Kingdom Come

“ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God:” (I Peter 2:9-10)

“if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

For…The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:26-31)

To understand this warning, we need to back up to Moses’ law.

“Aaron / The High Priest shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually. And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim;” (Exodus 28:29-30)

Ur-im is translated fire-s of destruction (the city of Ur was famous for its burning fiery furnace used for execution of blasphemers and dissidents, and Thummim means perfect, complete, whole, i.e. in compliance with the laws, i.e. “not condemned”. We can conclude that these elements on the High Priest’s breastplate of judgment, a means of direct communication with YHVH, were activated in some way such as “light” – another translation for “urim”.

After the priesthood at Jerusalem was so corrupt God could not communicate through them, God continued to warn of judgment through his servants the prophets.

From Jeremiah in Jerusalem:

“say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away…for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.” (Jeremiah 7:28-30)

Pause here to understand that YHVH has just ordered disobedience to the Torah which prohibits “rounding the corners” of the head. (Leviticus 19:27)

This means that it is prohibited to shave your sideburns (pe’ot) up to the top of the ear and make your hairline equal on all sides of the head…Traditionally, this commandment is interpreted as not even cutting any hair above the cheekbone, leaving short sideburns.

A Nazirite is forbidden to cut his hair at all, whether the hairs of his head or his beard (See Numbers 6:5).

So this is a very clearly understood object lesson from Ezekiel to the diaspora in Babylon.

“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 weigh, and divide the hair.”

“Thou shalt burn with [sacred] fire a third part in the midst of the city [Babylon], 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. 

Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the [common] fire, and burn them in the [common] fire;

for thereof…she / Judea hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations…Therefore thus saith the LORD God…Behold, I will execute judgment.” (Ezekiel 5:1-8)

A continuation of communicating through Urim. Cast into the fires of destruction.

Believe it or not, the belief that heretics should be burned to death is the historic and infallible declaration of Catholicism. In the papal bull Exsurge Domine by Pope Leo X condemning the errors of Martin Luther, Leo declared that it is an error to be opposed to the burning of heretics.

This bull has never been rescinded, despite the Pope’s ecumenical visit to Sweden in October 2016 declaring that Catholics and Lutherans are ‘no longer defining themselves in opposition to each other,’ because Pope Leo X “reserved for himself the possibility.”

That’s unsettling as regards the fact that history repeats itself.

In the end, our choices boil down to the urim from the Adversary on earth or YHVH in heaven, or the thummim from the root word תֻּמ is translated completeness, integrity, perfect, upright.and blameless, guiltless which is only only provided by YHVH’s Savior while we are here in this life on earth.

The two options of Urim and Thummim are laid out clearly.

• “He that walketh uprightly walketh surely:
  • but he that perverteth his ways shall be known [found out, revealed despite a cover of right living]
• The way of the LORD is strength to the upright:
  • but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.” (Proverbs 10:9,29)

But by far my favorite translation of “thummim” is “finished”.

“Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished.” (Deuteronomy 32)

When YHVH’s Savior completed the work his father had given him, he uttered the same phrase referencing Moses’ work. I am certain that he used the Hebrew language to get his point across to the scripturally literate Jews, just as he did when he called out to his Father “Why?!” 

Not to elicit an answer for himself which he already knew – but to relay an explanation to his audience of the fulfillment of YHVH’s promise to deliver all humanity from sin and death through the Seed of the Woman, whose lineage was tracked through Judah but not limited to Judah’s people.

And some of them got it, like the Ethiopian eunuch, who had traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover but who couldn’t qualify to enter the temple to practice Judaism.

The biblical version of Paul’s gospel is that ethnic Gentiles joined ethnic Israel in providing spiritual leadership in the Kingdom of God to the rest of the world.

“Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles…without Christ / Messiah, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

• But now in Christ Jesus / YHVH’s Anointed Savior ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ / Messiah…
• who hath made both one [equal citizens in the Hebrew commonwealth of Israel]…
• built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets [like Isaiah and Jeremiah], Jesus Christ / Yeshua Mashiach himself being the chief corner stone…
• In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit / Temple.” (Ephesians 2:12-22)

Germany’s Churches during the Nazi Holocaust are the perfect examples of Gentiles who call themselves followers of Jesus Christ choosing NOT to identify with YHVH’s Chosen Savior.

When it was just beginning and vying for support, the Nazi Party identified itself as a Christian party. One can find quotes of Hitler himself expressing support for Christianity. This is understandable, considering that about 95 percent of Germans in the 1920s and 1930s identified as Christian. To ingratiate themselves to voters, Hitler and other leaders of the Nazi Party issued statements that sounded very pro-Christian. 

In 1934, at the beginning of the Third Reich, the Nazis aligned with a nondenominational Protestant movement called the Deutsche Christen, or “German Christians.” The German Christians were so antisemitic that they denied the Jewish roots of Christianity. The movement repudiated the Old Testament, much of the Gospel of Matthew, and the letters in the New Testament attributed to Paul. These were considered too Jewish. Instead, Christianity was a religion of Aryans.

The Nazi government ushered in key changes to the Protestant churches in Germany, creating a national church under the centralized leadership of Ludwig Müller, a well-known pastor and Nazi Party member. Müller vowed to purge Protestant churches of all “Jewish influence,” including removing the Old Testament from their bible because it is based on the Hebrew bible.

German Christian leaders claimed that “the eternal God created for our nation a law that is peculiar to its own kind. It took shape in the Leader Adolf Hitler, and in the National Socialist state created by him. This law speaks to us from the history of our people. . . . It is loyalty to this law which demands of us the battle for honor and freedom . . . One Nation! One God! One Reich! One Church!”.

In response to the growing power of the German Christians, another Protestant faction was formed called the Confessing Church. Its slogan was “Church must remain church,” and its members sought to protect their religion from the grasp of politics and the Nazi government. Martin Niemöller met with Hitler to reaffirm support for his domestic and foreign policies but refused sign a statement of unconditional loyalty to Hitler personally. Karl Barth’s Barmen Declaration went further, arguing that the Church‘s allegiance to the God of Jesus Christ should give it the impetus and resources to resist the influence of other lords, such as the German Führer. Dietrich Bonhoeffer went the furthest, arguing that National Socialism and Christianity were incompatible and was executed for his role in a plot to assassinate Hitler in 1945. But there were no mention of the Jewish problem or condemnation of other injustices in Nazi Germany.

What a condemnation of organized Christianity. Hitler’s rise to power with the consequent fall of the great German Empire is the inevitable biblically prophetic consequence.

Not against Naziism! Against the individuals who claim to be God’s people but in Germany’s democratic process raised to power and supported a wicked ruler!

“Judge me, O LORD; for

• I have walked in mine integrity:
• I have trusted also in the LORD;
  • therefore I shall not slide. 
• Examine me, O LORD, and prove me;
• try my reins and my heart.
• I have walked in thy truth.
  • I have not sat [made a place for mysef] with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
• I have hated the congregation of evil doers;
  • and will not sit with the wicked.
• I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
  • Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
• I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me. (Psalm 26)

And the raising of power and support of a wicked leader by nominal Christians has happened again in the current iteration of the western leg of the empire – the United States of America.

The root cause is the same – the racist ideology that God separated out Gentile Christians from Jews.

In the replacement theology model of understanding scripture, God changed his chosen people from ancient Israel to the New Testament Church when they rejected Jesus as their king at his crucifixion, death and resurrection. 

Dispensationalism is a theological system that maintains God works differently with different sets of people during the period of Biblical history. In 1830, John Nelson Darby began to teach a new doctrine that the Church, which had accepted Christ, would be raptured away to safety before the Great Tribulation was poured out upon the Jews for having rejected Christ at his crucifixion, death, and resurrection. In the Scofield Reference Bible of 1909, Scofield divided God’s dealings with mankind into seven distinct dispensations, the sixth starting with the Gentile Church, and the seventh starting when the Church is raptured off the earth, the Great Tribulation results in the Jews finally accept Jesus as their national savior.

While Dispensationalism claims to interpret the Bible literally, there is obviously a disconnect with Paul’s multiple assertions that the Gentiles are grafted in to Israel and that there is one body combining both Gentiles and Jews.

Exactly as in Nazi Germany, this theological belief has crossed over into political affiliation.

Christian Nationalism is “a cultural framework that idealizes and advocates a fusion of Christianity with American civic life. It contends that America has been and should always be distinctively Christian from top to bottom—in its self-identity, interpretations of its own history, sacred symbols, cherished values, and public policies—and it aims to keep it that way. But, the Christian in Christian Nationalism is more about identity than religion. It carries with it assumptions about nativism, white supremacy, authoritarianism, patriarchy, and militarism.”

As Donald Trump – exactly like Hitler – increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians.

“Trump supports Jesus, and without Jesus, America will fall”, “Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president” and “God, Guns & Trump.” One man’s shirt declared, “Make America Godly Again,” with the image of a luminous Jesus putting his supportive hands on Trump’s shoulders.

Many attendees said in interviews they believed Trump shared their Christian faith and values. Several cited their opposition to abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, particularly to transgender expressions.

Nobody voiced concern about Trump’s past conduct or his present indictments on criminal charges, including allegations that he tried to hide hush money payments to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign. Supporters saw Trump as representing a religion of second chances.

Christian nationalism’s obsession with power is a leading predictor of which Americans believe the riots at the Capitol on January 6th were justified and that violence is acceptable in advancing political goals.

2025 – Statement from Christians Against Christian Nationalism

Christian nationalism seeks to merge Christian and American identities, distorting both the Christian faith and America’s constitutional democracy. Christian nationalism demands Christianity be privileged by the State and implies that to be a good American, one must be Christian. It often overlaps with and provides cover for white supremacy and racial subjugation. 

Individual salvation led by the lifestyle and verbal witness of believers based on God’s word – not dependent on any institutionalized religion – has always been the way of salvation. We believe on YHVH’s Savior because Moses wrote down an indisputable and scientifically validated account of YHVH’s work in creation, choice of mankind over hyperdimensional beings as his family and heirs to this universe, and redemption by the Seed of the Woman / the last Adam, a human whose grip on YHVH’s promise of resurrection was steadfast even through horrific torture and death. His resurrection proves that the ultimate test of faith is achievable. Our righteousness, integrity, completeness is achieved through believing Moses’ account of YHVH as Creator and Resurrector through his Redeemer, the human seed of the woman we call Christ Jesus.

As the majority of America’s Christians have blended so thoroughly into the godless lifestyle that there is no longer any witness of righteousness – the way of salvation – to show the world. So the only way American Christianity can set itself apart from the world as being “superior” is through political privilege.

The Christians who think that Moses’ law can now be tossed aside and our behavior doesn’t matter will not be judged to have “walked [moved among society, behaved themselves] in integrity, uprightness”, but instead judged to have joined forces with the current wicked King of the North.