February 10, 2014 ©Homer Kizer
Rereading Prophecy Revisited
Chapter Ten
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While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before [YHWH] my God for the holy hill of my God, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice. He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, "O Daniel, I have now come out to give you insight and understanding. At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision. Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator." (Dan 9:20–27)
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Aware of Jeremiah’s prophecy about the seventy-year-long desolation of Jerusalem, Daniel realized that those seventy years had passed (609 to 539 BCE) when he sought the Lord in prayer and with fasting (Dan 9:2–3) … the seventy years of Jeremiah’s prophecy are not the seventy weeks of Daniel’s prophecy; however, Jeremiah’s seventy years forms the shadow and copy of Daniel’s seventy weeks, or seventy sevens (feminine gender instead of the expected masculine gender). In the geometry of roughness, seeing one is seeing the other, such is their self-similarity.
Before getting into this concluding chapter, concluding because I’m reaching how much time I spent in 2002 to initially write Rereading Prophecy, I need to review concepts that apply to all biblical prophecy:
The period that includes the First Unleavened and the Feast of Unleavened Bread (i.e., the period between Jesus’ Resurrection and when He comes again as the all powerful Messiah, the King of kings and Lord of lords) has authority over this world being consigned to the still reigning prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air, the spiritual king of spiritual Babylon, the Adversary, who is and will be the “head” of all sons of disobedience, with these sons of disobedience forming the “body” of spiritual Babylon, the body that sits on seven hills that are demonic kings.
The antithesis of spiritual Babylon is the slain Lamb of God, whose Head is Christ Jesus and whose Body is the Christian Church—and the head of a lamb cannot be slain without the body also dying. What happened to the man Jesus’ earthly body also happened to His spiritual Body, the Christian Church (see 1 Cor 12:27). But when this slain Lamb of God is seen in John’s vision, the Lamb lives, Head and Body, and on the Lamb’s head are seven horns, with the Lamb having seven eyes that are spirits [angelic beings]. These seven eyes/spirits are the angels to the seven named churches, and the seven horns are the seven named churches that come forward through time from the end of the 1st-Century to the beginning of the 21st-Century in the continuation of the Elect, those disciples foreknown by God the Father, predestined, called, justified, and glorified [made alive spiritually through the indwelling of Christ] without having come under judgment, but passing directly from death to life (John 5:24) as sons of God born out of season, with Christ Jesus being a tree that produces ripe fruit when it isn’t the season for fruit—with Christ Jesus being the chiral image of the tree Nebuchadnezzar saw in vision, the tree representing the vain king of Babylon, physical and spiritual.
Only, in going from Babylon to the Lamb, the vector of authority is reversed: in physical and spiritual Babylon, the head rules over the body, but with the Lamb, the Head serves the Body, and is the servant of the Body. In Babylon, a horn represents a king; a hill represents a king; an unclean beast represents a king. But with the Lamb, horns represents flocks [species] of clean animals, the seven pair of every clean animal that entered the Ark to cross from the antediluvian age to this present age, which has all flesh being baptized into death, the reason why human life expectancies shortened and all flesh became food for humanity (Gen 9:3), a condition of life that for Israel changed when Israel was liberated from physical slavery to a physical king in a physical land by the first Passover. Israel ate manna, bread from heaven that was a type of Christ Jesus, the true bread from heaven (John chap 6); thus, Israel in the Promised Land was only to eat “clean” [not common] animals that in the geometry of self-similarity represented the Lamb of God, so that Israel would be holy as the Lord was holy (Lev 11:44–45; 1 Pet 1:15–16) … lambs don’t eat flesh, but eat grain and green herbs, with the vegetarianism of Seventh Day Adventists coming as an anticipation of spiritual Babylon’s fall.
For the record, a Christian can today eat the flesh of clean animals for the Adversary remains the prince of this world and the head of the Christian’s fleshly body, what Paul discovered when his mind couldn’t rule over his flesh (Rom chap 7). Until the Second Passover liberation of Christians, the Adversary will remain the head of the flesh although the Christian is to be fighting a war against the Adversary for headship of the flesh, in internal war, mind against flesh, logos versus ethos and pathos. And the Christian should be too busy fighting this internal war to worry about affairs of state, such as the lying words of a community organizer who flattered his way into headship of humanity’s last best hope of self-governance. This community organizer is an uncovered firstborn who will perish suddenly in the Second Passover liberation of Israel, a liberation from indwelling sin and death. His second in command is also an uncovered firstborn. In one day, God will take care of the community organizer’s web of lies spun to deceive. Christians do not and should not involve themselves in situations God already has in hand; Christians need to leave the affairs of Babylon to spiritual Chaldeans. For even Daniel and his friends were castrated [made into eunuchs] and as such they could not enter the assembly of Israel before they began to serve the king of Babylon. Christians need not lose their inheritance (the effect of castration) so that, they too, can serve the spiritual king of spiritual Babylon; for Daniel and friends had no choice in what happened to them. Liberated Christians will have a choice, with most of Christendom making the wrong choice and rebelling against God on day 220 of the Affliction. These Christians will then become spiritual Cain, and they will form a significant part of the body of the Adversary, seen in prophecy as the great Whore on whose forehead is written, Babylon the great.
The great Whore is not a sect or denomination; is not the Roman Church or the Mormon Church, the main Christian rivals throughout the Affliction, the Roman Church representing Trinitarian Christendom and the Mormon Church representing Arian [or neo-Arian] Christendom. The war these two ideologies will fight against one other in the Affliction has three prototypes, self-similar wars, all won by Arians, with Alaric I leading Visigoths into Rome on 24 August 410 CE: Jerome wrote, The City which had taken the whole world was itself taken. For three days, the forces of Alaric plundered Rome, but Alaric’s Christianity caused the Visigoth to treat Rome’s inhabitants humanely: buildings were burned. Wives and children were not slaughtered as was done by the Roman Emperor Honorius who had incited the murder of the wives and children of Goths serving in his army.
The second sacking of Rome was by Gaiseric, king of the Vandals and Alans, in June 455 CE. He, too, was an Arian. The Trinitarian Pope Leo I met Gaiseric outside of Rome and implored him not to destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens. Gaiseric agreed, and the gates of Rome were opened to him. And despite history recording the Vandal sack of Rome as being extremely bloody, few lives were lost, and the Vandals did not wreak havoc on the city. They did, however, take things: gold, silver, whatever was of value, including important people as hostages to be ransomed.
The third Arian sack of Rome was by the Gothic king Totila in 546 CE, in the war between Ostrogoths and Byzantium. The city suffered a year long siege before falling with great lost of life.
Prophecy pundits who would have the three uprooted horns on the head of Death being the three administrations of the Roman Empire overturned by the Goths, Vandals, and Ostrogoths are historically clueless … elsewhere, not in RPR, I have written about the divisions of the Greek Empire that wasn’t neatly divided between four generals following Alexander’s death as prophecy pundits would have, but after decades of war morphed into two Greek Empires, one ruling from the border of China/India to Macedonia, and the other ruling Egypt and the Sinai territories.
In the Affliction, the first 1260 days of the seven endtime years of tribulation, Arian Christians will fight against Trinitarian Christians, with Arians initially leveraging food into discipleship and later, being reinforced by mass conversion of Muslims to Arian Christianity [to wit, Mormonism]. Those Sabbatarian Christians who have spent their spiritual lives looking toward Rome and the Roman Church as the endtime beast power [a united Europe in a ten nation combine, led by Germany] will be blindsided by what happens at Salt Lake City; for yes, Goths, Vandals, and Ostrogoths were Germanic peoples, but more importantly, they were all Arian Christians, with the first known translation of the Bible into the Germanic tongue being made by Ulfilas (ca 311–383 CE), of mixed Goth/Greek ancestry who found himself in the middle of the Arian controversy, and was himself an Arian Christian. He was ordained a bishop by Eusebius of Nicomedia and sent out as a missionary to the Gothic tribes. He had created the Gothic alphabet from Getae script … Germanic languages are of East Germanic [Gothic], north Germanic [Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish], or west Germanic [high and low Modern German, Old and Modern English]. The missionary efforts of Trinitarian Romans to Germanic lands was a poaching of Arian Christians from the Christian tradition established beyond the Roman frontier more so than is was conversion of heathens, non Christians. But when Trinitarians control the writing of history and the printing presses that cheaply and quickly spread their version of history, Arian Christendom would seem to have been a thing of the past, a theology caught up in the spindrift of history. But through the geometry of self-similarity, Arian theology was resurrected in North America, with all of the sects having begun on this continent initially being Arians, a principle reason why these sects have been so despised by Trinitarian sects and denominations. Consider what Baptists have traditionally said about Mormons, or what Lutherans have said about Jehovah Witnesses, or what any of the Trinitarians sects have said about the disciples of Herbert Armstrong, who was trapped halfway between Arian and Trinitarian belief for he never understood the reality of spiritual birth. Consider what they will say about me, who had to go and live in geographic locations where I realized that both Trinitarian and Arian Christians were the dead Body of Christ that would be resurrected to life at the Second Passover liberation of Israel, the nation to be circumcised of heart. I have seen a greater display of Christian love among Arian Christians than I have seen among Sabbatarian Christians, who believe they have the truth in keeping the Sabbath when they reject the greater truth that they are to love their neighbor and brother as they love themselves.
Seventh Day Adventist were at one time Arians, with their Arian beliefs still being taught when I tried to prove my Adventist step-father wrong about keeping the Sabbath. At this time (1959), local Adventist congregations did not keep Christmas, but rather used the Christmas season as a time of ingathering, begging contributions from local businesses, something that seemed wrong to me at the time. If Adventists were not to keep Christmas, why use the cultural charity of the Christmas season to collect donations? And Christmas wasn’t kept at Oceanlake [now, Lincoln City], Oregon.
During the Christmas season 1973, my stepfather brought Christmas presents to my three daughters. I wasn’t home at the time. But my wife refused the presents, telling my stepfather that he knew better than to keep Christmas; that we didn’t keep Christmas. My stepfather was hurt. My wife was right theologically, but what she said was without love and typified Sabbatarian Church of God behavior. We moved to Alaska shortly thereafter, and my stepfather died before I returned to the Lower 48, when I went to look him up and apologize in person for the affront. My loss—and one of the reasons that I had to live among devout non-Sabbatarian Christians to witness firsthand the faith and well-doing of the still spiritually deceased Body of Christ that, again, will be resurrected at the Second Passover for as the gates of Hades could not prevail over Jesus’ earthly body, the gates of Hades will not prevail over His spiritual Body.
It is easy to dismiss as false all who do not believe as the person does; it’s easy for a Sabbatarian Christian to dismiss all Sundays keepers as false Christians—Churchianity as they were called in the former Worldwide Church of God—but to do so will cause the one doing the dismissing being dismissed by Christ Jesus when judgments are revealed … Jesus dies for every Christian while the Christian is still a sinner, and the Christian who is a self-similar fractal of Christ has to be willing to die for other Christians while they are still sinners, while they transgress the Sabbath Commandment or whatever commandments they transgress, stealing as in not tithing, bearing false witness about Christ, saying that disciples are not to keep the commandments and thereby walk in this world as Jesus walked in this world. It doesn’t matter which commandment is broken: to break one makes the person a lawbreaker. To break many actually causes the person to more easily see that the person is a lawbreaker, and has serious need to repent.
Concerning physical Israel, the self-similar form of spiritual Israel, the prophet Malachi wrote,
For I [YHWH] do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says [YHWH] of hosts. But you say, “How shall we return?” Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, “How have we robbed you?” In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says [YHWH] of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says [YHWH] of hosts. Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says [YHWH] of hosts. (Mal 3:6–12)
To whom do you, Sabbatarian Christian, pay your tithe today? You say, there is no temple where tithes are to be paid. This is not true: are not disciples individually and collectively the temple of God? You know the scriptures. And you know where they are. So are you not a thief? Are you any better than the Christian who transgresses the Sabbath?
Do you, Sabbatarian, deny that you are born of spirit as a son of God? If what you claim is true, how do you differ from other sons of disobedience not yet born of spirit? You either deny your spiritual birth and are therefore a bastard, or you are a bastard through claiming to be of God when you remain a son of disobedience, a bondservant of the Adversary, not seen through transgression of the Sabbath but seen through bearing false witness about God, saying that He doesn’t give spiritual birth to sons in this era when He does.
The seven named churches of Revelation are not seven eras of the Christian Church—this claim made by Armstrong but this claim constituting false witness against God—but are seven churches that simultaneously exist, having simultaneously existed in the 1st-Century and again simultaneously existing in the 21st-Century, with these seven churches being the seven horns on the head of the Lamb, not the Body of the Lamb, meaning that these seven churches exist apart from the presently dead Body of Christ and are analogous to the seven hills/kings upon which the great Whore is seen sitting in the Endurance of Jesus. I am of Philadelphia, in that I keep the word of Jesus’ Endurance, the last 1260 days of the seven endtime years, in which all who endure to the end shall be saved; for this “all” will be spiritually born as the spiritual Seth through being filled with spirit when the whole world is baptized in spirit (Joel 2:28; Matt 3:11).
Chirality is not a hard concept to understand: what happened when Alice stepped through the looking glass, a children’s story. Fractal geometry is not a hard concept to grasp once awareness of the concept became part of the culture: consider Toy Story, again a children’s story. Evidence of the visions of Daniel being sealed and kept secret until the time of the end is their unsealing through rereading prophecy …
The Christian Church, the Body of Christ that is the temple of God (e.g., 1 Cor 3:16–17; 12:27; 2 Cor 6:16), died spiritually from want of the holy spirit but lived physically to preach to imprisoned sons of disobedience as the reversed image [chiral image] of the earthly body of Christ dying physically but living spiritually to preach to imprisoned spirits. Thus, as Solomon’s temple was razed by Chaldeans and the earthly king of Babylon in the 6th-Century BCE and then rebuilt and dedicated seventy years later (ca 586–516 BCE), not the seventy years spoken of by the prophet Jeremiah as Daniel understood Jeremiah, the temple of God that was/is the Body of Christ was razed by the spiritual king of Babylon and his minions, with God the Father determining whether the Body of Christ lived or died and when the Body lived or died.
Herod’s temple was a self-similar copy of Zerubbabel’s temple, which was in turn a self-similar copy of Solomon’s temple, with Solomon’s temple being the physical shadow and type of the spiritual temple that is Christ, and the Body of Christ, a subject I have addressed in other writings. Thus, when Roman soldiers razed Herod’s temple in 70 CE as Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers had razed Solomon’s temple in 586 BCE, the pattern was established and confirmed for the razing of the spiritual temple by the spiritual king of Babylon, this razing coming via the introduction and acceptance of lawlessness within the Body of Christ …
Forty years after Calvary (31–71 CE), the Father quit drawing disciples from this world through giving to the person the earnest of the spirit. Those disciples who were born of spirit continued to live physically for another thirty years, with John as the last of these disciples physically dying about 101 CE (ca 100–102 CE), seventy years after Calvary.
The mirror image of the desolation of the temple as spoken by the prophet Jeremiah isn’t another seventy years of desolation, but the reverse, the temple going from desolation to life [living] for seventy years. And this happened between 31 CE and 101 CE. So as Daniel saw that the time of Jeremiah’s declared desolation was completed in Cyrus ordering construction of a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem (again, this order coming exactly seventy years after Daniel and the important people of Israel were taken captive to Babylon: 609–539 BCE), Daniel received the seventy weeks prophecy, in which the weeks are feminine, that is, of the Woman, of the Body.
Physically, Jerusalem and the temple were destroyed from seventy years, with two differing dates for these seventy years: 609–539 BCE and 586–516 BCE, the first recognized by Daniel, the second recognized by the Sabbatarian Churches of God. The chiral image of the first dates is 31–101 CE, when the Church has indwelling spiritual life. The chiral image of the second date is the seven weeks between the Wave Sheaf Offering and the Feast of Weeks, with Christ Jesus being the reality of the Wave Sheaf Offering in the 1st-Century CE and with the Resurrection of Firstfruits upon the Second Advent in the 21st-Century being the reality of the Feast of Weeks.
The seven weeks and the sixty-two weeks, and the one week that constitute the seventy weeks will fit inside of nearly two millennia, with argument over when which weeks were which years being a subject that reaches beyond the scope of this manuscript. For the dead Body of Christ was buried by the Council of Nicea (ca 325 CE), and no attempt was made to resurrect this Body until the 16th-Century.
Again, the seven named churches are not of the Body of the Lamb, but support this Body as the seven hills support the great Whore, the body of the Adversary, with the Adversary as the spiritual king of Babylon seen as a lamb with two horns, one present and one there but to come to power for only a short while, the last hour (seven months).
The last week of the seventy weeks is the seven endtime years of tribulation. The one whose end comes via a flood is of the Adversary, the flood being the one the dragon sends against the saints (Rev 12:15–16), and the one about which Moses prophesied (Ex 15:12).
The earth swallows the flood the dragon sends as the Sea of Reeds swallowed the army of Pharaoh. The means by which the earth swallows this flood is as water swallowed Pharaoh; i.e., when the cleaved in-two Mount of Olives (Zech 14:4) comes together again as the Sea of Reeds came together after Israel passed over the water dry-shod.
After I get some other needed writing posted on various websites, I will return to rereading prophecy although not in this manuscript of ten chapters but twelve parts. I will most likely post the new work on the small About Prophecy website, because the world really isn’t to know what will happen until after prophecy is fulfilled. However, the unsealing of previously sealed prophecies needs to be publicly available before the prophecies are fulfilled spiritually as testimony for who is of God and who isn’t.
The chiral image of Death isn’t more death, but Life. The chiral image of Babylon isn’t more of Babylon, but the Lamb of God who has overcome death/Death, even the death of the cross. The chiral image of Jerusalem isn’t another earthly city of Jerusalem, but the heavenly city that is the Bride [as in Body] of Christ. And the chiral image of a prophet isn’t another prophet, but the person who assigns meaning to the words of the prophet; the one who rereads sealed and secret prophesies, thereby unsealing them. For the words of a prophet do not carry their meanings around in little backpacks that readers can open, but must have their meanings assigned to them by a person who stands on the other side of the mirror in which a prophet sees his natural face.
Evidence that I can continue in this vein is a little book being transformed into this convoluted text that seems to be without an end. But the count of days is such that I have now spent as long writing this manuscript as I spent writing Reading Prophecy in 2002. So leaving as much still uncovered as I have covered, I rest my case for having been called to reread prophecy. The evidence is, again, in my understanding of the mysteries of God.
As a parting shot, take the Passover sacraments of Bread and Drink on the night when Jesus was betrayed, this night being the dark portion of the 14th day of the first month, with the first month beginning with the first sighted new moon crescent following the spring equinox wherever you live. Beware of the leavening of the Sadducees and Pharisees and the calculated calendar of rabbinical Judaism. It isn’t the calendar that will keep you covered year after year by the blood of Christ.
Jesus told those who had ears to hear,
If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." (John 10:37–38)
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. (John 14:10–12)
The works I do today are not greater than those that Jesus did, but the works that the two witnesses will do in the Affliction will be greater. The works that the two witnesses do—these two types of Moses and Aaron—unfortunately will bring death upon most of greater Christendom; for these two will not be sent to the nations, but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. It will be against these lost sheep that they bring plagues of every sort so that of all peoples, none will be more hated than the two witnesses whose task it is to defeat Death through dying, then publicly living again, thereby delivering a mortal wound to Death.
Enough!
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