Bible Believers'
Newsletter #046
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I'm posting a further part
in our study "Esau/Edom, and the Trail of the Serpent".
At a later date we propose listing the complete unabridged
series, including the lengthy histories which have not been
included in the Newsletters.
I pray you find this
Newsletter interesting and Spiritually strengthening. As usual, I
admonish each of you to personally confirm everything in your own
Bible.
God bless you Brethren . .
. Brother Anthony
Esau/Edom, and
the Trail of the Serpent
This-evening's sermon is set in the great and dreadful day of
the Lord called the day of vengeance of our God - after the end
of the Gentile dispensation, when God turns back to Israel in
Daniel's Seventieth Week which is Jacob's Trouble.
Jacob's Trouble is typed in Genesis where Jacob had to
confront his brother Esau before he could return to his
inheritance and the birthright he bought for a bowl of red lentil
stew. Jacob feared for his life, because He had defrauded Esau by
impersonating him to their father Isaac, and stolen his blessing.
He fled to his Uncle Laban in Syria where he married his
daughters, tended his flocks, and was deceived in his turn.
After many years, Jacob with his wives and children, his
servants, his animals, and all of their possessions set off to
return to the Promised Land. When he learned that his brother
Esau was coming to meet him with 400 men, he was afraid, and sent
messengers ahead to tell Esau God had prospered him, and dividing
his caravan into two bands, sent the animals and servants ahead
so that if Esau killed them the second caravan with his wives and
children might escape.
Jacob divided his animals into groups with a distance between
each and sent them ahead at the hands of his servants as a gift
to buy grace in Esau's sight. That night as he travailed in
prayer, God met him in the form of a created Man, and Jacob
prevailed until He granted his petition and blessed him, changing
his name to Israel. In the morning he saw Esau approaching and
went ahead of his wives and concubines, and children, bowing
himself seven times to the ground, signifying the Seven Gentile
Church Ages.
He couldn't bribe Esau, who types the apostate Gentile Church
of today that says, "I'm rich, increased with goods, and
have need of nothing," but has despised and rejected the
Birthright like Esau, "and knows it not", signifying
Rome will not need the Jew's money. Mr. Rothschild is also banker
to the Vatican. His policy is always to finance both sides. That
way they offend nobody. So Jacob had to make an agreement with
Esau then, as the Jews will have to do accommodate Rome in the
future (Revelation 3:17).
God granted Israel grace in Esau's sight and he returned
safely to Canaan. He's granting the Israelites among the Jews
grace today to return to the land of their Covenant for Jacob's
Trouble, which is the Great Tribulation. God won't deal with them
outside the Land. They can't even keep their sabbath outside the
Land. (According to HDM Spence, in "Treasures of the
Talmud", James Nisbet Co, London, compiled from the
Babylonian Talmud, "Israelites dwelling outside the land of
Israel are unintentional idolaters"). God deals with Israel
as a nation, not individuals as He deals with we Gentiles.
When his foes confront him, Israel will be desperate, and
144,000 will wrestle and prevail with God, like Jacob. God will
stand for him, and as He changed Esau's plan to kill Jacob,
Israel's enemies will be defeated without hand. And a nation will
be born-again in one day. Their name and nature will be changed
from Jacob, meaning "supplanter", to Israel or
"overcomer" (Daniel 12:1; Isaiah 66:8).
We must distinguish between "Jews" and
"Israelites". "Jew" refers to someone from
the Roman Province of Judea or Idumea, whatever their race or
religion. Today, as in the days of Jesus, most Jews are either
Gentiles or physical Serpent's seed, and have no link to Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob by blood or by faith, and no historic claim to
the Promised Land or the Covenants of God.
After "Jacob's Trouble" God will defeat and utterly
annihilate the foes of true Israel, as He instructed Moses to
kill all Serpent's seed in the conquest of the Promised Land
(Deuteronomy 7:1-2).
Jeremiah 30 describes the time of "Jacob's Trouble"
that is on the horizon today. Turn to verse three, please. God
spoke to Jeremiah at the start of the Servitude to Nebuchadnezzar
in 606BC, saying, "The days are coming when I will restore
Israel and Judah, causing them to return to the land that I gave
to their fathers, and they shall possess it."
These Words would have been comforting to the Judeans, in the
face of Jeremiah's prophecy that they should become captives in
Babylon for seventy years (Jeremiah 25:8-11; 29:10). However,
they do not refer to Judah's restoration in peace by the edict of
Cyrus but to the Spiritual restoration in a time of trouble of an
election from all twelve Tribes who have returned to the Land
since 1948.
Jeremiah 30:4-8, "These are the Words of the LORD
regarding Israel and Judah: 'Where shall we find peace?' they
cry."
"'There is only fear and terror. Do men give birth? Why
then do I see every man ashen-faced, with his hands upon his
sides, like a woman in labor?'"
"Alas! throughout history there's never been a time of
such fear: it's even the time of Jacob's Trouble; but he shall be
saved out of it. For in that day, says the LORD of hosts, I will
break the yoke from your neck, and burst your bonds. Strangers'll
no longer enslave you. But you shall serve the LORD your God, and
David your King, Whom I will raise up to you" (Matthew
24:21).
God isn't speaking of a release from Babylonian captivity
seventy- years hence, but release from bondage to sin and to the
world. In Daniel's Seventieth Week God makes an end of Israel's
unbelief, or sin (Daniel 9:24), and the oppression of strangers,
so they can serve the Lord in newness of Life. After Israel is
born-again, God destroys their oppressors, and restores the
Kingdom under Messiah, David's greater Son, in the Millennium.
Now the word used to describe these "strangers" is
the Hebrew word zar (or zoor). It takes its definition, like the
other words, from the context. The word appears in connection
with enemy aliens or a foreign race (Serpent's seed) with no
rights whatsoever in Israel. Oh, they might pretend to be the
descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, calling themselves
"Jews". But even justice is denied the zar. And in all
of Israel's national disasters he is reckoned the main
contributing factor. Certainly sounds like his brother, Esau.
Verses 11 and 24, "I will utterly destroy the nations
where I have scattered you. You won't go unpunished but I will
not exterminate you. . . . in the latter days or "end
times" you will understand this prophecy."
So by the end of Daniel's Seventieth Week, God will have
destroyed all of Israel's enemies including "those who say
they are Jews (or chosen of God) and are not, but are the
synagogue of Satan." If we can discover who Israel's
historical enemies were back then, we'll know who their enemies
are today (Revelation 2:9).
We've already discovered three clues. Firstly, the
Tribulation is called the time of "Jacob's Trouble",
and we know Jacob's enemy in the Old Testament type was his
brother Esau, who claimed the same religion, and worshiped the
same God Jacob worshiped. So close as would almost deceive the
very elect were it possible. Secondly, these folk are foreigners
living among Israel. Jeremiah calls them "zar", so they
include Serpent's seed. Thirdly, they are the rich ruling class
who call themselves "Jews", but DON'T call themselves
Israelites. They know they're not "Israelites", yet
they're fellow travelers with Jacob. Jacob/Israel has known no
enemy so hateful or deadly as Esau/Edom from his childhood to
this present day.
Its always so close as would almost deceive the very elected
if it were possible. Jesus said in Matthew 10:36, "A man's
foes shall be those of his own household."
Joseph, a type of Christ, was rejected by his brothers and
sold as a slave. He eventually became second in the kingdom only
to Pharaoh. No man could come to Pharaoh but through Joseph. And
no man can come to the Father but through the Son.
In a time of famine, Jacob sent the children of Israel to
Egypt to buy food. There is a famine in the land today - not for
bread, but for hearing the true Word of God - and Israel hasn't
heard It for 2,000 years.
When they presented themselves, Joseph pretended not to know
his brothers. But when he revealed himself they were so terrified
they cried. Scripture says the 144,000 will separate from one
another when they see their Atonement, and weep like a family
that's lost their only son.
They'll ask, "Where did You get those wounds?"
And He'll say, "In the house of My friends."
("Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him," John
5:18).
Joseph sent his wife into the palace: a type of the Bride
who'll be in glory when Jesus reveals Himself to Israel after the
Wedding Supper. This will happen during the first three and a
half years of the Tribulation when Rome is in covenant with their
enemy, the Jews, and two prophets are ministering to Israel.
Jacob's Trouble follows after Rome breaks her agreement, and God
destroys Israel's enemies.
In Obadiah 7-10 the Lord says of Edom (and the Jewish
Encyclopedia acknowledges that "Edom is in Modern
Jewry"), "All the men of your confederacy - your allies
(Rome) - will turn against you, and will take over Jerusalem and
Israel. (When they break their covenant in the midst of Daniel's
Seventieth Week. Mr. Netanyahu, the City of London asset and
Israeli Prime Minister, has signed this Agreement already -
Daniel 11:45). They (Rome) promised peace while plotting your
destruction. They who eat your bread have laid a trap and you
will know nothing about it" (Daniel 9:27).
"In that day not one wise men will remain in all of
Edom. For I'll fill the wise men of Edom with stupidity. The
mightiest soldiers of Teman (east of Idumea, descendants of a
grandson of Esau) shall be confused so that everyone of the mount
of Esau will be cut off by slaughter. Because of your violence
against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you will
be cut off forever" (Obadiah 8-10).
This little Book of Obadiah is a compound prophecy of events
that transpired under Nebuchadnezzar, and what will happen soon.
For in verses 15 and 18 we read, "The day of vengeance will
soon fall upon all the heathen: As you have done to Israel, so
shall it be done to you. Your dealing will return upon your own
head... Israel shall be a fire that sets the dry fields of Edom
aflame, and there shall be no survivors of the house of Esau.
Thus saith the Lord."
The last book of the Old Testament also points to Esau/Edom
as Jacob/Israel's mortal enemy and the focus of God's indignation
for ever. Malachi 1:2-5, "'I have loved you deeply', says
the Lord to Israel. Yet you say, 'In what way, and how have you
loved us?'"
"The Lord replies, 'I showed My love for you by loving
Jacob, your father yet I didn't need to. I even rejected his
brother Esau, and destroyed his mountains, giving his inheritance
to the jackals of the desert'."
(After World War II, Political Zionists, led by extremists,
seized control in Palestine. The Impoverishment of the displaced
European Jews provided them a powerful lever).
"Edom said, 'Although we're impoverished, we'll return
and rebuild the ruins'. But thus saith the Lord, 'They shall
build but I will destroy it, for their country is called,
"The Land of Wickedness", and the people, "Those
Whom God Does Not Forgive" (Exodus 17:16; Numbers
24:20)'."
"When your own eyes see this, you'll say, 'The Lord is
great and will be magnified beyond the border of Israel'."
(My, my, they'll recognize their Messiah, like Joseph, has taken
a Gentile Bride).
Palestine was given by God to the descendants of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob - the whole House of Israel, "forever".
Observe what He says here: "Edom/Esau shall build, but I'll
destroy." So the real restoration is yet to come. And those
rebuilding in Israel today are not God's people.
One last witness of Scripture that speaks of the day of the
Lord is Isaiah 34:5, where God calls Idumea, which is Esau/Edom,
"the people of My curse". The Hebrew word for curse is
"cherem" meaning something devoted to utter destruction
for the holiness of God.
We have followed the trail of the serpent from the original
sin in the garden of Eden (which was adultery between Eve and the
Devil- incarnate serpent, whose seed was Cain), to "the day
of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompense for what
Esau/Edom has done to Israel" (Isaiah 34:7). By
intermarrying with the serpent's seed people of the land of
Canaan, Esau/Edom became Serpent's seed. And John Hyrcanus
forcibly converted Esau/Edom to Judaism. Today they form the
great majority of so-called "Jews", and are still
killing Jacob/Israel to gain the dominion.
Now I'll ask you please to open your Bibles at Ezekiel 38. Of
all the ancient names mentioned in the Old Testament,
"Gog" has to be one of the most inscrutable. Apart from
a Reubenite of this name (I Chronicles 5:4), the word is
mentioned only in Ezekiel 38 and 39 and in Revelation 20:7-9.
A traveler of the thirteenth century calls a Tartar chief,
"Gog Khan". "Gog" means "to
surmount" and denotes one who sets himself like the roof in
the midst of heaven and earth, between God and men. God leads
Magog, which represents a whole complex of nations under his
subjection as vassals.
Up to this point Ezekiel 35-37 have described the gathering
of the whole house of Jacob/Israel to the Promised Land in
unbelief among a mixed multitude, of their sanctification and
God's revelation to the elect 144,000 in the judgment of
Esau/Edom. Clearly there is a connection between Esau/Edom and
"Gog". In Gog the earlier enemies of Israel reappear.
In Ezekiel 38:17 and 39:8 we see references to a prophesied
event in Ezekiel 39:22 - the execution of God's judgment on the
heathen and His "parousia" to Israel. And in Ezekiel
35:14-15 God says, "When the whole earth rejoices, then I
will make mount Seir and Idumea desolate."
Clearly there is a connection between Esau/Edom and
"Gog". A clue is found in Ezekiel 38:17 where the Lord
says, "Are you he of whom I've spoken unceasingly in former
days by My servants the prophets of Israel?" This is
retrospective and takes in the entire sequence of prophetic
witness from Moses to the time of writing (587BC), and states how
this unfulfilled prophecy will be fulfilled in Gog in the end
time.
Gog is Esau/Edom, the self-styled Jew and Israel's enemy, who
have rejected the dominion of God's spoken Word since Esau
despised the birthright and have contended with Jacob/Israel for
world dominion ever since.
Ezekiel 39:8 says that in the day when God destroys the
armies of Magog, He will reveal Himself to Israel, and the
heathen too shall know He's with Israel. "This is the
promised day of visitation".
Ezekiel 39:21-22, "I will demonstrate My glory among the
heathen, and all shall see My judgment upon Gog and know that I
have done it. And from that day forward the house of Israel will
know that I am the LORD their God" (Seven Church Ages,
40:2).
Gog's terrible invasion had been predicted long ago by the
earlier prophets, but his name had not been specified. God now
identifies Gog with the people spoken of in those former
prophecies.
The prophecies of the "former days" include:-
Isaiah 34:5-6 which calls for utter destruction upon the
armies of all the nations in this final battle, names Esau/Edom,
saying, "My sword shall be bathed in heaven (casting-out
Satan and his demons - Revelation 12:8-9), then fall upon Idumea,
the descendants of Esau, whom I have cursed to judgment. My sword
will be filled with his blood and made fat by his flesh as though
I were slaying lambs and goats for sacrifice, for the LORD will
slay a great sacrifice in Bozrah (the capital of Edom), and a
great slaughter in the land of Idumea."
Isaiah 63:1, "Who is this Who comes from Edom, with dyed
garments from Bozrah? One glorious in his apparel, striding
triumphantly in the greatness of his might? I who speak in
righteousness, mighty to save."
Joel 3:9-21 speaking of this last war says in verse 19,
"Esau/Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, because of their
violence against the children of Judah, and because they've shed
innocent blood in their land."
These Scriptures identify the people described by the
prophets of former days as opposing Israel and the Lord, with
Ezekiel's "Gog". Many take Gog to mean Russia, but
without having a clear basis of revelation from the Scripture.
Persia (Elam), Ethiopia (Cush) and Libya (Phut) were literal
people, as were Magog, Meshech, Tubal, Gomer and Togarmah
(Ezekiel 38:2, 5-6). So Gog, their chief ruler or "king of
kings" must also be an historic person and race. There is no
Bible reference that would identify the Russians with "He of
whom God spoke in former days". The Tzarist regime did not
begin until the first Tsar, Ivan IV, conquered and annexed the
adjoining countries, in consequence of which, a Russian
confederation was formed. Prior to the sixteenth century, Russia
was not a composite national entity and could not have been the
entity of which the Lord spoke "in former days by the
prophets of Israel".
But there was a people of Mongol-Turko origin whose kingdom
was in the Caucasus above Georgia in what became Southern Russia
who were converted to Talmudic Judaism in AD740. These people are
Hittites, like Esau/Edom. They overcame Russia and are the people
spoken of by the former prophets who will come from the north.
After AD765, their empire ceased, and as their political
independence waned to extinction, this Asiatic mixture began to
migrate. While history writes-off the Khazars following a joint
Byzantine-Rus defeat in AD1016, they constituted the largest
group of Jewish people at that time. They had already begun to
establish themselves in the north. We read of a group coming to
Kiev in AD986 in a misguided attempt to convert Vladimir.
According to Poliak, "The popular Jewish legend doesn't
remember a "Khazar" kingdom but a kingdom of the
"Red Jews" (Khazaria - The History of a Jewish Kingdom
in Europe (Hebrew) Mossad Bialik, Tel Aviv, 1951).
Baron writes, "Jews of other lands were flattered by the
existence of an independent Jewish state. Popular imagination
found here a particularly fertile field. Just as the
Biblically-minded Slavonic epics speak of "Jews" rather
than Khazars, so did western Jews long after romantic tales
around those "Red Jews," so styled because of the
slight Mongolian pigmentation of many Khazars" (A Social and
Religious History of the Jews, Vol. III, p. 204; Vol. IV, pp.
202-4 and notes, New York, 1957).
In 1917, the Khazars successfully invaded Russia from the
United States and took control in a bloody revolution. They were
financed by Khazar bankers in New York, London and Europe who
thus extended their colonies beyond the US and nominally British
Empire into Europe and Asia.
The National Geographic Magazine, (Vol. XVIII, May, 1907, p.
314), says of the 1905 Russian Revolution, "...the
revolutionary leaders nearly all belonged to the Jewish race, and
the most effective revolutionary agency is the Jewish Bund."
The American Hebrew Magazine, (September 10, 1920) said that
the 1917 "Bolshevist revolution in Russia was the work of
Jewish brains, of Jewish dissatisfaction, of Jewish planning,
whose goal is to create a new order of the world."
The Union of American Hebrew Congregations published
"Jew and Non- Jew" by Martin A. Meyer which states,
"Socialism was originated by Jews; and today Jews play a
leading role in its spread and interpretation."
The Jewish Encyclopedia (1905, Vol. XI, p. 418) states,
"Jews have been prominently identified with the modern
Socialist movement from its very inception."
The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (Vol. IX, 1943) says under
"Soviet Russia": "The majority of Jewish radicals
adhered to democratic socialism" (p. 668).
The Jewish Chronicle (April 4, 1919) said, "There is
much in the fact that so many Jews are Bolsheviks, in the fact
that the ideals of Bolshevism are at many points consonant with
the finest ideals of Judaism."
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is quoted in The American Bulletin (May
15, 1935) as saying, "Some call it Marxism - I call it
Judaism."
In his book, "Stalin, Trotsky, or Lenin" (p. 414,
1937), George Marlen stated: "If the tide of history does
not turn toward Communist Internationalism then the Jewish race
is doomed."
Harry Watson wrote in "A Program for the Jews and an
Answer to all Anti-Semites" (p. 148, 1939): "It is not
an accident that Judaism gave birth to Marxism, and it is not an
accident that the Jews readily took up Marxism, all that is in
perfect accord with the progress of Judaism and the Jews."
"After all, wasn't the revolution prepared and fashioned
by Jews? Both of Karl Marx's grandfathers were rabbis, and
Lenin's grandfather was also Jewish. And wasn't Kakov Sverdlov,
the first Chief of State, a Jew, as was Trotsky himself?"
(Stuart Kahan, Wolf In The Kremlin, p. 81, 1987).
I contend upon the evidence of Scripture, history, and THUS
SAITH THE LORD by the prophet of Malachi 4:5-6 and Revelation
10:7, that the people who invaded Russia are Esau/Edom, the
ancient enemy of Jacob/Israel. Ezekiel, Jesus and John called
them "Gog". Daniel called Gog, the king of the North,
the leader of the Confederation of Soviet Republics, who will
also lead the kings of the East.
Gog is Russia. Not the Russian people themselves but their
foreign Zionist-Communist rulers. Every US citizen must know Gog,
because American taxpayers have funded Communist Russia for
seventy years through the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Endowment
Fund and other tax exempt trusts and foundations, shanghaied off
Wall Street over the years by Esau/Edom.
Brother Branham said, "What made Russia Communist is the
weakness of the Catholic church there, that took all the money
from the people and gave them nothing back. They didn't live any
different lives or everything else. That's what's turning the
whole world to be Communist. That's right." (Show Us the
Father, 62-0722).
"They say Communism will go take the world over. Don't
you believe that. Communism ain't going to do nothing. Show me
one place in the Bible where Communism will ever take over. The
Bible says Romanism will take over, not Communism. Look at
Daniel's vision. Not Communism, it's a puppet in God's hands to
destroy Romanism. You fear that, not Communism" (It is I, Be
Not Afraid, 62-0726).
"Why is Communism coming? Why is the world being
swallowed up? Why could one percent of Russia (that's all that's
Communist), ninety- nine percent is still Christian. One percent
of Russia controls the rest of the eastern world: Communism. Why
can it do it? The Bible said it would" (We Have Seen His
Star and Have Come to Worship Him, 25:166).
And Communism has already conquered the West. Noam Chomsky
said, "People don't know what's happening, and they don't
even know that they don't know." For instance, how many
Americans are aware that all US Presidents from Woodrow Wilson
have been Communists? Oh not saying card-carrying Party Members,
but they were controlled by Zionists, and Jewish-led think tanks,
like the CFR and Trilateral Commission that dictated their
policies, which are all Communist in principle. Globalism and
internationalism is Communism.
In Australia most of our post-War Prime Ministers have been
Fabian Communists. Not members of the Fabian Society, but their
policies are Fabian Communist, including those of present
incumbent, John Howard.
Communism is not a Party, it is the spirit of egalitarianism
which must lead to anarchy. It is the absurd claim of Thomas
Jefferson that "all men are created equal". But
Communism, wherever it was forced upon people, has proved George
Orwell's Animal Farm correct in that "all animals are equal,
but some animals are more equal than others." The Bible
calls Communism "Laodicea", or "rights of the
people".
Our sham democracies, the mental conditioning and programing
corps we call schools and universities, our filthy
entertainments, anti- Christian churches and big business, are
imbued with the spirit of Communism and the Talmud which are
enmity against God's Bible. No longer are there any absolutes. He
who dares wins, and the Devil take the hindmost. Nowhere is this
more evident than in attempts by corporations to make the rules
by which we live.
The money power elites are trying to reorganize global
economic structures and political power. Their primary tools are
the trade accords, including GATT and the World Trade
Organization which was created to enforce GATT's rules, NAFTA,
and now the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI).
The same people who brought us GATT and NAFTA have been
locked in secret negotiations, conspiring with our elected
representatives since 1995 to push an agreement on the MAI. The
press, consumers, democracy groups, environmentalists, small
businesses, labor, and other NGOs were excluded.
Professor Marjorie Cohen (Simon Fraser University) said,
"The MAI was designed solely to discipline nations in the
interests of the one class which enjoys world citizenship - the
international investor' (Hearings on the MAI Panel on Corporate,
Consuner and Social Implications, Ottowa, November 26, 1997).
These people have world citizenship but no inheritance in this
world or in the World to come (Genesis 4:9-11). The swine even
suggested that signing the MAI should become a precondition to
any IMF assistance or even overseas aid. The new face of
colonialism.
This week in Paris, this "golem" (or created
monster) called the MAI, was defeated - for the time being at
least (mai.htm).
When WTO Director-General Renato Ruggiero called the MAI
"the Constitution for a single global economy", he
meant a world where the rules are not made by elected officials,
labor unions, or the democratic process. The rules would be made
by investors, speculators, and multinational corporations whose
only interests are profit and acquisition. But most lawmakers had
never heard of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment."
Neither had the vast majority of our citizens.
Communism is Zionism, which is identified with Esau/Edom. God
has allowed this ungodliness to raise up to destroy the false
Church. And it will, but it will annihilate itself and destroy
all life on earth in the process.
Jacob and Esau struggled in the womb. At birth, when Jacob
grabbed Esau by the heel, it showed Jacob/Israel would overcome
when he prevailed with the Angel of the Lord, and that he would
overcome his adversary. We've identified Esau/Edom and seen how
he rules by his propaganda against the Word of God; by his
bloodshed, and by his corrupt money power. But what of
Jacob/Israel? Who is he?
Jacob/Israel is the True and elect Church of the Lord Jesus.
Those who recognized Christ's "parousia" in this day,
and have His Life on display for all to see. The earthly Bride of
the Heavenly Bride Groom, made-up of both Hebrews and Gentiles.
And very, very few in number. Perhaps hundreds out of all the
hundreds of thousands who follow this end-time Message. Maybe
less. By the grace of God, you and I are among that little flock
called Spiritual Israel.
Shortly after the end of Grace, Christ will translate His
precious Bride, and take Her Home. After the Wedding Supper He'll
return in the Tribulation to reveal Himself to Jacob, who is
natural Israel.
Jacob or natural Israel is born of the pure blood-line all
the way from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, with absolutely no
miscegenation in the line of the Serpent. Although unconverted,
he has returned to the Land of the Covenant in obedience to the
Law and the prophets, awaiting Elijah and the other prophet of
Zechariah 4, to introduce his Messiah.
During the tribulation, the revelation of the Message of
these two prophets will convert Jacob and his name will become
Israel. After this, Esau/Edom will kill all 144,000 elect
Israelites. Armageddon will set in, destroying all life on earth.
Satan will be bound for a thousand years, because all of his
subjects will be in the grave until the general resurrection.
Then the trail of the serpent will be forever cut off before the
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