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THE COVENANT WITH DEATH

Part IX

A couple of chapters back in the present series, we showed the primary manifestation of the Covenant With Death, which Israel made in the BC era Old Testament timeline.

It occurred at the time of the Crucifixion Collision, when the Jews demanded the death of Jesus Christ, to be brought forth by Pontius Pilate. We showed how the Spirit of Death, which was vested in Pilate and the Gentiles, was maneuvered into coming forth by the Spirit of Hell that resided in Israel.

These two principalities form the Divided House of the Devil.

"If Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end" (Mark 3:16).

Although few realize it, this verse categorically tells us Satan "hath an end," and that end comes about because his "house" is indeed divided.

"And the devil that deceived them was cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone" (Revelation 19:20).

Because Satan's end is due to the fact that he has this mystical divided nature, the LORD's words wherein He gave us power to tread on the two factions that form that divided mind of the devil, should be earnestly studied.

"Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy" (Luke 10:19).

The Spiritual architecture, wherein "Hell" was in the Jews, "Death" was in the Gentiles (and "Life" was in God), had remained intact throughout the Old Testament timeline. Although it is documented in the Gospels in the New Testament, this configuration is essentially set in the BC Old Covenant timeline.

This Spiritual formation was seen until Jesus began His ministry, and Satan Himself demonstrated this Split Dominion when He sought to tempt Jesus. The reader will recall the Devil showed him all the kingdoms of world – which the Scriptures pointedly tell us were Gentile Empires.

"And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time" (Luke 4:5).

Once again, the prophet Daniel revealed the sequence of kingdoms in the BC Old Testament timeline were all Gentile Empires, as revealed in Nebuchadnezzar's famous dream of the composite statue. The "head of gold" (Daniel 2:38) was revealed to be Babylon, while the two arms of silver was the Persian Union which conquered Babylon.

The brass torso of the statue in the prophetic dream was Alexander the Greats' Grecian kingdom, and the iron legs represented the Roman Empire. In short, these were all Gentile kingdoms. Thus, when Satan showed Jesus "all the kingdoms of the world," he was showing Him the earthly manifestation of the Death half of his divided house.  

Satan's temptation of Christ continued as he showed him the temple in Jerusalem.

"And [Satan] brought [Jesus] to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple…and the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will I give it" (Luke 4:6).

We have repeatedly shown the "pinnacle" was the palatial palace where King Herod dwelled, a gross violation of the Old Covenant law of Moses, as Herod was not a Jew, but an Idumaean.

Thus, when Satan showed Christ the evil in the temple via the presence of a Gentile stronghold within the temple, he was boasting that he had achieved temporal control of the temple in Jerusalem. This demonstrates the earthly manifestation of the Hell half of his divided house.

Significantly, Jesus did not enter into the dialectical process with Satan, but instead responded to the Devils dialogue with fact:

"It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve" (Matthew 4:10).

With this interaction, we see the three Spiritual factions – Death in the Gentile kingdoms of the world, Hell in the backslidden false prophets known as Israel, and the Life that is vested in Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

This configuration continues until the Crucifixion Collision disrupted the "strong man's house" when the resurrected Christ drew His followers from Death unto Life, also taking those He had ordained to salvation from Hell as well.

From these two strongholds of Satan, Christ formed one new man:

"For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between [Israel and the Gentiles]…for to make in himself of twain one new man" (Ephesians 2:14,15).

We have previously noted that Christ's victory was His sinless Life, short-circuiting Satan's system of Sin [read the spirit of "Hell"], which feeds the spirit of Death. Thus, the Crucifixion Collision disrupted the existing order by bringing the Life of Christ into the fallen world, and the BC Old Testament era Spiritual Formation was shattered.

In the BC Old Testament timeline, the Father had spoken through the prophets saying that the Spirit of the False Prophets – which we have shown to be the "Hell" Spirit in Israel – was to be cast out of the land:  

"I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land" (Zechariah 13:2).

The LORD kept His promise when He cast "the unclean spirit" out of Earthly Israel (seen as the "Land" in prophetic metaphor), when He translated Israel into a Spiritual house (seen as the "Sea" allegorically).

"[God] hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son…ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house" (Colossians 1:13, I Peter 2:5).

The unclean spirit was cast out when Christ brought His Life to Israel, because those who were born again became redeemed Spiritual creatures. It is crucial that we recognize that those saved through Christ's Spiritual transition into Life in Him, are the recipients of the salvation which was promised to Israel.

The Earthly Israel that refused Christ's salvation – allegorized as the "Sand" (or the "Land," the "ground," or the "earth," etc) in which "the unclean spirit" was cast out - Zechariah 13:2), transitioned to a habitation for Death, in accord with the "Covenant" made by the people in rejecting Life.

"His [Death] be on us, and on our children" (Matthew 27:25).

This unseen metamorphosis occurred in the Spiritual realm when Jesus opened the door of redemption through His presence, and "shut" the door of salvation to Earthly Israel that was in the Old Covenant.

"These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth" (Revelation 3:7).

As the door of Life for Born Again Israel opened through Christ, the Life that flooded into those who moved into His redemption occurred in the Spirit, and the recipients experienced the unseen first resurrection.

"After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven" (Revelation 4:1).

Back in the Earthly creation, "Death" flooded from the Gentiles into the Physical portion of Israel that rejected Christ's Life.

"Neither said they, where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death?" (Jeremiah 2:6).

Simultaneously, as many Gentiles entered in to the relationship with the LORD that was previously enjoyed exclusively by Israel in the Old Covenant, they rejoiced that the pathway to salvation now allowed them entrance into the kingdom of God.

"I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name" (Isaiah 65:1).

The Scripture tells us the "unclean spirit" that was cast out of the "land" of Israel was associated with prophecy, as the text said "Also I will cause the [false] prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land" (Zechariah 13:2).

This identifies the spirit in question to be that which is associated with the "Hell" half of the Divided house of the Devil. Jesus told us that unclean spirit of Hell then wandered in "dry places."

"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none" (Matthew 12:43).

Christ's teaching goes on to say that spirit, which is associated with false prophecy, decided to return to the "house" where it was cast out. Since it was cast out of Israel, and the LORD promised it would "pass out of the land," it sought to move into the Spiritual realm.

Thus, from the earliest time of Born Again Israel, there have been false prophets among the faithful in Christianity.

"There shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them" (II Peter 2:2; Acts 51, 8:9,16).

When this configuration settled in the AD Christian timeline, the shuffling of spirits that occurred at the Crucifixion Collision was complete. The Death that was originally in the not chosen Gentiles migrated to Physical Christ rejecting Israel, and the Hell that was in Physical Israel achieved a toehold in the organized Church in the Christian era. The Life of Christ which impacted these powers enveloped all those who genuinely received the Word of the Lord, and nurtured it so they would bear fruit.

By the time the AD Christian era came to an end, the unclean spirit who returned to the "house" where it was cast out, found it to be empty, so he brought additional wicked spirits with him, as the Era of Antichrist emerged.

"Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that [house] is worse than the first" (Luke 11:25,26).

Thus, just as Physical Israel fell away from the LORD, as they moved from the Spirit of Hell to the Spirit of Death, Spiritual Israel did likewise at the end of the AD Christian age, as the Era of Antichrist began.

But further elaboration on that momentous progression will have to wait for another installment of The Covenant With Death.

- James Lloyd

To Be Continued