Christian Baptist Living

Year: 2015

  • Should Government Be Involved in Marriage?

    Should Government Be Involved in Marriage?

    By Pastor Matt Trewhella

    “There is no reason for Oklahoma or any state to be involved in marriage.” This is the Libertarian cry that is growing in popularity and gets parroted by many who never ponder the depths of what they are saying.

    This time, however, the above quote was from a Republican legislator in Oklahoma.

    Republican legislators in Oklahoma have introduced a bill (which has already passed the House) that would remove the need to obtain a state marriage license. They say they are doing this to protect county clerks from violating their consciences by having to issue marriage licenses to homosexuals.

    The truth is, while this law claims to “protect” county clerks from having to violate their consciences by issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals, it does nothing of the sort.

    Under this law, county clerks would be required to file “marriage certificates” with the state for the marriages to be validated. So, rather than protecting county clerks from violating their consciences, it merely changes the form in which their consciences would be violated. They would still play the integral role in procuring state-recognition of marriage for homosexuals.

    Furthermore, while this law claims to remove government from being “involved” with marriage, the reality is the law still requires that all people file their marriage with the state of Oklahoma.

    This parroted slogan — “government should not be involved in marriage” — is a delusion. Government has always been involved in marriage; always will be involved in marriage; and should be involved in marriage.

    What is tragic here is that an absurd slogan is being fleshed out into law. Rather than defend the family, these legislators have punted. They have denied their God-given duty to affirm and uphold the created order of God.

    Government in America has been at war with marriage and the family for decades now. This is seen in the no-fault divorce laws, the decriminalization of adultery, and the plethora of laws attacking parental rights (amongst so many others). Homosexual marriage is now the latest effort by government to belittle and demean marriage and family.

    When government perverts marriage and family through law and sides with debauched men, the result is chaos and lawlessness. The legislation proposed by these legislators will not fix any problem — in fact it will further exacerbate the problem.

    This move by the legislators of Oklahoma is not about getting rid of marriage licenses. It is not about protecting county clerks. It is not about getting government out of marriage. The real motivation for this legislation is they want to dispose of a problem that they just want to go away.

    They have failed to do their duty.

    In the past, I have written in opposition to state marriage licenses because they are an overreach by civil government. The marriage license exposes the statist thinking of Christians in America.  I’ve already heard from many young people who have been told by their churches and pastors that if they don’t get a state marriage license — even though two men or two women can get the same piece of paper — that they are “living in sin.”  That is insanity.

    But I deny the assertion that government should not be “involved” in marriage.  Civil government has the duty to affirm and uphold the created order of God.  Why?  Marriage and family is the foundation stone upon which society is built.

    This proposed law does not remedy the problem of state marriage licenses. This proposed law would place into statutory law the recognition of homosexual marriage by the state of Oklahoma. The law would remove statutory language limiting marriage to between a man and a woman. The new form — that county clerks would have to file with the state — does not indicate genders or use terms like “bride,” “groom,” “wife,” or “husband.”

    Next time you hear someone say “I don’t believe the government should have anything to do with marriage,” remind them that “government always has been involved in marriage; always will be involved in marriage; and should be involved in marriage.”  History, sound thinking, and the nature of man reveal this to be so.

    Matt Trewhella is the pastor of Mercy Seat Christian Church (MercySeat.net) and the founder   of   Missionaries   to  the  Preborn (MissionariesToPreborn.com). He and his wife, Clara, reside in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area and have eleven children.

    His book, The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates: A Proper Resistance to Tyranny and A Repudiation of Unlimited Obedience to Civil Government is available at Amazon.com or LesserMagistrate.com

    http://www.wisconsinchristiannews.com/view.php?sid=5607

  • Marriage Licenses: The Real Truth

    Marriage Licenses: The Real Truth

    Virgil Cooper:

    Marriage Licenses: The Real Truth

    Tue Feb 8, 2005 02:52

    64.140.158.5

     

    Marriage Licenses: The Real Truth
    by Virgil Cooper ultrac21@whitemtns.com

    Enlightening Conversation with a Marriage License Bureau. . . .

    About 15 years ago, my former wife of 26½ years, filed for divorce. We had seven (7) children: five (5) daughters and two (2) sons. Our youngest at the time, our second son, was five years old. At the time, I prepared a counterclaim to the Petition for Dissolution her attorney filed in Domestic Relations (DR) court.

    I met one afternoon with the head of the Maricopa County Superior Court, Marriage License Bureau, in downtown Phoenix. The marriage license bureau was headed by a young woman of about age 25. I asked her to explain to me the general and statutory implications of the marriage license. She was very cooperative, and called in an Assistant, a tall Black man who at the time was working on an Operations Manual for internal departmental use.

    She deferred for most technical explanations to her Assistant. He walked through the technicalities of the marriage license as it operates in Arizona. He mentioned that marriage licensing is pretty much the same in the other states — but there are differences. One significant difference he mentioned was that Arizona is one of eight western states that are Community Property states. The other states are Common Law states, including Utah, with the exception of Louisiana which is a Napoleonic Code state.

    He then explained some of the technicalities of the marriage license. He said, first of all, the marriage license is Secular Contract between the parties and the State. The State is the principal party in that Secular Contract. The husband and wife are secondary or inferior parties. The Secular Contract is a three-way contract between the State, as Principal, and the husband and wife as the other two legs of the Contract.

    He said, in the traditional sense a marriage is a covenant between the husband and wife and God. But in the Secular Contract with the state, reference to God is a dotted line, and NOT officially considered included in the Secular Contract at all.

    He said, if the husband and wife wish to include God as a party in their marriage, that is a “dotted line” they will have to add in their own minds. The state’s marriage license is “strictly secular,” he said. He said further, that what he meant by the relationship to God being a “dotted line” meant that the State regards any mention of God as irrelevant, even meaningless.

    In his description of the marriage license contract, the related one other “dotted line.” He said in the traditional religious context, marriage was a covenant between the husband and wife and God with husband and wife joined as one. This is not the case in the secular realm of the state’s marriage license contract. The State is the Principal or dominant party. The husband and wife are merely contractually “joined” as business partners, not in any religious union. They may even be considered, he said, connected to each other by another “dotted line.”

    The picture he was trying to “paint” was that of a triangle with the State at the top and a solid line extending from the apex, the State, down the left side to the husband, and a separate solid line extending down the right side to the wife, a “dotted line” merely showing that they consider themselves to have entered into a religious union of some sort that is irrelevant to the State.

    Marriage License

    Secular Contract Diagram

    STATE

    (primary party)

    HUSBAND WIFE .

    (secondary party) (secondary party) .

    GOD

    He further mentioned that this “religious overtone” is recognized by the State by requiring that the marriage must be solemnized either by a state official or by a minister of religion that has been “deputized” by the State to perform the marriage ceremony and make a return of the signed and executed marriage license to the State.

    Again, he emphasized that marriage is a strictly secular relationship so far as the State is concerned and because it is looked upon as a “privileged business enterprise” various tax advantages and other political privileges have become attached to the marriage license contract that have nothing at all to do with marriage as a religious covenant or bond between God and a man and a woman.

    By way of reference, if you would like to read a legal treatise on marriage, one of the best is “Principles of Community Property,” by William Defuniak. At the outset, he explains that Community Property law descends from Roman Civil Law through the Spanish Codes, 600 A.D., written by the Spanish juris consults.

    In the civil law, the marriage is considered to be a for-profit venture or profit-making venture (even though it may never actually produce a profit in operation) and as the wife goes out to the local market to purchase food stuffs and other supplies for the marriage household, she is replenishing the stocks of the business. To restate: In the civil law, the marriage is considered to be a business venture, that is, a for-profit business venture. Moreover, as children come into the marriage household, the business venture is considered to have “borne fruit.”

    Now, back to the explanation by the Maricopa County Superior Court, Marriage Bureau’s administrative Assistant. He went on to explain that every contract must have consideration. The State offers consideration in the form of the actual license itself – the piece of paper, the Certificate of Marriage. The other part of consideration by the State is “the privilege to be regulated by statute.” He added that this privilege to be regulated by statute includes all related statutes, and all court cases as they are ruled on by the courts, and all statutes and regulations into the future in the years following the commencement of the

    marriage. He said in a way the marriage license contract is a dynamic or flexible, ever-changing contract as time goes along – even though the husband and wife didn’t realize that.

    My thought on this is can it really be considered a true contract as one becomes aware of the failure by the State to make full disclosure of the terms and conditions. A contract must be entered into knowingly, intelligently, intentionally, and with fully informed consent. Otherwise, technically there is no contract.

    Another way to look as the marriage license contract with the State is as a contract of adhesion, a contract between two disparate, unequal parties. Again, a flawed “contract.” Such a contract with the State is said to be a “specific performance” contract as to the privileges, duties and responsibilities that attach.

    Consideration on the part of the husband and wife is the actual fee paid and the implied agreement to be subject to the state’s statutes, rules, and regulations and all court cases ruled on related to marriage law, family law, children, and property. He emphasized that this contractual consideration by the bride and groom places them in a definite and defined-by-law position inferior and subject to the State. He commented that very few people realize this.

    He also said that it is very important to understand that children born to the marriage are considered by law as “the contract bearing fruit” – meaning the children primarily belong to the State, even though the law never comes out and says so in so many words.

    In this regard, children born to the contract regarded as “the contract bearing fruit,” he said it is vitally important for parents to understand two doctrines that became established in the United States during the 1930s. The first is the Doctrine of Parens Patriae. The second is the Doctrine of In Loco Parentis.

    Parens Patriae means literally “the parent of the country” or to state it more bluntly – the State is the undisclosed true parent. Along this line, a 1930s Arizona Supreme Court case states that parents have no property right in their children, and have custody of their children during good behavior at the sufferance of the State. This means that parents may raise their children and maintain custody of their children as long as they don’t offend the State, but if they in some manner displease the State, the State can step in at any time and exercise its superior status and take custody and control of its children – the parents are only conditional caretakers. [Thus the Doctrine of In Loco Parentis.]

    He also added a few more technical details. The marriage license is an ongoing contractual relationship with the State. Technically, the marriage license is a business license allowing the husband and wife, in the name of the marriage, to enter into contracts with third parties and contract mortgages and debts. They can get car loans, home mortgages, and installment debts in the name of the marriage because it is not only a secular enterprise, but it is looked upon by the State as a privileged business enterprise as well as a for-profit business enterprise. The marriage contract acquires property through out its existence and over time, it is hoped, increases in value.

    Also, the marriage contract “bears fruit” by adding children. If sometime later, the marriage fails, and a “divorce” results the contract continues in existence. The “divorce” is merely a contractual dissolution or amendment of the terms and

    conditions of the contract. Jurisdiction of the State over the marriage, over the husband and wife, now separated, continues and continues over all aspects of the marriage, over marital property and over children brought into the marriage.

    That is why family law and the Domestic Relations court calls “divorce” a dissolution of the marriage because the contract continues in operation but in amended or modified form. He also pointed out that the marriage license contract is one of the strongest, most binding contractual relationships the State has on people.

    At the end of our hour-long meeting, I somewhat humorously asked if other people had come in and asked the questions I was asking? The Assistant replied that in the several years he had worked there, he was not aware of anyone else asking these questions. He added that he was very glad to see someone interested in the legal implications of the marriage license and the contractual relationship it creates with the State.

    His boss, the young woman Marriage Bureau department head stated, “You have to understand that people who come in here to get a marriage license are in heat. The last thing they want to know is technical, legal and statutory implications of the marriage license.”

    I hope this is helpful information to anyone interested in getting more familiar with the contractual implications of the marriage license. The marriage license as we know it didn’t come into existence until after the Civil War and didn’t become standard practice in all the states until after 1900, becoming firmly established by 1920. In effect, the states or governments appropriated or usurped control of marriages in secular form and in the process declared Common Law applicable to marriages “abrogated.”

    Please pass this information along and share it as widely as possible.

    Original message from Virgil Cooper: ultrac21@whitemtns.com

    http://www.usavsus.info/US–MarriageLicVirgilCooper.htm

  • The Marriage License is a Trap

    The Marriage License is a Trap

    We innocently forfeit our legal and parental rights when we purchase a marriage license.

    Rich writes:

    I wanted to pass along some VERY important information regarding marriage, the marriage contract, contract law, the state and children. This has helped me see the TRUE DANGER in getting married today.

    I have been studying the law intensely for the past few years and learned all about maritime law, contract law, trusts, corporations, policies, common law and how nearly ALL such “laws” today are not laws at all, but are merely Policies. They’re operating under pretense of law. That is why police today are in fact called Police…because they enforce POLIC(E)-IES… NOT laws.  They actually work for the insurance companies who are themselves owned by the banks, especially the Federal Reserve central banks.
    ________________

    by Rich
    (henrymakow.com)

         The marriage license began in the middles ages as a private contract between two families. Most of the time this was recorded in the local church with or without eyewitnesses. Usually the word of a couple that stated they were married was sufficient to have the marriage recorded as such.

    According to Black’s Law Dictionary, the word license is defined as – “Permission by competent authority to do an act which without such permission, would be illegal.”

    In other words, the government makes something that was lawful to do, illegal. They then charge you a fee (which is a bribe) to turn their backs and give you a permit that allows you to break the law that they just said was illegal to do!

    So the state, in instituting any kind of licensing, is forcing you to contract with them and pay a bribe to do something that they claim is illegal.

    In Civil Law, the marriage is considered to be a for-profit venture. As the wife goes out to the local market to purchase food stuffs and other supplies for the marriage household, she is replenishing the stocks of the business.

    Moreover, as children come into the marriage household, the business venture is considered to have “borne fruit.”

    Another way to look as the marriage license contract with the State is as a contract of adhesion, a contract between two disparate, unequal parties. Again, a flawed “contract.”

    This contract with the State is said to be a “specific performance” contract as to the privileges, duties and responsibilities that are attached to it.

    Consideration on the part of the husband and wife is the actual fee paid. This results in an implied agreement to be subject to the state’s statutes, rules, and regulations and all court cases ruled on related to marriage law, family law, children, and property.

    It should be emphasized that this contractual consideration places the bride and groom in an inferior position (as defined-by-law) and makes them subject to the State. Very few people realize this.

    It is very important to understand that children born to the marriage are considered by law as “the contract bearing fruit” – meaning the children primarily belong to the State.

    In this regard, children are regarded as “contract bearing fruit,”.

    This was established in the US in the 1930’s by two doctrines. The first is the Doctrine of Parens Patriae. The second is the Doctrine of In Loco Parentis.

    Parens Patriae means literally “the parent of the country” or to put it more bluntly – the State is the undisclosed true parent.

    Along this line, a 1930’s Arizona Supreme Court case states that parents have no property right in their children, and have custody of their children during good behavior at the sufferance of the State.

    This means that parents may raise their children and maintain custody of their children as long as they don’t offend the State.

    But if they in some manner displease the State, the State can step in at any time and exercise its superior status and take custody and control of its children -i.e. the parents are only conditional caretakers. [Thus the Doctrine of In Loco Parentis.]

    The marriage license is an ongoing contractual relationship between the husband, wife and state. It’s a trinity, just like a pyramid, with the State on top.

    Technically, the marriage license is a business license allowing the husband and wife, in the name of the marriage (a maritime corporation), to enter into contracts with third parties and contract mortgages and debts. They can get car loans, home mortgages, and installment debts in the name of the marriage.

    Also, the marriage contract “bears fruit” by adding children. If sometime later, the marriage fails, and a “divorce” results the contract continues in existence.

    The “divorce” is merely a contractual dissolution or amendment of the terms and conditions of the contract. Jurisdiction over the marriage, husband and wife, by the state, now separated, continues over all aspects of the marriage, including over marital property and the children brought into the marriage.

    That is why Family Law and the Domestic Relations court calls “divorce” a dissolution of the marriage, because the contract continues in operation but in amended or modified form. The marriage license contract is one of the strongest, most binding contractual relationships the State has on people.

    This is why time and time again CPS feels that they can just come in and take over your children, because according to the marriage license (along with numerous other unrevealed contracts), they have legal jurisdiction over your children without you really knowing or understanding why.

    Much of this also goes back to the 14th amendment, your all capitalized name and each persons name being incorporated, thus giving the states and Feds authority over you.

    This is how we have all become enslaved once again, by these dangerous and unrevealed adhesion contracts, many of which, like the marriage contract, are always in force to some degree.

    http://www.henrymakow.com/the_true_danger_of_getting_mar.html

  • God Hates Cecile Richards

    God Hates Cecile Richards

    God Hates Cecile Richards, CEO of Planned Parenthood

    Since Cecile Richards became the president of Planned Parenthood in 2006 she has been responsible for the murder of millions of unborn children. From 2006-2013, while Cecile Richards has been president, Planned Parenthood performed 2,569,092 abortions.

    Planned Parenthood abortions per Year

    In Proverbs 6:16-19 it says that God hates “hands that shed innocent blood.” However, not only does God hate those that shed innocent blood, they are an abomination to Him.

    “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” Proverbs 6:16-19

    Some people say that God does not actually hate people but that he only hates their sin. However, there are several passages in scripture which reveal that God does hate the wicked.

    The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Psalm 5:5

    The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. Psalm 11:5

    And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. Leviticus 20:23

    All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. Hosea 9:15

    Sources:

    2006
    http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/AR_2007_vFinal.pdf

    2007
    http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/AR08_vFinal.pdf

    2008
    http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/PPFA_Annual_Report_08-09-FINAL-12-10-10.pdf

    2009
    http://issuu.com/actionfund/docs/ppfa_financials_2010_122711_web_vf/

    2010
    http://www.sba-list.org/sites/default/files/content/shared/pp_fact_sheet_2011_2012_annual_report.pdf

    2011
    http://issuu.com/actionfund/docs/ppfa_ar_2012_121812_vf/3

    2012
    http://issuu.com/actionfund/docs/ar-fy13_111213_vf_rev3_issuu/1

    2013
    http://issuu.com/actionfund/docs/annual_report_final_proof_12.16.14_/0

  • The pope is the man of sin and the antichrist

    The pope is the man of sin and the antichrist

    The office of the papacy is the “man of sin” of whom is spoken in 2 Thessalonians 2.

    “Let not any completely deceive you in not one manner! for it will not be unless the  defection should come first, and the man of sin should be uncovered, the son of destruction,” 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ABP

    vs. 6 “And now that which restrains ye know, for him to be revealed in his own time.”

    The papacy was revealed when the Roman emperors lost their ability to constrain it because of the destruction of the Roman empire. When pagan Rome was finally destroyed in 476 A.D., papal Rome rose to power since it was no longer constrained by pagan Rome.

    From the Geneva Bible with footnotes:

    vs. 4 “Which is an adversary, and (f) exalteth himself against all that is called God, or
    that is worshipped, (4) so that he doeth sit as God in the Temple of God, shewing
    himself that he is God.”

    (f) All men know who he is that saith he can shut up heaven and open it at his pleasure, and took
    upon him to be lord and master above all Kings and Princes, before whom Kings and Princes fall
    down and worship, honoring that Antichrist as a god.
    (4) He foretelleth that Antichrist, (that is, whosoever he be that shall occupy that seat that falleth
    away from God) shall not reign without the Church, but in the very bosom of the Church.

    vs. 7 (6) “For the mystery of iniquity doeth already (*) work; (7) only he which (♣) now
    (h) withholdeth, shall let till he be taken out of the way.”

    (6) Even in the Apostles’ time the first foundations of the Apostolic seat were laid, but yet so, that
    they deceived men.
    (*) To wit, privily, and is therefore called a mystery because it is secret.
    (7) He foretelleth that when the empire of Rome is taken away, the seat that falleth away from God
    shall succeed and shall hold his place, as the old writers, Tertullian, Chrysostom, and Jerome do
    expound it.
    (♣) Which shall stay for a time.
    (h) He which is now in authority and ruleth all, to wit, the Roman Empire.

    Select quotes from Seventy Weeks – The Historical Alternative:

    Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, 390 A.D., writes, “By the ‘Hindrance’ Paul means the Roman Empire.” This was also believed by Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, 400 A.D.

    Jerome, 400 A.D., declared, “If St. Paul had written openly and boldly that the man of sin would not come until the Roman Empire was destroyed, a just cause of persecution would then appear to have been afforded against the Church in her infancy.”

    Bishop Wodsworth wrote in 1850, “The earliest Christian writers declare…with one voice the ‘he who letteth’ was the heathen Roman Empire.” (Apocalypse, p. 520)

    Tertullian: We pray for the Roman Emperors and empire, for we know that convulsions and calamities are threatening the whole world, and the end of the world itself, is kept back by the intervention of the Roman empire.

    Jerome: The Roman world rushes to destruction, and we bend not our neck in humiliation…The hindrance in antichrist’s way is removing, and we heed it not…In that one city the whole world hath fallen.

    Evangrius: The Roman emperors are driven from their kingdoms: wars rage: all is commotion: Antichrist must be at hand.

    Thus, the pope is the man of sin and the antichrist.

  • Pro-life supporters protest home of infanticide practicing doctor

    Pro-life supporters protest home of infanticide practicing doctor

    Pro-life supporters have recently been protesting at the home of a St. Louis Doctor who practices infanticide which is commonly incorrectly referred to as abortion. These mass murderers of those not yet born are David Eisenberg and Erin King who are married and both doctors. It is by Christians interposing themselves in the place of unborn children and decrying these evil tyrants and the rulers that support them that infanticide will be stopped.

  • Christians are in denial that public schools teach atheism and evolution

    Christians are in denial that public schools teach atheism and evolution

    Christians have been deceived in America into supporting a public school system that teaches atheism, evolution, and many other falsehoods. The public school system is also responsible for the rapid degeneration of society into accepting such things as sodomy, infanticide (the correct term for what we commonly call abortion), and other perversions. One woman who was a public school teacher and administrator was recently complaining that her state’s education budget had money taken away from it to be transferred for general use. When confronted with the fact that the public school system is anti-christian because of its teachings, her statements revealed that she has cognitive dissonance regarding the truth about the teachings of the American public school system. Read the response of a Christian to her complaints and see her cognitive dissonance exposed.

    Discussion about Public Schools teaching evolution

    The discussion ended because the woman was unable to admit in her mind that the American public school system teaches atheism, evolution, and a host of other evils. She has deceived herself.  Unfortunately, this thinking is common among Christians who think that their school system is better than all the others and that the horrible things occurring in other school systems don’t occur in theirs. For more information watch the documentary Escaping Common Core, which exposes the anti-christian teachings of the public school system and how much worse they are becoming. Another documentary exposing the public school system is IndoctriNation, which documents why Christianity is declining in America as a result of removing the Christian basis for education from the public school system. For more resources on getting Christians out of the public school system visit the website for the ministry Exodus Mandate.

  • The victory of Christ and His people is inevitable

    The Victory of Christ and His people is inevitable. We win. Get over it. There is no barrier that can forestall us. There is no Maginot line that can impede us. We will overcome all resistance. You will be assimilated to the Kingdom of God or you will die outside of it.

    Every battle we may lose serves the purpose of the sure certainty of victory in the War. Every one of us you may kill guarantees the rise of ten more of us to come after you with the Praise of God on our lips and a double edged sword in our hands.

    You cannot stop us. No weapon formed against us shall prosper. You cannot forestall your final defeat, you cannot reverse this certain triumph. Even your very thoughts will be made captive to Christ.

    Your Commander in Chief has already been defeated and all we are engaged in now is the mopping up of childish resistance as found in pockets of insanity.

    Plead for mercy now. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in the way. Sue for peace and receive generous terms of surrender.

    Why will you die in your sin when you cannot win?

  • Every nation is a theocracy

    The idea that nations do not live under a theocracy is a man-centered theology. All nations have always lived under a theocracy: (1) a theocracy wherein such nation is blessed per Deuteronomy 28:1-14; or (2) a theocracy wherein that nation is cursed per Deuteronomy 28:15-68. The question, in terms of civil administration is one wherein such nation will seek the duties and consequences of the theocratic blessings or the rebellion and consequences of the theocratic cursings. Faithful Christianity seeks the first alternative. The idea that nations, as nations, can escape theocratic rule is a fallacy and a frontal assault on the claims and Crown of Jesus Christ – it denies in theory what happens in reality – the Sovereignty of God.

  • What happened to the Northern Ten Tribed Kingdom of Israel?

    One of the greatest mysteries of all history revolves around the Northern Ten tribed Kingdom of “the House of Israel” and exactly what ever happened to them. The United Kingdom of Israel shortly after the death of King Solomon split into two separate Kingdoms under his son, Rehoboam. Upon his ascent to the throne  all twelve tribes came to him asking for tax relief. His father, Solomon had taxed All Israel heavily to finance his building projects. Even as they requested Rehoboam to give a little relief some of the young men who were on his counsel suggested that he instead raise taxes. His announcement of accepting this bad advice caused the Northern ten tribes to rebel and set up their own Kingdom, The “House of Israel”  with Jeroboam as King. The two remaining tribes of Judah and little Benjamin with a small portion of Levi, continued on as before being now called the Kingdom or “House of Judah.”  This arrangement continued on for some  years until finally between 734 B.C. and 722 B.C., the Assyrian Kingdom carried the Northern Kingdom of Israel into captivity depositing them just South of the Caucasus mountains near present day Turkey.

    Captivity Routes of Israel

    The House of Israel in spite of being warned never to return to the land chose not to simply remain where they were dropped of by their captors. In stead they “took counsel” among themselves and chose to journey on into a land where they where “not known”. It is this journey that has puzzled so many for centuries now. But God has begun to remove the veil of secrecy  He placed over the nations as a protection for His people .Not only did they begin a journey that  took them far beyond what we now term the “Middle east” but all across Northern Europe eventually leading them throughout the world.. They actually joined forces and served as mercenaries at one time with Babylon and with Medes to destroy the Assyrian Empire that had taken them captive. Guess they learned not to mess with God’s people! The preeminent thing to remember about the split into two kingdoms is they have not as yet rejoined and  according to the Bible will not until Jesus returns and “unto Him will the gathering of the people be”. Many raise conjections that when the House of Israel was taken captive not all were displaced some remained, fled South and became part and parcel with the House of Judah while the remainder simply vanished into whatever. for all time erasing the House of Israel. God however promised the exact opposite would be the case, He would never forget the House of Israel.

    Ezekiel 37:15-28 “The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: 17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these 19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. 20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: 22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: 23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. 24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people

    28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.”

    Gone but not forgotten,

    2 Kings 17:23-24 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.  24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon , and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel : and they possessed Samaria , and dwelt in the cities thereof.

    Babylon was a servant state at this time to the Assyrians. Foreigners were placed in the land of Israel which became known as “Samaritans” There is little wonder the New Testament has little use for the “Samaritan dogs” these were not from the House of Israel they replaced it upon the land.

    Israel/Ephraim did not repent to be allowed to return after their period of exile was up.

    EZEKIEL 4:1-6 4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem :   2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.   3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel .   4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.   5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel .   6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

    God placed it upon Ezekiel’s heart to prophecy the period to be 390 years. Again they did not repent, instead falling deeper into idolatry

    33   They feared the LORD and served their own gods according to the custom of the nations from among whom they had been carried away into exile.
    34   To this day they do according to the earlier customs: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances or the law, or the commandments which the LORD commanded the sons of Jacob,  whom He named Israel ; 2 Kings 17:33 ,34

    It seems they forgot what Moses had taught them about God’s goodness…

    Deuteronomy 30 1-30

    30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

    2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

    3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity (exile), and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

    KJV

    Choosing instead to follow after idols they also forgot, much to their hurt …

    Lev 26:14-18

    14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

    15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

    16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

    17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

    18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

    So here we see that the further prophecy of Moses now takes effect. The Northern Kingdom (Ephraim) has not repented and they now have a compounding problem on their hands. Instead of the punishment ending it is multiplied times seven.

    EZEKIEL LAYING ON HIS SIDE =390 DAYS =390 YEARS

    ASSYRIANS WERE TO TAKE EPHRAIM INTO CAPTIVITY FOR 390 YEARS

    MOSES PROPHECIED  SEVEN TIMES MORE IF THEY DID NOT REPENT:

    390 YEARS X 7 = 2,730 YEARS

    The northern kingdoms exile period equals 2,730 years. They have never really been lost at all just placed in a stealth mode all these years, quietly being mixed among all the nations of the earth. For this reason Jesus states that He came for the lost sheep of the House of Israel (Ephraim). He began the regathering process of his lost sheep which has been going on for 2,000 years. The 2,000 years from Jesus first coming as the Suffering Messiah “Yashua ben Yoshef” (Or Jesus son of Joseph) He is also known as “the son of man”. His second coming as “Yashua ben David” the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and the end of the exile are both corresponding together in a way that only God could pull that off!

    Genesis 49:10 “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.”

    Shiloh is a Title applied to Jesus. His Shiloh coming is His second coming it is there unto Him shall the House of Israel return.

    In 1948 the “Zionist State of Israel was born amidst great difficulties and much argument over what to name the new State. After days of debate Israel was chosen for purely political reasons. The people that reside there now are at best “the house of Judah” and not “the House of Israel” which has yet to be gathered home.

    Now let us do the math. Let’s begin by counting 2,730 years from 734 B.C. and 722 B.C. and see where we land. 734-722 B.C. SUBTRACTING THE 2,730 YEARS BRINGS US TO APPROXIMATELY 1996-2008 A.D. Warning! We do not seek to place an exact date for the return of Jesus simply point out our days of captivity and His return are close at hand! We cannot be 100% accurate with these dates; especially since the scriptural ones are in Lunar years not Solar but there is a very small difference so for our reference here we shall deal in years as we calculate them. Scripture points out …

    Mark 13:32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

    (Matthew 24:36 also)

    Only God alone knows the exact day and hour which is how it must be. If we somehow knew Jesus was returning on January 1, 1775 everyone would go out and “party down” til 11:59 on that day but, even with the day and hour we forgot to specify which time zone is it Jerusalem central time? or what? No best left up to the Father! There was a book that made the rounds titled 1988 reasons why Jesus will return in 1988, of course its sequel 1999 reasons why Jesus will return in 1999 did not fair as well. Come to think of it I haven’t heard any more after that attempt to set a date failed. But we can know the season of the year according to Paul …

    1Thessolonians 4:16-5:3 16 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

    1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

    1Th 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

    1Th 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

    1Th 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

    1Th 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”

    Yes you may say ‘wait a minute I have always been taught that the birth of the state of Israel in 1948 was the return of Israel to the land’ … remember Paul wrote in  Romans 11:25 “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.”

    So don’t be surprised as you read on a little further. Oh yeah, by the way that was one of the 1998 reasons why Jesus was to come back in 1998, 40 years after Israel came home! Maybe God’s calendar is a little off? I doubt that!!!

    There has been a blindness, never fully but this blindness has been like veil spread over the nations just as Isaiah prophesied it would be.

    Isaiah 25:7 “And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.”

    This shall come to pass just as the fullness or completeness of the Gentiles  shall have been brought into the kingdom. That will be when the Father looks at the Son and says “OK go!”

    This blindness has veiled Gods true plan to many. It is sad that many have been lost because of someone’s misinterpretation

    This is why blindness in part is coming off the House of Israel (Ephraim) and we are reawakening to our heritage and our roots in a powerful way.  Jesus is preparing His return.

    THE 2,730 YEAR WAITING PERIOD FOR THIS REVIVAL IS NOW ENDING. WE ARE NOW BEGINNING TO REPENT AND BEGINNING TO HEARKEN TO HIS VOICE AND BEGINNING TO OBEY HIS COMMANDS AND SEEK OUT HIS WAYS, REVIVAL IS COMING!

    The understanding of who The House of Israel really is will open scripture to your understanding especially prophecy as never before. The Bible will seem like a new book to you. In the words of Rev. Charles Fox Parham, the father of the modern day outpouring of the Holy Spirit

    As early as 1899 or before, Parham had recognized and was teaching the truth of the Christian Anglo-Israel message of the Bible.

    He earnestly contended for this truth until his death in 1929. As late as two years before his death, he published an article in “THE APOSTOLIC FAITH“ magazine of July 1927 affirming his belief in this truth and encouraging his readers to accept it as being a part of the Full-Gospel message. The following are the opening and closing paragraphs of that article entitled, “The Ten Lost Tribes.”

    “I want to write a short sketch to introduce to our readers one of the most important topics of the day, commonly known as Anglo-Israel, or The Ten Lost Tribes. I do not think that any Full Gospel preacher ought to longer delay in acquainting himself with this subject as I believe it belongs with the Full Gospel Message and that the message of the last days must include this subject or we are not preaching the Full Gospel.”

    “Now, if the reader will carefully read Jacob’s blessings upon his children for the last days, and all the prophecies concerning Israel in the Old Testament, knowing they refer to the above named nations (ie: Anglo-Saxondom) and belong to us as a people, (ie: Protestants) the Old Testament will become a new book to you full of vital importance and interest.”

    This short overview is by no means an exhaustive study of this subject just an introduction to it.

    http://www.psalmist.biz/Lost%20tribes.htm