Bible Believers' Newsletter 1413
"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. Your brother-in-Christ
Today we are reviewing and clarifying certain understandings that deserve emphasis.
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.
Anthony Grigor-Scott
Mass Migration is a CRIMINAL Conspiracy – the Documentary Europe doesn't want You to See
October 20, 2026 — Muckraker Films investigates the financial incentives behind mass migration into Europe: criminal smuggling networks, NGOs, charities, and international institutions benefit from the movement of migrants. A filmed encounter with an African man working for the United Nations in Spain's Canary Islands allegedly reveals how public funding and payments to smuggling networks sustain the migration industry . . . a projected demographic shift in Britain and estimates of migration-related costs to Germany . . . beyond economics into the preservation of national identity, Christian civilization, and human dignity. Migration policies driven by financial incentives reduce human beings to commodities while weakening the nations and communities in which they settle . . . Full story: Video
Two Decades of Mass Financial Delusion Ends Now
October 19, 2026 — Between deteriorating credit markets, rising
Treasury yields, increasingly absurd artificial intelligence valuations, enormous amounts of leverage and an entire financial system that has
spent the better part of two decades mainlining cheap money . . . what worries me most isn't how far stocks could fall, but how
spectacularly unprepared investors are to deal with a market that actually goes down and stays down . . .
The United States has more than $40 trillion in federal debt. Annual deficits are measured in trillions. Interest expense is approaching levels
that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. Corporations are borrowing enormous amounts of money to finance everything from
acquisitions and share repurchases to an artificial
intelligence infrastructure boom whose eventual returns remain largely theoretical . . . Full story: zerohedge.com
Britain going to War
October 19, 2026 — General Sir Roly Walker, Chief of the Army
General Staff in the UK, has declared that Britons will be required to make sacrifices for their country in a coming war. He addressed around 700
soldiers at Catterick Garrison and laid out the coming reality in plain terms. "You didn't know this, but our nation is going to need you . . ."
Full story:
zerohedge.com
Comment: The battle should be with elected representatives, Socialism and unlawful immigrants.
Looting, fires, vandalism and attacks against policemen and firefighters in France and Germany.
Be Prepared
October 18, 202 — Nine days from the dark: what sixty million
people learned about water, warmth, and medicine during Spain and Portugal's 10-hour blackout from 12:33 on the afternoon of 28 April 2025.
What follows, in the order it unfolds:
The Language of Extermination: NAZA, Artificial Intelligence and Gaza
October 18, 2026 — The 80-minute documentary NAZA, directed
by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is chastening. It examines the conduct of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during its ferocious, unremitting
war in Gaza, drawing upon the interviews of 24 anonymised military and intelligence personnel. The interviews were filmed on Tel Aviv rooftops
at night, with profiles and voices appropriately altered.
The name of the documentary draws on a Hebrew acronym for nezek agavi or collateral damage, an obscene term used when counting the
estimated number of civilians who will perish in a military strike. Last month, the film won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice
International Film Festival, receiving a standing ovation lasting 25 minutes. The interviewees focus on the terrifyingly relevant role played by
artificial intelligence (AI) targeting systems used in guiding the bombing campaign launched in response to the Hamas-led attacks of October 7,
2023. In Abraham's words, "the Israeli intelligence officers we spoke with talked to us about how this mass killing is systemic: not by
accident, but by design, actions of murder and policies that are based on the total dehumanization of Palestinians." Watch the Trailer:
youtube.com
Comment: Should be available next month.
Are the United States and Israel in Decline-and-Fall Mode?
October 18, 2026 — The horrors deliverable by Israel that might
come next. (The Samson option). Speculation is growing over the sustainability of the United States' model of global dominance which emerged
as Washington ended the Second World War as plausibly the sole superpower . . .
What is important to note today is how the documents that were intended to guarantee American military supremacy including
interventionism to maintain that edge appear to have taken hold of the President Donald J. Trump administration, most particularly in the minds
of the President himself and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. So, what went wrong as the United States now appears to be losing on all
fronts where it has opted for confrontation instead of negotiation? . . . The question becomes "After the US falls, who will be there to pick up
the pieces?" Full story: globalresearch.ca
Comment: The answer is in your Bible.
Elon Musk backs JD Vance against Netanyahu; Miriam Adelson (Marco Rubio's 'g_dmother') attacks Trump
June 28, 2026 — Iran and the President of the United States
have defeated Israel and the backers of its genocides. Consequently, the peace concluded by Washington and Tehran has sparked a new
war—this time among Donald Trump's supporters over his succession.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared that control over the Strait of Hormuz represents one of Iran's true "atomic bombs": . . .
Iran has already tested its first nuclear weapon. It is called the Strait of Hormuz. "Its potential is inexhaustible". The Strait of Hormuz has
proven to be the epicenter of global geoeconomics and geo-finance. As for the other metaphorical "nuclear asset"—control of the Bab-el-Mandeb
Strait by the Yemeni Ansarallah guerrillas, Iran's allies—it has not yet been deployed . . .
Indeed, the scrapping of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—an agreement associated with the Obama-Biden era—and Trump's
two successive confrontations with Iran (three catastrophic choices prompted by Prime Minister Netanyahu) have ultimately driven the US
President to the edge of an "economic precipice" . . . reminiscent of the "Great Depression" triggered by Herbert Hoover—a comparison Trump
himself drew during a relevant press conference on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Évian. Ill-advised by Netanyahu, Trump exhausted his
military options and was left with no choice but to negotiate with Iran. Beyond the balkanization of Syria advocated by The Jerusalem
Post—which Israel is attempting to implement, starting with military operations in Lebanon—the US-Iran deal has irreparably fractured the
Republican Party's 2028 presidential nomination race between J.D. Vance (JDV) and Marco Rubio (MR).
The Israel Hayom newspaper, owned by Miriam Adelson—the genocide enthusiast who became the second-largest donor to Trump's
campaign (trailing only Elon Musk)—goes straight for Trump's jugular, declaring: "You could have been the greatest president of all, but you
failed". The paper attacks him for "betraying Israel" and, having rejected the "surrender deal," accuses its (former?) ally Trump of "undermining
Israel's security and weakening the United States." In his own peculiar, sarcastic style—which perhaps betrays deep nervousness—Trump
retorted that "Vance can pay the price for the Iran settlement". There is still much to unfold . . . Full story: voltairenet.org
New Data Centre partially Powered by human Brain Cells
April 28, 2026 —An Australian startup is building what could
become one of the world's first "biological data centers"—augmenting silicon computing chips with those seeded with living human neurons.
Cortical Labs, the company behind the effort, has opened its first facility in Melbourne, Australia, and is planning a larger site in Singapore.
Instead of racks filled entirely with traditional servers, these sites will house the company's CL1 systems, which combine lab-grown neurons
with standard electronic components. The aim is not to replace silicon outright but to explore whether living neural systems can complement
existing hardware in specific computing tasks.
Neurons are already information processors. Neurons in the brain pass electrical signals between each other, forming patterns that change over
time. Some of these connections get stronger, while others weaken, creating a constant reshaping that underpins learning. Traditional chips
don't behave like that, since they follow set instructions instead of adjusting based on feedback . . . Full story:
livescience.com
Comment: I suspect the function of many Data centres promoted in several tranches was to process contracts and harvest the
balance.
Zechariah Chapter Fourteen – Part V
Zechariah 14:1-8, "Behold, the day of the Lord is
coming, when plunder will be taken from Jerusalem and divided in your midst." At the close of the Gentile dispensation es Sakhra,
the Dome of the Rock will be demolished by earthquake, and Israel will be utterly defeated, and God will gather all nations against
Jerusalem" (Isaiah 13:16-18; Joel 2:1-17; 3:2, 12; Zechariah 14:1-4; Matthew 24:15; Revelation 11:2). "The city will be taken, the
houses rifled, and the women raped . . . and half of the city will go into exile." Non-Semitic, anti-Semitic self-styled Jews will flee to their
former homelands in Europe and Asia, while blood Israelites abandon those foreign parts and return to the Promised Land after almost 3,000"
year's absence. "They will not be cut off from the city" (Hosea 6:1-3). They will honourably enforce UN General Assembly Resolution 181. In covenant with Rome and the bankers of the City of
London will refinance the US dollar with gold backing and her then Devil-incarnate Pope will be proclaimed president of Lucifer's totalitarian
world government" (Daniel 9:27; 11:39; Isaiah 28:14-29:6; Joel 3:2; Zechariah 13:7-9; Revelation 6:12; 8:5; 11:19; 16:19).
"Two-thirds" in all the land will perish and "the third" will escape (Zechariah 13:8-9). "Half of the city shall go forth into captivity,
and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city shall go forth into exile, and the residue of the people will not be cut off from
the city" (Zechariah 14:2).
These maps show the Corpus Separatum agreed in 1947 and the UN Partition of Palestine into three parts: 'Jewish', Palestinian, and an international zone to
include the city of Jerusalem as a Corpus Separatum administered by the Catholic bishops, political leaders to defend the dignity of
Gaza. "In Jerusalem's extremity after the first forty-two months of Daniel's Seventieth Week) the Lord will go forth and fight
against those Gentiles as is His custom in a day of battle" (Joshua 10:14-42; 23:3; II Chronicles 20:15). "And His feet shall stand in
that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the
east and toward the west, (and there shall be) a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it
toward the south" (Isaiah 29:6; 54:10; 64:1–2; Jeremiah 30:3 – 31:40; Ezekiel 43:2; Daniel 12:1; Joel 2:31 – 3:2; Amos 8:7–10; Habakkuk
3:6; Acts 1:6–12; Revelation 16:19).
"Yes, He will come to Mount Zion one of these days upon the Mount of Olives. They'll recognize Him and all of Israel will know it's Him. Then
the Gentiles will be finished. That branch that's been grafted in, God will take from it the fruit that's been gathered . . . (61-0730E, God being
Misunderstood, par. 47).
"Why is it God so thought and cared so much about that little place of Palestine, see, when it's just a little spot? But right in there is where the
temple is set. That's where the New Jerusalem will break up, right there. "The Mount of Olives shall cleave, part to the right and left," sure,
when she pushes up from the beneath. Not, they say, it's pushing apart like this. It's pushing up, "In that day when He stands His holy
feet upon the Mountain." Notice, on His Throne, fifteen hundred miles high!
Remember, Satan tried to tempt Him, one time, on top of a mountain. See? . . . Jesus stand, the Headstone, on the Throne, when His saints
has crowned Him, "the King of kings, the Lord of lords." And He's the Headstone . . . And upon this holy Mountain of the Lord, the Lord shall
descend upon top of His Mountain; here He is. That's the reason the capstone wasn't put on by Enoch. See? That's the reason the Capstone
has to come now. And the Mountain will be pushed up, and it'll be the Mount of the Lord . . . and in here will dwell the Redeemed"
(64-0802, Future Home of the Heavenly Bridegroom & the Earthly Bride, par. 406 - 412).
Zechariah 14:4-9, speaking of His Coming. "And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, again, which is before Jerusalem
on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof towards the east and towards the west, and there shall be a very great
valley; half of the mountain shall be moved towards the north, and half towards the south. And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains;
for the valley of the mountains shall reach from Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like you fled in the days of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah the
king of Judah".
Another earthquake splitting open the earth . . . this fifth verse applies that the cleaving of the Mount of Olives is due to an earthquake, and
this is confirmed by Isaiah 29:6 and Revelation 16:9. The same prophet told of His first coming, seen His second Coming "as in the days of
the earthquake." See what the earthquakes are doing? See the predictions of them? ". . . and the LORD your God shall come, and all of
His saints with thee . . . the light shall not be clear, or dark: but it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but
it shall come to pass, that in the evening time it shall be light . . . about the evening time," same prophet. And the people are blind!
What's the attraction? Let's read a couple more verses.
"In that day, that the living waters shall go forth from Jerusalem; half of them towards the former (Mediterranean) sea, and half . . .
towards the (Dead or) hinder sea: in the summer and winter shall it be," the Gospel going forth to both Jew and Gentile. And the LORD
shall be King over the earth: in that day, and there shall be one LORD, and His Name one.
Let us turn over to another Scripture in the Old Testament, Malachi 4, "Behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the
proud, yea, . . . all that do wickedly, shall be as stubble . . ." That's Malachi 3, the first coming, the commission of John in Malachi 3, and
the second Coming of Christ, and Elijah beforehand . . . "all the proud shall burn up, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall leave them neither
root nor branch." (Where's the "Eternal" hell then)? "But unto you that fear My Name shall the Sun of righteousness rise with healing in
his wings; . . . you shall go forth, and grow up; as calves of the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked . . . they shall be ashes under the
soles of your feet in that day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. Remember the Law of Moses My servant, which I commanded . . .
him in Horeb for all Israel, . . . the statutes and judgment".
"Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet . . ." last Scripture closing the Old Testament! . . . "I'll send you Elijah the prophet
before the coming of that great and dreadful day of the LORD. And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the
children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse".
Notice the accuracy of the Holy Spirit, that it would not confuse the two comings of Elijah. Malachi 3, said, "Behold, I send My
messenger before My face." Jesus was asked about John; He said, If you can receive it, this is who the prophet said, "I'll send My
messenger before My face." This is the Elias that was to come. Malachi 3. Notice the Scripture so accurately gives it . . . to show those who
want to believe. Remember, Jesus stopping in the middle of a Scripture, 'cause part of it was fulfilled then, the rest for His second Coming?
"To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, bind up the brokenhearted," and stopped; not "bring judgment to the Gentile" until
His second Coming.
"And he, Elijah, shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children" (speaking of Malachi 4 not Malachi 3)—John, Elijah who came in the
days before the first coming of Christ, turned the hearts of the old patriarch fathers to the Message of the children, the new Message. "And
the hearts of the children to the fathers" in his second coming in the last days, he turns back to the apostolic Faith again. See how perfect
the Scriptures line up? That was the end of the Old Testament. Now we see there's Light—revelation—in the evening time. What is It? It's the
top, Mount Treetop—Revelation 10:7.
As I said this morning, we've come up through denominations, we've had grapefruit, lemons, and all kinds of other things that wasn't like the
beginning at all. Don't miss It. After all the denominations have played out, they didn't have any Light to begin with, there'll be a day that can't
be called day or night.
What are they doing? What are they doing? What does a lemon do grafted onto an orange tree? It takes the original life of the orange that's
coming up and perverts it to a lemon. That's what the denominations have done to the Word of God, made the Word of God of no effect by their
traditions. That's THUS SAITH THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD. They have brought forth lemons, grapefruits, not oranges.
"Rejoice, O daughters of Jerusalem, shout loud, daughters of Zion, for your King is coming to you, meek and lowly, sitting upon the foal of
an ass," notice that same prophet said, "There'll come a time of ripening." The sun is sent upon the earth to ripen the fruit. Why
couldn't it ripen? There was no fruit there to ripen. (His elect had been gathered to Him). But the Life is still traveling on.
It came up through a grapefruit, to be an orange, found out it organized; it was a grapefruit. It went again, it come out that time a lemon.
Went on again, it turned out to something else. And in the last, top of the tree, it's turned out to a tangelo, which is half orange, half lemon; a
mixed breed, a perverted thing; come on to a perversion, (a denomination) living off that same tree; the shuck, "almost deceive the
Elected." Looks like an orange, but it ain't.
"But it shall be Light," when she grows beyond organization. When she gets out past organization, it blooms out again, she'll put forth
oranges like she was when she went into the ground, and then it shall be Light. What's this attraction; what's this happening? Fulfilling God's
Word. There is two witnesses of the Old Testament, Moses and Elijah that this would happen.
In John 14:12, of the New Testament, Jesus said, "He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also" Also Luke 17:22-30,
"As it was in the days of Lot, before Sodom was burned, so shall it be at the return of the Son of man, that day when the Son of man is
being revealed. Oh, just look at the Scriptures! "The Son of man," Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, growed
a-past denominations, growed into the top of the Tree. What did He say in John 14 15? "Every branch that's in Me, that doesn't bring forth
the fruit, it'll be cut off and pruned, throwed into the fire and burned. But every branch that'll bring forth fruit, it'll be purged."
Oh, there will be a true former and latter rain in the last days upon that little group that come with Him on this little donkey, low and
humble, no denomination, crying, "Hosanna to the King that comes in the Name of the Lord!" What's the matter today? (65-0725E,
What is the Attraction on the Mountain, par. 96-119).
"And you shall flee through the valley of My mountains (created by the division of the Mount of Olives); for the valley of My
mountains shall reach unto Azal (apparently a hamlet by the city gate or a place east of Olivet): yes, you shall flee (speedily),
as you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord My God shall come, and all the saints with You."
The same divinely sent earthquake which swallows up the foe opens out a way of escape to God's people.
Jesus prophesied this scene in Luke 21:25-28, "There will be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, with distress on earth
among the nations in bewilderment at the roaring of the sea and waves, men dying of heart attack from dread in apprehension of things that
are coming upon the earth: for the powers of heaven will be shaken." Quoting verse 11 the Prophet said, "There will be signs, fearful
sights in the heaven above, this is flying saucers" (64-0207, The Patriarch Abraham, par. 84). "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 deliverance is near".
Declaring the "Lord my God shall come" and "lifting up his head" as in Luke, Zechariah suddenly sees the Lord's coming in his
vision and joyfully exclaims in direct address: "And all the saints with Thee" (Matthew 17:1-3; 24:31; Acts 1:9-22)!
Revelation 1:7, "Behold, He comes with clouds; and every eye shall see
Him, even of those who pierced Him: and all tribes of the earth shall wail on account of Him. Even so, Amen".
"He is coming. He is coming in clouds, clouds of glory as when He was seen (by Peter, James and John in the vision) on the Mount of
Transfiguration, and His garments were shining as the power of God enfolded Him. And EVERY eye shall see Him. That means this is not
the Rapture. This is when He comes in theophany as described in Zechariah 14:4-5 (not the glorified Man), to take over His rightful place as
World Ruler. This is when those who have pierced Him with their creeds and denominational doctrines will mourn, and all the people wail in
terror because of Him who is the Word."
"This is the revelation story of Zechariah 12:9-14 which will be fulfilled in Zechariah 14:6-8. Zechariah prophesied this
about 2,500 years ago. It is just about to take place. Listen. "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the
nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the House of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of
supplications: and they shall look upon Me whom they have pierced . . ." (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 36:2-5).
Isaiah 5:7-9 also describes Israel's belated revelation of Christ's second or parousia Coming: "On this
Mount Zion the Lord of Hosts will destroy the covering that is cast over all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations." In analogy to the sackcloth of mourning Israel will mourn in atonement for the wilful death of Messiah when the covering of
unbelief through the ignorance that veiled their hearts is destroyed, as prophesied of Jesus: "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because
the Lord has anointed Me . . . to comfort all that mourn; to grant to those (elect Israelites) who mourn in Zion a laurel wreath instead
of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
planted by the Lord to glorify Himself" (Isaiah 61:1-3).
"He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; and He shall remove from all the earth the reproach
of His people: for the Lord has spoken. And it will be said on that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him that He might save us.
This is the Lord; we have waited for Him, let us be glad and rejoice in His salvation".
The 144,000 elect Israelites will be converted and martyred, while the non-elect whose names remain in the Book of Life will be martyred and
granted eternal Life at the great white throne judgment following the general resurrection. When death is swallowed up in victory there will be
no more tears, and where sin and death have disappeared, there can be no more reproach (Romans 8:1-2), only glory in a new earth, the
dwelling place of God and men.
The blessing wherewith Moses blessed the children of Israel before his death is a beautiful metaphor, borrowed from the dawn and progressive
splendor of the sun describing the Majesty of God as a divine light which appeared in Sinai and scattered its beams on all the adjoining region
in directing Israel's march to Canaan. The theophany on Mount Sinai formed the basis for all subsequent manifestations of the omnipotence and
grace of the Lord with regard to the eternal destiny of His elect.
In Deuteronomy 33:1-3, "Moses said, The Lord came from Sinai and beamed upon us from Seir; He flashed forth from Mount Paran, and came
out from ten thousands of His saints; from His right hand went forth a flaming fire, a Law. Yes, He cherishes His people, all His
saints are in Your hand (Moses addresses the Lord directly here as does Zechariah). They followed in Your steps; they
accepted Your Word and they received direction from You".
The "right hand" or "arm" signifies the power and authority of God. Psalm 44:3, "For they got not the land in possession by
their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but Your right hand, and Your arm, and the Light of Your countenance, because You had
a favour unto them." In that right hand of power are seven stars, who, according to Revelation 1:17-20 are the seven church messengers.
This signifies that the very power and authority of God are behind His messengers to every age. They go forth in the fire and power of the Holy
Ghost with the Word. They are stars because they reflect light. The light they reflect is His Light. They have no light of their own. They kindle
not their own fires that men may walk in the light of their sparks" (Isaiah 50:11; ibid, p. 79:2).
All of the saints were in theophany with the Lord in Moses' vision on Mount Sinai, as they were in the visions of Daniel 7:9-10, Zechariah 14:5,
Matthew 25:31, I Thessalonians 4:14, Jude 1:14, Revelation 5:11 and 19:14. Brother Branham explained that these similar mentions of the
"saints" and "angels," redeemed men in theophany as at His coming on Sinai (Deuteronomy 32:2-3; Acts 7:53; Galatians
3:19; Hebrews 2:2; 63-0324, COD, page. 846:Q195).
God's Old Covenant of Mosaic Law with Israel and Judah was broken after Messiah's betrayal (Zechariah 11). Israel will enter
the New Covenant by revelation of the Message of the two martyred prophets of Zechariah 4, Matthew 24:31 and Revelation 11 in the second
half of Daniel's Seventieth Week when they mourn the atonement their forefathers rejected (Zechariah 12-13) after Zechariah 14:3-8
(Ezekiel 47:1-5; An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 260; Joel 3:18). As "all Israel" betrayed Messiah to death at the hands of
Rome, "all Israel" is under "condemnation" and must make recompense "life for life" according to their Law which
suspends the curse over the nation because of their sin in Sinai (Matthew 23:39; 25:27; Romans 8:1-2; Revelation 6:11).
The word covenant (Heb.) berit, (Gk.) diatheke, is derived from (Heb.) barah which means "to divide" or "cut (a victim)
in two," then the covenanting parties pass between the carcass with the imprecation that "in case of a breach might be done to them
as to this animal" (Genesis 15:9-21; Jeremiah 34:18-19; 62-0706, Jehovah Jireh II, p. 77:26-29, 45).
Barah can sometimes mean "to eat" or "consume" and may be drawn from the covenanting parties feasting together upon the sacrifice
(Genesis 31:46-47). "A covenant of salt" (Numbers 18:19; II Chronicles 13:5) taken in connection with the eastern phrase for
friendship, "eat salt together," confirms this view. Salt, the antidote to corruption, was used in every sacrifice to denote purity
and perpetuity (Leviticus 2:13; Mark 9:49-50) indicating a perpetual covenant or appointment.
The kingdoms of Israel and Judah, though distinguished above all men by extraordinary spiritual privileges, transgressed the Sinaitic covenant
as lightly as "men" break their everyday covenants with their fellows, and transgressed like other "men" (Hosea 6:7; Psalm 82:6-7).
In terms of human relations a "covenant" requires two independent contracting parties whereas a covenant between God and man must
essentially be one of gratuitous promise, an act of pure grace on His part, and when it has been ratified, no one can set it
aside or add conditions thereto (Galatians 3:15, 20; Psalm 89:28; Genesis 9; Jeremiah 33:20). But the Covenant, which on God's part is
gratuitous, requires man's acceptance of and obedience in consequence of experiencing His grace in revelation of the end He
designs to His glory, not to the meritorious condition of calling oneself a Christian. The Greek Septuagint renders berith by
diatheke (covenant), not suntheke "mutual" compact, as it is a gracious disposal by His own sovereign will. Luke
22:29, "I appoint (diatithemai, covenant as my near kinsman to diatheke, or divide by testamentary or gratuitous disposition) unto
you a Kingdom."
The legal Covenant of Sinai came in as a parenthesis (Romans 5:20; Galatians 3:17-18) between the promise to Abraham and
its fulfillment in his promised seed, Jesus Christ. "It was added because of transgressions" (Galatians 3:19) to bring them, and man's
great need, to consciousness (Romans 3:20; 4:15; 5:13; 7:7-9). The conditional Mosaic Covenant was more like that between
two parties mutually covenanting, "the man that does these things shall live by them" (Romans 10:5). But the unconditional
promise to David (II Samuel 7; Psalm 89; 2; 72; Isaiah 11) again took up Abraham's grace Covenant, defining the Davidic line as that in
which the promised Seed should come. As the promise found its fulfillment in Christ, so did the Law, for He fulfilled it for us that
He might be "the Lord our righteousness . . . the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone that believes" (Jeremiah 23:6; I
Corinthians 1:30; Romans 10:4; Matthew 3:15; Matthew 5:17; Isaiah 42:21; Isaiah 45:24-25).
Galatians 3:20 explains: "Now a mediator has to do with and implies more than one party—as there can be no mediator with just one
person. Yet God is only one Person—and He was the sole party in giving that immutable promise of grace to Abraham. But the Law was a
mutual contract between two parties, God and Israel, and its validity was dependent upon both parties honouring their obligation".
In Hebrews 9:15-18 the New Testament is contrasted with the Old (legal) Testament to bring out the idea of diatheke, God's
gracious disposal or appointment of His blessings to His people, rather than suntheke, mutual engagement between Him and
them as though equals. A human "testament" in this one respect illustrates the nature of the covenant; by death Christ
chose to lose all the glory and blessings which are His, that we, who were under death's bondage, might inherit all. Thus the ideas of
"mediator of the covenant," and "testator," meet in Him, Who at once fulfills God's "covenant of promise," and graciously disposes to us
all that is His.
In Matthew 26:28, "this is My blood of the New Testament" and in the original (Exodus 24:8) quoted by Christ we see the idea of
testamentary disposition. For His blood was the seal of the testament. By "covenant" Moses gave the heavenly
inheritance (typed by Canaan) after the testator's death, represented by the sacrificial blood he sprinkled. By "testament" Paul
means one with conditions, and so for a covenant, the conditions being fulfilled by Christ, not by us. We must indeed believe,
but even this God works in His people "For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of
works, that no man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Hebrews 9:17, "a testament is in force after men are dead," just as the Old Testament Covenant was in force
only in connection with slain sacrificial victims which represent the death of Christ. The fact of Jesus' death is the condition that
must be established (Hebrews 9:16) to give effect to the will. The word "death," not sacrifice or slaying, shows that "testament" is
meant in Hebrews 9:15-20, with which these requisites of a "testament" concur:
1. The Testator.
2. The heirs.
3. Goods.
4. The Testator's death.
5. The fact of His death is established. In Matthew 26:28 two additional requisites appear.
6. Witnesses, His disciples.
7. The seal, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the sign of His blood, wherewith the testament is sealed. The heir is ordinarily the successor of
him who dies and ceases to have possession. But Christ comes to life again, and is Himself (including all that He had), in the power of His now
endless Life, His people's inheritance. In His being heir to us Gentiles and the uttermost parts of the earth" (Hebrews 1:2; Psalm 2:8;
Romans 8:17) we are joint heirs with him (based upon Andrew Fausset,
"Fausset's Bible Dictionary," 1878).
Joel, chapters 1 – 2 forewarned the Judeans of their coming
apostasy almost three hundred years before the Captivity that initiated the "times of the Gentiles" which will extend into the Day of the
Lord. Joel spoke of the Gentile dispensation under the dominion of the Roman World Empire and of the destruction of the Temple (Joel 1:3-9).
Joel 2 commences with Israel's Seventh Trumpet announcing the end of the Gentile dispensation of grace and "the day of vengeance of
our God" with the sinking of Los Angeles. Christ's Bride will be called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (verse 16) and Israel will be
called by the Feast of the Trumpets (verses 12-19). Verse 20 refers to the Russian invasion of Ezekiel 39:2 and the destruction of "the
northern army" in the second half of the week, while verses 21 – 3:1 apply to Israel's "former rain" by the ministry of two prophets
restoring an election to the Covenant and preparing them spiritually for the Day of Atonement after the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week.
The restoration of prosperity and God's favour toward Israel is promised as also indicated in Revelation 11:19, whilst from the Gentile
perspective Joel 2:1-11 speaks of the first resurrection and the manifestation of the Sons of God under our "latter rain."
Joel 3:1 continues "In those days, and at the time" of the former and latter rain in the month of Nisan when the Gentile
dispensation ends (Joel 2:28; Zechariah 1:17. God will restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem "and have mercy on the whole
house of Israel" (Ezekiel 39:25). He will also gather all nations . . . the United Nations . . . and plead against them in the valley of
Jehovah's Judgment "On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land,"
according to the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 of November 29, 1947 (Joel 3:2; Isaiah 13:13-16; Daniel 11:39;
Zechariah 14:2; Revelation 16:19).
The earthquake beneath Messiah's tread (Zechariah 14:4-5) will divide Jordan (Moab), making a valley from Jerusalem that will admit the
Mediterranean from the west to the Dead Sea. The waters will rush down the valley of Arabah, the bed of the Jordan, clear away the
sand-drift of four thousand years and cause the commerce of Jordan to center in Jerusalem. The Dead Sea rising above its present depressed
shores will overflow by the valley of Edom, completing the straits of Azal into the Red Sea. This will form the great pool of Jerusalem (Psalm
46:4-5; Ezekiel 47:1-12; Daniel 12:5-7; Joel 3:18; Zechariah 14:8; Revelation 22:1-2). Euphrates will be the northern boundary, and the Red
Sea the south. Twenty-five miles north and twenty-five miles south of Jerusalem will form one side of the fifty miles square of the Lord's Holy
Oblation (Ezekiel 48:1-35). There are seven spaces of fifty miles each from Jerusalem northward to the Euphrates, and five spaces of fifty miles
each southward to the Red Sea. Thus there are thirteen equal distances on the breadth of the future Promised Land, one for the oblation and
twelve for the tribes, according to Ezekiel 48:1-35. That the Euphrates north, Mediterranean west, the River of Egypt (Wady el-'Arish) and Red
Sea south, are to be the future boundaries of the holy land, which will include portion of Syria and Jordan that was once the land of the
Serpent's seed in Canaan (Genesis 15:8; Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 1:4; I Kings 4:21; II Chronicles 9:26; Isaiah 27:12). All of
this which was partially realized in Solomon's reign, shall be antitypically so hereafter. This theory, if true, will clear away many difficulties in
the way of the literal interpretation of this chapter and Ezekiel 48:1-35.
Zechariah 14:6-11, "In that day, the Light of spiritual understanding shall not be clear, or dark (Isaiah 60:1-2; Amos 8:11-12; II
Timothy 4:3-4; Revelation 3:15-20), but it shall be a unique day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it will come to
pass, that at evening time it shall be Light. And it will be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the
former (or Mediterranean) sea (signifying us Gentiles, Christ's end-time Bride), and half of them toward the hinder (or Dead) sea (signifying the
144,000 elect Israelites). It will be (ever flowing): in summer (by the latter rain of the Spirit to resurrect our sleeping Brethren, manifest the
living Sons of God and translate the Church at our Pentecostal Jubilee); in winter (by the former rain of the Spirit calling 144,000 elect Israelites
by the revelation of their Seven Trumpet mysteries to mourn the Atonement they rejected and new birth in their Jubilee)" (65-0725E, What
is the Attraction on the Mountain, par. 98).
"And the Lord shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and
His Name One." Isaiah 54:5 implies this will be the consequence of Israel being again recognized by God as His own people: "Your
Maker is your Husband; the Lord of hosts is His Name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; He shall be called The God
of the whole earth." The kingdom will be restored to Israel in the millennium (Daniel 2:44; Acts 1:6; Revelation 11:15) and His Name,
Lord Jesus Christ (Jehovah-Saviour the anointed One), the outward manifestation of His nature will be recognized unanimously by all as the One
Lord God whom they worship with one consent (Zephaniah 3:9).
The whole land of Israel will be leveled to a plain (Isaiah 2:2-4; 40:4-5; Micah 4:1-2) in order that Jerusalem may be elevated "And the
glory of the Lord shall be revealed so that all flesh shall see it together." This plain is the great valley extending from Lebanon to the far
side of the Dead Sea. In consequence of this depression of all the surrounding country, Jerusalem becomes high. Seated on her hills the capital
shines conspicuous as the only elevation is a very wide region, figurative of Jerusalem's spiritual exaltation.
"Men will live in Jerusalem and there will be no more utter destruction (cherem) but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited." Literally, "there shall no
more curse"—the dreadful ban that always follows sin—as there will be no more sin (Joshua 6:18; Zechariah 8:13; Revelation 22:3).
Temporal blessings and spiritual prosperity shall go together in the millennium: long life (Isaiah 65:20-22), peace (Isaiah 2:4), honour (Isaiah
60:14-16), righteous government (Isaiah 54:14; 60:18). Judgment, as usual, begins at the house of God, falling fatally on Antichrist and the
false church under the Sixth Seal and Seventh Vial, whereupon the Church obtains perfect liberty. The last day will end everything evil (Romans
8:21).
Verses 12-15 describe the destruction of "the antichristian confederacy that has fought against Jerusalem. Their
flesh shall rot away while they stand upon their feet as living corpses, and their eyes which had spied out the nakedness of the City of God
shall fester in their sockets, and their tongues which had blasphemed God and His people shall decay away in their mouths".
Brother Branham said, "You think cancer's something? The Bible said there's coming a time when men will rot right in their flesh, and the
buzzards will eat off of carcasses before they even die. Cancer's a toothache to what's a-coming. But, remember, that horrible thing was
forbidden in that day to touch those who had the Seal of God. That's what we're striving for now, to get in and be positionally placed into the
Kingdom of God before these horrible plagues strike" (60-0522E, Adoption, IV, par. 88; Isaiah 34:6; Ezekiel 39:17-20; Revelation
19:17-18, 21). "Diseases is on its road, that the doctors will never be able to stop. It's the plagues of God" (60-0209, The Oncoming Storm of
Judgment, par. 107; 134).
"In that day men will be seized with panic-stricken terror from the Lord among them; and they will fight against each other in hand-to-hand
combat in great confusion" (Ezekiel 38:21; Haggai 2:22-23).
World Wars I, II and III are part of a strategy of the 'hidden hand' to establish Lucifer's one
world government. After World War III, those who aspire to undisputed world domination will provoke the greatest social cataclysm the world
has ever known. The outcome will be Armageddon and the consummation.
By God's grace through the revelations of His prophet we understand that the League and the United Nations are Jewish criminal Organizations
established to "weaken the nations" (Isaiah 14:12). "To trouble in all countries the people's relations with their governments and
utterly exhaust humanity with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy and even by the use of torture; by starvation, by inoculation of diseases (Covid-19), by want, so that "goyim" see no other issue than
to take refuge in our complete sovereignty in money and in all else" (Daniel 9:27; Revelation 16:13-14, 16; 17:12-18); engineer wars, usurp
sovereignty with collectivism, humanism, privatization and
expropriation of state resources causing unemployment and poverty with many millions of inassimilable refugees and opportunists deployed as
unpaid mercenaries to invade, divide and conquer industrialized (once) Christian nations by multiculturalism at taxpayer expense (Matthew
24:37). Impoverishment by alien-controlled central banks and fractional reserve banking that issues money as debt, deregulation of national
banks and currencies, sham 'free' trade agreements that destroy national economies and prosper only the financial markets, and the destruction
of morality (Luke 17:28). This describes the asymmetrical warfare initiated worldwide by colonies and vassals of the 'City of London.' We quote
words taken from the letter catalogued in the British Museum Library:
"We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the
nations the effect of absolute atheism, the origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend
themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with
Christianity, whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass, anxious for an ideal but not knowing where to render its
adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view, a
manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, conquered
and exterminated at the same time" (William Guy Carr, "Pawns in the
Game," p. xv-xvi).
This strategy is corroborated by historian and political analyst Dr. Dennis L. Cuddy PhD. in
"The Power Elite's use of Wars and Crises." This history
demonstrates the United States is ruled by the Jews' City of London and that America's entry into World Wars I and II was planned years ahead
of World War III.
"And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and
apparel, in great abundance." As fashions in the East did not change as they do in the West, garments of all kinds were kept in great
number, and constituted a large part of oriental wealth (Matthew 6:19; James 5:2). "The plague of verse 12 will strike the horse, the
mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the other animals that are in the enemy's camp." As with Achan, the guilt of these foes is such that
even their animals are overtaken by the divine curse (Joshua 7:24-26).
The antitypes of the feasts of Passover and Pentecost are being fulfilled by Christ and His
Bride. Bible Believers know precisely when this will be. The 144,000 elect Israelites will fulfill the feast of Trumpets and the mourning of
Atonement closing the first six thousand year days of the antitypical feast of Tabernacles in which man has laboured against sin. The seventh
day will be the millennium, the honeymoon of the heavenly Bridegroom and His earthly Bride. The feast of Tabernacles was a thanksgiving
for the gracious protection of Israel during their pilgrimage through the desert, and for their introduction into the blessings of Canaan Land.
Likewise the non-elect will celebrate with thanksgiving the goodness which has brought them through their tedious and perilous wanderings,
and preserved their names in the Book of Life. The millennium of the seventh day will precede the general resurrection and white throne
judgment which is the one place those who came against Jerusalem can appeal and be granted into the Kingdom of God on the eighth and
eternal day of the feast. I have paraphrased verses 16-19:
"So it shall be that every one left in the Book of Life from all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year
to tithe from the sufficiency of a year in a year to worship the King our Melchisedec, Jesus Messiah, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast
of tabernacles" (Isaiah 66:23; Revelation 21:24-27). They could not possibly "go up to the feast" personally but may do so by
representation. This is a metaphor indicating their entry into eternal Life on the eighth day of the feast following the general resurrection and
white throne judgment. This verse is a striking method of depicting the entrance of Gentiles into the kingdom of God, indicating that then
the various nations of the earth will be considered so many families of the one people of God. "But if any one of the families
of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, there will be no rain upon them. And if the family of Egypt
Israel's hereditary foe does not go up (to Jerusalem), and present themselves, there will be no rain upon them, but there shall be the plague
with which the Lord will smite the heathen that do not go up to keep the feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the sin of Egypt and the sin of all
nations that do not go up to keep the feast of tabernacles".
This is hyperbole like Isaiah 65:20: "There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days:
for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed." For there will be no sinners in the
renewed heavens and renewed earth and there will be no old men or children, much less hundred year old children, for we will all be glorified,
ageless, and free from sin and corruption. Zechariah is employing a rhetorical enforcement of the thought that all ungodliness will then be in
the Lake of Fire; New Jerusalem will be thoroughly holy. Revelation 21:27, "Nothing unclean or anyone practicing immorality or falsehood will
ever enter into it, only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life".
Verses 21 and 22 illustrate the sanctity of New Jerusalem in the renewed heavens and earth. Whereas "Holiness to the Lord" was once
engraved on a plate of pure gold attached to the turban of Israel's high priest, here it is on the bells of the horses which have no connection
with worship but will be as holy as that which formerly was consecrated to Him. This naturally involves a cessation of the Levitical priesthood
whose responsibility was to "distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean" (Leviticus 10:10).
"In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord's house used for boiling the
sacrificial flesh, receiving ashes, etc., shall be as holy as the sacred bowls before the altar that received the blood of the sacrificed victims."
Although they stood at opposite points on the scale of sanctity, to put them on the same level demonstrates that all things are alike holy.
"Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: so that throughout the land every common pot will
become as sacred as the utensils in the old temple and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein a further
rhetorical enforcement of the thought that all is holiness unto the Lord for there will be no sacrifice and no death: and in that day there shall
be no more Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts".
Cain's lineage continued in Canaan, the illegitimate child of adultery between Ham and Noah's Serpent's seed wife Naamah (Genesis 9:18-27;
Leviticus 18:8; Deuteronomy 22:30; 37:20). He was the progenitor of the Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,
Arvadites, Zemarites and the Hamathites. Esau married a Hittitess and a Canaanitess, (and in the righteous line, an Ishmaelite), their offspring
are the Edomites and Amalekites, Israel's sworn enemy (Genesis 27:39-41). Judah's king and high priest John Hyrcanus hired mercenaries and
defeated the Edomites whom he forcibly assimilated in about 126BC. "They were hereafter no other than Jews" (Josephus, Antiquities of the
Jews, xiii. 9, 1; xv. 7, 9). When Jesus was born, Judea's King was Herod the Great, an Edomite, and Judea's population was mainly Serpent's
seed (Matthew 23:33-36); much more so today for the vastly more numerous Khazars were assimilated in AD740, and constitute well in excess
of 90% of the so-called "Jews" and "Israelis".
Like Cain, Canaan was cursed (Genesis 4:11-16; 9:25), and his descendants are under the ban and 'cherem' to this day (Deuteronomy 7:2;
29:18-17; Zechariah 14:21); but from Revelation 22:17-19 it is plain that universal holiness is promised as the characteristic feature of the
Kingdom of God in its final consummation.
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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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