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DOMINOES

 

Part VIII

 

 

 

 

 

Part VII of Dominoes addressed the text in Daniel which predicts an attempted "mingling" of the Children of God with the "seed of men" will occur. 

 

"And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another" (Daniel 2:43).

 

We showed that with the Rapture Cult dominated "futurist" perspective, prophecy leaders are teaching the "they" in the verse are the returned Nephilim, and the "seed of men" are a generic description of modern man.

 

However, this prophecy is in Daniel 2, with the "statue" dream of Nebuchadnezzar, so the context is in the BC era, describing the four kingdoms of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome – and the kingdom of God which follows, which arrived "in the days of these kings."

 

"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed" (Daniel 2:44).

 

Thus, as we've already shown, Chapter Two of Daniel is set in the timeline of Christ's earthly incarnation, so it is highly inappropriate to transport verse 23 (with the attempted "mingling") out of its context, and into the modern timeline.

 

Further, the Scripture says the attempt will fail.

 

"…but they shall not cleave one to another" (Daniel 2:43).

 

A detailed explanation of the fulfillment of this prediction is found in the book of Acts, when the "Christian" Pharisees sought to mix the Old Covenant requirement of circumcision, with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as a condition of salvation.

 

"And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved" (Acts 15:1).

 

The effort to mingle the two covenants of hot and cold into a Lukewarm blend was repelled. It is evident that the omniscience of the Lord knew it was coming, and he had placed Saul of Tarsus – an expert in the laws of Moses – in a position of influence to argue against it:

 

"He is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel" (Acts 9:15).

 

In fact, additional Scriptures show the attempt to add unscriptural conditions to salvation in Christ is a virulent theme, and it continued to emerge in Christian congregations, as documented in the epistles of the New Testament.

 

For example, the Galatian Gentile Christians were infected with the deadly leaven, but they were vehemently corrected by the Apostle Paul (formerly known as Saul of Tarsus):

 

"A man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of JESUS CHRIST, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified" (Galatians 2:16).

 

This verse touched on the doctrine of Justification by Faith, in that God justifies His decision to save the believer with the free gift of salvation – the unmerited favor implicit in the term grace -- because of the believers faith in Jesus.

 

"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified without the deeds of the law" (Romans 3:28).

 

Actually, the attempt to mix the features of the two covenants (as predicted by Daniel), opened up the subject of Twin Timelines in which important themes occur more than once in history. Far from an isolated incident, there is a decidedly supernatural power at work when this Sequential Recapitulation occurs, and the Scriptures have told us of the phenomenon in both the Old and New Testaments.

 

Thus, when we studied the phenomenon, we were knocking down yet another Domino in our path of understanding.

 

The concept that Scriptural and historic events repeat themselves – a process we have dubbed as Doubling -- is recorded in the Bible. For instance, the Apostle Paul noted it in one of his letters to the Corinthians. After recounting several specific things that had happened to Israel, Paul told His Christian flock that this phenomenon was under the direct control of God, and certain episodes that came to pass in the Old Testament BC era were ordained to occur so the Spiritual Israelites in the AD Christian era timeline would recognize and learn from them.

 

"Now all these things happened unto [Israel] for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come" (I Corinthians 10:11).

 

In the trilogy of accounts in the Old Testament (Nehemiah, Ezra, & Esther), where Israel was regathered to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple during the dominion of the Persian Union, most of the apostate Israelites had grown accustomed to life with the Gentile inhabitants of the land. It was during this time that Nehemiah was dispatched from the Persian throne, and authorized to rebuild the temple that Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had destroyed.

 

Through great hardship and opposition Nehemiah prevailed in rebuilding the wall around the city, and the temple itself. Nehemiah had discovered a copy of the written laws of Moses, which had been lost, and the people were astonished because they had long forgotten the ways of the Lord.

 

"All the people wept, when they heard the words of the law" (Nehemiah 8:13).

 

Just as Nehemiah's project was about to succeed, and the priest Ezra was about to bless and sanctify the rebuilt temple, he discovered the leading Jews in Jerusalem had violated the law of God and intermarried with the Gentiles of the land.

 

"In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab: And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language" (Nehemiah 13:23, 24).

 

As Nehemiah sought to bring the backslidden Jews of the ancient city back to worship of the Lord, he learned their refusal to separate themselves from the heathen had become a common practice because the leaders and royals of Jerusalem had discontinued their separation from the Gentiles, which was a feature of the laws of Moses.

 

"They have taken of [the Gentiles] daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands" (Ezra 9:2).

 

This was a severe violation of the Old Testament law which was said to be "written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come" (I Corinthians 10:11).

 

Under the New Covenant, Christians are free to marry people of whatever race they choose, as the physical Israelite rites and rituals are "shadows" (Hebrews 10:1) which are to instruct us concerning the Spiritual mandate of staying separate from the ways of the world. In fact, even the ritual feast of Tabernacles, where the Israelites live in temporary "booths" for seven days each year, is symbolic of a lifetime of separation from the kingdoms of the world throughout the age.

 

On the eighth day (the symbolic number of new beginnings, as it's the first day of the new week), they initiate a ritual meeting which foreshadows our entrance into eternity.

 

"And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly…And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers" (Nehemiah 8:18; 9,2).

 

Additionally, in the book of revealing, we learn about seven kings, and the eighth "king" is a hybrid comprised of the seven.

 

"And there are seven kings…And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition" (Revelation 17:10,11).

 

Therefore, the attempted mingling of the Christians as the "sons of God" with the "seed of men" was Doubled in the book of Acts, and it was a Sequential Recapitulation of that which occurred during Nehemiah's time which dealt with the account of how Israel mingled the "holy seed" (Ezra 9:2) with the people of the world.

 

Moreover, it is important to recognize the mingling account occurred during Nehemiah's efforts to rebuild the temple of God.

 

Intriguingly, the New Testament era example where the "seed of men" (Daniel 2:43) tried to insert their earthly tradition into the body of Christ (the effort at requiring circumcision) that was documented in the book of Acts, occurred when the early body of Christ had just begun to build the New Testament temple – which is the believers in JESUS CHRIST.

 

"If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are" (I Corinthians 3:17).

 

Thus, there are a myriad of Old Covenant accounts concerning the history of Israel that have direct bearing on our lives in the Christian era, and they telegraph future prophetic fulfillment. However, as we've documented that this generation has now entered in to the third age of history – the Era of Antichrist – we'll have to pursue what the Doubling of events tells us about our immediate future in another episode of Dominoes.

 

-- James Lloyd

 

To Be Continued