The solution to the problem is very straightforward. First God defined the problem to Isaiah; the Jews were the problem. God had given them favor because of their lineage. They were the seed of Abraham. Because of the faith of Abraham, the Jews were God’s chosen and peculiar people since they once had been holy (Deut 14:2).
The faith of Abraham was not just a one-time event when he
had the willingness to sacrifice his only remaining son, but when Abraham survived
the fire of Ur because he believed in the invisible God. To find that, the
reader will need to turn to the Book of Jasher.
The handmade gods of Terah neither spoke nor moved but Terah
gave them credit for creating all things. Because they were useless idols, Abram
turned from them and to the invisible God. As such, “In the evening of that day
in that house, Abram was clothed with the spirit of God” (Jasher 11:31). As it
turned out the “clothing of God” was said to be the garment with which God had
clothed Adam (Gen 3:17).
We find out in the New Testament from Paul that we are to “Above
all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the
fiery darts of the wicked” (Ephes 6:16). The faith of Abraham was his “shield.”
Even the name, Abraham, means ‘Shield.” Hence the faith of Abraham can be our
shield because we too (Christians) are chosen and peculiar people (1 Pet 2:9).
As for the fiery darts of the wicked, God did that for Abram. King Nimrod delivered Abram from prison for denying his gods, and a miracle happened:
When Terah had spoken
this to the king concerning Haran his son, the king ordered Haran to be seized
with Abram. And they brought them both,
Abram and Haran his brother, to cast them into the fire; and all the
inhabitants of the land and the king's servants and princes and all the women
and little ones were there, standing that day over them. And the king's
servants took Abram and his brother, and they stripped them of all their
clothes excepting their lower garments which were upon them. And they bound
their hands and feet with linen cords, and the servants of the king lifted them
up and cast them both into the furnace. And the Lord loved Abram and he had
compassion over him, and the Lord came down and delivered Abram from the fire
and he was not burned. But all the cords with which they bound him were burned,
while Abram remained and walked about in the fire…. And Abram walked in the
midst of the fire three days and three nights, and all the servants of the king
saw him walking in the fire, and they came and told the king, saying, Behold we
have seen Abram walking about in the midst of the fire, and even the lower
garments which are upon him are not burned, but the cord with which he was
bound is burned. (Jasher 12:20-25, 27)
And the king said to
Abram, “How is it that you were not burned in the fire?” And Abram said to the
king, “The God of heaven and earth in whom I trust and who has all in his
power, He delivered me from the fire into which you did cast me.” (Jasher 12:34-35)
Abraham had become a new creature because he was literally in
Christ, the Messiah (2 Cor 5:17).
With that said, Abram was another glorious “Adam.” He was
another chance and God’s Covenant with Abraham was an extension of His
Covenants with Adam and Noah. Covenants that are forgotten are the Sethian and Semitic
Covenants, and especially the Japhetite Covenant.
Seth replaced righteous Abel and he was blessed; then after Seth
and Japheth covered their father’s nakedness, they were blessed: “Blessed be
the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge
Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his
servant” (Gen 9:27).
Therein lies two Covenants that are all but forgotten. The Covenant
of Grace is and extension of the Covenants that God made with Shem and Japheth.
Japheth is the progenitor of most of Europe’s population as well as the Balkans.
You and I are opportune to wear the “Garment of God” because
Japheth did not dishonor but honored his father, Noah.
Shem played a great role in the beliefs of Abram. Shem may
be the first “Hebrew,” bringing the bones of Adam across the waters in
the Presence of Melchizedek.
Although Abram crossed the water of the Jordan, Shem crossed
the waters of the Great Flood. The word, “Hebrew” is merely “crossing over”
without regard to what. Noah and his family were all “Hebrews” in a sense, but
Abram was the first noted for that.
When the wise ones saw Abram at fifty years old, they said, “Our
sovereign lord (Nimrod), surely this is the man whom we know to have been the
child at whose birth the great star swallowed the four stars” (Jasher 12:9).
God selected Abram for his role in the eternal plan for mankind. Was Abram
faithful because he was picked, or was he picked because God foreknew his
faithfulness? God is omniscient and knew the Way that Abram would travel.
The wise men were referring to the miraculous birth of Abraham:
It was in the night that Abram was born, that all the servants of Terah, and all the wise men of Nimrod, and his conjurors came and ate and drank in the house of Terah, and they rejoiced with him on that night. And when all the wise men and conjurors went out from the house of Terah, they lifted up their eyes toward heaven that night to look at the stars, and they saw, and behold one very large star came from the east and ran in the heavens, and he swallowed up the four stars from the four sides of the heavens. (Jasher 8:1-2)
Is that a coincidence? There was a similar, albeit not an exact event, when Jesus was born in 6 B.C.:
Mathews studied
planetary alignments that occurred in his target time frame of 8-4 B.C. There
was a very special alignment on April 17, 6 B.C. At that time, the sun, moon,
Jupiter, Saturn and the vernal equinox were all aligned in the Aries
constellation, while Venus aligned in nearby Pisces, and Mercury and Mars were
on the other side in Taurus.
Of course, stars were not literally swallowed up by a “great
star,” but planets were once considered stars and the Sun the “Great Star.”
Something that was not ordinary when Abram was born. Something like that happened
recently, “During totality (total eclipse) on August 21, 2017 – although it
will be close to midday – you’ll easily be able to see 4 planets with the
unaided eye near the eclipsed sun!”
The age of Abraham was the Age of the Ram, the Christian era
is the Age of Pisces, and the Luciferin era dawning in 2017 is roughly the Age
of Aquarius. We are now living in that age, and it has become obvious. God uses
the stars to signal the ages, and the eclipse of 6 B.C. signaled the coming of
the Savior.
Abraham was the “savior” of the Hebrews at that time, and he
became king in another realm wherein Lazarus rested in the “bosom of Abraham”
(Luke 16). Abraham was a placeholder until the coming of Jesus.
In the Book of Isaiah chapter one, the Hebrews had degenerated so much that the Abrahamic Covernant was all but null and void, except for a few — “a remnant” (Isa 1:9). God had a plan for the remnant, and He spelled it out, “If you be willing and obedient…” (Isa 1:9):
“Come now, and let us
reason together,” said the Lord: “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isa 1:18)
So far, few Jews have done that! If they were to consider
the prophets, they would know that the Messiah has come. All the things that
Jesus did were prophesied by Isaiah and the other prophets without a mistake.
The outcome of reasoning is that all their sins would be
purified. Sin is genetic from the concept of “original sin.” God was implying
that they would be “born again,” the miraculous change from Jesus (John 3:7).
Sin is in the blood, and in fact, every nuclear cell of the
body. Each one of us have the genetics of the Devil within as he is referred to
as our “father” (John 8:44). God was
telling Abraham that only He could take the demonic genes from the Hebrews. He
would launder their DNA, or as “born again” means, engender them from above
The problem with the Jews (Hebrews) is that they have not
reasoned with God. He made them a promise through the Covenant with Abraham,
and they failed to understand that it has come to pass.
Jesus, though our sins are as scarlet, though they be red as
crimson; has made them white as snow and as protective as tightly woven wool,
the latter the very “Garment of God” to ward off the fiery darts of the wicked.
God preserves those who are willing to observe and do His Divine Will.
He preserves sinners until the time they are saved.
Preservation has a condition; that they willingly obey God. The
Jews had rebelled (Isa 1:2); after they had been chosen, and by that time, they
had defected, or as it is written in the Greek, “apostasia.”
All the while they rebelled and did whatever they wanted to
do, they thought themselves as God’s chosen, but God revealed to Isaiah that
the Jews were all but forsaken; not because of Him but because they had
rebelled!
The same exists in the world today for God’s other favored
people — Christians. All the while naïve people think they are as good as in
Paradise already; that they are saved, they continue to live in rebellion. It
is true that Christians are indeed preserved in safety, but they must be
willing to obey.
The Commandments are not mandates per se, but things
that God’s people, Jews or Christians, choose to do. They are essentially a
list of things you do not do to honor God, and to honor Him. Honoring is
not work, but merely cognition. It is to reason with God. How is that? If you
honor God, then you should be willing to obey.
Since the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, this is the most
rebellious age ever. The Age of Water in Noah’s time was tame compared to this Aquarian
Age!
Some astronomers do say that the Noahic flood was the dawning
of a previous Age of Aquarius. Without a doubt, something catastrophic and of
great gravity was happening when that great amount of water was sucked out of
the crevasses of the earth. There may have been some great alignment that will
come again in the exact timing of God.
We should not fear astrology; we must fear ourselves. It is
us that determines the signs of the times, not the times that determine us! God
does all things in the world (Greek; Kosmos) for us, even move the stars
around like a giant clock that warns us of much needed change.
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