News of the World

NEWS OF THE WORLD

or the Kingdom of God

The Continuing Disintegration of Mystery Babylon

Trump was elected based upon his campaign promises and he is currently in the process of fulfilling those promises as quickly as he can. I still consider him to be anointed by God although, like Cyrus of the Old Testament, he is not yet aware of this anointment. However, he is working diligently to unknowingly begin the demolition of mystery Babylon at least in the United States.  Great Britain, perhaps unknowingly, is balking at the one world government with their Brexit actions.

So far there are four elections to be held in 2017 that will most likely determine the future of the European Union.  Each election will be a significant referendum concerning Europe’s pro-immigration and anti-Russian policies.  These elections include the Netherlands on March 15, France April 23, Italy around May 23, and Germany on September 24.

A recently published article talks about the real reason for the hate against Donald Trump.  The article claims that the war against him is being orchestrated and funded by massively financed elites of the one world group, aka the New World order, that desires a secular, borderless, depopulated world government composed of brown skinned people.  This group expected that Hillary Clinton would be elected which would lead to the implementation of the final stages of their plans for gaining the powers they have long sought.  With that power in hand they were set to radically transform international society, take full control of the economies of all nations, eliminate national sovereignties, impose dramatic social changes, and integrate the remaining population, other than themselves, into a single racial composition.  The election of Donald Trump with a majority of Republicans to the Senate, Congress, governorships and other positions, have left the One-Worlders reeling.  They are enraged and hysterical that their expectations of a dizzying final achievement of the total power of man as god has been smashed. That is their ultimate goal - replacing God with man.  Yes, the Lord God is completely in control and the beginning of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is in the process of taking place.

All of the above paragraph makes sense and appears logical but how can one account for the leftist liberal’s demonstrations with riots and possibly the news media and their participation.  The MSM is owned and operated by Jews but how do they keep each correspondent in check.  A job and paycheck may be the answer but there are always weak moments and slipups.  Paid protestors may be the answer for the mob violence but not for the massive protests.  Perhaps they are merely lazy people without the desire for a job along with many brain-washed students.

The Immigration Fiasco

The immigration issue is one of the major concerns currently in the United States and Europe. The media labels any ban on immigrants as an assault on war-fleeing children and families and people merely attempting to be safe and free. Although there is some truth in that statement it ignores the fact that most immigrants are the result of destruction and disruption of many Muslim countries through the so-called Arab spring activities of the USA and its allies.  It has been Babylonian policy to create refugees with the intention of flooding the USA and Europe with non-Christians and future Democrat voters with the hopes of destroying any remaining foundation of Christianity.  It is also their policy to integrate all races into a single brown-skinned group of dumb workers.

In case anyone hasn’t figured it out yet, Angela Merkel is the European Queen of Babylonian policy. She currently seems to be aware that Europe is revolting against the Babylonian Masters and she is therefore backing down from her “no emigrant left behind” policy. Criticism of her decision to leave Germany’s borders open with a welcome mat for all immigrants has led to a surge in support for anti-immigrant and pro-Russian political parties.  Other European nations have already started to deport immigrants and to close their borders to block entry.

It has also been alleged the United States is bombing and disrupting Arab countries around Israel to help instigate the so-called greater Israel dream of the Jews. Israel’s goal is to expand their border to the approximate size of Solomon’s Old Testament kingdom.  All the major MSM stations are owned by Jews, thus all the interactions of the United States and Russia in Syria are lies with the result of creating fake news. Russia has been accused of invading Crimea, bombing hospitals in Syria, and other atrocities that are basically complete lies. The USA and their allies are the ones bombing and killing Syrian soldiers, hospitals, and various mobile convoys containing food and other aid material.  Slowly American citizens are waking up to the truth of actual occurrences and the MSM lies.

Through Jubilee studies done by Dr. Stephen Jones, he has reached the consensus that 2017 is the climactic year that ends the rule of the beast. Recall, the beast systems were prophesied in Daniel 2 and 7 as Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, Rome, and the “little horn” which is an extension of the Roman Empire and is basically the Roman Church.  It is Dr. Jones’ belief the world will see a European revolution through the populist movements that are essentially revolting against the Babylonian rulers. It is surmised if any one of the four countries listed in paragraph one exit the EU, it is unlikely the European Union will survive in its present form.  Recall, it is Caucasian Western Europe and Caucasian Canada and America that comprise the majority of the “lost” ten tribes of northern Israel.

Fake News

The number of people who mistrust the mainstream media is growing larger each day. The number of people getting their news from alternative media is also growing larger each day. The MSM is a Jewish owned and controlled press that purposely dispenses fake news and twisted ideas with the intent of bolstering the one world government concept. They have apparently declared war on Donald Trump and give the impression that everything he does is controversial and against the will of the majority – maybe the majority of leftist liberals and particularly against the one world concept.  The best thing the White House could do would be to essentially ignore them as much as possible because their comments and actions are not in the best interests of Trump and the initiative of the Kingdom of God.

Non-Zionism

Another ongoing trend is that American Christians are increasingly becoming non-Zionist.  Zionism is the misguided belief that Jews are God’s chosen people and have the right to rule the world with all other inhabitants as their servants and slaves.  Anyone refusing the New Covenant of Jesus Christ is not the chosen people of God, although many have misunderstood, perhaps purposely, the scriptures describing the true people of God and the destruction of the people responsible for usurping the Kingship of Jesus Christ and having Him crucified to retain the kingdom.

 I recently read an article by Pastor Chuck Baldwin (2-10-2017) where he stated that his former dispensational pro-Zionist pre-tribulational doctrine has come to an end. He has now decided that the modern state of Israel is not the fulfillment of various Old Testament prophecies and instead, is a land grabbing group of terrorists.  

A recent pro-Israel publication reports that only 30% of evangelical Christians stated their support for Israel above Palestinians. The evangelical support for Israel has always been a result of their above-mentioned theology. However a significant factor in the shift away from Zionism is the knowledge of the true situation in Israel and Palestine. This is the primary reason the USG has vetoed many UN resolutions condemning Israeli oppression. The Israelis have always maintained they are the victims of a wide swath of Arabs wanting to kill them for stealing their land.  Christian leaders are now discovering that it is the Israelis who are oppressing the Palestinian population which is a fact some of us have known for some time.

The Transfer Of Authority

According to Dr. Stephen Jones there is a major “Jerusalem” watch day coming up at the end of this year i.e. 2017.  Jerusalem was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar in 604 BC which began a 2520-year captivity of the Jews known in prophecy as a period of “seven times”. This seven times chronological time cycle ended in 1917 when the British general Allenby captured Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire. This is the moment Jacob gave back to Esau the control of the land of Canaan as prophesied by Isaac to Esau (refer to Genesis 27:39-40, if you happen to be interested). 

However Jerusalem and Judea had a 100 year time of independence between the end of Greek control (the age of the Maccabees) prior to the beginning of Roman control. Therefore the beast rule (the five beasts prophesied in Daniel 2 and 7) was extended from 1917 to 2017. The year 2017 is also 70 years from the Palestinian resolution in 1947. The year 2017 is also one Jubilee cycle from the Six-Day War in 1967 when the Israelis took control of Jerusalem. October 2017 may be the transfer of authority from the based systems to the saints of the most high as in Daniel 7:22, 25, 27. This could also be a watch day for the current city of Jerusalem. Isaiah 29 appears to speak of the destruction of Jerusalem, perhaps as a nuclear attack.  Jesus will not rule during the Kingdom of God (Millennial rest period) from the Old Jerusalem but from the New Jerusalem sent from heaven to earth (see Revelation 3:12 and 21:2).

Daniel's Prophecy of Seventy Weeks

DANIEL’S PROPHECY OF SEVENTY WEEKS

Daniel 9:24-27 KJV  Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.  

(25)  Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.  (26)  And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

(27)  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, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

A specific interpretation of Daniel’s 70 weeks is an important linchpin for the pre-tribulation rapture crowd. They even consider it to be the most important prophecy in the Bible, particularly for their doctrine. The Scofield-deluded, dispensational, pre-tribulation interpreters generally devise a way to have the crucifixion of Jesus as the end of the 69^th week with the 70^th week transform into a future tribulation era that is usually correlated to the revelation. Since most commentators have a different concept of the correlation of the 70^th week to the revelation, there are various understandings and interpretations of John’s book.

For the record, it is my opinion, based on the work of Dr. Steven Jones, that Jesus was born in 2 BC and was crucified on April 3, 33 A.D. the 69^th week ended in April 26 AD with the Sabbath year beginning a few months later in September. The crucifixion of Jesus was also the preparation day for Passover where the sacrificial lambs were killed. This would also include Jesus who was the sacrificial lamb for everyone who has ever lived on planet Earth. The 70^th week of Daniel spans from April 26 to April 33 A.D. as a point of reference Sabbath years actually began in September for those years.

Putting the revelation argument aside for a moment let’s look at the interpretations of Daniel’s 70 weeks. I have read several interpretations but not all of them. Most of them have different and varied dates for the birth and crucifixion of Jesus. Likewise these commentators give several starting dates to begin the 70 weeks.

Gabriel told Daniel the start of the 70 weeks would be a decree or permission to restore and rebuild Jerusalem.  The original Cyrus decree was issued in 534 BC which was 566 years before 33 AD which would have been 76 years to early. Almost a century ago some Bible scholars formed a theory claiming that Cyrus actually lived in the 450’s BC rather than the 530’s. Their supposed proof postulated that some of the kings in the Persian king list were actually the same king going by different names or titles therefore moving history forward almost 80 years. However, a recent archaeological discovery with complete names of all the Persian kings has proven their theory to be false and that Cyrus actually lived during the 530’s BC and his first decree was issued in 534 BC.

However, there was a 2^nd decree issued 76 years later than the decree of Cyrus and this is the actual decree that begins the 70 weeks or 490 years. This was issued by Artaxerxes in 458 BC and this date is precisely 490 years prior to 33 A.D. which can be verified in the book of Ezra 7:11-13.

Ezra 7:6-7 KJV  This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.  (7)  And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

Ezra 7:11-13 KJV  Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.  (12)  Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.  (13)  I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.

Two Kings Named Cyrus

Xerxes died in 465 BC in the first year of his successor Artaxerxes was the year 464 BC. Josephus tells us in his writings that Artaxerxes had another name. This name was Cyrus but the Greeks called him Artaxerxes. This dual name could be prophetic. The original Cyrus issued the first decree allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem and build the second Temple. 76 years later Artaxerxes basically did the same thing. This may be the reason past historians consider them to be the same person.

Other Aspects

Since the pre-tribulation rapture group insists that the 70^th week is a future occurrence during which the events of the revelation are fulfilled, they also insist that their preconceived interpretations of the revelation are revealed in the 70 week prophecy. Daniel 9:26 which speaks about ”the people of the prince that shall come” is transform into the so-called antichrist or beast who is not a future event but is the papacy of the Roman church.

Daniel 9:27 speaks of the covenant being confirmed for one week. In the middle of the week He i.e. God will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to stop. This did not actually happen in the temple in Jerusalem but was a decree issued by God. This was the date that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and was named the Lamb of God taking away the sins of the world.  At that point, from God’s perspective, sacrifices were no longer necessary because the New Covenant had been instituted.

Judah had failed to enact 70 rest years which is the reason God sent them into captivity for 70 consecutive years. This can be seen in 2 Chronicles 36:20-21.

2 Chronicles 36:20-21 KJV  And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:  (21)  To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

This judgment was specified in Leviticus 26:34-35 where God said he would exile them from the land for the sin of not respecting the sabbatical years.  During the period of “threescore and two years” (62 years) as written in Daniel 9:26, Judah kept the majority of the rest years but never even one Jubilee was honored, which meant their debt to the law of God continued to add up. It has been said that God’s solution for this particular issue (and many others) was to send the Messiah to pay the debt by sacrificing his own blood at the end of the final week.  Jesus was sent as the mediator of the new covenant.  One of the missions of Jesus, as the Messiah, was to teach mankind how to enter into God’s Jubilee rest.  The coming Millennium will be the seventh “thousand year era” of creation and will be God’s Jubilee rest.

A reading the KJV version of Daniel 9:26 appears to indicate the Messiah would arrive after 69 years, Jerusalem would then be destroyed seven years later with the Messiah being killed as well. An army of the prince would destroy the temple and the city and the Messiah would be left with nothing at all. It is possible Daniel could have understood the prophecy in this manner, but history paints a different picture in the above description did not happen.

Daniel 9:26 KJV And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined

Daniel 9:26 Brenton Septuagint  And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint the city to desolations.

The Septuagint translation gives a slightly different version than the KJV. The “anointed one shall be destroyed” rather than “Messiah shall be cut off” ending with “there is no judgment in him” versus “but not for himself”.  In other words, the Septuagint understands this to mean that the coming Messiah would be mistreated and judged falsely, which we know to be true.

The Septuagint translation also makes Daniel 9:27 much clearer and understandable.  The KJV appears to make the Messiah responsible for the stopping of the sacrifice and the oblation along with the overspreading of abominations and making a desolation. The Septuagint simply says the sacrifice and drink offering will be taken away and the temple itself will be made desolate.  To be desolate needs to be deserted or absent of something. It can also mean to be astonished, appalled, astounded, or awestruck. Many people indeed were astonished at the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple.

Daniel 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, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

Daniel 9:27 Brenton Septuagint  And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away: and on the temple shall be the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation.

The “many” does not refer to a handful or even a large group of people but is to be contrasted with “the one person” or one individual. In Romans 5:16-18, Paul shows that one man’s sin (Adam) affected the many and one Man’s righteous act (Jesus) also affected the many. Therefore the many is everyone except the one.

The flood is not a literal flood but a metaphor as in Proverbs 27:4.  It is similar to saying Jerusalem was conquered by a flood of soldiers.

Proverbs 27:4 NLT  Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous.