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Christian
Media Communiqué THE GREAT EXCHANGE
Part III
In our last
installment of the present work, we briefly touched on the fact that literal events in the Old Covenant have
a predictive dimension anticipating a Spiritual
fulfillment in the New Covenant. Moreover, these circumstances typically
resemble an earthly event that occurred under the Old Covenant, which is predictive
of New Testament era heavenly events.
In other
words, the earthly cycle is paralleled in a heavenly cycle, and this is yet
another aspect of the Great Exchange. Furthermore, in
transitioning from the Old Covenant between God and man, and entering into the
New Covenant in JESUS CHRIST, the
Scriptures consistently indicate a clear departure from the original position
is necessary.
In the Old
Testament, the Word of God teaches us the concept of an exchange of positions
is directly related to the idea of a separation from a previous position,
in order to adopt the emerging paradigm.
To rephrase
that thought, when the Exodus occurred, and the Israelites
escaped their lengthy bondage to the Egyptians, once they arrived in the
"wilderness," the slavery they previously experienced no longer existed. In short,
they were still Israelites, but they were no longer Israelite slaves.
It should be
obvious that a people who were born into slavery would have many residual
elements, carried over from their former lives, well after the time in which
they were freed. This is related to the very real fact that long after being
liberated from the bondage of a sinful flesh and blood existence, just about
every person who is under the New Covenant in Jesus Christ has reverted to
their former ways at one time or another. In the Spiritual parallel, the
phenomenon is colloquially referred to as backsliding.
"Thine
own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings
shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter,
that thou has forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith
the Lord God of hosts" (Jeremiah 2:19).
In prior
expositions, Christian Media's work
has highlighted many verses which obviously state the fact that prophecy is
multi-dimensional. For instance, the Apostle Paul's epic statement, in which he
pointedly associates well known, historic events pertaining to Israel, it comes through louad and clear that these circumstances were foreshadowing
New Testament Christian prophecy.
"Now
all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come" (I Corinthians 10:11).
Few
believers recognize this prophetic principle goes much further than is
generally thought. For instance, the same letter to the Corinthian Christians (which
tells us the things that happened to Old Testament Israel are futuristic
outlines of things which will happen to New Testament Israel), uses figures of
speech which can be allegorically identified as earthly versus heavenly things.
The Apostle
Paul associates the earthly with physical things, pointedly telling us
the physical realm is the "shadow,"
which prefigures the "substance" of eternity in Christ. The book of Hebrews
tells us the same thing that Paul wrote to the Corinthians, as we learn the laws
of Moses, the priesthood, and even the temple are physical representations of
the reality in the heavenlies.
"[All these things] serve unto the
example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make
all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount" (Hebrews 8:5).
Since
Corinthians tells us that "all these things" occurred as
examples for the Christians, it is self evident that this would include Old
Testament conditions, such as the bondage associated with the Israelites when
they were held in the grip of slavery, and they were forced to build bricks for
the Pharaoh.
"And
the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour…And
they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom, and Ramses" (Exodus
1:13, 11).
When the
LORD spoke to Moses, the ancient sage was instructed to tell the Pharaoh that
God wanted the Hebrews to travel three days into the wilderness to worship
him. Obviously, the Egyptian king refused, and the chain of events leading to
the Exodus
was inaugurated.
Thus, the juxtaposition
between a city (associated with slave labor) and the wilderness (where God
can be freely worshiped) was established, with the "wilderness" related to Spiritual
freedom -- as that was the place where God, who is a Spirit, ordained that He
be worshiped.
"God is
a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24).
The Word of
God clearly communicates that the "city" was related to the place where the
bondage of servitude was seen, so the LORD was sharply contrasting the "city"
with the freedom which would be found in the "wilderness."
When the
Pharaoh refused to release the Israelites as demanded by the LORD through Moses,
the plagues which fell on Egypt began. As the judgments progressively
intensified, the Pharaoh sought to offer a compromise, in order to blur the
distinction between a city and the wilderness.
"And
Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in
the land" (Exodus 8:25).
The LORD
prompted Moses to refuse, as the principle of separation from the ways of
the world was being established in this ancient account. As the plagues
sent by the LORD upon Egypt gradually made life in Egypt less and less appealing,
God was steadily coercing the Pharaoh (who symbolizes our flesh and blood
existence, as well as the world system), into releasing the LORD's people.
After Moses
refused to agree to sacrifice to the LORD "in the land," the Pharaoh tried
again, and sought another compromise with the Israelites.
"And
Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in
the wilderness: only ye shall not go very far away" (Exodus 8:29).
Without a
doubt, in these events the LORD is communicating that compromise with the ways
of the world is the very component which will ultimately corrode the faith of
the saints.
"What
fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath
light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part
hath he that believeth with an infidel?"
"And
what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? Wherefore come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and
I will receive you" (II Corinthians
6:14-17).
By the time
the Pharaoh sought to offer the fourth in a series of proposed compromises to
the Israelites, the futility of resisting the LORD 's
will was apparent, as Egypt was thoroughly devastated from the plagues which had
fallen on the land.
The rivers and
fresh water tributaries had turned to blood, an unpredented
plague of frogs had "covered the land of Egypt" (Exodus 8:6), "the dust of the earth" had been
transformed into lice, and a massive swarm of flies disgustingly corrupted "the land" of Egypt.
As the steadily escalating progression of the plagues brought death and
destruction to the people (and even the livestock), the Pharaoh continually
offered compromises – ultimately reneging on every promise he made to Moses.
"And
Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people
go" (Exodus 8:32).
However, in
spite of the fact that Pharaoh sought to reach a middle ground with Moses and
the Israelites, the LORD firmly indicated He desired a decisive separation between His chosen, and the people of the
Pharaoh.
"I will
sever
in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell…to the end thou mayest know
that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. And I will put a division
between my people and [Pharaoh's]
people" (Exodus 8:22, 23).
As the LORD
continued the contest with Pharaoh in which He demonstrated His sovereignty
over Egypt (as well as the entire world), the Pharaoh offered his third
compromise.
"And
Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go,
serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go?" (Exodus 10:8).
With this
effort, it is apparent the desperate Pharaoh still sought to salvage some
degree of control over portions of the Israelites. Moses indicated that all
Israel would leave Egypt:
"We
will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters,
with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto
the LORD" (Exodus 10:9).
We note the
divinely ordained symmetry prophetically embedded in this statement, as six
categories of creation are mentioned
– young, old, sons, daughters, flocks, and herds – with the seventh
category another mention of the LORD.
In the final
compromise proposed by the Pharaoh, he tells Moses he will finally let Israel
go, but suggests they leave their livestock in Egypt.
It should be
readily apparent that this sequence prefigures a progressive Spiritual compromise
which consistently confronts Christians, as the Spirit of the age always seeks
to seduce the believer into embracing even a germ of the idea that we can
participate in the world's pleasures, and still sustain the course to our destination
in heaven.
However, the
various compromises offered by Pharaoh were offered to the body of Israel as a
whole, as opposed to individual inducements. Thus, a more precise prophetic
parallel would be realized in offers of benefits issued by the
governing powers to the collective body of believers.
One would be
hard pressed to find a more exact fulfillment of this pattern than the alleged
benefit of tax deductibility bestowed upon churches by the IRS, in exchange for
agreeing to restrict certain aspects of Christian ministry activities – notably
involvement in political power.
In what has
now become a shameful development, the American government convinced the vast
majority of churches in the USA that registering their organizations under a
statute referred to as the 501c(3) classification
would ensure their ministries would automatically be tax exempt. The tactic
further codified tax deductibility for donations to the church, and the
churches went for the bargain like a hog goes to garbage.
As anyone
with an ounce of sense knows, government demands (particularly in the exaction
of taxes), start small and continue to grow until they reach excessive
proportions.
Few
believers are aware that religious tax exemption is now available to any form
of religion, whereas in generations past, it was the Christian churches the
government encouraged, because they facilitated the righteous fire that was
instilled in the people, and this process benefitted the nation in countless
ways.
However,
over the years, the circumstances have been radically altered, and the values
of the people have been drastically changed. Most are unaware of the fact the
record shows the IRS has a secretive
wicked internal faction that is quietly steering the monstrosity in the
direction of a universalist, Antichristian worldview.
Worse yet,
most believers are so weary of the onslaught of legislative tyranny they don't
even want to know the IRS has actually granted non profit
"church" status to a Satanic temple that has organized the After School Satan Club, a nationwide outreach of
Satanism that is now targeting elementary
school children for devil worship.
Every church
in America that has voluntarily submitted themselves to the regulatory
authority found in the non-profit category of the 501c(3), shares the
collective guilt for participating in this abomination of desolation – an
apostasy that benefits "Christian" churches whose silence has been purchased on
the altar of fiscal expediency.
Christian
churches are virtually all incorporated, and few believers understand that a
corporation is legally classified as an
artificial person – with the very word corporation derived from the Latin corpus
– where we get our word corpse. The creator of all
corporations is the government itself, and it is a fact the party that creates
a person (artificial or not), is its god.
To put it
another way, the "head" of the incorporated churches is the beast government,
and the sad truth is the Scriptural pattern wherein Israel eventually turned
away from the LORD to follow "Baal" – a spirit embraced by the ancient
Israelite government – is paralleled in the collective churches of America in
our time.
Conversely,
the Scriptures clearly teach the following:
"…Christ
is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of
the body…That he might present to himself a glorious church, not having spot,
or wrinkle, or any such thing; but it
should be holy and without blemish" (Ephesians
5:23, 27).
Thus, in the
time of Moses and the Israelite "church in the wilderness" (Acts 7:38), the LORD adamantly refused
every entanglement offered by the Pharaoh, whereas the Christian churches of
America, have now been transformed into a sanctuary of silence and
non-involvement concerning political processes, in exchange for 30 pieces of
silver.
In this Satanically subtle process of submission to the decrees of secular
governmental administration, in the vast majority of cases, the collective body
of Christ has voluntarily traded their birthright to the beast, exchanging
Christ as the head of the church, for the Spirit of Antichrist which inhabits
all worldly government.
-- James Lloyd To Be Continued
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