"THE TRUTH IS..." The Heavenlies Over Israel
"Thus saith the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever." What a powerful word! These ordinances were created to give life and light to planet Earth, and to the descendants of the man called Adam. The moon and stars would control the tides of the seas, the breaking of waves, the planting of seed and the harvesting of crops. They would draw forth the newborn, and they would be the compass in the sky for the wayfaring pilgrim. Unfortunately, within the first generations from Adam, wickedness stalked the children of Cain and charmed as well the children of Seth who deserted the camp of the righteous and cast their lot with Cain’s bunch. As men increased in the earth wickedness also increased and violence filled the earth… At the same time, there were ten Godly men, one patriarch for each of the nine generations that followed Adam through Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve. In the beginning Abel had been the spiritual seed bearer but when he was slain by his brother Cain, the earth was left without spiritual seed. And of course, without spiritual seed to sow righteous generations, men would be born brutally evil instead, without any form of Godliness and without any hope for redemption. So you see, when Cain slew Abel, he did not just take Abel's life. He murdered all the unborn generations that had waited in Abel's loins for their turn to be born as perpetual spiritual seed in the earth. When an abortionist takes the life of an unborn child, he is not just killing that one infant. He is murdering countless future generations already seeded into that child at the time of its own conception. It is of no real consequence how many registered abortions a heartless man numbers in his years of practice, for there can be no way he can number the ongoing generations he has murdered in that one womb... This helps us to understand the growing hatred the world has today for the born again fundamental and conservative Christian. It is the spirit of antichrist (Satan) that drives them to destroy all mention or knowledge of God in the earth, especially the name of Jesus, the only Redeemer through whom men might be saved. Today we are fighting the final battle for truth in the earth, for redemption of men and earth while there is time. We fight for the battle is fierce and deadly for there are many in this world who do not hear and do not see the story of the ordinances of the Heavenlies. Indeed there are many professing Christians who do not see or hear... Even in the midst of brutal evil, God sends an Apostle, a Prophet, and a Teacher to speak His truth in the earth. From the beginning it was so... One by one the first nine righteous patriarchs passed away in their time, leaving their legacies of faith and faithfulness for those that would come after. They had lost their children to the temptations of Cain’s world but these giants of faith had held fast to the God they had walked with since they could remember. And now, the years that God had given Noah to build the ark were fast expiring and there were still two Godly men in the earth besides Noah. God had not told Noah to take these two men with him on the ark so Noah knew that Lamech, his own earthly father, and Methuselah, his grandfather and father of Lamech, would be leaving him before the flood... From as far back as Enoch, possibly as far back as Seth, personal and historical records had been scratched out on stone tablets and these were passed from Methuselah to Noah to take with him on the ark and pass on to the sons of righteousness. Noah’s own sons would begin the process of repopulating the earth and they would record their own journeys to add to those that Noah would pass on through Shem to Abraham and the children of Israel… According to the geneology listed in Genesis 5:30 Lamech died five years before the flood, having lived 595 years after the birth of Noah. We will remember that Noah was 600 years old when the flood began so we know Lamech died five years before the flood. Also, according to scholar/author, Louis Ginzberg (Legends Of The Bible), Noah had said God would not send the flood as long as the Godly Methuselah was still on the earth. Then the Godly Methuselah passed away exactly one week before the rains began. Is there a message of hope for Israel and the Church in this story? I believe so...I believe it is a wonderful testimony of faithfulness that God will not send the antichrist or the tribulation as long as His remnant is still on the earth. We may pass out of here a week ahead of time, a year ahead of time or a day ahead of time, but I believe it is already established that we will pass out of here before the flood... We can verify these calculations through the scriptures in the same Genesis passage - Methuselah lived 782 years after Lamech was born. Lamech lived 777 years altogether and he died. Methuselah lived an additional five years beyond the death of Lamech, passing away just before the flood... As the first drops of rain began to fall, God commanded Noah and his family to get into the ark with the animals. At the sound of the first thunderclap, a sound never before heard in the earth, God shut the door to the ark. In moments, and by Divine command, the sun, the moon and the stars covered their faces with dark clouds, a phenomenon never before seen in the earth, and they hid their beautiful faces and wept for forty days and forty nights as the waters of Heaven's judgment covered the earth. When the wind ceased and the rains stopped, when the waves quieted and the clouds scattered, the sun smiled once more and Noah’s family ventured out onto the upper roof-deck of the ark to greet and to bask in the warmth of their old friend in the sky. They had never seen rain before the flood, and so it seemed that, when the sun and the moon hid their faces, the world seemed cold and unfriendly. They soon learned however, that rain was God’s new way of watering the earth, and in time they came to need and appreciate the rain as much as they did the sun… Noah, the tenth generation from Adam, had a son named Shem who had a descendant called Abraham (the tenth from Noah) who had a great-grandson named Joseph. Four generations later a man called Moses was born of the Levite tribe, a chosen soul, who was hidden and nurtured in the household of Pharaoh, until it was time to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt… All of these great men of God played a part in laying the foundations of Israel, but not one of them would see the promise fulfilled in their lifetime. Isaac was the seed of promise that God gave to Abraham in his old age and God had said it would be through Isaac that the promise would come. Many years passed in the fields of southern Canaan and then, when Isaac was one hundred and thirty-eight years old and near total blindness, the Covenant Promise was transferred by the laying on of Isaac’s weathered hands and the declared prophetic blessings spoken over the younger son, Jacob. You may remember that, in the years that followed, Jacob had a son named Joseph who dreamed dreams and interpreted dreams. And in one of those dreams the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to him (Genesis 37:9). When the young and naïve Joseph shared the dream with his father and brothers, Jacob rebuked him, referring to the sun and the moon and the stars as himself, Joseph’s mother, Rachel, and his eleven brothers. Jacob knew the dream was prophetic and would surely come to pass, but for the sake of Joseph’s safety, in fear of his brothers’ jealousy and resentment of him, he berated Joseph instead. The dream was fulfilled of course, when his brothers came to Egypt during the famine, twenty years later. Following a tearful and heart-rending reunion filled with remorse and forgiveness, the entire Jacobean family of 75 souls went down to Egypt to wait out the famine. Joseph had invited them, had promised to care for them and their families, and he could keep that promise since he was the head honcho, second in command only to Pharaoh. But the real ache in Joseph’s heart was his need to see his aged father again. When Jacob arrived, and Joseph went out to meet him, Jacob bowed to his son, just as Joseph’s childhood dream had prophesied that he would. They stayed long past the healing of the land from the famine because they were herdsmen and Goshen was fertile land. In the 4th generation of their sojourn there, Moses led 600,000 Israelites plus thousands of strangers out of Egypt. They would make the journey to Canaan, the Promised Land, but because of their stubbornness, their rebellion and disobedience, it would be a journey of forty years. Moses died on the Moab side of Jordan and was buried in a secret place by the hand of God Himself. That same day, Joshua stepped into the appointed post as Commander-in-Chief of the nation as well as the nation’s armies, and like Moses, proved to be a no-nonsense Commander-in-Chief… There had been an earlier day, in the heat of a battle, when Joshua had commanded the sun to stand still until they had vanquished their enemies. Never before, nor since, has God allowed the ordinances to obey the command of a mere man. And to this day, science acknowledges that lost day in the history of the earth and the Heavenlies… Let’s pause for a moment and back track to a few, perhaps forgotten, historical facts. Perhaps we will find a small relic here and there for our necessary understanding… First of all, God made the expanse (firmament) of the Heavens first, with the waters divided, half beneath the firmament and half above the firmament. The waters above the firmament were stored in God’s treasure house of rain and would be poured out upon the earth in the days of the Great Flood. The waters below the firmament formed the oceans and seas to water the dry earth which God created on the third day, after the cornerstone of the Earth was laid, after God had set the pillars, laid the foundations and fastened them securely beneath the earth (Job 38:4-6). On the fourth day God created the Heavenly ordinances to give warmth, light and a needed gravitational pull upon the Earth. These would keep the Earth in orbit and regulate the seasons and the tides. No, man cannot see the pillars and foundations of the Earth. All men can see is a round planet of half land and half seas floating around in the universe with groups of other planets and stars. But those pillars and foundations are there – God says so – and though astronauts come and go, and have looked to see, those unsearchable foundations are a mystery God is keeping to Himself. Another most important thing that He did was to lock in the measurements of the earth and tie down the center of it so it would turn on its axis just right, in keeping with the rhythm of the Heavenly ordinances. And so it was determined that the precise center of the Earth was a strip of land off the coast of a great sea, toward the East, a strip of land known today as Israel. In the years that followed, long after civilizations and nations were established, a city known as Salem (in the days of Melchizadek) would in time become Jerusalem. This city, located in the very center of Israel’s promised boundaries, is the center of the Earth. In the center of Jerusalem is the Temple Mount. The Ark of the Covenant rested in the Holy of Holies inside the Temple and the Ark therefore rested, by Divine design, in the very center of the Earth. But it was in the beginning, In Genesis 8:21-22) that God promised Noah, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; although the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” The nuclear powers that threaten the nations need to hear this - though men’s hearts are evil from their youth, the ordinances of Heaven will continue to bless the earth with seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night - as long as the earth remains… Eleven hundred years after God made that promise to Noah, God said to Jeremiah, “If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.” It is easier to grasp if we read it one word at a time - "IF" those ordinances depart from before me," saith the Lord, "THEN THE SEED OF ISRAEL SHALL ALSO CEASE FROM BEING A NATION BEFORE ME FOREVER." It is in these words we realize that the ordinances of the Heavenlies and the nation of Israel are one. For the nineteen hundred years Israel was scattered among the nations, the lands of Israel were desolate, barren, and lifeless. Though the Heavenly ordinances passed over the land, it could not revive nor awaken its hills or valleys for there was no spiritual seed in the land. When the Jews returned, the rains fell and the seeds in the dry earth awakened and life returned to the land with the return of the Jews... In the New Covenant, Paul teaches us that there is therefore now no partition between the Jew and the Gentile, that we are one in Christ Jesus. If the Cross broke down the partitions of men, then the Heavenly ordinances and the whole earth have become one through the Cross, though Jerusalem is still the center of the earth. Even so, the Word still remains: "If those ordinances depart from before me..." HOLD ONTO YOUR HAT! In Revelation 20:11 we read: “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.” In Chapter 21:1 “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” (Verse 5) “And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.” There will be no need for the moon, the stars, the sun or any other heavenly ordinance for God will tabernacle with His people forever. He shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death. In light of Israel's state of being, in any given time or age, God blesses or curses the nations of this world with peace and prosperity or with famine and judgment. Depending on how they have treated tiny Israel, and how they have regarded (or not) the God who has written His Name on the hills of Jerusalem. Israel is the reason God has not blown this Earth out of the Universe before now. Israel is the place to which Jesus came to Earth as a man. Salvation is to the Jew first, then to the Gentile. The Jew bears the handprint of God upon his head, and God carries his tears in the folds of His robes. God proves the immortality of the Jews by their continued existence and national identity in the Earth, though other civilizations and nations have faded into obscurity and disappeared. In the same way, the Jews prove the existence and immortality of God the Creator by observing His 7th day Sabbath of rest and the miracle of His Grace upon their own perpetual existence. Aside from the prophecies given of God, written thousands of years ago by prophets who trembled, too many miracles have marked the return of the Jews to Israel. These miracles cannot be denied nor discarded. There IS a God in Heaven who works miracles in the Earth to save, to deliver, and to heal, and to thwart the designs of a good nation’s enemies... There is nothing more to say. Everything that needed to be said has already been said by the Father. God’s love for Israel is without repentance or reserve. It is as it was in the beginning – the story of one Father’s faithful vigil for His prodigal children – through night and day, summer and winter, seedtime and harvest… Joan Krempel
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