Kingdom Come

“Jeroboam…an Ephrathite…ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph…the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite…said to Jeroboam…thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:” (I Kings 11:26-31)

An “Ephrathite” is someone from the tribe of Ephraim, one of Joseph’s two sons who Jacob adopted as his immediate heirs. He is the logical alternate to a ruler from the tribe of Judah, since Jacob split the Melchizedekian blessing between Judah and Joseph through Ephraim.

“And Joseph called the name of…[his younger son] Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction…And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk…The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads;

• and let my name [parent rather than grandparent] be named on them [for the purpose of greater share of inheritance instead of splitting Joseph’s share] 
• and the name / title of my fathers Abraham and Isaac [clearly, Melchizedek];
• and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth…truly [Ephraim’s] seed shall become a multitude of nations…

And Israel said unto Joseph…I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren.” (Genesis 41:52, 48:14-22)

Note – that’s one portion above Judah as well. And it shows when Jeroboam the Ephrathite is awarded political rule over 10 out of the 12 tribes of Israel.

This certainly didn’t stop these ten tribes from making the Passover pilgrimage to YHVH in Jerusalem, but – unlike King Hiram at Tyre, Jeroboam was afraid he would lose power, so he plagiarized the true worship of YHVH into his own denomination.

“And Jeroboam said in his heart…If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah…Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan…And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah…which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.” (I Kings 12)

And God wasn’t having it.

“Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel, And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes; But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall [all males exepting only the youngest toddlers], and him that is shut up and left in Israel [even geriatrics], and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone. Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it…

Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? [Prophet appears to be responding to screams of horror or denial from his audience] even now [Oh this WILL happen].

For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger. And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.” (I Kings 14:7-16)

This did not happen the very next day, consequently some people don’t take God’s word seriously, mistaking his longsuffering for equivocation.

“The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.” (Exodus 34:6, Numbers 14:18)

However, God is true to his covenant with Israel.

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations...The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them…And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.” (Deuteronomy 29)

And it came to pass exactly as warned.

“Thy first father / chief priest, high priest hath sinned, and thy teachers / of religious studies have transgressed against me. Therefore I have profaned [ un-sanctified, stripped of appointed positions to serve God] the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.” (Isaiah 43)

“The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of 1) Uzziah, 2) Jotham, 3) Ahaz, and 4) Hezekiah, kings of Judah, [note, same time frame as Isaiah’s ministry in Judah] and in the days of [a different] Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel…

• I will…cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel…
• I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel...
• ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.” (Hosea 1)

If we take definitions at face value, what God is saying is that the Sacral Kingdom under Jeroboam’s desecrating god was ended.

“Ye are not my people” is not rejection, simply a statement of fact, the reason for God’s response. The individual members were dispersed and amalgamated among the heathen nation-states of the world in a punishment that exquisitely fit the crime.

“Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things [i.e. practice idolatry and neglect the Mosaic code in general] in Assyria…My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.” (Hosea 9)

There is evidence of trans-Atlantic trade between the Americas and Egypt and Africa at the time of the Egyptian and Assyria empires, so “wanderers among the nations” should not be limited to the Middle East but be understood to mean “world travelers”.

So whose sacral kingdom would they belong to?

Recalling that all kingdoms are sacral – whatever. They are all a variation on a theme of anti-christ.

They joined all the other teaming masses of wretched refuge of the other nations conquered and enslaved by a series of Luciferian empires.

Of the 60 million displaced people worldwide, close to 40 percent originate from the Arab region, mainly Syria and Palestine. Globally, the scale of the crisis has highlighted the deficiencies of international covenants for addressing the political and humanitarian ramifications of mass population movements. Regionally, it has placed frontline countries under considerable duress as they struggle to care for vulnerable and destitute populations. For the refugees, the crisis has resulted in a systematic decline in their rights, the quality of their lives, and in the educational standards and the future prospects of their children.

Fortunately! There is another part of the covenant, allowing repentance and restoration of relationship with a forgiving God.

“And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee…the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto [not the land! but] the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee…And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day...

For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it…

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” (Deuteronomy 30)

The northern ten tribes of Israel were always welcomed back to Jerusalem. This standing offer was reinforced by specific invitations to worship at Jerusalem by a series of messengers from God’s anointed Melchizedeks like Hezekiah and Josiah where the worshippers are called “all Israel” and treated as the same entity as the complete kingdom under Samuel.

“And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet.” (II Chronicles 35:17-18)