Kingdom Come

I’m afraid we modern believers are more like Lot than Abraham. We don’t understand the details of our national membership from a biblical standpoint. Exactly like the Pharisees of Jesus’ day we take for granted that we can have all the benefits of being in Father Abraham’s nation because the patriarch / father of a nation has the authority to choose who will be included in his nation, regardless of their genetic ancestry.

Check that again. Have we overlooked the essential element that – the father of a nation has the authority to choose who will be included in his nation.

Period.

Bestowing of sonship and inheritance by the Father to person(s) of his choosing is what Abra(ha)m was talking about as he prepared to make his trusted servant his heir.

Continue reading “207) Inheritance Determined By The Father”

Remember why God created humans in the first place?

“And God said, Let us make man.. and let them [not angels] have dominion.” (Genesis 1:26)

• thou crownedst him with glory and honour [achieved in battle!]
• and set him over the works of thy hands:
• Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet…
• But now we see not yet all things put under him.” (Hebrews 2:6-8)

Make the connection! The end of time / death is when the humans made in God’s likeness win back the dominion he granted to us! This is a massive responsibility.

Surely you’ve gone through the process of being vetted for a job. The more responsibility the job entails, the more qualifications are demanded.

Continue reading “208) God Assigned Dominion To Ishmael”

Membership in a family / household / nation requires fulfilling responsibilities.

“when Abram heard that his brother / nephew was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan…and smote them, and pursued them…And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. (Genesis 14)

This precept is so important that multiple examples are given in scripture from “Abraham, who is the father of us all [believers in YHVH’s Savior]”. (Romans 4:16)

Continue reading “209) Sonship Granted To Those Who Do The Father’s Will”

When Jeremiah’s and Ezekiel’s preaching to the conquered and ravaged nation of Judea failed to bring about the critical mass remnant of repentance to God, Daniel laid out the consequences.

More chastisement ON ISRAEL to come through three more brutal empires after this one.

The first message was given through Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the image depicting a total of four earthly world empires.

The second message was given through Daniel’s dream of four hybrid monsters arising from the sea of outer space.

We can understand these two perspectives as providing the human-enabled view of world history, and the spirit-empowered aspect revealed to those who have eyes to see.

Continue reading “SECTION XXXIV: History Of Chastening Agents”

King Nebuchadnezzar’s vision of the four kingdoms making up the Adversary’s continuous world empire:

• This image’s head was of fine gold, – the Babylonian
• his breast and his arms of silver, – Medo-Persian
• his belly and [developing into] his [two] thighs [north and south] of brass – Greece
• His [two] legs of iron” – (Daniel 2:31-33)
  • joins West with East,
  • is diverse from all kingdoms, 
  • devours the whole earth – controls a great amount of the world 
  • treads down and break it in pieces  – whatever it can’t incorporate, it crushes and tears apart

The presentation of two arms is obvious for the Medes and Persians. Three parts of belly and thighs is not so obvious for Greece which was split into four parts upon Alexander’s, death, but in fact did rapidly reduce “by 277, when only three major Hellenistic kingdoms stabilized in Egypt, in Asia Minor/ Syria, and in Macedonia under the Antigonids (277-168).” These three again reduced to only two, the north in Asia Minor and the south in Egypt.

So we should take the division of the fourth empire into two legs as a key prophetic identifier of an Empire that may or not function in coordination with each other.

Since the establishment of civilization at Babylon, the Western nations only became wealthy / powerful by tapping into the wealth of Mesopotamia.

Missiles fell on the capital city of Iraq. The invaders were speedy and destructive, compelling surrender, occupying much of the country. It sounds like today’s headlines, but it comes instead from ancient Rome’s 600-year struggle for world domination, one of the earliest tests of East versus West.

The Roman Empire was birthed in this bloody struggle (27 B.C.–A.D. 283) and it has never ended. Border provinces in the Near East passed back and forth like Alsace-Lorraine or the Polish Corridor would in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. Rarely in the history of human conflict has a feud such as the one between the empires of Rome and Mesopotamia lasted so long and accomplished so little.

Continue reading “SECTION XXXIV: The Empire’s Legs Veiled From View”

Given its location, the Middle East has always served as the crossroads of empires.

From the beginning of history it has been a battlefield of conquest and culture between the East and the West. Across this narrow bridge the religion, art, and civilisation of the East found their way into Greece; and adapted by the Greeks, the civilisation of Greece passed back again across the same bridge to conquer the East and revolutionise Asia as far as the heart of India.

For the last 5,000 years the Middle East has been the most accessible, ergo profitable, commercial connector between contrasting climates providing desirable products for nations that can’t produce these themselves.

Just one sticking point. The eastern sub-basin of the Mediterranean, known as the Levantine Sea, is surrounded on its three sides by natural barriers.

• To the south in Africa is the vast expanse of the Sahara and Libyan Deserts.
• To the north, in Asia Minor / Turkey are the high and rugged Taurus Mountains, with a mean elevation of 6,500 feet but rising at intervals to 10,000 feet or more.
• To the east is another line of mountains from the Amanus Range in northern Syria to the towering Mount Sinai (8,530 feet) in the south, with a second line of mountains paralleling the first, rising to the imposing height of Mount Hermon (9,020 feet) in the north, beyond which stretch the Syrian and Arabian Deserts to the banks of the Euphrates.

There are only two partial breaches at each extremity of the eastern mountain ranges. 

Continue reading “210) The Crux Of All World Empires”

“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.” (Revelation 2:20-23)

Prior to 1633, as observed in the 1611 King James Bible, the name “Jezebel” did not include the letter or pronunciation of “J”

Like the name “Jesus“, in the Latin superscription INRI – Jesus of Nazareth, Rex/King of the Jews – her name was spelled with an “I”.

Isabella.

This most famous of Spanish queens is the virtual reincarnation of the Sidonian Jezebel, who could very well have been her ancestor as the Phoenicians settled the far shores of the Mediterranean. The blood evidence they both left behind certainly matches.

Born as she was in 1451 when the Church reigned supreme, Isabella’s parents would have deliberately named her after a Bible character. And that tells us everything about her family.

“And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write…thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication…the depths of Satan…hold fast till I come. And he that overcometh, and keepeth MY works unto the end, to him will I [not HER] give power over the nations.” (Revelation 2:18-26)

Continue reading “211) Jezebel Straddles The Empire”