“This people have I formed for myself; they SHALL shew forth my praise.” (Isaiah 43)
Israel WILL witness of YHVH’s power either through demonstrating his power to bless, or his power to curse and then restore.
“Thus saith the Lord God of Israel…I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and…multiplied his seed…And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them.
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth…he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive…If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you…
And the people said unto Joshua…we will serve the LORD. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves…And they said, We are witnesses.” (Joshua 24)
I was praised for memorizing the books of the Bible as a child, even Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
I don’t think in all my decades of attending a Baptist church that the pastor ever directed the congregation to turn to any one of these books for his sermon, except Daniel during a prophecy conference.
And yet, they all specifically relay “the word of the LORD” warning that the judgment for forsaking the LORD was imminent.
Tragically, the false teaching of Dispensationalism has lulled the false belief that asking Jesus to come into your hear means you can get away with sinning from then on. When did “whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth” – quoted in both the Old and New Testaments – get cut out of the Bible?
The basic message from God’s prophets to his people is still applicable in our time, summed up as “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” The judgment for this has nothing to do with eternal life, but with the quality of life here and now.
Christians must recognize that engaging in certain sins like alcoholism inevitably results in poor health and an early grave. Can we not extrapolate this to the consequences of an entire religion’s wicked choices? See relevant posts for details.
From Isaiah 1:1-20)
“the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me…Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity…they have forsaken the LORD.”
This absolutely describes Christian America in 2026.
“Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed…If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword:”
Jeremiah 1:16 “I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me.”
Ezekiel 5:7-8 “Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments…I am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.”
Hosea 4 “the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out…My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
Joel 1:15 “Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.”
Amos 2:4-5 “I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments…I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
Micah 2:8 “of late my people is risen up as an enemy:”
Habakkuk 2:8-13 “Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee…Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!…Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?”
Zephaniah 1:14-18 “The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly…That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness…And I will bring distress upon men…because they have sinned against the LORD…Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD‘s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.”
Malachi 1:10-13 “I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts…For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye have profaned it.”
A rare example of Israel’s righteous witness of YHVH to world occurred under King David’s influence.
“And Hiram king of Tyre [one of Lucifer’s positions, remember?] sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.” (I Kings 5:1)
The consistency with which the concept “love” is portrayed throughout the Bible in 442 passages provides a reliable interpretation in every single instance. Hiram’s “love” for David must be interpreted to mean the same thing as Jonathan’s “love” for David: “Jonathan loved him as his own soul [identified as being one with himself].” (I Samuel 18:1-4)
“And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side…the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son…shall build an house unto my name. Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants…
when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly…So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his desire…and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.” (I Kings 5:2-7)
So it comes as no surprise that at the same time that Solomon was building the temple in Jerusalem per David’s blueprints, coordinated with supplies and skilled workmen provided by Hiram, that Hiram was building his own temple in Tyre. Herodotus visited the temple in the 5th century BCE and described its impressive entrance as having two columns, just like those at Solomon’s temple. Outside the god’s temple, at a specially constructed altar, worship involved prayers, burning incense, the pouring of libations, and making offerings to the god of animal sacrifices, foodstuffs, and precious goods…Women, foreigners, and pigs were not allowed in the sacred precinct of Melqart’s temple, which also functioned as the city’s treasury.
So Hiram not only copied the form but also the function of the new temple. These practices are fully consistent with Israel’s prescribed worship of YHVH. In every sacral kingdom, making a league required submitting to the acknowledged true king – the god of the nation. indicating that Hiram led his nation in a religious conversion to monotheism, exactly as happened in Egypt under Pharaoh Akhenaten.
But YHVH’s priest-kings became corrupt at Jerusalem, losing not only their witness but their spiritual power, worship of YHVH corrupted into worship of the Seed of the Serpent as well.
As Tyre [capitol of a Mediterranean empire] insisted every new colony build a temple to Melqart, the god was exported across the Mediterranean…very important at Carthage, where a stele indicates that a temple was dedicated to him. The Carthaginians were also obliged to send annual tribute – one tenth of their annual profits – to the temple of Melqart at Tyre for the next few centuries…
Hannibal [of Carthage, Tyre’s most famous Mediterranean colony], famously swore an oath to the god in 237 BCE when, aged 9, he stated that he would forever be the enemy of Rome. Hannibal, too, was not the only Carthaginian general that deified himself and took on the appearance of the god.
Closer to home, Melqart [as one of many titles] is probably confused with [i.e. interpreted as being a different individual rather than a different title for the same individual] Baal / Lord in several passages of the Bible, for example, when describing the sins of King Ahab in I Kings 16:31-2. Melqart appears in an inscription on a 9th-century BCE stele found near Aleppo, Syria. It is written in Aramaic and was dedicated by Bar-Hadad, king of Aram, a Syrian-Hittite kingdom.
About this same time in history, Nebuchadnezzar covered his new Ishtar Gate at Babylon with images of the same cloned seed of Satan, the anti-christ, called Marduk, the snake-dragon / mushussu.
German archaeology thrived under the Ottoman Empire in Mesopotamia, Assur, Babylon, Samarra, and Warka. In Egypt, Abusir and Tell-el-Amarna. In Asia Minor, Didyma, Kos, Miletus, Pergamon, and Priene. There was Baalbek in Syria, Samos in Greece, Pasargadae in Iran and Axum in Ethiopia. The Royal Museum in Berlin acquired three monumental gates (from Babylon, Moschetti, and Miletus).
The Ishtar gate of Babylon was moved to the Pergamum “Where Satan Dwelleth” – Museum in Berlin during Hitler’s combined occult – and rocket fueled – acceleration to the heights of power. Given the hyper dimensional quality of spirit beings / aliens, no doubt some kind of hyperdimensional portal is required for establishing contact with spirits either in the cosmic space or on earth.
In marked contrast to this Christian nation’s reverence and preservation of paganism, the rise of Islam’s Da’esh (ISIS) and its expansion across Syria and Iraq were characterized by the ideological purity of the seventh-century the Quran and Sunna (words and acts) of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions, emphasizing an imperative to combat polytheism, idolatry, unbelief, and all attempts to associate other beings or things with God.
- (ISIS) released a video showing the fiery destruction of the Temple of Baal-shamin at the Syrian site of Palmyra.
- A United Nation agency says satellite images confirm explosions reported at another Palmyra temple which has largely been destroyed.
Call me a terrorist if you will, but isn’t the destruction of this heritage of carnage exactly what YHVH calls his people to do?
“These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.” (Deuteronomy 12:1-3)
Kingdom Come 