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THE MATTER OF THE MINGLING

Part IV

In Part III of the present series entitled the Matter Of The Mingling, we showed how Jesus Christ connected the "stone" aspect of the mingling prophecy in Daniel 2, to the "stone" which the builders rejected – and how this "stone" will ultimately grind to powder those who resist the Kingdom of God.

"Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands…thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron…and as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of 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" (Daniel 2:34, 41-43).

The true nature of the Kingdom of God, which Daniel's prophecy pinpointed would arrive during the Roman Empire, was to be a different kind of Kingdom, as the prophets indicated. In this regard, Jesus told all who would listen that the Kingdom of God, which was then about to arrive, was not engineered as a physical dominion, but was in the Spiritual realm, and could only be entered into by those who were born again.

"Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5).

Validating His astonishing doctrine with miraculous healings, the casting out of demons, and supernatural knowledge of all those around Him, Jesus told increasingly larger crowds that the kingdom of God was not a physical locale with borders, and it could not be seen with flesh and blood eyes.

"He answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, lo here [is the kingdom] or, lo there [is the kingdom] for, behold, the kingdom of god is within you" (Luke 17:20, 21).

Using multiple figures as analogy, Christ compared the Spirit to the way the wind blows, and heaven to a place where there are many mansions. As He preached that we are to behave honorably as though God is our father, we are to listen to the Spiritual unction in our hearts, rather than the rigid rules found in obedience to the statutes proscribed by the corrupt priests who were in authority.

Jesus was able to connect the ancient words of the prophets with His teaching, and He spoke of how God had consistently promised to redeem Israel, which was severely oppressed by the Romans at that time. As the LORD called out to those whose hearts were stirred by His words, He used the universal experience of thirst, and the soothing relief which comes from a cool drink of water to describe the satisfying peace that He offered. For example, to the lowly woman He encountered at a village well in Samaria, he spoke of an eternal water which will last forever.

"Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life" (John 4:13, 14).

As we have already shown, Christ cited the prophecy in Daniel about the great rock which will crush all the world's kingdoms, and it will be the stone which is rejected by the builders – with the "builders" a veiled allusion to the leaders of the chosen people, and the "stone" a similitude of Christ. Regarding this metaphoric "rock," most of the Jews knew the story of how their ancestors who had fled Egypt under Moses had thirsted in the wilderness.

"And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses….And Moses cried unto the Lord…And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take of thee….thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river [parting the red sea] Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in [Mount] Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink" (Exodus 17:3-6).

Over a thousand years later, the prophet Zechariah predicted how God would save Jerusalem, even as he spoke of a "fountain" which would be opened to the house of David – from whom Jesus was descended – and this supernatural "water" would be used to wash away the sins of the people.

"In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness" (Zechariah 13:1).

Centuries after Zechariah was murdered by the "builders" for predicting the coming Saviour would be "wounded in the house of my friends" (Zechariah 13:6), Jesus stood up in the temple to declare He is the rock who is smitten, so that living water can be released.

"In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink" (John 7:37).

After Jesus took the sins of the world upon Himself, He was rejected by the nation's leaders as the symbolic stone whom God had appointed to become the cornerstone of His Spiritual temple. A learned priest of the Jews realized that when Moses smote the rock and water came out, it was a supernatural sign which was to point Israel to Jesus as the stone the builders rejected.

Writing about how the Israelites thirsted in the wilderness during the Exodus from Egypt, he made the connection between the rock which quenched the thirst of the people under Moses, and Christ Jesus.

"All our fathers….passed through the [Red] sea…and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ" (I Corinthians 10:1, 3, 4).

The Bible tells us that when we enter in to the Kingdom of God through faith in Jesus, and our human pride is broken to the degree that we trust that "rock" of Christ for our salvation, we are born again as the sons of God.

"Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken….[and] as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name" (Matthew 21:44, John 1:12).

The Bible tells us the original sons of God were not men at all, but the angels. The book of Job speaks of how these "sons of God" were present when the LORD purposed to place the "cornerstone…[which] laid the foundations of the earth" (Job 38:6, 4). As God created the world, the Scriptures tell us these angelic sons of God rejoiced:

"When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy" (Job 38:7).

The same antiquarian figure of Job tells us that at some point, Satan was among the sons of God.

"Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them" (Job 1:6).

Thus, when the sons of God saw the human females and were attracted to them, there really is no doubt the term the sons of God references the Fallen Angels who mingled their "seed" with the daughters of men.

"The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose" (Genesis 6:2).

As we showed in the first installment of the present work, there are many false prophets among the believers who suggest the mysterious "they" who seek to mingle themselves with the seed of men in Daniel's prophecy of the stone, points to a repetition of the Nephilim episode. The scriptures identify the Nephilim – which is the Hebrew term for the Fallen Ones – as the sons of God, who mingled their seed with the daughters of men.

"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" (Genesis 6:4).

This means it could be said these sons of God mingled themselves with the "seed of men" (read the daughters of men) in Genesis, but we recognize the theological trap which has ensnared the false prophets who are teaching the prophecy in Daniel addresses another incursion by the Nephilim. Further, the enormous error of those who seek to claim the Kingdom of God arrives in our time – instead of "in the days of these kings" as the text plainly states in Daniel 2:44  – has demonstrated that huge numbers of believers are being deceived on this crucial subject.

The fact is, the Scriptures conclusively show that those who have been Spiritually regenerated in Jesus Christ are now the sons of God – the mysterious "they" who foolishly seek to mingle with the seed of men. Furthermore, the New Testament clearly tells us those who have rejected Christ – which obviously includes the Jewish people – are "the seed of men," who are referred to in the prophecy.

"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God" (I John 3:1).

This is a profound truth, and it means that those "believers" who claim the Christ rejecting Jewish people are still the chosen people, are caught in the prophesied strong delusion, and they are propagating another gospel which the New Testament emphatically warns us about.

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie….because that received not the love of the truth" (II Thessalonians 2:11, 10).

Those who suggest that the Old Covenant is still efficacious betray their ignorance of the true nature of the Gospel – to say nothing of manifesting the inner spirit which drives them. In this regard, we cannot improve on the words penned by the wonderful Apostle in the book of Hebrews, when he addressed how the New Covenant has superseded the Old Covenant.

"But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away" (Hebrews 8:13).

It is common knowledge that the Devil knows how to use the true believer's love and compassion for the lost as a weapon against us (Romans 9:3). Because genuine Christians have a deeply developed empathy for the plight of the Christ rejecting Jewish people, does not alter the facts. What is truly remarkable is how the prophets predict how this impulse, the fleshly flaw within the Christians in which we deceive ourselves into believing the now lost Jewish people are still saved (or will yet be saved), is articulated in Daniel's amazing words.

"They [the Christian sons of God] shall mingle themselves with the seed of men [the unregenerate Jews]: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay" (Daniel 2:43).

-- James Lloyd

To Be Continued

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