The Nation of Israel and the Church - Part 6

The Nation of Israel and the Church (my title)

Original Title:  “Background to a soon-coming prayer campaign, Part 6”

By Dr. Stephen Jones of God’s Kingdom Ministries

Apr 04, 2017

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When the Latter Rain movement began February 14, 1948, the people saw it as a direct parallel to the restoration of Israel, which the United Nations had established a few months earlier. For this reason, they were enthusiastic in their support of the Jewish state, for they were blind to the real prophecies involved.

Blindness, of course, was a requirement for the divine plan to work, just as Isaac had to be blind in order for Jacob to steal Esau’s identity in the book of Genesis. If the church as a whole had understood the prophecies, Esau-Edom would not have enjoyed the near-universal support of the church, and the US government would have blocked the UN resolution.

Hence, it was important for the church to be blinded in this area, so that Esau would receive equal and impartial justice in accordance with the “eye for eye” principle.

Since Britain had been in control of Palestine since 1917, it was Britain that lowered its flag at midnight May 13/14, 1948, and the Jewish leaders immediately proclaimed the state of Israel. They had debated its name, many suggesting that it be called Judah or the Kingdom of Judah, but in the end they decided on Israel, knowing the how this would deceive the blind church.

As for the divine plan, Jacob was returning the Birthright back to Esau, since he had taken it from Esau in an unlawful manner. The Birthright name was Israel. So it was necessary to use the name Israel, for this showed the transfer of the Birthright and its authority as the “chosen” ones. From that moment on, Esau-Edom became the “chosen” people, at least on a legal basis. Obviously, Esau would never succeed in fulfilling the responsibility of the Birthright. Hence, he (that is, the present state of Israel) would receive the benefits of the Birthright, along with divine protection, until it was fully evident that the nation had failed to be a blessing to all families of the earth, according to the Abrahamic covenant.

Self-interest has prevailed throughout the entire duration of the Jewish state. Unfortunately, much of the church has supported this as well, allowing the Israelis to commit horrendous sins, which Jesus would have roundly condemned, had these been perpetrated by Christians. It was as if God had set up a double standard, a spiritual standard for Christians and a carnal standard for Jews.

In fact, it has now gotten to the place where Dual Covenant Theology has become prevalent. This says that Jews are saved by their own covenant apart from Christ, while “gentiles” are saved by the New Covenant and must accept Christ. The Apostle Paul would have much to say about this, if he were on earth today.

Dual Covenant Theology is the religion of Christian blindness. It betrays Christ once again and is the Judas Factor in the church today.

Lord, how long? It appears that 70 years is the limit, since this correlates perfectly with the end of the rule of the beast empires. Meanwhile, the overcomers have had many years in which to prepare for the authority of the Kingdom to be transferred to them.

The Real Chosen Ones

Daniel 7:22, 27 all make it clear that at the end of the beast kingdoms, “the saints” will be given the Kingdom. Some have tried to argue that these “saints” are Jews or Israelites by genealogy, but plain history shows that most biological Jews and Israelites are unqualified to rule the Kingdom. Their genealogy does not qualify them. It is only their spiritual genealogy as children of God that qualifies them, and so these are begotten of God by the Spirit through faith.

Biology is in direct competition with the spiritual man for the Birthright. Will the real chosen ones please stand up! Paul makes it clear in his discussion of the remnant of grace in Romans 11:4-7 that most biological Israelites are NOT chosen. In the time of Elijah, only 7,000 qualified (Romans 11:4). “Those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened” (Romans 11:7). Men’s biological connection to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did not make them “chosen.”

Carnal men use biology to claim chosen status. God Himself chooses the remnant of grace, and they are manifested according to their relationship with Jesus Christ..So God has not rejected His people, as Romans 11:1 says. That is because "His people" are defined in terms of the remnant of grace, not with the general population of carnally-minded Israelites. This is seen clearly in Exodus 19:5, where the biological Israelites had to make a vow to God in order to become His people; and again in Deuteronomy 29:12, 13, where God vowed to make them His people. If the Israelites had already been His people by virtue of their biology, then God would never have spoken of this as a future event.

So when John tells us about those who will rule and reign with Christ (Revelation 20:4-6), he says nothing about biology as a qualification for the first resurrection. As much as we might honor Abraham, he cannot take the place of Jesus Christ. Our relationship is with Jesus, not with Abraham, Moses, Paul, or any other great man of Scripture.

The Church Aborts the Manchild

On April 9, 1985 the Church aborted and miscarried the Manchild. I wrote about this in my pocket sized booklet, The Prophetic Roots of Modern Abortion. The message of Sonship is foundational to the gospel. How does one become one of the sons of God? (John 1:12, 13). It is clear that one must be begotten by the Spirit to become a son of God.

However, the mainstream church lost that message very early, once the original apostles were dead. They stressed church membership, rather than Sonship. They made the Trinity the test of orthodoxy, rather than Sonship through faith in Christ. They sacrificed love on the altar of church unity and ruled by fear. In the end, they persecuted the sons of God, even as Saul persecuted David and Ahab persecuted Elijah in the Old Testament patterns.

The bottom line is that the church, which had been called to Sonship, failed to fulfill its calling as much as the Jews and Israelites had failed in earlier days.

In January 1985, while working in Batesville, Arkansas, two fellow employees at the company fell in love and decided to get married. His name was Robert Christian, and his wife was Darrah. The Father spoke to me, saying, “Christ will marry the pearl of great price.” As a “Christian,” Robert was a type of the church. Darrah’s name was derived from a Hebrew word, dar, which means “pearl.” It appears in Esther 1:6. She was like a “pearl of great price.”

Shortly afterward, a friend from out of state called to share his revelation that we should have a prayer campaign for our children. Out of this phone call came a prayer campaign called The Lord’s Doing” on January 23, 1985. The name was taken from Psalm 118:23.

When Darrah became pregnant on that day, I saw this immediately as a sign of the Manchild coming to birth, that is, the manifestation of the sons of God. At the time, I was unaware that the 120^th Jubilee from Adam was to be declared soon in October 1986. Only later did I see how God was giving the church in the Pentecostal Age an opportunity to fulfill its calling.

Then in the evening of April 8, 1985, as I was in prayer, the Spirit of the Lord came upon me strongly and suddenly. A loud voice said: “Stand up!” Startled, I jumped to my feet. Then the word was spoken, “O My people, if you had but listened to My prophets…” The word went on to tell me that the church had been disqualified. It ended with, “Come out of her, My people, that you be not partaker with her of her plagues.”

I wondered what had upset Him so much. The answer came the following morning when I went to the office and was told that Darrah had miscarried. Then I knew that the church had miscarried the Manchild, not having the strength to bring forth (2 Kings 19:3 KJV). I also knew that many in the church had aborted the Manchild in a deliberate manner, but I had no direct evidence of this until four years later.

In May 1989, I drove to Oklahoma to visit friends, and there I had opportunity to talk to their 21-year-old daughter, who had just returned home. She had left home when she was about 15 and had gotten married. But the marriage did not go so well, and so she left him and returned home.

As I drove home the next day, the Father spoke to me and said, “she has had an abortion.” That was not a word that I wanted to hear. My immediate reaction was, “O Lord, why are you telling me this? I was not comfortable knowing such a personal secret. He answered, “I want you to return later to lead her in a prayer of repentance.”

I did return a few weeks later, and in talking to her privately once again, I asked her, “Have you ever had an abortion?” She was shocked and alarmed. “How did you know?” she asked. “If my mother ever found out, she would kill me!” I told her that God had told me to pray with her about this, and she found release in God’s love and forgiveness.

I then asked her when this had occurred. She told me that she had her abortion on April 9, 1985. It was the same day that Darrah Christian had miscarried, and I knew then that the church had also aborted the Manchild, disqualifying itself from manifesting the sons of God. To be qualified to rule in the Tabernacles Age to come, one must go beyond Pentecost. One must become an overcomer, not merely a blind believer.

The church under its Pentecostal anointing (beginning in Acts 2) has now run its course. On April 9, 1985 it was disqualified insofar as the Birthright was concerned, because Joseph’s Birthright was about Sonship and bearing fruit to God (Genesis 49:22). This is the calling of those who are true Israelites (Isaiah 27:6).

And now we are again coming to a Day of Destiny, April 9, 2017, where, if I am reading this correctly, Esau-Edom is about to be disqualified in the divine court. The court case falls on April 9, and ten days later, April 19, the verdict will be rendered. My guess is that on April 19 we will see some sort of sign in the world to confirm the verdict (as we did in 1985).

Once the verdict is rendered, history will take its course. The unbelievers and carnal believers are all disqualified. Genuine believers, though carnal, will remain as citizens of the Kingdom, but they will not rule the Kingdom. Unbelievers will have to repent and become believers in Christ if they want citizenship in the Kingdom. But it takes time for believers to become overcomers, even as it took time for Israel to travel from Egypt to the Promised Land. We do not know how long individuals will have to make that journey, but we do know that time is running out.

Those who fail to become rulers will not lose their salvation which they received through Passover, nor will they lose their Pentecostal anointing. What is at stake is obtaining the blessing of the feast of Tabernacles, which is immortality in the First Resurrection (Revelation 20:4-6) and the opportunity to minister with Jesus Christ in the Tabernacle Age that is to come.

The Terrorism of the Nation of Israel - Part 5

The Terrorism of the Nation of Israel (my title)

Original Title:  “Background to a soon-coming prayer campaign, Part 5”

By Dr. Stephen Jones of God’s Kingdom Ministries

April 03, 2017

The book of Jasher is not Scripture, but it is an old history book that is referred to in Joshua 10:13 and again in 2 Samuel 1:18. Its account of the story of Esau is of interest to us now, because it shows in chapter 27 that Esau killed Nimrod, the king of Babylon, and took his garment of animal skins by which he claimed authority over the nations.

This garment, it says, was the one God gave Adam. It was passed down to Noah, and after the flood, Ham and Canaan stole it while Noah was drunk. The story in Genesis 9:20-23 lacks this particular detail, but it is certainly plausible. Jasher says that Canaan ultimately gave it to his son, Cush, who gave it to his son, Nimrod, who claimed the authority of Adam.

Anyway, Esau eventually killed Nimrod while both were on a hunting trip, and Esau took the garment for himself. The story can be read here:  http://www.ccel.org/a/anonymous/jasher/27.htm

The point is to show that Esau-Edom set a prophetic pattern when he killed Nimrod. Esau never actually ruled Babylon, but he usurped his claim of authority. His descendants, as I showed earlier, were conquered by John Hyrcanus and were then forcibly converted to Judaism. Thereafter, they were absorbed into Jewry and were a big factor in the revolt against Rome in the first century, as Josephus tells us.

This element within Jewry today, in essence, killed Nimrod in 1947 and took the authority that the Babylonian beast system had enjoyed previously. Esau’s descendants have now ruled nearly 70 years, and they have not repented of their carnality and violent exercise of power. Even so, let us all be careful not to hate anyone that we suspect is an Edomite, as the law commands (Deuteronomy 23:7), for he is our wayward brother.

The Detour Around Edom

This has also delayed the establishment of the Kingdom, although to be sure, every delay is pre-planned by God. God often delays events until the appointed time, yet they seem like unnecessary delays from our perspective.

When the time came for Moses to lead Israel to the Promised Land, they requested passage through Edom. The Edomites, however, refused to allow Israel to pass through their land, which would have been a short trip along the east shore of the Dead Sea to the Jordan River crossing (Deuteronomy 2:8).

This detour around Edom appeared to delay Israel’s entry into the Promised Land, but actually, it slowed them down so that they would enter the land until the time of Passover, forty years after the first Passover when they had left Egypt. I wrote about this detour in Book 1 of my commentary on Deuteronomy. It is in chapter 6 of that book, and I include a map showing Israel’s route around Edom.

The point is that this detour prophesied of the 70-year delay from 1947-2017. My guess is that it took them 70 days to travel around Edom. However, I cannot prove that, for Scripture does not tell us how long the journey took.

The Law against Drinking Blood

As I wrote earlier, God supported Esau’s right to return to the old land and claim the Birthright, because Jacob had taken it from him by fraud and deceit, trying to fulfill prophecy in an unlawful manner. So for 70 years, the church (as with Isaac) has been blinded by God, so that they would believe that Esau was Jacob-Israel. Because Jacob stole Esau’s identity, God mandated that Esau would steal Jacob’s identity—and with it, the Birthright name, Israel.

It was an ingenious judgment of God, but it is now coming to an end after 70 years. Justice has been granted to Esau, but Esau has ruled with violence and force, refusing to fulfill the calling of Abraham. They have not even tried to be a blessing to all families of the earth, but have mistreated the Palestinians and all of their neighbors from the beginning. They have maintained an Old Covenant mindset while claiming the New Covenant promise to Abraham. Instead of conquering by the Sword of the Spirit, they have conquered by the physical sword.

They have maintained a bloodthirsty policy, as prophesied about Edom in Ezekiel 35:6, although the law forbids eating blood (Leviticus 17:12).

The Deir Yassin Village Massacre: April 9, 1947

Perhaps the main reason why we are being called to the divine court on April 9 of this year is that it is the 70^th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre. I wrote about this event in my book, The Struggle for the Birthright, chapter 11. “The Rise of Jewish Terrorism.”

Many today have forgotten that the terrorists a century ago were Jewish, not Arab or Palestinian. The most prominent among these terrorists were Menachem Begin and his Irgun terrorists, along with Yitzhak Shamir’s Lehi (also called the “Stern Gang”). Both wrote their own books, so we do not need to quote their enemies to learn of their terrorist activities. We only need to read what they themselves wrote.

Here is some of what I wrote in The Struggle for the Birthright:

On April 9, 1947 for no good strategic reason Mr. Begin’s Irgun Gang teamed up with Shamir’s Stern Gang and massacred over 250 men, women, and children in Deir Yassin, a peaceful village outside of Jerusalem. Most of the men were absent, because they were working in Jerusalem. The people were quickly subdued, those who resisted were killed on the spot, and the rest were lined up against a wall in the town square and shot. Many of the women were raped before most of them, too, were killed.

Later apologists tell us that it was their own fault for not leaving when they were warned. Surely, such apologists must be a bit insane to think that a few minutes’ warning relieves terrorists and murderers of all moral responsibility for the massacres! Mr. Begin, a future Prime Minister of Israel, writes on page 163, 164 of his book, The Revolt, Story of the Irgun:

“One of our tenders carrying a loud speaker was stationed at the entrance to the village and it exhorted in Arabic all women, children and aged to leave their houses and to take shelter on the slope of the hill. By giving this humane warning our fighters threw away the elements of complete surprise, and thus increased their own risk in the ensuing battle. A substantial number of the inhabitants obeyed the warning and they were unhurt. A few did not leave their stone houses—perhaps because of the confusion. The fire of the enemy was murderous—to which the number of our casualties [four Irgun fighters were killed—ed.] bears eloquent testimony. Our men were compelled to fight for every house; to overcome the enemy they used large numbers of hand grenades. And the civilians who had disregarded our warnings, suffered inevitable casualties.”

This “warning” given to the civilians is contradicted by Alfred Lilienthal, who wrote on page 154 of The Zionist Connection II,

“No warning had been given to the villagers, as was later claimed (Begin has stated that all victims of Irgun attacks had been warned beforehand), because the armored truck with its loudspeaker had tumbled into a ditch and been tossed on its side far short of the first houses of the village. Advised by a night watchman of the approaching Jewish raiders, some inhabitants, with only a robe thrown around them, managed to flee to the west.”

“Jon Kimche, the Zionist writer, calling the incident ‘the darkest stain on the Jewish record throughout the fighting,’ stated, ‘The terrorist justified the massacre of Deir Yassin because it led to the panic flight of the remaining Arabs in the Jewish state area.’ Jewish writer Don Peretz described the result of Deir Yassin as a ‘mass fear psychosis which grasped the whole Arab community.’ Arthur Koestler wrote, this ‘bloodbath . . . was the psychologically decisive factor in the spectacular exodus of Arab refugees’.” (p. 156)

Menachem Begin also claimed that the town was of strategic military value. He bases this on a letter from Mr. Shaltiel, the Haganah Regional Commander, who had written to Mr. Begin:

“I learn that you plan an attack on Dir Yassin. I wish to point out that the capture of Dir Yassin and holding it is one stage in our general plan. I have no objection to your carrying out the operation provided you are able to hold the village. If you are unable to do so I warn you against blowing up the village which will result in its inhabitants abandoning it and its ruins and deserted houses being occupied by foreign forces. This situation will increase our difficulties in the general struggle. A second conquest of the place will involve us in heavy sacrifices. Furthermore, if foreign forces enter the place this will upset the plan for establishing an airfield.”

So the strategic value of Dir Yassin (or Deir Yassin) was that the Haganah was planning to turn it into an airfield! Certainly that would justify the destruction of the village. And if the people object and fight back, this would certainly justify their massacre. After all, who are they to object to a Jewish airfield? Don’t Jews have rights?

The Haganah, as usual, had denied all knowledge of the Irgun’s plans to destroy Deir Yassin. But Begin makes it clear that they knew about it and even approved of its operation. Begin says he did the “humane” thing by telling the people to flee from their homes before his attack. It was the Arab villagers’ own fault, he thinks, because they did not all flee and leave everything to the Jewish settlers who were soon to occupy the village. When they fought back, then the Irgun invoked its right to “self-defense.”

Do Arabs lack the right to fire upon invading Irgun and Lehi attackers? It was not Deir Yassin that attacked a village of the Irgun.

The primary goal of this massacre was to terrorize the Arabs into fleeing from their land, for only by their leaving could Jews confiscate it for themselves. Once the Arabs had fled—even if they went to a nearby town to stay with relatives for a time—they would not be allowed to return.

This Zionist definition of self defense is still used today as they confiscate more land and destroy more Arab villages. They come in and tell everyone to leave town, then blow up the town and move Israeli settlers to the land, giving the new settlement an Israeli name. Deir Yassin was no exception. I beg to differ with them on their basic definitions of morality and justice.

This murder was so diabolical that even the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, to his credit, excommunicated those who participated in the massacre.

Jacques de Reynier was the Chief Representative of the International Red Cross at the time of the massacre. His report of his inspection of Deir Yassin the day after the massacre may be viewed online at http://www.palestinehistory.com/mass01.htm: It makes grim reading:

“Suddenly the officer tells me . . . the story of this village populated by 400 Arabs, disarmed since always living on good terms with the Jews who surround them. According to him, the Irgun arrived 24 hours previously and ordered by loudspeaker the whole population to evacuate all the buildings and surrender. There is a 15 minute delay in the execution of the command. Some of the unhappy people came forward and would have been taken prisoners and then turned loose shortly afterwards toward the Arab lines. The rest did not obey the order and suffered the fate they deserved. . . .

“Former Haganah officer, Col. Meir Pa’el, upon his retirement from the Israeli army in 1972, made the following public statement about Deir Yassin that was published by Yediot Ahronot (April 4, 1972): ‘In the exchange that followed, four [Irgun] men were killed and a dozen were wounded. . . by noon time the battle was over and the shooting had ceased. Although there was calm, the village had not yet surrendered. The Irgun and LEHI men came out of hiding and began to “clean” the houses. They shot whoever they saw, women and children included, the commanders did not try to stop the massacre . . . I pleaded with the commander to order his men to cease fire, but to no avail. In the meantime, 25 Arabs had been loaded on a truck and driven through Mahne Yehuda and Zichron Yousef (like prisoners in a Roman “March of Triumph”). At the end of the drive, they were taken to the quarry between Deir Yassin and Giv’at Shaul, and murdered in cold blood. . . The commanders also declined when asked to take their men and bury the 254 Arab bodies. This unpleasant task was performed by two Gadna units brought to the village from Jerusalem.

“Zvi Ankori, who commanded the Haganah unit that occupied Deir Yassin after the massacre, gave this statement in 1982 about the massacre, published by Davar on April 9, 1982: ‘I went into 6 to 7 houses. I saw cut off genitals and women’s crushed stomachs. According to the shooting signs on the bodies, it was direct murder.”

Even today, there are Zionists who deplore this murder. Ami Isseroff, of the Peace Middle East Dialog Group, implores his fellow Zionists,

“It is long past time for Israeli Zionists, like myself, to apologize. The Israeli government has never apologized for the massacre of Deir Yassin . . . The perpetrators of the massacre at Deir Yassin were never punished.”

As you can see, the roots of the present-day conflict go back to the days of Jewish terrorism. It worked so well for them, the Arabs decided to try the same tactics. The Jewish state was founded on terrorism by terrorists. This is the true basis of their claim to “the right to exist.” This is part of God’s reason for prophesying its destruction.

The Violent Take the Kingdom by Force

We have shown from the prophet Jeremiah that there were (and still are) two types of “figs” from the fig tree of Judah. There are good figs and evil figs. The good figs are those that peaceably submit to the judgment of God, and there are those who would rather fight and die (Jeremiah 24-30). This was true in Jeremiah’s day, and it was again true in Jesus’ day. Jesus said of these people in Matthew 11:12,

¹² And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force.

Jesus denounced the Jewish belief that the Kingdom of God must be taken by violence and force. Forty years later, God brought judgment and captivity upon Judah, this time at the hand of Rome. It was all for the same reasons that we find in the writings of Jeremiah six centuries earlier. One would think that the people would have learned, since they claimed to believe the writings of Moses and the prophets.

Being bloodthirsty is a characteristic of Esau-Edom, not of Jacob-Israel. If the current state of Israel had truly been the beginning of the Kingdom of God, they would not have needed to establish it by terrorism. Their terrorism was soon learned by Yassir Arafat and others, and this has now borne the bitter fruit of modern terrorism. The Islamic terrorists learned their lessons from men like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir.

It is now time to take this situation to the divine court for justice to be done. While even many Christians try to justify the acts of Jewish terrorism in 1947 and earlier, we will leave it in the hands of God to decide. For our part, based upon Jesus’ view of the law and through our New Covenant perspective, we will advocate for the peaceful victims of Deir Yassin, as this massacre set the tone for the establishment of the Israel state a year later.

EDITOR’S NOTE:  This invasion by the Jewish terrorists prior to 1948 is the partial fulfillment of the Gog-Magog invasion given in Ezekiel 38 and 39. The only remaining part to be fulfilled is their destruction, which will include Jerusalem.  The majority of the faux Jews came from the Russian and Eastern European areas calling themselves Ashkenazi Jews.  They were originally immigrants from the nation of Khazaria who converted to Judiasm during the Middle Ages.  Other fake converted Jews came from Iran or Persia.  Others, possibly Edomite-Jewish inbreeds, came from Ethiopia and Libya exactly as listed in Ezekiel.

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