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DOMINOES BANNER V2

Updated: This Old House

This old house is just shy of being 2000 years old. It is the same house to whom Christ said he was only sent. It is the same house, written in both old and new covenants, to whom he is Savior and Redeemer. It is the same house to whom he sent out his apostles. And it’s the same house on the first day of Christianity, Pentecost, that Peter addressed his remarks to in Jerusalem. For the most part, this old house sits abandoned today; a derelict greatly in need of major repair. It's taken a beating in the storms of the past few years, and is so run down, in fact, that before its renovation can start, we are experiencing what is popularly known on television house shows as "Demo day." Yet, we're oblivious to the fact it's our house's "Demo day" prophecies that we're watching live on media news channels. Indeed, these are the perilous times of the last days the apostle Paul specifically wrote of in the New Testament.1

Those of you who have read our books and the on-line articles know by now that our Christian ancestors in the first century knew they were descendants of the divorced nations of the House of Israel that Christ was sent to redeem. [OT, Jer: 3:6-8, Zec. 11:14; NT, Mat. 15:24, Heb. 8:8]. Not surprisingly, the Catholic Encyclopedia refers to these early Christians as “Jewish Christians.” The word Jewish is misused here, however. Correctly, it is a reference to those of the nations, the House, of Israel, commonly referred to as the collective West today, rather than the House of Judah, the Jews. [See 1 Kng 12:21-24; also the Feature articles, The Good News Colour Revolution, Galilee Of The Gentiles and Why Was Jesus Jewish, But Not Moses?].

For most Christians, we’ve lost this knowledge. Foolishly, we are led to believe we are gentiles. And because we are deceived about our Biblical heritage, we’ve wandered off the path of truth only to find ourselves enveloped in a tangled thicket of deceit, none the wiser for our increasingly dire predicament. As Karl Marx said, "Keep a people from their history, and they are easily controlled." [See the Feature article, Moving Forward].

Our errant actions, due to our ignorance concerning our Biblical identity, do come with a price. "Demo day" is here. [See Demo Day and the Feature article, The Princes Of A Plundered House]. The interior walls of our house are falling down around us. [How Demo Day Is Progressing; One Other Current Example]. As the last days prophet Ezekiel wrote, “Now will I [our LORD] shortly pour out my fury upon you [the House of Israel], and accomplish my anger upon you: I will judge you according to your ways, and will recompense you for all your abominations. And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity … and you will know that I am the Lord that strikes the blow.” [Eze. 7:8, 9].

Because we don't know who we are in the Biblical record, it follows that at this point in time, we don't know our LORD. What we know are the lies and the customs of the heathens that have crept into Churchianity. And the events that currently beset us are the prophetic beginning of our promised apocalyptic come to Jesus meeting.

These prophecies refer to the events described in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, primarily the Book of Revelation. As the apostle Paul told the ekklesia in Galatia, “Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap.” [Gal. 6:7]. Now, we, the House of Israel, have begun reaping the fruit of our willful ignorance. This is real. [See the Feature article, Paul Was An Apostle To The House Of Israel, Not The Gentiles].

The wise among us will realize that the prophecies written to us no longer lie dormant in the pages of our Bibles.

The book of Ezekiel was written about 590 BCE, when he was a captive among the House of Judah, by the river of Chebar, about fifty miles north of the ancient city of Babylon. Ezekiel describes himself as a priest in his thirtieth year. He was a Levite, the priesthood to all the nations of Israel. [Eze. 1:3]. Previously, the House of Israel, Ephraim being the kingly line, were divorced from their covenant relationship with God, and first taken captive by the Assyrians about 140 years earlier, 732 BCE. In three successive waves over 65 years [Isa. 7:8], our surviving ancestors of the House of Israel were scattered throughout the Assyrian empire.2 [c. 824-625 BCE; see the Feature article, Is The US, And Great Britain, In End-Times Bible Prohecy?].

Along with some history, the first half of the book of Ezekiel encompasses a prophetic warning for the House of Israel in these last days. [See the Feature article, The Relevance Of The Holy Days In The Plan Of God In The Last Days, and the Sneakers article, The Context Of Prophecy]. Ezekiel was made a sign by our Lord to the House of Israel. [Eze. 12:6]. That's us. But when we are ignorant of our heritage in the Biblical record, we can’t heed the timely warnings given to us.  We have no idea that what is happening in our nations right now are the effects of these prophesies falling on our heads. Therefore, we have no idea why this is happening to us, or how to stop it. We flounder around looking for answers in our secular world, in our perceived righteousness, rather than seeking out the truth of the word of God that would save us.

Ezekiel’s chapters are not “Don’t worry, be happy” reading material, but are somewhat akin to a doctor telling us we have a terrible disease, but it’s not terminal if we do something about it right away. While the news is not good, the worst thing we can do is to bury our collective heads in the sand, with our exposed derrieres awaiting the arrival of a very large, well aimed pointy stick.

We are given the opportunity, in the form of a warning, to make amends. The Lord GOD said to Ezekiel regarding the House of Israel, “When I say to the wicked [Heb. rasha’, those hostile to God] ‘You wicked shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.” [Eze. 3:18]. In all this we need to keep in mind that it is our Lord’s categorization and judgement of our behavior according to his standards, not ours, that counts. [See the Feature article, And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor].

Our Lord cautioned Ezekiel not to get his hopes up. After all, the nations of the House of Israel don’t listen to our LORD, so he shouldn’t expect that we will listen to him. “And you [Ezekiel] shall speak my [our LORD's] words to them [the House of Israel], whether they will hear or whether they will forbear, for they are most rebellious.” [Eze. 2:7]. We certainly are regarding the truth of the word of God, but not so much when it comes to the lies and deceits of our Adversary. [See the Sneakers articles, As It Was In The Beginning, So It Is At The End and Why Are We Content To Live In The Downstairs Apartment In The Elite's Outhouse?].

We don’t listen to what God tells us because we are “hardheaded and obstinate” [Eze. 3:7; foreheads of brass in Isa. 48:4], which translates into the fact that we “ … have not walked in my [LORD’s] statutes, neither executed my [LORD’s] judgements, but have done according to the customs of the gentile nations that are round about you.” [Eze. 11:12; see the Feature articles, Our Corrupted Compass and Easter, Babylon And The Antichrist]. We’ve even come so far as to not only having adopted gentile customs, but we’ve come to believe we are gentiles rather than the House of Israel. [See the Sneakers article, His Treasured Possession].

Once we accepted the wrong-headed notion that we are gentiles and not of the House of Israel [again see the Feature article, Moving Forward], ours was a quick and slippery slope to behaving as the heathens do, except we are under the self-righteous delusion, led by our wayward religious shepherds, that our practices are now Christian despite their pagan origins. [Jer. 23:1, 2]. But as we just read in Ezekiel 11, try telling us anything different, and you’ll hit a brick wall every time. Nevertheless, it must be said, “We are the nations of the House of Israel, yet our observed customs are not of Christ our Lord.” We need to quit being hostile to God and have a love of the truth of the word of God that we might be saved. [See 1 Ths. 1:9, 10; 2 Ths. 2:10; also the Feature articles, Isaiah 63: Big Brother ].

It’s said of us in these last days, the end times, “Son of man [Ezekiel], prophesy against the prophets [Heb. nabiy’ those who claim to speak for God] of [the House of] Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy [claim to speak for God] out of their own imagination: ‘Hear the word of the LORD!’ This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing! Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins. You have not gone up to the breaks in the wall [customs of the pagans that are used in Christianity] to repair it for the House of Israel so that it will stand firm in the battle on the day of the Lord [what we commonly refer to as the Apocalypse, or the time of Jacob's trouble in the Old Testament]. Their visions are false and their divinations a lie [i.e., Christmas, Easter, etc.]. They say, “The LORD declares,” when the LORD has not sent them; yet they expect their words to be fulfilled.” [Eze. 13:2-6; also see Jer. 10:21].

A recurrent theme running through these chapters in Ezekiel is, “You shall know that I am the Lord,” which implies that right now we don’t. Atheists take note. This comment usually is followed by something not so nice happening to the House of Israel by the hand of our Lord to make this point to us. We may deceive ourselves otherwise, but if we don’t know that we are the House of Israel, then we really don’t know our Lord, the Master of our house, obstinate objections to the contrary.

Our shepherds have led us through the gaps in the wall of truth bringing us to forage in the decaying ruins of deceit. Our house is a shambles. But the days are here when realizing that doing as the gentiles do with Santa and the Easter Bunny, seeking after the falseness of earthly riches and power, these are incredibly poor choices for anyone claiming to be Christian. In the book of Ezekiel, God characterizes our poor choices as “exceedingly great iniquities.” [Also see Mat. 6:19-34; v. 32, a correct use of gentiles]. We have been seduced. We have no peace. [See Eze. 13:8-12, also the Feature article, Why Do We Believe The Lies?].

When watching the evening "news" propaganda programs, or surfing the internet, it is rather apparent that our land is filled with evilness and bloodshed, our cities with perversions and our capitals with traitorous leaders who are self-righteous lovers of themselves and money. Some think God has forsaken the Earth. “Doesn’t God see what’s taking place? Why does God let this happen?” Even upon retiring, Pope Benedict said much the same thing. " ... it seemed that the Lord was sleeping." Read Eze. 9:9-11. If anyone is asleep, it's us. We are seeing, if we have eyes that are open, the beginning of the hand of our Lord and Savior upon us, aka Demo Day, because of our iniquities. Some might say, "Ah, I don't believe any of this." It's makes no difference. What is written is coming to pass.

And it will continue to get worse for us as we snooze through the truth of the word of God exactly as the prophecies tell us. However, we have the knowledge of good and evil. We can choose which way we will follow and the culpability that goes with it. Therefore, we reap what we sow. We greatly err if we confuse the impression of forbearance of our Lord concerning our iniquities with absenteeism or a divine siesta regarding our daily affairs. In fact, daily current events point to the fact that our Lord is bringing his hand upon our house as the prophecies tell us. How much clearer can it get when it's spelled out to us in no uncertain terms? See Jer. 30:12-15.
 
Verse 14 " All your lovers have forgotten you; they do not seek you; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy ...." And we wonder why the collective West, US, UK and EU sanctions, based on inane, nonsensical decisions, are backfiring on us, the House of Israel, while our former allies are flocking to our perceived enemy, who is profiting as a result of our iniquities. [See Newslink; example].

As we are witnessing, our LORD’s patience, regarding our making amends, does not last forever. “Therefore say to the House of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Repent! [change!] and turn from your idols [Santa, Easter Bunny, the works of our hands, et al] and renounce all your abominable practices!’” [Eze. 14:6]. Recall, the first tenet of Christianity is repentence from dead works with the emphasis on dead. The worsening current events are particularly critical for the House of Israel, especially with so much serious discussion of nuclear war. [Eze. 6:11-14; see the Sneakers article, Name Those Tenets; also see the Feature article, Christ Against Christians].

Ezekiel wrote a promise from God to those of the House of Israel, " ... if he trusts in his own righteousness [rather than as determined by God], and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it ...." On the other hand, "... if he [that commits iniquity] shall turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right; if the wicked restore the pledge, give back that which he has robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity, he shall surely live ... none of his sins that he has committed shall be mentioned to him ...." [Eze. 33:13-16]. This puts the ball squarely in our court, or perhaps more to the point, in our living rooms.

To help us get started on the path we need to be walking, let’s begin with something positive, yet simple to accomplish. Get a print Bible, preferably not someone else's, and a colored pencil, any color you like. Then beginning in the first chapter, read through the last days prophet Ezekiel’s first 20 chapters and clearly underline each time the specific phrase “the house of Israel” appears. Hint, it appears in 43 verses in these chapters alone. Don’t concern yourself with understanding the details of everything you read. Rather focus on grasping the big picture, and to whom it is being said, i.e., you.

Next go to Mat. 10:6, Mat. 15:24, Acts 2:36, 7:42, 43, and Heb. 8:8, 10 in the New Testament and underline the House of Israel there too. Then take some time for yourself to reflect on what you’ve read. We are the people of the nations of the House of Israel. We are not gentiles. It's time we understand our ancestral heritage and the truth of the word of God, and make the changes that will give us blessings and life rather than the "Demo day's" curses and death we are experiencing now. We would be wise not to hesitate.

This old house is the House of Israel. We are Christ’s. For as the apostle Luke wrote of us in the first century gospel, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people.” [Luke 1:68; Isa. 44:6]. It’s time we realize this and change from our gentile mindset and ways, which are hostile to God, and build anew our old house. [See the Feature article, And It's Still A Mystery].


 1 This should sound familiar to us. "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. [One current day example]. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, [see Oba. v. 3-7], as theirs also was.

"But you [Paul's disciple, Timothy] have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me [the apostle Paul] at Antioch [of Pisidia], at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." [2 Tim. 3, NKJV].

"Jannes. . . Jambres--traditional names of the Egyptian magicians who resisted Moses (rods and snakes, Exd 7:11, 22), derived from "the unwritten teaching of the Jews" [THEODORET]. In a point so immaterial as the names, where Scripture had not recorded them, Paul takes the names which general opinion had assigned the magicians. EUSEBIUS [Preparation of the Gospel], quotes from NUMENIUS, "Jannes and Jambres were sacred scribes (a lower order of priests in Egypt) skilled in magic." HILLER interprets "Jannes" from the Abyssinian language a trickster, and "Jambres" a juggler" ( Act 13:8 )." JFB Commentary.

2 After the divorce of the nations of the House of Israel took place, when referring to Israel the Old Testament is referencing the House of Israel. When referring to the Jews, it uses the word Judah. Generically, when referring to both Israel and Judah, it uses the word Jacob.

Two of the most important instances of the separation of Israel and Judah, is Zec. 11:14, "Then I [Christ] cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel."

And In The New Testament, Heb. 8:8, "For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I [Christ] will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah ...."


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