INTRODUCTION
A relationship of Damascus and Ephraim is mentioned in Isaiah. Therefore we ought to find out what it means as Lk.21; 22 say that all written words of the bible will be fulfilled during the times of vengeance. The word says there is a burden of Damascus. The name Ephraim means to be fruitful in the land of affliction, and now the time is ripe for it to be fruitful.
HISTORY OF DAMASCUS
2Ch 28:23-- For he sacrificed unto the gods of
Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings
of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help
me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
2Ch 28:25 --And in every single city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
Isa 46:10---Declaring the end
from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done,
saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure:
LAST DAYS---from the HISTORY
---and GOD’S COUNSEL SHALL STAND!
Are you reasoning with your
words----your leaders words----OR---THE WORD OF GOD?---IT IS WORD OF GOD THAT
ANSWERS SPIRITUAL MATTERS!
THERE IS A BURDEN OF DAMASCUS---
Isa
17:1-- The burden against Damascus. "Behold, Damascus will cease from
being a city, And it will be a ruinous heap.
Zec 9:1 ---The burden of the word of the LORD Against the land of Hadrach, And Damascus its resting place (For the eyes of men And all the tribes of Israel Are on the LORD);
THE ABOVE VERSE SHOWS A CONNECTION BETWEEN DAMASCUS AND TRIBES OF ISRAEL---WE HAVE TO EXAMINE---
Isa 7:8 --For the head of Syria is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty–five years Ephraim will be broken, So that it will not be a people.
PLEASE NOTE WHY SYRIA IS COMPARED TO BE LED BY
DAMASCUS---
Following comments on Syria are excerpts from our writings on “FOXES
PROPHECIED IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL”---http://www.gentileassembly.org/
“LEBANON IS THE WHITE MOUNTAIN OF SYRIA. Mountain
was full of cedars--
(White, "the white mountain of
Syria," is the loftiest and most celebrated
mountain range in Syria. -- Its highest peak is Hermon (q.v.), from which a
number of lesser ranges radiate. --- these facts were taken from commentaries)”
“Lebanon the white
mountain in Syria”
which had cedars-----
Cedars of Lebanon is a type of God’s ministry!----read “God’s
garden”--http://www.gentileassembly.org
SPIRITUALLY THE CEDARS OF
LEBANON ---in Isaiah 7, and 8 --ARE LIKENED TO THE RULING OF DAMASCUS!---
Read –“Isa. 7 in prophecy”----http://www.gentileassembly.org/
Isa 7:8 --For the head of Syria is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty–five years Ephraim will be broken, So that it will not be a people.
WHY EPHRAIM?
Hos. 12: 1 --- Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
Ephraim has carried God’s
precious oil to sin---to Egypt---they shared the oil with Sabeans of Bamah—and
made the abomination of desolation stand in the holy place! ---NOW THE OIL IS
GIVEN TO THE WORLD---EVEN THE RV IS GIVEN TO THE WORLD!---covenant with Assyrians—Babylonians! ----That is how they are in spiritual Babylon!
Now they follow after east wind----they say all kinds of lies against east wind! ---Against the east wind that is going from the gentiles---
And it is the treading wind that
teaches them to fear God!
They say they have already forgotten or stopped the Bamah connection and such lies! ----They do not consider the biblical way of repenting----the need to repent according to their beliefs is not considered! -They are proud to repent---they wait to learn worse lessons from God to repent---they wait until God turns them back!
GOD’S JUDGMENT IS THAT THEY SHOULD REPENT AS LEV. 4, 5 SAY!
OIL CARRIED TO EGYPT---
The revelations, which were given through the Holy Spirit was shared with the unbaptised of Bamah! Called out ones sharing the oil with spiritually uncircumcised!
Gerald Flurry wrote—page 61—Ezk
watchman booklet
Page 4---para 4—last lines
Even His own people fight
against Him---“What a great and dreadful wilderness it is when
God’s people rebel against Him?”
…. From RV -Jan/Feb. 2006.
Pg 2….” James begins addressing “ the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad. We have to look at this “spiritually ”… so this is a spiritual captivity….
Pg 2- 3… it is
talking about the church or family of God being scattered all over the
place….”……..//////
Zec 9:1 ---The burden of the word of the LORD ----And Damascus its resting place (For the eyes of men And all the tribes of Israel Are on the LORD);
GOD IS TALKING
ABOUT THE FAMILY OF GOD!
Ezekiel booklet—Gerald Flurry
wrote--
Page 68 –Ezk.18:53 ---I
shall bring AGAIN their CAPTIVITY.
GF
announced during the feast of 2004 that Israel is in captivity.
This is spiritual captivity of spiritual
Israel!
VS.59 –I WILL DEAL WITH
YOU.
God has never dealt like this with physical
Israel---God’s words are for the spiritual Israel---Bible is written for the
spiritual Israel for their correction and reproof!--- 2Ti 3:16
PARA 4-END –ALL OF THOSE CALLED TODAY ENTER INTO THIS
MARRIAGE COVENANT WITH CHRIST –
In 1992---when Gerald
Flurry wrote this book --- HE SAYS TODAY! ---IT IS
THE PCG today! -This book was written in 1992.WCG has fallen away by that time!
---NO OTHER BUT PCG TO WHOM GOD GAVE ALL REVELATIONS!
Page 69 –
para 3 ---God says to whom much is given, much is
required
GOD IS GOING TO JUDGE HIS
WIFE ACCORDING TO HER WEDDING COVENANT ---THIS JUDGMENT IS ON THE HIGHEST LEVEL! —SAID
G.FLURRY!
Page 69 –Ez.
Booklet---Gerald flurry wrote---
PARA 4 –primary meaning is for church—spiritual
Israel!
GERALD FLURRY WROTE—PAGE
33—Jeremiah booklet
“HERE IS THE TRAGIC PICTURE JUST BEFORE TRIBULATION----
Most of God’s own people
are BACKSLIDING.
God works with a small remnant. The very elect resist the backsliding flow of
God’s people. At the same time, this remnant fights Satan and his world.
God uses “one of a city, and two of a
family” to do His end-time work. These saints can stand-alone as they
serve God. They are God’s most noble end-time warriors. This small remnant is
God’s voice crying out in a wilderness of religious confusion. So
We should not expect a
large number of people doing God’s work today. Most of the members in God’s own
church are too weak to serve Him.”
NOW EPHRAIM WILL BE TRODDEN?---Isa 28:3 the crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden
under feet:---
By whom? ---Rev.11:2
------for it is given
unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot
forty and two months.---so the Gentiles function is treading the holy city—
NOW THE TIME HAS COME TO AN END!
Hos. 11: 7-8---- And My
people are bent to backsliding from Me: though they called them to the most
High, none at all would exalt Him.
8 -- How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall
I deliver thee, Israel?
Ephraim the British area will be broken---spiritually the
evangelist who was responsible for the Bamah abomination caused the fall of
spiritual Judah! ---IT WAS THE FALL of Jerusalem the church so that it will not
be a people for God at end time!
Isa.7:1 says Rezin is king of Syria—and Remaliah is king of
Israel---and both of them went
against Jerusalem.
TWO PEOPLE WERE AGAINST JERUSALEM! TWO KINGS!—TWO RULERS!
Vs.2--- And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim.
IN DAVID’S THRONE IT WAS FOUND
OUT---ABOUT THE CONNECTION OF SYRIA AND EPHRAIM!
In history---
2 Chr. 16: 2 -- Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus,
In history silver and gold
were given to king of Syria that dwelt in Damascus---like wise God gave plenty of revelations
and ministers to PCG! The leader as king was given royal food! —Ezekiel 16:
8-14
But Ephraim, the then RD A.
Harrison of British area planned evil against God and made the leader’s crown
to be fallen! The prophet lost the crown---Ps. 74: 9
The king of the land PCG, Gerald Flurry, foolishly approved the RD Harrison’s wicked plan!
The ministry as silver and gold were told not to fear these two leaders
who rebelled against God’s judgments---
Isa.7: 3—Isaiah was told by the Lord to tell the princes of Judah not
to fear the two smoking firebrands of Syria and the prince of Israel (son of
king of Israel).
RD and leader of PCG are the two
firebrands---read “foxes in God’s land”---“Isa, 7 in prophecy”--http://www.gentileassembly.org/
What have they done against Judah? ---they have
planned evil against Judah! ---SPOILED JUDAH!
But the ministers did not have knowledge or were not brave enough to
fight these two ministers and save God’s church! Thus the silver and gold were
tarnished—that is why they have to be purified in Malachi 3!
Evilness of Israel are portrayed in
these verses as in history Damascus had many gods ---Israel THE TRUE GOD’S PEOPLE ARE NOW COMPARED TO
---people who have foreign gods—LIKE DAMASCUS!---IT IS A BURDEN TO THE LORD!
2Ch 28:23-- For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus,
which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria
help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they
were the ruin of
him, and of all Israel.
Speaking
of H. W. Armstrong to the world will help Gerald Flurry to get more money to go
on doing a work of his own---publishing books and for excavations etc.
--------therefore Gerald Flurry AND PCG sacrifice to H. W. Armstrong! H. W. Armstrong is their god! –
Gerald
Flurry raised H. W. Armstrong’s name, named the college after his
name---COLLECTS ARTIFACTS OF H. W. Armstrong –even the prayer rock--and so on!
---------BUT THEY WERE THE RUIN OF HIM! ---History
repeated!
NAMES ARE MEANINGFUL AS THE NAME
“IMMANUEL” WHICH MEANS GOD IS WITH US!---ISA.8:8---THUS IS THE NAME OF EPHRAIM!
GEN.41: 52--- And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
WHEN EPHRAIM IS BROKEN HE WILL BE AFFLICTED, PEOPLE
KNOWN AS EPHRAIM, HAVE TO GO THROUGH TRIBULATION HAVING A FAMINE OF THE WORD!
----THEN----THEY WILL BE FRUITFUL!
THEREFORE EPHRAIM
HAS TO BE AFFLICTED—
Jeremiah and the greatest
vision in the bible—PAGE 7—G.
Flurry wrote---
“But note
it –See it in your own bible! Jeremiah was divinely commissioned to pull down and to overthrow
that very throne of David in Judah—but notice the second half of the
commission. To build and to plant!—
Read more about planting---how Jesus Christ will be doing the work of planting—“almond rod”-Aug. 2006, and “tabernacle witnesses almond rod” –Jan.2007---http://www.gentileassembly.org/
Ac 15:16 ‘after this I will return and will rebuild the
tabernacle of David, -----
Gerald Flurry had destroyed and pulled down as he was expected---Gerald Flurry said of the second half of the commission---to build and to plant----Jesus Christ is doing the building work during His short work served by the gentiles and for the planting they need to repent---THE LORD IS TEACHING AND THEY NEED TO PRODUCE FRUITS AFTER THEY WERE AFFFLICTED---JUST AS EPHRAIM MEANS!
PCG
has to REPENT SOON for GOD TO PLANT THEM UP! ---THEY HAVE TO TURN FROM THEIR
EVILNESS AND PRODUCE FRUITS OF REPENTANCE!
The “furnace”
of “affliction”
will be in “Zion”(Is 48: 10)
Also “Zion” and “Jerusalem” a “furnace”
(Is 31.9)
Zion and Jerusalem is the church!
A PROPHECY FOR DAMASCUS—
DAMASCUS HAS SINNED AGAINST THE
LORD MANY TIMES AND IT HAS TO BE PUNISHED!----THE “GATE BAR OF DAMASCUS WILL BE BROKEN”—AND
THEY WILL BE TAKEN CAPTIVE!
IT IS A BURDEN TO THE LORD--
Zec 9:1 ---The burden of the word of the LORD ----And Damascus its resting place (For the eyes of men And all the tribes of Israel Are on the LORD);
THE LORD HAD FOUND QUITE A
NUMBER OF SINS AND THEY HAVE TO BE PUNISHED—CHASTISED TO CORRECT THEM!
Am 1:3 ---Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away
its punishment, Because they have threshed Gilead with implements of iron.
Am 1:5 I will also
break the gate bar of
Damascus,
This is like crushing the gates of Cyrus’ temple----read---Cyrus’ Temple and Tyre----http://www.gentileassembly.org/
IMPLEMENTS OF IRON----
Gilead is a city of evildoers, and
therefore their evils are so many—Gilead is compared to the church and we
should remember who were made iron pillars—it was PCG!
Gerald Flurry wrote that the
following verses are meant for his work---
Jer 1:18 --For, behold, I have made thee this day a
defenced city, and an iron
pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land,
Eze
4:3-- Moreover take thou
unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron
between thee and the city This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
THUS THE IMPLEMENTS OF IRON WERE GIVEN TO
PCG LEADER-----and IT IS A SIGN TO THE CHURCH!
AND
Gerald Flurry WROTE ABOUT THE MINISTERS----GILEAD IS LIKE ANATHOTH----
HOPE IN ANATHOTH—WORDS OF GERALD FLURRY—
Jer.
Booklet page—120---“Evil priests who tried to kill Jeremiah lived in Anathoth. Is there an Anathoth today?”
Prince of Israel---the RD A.H. caused Gerald Flurry to lose his
corwn---A.H. is an evil priest of Anathoth!
GOD’S FAMILY VISION BY G.FLURRY—PAGE 48
THE
DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL
Para—6—It
is a ten fold warning to God’s own ministers today—those men who serve in the
tradition of Eli!
Royal
V.-Ju/Aug.2000—page 25---G. FLURRY WROTE---God’s command—para 4,5-
The curse means they are
about to loose their eternal lives if they do not repent (Mal. 4:1,6),and the
ministers are judged more severely (James 3:1)
MAL.2:3
–I will spread dung upon your faces! ----There are ministers who will receive
the curse! That is horrifying!
Royal
V.-Ju/Aug.2000—page 25---G. FLURRY WROTE--
Page 27—the outer court—para 2-
Almost all of God’s ministers are in the outer court today. First God
had His leader measure the altar. ---But now gentiles in outer court---
THUS THE MINISTERS HAVE TO REPENT---
THEY HAVE TO REPENT---NO MAN
IS CLEAN IN GOD’S LAND-—DO NOT BE SELF-RIGHTEOUS!
Job 15:14 --What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:15 --Behold, He putteth no trust in His saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.
Job 15:16-- How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Ps 130:3 --If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Ps 143:2 --And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Pr 20:9 -- Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Ec 7:20 --For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Jas 3:2- For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
1Jo 1:8 - If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jo 1:9 --If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jo 1:10 --If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
PERISH---PINE
AWAY----A PROPHECY FOR TODAY----
Le 26:38 ---And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
Le 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.
PCG IS PINING AWAY IN THEIR SINS AS Ezekiel 24: 21 SAYS--
Le 26:40 -- If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against Me, and that also they have walked contrary unto Me;
HUMBLE, ACCEPT THAT YOUR
PUNISHMENTS ARE FOR YOUR SINS---KING DAVID TOO WENT THROUGHT THE PUNISHMENTS!
Le
26:41 ---And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them
into the land of their enemies; if then their
uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of
their iniquity:
THAT IS THE CONDITION THAT GOD WILL
REMEMBER HIS COVENANT!
Le 26:42--- Then will I remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
Le 26:44 --And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
GOD WILL NOT CAST
AWAY BUT HE WAITS UNTIL THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR SINS!
DANIEL CONFESSED ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL WHO HAD THE COVENANT—HE
PRAYED TO GOD
Da 9:7 --O Lord,
righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this
day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all
Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither
thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed
against thee.
Da 9:8 ---O Lord, to
us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our
fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
Da 9:9---To the Lord
our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
DANIEL PROPHESIED THAT ISRAEL WILL SIN
Da 9:10 --Neither
have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His laws, which He set
before us by His servants the prophets.
Da 9:11-- Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that
they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the
oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have
sinned against Him.
Da 9:12-- And he
hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges
that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole
heaven hath not been done
as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
ISRAEL HAD
BEEN PROUD AGAINST THE LORD!
Da 9:13== As it is
written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our
God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
Da 9:14--- Therefore
hath the LORD watched
upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in
all His works which He doeth: for we obeyed not His voice.
Lu 21:24--- And they
shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all
nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times
of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
BUT EPHRAIM WILL
BE FRUITFUL IN THE LAND OF HIS AFFLICTION! ---how will this happen?----they get
the light of Jesus Christ through gentiles when they are in spiritual Babylon!
Read, ---“waters”—to understand the lands, which the
spiritual Israel is sojourneying AS CAPTIVES! --- The lands of their affliction---- http://www.gentileassembly.org/
BUT THEY WILL
LEARN TO FEAR GOD AND LEARN GOD’S SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE WHILE THEY ARE IN THESE
LANDS OF AFFLICTION---THEY WILL REPENT AND COME BACK TO GOD---THUS THEY WILL BE
FRUITFUL!
DAMASCUS IS ONE OF THESE LANDS THAT GOD IS COMPARING WITH THE CHURCH AS GOD SEES THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL! IN HISTORY OF ISRAEL THEY AS GOD’S PEOPLE WENT ASTRAY FROM GOD AND WERE IN MANY LANDS SINNING HAVING OTHER gods AND FOLLOWING THEIR CUSTOMS!
GOD NEEDS A PURE PEOPLE TO WORSHIP HIM AND TO BE CALLED BY HIS NAME! AND THE TIME IS NOW!
2 KINGS 14:28 --Now
the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he
warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel,--
Ge 15:2-- But Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
A fear of Abraham WAS DAMASCUS ----IF THE HEIR IS ELIEZER OF DAMASCUS
ABRAHAM WOULD GO CHILDLESS! —
AND THUS DAMASCUS IS A THREAT TO ABRAHAM!
WHEN YOU ARE IN DAMASCUS AND IF YOU DO NOT REPENT YOU CAN SOON GO
CHILDLESS!
ABRAHAM CAN LOSE CHILDREN!
ANOTHER CASE OF HISTORY OF DAMASCUS-WHERE DAVID WON OVER DAMASCUS---
1Ch 18:5 --When the Syrians of
Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David killed
twenty–two thousand of the Syrians.
1Ch 18:6 ---Then David put
garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the
Syrians became David’s servants, and brought tribute. So the LORD preserved
David wherever he went.
DAVID WON OVER
SYRIANS
THEREFORE THOSE OF DAVID’S HOUSE ALTHOUGH THEY
HAVE SINNED AS SYRIANS THEY MUST WIN OVER SYRIA OF DAMASCUS!
THUS PRESERVE THE
CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM!
Isa 10:9 --Is not Samaria
like Damascus?
Samaria is likened to God’s
church today—Ezekiel 16; 46, 51,53,55,---- 23: 4,33
THEREFORE THE CHURCH IS LIKE DAMASCUS TO GOD!
Isa
17:1 The burden against Damascus.
"Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city, And it will be a ruinous
heap.
Isa 17:3 The fortress
also will cease from Ephraim, The kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of
Syria; They will be as the glory of the
children of Israel," Says the LORD of hosts.
Damascus has a connection to Israel!
When it becomes ruins---it
will understand that God did it and will come to repentance---then the glory of
children of Israel will be seen!
SO WE CAN SEE THAT THESE
VERSES ARE MEANT FOR THE CHURCH TODAY ---WHEN
THEY REPENT THEY WILL BECOME THE GLORY OF THE LORD!
How Damascus will be
afflicted----
Jer 49: 23-- Against Damascus. "Hamath and Arpad are shamed, For they have heard bad news. They are fainthearted; There is trouble on the sea; It cannot be quiet.
Jer 49:24-- Damascus
has grown feeble; She turns to flee, And fear has seized her. Anguish and
sorrows have taken her like a woman in labor.
THESE VERSES ARE PROPHECY FOR PCG WHEN THEY REALISE THE SIN OF THEIRS!=---YET THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THEIR REBELLION AND
UNDERSTAND THAT THEY HAVE SINNED GRIEVOUSLY AGAINST THEIR GOD!---BEFORE THEY
ARE BORN AS SPIRIT BEINGS THEY HAVE TO BE IN LABOR PAINS!
Eze 27:18 "Damascus was your merchant because of the abundance of goods you made, because of your many luxury items, with the wine of Helbon and with white wool.
WE HAD EXPOUNDED ON HOW THE PCG
AND WCG UNDER H. W. Armstrong WERE DOING A MERCHANTS’ WORK!http://www.gentileassembly.org/
Read---“merchants of the
earth”---“mysteries” ----
IT IS THE NORTH---THE HEAD QUARTERS OF PCG---
Eze 47:17 "Thus
the boundary shall be from the Sea to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus; and as
for the north, northward, it is the border
of Hamath. This is the
north side.
Tribe of Dan
Eze 48:1 "Now these are the names of the tribes: From the northern border along the road to Hethlon at the entrance of Hamath, to Hazar Enan, the border of Damascus northward, in the direction of Hamath,
GOD SPEAKS FROM THE PAST HISTORY!
Read---Cyrus’ temple----North is the church---http://www.gentileassembly.org/
EVEN SAUL, BEFORE HE BECAME
PAUL, WAS SINNING IN DAMASCUS---PERSECUTING GOD’S PEOPLE---THAT WAS HISTORY OF
DAMSCUS--
Ac 9:2 --and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Ac 9:3--- As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.
Ac 9:8 --Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.
SAUL BEFORE PAUL
Ac 9:19 ---So when he had received food, he was strengthened. Then Saul spent some days with the disciples at Damascus.
Ac 9:22 -But Saul increased all the more in strength, and
confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this Jesus is the
Christ.
Ac 9:27 -But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. And he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
NOW PCG IS GIVEN FOOD TO REMOVE
THEIR BLINDNESS AND TO BE STRENGTHENED IN THE LORD---THEY SHOULD REALISE!
IF YOU DO LIKE DAMASCUS YOU NEED TO
BE PUNISHED!
Ac 22:5 "as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the council of the elders, from whom I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring in chains even those who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.
Ac 26:20 "but declared first to those in
Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then
to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to
God, and do works befitting repentance.
A SIGN THAT HAS FULFILLED THAT PCG HAD SINNED----
The following statement of his is a fulfilment of a
prophecy as written below----
Gerald Flurry says—he and the people in PCG (whom God has given him) will be changed---a sign that they are a changed people--there will be signs of wonders, amazing miracles!
Again he says—if they fight, God will give anything!
THE SIGN-----
“The court case is gonna make us a changed people and we're going to
know, because of this miracle
and all of these wonderful,
amazing outcomes God has given us, that He will give us anything, if we fight - anything!”-----
[G. Flurry sermon, The Mantle of Elijah part II,
3/8/03, tape2:side1]
although Gerald Flurry meant some thing else---there is another meaning----
WHAT DOES GOD SAY? ---God has prophesied the above statement of his-----
ISA.8:18---Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
PCG FOLLOWERS ARE FOR SIGNS AND FOR WONDERS!
Isa.8:17---And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him.
That --“he will
wait upon God” –even when God is hiding His face
he will look for God---he thinks he will get whatever he asks from God—although he does not want to believe that God is hiding His face –God is hiding His face! —(Ezk.39: 23---the gentiles know that God is hiding His face—and God says so!)
What does the preceding verse say?---Isa.8:16---
Isa.8:16 --Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples.
So ---This happens when the law is sealed to them---when they do not keep law ----God sealed it---why should they disgrace God’s law? ---that is the reason why God has hidden His face. AND THE LEADER YELLS GOD WILL DO ANYTHING FOR THEM! ----
PCG HAS TO NOW FIGHT FOR
THEIR SHAME AND REPENT! –Gerald Flurry HAS TO FIGHT FOR ANYTHING!
THEY HAVE
STRAYED AWAY FROM LAW—COMMITTED HARLOTRY—BROKEN COVENANT—AND WHEN GOD HAD
SPEWED THEM OUT AND SEALED THE LAW---THEY YELL THAT GOD WILL GIVE ANYTHING TO
THEM—YES GOD WILL GIVE ANYTHING WHEN THEY REPENT! ---REPENT! ---REPENT PCG!
God is waiting for your
repentance---In the goodness of God He is leading you to repentance---do not
wait long---listen to your maker—He is waiting with out stretched arms---to
gather His children!
All praise be to the Almighty
Father of Spirit beings, and to our LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.
"Sing unto the Eternal, Sing your praises to Him;
Put your trust not in mortals, for in them is no help.
Hallelujah! Praise God! The Eternal shall reign!
He shall reign for all ages; Our King and our God!"
"Sing unto the Eternal, Give your praises to Him!
He it was who make heaven, earth and sea and all things-
Hallelujah! Praise God! The Eternal shall reign!
He shall reign for all ages; Our King and our God!"
"Sing unto the Eternal, Let your hope be in Him;
He remains true forever; He gives justice to all.
Hallelujah! Praise God! The Eternal shall reign!
He shall reign for all ages; Our King and our God!
DO NOT TRUST IN H. W.
Armstrong, A MORTAL, THERE IS NO HELP FROM HIM, GOD ALONE CREATED HEAVENS,
EARTH AND SES, PRAISE HIM, WHO IS OUR KING AND OUR GOD!
Witness (2)
Gentile Assembly