREATOR gives momentous warning!
Those who read and heed may be spared unprecedented cataclysmic tragedy soon to strike. If our peoples and their governments will awaken, heed, and return to their living CREATOR, that our nations may be spared. Oh ETERNAL* help us to UNDERSTAND. Our loving CREATOR states:
2 Chronicles 7:14 "If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land."
* We will use ETERNAL for "the Lord" (as does Dr. James Moffatt) and CREATOR, The Mighty One, or SOVEREIGN for "God." Unless noted Scriptures will be from the New Kings James Version and all emphasis are ours throughtout.
Continued in Chapter 2
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