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The Two-fold Aspect of the Promises to Abraham
Judah's Scepter and Joseph's
Chapter 11
What is Prophesied to Happen NOW to America,
Britain, and the Jewish People?
ETERNAL has bestowed the Birthright and Scepter promises upon the peoples of Israel and Judah, such awesome promises as never before come to any nations. In order to correct us so we may enjoy such blessings, He is going to bring upon our peoples such national disaster as has never before struck any nation! Many prophecies describe this! The Time of Jacob's trouble is coming upon Israel and Judah. When the Time of Jacob's falls upon us with the full fury of satan behind it because he knows that his time is short. I hope, as individuals, we are close enough to Him that He will have mercy upon us. In no way am I predicting dates, even the prophets did not predict dates--but it is easy to see dangers all around us and storm clouds on the horizon.
The Time of Jacob's Trouble
We will soon see why we will experience the Time of Jacob's Trouble, now we see how:Ezek 4:1 "You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem."
ETERNAL told Ezekiel to make a portrayal of Jerusalem on a clay tablet--some translations say, "make a map of the city." Then Ezekiel is commanded to perform several scenarios around the clay model, which will reveal what is to happen in the latter days.
We have seen that the first thing that ETERNAL commanded Ezekiel was to bind himself for two periods of time--390 days for Israel and 40 days for Judah. Ezekiel was told that he was to bear their iniquity for an equal number of years. Since he was bound for those days, then Israel and Judah would have freedom for a like number of years (Ezek 4:2-8). In addition the things that were to happen to Jerusalem were to be "a sign to the House of Israel" (Vs 3).
The Mighty One then told Ezekiel to bake defiled bread and cook it using dried cow dung as fuel (Vs 9-15) and that:
Ezek 4:16-17 "...Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread, that they may lack bread and water, ...and waste away because of their iniquity."
Beginning in chapter 5, after the days of Ezekiel's siege--freedom for Israel and Judah--ETERNAL commanded Ezekiel to shave the hair from his body and carefully divide it into three parts. The first part is to be burned on the clay tablet of verse one, the second part is to be chopped up with a sword, and the third part is to be scattered to the wind as he is slashing at them with a sword (Vs 1-2). However, he was to have taken a few of the hairs and bound them in the edge of his garment.
The blue chord in the fringe of his garment represents keeping the Commandments (Num 15:37-40) which has to do with righteousness--thus these righteous ones are not in the three parts and are protected throughout the troubles. However, a part of those in the fringe is cast "into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will go out into ALL the House of Israel.--remember that Israel is our peoples (Vs 3-4).
ETERNAL explains why this begins in Jerusalem (we will quote Vs 6 but read it in context):
Ezek 5:6 "She has rebelled against My judgments ...and against My statutes ...for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes."
The Jews have their own books, traditions, and the writing of their sages that they revere more than the Tanakh. They know of the Sabbath, but do they as a nation keep it? You know the answer, no they do not.
Starting in verse 10 Ezekiel explains the significance of the three parts of hair--this corresponds to the 4th, 5th, and 6th of the sevenfold increases in intensity of punishments for our refusal to worship the One True CREATOR. The first part of the hair represents pestilence and famine so severe that people will eat each other--both plagues together will kill one-third of the populace. Years of drought are not needed, since we have now been introduced to terrorist induced pestilence activities and simply shutting off the electricity needed to pump our water and process or food will produce famine.
The chopping up of the second part of the hair with a sword represents warfare that will kill one-third of the people. The last one-third is scattered to the wind indicating captivity and slavery. Yet, a remnant will be saved out of all of this (Ezek 6:8). Joel 2:28 states that "afterwards I will pour out My Spirit on all peoples?" The question is after what? ETERNAL answers, warfare:
Joel 2:30 "I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and PILLARS OF SMOKE. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of YHWH."
Can you think of anything except atomic weapons that produce "pillars of smoke"? Then He states that any who call on the name of YHWH, shall be saved and brought back from captivity (compare Ezek 39:25 & Amos 9:14). What else is happening at that time that would cause the captives to be released? The final world battle:
Zec 14:3 "Then YHWH will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle.
Note this is not the Mashiach but YHWH, the CREATOR Himself and where does He stand?
Joel 3:2-3 " I will also gather all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat."
Zec 14:12 "And this shall be the plague with which YHWH will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet, Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths."
Zec 14:4 " And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south."
Where will some of the captives be coming from? Remember that at the time of these prophecies Israel is returning to the Promised Land during the Time of Jacob's Trouble. Where are some of the places they will be coming from?
Isa 49:12 "Surely these shall come from afar; Look! Those from the north and the west, and these from the land of Sinim."
The English word "Simim" comes from the Hebrew word "Ciyniym" (Strong's #H5515 see-neem') and means "a distant Oriental region." The Companion Bible states of Sinim that "it probally means China."
Joel 3:1,3 "For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem. ...My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations ...They have cast lots for My people, have given a boy as payment for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink"
Just before those verses is the Advent of the Mashiach which is the resurrection of King David:
Isa 11:1 "There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots."
Ezek 37:24 (TLB)"And David, My Servant--the Messiah--shall be their King, their only Shepherd; and they shall obey My laws and all My wishes. They shall live in the land of Israel where their fathers lived, the land I gave My servant Jacob. They and their children after them shall live there, and their grandchildren, for all generations. And My Servant David, their Messiah, shall be their Prince forever.
Then the Davidic Kingdom is set up and there is finally worldwide peace in the Wonderful World Tomorrow:
Isa 11:6 "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them."
Continued in Chapter 12
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