The Images Tell The Story: The Birth of the Nation of Israel

Dura-Europos Moses and Aaron Leading Israel Out of Egypt

Exodus 1:1 Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

            1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

            1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

            1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

            1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

            1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

            1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Exodus 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

            12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

The ‘hosts of the LORD’ in this passage, refers to the military and army of Israel.

              

            12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

Exodus 14:8 and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.

The meaning of a ‘high hand’ is the use of power or authority more forcefully than is needed, without thinking about the feelings or wishes of other people; not showing any interest in the rights, opinions, or feelings of other people.

Exodus 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,

            20:2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

            20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

The Image to the Far Left is a Fresco of Moses Aaron and the Exodus, from the Dura-Europos synagogue. The 2nd and 3rd century Dura-Europos synagogue is better preserved than other, older synagogues that have emerged from archaeological digs. It is often called the world's oldest preserved Jewish synagogue. Dura-Europos is a building of Jewish worship in the City Hellenistic and Roman of Dura-Europos in the province of Syria. This is one of the most important monuments in the study of Jewish art in the ancient world. Succeeding the first building of the second half of the second century, the synagogue was rebuilt about 244-245 A.D. and has a set of murals figurative single to date. It was preserved when it was filled with earth to strengthen the city's fortifications against a Sassanian assault in 256. This act resulted in the preservation of much of the painted decoration. The destruction of the city at the end of the siege that followed and the deportation of the population by the Persians put an end to the occupation of the site, which explains its remarkable state of preservation until the first archaeological excavations. The Persians intervened in the French mandate in Syria between 1921 and 1933 and saw the complete release of the remains of the synagogue.  

The site was also excavated in 1935 by Clark Hopkins, who found that it contains a forecourt and house of assembly with frescoed walls depicting people and animals, and a Torah shrine in the western wall facing Jerusalem. Dura-Europos also boasts the oldest known Christian church. The synagogue's painted walls and roof of baked-brick tiles were transported across the desert 300 miles away to Damascus, where it became the centerpiece of the National Museum built in 1934. The frescoes were deposited at the National Museum in Damascus that they are one of the masterpieces of the collection. It was dismantled and re-constructed at Yale University in the early 1930s, so there isn't much to see at Dura-Europos but basic foundations.

In this synagogue there are also images which testify to the syncretism, or heretical belief systems that Israelites have been immersed in, such as the cult of Mithra.

The Dura-Europos image of Moses and Aaron leading the children of Israel out of Egypt will always stand out as both a testament of what the Jews looked like in the 1st Century, and what their descendents look like now. It also stands as a reminder of YAHAWAH's providence over his children and a portent for the future delivery of Israel out of the captivities, their exile, and their Diaspora which they now find themselves in, scattered across the face of the earth.

Apocrypha II Esdras 2:1 Thus saith the Lord, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but despised my counsels.

Apocrypha II Esdras 2:7 Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names be put out of the earth : for they have despised my covenant.

And so, the nation of Israel remains so to this day, but millennia ago Israel the Father of Joseph, the Father, of Ephraim, and Manasseh, was given a future vision of his children’s and his descendant’s sojourn and departure from Egypt.

Genesis. 48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph Behold, I die: but the LORD shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

Here Jacob prophesied that the children of Israel would be delivered out of Egypt and brought to the land of our Fathers. The land of Israel’s fathers is the land of Canaan, the land of Israel.

The Land of Israel Throughout History

Though in time it would come to be understood that the whole earth was made for Israel’s, as the nation chosen by the LORD to govern, and preside over the earth.

Apocrypha II Esdras 6:59 If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess an inheritance with the world? How long shall this endure?

This question was asked of the LORD by Ezra a scribe and priest, who headed a migration of Israelites from Babylon to the Israelite capital Jerusalem around 70 years after the destruction of the Israelite Kingdom and State of Judah. The Kingdom of Judah became a Babylonian Province called Yehud Medinata or Judah Province.

The Dura-Europos image of Moses, Aaron, and Israel in the header speaks of the period of around 1400-900B.C. The other nations populated and spread out upon the earth, and established kingdoms, some fledging kingdoms, but this period began Israel’s history as a national polity on the earth. Israel was the last nation to enter the world stage, and this nation was destined to forever have an impact on the world. They are the Holy people of the LORD, the nation of the Messiah, the nation of priest-kings of the LORD who created heaven, and earth.  In secular history before Israel left Egypt they ruled Lower Egypt for a time, and were called the Hyksos, the Sheperd Kings of Egypt. This era saw their rise as rulers of Egypt, their expansion in trade under the Egyptian’s economic, social, political system. This was followed by their overthrow, disenfranchisement, and enslavement. This most pivotal moment in Israel’s history, this era saw their deliverance by the hand of Most High YAHAWAH, the creator of heaven and earth. Their deliverance and the type and spiritual scope of the deliverance they received would stand as a sign to the world, the type nation they were to be.

Tabernacle of the Congregation

The LORD though Moses as his vicar, or earthly representative led the families of Israel out of captivity, out of Egypt as a nation, a cohesive social, political, economic and spiritual polity. Their deliverance was followed by a meeting with YAHAWAH, the creator of Heaven and Earth, and power of all creation, and the reception of his laws of Heaven on Earth, and an agreement to be their tutelary, and their All. This meeting and agreement is known as the First Covenant. The Civil, Ceremonial, Dietary, and Moral laws of Heaven on Earth, were to be, and are a defining signet upon the history of mankind, as no other nation, received such treatment, wherein the LORD YAHAWAH openly revealed himself, and spoke to an entire nation.

Exodus 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

            20:19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

            20:20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

            20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

            20:22 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

            20:23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

Psalm 147:19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

          147:20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD

Israel’s settlement in the Land of Canaan, their expansion as one of the group of the Sea People, was one of the causing events of the Bronze Age’s trade infrastructure collapse, and caused permanent changes to the Levantine’s, and the Mediterranean’s economic-social-political landscape, changing the world. Reconstructing this living age is difficult due to different factors. The Humanism of the 17^th century up until the present has sought to reconstruct this age based on the new sciences of the times which has lead to a conflict of chronology, and improper identification of peoples, and nations, all while trying to fit the past with the present framework of pseudo-scientific race theories, eschewed and antiquated as they are. Fortunately the Neo-Roman Dutch-Anglo-American-Anti-Biblical centric view that has dominated world academia during the 19^th century up until the present day, has also had a counter academic community, which is interested in telling the story of a multi-ethnic international world, in which all people, and nations have played a part in history. This is in accordance with world history through the view of the Bible.

During the reception of the covenant, the LORD, admonished Israel against falling away from the way of heaven on earth.

Dueteronomy. 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed.

This destruction wasn’t total, and neither was it permanent, but it was a forced removal, and migration, that was to take place many times, across the face of the earth. Moses prophesied that the kingdom and society of Israel which was yet to be established was to be destroyed after it was established.

Dueteronomy. 4:27 And the LORD shall shatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

The Book of Deuteronomy consists of a series of farewell messages by Israel’s 120 year old leader, Chief Magistrate and King.

Deuteronomy. 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force bated.

As a foreshadowing of the spiritual reality, and power which Israel was to exist in, as Moses aged, his body didn’t undergo the physical deterioration that a physical body suffers through as we age. He physically remained a young man by the time he died. Moses’ farewell messages were addressed to that new generation of Israelites that were to possess the Land of Promise, those who survived the forty years of wilderness. But as we also know now, the Bible is unlike any other book, and though it is made up of the three dimensional matter of physical reality, it’s substance is spiritual, so it's existence is multi-dimensional which is why the past, present, and future happen all at the same time in the eyes of the scriptures, which is the word of the LORD. The Bible is a tesseract, a construct that exists beyond the three dimensions we can perceive. So Moses’ address is also meant for us, especially in these last days, which is comparable to the days when Israel was delivered from the enslavement of the Egyptians, as we shall be delivered from this ‘Edomi Galut’, this exile, and Kingdom/Government of Edom, and the Kingdoms/Government of the Nations. Let it be known that social, political, and economic disenfranchisement is slavery.

Like Leviticus, Deuteronomy contains a vast amount of legal detail, but its emphasis is on the laymen rather than the priests. Moses reminds the new generation of the importance of obedience if they are to learn from the sad example of their parents. The previous generation could not overcome the spirit of humanism, natural law, and materialism that spiritually governed Egypt. They could not overcome the spirit of Astro-theology, they could overcome the base desires of man, which the cultures of the nations worship, and thereby make, and create for themselves addictive personalities, and appetites. The parting words of Moses are given in oral and written form so they will endure to all generations. Deuteronomy is called in Yiddish 'Mishneh Hattorah', “Repetition of the Law”, which is translated in the Septuagint, in Koine Greek, as 'To Deuteronomion Touto', “This Second Law.” Deuteronomy, however, is not a second law but an adaptation and expansion of much of the original law given on Mount Sinai, or Mount Horeb. The English title comes from the Greek title Deuteronomion, “Second Law.” Deuteronomy has been appropriately called the “Book of Rememberance.”

Ecclesiastes. 1:11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

When we are born we don’t remember the past, and have to become acquainted with the world. It is no easy chore to reconstruct past events, to remember what happened, seeing as that men are forgetful.

Deuteronomy the 28^th Chapter details the past, present, and future events that would occur to the nation of Israel. These events were to be a sign in their times to point out who they were yesterday, and who they are today, because the LORD would cause their memory to cease from among men.

Deuteronomy 32:26 I said , I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men.

What the world remembers of Israel is just a pittance of what they were and who they are, but the word and 

spirit of the LORD, through his son, Yahawashi causes us to remember in part.

Deuteronomy 28:32 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the daylong: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

Thy Sons and Daughters Shall Be Given Away

Deuteronomy 28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

                     28:46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

The conditions of the curses are a sign of who the descendants of Israel are, since there would be few other ways of knowing who they were, considering one of the curses would be a lack of remembrance of them among men, as punishment for forgetting the LORD. By contemplating, and wondering, from reading the scriptures and comparing the conditions created by the curses you can see who the descendants of Israel are. ‘Upon thy seed forever’ meaning you will always be able to use the scriptures to understand who they are by the conditions they live in, and by the signifying events in their lives, up until the present time, and until the time of the gentiles is fulfilled. Which some people erroneously call the end of the world, when it is only the end of the current establishments, and governments of the world.

The Enslavement of the Indios

Deuteronomy 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

The Modern Western Governments are Children of the Roman Empire

From the 16^th century up until the present, the Spanish, French, English, Dutch, British, Canada, United States, all had wars with the ‘so-called’ Native Americans, who are descendants of Israel. The Western world is a social, economical, political and biological lineal descendant of the Roman Empire, the use of the Eagle is as a result of this. In Rabbinical records Rome is Edom. Rome was a multicultural far-flung Empire larger than the Empires which preceded it. Though no Empire, region, or country can claim to have been populated by one ethnic type, nevertheless the main ruling ethnic people of Rome were descendants of Edom, though the conquered Grecian Macedonians were also Idumeans, or Edomites. The same is true today amongst the western countries of the world. Rome was Edom, yet not all descendants of Edom were Romans. The descendants of all the Biblical nations of the world are dispersed from their original millennia old homelands. Few people understand the nature of the Biblical ethnicities, which are not similar to the modern world’s ethnicities, yet the roots of all people are found in the Bible.

Deuteronomy 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

No Favor Shown to the Old or Young

28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

The Gods of Israel's Worship

Deuteronomy 28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

                      28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:

                                                                     

The Lord Shall Bring You Into Egypt Again With Ships

Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Deuteronomy 31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

                     31:25 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying,

                     31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

                     31:27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive

with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?

                     31:28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.

Dura-Europos: Moses, the Well, and the Nobles of Israel

The Elders and officers are the members of the aristocratic families of the twelve tribes of Israel, whose descendants walk the earth to this present day.  The nation of Israel is made up of twelve tribes. A tribe is an extended family which extends back paternally to one ancestor. A nation is a group of tribes. I speak this of the former meaning of the word nation. The modern form of the word nation is based on the term sovereign-nation state, and is a different meaning and use of the word nation. Yet the past is not swept away by the present, though man forgets, in time we shall see that the present is subjugated to the past, and the future is subjugated to the present.

Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

                      31:30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

                     32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

                     32:3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

The name of the LORD Most High is YAHAWAH. Which means He Is. YAHAWAH Ba Hasham Yahawashi means Father in the name of Your Son.

Exodus 3:13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

              3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, AM hath sent me unto you.

              3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

The way of the LORD, manifested through the expression of the Laws of Moses, and the commandments of Christ, is the foundation of all things, and life in the physical world. All the ways of the LORD are circumspect, perfectly balanced, equitable, taking all things into account.

Apocrypha II Esdras 5:42 And he said unto me, I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.

Deuteronomy 32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

If you sought out Israel today you would find them among the nations, in all countries following the cultures, and counter-cultures of the nations in which they dwell. Their spirit is not the spirit of Israel, but a foreign spirit, an evil spirit is in them.

The Cultures of the World Are Tantric and Astrotheological

Deuteronomy 32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

So the LORD asks “I’ve been a righteous Father towards you, I created you, and gave you the world, and rulership, is that how you pay me back?!”

Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

                      32:8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

All people and nations of the earth have an inheritance in the earth, a land that is theirs. The LORD gave all nations something of their own, and all nations have an aristocracy. All of this has been lost, and possessed by others during the tumults of history.  

                            

Deuteronomy 32:9 For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Israel is the LORD’s portion, the LORD’s particular property, selection, and his share of the earth. This portion has been inherited, and now belongs to his son Yahawashi Hamashiyach, through the Second Covenant. Which is why we say "YAHAWAH Ba Hasham Yahawashi" which means Father in the name of Your Son.

John 16:15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

Deuteronomy 32:9 For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

                      32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

                      32:11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

                      32:12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

Astrotheology and it’s diverse forms of celestial worship are not the worship of the LORD. Gnosticism and it’s variations of arch-dualism, or emanations, or the ‘One’, the ‘Good’, or Demiurge are not the true worship of YAHAWAH.

Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

                      32:14 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

                      32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

You must remember Israel was a maritime Empire. Jeshurun is a city of Ephraim, it’s symbolic of the city-states of Israel, like Tyre, and Zidon. The Lord compares them to an unruly animal that tries to kick its master. Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked is slang for ‘Israel you became a bunch of fat cats, and forgot who made you rich’. After Israel became extremely wealthy, they forsook justice, and the equitability of the Laws, and ritual ceremonial worship of the LORD. The Law is life, and the ritual lifestyle is life, a way a life which kept them in balance with the LORD, and each other. The LORD warned them that without having the right view of things, they would fall into disorder.  The aristocratic landowning class of Israel developed the arrogance that is associated with extreme wealth. It the mindset that a man’s wealth will protect him from any adversity, therefore he can do anything he wants. They developed an everyman for him-self view of life. They developed that view of life common to men, who follow their baser drives, chasing appetite for the sake of chasing appetites, doing only that which one finds pleasurable, this is existentially subversive, because appetite is escalatory, and requires more, and more to satisfy it. They forgot it was the LORD that made them wealthy.

Deuteronomy 32:16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

As all men do, once calamities begin to fall upon them, they seek out God for answers to their problems.  But these answers are irrational because they seek out reasons that do not convict them of their wrong doing, and place blame elsewhere as all irrational men do. So they don’t seek out the LORD for the cause of their troubles they seek out other Gods, that are like themselves, to justify their actions.

The Left Hand Side Has Many Expressed Forms

Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

                      32:18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

As Israelites travelled, created colonies, or proto-corporations, and experienced the cultures of the world, and the people they lived around, they did as any maritime people do, they intermarry with the foreign people, and their foreign wives teach their children the foreign customs, and culture. Being so far away from Jerusalem, the political and spiritual Capital of the nation, the people fell away from the way of heaven. This is why the High Holy Days of the ceremonial Laws required ‘all’ males of Israel to visit Jerusalem, and the Temple, to keep them mindful of the spiritual reality in which they were connected. Today the children of Israel sacrifice to any god that suits their fancy, any gods that will give them what they want. Every individual seeks the God of their own heart, but not the LORD who created them. They do not even know who YAHAWAH is. They have completely forgotten him.

Deuteronomy 32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

When the LORD saw, and sees the children of Israel, wherever they were, and wherever they are following the Astrotheological framework of the other nations, and worse contriving new syncretic spiritual science, and physic systems themselves, he was, and is disgusted with their foolish, destructive behavior. He shuttered, and shutters in disgust, anger, and hatred towards their vile lifestyles.

Deuteronomy 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

Psalm 81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

          81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

          81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

          81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

Israel rejected the way of the LORD, so the LORD let physics run it’s natural course. What this means is that the LORD created the forces of the physical universe to behave in a fixed way, like gravity, always works a certain fixed way. Under normal circumstances if you throw a bucket of water above your head, and remain in place it will come back down on you. So you’ll always get the same response, when you do the same thing. It is causality, the principle that every cause has an intended effect.

He called that generation, and this generation forward, which means not easily controlled, willful, and stubborn. He looked at them, and looks at this present generation as a crop not worth harvesting, not worth saving from the blight that afflicted it. He said they have no faith, no trust in him. He says the same thing about the generations of the children of Israel that live today.

Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

The LORD uses war to chastise nations, and people. The nation of  Israel’s enslavements are as a result of this. He will send a nation against a nation to afflict that nation, when he is in disagreement with the offending nation. Only through the view of the Bible can this be understood. Analyzing this view through any other foundation will bring you to another, albeit false conclusion, especially looking at it from the humanist framework of today. You won’t obtain understanding, only confusion.

Deuteronomy 32:35 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

The LORD speaks of the physics of the physical world. Their foot shall slide in due time means they are making bad decisions, choices and actions, and it’s going to catch up to them. The bad choices, decisions, and actions people make are based on their view of life, and the way they think life operates. The philosophical outlook of Humanism is in error, and its technological extension Transhumanism, the epogee of Humanism is in mortal error, yet these outlooks rule the direction of mankind.

Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

The opposition to the physics of life is shown in the deteriorating state of the social, political, economical affairs of the world. Israel shall be judged according to the laws of heaven on earth, and their consequence will be according to the laws of heaven on earth. The LORD will remember his elect, who are the nobility of Israel, his prophets, and priest. They will obtain mercy in judgment when he sees they are totally vulnerable, and have no power to deliver themselves out of the catastrophic circumstances the world is now in.

                            

Deuteronomy 32:37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

                      32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

And the LORD will tease and taunt the willful children of Israel who had no trust in him, who forgot him, and trusted in other things for protection, whether Gods or wealth, or other men.

                           

Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

                      32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

                      32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

                      32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

                      32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

The LORD will delight in the bloody deaths, and slavery of those who hated him. The LORD consoles the descendants of Israel who trust in him, though they will face the calamities of the world, and even die in the world, yet every murder will be avenged, and the LORD will pay back all of his enemies, and will in the end be merciful to the Land of Israel, the earth, and the people of Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:44 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.

                      32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:

                      32:46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

                      32:47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

And this song of Moses endures forever. The birth of Israel as a nation began with their redemption from the house of bondage, and our redemption will once again begin with a gathering and deliverance from the present house of spiritual and physical bondage, this world ruled by the governance of the wicked.

The Images Tell The Story: The Reestablishment of the Holy Dynasty of the Lord

Icon of King David

 

The Second image from the left is a Russian Icon of King David, one the nation of Israel's most famous Monarchs. King David, as his name implied, was the Lord's 'Beloved', a king whose character and personality was what the LORD wanted in a king.

I Samuel 13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.

Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

It was during King David's time that nation of Israel began major extensive expansion, and colonization across the world. King David's lineage began the Dynastic establishment of the Davidic families of the Tribe of Judah as the most royal of the aristocratic families among all the royal families of the nation of Israel, with these royals being the most aristocratic families of the earth.

I King 7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be establish forever before thee: thy throne shall be established forever.

John 7:42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

Yahawashi Hamashiyach known as Jesus Christ

Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Matthew 1:17   So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

Jesus Christ is Greek for Joshua Anointed, or King Joshua. In a form of Classical Hebrew, or the Lashawan Qadash, the ‘Holy Tongue’, it’s pronounced Yahawashi Hamashiyach. King Yahawashi of Israel, the Messiah, Son of the Most High LORD YAHAWAH, was born on this earth paternally through Joseph of the Tribe of Judah, of the lineage of the family of David, and maternally through Mary of the Tribe of Levi, of the lineage of Aaron. The LORD told King David, who also was a prophet, that the Christ, the Messiah would come to earth through his family line. There is much division in the nation of Israel as a result of the curses of the LORD for Israel’s sin against him, but to correct a misunderstanding, I say that a man’s familial identity is according to his paternal linage.

Acts 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that the LORD had sworn an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.

Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

Acts 13:23 Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

The word Christ is from the Greek word Christos meaning the anointed, this is in relation to the Old Testament prophecy of the future Messiah, and King that would gather Israel, and establish the kingdom of Heaven, or Israel on earth. It was a cultural tradition that individuals who were chosen to be king were anointed with oil.

Samuel Anointing David as King

I Samuel 10:1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?

All former, and current nations had, and still have royal families, Israel is no different. The descendants of the noble families of all the biblical nations are scattered, and mingled with the common people, and with other nations, as a result of the revolutions, social upheavals and wars in the world. The noble families of Israel are scattered, and the descendents of these families still walk this earth today, mingled among the common people, and the nations, and as the scriptures say 'they are not known in the streets'.

Lamentations 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets.

The aristocratic families and nobles of Israel are not recognized as such in the streets of the cities of the world. The current noble families of the prevailing world order are recognized in publications, and magazines. Even celebrities are acknowledged the world over, but who recognizes the members of the noble houses of Israel, the kings, and princes, of the earth. People don’t even know they are among the so-called Black of African Americans, so-called White Americans, Afro and Indo-Caribbeans, the Indo-Americans of North Central, and South America, and the world over. Instead the present Dutch-Anglo-American aristocratic families, receive the world’s adoration, who although their progenitors were people of color, they are primarily mingled with families like the Western German Askenazi family of the Rothschilds, of whom it is said, consider themselves descendants of Edom.

Covers of Royalty Magazine

In the early modern era, many aristocrats of Israelite descent, suffered financial straits and intermarried with the court Jews, who were primarily Western German and Eastern German Askenazi Jews, not Sephardic, or Port Jews. The port Jews were descendants of Israel dispersed in trading colonies, and port cities who were descendants of Israel of non-Ashkenazi descent that intermarried with the local ethnic groups, who usually formed their own ethnic enclaves, separated from the local populace, such as the Kerala Jews, and the Crypto-Christians of Nagasaki Japan.

Crypto-Jews of Nagasaki & Kerala Jews of India

The time will come when all the aristocratic men of Israel will be raised up, and gathered together to rule, and govern, and judge not just the nation of Israel, but all the nations on the earth.

Ezekiel 37:9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

Ezekiel 37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

Ezekiel 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel

The people of Israel are a multi-complexioned people. The Lord calls Israel a speckled bird.

Jeremiah 12:9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird.

The word ‘Black’ can be used as an adjective, but is not an ethnicity. The social racial constructs of the Anglo-American world had no place in the past, and they will have no place in the future. A painting of Elisabeth I and her court at Tilsbury, nicely illustrates the physiognomy of the aristocracy of Europe, who are descendants of Israel. 

Elisabeth I at Tilsbury

Malachi 3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

During Joshua’s reign Israel embarked on massive territorial expansion, as the LORD, passed the Land of Canaan into Israel’s hands.

Joshua 11:15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did 

Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.

Joshua 11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;

Joshua conquered an eastern portion of Lower Eygpt, the land of Goshen, were Israel lived when they dwelt in Egypt.

Joshua 11:17 Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.

Joshua 11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

Joshua 11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of : all other they took in battle.

The Hivites were a tribe, or group of Canaanites, in present day so-called South Africans, and Zulu.

Joshua 11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

When Joshua died, Israel’s territorial expansion ceased.

Josuha 13:1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

Joshua 23:1 AND it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.

             23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:

             23:3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.

             23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.

             23:5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.

             23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside there from to the right hand or to the left;

             23:7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

             23:8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.

             23:9 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.

             23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

             23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

             23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

            23:13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

            23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

            23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

           23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

Joshua 24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before YAHAWAH.

           24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD Power of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood means they continued the same Astrotheology, and sinful practices that man did before the flood, or ante-diluvium world.

Joshua 24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

Icon of Abraham and Issac

Josephus Antiquities of the Jews Chapter VII concerning Abram whose name was changed to Abraham.

“He was a person of great sagacity, both for understanding all things and persuading his hearers, and not mistaken in his opinions; for which reason he began to have higher notions of virtue than others had, and he determined to renew and to change the opinion all men happened then to have concerning God; for he was the first that ventured to publish this notion, That there was but one God, the Creator of the universe; and that, as to other [gods], if they contributed anything to the happiness of men, that each of them afforded it only according to his appointment, and not by their own power. This his opinion was derived from the irregular phenomena that were visible both at land and sea, as well as those that happen to the sun, and moon, and all the heavenly bodies, thus: — "If [said he] these bodies had power of their own, they would certainly take care of their own regular motions; but since they do not preserve such regularity, they make it plain, that in so far as they co-operate to our advantage, they do it not of their own abilities, but as they are subservient to Him that commands them, to whom alone we ought justly to offer our honor and thanksgiving." For which doctrines, when the Chaldeans, and other people of Mesopotamia, raised a tumult against him, he thought fit to leave that country; and at the command and by the assistance of God, he came and lived in the land of Canaan. And when he was there settled, he built an altar, and performed a sacrifice to God.

Berosus mentions our father Abram without naming him, when he says thus: "In the tenth generation after the Flood, there was among the Chaldeans a man righteous and great, and skillful in the celestial science." But Hecatseus does more than barely mention him; for he composed, and left behind him, a book concerning him. And Nicolaus of Damascus, in the fourth book of his History, says thus: "Abram reigned at Damascus, being a foreigner, who came with an army out of the land above Babylon, called the land of the Chaldeans: but, after a long time, he got him up, and removed from that country also, with his people, and went into the land then called the land of Canaan, but now the land of Judea, and this when his posterity were become a multitude; as to which posterity of his, we relate their history in another work. Now the name of Abram is even still famous in the country of Damascus; and there is shown a village named from him, The Habitation of Abram."

Habitation of Abraham The Cave of Machpelah in Hebron

 Joshua 24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it;

Mt. Seir the Land of Edom

Joshua 24:4 but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD , and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

Put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood means the common system worship of the antediluvian world after the fall of the world’s first monarchy, which was Astrotheology, which is rooted in Humanism, man’s worship of himself. This is the same Humanism and Astrotheological worship and belief system that all the nations from Sumer to ancient Babylon, up until today, and all the countries of the present world.

Judges 2:6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.

The Land of Israel

Judges 2:7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.

           2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD , died, being an hundred and ten years old.

           2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

           2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

           2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

           2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

           2:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

Joshua 3:1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

A generation is reckoned as forty (40) years. Each generation of Israel must prove itself in the face of adversity, whether they will be loyal to the LORD, or not. Complacency can be a stumbling block to righteousness.

Joshua 3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;

Each succeeding generation being unaware and unexperienced must face the social, political, economical, and spiritual adversities of the times to prove itself, as continuing in the pattern, and model of servants of the LORD. It was such in the past and it is such today.

Joshua 3:3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

              3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

              3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

              3:6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

              3:7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD , and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

The children of Israel disobeyed the LORD, and became comprised, they stop living in accordance with the way of the LORD, the way of Heaven on earth, and followed the customs of the merchants. Canaan means merchant. They became hedonist, and sought the pursuit of gain, and practiced Astrotheology, because it’s a belief system that justifies, such a lifestyle. They followed a belief which is lacking in the knowledge of the LORD. Not knowing the LORD, one mistakenly believes that the LORD is unknowable, from this stems all forms of strange worship. This leads into thinking that the physical Universe is a manifestation of the LORD, and then that all of creation is a Manifestation of the LORD. This is the belief of the other side of the flood. 

From this line of thinking all behavior, and all actions are justifiable.

Before King Saul unified Israel, Israel was a tribal confederation, fragmented into warring city-states. The establishment of Israel never completed their territorial expansion, because their lavish lifestyle and their perennial conflicts amongst each other, with the neighboring nations nearby became a snare to them. They weren’t able to grow, or expand because they followed a misanthropic lifestyle. Wicked lifestyles are anti-physics. All Astrotheological systems degenerate the practitioners of them.

King Saul began the process of uniting the separate warring city-states of Israel into a Kingdom, or into Metropolitan Israel. Metropolitan is a from the Greek term meaning metropolis (from meter meaning “mother”, and polis meaning “city, town”) or motherland from which originated colonies across the Mediterranean. This was similar to the Unification of China under the Qin Dynasty in the late 3^rd century, or the Kingdom of France in the 10^th century, or the Unification of Germany in the late 10^th century, and the Unification of England in the 10^th century. The process of the unification and expansion of the Kingdom of Israel was continued during the reign of King David. King David established the capital of Metropolitan Israel at Jerusalem, expanded, and solidified territorial gains. King David was inspired to design the Temple of the LORD, and King Solomon his son built it.

2 Samuel 7:1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;

                 7:2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

                 7:3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that [is] in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.

                 7:4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,

                 7:5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

                 7:6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

                 7:7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?

                 7:8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

                 7:9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.

                 7:10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

This scripture prophesy is of the future life Israel, when the establishment is reestablished in the earthly kingdom of heaven on earth. The descendants of Israel will no longer be afflicted by the children of wickedness, as they are as they live under the governments of the world today, and they will no longer be in exile, or in slavery.

2 Samuel 7:11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.

               7:12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

               7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

               7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

               7:15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

               7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

               7:17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

Nathan was a court prophet.

Jerusalem and the First Holy Temple on Mount Zion, was at the center of Israel’s political, economic, social, spiritual life, before it’s destruction in 587 B.C. after the Siege of Jerusalem. It was also during King David reign that Israel’s nation-building growth as a mercantile maritime empire proceeded forthwith. This maritime mercantile empire building reached a nadir during King Solomon’s reign. Archeological evidence shows that Solomon’s mercantile trading network extended to the Americas, and East Asia.

Israel/Phoenicians Maritime Trade Empire

During the kingdom of King David and Solomon the nation of Israel became a maritime Empire, and under-took wide and far reaching colonial, economic and global expansion.

 “Phoenicia in the widest sense was the name given by the Greeks to the coasts of what is now Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a narrower sense it was interpreted as the coast from about Dor in the south, northwards to about present-day Tripoli (an area referred to as Metropolitan Phoenicia in this chapter). It consisted of a chain of towns situated in a narrow coastal strip of land seldom more than 3km in width backed by the Lebanon Mountains and the Carmel range. Of these Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos, all flourishing towns in the Late Bronze Age, remained important throughout most of first millennium B.C; they were the Phoenician towns best known to ancient writers and have provided the bulk of Phoenician inscriptions of any historical importance”’ - The Cambridge Ancient History Volume 3 Chapter 32

Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos were no small towns, but were more akin to city-states, like Venice, or Genoa, in importance, influence, trade, and wealth. They were maritime city-states. Tyre is also the birthplace of Europa, whom the continent of Europe obtained its name, and Dido, the first queen of Carthage. The LORD gives a very descriptive visual of the world (as it was known then) city-states of the ancient world. Globalism has its roots in the ancient world, a time and place where markets were always expanding, mercantilism and commoditization ruled the day, merchants set the pace, and controlled life, by controlling the markets.

Like the world cities of this present time in history, such as New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong, etc.

Global Cities Index of 2015

 Ezekiel 27:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

            27:2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

            27:3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

            27:4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Like Venice and Genoa these early city-states sphere of Influence extended into the middle of the seas.

Ezekiel 27:5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

            27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

            27:7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

All the nations, and countries of the ancient world were a part of world trade, just like today.

Ezekiel 27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

Israelites were avid sailors, and captains.

Ezekiel 27:9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

            27:10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

The Elamites (Persians; East Indians), Libyans (Phut; North Africans), and the Lydians (Shemitic descendants of Lud; Anatolians) were all mercenaries in the merchant security forces. Seems the world has always been cosmopolitan, and people have always worked and traded together.

Ezekiel 27:11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

The Venetian Maritime Empire of the 13-15th Century

 Just like Venice and Genoa these ancient city-state were the replete with mercenary armies.

Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver,

iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

Tarshish is Spain.

Ezekiel 27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

The descendants of Japheth, the Etrusacans, nowadays called the people of East Asia, and Pacific Islanders, were also merchants at Tyre. They were dominant in trade during the so-called Bronze Age, so the vessels of brass, is indicative of their trading activities.

Ezekiel 27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

            27:15 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles [were] the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.

            27:16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.

            27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they [were] thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

            27:18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

            27:19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

The tribe of Dan was a maritime people, always at sea, along with the inhabitants of the lands of Greece.

Ezekiel 27:20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

            27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.

The descendants, the aristocracy, and princes of Ishmael, the Arabs, also profited from trade at Tyre 

Ezekiel 27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

            27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

The Assyrians, before the Assyrian Empire were merchants at Tyre.

Ezekiel 27:24 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

           27:25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

          27:26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

          27:27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that arein thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

The LORD destroyed Tyre and Zidon, for their sin against him, but trade still moved on, and trading markets moved on. Tyre and Zidon were early world city-states, not unlike the global cities of today, which are strong in influence strong in power, and strong in wealth. Riches won’t save the world cities, neither the global trading system when the LORD brings it to an end, any more than it helped to save Tyre and Zidon.

Israel’s society was similar to manoralism, and feudalism. The land was held by landowners, who were also the aristocratic military stratum. It was household based, inheritance based, class based, social-political system. The governing power resided in the establishment, which was a military, legislative, oligarchy. The establishment’s sphere included the country’s military officers, judges, aristocrats, priests, landowners, captains of trade, and industry. Israel’s establishment was a dominant group of elites that held power and authority of the nation. The scriptures call the members of the establishment ‘the princes of the land’.

Psalm 45:13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

Israel was the wealthiest nation on the earth during King David and King Solomon’s reign. The aristocrats wore clothes made out of woven gold. There are scenes in the Chinese film “Curse of the Gloden Flower” based on the Chinese feudal period which I think slightly capture this opulence, of palace living.

Scene from the film  'Curse of the Golden Flower'

Psalm 45:14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

Handmaidens, or servant girls, maids were common in ancient Israel, as they were common in the ancient world, even so in this modern world.

Psalm 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.

          45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Israel’s establishment and aristocracy was inheritance based. This scripture is a prophesy about the future when the elect of Israel are re-established by the LORD, and his son Yahawashi, their children will be made princes in the new establishment.

Psalm 113:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.

          113:2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.

          113:3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’S name is to be praised.

          113:4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.

The nations are subject to the LORD, and were made to serve him, and he created the heavens, the heavens are not a physical manifestation of him, they are his creature.

Psalm 113:5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,

The LORD of Israel is the LORD YAHAWAH of all creation.

Psalm 113:6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

Both the heavens and the earth are beneath the LORD and can’t be equated to him, all dimensions, and created realities are lower than him, and can’t be equated to his power.

Psalm 113:7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

Israel and the elect of Israel are the poor that will be raised out of the confusion of the world, into the truth of the world. A dunghill is a pile of s***. The world is a dunghill, of lies, corruption, sin, and death. We are the needy in all ways, being brought low by the LORD for our sins against his laws. We now find ourselves in the hands of those that hate us, and seek to destroy us from the earth, but the LORD will raise us up from these conditions, and deliver us.

Psalm 113:8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

Though the Lord has stripped Israel of everything, he will restore the royalty of Israel to their place, and give them back their inheritance.

Joshua 22:14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.

In the royal houses of Israel, there was a chief prince, among princes.

Jeremiah 34:19 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land.

Feudal palace living, shared much in common with the social system of ancient Israel.

Palace of Versailles

Ever since the Assyrian and Babylonian enslavement, and exile, Israel’s government establishment has never recovered from the destruction of the First Temple. Israel’s establishment is scattered but the LORD will gather them under his son, their brother, and King Yahawashi Hamashiyach, and restore their glory in righteousness (in order with the Laws of Moses, the Laws of Heaven on Earth)

Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

             8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

             8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Divine providence, and the Holy Spirit is what separates the sons of the Lord from other men. 

             

Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

             8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

             8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

             8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

Hebrew 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

             8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

             8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

             8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

             8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Acts 15:16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

After this I will return meaning after the period of rejection, the curses and the exile of the establishment of Israe,l the LORD will return to Israel and begin to rebuild the establishment of Israel and the Dynasty of David. This began with the first advent of Yahawashi Hamashiyach, and continues into this present day, until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled, till the day of the LORD. While the wicked are in political, social, economic, and spiritual governance of the earth,

Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.

The Lord is spiritually maturing his sons through the baptism of fire, and the furnace of affliction. When the harvest is ripe, the time is fulfilled, and the ruins, the fallen estate of the aristocratic elect, including King David, will be completely reversed, ending in their reestablishment as the royalty of Israel and the world.

Acts 15:17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

This is so the people of the earth may know who the Lord Yahawah is, and may serve and worship him. The gentiles who have the Lord’s name are the Israelites who having once forgotten the Lord and became foreigners, and strangers to him, will recall who they are, being descendants of Israel, and become a Holy people once again. The nations will then seek after Israel to speak to the Lord for them, that they may know how to serve, and observe, and worship the Lord.

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