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The True Fulfillment of Prophecy, part 19

The European settlers in America thought of themselves as the New Israel, as a Covenant People, and as “a vine out of Egypt.” As they crossed the Atlantic, they saw the parallel with Israel crossing the Red Sea to escape religious oppression. Countless sermons referenced this analogy. By the time of the American Revolution, Timothy Dwight, who was the President of Harvard, was one of the most influential teachers of this concept.

In his major work Theology: Explained and Defended (published posthumously, 1818–1819), Dwight repeatedly describes New England in terms that echo Israel: “God has planted a vine in this wilderness…” This language is drawn directly from Psalm 80 (Israel as God’s vine) and applied to America.

He also speaks of the settlers as: “a people separated from the corruptions of the world and devoted to the service of God.” That is standard covenant-election language modeled on Israel (Exodus 19:5–6). As with earlier prominent preachers, Dwight believed America had a global mission: “We are set up as an example to mankind,” he declared.

This parallels Israel’s role as a light to the nations (Isaiah 42:6), now transferred typologically to America. Dwight strongly emphasizes that America, like Israel, stands under covenant sanctions: “If we obey Him, He will bless us; if we forsake Him, He will bring upon us national ruin.”

This is essentially a restatement of Deuteronomy 28 applied to the United States.

The Colonial Mindset

One of biggest problems faced by the early Americans was what to do about the indigenous population. At first there was ample cooperation and mutual respect between the colonists and the Native Americans. But as more and more Europeans arrived, and the settlements expanded, the conflicts mounted.

The colonists had come from a mindset that was rooted in Justinian’s corpus juris civilis (534 A.D.), which essentially established the Feudal System of lords and serfs/peasants. This was the canon law of the little horn, and it affected the attitude of the colonists during the colonial era after Columbus’ re-discovery of the Americas in 1492.

Spain and Portugal, both Catholic nations, saw the pagan practices of these people and became “conquistadors” (conquerors), converting them to Catholicism by force of arms. Protestants (at first) saw their mission in terms of teaching the Gospel, rather than forcing conversions. Both views existed side by side in America, but governments can be strange creatures. The US government increasingly adopted the policy of self-interest, believing that they represented the colonists and settlers first as they spread across the continent, displacing the Native Americans.

The government mindset, nominally religious but lacking any real understanding of biblical law, increasingly treated the Native Americans as subhuman. In practice, this meant that they could break any treaty that they wished. The government’s word was without integrity, and they had a military to enforce their broken promises. And so, what started out as a divine mission to bring the Gospel of the Kingdom to other lands morphed into a series of broken treaties motivated by self-interest.

The Gibeonite Lesson

In the latter years of David’s reign in Israel, they had a three-year famine. 2 Samuel 21:1 says,

¹ Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

Years earlier, Joshua had made a covenant of peace with the Gibeonites (Joshua 9:15). The Gibeonites actually tricked Joshua by pretending that they were from “a very far country” (Joshua 9:9). Nonetheless, treaties were not to be violated, because a man or nation is only as good as his word.

A few centuries later, Saul came to the throne, and he violated this treaty by executing some of the Gibeonites—seven of them, it seems. There is no biblical record of Saul’s actions or motives, but God called his house a “bloody house.”

David negotiated with the Gibeonite leaders, and, upon their demand, he delivered seven men of Saul’s household to the Gibeonites for execution (2 Samuel 21:6). We read in verse 9 that “they were put to death in the first days of harvest at the beginning of barley harvest.” In other words, they were put to death on the wave-sheaf offering, which signaled each year the start of the barley harvest.

That feast itself prophesied of Christ’s resurrection and presentation to the Father as the living Son of God. So we ought to note the contrast in the story of Gibeon. The lesson suggests that those who break treaties are not part of the body of Christ, nor will they be raised in the first resurrection to rule the Kingdom. Revelation 21:8 says that “all liars…will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

Saul’s reign started out so promising. The Spirit of God came upon Him and turned him into another man (1 Samuel 10:6). Shortly afterward, he was crowned king on the day of “wheat harvest” (1 Samuel 12:17), the day when the new meal offering was given to God on the Feast of Weeks. This was later known in the Greek language as Pentecost. Saul was a type of the church under Pentecost. He began well, but he ended poorly, and even after his death, seven of his household were put to death on account of his “bloody house.”

The same thing happened in the United States. We had a promising start. Preachers were enthusiastic that this might be the beginning of the Stone Kingdom in Daniel 2:35 that would crush the previous kingdoms (of Europe). This divine mission was lost, largely because of a long history of broken treaties.

Timothy Dwight’s warning proved to be prophetic when he said, “If we obey Him, He will bless us; if we forsake Him, He will bring upon us national ruin.”

America in Captivity

In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the Spirit of God was poured out in a new Pentecost. Few people ask why God would do this at this particular time? In my view, it was to give the American people one final opportunity to repent and to turn from the ways of King Saul, the Pentecostal type.

Many rejoiced to see the gifts of the Spirit back in operation, but the majority rejected the move of God. In 1909-1912 most of the churches that had received the Holy Spirit formed their own denominations. This was the underlying problem inherent in the reign of Saul. Recall that Saul was chosen as Israel’s king because the people demanded a man to rule them “like all the nations” (1 Samuel 8:5).

Samuel objected, but the people insisted. So we read in 1 Samuel 8:7,

⁷ The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.”

No doubt the people themselves would have disagreed with God’s assessment. It is easy to claim that the man appointed as king was ruling under God and that, therefore, they had NOT rejected God’s rule. But God is always right. The people gave lip service to God’s rule, but in practice, they preferred a man’s direct rule and God’s indirect rule.

They wanted to subject themselves to the rule of men, because they thought God’s rule was too rigorous. After all, the Israelites had just completed six captivities on account of divine judgment. The people wanted a lower standard of righteousness that a man might provide.

This was the problem of Pentecost in the early 1900’s. Denominations of men were established just before God put the nation into its final bondage of Mystery Babylon in 1913. It came in the form of the Federal Reserve Act, which put the nation (and the world) into financial bondage.

This all occurred just before the end of Jerusalem’s 2,520-year tribulation period that had the potential of ending in 1917.

The Final Babylonian Captivity

The Federal Reserve Act was drawn up in secret by prominent bankers on Jekyl Island in 1910. The meetings were held in a room directly over an ancient Nephilim sacrificial altar. The story is told by Tim Bence in this video, beginning at the 1:00 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB9HakwkWIA

In 2013 we held a prayer campaign called “Ending the Famine” (of hearing the word). It was designed to correct the Pentecostal (Saul) problem from 100 years ago. I wrote about it here:

https://godskingdom.org/studies/ffi-newsletter/2013/prayer-campaign-end-the-famine/

Just as Saul’s problem could not be resolved until the time of David, so also the modern famine of the word could not be resolved during the Pentecostal Age (33-1993 A.D.). Twenty years after the end of the Pentecostal Age, God called us to resolve the problem in the divine court in 2013. It is now only a matter of time before this will be implemented in the earth.

The Babylonian financial system is now coming to an end. World trade is in chaos. Banks are on the brink of bankruptcy. International laws are ignored. Diplomacy itself has been weaponized. These are all symptoms of the collapse of Mystery Babylon. The dominion mandate has been passed down to the overcomers—not in practice thus far, but by order of the divine court in 2017.

We are about to turn the page on a new era of world history and church history. Be prepared.