UNDERSTANDING ISRAEL’S PROGRAM

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

God’s plan and purpose for Israel is to ‘take back’ dominion and rulership over this sin cursed world which was “delivered” unto Satan when he got Adam to sin in the garden. That dominion also includes “every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” God’s original purpose for man was “subdue” and have dominion over “every living thing,” and to be a useful and helpful godly creature.

Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

God made known His plan to rid the earth of Satan and his corrupt and sinful ways through the woman’s seed and from that point on Satan worked to institute his wicked course for this world.

Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Gen 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Gen 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Gen 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

GOD saw that “the wickedness of man was great in the earth” and Satan and his angels had not only caused “great” wickedness in the earth, but they corrupted “all flesh” on the earth that God made, man, fowl, creeping thing, and beast. God’s judgment against the world at that time was great, He brought forth a flood that would “destroy” all the sinful and wicked flesh from the earth, and He would through Noah’s seed begin to institute a godly and a righteous people.

Gen 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

Gen 14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

Gen 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

Gen 14:21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

Gen 14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

Once again man became sinful, and as time went on the more exceedingly “wicked” man became, Satan again had mankind following his course that he chartered for this world. Melchizedek who blessed Abram was very important in God’s plan to repossess the earth back unto Himself from Satan. Melchizedek was a living testimony to who “the most high God” really was. Melchizedek as “the priest of the most high God” was an example of what God intended for man to be, God through Melchizedek showed how this man could function as a “priest of the most high God” in the midst of a corrupt and evil world. God was also showing Satan and the ones that were following him a fore-taste and His objective and goal in being “the possessor of heaven and earth.”

Gen 13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

Gen 13:15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

Gen 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

Gen 13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

God had Abram to “walk the land” for a very important purpose, Satan made the boastful remark about “walking to and fro” in the land and “up and down in it,” Satan was making a boastful comment that he had dominion on the earth; from east, west, north, and south, that it was his possession, but God through Abram’s seed would take back dominion from Satan, this was one of many steps in what God was doing in His plan to repossess the earth back from Satan’s sin-cursed hold that he had on it. By having Abram look ‘far as the eye can see’ so to speak, God through Abram gave ‘notice’ to Satan that through this man’s seed would be the means by which God would restore the earth back unto Himself.

Gen 28:10 And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

Gen 28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Gen 28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Gen 28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

Gen 28:14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Gen 28:15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

Gen 28:16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.

Gen 28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Gen 28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

Gen 28:19 And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

Jacob understood the dream that was given unto him, he knew that “the Lord was in this place” and that place was “the house of God,” and the “gate of heaven.” By showing the “angels ascending and descending” upon the ladder was a vision into what the kingdom would be like when Heaven’s business will be instituted from the earth. The LORD tells Jacob that his seed will spread out from east to west, north to south, and in his seed “shall all the families of the earth be blessed,” this meaning was to show that this would be “the house of God,” and this would be the place where God would set up His kingdom.

Gen 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

Gen 32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

Gen 32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Gen 32:27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

Gen 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Gen 32:29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

When Jacob wrestled with the angel until the “break of day,” God changed his name from Jacob to Israel to show that as a prince he has “power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.” The LORD was showing Satan and the world that He is with His nation, and their capabilities of being a powerful nation. God through Israel will show the ruler ship and the ability to reign supreme here on this earth just the way God intended it to be.

Exo 3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

Exo 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Exo 3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

Exo 3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

Exo 3:17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

God gave Moses a lesson in what the name Jehovah meant, and because unto his forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the name “God almighty” was the only name that God made known, God was now ready to give His nation the first step in their education as being what God intended for them to be. God’s name Jehovah meant “ I AM” , and when Moses went back to his nation and told them “I AM” ‘sent me,’ they should have known all they have to do is fill in the blank after the “I AM,” and finish the sentence in whatever they needed the “LORD” to be for them at that time. This should have been all Israel ‘needed to hear,’ they should have accepted God’s grace and mercy and understood that the LORD was going to do something for them that they could not do on their own.

THE FIVE TRIALS OF ISRAEL

Exo 15:22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

Exo 15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

Exo 15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

Exo 15:25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

Exo 15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

God brought Israel through five trials; this was to show Israel their need for God in His Jehovah-ness grace and mercy. The first trial Israel “could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter,” this was in view of what took place in Egypt when God brought judgment upon the waters, and it is here in Marah that God first “proved” Israel. God was showing Israel their hearts, and that He was “the LORD that health thee” (Jehovah-Rophe).

Exo 16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

Exo 16:3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

Exo 16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

Exo 16:5 And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

Exo 16:6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:

Exo 16:7 And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?

Exo 16:8 And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.

The next trial Israel “murmured” and complained which is not how God would have them to respond, these were to be a nation of priests, and a “holy nation”, but they were not acting the way God intended, once again they had a negative response to an situation that troubled them, they thought they were “murmuring” against Moses and Aaron, but they were again “murmuring” against the LORD.

Exo 16:16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.

Exo 16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

Exo 16:18 And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.

Exo 16:19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

Exo 16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

Exo 16:21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

Exo 16:22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

Exo 16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

Exo 16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

Exo 16:25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.

Exo 16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

Exo 16:27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.

Exo 16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

Israel refused a commandment from the LORD, God wanted Israel to understand what He was doing in their midst, but they refused to keep the LORD’s “commandments” and laws. The rebelliousness of Israel would begin to grow, not only was Israel “murmuring” but they also ignored what the LORD told them.

Exo 17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

Exo 17:2 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

Exo 17:3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

Exo 17:4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

The next trial Israel again “murmured against the LORD” because of no water, at this point Israel should have known that they could not do things on their own; Moses was also out of answers, that’s why he asked the LORD “what shall I do unto this people?” Israel did not get the message either, instead they “tempted the LORD” and said “is not the LORD among us or not?” they should have known that after the second time, they needed to fall upon the LORD’s Jehovah-ness and grace.

Exo 17:8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

Exo 17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

Exo 17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

Exo 17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

Exo 17:12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Exo 17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Exo 17:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

Exo 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:

The fourth trial we see Amalek fighting against Israel, this was the first attempt from Satan to ‘wipe out’ Israel as a nation. This trial should have shown Israel that without God’s Jehovah-ness they would have never been victorious, so through the rod of Moses and the sword of Joshua, Israel “prevailed” over the policy of evil, and Amalek.

Exo 18:5 And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:

Exo 18:6 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

Exo 18:7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.

Exo 18:8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

Exo 18:9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

Exo 18:10 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

Exo 18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

In the fifth and final trial Moses’s father-in-law Jethro the priest of Midian was affected by what Moses told him. Moses revealed how the LORD delivered Israel “out of the hands of the Egyptians,” Jethro now knew that this God was “greater than all gods.” What affected Jethro was not anything that Israel did (but it should have been that way), but it was what God did. Israel should have shown the nations that they were worthy to be called “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation,” they were to be an example as a people of the LORD on the earth to execute God’s “ways and His paths.”

Exo 19:3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

Exo 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.

Exo 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

Exo 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

Exo 19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.

Exo 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

Exo 19:9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

Exo 19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

Exo 19:11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

Exo 19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

Exo 19:13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

Israel chose to be dealt with by God under the law, it was by those nine words that they spoke: “all that the LORD hath spoken we will do,” that they entered into that law contract. God put Israel through those five trials to show them that they were unable to be what God called them to be, which was “a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” Israel thought they could do “all that the LORD hath spoken,” and this angered God, but Israel by their pride thought more of themselves than they ought, God showed Israel that they were no better than the Egyptians that they were delivered from. God wanted to show just as they needed His deliverance out of Egypt, they also needed His grace and mercy from this point on, and by their own works they would never be worthy to be called a holy “nation of priests.”

Num 23:5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

Num 23:6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

Num 23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.

Num 23:8 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

Num 23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

Num 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Num 23:11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

Num 23:12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?

Num 23:13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

Num 23:14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

Num 23:15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.

Num 23:16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.

Num 23:17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?

Num 23:18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:

Num 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Num 23:20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

Num 23:21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

Num 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

Num 23:23 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

Num 23:24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

Num 23:25 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

This was another one of Satan’s attempts to wipe out the nation of Israel, God gave four messages back to Balak king of Moab and Satan that Israel was God’s chosen people, and even through all Israel’s unrighteous ways God will not see their “iniquities” nor will their “perverseness” undo God’s plan and purpose with them. Balaam also saw that it “pleased the LORD to bless Israel,” which are a “shadow of things to come” in Israel’s program, God made it known to and through these gentiles that “blessed is he that blessth” Israel, and “cursed is he that curseth” Israel. God also has Balaam describe what would take place in the “latter days” to those who curse Israel. God makes known that the ones that would curse Israel would “perish,” and God would “smite” and “destroy” those in the latter days that did not bless His beloved nation. While God was giving Balak and Balaam a lesson in His love for His beloved Nation, Israel had no idea this was taking place.

Deu 31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.

Deu 31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

Deu 31:11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Deu 31:12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

Deu 31:13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

Deu 31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Deu 31:15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

Deu 31:16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Deu 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

Deu 31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

Deu 31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

Deu 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

Deu 31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

Deu 31:22 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

Deu 31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.

Deu 31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

Deu 31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,

Deu 31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

Deu 31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

Deu 31:28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.

Deu 31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Deu 31:30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

Moses last acts were very significant because God had just earlier told Moses how the nation would respond to His Jehovah-ness in a negative way, God told Moses how the nation would go “a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land,” and the LORD knew also that they would “forsake” Him and “break” the covenant that the LORD had made with them. God made another covenant “beside the covenant which He made with them at Horeb,” the LORD has Moses to speak to Israel the words of “this song.” Moses makes known to the nation all that the LORD has spoken unto him, and that this song that the LORD gave him would “testify against them as a witness” to the fact of them rebelling against God, and all their corrupt ways and their rejection to be what God called them to be when He led them out of Egypt. Israel rejecting His Jehovah-ness and grace and mercy would be the reason that the five courses and its five installments would “befall” upon them, but one of the main reasons these “evils and troubles” would befall upon them in “the latter days” would be because Israel did “evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.”

Hos 14:1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

Hos 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

THE FIVE COURSES OF PUNISHMENTS

Israel should have said what Hosea 14:2 details, which is falling upon the LORD’s grace and mercy, but Israel thought that they were naturally holy, and naturally just, and they could do all the LORD’s statutes and commands on their own. Exodus 19 through Leviticus 26 God gives Israel statutes and commandments to “hearken” unto, if they will “hearken” unto the LORD then Israel would receive blessings from the LORD, but if they would not “hearken” then Israel would be punished by the LORD for their iniquities. The five courses of punishment was what Israel ‘asked for,’ they wanted to do “all that the LORD hath spoken,” so God gave them blessings if Israel would walk in the LORD’s statutes and keep His “commandments,” and “do them.” With the blessings Israel would have increase in their land, and they would eat their “bread to the full,” and they would have “peace,” and live “safely” in their land, they also would not have to worry about “evil beasts,” also they would “triumph” over their enemies, but if they would not “hearken unto the voice of the LORD,” five curses would “overtake” them. Israel could not keep His commandments, so instead of blessings, Israel entered into the first of five courses of punishments, if Israel could not “hearken” unto the LORD to receive those blessings, how were they ever going to be that holy nation and a kingdom of priests?

1^st COURSE OF PUNISHMENT:

Lev 26:13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

Lev 26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

Lev 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

Lev 26:16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Lev 26:17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

Joshua for-warned Israel about the punishment that would come because they were not “cleaving” unto the LORD, the LORD has been Jehovah-nissi throughout the book of Joshua, giving Israel an interlude of blessing.

Jdg 2:7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.

Jdg 2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

Jdg 2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

Jdg 2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Jdg 2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

Jdg 2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

Jdg 2:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

Jdg 2:14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

Even though Israel deserved wrath, God “proved” Israel and showed His Jehovah-ness to Israel by raising up Judges to judge the nation, but Israel gets worse and continues into more ungodliness after each judge dies. Throughout this time of blessing Israel becomes ‘full of themselves’, Joshua tells them that they are not “cleaving” unto the LORD during this time of blessings. Israel “transgressed” against the covenant of the LORD, and went and served “other gods”. Israel needed to “incline their hearts” back toward the LORD, but they did “evil in the sight of the LORD” causing the LORD to “deliver” them into the hands of the enemy and into the first course of punishment. That first course was about what God set forth in Leviticus 26:14-17, where Israel would face “sorrow of heart,” physical “affliction,” and to be “slain” and “reigned over.” The significance and reasons for the interlude of glory and blessings was God “being merciful to whom he will,” the LORD was giving Israel a fore-taste of what His Jehovah-ness is all about. Even though throughout these times of blessings the nation deserved His wrath to be poured out upon them, but instead the LORD dispensed grace and mercy unto Israel.

Jdg 2:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

Jdg 2:17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.

Jdg 2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

Jdg 2:19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

Jdg 2:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;

Jdg 2:21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

Jdg 2:22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

Between each judge and between each of the five courses of punishments the LORD dispensed an interlude of blessing unto Israel, here we see Joshua warning Israel about the “evil things” that are about to come upon them:

Jos 23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

Jos 23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

2^ND COURSE OF PUNISHMENT:

Lev 26:18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

Lev 26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

Lev 26:20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

After the first course of punishment God dispensed grace and blessing to Israel, the nation had a great standing amongst the nations at this time, and because they were very powerful at this time, Israel again became ‘full of themselves,’ this was when God began to “break the pride of their power.”

1Sa 2:11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.

1Sa 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.

1Sa 2:13 And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

1Sa 2:14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

1Sa 2:15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

1Sa 2:16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.

1Sa 2:17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

1Sa 2:34 And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

1Sa 2:35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

The sons of Eli were priests, but not of the LORD; these religious men were similar to the Pharisees in Jesus Christ’s days, Satan had his men doing abominations in the tabernacle, and in the sight of the LORD.

1Sa 8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

1Sa 8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.

1Sa 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1Sa 8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

1Sa 8:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

1Sa 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

1Sa 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

1Sa 8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

1Sa 8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

1Sa 8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.

1Sa 8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

1Sa 8:20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

1Sa 8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.

1Sa 8:22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

In the first course God gave Israel judges to judge the nation, but Israel wanted what the gentile nations had, which was a king “to rule over them,” which gave God the legal right to punish them “seven times more” for their sins. God gave Israel their kings that they wanted, and in Solomon’s reign the abominations grew worse in the sight of the LORD.

1Ki 11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

1Ki 11:2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

1Ki 11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

1Ki 11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

1Ki 11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

1Ki 11:6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.

1Ki 11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

1Ki 11:8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

1Ki 11:9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,

1Ki 11:10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.

1Ki 11:11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

Because of King Solomon’s pride he was doing abominations in the sight of the LORD, for instance, a king was not supposed to “gather horses and chariots” and many “strange women,” which he also built “high places” for the “strange gods” in Jerusalem. The ungodliness became so wicked that Solomon built a “high place” for the gods in “the hill that is before Jerusalem,” meaning if you were to travel to Jerusalem the first thing you would see is one of these abominations ‘standing out’ right before the city. The second course did not come until Solomon dies, but it should have come long before that, but God lets Israel have their rest. The prophet Elijah was a second course of punishment prophet, he brought in the second course of punishment upon Israel. Elijah did miracles that goes along with those judgments of the weather, God was beginning to make their “heaven as iron,” and their “earth as brass” in that second course. Elijah tries to get Israel to change their way of thinking under that second course, if they did, the third course would not come if they would hearken unto the LORD. Even after Elijah brought down fire from the sky, and Israel saw it was the LORD’s doing, they still went back to their sinful ways and would not hearken to Elijah’s words.

1Ki 11:12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

1Ki 11:13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.

The LORD is going to “rend” the kingdom from Solomon’s son; this meant that the LORD was going to divide the kingdom into two parts, the Northern kingdom, and the southern kingdom. In the Lord’s earthly ministry you had the house of Israel who followed the Davidic covenant, and you had the Samaritans who departed away from that covenant. The Samaritans took upon more of the gentile nation’s ways and they took for themselves gentile wives, and their abominations.

1Ki 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:

1Ki 11:32 (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

1Ki 11:33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

1Ki 11:34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant’s sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

1Ki 11:35 But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.

1Ki 11:36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

1Ki 11:37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

1Ki 11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.

Jeroboam established much idolatry in the land, and the LORD gave ten tribes (the northern) to Jeroboam and two tribes unto His servant David; Judah and Benjamin (the southern). Through the southern kingdom the LORD would establish His kingdom through the “seed of David,” and they would keep His “commandments and statutes.”

1Ki 12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

1Ki 12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

1Ki 12:21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

1Ki 12:22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

1Ki 12:23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

1Ki 12:24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.

The northern kingdom experienced the courses of punishments first then the southern would experience them afterward. The northern kingdom goes through the 3^rd course for several years before the southern kingdom feels the effects from the 3^rd course. The northern kingdom would later be the first to go under gentile captivity (Assyrian captivity), and then later the southern kingdom would find themselves also under gentile captivity (Babylonian captivity).

1Ki 21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

1Ki 21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

1Ki 21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

1Ki 21:28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

1Ki 21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.

King Ahab’s wickedness and sinful ways would have brought in the third course of punishment, but he “humbelth himself” before the LORD, which should have been an example to Israel to also humble themselves as a nation before the LORD.

3^RDCOURSE OF PUNISHMENT:

Lev 26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

Lev 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Lev 26:23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

When the LORD brought in the third course of punishment, there were many in Israel that thought there was “no God in Israel,” this was because they “knew not God.” This is where God starts to walk “contrary” to Israel.

2Ki 2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

2Ki 2:10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.

2Ki 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

2Ki 2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

2Ki 2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;

2Ki 2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.

2Ki 2:15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

2Ki 2:16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.

2Ki 2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.

2Ki 2:18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

2Ki 2:19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

2Ki 2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

2Ki 2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.

2Ki 2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.

2Ki 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

2Ki 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.

He begins to walk contrary to them by having Elijah back himself out of the land the same way Israel came into the land, which was through the river Jordan, this was a sign to Israel that the LORD was leaving the land. When Elijah left the land the LORD begins to work with Elisha, when the LORD has Elisha come into the land the same way Elijah went out; this was showing that God was coming back into the land to “walk contrary” to Israel, seven times more would Israel be punished for not “hearkening” unto the LORD. Elisha comes to institute that third course of punishment in the land in hopes of getting Israel to yet “hearken” unto him also. When the she-bears came in unto the children because they “mocked” this is what Leviticus 26:22 said that the nation would experience, this was just part of what the nation was going through, also now their enemies now increased, and began to reign over them, this course would bring in punishments on Israel “seven times more” according to their sins.

4^TH COURSE OF PUNISHMENT:

Lev 26:24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

Lev 26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Lev 26:26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

The fourth course comes in when the LORD “began to cut Israel short,” this was because after all they went through in the first, second, and third courses and not responding the right way to being punished “seven times more” for their ways. Israel will now begin to experience the fourth course of punishment.

2Ki 10:30 And the LORD said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.

2Ki 10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.

2Ki 10:32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;

2Ki 10:33 From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

The fourth course begins with Hazael who “smote them in all the coasts of Israel,” just as Israel earlier “knew not God”, now the LORD would begin to “walk contrary” unto Israel. The LORD walking “contrary” to Israel would be as if the LORD was with the enemy, the LORD would “walk” against Israel in everything. Israel begins to have their land taken, and instead of being great in number, Israel began to be small in number by their enemies with the “sword.” Israel was “delivered” into the hands “of their enemies,” and cast out of their land under Syrian “oppression.”

2Ki 13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

2Ki 13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

The LORD would begin again to be “gracious unto them,” the LORD had “compassion” on Israel because of His “covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” this was the LORD showing that He has not cast them “from his presence as yet.”

THE 5^TH COURSE OF PUNISMENT:

Lev 26:27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

Lev 26:28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Lev 26:29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

Lev 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

Lev 26:31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

Lev 26:32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

Lev 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Lev 26:34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

Lev 26:35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

Lev 26:36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

Lev 26:37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Lev 26:38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

Lev 26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

The 1^st installment of the 5^th course:

Israel under that first installment of that fifth course of punishment is when God would begin to again walk contrary to Israel, but this time “in fury,” and because of their continued disobedience unto the LORD, the LORD shows His “great wrath” when the LORD “casts them out from his presence.”

2Ki 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

2Ki 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

2Ki 17:7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

2Ki 17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

2Ki 17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

2Ki 17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

2Ki 17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

2Ki 17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

2Ki 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2Ki 17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

2Ki 17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

2Ki 17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

Because of Israel’s “evil ways” the first installment of the 5^th course of punishment comes so the land can “enjoy her Sabbaths,” and for 70 years Israel’s children would “pine away” until the LORD would again show grace and mercy unto His beloved nation.

Jer 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jer 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

2Ki 25:8 And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:

2Ki 25:9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.

2Ki 25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

2Ki 25:11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.

Nebuchadnezzar started the “trotting down of the gentiles,” the next 70 years would be the beginning of what was given to Daniel to understand about the dream of that image. Not only was Israel cast out of the city, but the gentiles destroyed the walls; which separated the Jew from the gentile, and which the gentiles thought was an insult for an Israelite to think he was better than others by separating themselves, also they destroyed the “house of the LORD.”

Dan 2:31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

Dan 2:32 This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

Dan 2:33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

Dan 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

Dan 2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

This image was a ‘time schedule’ of how many years Israel would be under gentile captivity, the books of Isaiah through Malachi all begin with the opening chapters talking about the beginning of the first installment of the fifth course, all the way through to the fifth and last installment of the fifth course in the last chapters of each book. Below we see an outline of the five installments of the fifth course.

Dan 2:38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. (the first installment)

Dan 2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom (the second installment) inferior to thee, and another third kingdom (the third installment) of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

Dan 2:40 And the fourth kingdom (the fourth installment) shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

Dan 2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided (the fifth installment); but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

Dan 2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

Dan 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

Dan 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

There were seven details to the fifth course of punishment:

Details of what the 5^th course was all about and its installments.
Details about God’s Jehovah-ness and grace working for Israel, meaning the Messiah coming in and in-fleshing Himself for His nation.
Goes over the details of the new covenant and the benefits of it, Israel being given “a new heart”, and the LORD remembering “their sins no more”
The Lord’s day and His wrath “to come”
Details of how Israel will be cleansed, John the Baptist instituting the cleansing of the nation before the Lord’s arrival.
The time schedule and its details.
Details about the glory that Israel will have being that holy nation and God’s rule over them being their King and Blesser.

ISRAEL’S TIME SCHEDULE- 560 YEARS

1^ST[7o years]—2^nd [49 years]—3^rd[4oo years]—4^th —[34 years]—5^th [7 years]

1. The first installment of the fifth course Israel is under gentile captivity, for 70 years “the land would enjoy her Sabbaths.” (Israel cast out of the land)
2. The second installment Israel is allowed to go back into the land but still under gentile reign, 49 more years, but this time under a new kingdom reign.
3. The third installment is when the LORD would be silent with Israel, He before walked contrary to them, now for 400 years His silence toward His nation shows the anger that He has for their sinful ways and their continued disobedience.
4. The fourth installment begins with John the Baptist preaching repentance, and Jesus Christ coming 6 months after, for Jesus Christ’s 33 years + the 12 months prior, you have 34 years more years on Israel’s time schedule.
5. The fifth installment is when the Lord has His day of wrath, in this time of tribulation, it would be as Israel was going through all of the courses of punishments at the same time, for 7 years Israel would have to “endure to the end” until that kingdom is set up.

The 2^nd installment of the 5^th course:

Jer 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Jer 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Jer 29:12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Jer 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Jer 29:14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Jer 29:15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

The second installment comes when the LORD lets Israel back into the land, He knows the thoughts that He thinks “toward” Israel, that if they will “hearken” He will “remember” His covenant with them, with the LORD having the “thoughts of peace.”

Ezr 3:8 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

Ezr 3:9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

Ezr 3:10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

The second installment covers 49 years of gentile captivity; it also talks about the wall and the street being “built again,” Ezra goes over the temple being built, starting with Jeshua and his “brethren the priests,” and Zerubbabel and his brethren building the “altar of the God of Israel,” to the foundations of the temple being laid in the land.

Ezr 4:1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;

Ezr 4:2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

Ezr 4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.

Ezr 4:4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Israel faced times when the people of the land “troubled them in building,” and “weakened the hands of the people of Judah.”

Neh 4:1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

Neh 4:2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

Neh 4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

Neh 4:4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

Neh 4:5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

Neh 4:6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

Neh 4:7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

Neh 4:8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

Nehemiah goes over the rebuilding of the city, but their adversaries conspired against Jerusalem to hinder it and “slay them” and cause the work in the city to “cease” in these “troubleous times.”

Est 9:4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

Est 9:5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

Est 9:16 But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

The book of Esther continues on with more “troubeous times,” but the LORD was with His people at this time, and they “smote all their enemies” with the sword and had “rest” from their enemies in the land.

Hag 1:12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

Hag 1:13 Then spake Haggai the LORD’S messenger in the LORD’S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.

Hag 2:4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:

Hag 2:5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.

God raised up Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi in these troubleous times to be prophets that would for-tell the LORD’s plan and purpose with His nation. Haggai talks about the “remnant of the people” that would inherit the kingdom in that day.

Zec 8:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

Zec 8:10 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

Zec 8:11 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.

Zec 8:12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

Zec 8:13 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.

Zechariah speaks also about “the remnant of this people to possess all these things,” also Zechariah talks about rebuilding Jerusalem and God’s Jehovah-ness that Israel was to look for when Christ would be that Servant, Man, King, and Shepherd. Israel was given prophetic scripture concerning their Messiah, they were told of the keystone signs that they were to “behold” which would let the nation know who the Messiah was when He came. The four gospels portray Jesus Christ as being the Servant, the Man, the King, and the Shepherd. Matthew displays Jesus as being Israel’s King, the book of Mark shows Him as being the Servant, Luke shows Jesus as being the Man, and the book of John bears witness to Jesus Christ being God.

Zec 3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.

Zec 6:12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:

Zec 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

Zec 13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

Malachi goes over the coming of that messenger “crying in the wilderness” which would “prepare the way” before their Messiah was to come, this is what Israel was to wait for, and be a sign to them that their kingdom was “at hand.”

Mal 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

The 3^rd Installment of the 5^th course of punishment:

Amo 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

Amo 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

The third installment has to do with the time when there will be a “famine of the word” of the LORD to Israel; this was prophesied about by Amos, Micah, and Hosea.

Hos 5:14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

Hos 5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

The LORD said He would be as a “lion” unto Israel, and would “go away” causing a “famine” of the word of the LORD, till “they acknowledge their offence,” and “seek” His face. This famine would last for 400 years on Israel’s time schedule, which the LORD would not speak to His nation. When we look at the blank page right in between Malachi and Matthew, it can be looked at to represent the 400 years of silence to Israel, not the separation between the Old Testament and the New Testament like many seem to think.

The 4^th installment of the 5^th course:

Isa 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

Isa 40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.

Isa 40:3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Hos 2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

The fourth installment of the fifth course is when the LORD would now “speak comfortably” to Israel through John the Baptist, which is different from the way He talked to them earlier. In the first and second installments He was “angry” with them, and in the third installment He was silent, now He has John the Baptist (the one spoken about in Malachi) “prepare the way” for the Christ.

Mat 3:1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,

Mat 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Mat 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

Mat 3:4 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Mat 3:5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,

Mat 3:6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

The LORD sent John to “allure” Israel in the wilderness, he came like Elijah in spirit and power, he tells the nation about the need for them to understand their iniquity, that’s why he tells them to “repent” of their of their ways. When Elijah left the land it signified that the LORD was also leaving the land, and when John comes into the land, this was showing that the LORD was now returning back unto Israel.

Mat 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Mat 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

Mat 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

John lets Israel know that the kingdom was “at hand,” and that their Messiah “cometh after” him, the Lord was now again ready to bring His nation out of captivity and into the wilderness just like He had done before in Egypt.

Mat 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Mat 4:24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

Mar 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

Mar 1:15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

This nation would now have to be cleansed with the “baptism of repentance,” the Lord soon after came preaching that the time is “fulfilled,” the Lord has the time schedule of Daniel in view here, the Lord would tell His nation that the kingdom was “at hand,” and He would preach and show the “glad tidings” of the kingdom with many signs and wonders, like healing the sick, raising the dead, and casting out demons. These signs the Lord did along with many other signs and wonders to “confirm” that kingdom was indeed “at hand.”

Luk 8:1 And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,

Luk 8:2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,

Mat 9:33 And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.

Mat 9:34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

Mat 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

The Lord also raised up 12 apostles whom He sent forth with the gospel of the kingdom, and once this kingdom would “come,” these 12 apostles would also “sit upon 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel.” A for-taste of the kingdom was given along with two hallmark signs that Israel would come to understand that the kingdom has come “nigh” unto them.

Mat 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Mat 19:29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Mat 19:30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

Some of the nation would “hearken” unto these signs of “the times,” but Israel’s leaders would not hear the gospel, these “vipers” would “harden their heart” toward the gospel, and they are told that the kingdom would be taken from them, and given to the “Israel of God.”

Luk 10:9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

Luk 10:10 But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,

Luk 10:11 Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

Mat 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

Mat 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Mat 21:44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Mat 21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

The 5^th installment of the 5^th course of punishment:

Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

Rom 11:27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

Rom 11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.

Romans 11:25 says that “blindness in part is happened to Israel,” and it needs to be understood that God has not “cast away” Israel, God has“zeal” to restore the kingdom to Israel in ages to “come.”

Rom 10:1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

Rom 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

Rom 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Rom 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Rom 11:2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,

Because of Israel’s rejection of their Messiah, and because they would not take heed to their opportunity to repent again in the book of Acts, God puts Israel’s program temporarily on hold after they blasphemed the Holy Ghost when they stoned Stephen in Acts7.

Rom 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

Rom 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

Rom 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

Israel went about “to establish their own righteousness,” and in doing so they “stumbled,” one of the main reasons the church world is in confusion today is because of failure to understand Romans chapters 9 through 11. Paul says in Romans 11:25 that we should not be “ignorant” concerning the “mystery,” but it’s sad to say most of the world is ignorant of this mystery. Right now we live in the dispensation of God’s grace to gentiles, and right now God is being gracious and longsuffering to us in this age of grace, until “the fullness of the gentiles be come in,” God will come for His church of the body of Christ, and we will be “caught up” into the heavenly places, then after the Lord has His day of wrath, then “all Israel shall be saved.”

Mat 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Mat 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

Mat 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

Mat 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Mat 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Mat 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

The fifth and final installment of the fifth course of punishment will come after our “fullness” comes, and we are “caught up”, which will end this dispensation of gentile grace to us today. Israel’s time schedule will resume, and Israel will be in their 553^rd year of the five installments, and there will be great tribulation on the earth, and the Lord begins to have His day of wrath. In that time all the things that Israel experienced in time past will be multiplied to its peak. Israel in time past had went through those five courses of punishments and the four installments of the fifth course, but now the fifth installment is going to be like going through all five courses and the four installments at the same time.

Rev 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

The book of Revelations tells of what great wrath the Lord will have in His day when He “doth judge and make war” against Satan and mankind that followed after his sinful ways. On that time schedule Israel will have seven years remaining in that time, the first 3 ½ years and the remaining 3 ½ years is what is spoken about in Matthew 24, it speaks about the man of sin, and how Satan will come after the nation of Israel, and how they will have to “flee” in the day the Lord’s wrath. The Lord also at this time will fulfill two of those mandates in being Israel’s Deliverer and Avenger in dealing with Satan and the nations of the world which has troubled His nation.

Rev 19:12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

Rev 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

Rev 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

Rev 19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

After the tribulation in those days the Lord will come with “power and great glory,” and Satan will be “cast down” into the pit, and the Lord will fulfill the Davidic covenant in being Israel’s King and sitting on that throne with His nation being what that Abrahamic covenant calls for them to be; which is a “holy nation” and a kingdom of priests.

Rev 20:11 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.

Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

At this time the kingdom will be set up on the earth, and the Lord will have His 12 apostles judging “the 12 tribes of Israel,” and Israel being that holy nation of priests to institute God’s judgments unto the nations of the earth. The Lord will now fulfill the last of the five mandates in being the Blesser, that is when what is spoken about in Ephesians chapter 1:10 comes to past.

Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

God will “gather together in one all things in Christ” in heaven and on the earth, which will also go through changes, this will be when there is a “new heaven and a new earth,” and the lamb will lay down with lion, and death and hell will be cast into the lake of fire.

Rev 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.

Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

The 5 mandates of the Lord:

Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isa 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Jesus Christ came into the world to fulfill the five mandates in being Israel’s Messiah, Isaiah 9:6-7 gives a short summary of the lord’s plan and purpose with His nation.

The Redeemer: (Wonderful)

Rth 4:4 And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

Rth 4:5 Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

Rth 4:6 And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

Rth 4:7 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.

The book of Ruth though Boaz talks about the Kinsman-Redeemer and the doctrine of redemption of the Christ through David’s seed, the Lord already fulfilled one of the five mandates at the cross in being the Redeemer.

The Deliverer: (“The Mighty God”)

2Sa 22:1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

2Sa 22:2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

2Sa 22:3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

2Sa 22:4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

2Sa 22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

2Sa 22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

2Sa 22:7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

With Satan’s plan of evil against Israel they are going to need deliverance and salvation from all that Satan will do to wipe out the nation. The Lord will be that deliverance for His nation in the times of Jacob’s troubles, when they are going to have to “endure” the tribulations that come their way, until the Lord saves them from further affliction. This Mandate consists of the Lord being their “saving health” for themselves and their lands being that “Mighty God.”

The Avenger: (“Counsellor”)

Psa 18:46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

Psa 18:47 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

Psa 18:48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

Psa 18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

Psa 18:50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

Rev 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Rev 6:11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

The Lord will act as their Avenger by judging and waging war upon Satan and the nations that gathered together against His nation. Satan and the nations that follow him will and try to “cut them off from being a nation”. Below we can see the 10 nations that will oppose Israel in the Lord’s Day of wrath, and also they are the same ones the Lord will wage war against.

Psa 83:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

Psa 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

Psa 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Psa 83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

Psa 83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

Psa 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Psa 83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

Psa 83:9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

Psa 83:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

Psa 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

Psa 83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

Psa 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Psa 83:14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

Psa 83:15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

Psa 83:16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

Psa 83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

Psa 83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

And as the “Counselor” He will ‘counsel’ Israel and teach them of His ways and to walk in His paths; and also Satan and this world will be ‘counseled’ as they bear witness to Christ ‘avenging’ His nation, and it’s enemies; and it’s former ownership that it had over them.

The King: (The Everlasting Father)

2Sa 7:4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,

2Sa 7:5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

2Sa 7:11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.

2Sa 7:12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

2Sa 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

2Sa 7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

2Sa 7:15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

2Sa 7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

The LORD tells David that He will make “thee” a house, meaning He will dwell in the line of the seed of David through man, and will reign on that throne with His holy nation being what He intended them to be. The LORD makes a covenant right in the middle of an interlude of blessing to give Israel a for-taste of what that kingdom will be like, also at that time this covenant was established, the other nations were giving gifts to Israel, which is a for-taste of what is to come when all the nations of the earth will also bless an Israelite being that “friend of God.”

The Blesser: (The Prince of Peace)

Deu 28:2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

Deu 28:3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

Deu 28:4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Deu 28:5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Deu 28:6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

Deu 28:7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

Deu 28:8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Deu 28:9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.

Deu 28:10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

Deu 28:11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Deu 28:12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Psa 115:12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

Psa 115:13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.

Psa 128:4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

Psa 128:5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

When the kingdom is “come” on the earth the Lord will bless His priestly nation, and all the nations of the earth, and all of creation will give praise and glory to Israel and their King in Zion.

The 7 compound names of the LORD being Israel’s Jehovah:

Jehovah-jireh————-Redeemer—————Wonderful:

Gen 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Gen 22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Gen 22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

Gen 22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

Gen 22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

Gen 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

Gen 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

Gen 22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

Gen 22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

Gen 22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

Gen 22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

Gen 22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

Gen 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

Abraham justified himself as “a friend of God” because he trusted what the LORD said when he took his son up to the “mount of the LORD” to be sacrificed. This for-taste of a father sacrificing his “only son” was fulfilled at the cross when the LORD acted as the Redeemer. Even though Isaac was not slain, the faithfulness of Abraham in knowing that the LORD would “provide himself a lamb,” along with Abraham knowing that he and his son would “come again” unto the “young men” after his offering of his son shows his faithfulness in being what the LORD would later require from His only begotten Son.

Jehovah-nissi—————Avenger—————Counselor:

Exo 17:8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

Exo 17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

Exo 17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

Exo 17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

Exo 17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Exo 17:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

Exo 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:

Exo 17:16 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

The LORD will avenge Israel out of the hands of their enemies; finally Israel will escape the 5 courses of punishments and its installments, and Satan’s attack and final attempt to wipe them out from being a holy nation of priests.

Jehovah-Tsidkenu—————Deliverer—————The Mighty God:

Jer 23:2 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

Jer 23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

Jer 23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

Jer 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

Jer 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Jer 23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

When the LORD comes to “judge and make war” against His “enemies” he will avenge and deliver Israel, and they will be able to dwell “safely” because of the LORD’s judgment and justice after His day of wrath when He shows Himself to be that “Mighty God.”

Jehovah-Shamah———————-King———-The Everlasting Father:

Eze 48:22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

Eze 48:23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.

Eze 48:24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.

Eze 48:25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.

Eze 48:26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.

Eze 48:27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.

Eze 48:28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.

Eze 48:29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.

Eze 48:30 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

Eze 48:31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.

Eze 48:32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.

Eze 48:33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

Eze 48:34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.

Eze 48:35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.

The LORD will fulfill the Davidic covenant as being Israel’s King and reigning over the 12 tribes of Israel in the “city of David,” and the LORD will forever be with His nation and they will know the “LORD is there” as their King and everlasting Father.

Jehovah shalom—————Blesser————-Prince of Peace:

Jdg 6:23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.

Jdg 6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

When the LORD acts as the Blesser He will dispense grace and “peace” unto Israel, Satan will finally be cast into the lake of fire, and there will be no need to “fear” the adversary or the effects of his sinful works.

Jehovah raah——————————————-The Shepherd:

Psa 23:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Psa 23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Psa 23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Psa 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Psa 23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Psa 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

During the time when the kingdom is set up on the earth the LORD’s governmental structure will be set in place with the new heavens and the new earth being all under the LORD’s ruler ship, and the LORD will guide mankind in the ways of His righteous paths.

Jehovah raphe—————————–The LORD that health thee:

Exo 15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

The LORD is going to be the one that “healeth” when He acts as the Blesser in the kingdom, that is when death and hell will be cast into the lake of fire, and sickness and death will no longer have an effect upon mankind, because he will remedy what has plagued mankind since Adam sinned since the beginning of the world.

By Rod Jones

UNDERSTANDING ISRAEL’S PROGRAM

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