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THE COVENANT WITH DEATH

Part XI

In our last chapter of The Covenant With Death, we examined how the earthly beneficiaries of the Lord's redemptive efforts under the Old Covenant He made with Israel culminated in the Jews' spiritual status as Elohim – the Hebrew word related to a Spiritual being.

In the English transliteration, Elohim is rendered as "gods" when the context applies to any Spiritual identity but the LORD – and the word is rendered "God" when applied to the Father in heaven. This grammatical fact opens up the faith to multiple abuses by those with an agenda, such as the "Sacred Name" heresy, wherein Jewish Supremacists insist the proper name given for the LORD – which is YHWH – must be used instead of the much more widespread usage where the English has been rendered in the trustworthy King James Version as the "LORD."

Another major cultic twist is the "Divine Council" Deception which, as we showed in Part X of the present work, seeks to remove Old Testament Israel from their role as the mediator between God and the Gentiles in the Old Covenant period. They try to replace the Old Testament "mediator" with the "sons of God" (which includes the Nephilim) by saying the LORD turned the Gentiles over to the devils after the flood of Noah!

In both doctrinal falsehoods, the issue is one of identity.

Incidentally, in both heretical teachings, the thrust has resulted in corrupted Bibles, wherein both streams of thought result in tampering with the Scriptures themselves! Thus, even though it's sometimes inconvenient with the few English words that are indeed archaic, we trust the KJV was ordained by the LORD, as God allocated it to be the Word of God throughout the AD Christian era.

Furthermore, it is consistent with the division of timelines which has post World War II America and the emergence of the Little Horn of Israel following the "diverse" beast in Daniel 7:23, which occurred in 1948, as the point of departure from the historic faith inaugurating the Era of Antichrist.

Obviously, the Rapture Cult, which has widely infiltrated the incorporated churches, continues to resist the recognition of the chronological sequence of the four kingdoms of Daniel 7 (the Lion, Bear, Leopard, and Diverse Beast kingdoms) as England (the lion), the Soviet Union (the bear), Nazi Germany (the leopard), and America (the "diverse" beast).

This is because the "unclean spirit" that was associated with the false "prophets" that was cast "out of the land" achieved a toehold in Spiritual Israel in Jerusalem, when it returned.

"When the unclean spirit is gone out…he walketh through dry places…then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out" (Mark 12:43,44).

Following the trajectory which earthy Israel traversed in the Old Testament, Spiritual Israel Sequentially  Recapitulated Physical Israel's decline by "Falling Away" from the truth, when the "restrainer" was removed as the AD Christian timeline came to an end.

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

The truth about this entire chapter of Scripture has been twisted beyond recognition by the Rapture Cult, as it is connected to Daniel's complex prophetic statements in Daniel 9:27, concerning the "overspreading of abominations"

To put it another way, to understand the subtle shades of fulfillment that the Apostle Paul is referring to in II Thessalonians (concerning the departure from the faith that is communicated in the phrase "falling away"), it is essential that we understand Daniel's prophecy (commonly called the "Seventy Weeks" prophecy) in chapter 9 of the prophet's writings.

This is because the sequence of events, delivered to Daniel by an angel, describes sequences that occur in both timelines, the BC and the AD "double" of those chronological stages articulated in the text. Predictably, Daniel's famous prophecy concerns Israel and Jerusalem.

"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city" (Daniel 9:24).

Obviously, in the BC Old Testament timeline, Daniel's "people" were the Israelites, and the "holy city" was Jerusalem. In the AD timeline, Daniel's "people" would apply to the Spiritual Israelites (the Christians), and the holy city would be the New Jerusalem (as seen in Revelation 3:12), which consists of the Born Again Israelites.

While these prophecies are extensive as they apply to both BC and AD timelines, in the present context we're primarily focusing on the finale of the events, as that is what is Sequentially Recapitulated in the "Falling Away" mentioned in II Thessalonians 2.

Thus, we jump to the last phrases of the 70 Weeks prophecy in Daniel 9.

"And for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate" (Daniel 9:27).

This verse turns on the word "overspreading," which in the Hebrew manuscripts is Kanaph. The Hebrew dictionary tells us it speaks of an "edge," or an "extremity" of something else. It connotes an extension, or an expansion of something that already exists, such as a cloth or a building.

Modern Bible translations use the phrase "a wing," as in an addition to a building. The linguistic rationale behind the King James Version rendering the word overspreading, may be roughly paraphrased as "because of the spreading out of abominations." Not only does the most well known Bible Concordance (Strong's Exahaustive Concordance, first published well over a century ago) use the reference to a new wing of an existing "building," it also includes the word "pinnacle!"

We know from historical writings that the pinnacle of the temple in Jerusalem was added by Antipater, the father of King Herod, of the Herodian dynasty that ruled Jerusalem in the time of Jesus. The Herods were Idumeans, descended from Esau.

Not only was this a clear abomination under the Old Covenant as a non-Jew was not even allowed in the temple, King Herod refurbished this "pinnacle" as a luxurious palace towering above the temple itself, and he moved in and lived there!

Thus the prophet Daniel was told by an angel the prediction of these abominations, which would make the temple "desolate." That thought continues in this prophecy of Israel, and the angel tells Daniel these abominations will continue, until the "consummation" – which is apparently when the temple was destroyed by the Romans.

This tells us that when Satan took Jesus up to the pinnacle overlooking the temple to tempt him (as he boasted that he had dominion over the sacred precincts), he chose the pinnacle in order to demonstrate his supposed victory over the LORD's holy place. And all of these events were predicted in the book of Daniel hundreds of years before they occurred, close to the end of the BC timeline.

When we look for the AD Christian era Sequential Recapitulation of these events, we would expect to find a Spiritual equivalent, as the body of Christ is Spiritual Israel. The BC era temple was originally built by Solomon, and rebuilt during the Persian era, so Herod's "wing" addition was added relatively shortly before Jerusalem and Israel were completely destroyed.

That means we're looking for a Spiritual belief (a "wing" as a doctrinal addition to the faith) to be grafted onto the historic Gospel relatively late in the AD Christian era. An additional factor is, in the Prophetic Parallel during the BC era Herodian dynasty, Antipater decreed that his own people, the Idumeans – who were not Israelites – must be recognized as Jews, so they could be counted as "Israel."  

Since the "pinnacle" of apostasy assumed the leadership of Old Covenant religion, the "doubled" version in the Christian era would have to be a "Christian" doctrine, by a party that assumes the leadership role, that substantially redefines who is saved.

The primary fulfillment would have to be the Roman Catholic Church, which reconfigured the historic Gospel in 1965, through the lengthy forum known as Vatican II. Furthermore, the multitude of Protestant denominations which put forth variations in the heretical doctrinal reconfiguration of Christianity would also be culpable.

The core of the Catholic reconfiguration involves Physical Israel, as the political pressure of the global Jewish power – after the Little Horn emerged -- resulted in something called "Dual Covenant Theology." This aberration was brought forth by the Vatican, and it asserted that the Jews are still saved under the Old Covenant, and the Christians are saved under the New Covenant.

Pope John Paul II, one of two pivotal popes who were instrumental in the Vatican II realignment, waffled as he gradually put forth the "doubling" of the Spiritual abomination. On November 17, 1980, John Paul II delivered a speech in Germany in which he asserted that God's covenant with the Jewish people was "never revoked," thus supporting the idea the Old Testament was still in force.

The Bible says otherwise. The prophet Jeremiah says Israel broke the covenant, and God gave them "a bill of divorce."

"My covenant they broke, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord…when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce" (Jeremiah 31:32; 3:8).

The Protestant denominations and their non-denominational Christian fellowships – largely Rapture Cult in orientation -- still consider the Christ rejecting Jewish people to be the "chosen" people, when the Scripture says that "door was shut" (Matthew 25:10) at the New Covenant. The Cult tortures the text and says that after the "Rapture," all Israel shall be saved.

America's leading False Prophet, the "Messianic Jew" Jonathan Cahn, asserts the heresy that says the Scripture teaches the Jewish people will be "grafted" back in to the body of Christ, a direct contradiction to the Word of God.

"The natural branches, though separate from the tree [of salvation] will, in the end, be grafted back in, reattached" (The Oracle, Jonathan Cahn, page 247).

Ironically, the New Testament plainly asserts the Physical Christ rejecting Jews aren't even Jews anymore, as  the Christians are the real Jews!

"He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit" (Romans 2:28,29).

Thus, the BC Old Testament sequence, wherein the leader in the incursion of the temple politically decreed the abomination wherein he declared Gentiles to be Jews, was Sequentially Recapitulated in the 20^th century when the modern abomination declared the Jewish people (who are now "Spiritual" Gentiles) to be members of AD era Spiritual Israel!

The simplicity in the Scriptures cuts through this Antichrist chaff, when it declares the Spiritual Israel of God is defined as those who have trusted JESUS CHRIST as their LORD and Saviour.

"He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life" (I John 5:12). 

- James Lloyd

To Be Continued