THE BLOOD COVENANT WITH
JERICHO/BABYLON
Dec
28, 2018 by Dr. Stephen Jones
In
Joshua 6 we read of the battle of Jericho, where the walls (and its gates) were
destroyed when Israel took the city. After the battle, we read in Joshua 6:26,
26 Then Joshua made them take an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed
before the Lord is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with the
loss of his first-born he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of
his youngest son he shall set up its gates.”
The
phrase “the loss of” is italicized in the NASB, because it was added by the
translators. The Hebrew text does not actually say it, but the translators
believed that this was how to understand it. I assumed the same until today, so
I will say more about this shortly.
This
prophetic curse was actually fulfilled more than 600 years later in the time of
King Ahab. We read in 1 Kings 16:33, 34,
33 And Ahab also made the Asherah. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the Lord
God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him. 34 In
his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho; he laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his first-born and
set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which He
spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
We
are also told earlier (vs. 32) that King Ahab built an altar to Baal in
Samaria. The flow of the biblical text shows that the altar in Samaria and the
walls of Jericho were both “evil” things occurring in the days of King Ahab.
The altar in Samaria was an altar to Baal, who required human sacrifice, and it
appears that Hiel the Bethelite also sacrificed his own sons to dedicate the
walls and gates of Jericho.
In
other words, the two sons of Hiel the Bethelite did not just drop dead back at
the homestead when he laid the foundations of the walls and gates. It appears
that he sacrificed his children, a common practice in those days (and today,
too, unfortunately). The possibility of interpreting these passages in this way
is supported by John D. Davis in his A Dictionary of the Bible. He
writes on page 309,
Hi’el [probably, God liveth]
A
native of Bethel, who, in Ahab’s reign, fortified Jericho, bringing down on
himself the fulfillment of Joshua’s imprecation. His oldest son died, perhaps
was sacrificed, when the foundation of the city was laid, and his youngest
son when the gates were set up [1 Kin. xvi. 34 with Josh. vi. 26).
Hiel
was from Bethel, “house of God,” which had been transformed into a religious
center where the people worshiped one of the golden calves (1 Kings 12:28, 29). We are not told directly whether or not Hiel
was a priest in Bethel, but it is clear that this is a prophetic story. For
this reason, it has significance for us today.
Jericho
and Babylon
To
understand the big picture, we must recall that Jericho was a type of Babylon.
In other words, the battle of Jericho prophesied of a greater battle yet to
come, when our own Joshua (Yeshua, or Jesus) brings us into the Promised Land.
In the original battle, the people marched around the city for six days blowing
trumpets (Joshua 6:4, 7), and on the seventh day they marched around it
seven times (Joshua 6:15). At the end of
the seventh trip, the people shouted and the priests blew a long continuous
blast (Joshua 6:5, 16). Then the walls collapsed (Joshua 6:20).
The
“trumpets” in this case are not silver trumpets but shofars, or “rams’
horns.” Further, the text literally reads in Joshua 6:4, “the priests shall blow the yobel,”
that is, the Jubilee. The silver trumpet was blown on the feast of Trumpets
(71), while the shofar was blown nine days later on the Jubilee (7/10).
Two
Jerichos
In chapter 2 of
book 7 of Dr. Luke: Healing the Breaches, I wrote about the two
Jerichos. When Jesus was on his final journey to Jerusalem, He healed the blind
man named Bar-Timaeus as He drew near to Jericho (Luke 18:35). But Mark 10:46 seems to contradict this, telling us
that the blind man was healed “as He was going out from Jericho.”
The
solution to this dilemma is in the fact that there were two Jerichos.
“The
Old Testament site of Tell es-Sultan is in the distance and is the city Joshua
destroyed. In Jesus’ day a new center had been constructed on the wadi banks in
the foreground by the Hasmonean rulers and Herod the Great.”
Luke
was telling us that Jesus healed the blind man while He was leaving the ancient
city of Jericho, the city that Joshua had conquered. Mark tells us that the
blind man was begging along the road as Jesus approached New Jericho a mile up
the road. Bar-Timaeus was sitting by the road between the two cities.
Bar-Timaeus
was healed, and he began to follow Jesus, testifying of the power of God all
the way to Jerusalem. It should have been obvious that Jesus was the Messiah,
but instead, the power-hungry priests killed him, blackmailing Pontius Pilate
into doing their dirty work.
Two
Prophetic Jerichos
The
original Jericho was destroyed by Joshua, who put a curse upon anyone who would
rebuild the city, its walls, and its gates. As we said, 600 years later Hiel
the Bethelite rebuilt the city, dedicating it with a blood covenant by
sacrificing his own children.
If
the original Jericho is like Babylon, then the rebuilt city of Jericho is like
Mystery Babylon. It is not really the same city, but it is a prophetic
reconstruction of the old city. Those who built Mystery Babylon have come under
Joshua’s curse, because Jericho is Babylon from the standpoint of prophecy. New
Jericho is a parallel to Mystery Babylon.
As
I have written many times before, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was the
reconstruction of Babylon, known as Mystery Babylon. When the founders met on
Jekyll Island in 1910 to write and plan the passage of the Federal Reserve Act,
they deliberately did so in a room over the very site of an old altar of human
sacrifice. Here is the story how this fact was discovered:
Editor’s Synapsis
An extremely interesting talk-video. The gist of the story is a missionary, Tim
Bence, returning from the Middle East is told by God to go visit Jekyll Island. While there he is taken on a tour by the
appointed historian and museum curator.
He learns about the Indians who lived there and is
shown a preserved burial site that contains the skeletons of several of the
Indians. He notices the skeletons are
unusually tall and is told by the curator they averaged between seven and eight
feet in length.
Afterwards he is shown a copy of a painting done by
the French Huguenots who visited the island and then fled for their lives. The painting shows the Indians dancing around
a stone altar while sacrificing infants by cutting them to pieces. The missionary reveals that he grew up and
presently lives in Oklahoma and is very familiar with the history of the
various Native American Indians from that area.
He states that no American Indian was of that height and no tribe ever
built a stone altar nor did they sacrifice anyone particularly babies. However, he claims, that altars resembling
the one in the picture is common in the Middle East from where he has recently
returned.
The curator tells him that the stone altar is still
intact but that it cannot be seen because it is underneath the floor of a cabin/residence
built by Nelson Rockefeller during the conclave that developed the Federal
Reserve Act.
So
we may conclude that the founders of the Federal Reserve Act played the role of
Hiel the Bethelite in rebuilding Mystery Babylon. Not being believers in Christ
(though perhaps many were church members), they invoked a blood covenant which
would spiritually empower Mystery Babylon to rule in the final century (the
Laodicean Age of Church captivity).
The
Blood Covenant Overruled
Yesterday,
December 27, 2018, I discovered these connections after being called into the divine
court to deal with an ancient “blood covenant,” empowering two high-level evil
spirits. I cast them out to the feet of Jesus without really knowing what I was
dealing with.
In
praying about it, God revealed that this blood covenant had taken place in
Israel during the Divided Kingdom (from Solomon to the fall of Samaria).
In
praying further about it this afternoon, I recalled that earlier in the day
yesterday the thought had crossed my mind—unrelated to anything—that the
dedication of Jericho might have involved human sacrifice, rather than just a
death in the family. I was busy with other things, so I soon forgot about it.
Then in the evening came the divine court session dealing with a “blood
covenant” of some sort.
Today,
as I searched the biblical account of the history between Solomon and the fall
of Samaria, I came across the story of Hiel the Bethelite. Upon inquiry, the
Lord confirmed that this was the blood covenant that I had dealt with last
evening, and as I studied it further, I began to understand its significance.
Realize
that this was a progressive revelation. I had not put any of this together at
the time, and I learned what it was about only after spending some time
searching the Scriptures prayerfully. In fact, it was not until I sat down to
write this account that I remembered the story of Jekyl Island. Even then, I
probably would not have remembered it, except that God had led a reader to
email me the link that I just posted, where the man tells how he learned about
the ancient altar of human sacrifice under the very room where the Federal
Reserve Act had been written by high-level bankers.
I
am always amazed at how God uses multiple witnesses to give input into
important revelations. When He does this, it is clear that He is guiding all of
us to learn some hidden truth. So this is the truth for the day.
I
conclude that the blood covenant empowering the Federal Reserve Act has now
been broken and covered by the blood of Christ. Two evil spirits have been
dispatched, leaving the Fed defenseless against Joshua’s army. It makes me
wonder how soon the Fed will be nationalized.
