The dream itself escaped my memory but the end was very clear. I was watching a massive gathering of strong young men in a field setting and there seemed no end to their numbers. Then I heard the Lord say, "London, Paris, Madrid. And the sons grew up together." I was instantly awake. I reached for the pad by my bed and wrote it down, "London, Paris, Madrid. And the sons grew up together." I did not have a clue what it meant.

Occasionally the Lord will speak verbally to me in those twilight moments just before full awakening and it is always a message for someone or insight into a new assignment. Since He did not name anyone to give this message to, I assumed it was for my ears alone. I was baffled. I spent the entire day in the Scriptures hoping for an additional clue. None came. Just after midnight, as I turned out the light and began my nightly visit with Him, I was given the understanding that broke my heart.

I began to withdraw..."No, no, I can’t write about this, I could never put it on paper the way you have put it in my heart."

"Not even if I ask you to?"

"If you ask me...of course..."

"I’m asking."

"I’ll need a lot of help."

He was silent. My mind began racing with the scenes and dialogue of this new teaching assignment. I lay down and muttered into the pillow..."Sons they were, sons they are, and brothers they will always be." In seconds, sleep was mine...

It is a familiar scene, you and I have visited it many times. It is the court of Pontius Pilate. It is the scene of a trial - well - half a trial. You see, the prisoner won’t defend himself so only the accusers are heard. We are all well briefed on the events of this trial, but there is hiding here an important facet we haven’t been briefed on.

We must dig it out of the Scriptural archives, out of the dust of the neglected past and expose it to the dawn of an early Friday morning in the year 30 A.D. in the City of God, which is Jerusalem.

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He had been arrested the night before and taken before Annas for questioning. Annas, father-in-law to Caiaphas, then bound the hands of Jesus and sent him to Caiaphas, the high priest, who questioned Him before the Sanhedrin, the Jewish Supreme Court. Peter waited without by the fire. Another disciple went into this court with Jesus and we can assume this disciple was John since John related this account.

Caiaphas would charge Him with blasphemy against God, and since what he really wanted to do was kill him off, he decided not to try him in a religious court but in a civil one, presenting him as the new unofficial King of the Jews and a threat against Rome. Pilate would not touch Him on a religious charge, but as a political threat of insurrection against Rome, he could have Him put to death.

Caiaphas was a coward and a hypocrite. He wouldn’t defile himself by entering the home of a Gentile but he was willing to commit murder whether it was warranted or not. It was just before dawn when they took Him before the Governor of Judea and made their accusations.

Jesus stood before Pilate and Pilate didn’t have any idea who He was. John was not allowed to go in with Him on this occasion else he might have told Pilate, "He is the Promise given in the Garden, confirmed in Abraham, and prophesied of by the prophets. He is the song of David, the one born of a virgin, heralded by angels, witnessed by shepherds, visited by wise men, testified of Simeon, announced by the Baptist, revealed by Peter and betrayed by a thief. He is the Messiah."

Jesus stood quietly. He was the last in a 4,000-year-long line of sons. He was born into this world as one of them and He was also one with God. This enabled Him to view this scene through a time-enhancing telescopic memory, and He looked deep, remembering who - when - where - all the young sons grew up together...

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His story begins in Heaven. "Let US make men in OUR image," said God the Father, speaking to God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. They agreed and all three persons of the Holy Trinity engaged in the creation of Adam, father of all mankind. God the Father fashioned his body from the clay of the ground. God the Son fashioned his soul (mind, emotions). God the Holy Spirit gave him instant life with the breath of God that became his eternal spirit and caused a sudden rush of pure blood to race through his veins.Then God gave him a free will to make free choices.

Later they would form Eve as well from the bone and flesh of Adam. Then these two were presented to each other as gifts, clothed in the Shekinah Glory of God’s Holiness.

They were to have wonderful fellowship with one another and with God, and they were to multiply. However, the tempter came, deceiving Eve who then tempted Adam with her sin of disobedience costing them their garments of praise and the purity of their blood. God called out the curses and ordered their banishment from the Garden.

Before they left however, God sacrificed two animals to be a blood covering for their sin and clothed them with the bloody skins. Life is in the blood and the spirit, therefore the blood of a clean substitute would cover the cursed, restoring life and providing a cleansing redemption from the sins. Thus, when God looks upon you and me, He does not see our tainted blood, but He sees the blood of Jesus.

Adam and Eve would live and produce many children. When they were grown, Cain jealously slew Abel, brother killing brother for the first time. Cain would flee with his wife and they too would have children. (Cain’s wife was probably his sister, permitted in the beginning for populating the earth, and later forbidden under the law.)

Adam and Eve then had another son, Seth, through whom the royal Seed line would continue through generations to come until it brought forth the promised redeemer. From Adam through Seth through Enoch, to Noah were ten generations, barely five hundred years. By Noah’s day the people had so degenerated in their spiritual and moral values that God called for a flood to destroy them all.

But Noah was a righteous man, so God told him how to build an ark that would save Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives, and a pair of every creature God had created. Through Noah and his sons, mankind would begin again. Of course, Cain’s descendants would perish in the flood with all the others who had turned their lofty ears from the powerful preachings of Seth, Enoch, and Noah.

During the one hundred and twenty years Noah preached and built the ark, and during their cruise in the mighty flood, Noah was without grandchildren. When the waters of the flood receded the wombs of the childless and wombs of the beasts were opened. Shem was one hundred years old when his first child, Arphaxad, was born. Japheth and Ham began producing right away as well, and before long, Noah and his wife had lots of little ones playing around their feet.

Then the day came when Ham displayed a perverted and unGodly spirit. While scripture does not indicate any physical violation, Ham nevertheless intruded upon his father’s privacy unannounced, found him sleeping nakedly on the floor of his tent, and on leaving the tent, mocked his father disrespectfully to his brothers. On wakening, Noah learned of Ham’s intrusion into his tent and of his remarks.

When Cain slew Abel, it was not Adam who punished him, it was God who spoke the curse. This time God withheld and listened as Noah spoke the curse on Canaan. The curse would not apply to all of Ham’s descendants, only to those born of his son Canaan who had become as arrogant and rebellious as his father. Canaan would people the Canaanite tribes and establish his descendants in a fertile strip of land known today as Israel.

The sons of Noah moved across the land masses to claim territory for their own developing tribes. Arphaxad, son of Shem, founded the area of the Chaldees, where Abraham was born as Abram, 10th generation from Noah. Abram fathered a son, Ishmael, by an Egyptian bondwoman (of Ham) and he would have 12 sons and a daughter who peopled the north and west Arabian peninsula and the Bedouin nomadic tribes. Today these are the Mohammedans. Fourteen years later Isaac was born through whom the Seed line would continue. Isaac fathered Jacob and Esau, another sibling rivalry set who ended up going their separate ways, Jacob with God, Esau without. Abraham’s later sons born by Keturah, after Sarah’s death, would father additional Arabic tribes.

From Jacob would come the twelve tribes of Israel who made the sojourn into Egypt where the sons of Shem dwelled with the sons of Ham for 440 years, terminating with the exodus to the Promised Land. This would take them through the wilderness for forty years, led by Moses, Aaron and Joshua, all descendants of Jacob.

The other sons of Shem and Arphaxad, as well as all the generations in between Arphaxad and Abraham, would establish Gentile nations as would Japheth and Ham. Only Abraham would father the Jews and the Arabs through Isaac, Ishmael and Jacob, and only Jacob would establish the Jewish nation of Israel through his own sons. The Seed line would course through fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen generations from David to captivity in Babylon, and fourteen generations more to Jesus Christ, the Seed.

This beginning of nations was plagued with tribal conflicts from the beginning. Just ten generations after the flood, the people had again degenerated to such idolatry and social perversions that God had to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Then, when Jacob was old, God sent a deadly famine into all the lands to discredit their fertility gods and bring them to their knees. Only Egypt, where a faithful Joseph listened to God, had prepared through seven years of plenty, and were able to feed those who came to them. Many didn’t come, and they died.

The whole world was repopulated by the sons of Japheth, Shem and Ham, sons of Noah, sons of Enoch, sons of Seth, Sons of Adam, Sons of God. Bad seed also surfaced, Esau’s descendants, Canaan’s descendants, Ishmael’s descendants and even the sons of Lot would war against the sons of Abraham.

For years after the flood they migrated here and there with new races emerging in different parts of Asia, North Africa, and beyond the wastelands of the Black Sea into Russia and Europe.

The very regions they migrated to would play a part in necessarily altering their genetic patterns to provide changes that would help them adapt to the lands they now lived in.

This meant changes in skin pigment and color, hair texture, facial features, body growth and developmental differences (some tall, some short, some thin, some hefty). The soils they grew their food in would play a big part as well as the climate and the natural provisions in the land.

It was God’s way of providing the changes needed for the generations of sons and daughters to come so they could live in abundant health and provision in the land of their adoption. With love, He was helping them to become nations, each different from all the rest and each one peculiar in it’s fashion.

There is an old saying, "When you work for Mother Nature, you get paid by Father Time." So, for centuries they worked with Mother Nature, and Father Time paid off with brand new races wearing yellow, brown, black, red and olive. God is the creator and color is His specialty. The tower of Babel had confused their languages and forced communities together and apart from others. Now, finally, the birthing of many nations was underway.

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Israel also produced corrupt seed through the Benjamites, shameful priests, idolatrous and evil kings, false prophets and wicked judges. For four thousamd years the sons grew up together - all brothers by birth, all sons of creation and sons by procreation. All were filled with the blood of Noah, the blood of Enoch, and the blood tainted by Adam’s sin.

It isn’t the blood that makes men wicked. Just men have always walked upright before God with the same tainted blood and a pure heart. It’s the walk without God that makes men wicked and their bondage to wickedness that destroys them.

Pilate, a Japheth Roman, looked at Jesus, the Shemite Jew, and didn’t know they were brothers, nor did he know that before another hour could pass, he would compromise his own practice of fair judgement for very selfish reasons, and in so doing his name would be immortalized forever in the history of the Jews, the Romans, the world.

The creator, now beaten and flogged, looked upon the created and waited for His sentence of death. It would be crucifixion, as He had prophesied, for the created had to slay the creator as a lamb led to slaughter, at Passover, for only the pure untainted blood of God Incarnate, the Prince of Heaven, was an acceptable sacrifice for the redemption of all the sons and daughters who would believe. Stoning by the Jews would not suffice. Blood had to be shed abundantly.

Just as the Jews examine their lambs for four days prior to Passover, checking for blemishes or instabilities, making sure they are perfect for the sacrifice, so the son of Japheth examined.the son of Shem. Jesus had entered the streets of Jerusalem on a donkey’s colt just four days earlier.

He had taught in the Temple and shared His last supper with His disciples. In a farewell act of love He had washed their feet and called them friends. One had betrayed Him...

They were sons of sons and brothers all, but now He called them friends. Every generation has it’s familial rebel but not every family has a friend in their midst to be close to. He was telling them that from then on they would no longer be servants but His friends with a close intimate fellowship and relationship. God had earlier called Abraham friend.

A friend is one you can trust, rely on, find available day or night, and who will stick by you through thick or thin. A friend is an ally, chum, pal, comrade, companion, confidante, associate, attendant and guardian. A real friend will tell you the truth even if it hurts. He was bringing them out of acquaintanceship and inviting them into the innermost chambers of His own heart, loosing them to be friends with Him.

He had said earlier that there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother and that there is no love like the love of one who will lay down his life for another. When Jesus calls one friend, it is an honor. Friendship is two steps up from brotherhood. Though they had always been brothers - then acquaintances - now they would be friends, and Jesus is saying there is no higher realm to reach in Him than that.

He waited...and some humaness within him shuddered...

Following a final fourth-day examination, Pilate confirmed that Jesus had no fault in Him. There were no blemishes, no instabilities, and no rebellion. Going a step further he confirmed that Jesus was innocent. The son of Japheth did not know he was confirming prophecy but the son of Shem knew. It would go on the records in the heavenly archives that the son of Japheth found the Son of Shem to be clean, innocent, and worthy of the Cross. It would also go on the records here, emblazoned forever in God’s Holy Word...

The son of Shem observed the son of Japheth with an all-knowing heart that must not betray Him for this crucifixion must go forth. They were two brothers, sons of sons who stood face to face, one with God, one without. It was the rebirth of Cain and Abel, and for envy and fear of personal loss, Abel had to die.

Jesus had seen the change in his countenance as fear overcame the governor of Judea. He would not change his mind because God was intervening, but because of the darkness that was rising from his own heart. Pilate was not about to compromise his political career for this Jew, innocent or otherwise. Jesus groaned within Himself as he perceived the curse Pilate was about to pronounce upon his own head. In agony he would for the rest of his life wash his hands, attempting to remove the blood spilled upon them from an innocent man. Stripped of his political seat and power, he would become mentally tortured and physically frail.

Riots were breaking out in the streets. The cries of the people were vicious and without mercy. They preferred a rebel and a murderer to live among them rather than the Son of God. These were mostly the cries of the religious leaders, stirring up the people, and the friernds of Barrabas who didn’t know who Jesus was.

Jesus’ thoughts were interrupted by something Pilate was saying to the people. "I don’t want this innocent man’s blood on my hands."

The crowd was unrelenting in their reply. "Then let his blood be on us and on our children."

Jesus winced for they had just spoken a curse on their own heads and what He had predicted earlier would now come with a compounded vengeance. It began in 70 A.D. The temple was thrown down, Jerusalem crushed and the people scatted to the four corners of the globe.

They became strangers in foreign lands with no country, no temple and no friends.They were hated by many, rejected by most, distrusted by all, and suffered the curse they spoke in Hitler’s Holocaust. Close to 1,900 years would go by before God would recall them to their land and in May 1948 Israel regained her national status. In the six-day war of 1967 she regained control of Jerusalem. There will be terror in the streets again and many will flee to the mountain but her people will never lose their beloved Israel to strangers again. So it has been written...

Jesus could feel the tension in the air and in the spirit realm. Ten thousand legions of angels were standing by with swords drawn. All He had to do was speak...

The son of Japheth looked beaten and angry as he waved his hand to the guards and said, "Take him away and crucify him." The son of Shem sighed deeply but said not a word. It was for this day that He came into this world. There would be no more delays, it would be today...right now. They led the Son of God to the street while Pilate washed his hands...

Sons they were, sons they are, and brothers they will always be...

He would hang between two brothers turned thieves. The one on the left would reject Him. The one on the right would believe Him. It is a stark reminder of the judgement of the nations - the sheep on the right, the goats on the left, when the ruling sons of other sons will also stand silent, without defense. The son of God looked at the motley crowd gathered below and forgave them all. After all, this was for them. He would go through three days and two nights with this dread in His flesh and terror in His soul...

Then...

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When Israel was scattered, many of the remaining Canaanites fled as well. They followed those who went north, beyond the Black Sea, east to the lands bordering the Great Sea, the lands of Japheth we call today the nations of England, France, and Spain. These three developing nations were bitter rivals for desirable tracts of land and engaged in war after war to greedily obtain what the others held. While they battled over land and sea, the Canaanites joined the sons of Canaan who had fled years earlier, before Christ was born.

These earlier sons of Canaan had brought their pagan practices with them and, as the Druids, enticed others into their pagan beliefs, drawing the Franks into total paganism. They were not as successful in Roman-occupied Spain but gained ground in the rural pastoral countrysides of England. Around 52 A.D. Rome took England and France with their new Christianity, now occupying all the lands of England, France and Spain. The Holy Roman Empire denounced the Druids as "dangerous" and immediately placed a legal ban on human sacrifice. They would have liked to kill them off, but that was not to be.

During the occupation, Rome lifted these three nations to higher economic, social and spiritual levels, building roads, walls, bridges, trade with each other, opening schools and churches, converting them to the Holy Roman Church with Papal authority.as their head. The Druids were not convertible. They remained quietly hidden as it were, practicing their cultic abominations in secrecy and outside the strict confines of Papal law. When the Germans invaded Italy, the Roman soldiers were recalled to Italy, leaving the three nations to fend for themselves.

For hundreds of years the sons of Japheth, Shem and Ham fought each other, sometimes siding with one against the other, and even in the wake of the New World, they set out to beat each other to the conquering punch. London, Paris, Madrid sending shiploads of Noah’s children to take control of the new lands where other sons from many countries were gathering together. But London, Paris, and Madrid had thrones where sat greedy and blood-thirsty kings.

The sons of the New World had fled these nations, and some had fled others, to escape the oppressions of self-exalting kings and the persecutions and restrictions imposed by the dictates of the Church of Rome and it’s ever demanding papal authority. England would be the first to break away and establish her own Protestant Church but still, many were persecuted for not following to the letter the dictates of the Crown, who was the defender of the new faith. By the shiploads, they fled, rejecting the heavy taxations and religious persecutions of earthly kings, in search of religious freedom under their Heavenly King.

By the early 1800s France would abolish her rule by monarchy and choose instead to be a Republic, patterning it after the parlimentary senates of Rome. But during the earlier migrations west, France bowed to their king. Sons in the New World were not about to give up their new freedom. They had sacrificed much and endured untold hardships and bitter times to be free and if they must they would fight the devil himself to keep it.

The sons of sons of Noah’s many nations banded together to fight off these aggressors and established a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It was a long hard road but, under God, they stood, each worshiping in his own way the God of his faith. America became a nation of nations, representing all the nations of the earth and for the first time since Babel, they came together as sons and as brothers to become one family as Americans. No earthly king was welcome, or wanted. They too, became a Republic and adopted the English language as their native tongue for so many had come from England and were the majority.

The sons of Japheth, Ham and Shem would build again. It wouldn’t be a tower to Heaven this time, it would be a steeple on a church, lots of steeples, and lots of churches, schools, trades and communities, towns and shipping lines. Soon they would migrate further west, opening up the new inroads to Oregon and California after which the brothers of the Orient would come from across the Pacific. The stage coach, the pony express and the telegraph took the news of the East to the brothers in the West and vice versa, and in time, a railroad would tie the new nation together.

Slave traders had raised their ugly heads and brought evil upon the new land, and the sons of the South invested in this trade of souls, sons enslaving sons, brothers owning brothers. It took a civil war to free them, sons killing sons, and brothers fighting on opposite sides. A new Abraham had risen, President of the people, but he was assassinated for his stand with God and the Constitution of the United States. Still, he did not fail. The sons of Ham were freed and many would weave threads of greatness in the tapestry of our nation.

It became a big and overflowing family of sons and sons of sons, a melting pot for Noah’s children. Through times of plenty and times of need, through times of trouble and times of peace, they stuck together, defending the faith for sons to come and their God-given rights as sons. Unfortunately, Canaan still lived and had crossed the ocean many times to mark his place in the new world.

Canaan has been called many things from the Druids of the old world to the witchcrafts of Salem, to satanic cults and New Age. Jezebel, Ahab, and the new Herods of today’s generations are leaving their unGodly footprints on our fundamental rights. Canaan has invaded with sexual perversions, pornography, blood sacrifices and materialistic prowess. Sadducees abound without fear of Hell or afterlife.

Herod sits in the supreme court still slaughtering babies. There are too many Pilates in the court room compromising their integrity and clean conscicences for the favors of corrupt politicians. They have forgotten the Pilate of the past who could never again get his hands clean because he neither knew nor feared the Holy God of justice. And that old cultist Jezebel defiles our churches with her proud and controlling spirit, deceiving thousands..

We opened our gates and Canaan came in like a flood....

Blood brothers with Canaan? Yes, we are. Brothers before God? No, we are not. The idolatrous sons of Canaan have been condemned by the God of Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and the one called Jesus the Christ. The people of this nation can no longer halt between two opinions. They have to choose - God or Baal. In the choosing, know this, you can serve but one or the other and only one loves you. Only a little time remains...

There is a world of sons, all brothers of one blood, facing this same dilemna. The time is approaching when the sons of Noah, the sons of Enoch, the sons of Adam and the sons of God will have to stand and openly renounce those who dine at Satan’s table, separating themselves from the sons of their fathers and from the truth. When God said His people perish for lack of knowledge, He was warning us to be studied up and fed properly so we can stand strong and informed when Canaan knocks at our door.

This is where the sons are divided forever. Some to everlasting life, some to everlasting shame. This was the land of new beginnings, it is now a land of violence and turbulence. Will we, like Israel, be overcome and severely punished for our indifference? Will we, like Sodom, be removed in one hour? Have our irresponsibilities to our sons and sons of sons and all of our daughters caught up with us at last?

I believe the Divine hand of God is still upon us for the sake of the righteous in the land. I also believe that when the day comes when we are removed and caught up to meet Jesus in the air, the judgement of God will fall and it will be swift and complete. If not, God will have to apologize to Sodom and Gonorrah or raise them from the ashes for a second chance.The antichrist will rise to power, Enoch and Elijah will prophesy for three and a half years and 144,000 sons of Shem will evangelize the whole earth, just before the wrath of God is poured out on Canaan and his followers. No government or leader of this earth can stop it, no army is big enough or powerful enough to withstand it.

Sons against sons, brothers against brothers. It’s the old story of Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, and Jacob and Esau. Still, the families of Noah, Enoch, Adam and God will continue in the world God created, and where the sons grow up together.

Sons they were, sons they are, and brothers they will always be...

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