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The work of the house of Joseph, part 31

Having completed the work of pouring out the sixth bowl of wine and water on September 26, 2005, it was not long before preparations began in regard to the seventh bowl. The seventh bowl, as we will see later, was directed at Babylon itself, resulting in the city splitting into three parts (Revelation 16:19).

John said that the fall of Babylon was to occur after the three unclean spirits had gathered Babylon’s supporters to the battle of Armageddon. This was pictured as a final battle between Mystery Babylon and the New Jerusalem. Hence, we see that Babylon loses the battle, and the city falls, along with “the cities of the nations” (Revelation 16:19) who had supported Babylon’s rule over the earth.

It should be understood that although divine judgment was the ultimate cause of Babylon’s fall, it was Babylon—the three unclean spirits, in particular—who instigated this war of Armageddon. Hence, Christ has legal cause against them by the law of self-defense. An unjust attack is a sin (crime), giving the victim the right to receive justice and compensation. Hence, when Babylon attacks the people of the New Jerusalem, we have the right to appeal to God for justice. This is the legal basis for the seventh bowl of wine poured out upon Babylon.

The Attack Begins

On December 11, 2005 we discerned that the king of Babylon had begun to attack us, setting the stage for the seventh bowl of wine that was to be poured out later on October 7, 2006.

December 11, on the Hebrew calendar, was the tenth day of the tenth month, mentioned in Ezekiel 24:1, 2,

¹ And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying, ² “Son of man, write the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.”

This occurred in the 34^th year of the 17^th Jubilee cycle since Israel’s Jordan crossing under Joshua. It was “the ninth year” of King Johoiachin’s captivity. He had been taken into captivity in 598-597 B.C. Hence, the king of Babylon decided to lay siege to Jerusalem nine years later in 589-588 B.C., after King Zedekiah decided to revolt.

On the same day of the year in 2005, we discerned that some sort of decision had been made to attack the people of the New Jerusalem. We are now seeing the result of that decision clearly in the world today, as the Babylonians have made war on all legal and cultural matters that have their roots in biblical law and morality in general.

To do this, they have had to undermine the US Constitution itself—and especially the Declaration of Independence, which established the fact that God is the Source of all rights. The Babylonians hate Christ and feel compelled to usurp His right to rule and to determine what “rights” men have. They have denied Christ’s right to rule, they have removed many God-given rights, and they have replaced these with their own gay marriage rights and (in 2020) the right to destroy property during “peaceful” riots.

These usurpations, of course, are only the latest in a long string of abuses since the Christian Republic was replaced by the Secular Democracy in 1933. This is now the final push to destroy the last remnants of Christian influence in government and in society. They will not be satisfied until every Christian is dead or converted to their brand of Satanism and Molech worship.

The decision to attack us in 2005, however, gave us legal cause against the king of Babylon in pouring out the seventh bowl in 2006. The house of Joseph, representing the New Jerusalem, has been faithful to respond to the word of God, and by pouring out the seventh bowl of wine, the overthrow of Babylon was declared and established in the divine court.

Ariel Sharon

In March 2001 Ariel Sharon became the Israeli Prime Minister. On December 18, 2005, shortly after the king of Babylon decided to attack the New Jerusalem, Sharon had a slight stroke. A few weeks later, on January 4, 2006 he suffered a major stroke from which he never recovered and which effectively ended his political career.

He was replaced in April of 2006 and remained in a coma until his death on January 11, 2014.

Spirit of Bitterness

Recall that on June 24, 2004 Lori had been delivered from the spirit of Baphomet. Nearly two years later, on March 15, 2006, I was called to her apartment to deal with another spirit that had remained hidden until then. It turned out to be a spirit of bitterness, which I then cast out of her.

Lori was agoraphobic, giving her a “fear of public places and crowds.” Her fear largely abated after her first deliverance in 2004, but she (and Danny) still had a government-paid caregiver named Garnet. Garnet was the daughter of the pastor of the church that my parents attended after I left high school in 1968. She was a few years younger than I, so I did not know her well, but I certainly remembered her after she resurfaced in my life.

Garnet had been the one who had suggested to Lori that she drive to my office in 2004 to get help with her demonic problem. She called me again on March 15, 2006 when Lori’s second demonic attack occurred. This time, however, she asked me to come to the house, because Lori was in no condition to come to my office.

I dropped everything and drove to the house. Garnet let me in, and I was led to the living room where Lori was sitting in a large chair. I sat down next to her and listened to the conversation, while Lori ignored me completely. Her knees were unable to support her, so she could not get out of the chair. She could talk to Garnet, but not to me.

When Garnet told her, “Stephen is here, and he has come to help you,” Lori replied gruffly, “No! I don’t want to talk to him!” Obviously, this was not Lori. An evil spirit was speaking through her.

After observing this for a few minutes, I told them that I needed to go home and pray with my wife about this, so that I would know what type of spirit we were encountering. It did not take long for God to tell us that it was a spirit of bitterness. I then returned to Lori’s house and cast this spirit out of her. Her reaction was similar to what had happened in 2004. She seemed stunned for a moment. Then she looked around and saw me sitting next to her.

“Oh, how long have you been here?” she asked.

“About ten minutes,” I replied.

She laughed, obviously thinking that I was joking. But then she jumped to her feet, danced around, and gave everyone a big hug. Lori was back, and we held a praise celebration.

The Significance of March 15, 2006

March 15, 2006 marked 2,520 years since the completion of the second temple in the days of Haggai, the prophet. Ezra 6:15 says,

¹⁵ This temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar; it was the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

The sixth year of Darius was 516-515 B.C. (See Secrets of Time, chapter 8.) Adar was the 12^th month on the Hebrew calendar, ending in March. In that year, the third day of Adar was March 15, 515 B.C., and 2,520 years later (“seven times”) was March 15, 2006.

Lori’s second (and final) deliverance coincided with the 2,520^th anniversary of the completion of the second temple. Lori was a type of the third temple which God has been building since Christ’s first coming. Paul refers to this greater temple in Ephesians 2:20-22. Though many Christians have reverted back to temples made of wood and stone, thinking that a third temple must be built again in Jerusalem, God will never again dwell in such a temple.

God forsook Jerusalem and the temple in that location in the days of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 7:12, 13, 14). Previously, God’s presence had forsaken Shiloh (Psalm 78:60), and He never returned to that place. Instead, His presence went to a new place called Jerusalem. But two centuries later, because of the corruption in that temple, God forsook Jerusalem as He had done to Shiloh.

This is why the glory of God never came down to indwell the second temple in the days of Haggai. The Most Holy Place was a dark, empty room with a stone to mark the place where the Ark of the Covenant might have been placed, if the people had not lost it. In the same manner, if the Jews succeed in building another temple on the old site, God will not fill that house with His glory. Prophecy forbids it, and the word of God cannot be broken.

The greater temple is made of “living stones” (1 Peter 2:5), and it is built upon the chief Cornerstone (Christ) and “the foundation of the apostles and prophets” (Ephesians 2:20). Physical structures made of wood and stone are only for carnally-minded people whose confidence is in the flesh.

When Lori’s final deliverance took place on the 2,520^th anniversary of the second temple—a date that we had long been anticipating—we knew immediately that she was a prophetic type of the body of overcomers who are being built upon the proper foundations. In a way this marked a completion point, though not a deadline as one might think. Her deliverance was a revelation of the final cleansing of the great Temple where Christ lives in us (personally and collectively).

For the next two months we focused on the cleansing of the temple.