20150810

BRITISH ISRAEL – National Promises

An in-depth study of passages from the talk, British Israel - 1.01 [For Beginners]. Also referring to Herodotus, the Apocrypha and Josephus
BRITISH ISRAEL – National Promises

Published 20150810 -:- Revised 20251019P
Scripture references are from Modern King James (MKJV) unless noted otherwise.



INTRODUCTION:
I would like to introduce you to the British Israel teaching. This is not a popular subject in most churches today! Over a lot of years this teaching has been misconstrued and maligned by those who vehemently oppose the teaching. Generally, it is branded as a “racist message” and/or “it has nothing to do with the salvation message”. Well that is totally correct! The scriptures clearly show us that one particular race of people ‘Israel’ are being described by God as His special, chosen, servant nation! For example: -
Example: - Psa 135:4  “For Jehovah has chosen Jacob to Himself, and Israel for His peculiar treasure.”


God has a long-term plan for them and from the scriptures it seems God intends to use them regardless of whether they know it or not!!!
And as for salvation, that is an individual issue and comes only by acceptance of Jesus Christ as your personal LORD and savour. So their accusations are correct! British Israel teaching has nothing to do with the salvation message! So I would like to give you the opportunity to search the scriptures with me and make an informed decision.

My AIM 
In this lesson, using scriptures, I hope to show you how to identify and distinguish who “Judah, Israel and Gentile nations” are today.

The REASON
This is important because so many prophecies talk about, “Jacob” or “the House of Israel” and “the House of Judah”, and what will happen to them in the end days, which is now!  So if you can’t identify which countries God is talking about and what role they will play in this day and age NOW, then the prophecies make little or no sense!


REFERENCES & EQUIPMENT ---
MKJ=     Bible references are from the Modern King James Bible unless noted otherwise.
WH=      Classic Time line of World History by Sebastian Adam [based on Ussher’s ‘Annals of the World’] (9m wall chart)
HYY=     History Year by Year (by Dorling Kindersley Ltd)
WP=       Wikipedia
CN=        e-Sword Commentary Notes by “NAME” on Bible Ref “BOOK CH: Vrs” e.g. [ref CN Clark on Dan 7:7].
EN=        Microsoft Encyclopaedia Encarta 2006. with reference word to be used, e.g. [ref EN i.e. Protestantism]
EB=         Encyclopædia Britannica 1999 Edition
UD=        Dated using James Ussher’s dates ‘The Annals of the World’
PCN=      The Post Captivity Names of Israel. By Rev. WH. Pascoe Goard. Covenant Publishing Company Ltd. 1934

REVISION
Joseph went to Egypt, became Pharaohs right-hand man, and had two sons Ephraim and Manasseh. Gen 41:41 - 52
Joseph’s father, Jacob (Israel), blessed Ephraim and Manasseh with his hands crossed. Gen 48: 10 - 20
Israel adopted Ephraim and Manasseh; this gave Joseph a double blessing and created 13 tribes. Gen 48:5 -6

In the Promised Land the Levi tribe received the priesthood and no land entitlement, only cities of refuge scattered throughout all Israel.
So Israel the nation functioned territorially as 12 tribes.

After Solomon the 12 tribes split: -- 10 separated, -2 remained loyal, The Levites went to Judah. 2Ch 13:9
This split was confirmed by God as His plan and purpose. 1 Ki 12:23 - 24
Ten tribes (Northern Kingdom) became known as ISRAEL. 1 Ki 11:30 - 37
Two tribes (Southern Kingdom) became known as Judah. Later referred to as the Jews. 1 Ki 12:21

Israel was captured by the Assyrians and taken away to Media, “where they remain to this day.” 2King17: 23 (ISV)
Judah was captured by the Babylonians and taken to Babylon, SOME returned 70 years later. Dan 9:2
NONE of the (Northern Kingdom) returned. Ezra says only the Jews came back to Jerusalem! Ezra 2:1 

Question: -- is anyone not familiar with that?  Do you want something explained?

…Q & A

Why Do We Believe Something!
Question: … Why do you believe that the world is round?  You’ve never seen it from a space ship? Photos could be faked? You believe because you were taught in school the world is round, so for you that is fact!
THAT IS NATURAL FAITH

Question: … Why do you believe in Jesus Christ? You believe the teaching of the disciples. And because you have faith and believe; then the Holy Spirit becomes a witness to your spirit.
THAT IS CALLED SPIRITUAL FAITH

Question: … Why do you believe in the British Israel teaching? I believe that there are national promises in the Bible, which have to be fulfilled LONG BEFORE the return of Christ. And if they are not, then God is a liar! God is not a liar!! So therefore these promises and prophecies must have been fulfilled by now!
THAT IS FAITH IN THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD

So let’s find out what some of these National Promises say!

NATIONAL PROMISES

The Multitude
Gen 15:3  “And Abram said, Behold, You have given no seed to me…..” Then God promised Abraham that his seed would become a multitude. Abraham was speaking in the natural about his family lineage. God answered Abraham in the natural using the stars and the sand of the sea as an example. [Have you ever been in the desert at night and looked up at the stars? Billions of them; and it’s glorious]
Gen 15:5 “And He brought him outside and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So shall your seed be.” Gen 22:17 “that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore…..” Gen 32:12 “And You said, I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.”

Now I know that Paul said in Gal 3:16 “And to Abraham and to his Seed the promises were spoken. It does not say, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, "And to your Seed," which is Christ.” Keep reading it is meaty stuff through to, Gal 3:29 “And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.” That is the fulfilment of Gen 22:18 “And in your Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,” But Paul is not saying that is at the exclusion of the natural line of Abraham. Because Paul also says in Romans 11:1 (KJV) “I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.” Paul wrote the book of Romans in about 58AD. [ref. e-Sword/Graphics/Timelines. Chart 20. 10BC – 110AD]. So it’s reasonably to say that Paul would have been well aware of the same information that Josephus had about the ‘Lost 10 Tribes’

Israel was taken to “the river Gozan and the cities of the Medes” 2 King 17: 6. Ref. map, [e-Sword/Graphics/Classic/World] you will find Gozan at the top end of the area between the Euphrates and the Tigris Rivers. Josephus was writing at about the time of 70AD and the fall of Jerusalem. He says ALL Israel remained in Media! [e-Sword/Reference Library/Antiquities book 11 chapter 5 verse 2].  “Ezra had received a letter from the King. “so he reads the epistle at Babylon to those Jews that were there; but he kept the epistle itself, and sent a copy of it to all those of his own nation (Judah) that were in Media; and when those Jews had understood what piety that King had towards God, and what kindness he had for Ezra, they were all greatly pleased; nay, many of them took their effects with them, and came to Babylon, as very desirous of going down to Jerusalem; but then the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country; wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers.

Put yourself in the shoes of the people of Israel, at the time of Ezra, when they receive that letter. They have been in Media for 200 years by then. Now think of us here in Australia, imagine this, The Queen in her opening speech for the Commonwealth Games 2006, says,  “ALL descendants of convicts may now return to England”. How would you feel?  We have been out here for 200 years, and most of us would laugh at that declaration. So it’s no wonder that “the whole of Israel remained in Media”. They had been there TOO LONG!

It is obvious from numerous other scriptures that they all knew about the ‘Lost 10 Tribes’, and roughly where they were. They also referred to them as “the dispersed”. Refer James 1:1 “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion, greeting:” Refer John 7:34-35 “Then the Jews said among themselves, Where is he about to go that we shall not find him? Is he about to go to the Dispersion of the Greeks, and to teach the Greeks?” So are the Greeks part of the “Lost TEN Tribes”? 

The Jews considered the Spartans as long lost relatives, “Brethren”. Refer 1 Maccabees 12:6 and Antiquities Book 12 Ch 4 “Jonathan, the high priest, and the ancients … and the rest of the people of the Jews, to the Spartans, their brethren, greeting. v:7  There were letters sent long ago to Onias the high priest, from Arius, who reigned then among you to signify that you are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten doth specify.” Yet the Jews would have nothing to do with the Samaritans, they weren’t related.  So the Jews must have recognized the Spartans as members of the ‘Lost 10 Tribes’. With that thought in mind, reread these passages.

Stephen a ‘GREEK’ said in Act 7:2 “And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham,…” Identifying himself as an Israelite, otherwise he should have said “Your” father Abraham!

Paul identifies the Corinthians as Israel by these physical historical events, saying the Corinthians went through these events also.
KJV 1Co 10:1 “..brethren, I would not ..ye…be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud… vs 2 And were all baptized unto Moses … v:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; .. v:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank..”
KJV 1Co 12:2  Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

Conclusion: -
At the time of Christ there is already an immense multitude of people known as the “Lost 10 Tribes” or “the dispersed” and they have nothing to do with the Jews, and they were not called Jews. And even today the Jews maintain, “They are STILL LOST”!

The “Company of Nations” and The Crossed Hand Blessing. Gen 48: 10 – 20
This was a LONG-term blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh. Joseph’s father, Jacob (Israel), blessed Ephraim and Manasseh with his hands crossed. Joseph tried to correct his father by trying to place Israel’s right hand on the head of the eldest son, Manasseh. Gen 48:19 “And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he is, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.” If we today look to the Jews for the fulfilment of this passage then, Manasseh “A Great Nation” is not created in say just 40 or 50 years. So the Jews of today could not just suddenly become a great nation! And Ephraim alone would become “a multitude of nations”, that would take centuries! 

You have one of three choices regarding this scripture: --
Jacob was old and out of his mind and that passage is meaningless? So you have every right to rip that page out of your bible???
Or Jacob prophesied correctly but God has the right to change his mind? Or God can go back on His Word? I don’t think so!!!
Or Jacob was correct and God has created a multitude of nations and a great nation somewhere in the world TODAY! If so, Who are they?
What’s more there are eight other tribes scattered around the world with them, which make up the immense multitude.


At the time of the carrying away of the ‘Northern Kingdom’, Ephraim was still only ONE tribe among the TEN tribes! We have seen from the above that at the time of Christ, Israel had become an immense multitude of people. But some how between 33AD and now, Ephraim must develop into a separate multitude of nations! That would mean they would have to be noticeably separate of the rest of the Ten Tribes. And all of them together, (Ephraim ‘the multitude of nations’, Manasseh ‘the great nation’ and the rest of the Ten Tribes), would have to be sperate of the Jews of today! As I have said above, even today the Jews maintain, they are still lost!

The phrase ‘Company’ is used in Gen 35:11 “And God said unto him (Israel), I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;” Company is word number H6951 in ‘Strongs’ and it has the following alternative meanings: - congregation, assembly, multitude and companies. Some bible translations use the phrase ‘assembly of nations’ or ‘gatherings of nations’. It’s not to hard to make the link with it probably being the British Commonwealth. Can you think of any other “Company of Nations” as such in the world today?

Seven Times Punishment Warning. Lev 26:14-46
Hands up if you have ever heard of “The SEVEN Times Punishment”? You can find it in Lev. 26: 14-46. When God is saying to the Israelites I put before you life and death, choose ye life etc. God is basically saying in this passage, “the bottom line is” if you walk contrary to me; refuse my correction; continue to break my commandments; etc. etc. Then He will walk contrary to them, He will scatter them among the nations and He will punish them SEVEN times.

Lev 26:18  And if you will not yet listen to Me ..., then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Lev 26:21  ..you walk contrary to Me, and will not listen to Me, I will bring seven times more plagues...
Lev 26:24  then I will walk contrary to you and will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Lev 26:28  then I will walk contrary to you .... And I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

But what is SEVEN times? First lets explained “Prophetic time” for the novice. God describes periods of time in “a prophetic day equals a literal year principal.  Refer to Ezekiel 4:6 and Numbers 14:34. The phrases God uses are: - Time = 360 days, And ‘Times’ in Hebrew plural meaning ‘Twice Time’, Season (3 months) 90 days, Month = 30 days and Week = 7 days. Please refer to my talk entitled: - The Day For A Year Conundrum 
Some examples are; Time - (Dan 7:12 & 25, Dan 12:7. Rev 12:14), Season - (Dan 7:12), Months - (Rev 9:5 & 10, Rev 11:2, Rev 13:5) and DAYS - (Dan 8:14. Dan 12:11 & 12, Rev 11:3, Rev 12:6).

You have all heard of the old favourite, “Time Times and Half a Time” = 3 ½ years = 42 months = 1260 daysThat is NOT a literal 3 ½ years, as many believe, it couldn’t possibly be! If it were then it would come to 1277 literal days?? So Time Times and Half a Time = 1260 prophetic days = 1260 literal years. Just reduce everything to days then call it, as years. So if we double Time Times and Half a Time, that comes to SEVEN TIMES = 2520 literal years. Now that figure is a very useful tool for interpreting major world events in relation to Israel and Judah. If you pick any major event in Israel or Judah’s history you can add 2520 years and you will find some amazing corresponding event! But getting the right start date is the tricky bit.

Jerusalem and the ‘Seven Times’                                                      
Lets Apply the “SEVEN Times” to Jerusalem. Jesus said in Luk 21:24 b (KJV) “..and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.” We know the Gentile kingdoms were represented by a statue, described in Daniel chapter 2. “the head-Gold=Babylon, chest-Silver=Medo Persia, belly-bronze=Greece, legs-iron=Rome, then followed by the feet-iron&clay with TEN toes =Ten Kingdoms of Papal Rome. But that ‘times of the Gentiles’ started when?

In 607 BC Nebuchadnezzar forced Jehoiakim king of Judah into subjection. In 604 Jehoiakim rebelled and Jerusalem lost it’s sovereignty, and came under tribute to Babylon so the ‘being trodden down of the Gentiles’ started I believe in 604 BC.  Just add 2520 years and what do we get, the year 1917. [Or –604 +1 (no year zero) +2520 = 1917]. So according to prophecy that was the year Jerusalem was to be no longer under the control of the Gentile Nations. That was the year General Allenby walked into Jerusalem 11.Dec.1917. Without a shot fired. So at the end of the ‘Seven Times’ Jerusalem came under British control?
That’s a conundrum! WHO then are the British? Are they part of the “Lost 10 Tribes”?

Jews and the ‘Seven Times’
And this one will raise the hair on the back of your neck. In Daniel chap. 3 Nebuchadnezzar built a statue of gold 30 m tall etc. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow down to the statue in worship! Which infuriated King Nebuchadnezzar, so they were chucked into the ‘fiery furnace’. Now those three lads were Jews so lets apply the 2520 years to that event. But when did Nebuchadnezzar build the statue? Using ‘e-Sword’ [ref. CN Gill on Dan. 3:1] “Mr. Whiston said 587 BC, Dr. Prideaux said 587 BC and Mr. Bedford said 585 BC.” To those figures add 2521 and we get the years 1931, 1934 and 1936. What was happening in Germany at that time? Google “Anti-Jewish Legislation In Prewar Germany” Hitler came to power in 1933.

This is a strange coincident of numbers. [WP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution#cite], under ‘Historiographic debate’ you will find, “..Hilberg gives an estimate of 5.1 million as the total number of Jews killed. He breaks this figure down into three categories: Ghettoization and general privation: over 800,000; open-air shootings: over 1,300,000; extermination camps: up to 3,000,000.[26]”. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, 3” lads went into the ‘fiery furnace’, “Seven Times” later 3,000.000. Jews incinerated! WOW!

Jews And Other Dates Of Interest and the ‘Seven Times’
Using James Ussher’s dates in his book, ‘The Annals of the World’ we find that Jews were carried away to Babylon in eight separate deportations. Generally there are only three deportations recognised. Four of the dates, he gives no figures as to how many were carried away to Babylon. I’ll give you Ussher dates, BC[paragraph number/number carried away], so that you can do your own research. Then we can add 2521 years to those dates and see what we get.


From 1914 to 1950 there was a considerable amount of Jewish immigration into the area called Palestine at the time, now known as Israel. Some info you can ‘Google’
1914 saw up to 40,000 Jews migrate to Palestine, fleeing anti-Semitism in Russia
1915 January Herbert Samuel presents s:The Future of Palestine to the British Cabinet
1917- The Balfour Declaration (dated 2 November 1917)
1922 to mid-20s, immigration increased due to anti-Jewish economic legislation in Poland and Washington’s imposition of restrictive quotas
1933 Haavara Agreement [Nazi Germany and Zionist German Jews] signed on 25 August
1935 saw a record number of immigrants
1948 Israel founded

Israel and the ‘Seven Times’
I’ll give you a few to think about. Bear in mind I am taking these prophecies regarding Israel, and then applying them to the British for fulfilment. But if you can find any other group of people that you can apply them to, then I am very interested to hear from you. There are other aspects that I haven’t covered. Such as other historic books which show that the Northern Kingdom did cross the Caucasus Mountains and became known as the Sakai, Scythians, Danaoi, Kumri, Beth Omri to name a few. Refer [PCN]. And it is strange that all the Anglo-Saxon people are called Caucasian simply because their ancestors came from the region of the Caucasus Mountains?

975 BC [UD] Jeroboam took Israel into idolatry 1Ki 12:28 “And the king…made two calves of gold and said…Behold your gods, O, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 975 + 2521= 1546? “In 1547 the 9 year old King Edward VI broke from catholic idolatry. The introduction of ‘the Book of Common Prayer’, made English the language of the English Church” [HYY page 188]

740 BC [UD] 1Ch 5:26 “And the God of Israel stirred up..Pul king of Assyria, and..Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria. And he exiled..the people of Reuben..Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, to this day.” Manasseh is prophesied as ‘The Great Nation’, believed to be America. 740 + 2521 = 1781 America won the war of independence. [HYY]. So America was now free to emerge and rise up to become ‘The Great Nation’ as prophesied.

721 BC [UD] The REST of Israel was carried away into captivity. This would have included Ephraim. 2Ki 17:23 “…Jehovah turned away Israel from His face,…So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria until this day.”  721 +2521 = 1800 [HYY]. By this time we should see Ephraim emerge and take the roll God had planed for her, namely to become as prophesied, a company of nations. In 1801 we saw “The Act of Union”, culminating in the ‘Union Jack’ and the formation of “The British Commonwealth” or “a company of nations”.

You may hear the argument, “But the British Commonwealth is all different countries how can they be the descendents of Israel?” Well remember Ruth and Uriah the Hittite. Ruth was a Moabite and she said to Naomi, refer Ruth 1:16 “…Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.” With that confession, she became an Israelite and hence free of the curse as mentioned in Deuteronomy. Deu_23:3 [GNB] "No Ammonite or Moabite---or any of their descendants, even in the tenth generation---may be included among the LORD's people.” WOW that makes Jesus a descendant of a Moabite! So anyone could join Israel provided they accepted Jehovah and the laws of Israel. So the Commonwealth, ‘a mixed bag’ of nationalities, is all part of, “The House of Israel”, because they all accept the Westminster system of law, which is based on the Ten Commandments. 

Israel To Be Victorious In Battle
The Lord often calls the ‘House of Israel’, Jacob, see the following references: - Isa 2, 8, 9, 10, 14, 17, 27, 29, 40 to 46, 48, 49, 58 – Jer, Lam, Eze, Hos, Mic, Nah, Rom. We know that Israel the Northern Kingdom was completely carried away into captive in 721 BC. In Jeremiah 51 he uses the name Jacob and was writing at the earliest 630 BC, that is 90 years after Israel had gone to Media, “where they remain to this day.” 2Ki 17:23. So who on earth is Jeremiah talking about in this passage below? And it cannot be the Jews!

Jer 51:19 “The Portion of Jacob is not like them; for He is the Former of all things, and Israel is the rod of His inheritance. Jehovah of Hosts is His name. v:20 You are My war-club and weapons of war; for with you I will shatter nations; and with you I will destroy kingdoms. v:21 And with you I will shatter the horse and his rider; and with you I will shatter the chariot and his rider. v:22 Also with you I will shatter man and woman; and with you I will shatter old and young; and with you I will shatter the young man and the girl. v:23 I will also shatter the shepherd and his flock with you. And with you I will shatter the farmer and his team; and with you I will shatter heads and rulers.”

So God in this passage is clearly talking about using Jacob. (Israel) to destroy any unrighteous kingdoms of the world as He sees fit. One could not look at the Jews throughout the world, past or precent, and expect to see this prophecy being fulfilled through them. For one, they are not Jacob! And secondly, The Jews have been scattered around the world since 70AD, and have not been an independent nation until 1948. So somewhere throughout the world there must be a considerably powerful nation and/or a group of nations, which have been doing God’s corrective work amongst the other nations of the world. And apparently they have no idea that they are doing God’s cleaning up of the nations. Who could possibly fit the bill?

If we look to the Anglo-Saxon people as being the fulfilment of Jeremiah 51 you will find they have been fighting oppression for centuries. For example the Spanish and the Armada, the French, the Russians in the Crimean War and the list goes on.

Israel Will Possess The Gates Of His Enemies.
Refer Gen 22:17 “… And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.” What are the “gates”? If you control the city gates, then people cannot get in or out of the city. Well your world enemies are not just in one city, they are in a particular region of the world. So what are ‘THE GATES’ that would restrict any nation from moving around the world? Consider the following: -The Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, The Straights of Gibraltar and the North Sea entrance to the Baltic. You could even look at Hawaii as the centre of control for the whole of the Pacific. And what group of people have held the strategic control of those “gates’ in time of war? Those ‘Gates’ were held by the Commonwealth and the USA.     

A New Land To Live In
There are numerous scriptures that indicate that God will move Israel (His dispersed) to some new location. Often these passages also indicate a reference to being in a safer situation. When David planed to build the temple, this is what God told Nathan to say to David. First, imagine you are David. You are King of ALL Israel! You have been in The Promised Land for hundreds of years! You have No Enemies! And you exact Tribute from All Nations around you! Then God tells you this, 2Sa 7:10 “And I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more. Neither shall the sons of wickedness afflict them any more, as before. v:11 And even from the time that I commanded judges to be over My people of Israel, so will I cause you to rest from all your enemies. …..” That’s really an unexpected answer from God! You would feel like asking God, “What do you mean we are moving house!”

God is clearly telling David He will move Israel to a new location, they will never come back Israel, “move no more”, and they won't have problems with invasion from neighbours as before. Well what countries can you think of that have never been successfully invaded by an enemy army? Let's look at our favourite list: - Britan, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand etc. They are all members of that group of people we believe are, “The Company of Nations” and “The Great Nation”.

Take this passage in Deu 33:28 “And Israel shall dwell in safety alone; the fountain of Jacob in a land of grain and wine; and his heavens shall drop down dew.” One might say that was talking about them just before they went into the Promised Land. But once they were in the Promised Land they were often attacked and were never alone. The Lord left people amongst them. Jdg 2:1 - 4 “…but they shall be thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.” So was Deu 33:28 A LIE! Or was it still yet to be fulfilled?

Ezekiel wrote this 130 years after the whole of Israel went into captivity. Eze 34:27 “And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. And they shall be safe in their land, and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hands of those who enslaved them. v:28 And no more shall they be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beast of the land eat them. But they shall dwell safely, and none shall terrify them. v:29 And I will raise up for them a noted planting place, and they shall never again be of those gathered by famine in the land, nor shall they bear the shame of the nations any more. v:30 And they shall know that I, Jehovah their God, am with them, and they, the house of Israel, are My people, says the Lord Jehovah.” Figure that out! At that time Israel is still captive in the land of Media.

The phrase “broken the bands of their yoke”, could refer to these following occasions. When Israel was no longer under slavery to the Assyrians and escaped north across the Caucasus Mountains, refer to 2nd Esdrass 13: 40-46. And Isa 48:20 “Go out of Babylon; flee from the Chaldeans. Tell it with a voice of singing, …etc.” and in Herodotus Book 4 Melpomene 9, “The Scythian Nomads of Asia, having been harassed by the Massagetae in war, passed the Araxes and settled in Cimmeria.” Herodotus described the land as “externally lush”. Or it could refer to when the Seven Times punishment finished. That would be when America, (Manasseh), gained its independent and expanded to the west. And shortly after, the British (Ephraim), expanded into Canada and the colonies. 

This one is very interesting. When the prophets spoke to a nation, it was often in a sense that he would turn to face the direction of that nation, and then speak out his prophecy to that nation. KJV Zep 3:10 “From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.” There’s that key phrase ‘my dispersed’ referring to the Lost 10 Tribes. Now if you were Zephaniah standing in Jerusalem, speaking out this passage southward beyond Ethiopia, what area is the Lord talking about? It would put you in Kenya, but keep going south and you cover the following nations. Uganda, Rwanda *, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe *, Mozambique and South Africa. Click the Hyperlink on each of them and what do we get? They are all members of the Commonwealth Games Federation. The British and the Dutch colonized most of them and now they are all independent members of the Commonwealth. The Anglo-Saxon content in those nations in minuscule, but remember this prayer of Solomon. 1Ki 8:41 “And concerning a stranger who is not of Your people Israel…v8:42…if he shall come and pray…v:43  hear in Heaven …and do …all that the stranger calls ..for, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name,…” Most of these nations have accepted the laws of The Commonwealth, i.e. ‘the Laws of Israel’. The term ‘Commonwealth’ means they are all equal members.

They are all members of the “Company of Nations”. Gen 35:11 “And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;” Those three underlined phrases cannot be achieved overnight, they need physical fulfilment in a BIG way long before Christ returns. Can you now see the glorious national message to Abraham? We all know that an individual can come into a relationship with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. But now can you see that an entire nation can come into a covenant relationship with God by accepting God’s Laws. The ‘TEN Commandments’, upon which is based the Magni Carta and English Common Law. These days we broadly call it Democracy. Keep that in mind and read this passage, Mat 25:32 to 46 “And all nations shall be gathered before Him. And He shall separate them (the nations) from one another, as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats.” Remember God is separating the nations, but on what bases? It would have to be on the bases of righteous government. So how would righteous government exist in a nation unless it has accepted God’s Laws?  

David’s Throne And Family Line
As above “kings shall come out of thy loins”. This is a full study in itself and it is ‘sort of separate’ of the National promises, which I have tried to focus on in this talk. I will cover the subject, “David’s continuous family line on the throne”, in another talk.

Summing up
Another common argument against British Israel teaching is, “They cannot possibly be Israel, they are far from perfect!” Well, they are not perfect and in all the passages above there seems to be no indication that God says that Israel is a “shining example to the world”. In fact, if you read Jeremiah 3:11 to 25 you will find a common theme is God is saying “v:12 ...Return, O backsliding Israel, says Jehovah; and I will not cause My anger to fall on you; for I am merciful, says Jehovah, and I will not keep anger forever. v:13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have sinned against Jehovah your God”. The history books will show that the Anglo-Saxon people have fought amongst themselves, had corrupt leaders and far from ideal politics. Yet when disaster seems to loom up on the horizon they have turned to the Lord and He steps in and saves the day. And just like Israel of old we backslide again.  


Conclusion
Remember I talked about identifying the biblical names, Judah, Israel and Gentiles, in relation to modern day nations today.
As you can see ‘Judah’ today is the Jews through the world, including the people we referred to as modern day Israel.
And ‘Israel’ consists of Manasseh, The Great Nation = USA, and Ephraim, A Company of Nations = The British Commonwealth.
Then the rest of ‘Israel’, I believe are the Scandinavians scattered through northern Europe, being of the same ethnic group, that is they are “Caucasians”.
Gentiles are therefore, any Nation not in the above: - some Europeans, African, Asian, etc.

Isa 8:17 “And I will wait on Jehovah, who hides His face from the house of Jacob;” I believe God has hidden any means by which we could physically trace the history of ‘The House of Israel’. So like I said at the start, it takes faith in the written word of God to believe that the prophecies about Israel must have been fulfilled through out history by the Anglo – Saxon people.

Hope you have enjoyed the night,

Yours Adrian Deacon.

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20150803

The LIES In The Bible

I ask you questions with simple yes or no answers. You will most often answer No. IF your answer is NO thensome scriptures are just lies??

The LIES In The Bible

Published 20150803 -:- Revised 20251014P

NB: I am dyslexic so please bear with me. Bible references are from MKJV unless noted otherwise.



Lies in the Bible? Come now.. That statement would shock any true believer. But the Word of God is packed full of prophecies and promises from God which the church has totally ignored. I would go as far as to say that some church leaders even try to cover them up, and refuse to even discuss them? They put them in the ‘TO HARD BASKET’, and why? Maybe because their seminar teaching didn’t cover those scriptures, so why should they need to look into those passages of scripture? Or “Because it has nothing to do with the ‘Salvation’ message!” That’s another common answer. In most cases that’s quite true, these prophecies below have nothing to do with the salvation message.

So why are they there? Because God wants us to know that HE KEEPS HIS WORD!

People have often “spiritualised” these prophecies and try to apply them to Christ. You would often get the answer, “the prophecies have been fulfilled in the heavenly realm”. Yet when you study the prophecies you will find they are clearly to be fulfilled in the natural realm.
Take for example prophecies regarding David’s throne. You may often hear the answer “but Christ is King on the throne now!” Well yes Christ sits at the right hand of the Father on God’s throne now, BUT David never sat there! So Christ is still waiting for the fulfilment of the scripture in Luke 1:32  “….And the Lord God shall give Him the throne of His father David.”

Or some people take prophecies, which are talking about Israel in the ‘Later Days’, and try to apply them to the Jews of today, (modern day Israel). By doing that we horribly diminish the magnificent global size of what God said He would achieve with his chosen people.

Lets Begin These ‘TRUE or FALSE’ Questions
Purely on the basis of what the church generally teaches, try answering the following simple questions. In most cases I am sure you will answer ‘NO’. But bear in mind if ‘NO’ is the correct answer then the Bible has some strange anomalies, which could only be construed as what!  LIES? Lets try some questions and if you answered NO to the Questions below; then read the ‘LIES’ from GODS WORD!

DAVID
Question : Does David have a literal descendant still sitting on David’s literal throne today?         ……       …[ Y ] or [ N ]

LIE (1)
2Sa 7:12 "And when your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall come out of your bowels. And I will make his kingdom sure. v:13 He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom FOREVER. v:14 I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men. v:15 But My mercy shall not leave him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you. v:16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure FOREVER before you. Your throne shall be established FOREVER."

….. NB: Verse 14, “If he commits iniquity”, This passage CAN NOT refer to Christ!

LIE (2)
1Ch 17:10 "and since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. And I declare to you that Jehovah will build you a house. v:11 And it will be, when your days have ended so that you must go to be with your fathers, I will raise up your seed after you, who shall be from your sons. And I will make his kingdom sure. v:12 He shall build Me a house, and I will establish his throne FOREVER. v:13 I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. And I will not take My mercy away from him as I took it from him who was before you. v:14 And I will settle him in My house, and in My kingdom FOREVER. And his throne shall be established FOREVER.

Question : Does David’s throne rule over the house of Israel today?       ……       ……       ……       ……       …[ Y ] or [ N ]

LIE (3)
Jer 33:17  For so says Jehovah, David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel, v:18  nor shall the priests the Levites lack a man before Me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle grain offerings, and to do sacrifice FOREVER. v:19  And the Word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, v:20  So says Jehovah: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season, v:21  then also may My covenant with David My servant be broken, that he should not have a son to reign on his throne, and My covenant with the Levites the priests, My ministers. v:22 As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.

LIE (4)
Jer 33:25  So says Jehovah: If My covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not given the ordinances of the heavens and the earth, v:26  then I will cast away the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will bring back their captivity, and have mercy on them.

ISRAEL
Question: Does the Bible say that Israel will NEVER come back to the PALESTINE area?….  ....    ....     .…[ Y ] or [ N ]

Question: Has Israel lived free from major persecution since being cast out of the region of PALESTINE? …[ Y ] or [ N ]

LIE (5)
2Sa 7:10 And I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them so that they may dwell in A PLACE OF THEIR OWNand MOVE NO MORE. Neither shall the sons of wickedness afflict them any more, as before.

In this passage God is saying He will appoint, or “Pick a NEW” place to put Israel, and then they will not move from there? 

LIE (6)
1Ch 17:9  And I will set a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall live in their place and shall be moved no more; nor shall the sons of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning, v:10  and since the time that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. And I declare to you that Jehovah will build you a house.


These passages make you think don’t they! They CANNOT Be Lies! They must therefore be fulfilled now in the natural, (real time NOW), and would have to have been on going for centuries. If you are interested I have a lot more for you…stay tuned!

GBY (God Bless Ya!)
Yours Adrian Deacon

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20150623

British Israel 1.01 --- [For Beginners]

There must be a large body of people in the world who are NOT Jews! Yet they fulfil all prophesies for the later day House of Israel -WHO??

British Israel 1.01 --- [For Beginners]

Published 20230615 -:- Revised 20251014P

NB: I am dyslexic so please bear with me. Bible references are from MKJV unless noted otherwise.


What is ‘British Israel’? It is a teaching that believes the British Commonwealth and the U.S.A. are foretold in scripture. They DO NOT replace the Jews! They are NOT automatically ‘saved’ but they are God’s “peculiar people” as in Exo 19:5; Deu 14:2; Deu 26:18 and Psa 135:4. 


To understand British Israel we need to understand the 12 tribes and what happened to them. Firstly we know in Gen 32:28 God renamed Jacob to ‘Israel’. He had 12 sons who became the fathers of the 12 Tribes of Israel, or ‘The Children of Israel’. One of Israel’s sons, Joseph went to Egypt; he became Pharaohs right-hand man, and he had two sons Ephraim and Manasseh. Israel later ‘especially blessed’ these two boys.

The KEY Scripture For Identification
I believe the Key scripture for British Israel is in Gen 48 verses 10 to 20. Joseph’s father, Jacob (Israel), blessed Ephraim and Manasseh with his hands crossed. Joseph tried to correct his father by trying to place Israel’s right hand on the head of the eldest son, Manasseh. Gen 48:19 “And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he is, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.” So Israel adopted Ephraim and Manasseh; this gave Joseph a double blessing and created 13 tribes. In the Promised Land the tribe of Levi received the priesthood and no land entitlement, only cities of refuge scattered throughout all Israel. So Israel the nation functioned territorially as 12 tribes. As far as the ‘Crossed hand Blessing’ goes to this point, Ephraim is still only ONE tribe among the 13 tribes? And not “a multitude of nations” as yet.

The SPLIT
After King Solomon the 12 tribes split up, 10 tribes consisting of Ephraim, Manasseh and others separated from the royal line of David. The 2 tribes Judah and Benjamin remained loyal. The Levites were kicked out of Israel 2Ch 13:9. NB: This split was confirmed by God as His plan and purpose 1 Ki 12:24.
The Ten tribes, (the Northern Kingdom), became known as ISRAEL or ‘The house of Israel’ (believed to be the ancestors of the British etc.).
The Two tribes, with the Levites, (the Southern Kingdom), became known as Judah or ‘The house of Judah’. Later they were called ‘Jews’!
Israel was captured by the Assyrians and taken away to Media, “where they remain to this day.” 2King17:23. Now called the lost 10 tribes. 
Judah was captured by the Babylonians and taken to Babylon; some returned 70 years later. They were the only three tribes to return!
NONE of ‘The house of Israel’ returned. Ezra 2:1 clearly says only the Jews came back “unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city.”
As for the ‘Crossed hand Blessing’ Ephraim is still only ONE tribe among the 10 tribes of the Northern Kingdom? And now they’re LOST!

What Happened to the Northern Kingdom?
They were taken captive to “the cities of the Medes” 2Ki 17:6 & :23  2Ki 18:11, in the year 723BC. Eight hundred years later in 70AD. Josephus was writing at about the time of Christ and also during the fall of Jerusalem. He says ALL Israel remained in Media!
[Refer Antiquities book 11 chapter 5 verse 2].  “Ezra had received a letter from the King. “so he reads the epistle at Babylon to those Jews that were there; but he kept the epistle itself, and sent a copy of it to all those of his own nation (Judah) that were in Media; and when those Jews had understood what piety that King had towards God, and what kindness he had for Ezra, they were all greatly pleased; nay, many of them took their effects with them, and came to Babylon, as very desirous of going down to Jerusalem; but then the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country; wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers.

Only 800 years later and Israel has increased immensely. They are clearly not included as part of the Jews of the world at that time. They are still not part of the Jews of today! Even the Jews today, 2000 years later, as part of their weekly set prayers, pray, “Lord restore unto us the lost ten tribes”. That “immense multitude” must have still continued to increase in population. If you go to any history book that shows the migrations of peoples across Europe over the past 2000 years you can see that it was always in a westerly direction. Have the ten tribes disappeared off the face of the planet? If so, then what about the ‘Crossed hand blessing’ in Genisus chapter 48? You have one of three choices: --
Jacob was old and therefore quite out of his mind and that passage is meaningless? So, you have every right to rip that page out of your bible?
Or Jacob prophesied correctly but God has the right to change his mind? (Or go back on his word) DUR I don’t think so!!!
Or Jacob was correct and God has created a company of nations and a great nation somewhere in the world NOW TODAY! If so, Who?

Elimination
Using the bible prophecies about “Israel” or “The House Israel” as our reference, let’s highlight the activities of the ‘Ten tribes’ leading up to the ‘later days’. The Jews past or present are not part of the 10 tribes, they are Judah. If you are looking for prophesies for the Jews, look for the word “Judah”. God separated the two groups and calls the 10 Tribes ‘Israel’! So, for the ‘Ten Tribes’ we must use the words “Israel, House of Israel, Jacob or in some prophecies Ephraim".

Israel is ignorant of her special relationship to God, Isa 42:19, Eze 39:28 - 29, “Neither will I hide my face any more from them”

Israel will not be in the Jerusalem area, yet safe from her enemies. 2Sa 7:10 “…I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more. Neither shall the sons of wickedness afflict them any more,”

Israel was to spread abroad in this order, west, east, north then south. Gen 28:14 “west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south;..”

God will use Israel to destroy unrighteous kingdoms and world powers. Jer 51:20 - 24 “Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: etc..”

Israel to become a Commonwealth’ of nation. Gen 48:19 “…and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.” The Jews never did that!


Numerous scriptures give insight into the characteristics of Israel in the ‘later days’. Somewhere in the world now there MUST be a nation that fits these prophecies, so who? You can choose any country you like; but may I suggest the British Commonwealth and America. Consider: -

If they are Israel, they are ignorant of it! They are virtually  
uninvadable

Britain expanded west to America, east to India, north to Canada then south to Africa and Australia. God has blessed them in war. America has become a great nation, and Britain a Commonwealth of nation.

I leave those thoughts with you; if you can fit those scriptures to any other nations in the world, I am very interested to hear from you.

You might be interested in some of my other talks: -



This is a more in-depth study of some of the passages referred to above. In this talk I do refer to some non-biblical writings, such as Herodotus, the Apocrypha and Josephus.
 
This talk gives you a list of seven reference books to which you can refer and perhaps find online. The bulk of this talk comes from the booklet, “The Marks of Israel - The Only True Test of Identity – by Henry D. Houghton – Published by the Author – Nottingham, Edition 1933”. Using scripture, it gives you the reader 72 unconditional promises to Israel to consider. 

GBY (God Bless Ya!)
Yours Adrian



20150622

Rebuilding The Temple Of Jerusalem?

The simple question would God want the temple in Jerusalem rebuilt? EVEN if it was built by the Antichrist Or the Jews for BLOOD sacrifice?

Rebuilding The Temple Of Jerusalem?


Published 20150622 -:- Revised 20251014P

NB: I am dyslexic so please bear with me. Bible references are from MKJV unless noted otherwise.


Will the temple in Jerusalem ever be rebuilt? A very volatile question in this day and age. I don’t believe it will be rebuilt before Christ returns and I’ll tell you why. Lets go through how the temple came into being, what was its purpose and how and why was it destroyed.


The Tabernacle
If we go back to Exodus, Moses was given the following instruction from God. Exo 25:8 “And let them make Me a sanctuary, so that I may dwell among them. v:9  According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments of it, even so you shall make it.” The next six chapters are all about what to make, with what materials and the protocols required. Then refer also to Heb 8:5  “who serve the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was warned of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. For, He says "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mountain."”

God is an invisible God. Remember Moses in Exo 33 asked to see God’s glory and God said in vs.20 “…You cannot see My face. For there no man can see Me and live.” God knows the heart and nature of man; He made us to function by our five senses. But mankind has always been of the attitude we should be able to see the ‘god or gods' they worship. Hence there are so many religions that need a statue or an image as part of their worship. As soon as the children of Israel were out of Egypt, and although they had seen all those miracles, they still got Aaron to making a golden calf! Something that they could see and show all the other nations; this is our god! Exo 32:4 “..And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
Well Moses ‘spat the dummy’ and broke the stone tables. So God said ‘you broke em, you make a new set, and I’ll write on those ones’ Exo 34:1.

Eventually the Tabernacle was built and it became the place of worship and offering to the Lord. It was also the visual location where God would meet with His people, and it was mobile. Some examples are: -
Num 12:5  “…Jehovah came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam…”
Jos_19:51 “…the sons of Israel divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Jehovah, at the door of the tabernacle…”

What Have We Found
1 – God asked for the Tabernacle to be built because He WANTED TO DWELL AMONG HIS PEOPLE.
2 – Moses was probably caught up in the spirit, (as was John in Rev), and shown a Tabernacle in heaven to copy in order to make the earthly Tabernacle.
3 – Moses was give DETAILED instruction as to the duties, procedures and requirements of the priesthood.
4 – The Tabernacle could be packed up and moved. so worshiping God had no fixed location.

Why Was The Temple Built?
I think David was the first to decide to build a temple to the Lord, without even asking God. It was as though he was bored, with no one to conquer and nothing left to do. Go to 2 Samuel chapter 7 and the parallel in 1 Chronicles chapter 17
2Sa 7:1 “And it happened when the king dwelt in his house, and when Jehovah had given him rest round about from all his enemies, v:2 the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains. v:3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart, for Jehovah is with you. v:4 And that night the Word of Jehovah came to Nathan saying,…”

God said some amazing things, that passage is loaded with prophecy and suggested double fulfilment. Lets just pick the highlights..
‘Abbreviated’ verse 7 ‘Did I ever ask any one to build me a temple?’….. v 9 ‘I have raised you to be a great leader over Israel’….
v10 ‘Israel will move to another place and never return’  (KJV “that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more”)
vs 12 n 13 ‘Your son will build my house and I, (God) will establish his kingdom and his lineage will last for ever’.
Verse 2Sa 7:14 “I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: v15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul,…..”

In these verses 12 to 16 many read this to be talking about Christ’s kingdom will last forever and father son etc. Well it is a ‘type and shadow’. But God says ‘If he commit iniquity’; so here God is clearly talking about David’s kingdom and lineage will last forever. If you have any doubt read the rest of the chapter to see how David responds in praise to God, David clearly understood it to mean his lineage. But as they say in the classics “that’s another story!” I can cover that with you another time.

In any case David’s son Solomon built the first Temple, he obviously got it all right cause God was very happy with it. Read.. 
1Ki_8:63 “...Solomon offered a sacrifice…22,000 oxen, and 120,000 sheep. So, the king and…Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.”                          
2Ch 7:1 “And when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from Heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices. And the glory of Jehovah filled the house. v:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of Jehovah because the glory of Jehovah had filled Jehovah's house.” That is a lot of livestock that went up in a ‘flash’ I hope when I get to heaven I can see it on DVD!

What More Have We Found
5 – The Temple replaced the Tabernacle, so now the place of worship had a FIX LOCATION.
6 – There was NO CHANGE to the sacrifices and procedures. And the Levites didn’t need to transport the Tabernacle. 1Ch_23:26

[ PS: ‘a funny’… After Solomon built the Temple, what did he do with the Tabernacle? ….. He rent it.... Ha Ha Ha]

The Temple Destruction
The Babylonians destroyed the Temple. Jer_25:9 “…says Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant …” and
The land left desolate. 2Ch_36:21 “to fulfill the Word of Jehovah in the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths...”
Then after the SEVENTY YEARS EXILE in Babylon the Temple was rebuilt under Ezra, then later added to by Herod.

Christ And The Temple
God laid out His BIG PLAN in Daniel chapter 9, for the rebuilding of the Temple and ushering in the Messiah. Lets have a read…
Dan 9:24 “Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. v:25  Know therefore and understand, that from the going out of the command to restore and to build Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction. v:26  And after sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself.”

The 70 weeks explained for the novas. God describes periods of time in a “prophetic day equals literal year” principal.  Refer to Ezekiel 4:6 and Numbers 14:34. The phrases God uses are: - Time = 360 days, Season (3 months) 90 days, Month = 30 days and Week = 7 days.
So 70 weeks = 70 x 7 days = 490 days = 490 literal year. Some examples are; Time - (Dan 7:12 & 25, Dan 12:7. Rev 12:14), Season - (Dan 7:12), Months - (Rev 9:5 & 10, Rev 11:2, Rev 13:5) and DAYS - (Dan 8:14. Dan 12:11 & 12, Rev 11:3, Rev 12:6) 
And the old favourite. “Time, Times and half a Time”. Well the word ‘Times’ plural is Hebrew for ‘Twice Time’.
So it comes to, 360 +360 +360 +180 = 1260 days = 1260 literal years. Just reduce everything to days then call it as years.

Back to the prophecy, it is divided into 7 weeks, the rebuilding of the Temple. Then (threescore and two), 62 weeks, a total of 69 weeks. Then the last week which is “tricky”. In any case after the 69 weeks “Messiah shall be cut off”. There are various schools of thought. Some say that the, (last), seventieth week is for some reason transported off to the future. Some say it started with the beginning of Christ’s ministry, so that verse 27 refers to Christ.  Dan 9:27 KJV “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,” That also makes senses if you link it to the previous verse 24 which talks about all the things that Christ achieved. So that when Christ died on the cross, in the midst of the week, He put an end to sacrifice etc.

If you would like to look at some commentaries on verse 24, download the FREE Bible “e-Sword” along with the following commentary notes such as, ‘John Gill’s Exposition’, ‘Matthew Henry’s Commentary’ and then the ‘Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary’.
[If you don’t have “e-Sword” on your PC or phone it is well worth getting. There are so many other notes charts and books that come with it.] So Christ finished transgression, put an end of sins, made reconciliation for iniquity, brought in everlasting righteousness, He was the fulfilment of prophecy, and He was anoint the Most Holy. Remember when Jesus first appeared on the stage of Gods big plan, John the Baptist identified him as, “the lamb of God”. So Jesus was the sin offering for the redemption of all mankind.

And in Jesus Sermon on the Mount, “Blessed are” this that etc. go to verse 17 in Matthew. Mat 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to destroy but to fulfill. v:18  For truly I say to you, Till the heaven and the earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in any way pass from the Law until all is fulfilled.” Well what did He do to fulfil the LAW?
Heb 9:11 KJV “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; v:12  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the Holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” I believe Jesus entered the Holy Place in heaven, which was presumably the Tabernacle that Moses sore.

 “IT IS FINISHED!” So the moment Christ died, “the job was done” and God Himself confirmed it by tearing the curtain from top to bottom. It was the curtain that separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place. Only the High Priest could enter the Most Holy Place once a year to fulfil the requirements for the atonement of the nation. God was saying the Temple itself was no longer required. Christ as High Priest put an end to the requirements ONCE and for all. Most important anyone could now enter God’s presence through Christ.
Heb 4:16 “Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”

What More Have We Found
7 – After Christ the earthly Temple was no longer required
8 – After Christ the High Priest duty was no longer required

After Christ and The Purpose of The Temple
The Temple: Where should worship take place? Remember the incident with Jesus and the woman at the well. John 4:21 “Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither worship the Father in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem. v:22  You worship what you do not know, we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. v:23  But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him.”

The Ark of the Covenant: There is a very interesting prophecy in Jeremiah chapter 3 verses 6 to 16. God is comparing the two nations Israel and Judah. He gave Israel a bill of divorce. But Judah became so wicked, Jer 3:10 “And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart…” So God turns to Israel to ‘woo’ her back again. Remember this prophecy is in Jeremiah’s distant future. Now the Jews even today, believe that they are the descendants of Judah. Also they believe that Israel, (The Lost Ten Tribes), are still lost amongst the Nations. But in any case when we get to verse 16, God is saying this to Israel in the DISTANT future, (and NOT the JEWS). Jer 3:16 “And it will be when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, says Jehovah, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Jehovah! Nor shall it come to mind; nor shall they remember it; nor shall they visit it; nor shall it be made any more.”

The LAW and The New Covenant
Jer 31:31 "Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, (so it is to BOTH Houses), :32 not according to the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of Mine they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah; :33 but this shall be the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel: (ONLY The House of Israel is mentioned?)  After those days, says Jehovah, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. :34 And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Jehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more." That is speaking of the NEW covenant through Christ.


What More Have We Found
 9  – So, the location of worship is no longer of any importance.
10 – The Ark of the Covenant is no longer required in the future.
11 – The LAW will be in our heart and be a constant witness to us as to right and wrong!

Can we see where all this is now leading us?

The Temple of Today
Paul is a master at using analogies, and one topic he used was the Temple. He shows that our bodies are a temple to God, he did this in oder to show the need for spiritual cleanliness. Some examples: 
1Co 3:16 “Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
1Co 3:17 “If anyone defiles the temple of God, God shall destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.”
1Co 6:19 “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, whom you have of God? And you are not your own,”
1Co 9:13 “those who minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And those attending the altar are partakers with the altar.”
2Co 6:16 “And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said,"
Eph 2:21 “In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:”

Then Peter takes it one step further to show that we all together as one body form individual parts of the Temple of God. And Christ showed John many years later, in Rev 3:12 an example that each of us forms part of the ‘Temple of My God’.
1Pe 2:5 “you also as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” Rev 3:12  “Him who overcomes I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will go out no more. And I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven ….”

Question
If we are as individually or corporately the Temple of God then what about the reasoning behind why God wanted the Tabernacle built?
From our notes above, Point 1 – God asked for the Tabernacle to be built because He WANTED TO DWELL AMONG HIS PEOPLE.
These passages below all show that God was dwelling in Christ and then after Pentecost He will dwell in each of us.

Joh 14:10 “I am in the Father and the Father in Me?…I do not speak of Myself, but the Father who dwells in Me, He does the works.”
Joh 14:17 “the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive ... But you know Him, for He dwells with you and shall be in you.”
Rom 8:9 “But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you………”
Rom 8:11 “….the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.”
1Co 3:16 “Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
2Ti 1:14 “Guard the good Deposit given through the Holy Spirit indwelling in us.”
Jas 4:5 “Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns to envy?”

The Temple of the Future
There is often talk about rebuilding the Temple at Jerusalem. I have heard that the Temple already exists in a prefabricated form, and the Jews are just waiting for the chance to go ahead with assembling it on site. But that could be just rumors getting out of hand. There are also a lot of Christians who firmly believe that the Temple will be rebuilding, and very soon. To understand this, we need to go back to the basics of what people believe about the book of Revelation and the coming end times. My guess is about 90% of Christians these days believe the Futurist interpretation. Within that doctrine or interpretation there are now about two or three versions of it, and it's about as hard to understand as, “WHOs On First”. For example, Post Tribulation and Pre Tribulation, in other word does the church go through the Tribulation or not etc. etc.

We cannot deny that one of the best and earliest writers on the subject was Francisco Ribera (1537-1591). Three other gentlemen followed him with similar works, but Ribera produced a 500-page thesis on the subject, and his work was incorporated in the Vulgate Bible as commentary notes. So, his work was held in high esteem. Ribera claimed the letters to the churches were applicable to the pagan Roman age. The rest of the book of Revelation was to be fulfilled in the future in a literal 3 ½ years. You can ‘Google’ and Wikipedia his work along with the works of Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, Michael Walpole and Manuel De Lacunza who wrote under the pen name of Juan Josafa [Rabbi] Ben-Ezra. The basic teaching is that the Antichrist will rise up in that future 3 ½ years.

Just for the sake of argument lets assume the Futurist Teaching is correct! The key scripture that backs up the idea of a future temple is; 2Th 2:3 “Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, v:4  who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.” Obviously, the Temple would have to be rebuilt, so that the ‘man of sin’, (the Antichrist), would move in, take it over as his Temple and so on. But with all the scriptures we have looked at above, regarding the purpose for the Temple etc. something just does not make sense with that assumption. I have some questions.

1: - Would God want the Temple rebuilt and if so WHY? What purpose would it serve?

2: - Who is going to rebuild the Temple? The Jews or the Antichrist?
For argument's sake let's say the Jews rebuild the Temple!

The Jews (no offence meant), they despise Christ! He was and still is in their eyes an illegitimate blaspheming liar. That’s why they took Christ to Pilate to have Him killed, refer to the scriptures Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23 and John 18. It is assumed they wish to rebuild the Temple, because they wish to start up blood sacrifice again. In recent years the Jews have acquired some "Red heifers"! So, they clearly want to start blood sacrifice again!  

The Futurist teaching claims that the Jews will eventually start blood sacrifice and offerings in that "new" rebuilt temple! Then the Futurist interpret Dan 9:27; "He", as being the Antichrist and He does the following. Dan 9:27 KJV “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, …” So, for the Antichrist to stop sacrifice and the oblation it infers that the Temple must therefore have been rebuilt by the Jews for that purpose.

For argument's sake let's say The Antichrist rebuild the Temple?
That's worse still! What if The Antichrist does rebuild the Temple? Now that opens a can of worms. You're assuming that if the Antichrist builds the Temple that God would refer to it in HIS scriptures as “the temple of God”. That is a ridiculous interpretation! You would be saying that God is thrilled the Antichrist rebuilt the Temple? So that God would state in His scriptures that the building the Antichrist put together would be called "The temple of God" 

3: - What would God say if Jews, Christians, Muslims or Antichrist, rebuilt the Temple and restarted sacrifice and the oblation? They are blatantly denying Christ and His sacrifice once and for all! Would God call it His Temple? As in 2Th 2 above, where God calls it “the temple of God”. I don’t think so.

A Simple answer is this:-  Could not that scripture, 2Th 2 “the temple of God” be referring to the body of Christ, as being the church and not a future temple? So that the Antichrist stands up within the "body of Christ", that is within the Church of today and says he is God! And he should be worshipped! Who do you know in the Christian world today that has that claim? He does exist TODAY, and he still claims that privilege! 

Lets ask that question again "Will the Temple be Rebuilt? ... what do you think?

Well thanks for your time, hope that has given you food for thought.

Until next time GBY, (God Bless Ya!)

Yours Adrian Deacon

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