229) Religious Leaders Devour Their Flocks

“Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me…And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him. And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.” (II Samuel 15:4-6

There are two approaches to counseling – whether legal, psychological, political or spiritual.

  • Like Absalom, support your client’s version of who is to blame, without determining the facts.
  • Conduct a thorough investigation of the situation, including obtaining collateral witness testimony of the client’s version.

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230) Sold Out One Way Or The Other

  1. “The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it. 
  2. So Hanameel mine uncle’s son came…and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth…the redemption is thine…
  3. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.” (Jeremiah 32:6-8)

The reason it was so important for Jeremiah to recognize the word of the LORD was because Jeremiah’s response to this event was absolutely contrary to common sense. In the first place, Jeremiah knew that Judea would shortly be captured by Babylon, so it would seem he was throwing his money away.

In the second place, the priests in his home town of Anathoth were conspiring to kill himso even if he could figure he would be one of the people left behind by Babylon to maintain the land, as did indeed happen, Anathoth would be the last place he would want to go.

However, against his common sense, Jeremiah being the good servant of God that he is obeys the word of the LORD.

“And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed itthis evidence of the purchase, both

  1. which is sealed,
  2. and this evidence which is open…

may continue many days…”

Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, sayingfields shall be bought in this land…for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD” (Jeremiah 1:1, 32).

Jeremiah’s – and our – actions speak louder than words to prove our faith in Almighty God’s promise of restoration.

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SECTION XXXVIII: The Signs Of The Times Are Chastening Of God’s Sons

“The Pharisees also [allied] with [normally their rivals] the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven…”

  • Symptoms are self-reported by a patient such as “I feel sad/pain of 6 on a scale of 1-10″, or “like I’m going to throw up”,
  • Signs are observed by the professional assessor such a hot and swollen joint, or a broken bone.

Obviously, signs are much more reliable than reports by someone who may be trying to sway the listener to give them what they want, or avoid giving them what they need. When I was 10 years old I falsely claimed not to be in any pain because I didn’t want to be left at the hospital overnight then have surgery in the morning. My rigid abdominal muscles, temperature, and facial grimacing were the reliable signs of appendicitis on which the doctor took action.

Informed followers of God’s Chosen Savior are supposed to recognize the signs of the End Times!

Recognize! Not interpret symbolically!

“He answered and said unto [the rulers of the Jews]…O ye hypocrites…can ye not discern the signs of the times?” (Matthew 16:1-3)

“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us…what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? ” (Matthew 24:3)

I have no doubt that Jesus was just as frustrated with his disciples as he was with the religious leaders, because the signs that Jesus recited to the disciples are taken straight from scripture and they should have known them. As should we.

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231) Two Witnesses Required

“At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

While current eschatology focuses on Daniel’s prophecies of the end times, they are in fact the required second witness to the earliest prophesy of Israel’s latter days given before Israel had even entered the Promised Land.

From Numbers 22-25: pagan priest-king Balak of Moab was so disconnected from his Hebrew relatives – and their God YHVH – dating back to Lot, that despite having a kinship basis for an alliance, in contrast with the Gibeonites who could only act on a basis of faith in their miraculous God of goodness, he didn’t send an emissary to inquire about an alliance, but instead chose to attempt to wipe them out.

Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people…: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.”

“Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said…which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open…

Pagan priest-king Balak of Moab thought he understood exactly what Balaam meant.

The pineal gland is revered as a metaphysical organ of perception that transcends physical sight.

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232) The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Cycle Through History

 

John’s Revelation of the signs of the times is drawn directly from Jesus’ report in Matthew 24. They detail a sequence of events inevitable to every society reaching out for a false savior instead of turning inward to repentance of their self-destructive ways.

  1. “many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ / Promised Prince of Peace; and shall deceive many…

    • behold a white horse [peace]: and he that sat on him had a bow [like Cupid]; and a crown was given [voluntarily by the people] unto him: and he went forth conquering [this very nation!], and to conquer [other nations].”

  2. nation [ethnic group] shall rise against nation, and kingdom [geopolitical organization] against kingdom…wars and rumours of wars”…

    • there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.”

  3. “there shall be famines, pestilences / epidemics“…lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand…And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.” For the average person “a man’s daily wages would be but just enough to buy himself bread, without any thing to eat with it; and when he would have nothing left for clothes, and other things, nor anything for his wife and children:” while the rich get richer during crises, especially the corrupt military-industrial complex. Along with famine comes dreadful living conditions, not just for combatants but civilians in homelands diverting resources for war and in lands devastated by war, earthquakes and other natural disasters experiencing a break down of law and order, and homeless refugees in camps fleeing battlefields and genocide.

  4. ” except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved:”

    • a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him…over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts [unknown creatures, invisible microbes] of the earth.

As Yeshua spoke these words, the prophet Zechariah’s vivid description of a team of four horses furiously racing to alter the course of history would have been in Yeshua’s and his listener’s minds’ eyes, and should be in ours.

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233) The Four Horsemen Of The Roman Empire

 

The continuation, succession, and revival of the Roman Empire is a running theme of the history of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.

The vocabulary of a “Third Rome“, the “First” Rome being Rome in Italy and the “Second” Rome being Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire, is often used to convey such assertions of legitimate succession.

Several polities have claimed immediate continuity with the Roman Empire, using its name or a variation thereof as their own exclusive or non-exclusive self-description…The most enduring and significant claimants of continuation of the Roman Empire have been, in the East, the Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire, which both claimed succession of the Byzantine Empire after 1453; and in the West, the Holy Roman Empire from 800 to 1806…

The tracks of the horses out of classical Rome through the Middle Ages to the Third Rome are easy to spot. Step One – a powerful nation befriends the Jews, only to turn on them to destroy them.

Spain

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The continuation, succession, and revival of the Roman Empire is a running theme of the history of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.

The vocabulary of a “Third Rome“, the “First” Rome being Rome in Italy and the “Second” Rome being Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire, is often used to convey such assertions of legitimate succession.

Several polities have claimed immediate continuity with the Roman Empire, using its name or a variation thereof as their own exclusive or non-exclusive self-description…The most enduring and significant claimants of continuation of the Roman Empire have been, in the East, the Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire, which both claimed succession of the Byzantine Empire after 1453; and in the West, the Holy Roman Empire from 800 to 1806…

The tracks of the horses out of classical Rome through the Middle Ages to the Third Rome are easy to spot. Step One – a powerful nation befriends the Jews, only to turn on them to destroy them.

Spain

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234) Unthinkable!

75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.

Over 1/3 of these deaths were inflicted on the Soviets who lost around 27 million people during the war, including 8.7 million military and 19 million civilian deaths.

A quarter of the people in the Soviet Union were wounded or killed in WWII, and the country lost a third of its national wealth.

Compare the cost to the U.S. – 300,000 lives lost, and no financial cost, but rather making a killing (pun intended) on the Lend-Lease Act.

America sent arms and equipment to the Soviet Union totaling $11.3 billion, or $180 billion in today’s currency from 1941 to 1945.

Including, but not limited to, 400,000 jeeps & trucks, 14,000 airplanes, 2.7 million tons of petrol products and 4.5 million tons of food.

Exactly like Hitler’s plan to recover from WWI by expanding east, Stalin fully expected to repay his losses by expanding west into conquered territory.

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235) 21st Century American Riders

There are only five times that Congress, the only constitutional authority to do so, declared war:

  • War of 1812
  • Mexican-American War 1846
  • Spanish-American War 1898
  • The War to End All Wars 1914
  • World War II in 1941, two years after it began in 1939

Our presidents don’t have constitutional authority to start a war, so they simply go to war.

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Naming just a sample from the significant officially undeclared but officially named wars, American has been involved in the

  • Mexican Revolution of 1914
  • Russian Civil War of 1918
  • Korean War 1950 – 1953 among the most destructive conflicts of the modern era, with approximately 3 million war fatalities, a larger proportional civilian death toll than World War II or the Vietnam War, thousands of massacres by both sides, the destruction of virtually all of Korea’s major cities as one of the most heavily bombed countries in history.
  • Vietnam War 1964-1973
  • Persian Gulf War 1991
  • War in Afghanistan 2001-2021 
  • Iraq War 2003-2011, 

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SECTION XXXIX: America Drives Apocalypse Now

America has been at war 93% of the time since its birth in 1776.

America’s tax-base wealth empowers the US Presidents to execute the political strategy of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

  1. Promising peace and prosperity through political deals of foreign aid and bribing rulers,
  2. the foreign disenfranchised masses revolt,
  3. leading to repressive measures by their foreign overlords causing famine, sickness, death
  4. and inevitably the outbreak of catastrophic war from which America must “defend” itself from the problem it started.

American Revolution Era during Napoleonic Wars

  • White Horse: George Washington led the American Revolution, a vision which propelled America to become the super power it is today by, ironically, inspiring British colonists to free themselves from British taxation without representation.
  • Red Horse: Immediately supported the Napoleonic wars in Europe by diverting France’s greatest adversary, Britain, in the War of 1812, followed by over 1,500 wars, attacks and raids on Indians, the most of any country in the world against its Indigenous people
  • Black horse: Dreadful living conditions, poor nutrition and pandemics for the majority with a small minority of wealthy benefitting from all the resources of the continent. Plains Indians were unable to hunt buffalo since these had been deliberately exterminated. Instead, they had to rely on government rations that could be withdrawn at any time for poor behaviour. Since they could not leave their reservations they were reduced to a subsistence life. Indian children were forcibly taken from their familiess and sent to boarding schools. In 1889 the federal government opened lands in the Oklahoma Territory to white settlement that were by treaties reserved for Indians. Starvation was common, and living in close quarters hastened the spread of diseases brought by white settlers.
  • Pale horse – massive death rates from all causes. By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Indigenous people remained from the estimated 5 million to 15 million living in North America when Columbus arrived in 1492 – statistics worse than the Holocaust.

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236) 1st Sign – A False Prince Of Peace

“the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?…t many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ / Messiah; and shall deceive many.” (Matthew 24:3-5)

Anti-christs present themselves not as opposites to, but look-alike mirror image replacements for YHVH’s Messiah / Christ.

A physical example of this condition is the presence of en-anti-omer molecules in chemistry, which are like right and left hands. 

In many cases, the enantiomers have distinct effects. One case is that of Propoxyphene. The enantiomeric pair of propoxyphene is separately sold by Eli Lilly and company. One of the partners is dextro[rightsided]propoxyphene, an analgesic agent (Darvon) and the other is called levo[leftsided]propoxyphene, an effective antitussive/ cough suppresant (Novrad). Notice how the brand names reflect this reversal of each other. In many cases one of the pairs causes the side effects linked to the therapeutic effects of the medication, such as drowsiness or nausea.

In the spiritual realm, the mirror image of the life-giving Christ causes the opposite effect of death.

“and his name / attribute [of both the true and anti-christ] shall be called…The Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)

Messianism is the political-religious belief in the advent of a messiah who acts as the savior / liberator of a chosen group of people.

In Hinduism, Kalki (Devanagari: कल्कि, is the tenth and final Maha Avatara (great incarnation) of Vishnu who will come to end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kali Yuga

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“the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?…t many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ / Messiah; and shall deceive many.” (Matthew 24:3-5)

Anti-christs present themselves not as opposites to, but look-alike mirror image replacements for YHVH’s Messiah / Christ.

A physical example of this condition is the presence of en-anti-omer molecules in chemistry, which are like right and left hands. 

In many cases, the enantiomers have distinct effects. One case is that of Propoxyphene. The enantiomeric pair of propoxyphene is separately sold by Eli Lilly and company. One of the partners is dextro[rightsided]propoxyphene, an analgesic agent (Darvon) and the other is called levo[leftsided]propoxyphene, an effective antitussive/ cough suppresant (Novrad). Notice how the brand names reflect this reversal of each other. In many cases one of the pairs causes the side effects linked to the therapeutic effects of the medication, such as drowsiness or nausea.

In the spiritual realm, the mirror image of the life-giving Christ causes the opposite effect of death.

“and his name / attribute [of both the true and anti-christ] shall be called…The Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)

Messianism is the political-religious belief in the advent of a messiah who acts as the savior / liberator of a chosen group of people.

In Hinduism, Kalki (Devanagari: कल्कि, is the tenth and final Maha Avatara (great incarnation) of Vishnu who will come to end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kali Yuga

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