DESTROYERS AND
BETRAYERS
1-21-2017
1-21-2017
An enemy will destroy you but a friend will betray you.
David, Absalom,
& Ahithophel
King David’s son, Absalom desired to be king during the
reign of David and he plotted to have David killed. Absalom began his assault by ingratiating himself
with many of the citizens by acting as a sympathetic judge for their
issues. Eventually, it became known that
Absalom had convinced enough people to side with him. David, who loved his son, would not take
vengeance into his own hands and traveled out of Jerusalem with an army of men
and separated himself from the attempted coup.
David’s longtime friend and counselor, Ahithophel,
appeared to side with Absalom and gave him a plan to overtake David. Through an act of God, Ahithophel’s advice
was replaced by advice from a friend of David who had gone to Absalom
pretending to be an ally. When his plan
was not followed and it appeared that Absalom was not following his advice,
Ahithophel went to his residence, put his affairs in order and hanged himself.
Absalom’s new plan and strategy was to personally lead an
army against David. In route to the war
zone while riding a mule, Absalom’s hair got tangled into the limbs of a tree
and he was left hanging by his hair.
Joab, a military leader of David, threw darts at Absalom and allowed ten
young soldier’s to kill him.
Jesus, Judas, &
the Jewish Leaders
The Gospel story concerning the plot to undermine and
eliminate Jesus by the Jewish leaders is generally well known by the majority
of Bible students. Most theologians
agree the Jewish priests and teachers knew or highly suspected that Jesus was
the prophesied Messiah or at least a mighty prophet of God. It is said they desired a military type
candidate who would rid the land of the Romans and institute a kingdom where
the Judeans would rule the world. A
suffering Messiah did not meet their expectations. It has also been said they did not desire to
relinquish their power and authority to a Messiah who did not agree with their
religious concepts and practices as well as their military aspirations. As such, the Jewish leaders were the usurpers
of the throne as was Absalom during the reign of David.
Judas, a friend of Jesus, was the betrayer, the son of perdition (apoleia).
John 17:12 KJV While I was with them in the world, I kept
them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is
lost, but the son of perdition (apoleia);
that the scripture might be fulfilled.
The majority of theologians believe that Judas remained a
friend of Jesus, but desired that He take control of the leaders, prove his
Messianic authority, and become the Messiah King of Judea. His supposed plan was to place Jesus into a
position where it would be necessary for Him to provide a miraculous miracle to
finally convince everyone that He was indeed the promised Messiah. Judas, apparently, did not fully understand
the plan of God that was being fulfilled by Jesus. It appears that other disciples did not fully
understand the plan of God for Jesus but they did not concoct such a dangerous
plan of action. Judas took money from
the priests because he was the type of person more than willing to collect
money. When events didn’t go as planned,
his guilt and shame for the events he precipitated, led him to return the money
and hang himself.
Ahithophel was a friend of David and Judas was a friend
of Jesus. Whatever the reason for their
betrayal, the realization of their actions led both to hang themselves. David was a type of Christ and and God
allowed him to return to his kingdom.
Jesus, required to fulfill the plan of God, was crucified and then
resurrected but returned to His throne at the right hand of God. Absalom, the usurper, was killed and his plot
against David came to an end. The Jewish
leaders remained living but their temple and city were destroyed in 70 AD during
which many priests were killed and others dispersed around the known world.
Jesus, the
Little Horn, & the Zionists
The above two stories of betrayal, in which a throne was
attempted to be usurped from the rightful king has a third prophetic
fulfillment. The third instance will be
connected to the return of Christ for His second work.
The beast from the sea of Revelation must be understood
as the “little horn” of Daniel 7 and the scarlet beast of Revelation 17. The “little horn”, as its name implies, is an
extension of the Roman Empire or the Roman Church controlled by the
Papacy. When the Empire fell, the Roman
Church took power and control. The
finances of the Roman Church were given to the Rothschild banking system
several years after the French Revolution when the reigning Pope was killed in
prison by Napoleon and then later reinstated when Napoleon believed he needed a
Pope to crown him as emperor. This beast
was a persecutor of any Christian holding any view contrary to that of the
Church prior to the French Revolution. It (the beast) also “goes to destruction (apoleia)” at some point in the future (perhaps
the near future).
apōleia apoleia
Thayer Definition: 1) destroying, utter destruction 2) a perishing, ruin,
destruction
Revelation 17:11 KJV And the beast that was, and is not, even
he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition (or destruction)
(apoleia).
The modern usurpers are, again, the so-called Jews in the
modern nation of Israel and around the world.
Several articles have already been written about this mixture of
Khazarian gangsters, Edomite Jews, and perhaps a few actual Jews. Some of their group financed the Scofield
commentary Bible which spawned the dispensational pre-tribulation rapture
theory. They (the Jews) claim to be
God’s chosen people with no need for Jesus Christ, the New Testament or the
Church, and that their Old Testament religion continues to be valid, although
it is not.
The pre-tribulation rapture people think the Church will
be raptured at heaven so that God can deal with the Jews without the Christians
in their way. They also consider the
Church to be a kind of secondary or subordinate event in the plan of God
concerning His dealings with the Jews (or Israel as they claim all the tribes
constitute the Jews which they do not).
The betrayer is no longer a single individual but a group
of people called the Christian Zionists which includes the pre-tribulation
rapturists. Their main focus, whether
they are aware or not, is assisting the Jews to steal the birthright promise
and the birthright name which is Israel. Both the birthright promise and the
birthright name were given to the sons of Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh) and not
to any person claiming descent from the tribe of Judah or Benjamin. After the separation, the northern ten
tribes, which included Ephraim, retained the name of Israel and the southern
kingdom called themselves Judah.
The Christian Zionists are inadvertently betraying Jesus
by supporting the desire of the Jewish leaders to usurp the throne of Jesus and
usurp the birthright of Joseph and the name “Israel” which was given to Jacob, then Joseph, and lastly Ephraim.
Jews, and others, who are not of the remnant of grace
desire to usurp the name Israel for themselves.
They claim to be chosen by God, by basing their claim on the flesh as if
they are descendants of Abraham. Jacob
was not born with the name Israel. It
was given to him by God through an angel after he realized that God is in
control rather than himself.
When northern Israel (ten tribes) was taken to Assyria,
the birthright appeared to be lost, along with the so-called “lost tribes of
Israel.” More than a century after this, the southern House of Judah went into
a 70-year captivity to Babylon, and then returned in order that Jesus might be
born in Bethlehem of Judah, as prophesied in Micah 5: 2. When Jesus came to Judah in His first
appearance, He came to claim the scepter and throne of His father David. But in
His second appearance, He comes to claim the birthright of Joseph and to take
back the name Israel from those who usurped the name for themselves in 1948.
Revelation 19:13 portrays Jesus returning with a “vesture
dipped in blood”. When Joseph’s brothers
threw him into a pit and then sold him to Ishmaelites traveling to Egypt, they dipped his coat into the blood of
a killed goat as a false report that he died of injuries. The two appearances of Jesus are
required. The first appearance was to
receive the dominion promise of the scepter given to Judah, which is the right
to rule. The second appearance will be
to receive the fruitfulness promise given to Joseph and then handed to Ephraim.
Revelation 19:13 KJV And he was clothed with a vesture dipped
in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
Genesis 37:31 KJV And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a
kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
What is fruitfulness?
The gospel can bear fruit by growing in number and spreading to many
people. People can bear fruit by living the
commandments of Jesus which is essentially:
Loving God the Father and loving one’s neighbor as oneself. Note that the first Christians were
Benjamites and Jews, then Greeks, and then Europeans. The majority of Christians are western
Europeans, Americans, Australians, Canadians, and those of New Zealand. These groups are mostly all the descendants
of the ten tribes of northern Israel (excluding Africans, Hispanics, and Arabs,
although God welcomes all people into the Kingdom of God).
Even if all the modern Jews are from the tribe of Judah
and/or Benjamin they do not possess the right to call themselves Israel because
they are not descendants of the ten tribes of northern Israel. They can, however, be again included as one
of Israel by confessing faith and allegiance to Jesus Christ.
The beast from the sea, or the little horn, is a
religious beast which has expanded beyond the Roman Church with many Protestant
denominations. It is the disciple and “friend”
of Jesus who ends up betraying Him at the end of the age. This religious beast,
then, is a Christian beast. The little
horn or beast will be judged when the corporate entity “goes to destruction”.
