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THE COVENANT WITH DEATH

Part XVI

In the last installment of The Covenant With Death, we documented the exchange between God the Father and God the Son. This divine communication was the result of the LORD's statement of fact, as He noted He had sought for a mediator to make intercession for the land (a euphemism for the creation), yet there was not one.

"I 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).

In that exchange, Jesus, as one of the personalities in the trinity, only makes statements that are in accord with the will of the Father, because they are one.

"The Lord…hath called me from the womb" (Isaiah 49:1).

The Son makes statements of fact, that are in conformity to the prophetic word of the LORD.

"He hath made [me]…in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me" (Isaiah 49:2).

Over and over we see complete obedience to the will of the Father, in these prophetic words which were written centuries before Jesus emptied Himself of His deity, and entered the earthly realm as a perfect man.

"The Lord…formed me…to be his servant…yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord" (Isaiah 49:6).

Even though God the Son could clearly see the will of the Father would be "pleased…to bruise him [and] put him to grief" (Isaiah 53:10), there is every indication that He willingly submitted Himself to the Fathers' plan. It is clear the Son, in answering the call of the Father, was to

"Finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and…make reconciliation for iniquity, and…bring in everlasting righteousness, and….seal up the vision and prophecy…[when the Father] chose "to anoint [the Son as] the most holy" (Daniel 9:24).

In effect, the Son became the perfect manifestation that God the Father desired for Israel. In a stark contrast, an exchange between God and Israel was completely filled with the classic evasive conversation that we know as the Dialectic – what Christian Media has dubbed Dragonspeak.

The Father makes statements of fact, and while the Son shows Himself to be in perfect harmony with God the Father, Israel practices the Dialectic:

"A son honoureth his father…if then I be a father, where is mine honour?...saith the LORD of hosts unto you , O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? (Malachi 1:6).

Notice the structure of the exchange, as the spirit of darkness that inhabits disobedient Israel is essentially non – responsive to the facts put forth by the LORD. These Scriptures vividly illustrate the formula known as the Dialogue to Consensus, which was utilized by the German Frankfurt school thousands of years later.

The intellectual witchcraft that is implicit in this insidious formula seeks to preserve the relationship that is destroyed by the facts. It is usually expressed by the maxim Thesis Versus Antithesis Equals Synthesis.

The Thesis is the truth. The Antithesis is another "truth," and the Synthesis is where they two polarities come to consensus; thus the formula is also called the Dialogue to Consensus. In this case, God provides the Thesis, or the facts:

"Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar" (Malachi 1:7).

Israel seeks to diminish the facts in order to retain the relationship with their practices. Israel says

"Wherein have we polluted thee?" (Malachi 1:7).

The Lord says that Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD again and again.

"And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping….insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more" (Malachi 2:13).

"Yet ye say, Wherefore? [when did we do that?]" (Malachi 2:14).

The fact is, the Dialectic is a calculated effort to deflect the facts, by igniting a dialogue, so one of the parties can continue the relationship with their sin. Notice how after God issues a fact, the response is frequently a question, which is posed to prolong the dialogue.

Still, the hand of the LORD is outstretched to all, inviting all to a genuine relationship with Him. Unfortunately, even after presenting the facts of the Dialectic, invariably, some will simply continue to attempt to begin a dialogue!

In Malachi, for instance, the LORD queries Israel.

"Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation" (Malachi 3:8,9).

"Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say Wherein have we wearied him?" (Malachi 2:17).

This attempt to minimize our sinful behavior is frequently accompanied by a half-hearted attempt to obey the Lord.

"Ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand?…Cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing" (Malachi 1:13,14).

All of this superficial deceit, as though God does not see into your heart, is reminiscent of the New Covenant account where Christ says that just because someone says they are led by the LORD, does not mean they've genuinely yielded to His leadership.

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven…Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works?" (Matthew 7:21,22).

Jesus continues with the consequences of those that think they can draw near to God with their lips, "but their heart is far from me" (Mark 7:6).

"Then will he say unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire" (Matthew 25:41).

At that point, the LORD says he was hungry and they gave him no meat. He was thirsty and they gave him nothing to drink. The now predictable retort, which is clearly stated to be an attempt to ignite a dialog, says just what Israel said in the Old Testament – i.e. When did we see you hungry or thirsty?

Christ's response is not necessarily made to motivate believers to do good works, such as relief efforts to feed the hungry and help the poor. His words indicate that if your heart has been "circumcised" by the Gospel, you will view all encounters as though you are now a "new creature" filled with the righteousness of God – because, hopefully, you are.

For those who are obviously not moving in the truth, because the "fruits" of their efforts betray their inner being, we return to the signature verse of the present writing. Old Testament Israel made a Covenant with Death, by rejecting the "refreshing" that God offered them.

"This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear" (Isaiah 28:12).

In this and other revelations from the LORD, God has revealed "the faith once delivered to the saints" (Jude 1:3), and that is the Spiritual body of Christ is Born Again Israel – a crucial truth rejected by the Rapture Cult.

The spirit in the cult is the same spirit that sharply diminishes the truth that Jesus Christ has already redeemed Israel through his sacrifice, and this "rock" of confession (Matthew 16:18) has now been rejected by the Catholic Church under the reconfiguration of the faith in the "Dual Covenant Theology" espoused at Vatican II.

The second of the "two parts" (Zechariah 13:8,9) of denial that God has kept His promise to redeem Israel is in the Protestant oriented Rapture Cult, that says God has not yet kept His promise to redeem Israel – but he will eventually get around to it, after the "Rapture" – a fictional event that will never happen.

Thus, the LORD has repeatedly revealed that the Spiritual body of Christ is Sequentially Reapitulating the sinful path of Physical Israel, who rejected the "rest" and the "refreshing" promised them.

"This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear" (Isaiah 28:12).

That same rest is found in the "translation" of Israel into a "Spiritual House" (I Peter 2:6), but the Spiritual Israel that is the "church" has also made a Covenant With Death, by saying the tribulational cycle will not come near them, because they'll be "raptured."

"Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the [tribulation] shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves" (Isaiah 28:15).

In other words, instead of rejoicing that "blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection [which occurs when you come to invite Christ to be your LORD and Saviour] on whom the second death [which is Spiritual death] has no power" (Revelation 20:6), the Rapture Cult has shifted salvation to that which can supposedly save the believer from experiencing Physical Death.

It has further reversed the truth that the chosen of God – the Jews – are "Jews" based upon their Spiritual standing as Christians, and the former Israel is "not a Jew" (Romans 2:28) as the Old Covenant is superseded by the New Covenant.

By denying that God kept His promise to redeem Israel, the Rapture Cult (as well as Catholics who don't repudiate the lies of their church) has made "lies" their "refuge," and "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ, that denieth the Father and the Son" (I John 2:22).

While virtually all professing "Christians" emphatically say they would never deny Christ, they are, in effect, denying the Father when they say Jesus has not fulfilled all that is written of him.

"He that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life" (I John 5:10).

The "us" that John is referring to includes former Jews who have NOW been "delivered" from the darkness of the Devil and "translated" into the kingdom of God, fulfilling multiple promises to redeem Israel.

"[God] hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:13)

Those words were written by Paul of Tarsus, a former priest of Israel, and a Jewish man, who was redeemed through Jesus Christ.

The prophet Isaiah went on to voice the words of God, who said the "Israel" (both Physical Israel under the Old Covenant, and Spiritual Israel under the New Covenant) would see the "refuge of lies" that is the Covenant With Death, swept away.

"And your covenant with Death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. From the time that it goeth forth shall it take you" (Isaiah 28:18,19).

Jesus Christ Himself spoke about those who are "taken" in the end times.

"Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left" (Matthew 24:40).

The disciples asked him "Where, Lord?" (Luke 17:37). To paraphrase the question, they were asking where were they taken. Christ's answer may be paraphrased as well: If you want to know where the dead body is, look for the vultures.

- James Lloyd