A Covenant With Death "Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves." -Isaiah 28:15 There is nothing simpler than the form of worship that EHYEH ELOHIM wants from His human creation. He asks that we love Him and appreciate the gift of life upon our earthly home, and the provision of the ransom sacrifice of His Only-Begotten Son Jesus. He wants no idols to be in the way, even if His name is attached to those idols. This is evidenced by what occurred among the Israelites while Moses was up on Mount Sinai for forty days, when they made a golden calf and began worshiping it. They wanted a god that they could see and feel, and the results were disastrous for them. It takes great faith to believe in, pray to, and worship a God that we can neither see nor hear. As a result, idolatry has always been a snare for God's people. Satan knows this, and has planned the ultimate calf-idol: a global church to go hand-in-hand with a global government. Indeed, anyone who resists going along with the game plan will be shunned, ridiculed, persecuted, tortured, and maybe even put to death. While this is going on the world will be in a state of turmoil. If the "beginning of pangs of distress" that Jesus spoke of on Mount Olivet refers to World War III, rest assured that the New World Order will be set up as a result of it. Revelation 13:8 says of this soon to be arriving Beast-idol: "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." Lest we remind ourselves at this point of the Freemason phrase: "Ordo ab Chao". The Gnostic Revival The World today is witnessing the beginnings of a global revival of gnostic mysticism, both inside and outside Christianity. There was an article in the Sept. 5, 2005 issue of Newsweek that documented the metamorphosis taking place in religion, and the very fact that it appeared in such a Zionist/Globalist-controlled magazine is what can be described as 'the occasional smattering of truth'. The popular trend is to extract from religions what tickles one's ears, and this prophecy will be fulfilled on a global scale: "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." -2 Timothy 4:3,4 "Fables" is a word that most fittingly describes Kabbalah. More and more people are seeking mystical experiences these days, and this seems to be particularly prevalent in the United States. The popular trend is to extract the desirable things from the different religions and use it in a personal spiritual belief system. This is happening today inside many churches where meditation, Yoga and other spiritistic practices have been “Christianized”. This is a recurring trend that has gone on since the days of the Apostles. Freemasonry comprises the lion's share of the mystery religions of Babylon, and can be defined as a refined, modern form of Kabbalah, which provides the basis for it. Kabbalah is Jewish Mysticism, an esoteric theosophy, and its origin is found in The “Sefer Yetzirah”, a.k.a. the "Book of Creation". It says that God created the world by means of thirty-two secret paths of knowledge, the ten “sephiroths”, together with the twenty-two letters in the Hebrew alphabet. These ten emanations form what is called the "Tree of Life". (Satan counterfeits everything.) The Tree describes the "path" by which the "divine spirit" descended into the material world, and a different path by which mankind can "ascend" to God, Humanism at its finest. (Stairway to Heaven, anyone?) The origin and dating of the book is unknown, but Kabbalah itself dates back to antiquity. It is known to have been popularly used in the tenth century, and we see it being made popular today by many "role models" in Hollywood who strive to be spiritual on their own terms. The most prominent book of the Kabbalah is the "Book of Zohar", allegedly authored by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. It became popular among Christians in the Middle Ages, and was passed on as secret doctrine to the elite "adepts". The Biblical accounts of Abraham, Hagar, and Esau are not merely history to Kabbalists, they also believe that the letters, words, and names include hidden, divine mysteries. In their view, a literal interpretation of the Bible is inferior and inadequate. To them the Holy Scriptures are allegory, and the real interpretation of the words and letters are according to their numerical equivalents. This is called gematria, where the Babylonian Aramaic letters are actually hidden sources of supernatural powers, as we see in their all-important four letters, the tetragrammaton YHWH. Of course the Stars and planets have an affect on everything on earth through the "angelic" (translation: demonic) personalities that rule them. (Book of Zohar, p. 663) According to Kabbalah, God is in everything and everything is in God (The Kabbalah, p.18). This is also known as pantheism, which is as far as it gets from a Judaic or Christian viewpoint and is a deluxe form of idolatry. It says that Creation was not made out of “nothing” (The Kabbalah p. 115), instead, it was fashioned from the four "elements" of water, fire, earth and ether. This concept is also found in some ancient nature religions, but not in Judaism. The Kabbalah also teaches that the soul is pre-existent before conception (The Kabbalah, p. 17), and that one may recollect their previous existence, also known as reincarnation. “The pure soul becomes present among the emanations that control the world. An impure soul must be reborn in another body, and the process continues until it has been made pure” (Evangelical Dictionary of Theology by W. Elwell, p.598). The Kabbalah consists of archetypes for everything in creation. Similar to Gnosticism and occultism, there is a deeper hidden meaning made known only to the "initiated". “According to Masonic historian Albert Pike, Gnosticism was an offshoot of Kabbalism. In "Morals and Dogma", the most esteemed work of Freemasonry, Pike states: “The Kabbalah is the key of the occult sciences, and the Gnostics were born of the Kabbalists” (p.249 The New World Order by Gary Kah). The mysticism of the Kabbalah is the basis for the One-World, New Age church movement, and it is an admittedly mystical trend within the church, that revives the ancient mystics for their spiritual practices. Many new church leaders are introducing these concepts that are nearly the exact antithesis of what is found in the Bible, while claiming that God approves of these blasphemous lies. It is increasingly promoted through books, church conferences and the Internet at an accelerating rate. Imagine a day when all the leaders of the world's major religions not only endorse, but demand their flocks to unite with the rest of humanity in a global, unified ecumenical One-World Religion that proclaims that there is no need for a Messiah! If you have read the essay "The Serpent's Religion", you understand the Humanist philosophy behind it. Not only that, but this religion claims that enlightenment from Lucifer is available for everyone! Anyone who is willing to tap into this secret knowledge will be able to participate in the coming quantum leap toward divinity that is coming with the end of the age of Pisces and the ushering in of the Age of Aquarius. Is it any coincidence that this is all occurring right about the time that our Lord and Master Jesus Christ is returning to earth to inspect His congregations? The New Age Movement is a mountain of lies deeply tied to the occult, for which the world has been prepared for decades. The constant indoctrination of witchcraft, ghosts, extra-terrestrials, Star-Trek, Star-Wars, sex, violence, homosexuality, etcetera, enforces all the lies of Kabbalistic Gnosticism everywhere we turn. Of course this includes the lie of the immortal soul, but that has been indoctrinated into everyone through every Babylonian religion for thousands of years. With the New Age comes a new twist: Lucifer is really the Grand Architect of the Universe! Can you imagine how God will feel when the whole world falls into this depraved state of apostasy? The Ten Kings Come First The Bible indicates that when the last days arrive, the world will be united into ten jurisdictional districts that will include every nation on earth. This is being fulfilled right now! The paperwork has already been finalized that will merge the United States and Canada into Mexico (yes, into Mexico), and this will not be a sovereign state. No, it will be a tyrannical dictatorship! This is occurring all over the world, and it's all over the Bible in prophecy. That is how we know it is true, not because men are planning it, but because God says He will allow it to happen! Aside from the great prophecy of world government united against God and His appointed King Jesus Christ found in the second Psalm, we find more details about these final ten kings, including a "covenant" or peace agreement strikingly similar to the one mentioned at Daniel 9:27. Psalms 83:1-8 says: "O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent; Against thee do they make a covenant: The tents of Edom (1) and the Ishmaelites (2); Moab (3), and the Hagarenes(4); Gebal (5), and Ammon (6), and Amalek(7); Philistia (8) with the inhabitants of Tyre (9): Assyria (10) also is joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot." (ASV) The "tents" are translated in some Bibles as "tabernacles", meaning places of worship. The ten-horned, seven- headed beast of Revelation 13:1 has upon its heads "blasphemous names", which would indicate idolatrous forms of worship, and it "blasphemes God's name and residence" (verse 6). A Conspiracy! The "transgression that causes desolation" (Daniel 8:12,13; 9:24), a seven-year "peace agreement" (confederacy, or conspiracy) is what kicks off the final seven years of tribulation. It will be a lack of faith in God, and a desire to put trust in a man-made New Order that God Speaks about at Isaiah 8:11-14, saying: "For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem." On May 5, 2006, the Vatican and the World Council of Churches announced that they were conducting a three- year joint study project aimed at developing a shared code of conduct on the controversial issue of religious conversion. The study project, named "Interreligious reflection on conversion: from controversy to a shared code of conduct", was launched at a meeting in Velletri, Rome, from May 12-16, 2006. Thirty participants representing different religious traditions and regions gathered at the meeting to focus on assessing the reality of religious conversion from an inter-religious point of view. The next stages of the project were to be a discussion of religious conversion from a Christian perspective and the establishment of a shared code of conduct. This was expected to distinguish between witnessing and proselytism, making respect for freedom of thought, conscience and the religion of others a primary concern in any encounter between people of different faiths. Agreements such as this, although seemingly well-intended, show a co-operation between the World Council of Churches and the Vatican. God's prophet Obadiah foretells that "wise men of Edom" have a "covenant of peace" with the organization that is destined to become the 8th king of Revelation, the fierce king who will completely annihilate all religions, and thus the agreement would be violently broken: "If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes? How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up! All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him. Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?" -Obadiah 5-8. Daniel 11:41 says that in the time of the end, the King of the North would enter into the "Land of the Decoration", and that "Edom, Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon" would "escape out of his hand". Edom, Ammon and Moab were closely related to the Hebrews, as the Edomites were the descendants of Jacob's twin brother Esau. Ammon and Moab were sons of Lot, by his daughters after the destruction of Sodom. The three nations that descended from Esau, Moab and Ammon shared similar customs and languages, and they were neighbors to the sons of Jacob geographically. In this way those three nations well represent Christendom, because all of her sects have evolved from the Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant branches. Edom was the dominant nation of the three, and is mentioned most often in prophecy in relation to Jacob. In this way, the Catholic Church seems to be represented in prophecy by Edom. Christendom recognizes and uses the Bible, and it professes Jesus as the their focal point and spiritual Father, just as ancient Edom, Moab and Ammon recognized Abraham as their father, so that Biblical accounts and principles are not foreign concepts to spiritual "Edom" and "Moab" today. The "holy land"now consists of true followers of Jesus who live and teach by God's Word the Bible alone, and have no part of the Babylonish doctrines of Christendom. Since "Edom, Moab and Ammon" were pagan nations and no longer exist today, their identity and location today is obviously from a spiritual standpoint of worship. EHYEH's prophets described Edom as dwelling on a lofty, fortified crag, but it was laid low by the Chaldeans and its great wealth was plundered. Edom felt secure in its relationship with Babylon, just the same as the Vatican feels secure (Revelation 18:7) in its relationship with the United nations, being the only religion to hold "Special Observer" status. But as Edom did not discern that God had appointed the Chaldeans to execute His divine judgments upon the religions and nations of the world, so too the Vatican does not recognize the UN as the Divinely sanctioned executor of judgment in the time of the end. This "confederate" may very well include the ten kings of Revelation, and it may be referring to the concluding of a "covenant" with the Vatican and the World Council of Christian Churches. Needless to say, any religions that participate in any agreements with Edom will also suffer her fate. Of such an agreement, EHYEH appropriately warns: "Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it." -Isaiah 28:14-18 Jesus Himself said that He would be rejected in favor of this false covenant: "I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive." -John 5:43 Moses also prophesied of this covenant: "Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land where unto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them." -Deuteronomy 4:23-31 This is the Great Apostasy against God, and they are joined last by the "Assyrian" Antichrist. This is the little horn, and we find him being used by God to punish the apostate nation of Israel: "Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets." -Isaiah 10:5,6 Moving down to verses 24-27, we find God admonishing His nation not to be afraid of the Assyrian, because his yoke will soon depart from upon them, due to the outpouring of Holy Spirit and their being anointed with the oil, and this signifies their being sealed as the Bride of Jesus: "Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing." This is a prophecy for the time of the end, and it includes the whole earth, as evidenced by Isaiah 14:25,26-- "That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations." (See also Isaiah 31:8,9) God is telling His people not to participate in this false covenant, and assures them that He will remember His covenant and rescue His people: "And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." -Isaiah 25:7-9 "Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." -Isaiah 28:14-16 God's New Covenant is not written on paper, it is written upon our hearts: "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." -Jeremiah 31:33 ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Update: From "Unhived Mind" A "peace agreement" between the Vatican and Israel (and affecting the rest of the Middle East) is taking shape right now.... www.barrychamish.com AT LONG LAST, THE ONE WORLD CHURCH IN JERUSALEM by BARRY CHAMISH UNITED NATIONS – Israel's president had rare praise for Saudi Arabia's king at a U.N. interfaith conference Wednesday, saying King Abdullah's initiative to end the Arab-Israeli conflict inspired hope that all countries in the Middle East could live in peace. Speaking to hundreds of guests in the General Assembly chamber, where Israel has often been villified by its Arab neighbors, Shimon Peres appealed to Abdullah to maintain his leadership in the Arab world during the difficult peace process. Minutes earlier, Abdullah said it was "high time" the world learned the harsh lesson of history that differences between followers of different religions and cultures "engendered intolerance, causing devastating wars and considerable bloodshed without any sound logical or ideological justification." - Ambassador McDonald was appointed Ambassador twice by President Carter (CFR). - The idea of the Club of Budapest was developed in 1978 in a discussion between Aurelio Peccei, founder and first president of the Club of Rome, and Ervin Laszlo, systems philosopher and also member of the Club of Rome at that time. - Ravi Shankar is the world's most boring musician. He singlehandedly ruined such events as The Monterey Festival and The Concert For Bangladesh. - VENDLEY WILLIAM F Council on Foreign Relations. Membership Roster. 2004 - Joint Communiqué The Bilateral Permanent Working Commission between the State of Israel and the Holy See has held a Plenary meeting at the Vatican today, Wednesday, 28 May 2008, for the purpose of advancing the negotiations pursuant to Article 10 §2 of the Fundamental Agreement between the Holy See and the State of Israel (30 December 1993). The Delegation of the Holy See was led by Monsignor Pietro Parolin, Under-Secretary for Relations with States at the Secretariat of State, and was composed also of the following Members: Mr. Bahij Mansour, Director of Inter-religious Affairs Department, MFA; Provisional Agenda for the Inter-Religious Peace Summit in Jerusalem 2008: www.authorstream.com/Presentation...Powerpoint ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Continue on to "The King of the North" Back to top Home |
