Kingdom Come

Jesus himself established that the criteria for entrance into God’s eternal kingdom is not calling on the Romanized name of Jesus Christ but by the way we treat his people.

 “When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” (Matthew 25:31-40)

This concept is central to the Godfather saga, of which the first movie in the trilogy is considered by many critics to be the best movie of all time.

Continue reading “191 One Hebrew Commonwealth Under YHVH’S King”

” ye are not come unto the mount [Sinai] that might be touched, and that burned with fire…

The writer is clearly speaking to non-Jews.

“ye are come unto…the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant…See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven…let us…serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:22-29)

And so while Paul’s letter to the 1st century AD Gentile believers at Ephesus parallels their vocation to the nation of Israel’s in the 2nd millennium BC, he exhorts them that their calling carries even more responsibility.

• he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,
• that we should be holy 
• predestinated us unto the adoption of children
• made known unto us the mystery of his will that in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in The Promise Seed / Christ
• ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise are made nigh by the blood of The Promised Seed / Christ
• For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us
• Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God
• To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the congregation of believers including those following Moses at mount Sinai / church the manifold wisdom of God
• According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord
• Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, (Ephesians 3)

Peter and John bear witness to Paul’s claim that the Gentile Christians from the 1st century onward parallel the Messianic role of Cyrus the Persian and of Moses the Hebrew over the nation of Israel.

Continue reading “192) The General Assembly”

The penultimate proof of this post’s claim is Jesus Christ himself, who was rejected by the rulers of the Jews. 

Another individual whose preaching was rejected by the rulers of the Jews was Daniel.

We all know that Jesus accepted Daniel as Prophet of God. 

“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)” (Matthew 24:15)

What is overlooked is that Daniel was an outcast from Israel.

“And the LORD gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand…And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel…in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace…among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel…he gave the name Belteshazzar.” (Daniel 1:2-7)

The process of being made a citizen of a competing sacral kingdom – demonstrated by changing Dani-el’s ID to align with their god – disqualified Daniel from citizenship in YHVH’s sacral kingdom.

“He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.” (Deuteronomy 23:1)

If Daniel’s condition is an unknown factoid readily dismissed for its disturbing sexual content, check out Daniel chapter one where his status is stated no less than seven times.

Continue reading “193) Outcasts Of Israel Qualify For Leadership”

From Isaiah 41-42

• “Who raised up the righteous man from the east…gave the nations before him…I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he…
  • The isles / Gentile nations saw it, and feared…helped everyone his neighbor [to destroy you]
    • But! thou, Israel, art my servant / government minister…the seed of Abraham my friend…Fear not, for I am with thee...I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness..
• AND I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
  • For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. Behold, they [my ministers] are all vanity;
• Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him:
  • HE shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles…
  • I the LORD…give THEE [alternate to the nation of Israel] for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles…HE will magnify the law, and make it honourable…

This condemnation is clearly not just that the Jewish leadership rejected Yeshua as their king, nor that the Jews in general were not walking in the law of Moses, but specific to this denouncement by Isaiah that the Jews were rejecting their God-given Melchizedekian mandate to “be unto me a kingdom of priests” in order to lead all the other nations of the world to love the LORD God.

From Isaiah 42-43:

“Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his [primary] law [to take Melchizedian dominion over the WHOLE earth].

now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel –

“I” [since “you” aren’t doing your job] will bring…my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by MY name [of YHVH, in contrast to Israelite or Jew].

Let [command!] ALL the nations be gathered together!

All means all – including the nation of Israel into this new coalition.

Behold, I will do a new thing; THIS people [coalition of all nations in contrast to just the nation of Israel] have I formed for myself; THEY shall shew forth my praise.” 

1. One shall say, I am the LORD‘s; (ancient Hebrews)
2. and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob / Israel (Judaism)
3. and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD / YHVH Creator, and surname / identify himself by the name / account of Israel (Christianity).

Thus saith the LORD, the King of Israel, AND his redeemer the LORD of hosts; 

1. I am the first,
2. and I am the last;
3. and beside me there is no God…

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.” (Isaiah 44:6,22)

Don’t let’s assume that because this prophecy is spoken by Isaiah that it wasn’t until Isaiah’s time that this directive was issued by YHVH. Isaiah is certainly harking back to the beginning of the constitution of the nation of Israel when he references giving Egypt, Ethiopia and Seba to ransom Israel. 

And Isaiah is assuredly familiar with Balaam’s prophecy stating this same objection. By the way, Balaam was not an Israelite but he was obviously a Hebrew since he served YHVH.

The ultimate proof that God did not simply single Israel out for favoritism among the nations, that he had a specific purpose for giving territory to Israel, is that he treated them exactly as he did the Canaanites when Israel took over the religion of the Canaanites.

God destroyed them.

“the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things…Who will render to every man according to his deeds…unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness – indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile…For there is no respect of persons with God.” (Romans 2:2-11)

“Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: For

• For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel,
  • ruled with an arbitrary and absolute authority, and not as a theocratic sovereign subject to the authority of the Mosaic constitution
• and made also molten images for Baalim 
  • physical objects in which evil spirits are invited to reside as a focal point for worship, blessings and cursings 
  • multiple Baals / lords, i.e. pledged himself as a vassal in exchange for benefits to multiple spirit entities
• Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom 
  • to communicate with the lords of death
• and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
• He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him.” (II Chronicles 28:1-5)

“Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates…Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. 

But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation…Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work…I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest…even into the hand of the Chaldeans. And I will cast thee out…  (Jeremiah 22:1-29)

 ^“Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD…but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel. 

Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen…And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. And all…the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire…And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah.” (II Chronicles 36:11-21)

Do you think maybe this still applies today?

As of 2025 the NATION of Israel has not returned unto the LORD God, and survives only by serving the interests of America.

 

As the capitol of the Empire, Rome had become home to a vast population of Jews who had been brought back as slaves after wars, or had emigrated voluntarily for economic opportunities. 

[Writing in 59 BC] “You know what a big crowd it is, how they stick together, how influential they are in informal assemblies….” Cicero’s remarks…indicate misgivings about their separatist tendencies. “[T]he great section of Rome on the other side of the Tiber is occupied and inhabited by Jews, most of whom were…brought as captives to Italy [then] liberated by their owners… [T]hey have houses of prayer and meet together in them, particularly on the sacred Sabbaths when they receive as a body of training in their ancestral philosophy…

[In AD 41 The Emperor] Claudius…ordered them, while continuing their traditional mode of life, not to hold meetings”….

[and then] “Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome…” 

[Another Roman historian writes] Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome because in their resentment against Christ they were continually creating disturbances…’

“And when we came to Rome [about AD 60]…Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them…for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee. But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect [obviously of Judaism], we know that every where it is spoken against. And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus [as the prince who is to come] both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets.

And some [of the Jewish leaders in Rome] believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word; Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet (chapter 6) unto our fathers, 

• Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
• Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear / receive it.” (Acts 28)

This sentence has been grossly misinterpreted to deny salvation to the Jews.

It is not.

Continue reading “SECTION XXXI: Paul Transfers Kingdom Rule To Gentiles”

“He that hath an ear, let him hear / respond to what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Revelation 2:1-7

If we’re going to understand the prophetic value of these letters we need to know their historical reality.

Continue reading “194) The Calculating Church Rev 2:1-7”

Smyrna

“And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” 

During the Roman period, Smyrna was apparently a city of great beauty and impressive architecture that circled Mount Pagus like a “crown”... (cf. Revelation 2:10 “crown of life”). Walking through the city, one would a see…temples to Zeus (including a large altar), Cybele (the Mother Goddess, near the harbor), Aphrodite, Dionysius, and the Emperors (probably Tiberius in 26 AD and Domitian before 96 AD), the harbor, a library, and a massive agora…In the 2nd century AD, Smyrna built another imperial temple to Hadrian. Along with inscriptions honoring the emperors and statues of Domitian and Trajan, coins issued by the city often depicted emperors and even the imperial temples, so it is obvious that Smyrna was dedicated to the worship of the emperor and the imperial cult.

Continue reading “195) The Crisis Church Rev 2:8-11”

Revelation 2:12-17

“And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.”

Wow. Satan’s seat, his government headquarters where he keeps a permanent residence, would be the equivalent of Washington DC. Wouldn’t that be in Rome? But our Lord is telling us that it is in Pergamos! Why on earth in Pergamos?

Pergamon, whose ancient name…means “people of the high city”, had been inhabited since prehistory.

There must surely be a connection with the nearby prehistoric temple complex Gobekli Tepe.

Continue reading “196) The Cowering Church Rev 2:12-17”

Revelation 2:18-29

“And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. 

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. 

[Jan] Crouch was, perhaps, one of the most influential televangelists of the modern era.On television, she played the role of wife and mother, wearing elaborate outfits and outsized wigs and falsies; nodding along to her husband’s sermons, swaying to that idiosyncratic sound of Christian contemporary music and, of course, testifying about the good will of God.

“Momma Jan” was part of a multi-billion dollar empire. With her husband Paul Crouch, Jan founded Trinity Broadcast Network (now called TBN) in 1973, the 24-hour network dedicated to a particular kind of Christian programming. Crouch and her husband, long-time hosts of Praise the Lord, were the very memorable faces of “prosperity gospel,” a controversial brand of Evangelical Christianity that has a laser focus on “give and you will receive.” TBN, and the Crouches, raked in millions of dollars as they solicited donations from their sleek television sets while enacting a kind of contemporary worship…

Continue reading “197) The Corrupt Church Rev 2:18-29”

“And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.” (Revelation 3:1)

Around 612 BCE, the Assyrian Empire was conquered by the Neo-Babylon Empire. This opened up new horizons for the wealthy kingdom of Lydia in Anatolia, with its capitol at Sardis, which turned its attention from defending the eastern front to overrunning its western rivals, the Greek Ionian cities along the coast.

Lydian rulers, however, admired the Greeks and treated the Ionian cities leniently… Croesus, the last Lydian king, even paid for the construction of the temple of Artemis, which became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Thus, the Ionian coast city-states and the Lydians remained on peaceful terms with very tight cultural and commercial relations. Sardis was a centre for the traffic of goods and ideas between Mesopotamia and the Greek Ionian settlements, a crossroad of trade, and an ideal meeting point for the exchange of ideas, beliefs, customs, knowledge, and new insights. This rich exchange was one of the factors that, around 600 BCE, allowed the Ionian cities to turn into the intellectual leaders of the Greek world.

Continue reading “198) The Corpse Church Rev 3:1-6”