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THE COVENANT WITH DEATH

Part XV

The present work has recently sought to probe the interface between the physical creation and the Spiritual realm, in which Jesus Christ reconnected “the Israel of God” (Galatians 6:16) to the Father.

The New Testament shows us the Apostle Paul realized that by using the phrase “the Israel,” he was  communicating the salvation delivered by Jesus Christ Spiritually translated the followers of Jesus Christ into “a new creature,” which was the fulfillment of the LORD’s promise to redeem Israel.

“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature” (Galatians 6:15). 

In the Greek language the New Testament was written in, the word for creature is the same word for creation. Thus, in Galatians, the Apostle Paul has just stated that when we are Spiritually born again in Christ, we are a new creation of God.

We have repeatedly articulated how the family of Physical Israel was chosen by God to mediate between Him and the balance of humanity, usually referred to in Scripture as the Gentiles. As Israel progressively turned away from God, they were unable to keep the covenant of the law, which the LORD had decreed was necessary to forgive His chosen for their many infractions.

Furthermore, at the fall of mankind, all men and women inherited the sin nature in our physical genetic structure – as evidenced by the fact that men and women all have 23 Pairs of Chromosomes in our DNA.

The Scripture indicates the perfect number of the “elders” of the new creation (Galatians 6:16) is seen in the 24 “elders” that surround the throne of God. We have suggested that the translation of the believer from the earthly realm into the Spiritual realm in the kingdom of God, is accomplished through the LORD’s perfecting of our nature – and the final Spiritual strand between God and man being bridged by the Spirit that restores the connection severed in the Garden of Eden.  

“I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God. And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia” (Revelation 19:1, 4).  

Please understand that this imagery does not speak of 24 men worshiping God, as much as it is mystically emblematic of the entire saved creation, in a supernatural manifestation that is communicated through the imagery of all saved flesh and blood, that are now in glory.

Since the Scripture says that all who come to Christ are “blessed and holy,” as well as “priests of God” who “reign with him,” it is difficult to distinguish us from the “elders” who represent the perfected saints. 

When the LORD revealed that the 23 Chromosome Pairs in our DNA was the result of the fall in the Garden, He also showed through the Scriptures that Adam and Eve’s original state, as well as our regenerated state, was 24 Chromosome Pairs. As has happened to me before, this realization was accompanied by circumstances which God had previously engineered in my life, so I must briefly digress to explain it.

When the LORD moved me into prophecy ministry, He also guided me into a certain aptitude in computer technology. As I slowly learned that all incorporated Christian media (print, radio, television, etc) would resist any prophetic truth in a doubling of the Pharisaical rejection of the LORD’s will, through several supernaturally driven episodes the LORD gave us the underground capability to send unsolicited emails to large numbers of individuals, in order to bypass the authority of the many pastors and priests caught in the Strong Delusion.

This is because the media controlled by Christian corporations are run by people who “seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand” (Matthew 13:13).

In acquiring the computers and the software to send large volumes of email to any lists we could obtain, we settled on our present configuration. However, there is one important caveat. Although we use many  computers, the mass email software first communicates with the computer of the person that created the software, or it does not work.

This is unlike earlier efforts with other software programs, where you could simply email anyone you desired. So in effect, the capability to communicate was dependent on the computer first establishing contact with the program’s creator. It is as though an additional code is invisibly transferred to our computers so they can then fully function as they were designed to do.

As a result of this requirement, it reaffirmed the knowledge that God is not an inanimate force that one could invoke without first establishing a personal relationship with Him. Furthermore, it must be on His terms.

In the book of Acts, we find more than one effort to utilize the power of God without first establishing a relationship with our creator.

“Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth” (Acts 19:13).

In this colorful episode, 7 of the exorcists tried to take control over a possessed party (who would be the 8^th), but they had not been Spiritually reconnected to God through Christ themselves, and the devil seriously injured them.

“And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded” (Acts 19:14,15).

In other words, the power did not work, because they had not met the met the conditions engineered by the creator. The Lord moved in my Spirit, and I realized that in mankind’s “natural” (I Corinthians 2:14) fallen state, we are all facing the “second death,” in the Spirit, unless we are elevated to eternal life, to the pre-fall sinless state in the Garden, through our creator.

“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years” (Revelation 20:6).

This is not the only episode that illustrates this profound truth. Also in Acts, is the story of Simon the Sorcerer.

“There was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery,  and bewitched the people of Samaria…and when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying, Give me also this power” (Acts 8:9,18).

Predictably, his fleshly efforts were soundly rejected by the Apostle Peter. These encounters demonstrated that it is the LORD’s plan to redeem mankind, and there is no mystical formula, no political party, no magical herb, and no convoluted doctrine that can replace Christ’s miraculous work in the Spirit to perfect His saints. 

This work of restoring our design for eternal life in the kingdom of God, must be accomplished in the Spirit.

“Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).

In order to keep His original promise to redeem the Gentiles through the mediation of Israel (which was obviously flesh and blood as indicated through the vision of Jacob’s Ladder), God’s plan remained steadfast when Israel provoked the LORD by turning away from their blessed role.

When Israel failed to continue in the role of God’s mediator to the balance of the nations, The Lord purposed to send His only begotten Son, as a Jew from Judah of Israel. In this regard, there is a priceless interaction between God the Father and God the Son, which occurs before Jesus was born as a man. 

“Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken ye people, from far; the LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name” (Isaiah 49:1).

The Son of God describes how the Father has hidden Him from those who are proud and arrogant, but revealed Him to those He has chosen. In the LORD’s divine plan, He desired His Son would be rejected by those whose hearts were not right with God, but received by those who believed the LORD truly desired to grant mercy to mankind through Israel.

“He hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me” (Isaiah 49:2).

We note that the Son says the Father has made my mouth like a sharp sword – and these are clearly the thoughts of the Son, for in the Revelation of Jesus Christ, it specifically states that out of the mouth of the triumphant Saviour goes a sharp sword!

“And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations” (Revelation 19:13,15).

The characterization where some could perceive that Jesus is truly the uniquely begotten Son of God, while others were certain He was a pretender that should be punished, is the LORD’s way of dividing the Sheep from the Goats within Israel – and obviously, God knew who would hear His voice, and who would not.

“Behold, ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I work a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you” (Habakkuk 1:5). 

 The exchange between the personalities in God that are the Father and the Son continued in Isaiah.

“And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength” (Isaiah 49:6).

The narrative shifts to the Father, who once again, speaks to the Son in His role of the raising up of Jacob, and restoring those in Israel that God has foreordained to glory.

“And he said, it is a light thing, that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel” (Isaiah 49:6).

It is here, just as the Father mentions the preserving of Israel, we find one of several verses that tell us that God will include the Gentiles in His great redemptive plan.

“And I will give thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6).

These verses stand in stark contrast to the cultists who say that when God is communicating in numerous Scriptures in like manner, He is not communicating with His Son or the Holy Spirit, but is talking to a so called “Divine Council” of Spiritual beings that includes the fallen devils!

Such “scholars” are “ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (II Timothy 3:7).

But that examination will have to keep for another installment of the Apocalypse Chronicles.

- James Lloyd

To Be Continued