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THE COVENANT WITH DEATH

Part XII

This series has shown that not only are the kingdoms in the Old Testament period "doubled" in the AD Christian era, the body of Christ – which is Born Again Israel in the Christian timeline -- is following the same steps that Physical Old Testament Israel embarked upon in antiquity.

As most Bible believers know, Israel rotated between a fervency for the Lord, and backsliding. They went through good kings and bad kings, frequently repenting when they had turned against God, as the consequences of that negative action caught up with them.

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Galatians 6:7).

Thus, individual Christians struggled with the same ambivalence as the Israelites, in a Sequential Recapitulation, "doubling" the BC stages of Israel, during the AD Christian timeline.

This begs the question, will the body of Christ turn to complete apostasy, as the Jews did when they rejected the Lord's salvation so vehemently?

A better question should be, Is it possible the Church of Jesus Christ has already "doubled" Physical Israel's "Overspreading of Abominations" predicted by Daniel the Prophet, and the believers simply cannot discern what has already occurred?

In the revelations the LORD has opened up over the last three decades, we've learned to "rightly divide the word of truth" (II Timothy 2:15), and the revelation has been validated by the stunning discovery that the six stages of events in each of the three timelines of BC, AD, and Era of Antichrist, supernaturally Prophetically Parallel each other.

They also paint history with an invisible 666. 

At the same time, we've found incredible hypocrisy and downright dishonesty in mainstream Christian power centers. Truly, Jesus was strikingly accurate when He said the fruits of the guiding spirit within Christian movements would manifest the source of their power.

"Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" (Matthew 7:16).

Notice how the prophetic pair of thorns and thistles is another euphemism of the divided mind of the devil, as these two are Prophetic Metaphors for the twin spiritual strongholds of death and hell.

Being guided by the Spirit of the LORD's unsealing of ancient prophecy in the light of Scripture (Daniel 12:9), the Bible shows us that the "restrainer" of Satan was installed at the emergence of the AD Christian era.

"Now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who [restrains] will [restrain] until he be taken out of the way" (II Thessalonians 2:7).

Since this "binding" (Matthew 12:29) speaks of the Spiritual prison that restrained Satan when the glory of the LORD descended to the earth in the AD timeline, we have already demonstrated the restraint was taken "out of the way" in the Prophetic Parallel when the Antichrist Age began.

"And when the [AD Christian age is] expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations" (Revelation 20:7,8).

In keeping with the "Ye shall know them by their fruits" (Matthew 7:16) principle which identifies the spirit within, we can see the current perception of Satan is misleading, largely because it was prophesied that a great "Falling Away" from the truth would impact the entire world. In other words, we don't see Satan being released, but we do see the results in the earthly realm.

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for [the return of Christ] shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition" (II Thessalonians 2:3).

It should be obvious that the doctrine of "the" antichrist is false because the propagators of this lie uniformly indicate he would be a deceiver that the world does not recognize as "the" antichrist. That long standing tradition is destroyed by this verse because it says that "man of sin [will] be revealed!"

We have repeatedly shown that events in the allegorical "Sea" of the Spirit are revealed by events that occur, which are seen in the "Sand" of the physical creation. To the undiscerning, Jesus said the following:

"O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" (Matthew 16:3).

Therefore, when the "man of sin" is revealed, the text is indicating that Satan's loosing from his prison may be discerned by the fact that fallen mankind's collective tsunami of sin is evidence that the Spiritual evil has been loosed from its restraint.

In other words, an accelerated sin in all mankind will evidence the fact that the restraint imposed on the evil in the world has been taken out of the way.

One can evaluate this perspective by asking if there is any evidence that people are decisively misbehaving on a wholesale basis in recent times. Seemingly overnight, an unprecedented lawlessness has exploded, an untold number of people are giving in to their basest desires (particularly in the sexual arena), and a significant departure from all decency has obviously emerged.

This appraisal is also consistent with Jesus Christ's analogy that the time of the end will resemble the days of Noah, as well as Sodom and Gomorrah.

"As in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came and took them all away" (Matthew 24:38,39).

Once again, the fact that they "knew not" the flood was coming indicates those "taken away" described every person not in the ark! We are now seeing the Sequential Recapitulation of those conditions as the world turns to their own selfish desires, they are completely unaware they are about to judged.

The sexual perversion of Sodom and Gommorah added a decidedly carnal character to the description of the time of the end. 

"Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all" (Luke 28:29).

I trust the reader recognizes the triune configuration which reflects the larger Spiritual reality, wherein the "two parts" (those who "double" the days of Noah, and those who "double" the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha), even as the "third part" is preserved.

"It shall come to pass, that in all the land [another euphemism for the "Sand"], saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein" (Zechariah 13:8).

Although those that "dwell on the face of the whole earth" (Luke 21:35) trivialize the ongoing social practice of homosexuality as just a variation in the pursuit of pleasure, many do not recognize the New Testament analogizes the flesh and blood phenomenon on the same level as the sin of the fallen angels.

The Apostle Jude, in reminding his readers of "the common salvation" (Jude 1:3) likened the sin of Sodom and Gomorrha to that of the fallen angels "who left their own habitation" to seek their own will, instead of the will of God.

"The angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day" (Jude 1:6).

The ancient Apostle (who was the brother of James), went on to compare the sin of the "fallen ones" (Genesis 6:4), who stepped outside of their natural order to seek their own will, analogized that iniquity with the homosexuals in Sodom and Gomorrha who did the same thing.

"Even as Sodom and Gommorah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire" (Jude 1:7). 

The Apostle Peter leaves no doubt that the LORD showed him the same thing as Jude, as he also likened the fall of the angels that sinned against the throne of the Glory of God, with the utter corruption which occurred at Sodom and Gomorrha.

"God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, [He made] them an example unto those that after should live ungodly" (II Peter 2:4,5).

Although the two examples of Lot and the angels that fell occurred before Israel emerged as the Lord's chosen, the identical pattern is seen in which God provides an example for us to learn from.

"All these things happened unto [Israel] as examples, and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the age are come" (I Corinthians 10:11).

Indeed, all these analogies -- the two classes of creation (the angels and the fallen flesh and blood creation they influenced) – are indicative of the LORD's heroic effort to redeem those that still had the opportunity to turn to the righteousness of God.

As we showed last week, the Spiritual beings that were seen as the chosen of God (Israel) under the Old Covenant – still had the opportunity to turn back to the LORD, whereas the "princes" (the fallen angels) have no such option.

This reality is consistent with the fact that Jesus told us because Satan's "house" is divided, he "hath an end" (Mark 3:26).

In that striking revelation (found in the prophet Isaiah as well as in the Psalms), the word of God emphatically encourages Israel to recognize the momentous consequences in the Spiritual realm from the choices they make.

In the Psalms, the LORD reminded Israel that as His chosen, they were indeed Spiritual beings ("elohim" in the Hebrew). He urged them to pursue righteousness, because even though the LORD had given them the Spiritual life intrinsic to the Old Covenant, God will judge them in the Spiritual realm.

"How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?....deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked" (Psalm 82:2-4).

But the same passage indicates they would not hear the call of God.

"They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness" (Psalm 82:5).

In keeping with Israel's role as mediators that were ordained to shine the light of God to the Gentiles, the LORD then concludes that Israel's failure to shine the light of the Lord's righteousness to the Gentiles had created an untenable situation:

"All the foundations of the earth are out of course" (Psalm 82:5).

It is there in the sequence that God "sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none" (Ezekiel 22:30).

So God so loved the world, that he decided to send His only begotten Son; but more on that epic turning point must wait for another chapter of The Covenant With Death.

- James Lloyd

To Be Continued