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Copyright © 2014 by Homer Kizer

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Afterword

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In 2010 writings, I laid out the timeline for events in the Affliction and Kingdom and Endurance in Jesus (from Revelation 1:9) that constitute the seven endtime years of tribulation. This timeline chronologically has the 1260 day long Affliction during which the two witnesses conduct their ministry to be followed by the double day 1260 when dominion over the kingdom of this world is taken from the Adversary and his angels and given to the Son of Man, with day 1260 of the Affliction being the last day when the Adversary will be the prince of the world, the prince of the power of the air, and with day 1260 of the Endurance (counted in the opposition direction so that the Affliction will be the time-linked shadow and copy of the Endurance) being the first day the Son of Man, Head and Body, exercises dominion over this same single kingdom of this world.

The doubled day 1260 will also mark when the Adversary is cast into time and comes to earth claiming to be the Messiah: he will be the reality of the Antichrist, with his coming seen in Revelation chapters 12 and 13. His coming is the third Woe.

The Second Passover liberation of Israel immediately precedes the 1260 day long Affliction, with the pattern formed by the Passover liberation of Israel under Moses producing the pattern for the Second Passover liberation of Israel, and with the three days journey into the wilderness for which Moses asked Pharaoh equating to the three days and three nights Jesus was in the grave, the 15^th, 16^th, and 17^th day of the first month … the foundations of the deep erupted on the 17^th day of the second month during the days of Noah, this 17^th day being the weekly Sabbath during the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the first month of the year [31 CE] when Jesus was crucified. The 17^th day of the second month will be the weekly Sabbath in the year of the Second Passover liberation of Israel.

Between the 15^th day and the 17^th day of the second month of the year of the Second Passover, the four kings/beasts Daniel saw in vision in the first year of Belshazzar will emerge from the sea of humanity as the four horns/kings that sprout from around the stump of the great horn, the first king of the King of Greece (Dan 8:8). These four kings are also the four horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rev 6:1–8): the first four seals of the Scroll will be removed during the three days, inclusive counting, of the 15^th through 17^th.

Because of the hard day-to-date link of the 15^th day of the Passover month occurring on Thursday, the rebellion that follows opening the 5^th Seal (Rev 6:9–11)—the rebellion of day 220—will occur on a Sunday, the day after the Sabbath, and would seem to link the Apostasy with Christians trying to take the kingdom by force

The 220 days between the Second Passover liberation of Israel and the Apostasy will seem not to exist, and will seem to have the Apostasy occurring on the fourth day of the Affliction, such will be the numbed state of the world while trying to bury 2.4 billion people.

In the Affliction, dominion over the single kingdom of this world remains with the Adversary and his angels [demonic kings], but on the doubled day 1260, this dominion is taken from the Adversary who is then cast into time from which he cannot escape for he will be given the mind of a man as Nebuchadnezzar was given the mind of a beast for seven years, these seven years will be for the Adversary the 1260 days of the Endurance at the beginning of the Thousand Years and the short while at the end of the Thousand Years, with these thousand years representing a reality of the seventh day, the Sabbath, with the day after the Sabbath representing Heaven. Hence, when Jesus entered heaven on the day after the Sabbath, He entered heaven not on the day of the sun, the first day of the week, but on the one [after] the Sabbath, meaning He was no longer subject to time or the weekly cycle.

For Jesus in the 1^st-Century—and for the Elect at the end of the seventh year of the tribulation—there will be no days of the week, no day after the Sabbath. They will have entered the true Sabbath rest, the timelessness of heaven.

For Jesus’ disciples, the one [after] the Sabbath was the first day of the week—until Jesus breathed on ten of His first disciples and said, Receive spirit holy (John 20:22). Then τη μια των σαββάτων became the reality of their spirit being glorified and thereby able to enter heaven. So while the calendar said the day was the first day of the following week, there was no following week for Jesus. And inwardly, there was no following week for His disciples … again, what followed the weekly Sabbath was entering into heaven, the one after the Sabbath.

However, for the fleshly bodies of Jesus’ disciples, the weekly seven day cycle started over again, with the now spiritually living inner selves of His disciples having escaped the confines of time with its weekly seven day cycle.

The inner selves of Jesus’ disciples, once they received a second breath of life, were always in the presence of God regardless of what calendar day reigned over their fleshly outer selves. Thus, with spiritual birth came an inner self versus outer self separation when it came to the disciple’s perception of time, the inner self in τη μια των σαββάτων, but the outer self still remembering the Sabbath day and keeping it holy.

I remember wondering, now forty two years ago, how a disciple could always be in prayer to God and still get any work done. The answer to my question of long ago is in the dichotomy between how the spiritually living inner self doesn’t perceive the passage of time versus how the physically living outer self perceives the passage of time. Once the spiritually living inner self enters into τη μια των σαββάτων, there will never again be a time constraint on this inner self … this inner self has escaped time and its passage. However, the outer self remains inside of time and remains under obligation to keep the Sabbath holy.

Jesus entered heaven when the Gospels say He entered—τη μια των σαββάτων—with this Hebrew expression written in Greek uncials both concealing information as well as revealing information, a characteristic of all language usage, with careful authors choosing one word over another to exploit this dichotomy of concealing versus revealing that is unique to language usage.

In writing this apology as well as others, I have used many words where a few would do as I wrestle with ambiguity, attempting to pin my words down so that they are more difficult to twist into saying what I did not intend. In the preceding chapter, I did not address why Jesus had to be resurrected at the end of the third day He was in the Garden Tomb—at the end of the Sabbath—some fifteen hours before He actually ascended to God the Father. The why was/is in the reality of the Greek expression <τη μια των σαββάτων> that translators never appropriately render into English as “the one after the Sabbath,” but always render as the first day of the week, thereby making Jesus entering heaven on the one after the Sabbath into a physical day of the week instead of having the phrase represent what happens after the Millennium, or happens for the firstfruits on the one after the seventh Sabbath, the Feast of Weeks [Pentecost], with this seventh Sabbath representing the last year of the seven endtime years of tribulation.

The seven endtime years of tribulation represent for the Elect, seven years of Sabbath rest, not because they will escape from the tribulation that occurs all around them by going to heaven or to some place of physical safety. Rather, these years of tribulation represent an escape from this world’s transactional economy as well as an escape from indwelling sin with its accompanying death … the rest that will be given to those who believe God will have God supplying their needs, whether in the means to sustain the flesh or whether resting in the grave. And again, for Christians, the one after the Sabbath is a euphemism for entering heaven; so what follows the seventh year of the tribulation will be heaven for those who believe God and have taken judgment upon themselves, or the Millennium—the seventh millennium, or Sabbath millennium—for those who believe God but haven’t taken judgment upon themselves.

For a Christian to attempt to enter into God’s presence on Sunday, the Christian is guilty of Korah’s rebellion, of telling Christ Jesus (and in the Affliction, the two witnesses) that He has taken too much upon Himself, that all Christians are holy, that all can make decisions for the Assembly (that democracy must prevail), that all can offer holy fire (representing indwelling eternal life when the Body of Christ is the temple of God) before God … things didn’t work out well for Korah, whose rebellion was like the Adversary’s rebellion in heaven.

The distinction that today exists between the man who will become the lawless one, the man of perdition, and the two witnesses—with all three individuals already in place—is the presumptuousness of the man who will lead the rebellion of Christians in the Affliction. This man believes in democracy, in the wisdom of the people and the rule of law …

If God were an absolute legalist, He would have no mercy for a sinner. Every sinner would perish; for no sin would be forgiven. But mercy exists. However, mercy comes with boundaries, these boundaries being the intent of the person’s heart. Therefore, God has not given His spirit, a second breath of life, to any but the Elect up to this day. This all changes, though, with the Second Passover liberation of Israel when all Christians will be filled-with and empowered by the spirit of God [pneuma Theou]. But with receiving the spirit of God so that all know the Lord, comes responsibility to keep the Law written on hearts and placed in minds. Failure to then keep the Law will cause Christians to be as Israel was when Aaron made for the people a gold calf.

In the 10^th chapter, I stated that there was a hard day-to-date link between the 15^th day of the month in which the Passover was eaten and Thor’s day/Zeus’ day, Thursday, followed by Friday, and the Sabbath, with each of these three days representing an ideology without a living God. Today, these ideologies can be identified as Gaia-worship, Islam, Judaism and Sabbatarian Christianity—yes, Sabbatarian Christendom—for the Elect, all of whom are Sabbatarians through the indwelling of Christ Jesus, have already entered into the day after the Sabbath through receiving a second breath of life, the spirit/breath of God in the spirit/breath of Christ. Their inner selves have already been glorified, which is what Paul declared (Rom 8:30). In a sense, they are already halfway there, with full assurance of arriving since Christ Jesus is in charge of their salvation, not they themselves.

I used to take offense at Sunday-worshiping Christians’ weekly mocking of Christ: I had few interactions with serious Sunday worshipers. But in 1991, I bought a low-end house in McCammon, Idaho, when Idaho State University offered me a Doctor of Arts fellowship—and I lived among devout Mormons, and found that overall, they displayed more evidence of Christian behavior than did members of the former Worldwide Church of God in any area where I lived. Then in 1998, I relocated to the Clearwater Canyon when teaching university courses in Orofino for Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston. The only radio or television broadcasts I could receive was from a local repeater of Moody Radio. I listened to their broadcasts: for 27 minutes of a half hour program, good stuff was said, then in the last 3 minutes, the broadcasts would contradict what had been said and they would undo all the good of the previously 27 minutes. Apparently, they weren’t hearing themselves, nor drawing logical conclusions from their presentations. Doctrine reigned over intellect, the party-line over Christ Jesus. And I grew spiritually as I realized that hearts of Sunday-keepers were in the right place. The problem with both Mormons (a neo-Arian denomination) and Evangelical Christendom was their continued enslavement by and to the prince of this world, the spiritual king of Babylon: neither were free to keep the Law. Both had to transgress the Law on one or more precepts, with breaking the Sabbath Commandment being the least grievous Commandment to transgress.

It is for the above reason that keeping the Sabbath is the test commandment that dates back to the giving of manna, the test that separates slaves of the Adversary from slaves [servants] of Christ Jesus, the English icon <slave> loaded with baggage that really ought to go with the word, especially when pertaining to a son of disobedience consigned to disobedience by God (cf. Eph 2:2–3; Rom 11:32) so that He can have mercy on all.

Having mercy on all doesn’t negate Commandments or covenants, but reassigns responsibility for transgressions from the transgressor to the Adversary, who introduced unbelief of God into first heaven, then the creation.

Human behavior has limits placed upon what is or isn’t acceptable, with the inner self of the person either willingly or unwillingly crossing boundaries to poach forbidden fruit. When forbidden fruit is eaten with a guilty conscience, the person can be forgiven—forgiveness might benefit this person—but when forbidden fruit is savored, forgiveness will not likely benefit the person.

Nevertheless, God has set in motion a “plan” that gives mercy to both the one who eats, grieved of spirit by the weakness of the flesh, and to the one who eats, smacking lips and wanting more. For when filled with spirit and thereby liberated from indwelling sin and death, personal dynamics will change: it may prove to be that the one who ate with guilt is too much of a coward to fight against returning to his or her sinful ways, and it may prove to be that the one who enjoyed poaching forbidden fruit sincerely repents of his or her former ways and obeys God at all costs. Thus, with liberation from indwelling sin and death, the inner self of the Christian will be made visible to the person, to Christ Jesus, and to the Adversary, who will employ his slave-catchers against liberated Christians, the man of perdition being his foremost slave-catcher.

From His perspective of being in heaven, God can simultaneously see the beginning of a matter and the end of the matter. In essence, God knows who will benefit from forgiveness if He gives mercy to all; however, He cannot know with certainty who will benefit from mercy in advance for without granting mercy, the whole course of affairs that would develop from granting mercy will never happen and will never be and therefore cannot be seen. Oh, God will have a very good idea of what would happen if He gave mercy to this person but not to that person, but doing so would make God a respecter of persons, which He is not. He intends to give everyone, including rebelling angels, the chance to repent, with all rebels—angelic and human—presently sentenced to death, either through having never received indwelling heavenly life or through having been cast from heaven and into the Abyss.

It is because God will give to rebelling angels under sentence to death a chance to bring forth fruit worthy of repentance—with rebelling angels not today willing to believe God, another reason for the Second Passover liberation of Israel with the death of uncovered firstborns preceding the filling of greater Christendom with spirit. For the first king of the King of Greece, the great horn, will be suddenly broken (Dan 8:8) because he is an uncovered firstborn … the serpent told Eve that she would not die (Gen 3:4). That old serpent Satan the devil told Gentile converts to the Jesus Movement that they had immortal souls, that they would never die. This same old serpent told followers of Mohammad that they had immortal souls, that they would not die. And it logically follows that the Adversary told his rebelling angels that since they were heavenly spirits, they would not die—and they wouldn’t if they remained in heaven. But the creation was spoken into existence as a glorious death chamber in which all in it will die and must necessarily die.

Thus, with the Passover liberation of Israel from slavery to Pharaoh forming the shadow and type of the Second Passover liberation of circumcised-of-heart Israel from indwelling sin and death, uncovered firstborns in the Abyss (analogous to all of Egypt) and on earth (analogous to the Delta settlement of Israel in Egypt) will perish suddenly when death angels pass through the Abyss and over the earth, slaying firstborns not covered by the blood of Christ Jesus. It is at this time when the first king of Greece, the great horn of the King of Greece will be broken. So Daniel’s visions—all of them—can be dated from the breaking of this great horn, that if unbroken [not yet being broken], would have appeared as an erect penis on the humanoid image King Nebuchadnezzar saw in vision, a noticeable protrusion that would have been mentioned. Hence it can be said with certainty that the image of the hierarchy of Babylon that Nebuchadnezzar saw can be dated to the Affliction and Kingdom, when dominion is taken from the spiritual king of Babylon (see Isa 14:4).

Too many wannabe prophecy pundits have interpreted Daniel’s visions literally, with these wannabe pundits preceding the birth of Christ and producing BCE readings of Daniel’s visions that were/are remarkably similar to what the John Hagees of Christendom teach … Daniel’s visions were sealed and kept secret through physical phenomena seeming to fulfill them between the 6^th-Century BCE and the 2^nd-Century BCE, with modern scholars assigning the writing of the Book of Daniel to the 2^nd-Century BCE because of the apparent accuracy of these prophecies that to them could only come from after the fact inscription. Thus academics date the writing of the Book of Daniel to when deviance occurs between prophecies and historical reality, not understanding that the sealing of the visions was by this historical reality.

The Affliction begins with liberation of circumcised-of-heart Israel from indwelling sin and death through all of Christendom being filled-with and empowered by the spirit of God [pneuma Theou] but without being born of spirit through the indwelling of the spirit of Christ [pneuma Christou]. And this distinction between being filled with the spirit of God and being born of spirit through the indwelling of the spirit of Christ, with Christ Jesus being a life-giving spirit, an Eve spirit, is an important distinction that has been concealed from Christendom by belief in the Trinity that acknowledges only one Holy Spirit that is personified as the third member of this triune deity. And at the core of Trinitarian theology, as with Arian theology, is belief that the Most High God, the Father, the God of Christ Jesus and of His disciples (John 20:17), was the God of the Old Testament, the God [Theos] of Abraham, the God [Theos] of Isaac, the God [Theos] of Jacob, the God [Theos] of living ones, not of dead ones (Matt 22:32). Thus, the God of Abraham wasn’t, according to Matthew’s Jesus, the God that raised the dead body of Christ Jesus from the Garden Tomb, with the Apostle Paul writing,

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. But the righteousness based on faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) or "'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in Him will not be put to shame." For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing His riches on all who call on Him. For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Rom 10:4–13)

God raised Jesus from the dead because “God” [ton Theon — from John 1:1] is the God of dead ones, the God of dead Abraham, the God of dead Isaac, the God of dead Jacob. He is the God that no one has ever seen (John 1:18), including Abraham under the oaks of Mamre; including Jacob when he wrestled with God (Gen 32:30); including Moses and the seventy elders of Israel (Ex 24:9–11). He would not be known at all except for the fact that the unique God, who is at the Father's side, He has made Him known (again John 1:18) to His disciples (John 17:25–26).

Do lay Christians read Scripture any better than do university academics who date composition of the Book of Daniel to the 2^nd-Century BCE? No. They don’t read as well—and university academics are universally poor readers of Scripture because of their lack of spiritual understanding: they realize that Luke differs from Matthew, but without understanding why they differ, they are unable to read the differences as text. For scholars, the text of, say, Matthew’s Gospel begins with 1:1 and ends with 28:20, a 1^st-Century referent, not a 21^st-Century reference. Yet the text of Matthew’s Gospel spans from when one of the Elect is born of spirit to when the soul puts on the garment of imperishability. The text differs from the text in a way analogous to the difference between the God of living ones and the God of dead ones.

Two deities [Elohim] that function as one spirit [YHWH] as a fleshly man and his fleshly wife are one flesh—the God [Theos] of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob was Yah, the Logos [’o Logos] who was God [Theos] and who was with or of [pros] the God [ton Theon] in primacy [arche] (John 1:1). It was this Logos who created all things physical (v. 3), then entered His creation as His unique Son (John 3:16). Therefore, it was not possible for any person to see the Father, the God, when it was the Logos that interacted with humanity, His creation, going back to when He breathed the physical breath of life into the nostrils of the man of mud (Gen 2:7).

Those things that the God of Abraham did are the things that this God of living ones saw the Father, the God of dead ones, do—

Jesus told Jews seeking His life,

This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of His own accord, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all that He himself is doing. And greater works than these will He show Him, so that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He will. …” (John 5:18–21)

The physical precedes the spiritual (1 Cor 15:46) in this physical realm, but in the spiritual realm, heaven, there is no physical: spiritual sons of God, angels, were created before there was any Abyss or physical creation or human sons of God. Thus, in heaven, the spiritual precedes the physical; so it is/was possible for Christ Jesus as the unique Son of the Logos to only do what He sees the Father doing or having done.

When Jesus said, as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He will, to whom shall the Son give life if the Father has raised the dead?

The Father gives life to the Son, who then in turn, through the indwelling of Christ, gives life to those whom the Father draws from this world, the reality of Jesus saying, “‘No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day’” (John 6:44). But this pertains directly to the Elect, and does not pertain directly to the entirety of the harvest of firstfruits nor pertains at all to the general harvest of humanity. Indirectly, this pertains to the entirety of the firstfruits through God filling all of Christendom with His spirit at the Second Passover liberation of Israel, then causing all flesh to be baptized (immersed) in His spirit when the kingdom of this world is given to the Son of Man. The drawing of God goes from individual (analogous to the God of Abraham interacting with the patriarchs) to general (analogous to the God of Abraham interacting with all of Israel in the days of Moses) with the Second Passover liberation of Israel. And with God filling all Christians with His spirit, His breath, He grants relief to His Son who has been bearing the sins of Israel as Israel’s sacrificed Passover Lamb. From this time forward, Christ Jesus will never again bear the sins of Israel: Israel will bear its own sins after the manner told to Moses,

The next day Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to [YHWH]; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin." So Moses returned to [YHWH] and said, "Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold. But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written." But [YHWH] said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book. But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them." Then [YHWH] sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made. (Ex 32:30–35 emphasis added)

The use of the Tetragrammaton YHWH signifies that both deities concurred in what was said, meaning that what Yah told outwardly circumcised Israel about whoever has sinned against God, He will blot out of His book also pertains to what the conjoined deities tell circumcised-of-heart Israel following the Second Passover liberation of Israel … after Israel—all of Christendom—is filled with spirit following the Second Passover liberation of Israel, whoever sins and thereby commits blasphemy against the spirit will not be forgiven and will have his or her name blotted out, removed from the Book of Life. This Christian will have his or her sins visited upon the person during the Affliction and Endurance.

The Tetragrammaton YHWH is, again, an always unvocalized linguistic determinative that represents the conjoined God of living ones and God of dead ones, with the God of living ones being the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Creator of all that has been made physically and the deity that was in the Helpmate position to the God of dead ones, the God of every entity that does not have indwelling heavenly life, which now includes the Adversary, condemned to death, to having fire come out from inside him and utterly consume him, with this sentence to death having already having been fulfilled in the timeless heavenly realm, the reason why Ezekiel 28:18–19 was written in past tense.

As fish live in water and really don’t think about not living in water, humanity lives in the extremely low viscosity fluid called space-time and cannot really imagine living outside of time … in heaven, only the present exists, with the present erasing the past and making the past unrecoverable, and with the present suffering no decay and not surrendering to the future, but remaining stable regardless of whatever activity occurs, with all activity occurring in a dance of oneness that requires every living entity to function in unison with every other living entity as human cells function in the human body, the life of each physical cell sustained by cellular oxidation of simply carbohydrates, this dark fire fueled by the blood delivering oxygen molecules and simple sugars to the cell where they are burned. Hence, life is in the blood (Gen 9:4), but the fire that represents life is in the cell, just as the bright fire that is the glory of God (Ezek 1:26–8) is in every living entity in the supra-dimensional heavenly realm. This analogy will have the human body representing heaven; to wit, Christ Jesus’ human body represented heaven, with the wound in his side through which blood and water flowed being analogous to the rent in the fabric of heaven made when iniquity was discovered in an anointed cherub and the substance of heaven flowed through the rent and into an Abyss in which the creation was spoken into existence.

If a disciple has faith that is the size and substance of a mustard seed, the disciple can command mountains to relocate themselves … in pre-contact Aleut stories, mountains could dance, but they were persuaded to sit still until they couldn’t move, an allegorical way of discussing plate tectonics and the breakup of Pangaea, the supercontinent that allegedly broke apart 200 million years ago, according to Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift: the name Pangaea was invented during a 1927 symposium discussing Wegener’s theory.

When considering continental drift, is a story about mountains dancing before being convinced to sit still and listen to a story that caused them to fall asleep and remain still until they could not move any less accurate than to say that Pangaea formed about 300 million years ago, and broke apart a 100 million years later? Who’s to say one story is factually superior to the other story? But if the story of mountains dancing is true, then some person lived when Pangaea broke apart: the Aleut story is structurally accurate, not something that would be anticipated without the story having come from an oral tradition based on observation.

Part of the story of mountains dancing has whales having legs and walking on the sides of the mountains until the mountains began to dance. Whales were then tumbled into the sea, where they lost their broken legs—and whales do have shoulder and pelvic girdles as other mammals have. So could whales have walked on land at one time?

I’m not going to say that Native American myths are true, but I’m unwilling to admit that carbon 14 dating to dates greater than the half-life of the isotope are true. Dates older than the half-life are best guesses, not facts; for charred bone and charred wood from the same firepit do not by carbon 14 dating produce the same dates, with bone dating younger than wood. And dating the age of the cosmos in earth years is folly: no earth years existed until our solar system settled into its present arrangement of planets around the sun. So to use years to date the passage of time and expansion of space before years existed can be likened to stories of mountains dancing.

Everything a person accepts as factual is based upon the person’s faith: the 1960s on the central Oregon Coast were not the 1960s that American history records. There were no hippies, no Vietnam War protestors. But when those who lived in Lincoln County are repeatedly told that the youth of the 1960s were hippies that protested the War, there will be people who, a decade or more after the fact, begin to remember hippies being on the Coast, their memories being “produced” by a stream of references to the pot-smoking hippies of the 1960s. These memories are “borrowed” memories that after borrowing, begin to seem real, the mind tricking itself into accepting cultural memories as personal memories. And it is through this attribute of memory that disinformation works—

If enough time passes between the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and when a future historian writes about this year, 2014, everyone who likes their doctor can keep their doctor will no longer be the lie of the century, but will be the factual reality that came into existence with the Democratic Party’s passing of national health care, this said assuming that the Affordable Care Act doesn’t bring about the end of America before its time.

The mind is usually unwilling to believe that things will not continue into the future as they have been in the past … it is a rare mind that can accept a near-future Second Passover liberation of Israel as a thing that will happen. It is much easier to believe that Christians will not suffer during the endtime tribulation; that Christians have a personal relationship with Christ Jesus, who will protect them from harm, this protection coming in the form of a physical place of safety, or being bodily raptured to heaven. It is mentally and emotionally too difficult to believe that Christians will be, after being filled with spirit, delivered into the hand of the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh. But this will be that case. And this reality doesn’t contradict the reality that these seven endtime years of trouble will also represent a Sabbath rest to the Elect, who simply will not be permitted to engage in the transactional economy.

There will be a Second Passover liberation of Israel, in which 2.4 billion people—all uncovered firstborns—will suddenly perish. Then on or about 1260 days later, with only half of present humanity still physically alive, a third part of this one-half will again suddenly perish in the Sixth Trumpet Plague (Rev 9:13–21).

Human minds cannot transform 2.4 billion, or 1260 days later, 1.2 billion people into “real” people, friends and family members, who will seemingly die for nothing they have done. After all, from the perspective of humanity, it is not sin to worship on Sunday or not worship on the Sabbath, or for that matter, vote Republican or Democrat, Labor or Conservative, Christian Democrat or Green Party. Cohabiting isn’t really a sin, from the perspective of modern Europeans or Americans. Even caring adults in gay or lesbian relationships aren’t, from the perspective of Western morality, sinning. So why would God suddenly kill so many for nothing they have done wrong? And the answer was given long ago:

And the word of [YHWH] came to me: "Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast, even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord [YHWH]. If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, even if these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord [YHWH], they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate. Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I cut off from it man and beast, though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord [YHWH], they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered. Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord [YHWH], they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness. For thus says the Lord [YHWH]: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast! But behold, some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it. They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord [YHWH]." (Ezek 14:12–23 emphasis added)

What did this Israelite do or that Israelite do in a land that sins against the Lord by acting faithlessly; by not believing the Lord? Is the Lord not justified in bringing famine, war, vermin, disease against all who dwell in this land? Who isn’t corrupted by what occurs/occurred in the land? Who is the American not corrupted by openly gay men and women serving in America’s military that defends America against enemies foreign and domestic? Who is the American not corrupted by a Marxist President and Attorney General who will not defend the nation’s laws? Who is the American unsoiled by 17 trillion in national debt? Who gets to opt out of repaying this debt? Not any American with assets that can be seized.

The Lord brought disaster upon first the house of Israel, then upon the house of Judah, and finally upon Jerusalem and the temple, all that remained of Israel in the Promised Land by 586 BCE … the prophet Ezekiel was already in Chaldea—had been for approximately twenty years—when Solomon’s temple was razed, thereby opening the way to God for Israelites and non-Israelites; so the temple had stood as a barrier, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies symbolizing that no one could come to God except through the High Priest, who only once a year entered into the presence of the Lord, this on Yom Kipporim, the day of coverings [plural], with both goats chosen (the one sacrificed on the altar and the Azazel) representing a covering of Israel’s sins, one here on earth and one in heaven, a far wilderness unexplored by Israel.

The Lord will again bring disaster upon Israel, this time the nation that is to be circumcised of heart, when He delivers Israel into the hand of the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh of Christians … God does this, not some earthly nation or power—and God does this because greater Christendom has defiled itself by its idolatry, by its unbelief, by trying to force its way into heaven when entrance is prevented by absence of spiritual birth.

What the prophet Ezekiel declared about the house of Israel pertains to both houses of Israel, circumcised in the flesh Israel and circumcised of heart Israel.

Herbert Armstrong anticipated the reality that Ezekiel’s prophecies pertain to an endtime nation of Israel apart from the modern nation-state of Israel, but he thought physically, never spiritually; so his endtime Israel was the English speaking peoples of this world, not a particularly astute conclusion considering there are more English speakers in India than in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States combined. He wrongly identified Britain as the endtime descendants of the tribe of Ephraim, when it is the French who cannot say Shibboleth:

Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh." And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No," they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell. (Judges 12:4–6)

A quick check of French dictionaries will reveal the French have greater problems uttering the “sh” sound as found in the word Shibboleth, a sound with which all Indo-European language speakers struggle, than do English speakers, thereby suggesting that if what Armstrong taught about northern Europeans being descendants of the lost ten tribes of Israel were true, then it would be the French that were the endtime descendants of Ephraim. And it would have seemed logical, according to Armstrong’s physicality, for Armstrong to have checked what he taught about British Israelism with the reality of history, especially with the French being on the forefront of all aspects of culture.

Paul tells the holy ones at Rome that,

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? (Rom 3:1–3)

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel? "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life." But what is God's reply to him? "I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal." So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. (Rom 11:1–5)

I myself am a Sabbatarian Anabaptist, a descendant of English Separatists and Dutch Mennonites—and my calling to reread prophecy probably came as a result of the faith of ancestors, as God rewarding them for their belief of Him four and more centuries ago.

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