Christian
Churches of God
No. 212j
Four
Hundred Years of Abraham’s Legacy
(Edition
1.0 20231210-20231210 )
Abraham was given the Covenant with God, and after 430 years,
Israel entered the Promised Land. They were oppressed in Egypt over a total
period of four hundred years. (Gen. 15:13). Now after another period of four
hundred years of Abraham's blessings we are again to re-enter the Promised Land
under Messiah.
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Four Hundred Years of Abraham’s Legacy
Introduction
God called Abraham out of
Ur of Chaldea and established a Covenant with him. God gave to him on that day
of the Covenant (see Covenant of God (No. 152)) the
lands from the Brook of Egypt to the River Euphrates (Gen 15:1-21). He also
told Abraham on that day that they would be oppressed in Egypt for four hundred
years.
Gen_15:13
Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know of a surety that your descendants will
be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they
will be oppressed for four hundred years;
Exo_12:40
The time that the people of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty
years.
Exo_12:41
And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on that very day, all the
hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Abram (later Abraham) was given the Law and he tithed (see No. 161) to
Melchisedek the priest of the One True God. That was over 400 years before the
law was given to Moses (Gen. 14:18-20). (See Melchisedek (No. 128)
for details). Messiah was later to be appointed High Priest of the Temple and
the creation of God after the Order of Melchisedek (Ps. 110; Heb. Ch. 8) (F019_5i).
Israel was taken out of Egypt 430 years to
the date from the time their ancestors went into Egypt. The period of four
hundred years of oppression of Israel in Egypt stated by God was to be used
later as a test period of the blessings God had awarded to Abraham. This was to
test them and to measure them for the period of the End of the Age and for
their return finally under Messiah to Israel to rule the world under the Law of
God over the millennial system of Rev. 20:1-6.
The Law of God was given to the Patriarchs
and was restated to Israel by the Angel of the Presence through Moses at Sinai.
That elohim was the being given Israel as his
inheritance by Eloah, as Ha Elohim, under Deut. 32:8-9. That being was with
Israel in the Wilderness and that Rock was the Christ (Acts 7:30-53; 1 Cor.
10:1-4) (F044ii) (F046ii). That fact was understood by the
early church under the Apostles as we see from Acts 13:9 and Gal. 3:17.
Act_13:19
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them
their land as an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years.
Gal_3:17
This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years
afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
The Law at Sinai
When Israel and the Mixed Multitude arrived at Sinai, the Law was given
by the Angel of the Presence to them through Moses.
However the Levites, and others, could not be trusted and they led the
people into sin through idolatry and revelry to the Moon God Sin, in the idol
of the Golden
Calf (No. 222). For that
sin Moses killed 3000 Levites involved and then went back up the mountain to
receive another set of tablets of the law, because he had broken the first set
in anger (see Ascents
of Moses (No. 070)). In every
case of collective sin in Israel the priesthood and ministries were the root
cause of that sin, and it has been so over the entire period of its existence
in all its tribes no matter where located.
Only the sons of Zadok, in Levi, have proved faithful over time and they
will minister in the Temple in the Millennium (see Commentary on Ezekiel F026ix,
x,
xi,
xii).
Once they had been given the Law, Israel was then given a test of faith
to enter the Promised Land. The twelve spies were sent out and only two of the
twelve had the courage and faith to recommend they take up occupation. Ten did
not, and through that cowardice and lack of faith, they were then consigned to
a generation of forty years in the wilderness. This lesson was to stand witness
against them and symbolised the forty Jubilees of the later dispersion.
The Captivity
After conquering the Promised Land, Israel sinned continuously. In order
that they might spread abroad and inherit the full promises and the inheritance
of Abraham and fulfil the Plan of God in the Plan of Salvation
(No. 001A) as the Vineyard of God
(see ##001B
and 001C),
they were sent into captivity under the Assyrians in 722 BCE. That was to fulfil
the Plan of God outlined in the Law and the Prophets and especially in the
Psalms (F019_1,
2, 3, 4, 5i, ii, iii). The Kingdom was split after Solomon
(see 282C; 282D; 282E). That
was so that Judah might be kept separate and thus complete the prophecies
regarding the Messiah at the planned time. Judah also sinned badly and they
were sent into captivity to Babylon in 597 BCE (No. 250B)
and then restored to the Holy Land to enable the birth of Messiah at Bethlehem
Ephratah. Due to Judah (incl. Benjamin) and Levi's continued sin they were
finally sent into captivity under Rome to enable the formation of the church. Judah
was then dispersed permanently in 70 CE under the Sign of Jonah (No.
013). The physical Temple was destroyed at that time (see War with Rome and
the Fall of the Temple (No. 298)). See also Judah (No. 212E).
Israel was sent, by the Assyrians, into the North beyond the Araxes
River and the tribes were merged with the Hittite Celts in
the area of what became Northern Parthia. After the formation of the
churches under the Christ, the apostles were sent into Parthia, to reach the
Ten Tribes of Israel (see Nos. 122. 122D and also 212F) as well
as the scattered Jews in Asia. At the fall of the Parthian Empire in the Second
Century CE, the entire horde of Israel and its Celtic brothers, with which they
had merged, moved Northwest into NW Europe and spread
out from there, and into Britain and Scandinavia. God had already established a
church in Britain from Christ's ordination of the Seventy and the movement of
Linus to Rome and Aristobulus to Britain (see Nos. 122D; 266)
Undermining of the Churches
The churches were undermined from Rome through the Quartodeciman
Disputes (No. 277) and the Unitarian/Trinitarian
Wars (No. 268). The churches in Britain were undermined through the
military power of the Angles who were converted to Catholicism at the request
of their Queen, the wife of Ethelbert. She was a French princess who requested
the pope to send a Catholic Bishop to Britain. There were no Roman Catholic
bishops or clergy in Britain as of that time. Rome sent Augustine (later of
Canterbury) in 597 CE, and he baptised (sprinkled) 10,000 Angles at the
midwinter fires in Kent.
In 663 CE a synod was held at Whitby at Hilda's Abbey and the Celtic
church, which kept the original Christian Sabbatarian Quartodeciman Doctrines,
was forced to convert to Roman Catholic Doctrines by force of arms. Catholicism
was spread by force through Europe by the power of the Franks and Normans with persecution
(see Nos 122
and 170).
The Sabbatarian Churches of God were forced underground from that time,
by persecution, through to the beginning of the Reformation. The demand
eventually came from all people in Europe to have the Bible available in their
own language and so the Trinitarians were no longer able to suppress the Bible
understanding. So they designed to forge the texts in
what became the Textus Receptus and then translated the forgeries into the
trade languages, English being the major one. The KJV was the result. That text
is full of forgeries, alterations and mistranslations and they are explained in
Nos 164F
and 164G. The KJV etc. will be exhibits in museums during
the Millennium. In spite of their effort, the
Trinitarians failed to stop the Bible coming into Britain and also could not
conceal the major intent of Scripture and thus the Reformation began.
Ireland had remained fairly free of Roman
Catholic Domination. After the Normans had taken over Britain and established
feudal control and worship there from 1066, the Norman controlled church became
more feudal and, in the Twelfth Century, the Sodomites took over the church and
introduced celibacy and other aberrations. Married clergy
were no longer permitted and the deaconesses were expunged and the females were
turned into slaves and housed there in what were previously free and open abbeys.
The churches entered their darkest days and knowledge was suppressed. For
example, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was declared a heretic by the pope in the
Middle Ages for declaring that the earth was a sphere and revolved around the
sun. He supported the Copernican Theory from 1616. He was investigated by the
Roman Inquisitor Cardinal Robert Bellarmine. In 1633 he was confined to
permanent house arrest. He is still a
heretic to this day due to the Nineteenth Century Doctrine of papal
infallibility.
When the Englishman Nicholas Breakspeare was
elected pope in the Twelfth century, and became Adrian IV, he gave Ireland to
England under Henry II and sanctioned the elimination of Sabbatarianism from
Ireland. That repression later extended to Scotland under the Atheling's
daughter Margaret and the Sabbatarian Churches were completely suppressed.
Sabbatarian doctrines for Sabbath worship were transferred to Sunday in
Scotland and today few really understand why that was so, or that they were
once Sabbatarians.
The Trinitarians tried to suppress the Reformation and they did kill a large number of people over the Thirteenth to the
Sixteenth centuries in Britain and Ireland and all over Europe. It ceased to be
a capital offence to deny the Trinity by 1625 in UK. Four hundred years from that date in 2026,
will see the false religions of the world begin to be eradicated from the face
of the earth (The Inquisition in Britain, Forty Decades for Repentance
(No. 290B) (see also Nos. 122 and 170).
At the end of the 1500s The Reformation had reached control in Britain, but the
Sabbatarians were persecuted and the churches in Surrey were forced to flee to
the Netherlands and seek protection in Holland. With the discovery of North
America and the claim by the UK as a colony they decided to establish a
Sabbatarian colony there. They chartered the ships Mayflower and the Speedwell.
However, the Speedwell began taking on water and the flotilla had to put back
to England where they all transhipped to the Mayflower. They then left from
Plymouth for the Massachusetts’ Bay colony and landed at Plymouth Rock, so
named for their point of departure. Their story is all contained in the text The Dutch
Connection of the Pilgrim Fathers (No. 264).
The colony was established there and, in spite of
the misfortunes at Jamestown Virginia, God blessed the colony of the
Sabbath-keeping Pilgrim Fathers. After the initial struggles over two years,
God blessed them, and they held their first thanksgiving service on 29 November
1623 by order of their then governor and magistrate William Bradford.
The significance of this festival is that it was exactly four hundred
years ago this November (2023). The group establishing it was part of the True
Church of God placing it there in the true faith under the true doctrines. God honoured
that act as He honoured the colonies established from the UK and other elements
of Israel all around the world. The colonisation by the various tribes of
Israel extended the blessings of Abraham to Israel all around the world, and
through those blessings, to the nations of the world who were to be blessed and
brought into the inheritance of Christ under the Covenant of God through the
Body of Christ (see Gen. 48:14-22).
The main
problem is that, although God bestowed the blessings on Israel, for the exact
same time He had placed them in Egypt under persecution, to strengthen them,
they showed that over the period of their blessings that they had become so
infected with false doctrine and false religious systems, that they had
corrupted themselves almost entirely and could not be trusted with anything
that God had told them to do under the Covenant within the Law and the
Testimony (Rev. 12:17; 14:12). Christianity in its various
forms and sects has rejected God's Law and has embraced Antinomianism, holding to
the view that Christians are released by grace from the obligation of observing
the moral Law of God as enumerated in the Ten Commandments and the Pentateuch (No. 164E). The Trinitarians swamped the efforts of the Sabbatarians
there and everywhere else. That was to cost the people their place in the First Resurrection (No. 143A). So also were they
penetrated by Witchcraft and the occult as we see today from their festivals
(e.g. Easter, Halloween and Christmas) (see CB097; No. 235). Very little of that can be rectified as most are dead.
Only those alive can repent. The rest are in
the Second Resurrection (No.
143B).
Israel
was taken out of Egypt and had Christ, as the Angel of the Presence, instruct
Moses (see No. 098) and give them the Law of God (L1) and the Covenant (No. 152). In the same way the
blessings promised by God to Abraham were now conferred on Israel, and the
other sons of Abraham, without regard to their merit. They were given the
blessings over a 400-year period to equal the period they spent in Egypt under
servitude.
This time
the tribes will not be permitted their weak and faithless behaviour that saw
them waste forty years in the wilderness as an example to us all. We have
already spent forty jubilees (fifty-year periods) in the wilderness, i.e. over
the last two thousand years from the formation, by Christ, of the church in 27
CE. We will now be placed in captivity
over the next four years and sent into captivity under Christ back to the Promised
Land (Isa. Chs. 65-66 F023xvi).
We are
now in such a state of sin under Satan's false doctrines, propagated by the
religious systems of the Sun and Mystery cults, that we will have set the
conditions for the final wars of the end. In those wars, of the Fifth and the
Sixth Trumpets, which are already upon us, as humans under Satan's control, we
have now commenced to wipe out the human race. That
will be under the control of the demons that we have given ourselves to in
defiance of God. Over the next twelve months we will have undergone the war of
the Sixth Trumpet and continued to die from these Genocidal “Vaccine” side
effects and MRNA weapons of mass destruction the Globalists have infiltrated,
and enforced, among us. The US armed forces have just realised how insane they
have been and they are attempting to reinstate the unvaxxed soldiers with full pay, as the vaxxed are dropping
dead everywhere with deadly side effects. The Airline industry is now seeking unvaxxed pilots to stop their planes from falling out of
the air and the hospitals need the unvaxxed to man
their hospitals everywhere. Litigation
is now underway against the criminal big pharma corporations and the countries
and politicians that enable the genocide, regardless of political affiliation. Every
nation has succumbed to the deception of Pharmakeia as
prophesied in Rev. 18:23. Executions will begin soon if they have not already
begun. Pfizer has instituted proceedings against Poland for refusing to take
and pay for more of their Covid “vaccines”.
The wars
will kill over half the world's population (see No. 141C) and then God will
intervene. He will send the Witnesses, in power, to the Temple Mount for 1260
days and they will begin to deal with mankind (see No. 141D).
Over the
1260 days they will restore the Nexus of the Law and they will enforce the Calendar of God (No. 156), as it was conducted in the
Temple system. The New Moons and Sabbaths will be restored (No. 158). From then on those people not keeping the true Sabbaths, New Moons and
Holy Days will come under capital punishment (Isa. 66:23-24). They will act
according to the law and with no postponements and heretical games that Judah
and Levi played with the Hillel Calendar Abomination (see Nos. 195, 195C).
The
Witnesses will summon the heads of Judah and Levi and they will begin to deal
with them. They will be corrected and brought to repentance under the power of
God. These men will bring down fire from heaven and stop the rains and inflict
the plagues of Egypt at their will. There will be nowhere to hide.
Timeline of the four years
2024-2028.
The four
hundred years was up at 17 Chislev (29 Nov. 2023). and by 24 Chislev (6 Dec.
2023) we are again back considering the events of 7 December 1917 fulfilling Habakkuk (F035) and Haggai (F037).
We will
now see the War of the Sixth Trumpet develop into the nuclear exchanges and the
Empire of the Beast emerge full blown (No 299A). The Empire of the Beast will then turn and
crush the Religious Whore (299B). God will then intervene
and send the Witnesses (Rev. 11:3-13). The Witnesses (No. 135) will then arrive on the
Temple Mount for 1260 Days (No. 141D). Over that period and for
the 42 Months of the Beast they will deal with the entire world to enforce the
Nexus of the Law and enforce the Plagues of Egypt. During that period there will
be no rain for the period of their ministry and prophecy, except as they
direct.
God's
Plan for Judah
When the
Witnesses land on the Temple Mount they will have specific instructions for
Judah and also Israel and the World. What these are
can be deduced from the Bible Texts. The latter prophets from Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel and Daniel and the Twelve Prophets from Hosea to Malachi all carry
specific details as to what can be expected of Messiah and the Host in the Last
Days (No. 192), including these Two
Witnesses of Rev. 11:3-13. This is the Second woe and the people of the earth
seek to kill, and eventually do kill, these two prophets on the afternoon of
the 1260th day. The people of the world will rejoice over their
death and host parties celebrating their death. The Witnesses will lie dead in
the streets for 3.5 days and they will not be permitted to be buried and then
on the morning of the Fourth day, the 1264th since they arrived on the
Temple Mount, Messiah will arrive on the Mount of Olives and there will be a
massive earthquake.
Over the
1260 days the Witnesses will address Judah, Levi and Benjamin and all Israel
and the entire world. God will pour His spirit out on Palestine and all those
in Palestine will be affected. Those who say they are Jews and are not, which
comprise 91% of all Judaism (see No. 212E)) will be addressed
specifically as will all the Rabbinical class.
These
Jews and pseudo-Jews will be faced with the sins of Judaism and Talmud, and the
sins of Hillel, and the fact that no one in Judah obeys God, and their Hillel
Calendar is designed to ensure that Judah never keeps a day on the correct
Sabbath, New Moon or Feast Day except by accident when
they cannot avoid it. The rabbinical class will commence to suffer the plagues
of Egypt and die. There are Satanists among them, and these will be targeted
and weeded out for destruction.
Judah
will also be faced with the removal of all idolaters and Trinitarian priests in
Jerusalem. All of them over the period up to the arrival of Messiah and the
Host will be removed as we see from the text. Messiah and the Host will remove
7,000 when they arrive. There will be
many more die over the 1260 days of the Witnesses.
Palestine
in Israel
God gave
Abraham the blessings under the Covenant and God placed the boundaries of
Israel from Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea through Tyre and Sidon to the
Euphrates River east to the Arabian desert and then south encompassing all of
the sons of Lot, both Moab and Ammon down through Edom and the areas of Midian
with the borders of Jordan and the River of Egypt which will move south by 66
km in the earthquake at the return of Messiah. The Palestinians will be sent in
under Messiah and the entire lands and the world will be governed from
Jerusalem. The entire system will be placed under the Law of God and its
calendar, as it was in the Temple system (see No. 156). Judaism, Christianity
and Islam will be cleansed of all idolatrous influences, in all the three
religions and the doctrines harmonised as they were in the First Century CE.
They will stamp out Hillel and the Talmud, Trinitarianism etc. the Hadith and
Shia and the Sharia. They will return to the original Messianic doctrines, and
they will be at peace, for almost the entire thousand years. Anyone not keeping
the Sabbaths and New Moons will die (Isa. 66:23-24). The doctrines of the three
aberrant branches will be exhibits in Museums to show the insanity Satan
wreaked upon the whole world. Then we will face the Second Resurrection (No. 143B). (See also God's Calendar (No. 156); the Sabbath in the Koran (No. 274); Hebrew and Islamic Calendar Reconciled (053); The Juma'ah:
Preparing for the Sabbath (No. 285) and The Origins of Christmas and Easter (No. 235).)
The
Palestinians will cease their terrorism and that will begin from the current
onslaught of Hamas; and in the near future the NATO
forces of the King of the North will move into Israel and occupy Gaza from the
sea to Jerusalem (Dan. 11:45). Iran, Syria and Hezbollah and Gaza will all be
punished and Iran will, in the end, invite the final assault against it (see F017B), and the destruction of
those in the region associated with it (see also Isaiah Chs.
15-25 (F023iv, v, vi)). God prophesies, in the Oracle
Against Damascus in Ch. 17, which foretells the destruction of Damascus,
which is to occur over these Last Days in the wars now occurring.
The period of the
entire subjugation by the Beast system of the world is listed in Daniel (see
Dan. Chs. 2 (F027ii);
11 (F027xi)
12 (F027xii,
F027xiii)).
The critical period is over 1335 days ending in Messiah's subjugation of the
world. The world will then be run from Jerusalem for 1000 years (Rev. 20:4-6).
The Demons will be placed in Tartaros at the return
of Messiah. The Sun and Mystery Cults and all false religion will be removed
from the face of the earth (see End of False
Religion (No. 141F)).
Egypt and
the areas south will be reorganised around a trading area (Isa. 19:1-22) and
the areas north of the Euphrates will be placed under control of Assyria and
will be the third part of a trading block (Isa. 19:23-25).
The area,
and the world, will be subject to the Messiah and the resurrected Patriarchs
and Prophets, the Apostles and the Elect (No. 001) of the First
Resurrection, which will include the elect of Islam from Qasim and the elders
of the church including Kadijha, and the Rightly Guided Caliphs. They will all
enforce the Temple Calendar on pain of death (Isa. 66:23-24). India and Asia will cease all facets of
religion not based on the Law and the Testimony. The Chinese New Year will be
set back again to what it was before the Chinese left the Middle East ca. 1800
BCE to settle in the bend of the Yellow River Ca 24th to 23rd
centuries BCE after the dispersion following Babel (see Mysticism (B7_8)). Choy Yat will be again
Sabbaths in the worship of the One True God, each New Moon.
The world
will then be at peace and the body of Israel will be identified and all sent
back to Jerusalem and the nation and re-established under Messiah as prophesied
under Isaiah Chs. 65-66. The nations of the world will send their
representatives to Jerusalem at the Feast of Tabernacles each year for
directions and if they do not keep the feasts under the Law and the Calendar (see No. 156G), they will get no rain in
due season and suffer the plagues of Egypt (Zech. 14:16-21).
No one not keeping
the Law and the Temple Calendar (including all Sabbaths and New Moons) will be
alive at the beginning of the Millenium.