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THE GREAT EXCHANGE

Part XXIX

Through the agency of prophetic metaphor recorded in the Scriptures, The Great Exchange series has diagrammed the Spiritual alignment of the Triuniverse, with a focus on the end of the Old Covenant period.

Recognizing the many Scriptural similitudes for the core identities of Life, Death, and Hell (as well as the characteristics of these principalities), at the time that God engineered an injection of His Life through His Son JESUS CHRIST, we see that Judaea was fully indwelled with the Spirit of Hell, and the Gentiles were inhabited by Death.

Centuries earlier, when the LORD first appointed Israel to be the mediator of mankind through the ministry of Moses, it was clear that He chose Israel to host His light to the Gentiles. 

“I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6).

When we realize the righteousness of God was designated to shine to the nations from within Israel, it becomes evident the glorious presence indwelling the chosen of the LORD was actually Jesus Christ – even in the Old Testament timeline. This triune alignment may be described as God, who manifested His goodness through the vessel of the family of  Israel --  which was called to dispense the Life of God to the Gentiles -- and the nations who walked in darkness (Ephesians 2:12). 

“Ye shall be the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves” (Isaiah 61:6).

This Spiritual architecture reached its apex in the time of David, as Israel demonstrated to the entire world the breathtaking scope of God’s blessing.

The supernatural affinity between David and Jesus emerges in the LORD’s promise to David, as God tells the king that adored him, that his descendant is ordained to build the temple of the LORD.

“I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever” (I Chronicles 17:11, 12).

As David’s earthly son Solomon inherited the kingdom of Israel’s physical blessings which the LORD bestowed upon David, when Solomon turned away from the LORD, a profound change occurred. Instead of exporting the light of God to the Gentiles, he imported the darkness of the Gentile nations into Israel.

To rephrase that thought, two sins occurred. As the king who was leading Israel, the LORD’s mediator shining God’s glory to the Gentiles, not only did Solomon cause Israel’s role as mediator to cease, he reversed the Spiritual circuit, and imported the Spiritual desolation of the Gentile deities into the nation. 

“Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon” (I Kings 11:7).

Recognizing Zechariah’s two parts finite, one part divine formula seen in the mystery of thirds (Zechariah 13:8, 9), we note how the divinely inspired syntax of this verse recording Solomon’s apostasy specifies there were two devils which Solomon sought to mingle with the worship of the LORD in the “third part” – which was Jerusalem. 

“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water” (Jeremiah 2:13).

Thus, the triune alignment which the LORD engineered to reach the Gentiles through Israel, saw the Spiritual pathway reversed, in which Israel had previously manifested the role of the LORD’s mediator to the Gentiles.

 Since Israel is repeatedly characterized as the wife of Yahweh in the Old Testament, the reversal of the heavenly current in this construct is allegorized as the transition from fidelity in a marriage, to the betrayal associated with adultery.

“How is the faithful city become an harlot! It was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers” (Isaiah 1:21).

Because the LORD repeatedly promised to utilize Israel as His vessel to host His glory to the Gentiles, and “the scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35), Israel’s apostasy placed Him in an untenable position. We’ve previously referenced this as a promissory collision.

On the one hand, the LORD had sternly warned His people that if they turned away from Him and served other gods, He promised He would severely punish them.

“If ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terrors, consumption, and the burning [fever], that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart…and I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant” (Leviticus 26:15, 16, 25).

The narratives detailing how the LORD will punish those He loves for their abominations, includes an escalating pattern, which states that if they consistently refuse to turn to Him, they will be scattered among the nations, their cities will be waste, and their land shall become desolate.

On the other hand, the LORD repeatedly promised the Gentiles that He would intercede on their behalf, and redeem the nations.

“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious” (Isaiah 11:10).

God had promised His servant David (whose father was the aforementioned Jesse), the great king’s son would sit on the throne of Israel forever, and His heavenly righteousness would shine to the Gentiles through the agency of Israel as His mediator. Thus, the faithlessness of Israel could hardly be a valid excuse for the LORD to renege on His promise to the Gentiles.

In short, regardless of the sinful circumstances found in His creation, God keeps His promises.

This is why the prophecies which position Israel as the vessel which shines the light of the LORD to the nations, are always embedded with a layered texture that leads to the conclusion that it is Christ Himself, who shines the glory of God from within Israel – under the Old Covenant.

“It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6).

It’s crucial that we note the promise to David assured the king that his son – who is definitely JESUS CHRIST – would sit on the throne of Israel forever – notwithstanding the theological sleight of hand that has Christ reigning on the throne of the “Church.”

In this regard, the Antichrist Cult that kidnapped Christianity continues to separate Israel and the church, by elevating the word describing an “assembly” (the word “church,” derived from the name Circe, a Greek enchantress), into an entity that is supposedly entirely separate from the Spiritually born again body of Christ, which is Israel.

“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ” (I Peter 2:5, fulfilling the “priests of the LORD” promise to Israel in Isaiah 61:6).  

The Great Exchange has shown the “two parts” of Death and Hell were manifested in the Gentiles and Israel – with the “not chosen” Gentiles expressing the Spirit of Death, and backsliding Israel exhibiting the Spirit of Hell. Multiple examples of the twin Spiritual terminals have already been cited which demonstrate the identities.

Our last chapter vividly associated the Jews with the Spirit of Hell, seen in Revelation’s allegorical Scorpions who desired to kill Christ, but were restrained from doing so – even as the “not chosen” Gentiles exhibited the Death wielded by Pontius Pilate.

As the Spirit of Life in Christ fulfilled God’s promises and turned the world upside down (Isaiah 29:16), the Spirit of Hell in the Jews drew progressively closer to the Spirit of Death which was resident in the Gentiles.

This was an extraordinary event, for as Christ went to the cross, we see that Death and Hell were about to exchange positions. As Pilate sought to release Jesus, resisting Death by finding no fault in Christ, the Jews increasingly intensified their demand that Death come forth, and the physical manifestation of that Spiritual shift was seen when the Gentile governor Pilate and the king of the Jewish nation Herod abruptly became fast friends.

“And the same day, Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves” (Luke 23:12).

Clearly a mysterious change in the Spiritual spectrum occurred as a heavenly door was opened:

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven” (Revelation 4:1).

Further, Revelation tells us that Jesus Christ is not only He that opened the door to heaven, He is able to shut the door of the Old Covenant, so that no one is able to receive salvation under the terms of the Old Testament.

“These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth” (Revelation 3:7).

There are multiple allusions to the Great Exchange when the door of Life under the New Covenant was opened, and the door of Life under the Old Covenant was shut.

“When once the master of the house is risen up [read resurrected], and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not [where you have positioned yourselves]” (Luke 13:25).

As the Jews refused their divinely appointed role of mediator to the nations, and ceased to export the Light of God, they imported the Death inherent in the “not chosen” Gentiles. After the cross, the Life of God indwelled born-again Israel, so the Spirit of Hell, having vacated physical Israel which had just imported Death, searched for a new home.

The invention of the “Church” was conveniently timed to provide a place for that unclean Spirit.

“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there” (Matthew 12:43-45).

-- James Lloyd                                     

To Be Continued