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The Great Exchange

Part XXVIII

In Part XXVII of The Great Exchange, we sought to address how the attempt is made to transport the Gog and Magog passages to the present timeline. This Temporal Displacement of the prophecy is in spite of the fact the Scriptural context plainly shows the events described in Ezekiel’s 38^th and 39^th chapters occur at the time of the cross. We also began to show just why the modern version continues to have a peculiar credibility.

Our most recent chapter asserted the issue is one of Spiritual identity, and since the flesh and blood state of “Israel” is not the Israel of Bible Prophecy (but is actually the Little Horn of adjacent prophecies), the malevolent Spiritual entity which controls the Christ rejecting collective is also influencing the nations in an infernal gambit aimed at deception.

The Scriptures plainly tell us a tree is known by its fruit, and because the allegorical “tree” of the Middle Eastern nation is inhabited by a presence that is closely associated with Antichrist, we can anticipate the nation will manifest the Spiritual output of the twin terminals of infernal power, which the Scriptures reference as Death and Hell.

In other words, the LORD is not the only one internally influencing the movements of the nations. Further, the Bible has told us all along that it’s not the flesh and blood people that we are opposed to, it’s the Spirit that drives the country.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).

Regarding the Little Horn entity, in the same fashion the Scriptures describe the run up to the Gog and Magog event in earthly terms which have a Spiritual application, the Word of God describes the earthly manifestation of this Spirit as speaking “great words” against our Saviour, JESUS CHRIST.  

“And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most high” (Daniel 7:25).

One would be hard pressed to find more vile anecdotal data against the Lordship of Jesus Christ than the historic literature produced by the Jewish worldview. In this aspect of the present work -- in trying not to inflame the issue while simultaneously attempting to inform the reader of the facts -– we note the record is littered with literary accusations of Jesus being everything from an Egyptian educated sorcerer to the illegitimate offspring of an unholy union between a Roman centurion and Mary – and these hideous slanders are routinely traced to rabbinical sources.

The New Testament repeatedly tells of antagonism which goes well beyond the predicted effort to “wear out” the saints, as Saul of Tarsus documents the effort to destroy the Gospel.

“I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women” (Acts 22:4).

Indeed, after encountering Jesus Himself on the road to Damascus, in yet another thread of the Great Exchange, Saul traded his certain judgment as the primary Jewish enemy of the Gospel for the magnificent rewards due him as the Apostle Paul, in one of the finest examples of the Great Exchange.

“And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest” (Acts 22:7, 8).

When the text tells us the Little Horn entity is able to “cast down” portions of the heavenly host who are imaged as “stars” (and then “stamp” on them), the symbolic language is in the same vein as when God tells us Israel is imaged as a cluster of “dry bones,” which was predicted to be enveloped with muscles and skin, and then brought to life.

Few believers ever think about how Israel never encountered any literal flowing of “milk and honey” in the promised land, but this is consistent with the allegorical phrasing which is common to the prophets.

Furthermore, systemic connections are formed from various aspects of the texts describing the identities. Thus, since the Little Horn has a “mouth” which speaks “great things” against the “most high” (Daniel 7:8), and the beast empire was given a “mouth” speaking “great things and blasphemies” (Revelation 13:5), it’s difficult to miss the obvious connection when the Apostle Paul says to the Jews, “the name of God is blasphemed…through you” (Romans 2:24).

The Scriptures tell us the Little Horn makes war with the saints, but since we do not war with the flesh, we should not assume this spiritual adversary wars after the flesh either. 

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh” (II Corinthians 10:3).

The beast empire of America, as directed by the diminutive state of Israel (imaged as the Little Horn on its head), is directly related to the entity that “wears out” the saints (Daniel 7:25).

“And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them” (Revelation 11:7).

Since we’re addressing a Spiritual war, in which a portion of the “heavenly host” is allegorically “cast down” by the Little Horn power, we have a rather subtle indicator that this “killing” is indicative of an event that actually occurs in the Spiritual realm, because that is where the real war is presently raging.

In the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, the “killing” is more precisely stated to be the “second death” (Revelation 2:11). It should go without saying that those who dwell on the earth only have to endure death on one occasion.

“It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).

However, it is very apparent that there is indeed something called the “second death,” which presumably must occur in relationship to something other than our physical body. In short, it is self evident that this refers to a form of Spiritual death. 

We have previously noted that when we view the events occurring in the earthly arena, we are actually seeing a shadow of a higher reality in the heavenlies.

The New Testament book of Colossians describes aspects of the Old Covenant as a shadow of the substance which is Christ.

“Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ“ (Colossians 2:16,17).

At the same time, additional texts tell us of the substance in the heavenlies. Paul tells us the “spoiling” of the believer’s “goods” – which would certainly relate to earthly things – was willingly endured by the Christians because they knew that heaven promised them a reward that is eternal.

“[You] took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance” (Hebrews 10:34).

To put it another way, the things in this world are but a shadow of the substance in the heavenlies. Furthermore, since the substance is Christ as it says in Colossians, and the things related to Christ in this world are a shadow of the eternal glory in heaven, it follows that that there is a similar connection between the “principalities and powers” (Colossians 2:15) that embody the “spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12), and the physical vessels that are energized by that power.

This tells us the things of this world that are inhabited by the powers of Death and Hell are the shadow of an evil presence. Moreover, that presence is driven by the mysterious entity described in Scripture as Satan, as well as the fallen angels.

As we have repeatedly noted, a primary “shadow” of the substantive Death which seeks to cause us to be “cast down” (Daniel 8:11) in order to destroy those the LORD has chosen, is the rejection of the Life saving Spirit of God in JESUS CHRIST. In this regard, we have consistently sought to document the dual dynamics of the nefarious powers of Death and Hell.

“Hell” seeks to take us captive to our flesh and blood nature, in order to deliver us to the “Death” of disbelief.

These two powers are described in Revelation as non-corporeal entities imaged as Antichrist and False Prophet. There we see the power of the “False Prophet” is to deceive those who dwell on the earth into refusing Christ, a move which equivocates with an embrace of the Spirit of Death inherent in Antichrist.

“And [the False Prophet] deceiveth them that dwell on the earth…” Revelation 13:14).

Antichrist [the first beast of Revelation] blasphemes the LORD, a sin which is punishable by Death.

“And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven” (Revelation 13:6).

These two Spirits of Death and Hell (or Antichrist and False Prophet) work in tandem, cumulatively forming what we call the Perdition Engine. In the earthly manifestation of the Christ-rejecting state of Israel, we see the “Hell” part of the “engine” seeks to deceive “them that dwell on the earth” by maneuvering the nations listed in the prophets into bringing an all out assault on the modern political state.

“Satan…shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle” (Revelation 20:7,8).

The net result of the Gog and Magog event in the earthly realm is related to the supernatural agenda that seeks to deceive the world into believing that flesh and blood Israel is still the chosen of the LORD. It is in this fashion that many of the Christians, errantly thinking that God desires them to honor physical Israel as the mediator between God and the Gentiles, are “cast down” from their New Covenant ordained position, and “stamped upon” by the Little Horn vessel of political Israel.

This virtually insane tactic, in which the nefarious Spirit driving the Little Horn state maneuvers its enemies into attacking it, is predicated on the knowledge of an astonishingly powerful secret weapon, with which the entity is confident it will prevail in the cataclysm their evil plot seeks to provoke.

“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?”

 “For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them” (Revelation 13:4, Jeremiah 25:15, 16).

-- James Lloyd                             

To Be Continued

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