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FILIPPINO LIPPI - ADORATION OF THE MAGI
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The 70 Gods of the Earth Realm |
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Off with their heads
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- We're opening up our eyes and learning a lot of new
things and seeing a different side
of the Old Testament that we've never seen before.
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we're finding out is there's something there that we don't
know, it's been hidden from us in symbols and parables that we
couldn't recognize.
- In Deuteronomy we discover that it was El Elyon who is the Most
High and he divided up the world into 70 nations.
- He gave
each nation a different deity, or God, to rule over them.
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When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
(Deuteronomy 32:8)
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Sons of El Elyon
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- The 70 gods were the sons of El Elyon and in Psalms 82
we have proof that all the Elohim were sons of the highest, El
Elyon.
- Jesus also spoke of this when he said 'I am also
like my father and I am his son.'
- The Romans wanted to
stone him for blasphemy but Jesus asked they why they would do
that, when it said in their scriptures that Elohim has
children, and they're all like gods, but they'll die like men.
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God standeth in the congregation of the mighty;
He judgeth among the gods.
(Psalms 82:1)
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Jehovah is YHWH
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These Gods that died like men were the 70 deities that were
all sons of the Most High, our Father in heaven.
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nation of Israel
received for their lot, or their portion, the God named Jehovah.
- In 776 BC, ancient historian Hesiod wrote that there were
30,000 Gods that rule the world and they keep hidden from man,
the ways of life.
- This doesn't prove anything, but it
does tell us that someone who lived 800 years before Christ,
someone closer to these things historically that we're reading about
now, believed
that multitudes of these Gods were selfish and didn't want us
to have life.
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God standeth in the congregation of the mighty;
He judgeth among the gods. Hesiod’s other surviving poem, the Theogony, attempts a systematic genealogy of the gods and recounts many myths associated with their part in the creation of the universe. (Britannica)
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Sacrifice for Jehovah
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Well that doesn't sound like Gods at all, but the Bible is
telling us this very same thing.
- There's a lot of things
in the Old Testament that we've been reading but we don't pay
attention to or we interpret them wrong.
- Sacrifices were given to the
Gods, and they
ate sacrifices, and this is very prominent in writings from
other nations.
- In fact, Jehovah actually had a table, or
altar, that his worshipers would bring in sacrifices and
offerings.
- And Jehovah sat at the table and ate them and
called them the food of Jehovah.
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Moses then wrote down everything the Lord had said.
He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel. Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to the Lord. Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splashed against the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”
(Exodus 24:4-7)
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Tent
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All throughout the Bible it talks about how these Gods,
including Jehovah, could not be seen.
- They were never
seen, no one was ever able to see their faces.
- The people
couldn't see any of them, but Moses saw one God face to face.
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Moses said he had hands and feet and this paved work of brass,
and there was lightning and everything was going forth and
there was always a veil between these Gods and the people.
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Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky. But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.
(Exodus 24:9-11)
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Not allowed to see Jehovah
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The people were never allowed to see the God, but they had to
bring their offerings to the curtain.
- A certain person
called a messenger would take the food into Jehovah and the
Old Testament is full of these angels and of course, the
Hebrew translation means messenger.
- So who really were
these messengers who could eat and drink and who could sit
down and eat meals with the patriarchs?
- Moses and Aaron
were basically, the angels of Jehovah.
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So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. “Quick,”
he said, “get three seahs of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.”
Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it. He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.
(Genesis 18:6-8)
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Faceless gods
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That is where we get the word 'Aries' and the Roman word
'Vicar' means vice and they served as the link between God and
man, the angel of the Lord, the messenger.
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interesting things about these messengers, they were required
to feed God, they would bring offerings to him
- They were
the only ones allowed inside the temple and allowed to go
behind the curtain and see the Lord.
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A vicar is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand."
(Wikipedia)
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Gold man
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It's kind of puzzling when you think about it, because if this
is God like we've always been taught, if this Jehovah was
really the true and living God of our Lord Jesus Christ who is
spirit, then we should worship in spirit and truth.
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did this God always need material and physical 'stuff?'
- He was either hungry
and needed food, and then he asked the Israelites to bring all
their gold.
- You might wonder where did these Israelites
get all this gold and why they wanted to put it on their sons
and daughters and ruin the Egyptians.
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Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.
(Exodus 3:22)
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Sanctify firstborn
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- Jehovah said sanctify firstborn of both man and beast,
it is mine, thou shall not defile the Gods, Moses alone shall
come near unto the Lord.
- He only wanted Moses to come
near, and then Jehovah told him to come up to me into the
mountain and I will give thee these tablets of stone.
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he wrote them with his own finger.
- So we see there was
contact with Jehovah and Moses in the physical world and that
Moses could actually see God.
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When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
(Exodus 31:18)
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Mind warping
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- Jehovah told Moses to make an offering unto him of gold,
and silver, and brass.
- All this time we've been trying to
reconcile sacrifices, thinking they somehow represented that
we would become righteous by the coming of Christ, or that it
represented the death of Christ.
- Somehow we've
manipulated our mind to believe that this was acceptable.
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This sacrifice was done for 2,500 years from the time of
Abraham and Noah, just because this deity Jehovah wanted
people to sacrifice animals just to be a 'type and shadow' of
the fact that Jesus is going to come and save us.
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In biblical typology, a "type" refers to a person, event, or object in the Old Testament that foreshadows or represents a person, event, or object in the New Testament, while a "shadow" represents a less-than-complete or imperfect representation of the real thing.
(Assistant)
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Gold, silver and brass
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- But if that is the case, why did Jehovah ask for gold
and silver and brass?
- When the children of Israel went in
to take the land of Jericho and other towns, the woman and
children were all utterly massacred.
- All the houses were
burned to the ground and only the gold and silver were brought
to Jehovah.
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Gold gift
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- What could possibly be the reason that Our
Father in heaven would want gold and silver brought unto him,
not to mention why would he want to massacre all these
thousands of people, man, woman and child.
- There are a lot of things that we might puzzle over when
we read the scriptures.
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And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
(Joshua 6:21)
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Bull fighter
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- Think about how Jehovah would
sell them into servitude to another nation, and then he would
redeem them again.
- And then he would sell them to another
nation and sell them to another God and they would serve other
Gods.
- When they had disobeyed Jehovah, then he would
always say that because they had disobeyed, that's the reason
he had to let them go and the other nation would win the
battle as punishment.
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Sold into slavery
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- Jehovah always had an alibi, such as people had sinned
so therefore they had to be sold into slavery.
- It's
almost like a modern politician who acknowledges they promised
you all these things but it's really your fault.
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are a lot of verses in the scriptures that Christians have
read but they don't hear them.
- We thought that Jehovah
was only worried about Israel and the rest of the nations were
all bad and were worshiping false deities.
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“Are not you Israelites the same to me as the Cushites?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?
(Amos 9:7)
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Deal makers |
- If you read the scriptures very carefully, you'll see a
lot of times there's deals being made between these 70 earthly
Gods.
- The people would sin, so they would sell them to
another God and worship another God for awhile.
- Jehovah
actually admits many times in the scriptures that he was
dealing with nations other than Israel.
- What we
know is that Solomon prepared an inner sanctuary, also known as the
'oracle' or 'most holy place,' within the temple.
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was to house the Ark of the Covenant, which was the sacred and central role in the temple's design.
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He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to
set the ark of the covenant of the Lord there. The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
(1 Kings 6:19-20)
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Oracle
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- Most Christians have never heard of this oracle but the
ancient nations each had their own God and they all had their
own oracle.
- They all received messages from their God
through their oracle.
- Ancient peoples were so steeped in
their ideology about these Gods and they all had these oracles
and they all went by them.
- Plutarch states that the
ancients used to read by the oracle signs, by which they built
towns.
- Alexander the Great built Alexandria in Egypt
following the guidance of the oracle, likewise, he built other
cities such as Smyrna and Antioch.
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If the 'Know Thyself' of the Delphic oracle were an easy thing for every man, it would not be considered a divine injunction.
(Plutarch)
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Ark handlers
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- The priest brought in the Ark of the Covenant of the
Lord in his place unto the oracle of the House of the Most
Holy.
- Even under the wings of the Cherubim.
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oracle is the place where the priests received the word of
God.
- It was by these methods and policies that all the
countries would be swayed, including Israel, by their own
particular Gods.
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When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark, and they brought up the ark of the Lord and the tent of meeting and all the sacred furnishings in it. The priests and Levites carried them up, and King Solomon and the entire assembly of Israel that had gathered about him were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and cattle that they could not be recorded or counted.
The priests then brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, and put it beneath the wings of the cherubim.
(1 Kings 8:3-6)
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Ancient hilltop
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- It is very clear that each nation received a separate
God and they all had their own oracle.
- The word oracle
literally means the word or mouth of El and it dates from
prehistoric times and the Greeks.
- They would go into a
grove or inside of a cave usually, or on top of a hill, and
there would come the voice of the oracle.
- Usually the
voice was a woman, and they generally received their messages
from a woman.
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The gods had hidden away the true means of livelihood for humankind, and they still keep it that way.
If it were otherwise, it would be easy for you to do in just one day all the work you need to do,
and have enough to last you a year, idle though you would be.
(Hesiod, Works and Days)
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Temple blocks
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- There were temples, and these were built as a house for
the oracle that's how important the oracle was.
- It was
the most important thing because it was a way to seek their
God and they would build the temple around the oracle and fill
the house with precious gifts and bring offerings.
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would always be the curtain and they would have to stand back,
like in Oz, 'who's behind the curtain?'
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But Zeus hid it, angry in his thoughts,
because Prometheus, with crooked plans, deceived him.
For that reason he [Zeus] devised plans that were to be baneful for humankind.
(Hesiod, Works and Days)
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Food handler
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- The worshipers could never see God, but they still
continued to place their food on the altar.
- In Rome they
would put their food at the base of the idol and when they
returned, the food would be gone.
- There were claims that
there were small doors at the base of the idol where the hand
would come out and grab the food.
- Then they would come
and put the empty plate back, it makes you wonder who was in
those altars doing that?
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In the very beginning, a Golden Generation of shining-faced humans
was made by the immortals who abide in Olympian homes.
They were in the time of Kronos, when he was king over the sky.
(Hesiod, Works and Days)
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Solomon's Temple
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- The same thing was going on in Solomon's Temple, and the
Ark of the Covenant, there was a voice that would come from
the top of the cherubims inside the Ark of the Tabernacle.
- At the head of the Red Sea on the Persian gulf, there is an
ancient city and it's called Elah, and that means the city of
El.
- Elah is very close to Mount Sinai, or as it's called,
Mount Horab, and below Elah to the southwest was Edom and
Teman and Yemen.
- Edom was the home of the wise men, or
the Dukes of Edom.
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God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
(Habakkuk 3:3)
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Sumerian tablets
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- The Bible is like a condensed book, more like a
Reader's Digest version of the ancient books and
histories.
- And this history is coming from the Jewish
people and from their point of view.
- We read the Sumerian
tablets, out of ancient Mesopotamia, we get a much larger
point of view, written in a language that's almost identical
to the Hebrew.
- They were talking about all the Gods and
how El was the chief of all the Gods and the father of the
Gods, just as the Hebrews mention El Elyon and El Shaddai or
God Almighty.
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El is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or
'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of
multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities. A rarer
form, 'ila, represents the predicate form in the Old
Akkadian and Amorite languages. The word is derived from the Proto-Semitic.
(Wikipedia)
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City states
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- The area around Arabia and that Persian Gulf is where
the word El and the pantheon of this Most High God started.
- Back there in Arabia, we know that it was divided into small
city states, and each one of them was ruled by an Elah, which
means 'one of the Gods.'
- But this does not mean that
because during this period, one of these nations talks about
being ruled over by El, means that they were indeed ruled over
by him.
- Because the Most High, Father of the Gods,
portioned up all of Earth to various Gods such as Jehovah,
Shamash and Zeus, and so forth, and they ruled over the
various nations.
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Ancient stone inscription
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- However, it does show us that El as in the Bible,
divided up the land and they each area had an Elah and a local
temple, and they had a group of priests and they could
contract for business.
- The Gods could keep tabs on what
was going on in the area that was apportioned to them.
- In
the town of Teman, they have found an ancient stone
inscription which depicts a new God taking power and it shows
him standing before the priest.
- The stone was smuggled
out of the country and it's now in a museum in Paris.
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...the way humans are required by cosmic law [themis] to behave, each group according to its own customs. Anyway, they too, when the time came, were hidden away by Zeus son of Kronos. He was angry at them because they did not give honors.
(Hesiod, Works and Days)
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Local Gods
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- All the local Gods around that area were called El's.
- Even Muhammad, who came from that area, framed the word
'Allah' from that article, Il or Al, and the word 'all' comes
from the word 'Ilah' or Allah.
- What this shows is that
there was a relationship between Jehovah and the Gods of the
other nations.
- And that they're all related, but none of
them are the true and living Almighty God.
- That's because
these earthly Gods, ate and drank, demanded obedience and made
laws that were ruthless and barbaric.
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Specific deities known as 'El, 'Al or 'Il include the
supreme god of the ancient Canaanite religion and the
supreme god of East Semitic speakers in Early Dynastic
Period of Mesopotamia. Among the Hittites, El was known as Elkunirša.
(Wikipedia)
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Jehovah hot with anger
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- This is exactly what scripture tells us where it talks
about how Jehovah was hot with anger against Israel.
- Once
again, this doesn't sound very much like Our Father in heaven
does it?
- Jehovah is so angered that he sells the
Israelites into the hands of the Philistines and into the
hands of Hamon.
- This gives us a clue as to the relation
that Jehovah had with Baal and Hamon because these are the
Gods of the Red Sea area and they all recognized and knew each
other.
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Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and
said, “Because this nation has violated the covenant I
ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to
me.
(Judges 2:20)
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Moses took the long route
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- In fact, they were all brothers, and all sons of El
Elyon.
- When El Elyon divided up the nations, Jacob was
the lot of Jehovah and the nation of Israel received Jehovah
as their God, as their portion.
- Moses led the Israelites
out of Egypt and we know that instead of going the normal
short route through Canaan, he took them around another way
through the Arabian Desert.
- On this route, he told them
do not distress the children of Ammon, and then he'd say,
meddle not with the children of Esau.
- Stress not the
Moabites, do not contend with them.
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Jehovah knew that they were not allowed to take that land or
this place.
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GOD told me, “And don’t try to pick a fight with the Moabites. I am not giving you any of their land. I’ve given ownership of Ar to the People of Lot.”
(Deuteronomy 2:9)
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Jehovah is their God
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- Jehovah even acknowledged that the land was portioned to
Lot and he had no right to take that land.
- This places us
in a time period after Jehovah came down upon a mountain and
gave them the law, this takes us down to the time of the
judges.
- We have to understand how this priesthood began,
how the Nazarite priest came from all the way back through
judges and through Samson.
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A "Nazarite priest" refers to an individual who has taken a special vow to God, dedicating themselves to a life of strict ritual purity and separation, often distinguished by abstaining from wine and not cutting their hair, similar to the role of a priest but through a voluntary vow.
(Assistant)
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Nazarite priesthood
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- At this point it gets a little confusing because you
have the Book of Judges and so many Christians have never even
read this book.
- Most of us know about the story of
Samson, but most of us don't follow most of the ancient
stories and we might not know what's going on.
- But if
you've read any of it, you know that it's very symbolic, which
is quite a long story, but this is where the Nazarite
priesthood began.
- When Jehovah made the law, he also made
priests but he also made a law that if you were going to be a
priest, you had to be a Levite.
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A Levite is a member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi, especially of that part of it which provided assistants to the priests in the worship in the Jewish temple.
(Assistant)
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Levitical priesthood
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- But the Levitical priesthood is a lower priesthood, does
not have the Higher Mysteries, and so therefore, what we
really want to study is the greater, higher priesthood, the
Nazarite.
- It seems as though the priesthood of Jehovah
was the Levitical and that was the lower priesthood.
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the Levite priests extend all the way back to Melchizedek,
even though it was incorporated into the Mosaic Covenant.
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It was allowed, but it seems by extension, almost as if it was
not approved by Jehovah, but put in place by Our Father in
heaven and he allowed Melchizedek to infiltrate Jehovah.
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Nazarite divine answer
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- The reason we can tell this is true is because Israel
began to disband the Levitical priesthood right away.
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From that point on, instead of going to the Levite priests to
get instructions and information, and in order to divine an answer from
Father in heaven, they started going to the Nazarite priests.
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You see this time and time again, they would go to Samuel,
they would go to Elijah.
- Elijah started the school of the
prophets which became that method through which Our Father in
heaven spoke to Israel.
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Great Mysteries and prophecies
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- It seems it was through these, that the Great Mysteries
and the prophecies about our Lord Jesus Christ were listened
to.
- Under the
Levitical priesthood, you had to be a member of the tribe of
Levi and it seemed to be their job to cater to Jehovah, feed
him and sacrifice these bloody sacrifices, which is something
Our Father in heaven did not like.
- This is not something
the Nazarite priests would do, since they were not even
allowed to touch dead animals.
- Not only that, the
Nazarites could not drink wine, and therefore, could not
partake of the ceremonies and holy festivals that were given
to Israel by Jehovah.
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Levitical festival
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- The Nazarite priesthood did not think highly of the
Levitical priesthood because this higher priesthood that Our
Father in heaven created was forbidden to participate in
things that the Levite priests were doing, such as sacrifices
and drinking wine.
- Not only was it a higher priesthood,
but it was in opposition to the Levitical priesthood, and
eventually the Nazarites took over many of the rites in
Israel.
- That a Nazarite priest was superior is proved by
the fact that a priest like Samuel or David could go into the
temple and use the ephod.
- However, the Levitical
priesthood could not officiate in the temple because they were
considered unclean.
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In ancient Israelite culture, an "ephod" was a ceremonial garment, an apron-like vestment, worn by the high priest, and was associated with oracular practices and priestly rituals. The ephod was richly embroidered, with two shoulder straps and ornamental attachments for securing the breastplate.
(Assistant)
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Nazarite Holy Spirit
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- Under the Nazarite vow the Levites could not be considered
clean and therefore would not have that Holy Spirit that was
given to Samuel and Samson.
- That power could not be given
to the Levitical priesthood because they did not have the same
spirit.
- For example, Aaron was inferior to Moses,
although Moses was a Levite, he was a holder of the
Melchizedek priesthood through Jethro.
- So only those from
the tribe of Levi could be a Levitical priest, but for anyone
else in Israel, including women, you could be a Nazarite High
Priest, such as Deborah.
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Born into the tribe of Levi
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- All the judges and prophets were Nazarites and this is
not something that most Christians know.
- As you read
through the scriptures, you're able to figure out one by one,
Samson was a Nazarite, and so was Samuel, and David was a
Melchizedek priest as was Elijah.
- David was able to go into the temple
and get the ephod, and that was something only the High
Priests could do.
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Magi
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- The Melchizedek priesthood was the same
order as the Nazarite priesthood that was incorporated into
the Law of Moses, which was a higher priesthood.
- They
received greater knowledge because they did so by a vow and by
dedication, rather than just being born into a tribe.
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Elijah and the school of the prophets
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- Not only that, the Nazarites were taken to a place where
they learned the Mysteries as Elijah and the school of the
prophets.
- They would go unto Elijah and as disciples,
they would learn from their master, and they were initiated
into the Mysteries and they were given greater mysteries than
the Levites that the law of Moses never had.
- You see this
with Elijah as the master, and Elisha receiving instructions
from him.
- This is the same as John the Baptist as master
with his disciples, and Jesus as master with his disciples.
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Elisha then picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. “Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.
(2 Kings 2:13-14)
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Nazarite judge
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- When you read further, you see it says that if a man or a woman
takes upon themselves the Nazarite vow and you learn that all
the prophets and judges were Nazarites.
- Deborah was a
Nazarite and had upon her this special vow and was able to
judge Israel and she was a prophetess.
- A lot of
Christians wonder how she could judge Israel as a woman, but
she's not under the law of Moses, she's a higher priesthood.
- In Christ, we are all one, and neither is the man without
the woman, nor the woman without the man.
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There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor
free, nor is there male and female, for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.
(Galatians 3:28)
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Bondage under Moses law
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- This was a higher law because under the law of Moses,
woman were definitely considered inferior and were actually
slaves.
- We want to know the Mysteries, that's what we're
all looking for because we know there is a mystery going on
here.
- Here we have all the nations being broken up and
these wicked and wrathful Gods ruling over them.
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Diseases for humans are a day-to-day
thing. Every night, they wander about at random,
bringing evils upon mortals silently—for Zeus had
taken away their voice. So it is that there is no way
to elude the intent of Zeus.
(Hesiod, Works and Days)
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Clean slate
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- As it
says in the New Testament, men were failing and there was no
way out and they only had faith to look forward.
- Our
Father in heaven at any time, for anyone, would answer any of
their prayers and questions, and would safeguard them, and
take care of them, and watch over them.
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Founding of the world
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- Our Father has never left anyone, or any nation, or any
people, and he was with all the nations from the very
beginning, and Christ was crucified from the founding of the
world and was always there with his grace.
- Even though
the Almighty God allowed these wicked Gods to rule over the
nations, he never left us hopeless.
- There were always
ways through dedication, even for women, and any man of any
nation, could overcome all these other covenants that were
rampant throughout the Earth.
- There was always a way that
one could seek the Mysteries and they flourished throughout
the Medieval world.
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The only thing that stayed within the unbreakable contours of the jar was Elpis [Hope].
It did not fly out.
Before it could, she [Pandora] put back the lid on top of the jar,
according to the plans of aegis-bearing Zeus, the cloud-gatherer.
(Hesiod, Works and Days)
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Jehovah type
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- We've been learning as we read through, we notice this
evil God that had all these wicked judgments, how is it that
this law of Moses could bring forth these prophecies that
spoke of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- If that is the evil God,
why would Jehovah want to even speak about Jesus Christ?
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The answer is that it was never throaugh the Levitical
priesthood that Jesus was prophesized, but through people like
the Nazarite priests
such as Elijah and Samson.
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Isaiah
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- The prophets were all of the school of the prophets from
Elijah and they were not priests of the Levi.
- It was not
through the law of Moses, or the Old Testament God, Jehovah,
that we received the prophecies of prophets such as Isaiah, a
Nazarite priest.
- They were prophets who understood the
Mysteries and also they were Israelites and lived under that
nation which worshiped their patron God, Jehovah.
- On the
surface they wrote in parables that the world could not
understand, however beneath the surface their parabolic
language speaks of the truth and the Great Mysteries.
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When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. For I am the Lord, your God.
(Isaiah 43:2)
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Spiritual warfare
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- We see in the Book of Joshua a brutal story about how
Jehovah was conquering the land of Canaan.
- But under the
surface it's deep spiritual warfare, as Apostle Paul said,
'the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.'
- We're not
conquering anything physical, we're not destroying men or
going to war, all this was written by the spiritual Narzarite
priesthood.
- All the writings from the prophets are
spriritual but on the surface they're literal.
- To
Jehovah, these writings may have appeared very literal because
he did not have the higher priesthood.
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For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.
(2 Corinthians 10:4)
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Our adversary the devil
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- There were things that were very mysterious, that's why
Samson takes the jawbone of an ass and kills a thousand men.
- That's pretty brutal and something that probably Jehovah
would like to do in the real world, but you see that is the
very deep mystery because the ass or the donkey are very lowly
animals.
- You'll remember that Jesus came into Jerusalem
riding upon a lowly ass.
- What that symbolizes is that the
spirit uses the physical world, but it uses it to its
advantage, and has dominion over the physical world.
- We
are not entrapped by the world or the physical world, but we
are actually having dominion over it and riding upon it.
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This showed that Jesus was the Messiah. Second, the donkey symbolizes peace, humility, and servitude. Jesus demonstrated his dedication to peace and serving others. Like horses, donkeys were used as work animals, not for wealth, power, or war.
(Assistant)
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Dominion over the flesh
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- When it says that Samson used the jawbone of an ass to
kill a thousand men, he wasn't killing ordinary men but by
exercising his dominion over the flesh.
- He was able to
have victory in a spiritual way over those 1,000 which is
10x10x10.
- That is a very spiritual number that means a
complete victory over these Philistine forces.
- By gaining
mastery over the flesh he was able to conquer other lower
forces that wanted to deceive; things such as fears, envy and
strife.
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Greater knowledge
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- Samson won the spiritual battle, so when we read the
story about these Nazarite priests and what they did and that
includes Elijah, Samson, Samuel, Deborah and Gideon, they all
did magnificent and extraordinary things.
- When we begin
to read the stories we finally understand how they were really
trying to reveal the greater knowledge.
- They were trying
to reveal it, and with their actions and their stories, the
Greater Mysteries were revealed.
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Truly, I tell you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and those who press in by force take it. For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.
(Matthew 11:11-14)
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Elijah come first
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- Remember Jesus said that it must be that Elijah come
first and there's never been
a man born of a woman greater than Elijah, but those of the kingdom, all of
them are much greater than Elijah.
- Because that old
system, that old age in that temple they used the lesser
priesthood and the carnal law was all inferior, and this story
of Elijah is much greater than we have ever imagined.
- It
tells a story of how they sought Father and how in the
meantime before they were ready to know the true God, they
were only being led along in symbolism and the Mysteries were
not yet revealed.
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The disciples asked him, “Why then do the teachers of
the law say that Elijah must come first?” Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things.
But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did
not recognize him, but have done to him everything
they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going
to suffer at their hands.” Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.
(Matthew 17:10-13)
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Israelites were sold
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- It says that the Israelites were sold to Kushan in
Mesopotamia for 8 years, and Eglon, the King of Moab for 18
years.
- Also they were sold to the King of Canaan, to the
Philistines and to the children of Ammon and to Shalmaneser the King
of Assyria.
- They took Israel to Media because they did
not obey the voice of Jehovah and then they were taken to
Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar for 70 years.
- Then Jehovah said
'I will bring again the captivity of Moab and Ammon and Egypt,
Jacob and Judah.'
- We can see where Jehovah's mind was,
and his great desire to bring everyone into bondage with his
laws.
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Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and because they did this evil the Lord gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel. Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms. The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.
(Judges 3:12-14)
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High Priestess Deborah
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- One of the Nazarite High Priestesses was Deborah, and
this is very important because the law of Moses was given, and
they were in the land and they already conquered the land, and
they were trying to live there.
- The Israelites kept
getting conquered by these other nations that lived there and
the prophetess Deborah who judged or ruled over the children
of Israel.
- She talked to the people about Jehovah almost
they way Jesus did when he said to the Jews, 'your father, but
that's not my father, because your father's a liar and he's
from beneath and my father is from above.'
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Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was
leading Israel at that time. She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.
(Judges 4:4-5)
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Fighting for Jehovah
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- Deborah was standing before the general of the armies of
Jehovah and she asked him, 'has not Jehovah, your God,
commissioned you to do these battles?'
- Then she made him
understand that even though he would win the battles and have
the victories, he would not be the one that would actually get
the victory.
- It would be someone else, a woman, not even
a Israelite but Deborah explains that the victory is going to
go to the higher priesthood.
- Barak told her he would only
go to war if she went with him.
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She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.’”
Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.”
(Judges 4:6-8)
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Kedesh
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- 'Certainly I will go with you,' said Deborah, 'but because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.'
- So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh.
- There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command
and Deborah also went up with him.
- They did go to battle
and they won the war, but the final victory is put in the
hands of a woman who was from the same lineage as the
Midianites that both Moses and his father-in-law Jethro came
from.
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Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. Its remains are located in Tel Kedesh, 3 km (1.9 mi) northeast of the modern Kibbutz Malkiya in Israel on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
(Wikipedia)
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Higher covenant
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- The fact that it would be a woman of the Midianites is
explaining that this was not a victory for the covenant of
Moses, but instead, this was a victory for the higher
priesthood of Jethro.
- Women represent covenants and
Apostle Paul talks about Hagar representing that covenant of
slavery and bondage that the Jews were in at Jerusalem.
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Sarah represented the New Covenant that Christ brought, that
free woman.
- This covenant the Midianites had back through
Jethro and it was the higher covenant that Melchizedek had, and
Deborah let them know the victory was not with the Jewish
covenant, the law.
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Mount Tabor
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- Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the Lord gone ahead of you?”
- So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him.
- At Barak’s advance, the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.
- Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera’s troops fell by the sword; not a man was left.
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Foot on the gas
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- In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of
Jael, the highways were abandoned and travelers kept to the
byways and villages.
- They ceased to be, until Deborah
arose as the mother in Israel.
- When 'New Gods' were
chosen, the war was in the gates.
- The Bible goes on
talking about the war in such elegant ways in poetic verse.
- Then it says when kings came they fought the kings of
Canaan, Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo and they got no
spoils of silver from heaven.
- The stars fought, and from
their courses, they fought against
Sisera and the torrent Kishan swept them away.
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In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned; travelers took to winding paths.
(Judges 5:6)
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Changing guard
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- It talks very symbolically and poetically about the
stars of heaven fighting and a change of the guard.
- And
the Gods changing their stations and ruling over different and
various nations.
- It's very important that we understand
what all this is talking about; because, as you can see,
Jehovah was just one of the 70 Gods changing guard.
- He
would sell the children of Israel to another God, and they
would sell their nations to Jehovah and at times he would rule
over 'these' and other times, he would rule over 'them.'
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This is just some merry-go-round and musical chairs.
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Spiritual battle
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- If we didn't understand the symbolism of how that woman
from Jethro represents the priesthood, that sacred order, and how the war was a
spiritual war and Deborah was a Nazarite high priest, we do
now.
- Because of this, she predicted this woman, this
covenant from Jethro, would win the battle.
- This was a
spiritual battle and the stars of heaven were fighting it.
- If we didn't understand this symbology we wouldn't
understand that this is telling us a larger story.
- It's not
just a story of how Israel fought with another nation 2,000 to
3,000 years ago.
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Baal
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- This is the story of how the world struggled and how the
Gods fought in heaven.
- As the story goes further, it gets
into Gideon, who was known as Jerubbaal because he took down
the altars of Baal and he challenged the Baal just like Elijah
came along later and defeats the Baal.
- Gideon defeated
all the armies in a very miraculous way and as soon as he
finished, they gathered in the Valley of Jezreel.
- This is
a battle that the Elohim are going to fight and they call it
the Valley of El.
- When Gideon wins the war, he set up
another following, not the law of Moses.
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Gideon
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- Gideon didn't use the Levitical priesthood and their
ephod, Ark of the Covenant or their oracles, or any such
thing.
- As Gideon was a Nazarite priest, he set up an
entirely new religion based on the Nazarite priesthood that he
had, that was the only authority which he could make these
religious services.
- He created his own priesthood and for
some time, Israel was under the guidance of the Nazarite
priesthood with Gideon as the head, and there was peace.
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Though Gideon conquers Baal, and they even name him Jerubbaal
which means 'let Baal contend, I have overthrown the Baal,'
this was a spiritual battle between the Gods, not Gideon's
battle.
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Peace in the hand
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- Gideon's goal was to wipe out the Baal worship and he
replaced it with his own Nazarite Melchizedek based
priesthood.
- He made his own ephod, his own oracles and
his own place to worship from.
- Because of the overthrow
of the Baal religion, and the creation of the Nazarite
religion, Israel then had peace in the land.
- Eventually,
Gideon dies, but during this time he had 70 sons and we begin
to see the symbology, that this is all very spiritual.
- We
just learned about the stars of heaven fighting because these
wars aren't just something happening on Earth.
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Subject to the highest
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- The Bible is the story of the history of the Earth for
thousands of years and it's very symbolic.
- These 70 sons
of Gideon are the 70 Gods and the 70 nations that rule over
the world.
- All of these 70 Gods and nations were
portioned by El Elyon and they were all subject to the highest
God, El Elyon or El Shaddai.
- This is represented by that
higher priesthood, that Nazarite vow that Gideon had partaken
of.
- What happened next was there was one son who had a
great ambition he wanted to rule over all the nations.
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The other 69 sons did not have such an ambition.
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Murdered son
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- So this one son of Gideons, destroys, maims and murders
the other sons, and then he begins to rule.
- This is a
symbol that at this time and from that point forward, Jehovah
had an ambition to take over all the territory of the entire
world.
- To make himself superior to all the other Gods and
all the other sons of El Elyon that were apportioned their
areas and lands.
- In the New Testament when
Jesus comes, he chooses 12 disciples and each one of them
represents one of the 12 sons of Jacob.
- Jesus told them
they would all sit upon thrones judging the 12 tribes and
afterwards, he picked 70 others.
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12 tribes of Israel
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- The Bible says all the way through that there were 12
tribes from the nation of Jacob and there were all together in
the world 70 nations.
- Therefore, there will need to be 70
people to rule and judge the 70 nations and this is all very
symbolic.
- This was also the goal at this time for
Jehovah, to wipe out all the nations and the Gods and punish
them.
- As we go through the story, we notice how this
begins to progress, in the Book of Isaiah it shows how the law
of Jehovah was supposed to go forth and all the other nations
were supposed to follow it.
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Jehovah brutal massacre
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- All the peoples of all the nations were supposed to
stream up the mountain to the House of Jehovah and learn about
his ways.
- If they refused to go, they would all be wiped
out in some brutal massacre, some huge genocide that would
destroy the entire Earth.
- Once you read the story of
this son, one of the 70 sons of Gideon, you'll see his brutal
methods.
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Jehovah killed his own brother
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- When he killed his own brothers, he dashed their
heads upon a rock, literally just beat them and pulverized
them.
- He was a ruthless and wicked, wicked man who
represented that ruthless and wicked God, Jehovah.
- In the end, we're looking for the Mysteries and truths,
that's what it's all about.
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You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not admit them? “From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.
(Isaiah 48:6)
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Coquering the law
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- The conclusion is this
treacherous Jehovah and all of his laws were conquered.
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Our Lord Jesus Christ conquered all of it, went down into hell
and bound them in the bottomless pit and gave us his grace and
love.
- He loves us all and does not require anything from
us except faith, and he only wants to give us his free and
unmerited favor.
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Come to the waters
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- Jesus does not add any provisions as Jehovah would do,
like if you don't pay you'll go to hell, and Jesus also
doesn't give you any new laws that you must follow.
- That is not what the New Testament teaches, the most
important thing that all of us must know is that our salvation
is sure, and Jesus loves us and came to deliver us.
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Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
(Isaiah 55:1)
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No surprises behind the curtain
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- Jesus
has patience with us and he is not willing to have any of us
perish but he desires all to attain unto repentance, and just
as in Adam all died, as in Christ, all will be made
alive.
- Each one in his own rank, first Christ, and
afterward, those who belong to him.
- But there is no
darkness in our God because our God is light and love, and
he's not the same as these 'local' deities who run the Earth.
- There was one of these deities who took it upon himself to
usurp the authority of all the others, but it won't stand.
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Love and grace
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- We don't need to be afraid, we just need to be set free and
Jesus offered his Holy Spirit to all of us.
- You need no
man to teach you, only the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and
Apostle Paul taught us that is the mind of Christ, it's love
and grace.
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So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
(1 Corinthians 15:54-55)
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Flower o' the broom,
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
Robert Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi
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