Parallels between Revelation 13 and the Torah are found regarding the activity of the second beast/false prophet posing as the prophet Elijah, with Christ revealing to John that this anti-Elijah will renew the Sinai marriage covenant in Israel for the anti-Christ in the assumed role of a priest or that of the high priest Aaron as expected by Hasidic rabbis. See this post for further reading.
This false Elijah is seen accomplishing 3 important goals (among others) in Revelation 13 to fulfill the expectations of rabbis interpreting Malachi 4.4-6; 3.1:
1) Renewing the Sinai covenant/Mosaic law in defiance of the New Covenant (in OT terms: the mark/name of God sealed in the head and hand of the congregation in dedication of thoughts and works);
2) Numbering the regathered tribes in a census (OT: the number of men by family name);
3) Restoring the sacrificial system (OT: buying and selling sacrifices and offerings, as seen with the money changers and merchants thrown out of the temple by Yeshua)
These 3 events are tightly compressed in brief references in the text of Revelation 13.16-18 as follows:
Revelation 13.16a And he causes all, the small and the great, and THE RICH AND THE POOR,
THIS IS REFERENCE TO THE RICH AND POOR ALIKE NUMBERED IN A CENSUS CONDUCTED BY AARON AND MOSES; THEY WERE ALSO TAXED FOR THE SANCTUARY SERVICES/ATONEMENT AS IN THE TORAH:
Exodus 30.14-15 Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the contribution to the LORD. THE RICH shall not pay more AND THE POOR shall not pay less than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the LORD to make atonement for yourselves.
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Revelation 13.16b and the free men and the slaves, to be given a MARK ON THEIR RIGHT HAND OR ON THEIR FOREHEAD,
THIS IS REFERENCE TO THE MOSAIC LAWS/FEASTS KEPT ON THE FOREHEAD AND HAND AS IN THE TORAH (SEE ALSO TEFILLIN):
Exodus 13.9-10 And it shall serve as a SIGNto you ON YOUR HAND, and as a reminder ON YOUR FOREHEAD, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a powerful hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt. Therefore, you shall keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.
See also Deu 6.4-9; 11.13-21; these texts are encapsulated in leather cases [tefillin] marked with the name Shaddai and worn upon the hand and forehead by observant Jews during the Shema prayer beginning at Deuteronomy 6.4 which refers to the Oneness (Echad) of the Sinai Covenant marriage with YHWH as the head of Elohim (collective noun, plural form of ‘El’). In the future the renewed Sinai covenant will be a universal oneness or ‘Singularity’ for secularists conditioned by shows like Star Trek with Vulcan hive mind concepts including the Vulcan hand salute which is the Judeo-Masonic ‘shin’ (initial letter for Shaddai) hand sign held up during the Aaronic Benediction when the congregation is theoretically sealed in the head and hand with the name/mark of God and receive His Holy Spirit aka the Shekhinah aka Shaddai and become One in spirit, only it will be a Oneness with Satan when his false messiah is set up as an idol like Aaron’s golden calf during the great rebellion/falling away which included spiritual and physical harlotry after taking wine (a symbol of covenant marriage and becoming one) just before Moses returned from above as Yeshua will do.
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Revelation 13.17a so that no one can BUY OR SELL
REFERENCE TO BUYING/SELLING OF OFFERINGS FOR THE TEMPLE AMONG CONGREGANTS AS IN THE TORAH:
Leviticus 5.15 If a person acts unfaithfully and sins unintentionally against the LORD’S holy things, then he shall bring his guilt offering to the LORD: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation in silver by shekels, with the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.
Matthew 21.12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were BUYING AND SELLING in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
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Revelation 13.17b unless he has the mark, THE NAME OF THE BEAST,
(Revelation 14.11 further clarifies that mark = name: “whoever receives the mark of his name.” The Aramaic text of Rev 13.17 reads: “the mark of the name of the beast/creature”)
REFERENCE TO THE MARK/NAME OF THE LORD (THE HOLY SPIRIT) RECEIVED BY THE CONGREGATION IN THE MARRIAGE COVENANT THROUGH THE LIFTING OF HANDS IN THE AARONIC BENEDICTION AS IN TORAH:
Numbers 6.27 So shall they PUT MY NAME UPON THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, and I will bless them.
Leviticus 9.22-23 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings. Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
(Also compare Lev 9.24 with one of the signs of Elijah proving him to be a prophet of God in 1Kings 18 and then compare Revelation 13.13-14, 2Th 2.9.)
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Revelation 13.17c or THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME.
REFERENCE TO THE CENSUS NUMBERING OF THE TRIBES LISTED BY HEADS OF FAMILY NAMES COUNTED BY AARON AND MOSES IN TORAH (BOOK OF NUMBERS) AND LATER BY THE PRIEST EZRA.
Numbers 1.2 Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to THE NUMBER OF NAMES, every male, head by head
(“Names” is also used as a metonym for ‘people’ in Rev 3.4)
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Revelation 13.18a Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding count the number of the beast, for it is THE NUMBER OF A MAN;
REFERENCE TO THE CENSUS OF REGATHERED ISRAELITES IN THE BOOK OF EZRA:
Ezra 2.1-2 Now these are the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city. These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum and Baanah. THE NUMBER OF THE MEN of the people of Israel
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Revelation 13.18b and his number is 666.
REFERENCE TO THE NUMBER OF A MAN’S FAMILY AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CENSUS CONDUCTED BY EZRA THE PRIEST (THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH MAY ALSO LIST THE NUMBER INCLUSIVELY, OR WAS NUMBERED AT A DIFFERENT TIME)
Ezra 2.13 the sons of Adonikam, 666
Nehemiah 7.18 the sons of Adonikam, 667
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Other highlights of the false prophet found in Revelation 13 further link him to the role of Aaron (“light-bringer”) as high priest including leading the rebellion/falling away in idolatry/abomination (2Th 2.3-4) and speaking deceptively as the nachash/serpent/dragon (Cp Ex 4.14, 32.24-25; Gen 3.1, 3.7; 2Cor 11.3; Rv 13.11). Also, as Elijah raised the widow’s son from the dead prompting the widow to declare, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth” (1Kings 17:24) so in imitation we see that the false messiah is also revived back to life — may he also be a widow’s son? See Rev 18.7
(Compare the story of Christ reviving a widow’s son and how He is then mistaken as the expected Elijah, “the Expected One,” ironically by John the Baptist in Luke 7.12-19; John Baptist also fulfilled this role in spirit when he baptized Yeshua – an image of rebirth/resurrection, receiving the Spirit as a dove, enters the wilderness to be tempted 40 days ((40 is associated biblically with a lifespan/generation and 40 weeks is the average human gestation period before birth out of the waters of the womb, born out of darkness, tohu and bohu, into light with a cry – themes of Rosh Hashanah, the new year, when Yeshua was physically born in 3 BCE as depicted astronomically in Revelation 12.1-2, more here and here)) and then begins His ministry. John the Baptist who came in the spirit of Elijah was also from Aaron’s lineage, Luke 1.5).
After the false messiah’s resurrection, he then has an idol or image made of him by the fake Elijah, similar to Aaron with the golden calf, which is given life and made to be worshiped along with or as the false messiah himself (Zech 11.17 “Woe to the idol shepherd..a sword upon his arm and upon his right eye..”):
Revelation 13.13 I saw one of his heads as if it had been slain, and his fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast;
Revelation 13.12b And he makes the earth/land and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
Revelation 13.14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life. (Cf Zech 11.17)
Revelation 13.15 15 And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
Revelation 12.11-12 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death. For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.
Revelation 2.10-11 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.
Matthew 5.12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 10.28 Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
In summary, the false prophet as the second beast of Revelation 13 is characterized as speaking like a dragon — the serpent/nachash in the garden, deceptively, who deceives Israel as Eve was deceived (2Cor 11.3) [Eve chose the wicked son as the promised Seed of the woman (She conceived and begot Cain (קַ֔יִן), and she said, “I have gotten (קָנִ֥יתִי) a man — YHWH.” -Gen 4.1) and dismissed the good son Abel/Hebel (הָ֑בֶל – vapor, vanity, nothing), the slain shepherd who’s sacrifice God favored.] Aaron was also characterized as a skilled speaker when his name is introduced for the first time (Exo 4.14) and we see him speak deceptively when explaining to Moses how the golden calf came about (Exo 32.22-24), and he misled the congregation, just as the false prophet posing as Elijah will do (Rev 13.15), who is expected by the rabbis to renew the Sinai covenant (mark of the name of the Lord), bring back the sacrifices (buying and selling in the temple) regather and number the 12 tribes (numbering of names) and of course introduce the (false) messiah set up as an idol after being restored from a deadly head wound (son of destruction, the abomination that brings destruction spoken of by Daniel and Yeshua, see also Zech 11.17) — this is what is happening in Revelation 13.
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(2021-12-07 Addendum: The following is adapted from a discussion thread on a youtube video where I discuss the identity of the two witnesses as being Moses and Elijah – not Enoch and Elijah as some believe, including myself many years ago. I stumbled upon something while thinking about this subject that I hadn’t realized before. Revelation does seem to hint at Enoch also serving as a witness at the end of the age, not just in Jerusalem as the two witnesses do (although the nations will be there too worshiping, cf Rev 11.2,9), but to the whole world.)
I can only see one biblical point in favor of Enoch being one of the two witnesses – the fact that he was taken up by God and having the potential to return in person; however this is not a prerequisite since John the Baptist and Elisha show us it could be in the spirit as in the case of Elijah.
Moses on the other hand has several points in favor of being one of the two witnesses:
1) The fact that he is the only other one named with Elijah in the vision of Yeshua’s return and transfiguration in glory is a very obvious clue. Enoch is nowhere mentioned.
2) The two witnesses are described doing signs Moses and Elijah performed in the old testament, which Enoch never performed — this is more important than some may realize as it is the way to identify them as we see in the bible, for instance when Yeshua raised the widow’s son from the dead, like Elijah raised the widow’s son from the dead, John the baptist ironically thought Yeshua might be the “expected one,” ie. Elijah promised to come in the book of Malachi, and didn’t realize he himself was Elijah in spirit which Yeshua then explains following this and clarifies further after the transfiguration vision (another way to look at this is John may have had sought clarification about Yeshua as being the “expected” Messiah after fulfilling the role of Elijah in His miracle of raising the widow’s son).
The question is then, how did John the baptist fulfill the role of Elijah?
Spiritually speaking, John raised Yeshua from the dead in the water baptism in the Jordan after which Yeshua is witnessed by John receiving the Holy Spirit/the heavenly Light when He was raised up with the voice of God witnessing who Yeshua is. The voice from heaven is also present when Moses and Elijah appear in the vision at the transfiguration, making 3 witnesses, and the voice from heaven is present with the two witnesses in Rev 11.12; this is like the voice from heaven in the time of Moses and Aaron, both who stood before the throne of God like the two anointed ones (literally “son of the oil”) standing before/over the Lord in heaven as seen in Zechariah 4.14, which is also like the spirit of Michael and Gabriel, the right and left hand of the Lord, power and might, also symbolized by the two pillars before the temple, etc.
3) Moses is named beside Elijah in Malachi 4.4-5 where it prophesies of his return before the great and terrible day of the Lord – not Enoch.
4) Yeshua told the Judeans that Moses, not Enoch, accuses them to the Father in John 5.45, and this is what the two witnesses are doing in Revelation 11 – witnessing against their corruption to the point where they are slain and their deaths celebrated over. Gentiles (converts who take the mark of the name of the false messiah/first beast and enter into his covenant) from the nations will also see these things in Jerusalem as they will be in the outer court of the new temple for 42 months (Rev 11.2, 9).
5) Enoch is not mentioned in the bible as ever being with Israel and the Judeans and was a Gentile who had the witness of faith (Hebrews 11.5) not under the law so he could not effectively serve as a witness against corrupt Israel/Judea legally the way Moses the law giver and Elijah the great reformer could having both experienced and witnessed against their rebellion in their own day and again in Rev 11.7 performing the same signs and plagues Moses and Elijah did – not Enoch. The law of Moses is intimately involved in the prophesy of Malachi 4.4-5, serving as a witness of their past and future rebellion Moses records in the Torah (Deut 31.29, cf Rev 13.14, Exo 32.4) .
6) The two witnesses are imitated by the two beasts performing similar signs and wonders, which recalls the showdown of Moses and Aaron vs the two magicians in Egypt, but now the two impostures are the false messiah and the false prophet in Judea (hence Jerusalem is called spiritual Egypt in Rev 11.8). Moses is also a messianic figure, not Enoch, whose antithesis is the first beast/false messiah, and Elijah is the expected prophet who the second beast/false prophet is the antithesis of. Moses prophesied of a prophet coming after him performing similar signs (Deut 34.10-12) which Enoch did not perform and doesn’t fit the descriptions of the two witnesses.
7) As a side note, I believe Enoch, a Gentile, will also serve as a witness – to the Gentile nations! In Revelation 14.6 there is an angel (lit. “messenger”) in midheaven preaching the “eternal gospel” (eternal includes from the time of Enoch) to every nation, tribe, tongue and people — this matches up perfectly with the acts of Enoch who was a preacher and spoke of the very things that are soon to occur in Rev 14.6, “Behold the Lord comes with myriads of His holy ones to execute judgement upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of their ungodly deeds..” (Jude 1.14-15). The angels John speaks with in Revelation are described as being fellow servants and brothers of the prophets, so Enoch would logically also be described as an angel, similar to how Elijah (and Moses) would be — and of course Elijah is called a messenger (“angel”) in the book of “Malachi” (3.1) which literally means, “my angel/messenger.”
So I agree that Enoch will serve as a witness, only he is sent to the whole world, not just Babylon/Jerusalem as the two witnesses are, Moses and Elijah.
Praise Yeshua, His plan is awesome!
[Earlier in the discussion:]
I understand the argument about Enoch and used to believe it but I have to lean on God’s understanding and not my own and it is impossible for me to deny what the 3 synoptic gospels show us who Elijah is with when Yeshua showed Peter, James and John: Moses.
The rule about being appointed once to die doesn’t rule out dying more than once however — one example is Lazarus who was raised from the dead; he must have died later as we have no information that He was later taken up to heaven (to think he did would be the bigger assumption of the two options). Another example is the widow’s son raised from the dead by Elijah in 1 Kings 17.21-23. There are other examples as well.
Another likely possibility is that it is speaking of the spirit of Elijah and Moses upon the two witnesses; we know this is possible because the scriptures say John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah, and Elisha also had the spirit (double portion no less!) of Elijah before.
Another idea to consider is that Paul said some will still be alive when Yeshua returns and they will be changed into glorified bodies in the twinkling of the eye — does that not mean this is counted as a death and is this what happened to Enoch when He was taken up?
These are deep things, this is why I rely on the revelation Yeshua provided showing Moses and Elijah — For me, I have to side with the text and the fact that Revelation 11 describes the signs Moses and Elijah performed by the two witnesses who are also both named in the vision of this window of time at the end of the age. I don’t think that’s just a coincidence.
Plus Yeshua told the corrupt leaders of Jerusalem/Judeans that Moses would accuse them per John 5.45 (ie., witness against them) not Islamic leaders. Elijah was a witness against corrupt Israel as well and Yeshua was hated for reminding them so much they tried to throw Him off a cliff! (Luke 4.24.30; 1King 19.10, 14); and Moses was there with Elijah already serving as witnesses to the 3 apostles in the vision who I believe are the 2 unnamed men in bright white linen seen at key points like inside the empty tomb and when Yeshua was taken up at the beginning of Acts, etc. Perhaps this is to serve as witnesses of the works of Yeshua at the end of the age?
Don’t forget Moses is also mentioned in connection with Elijah in Malachi.
Blessings in Yeshua’s mighty name.
(2022-09-22 Addendum: Snippet from a post I made in response to a preterist on a Youtube video)
Lastly, for those with ears to hear, John sent disciples to ask Yeshua if he was the “expected one” many assume he meant messiah, but this question was posed right after Christ resurrected the widow’s son (Luke 7.12-29) — which is the sign of Elijah in the OT; therefore it makes more biblical sense that John had second thoughts that Yeshua could be Elijah which is more evidence that John understood he himself was not Elijah, though he filled the role of Elijah as a forerunner of the first coming just as the scriptures teach spiritually, and plainly speaking (Luke 1.17). Yeshua, who mostly spoke in parables and in spiritual terms, then pointed back to John as Elijah in response (quoting Malachi 3.1 identified with Elijah in Mal 4.5), which consulting all the scriptures shows is in the spirit and power of Elijah (ie, John raised Christ from the dead, spiritually speaking, which is depicted in the water baptism which he performed in the Jordan river when the Spirit Light in the form of a dove came down from heaven to dwell upon the Lord when He was raised out of the water — similar themes go back beyond Elijah to Genesis 1 creation, cf John 1).
The second beast/false prophet will also perform a false wonder that appears to raise the first beast/false messiah from a deadly head wound showing that he is imitating Elijah to deceive his followers, which of course didn’t happen in 70AD and so false teachers (Preterists) must misdirect the prophetic warnings in online campaigns away from awareness of the pending agenda of the false messiah and his false Elijah. Temple Institute in Jerusalem has almost everything ready.
Expanded from another yt post (2023-01-07):
While I lean to the two witnesses coming in the spirit and power of Moses and Elijah, which simplifies things dramatically, I cannot definitively/ dogmatically rule out the actual Moses and Elijah being the two witnesses themselves transfigured from their spiritual existence in heaven back into flesh on earth; or at least Elijah could be transfigured (apparently having never died with his spirit separated from his body) back to earthly flesh, and could then resurrect Moses who did die and whose remains are hidden to this day.
On the other hand, would it be possible for Elijah to even die as one of the witnesses (Rev 11,8) after having already become a perfected spirit (Heb 12.23) and transfigured into an indestructible body (1Cor 15.52), if indeed he can be transfigured into an indestructible body before the second coming. In the case of Moses however, he has not yet received an indestructible body since he has not been resurrected in glory through Christ (unless he was among the first fruits with Christ?) — which brings up the question if this is also a requirement for men like Elijah and Enoch even though they have already been taken to heaven before death or undergoing a glorified resurrection or at least changed at the time of this resurrection (1Cor 15.51-2). Perhaps we will have to wait to find out these things while also bearing in mind that nothing is too difficult for the Lord to accomplish.
Please read this together with a previous entry: 666 – The Revelation from Moses and Ezra. The following is adapted and expanded from my post on 2018-07-15in a thread I started at Peshitta.org
In Semitic thought “mark” and “name” are generally synonymous.
Jastrow’s dictionary lists the definition for שֵׁם (shem) as “mark” before “name”:
That the “mark of the beast” refers to his name (imitating the true Name of God sealed in the 144,000 faithful remnant) is explicit in Rev 14.11:
“..And they will not have relief, day or night, those who were worshiping the creature (beast) and his image and who took the mark of his name”
Tefillin (or phylacteries) are marked with the Hebrew letter ‘shin’ (ש) for the name “Shaddai” and set on the forehead and hand/arm as a sign of dedicating thoughts and works as obliged in the old covenant literalizing verses Exo 13.9, 16 and Deu 6.8, 11.8 which are also written on tiny scrolls and encased in the tefillin. These tefillin cases were later elaborated for appearances (cf Mat 23.5). Note the tefillin is currently worn on the left hand/arm – this may one day change according to Rev 13.16 as the expected ‘Elijah’ will have rabbinic authority to change laws/observances and settle legal disputes at the behest of the (false) Messiah recalling Dan 7.25, Rev 13.7. In any case, the apostasy/rebellion is spiritual in nature regardless of outward symbols and physical marks used for signs.
Following the (renewed) Sinai covenant, in accordance with Torah instructions, the Name/Mark would be set upon the congregation during the Aaronic Benediction where, traditionally, the hands form two shins (ש) for the name Shaddai — also marked on the leather tefillin set on the forehead and hand/arm — which is the Holy Spirit (the ‘Shekhinah’ glory in rabbinic literature) given to the congregation as the bride of YHWH. The two hand-shins touching at the index fingers and thumbs form a triangle which is held up during the priestly blessing over the people who are then sealed with the Name of God and receive the Holy Spirit and become one (echad) spirit as the husband and wife become one flesh in a marriage covenant.
“And they shall put my name upon the children [sons] of Israel; and I will bless them.” (Num 6.27)
Or as the Aramaic Targumists say:
“And they shall bestow the benediction of My Name upon the sons of Israel, and I will bless them” (Onkelos)
“And they shall bestow the benediction of My Name upon the sons of Israel, and I, by My Word, will bless them.” (Pseudo-Jonathan)”
Receiving the Name of God and Holy Spirit came with great responsibility and required walking uprightly as a representative of God’s people as a nation of priests headed by the High Priest who alone bore the Name openly upon his forehead thus bearing the sins of the nation (Cf. Exo 28.36-38 vs Rev 17.5). This is the idea behind the ‘Name Command’ of the 10 Commandments: Thou shalt not take (נשא bear, carry, lift) the name of the LORD (יהוה) thy God in vain (Exo 20.7)
Note the Shekhinah Glory radiating from the cap stone; Yeshua is the stone (אֶבֶן) the builders rejected and is the head of the corner. Psalm 118.22-23 “The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. This is the LORD’S doing; It is marvelous in our eyes.” (Cf Mat 21.42). The verse preceding these famous words names Yeshua (Jesus): “I shall give thanks to You, for You have answered me, and You have become my salvation [yeshua].” (v21). This chapter (Ps 118) is placed between the shortest and longest chapters (Ps 117 and 119) in the entire bible (OT and NT) like a central pillar or head stone. The Hebrew word for “stone” (אבן) merges the words “father” (אב) and “son” (בן) into one. “This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also.” (1John 2.22-23)
God’s Glory (the shining light of the Holy Spirit or “Shekhinah”) dwelled between the wings of the two golden Kerubim images of the ark:
O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock; You who are enthroned [between/above] the cherubim – shine forth! (Psalm 80.1)
It was under the wings of these Kerubim where God’s eye was set watching over His people:
Keep me as the apple [אִישׁוֹןpupil, apple, middle] of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings (Psalm 17.8)
The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat. (Exodus 25.20)
Depiction of the ark of the covenant based on the late Ron Wyatt’s description who claimed to have discovered it hidden in a grotto underneath the crucifixion site of Jesus Christ and that Israeli authorities are aware. Wyatt had a SDA background and taught Christians are to keep the Sabbath (counter to instructions in Acts 15) and that the so-called ‘Sunday law’ is the mark of the beast. Wyatt was also accused of being an Israeli spy by Saudi officials. Posthumously, Wyatt was declared to be related to the tribe of Judah according to a DNA test allowed by family members.
The lifting of the hands in the priestly blessing signifies this seat of God’s glory as it is bestowed upon the congregation and they become one as the two Kerubim are of one piece of gold. (See Luke 24.50, Acts 8.18 and other verses for examples of using the hands to bless and confer the Holy Spirit in the New Testament.) This is when the Name of God is marked or branded upon the congregation having entered into covenant marriage with God (Numbers 6.23-27) as the wife takes the family name of the husband in marriage and they become one flesh.
The first instance of the Levitical high priest Aaron performing the blessing is at the beginning of the Sinai covenant and it is accompanied by fire from heaven as a sign of God’s approval, a theme that recurs when Elijah sought to turn apostate Israel back to a covenant relationship with God as he is expected to do again when he returns before the Messiah comes to reign in accordance with Malachi 4.5-6 (cf Mat 17.10-11; John the Baptist who came in the spirit of Elijah – just as Elisha was bestowed with the spirit and power of Elijah – was also of priestly descent (Luke 1.5), to bear witness (John 1.6-10); Elijah is to also return again (Mat 17.11) fulfilling Malachi 4.5 as one of the two witnesses in Rev 11 as glimpsed in Mat 16.27-17.5 serving already as a witness to the “pillar apostles” on the Mount of Transfiguration (cf 2Pet 1.16-17; Gal 2.9).
Heavenly fire was also accompanied by the giving of the Holy Spirit on the Shavuot (Pentecost) following Christ’s ascension in Acts 2.2-4.
Likewise, the false prophet also appears to call down fire from heaven to show approval from God and sealing the congregation at the renewal of the (perhaps modified) Sinai Covenant in defiance of the New Covenant as announced in Jeremiah 31.31 and instituted in Luke 22.20. This rejection of God was prophesied in Psalm 118.22 (cf Matthew 21.42-45).
Leviticus 9: 22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.
23 Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
24 Then fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
Revelation 13: 13 He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the presence of men.
1Kings 18: 36 At the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, today let it be known that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and I have done all these things at Your word.
37 “Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that You, O LORD, are God, and that You have turned their heart back again.”
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Elijah as a priest, from Jewish Encyclopedia:
Elijah in the role of Aaron (high priest) in the world to come per Zohar interpretation:
This along with conducting a census of the (regathered) tribes of Israel as did Aaron with Moses (Num 1.2; Exo 30.12-16) further supports that the false prophet/second beast imitates Elijah and functions as the High Priest (John the Baptist who came in the spirit of Elijah was also of priestly lineage, Luke 1.5) — and like Aaron with the golden calf he will lead the congregation in rebellion (cf 2Thes 2.3, Greek ἀποστασία “apostasy”; Aramaic: מרודותא “marudutha”) to make an idol, the abomination that brings destruction (cf Rev 13.14-15, Mat 24.15 vs Exo 32.4-10).
Only those who are numbered and marked upon entering into the renewed old covenant will be halachically allowed to ‘buy or sell’ the sacrifices and offerings with temple shekels among the merchants and money changers who Yeshua Jesus removed from the temple. Subdural microchips and cashless money are red herrings from the numerous Torah references made in Revelation 13 describing events, however it cannot be ruled out that such forms of payment may be converted into the prescribed temple shekels (for a fee) in order to participate in the renewed sacrificial system. This payment system was abused in the time of Christ turning the sanctuary into a lucrative money-making scheme run by the priestly families and connected political-religious elite, ie, a den of thieves (Mat 21.13) not unlike the selling of indulgences.
According to Orthodox Jewish (Hasidic) teaching, when Elijah returns he will be in charge of sorting out who belongs to which of the 12 tribes and will establish tribal ancestry (presumably with no little assistance from those genetic ancestry services curiously promoted aggressively for years on TV shows with celebrities and companies like IBM collaborating with National Geographic on the Genographic Project – an interesting development in light of IBM’s history collaborating with Nazi Germany to develop the numbering system used in the concentration camps as Edwin Black documented in “IBM and the Holocaust”). This agrees with the indication of the false prophet (imitating Elijah) conducting a census in Rev 13.17-18 in accordance with Exodus 30.12-16, Numbers 1.2-4, etc [for a detailed study see my blog post, 666 – The Revelation from Moses and Ezra].
[Note: A movement is well underway to map out and database who are believed to be the scattered 12 tribes around the world publicly led by Rabbi Harry Rozenberg who may in fact be a front for or working in concert with Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs who have recently been floating (while denying) the idea of mass conversions of such groups with what they believe to be links to Jewish heritage. In one interview on youtube Rozenberg mentioned conducting a “census” of these ‘lost’ tribes. In other videos (like this one), perhaps in anticipation of the inevitable suspicion of his efforts, he portrays himself in opposition to the ‘Illuminati-Freemasonic’ new world order globalist agenda, etc, etc, etc – meanwhile he’s at the forefront pushing the antichrist plans described in Revelation 13 where the coming false prophet imitating Elijah with fake miracles is in charge of head-counting the regathered ‘Israelites’ in the land (and we know from scripture that genetic/blood/race identity is the major red herring away from the institution of the new covenant, cf Mat 3.9; John 3.3-6; Rom 2.28-9, 4.13-4, 9.6-8; 1Cor 15.50; Gal 3.16-9, 6.15-6; Hosea 1.9-10; etc) and bestowing the mark of the false messiah as God in a covenant through a perverted priestly blessing ceremony and leading a rebellion to create an image to be worshiped as Aaron (אַהֲרֹ֤ן “light bringer”) also did.
The father of American Reform Judaism, Rabbi Isaac Wise, confirmed what some may have already concluded: Freemasonry is a “Jewish institution” (I would specify it more as a so-called ‘Zionist’ front for recruiting hoodwinked and compartmentalized Gentiles for the cause of the ‘great work’ of establishing Solomon’s temple and the Jewish antichrist kingdom to rule all nations). Freemasonry founded America which has been and continues to be the leader in empowering the modern state of Israel until the transfer of full power is complete followed by its (America’s aka Edom per rabbinic teaching) removal as the world superpower well underway now.
Oppenheim, S. (1910). THE JEWS AND MASONRY IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE 1810. Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, (19), 1-94. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43057843
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The following is adapted from a post I made on a video at Bob Walker’s youtube channel
[[**UPDATE 2018-12-08, 07:05 CST: Just 11 hours after this original blog post was published on 2018-11-30 around 5 AM CST, Bob Walker posted a youtube video about God laughing in Psalm 2 just as I discussed in this blog post below with the same verse from Psalm 2. Yet another coincidence – of course. I asked Bob about it and show what he said where the verse is discussed below. End update//]]
2018-09-05:
..The covenant with the antichrist would be the Sinai covenant for Jews and converts, but possibly Noahide for Gentiles. The part about number of man/name are references to numbering the tribes by family names as was done by Moses with Aaron (Numbers 1.2) and later by Ezra (2.2). Numbers 6.27 and Lev 9.22 is where the high priest bestows the Name/mark of God upon the congregation in the priestly blessing with his hands held up together 🙌 and forming two letter shins made famous by Spock 🖖 (together they form a triangle, with the Shekinah glory as they call it, symbolising the ark of the covenant where the glory sat over the cherubim wings touching which has been described as also forming a triangle and where the apple or pupil of God’s eye was in Ps 17.8 (as depicted on the dollar bill which also has the six pointed star surrounded by glory). That masonry is a zionist front for Gentiles was confirmed by the father of American Reform Judaism, Isaac Wise, who said masonry is a Jewish institution. He was also a mason.
[Shortly after posting this I stumbled upon the “Noahide World Center” youtube channel thru a video featuring Rabbi Chaim of Temple Institute at the forefront of ushering in a new Jewish temple in Jerusalem who is warming people up to a universal sabbath in the video.
In addition, on 2018-09-12 I posted the same warning under a thread started by user “Kno Name777” on a video at Kent Hovind’s youtube channel with the above Spock reference and within 3 days Kent started referencing Spock with the Hebrew shin hand sign first on his video from 2018-09-15 @ 19:37 and again on his Q&A video from 2018-09-20 @ 8:00 in what appears to be a staged ‘question’ which really wasn’t a question at all but rather a statement about the shin hand sign – bear in mind these questions are supposedly old emails backed up from many months ago, so what a neat coincidence. Since then Kent has used the Spock reference as a feature in nearly every video as if pre-conditioning his own audience to it following a pattern I’ve noticed many other church leaders are doing with their flocks (as they do in masonic lodges reciting the Aaronic Benediction), which is sad because I defended him in the previous blog post some months ago in May related to the black-ops openly conducted on his channel (which has since died down to just constant trolling from a handful of usual suspects after I documented it in the previous blog post). (Related VIDEO: Kent Hovind and the Deep State Underworld). I have given the benefit of the doubt over several red flags from Hovind before but this one I cannot ignore.
[[2019-01-08 mini-update: And now as if deliberately conditioning his group by degrees, Kent has taken the Vulcan salute a step closer to its origin by using both hands to make the priestly sign of bestowing the mark of the Name during the ‘Birkat Kohanim’ which will be performed by the false prophet (the anti-Elijah) when the ‘mark of the beast’ (rather than the mark of God) is bestowed upon the regathered tribes in the renewal of the Sinai covenant as indicated in Rev 13.16 and expected by the rabbis in their interpretation of Malachi 4.5f, 3.1, etc. Kent even trained his group to make the sign as you can see from the video below when he asks, “everybody got one of them? okay” while doing it (see close-caption in screenshot) showing this was rehearsed like a Jim Jones drill only this is easing people into something much worse in that those who accept the mark upon entering into covenant relationship/marriage with the Antichrist do so as an act of rebellion to God rejecting the new covenant of Jesus Christ and are committing spiritual harlotry.
Coincidentally (or not), about one day before this (on 2019-01-06 per the title) I revisited this subject in a thread started by user ‘Peter Zarcone’ on a video from TYT’s channel. Here’s a screenshot (and like Kent’s channel, the word “God” is filtered out on TYT’s channel so I used “G-d” instead):
Screengrab at 10:18 PM CST on 2019-01-08
End of 2019-01-08 mini-update//]]
[2020-03-12 Update: And now the psy-op conditioning has gone mainstream nationwide on the coattails of the corona virus via the attending physician for Congress as of 2020-03-10* per CNN reporting (see below for screenshot).
Last Saturday night, Sunday morning (March 8th to 9th) during a 12-hour night-shift at work (Neuro ICU), I was discussing with a coworker, Henry, how the COVID-19 scare looks to be overplayed by the media and alt-media alike (both agreeing on the essentials, namely, that this is a major biological threat, man-made or not) and set up as the new scapegoat to fulfill the wishlists of various corrupt regimes around the world.
For example, now governments have the opportunity to more openly convert into an iron-fisted dictatorship – to protect you of course.
The global scare also provides cover for the long-coming market ‘correction’ particularly for the US and China whose economies and markets are closely tied together (a hidden part of the new trade ‘deal’ Trump made with China?) both using the virus as an excuse to control the population, even further, through omnipresent, human rights-shredding surveillance tech (including brainwave surveillance down to exact words and feelings decoded by supercomputers with A.I. perfected by the military long ago which I touched on briefly here), and, in the latter’s case for now, purge portions of society considered a nuisance to the regime (perhaps including but not limited to those inspired by the Hong Kong protests which is already long forgotten in the hysteria). The medical data may indeed be manipulated – not to downplay the scare — they want you scared, but rather to conceal its diminutive threat in this scenario, which would also explain why the US has been slow to test many who should have been, to nip it in the bud.
The US has already set the back story for a major outbreak to occur, for instance right here in San Antonio, Texas, at Lackland Air Force base where one reportedly confirmed case was seeded, and reportedly broke quarantine while on the base under supervision, and then prematurely released by ‘mistake’ triggering a lawsuit by the city mayor against the CDC, and so on.
Additionally, specific threats, for instance in Iran, can be eliminated and blamed on the virus backed by a compliant media which is essentially run by international spy rings already working in unison (via international Freemasonry running military and intel), msm and alt alike, including social media chatter and botnets dominating message boards, choosing the winners/losers with likes/dislikes, algorithms, etc, to manage public perception.
I also brought up how various companies, government bodies, education systems and religious institutions are increasingly having everyone work and congregate from home via the #WWWiretap – forcing civilization further into the cyber control grid, the architecture of the A.I. global mind created by the Pentagon, playing further into the hands of big brother’s global governance and big tech (US DoD fronts) to merge humanity with technology via IT, cybersecurity, biotechnology, nanotechnology, etc openly pushed by front men like Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil as well as the US military as documented elsewhere on this blog (see Counting Coincidences in the Orwellian Panopticon for further reading and reports). This agenda meanwhile is being hyped by transhumanists as the next stage in their evolution mythology, formulated in the Masonic Lodge largely by Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, based on ancient pagan cosmology (see Exposing the Pagan Roots of Evolution Part 1), but never mind all that.
This sudden rush to force our everyday activities even further into the digital control matrix comes just in time with the roll out of 5G to muster larger bandwidths and speeds while serving up the Big Tech universe (US DoD fronts) of Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc., in this stampede into cyber captivity.
And now with the reported threat of cash as a vector for the virus, digital currency is receiving a renewed interest and is provided the needed impetus for the Federal government’s own cryptocurrency, Fedcoin, to rise. For years Fedcoin has been quietly waiting in the wings for just the right crisis to replace paper exchange, streamlining monetary manipulation and make tracking your purchases that much more easy, with the added benefit of providing easier payment to robots (also being praised in the media as helping to contain the virus, as if they couldn’t also become vectors) which are slated to take over much of the workforce and be elevated to citizen status with full rights, including marriage rights, as has already begun in Saudi Arabia of all places with the Hanson robot, “Sophia,” discussed on a previous blog post: Sophia and Eliza: Coincidence by Design.
After I mentioned the point about how this agenda now has an excuse to push humanity further along into the global mind merge through computers and the internet (kinda like the PNAC agenda receiving their desperately needed ‘catalyzing event’), Henry said it reminded him of the Vulcan mind-meld from Star Trek. Of course it did, this concept was introduced into the public mind so that we would be ready for it one day when it was officially rolled out by the government, I said. This human conscious Vulcan mind-melding is even reference specifically by the government in an official report about this converging or ‘singularity’ as some call it (see the text-to-speech eye-opening report giving away the government sponsored agenda in 2002 calling for sweeping revolutionary changes here: US Report Foretells of Brave New World) just as the government used the Star Trek show to gain interest in space exploration and NASA, even naming the Enterprise space shuttle after the Star Trek Enterprise. I also pointed out the similarities between the new US Space Force patch and the Star Fleet Command patch from Star Trek with the stylized ‘arrowhead’ pointing upward.
I briefly mentioned how the Vulcan salute was admittedly taken from the Levitical priestly blessing said over the congregation, originally when the Israelites entered the Sinai covenant to became One with God in marriage receiving the name or mark of God, just as Spock used the hand sign to merge his mind with others becoming one mind; the first Star Trek movie even shows a man merging with technology in the form of a woman (ie, Sophia, Wisdom) creating a new life/cosmos as the climax to the movie. (The Holy Spirit that resided in the holy of holies was called Wisdom in Proverbs 8 and 9, “Sophia” in Greek, or the Shekhinah glory in rabbinic literature). These are deep Judeo-masonic ideas presented in the form of a secular sci-fi movie, planting seeds for generations in this and many other films with deep Judeo-masonic influences steeped in the industry and just about all forms of media.
Left to right: Sophia the Hanson robot and citizen of Saudi Arabia, modeled after Audrey Hepburn; Eliza from the Illuminati card game – Eliza is also the name of an early A.I. computer language, the name is taken from the character Eliza in the musical My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn, itself based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion which in turn is from the Greek mythology where Pygmalion falls in love with one of his sculptures which comes alive — sounds familiar to Rev 13.15? “Is it really alive, or does it just think it is?” the card reads; and Ilia (Persis Khambatta), the embodied cosmic A.I. system that merges with a man making a new creation at the end of Star Trek the Motion Picture – the actress starred in another movie (Warrior of the Lost World, 1983) featuring an A.I. computer named Einstein and a cyborg body-double. Any resemblances are pure coincidence.
Also, as previously stated in this blog post, in Revelation 13 the false prophet posing as Elijah who is expected to renew the Sinai covenant by the rabbis is giving the priestly hand salute which is used as the mark of the Beast (false messiah posing as God) imitating the mark of God going back to said Sinai covenant in the Torah. I showed how the two hands forming the Hebrew letter “Shin” for the name, Shaddai, when held together touching at the forefingers and thumbs formed the triangle (or even the “arrowhead” like on the patches depending on the position of the thumbs now that I think about it) found atop the pyramid surrounded by the glory of the holy of holies on the dollar bill introduced by masons, which was an allusion to the wings of the cherubim lifted up over the ark touching and also forming a triangle with the mercy seat where God’s glory (Holy Spirit, Shekhinah, etc) resided and His watchful eye was set under the wings according to Psalm 17.8. God is also called, “the all-seeing Lord” in 2Maccabees 9.5, see also 15.2, and Abraham Cohen’s “Everyman’s Talmud” p 152).
The main purpose of freemasonry is to rebuild Solomon’s temple for the so-called Zionists, and quoting Rabbi Isaac Wise, founder of American Reform Judaism and Mason, who said Freemasonry was a Jewish institution, etc, further confirms this, which was already clear just from studying the master mason degree of the Blue Lodge and their overall subversive ‘work’ throughout history and the world, not to mention the obvious, namely that masons in practice are all about building and the building they are very concerned with in the lodge is Solomon’s temple. But Yeshua, Jesus, is the true cap stone the builders rejected:
I shall give You thanks, for You have answered me, and You have become my yeshua (“salvation”). The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. This is the LORD’S doing; It is marvelous in our eyes. (Psalm 118.21-23)
We spoke of many more things, but this is the jist.
But like many ideas, this connection I made, about using the corona virus scare to push the antichrist agenda to merge humanity with technology in an unholy marriage covenant (transgenderism being a stepping stone to transhumanism as described in my 2016 video) as depicted in Star Trek to condition the secular atheists with a nod to the renewing of the old Sinai covenant to become One, in defiance of God’s new covenant, through a perverted imitation of the priestly blessing of the mark of God as the seal of His people — this connection was made more explicit just a day or two later by the physician consulted by Congress who instructed them to use the Vulcan hand salute from Star Trek (which again is really the Levitical priestly hand sign, traditionally used in Synagogues and masonic lodges) to greet others, rather than shake hands, in order to minimize the spread of the corona virus. You can’t make this stuff up:
This is the usual pattern which I have documented before on this very blog post above, including on this very subject, in the previous case it was Hovind who began to regularly condition his congregation with the same salute just days after I explained the antichrist link and how it was being used to condition the masses in popular media on his own channel. He has essentially revealed himself to be a spy working for the antichrist, so-called Zionist, agenda or at the very least controlled by such. And here it is again popping up to condition the masses to the antichrist agenda (on the coattails of the corona virus scare while said agenda is being advanced by the corona virus scare) a day or two after I was talking about it being used to condition the masses to the antichrist agenda as described.
This is just the latest evidence in a very long trail of examples that I am being spied on by the groups discussed in this blog, every breath being recorded, having ideas stolen and twisted for evil as I show several examples on this and other posts, starting with Counting Coincidences in the Orwellian Panopticon Part 1 (UPDATE 2019-09-17). This is by no means even close to being an exhaustive recounting of these ‘coincidences.’ But it was a big one. I’m curious to get Henry’s reaction to this next time I see him at work.
[Here’s me under my TTS NEWS account in 2018-10-01 discussing blocked comments on Hovind’s channel and mention this weird ‘coincidence’ in a thread on the video titled, 9/30/18 -Dr. Kent Hovind- Bible Study for Bone Heads!:]
[Before that post I made one on 2018-09-22 at 20:24 right after I saw the Q&A video mentioned above with the second Spock/shin reference:]
[Again, the questions from Q&A are supposedly from several months back which Hovind is still catching up on. Hmmm.. The whole reason I warned of the reintroduction of the Mosaic law and old covenant is because this is what Revelation 13 and other texts indicate the false prophet will restore in perverted form in defiance of the new covenant and here it was being pushed on the video (about Ron Wyatt’s archeological work) where I posted the warning.]
[Now before both of the above posts were made, shortly after seeing the first reference to the Spock/shin hand sign in Kent’s video from 9/15/18 this other guy “George Hong” suddenly pops up in a long thread I had previously posted on from an unrelated video at Think Club’s youtube channel. Guess what he references just out of nowhere..]
Screen grabbed on 2018-09-22 at 20:36 CST
[Here’s his avatar. Say cheeeeese!]
[I can’t tell you how many times stuff like this happens, I simply don’t have the energy, time or inclination to document it all and what you’ll find on this blog is just a tiny fraction. It’s nice to have reminders that I’m on the right side and you’ll be held up as the brown-shirt cancer cells of humanity before you’re blotted out forever. Keep it coming fellas! I’m right there laughing with God at your pathetic attempts to hold on to this decaying world and intimidate those who see you and will have to judge you one day — you’re only making my job easier.]
[[**UPDATE 2018-12-29: Another quick example of what I’m talking about happened just a couple days ago (among others) on 2018-12-27 after posting on a video about whistleblowers on Ron Paul’s youtube channel. Here’s the exchange:
Here’s a closer look at this sock puppet profile pic:
Same old boring tricks. You can see why they need to use spy tools to steal ideas constantly. BTW, as I said in the above post – I HIGHLY recommend viewing Kay Griggs’ staggering interview when you have a chance. I also started watching it again and interestingly she makes a comment about chaplains in the military being linked with spy activity which reminded me of Bob Walker (a chaplain) who also ‘coincidentally’ popped up yesterday (2018-12-28) on another video on a different channel where I made a comment with reference to this blog post (which refers to him of course). I’ll add this info in a mini update below where he comes up again. I must apologize, these updates inserted into the text and sometimes into older updates can get kinda confusing and messy. End update//]]
[Here’s around the time when I first started talking about the Spock/shin/mark connection in a txt after a longer discussion on 2018-07-01 and then left off until 2018-08-14 when I called Kent and mentioned it in passing along with Wyatt’s depiction of the ark of the covenant and again in September 2018 when I started elaborating on it and Kent started using it.]
Below is from a post I made on 2018-07-25 in a youtube video.
The father of American Reform Judaism Rabbi Isaac Wise said, Freemasonry is a Jewish Institution (he was a mason too) – It’s nothing more than a Kabbalist Zionist front to recruit and compartmentalize Shabbos Goyim for the cause of the ‘great work’ of re-establishing Israel (done) and bring in a new temple for the false Jewish Messiah introduced by the false prophet ‘Elijah’ who is the second beast. (Freemasonry runs govt’s and intel agencies of the world too, so all the fighting/wars are contrived dialectics and can be halted by the false Messiah with the snap of a finger to bring in ‘peace’).
The “widow’s son” was resurrected by Elijah in 1Kings 17, a theme echoed in the Master Mason degree of the blue lodge [who in the masonic ritual is Hiram Abiff, the builder of Solomon’s temple], just as in Rev 13.3,12 we see the Antichrist is resurrected after a deadly head wound who will likely be raised by the fake Elijah to ‘prove’ himself a prophet of God in addition to calling down fire (Rev 13.13) as the real Elijah also did (1King 18) proving himself before the priests of Baal (which may represent Catholic priests, etc).
Freemasonry founded America for the ‘great work’ but it is to have the destiny of the phoenix (once considered for the national bird [and used by William Barton in a previous seal design]) and on its ashes will rise the new superpower center in Jerusalem (Mystery Babylon – where our Lord was crucified Rev 11.8). The embassy move and controlled demolition of the west are the latest steps part of this process. Don’t be surprised if we see the US Capitol (capitoline Jupiter temple) go up in flames one day — it sits in the belly of the ‘owl’ on the DC street map after all.
Phoenix in flames from an unused version of the obverse side of the Great Seal of the United States.
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Update 2020-06-06 02:17 – My mind has been repeatedly returning to the last line in the preceding paragraph, originally written in 2018, for the last few days with what appears to be suspicious and escalating, provocateur-generated violence and rioting infiltrating peaceful protests in major cities across the country including the capitol in D.C.
It appears since the Corona Virus scare has already lost steam, a new virus has been unleashed to continue terrorizing the public; the new CDC numbers show the corona virus to be far less fatal (only 0.26 percent) than previously portrayed by the media and government officials who have been conspicuously silent about this good news.
The new virus being hyped now is the rogue network of sleeper military-intel actors embedded in society, private and public, online and offline, under the guise of various fronts – in this case protest groups, particularly Antifa and Black Lives Matters, with the help of their counterparts in government and media to make a tiny minority appear to be overblown in order to discredit the peaceful protests (based on a backstory that already looks highly suspect) and scare the vast majority into complying if not calling for ever stricter and more draconian measures, even Martial Law, to control the public and shut down individual freedoms under the guise of ‘safety.’
Leading the backlash against Trump’s announcement of intention to invoke the Insurrection Act to declare Martial Law should he deem necessary is former Defense Secretary and retired General James Mattis as well as current Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, followed by several more retired Generals, former Presidents and some Republican politicians in Washington.
This upfront show of resistance to Martial Law will provide nice cover, political immunity if you like, when or if they turn around and support Trump’s declaration of Martial Law after Congress, and/or perhaps the White House, is burned to the ground by the aforementioned rogue state actors in a false flag event similar to Hitler burning down the Reichstag in 1933 to blame it on his political enemies (Communists, same as Antifa/BLM is tied to by its political adversaries) and usurp all power. Already there have been fires near the White House this week.
To test my hypothesis, I decided to take a small sample of what some of the intel actors posing as news patriots might be messaging to psychologically prep their audiences for this event and was immediately knocked in the face with just the kind of predictable pre-programming in a not-so-subliminal signal for Alex Jones’ followers:
Smouldering orange billows engulf the Capitol building in what appears to be a fire
Bright orange fire-like clouds surround the Capitol dome as the backdrop for almost the entire length of the show on June 3, 2020
So the subconscious message was clearly being transmitted to the younger alt-media crowd. I wanted to see if there was any signaling for the older, more mainstream crowd. Yep. Apparently Tucker Carlson has used a similar theme with a bit more subtle image as his backdrop for the last few years as far as I have been able to find on Youtube, then again I did not see any shows older than 3 years (2017).
Here’s Tucker’s background image from the June 3, 2020 show:
Congress lit up orange-yellow with bright flashes circling it on Tucker’s show (June 3, 2020)
Here’s the same image being used in a show from 2017 talking about racial issues and Trump, coincidentally:
Surely this is all coincidence.
Some reports have also pointed out the suspicious background and coincidence with George Floyd and officer Derek Chauvin in what may be yet another perfectly timed PSYOP with similar events in European countries following closely.
As I have said, this is the longterm plan and purpose behind not only all the wars and instability in the world but also the very Masonic foundations of America – to usher in the new superpower and center of gravity on the planet, based around a Freemasonic temple in Jerusalem with the new age Messiah and the false promise of a 1000 year golden age, on the ashes of the current world order.
Whatever happens in the coming months and years, whether we survive or not, if we are not in right relationship with the Almighty, reconciled through the atonement of Yeshua Jesus who warned of these things, nothing else matters.
End update//
The [or some] Jewish Rabbis associate the West and Christianity with Rome which they link with Edom and say we must be destroyed for them to rise – the US Capitol symbolizes one of the centers of heathen paganism (built by their Freemasonic hoodwinked puppets of course). They also took down the trade towers on the anniversary of Christ’s birth, Sept 11, 3 BC, according to the Gregorian calendar
[Another user asked: when you say owl are to talkin bohemian grove? Also I thought the DC street map was a pentagram am I mistaken? Great piece of writing too if I had one thing to critique it would be for the people that are just finding these things out it may be a little hard for them to understand but other than that great piece]
My reply: same circles, same concepts – a fiery sacrifice. That pentagram is really only the middle section of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life formatted into the DC map (some depictions of the tree don’t draw all the lines showing the pentagram). For instance Yesod (“Foundation”) corresponds with the phallic Washington Monument and the Masonic House of the Temple with Keter (“Crown”) above the White House/Oval office (Teferet, “Beauty”).
[The same user asked: do we know the reason or at least an educated guess as to why they took the towers down on such a religious day other then pure evil I know these sick mofos love there symbols]
My reply: To start more war in the mid east following the PNAC plans itself following the Yinon Plan which is the Greater Israel project trying to force the promise made in Genesis 15.18 (as King David tried when numbering the Israelites without authorization) and applying it to themselves (political Zionists) rather than the true promised Seed who is Yeshua (Gal 3.16). Anyone not born of the spirit under the New Covenant blood is not part of the inheritance and are not God’s covenant people, not true Jews (Rom 2.28-29; Rev 3.9).
Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone; THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES ‘? “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it. (Mat 21.42-43)
Yeshua, Jesus is the true cap stone the temple builders (masons) have rejected for the Antichrist.
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[Below is adapted from posts on the same thread from the top of this blog post]
2018-07-17:
An international hidden agenda (conspiracy if you wish) is explicitly in the word of God both from the OT and NT and indicates Jerusalem as the leader of it – that is until the table is turned against it and it’s decimated, save the 144,000 remnant in Judea sealed with God’s Name in their foreheads who were numbered in a census conducted by angels in Rev 7.4-8 (as opposed to the numbering of the wicked who enter into a covenant imitating the Mosaic covenant with the antichrist treated as God and marked with his own blasphemous names, cf Rev 13.1, 17.5).
Psalm 83: 3 They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against your treasured ones.
4 They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5 For they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant (NAU)
Psalm 2: 1 Why are the nations in an uproar And the peoples devising a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us tear their fetters apart And cast away their cords from us!”
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them. (NAU)
[Funny how God laughs at the globalist conspirators while the media today usually tries to laugh at anyone who talks about the global conspiracy!]
[[**UPDATE 2018-12-08, 07:05 CST: As mentioned above, this Psalm was used in a video about God laughing uploaded by Bob Walker about 11 hours after this blog post was published mentioning Bob Walker, God laughing in Psalm 2, and coincidences – what a… coincidence. I asked him about it after I saw the notification of the video upload on my phone. BTW, I watch a variety of channels I don’t necessarily agree with including Bob’s divisive, ethnocentric views he promotes at times thus playing into the racial divide & conquer strategy counter to biblical Christianity (ie, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; you must be reborn spiritually to see the kingdom; those of faith are Abraham’s seed, etc).
Here’s a screenshot of the discussion:
Screen grab taken on 2018-12-04 at 05:05 CST
Upload times highlighted side by side:
Screen grabbed 2018-11-30 at 17:06
With all the spying+copying/mirroring behavior I cover on this blog, I can’t be surprised at this, but I leave it here for your consideration. My take away thought (a similar idea pointed out in this blog post): Imagine the power to fake synchronicities and pass them off as the holy spirit/miracles to wow the unsuspecting with advanced spy-tech in the hands of the Antichrist and his false prophet combined with AI and other untold technologies and surprise biblical relics waiting in the wings to convince the world of their ‘authenticity’ as men of God – the ‘lying signs and wonders’ the scriptures warn about, cf Mat 24.24; 2The 2.9; Rev 13.13-4; John 4.48; Cp 1King 17.24. End update/]]
[[Update 2018-12-29: As stated above, yesterday (2018-12-28) I noticed Chaplain Bob Walker posted on the second video in a series of interviews with author and attorney Constance Cumby on Tru News’s youtube channel the day after I posted a comment in a thread on the first video in the series with a reference to this very blog post which as you can see mentions the odd coincidences involving “Chaplain Bob.” Another funny coincidence to add on I guess. (BTW, my post was ghosted and immediately followed by yet another weird ‘coincidence’ involving the screen name of the person who posted after me named “Cuppa Pg Tips,” which involves a recent backstory I won’t get into (ok basically I had just thrown out my box of PG Tips recently because it was a bad batch or something and spent a good portion of the day reviewing other kinds of teas and shopping for some online – petty stuff these demented psycho spytards [a term I recently coined and probably already stolen by a payroll shill by now] apparently relish in which Kay Griggs also gives examples of and I could prob write a book about full of examples) – and BTW I try to rule out these ‘coincidences’ that follow me by looking at the other names that were already there before me to see if I can find something coincidental about them and 99% of the time cannot. After seeing the first post was blocked I made a second post linking to a screenshot of the ghosted comment showing others that censorship is alive and well on youtube which basically covered the same info I talk about here regarding rabbi Isaac Wise, Freemasonry, the anti-Elijah and the shin hand sign, etc.)
Anyways, here’s “Chaplain Bob” at the bottom of the second video from the series:
Screen grabbed on 2018-12-28 at 14:50 CST. His full post is cut off by the screen.
Interestingly the day before, I had recommended viewing the testimony of whistleblower wife Kay Griggs on Ron Paul’s channel and last night/this morning while reviewing it again my ears perked up at the part where she comments about how chaplains are known to be involved with spy activity (similar to Catholic priests in confession booths gathering dirt for blackmail I suppose) and it reminded me about what just happened hours earlier with chaplain Bob and the recent weird spy-like activity previously documented above. Here’s where she speaks about it briefly in the interview. Maybe it’s just another one of those darn coincidences? lol. End update//]]
Revelation 17: 1 “Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,
2 with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.” (NAU) 18.3 also says: “and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality”
Who is the Harlot woman?
Revelation 17: 18 “The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth [or land].” (NAU, my note in brackets)
The great harlot is that great city where Yeshua was crucified:
Revelation 11: 8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically [Lit. spiritually] is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified (NAU, translator note in brackets)
Eventually the agreement falls apart and the 10 sovereigns turn against Jerusalem:
Revelation 17: 16 And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.
17 For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled. (NAU)
This scenario is a repetition of a previous situation from the OT when apostate Israel was playing the harlot with various nations after the time of Solomon who set up a trade-bloc in the middle east which went downhill in Ezekiel 16.35-39; Egypt, Philistia, Assyria, Chaldea are named in vv 26-29. The next time around indicates the nations that make up the 10 toes/horns mentioned in the book of Daniel and Revelation are the 10 nations surrounding Israel named in Psalm 83.6-8 which just happens to include the land included in the ‘Greater Israel’ project pursuant to Genesis 15.18 as misapplied by political Zionists to themselves rather than Christ whom they reject (fulfilling Psalm 118.22) and His covenant people, that is His bride.
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2018-07-26:
Since I last posted, the new controversial ‘Jewish Nation-State law’ has passed the Knesset in Israel with some interesting clauses that pertain to the regathering or ingathering of the diaspora making the above mentioned census (indicated in Rev 13.17-18) of the regathered tribes that much closer to reality:
That the Sabbath will be strictly enforced in the time of the Antichrist is also indicated by Yeshua:
“Therefore when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. […] But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath. For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.” (Mat 24.15-21)
The new law also sets the table for this to happen at some point ahead of us.
Like I told the respondent below (“Hound Pursues”), it’s almost spooky how silent all the commentators and scholars are on this information after all this time (1900+ years). It seems surreal. No one has ever pointed this out before as far as I know (please let me know if you find someone who has). I have however been posting this info here-and-there since around 2014 usually on Youtube boards, so maybe someone has picked up on it by now. Also, those times I did post about it, it was almost always quickly deleted or again held back from posting — so maybe others actually have independently discovered this info too but their messages and publications are being stymied the same as mine are, which kinda goes back to the whole reason I started this blog to begin with.
Anyways enough of that, here we go:
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Hound Pursues, I’ll try to keep it brief, but it appears John is referring to nothing more than a census or numbering of heads in regards to 666. Moses conducted one in the book of NUMBERS and so did the high priest Ezra in the return from Babylon — John uses nearly identical language from both cases when he refers to the “number of his name” and the “number of a man.” It’s as if John was trying to make the text foolproof so the reader did not misunderstand what he was talking about rather than concealing the meaning, but we will not understand if we do not listen to the Word, listen to Wisdom. Here is Wisdom:
Take ye the sum [רֹאשׁ lit. head] of all the congregation of the children [בְּנֵֽי sons] of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, [LXX: ἀριθμὸν ἐξ ὀνόματος αὐτῶν] every male by their poll [גֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם lit. skulls] (Numbers 1.2 KJV, my notes in brackets)
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name [ἀριθμὸν τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ]. (Revelation 13.17 KJV, my notes in brackets)
Here are the key phrases side by side in Greek {updated with Aramaic and Byzantine Koine texts}:
Here is how Ezra records the census in his day, first verse included for context:
Now these are the children [sons] of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men [LXX: ἀνδρῶν ἀριθμὸς] of the people of Israel (Ezra 2.1-2 KJV, my notes)
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man [ἀριθμὸς γὰρ ἀνθρώπου]; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (Rev 13.18 KJV, my notes)
Side by side use of language referring to numbering sons of men {updated with Aramaic and Byzantine Koine texts}:
Another link between the census here in Revelation 13.18 and Ezra’s census is the infamous number 666 itself:
The children [sons] of Adonikam [אֲדֹ֣נִיקָ֔ם lit. “my lord has arisen”], six hundred sixty and six. (Ezra 2.13 KJV)
Inclusively [?], we come to 667 and perhaps homiletically we could say that the so-called perfect man symbolized by triple sixes is not the case:
The children [sons] of Adonikam, six hundred threescore andSEVEN. (Neh 7.18 KJV)
Not only does John use similar language used in the old testament for numbering the sons of Israel, but the very next verse following Rev 13.18 refers to the number of the sons of the 12 tribes of Israel sealed with the name of God who were numbered in a census in Revelation 7.4-8. This gives us the same language combined with the same context of the language pointing to a census.
All the tribes are represented among the 144,000 except for the tribe of Dan, this may tell us what tribe the 666 are from, in which case all the tribes are now represented. {update: Ephraim is also not named but may be represented by the tribe of Joseph as one of his sons while his other son Manasseh is named separately to fulfill the double portion given to Joseph in Genesis 48. Alternatively (or in addition), Isaiah 7.8 prophesied that Ephraim would ‘shatter’ from [his, or the] people — ie, scatter abroad.}
That the tribe of Dan is separated from the 12 tribes is also found in the Old Testament when Dan is left out of the genealogies of the 12 tribes in 1Chronicles chapters 4-7, apparently forsaking their inheritance when they moved out of their allotment. An argument of Dan being absent from Balaam’s parable-prophecy in Numbers 24 could also be made.
Church father Irenaeus accepted that the Antichrist would be from the tribe of Dan without reservation quoting from Jeremiah, however he would also need to be related to the House of David, or at the very least claim to be, in order to appear to satisfy biblical prophecies and the expectations of rabbis. Dan was also known to mix with other tribes and nations early on.
The number 666 may be a literal number of sons under the name of a family head as seen in Ezra 2.13, just as the 144,000 are a literal number, but could also have a symbolic meaning — the two do not need to be mutually exclusive. These numbers are only focused on the tribes of Israel, not the Gentiles who are spiritually born (John 1.11-13, 3.3; Rom 2.29) through the new covenant and grafted in: {“a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues..” (Rev 7.9 KJV) as foretold in Psalm 87.5-6: “And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her. The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people [עַמִּ֑ים nations, peoples, kinsmen], that this man was born there. Selah.” (KJV) and shown inheriting the future millennial kingdom allotments when finally established in the land under Yeshua Jesus the Prince in Ezekiel 47.22: “..and they shall be unto you as born [אֶזְרָח native, citizen] in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel,” (KJV) and Paul reminds us: “ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written [KJV note: or enrolled] in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel,” (Heb 12.22-24 KJV) and, “For our conversation [πολίτευμα citizenship, government, commonwealth] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phi 3.20 KJV); “Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18.36 KJV)}.
The mark and name are the same thing, {John clarifies this when he writes of “the mark of his name” in Rev 14:11; Rev 17.5 spells out the spiritual conception behind the name of the harlot (as a corporate body)}, and we see the antithesis to the antichrist’s name/mark in Rev 14.1. The case could be made further in studying more passages in the Old Testament but that would be beyond the scope of this post. BUT, the number of the name refers to sons of a family name.
So we have two different components to the prophecy here: the (renewed Sinai) covenant and the people of the covenant — The antichrist has his marriage covenant with the harlot and Christ has his marriage covenant with the virgin bride. The woman takes the name of the husband in marriage and it is non-physical (ie, not a microchip). [The mark of the name and the number of the name are two different things but confuses many into thinking they are one thing because they both speak of a “name” associated with them in such close proximity – Revelation is notorious for this as with the “woman” in Rev 12 and the “beast” in Rev 13, etc, which is obviously an intentional feature of the prophesy of Revelation and I believe meant to convey the confusion of the amazing deception of the antichrist and his false prophet which will be very difficult for those without a deep abiding love for the Word of God and truth to discern. The only other biblical text I can think of that exhibits anything near this level of deliberate complexity is Zech 12, Dan 9.25-27, various parts of Isaiah, and some of Mat 24. I’ve also wondered it was written in such a way that ai could not unravel it as it requires spiritual discernment.]
The name or mark is spiritual, however many Jews wear phylacteries or tephillin on their forehead (thoughts) and hand/arm (works) with the Name (שׁדי Shaddai) and contain the Sinai covenant marriage text {Ex 13.1-16; Deu 6.4-9, 11.13-21} as an outward fulfillment of the text itself (cf Mat 23.5) {and given the ‘name command’ in the Decalogue to not take [נָשָּׂא bear, carry, lift] the Name in vain as the High Priest wore the Name openly in the temple on his forehead engraved in gold letters as a signet [חֹתָם seal] representing YHWH (Exo 28.36-38) while also representing the 12 tribes bearing their 12 names on the ephod uniting God as the head and Israel in one unified body as in marriage between husband and wife fulfilled in Christ as the head of his body the bride, thus the Shema prayer recited at the time of donning the tefillin refers to the Oneness (Echad) of Elohim with YHWH as the head, “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many.” (1Co 12:12-14 KJV)}.
Lastly, once the old covenant is renewed you cannot buy or sell the offerings and sacrifices with the merchants and money changers in the outer court of the temple unless you accept/enter the covenant marriage and receive the name. {This is in keeping with the context of John’s vision from the heavenly temple looking into the future Freemasonic temple in Jerusalem where he sees the image of abomination receive artificial life imitating the creation of Adam in the garden (a sanctuary/temple typology) by the false prophet in Rev 13.15 (the second beast who imitates Elijah in multiple ways) spoken of by Yeshua in Matthew 24.15 and Mark 13.14 and the prophet Daniel. More details on this can be found in my post here.}
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Later I made the following three posts [2017-12-03] in the same thread related to the subject:
rustyshadow7, Would you agree that the best method of interpretation is to let the bible interpret the bible so that we minimize unsound opinions, ideas and theories? The book of Revelation was written to disclose, not conceal information — it’s called “Revelation” after all.
The common view of 666 as numeric gematria concealing the name in secret is the opposite of a revelation and actually sounds more like what the system the harlot engages in, “Secret” or “Mystery” Babylon (mystery religion). The Kabbalistic system indulges heavily in numeric gematria, which is not found in the bible or related texts.
The two main systems the apostles spoke against were the traditions of the Pharisees (collected in the Babylonian Talmud) and the Gnostics — these traditions are essentially combined in the teachings of the Kabbalah which influenced other schools [ie, secret societies] like Freemasonry so influential in governments around the world and secret intelligence agencies– there’s that word ‘secret’ again.
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rustyshadow7 Yes, I include context in the idea of allowing the bible to interpret the bible and we know when a teaching is out of step with the bible because we have the bible to test all things.
I believe the mark and name are the same thing because the bible links them in words and context and further gives the thesis and antithesis between God’s name/mark (Rev 14.1) and the antichrist’s name/mark (Rev 13.16) which are both received in marriage covenants which is why the language of God’s relation to his people is typified by a husband and wife (lamb/christ and bride vs beast/antichrist and harlot) where the wife receives the name of the husband in marriage, and we find the terms of the marriage at Sinai summed up with the decalogue including the name command: Thou shalt not take [“nasa” bear] the name of the LORD thy God in vain (Exo 20.7 KJV)
This idea is shown in civil terms by Isaiah:
And in that time seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, “Of that which is ours we will eat, and of that which is ours we will cover ourselves: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.” (Isa 4.1)
Other verses linking the Name with the covenant as symbolized by the ‘ark of the covenant’:
At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear [“nasa”] the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day (Deu 10.8 KJV)
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD. (1Ch 22.19 KJV)
He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name. (Psa 111.9 KJV)
And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name (Jer 34.15 KJV)
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Hound Pursues: “the Name in 2nd Temple Judaism is sometimes a person specifically the second person of the Godhead”
[My reply:] Since shem (name) is found in neshama (soul or spirit) the Name may be said to refer to the Soul/Spirit.
Adam and Eve became one flesh in their unity, just as the Messiah and his bride become echad (one) in spirit in the covenant marriage. The bride receives the Name (Rev 14.1), the Spirit of Messiah.
“The eternity of the Messiah is acknowledged by the ancient Jews: Micah 5:2 is a full proof of it; which by them (q) is thus paraphrased,
“out of thee, before me, shall come forth the Messiah, that he may exercise dominion over Israel; whose name is said from eternity, from the days of old.
Jarchi upon it only mentions Psalm 72:17 which is rendered by the Targum on the place, before the sun his name was prepared; it may be translated, “before the sun his name was Yinnon”; that is, the Son, namely the Son of God; and Aben Ezra interprets it, , “he shall be called the son”; and to this agrees what the Talmudisis say (r), that the name of the Messiah was before the world was created; in proof of which they produce the same passage” –Gill’s Exposition (John 1.1)
(q) Targum Jon. in loc.
(r) T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 54. 1. & Nedarim, fol. 39. 2. Pirke Eliezer, c. 3.
On the first day of postings I briefly examined Irenaeus’ discourse on numeric gematria since it was offered as an explanation for 666 by “Hound Pursues”:
Hound Pursues, I’m in close agreement with you but when it comes to numerical gematria (not to be confused with ‘permutation gematria’ as apparently used by Jeremiah) I’m having trouble finding any clear scriptural proof or examples of its use or being validated as biblically-endorsed hermeneutics. Irenaeus gives some personal extra-biblical considerations using numerical gematria but he also points to this method being problematic and says, “It is therefore more certain, and less hazardous, to await the fulfillment of the prophecy, than to be making surmises, and casting about for any names that may present themselves, inasmuch as many names can be found possessing the number mentioned“. This is not to mention other aspects of the prophecies the proposed candidates failed to fulfill, but that’s a separate issue.
Do you know of any biblical examples for using numerical gematria?
Hound Pursues replied:
AllOtherNamesUsed None that I can bring to mind. I suggest reading the extrabiblical literature of the period especially the apocalyptic genre of 2nd temple Judaism. We may not always have an exact Biblical parallel due to many Biblical authors although under inspiration often convey information through literary techniques unique to themselves within the text but more common among that time period’s extrabiblical literature.
I replied:
Hound Pursues, to be honest I’m even having trouble finding examples of numerical gematria among 2nd temple-period literature of any kind. I’ve read a lot but not everything, and a few different web searches failed to turn up anything. Know any titles to look up?
Hound Pursues:
AllOtherNamesUsed On Gematria in particular no. But if you want evidence of non-Gematria biblical number games as early as Genesis I can track down some scholarship for you. It’s not Gematria exactly but it gives you a biblical tradition to base your interpretation on.
Me:
Hound Pursues, It seems odd there’s no precedent for this method of interpretation among biblical texts or related Jewish texts until centuries after Revelation was written. Irenaeus, who was apparently a Gentile, seems to be one of the earliest if not the earliest to bring it up in relation to biblical interpretation — I wonder if some of the Gnostic practices he was exposing rubbed off on him a little? To be fair, he did warn against it.
What if John was being far less creative and simply referring to something else entirely that was common practice as far back as the Torah with matching contexts and similar language, not once but twice? The most astonishing (almost spooky) part of what I’m referring to is how apparently no one has ever mentioned it before, as far as I know.
Hound Pursues:
AllOtherNamesUsed Oh? What are you referencing?
My reply to this is where the exposition starts at the top.
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Now here’s some background on the non-biblical origins of numerical gematria I posted at Peshitta.org messageboard in an expanded discussion (too lengthy to post here in full) in December 2017 and I later followed up with in the previous youtube thread above:
The use of notariqon and even gematria in rabbinic analysis of biblical texts was not invented by rabbis; these methods of text criticism, as noted above, were already used in Babylonian scribal schools long before rabbinic academies are attested. The use of numerical equivalents for names, which could be used instead of the name itself, is well known in Akkadian texts, and the use of notariqon often relied upon puns and word-plays between Akkadian and Sumerian. There is little doubt that these methods employed in Babylonian scribal schools were precursors of rabbinic exegesis, which developed into the typical types of exegesis known in Midrashim. What we do not know is the exact means whereby these ideas were transmitted from one school to another, or one curriculum to another, or exactly when these ideas proliferated to the extent that they influenced study methods within rabbinic academies.
-Geller, Mark J – The Babylonian Background to Talmudic Science (European Association for Jewish Studies, Newsletter 6, 1999, pp 27-31)
In other words, numerical gematria is part of the very Mystery Babylon system John is warning against which has been used to explain the meaning behind Revelation 13.16-18 but rather than revealing the meaning it has concealed it all this time – the opposite of a “revelation.”
How many commentaries on Revelation 13 tell us this?
If that weren’t bad enough already, the whole alpha-numeric system gematria builds upon is itself unbiblical and was never authorized for use either explicitly or by example and certainly not for biblical hermeneutics. Numbers were originally spelled out until copyists incorporated the foreign practice in later copies including some of the Greek texts of Revelation with ‘666’ ironically enough. The system was apparently picked up from the Greeks who likely got it ultimately from Babylon (this warrants further research):
Under Macedonian rule, the Jews also adopted the Greek alphabetic system of numeration, which soon became well established in Judea. Jewish use of the alphabet for numbers is first found on coins of the Maccabean period (second century B.C.E.), and the system was apparently introduced even in the Temple itself, where Greek letters were also used to indicate numbers. 1 It is therefore surprising to note that many writers persist in the misconception that alphabetic numerals were first invented by the Jews, when, in fact, they were half a millennium behind the Greeks in using such a system.
Footnote 1: Shek. 3.2; cited in G. Scholem, Kabbalah (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1974) p. 337
Now I know some might say, “Aha! See? They were using it in the temple! THE TEMPLE!!!” Yes, but they weren’t supposed to if it wasn’t authorized (we need solid biblical evidence if it was) and we know they were doing lots of things they weren’t supposed to be doing even in the second temple, why else did Master Lord Yeshua throw out the money changers and merchants from the temple? Read from Exodus onward for plenty of examples of the Jews doing things they were told not to by God all the crooked way down to the imitation Messiah and imitation Wisdom, Kabbalistic-Gnosticism’s ‘Sophia’ occult goddess that receives artificial life and artificial intelligence set in the future Freemasonic (imitation) temple whorehouse of mysteries, counterfeiting God’s spouse represented on earth through his nation of priests in God’s house (cf Rev 1.6; 22.17).
[Update 2018-05-26, 5:48 AM. Below are a couple of my posts adapted from Dr. Carmen Imes’ blog entry about the ‘Name Command’ in the 10 Commandments which relates to the mark/name of the beast in Revelation 13.16-17 or as 14.11 says “the mark of his name”]
I wanted to ask if you think it makes sense to say that the second beast or false prophet [imitating] Elijah will restore the Sinai covenant along with the Levitical priesthood, the sacrificial system and a temple (or tabernacle) and will himself be the one to brand the apostate bride (Rev 17.5) of the AC with the name/mark in Rev 13.16-18 (thus forming a antithetical parallel chiasmus with Rev 14.1)?
If this is so, the false prophet (‘Elijah’) would also be the high priest serving from before the beast and exercising his power also calling fire down from heaven perhaps to consume the sacrifice at the temple dedication recalling 2Chr 7.1 or as Elijah himself did in 1Ki 18.38. This isn’t far fetched since John the Baptist who came in the spirit of Elijah was from a priestly family and his mother Elizabeth was from the daughters of Aaron – which could mean her close relative Mary, mother of Yeshua, was also a descendant of Aaron and not just from the House of David. Maybe that’s why Yeshua appears to give a priestly blessing at the end of Luke’s gospel (24.50) and closes the gospel in the temple as it began in the temple when Zechariah could not give the blessing due to being muted which if Luke’s addressee Theophilus is the same high priest Theophilus named by Josephus and who lived in the same period as Luke, he would’ve picked up on these things otherwise missed by a Gentile Roman officer. Now there’s a rabbit trail.
Those who do not enter the renewed Sinai covenant marriage (ie, take the mark) naturally will not be allowed to ‘buy or sell’ (Rev 13.17) the sacrifices and offerings in the temple court with or as the merchants and money changers. This fits in context with the temple dedication and priestly blessing/name branding reflecting Num 6.27-7.1. Even the language used in the census numbering of the sons of Israel conducted by Moses and Aaron in NUMBERS 1.2 “the number of their names” is applied in Rev 13.17 (“the number of his name”) as well as the census conducted by the high priest Ezra in 2.2 “The number of the men” vs “the number of a man” in Rev 13.18 fitting in with the 144,000 faithful mentioned in the next verse (14.1) who were numbered in a census conducted by an angel in Rev 7.3-8 sealed with the Name of God as protection from His wrath (Cp Eze 9.4-6) which the temple tax was supposed to be a ransom for to stay the plague from the very act of numbering itself (Exo 30.12-16).
“Three different theories regarding Elijah’s origin are presented in the Haggadah: (1) he belonged to the tribe of Gad (Gen. R. lxxi.); (2) he was a Benjamite from Jerusalem, identical with the Elijah mentioned in I Chron. viii. 27; (3) he was a priest. That Elijah was a priest is a statement which is made by many Church fathers also (Aphraates, “Homilies,” ed. Wright, p. 314; Epiphanius, “Hæres.” lv. 3, passim), and which was afterward generally accepted, the prophet being further identified with Phinehas (Pirḳe R. El. xlvii.; Targ. Yer. on Num. xxv. 12; Origen, ed. Migne, xiv. 225)…”
Further down in the entry there’s mention of a tradition that casts Elijah in the very role of Aaron:
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{Update 2018-06-13: Related information adapted from my post to a forum here:}
I just wanted to offer an observation that is often overlooked when it comes to Israel being saved from the nations, etc. This rescue occurs only after Israel is first judged by God using the nations as a rod (Rev 17.16-17) and then steps in to save a remnant. This is a pattern we see in the old testament, for instance when Assyria was used to judge Israel for being wicked and unjust but then Assyria was judged.
Isa 10.11-12: “Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her images just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?” So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his haughtiness.”
And verse 22 (quoted by Paul in Romans 9.27): For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within them will return; A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
This will repeat in the future as glimpsed in Zephaniah 3 where we see a restored priesthood operating in Jerusalem presumably after the Sinai covenant is re-instituted by the false prophet or false Elijah (when the people take the mark of the beast, the covenant, and are numbered as happened in the wilderness) who the rabbis are expecting to arise to turn Israel back to the old covenant (Malachi 3.1; 4.5-6), in defiance of the new covenant [announced by Jeremiah, 31.31].
The prophecy in Zephaniah 3 says the priests are abusing the Torah and polluting the sanctuary, and the city is described as being filthy, rebellious and corrupt (also compare Isaiah 4.4). Zephaniah 3.13 shows once again only a remnant survive Yeshua’s judgement – those who have the Name of the Lord and speak no lies, nor deception:
“But I will leave among you A humble and lowly people, and they will take refuge in the name of the LORD. The remnant of Israel will do no wrong and tell no lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths; for they will feed and lie down with no one to make them tremble.” (Zep 3.12-13) Cf. Isaiah 4.2-3; Malalchi 3.2-3, 4.1-3.
This remnant is the numbered 144,000 who have the Name of the Father in Rev 14.1 and verse 5 also says, “no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless,” as opposed to the majority who take the name of the beast/creature in his covenant led by the false prophet anti-Elijah who speaks as a dragon (Rev 13.11), that is the serpent nachash (Gen 3.1), very deceptively and like him his followers are liars: ‘Behold, I will cause those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie— I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and make them know that I have loved you. (Rev 3.9) Cf. Romans 9.6-8; Matthew 3.9.
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{Update 2018-07-14: Here’s a follow-up from the above thread responding to “dot” with their comments shaded in blue}:
I cannot see that there will be a false Elijah. That office is too important to be false
Yet the role of the Messiah is more important and we know it will be misrepresented by an imposture also.
There must be an Elijah before the Messiah in accordance with the scriptures. Satan could not logically overlook this and expect to pull off such a massive deception as described in the NT (even deceive the Elect if possible), because as you say it’s too important — that’s exactly why the Antichrist will need a fake Elijah to set the stage for his arrival and that includes reinstating the Sinai Covenant to bring back the priesthood and sanctuary (seen operating in Zeph 3.4) for the false Messiah to come and sit in to declare himself as God at some point (2The 2.4 in a false fulfillment of Mal 3.1). Yeshua also mentioned the abomination of desolation set up in the holy place before He returns spoken of by Daniel which points to the Levitical laws operating under the Antichrist’s government and Rev 13.15 harmonizes with this where we see the false prophet setting up the image of the beast to be worshiped; Yeshua also alludes to a strict Sabbath enforcement at this time showing the Mosaic is law in effect. (Mat 24.15-20)
Just as John the Baptist came in the spirit to prepare the way for Yeshua, the anti-Elijah will prepare the way for the Antichrist — everything is a counterfeit. This is what we see in Rev 13.11-18 and this is expected by mainline Judaism in order to fulfill Malachi 4.5-6 from their perspective:
“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. “He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.”
Elijah is also given an important title, “the messenger of the covenant” in Mal 3.1 – to a rabbi that covenant is not the New Covenant made in Yeshua’s blood. In Rev 13.16,17 this false prophet Elijah figure causes all to enter into a covenant with the Antichrist, this is the so-called mark/name of the beast (or “mark of the name” in Rev 14.11) that symbolically seals participants in the forehead/hand as a dedication of their thoughts/works modeled on the Sinai covenant where the Israelites were sealed with the Name of God as depicted by the high priest who openly wore the Name on his forehead. I am in agreement with what Dr. Martin wrote regarding this:
“In the Bible there is only one other usage of the phrases “in the hand” and “in the foreheads.” These are all in the Law of Moses and they refer to keeping the commandments statutes, judgments and holy seasons or days given to the Israelites in the time of Moses.” (Discovering the Mark of the Beast, 1990. http://askelm.com/prophecy/p900501.htm)
Religious Jews wear Tefillin on their forehead and hand containing these key Sinai Covenant marriage texts in literal fulfillment of the texts and the leather cases are marked with the letter “shin” for the name “Shaddai” which is another name for the Holy Spirit or Shekhinah which was given to the congregation when they entered the marriage covenant and became as a bride. As the woman takes the name of the husband in marriage we see the harlot receives the name of the Antichrist, while the virgin bride of the Lamb receives the name of God in Rev 14.1, the 144,000 faithful Israelites; the Gentiles are mentioned in Rev 7.9: “a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands”
Is there anyone who can put all of these scriptures of the end times all together and make sense of it all?
I don’t know if every detail from every scripture will be perfectly clear until Yeshua comes, nonetheless the end time warnings were written for the last generation to understand and we can see it becoming clearer as the time grows nearer so long as we have eyes to see and ears to hear — it’s called the book of “Revelation” after all and is the opposite of “Secret/Mystery Babylon” which is the Kabbalistic operating system of the Antichrist that causes deception and blindness with unbiblical practices and teachings.
You can’t begin without knowing that 10 nations are going to band together against Israel
On the other hand, you cannot begin without knowing that the 10 kings are going to band together WITH Israel first; (my second paragraph takes for granted this attack from the nations and focused on the part people overlook…which was overlooked). This takes some unpacking but it’s not too difficult to understand.
Solomon in his apostate years serves as an archetype of the Antichrist. He had a trade bloc in the region and formed alliances or covenants with kings in the region through intermarriage and he turned to religious harlotry. This is another repeat in what we see at the beginning of the reign of Antichrist:
“Come here, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth committed acts of immorality, and those who dwell on the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.” (Rev 17.1-2); Rev 18.3 also says, “and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.”
Who is the harlot woman?
“The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth [or land].” (Rev 17.18, my notes in brackets)
Where is this great city? Rev 11.8 tells us the great city is where Yeshua was crucified:
“And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” (Rev 11.8)
And just as Solomon ruled from Jerusalem over the kings in the region in his time, so the Antichrist will rule from Jerusalem over the kings for a time (Rev 17.18), that includes the 10 horns from the nations mentioned in Psalm 83. The great city, Jerusalem, is depicted as a woman riding the international mongrel beast system: “and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.” (Rev 17.3)
These ten horns link up with the 10 toes of Daniel and the 10 nations mentioned in Psalm 83 (see also Psalm 2). They are in alliance with Jerusalem under the Antichrist for a time:
“The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.” (Rev 17.12-3)
But eventually this agreement falls apart and the 10 sovereigns turn against Jerusalem, like you said, and God will use them as a rod to judge Israel save a remnant, like I said in my first post:
“And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled.” (Rev 17.16-17)
Once again, this is a repetition from a previous situation from the OT when apostate Israel was playing the harlot with various nations which soon turned sour:
“Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols, therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness. Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy. I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.” (Eze 16.35-39) Egyptians, Assyrians, Chaldea, etc are named in vv 26-29.
The 144,000 follow Yeshua and are kept pure from the religious harlotry and corruptions introduced by false teachers and prophets culminating with the false prophet Elijah in Jerusalem which is called spiritual Sodom and Egypt. Some are looking for this Elijah figure today as religious Jews have for many hundreds of years.
I thought that the new Covenant will come when the veil is lifted and the grace and supplication happens to Israel.
Wow. This sounds like an anti-missionary (or anti-christ) talking point you might have picked up. Big mistake. The New Covenant started almost 2000 years ago with Yeshua’s work on the cross when he said “it is finished”. As it is written: And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.” (Luk 22.20) Also in Matthew 26.27-8: And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.” Note the tense is not future, but was established back then and is ongoing until the consummation.
As Paul said to the Corinthians to whom he brought the Gospel of the New Covenant, “I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.” (2Co 11.2-3) “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.” (1Jo 3.2) Again, the tense in these verses is not future and does not depend on the remnant of Israel at the end of the age. By accepting His universal atonement we enter the new marriage covenant and become the bride of Christ and become echad, One, where there is no Jew or Gentile.
The veil of which you speak is over the unbelieving Jews who are blinded in part but one day a remnant at the end of the age will realize verses like the ones I gave point to the New Covenant which has already been actualized and now given to the Gentiles (but was first to the Jew) until their fullness is complete. The book of Hebrews would be a good book to study that covers some of the finer points if you wish to explore further, but it may be challenging without proper background knowledge starting with the the books of Moses and the Gospels.
Anyways, the point to take from my original post is that Christian support for what God calls a filthy, polluted and oppressing city (Zeph 3.1; and much worse elsewhere) warrants careful reconsideration if we want to avoid being an accomplice to their crimes and blasphemy but rather reach out to them with the good news of the New Covenant and warn them of the coming betrayal and holocaust in Israel according to the scriptures.
May Yeshua richly bless you all,
Erik
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{Update 2018-06-15: Second response to “dot” adapted from previous thread}
I will again state that if the word says that there will be an Elijah to come, I believe it.
No disagreement there, I believe it too. BUT:
Keep in mind the rabbis ALSO expect Elijah to come before the Messiah per Malachi 3.1, 4.5; they do not accept the New Covenant instituted in the blood of Yeshua the Messiah but will be deceived by a false Messiah enforcing the Old Covenant to be brought back by “Elijah” who is the false prophet. The Jews were expecting Elijah to come in the time of Yeshua and are expecting him still today and have prayed for several hundred years for him to come perhaps since the time of Malachi.
Why would the Father send a false Elijah?
For the same reason there will be a false Messiah introduced with lying signs and wonders. God sends a strong delusion upon them who perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved, that they should believe a lie. (2Th 2.9-12) That would include rejecting the New Covenant sealed by the blood of Yeshua and claiming it is not in effect against the scriptures.
The only deception that will occur is the one that Paul wrote about in 1 Thess. 4&5; 2 Thess. 2. A false coming of Christ.
This is simply not true and completely ignores Revelation 13.11-18 which clearly speaks of a SECOND beast who performs the above mentioned signs and wonders including calling down fire from heaven imitating Elijah in the OT — one of the two witnesses will also do acts as Elijah did and this will be the real prophet sent by God in Rev 11.3-7.
The second beast (false prophet imitating Elijah) is the one to cause all to receive the mark/name of the beast (Sinai Covenant) and to worship the first beast (Antichrist) and his image.
It’s very important we avoid the pitfall of only focusing on the verses that fit into a fixed narrative while ignoring other verses that contradict it. That’s extremely dangerous and will lead right into the strong delusion.
Christ tells Peter, James and John that there is an Elijah to come. After the transfiguration of Him took place, He told them that ” an Elijah truly shall first come and restore all things.” (Matt. 17;1-13)
Yes – but again – you are ignoring that the rabbis also expect Elijah to come before their “Messiah” comes per Malachi 3.1, 4.5 and since Christians know this will be the Anti-Christ we also know his forerunner will be the anti-Elijah — and this is what we see in Rev 13.11-18 as the SECOND beast who is the false prophet — which is also being ignored.
Dr. Martin agrees on this important point and identifies the false prophet as a fake Elijah in the same article I quoted from previously:
But how can the Antichrist pull off this strategy since the Book of Revelation makes it clear in chapters 13, 17 and 18 what he and his false prophet will do? There is a simple way if one has the wisdom to see it- Before the career of the Antichrist begins in a full way, there will appear on earth two witnesses from God who will prophesy from the temple at Jerusalem (Revelation 11). These two witnesses have roles that resemble those of Moses and Elijah. In fact, it may well be that one of these two witnesses (who will certainly be priests because they are able to enter the Holy Place) will be the prophesied Elijah to come (Malachi 4:5,6; Matthew 17:11).
Now look at this. The world will not like these two witnesses. They have power to stop the rains and they can turn the waters of the sea into blood (verse 6). The world will not like their prophesyings and they will be put to death by the Antichrist (verse 7). Then the Antichrist will establish his world empire of “peace.”
Since the Antichrist will claim to be the returned Christ (though the Beast will actually be inspired by Satan expelled from heaven – Revelation 12:7-17), he will point to chapter 13 of Revelation and state to the world that those two witnesses were in fact the Beast and the False Prophet mentioned in Revelation and that they have now been destroyed and the rule of the “true” Christ with his “true” Elijah can now begin. [note how ELM put “true” in quotes – because he wont be true but will pretend to be as he explains below]
The Beast and False Prophet will charge the two witnesses with being the Beast and False Prophet of the Book of Revelation and that they are the returned “Christ” and the prophesied “Elijah.” After all, this False Prophet will be able to bring down fire out of heaven in the sight of men (Revelation 13:13) like Elijah did when he countered the prophets of Baal (1Kin~ 18:38).
Malachi said that an “Elijah” would be sent to the Jews just before the Day of the Lord to turn the children to the fathers (4:5,6). This is one reason why the Beast and the False Prophet will reintroduce the Law of Moses..
So ELM said the false messiah and his false Elijah will flip the script and claim they are the real Messiah and Elijah and God’s two witnesses are the false messiah and his false Elijah. That actually makes a lot of sense and is typical of the Satanists’ twisted serpentine logick and deceptive spirit that fills his children: For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (2Co 11.13-15).
The New Covenant was instituted on the eve of Christ’s death. Where is it today? Does Israel keep the New Covenant today? No! IT will be consummated when Christ returns.
These statements don’t logically follow. Yes, the New Covenant was instituted almost 2000 years ago and is currently in effect otherwise no one could convert anymore (accept the blood atonement of Yeshua), if it wasn’t still in effect there would be nothing TO consummate.
This squares with the actual text and yes I’ve read ELM’s article on the Mystery (it’s basically what John says in his first epistle quoted already and again below; the Mystery is simply the fullest understanding of the New Covenant hidden from the ages but not without clues in the OT). Yeshua speaks for Himself: “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.” (Luk 22.20) Also Matthew 26.27-8: “And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.” Again, the tense is not future, the New Covenant was established back at the cross because that is when the blood was poured out and is ongoing until the consummation; we are now betrothed until the marriage feast.
As Paul said to the Corinthians, “I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin. But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.” (2Co 11.2-3)
John shows our status as part of the family of Elohim is in effect already and not off in the future: “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.” (1Jo 3.2)
Again, the tenses in these verses are not future and do not depend on the final remnant from the tribes of Israel at the end of the age with the marriage feast (again we are already betrothed because we have already accepted the New Covenant marriage).
Does Israel keep the New Covenant today? No!
Actually yes, so long as we accept Yeshua’s atonement by which we are cleansed to receive His Spirit. Do not be deceived by the flesh, true Israel is not of the flesh but of the promise – the spiritual seed of Abraham:
For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. (Rom 9.6-8)
This was hinted at by John the Baptist: “And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.” (Mat 3.9)
And now we come full circle back to my first post:
“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.” (Rev 3.9)
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On a separate note, I’m noticing an alarming upsurge of aggressive antichrist missionary talking points on the internet lately with blatant tactics like changing the language of the NT calling the New Covenant the “Renewed” Covenant and insisting Christians keep the Sabbath while ignoring Acts 15 and twisting verses – more so than usual.
This is doubtlessly coming from covert anti-missionaries and Judaizers planted on message boards and chatrooms in a massive internet campaign apparently to set the stage for what can only be a false Elijah to “renew” the covenant in Israel in the near future.
This effort would naturally be tied to the national interests and security of the state of Israel if such a major shift in policy were indeed in the works. This trend makes perfect sense in light of recent reports that shows Israel gearing up for exactly that backed with a military cyber force to monitor the internet and intervene under the guise of fighting “delegitimization” and plans [floated] to do mass conversions to Judaism (the report mentions 5 million) which would naturally entail undermining the competition, ie the NEW COVENANT in Yeshua’s blood:
Lest some get carried away with criticism, bear in mind the father of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, wrote in his diary they would use antisemitism for their benefit. Why? It creates pressure on Jews around the world to migrate to Israel for ‘safety’ and also creates justification for draconian laws, military or political maneuvers and big brother tactics to monitor the public and spread propaganda under the guise of ‘fighting hate speech’ when the exact opposite may be case. This is why we occasionally find seemingly ironic reports about leaders of radical antisemitic groups being Jewish:
The Shocking Alliance between Zionism and Anti-Semitism: “It was not the first time that an eruption of anti-Semitism would serve the interests of the Zionist movement, and it would hardly be the last. That strategy would continue from Herzl on,” said Massad. “It was a continuing ideological cornerstone of Zionism, it has never stopped — we are speaking about something that is simply continuous.”
Note the spin on the next story; the last line also shows collaboration:
Iraqi police detain two British soldiers in Basra:“Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two British soldiers,” an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosives, the source said.”]]
This is just the tip of the ice berg.
I am not personally against the state of Israel, but again, God himself calls out end-time Israel and exposes their wickedness and control over the entire world and right now Jerusalem is already being called the Hi-tech capital of the world and they are at the forefront of “cyber security” dominated by Artificial Intelligence which is intimately tied to the beast system; as Revelation says of the false Elijah, “he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” (Rev 13.15)
An idol given life? Is this not a future version of the Hanson AI robot seen on TV named “Sophia” which is Greek for “Wisdom” – the name of God’s Holy Spirit by which the cosmos were made and the temple was built and resided in as the Shekhinah glory? (cf Proverbs 8 & 9) and appears in the heavenly temple where John is receiving Revelation looking into the earthly temple of the Antichrist right in the text of Rev 13.18, “Here is Wisdom..”
This AI robot “Sophia” even has citizenship in Saudi Arabia of all places – right next door to Jerusalem. Will it be placed in the Freemasonic temple in Jerusalem one day and be the global interface of the long-promised Singularity where all mankind is transcend their humanity to gain eternal life and merge into One global mind (or so they say)?
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. (Rev 9.6)
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. (Mat 24.22)
I reiterate: Christian support for what God calls a filthy, polluted and oppressing city (Zeph 3.1; and much worse elsewhere) warrants careful reconsideration if we want to avoid being an accomplice to their crimes and blasphemy but rather reach out to them with the good news of the New Covenant and warn them of the coming betrayal and holocaust in Israel according to the scriptures.
[2020-09-28 Update on pope Francis’ recent endorsement of keeping Sabbath, with links to reports]
Initial post here on my fresh new WordPress blog. Hello there and welcome.
I’d like to use this space primarily to collect and save some of my previous posts, discussions and other happenings from around the web over the years which I personally think are not so trivial as well as other thoughts I might have along the way. I’ll try to preface posts with some necessary context and add a link to its place of origin if available.
With that, here’s a post that I thought needed to be heard but was quickly deleted off someone’s YouTube video several hours ago. The same person who deleted it had posted off topic assertions a week ago on a video of my own YouTube channel over at youtube.com/allothernamesused last week. Needless to say if they can’t take like they give then they shouldn’t bother posting — albeit there are exceptions if the other party is being abusive, uncivil and disrespectful and for these reasons I myself have had to turn on post approvals to keep the signal-to-noise ratio in check.
This is nowhere near the first time this has happened of course but it was the last straw for me so now I’m here to add my thoughts on a subject I see fraught with ignorance and hype to dangerous levels.
As you may have already guessed from the header and tagline I mainly focus on biblical issues particularly relevant to today and tomorrow to just about everybody on some level. This includes practical, relevant information affecting the world. The following post was in response to the idea of the Vatican instituting a ‘Sunday Law’ not so much of it being possible — I know the Vatican has been making noise about this for many years in the EU — but that this is somehow fulfillment of THE MARK OF THE BEAST 666 OMG! etc, etc which inevitably leads to the argument by typical proponents of this idea that the Sabbath needs to be lifted up and God wants everyone to continue observing the Sabbath which they often use as the hook for bringing in old covenant related commands and so on as you might hear argued by SDA members or some Hebrew roots groups and other Judaizers.
This whole situation could very well be a smokescreen for the real mark/name of the beast and it doesn’t seem like an honest mistake the way the proponents are so gung-ho and invincible to devastating texts and facts, always deleting important deep research as soon as I start providing it and pointing out verses they all seem to conveniently leave out without exception — at least most on YouTube I’ve tried to interact with…
So without further ado:
Re: Sunday Law
You are free to worship on any day you want. We are no longer required to keep the Sabbath and Yeshua is our Sabbath rest (Heb 4). This was all hashed out in the days of the apostles almost 2000 years ago. Have you not read?
“Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment […] For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.” Acts 15.24-29
“Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.” Col 2.16. The sabbath was a ceremonial not moral command.
Re: Mark of the Beast
The mark=name of the beast refers to a false messiah from the House of David renewing the old covenant/marriage and the wife (Israel) takes the name/mark of the husband as the bride takes the name in marriage just as they did at Mt Sinai and doing away with Edom (ie, Rome which they associate with ‘Christianity’ and therefore the pope who may simply play the ‘false’ antichrist for the ‘real’ Jewish antichrist to overcome), thus fulfilling the expectation of religious Jews and many others here.
Religious Israelites took key texts of the Sinai covenant (marriage) and encapsulated it in leather and strapped it to their forehead and hand (phylacteries) as reminders of the dedication of their thoughts (forehead) and works (hand) to God literally fulfilling the text, specifically Exodus 13.9 “And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes.” Some religious Jews still do this today, thus bearing the mark on their forehead and hand.
Other key marriage texts include Exodus 13.16, Deuteronomy 6.8, 11.18
The 144,000 will also have the mark/name of the Father because they are the bride of Yeshua and have his name, one with the Father: “..an hundred forty and four thousand, having the Father’s name written in their foreheads.” Rev 14.1
This is not a microchip, it’s a spiritual seal of the covenant, there’s one between Christ and his faithful bride the other between the antichrist and the whore of (Mystery/secret) Babylon, “which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” Rev 11.8 — in other words Jerusalem, where a future Freemasonic temple will be built. The founder of American Judaism, Rabbi Isaac Wise wrote in The Israelite, “Masonry is a Jewish institution whose history, degrees, charges, passwords and explanation are Jewish from beginning to end, with the exception of only one by-degree and a few words in the obligation.”
Freemasonry will play a major role in binding the nations together under the antichrist whose temple will be a house of prayer for all nations. The antichrist and his proponents will misappropriate key biblical verses like Isaiah 56.7 referring to the time of Yeshua Messiah’s kingdom after the counterfeit messiah is destroyed: “for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.” NT verses that refer to the bride of Yeshua may also be misappropriated by the antichrists to fool ‘Christians’ into accepting the old covenant:
Galatians 3:26-28 “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:29 “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Romans 2:28-29 “For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.”
Christians will be and are being Judaized, or at least sympathetic to it, just as they were being in the days of the apostles which lead to the Jerusalem council in Acts 15.24-29 (see above) stating that there is no such command for keeping sabbaths.
This is not to say that in the millennial kingdom of Yeshua some of the old commands will be brought back, indeed believers of the first resurrection will be ministering to the nations as priests and kings as shown in Revelation 1.6. This is because the physical temple and old works serve as tools to teach and many will need these elementary tools to grow spiritually in faith as sons of God, “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” Gal 3:24-26
But before that time comes, Yeshua warned his people to not be deceived and indicated that the antichrist will re-institute strict sabbath observance in Judea and there will be another abomination of desolation in the temple:
“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) then let them which be in Judaea flee […] (Mat 24.15-16) But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day (Mat 24.20)”
You will not be able to buy or sale sacrifices from the money changers unless you have the mark/name of the anti-messiah or are numbered among his family (the number of his FAMILY name, study the language of Numbers 1.2 KJV).
A word to the wise is sufficient.
And a few posts down on the same video:
Yeshua Is The Way 2 days ago The mark of the Beast is the RFID Microchip Implant. Do not take it
My (now deleted) reply:
AllOtherNamesUsed1 second ago As I included in my post above, I repeat so you might see.
The mark=name of the beast refers to a false messiah from the House of David renewing the old covenant/marriage and the wife (Israel) takes the name/mark of the husband as the bride takes the name in marriage just as they did at Mt Sinai and doing away with Edom (ie, Rome which they associate with ‘Christianity’ and therefore the pope who may simply play the ‘false’ antichrist for the ‘real’ Jewish antichrist to overcome), thus fulfilling the expectation of religious Jews and many others here.
Religious Israelites took key texts of the Sinai covenant (marriage) and encapsulated it in leather and strapped it to their forehead and hand (phylacteries) as reminders of the dedication of their thoughts (forehead) and works (hand) to God literally fulfilling the text, specifically Exodus 13.9 “And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes.” Some religious Jews still do this today, thus bearing the mark on their forehead and hand.
Other key marriage texts include Exodus 13.16, Deuteronomy 6.8, 11.18 The 144,000 will also have the mark/name of the Father because they are the bride of Yeshua and have his name, one with the Father: “..an hundred forty and four thousand, having the Father’s name written in their foreheads.” Rev 14.1
This is not a microchip, it’s a spiritual seal of the covenant, there’s one between Christ and his faithful bride the other between the antichrist and the whore of (Mystery/secret) Babylon, “which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” Rev 11.8 — in other words Jerusalem, where a future Freemasonic temple will be built.
You absolutely will be deceived if you do not study the word seriously yourself and only rely on youtube videos and websites to tell you what the bible says. Do you not think Satan has his people flooding the internet and publications with bad info and drowning out the good info?
From comments section on Youtube video titled, “Sunday Law – 666 Mark of the Beast ~ Fema׃ Death By Guillotine ~ Pope Francis, Obama”
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[2020-09-28 Update: So much for the so-called “Sunday Law” to keep everyone looking in the wrong direction while satan’s plans move forward unseen: now Francis has came out endorsing Sabbath-keeping just last March (see links below). No doubt this is part of the warm up for the coming renewal of the old Sinai covenant of works in defiance of the new covenant of salvation by faith in Christ’s works. The rabbis are eagerly awaiting the prophet Elijah to renew the old covenant marriage, which in Torah came with spiritual sealing of the name/mark of the Lord upon the head and hand of the congregation through the Aaronic Benediction lifting of hands which answers to the false prophet/second beast of Rev 13. See in-depth blog post on this here.
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