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Eschatology, Essays and Thoughts

what if we’re post-millennial?

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Okay, let’s have some fun with this. I’m going to come at this sideways and backwards, but not so much head on. To come at it head-on, we’d have to work from the Olivet Discourse, the historical accounts of what happened 70A.D., and muddle our ways forward. I’ve already pointed you to some places to work from that angle, so dig into those if that’s where you want to camp.

Coming from that angle, we will run into all sorts of roadblocks and historical inaccuracies that will muddy the waters and can get us stuck in mire. (designed that way on purpose) That path will be long and arduous and not much fun because it will rile about every religious spirit there is. So we’re going to come at this another way. There are far better teachers than I, so all I can do is show you what I’ve learned and you can explore it and see if it resonates with you. Maybe just use it to springboard into your own happy digging.

There’s this silly concept I learned back in my early training of reading comprehension. I was taught that if you’re struggling to understand a concept, if the chapter or page or even paragraph you just read just doesn’t make sense to you, you don’t understand, you don’t know how to comprehend it accurately, to try reading it backwards — not words backwards, but sentences or phrases backwards. Sometimes the end helps you sort out the middle.

LET’S WORK BACKWARDS….

With that in mind, let’s consider Revelation 20. Let’s lay aside all the details that come before, the scroll, the trumpets, the seals, etc. and just skip to the end. There’s this culmination where Christ comes back on a white horse with the armies of heaven (chapter 19). They wage war on the unrighteous inhabitants of earth, and it ends with the beast and false prophet being tossed into the “lake of fire”. THEN a mighty angel seizes the devil and binds him. Satan is thrown into the abyss for “a thousand years”.

Then the prophecy says a curious thing: “After that he must be released for a little while.”

Let’s just stop there for a moment. Why? What’s going on here? [It took me a long, long time of studying Revelation to undo the religious spirit’s influence on my comprehension. A. LONG. TIME.]

This is almost a foreshadowing, because right after that sentence it goes into what’s happening in the heavenly realm – thrones appeared; the martyred were resurrected; the righteous were accounted for, and it says simply that the martyred and righteous “reigned with Christ for a thousand years.”

So satan is thrown into a prison abyss for the same thousand years Christ and the martyred and righteous reign on earth. That’s literally all it says about that. We have to go to Isaiah and other prophecies about this time to know what it may be like. John does not have a vision for it in his prophecy.

Before we move on, let’s pause and revisit that curious statement that the devil will be bound for a thousand years (the same thousand years Christ is reigning on earth). Verse 3 tells us he is bound “…so that he might not deceive the nations any longer.” From that, is it safe to deduce deception is no longer a player on the earth among men during the millennial? At least an external source of deception?

There are a thousand years of Christ’s righteous reign where we’re told the righteous and martyred co-reign with Him on earth and satan is bound from deceiving the nations. So clearly there will still be nations under Christ’s reign here. Is that a fair deduction?

And “after that”…. After what? Christ’s millennial reign. Then satan is loosed “for a little while” or a little season.

So how do you read that? Does that mean there’s an end to Christ’s millennial reign? Because the passage says “after that”, referring to his millennial reign. Does that connote an end? Or do the two things (Christ’s reign and satan’s release) continue to happen simultaneously?

MILLENNIAL REIGN EXPIRATION….

When we keep reading, we get to verse seven where it says, “when the thousand years are expired…” Expired… Greek: teleo. Complete, executed, discharged, accomplished. So there is an end to this millennial reign of Christ. It’s a set amount of time, and when it’s done, it’s done. Again, why?

Why is there a millennial reign of Christ that ENDS, expires, is completed? Why is satan released at that end? Why wasn’t satan vanquished to the lake of fire like the false prophet and the beast? Why must he be “released for a little season”?

And how does Christ’s millennial reign end? Is there an announcement across the earth? Does Christ go somewhere else than where He had been? What do the inhabitants on earth do? Do they continue as they were before? How does this transition from millennial rule to satan loosed to deceive?

All we’re told is this: “And when the thousand years are expired, satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle….” [That word battle means warfare and could mean a single encounter or a series.]

WHAT DOES THE MILLENNIAL REIGN LOOK LIKE?

This is where I want to camp for right now, because we’re going to have to use our imaginations to figure out what this could possibly look like. The Scriptures are eerily silent on the details of this. Let’s just assume we know the broad strokes of what the righteous reign of Christ would look like on the earth. Relative peace? Mostly if not completely crime free? Relative unity? Probably a homeostasis, a balance of nature to man? Can we assume perversions and deviations from God’s character are not present, or are swiftly brought into order? Are human physical and mental limitations absent? We can probably agree it’s definitely good on earth, right?

Was Christ’s reign on earth physical or spiritual? Is He reigning in physical form, or is it a spiritual concept?

If it’s physical, where is He reigning from? Let’s just presume it’s Jerusalem for this exercise. What happens at the end of the appointed millennium when it expires? Does He leave Jerusalem or does He stay? If He leaves, where does He go? How does He go? If He stays, wouldn’t that mean He’d be present when satan is going about deceiving the nations? If He’s present in physical form, how in the world would satan be able to deceive the nations?

What about all the resurrected martyrs and righteous that reigned with Him? Do they die on the earth? Surely not, for Scripture tells us there’s just one physical death. Then are they reigning in spirit or natural form? From where and how? Do they stay or leave at the expiration?

Turn this over in your head. I think it matters if His reign is spiritual or natural. Do we assume the dead brought to life that reign with Him are reigning in the same manner as He is? So are they all reigning in the natural or in the flesh? At the expiration, if it’s natural, where do they go? Or do they stay? Being resurrected they cannot die anymore, so wouldn’t they remain in the natural if they were already here in the natural? If they stay, wouldn’t all the inhabitants of the earth know them and know of their reign?

If it’s a spiritual reign, how is it conducted? Do people still pray? How do people know how to align with the righteous rule of Christ if it’s spiritual? Is it impressed upon their hearts? Is it taught? Are there schools or churches to instruct people, or will they just know what to do?

Is it safe to assume the millennial reign of Christ and His resurrected saints is either in the natural or in the spiritual? Is there another way it can be? Put a bookmark here.

SATAN IS RELEASED FROM HIS THOUSAND YEAR PRISON…

Now when satan is loosed, how does that look? Will people know he was loosed? Who has seen satan to know what he looks like in present day? When he was bound and thrown into the abyss, did anyone see that happen? Was it a physical location in our four-dimensional world? Or is it a separate location outside of our dimensional world, in the realm where spirits and angels and demons live? If it’s the latter, who sees his imprisonment? If it’s the latter, who sees his release? Put a bookmark here.

HOW DOES EARTH TRANSITION FROM MILLENNIAL REIGN TO DECEIVED?

Now on the natural plane of the earth, after a millennium of peace and righteous rule, how do the inhabitants of earth go from peace and unity to deception and rebellion of God? This is what has stumped me all of my life. How could a world operating under the righteous reign of Christ turn from that into deception and rebellion to God? What would it take to transition from peace to a large people group ready to battle the saints on earth and God Himself?

These are questions you have to ponder to try to wrap your head around these limited descriptors John gives us of the millennial reign and loose of satan for what looks like the end of the end, because right after that the new Jerusalem is presented and a new heaven and earth replaces the old.

Here’s my take after a lot of study, prayer and thought, and I’ll present sub-points in different posts in the coming days that help build it and show you where I’m coming from.

I think Christ came back sometime after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70A.D., (but I don’t know how long after). We have eyewitness accounts of a heavenly army at the destruction of Jerusalem around 70A.D. I think His reign and rule was in the spiritual dimension. He may or may not have appeared in physical form in this period of time, but I’m leaning toward it being more spiritual than natural.

No one saw satan being bound in the abyss prison, just like I doubt anyone saw the false prophet and beast be put in the lake of fire. I think the lake of fire is allegorical to an extent. I think these things happen in another dimension than what we can see here on earth. John is telling us things he saw, right? (in Revelation) Look at Revelation 12. John is telling us of something that happened in the past: Satan is thrown out of heaven and pursues both Israel and the children of God. No one saw this in the natural, but John gives the vision of past actions and how they looked in the spiritual realm — another dimension humanity doesn’t have access to see directly. I think this is the same thing with the lake of fire and abyss – we won’t witness it on earth, but it’s happening in a parallel dimension we can’t see.

We can study Revelation 12 and know what was described by John’s vision actually manifested on earth, but no one ever sees the dragon, right? It’s in the spiritual dimension. Yet it manifests in the earthly dimension. Same thing happens throughout all of Revelation.

Right now we know Christ is at the right hand of the Father, seated in Heaven. He “ever lives to make intercession for the saints”, right? And we know that after Christ’s ascension, our body’s become the temple of God, and that the Spirit dwells within us. [1Cor. 3:16, 2Cor. 6:16-19] and that the body of believers presents as the temple of God, where He dwells. [Ephesians 2:19-21] Paul calls it the “mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints…this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” [Col. 1:26-28] The MYSTERY is CHRIST IN YOU. Do you get it??? Christ is IN the believer, and that has been hidden for ages past only to be revealed after Christ’s great victory. (It had to be, and I can’t wait to talk about this part in another post.)

Everything changed after Christ. He was literally the door to God. [John 10:9] We are literally changed when we receive the truth of Christ and put ourselves in His care. Everything moves from natural to spiritual, and we live out our remaining physical days on earth learning and becoming more spiritual beings and less natural beings. It’s a metamorphosis of types, if you will.

It’s a spiritual concept that can only be experienced. The world can’t understand it. Paul says, “Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.”

Paul goes on to explain how the natural world can neither see nor understand what’s happening in this realm. Read the rest of the chapter, 1Cor. 2.

So whether Christ’s millennial reign is in the flesh or spirit, I do not know. But I’m going to guess it’s in the spiritual, and the removal of the false prophet and beast and satan’s removal from the earth, and the unbelievers who are slain, enables the remaining humanity on the earth to see clearly to walk under the leadership of Christ, into a new era.

In this era, humanity is no longer under the threat of deception and is able to walk with Christ. The millennial reign is probably much like what the Garden of Eden was supposed to be like before the Fall.

Now tell me if you have generations in this thousand years of reign, walking on earth in love and humility, in peace and cooperation with one another, how do you think satan, when released from his prison, is going to deceive the nations?

I was pressing God for this when I was first starting to try to wrap my head around it. I can tell you where I was when He said, “How many generations do you think it would take, Michelle, to forget the righteous reign of Christ?” [I’ll revisit this later.]

Satan’s imprisonment and release aren’t on the world stage. The world isn’t going to see this happen, anymore than they saw his expulsion from heaven with a third of the rebellious angels. We’re not going to be here on earth and be like, oh here he comes! He’s not going to announce his arrival back on the scene with a press conference. He’s going to operate as he always does, in the shadows.

How long would it take a worldwide society walking in peace and love and unity to be deceived? It probably wouldn’t be the first generation. It probably wouldn’t even be the second generation. It will be a gradual infiltration. He won’t be able to hit it head on. He would have to infect it.

I think he made some Faustian bargains with some people. I think we’ve been studying those people awhile. I think he made some backroom Faustian bargains with some people who stayed behind the scenes and infiltrated the institutions of government and policy and economy and media and social and entertainment – you get the idea. And they began to subvert the systems. I’ll build on that later.

If there was a peaceful millennium, you can rest assured the memory of it would have to be erased in order to deceive the world. No one (on a large scale, in mass numbers) is going to trade peace and love and health for what we have now. The record of it would have to be struck. The memory of it would have to be erased. Every last bit of evidence of it would have to be altered, and a false narrative would have to be given of anything they couldn’t erase.

Try not to knee jerk too much. Really chew on some of those questions. I’ll build on this in the coming days.

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the Book of Revelation is a chiasm

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The book of Revelation is both a chiasm and a bifid. [Ellis Skolfield does a great discourse on bifids and chiasms.] A bifid is just a piece of literature or writing that is separated into two equal or almost equal parts. I’ll give you an example (Isaiah) from Ellis’s teaching.

[This is from one of his teaching slides that are public domain AND he gave me permission on the phone to use anything of his to teach.]

So a bifidic writing will tell a story or carry a theme, then repeat it again in the second half of the document. You can do as many themes in a section as you want, but the second half will carry the same themes, and the same number.

A chiasm is a pattern of writing where a series of statements are made, then repeated in reverse order. It’s almost like a poem that doesn’t rhyme. Once you start to see it, you’ll be able to spot it in other places in Scripture. Here’s a simple example of an AB/BA:

Psa 68:15- 16 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan. Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in.

A. The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan (God’s hill)

B. an high hill as the hill of Bashan (high hill)

B. Why leap ye, ye high hills? (high hill)

A. this is the hill which God desires to dwell in (God’s hill.)

Here’s an example of an ABC/CBA from Mark 5:3-5

A: Who had his dwelling among the tombs (Tombs)

B: and no man could bind him, (Subdue him)

C: no, not with chains: (Chains)

C: he had been bound with chains, (Chains)

B: neither could any man tame him. (Subdue him)

A: And always he was in the tombs (Tombs)

Chiasms can be in short sentences like these, or can be in chapter form. One of my favorite teachings from Skolfield is “Daniel isn’t in chronological order”. And because I rarely take anyone for their word when studying the Word (especially if I don’t know them or their credibility), I took the time to look each foreign ruler up and compare and contrast them with the book of Daniel. Skolfield was right. Daniel was written in chiastic form, not in chronological order as the events happened, and it looks like this:

A. ch.2 The Great Image — 4 Gentile Nations

B. ch.3 The Fiery Furnace — God’s People in Tribulation

C. ch.4 King goes Insane — Gentile King Judged

C. ch.5 Belshazzar Killed — Gentile King Judged

B. ch.6 The Lion’s Den– God’s People in Tribulation

A. ch.7 The Four Beasts — 4 Gentile Nations

This was a common writing style for the Hebrews/Israelites, and they would have been able to pick out messages and meanings by recognizing repeating patterns. It’s Hebrew, not Latin, so English speaking readers are most likely unfamiliar with it.

When I was in my dining room study season, I was poring over the book of Revelation. I had written it out on butcher paper and hung it from my ceilings down my walls so I could see the whole book in one place. Then I just studied it, looking for patterns. At one point I began scratching my head (figuratively) because I noticed overlapping of themes, and I began asking myself if they were separate events or single events repeated in different form? How many “great earthquakes” were there supposed to be??? Then I began laying seeming patterns down.

I didn’t want to take liberty where I shouldn’t, but I had never heard anyone in all of my time studying and reading and listening, talk about overlapping repetitive themes in Revelation. So I began asking God if I should overlap them and consider them singular events instead of multiple events. I can’t remember how He led me to Skolfield, but it was his bifid/chiasm teaching that broke this open for me and showed me how to apply it.

There are several good teachers on chiasms. Skolfield has his chiastic outline for Revelation, but it didn’t make as much sense to me as some others I found. Another great teacher on Revelation and who has a chiastic outline for Revelation that was easier for me to follow is Walter Veith. He is an astounding teacher. You could get lost in his videos for weeks!

Here’s a slide presentation of bifids and chiasms from Skolfield: https://vdocuments.pub/ellis-skolfields-teaching-outline…

A great overview is his book “Daniel is out of order” that you can find on this page: https://www.ellisskolfield.net/books

If you want to dig more into this, look at Skolfield’s works and do a generic internet search with “chiasm revelation” and just start looking through them. I did some work at making my own chiasm outline for Revelation, but I still think it needs tweaked.

We have to get out of our traditional mindsets from a western education, both secularly and religiously, if we want to grasp some of the applications and truths of Scripture. As Americans instructed in a lineal language (Latin originated), we think lineally. The Hebrew language is a whole language. The characters are letters, numbers, words and even pictures. They have idioms that are used prolifically throughout Scripture that we take literally with no real understanding of what they are referring to. (This is one of my favorite lessons to teach on. e.g.: “the rod” is an idiom for “Torah”. Now read, “Spare the rod, spoil the child” and contemplate what it means. “No one knows the hour or the day” is an idiom for Rosh Hashanah. Now revisit Christ’s words quoting that. There are dozens if not hundreds of these in the Bible.)

I’ll post some examples of chiasms. I’m not endorsing any one chiasm. I’m still working on those myself, and I’m putting them out there for consideration or a starting point.

I don’t agree with any one teacher anymore than I expect anyone to agree completely with me. I take the parts that make sense (to me at the point of understanding I’m in), and I table or reject the ones that don’t.

When I was talking with Ellis Skolfield several years ago (maybe 2014?), I was asking him some questions. I’ll never forget one of his answers, “I don’t know. I haven’t figured that out yet. Maybe you will and you can tell me!” No one on this earth has the full understanding. Most of my learning and subsequent teaching is from putting pieces and parts together from a wide assortment of teachers and children of God. There are some gaping holes I’m still trying to find answers for. It’s work, but it’s rewarding.

To restate, I don’t have this whole thing figured out by a long shot, (but I feel like I’m closer than I was). I may have to renege or tweak some things later that I’m sharing now as I continue to learn. I’ve literally been waiting years until I get it all figured out before I share. But I probably won’t get it “all figured out”. So I’ll share what I have and we can sharpen each other. You’ll most likely have some angles and information I don’t have that will help me on my way, and vice versa. It’s almost like WWG1WGA 😉

Be blessed in your pursuit of Him.

Here are a couple random breakdowns of Revelation in chiastic form. There are a lot of variations. These are just examples of how some others have seen it. There are a lot of variations.

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On the topic of Israel… Part two

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Part Two

On the topic of Israel, I’m not sure where to start. It’s a big topic, so let’s start with some definitions.

HEBREWS…. Until (King) David killed Goliath, the descendants of Abraham were referenced in the Bible as Hebrews, and were known to the onlooking world as Hebrews. (Why? Why weren’t they called Abrahamites or some other derivative?)

The identifier “Hebrew” comes from Eber, the descendant of Shem. (I learned this from Steve Collins.) So for hundreds and hundreds of years, the descendants of Shem through Eber were known as Hebrews.

[Eber was the great grandson of Shem. Abraham would come six generations from Eber, and nine from Shem.]

SEMITE…. Shem is one of the three sons of Noah, and is where we get the term Semite. Shem, being one of three progenitors of humanity, would mean roughly a third of humanity would be Semites.

ISRAEL/ISRAELITE…. The first reference to Israel (and Israelites) is in Leviticus, or the time after the Exodus. Even in Egypt the descendants of Abraham were known as Hebrews. In 1Samuel you’ll read that the Philistines referred to the descendants as Hebrews. After (not yet King) David killed Goliath, you don’t see the word Hebrew again except for once in Acts (6:1) and twice by Paul (2Cor. 11:22, Phil. 3:5).

Consider the book of Hebrews in the New Testament and the content and themes of that book: the deity and sovereignty of Christ; the inferiority of the law and the superiority of the new covenant; the superiority of the blood of Christ (over the blood of animals and even the martyrs); the superiority of the priesthood of Christ (over the Levitical priests and Melchizadek); the superiority of the heavenly Jerusalem over the earthly one, the heavenly Mount Zion over the earthly Mount Sinai, the heavenly kingdom over an earthly kingdom…. Isn’t it interesting that the book that spells out the superiority of the new covenant in Christ is addressed to the ancient bloodline heirs of Eber, the great grandson of Shem? The word “Hebrew(s)” is not to be found in the entirety of the book, and yet it was specifically titled as such.

As you probably know, Abraham had Isaac. Isaac had Jacob who was renamed Israel, and his twelve sons made up the people group come to be known as the Israelites. They eventually lost the name of Hebrews in common vernacular.

JUDAH… There were three kings of Israel before Israel split. Under King Solomon’s heir, King Rehoboam, the nation of Israel was split from the twelve tribes of Jacob. The ten tribes of the north were known as Israel, with Samaria as its capital. The two tribes of the south were known as Judah with Jerusalem as its capital. Jerusalem was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzer in 587 B.C. and its people went into captivity.

JEW(S)…. You first see the word Jew in Esther, and the term Jews in 2Kings 25 at the time Nebuchadnezzar was ruling over the conquered land of Judah. Jew(s) is a term for one from the country of Judah (nationality) or from the tribe of Judah (bloodline).

By the time Christ came onto the scene, the ten tribes of Israel were scattered abroad (well into Europe by now), and only the remnant of Judah remained in the ancient land of Judah and the city of Jerusalem.

The scattered Israelites traveled over the Caucasus Mountains (dividing western Asia and Eastern Europe between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea). They were unknown to the people in that region at that time and so the people nicknamed them Caucasians. They were an enormous people group. They split up (mostly by tribes and families) and scattered across Europe (and other places), and yes, to the islands of Ireland and modern day UK. (All of this is so fascinating and can be studied in Steve Collins’ work.) I’m leaving a lot of details out, but I’m trying to focus on names of people groups right now.

By the time Christ arrived on the scene, the only people of the Israelite bloodlines in the land were mostly Jews (of the tribe or nation of Judah, also of the tribe of Benjamin, but would be considered Jews by historic nationality).

The reason I point all of this out is because the names are convoluted in both the church and media. Modern day Israel was formed for the Jews, not Israelites. The Jews are but one tribe (or two if you count Benjamin) of the ancient Israelites. Modern day Israel was formed as a homeland for displaced Jews, not Israelites. It’s a misnomer.

ANTI-SEMITE…. When modern day Jews, media and everyone else cries “Anti-Semite”, by definition that means “anti-Shem”. The descendants of Shem make up roughly one third of the earth’s population. Yet “anti-Semite” has come to mean criticism of anyone with a Jewish name or claim.

I just want to make this clear because it’s really not.

To complicate matters more, the modern “Jews” are more or less NOT from the ancient bloodlines and nation of Judah. The population of Jewry is minuscule in the scope of the world’s population.

KHAZARIA…. I wrote a paper on a people group from ancient Khazaria who adopted Judaism almost seven hundred years after Christ was on the earth. The Khazarians were primarily of Turkish and Mongol descent. I wrote about it in this article, so I won’t get into the details here.

( https://www.eternalissues.com/?p=170 )

Fast forward to save time, that people group (Khazarians) would later become linked to the Bolshevik revolution, the execution of the Czars of Russia, the Marxist and Communist revolutions, and were injected into America’s governmental infrastructure, just to name a few.

In a letter to Jewish scholar and foreign secretary of Spain, Hasdai ibn Shaprut, the Khazarian King Joseph boasted that their people (Khazarians) descended from the family of Togarma, the son of Japheth. [Togarma represents all Turkic peoples.] So the Khazar “Jews” aren’t even Semites.

GOG/MAGOG…. In multiple ancient texts the Khazars were known as the “sons of Magog”, and the land of Khazaria as the land of Gog and Magog.

UKRAINE…. Where was ancient Khazaria? The ancient land of Khazaria is modern day Ukraine.

There’s extensive research in numerous places tracing the Khazarians from their ancient land to the various places they migrated. I won’t get into that here, though I’ve already made some references.

The ancient people of Khazaria moved throughout history in subversive roles. (There is so much research on this. Start with Koestler’s book and move on from there.) They adopted the title of Jews and inserted into a number of nations and people groups.

They first settled in Poland, and later culminated in Germany as well. (Koestler gets into this.) There are a number of actual Jews who decried this people group. American Jew Benjamin Freedman’s famous 1961 speech at the Willard Hotel can be read here,

http://highlanderjuan.com/…/Benjamin-H-Freedman-Speech…

or listened to here

https://archive.org/…/benjamin-h.-freedman-speech…

I’m going to skip a lot of history, testimony, and World Wars I and II drama for now – but it matters. So we can circle back to it later, or you can and should research it yourself.

Allegedly there are fourteen million Jews in the world. That’s 0.2% of the entire world population. Is it odd to anyone else that “anti-Semite” has become a global talking point? [Comparatively, allegedly there are 2.2 billion Christians (or 31.5% of the world population, almost a third of the world), and 1.9 billion Muslims (or 25% of the world population, a fourth of the world). Fifteen percent are Hindu and 6.6% are Buddhist. Seven percent are atheist.]

How is 0.2% of the world population dominating the world talking points? (And don’t even start me on the number of Jews that own/run the media, Hollywood, banks, etc. How did “anti-Semite” come to mean “anti-Jew”?)

WHY did it come to mean anti-Jew? WHEN did it come to mean anti-Jew? How did one third (Shem bloodline) of the world come to be narrowed down to 0.2% (Jew)?

[You may think I’m oversimplifying it. You may argue that they just use “anti-Semitic” because the Jews spoke/speak Hebrew (a Semitic language). But Arabic is a Semitic language and there are 3.4% of the world that speak it, and anti-Semitic doesn’t refer to Arabs. In fact, more than 330 million people in the world speak a form of Semitic language. I don’t think it has to do with language, even if they “say” it does.]

I think all of these terms have been convoluted to force a narrative and an agenda. The same people who have been used to help the enemy deceive the world, have hijacked the Word of God to create a narrative that’s a twisting of the pure and original word and intent. “Did God really say?” Look at how the enemy has worked throughout Biblical history, the one we have a written record of. It has always been about subverting the word of God.

If there’s a people group intent on leading the world into a globalist agenda, who would be their greatest adversary? Who would be their greatest threat? A people who follow God, not man. The enemy has very little difficulty deceiving those not interested in walking with God. Who would push back on a system that leads humanity into bondage, into serving man and man’s systems? A people who serve and follow God. The Israelites showed us that over and over.

How can you bring your enemy into your camp? By deceiving him/her to think it’s their camp.

How could the enemy bring God’s people into his plan? By deceiving them to think it’s God’s plan.

If we will know them by their fruit, then look at modern Israel’s fruit.

I’m telling you, the religious spirit is cunning. It masquerades as works and words of God, but it twists them. It misrepresents them.

Let me put it this way, if the prophecies have long been fulfilled, if Christ has ruled and reigned, if the devil has been loosed to deceive the nations, what would that look like? We can only best guess, I get that. But best guess it. What would it look like? Would the devil be able to deceive a people who sat under the peaceful and righteous reign of Christ? How could he? Yet the prophecy says he will.

I’ll get into that in my next post, but I’ll tell you this. I think he would keep the children of God occupied, distracted and in fear, by putting the prophecies back out into the future. How could he do that if they were already fulfilled? He’d have to hide their fulfillment to some extent. Wouldn’t projecting Israel as the apple of God’s eye be the best place in the WHOLE WORLD to hide??? If we thought it was the sacred ground, wouldn’t we do exactly what we (institutional church) are doing now? Side with the corrupt politicians and bankers and war cartels to support said people in the name of our religion?

Why is the center of America’s money laundering in Ukraine? Why is it replete with human trafficking, organ harvesting, bioweapons, etc. and why does modern day Ukraine have ancient Khazaria’s crest on their flag??? If Revelation 20:8 is cryptic (and it is), what in the world does “Gog and Magog” mean in the middle of the Satan-deceiving-the-nations sentence?? There’s literally NOTHING else like it in the whole book.

The book of Revelation is chiastic. It’s an ancient Hebrew form of writing where it makes a pattern, then reverses the pattern and repeats it. This part (20:8) is not repeated anywhere else.

Don’t judge my theory yet. I’m just getting started. I have a lot more to say. This is just the beginning. Start looking at some of the resources I’ve given here and in the prior post. I’ll hit some more points in the next post.

Current Events, Essays and Thoughts

On the topic of Israel….

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Part One

I started this series on Facebook, because there was interest. I can’t publish it on NewsWithViews because they have a strict “no criticism of Israel” policy. I was told straight from the publisher of NWV that I could write on anything I want EXCEPT Israel.

So here’s the first post I made, trying to lay some groundwork to introduce the topic gently. I made it on October 17, 2023.

I know I can get long-winded, so I’m going to break this up into several posts instead of one small novel. 😂 This first post will lay some groundwork on how my views evolved and why I mostly stay away from this topic in a public forum.

My background is only relevant to my perspective, but to help you understand where I’m coming from let me tell you a couple things about me. I’ve been a serious disciple of Christ for over three decades, have read the Bible through from cover to cover a few times (probably 10-12), and read and studied in depth several portions far more times than that. I only say this so you realize I’m not a baby Christian who is unfamiliar with the Word. That said, I’d say one could study the Word of God for the entirety of one’s life and not fully grasp its mysteries. So my knowledge is only on a very wide and varied scale.

I have not attended a western Church regularly for about seven years. When in the western Church I was mostly a teacher, a drama instructor, a youth leader, and a speaker. Without going into detail, I’ll just say I frequently incurred the religious spirit – and it has many, many faces.

My personal background is I was raised by an astute religious spirit (but not in a religious setting, the religious spirit operates everywhere, not just a church), and in hindsight recognize I was trained by circumstance by such a spirit, and thus operated quite heavily in the religious spirit. It would be years before I could recognize it in myself. It would be a few years before I found deliverance from it and could break free. That said, I am usually able to discern an operating religious spirit pretty quickly. I am pretty experienced with it from both within and without.

Enough about me.

Steven Collins wrote a four-part series of books on the lost tribes of Israel, documenting migratory patterns and historical records in great detail, with an extensive bibliography. It was in reading this series that my eyes were opened to one of the fallacies or weaknesses of the western institutional church: they don’t teach the foundation of the faith correctly, or completely. So many things began to make sense when I moved through this book series. The Bible came alive.

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Arthur Koestler wrote a book called the Thirteenth Tribe, detailing the reality of modern day Jews, that there is a whole people group who have adopted the Jewish label who have no bloodline connection to it whatsoever, the Khazarians. The “synagogue of Satan” from Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 began to make sense to me finally.

I studied for quite some time under Avi ben Mordechai, a Messianic Jew who broke open Hebrew idioms and cultural traditions that breathed new life into the Word for me. God overlapped that with a profound experience in my personal life (I found a blood brother who we’d been separated from birth), and God showed me some differences in roots from bloodline to adoption that really helped me grasp some spiritual concepts. Through another experience I met a Messianic Rabbi from a city a couple hours away that reinforced some of the learnings I was starting to grasp. He and I exchanged emails for a couple years, and he sent me personal studies he had written to help me understand deeper some concepts of Hebrew words and certain topics. I invited him to our town twice to hold Passover Seders. I love the Hebraic roots of Scripture. Some of these studies have been some of my most enriching ones.

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Avi-Ben-Mordechai/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AAvi+Ben+Mordechai

I studied the book of Revelation and Daniel for years. I embarked on a serious study that took over my dining room for quite some time. I labored to understand the prophecies. Each time I thought I was grasping them, I had to return to the drawing board when I hit inconsistencies. Sometime in this season God gave me two vivid dreams that He reinforced with a literal sign – it was quite supernatural. He called me to teach it to whoever would listen. I asked Him how, as I had been out of organized church for a couple years. A pastor of a local church came to me and offered me his church to teach in, said he’d give me a key and I could just pick the evening/time, and I could have it. I sent out an email to see if anyone was interested, and had a small showing of people for a several month 19-lesson class.

a picture Bill snapped of me in my dining room season

The dreams are here: https://www.eternalissues.com/?post_format=link

I studied under Ellis Skolfield (not to be confused with the Scofield of the annotated Bible who has done serious disservice to the Word of God here in America and abroad). I actually talked with Mr. Skolfield on the phone once, and was saddened when this WWII veteran died a few years ago. His teachings helped me step almost completely away from any residue left from the western church on eschatology.

https://www.ellisskolfield.net/

Through my writings at NewsWithViews, I get a lot of emails and meet some really interesting people. I was approached by a man out of the country who asked me to edit a book he was writing. We had exchanged emails before and he had previously asked me to read and review an earlier book he had written on evolution, which I did. When he asked me to edit this other book and told me the topic and title, I told him I probably wasn’t the best choice because I didn’t agree with his stance on eschatology. He said that was precisely why he wanted me. He said I’d be able to find the holes in his presentation, and he wanted to shore up anything unclear. I reluctantly agreed. Through the editing of that book, I was finally able to see some things I had stubbornly held onto but couldn’t really solidly prove. There’s more to this story, but for brevity will say I had been having a recurring themed dream for two-plus years up until this time that had me troubled deeply for its implications. As I was slowly able to lay down my stubbornly held beliefs and consider I may be wrong, the Spirit showed me the danger in my long-held beliefs which were allegorical to the recurring dreams I’d had for the prior two-plus years.

the book I edited

I didn’t know what to do with this. It meant twenty years of my teaching were in error. I take very seriously James 3:1, that teachers will be held in stricter judgment. I withdrew to reexamine my learning, my understanding, my beliefs. I literally took every eschatological belief I had and put it on a shelf or in the trash, and mourned. I mourned for the fact that I may have led anyone astray. I asked the Lord what I was to do now. Mind you, this was AFTER I had taught a 19-week class with errant teaching.

And I withdrew from any sort of public teaching or expounding. I went back to the Scriptures with new(er) eyes, went back to the drawing board, and waited. I held nothing tightly in my hands and left myself open to the possibility that I may need to unlearn everything AGAIN and start over. I considered just laying it all down and withdrawing from the study and definitely the teaching. Perhaps my mind was not going to understand. Perhaps it was above my pay grade. Perhaps I am not meant to “get it” and I should relegate back to the experts and theologians and Bible scholars. I even sent apologies to a couple people I felt I should and recanted my prior statements.

Some time later I read Michael Heiser’s Unseen Realm. So many things fell into place for me. Things I had wondered about, things I had theorized, things I had been turning around in my head started to come together. I was beginning to back away from the details and see the bigger picture in a new way and it was illuminating. I took Psalm 82:1 to my son and asked him to read it. He read it aloud and I told him it was the wrong translation, to look at it in the English Standard Version. He read it and I watched his eyes change as he looked up at me and said, “Mom, this changes everything!” Yes. Yes it does.

https://www.christianbook.com/unseen-realm-recovering-supernatural-worldview-bible/michael-heiser/9781577995562/pd/995562

I watched Ewar’s several hour documentary on the hidden history of earth. I saw the free energy centers spread across the earth, the meticulous geometry and perfect mathematics, the enormous buildings built with perfect precision. I marveled at the buildings that we can neither afford now nor do we seem competent enough to recreate with all the modern technological advances we have. I realized that with such an environment, there had to have been a semblance of peace and unity on the earth. There had to be a cooperation among peoples. There had to be advanced thought and behavior beyond anything demonstrated on earth presently or in official historical records.

I listened to the questions about the masses of orphans, the influx of small children moved across America and Europe. I explored the early 1900s movies and books and the recurring themes they presented that asked more questions than they answered.

I watched the twelve hour documentary Europa and wept at its implications. I revisited World Wars one and two and bought some non-narrative accounts of them to pore through. I bought Mein Kampf (back before they banned it again in America) and read Hitler’s words for myself. I looked at some old headlines; I listened to some old speeches. I dug into the Church Committee findings in the mid-1970s and its damning findings.

I traced the Khazarian king who converted his people to Talmudic Judaism to the line of Magog of the bloodline of Japheth (NOT Shem). I remembered that there are only four places in Scripture that name is listed: in the genealogy of Japheth in Genesis 10 and 1 Chronicles 1, in the prophecy of Gog in Ezekiel 38-39, and in the final battle of Revelation 20. I studied the Khazarians and how their homeland is modern day Ukraine. I noted that the current Ukrainian flag bears the Khazarian crest, and I surmised that perhaps Revelation 20:8 was coded language for the Khazarian bloodline. Revelation 20:8 doesn’t make good grammatical sense and it has always read like a cryptic symbol to me. What if the Gog and Magog of Revelation 20:8 is the Khazarian bloodline who are bent on worldwide conquest and dominion? It’s not only plausible and possible, but it plays into modern day current events perfectly.

I learned that renown historians Josephus and Tacitus recorded the return of a heavenly army over Jerusalem in 70 A.D. – a well established fact the institutional church has neglected to teach or even present as evidence. I know that the false teaching of the rapture can be traced to a little girl’s vision from England, not the Word of God, and that there was no such teaching in the church for eighteen hundred years before her “vision” that Scofield ran with. I know the “seven year tribulation” can be traced to two Jesuit priests employed by the Pope to take the heat off the RCC and put a so-called “anti Christ” off into an unknown future.

https://www.hope-of-israel.org/chariotsinthe%20sky.html

But now this is getting long, so I’ll wrap it for now and just finish like this: It’s hard for me to succinctly present my current events theories that are so counter-narrative both secularly and religiously because they cover so much ground that is not widely understood. Where do you start? If you give the punch line first, you are ridiculed or mocked as some absurd fringe theory. Most people don’t want to take the time to study some of the history out, to evaluate some of the prolific lies the world is entrenched in, or to lay down deeply held indoctrinations.

So I mostly keep silent, or drop little hints or suggestions that all is not as it seems. If anyone is still interested after poring through this, I will make a post of my theory as a summary from these studies (and others I haven’t mentioned for brevity).

I’ve linked some my resources in the text above, but can provide more if interested.