Bible Believers' Newsletter 1271

"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660

Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; we are pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.

Android Phone As you read you will find Satan's objectives anathema to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ Creator of the world (Isaiah 14:12-17). The illusion of liberty and free expression under preselected electors is shattered when our representatives slaughter almost 400,000 Yemenies and 26,000 Palestinians, in service to those who crucified Messiah. We are always willing to go to war, always choosing the wrong enemy as alien usurers manipulate the grand chessboard of humanity with strategies, determined centuries before we were born, as substantiated by The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and cabals such as Rothschild, Rockefeller, United Nations, WHO, WEF, Shell, tax exempt foundations, NGOs and party political systems—all ruled and directed by the 'hidden hand.' Open your eyes to the long arm of unlegislated statutory and case law that is lawless from the top, and a plethora of competing churches and religions, apostate enemies of God.

Revelation 6:8, "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and the name of his rider was Death, the Devil-incarnate last Pope (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 378:1; 61-0730E, The Sixfold Purpose of Gabriel's Visit to Daniel, par. 113), and Hell followed with him. And power was given to them and its image over the four parts of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth." This is the result of Genesis 2:17 and 3:15 for there are two races on earth and the God of Israel (as distinct from the g_d of Israelis) placed "enmity" or undying hatred between the descendants of Cain and the descendants of the first Adam and the last Adam.

Errata: Newsletter 1256 stated "Ephraim and Esau were born of a Gentile mother," of course this was "Ephraim and Manasseh" who were born of the Gentile Egyptian Princess Asenath.

Errata: Newsletter nl1270.htm should read" Good Friday, March 22, 2024 . . . and on the Fiftieth Day of Pentecost, May 19, 2024".

This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.

Your brother-in-Christ
Anthony Grigor-Scott

War on Yemen? Don't Expect a Cakewalk

January 22, 2024 — The Biden administration is in the process of reimposing the 7 year-long embargo on Yemen that cut off food, water and essential medical supplies to the civilian population. This is how Washington weaponizes the "terrorist" designation in order to use famine as an instrument of foreign policy. The clear intention is to starve the population into submission so the US can advance its geopolitical agenda in the region. In this case, Washington's strategic objectives remain largely concealed from the general public, so we will list them here:

The United States has three main goals in Yemen:

  1. To eliminate an ally of Iran. (The Houthis).
  2. To control critical shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
  3. To construct an oil pipeline across Yemen in the event that the US launches a war on Iran and shipping in the Strait of Hormuz is disrupted. Now that Israel is moving ahead with its ethnic cleansing operation, we can add a fourth objective to the list:
  4. To militarily engage any army or militia in the region that tries to derail Tel Aviv's territorial ambitions.

Keep in mind, the current war is not merely an expansion of Israeli territory, but an attempt to establish Israel as the regional hegemon. Israel aspires to be the dominant power in the Middle East unopposed by its current set of rivals. The Biden administration is assisting in that project mainly because US interests coincide with Israel's long-term plans. Check out this excerpt from an article at the World Socialist Web Site:

    The genocide in Gaza is an integral part of US imperialism's strategy of global war in pursuit of world hegemony. It is one front in an emerging world war, along with Washington's proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, its escalating war throughout the Middle East, whose central target is Iran, and its war preparations against China. Bernie Sanders backs US attack on Yemen.

In short, US global ambitions segue perfectly with Israel's regional strategy. Neither country believes it can achieve its broader aims through peaceful means due in part to the lack of critical resources and flagging economic output. So military aggression is the only path forward. The primary targets in the impending conflict are Iran, Russia and China. Here's more from the World Socialist Web Site:

    These actions are preparatory to a head-on clash with Iran that could come at any time. Not only has the Pentagon planned for such war for decades, but, from the standpoint of US imperialism, its strategic aims have never been more vital than today, when the US is in a de facto war with Russia and plotting for war with China. Its goal in targeting Iran is to secure unbridled dominance over the world's principal oil-exporting region, a region uniquely positioned to project geopolitical power across Eurasia, Africa and the entire Indian Ocean region . . .

    The reality is that these are different arenas in a rapidly developing global conflict, as US imperialism desperately seeks to offset the decline in its relative economic power and establish global hegemony though war, plunder and the revival of colonial subjugation.

    . . . the dynamic across the Middle East is one of rapid escalation toward a regional conflagration led by Washington, its imperialist allies and their principal regional client, Israel. US imperialism setting Middle East ablaze . . .

    . . . the Houthis are a well-armed military force that has equipped itself with the particular weapons it needs for warfare on the Red Sea. It tells us that the Houthis knew there would eventually be a war with the United States for which they would have to be well prepared. It tells us that the US is probably going to suffer significant losses in the conflict ahead and that the fighting will drag on for a number of years disrupting transit on the Red Sea, inflicting massive damage to global supply-lines, and further strengthening anti-American coalitions. All of this could have avoided had the Biden administration chosen to pressure Israel into ending its siege of Gaza and allowing humanitarian aid to reach the Palestinian people. But they chose not to do so.

    . . . Every war launched by the US and its imperialist allies has ended in one bloody debacle after the other, with millions of people killed. But each disaster only reinforces the determination of US imperialism to use war as a means to secure its global hegemony . . .

    . . . The Houthis don't have to succeed in striking additional commercial vessels, or even successfully retaliate against US military ships. All they need to do is to try. That is enough to sustain a de facto shipping blockade of the Red Sea, through which a staggering 12% of global trade flows. Many Western commercial vessels will simply not risk moving their ships through those waters, not in spite of President Joe Biden's military strikes, but now because of them. How Biden Can Stop Houthi Missile Attacks—Without Risking War, Time . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Israel's Zionists and Settler Colonists are Genocidal Warmongers

January 23, 2024 — The UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) has now concluded its two-day public hearing of South Africa's legal case that charges Zionist Israel's leaders, and their brutal-savage-racist settler-colonist project, with genocidal intent, that continues to be waged against innocent Palestinian people.

The collective pain of 75 years of unmentionable hideosity began anew during the infamous October 7 Last Straw military defense action taken on behalf of the Palestinians by their legally-elected Hamas protectors in Gaza; when no other Western or Middle Eastern power, beside independent paramilitary guerilla forces, like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi, would dare to lift so much as a finger on behalf of the Palestinians . . . Full story: .globalresearch.ca

Accidents of Eccentricity: Israel's Pacific Hold

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December 11, 2023 — Cunning, subtle, understated. Israeli policy in the Pacific has seen UN votes cast in its favour, foreign policies of certain countries adjusted and favours switched. While China may be considered the big, threatening beast competing alongside that large, clumsy figure called the United States, the small state of Israel is directing its expertise, and charm, in very specific ways in the Indo-Pacific. When it came to voting for a nonbinding resolution in the UN General Assembly on the subject of a "humanitarian truce" regarding the conflict in Gaza . . . 14 countries were steadfastly opposed . . . knowing that, in the Final Judgment, the inhabitants of Israel would be pegged to God's finishing line . . . as Israel runs the wells of international empathy dry with its incessantly ruthless destruction of Gaza . . . Full story: asia-pacificresearch.com

Covid having failed to do the Job, Bill Gates is making a Second Run at Culling the population

Bill Gates

January 22, 2024 — Scientists on Big Pharma and WHO's payroll say the unknown and hypothetical virus "could be 20 times deadlier than COVID-19." WHO is a political and propaganda organization, not a health organization. Notice that WHO is predicting in advance of its appearance a new 20 times more deadly virus. So WHO is claiming a crystal ball that reveals the future. Why does it only reveal future viruses? Notice that WHO knows in advance that the unknown and hypothetical virus is very deadly. Notice that none of these things can possibly be known before they happen. There is an effort long underway to take all control over health decisions out of the hands of doctors and patients. The WHO "treaty" is likely designed by Bill Gates, Fauci, and Big Pharma. It is an instrument of tyranny. It will be used to prevent effective treatment against whatever pathogen is next released.

Notice that WHO's prediction is an indication that another released virus will soon be on its way to us. Notice that these predictions are coming from the Bill Gates/WEF crowd that is intent on reducing the world population by 7.5 billion lives, effectively a genocide of the human race. Notice that the politicians and media are doing nothing to alert the public and that the organized attempt to destroy your control over your health is meeting faint resistance.

WHO knows that the Covid "pandemic" was an orchestration in which covid tests known to produce false results were intentionally used to create the image of pandemic. WHO knows that most deaths were not from Covid but from the withholding of effective treatment and the imposition of a treatment protocol known to maximize the death rate.

WHO knows that the "vaccine" has killed and maimed far more people than the virus itself. Notice that this means that WHO knows it is again deceiving and lying to the public. Notice that "our representatives" in Congress are doing nothing to protect us. Notice that the corrupt medical establishment goes along with it even though most of them will also be victims. Notice that censorship is tightening and that it will be harder the next time to get correct information to the public. Notice that Bill Gates and Tedros Ghebreyesus are still treated as honorable men. Full story: paulcraigroberts.org

Will Disease X be Leaked in 2025?

January 23, 2024 — A new contagion will likely be born in 2025, and media are already preparing us for it.

The WHO's pandemic treaty is the gateway to a global, top-down totalitarian regime, a one world government. The reason we can be sure there will be additional pandemics, whether manufactured using either fear and hype alone or an actual bioweapon created for this very purpose, is because the takeover plan, aka The Great Reset, is based on the premise that we need global biosecurity surveillance and centralized response.

January 15-19, 2024, global leaders met at the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Davos summit where the key topic of discussion was "Preparing for Disease X," a hypothetical new pandemic predicted to kill 20 times more people than COVID-19.

In August 2023, a new vaccine research facility was set up in Wiltshire, England, to begin work on a vaccine against the unknown "Disease X".

The US Congress introduced the "Disease X Act of 2023" (H.R.3832) in June 2023. The bill calls for the establishment of a BARDA program to develop "medical countermeasures for viral threats with pandemic potential." The bill was referred to the Subcommittee on Health in early June 2023 but has not yet been passed . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: Hypothetical "Disease X": WHO Pandemic Treaty is A Fraud. Demands Compliance for "Next Pandemic"; Nitrogen 2000 — The Dutch Farmer Struggle

Stop Wasting Water

no more dams

January 25, 2024 — Almost every river in Eastern Australia is now pouring surplus water into the sea. But only two dams have been built in Queensland in the last 20 years—the Wyaralong Dam built 13 years ago and Paradise Dam built 19 years ago. Droughts will come again and we will wish for another dam-builder like Joh Bjelke Petersen whose government built at least eight dams in Queensland—the Burdekin, Wivenhoe, Hinze, Beardmore, Haig, Fairbairn, Bjelke-Petersen and Eungella dams. But that all came to a halt in 1988 when the plans to build the Wolffdene Dam were scuttled by all the usual suspects.

Taxpayers also spent some $460 million on preliminaries for the Traverston Dam, but then cancelled it when the infamous Peter Garrett got the Commonwealth to interfere. And recently it was revealed that the Paradise Dam in the Bundaberg Region had faults in the wall and a new wall would have to be built.

So while our water storages are stagnant or declining, our politicians support dangerously high levels of immigration as well as promoting tourism, games and circuses, all of which add to the demand for water. The population clock managed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics tells us that Australia's population increases by one person every 50 seconds. They all need water. And some fools want to use more of our precious stored fresh water to produce hydrogen fuels (every tonne of hydrogen produced by electrolysis consumes at least nine tonnes of fresh water.) The "green hydrogen" cycle needs lots of water and will always be a net consumer of electricity.

The climate alarmism of Tim Flannery and others resulted in a rash of artificial desalination plants being built in Australia about 15 years ago. Just recently, Hunter Water announced that it was going to spend $500M on a desalination plant south of Newcastle. All desal plants are costly to build and operate, and many stand idle most of the time. And of course green politicians want the power to be supplied from wind-solar adding greatly to the costs and environmental destruction. To let surplus fresh water escape to the oceans and then try to recover it using artificial desalination plants is the ultimate water stupidity.

Right now, Cyclone Kirrily is demonstrating nature's power of desalination—sucking moisture from the Pacific Ocean and dumping it on land. This is free fresh water with no costs to taxpayers. To check the progress of the cyclone, look here. Sensible people have their water storage facilities ready—new dams and weirs built, silt cleaned out, dam walls and overflows checked, no leaves clogging the tank strainers. Australia must build more dams for flood mitigation, urban water supply and irrigation. Most East Coast Rivers have surplus water that races to the sea during floods. It could be conserved.

And it is time to apply our engineering skills to building the 1938 Bradfield water scheme—it will certainly provide better returns to Australians than green energy dreams like Snowy 2 or power lines from Northern Territory to Singapore. A sensible society would identify the best dam sites and have a long-term plan for acquiring and preserving the land rights needed for them. We do the reverse. Decisions are postponed until the need is critical. Then landowners with vested interests, green busybodies and media stirrers manage to scare the politicians, and the water conservation proposal is killed.

Then the "No Dams Ever" Mafia takes over, trying to sterilise the site for all future dams by quietly changing land-use or vegetation classifications. Then they search for (or manufacture) evidence of native title or endangered species, and declare national parks over critical areas. Green destroyers have also grossly mismanaged stored water by insisting on excessive and ill-timed "environmental" flows. This is a scheme where you build a dam to catch water and then try to manage the water as if the dam did not exist. It is very slow and expensive to get this lost water back from the sea using the Flannery desalination plants.

Existing dams have two great enemies—silting which gradually steals their water capacity, and evaporation which continually steals the water itself. Our engineers can manage "desilting" and CSIRO could divert some resources from climate alarmism to reducing evaporation from water supply dams. But most of all we need more stored water. The wet La Nina will inevitably be followed by a droughty El Nino. Let's find a new Joh who will build more dams. Full story: saltbushclub.com


God will Strengthen

Ezekiel means "God will strengthen"—lending firmness to natural power and energy by the sword of the Lord as when God placed the Sword of the King in Brother Branham's right hand. Now as John represents Christ's end-time Bride throughout the Book of Revelation, I believe Ezekiel represents the divided nations of Israel and Judah in his pantomime of Ezekiel chapter 4, and ultimately 144,000 elect Israelites reunited as one nation baptized into Christ. The Book of Ezekiel records six visions through which Israel is purged during the tribulation, born-again, martyred in the second half of Daniel's Seventieth Week, and concludes when Dan and Ephraim are restored in tribal order and resurrected for the Millennium in chapter 48 (63-0324E, The Seventh Seal, par. 214-227; An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 269:1 – 271:2; Ezekiel 40:1 – 48:35).

The heavens were opened and Ezekiel received the first of six recorded visions in which he saw the Shekinah (Ezekiel 1:4-28). He received his Divine Commission among the captives by the river Chebar in his thirtieth year when the Lord commanded "Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me: they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day. For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I send you to them; and you shall tell them THUS SAITH THE LORD, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, for they are a rebellious house, yet they shall know that there has been a prophet among them" (Ezekiel 1 – 3:11). In his second recorded vision (Ezekiel 2:9 – 3:3) the Lord gave him the roll of a Book of heavy judgments written within and without "with lamentations, mourning, and woe" (Jeremiah 30:7; Ezekiel 2:9; Revelation 8:13; 11). "As for them, whether they listen, or not, (for they are a rebellious house), they will know that there has been a prophet among them" (Ezekiel 2:5).

Like Christ's end-time Bride in Revelation 10:8-11, Ezekiel was told to eat the Book and become one with the Word. And the Lord said, "Son of man, I have made you a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the Word at My mouth, and give them warning from Me".

The prophet's third recorded vision is found in Ezekiel 3:22-23, "And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and He said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will talk with you there. Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face" (Ezekiel 1:28; Acts 7:55-56). "The Spirit entered into me and He spoke with me and said, Go, shut yourself within your house. As for you son of man, they will put ropes upon you, and bind you with them, so that you cannot go out among them: and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth so that you will be dumb, and cannot rebuke them for they are a rebellious house. But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you will say to them, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse: for they are a rebellious house" (Ezekiel 3:24-27). His silent isolation in the midst of his exiled countrymen is already a judgment.

The prophet's commission is renewed in Ezekiel 33:2 and addressed "to the children of your people" for the Lord is turning from foreign nations to Israel; this places the prophecy in our present era at the imminent close of the Gentile dispensation. Ezekiel is admonished of his duty as Israel's watchman charged to warn the wicked that unless they turn from their evil they will die in their iniquity.

Ezekiel 33:21-33, "Now it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month [December], in the fifth day of the month, that a refugee from Jerusalem came to me saying, the city is smitten. Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me in the evening, before the refugee came; and He opened my mouth as he came to me in the morning, and I was no longer speechless. Then the Word of the LORD came to me, saying, Son of man, they who inhabit these waste places in the land of Israel are saying, Abraham was one, and he possessed the land: so to us who are many the land has been given as our inheritance . . . And when this comes to pass, (and, it will come,) then shall they know [too late] that a prophet hath been among them".

Now that the judgment against Jerusalem is completed God's compassion is directed toward His people in the world which occupy the third division of the Book.

God sent us a vindicated prophet, and unless we have the Token of the Life of Christ in us, we will be under the curse of Israel's great Tribulation. God is no respecter of persons.

The symbols God employed in Ezekiel are identical to those used in Revelation: four is the number of earth and redeemed creation; the cherubim are God's Throne Guards, once represented by four divisions of three tribes of Israel who guarded the Most Holy Place. Now Judah, the Lion, First Seal, Ephesian, Smyrnean and Pergamean Church Ages guards the East Gate with the Gospel of Matthew and the office of Apostle.

Ephraim, the Ox, Second Seal, Thyatirean Church Age guards the West Gate with the Gospel of Mark and the office of Pastor. Reuben, the Man, Third Seal, Sardis and Philadelphian Church Ages guard the South Gate with the Gospel of Luke and the office of Teacher. Dan, the Eagle, Fourth Seal, Laodicean Church Age guard the North Gate with the Gospel of John and the office of Evangelist initially, and ultimately the office of Prophet in the second stage of the commission of Paul and Brother Branham (II Timothy 4:5).

The lively creatures represent the living Church Ezekiel saw in the Shekinah with Jesus Christ enthroned above in 593BC. "This was the appearance of the likeness of glory of the Lord." As a Christian wife is man's glory, Christ's Wife of all Ages is His Body and His Glory (Ezekiel 1:26–28; I Corinthians 11:7). We have learnt from Revelation 1:1 that after Christ's ascension God gave Him the revelation to show unto His servants things that must shortly come to pass: and He sent and communicated it in Old Testament symbols by His Angel, the Prophet William Branham to His servant John the Divine who saw and heard Brother Branham revealing the mystery of the unwritten Seventh Seal (Revelation 8:1; 10:1–4), which is the revelation of the Six written Seals unveiled between 1963 and 1965—after Christ's Mediation was fulfilled; after the Church Age saints were all born again, when redemption was over. John was incarcerated on Patmos Island from AD95-96 when he saw and heard Jesus Christ and Brother Branham in these visions from God between AD1963 and 1965.

John represents Christ's end-time Bride throughout the Book of Revelation; so where you read, "I," "me," or "John," replace those words with your own name because you are a member of Christ's end-time Bride.

Pillar of CloudThe Laodicean Church Age ended in apostasy on about March 8 1963 fulfilling Revelation 10:1-4 when Brother Branham was caught up from Mount Sunset Arizona into "a great cloud of witnesses" like the Pillar of Cloud that led the Children of Israel through the wilderness and translated our Lord Jesus from the Mount of Olives (Acts 1:9-10). Redemption was over at the close of Laodicea, yet "and sixty-one years later the Churches know it not" (Revelation 3:17-20). Materially rich and in need of nothing they ignore "the present Truth" and impersonate the Word fulfilled centuries ago. Blinded like Israel, ministers and their congregations are spiritually wretched and pitiable, bankrupt of the faith and naked of the Blood. Redemption is well and truly over, however in God's foreknowledge Christ's end-time Bride and the 144,000 elect Israelites were fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary.

After the Church Ages were fulfilled ". . . insert your name . . . looked, and, behold, a door stood open in heaven: and the first Voice (Revelation 1:10) which I heard with the clarity of a trumpet blast said, Come up here and I will show you things which must take place after the close of the Church Ages. And immediately I was in the Spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One [not three] sat on the throne" (Revelation 4:1-3; Ezekiel 1:26-28). When John was caught up to heaven, you, me and every Member of Christ's Bride of all Ages was caught up to witness our Lord Jesus claim the Book of His redeemed, and we see them together in theophany with the Old Testament saints in Revelation 5:6-10, "And I saw between the throne with the four living creatures, and the elders, a Lamb standing as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And He came and took the Book out of the right hand of Him that sat on the throne. And when He had taken the Book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden vials full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Worthy are you to take the Book, and to open its Seals: for You were slain, and did redeem to God by Your blood men from every tribe and tongue, and people, and nation. And You have made us to be a Kingdom and priests to our God; and we will reign upon the earth".

The visions and Book of Ezekiel are structured around three themes:–

1). Judgment on Israel (chapters 1–24);

2). Judgment on the nations (chapters 25–32), and

3). Future blessings for Israel (chapters 33–48).

Is the Jews' "Chosen People" Masquerade Finally Over?

Henry FordShortly after World War I, Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, assembled a staff of experts in Detroit to conduct research on the European Jews who had been entering America in large numbers since the 1880's. Ford provided the staff with several million dollars for this research, and in 1923 he published the results in a four-volume work titled "THE INTERNATIONAL JEW." It was Henry Ford's conclusion that very few of these people who called themselves "Jews" were descendants of the Bible Israelites. Ford further proved that these Jews, using all sorts of crimes while under the cloak of being the Chosen People of the Bible, were rapidly taking economic and political control of America. In the religious field, Ford claimed THE JEWS HAD SECRETLY GAINED CONTROL OF MOST PROTESTANT SEMINARIES AND CHRISTIAN BOOK-PUBLISHING HOUSES and had been able to remove almost all criticism of Jews from Christian literature. In summing up his findings, Henry Ford stated, "The Jews are not the Chosen People, though practically the entire Church has succumbed to the propaganda which declares them to be so." Ford's book caused a furor for a few years but soon disappeared from colleges, universities, and public libraries. The Churches continued to teach "The Jews are God's Chosen People, Israel," and the (by then) Jewish-dominated news media began to refer to Jews always as Israelites. Anyone opposing the increasing Jewish control of the nations was immediately branded "anti-Semitic;" and Jewish dominated Seminaries taught new ministers to quote Genesis 12:1-3 and sternly warn their flocks that anyone speaking unfavorably of the Jews would be "cursed by God." Jewish control of American society, politics, and religions continued to increase.

Although God deals with Israel as a nation, Israel's elect are chosen as individuals whose life is manifesting "the present Truth" for the hour (John 15:16; II Peter 1:12). "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob" (Romans 11:26). The nation will comprise 144,000 elect Israelite blood descendents of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel dwelling in the Land of Israel, baptized into Christ under the ministry of Moses and Elijah and then martyred by Papal Rome and her United States image of the beast of Imperial Rome.

Edom joined the Chaldeans against the Judeans in razing and destroying Jerusalem and the Temple in 587BC (Psalm 83:4-8; 137:7; Obadiah 10-14). During the Captivity they seized Amalachite territory, and Hebron in Southern Judah, so that Idumaea came to mean the region between the Arabah and the Mediterranean. In 129BC John Hyrcanus I employed mercenaries and conquered the Edomites who were physical Serpent's seed and in 125BC they were forcibly assimilated with Judaea. "They were hereafter no other than Jews" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XIII, 9:1). Idumea south of Palestine was joined to Judaea under Judas Maccabaeus and John Hyrcanus by the Roman Senate's decree (37BC), so in 4BC when Jesus Christ was born most Judeans would have been physical Serpent's seed, "and no man spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews" (John 7:13). In AD70 Edom joined the legions of General Titus which razed the Temple and demolished Jerusalem (Ezekiel 35:1-3, 10-13; Matthew 24:2; Luke 19:44).

Ezekiel 36:1-15 unfolds the essential distinction betweed Israel and Edom with the other heathen nations. Israel was a Covenant-people in consequence of which his heritage must revive and flourish. In verses 16-38 the Lord explains why for a time He dispersed the Israelites among the heathen and scattered them in alien lands in order to vindicate His holiness by exercising the severity of His displeasure upon them before the eyes of the world. Then He unfolds His purpose for their future good, to revive them in the most effectual manner by first renewing their hearts to holiness—His cause among His people out of all nations and countries, then restoring them to a flourishing condition with the desired impressions noticed upon the minds of others, by gathering them as His own people back into the Land of promise, where He cleanses them of their idolatry.

Israel's dry bonesThe Jewish people were declared a nation at the UNSCOP Committee at Lake Success on May 6, 1946 [(UN docs. A/C.I/P.V.46-47 (May 6-13)]. Brother Branham said, "The Angel of the Lord appeared to me on May 7, 1946 at Green's Mill, Indiana . . . come into the room where I was at, a Man walking. He didn't have wings; He was just a big man, had a white garment down to His feet. And He said that I was born to pray for sick people. And I told Him I was uneducated, illiterate, and I wasn't able to go. He said I'd be praying for kings and monarchs around the world and a Message that would bring the second Coming of Christ was near . . . THUS SAITH THE LORD, I said, America made her final decision in 1946. Watch, since then she's gone, and there's nothing left but judgment and chaos" (58-0309, The Handwriting on the Wall, par. 99; 57-0811A; 57-0811A, The Greatest Gift in the Bible, par. E17). The United States began as a type of Israel in covenant with God. Having gifted Israel's Covenant, Land and Name to mammon—non-Semitic, anti-Semitic Israeli impostors with no history in the Middle East, with Rome and the Pope, the United States is doomed to be "dry bones" of nuclear ashes (Daniel 9:27; Malachi 4:1-3; Revelation 13:11-18; An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 322:3).

On November 29, 1947 Jerusalem was made a corpus separatum or international City under UN Resolution 181 (Daniel 11:39; Zechariah 14:1-2). At midnight on May 14, 1948, the Provisional Government of Israel was proclaimed a new State of Israel. On that same date, the United States, in the person of President Truman, recognized the provisional Jewish government as the de facto authority of the Jewish state (de jure recognition was extended on January 31, 1949)".
Seven Church Ages
Brother Branham said, "Now I want you to be very careful here and see this. God has promised that at the end time Malachi 4 is going to be fulfilled. It has to be for it is the Spirit-quickened Word of God spoken by the prophet Malachi. Jesus referred to it. It is just before Christ's second unseen or (Gk.) 'parousia' Coming (Matthew 24:3; II Thessalonians 2:1; James 5:7-8). By the time Jesus comes all Scripture must be fulfilled. The Gentile dispensation will be in its last Church Age when that messenger of Malachi comes. He will be right with the Word. He will take the whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation. He will start at the Serpent's seed and carry on to the Messenger in the latter rain (Christ's 'parousia Coming in the office Son of Man). But he will be rejected by the denominations."

"He has to be for that is history repeating itself from the time of Ahab. Israel's history under Ahab is happening right here in America where the prophet of Malachi appears. As Israel left Egypt to worship in freedom, pushed out the natives, raised up a nation with great leaders like David etc., and then put an Ahab on the throne with a Jezebel behind him to direct, so have we done the very same in America. Our forefathers left for this land to worship and live in freedom. They pushed back the natives and took over the land. Mighty men like Washington and Lincoln were raised up but after awhile other men of such poor caliber succeeded these worthy men that soon an Ahab was set in the presidential chair with a Jezebel behind him to direct him. It is at such a time as this that the messenger of Malachi must come. Then in the latter rain will come a Mount Carmel showdown (the "third pull" of John 14:12-14 and Romans 8:19). Watch this carefully now to see it in the Word. John was the forerunner of Malachi 3. He planted the former rain and was rejected by the organizations of his day. Jesus came and had a Mount Transfiguration show down. The second forerunner of Christ will sow for the latter rain. Jesus will be the showdown between the denominations and creeds, for He will come to back up His Word and take His Bride in the rapture. The first showdown was Mount Carmel; the second was the Mount Transfiguration, and the third will be Mount Zion."

"The strange behaviour of Moses, Elijah, and John withdrawing from the people into seclusion left many confused. They did not realize that this was because their Messages had been rejected. But the seed had been sown, the planting was over. Judgment was next. They had served their purpose as a sign to the people, so judgment was next.

"I believe according to Revelation 13:16 that the Bride will have to stop preaching for the beast is demanding the mark in the hand or forehead if permission to preach be granted. Denominations will take the mark, or be forced to quit preaching: then the Lamb will come for His Bride and judge the great harlot" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 174:1 – 175:2).

Every Subscriber to Bible Believers' Newsletter MUST understand the above. Your duty to yourself is to have your pastor explain these revelations correctly and clearly without guesswork. If your pastor cannot or will not do so, you must find a minister who can and will do so.

Ezekiel 40-48 will be for another day; we will refer to some quotations by Brother Branham. "Now, remember this. Now, this is not the Lord speaking; this is your brother, Brother Branham. And the best of my knowledge . . . Now, just remember this and watch it close. We are in for the end time. Watch geographically where your war is coming out. See? Watch the Gog up there coming down (See?), down in Turkey and so . . . The battles will . . . be settled . . . in Palestine. See?" (51-0502, The Angel of the Lord, par. E-11).

Map showing the Khazaria/Ukraine, Russia and certain European states.

Q47. Will the prophecy of Ezekiel 38 and 39 be fulfilled before the rapture?

I think not. I think the next thing we look for is the rapture of the church. And then that's when Gog and Magog comes down is the Russian armies who comes in after . . ." (55-0515, Questions and Answers, p. 412:312, Q.47).

It was common with the prophets to represent the Divine judgments upon Judæa as coming from the north

Q 143. "Will Ezekiel 38 and 39 come to pass before the rapture?

"Now if you will notice, Ezekiel 38 and 39 deals with Gog and Magog, which is Russia, the north country. Now, I do not say that this is correct, but to my way of teaching it, that, it comes to pass after the rapture, after the church is taken up. And God deals with Gog and Magog when they come down before Israel there. And I think that will come to pass after the rapture. Now, that doesn't make it so. See? But that's just my way of teaching it. I suppose that's what they wanted to know, what my idea was".

"Now, therefore, we find out that it was. Its communism is gathered together. God said, "Gog and Magog, there, will gather together," sure, "to bring about the battle." That's exactly true, 'cause it's going to bring these forces together. It has to come. The Bible said it would" (62-0422, The Restoration of the Bride Tree, par. 351; Revelation 16:13-13).

Q. 44. "You have said many times that communism was raised up by God to serve His purpose, as King Nebuchadnezzar. Now where did communism fit into the picture what will it finally do? How does it wind up? Many scholars believe that in the kingdom of the north, Gog and Magog mentioned in the Scriptures, goes down against Israel. I believe some of the tapes taken, said that communism would finally destroy Catholicism or the Vatican by an explosion. Is this right?"

"Yes. Revelations 16(:12-14), you find it, and Revelations 18:8 and 12(-20). If the person is here and wants to take this piece of paper on that, you can look it right up. Yeah. See? "Alas, alas, that great city . . . for in one hour she has come to her end." You see? The merchants and everything here that brought her merchandise . . ."

"Just forget about communism. See? It's nothing in the world but a bunch of people that's nothing but barbarians that's ungodly. It's a system . . . just to show you how simple it is. Why, there's only one percent of all Russia that's communism. They need a messenger. See? One percent . . . Then ninety-nine percent of them are still on the Christian side. One percent, now, how can one percent control ninety-nine percent? That ought to explain it to you right there. If God didn't permit it, why, they'd be thrown out long ago. See, sure" (63-0324M, Q&A on the Seals, p. 367:44).

"A thousand years are with God as one day, and one day is as a thousand years;" hence the City is called the Millennial Kingdom, and from that day the name of the City is "Jehovah Shammah," "the Lord is there" (Ezekiel 48:35). When His own received Him not, "Jehovah there" which had prevailed for the restored city five hundred years, passed over to a new people of God, the legitimate continuation of Israel and Jerusalem (Matthew 21:43), to which Jesus promised to be with unto the end of the world" (Matthew 28:20).

"Notwithstanding the irregularity of natural boundaries (see Ezekiel 48:35, 4 x 4,500 = 18,000, or 12 x 1,500 measures), Ezekiel views the Holy Land as a rectangular quadrilateral. The center falls exactly at Sychar, where Jesus spoke with the woman of Samaria (John 4). Mount Gerizim is the site of the new temple, but the Holy City is at a distance of about five miles off: the place in which it is situated is "the place of Bethel." Revelation 21–22 provides cognate views which presuppose and surpass, but do not exactly interpret Ezekiel who even sees it as already present".

"The tent vision will manifest after the Seven Seals and the Seven Trumpets; then Brother Branham will pour out the Seventh Vial as the Seventh Trump manifests, and after forty days will take us into the Tent glorified, then Israel's Elijah will expound their Seven Trumpet mysteries with the Vials and the Plagues" (65-0718, Doing God a Service without His Will, par. 5; Revelation Ch. 5, Part I, par. 62-68; Part II, par. 171-220; COD p. 74:93-99). "We see all the signs that He said would take place just ere His Coming, now being fulfilled. And with joy we look for that moment. As Abraham of old looked for the promised son, and seeing those last signs of God come down on the earth, then he knew that it wouldn't be long until the Son would arrive. And now we see it repeat again. Jesus told us that, "Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh" (Luke 21:25-28).

(65-0822, A Thinking Man's Filter, par. 12; 54-0511, Seven Church Ages, par. 28-31; 62-0318, SWOS Part II, par. 425 (gathering Israel AFTER we go Home) . . . 430 . . . 432 . . . 434-436 . . . 439-441, 443 (first two sentences). 450 (First three sentences). nl1271.htm

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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.

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