MEN AS TREES - Part 1 of 3

KEY VERSES: The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal. (Jer 11:16-17)

  Oftentimes I have referred to blind Bartimaeus because once I too was blind, but now I see. Bartimaeus was born blind, but Jesus restored his sight. However, in between blindness and sight, there was a transition wherein he saw things differently than most. Bartimaeus saw “men as trees walking” (Mark 8:24). That phrase has much meaning to me. Why so? Because in the story of the Garden of Eden, I saw the Garden of Trees as men! Of course, they were not walking, but I believe the “trees” of the Garden represented future living souls.
  In the center of the Garden were two specific trees – the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  I saw them as two majestic Trees with both representing men standing. The Tree of Life was a real tree, but with special vision, it is so much more than a tree standing, but The Living God with his attributes: (1) The visible tree representative of God manifested as Jesus, (2) the unseen roots as the Father who emanates the visible tree, and the underground River of God as the Holy Spirit flowing virtuously below throughout the Root, Tree and Trunk, and producing the twelve fruits of the Spirit.
  I see the Tree of Knowledge in the same manner: (1) the Trunk around which the Serpent wrapped itself as Satan, the root as sin, and the stagnant waters which made it grow as the evil spirit of Satan who offered “things” to anyone who would partake of the numerous fruits of that tree: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like (Gal 5:19:21).
  I see men as trees in the Garden walking either one of two ways: “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh” (Gal 5:16), and the other, not walking in the spirit.
  There was much activity going on in the tranquil Garden of Eden. Trees were walking toward one of two Trees – toward the Tree of Life or the Tree of Philosophy. God made both trees for testing which tree would the others “trees” walk toward. Since that time, all the “trees” to ever be planted on the Earth would walk toward one of those two doctrines – the philosophy of the world or the Doctrine of God. We are all “trees” that walk blindly toward the false philosophy of the Tree of Knowledge. Our nature since original sin with Adam, is to walk toward the doctrines of the world. When suddenly God’s Light dawns on the leaves, those “trees” are born again and reseeded with very good knowledge – the truth of and about God.
  Sinners are dead trees much as the fig tree that did not produce fruit in the parable of the fig tree. Reseeded, or transplanted seedlings (babes in Christ), are ”Green Trees.” Abraham transplanted the Hebrews from Egypt to Israel. The Lord called Jacob’s name “Israel,” and Israel became a “Green Olive Tree.” The tree became a hybrid. The spirit of Satan withered the tree season after season until it was no longer as it once was. Israel, once a Green Olive Tree, became a dead fig tree. The Lord kindled a fire in its branches and consumed it. However, by grace, a few branches remained alive in storage in Babylon, and later the remnants of those original trees were replanted on Israel’s soil.
  144,000 of those full-grown Green Olive Trees will be replanted in the heavenly City of God, New Jerusalem, wherein they will remain Green Olive Trees for eternity (Rev 7:4). They will endure to the end because God has sealed them with protection from the elements of the Earth and from the virus of sin itself. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil will be cut down and thrown into the fiery pit to be consumed. There is no mention of it in the City of God! On the other hand, the Tree of Life remains a Green Olive Tree, and in the end, will still stand in the City of God on the River of God. Israel is all about eternal life.  Scripture points toward Israel as the Garden of Eden and Paradise in Heaven itself. It can be identified by where the Tree of Life stands.
  The forbidden tree was not an apple tree nor was it fruit apples! It is obvious that the forbidden tree was a fig tree. First off, the two convicted sinners were last seen under the tree sinning. They chose the doctrine of sin over the Doctrine of God. Th next event was them covering their shame with aprons of fig leaves. They did not go to the Tree of Life for its leaves which they could touch, freely eat, and so forth; they turned to the wrong trees’ leaves to heal the wrong they had done God and to themselves.  The leaves from the Tree of Life would have been sufficient, but they chose wrongly. Therefore, the two who did not understand the penalty – that they would die – were convincingly shown death. God killed an animal to demonstrate death, and used its skin to make coats for the two. Finally, they understood death to the extent that they did not want to die and were willing to do things God’s Way!
  Israel was like wild grapes and its fathers (kings) like first ripe fig trees who “went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved” (Hos 9:10). Baal was the god that Balaam blessed on the Mountain at Peor. Aaron’s grandson Phineas cast a spear there into a couple who were copulating. 24,000 died there of the plague. The heresy of Peor represents death, and Baalpeor as death because of whose god to whom Israel fornicated!
  I always contend that the Tree of Knowledge represented the tree of carnal knowledge and the heresy of Peor somewhat validates that.
  Sinners, therefore, are like ripe fig trees, according to Hosea, and their behavior as wild grapes. Hang onto the thought about wild grapes until tomorrow when they too will be discussed.
  The punishment for Israel’s insolence and proclivity toward sin was also foretold by Hosea:

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. (Hos 2:12). 

  God will destroy Israel’s fig trees and wild vines with their wild fruits. The most prominent “fig tree” in the Garden was the forbidden tree – the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. As of this writing that “tree” has already served its purpose and no longer exists. I believe the “fig tree” was destroyed in the midst of the Garden (Jerusalem) when Judas Iscariot, filled with the spirit of the Satan, hung himself from a tree. (Mat 27:5). Judas was cursed as was Satan because Jesus himself said, “cursed is every man who hangs from a tree” (Gal 3). Judas was cursed, and Jesus as well, since he died for all of us “trees.” Judas, by tradition, is believed to have been hung from a redbud tree since they have always been called, “Judas Trees.” However, scripturally, it is more likely that he was hung from a fig tree because that tree belonged to Satan, and Judas had Satan in him (Luke 22:3).
  Just as by grace, the Word (Jesus) saved Adam from the fig tree, he calls every person from under the vines of wild grapes and their own fig trees:

For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree. (Zach 3:9-10)

  In summary, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was likely a fig tree. Tomorrow, the species of the Tree of Life will be examined.

SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF A STRESSED GOD

  The northern kingdom, Israel, had been destroyed by Assyria for breaking the Abrahamic Covenant, and then the southern kingdom of Judah followed suit. Although Josiah was the last king with authority of Judah who did right in the sight of the Lord, he did one thing on his own without God’s ordination; he warred with Egypt when he should have turned to them to defeat Babylon. God had desired them to maintain neutrality and essentially trust Him for safety. Lack of trust in the Lord for safety is always the sin that dismays God the most.
  Josiah was killed in battle, his son the new king was carried off to die in Egypt, and his brother appointed king in his stead, not by God, but by Pharaoh Necho. Judah was virtually destroyed, and of course, Babylon would finish them off. Egypt and Babylon did not destroy Judah; the people destroyed themselves, and God used Egypt and Babylon as tools for punishment.
  It is to be noted, that a good God did not cause Judah to perish, but they perished because of poor choices. The nature of mankind since the first sin is the pursuit of self-destruction. Most nations have disappeared from existence because their people insisted on evil ways whether it was material, lasciviousness, pride, power, esteem, or coveting what others have. As such, wise men will look at the perfect example and not do what they did. Below is an account of Judah’s fall – when God’s chosen people perished:

COVENANT: Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. (Jer 7:23)

  The Lord essentially repeated Hos covenant with Abraham. This was not a new covenant but a reminder of it. The Abrahamic Covenant was for perpetuity; it was for Judah as well as the nations of the Lord to this day. Christian nations still must obey God, be His, and walk in the Way that Jesus walked. Those are the conditions of the Abrahamic Covenant and the Covenant of Grace. It is God’s quid pro quo – “something given for something received.” God’s people are to give Him due respect in return for eternal “wellness” which is eternal life! 
  The Covenant is legally binding. Obedience to the Covenant is to the Law. However, if truly God’s person, the Law is understood to be God’s Will for us: “I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jer 29:11; ESV). God has rules because he is looking out for our future, not to put us in bondage. The Law is the same, but righteous people will have a different view of them; they are for their safety, not to punish them. We are to serve the Lord to preserve ourselves. I believe that is what God intended when he assigned Adam to “dress and keep the Garden (of immortal souls).
  Covenants are agreements between parties of two parts: The Party of the First Part is the Lord God. His condition for the deed to a heavenly room in His mansion is “be my people” and describes how that is to be done – “walk ye in all (my) ways.” It must be revealed how to walk His Way. The Ten Commandments describe how people who love God and others can “walk” to please the Lord.

They are not truly commandments! People are to walk the Way of the Lord’s son “that it may be well” with them. That makes the “commandments” the “Ten Prescriptions” for eternal health (salvation).
  Since the Lord is to be our God, then the Covenant is breached when its conditions are not followed. God thoughtfully itemized ways to breach the contract with Him:

BREACH: They hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. (Jer 7:24), Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers (Jer 7:26), and  The children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. (Jer 7:30)

  Judah broke the contract several ways, and it is supposed that God’s people still do it the same ways:

1.       By not listening to God’s Word, thinking not knowing His will, relieves them of the obligations in the contract.

2.       Rather than listen to God, they did what was right for them. In modern times, that is called “being true to oneself.” By doing what one Is, robs God of His identity, because He alone Is!

3.       They went backward not forward. God expected positive change, not regression as before when they were in deeper sin. Jesus called going forward “born again” and said, “Marvel not; ye must be born again” (John 3:7). Judah had been in sin, and they moved back to their old ways. Essentially, they died again in sin.

4.       They were stubborn. They insisted that they be allowed the reward without the sacrifice. Christians to this day EXPECT to be saved without regard to their walk with Jesus. They will have the same punishment as Judah.

5.       Sin begets more sin. Their forefathers sinned, and the people increased their sin. Rather than sanctifying themselves to the Lord, they isolated themselves from Him. Rather than righteous things consecrated to God, they did evil things in remembrance of Egypt’s false gods. Thinking they were doing their own imaginations, they walked under the Serpent’s Tree.

6.       They even brought abominations into God’s House and polluted it. False doctrines and great sins still pollute the Churches. They are the sins of Balaam in Solomon’s Temple, and the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans which God hates in our churches (Rev 2:6).

PROMISE: If ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;  If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. (Jer 7:5-7)

  God desired that the Covenant be forever. By grace, he forgives as long as some listen. Throughout the Old Testament, if only a few would be righteous, God’s Covenant would still exist. A remnant of the Jews was saved from dispersion to Assyria, and then Babylon, and in the end 144,000 Jews of all twelve tribes will be saved. The remnant is always those who take the straight gate and narrow way (Mat 7:12-14). There are conditions for reprieve as well:

1.       Change how you are and what you do.  Those are conditions of attitude and behavior. Those with “right” behavior have the attitude of willingness. They don’t walk because God commands it, but because they want to please God!

2.       Be fair and just. Do as you would have others do unto you. That means to not lie, steal, covet what they have, and so forth. To honor the Doctor’s Ten Prescriptions.

3.       “Shed not innocent blood.” That is specifically the “prescription” not to murder. Throughout history the innocents’ blood is always shed. Today it is more fluid than ever with the abortion of the most innocent!

4.       Not to have other gods. Who thinks they don’t have other gods? Even atheists won’t admit that they too have other gods! “Walking in their own counsels” is when they themselves are the other gods. Christians often endeavor to serve God and themselves. That is called syncretism, and Christians must submit their self-god to the True God. Doing your own will is hurtful to yourself. “Born again” means that you finally see that you are not really a god, and have no power to save yourself, but God does!

5.       Then, with the second opportunity, God repeats that the same reward is available: “Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.” He gives endless chances if results are forthcoming. Those who stiffen their necks and harden their hearts will never obey the terms of the Covenant, thinking that they are special cases. The terms of the agreement are for everyone, in that God wants that “whosover” not perish (John 3:16).

WITNESSED: Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord. (Jer 7:11)

  God sees the infractions to the Covenant. He must to judge fairly who breaches it and who honors it. He sees how is House is profaned. Jeremiah had a vision of Jesus whose anger was justified in overturning the tables in the Temple. “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer?’ but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him” (Mark 11:17-18). Judah would rather destroy the memory of God than abide by the fair terms of the Covenant. When God’s House and His Ways are profaned, God sees it, and knows that you rob Him of His due.
  To this day, church is more about US than God. That robs God of His authority and majesty, and attempts to make us as gods. And God sees it all; even what is in our hearts to do!

ISOLATION: And I will cast you out of my sight (Jer 7:15a) Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. (Jer 7:16) Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place (Jer 7:20a)

  For the majority who will not change, they isolate themselves from God. “Sanctification” is us isolating ourselves from the world, but “iniquity” is isolation from God. God only hears the prayer of those who are His. The Lord’s House is to be a place of prayer, and is for His people. Partying and entertainment, I believe, in the churches, angers God. It makes the building a den of thieves; stealing the glory of God and placing it on the entertainers and the entertained. We must be careful to give to God what is His, and that is honor and glory!

PENALTY: Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts. Moreover, thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. (Jer 8:3-5)

  If the Covenant is broken, and remains unsealed, there is a penalty. First off, God will never break the seal, but the party of the second part can. That is freedom, and Christians are at liberty to break the seal at any given time. Not being able to would be bondage to the Covenant and to the Law. The penalty for breaking the deal is “death.” Adam and Eve never understood what death entailed until after they breached the Edenic Covenant. Again, it is essentially had the same conditions and reward.
  Death, according to God, is eternally perishing - always in the process of dying but never quite consummating intercourse with the Angel of Death. The faithful are not bound to the agreement, but can choose death. After living in safety under the God’s protection, they can still discard that safety.

We think of “backsliding” as a short interval of disobedience or a decline in faith. Jeremiah mentioned a “perpetual backsliding.” Theologians call that “apostasy” and that is a final turning away from trusting the Lord. God’s people can fall away and not return. What is so difficult for Calvinists to understand about that? I’m not being mean-spirited, but in truth, the fear of falling away keeps people from iniquity. If there was t be no punishment, then those who claim to be God’s people could sin with impunity!
  The Covenant of Grace was agreed upon by God to Abraham and it is still THE Covenant, and will always be. There was never different Covenants, but only different wording of the original Covenant with God: “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Gen 3:15). The Word was revealing the final reward to His two people. What did He mean? That Jesus would take care of the Serpent on our behalf, and would suffer rather than us sinners. Although Jesus was to die for all Adams and all mothers of mankind, our God was not to be us, but Him.

SEX FOR PLEASURE – THE ORIGINAL SIN?

  Many theologians, as I do, believe that the original sin included things sexual (carnal knowledge) as well as doctrinal knowledge. Think on that; before the fall of mankind genitalia was for “good” - reproduction to be exact. Since the fall of mankind, the genitalia have been primarily for pleasure, and the “high places” where people worshiped in pagan lands represented phalluses and pubic mounds. The latter is the mons pubis or mons veneris (Venus) which is a major erogenous zone on females. The name Venus means “sexual desire.”
  The Latin goddess Venus was derived from the Greek goddess Aphrodite, who in turn was influenced by the Phoenician goddess Astarte, from the Mesopotamian goddess Astarte, from the Sumerian goddess Inanna -the “Queen of Heaven” who was also called “Ishtar.” Androgynous (behaviors of both male and female genders) and hermaphroditic (sex organs of both genders) men were heavily involved in the cult of Inanna-Ishtar. Ishtar’s origins are unknown, but she is believed to be a product of syncretism – identities from various gods and goddesses (Wikipedia). In other words, Ishtar did not create anything as “gods” would do, but men created Ishtar from rudimentary gods and goddess. The Queen of Heaven is the construct from whom many other gods and goddesses were “manufactured” by different peoples.
  Ishtar, the Sumerian goddess, was from the area of Nimrod’s cities. Nimrod is credited with the origin of many gods and goddesses in Sumer (the area of Uruk and Ur – the hometown of Abraham.) Nimrod is believed to be the god Ninurta – the male deity of Sumer and was the god of agriculture and healing. Of course, agriculture is associated with fertility as well.
  The purpose of this background information is twofold: (1) to trace the genealogy of the gods and goddesses back to the earliest known history, and (2) to demonstrate that the gods and goddesses of antiquity were created by the societies in which they were worshipped. Without proof but with evidence, I contend that Adam and Eve were the first false “god” and “goddess” because the Serpent said, “Ye shall be as gods; knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:5). Nimrod (Ninurta) is known from history. He was the great-grandson of Noah. Because people were destroyed in the flood for having other gods, it can be assumed that mankind created gods before written history.
  The most prominent gods and goddesses were those associated with fertility, and who were worshiped with sexual rituals. A good case is that the first sin was sexual in nature! Even that a virgin was chosen to be the surrogate for Jesus indicates that sexual purity is closely associated with “goodness.” That would indicate that sexual impurity was associated with evil.
  Before they became “as gods,” Adam and Eve had only the knowledge of good. Surely reproduction was only for “good,” and that is for the two to replicate God’s handiwork.
  Cain was not born in the Garden of Goodness, hence he was born in iniquity. While in the Garden, God commanded that they multiply. They did not. Cain was conceived and born outside the Garden (Gen 4:1). What was the first thing that Adam and Eve did once outside the goodness of the Garden? They conceived Adam in iniquity – outside of goodness. King David lamented that he was “shapen in iniquity” (Psalm 51:5). Why so? He was conceived when his parents pleasured with not only the knowledge of good, but evil as well. With the exception of Jesus, who was born of a virgin, all men have sinned because they are products of pleasure. Not that pleasuring for procreation is sinful, but that shameful “tools” are used for conception.
  Why shameful? Adam explained, “I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself” (Gen 3:10). Why would Adam cover his nakedness? Because he felt guilty because God had said to multiply, and it seemed that he had coitus for pleasure (Gen 3:6) “The tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise.” It can be supposed that both Adam’s and Eve’s flesh was pleasant to their own eyes and to each the other. What did they do next? “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons” (Gen 3:7).
  They had never experienced guilt before because all was “good.” They experienced some type of evil. We know that reproduction was not evil because it was ordained by God. If they had merely ate figs, they surely would have covered their eyes, or perhaps their mouths. However, the guilty pair worked hard to make aprons of fig leaves to cover their shame. “Aprons” you may notice, was the work of their own hands. They still didn’t get it.
  They had not the power nor the authority to cover their own sins because they were not really gods! They were merely play-acting, knowing that the work of their hands was deficient. Can you imagine: “Look what we did, God. We didn’t need you; we covered our own shame!” God was patient with his creatures and had grace on their misuse of their new knowledge. God responded with coats made from an animal – presumably a lamb – and the material was living and innocent. Hence, God used the blood and lives of lambs and The Lamb thenceforth to cover the sins of mankind!
  Have you asked why an apple tree? There is no evidence of that. There was, however, evidence that the Tree of Knowledge was a fig tree. Surely, they were under a fig tree when the two procured fig leaves for their aprons! Sacred literature reveals that God provided the two a fig as large as a watermelon, but they did not eat for they still feared repercussions. (Books of Adam and Eve). A fig tree is a safe assumption, and Jesus often used fig trees in his comparisons.
  There must be much more evidence that sexual pleasure was part of the new knowledge. Perhaps Nahum the prophet understood:

Thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. (Nah 3:12)

  Nahum was referring to the sinful city of Nineveh’s “strong holds.” Wikipedia indicates, “The city was later said to be devoted to "the goddess Ishtar of Nineveh" and Nina was one of the Sumerian and Assyrian names of that goddess.” It is proposed that to be Nimrod’s city which he built.
  Since there was no death in the Garden of Eden, the figs which Adam and Eve ate were the first-ripe ones. Was Nahum comparing Nineveh’s sin to Adam’s? Perhaps. Do you suppose that the Serpent did not hand the fig to Eve, and perhaps Eve shook the Tree – worked for the fruit - compared to God providing the fruits of other trees? Did Eve work for the figs before they worked for the aprons? It seems so. Working for their existence never worked using God’s precepts!
  A “stronghold” is the primary sin which is difficult to subdue. We see from the key verses below what Nineveh’s stronghold was:

KEY VERSES: Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. (Nah 3:4-5)

  The Lord pointed out the primary problem of his creatures using Nineveh as the example: our whoredoms. Of course, “whoredoms” in that context are fornications with other gods, but the Lord mentioned specifically the problem at hand: (1) skirts up, and (2) nakedness – that is their shame, the world’s, and surely Adam’s and Eve’s “aprons” were their own “skirts.”
  Who would be foolish enough to deny that most people’s sins are primarily sexual in nature? Adam’s and Eve’s sins were the same as ours; “the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life” (1 John 2:16). The lusts are obvious; they are sexual in nature, but what about “the pride of life?” I always considered that as being prideful of what we DO! Could it be that “the pride of life” is pride of the work of the genitalia? Could it be that most don’t see God as the Creator, but that humankind re-creates themselves from both a physical and spiritual standpoint?
  What do men seem to have the most pride in? Their phallus and its prowess. What do women? Their provocativeness and feminine attributes. The meek do not have pride in those things. They credit God for their existence and continued existence in the hereafter. They know that God provides life and that men only provide the sperm and the woman the eggs. It is God that breathes life into those two elementary particles.
  Why do some deny that God created? Because they want to believe that creation is from their own loins. Why do people favor abortion? Because their “gods” and “goddesses” are their own flesh and its desires.
  Adam and Eve did not plan a child, and suffered the consequence – a life was lost for the first time - an innocent one. What is the consequence of unlimited and uncontrolled sexual freedom? Other innocent lives are lost as a consequence of men’s and women’s lust for sexual freedom.

Women’s mons pubis remains to this day their goddesses, and ironically their goddesses are themselves just as with Eve. That’s always been the case! Likewise, men’s phalluses have always been their gods. Freudian psychology supports that thesis. The phalluses and the mons Venuses were “the high places” which God wanted torn down in ancient times.
  Why do the majority of the people in America have abortion as their ultimate issue? Because they desire the independence to govern their own bodies. That sounds libertarian and fair, but is it? “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own” (1 Cor 6:19)? Women defy God by desiring sexual independence. Eve apparently defied God for the same reason. Men defy God by propagating sexual independence. Adam did that as well when he ate. Indeed, as the wise man said, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
  Original sin was when the forbidden fruit was tasted, and Adam and Eve thought they had gained their independence from God. They thought that they had emancipated themselves from God’s authority, but actually, they merely gained a second master. Satan became their god and their father. Satan in his cunning way, masqueraded as a mere serpent. Throughout history in all societies, Satan continues with one charade after another. He doesn’t morph at all; sinful men just disguise Satan with different attributes. They made the Serpent their god, thinking it was themselves, they made Ishtar a goddess but in reality “she” is the androgynous hermaphroditic image of Satan!
  Satan is Satan without regard to gender, culture, or age. Satan entered Judas Iscariot, and gave the impression to Muslims that it was he who died for the sins of mankind. Islam created Isa from Judas, and in the end, they will revive the Beast who will claim to be Jesus.
  Until then, Venus remains the goddess of the left since abortion is the paramount desire for evil people. Not to be outdone, the male phallus remains the “god” of most men. It scares me that if my appendage offends god that I should cut it off!

Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot (or lips, eyes, or genitalia) offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. (Mat 18:8).

  God was speaking to a general audience but any discerning person should understand that it means “whatever.” What is it that we have which offends God so much? Our pre-occupation with sex and things that provide pleasure. When does lust cease? Either when it is under God’s control or you die, whichever comes first. We must become meek and let God control our thoughts, desires, and lusts.

RETURN OF THE HARLOT WIVES

The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. (Jer 3:6-8)

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. (Jer 3:12)

KEY VERSES: At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.  But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me. (Jer 3:17-19)

  In the days of King Josiah, Israel was likened unto a harlot, and Judah her evil sister. God in both cases was the metaphoric “spurned husband.” Israel fornicated with foreign gods without remorse, and Judah copied her ways. Although Josiah, to some degree, took the sisters our of whoredom their love for the foreign “husbands’ still kept the House of God in turmoil.

  The wicked daughter Israel was taken away to distant lands where she played the harlot to many nations; to the extent that the Lord’s “wife” belonged to other lovers. By the time of Jeremiah, wicked “sister” Judah who had copied her older sister, and was about to suffer the same fate.  The eastern Babylonians swept down from the north, and was on the verge of carrying away the second sister as Assyria had the first. The Lord lost His first love and was about to lose His second. The Lord had given Israel a bill of divorce, and Judah was in jeopardy too as the second “wife.”

  The Lord had a failed marriage with both Israel and her “sister” Judah; they both dealt very treacherously with the Lord (Jer 5:11) and denied the Lord as their “husband” (Jer 5:12). On the other hand, the Lord is gracious; he said, “Return, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion” (Jer 3:14). There God changes his approach; He once treated the nations as wives, but in their disobedience, as rebellious children.

  The rule for reconciliation for wives who fornicate with other men was clear, but the Lord was gracious to his “wives”: “They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.” (Jer 3:1). The Lord made an exception for Israel and Judah. He would accept them back, but not as wives, but as prodigal “children.”

  Until this century, Israel was dispersed all over the world. “Sister” Judah was taken to a foreign land, but after seventy years a remnant returned. That had to take place because of the Abrahamic Covenant, but the Covenant was not with Judah but all of ISRAEL. How could that be accomplished? God took one wife back – Judah. He needed his first love to whom the Covenant was made. God was prepared and the harlot first love returned centuries later.

  The key verses are surely not about Judah’s return from cohabitating with Assyria, but the return of the first “wife” as well. Holy Matrimony is with one wife, and is forever. The Lord didn’t need or want two “wives.” Others tore asunder the nature of His “wife,” and made her have two personalities: the harlot big sister and her little sister in training.

  My wife and I tease about her two personalities. One is the good wife, and the other her naughty sister. That’s the type of wife Israel was to God – Judah the “good” wife, and Israel, her “evil sister,” but the two identities together were King David’s “wife” – the consolidated nation of Israel.

  The key verses were not to come about soon. In 1948 the two “personalities” of Israel became one, and the Lord’s healed first love returned; the two personalities of His “wife” became one. They returned but remain rebellious to this day. The Lord treats the modern nation of Israel as he would a prodigal child.

  In 1948, Jews from mostly Europe, the eastern block, and Russia returned home. It is likely that many of the lost northern tribes are included among those returning. Israel and Judah have become one “wife” but still as rebellious children.

  Well, in the last days, the haughty children will become much like the meek prodigal son. Israel, the haughty daughter, will be welcomed home with open arms just as the father welcomed home his prodigal son! “Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me,” as the last key verse indicates. God will not have his wives returned, but His family will be, but as repentant children! That time has not yet arrived, but will before the end:

And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.  (Rev 14:3-5).

  Note that from Revelation 7:4 that it is not 144,000 from some of the tribes of Israel, but from ALL the tribes of Israel. They will sing a new song before God’s Throne. From the key verse of Jeremiah, we read that “At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord.” You see, Jeremiah had a vision of the harlot belonging to Babylon born again as the virgin Israel where the Lord would be reconciled with his “wife.” It will be a different relationship in that his rebellious wives will become as the little children, as is written, “In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.” His Throne will be in the City of God called New Jerusalem, and it will return to its foundation at Jerusalem (Rev 21)!

  And now you know how Peyton Place in Israel will become a Recovery House for crippled children who are made to walk again in the Way of the Lord:

Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. (Jer 6:16)

BLOOD OF THE INNOCENTS

KEY VERSES: Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. Also, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. Yet thou sayest, “Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me.” Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned. (Jer 2:33-35)

Throughout the Bible there were slaughters of the innocents. “Innocents” are those who have never sinned, or have no sin accounted to them because of their infancy. That is to include babies and those mentally incapacitated from birth. All have sinned against God but the innocents are not held accountable. Of course, Jesus is the only person born without iniquity. He is truly “The Innocent One.” Now consider the slaughter of the innocents.

In Egypt the king said, “When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live” (Exod 1:16). Why did the king do that? Pharaoh saw himself as God, and because the Hebrews were mere beasts of burden to Egyptians who they used for slave labor. He was afraid that those “inferior” peoples would multiply and overthrow the Egyptian way of living, and become supreme to them. The king knew they would turn on them because the Egyptians had been harsh taskmasters.

The midwives feared God more than Pharaoh. They did not obey the king. The Egyptian “problem” then needed another solution: “Every son that is born, ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter, ye shall save alive” (Exod 1:22).  Pharaoh, it seems, was the first “Fuerher,” not of the German Reich, but the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. He was only half as evil as Hitler because it was only the males who were the greatest threat to Egyptian superiority.

It is to be noted that Pharaoh, symbolic if Satan, proposed infanticide which some U.S. States have sought to make legal. Ironically, our own “Pharaoh,” so to speak, voted for the murder of the innocents on their “birthing stool” himself. The problem for Illinois when Obama was a state senator is that babies in the process of abortion were hanging onto life, refusing to die. As such, the nurses would put them in another room to die without attempting to save them. Obama voted again the bill to abolish that, and regardless of those who claim he did not, that is not the case. (McCarthy, Andrew; National Review; “When Obama Voted for Infanticide;” Feb 9, 2102). Pharaoh considered his law and thought it must be too cruel, so he provided an alternative – a safe killing of the innocent. Rather than murder them with birthing tools, the male infants were to be “humanely” murdered by drowning.

Much later in Germany, the socialist doctors were ordered by Heinrich Himmler to find a “humane” way of killing the Jews. He sought a “safe” way to exterminate the Jews who were innocent of any crimes – they were murdered for the same reason Pharaoh did, and that was because both Pharaoh and Hitler feared the Jews just because they are Jews! His mission to “humanely” kill the Jews is reminiscent of the “safe abortion” of innocent babies! Now we’ll return from Nazi Germany to socialist Illinois.

Ironically, in Egypt the midwives sought to save the innocents despite the law of the land, and in Illinois the “midwives” sought to destroy the innocents despite the law of Illinois!

Since abortion is mostly for the undesirables - those who are inconvenient, minority babies are most often the victims. Pharaoh and Hitler sought “the final solution” for being inconveniently (for them) a Jew, and Illinois for merely being an inconvenience. Illinois needs blacks for their votes, but for little else. In Illinois, blacks multiply so rapidly that because they are black makes them an inconvenience. Perhaps the Illinois socialists fear the blacks just as Pharaoh did the Hebrews. Perhaps, the black masses are an inconvenience to those who govern there!

Keep in mind that the unborn who are aborted are usually inconvenient to someone, and with that situation, their innocent lives are sacrificed for the “betterment” of other people or groups. For instance, the Hebrew male babies were sacrificed for the betterment of Pharaoh and the European Jews for the betterment of the “supreme” socialists of Europe; not that they were supreme, but for them to maintain that fantasy. Socialism always espouses, not what is best for the individuals,  but for the masses. They choose who they deplorables are, and Hillary Clinton demonstrated that socialist idea!

Later on, King Herod murdered the innocents as well:

And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son. Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. (Mat 2:15-16)

Herod’s killing of the innocents was foretold by, guess who? The prophet Jeremiah, who wrote about  “Rachel weeping for her children.” Jeremiah knew much about the killing of the innocents and wrote about that concerning Rachel and her children - the Israelites from the tribe of Benjamin in Judah.

The prophet Hosea wrote about Jesus (Israel): “When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt” (Hos 11:1). Of course, that was written after Israel was taken out of Egypt and referred to Jesus Christ! Jesus was the cause of Herod’s embarrassment, and not only that, Jesus was the prophesied, “King of the Jews.” Herod had the infants – male and female – killed because just one male was a threat to his throne. Jesus was just a little inconvenient to Herod, but like Pharaoh before him, Jesus was safe in the hands of the Egyptians.

King Herod attempted to sacrifice Jesus for his own selfish motives, in contrast to Abraham who was willing to sacrifice his son to God. Isaac was to be a sin offering. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his best to God, but God provided the sacrifice in Isaac’s place.  Abraham’s motives were not selfish at all, unlike Herod’s whose motives were!

Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice was credited to him as faith (Rom 4:9). Rather than circumcise the phallus of young males as was later ordained, Abraham was asked to cut off the entire flesh of his son! That was what the pagans did, and Abraham was being tested. God did that with His own son -Jesus - so that Abraham did not need to. Was God in favor of infanticide? No! He knew the heart of Abraham. He knew that Abraham was willing to obey, so it was not a requirement.

Many of the nations around Judah and Samaria, sacrificed to the Canaanite god, Molech (See figure #1). Molech’s stomach was a fiery furnace. Worshipers would place their infants in the oven and they would be cremated. It was a ritual sacrifice by pagans, and the practice followed by God’s chosen people as well when they fell away: “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord” (Lev 18:21). Why did passing their offspring through the fire of Molech profane God? Because Molech means “king” or “Lord.” Sacrificing infants to another “Lord” profaned God. Guess how the sacrifice was often obtained? Sexual intercourse in the worship of Baal.

Molech offered sexual independence to women who whored themselves for the worship of false gods. That type of sexual freedom in worship is what Jeremiah referred to in the key verses wherein it is written, “In thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents.” That, dear readers, is abortion personified. The Israelites and Judahites prostituted themselves in a frenzy and disposed of their offspring in the fires of Molech.

Jeremiah pointed out two things: (1) “Thou hast also taught the wicked ones thy ways,” and (2) “I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.” The ritual harlots did not hide their licentiousness, but it was obvious to God and everyone else for that matter. By doing that wicked thing was an example for others to do the same!

That is the epitome of the abortion-mongers today; they teach it in schools and feminists often brag about their abortions to take the guilt away from those they beguile!

Molech is surely a foreshadowing of Planned Parenthood who teaches wicked things to enable wicked people, and then propagate their evil ways! Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, must have envisioned Molech in her writings!

Why did Sanger encourage birth control and abortion? To control the undesirables at home (Margaret Sanger, "The Function of Sterilization," Oct 1926). Sanger is not the male god Molech, but the embodiment of Asherah herself in a human female body!

Abortion is a human sacrifice to other gods and goddesses! How so? Because with original sin, Adam and Eve became “as gods” (Gen 3:5). Not that they really were, but that they knew better than God! What did God say about murder? “Thou shalt not kill” (Exod 20:13). The Hebrew word ratsach specifically means “murder.” Murder, unlike most killing, is to harm on purpose. People kill for various reasons, but they murder for some form of hatred (1 John 3:15).

With unwanted babies, they are often murdered because of their inconvenience. Women may love their lifestyle so much that they hate to change it. They may hate the mistake that they made, and rather to accept their mistake, they discard him or her! Rather than love their imperfect child, they sacrifice it for their own convenience.

Politicians favor abortion because they value their power more than they do life. That was Pharaoh’s and Herod’s motive. On the other hand, Hitler killed the innocents because he saw human beings as sub-human parasites, or as Hillary calls them, “a basket of deplorables!”

Jeremiah saw that Israel worshiped Asherah on high places. That represents the phallus and the female pubic mound, and they taught that abomination to the Judahites. They weren’t satisfied that they did their dirty deeds in worship, and seemingly justified it by teaching their brethren to do it. People justify horrible things by rationalizing with, “Well, everyone is doing it!” Because a famous person or many are sinning, does not make the sin alright. Abortion, for any reason, is always wrong in the viewpoint of God.; there are no exclusionary clauses in “Thou shalt not murder:” for inconveniences, hatred, jealousy, poverty, defectives, or any other reason.

The greatest “slaughter of the innocent” was when Jesus was killed because he too was an inconvenience. He stood in the way of the false beliefs of the Jewish leaders. They thought it was okay to dispose of a man who admitted that he is God in the flesh. If only Jesus would die, they could continue living the lie. The “colossal lie” at that time and now is that Jesus is not God! Say that often enough and people believe that!

What did God say about those who destroy their own offspring? “Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, ‘I have not sinned.’” People, even Christians, who abort, don’t accept the fact that by discarding their own flesh, for whatever reason, is still sin! They rationalize that it is not human, but mere tissue or the flesh of some fictitious species. They even think up reasons wherein their situation is different. That notion is what the Serpent warned about when he cautioned, “You will be as gods.”

God is the Giver of life, and He decides when and where to take it away. Those who make their own decisions play “God” with the living soul of their offspring. That is blasphemous to the real God.

God was always angered by the Hebrews when they did things their own way. He placed consequences on them for their trespasses against His Law. They were often destroyed by those who valued life as little as they had themselves. It is poetic justice that women in Judah’s days killed their own, but Assyria killed them.

Like Adam and Eve who ate, and nothing awful seemed to happen, those who shed the blood of their own offspring are shortsighted. They will ultimately be punished! The law may not see their crime, but God said, “I have not found it by secret search.” He knows what we do, why we do it, and the penalty for all that we do. Murdering the innocent is a great sin. Jesus told that to Pilate when he was about to be murdered. According to Jesus, the ones who instigate the murder have committed a greater sin than the ones who implement it (John 19:11).

Using the same reasoning as Jesus, those who make murder legal commit a greater sin than those who perform the abortions. They merely do the will of the sinners much like the centurions were doing! That means the sin of those who vote for pro-abortion leaders are greater sinners than the abortion providers. Who could sleep realizing that their sin is greater than Planned Parenthoods? Many Christians sleep well, not even hearing the silent scream of innocent human beings. Jesus weeps!

MAKE DAVID’S KINGDOM HOLY AGAIN

  The Abrahamic Covenant was prosperity for the Jews with one contingency; to be faithful to the Lord. Ultimately that was also the Edenic Covenant, the Priestly Covenant, the Mosiac Covenant, the Davidic Covenant, and the Covenant with Josiah.  Theologians failed to understand the Josiahic Covenant, and it is not usually listed among the biblical Covenants:

And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. (2 Kings 23:3).

  As Josiah was the most righteous King since David, he restored what had been torn down in God’s Covenant with David. David, instructed by God, made Israel great. Hezekiah reformed Judah, but not Israel, but Josiah included Israel in his reforms. As such, Josiah united Israel and Judah for the first time since Jeroboam (I) divided it; as he was not a rightful king, and did evil in the sight of the Lord. Josiah made the Kingdom of David great again!
  Few understood that all the Covenants promised prosperity, but it was not in the sense of property or riches; it was and still is prosperity in the Kingdom of God of which the Kingdom of David is the visible realm. Prosperity is eternal salvation, and in the Kingdom of God on Earth/in earth, Christians live in safety.
  First off, the parties of the second part in the Covenants were Christians in that they knew God’s Plan of salvation. Serious worshipers understood the resurrection, and the Way to it. The Greatest Commandment is the Way to salvation:

And he (Jesus) answering said, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.” (Luke 10:27)

  Jesus merely repeated his Covenant made with Josiah, to wit; “To keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book.” All the Law of the Book of the Covenant is summarized in the “Ten Words,” or “Ten Prescriptions, which are translated as the “Ten Commandments.” They are the Ten Prescriptions for eternal health, and the doses cannot be forced, but must be willingly consumed.
  Josiah stood by “a pillar” when he made the Covenant. That “pillar” represented Jesus on the Holy Cross. The Covenant made him one of the pillars of the Lord’s Temple – the Church: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God” (Rev 3:12). Pillars are straight and narrow; straight to keep from buckling and narrow to support heavy loads. The Holy Cross is a Pillar which supported the agony of God’s Flesh dying for mankind. Josiah seemed to understand what he was doing, then did it with all his strength as he had his heart in it!
  Josiah included the northern kingdom in his reforms. He not only made Judah Great again but the entire Kingdom of David which had at one time been greater Israel. Hezekiah depended on prophets whereas Josiah had the Book of the Law, or the very Word of God. From John 1, we know that the Word read by Josiah was the Word – Jesus. (When Christians read the Old Testament, where it is in quotes as the “Word of the Lord,” God’s speech is Jesus manifested. Josiah listened to Jesus. Josiah not only restored the Kingdom of David, but the Kingdom of God in that he restored worship of the One True God in all of Samaria and Judea, as they were called in Jesus’s day. The chapter on Josiah making Israel Great Again is 2 Kings 23. However, it was more than great in riches, but prosperous again in righteousness, as Josiah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. He even tore down the high places. The New Testament refers to “high places” as “strongholds.” They were always the hardest things for the Hebrew people to give up.
  “High places” were not only places of false worship as we found out with the Tower of Babel, but the proclivity for sexual worship. In the New Testament, the high places were much like the churches wherein there was the Doctrine of the Nicolaitans whose doctrine God hated (Rev 2:6). Asherah, or Venus, was the goddess they worshiped. The mons Venus is the pubic mound of females. They worshiped on Venus’s mountains, so to speak, and the phallus was their idol. Disgusting perversions were included in the worship on high places. They were Sodoms and Gomorrahs revived.
  Josiah tore down those strongholds. They were not only in high places but the Highest Place: The House of the Lord: “And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.” (2 Kings 23:7). The NKJV renders those “sins” perversions and the “hangings” as wooden images. The idols were likely phalluses which they worshiped, and still do! In effect, Josiah drained Manasseh’s “swamp” and made Israel great again, not only in prosperity but righteousness!
  Josiah restored the Passover. That was the religiosity of the people, but Josiah knew that it was more than ritual, but a picture of Jesus Christ and the Death Angel passing-over those born of the Spirit. To save the nation and its people from perishing to the Assyrians, Josiah demanded that the people celebrate the Passover feast. That celebration was a foreshadowing of the Last Supper eaten on the eve of Jesus’s sacrifice of himself. The Passover celebration ended with sacrifices to the Lord, and when Jesus died on the final day of the Passover, it was God sacrificing for the people.
  Just as Josiah, King of Judah, sacrificed on behalf of the Jews in his nation, he also sacrificed for the Hebrews in Israel. Just as Jesus’s death was for “whosoever” (John 3:16), the great sinners in Israel who came to the Lord were included, as were all foreigners in the land.
  Josiah saw New Jerusalem on which the extant walls of Jerusalem were only a facsimile.  He rebuilt that great city in preparation for those who would return to God. Not by coincidence, God will rebuild Jerusalem as a great city – New Jerusalem – in whose walls will be many mansions with rooms for all who call on His Name. “The Name” is the Old Testament form of Jesus. Jesus is the Way to the “prosperity” (reward in Heaven), and the Column by which Josiah stood, is the Cross; with both pointing upward toward Heaven.
  Now for some political commentary. Like it or not, President Trump is endeavoring to revive America again, just as Josiah through God revived the Kingdom of David again. Trump is a “crooked stick” for sure, but he seems to be on the right path to prosperity.  America has been just one tributary nation to the Kingdom of God, and America as great again is God’s Will. Just as God used the "crooked stick" - David - to build Jerusalem, he can use the "crooked stick" - Trump - to rebuild America.

MAKE ISRAEL GREAT AGAIN

  By the time of King Hezekiah, Israel was disseminated, Judah laid low, and Jerusalem ready to suffer defeat by Sennacherib, King of Assyria. Israel was founded upon the Will of the Lord. Israel was the Kingdom of David, and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel was the One True God. Let’s briefly compare Israel to the United States:

1.       Israel was first occupied by indigent people as was the American colonies.

2.       The Hebrew people overcame the people and brought God to that wild country. The tribes there were much like the tribes in America, each with their chief.

3.       Law and civilization made the nation of Israel just as settlers did to America.

4.       Judges ruled Israel to domesticate the people. In America it was British governors who ruled.

5.       Israel needed a king as the other nations had. America already had a king, but he was abroad. They wanted their own rule, and their own “king.”

6.       Israel got their first king. He was King Saul. He was much like King George III. 

7.       God ordained a better king in Israel – King David. God put it into the hearts of men in America to have a new king. (In the end, they proposed that George Washington would be king, but that was not to be.)

8.       Canaanland became the Kingdom of David, and his kingdom was based on God’s Laws. The American colonies became the United States, and again, our law was based on God’s Law called “natural law.”

9.       The “king” of America was the President of the United States – George Washington. Americans treat his memory much as the Jews do King David’s.

10.   The U.S. Constitution’s Preamble states that, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Its purpose was Tranquility (with a capital “T”), which means that the United States Constitution is based on the Peace from a Good God. Mosaic Law was the “constitution” of the Kingdom of David.

11.   In the beginning justice was brought to the Kingdom of David, and in like manner, to the United States.

12.   Unrighteousness split the Kingdom of David into two nations: Israel and Judah. Israel was the North and Judah the South, much like in America with one exception; the North were the rebellious tribes, and the South the union. Also, the number of states were opposite in proportion. Their “rebels” had ten states, and their unionists only two. Their territory was much 50-50 as at the beginning of the War Between the States. 

13.   The Hebrew North was utterly destroyed. The American South was as well.

14.   The American North remained strong with a new President – Abraham Lincoln. The South in David’s Kingdom became strong with King Hezekiah. Lincoln made the states united again. Hezekiah did as well. The Northern Kingdom looked to Hezekiah for leadership, and he responded well. The American South looked toward the North for the same leadership.

15.   Hezekiah made Judah great again, not the whole nation but only half. Lincoln did the same thing; he made the North great again.

16.   Manasseh, Hezekiah’s son, destroyed America slowly but surely over his long reign. Andrew Johnson began the destruction of America’s Union, as did the many “sons” of Democrat President Johnson who have continued the decline of America. Mostly Democrats have initiated every inhumane law that has come upon the “kingdom” of George Washington from its inception: (1) plight of the Indians, (2) slavery, (3) Jim Crow laws, (4) segregation, (5) abortion, (6) same-sex marriage, (7) neglect of America’s boundaries, and such. All that was capped-off by the first socialist president – Barak Hussein Obama  - who brought the acceptance of a foreign “god” and their Sharia Law to our shores. Obama was truly the son of Hezekiah; he is America’s “Manasseh” who did all sorts of evil in the sight of the Lord as Manasseh did!

17.   Without Manasseh, King Josiah would not have been a necessary and righteous king. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but it was because he watched Judah being destroyed by his predecessor. Josiah’s reign would make “Israel Great Again,” again as his grandfather before him who was righteous like King David.  Without America’s “Manasseh” our own “Josiah” would have never been President, and “draining the swamp” is his method of making America Great Again. Josiah did his version of completely draining Judah’s “swamp’ but could not drain the swamp entirely because of the “deep state” of Israel which was burdensome to change and tranquility.

18.   Those faithful to evil, would not allow Josiah to drain the swamp of false doctrines, false gods, and their teachers. Like America, Israel had their “deep state” which would not allow their lifestyle to be eliminated. The nation of Israel, although no longer in power, loved their evil ways, and they won out. Judah and Jerusalem were destroyed. It was done by another nation – Assyria – but it was because the evil of their “deep state” of Israel prevailed in the righteous state of Judah. 

19.   Assyria destroyed Judah and their capital, as well as their religion. It was a war of whose God is the almightiest. Assyria’s god seemed to prevail, until their nation and their God Marduk were destroyed by a greater power. In America, our “Assyria” is the same enemy; it is the Assyrian religion of Islam and their false god, Allah, which crept in almost unawares and supported by their “deep state” of Israel heathenism.

20.   The Assyrian god, Marduk, was the false god of the Assyrians in whom they sent their infant sons through the fire. He is their Baal (Bel). King Manasseh, like the “deep state” of Israel worshiped Marduk, and he sent his son through the fires of Marduk. In like manner, the Deep State Democrats religion is much like Mardukism as their first priority is continuation in sending their infants through the fire in the belly of their Marduk – the wombs of naïve women, many of whom seem to worship their vagina and its violation!

21.   Josiah endeavored to drain the Israelite and Assyrian “swamp” from the land of Judah, and to unite the people again back as it was in the Kingdom of David. He worked hard at it, but in the end, Assyrian won the war. The Lord soon got His vengeance. Assyria was destroyed by the Medes and Babylonians. Likewise, America may be taken without firing a shot as immigrants from every pagan nation disrupt our culture, our natural God-given law, and even our God. Judah deserved what they got, and their capitol and religion were destroyed. We know from prophecy (The Revelation of John) that that is the fate of America as well. For a time, we too will lose!

22.   In the end, the nation of a united Israel came. Nation after nation had their way with the land of milk and honey, and their religion destroyed many times. With Josiah, the Law of God was found in the temple after it had been plundered time and time again, and after the plundering of America by one Deep State after another, God’s Word will be found again, at least by a remnant as was the case with the Jews. 

23.   We can learn from history. What happens in Israel does not stay in Israel. The history of Israel, its people, and their God is written so that people everywhere can learn from them. “Stupid people” as the Deep State calls Americans will never learn. They insist on the destruction of our “Judah” by every type of depravity – the same ones which destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of Jerusalem and Lachish.

24.   “And he (Manasseh) built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.  And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger: (2 Kings 9:5-6),  “Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel…  Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. (2 Kings 9:9,16). Obama did much he same as Manasseh long before him. Judah needed Josiah, and they needed Donald Trump. Josiah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and so does President Trump. Neither did God’s perfect will, but both were/are trying. Will America fail under the Deep State as Judah did because of their deep state of unrighteousness? Only time will tell.

SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY - Part 2 of 2

  Continuing from yesterday, “Moab shall be trodden down under him” from the key verse:

For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

  “Him” is Jesus Christ. I contend that Moab represents the Serpent, and the Edenic or Adamic Covenant identifies him as Moab; to wit:

And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. (Gen 3::13-15).

  Focus on the last verse. “Enmity” is ill-will. “Seed” are the descendants of both the Serpent and the woman. Her descendant will bruise the Serpent’s descendant’s head,, and the Serpent’s descendant shall bruise Eve’s descendant’s heel.
  “Adam” means man, and when Adam sinned, he was emancipated from Yahweh, and became a son of the Serpent. Sinful mankind are still sons of Satan.
  Eve is the mother of all the living. Jesus is her offspring. Jesus was born of a woman, but not of a man. Jesus’s Father is Yahweh, and Mary is his surrogate mother. Therefore, the message in Genesis 3:15 is, Jesus shall bruise the Serpent’s head, and the Serpent will bruise Jesus’s heel. It only remains to identify the Serpent’s descendant. He is mankind – Adams – all wicked men. With that premise, I wrote the book, The Skull of Adam. “Golgotha,” called Calvary from the Latin, means “place of the skull” (Mat 27:33; Mark 15:22; John 19:17). The place of whose skull? Adam’s! According to Hebrew sacred literature, Seth and Melchizedek removed the bones of Adam from the ark of Noah, and buried them at Golgotha.
  Jesus, if that is true, would have crushed Adam’s skull when he treaded the way to the Holy Cross, and Adam’s head may have bruised Jesus’s heel. Perhaps that was physical, but certainly was metaphorical! Sin (Adam) caused Jesus to be crucified, but Jesus’s crucifixion crushed the sin of all Adams. Jesus did not die on the Holy Cross, his flesh slept as his Holy Ghost crushed sin by dumping all the sins of mankind in Hell. Adam’s skull represented sin. Satan wasn’t there to die so Satan’s “sons” suffered death.
  There was another death that day:

Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, “What is that to us? see thou to that.” And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. (Mat 27:1-10). 

  Satan had entered Judas Iscariot (Luke 22:3; John 13:27). Judas was a tool used by Jesus. Jesus allowed Satan to enter into Judas so Jesus’s purpose could be fulfilled. The spirit of Satan betrayed Jesus. Judas was like the viper itself who Satan entered in – both were tools of God – one for testing the will of Adam, and the latter for testing the mob who was to hang Jesus on his “Tree.”
  Judas repented. Judas, because of the lust for money, opened the door for Satan to enter in, and Satan did just that. Judas repented of that sin. When he hanged himself, he destroyed the flesh of Satan so that Satan had to flee. Thus, Satan was defeated the day that Jesus was crucified, and his head was crushed, so to speak, when Jesus’s stepped on Adam’s head, the son of the Serpent.
  God’s son lives on both in the hearts of men, and physically in Heaven. Likewise, Satan’s son still lives in the hearts of men and physically in Hell. The Edenic Covenant, we find from other sources, is that by grace, Adam’s sin will be redeemed, and him glorified. Using 5-1/2 “days” as a metaphor for 5500 years, the rapture will resurrect Adam, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first” (1 Thes 4:16). Adam, from his place beneath Calvary, will be raised from the dead, and “death will be swallowed up in victory!”
  Now back to Moab who will be trodden down beneath Jesus’s feet. Moab was the country just across the Jordan River southeast of Jerusalem. They were ill-willed (had enmity) with Judah and Judah had enmity with Moab. Moab is on the wrong side of the Dead Sea, and represents death, and the very word, “Moab” means “from the seed of my father” and possibly, “his mother is his father’ (Wikipedia; “Moab”). Moab was from the seed of Lot and Lot’s eldest daughter (Gen 19:30-38). Hence, “his mother is his father.” Moab existed because of sexual incest:

It came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. (Gen 19:34-38).

  To be blunt, Moab (modern-day Jordan) and Ammon (modern-day Syria) exist because of incest. The eldest daughter created Moab. Thus, Moab represents Satan.
  In those days, countries were represented by their gods. They were the land and property belonging to their deities. For instance, Judah and Israel belonged to Yahweh. Moab belonged to Chemosh who was also the god of the Ammonites. Chemosh was known by Ashtar and as Astarte, and she was worshipped in the temples of Chemosh. However, the name Ashtar is a masculine name of a female goddess. Hence, “his mother is his father” may be true for the Moabites. Ashtar was the Moabite mother and father, as Lot’s daughter was as well.
  Astarte is the Greek name for Semitic Ashtoreth. In Accadian, she is Asdartu which is the masculine form of Ishtar. In other words, this goddess seems to be represented as a male although she was female. (Perhaps she was a feminist god.)
  She was a goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war; as many “deities” were. Chemosh, under different names, was the wife of Baal had different names in different cultures.

  

Figure 1:Figurine of Astarte from Wikipedia

  Astarte or Ishtar who also was called Inanna was known as the “Queen of Heaven.” She was associated with the planet Venus and symbolized as a star within a circle. (The five-pointed star is the Satanic symbol, by the way.) Ishtar originated in Uruk (Iraq), the second city built by Nimrod of the Bible. The goddess of the Moabites was surely the goddess of Abraham’s family in Ur. Through Lot, worship of her traveled to Moab and Ammon.
  The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob was Yahweh. The god previous to Abraham was the one who would become Chemosh and who is represented by the tribe of Moab. Ishtar was thought of as both masculine and female. Today, that goddess would be considered a hermaphrodite. Transgenderism would be an abomination to the Lord since Ishtar was believed by some to be of both genders.[1]

In summary, Moab represents the earliest known false god. He/she would represent the Serpent in Eden. The Serpent’s sex was not identified, but whichever sex, it allured both Adam and Eve. Many theologians believe that the “fruit” of the Tree of Knowledge was knowing sex for pleasure rather than for pro-creation.
  The god of Moab, essentially the Serpent, would have his/her head stepped upon by the heel of Jesus! The Edenic Covenant was the same as the Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic Covenants as well as the Covenant of Grace because they all had the same promise to Adam-kind.

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[1] All references to the false gods are from Wikipedia.