This is my two hundred and thirteenth monthly teaching letter and continues my eighteenth year of publication. In the last letter, WTL #212, I discussed my wife’s, Trillis Almina (Moehlman) Emahiser’s church affiliation more or less in detail, all the way back to Ireland in the 1600s. With this lesson I will address the church affiliation that Tillie and I had together as husband and wife. Originally, I planned to present, (1) the background of my own church affiliation, then (2) the background of my wife’s church affiliation, and lastly, (3) The church affiliation that Tillie and I had together as husband and wife. This will be the third, and last, part of this series on church affiliation.

After Tillie and I had gotten married, we moved into an apartment in a house on Ohio avenue in Tiffin, Ohio, where I had a job at Brimner and Borer’s Barbershop. My wife, Tillie, had to quit her job at Sears Roebuck in the bookkeeping department in Fostoria. After WW II, housing was quite a problem for several years. Tiffin was a college town, the home of Heidelberg University. Everywhere, at that time, the colleges and universities were full and overflowing with students because the WW II veterans were taking advantage of the G.I. Bill for educational monetary assistance. Before getting married, I had spent about two months trying to find some kind of housing for Tillie and I in Tiffin, but found that every housing unit had already been spoken for. Finally, about two weeks before our wedding date, I heard of a possible apartment opportunity by word of mouth, probably from one of the barber customers where I was employed. It was a fairly nice furnished apartment, but we had to enter through the living room of the woman who was renting the apartment. This didn’t give us the privacy we needed. After we climbed a stairway and closed the door behind us, we then had our privacy.

Tillie and I decided we would put up with this for a while, and would continue with this disadvantage until we could find something better. As it turned out, we would have to find something else quicker than we anticipated. Evidently, our landlady decided she wanted to get rid of us as soon as possible, and she was behind on paying her electric bill. One evening after work, I came home to our rented apartment, and the electrical service had been shut off for lack of payment. Tillie and I had already paid our rent for the next month, and we were not about to move out until the following month’s rent was due. So I went to the power company and paid the landlady’s electric bill, and the power was turned on again, and I was never reimbursed for that. Actually, the rent we paid was supposed to cover our electrical use, so in this instance we were paying twice for our electricity, and then paying for the landlady’s electrical use. When all of this happened, the landlady was conveniently absent!

At that time there were several house-trailer sales places in Tiffin, so Tillie and I went shopping for a house-trailer. Tillie had taken a job in Tiffin at a woman’s clothing store, so between us we were able to scrape up enough money for a modest down payment. It never entered our minds that we might try to borrow some money from a family member. We didn’t do it then, and we never did such a thing throughout our entire marriage. On our limited means, we had to pick out a house-trailer its down payment, and monthly payments, as best we could afford. We did our best to pick out one that would fit our needs. It wasn’t easy, but after much shopping we settled on one that was 8' wide and 24' long, and that included the tongue & hitch. Actually, the inside measurement of the floor was 19' long. We had hot and cold running water at the kitchen sink, but had to use central toilets and showers and a laundry room at the trailer park. Nevertheless, this was much better than the apartment we had rented for two months!

By November, 1948 we were living in our new house-trailer snug and warm, except the floors were slightly cold. Right away, I went around and obtained the materials I needed to construct some skirts around the edges of the trailer. This also gave us some space to store items like shovels, spades, and other garden tools. We were also allotted a small area to raise a garden.

During the first few months of our marriage, going to any kind of church was not on our itinerary! Then, in the summer of 1949 we, by chance, dropped in on my parents at their apartment in Fostoria. At that time, the Evangelical Church was having their annual camp meeting at Byal park in Findlay, Ohio in a rough wooden tabernacle style building used by various religious sects. Just how we got invited to accompany my parents to that meeting I do not fully recall. Had the invitation been given to me personally, I probably would have found an excuse not to go with them! So, evidently it was my wife, Tillie, who was invited, and agreed to go along with my parents to that camp meeting. Looking back at this incident (and it took me many years to figure out), my wife, Tillie, had objectives in mind that would take me over forty years to realize!

Here is an excerpt about Tillie and her loving grandmother that I wrote in WTL #212: “After Tillie’s loving grandmother had died, December 21, 1949, Tillie’s mother, Ruth Eileen, gave Tillie her grandmother’s Bible, and Tillie wrote on the inside cover: ‘Trillis Almina (Moehlman) Emahiser, given to me by my mother. This Bible belonged to my beloved grandmother Almina (Hartman) Carter Garing’ ....” To make a long story short, my wife Tillie loved her grandmother so much that she wanted to be just like her! And I am quite sure this is the reason Tillie accepted the invitation to go to that camp meeting and went forward to the altar, accepting Christ. And when Tillie went forward, I couldn’t leave her up there alone by herself, so I followed her. This was the beginning of the church affiliation that Tillie and I had together as husband and wife, but it would turn out to be a rocky road. When we were first married, Tillie took the lead establishing our Christian home. About 1979 I was introduced to Israel Identity, and I took the lead (with no objections from Tillie) to have a Christian Israel Identity home. But we were alone among all the rest of the members our families in doing so. And so it remains.

Sometime after accepting Christ my wife Tillie joined the Evangelical church where my parents and I were already members, though I never gave much heed to my membership. After Tillie joined our church, she and I made an effort to be the best kind of Christians we knew how to be, but lacking Covenant Theology, much was left to be desired that churchianity couldn’t offer. The blind pastors kept telling us: “We are just ‘gentiles’ (meaning non-jews) saved by grace!” Well, this was only one of hundreds of lies that the corrupt churches were pounding into our brains with sledge hammers! Consequently, those who were easily deceived bought and/or are still swallowing these horrendous, malicious untruths, and are passing them on to others, who are also as naive as they are themselves. And we find a whole host of blind adherents promoting these errors to an abundant herd of blind aspirants, whose knowledge of Scripture is sadly lacking, especially when it comes to Covenant Theology! Here, I should rephrase a statement above: ‘After Tillie joined our church, she and I made a naive effort to be the best Christians we knew how to be ...’

According to the Evangelical church’s discipline, this meant several things (too numerous to mention). Probably the most un-Biblical tenet was a large missionary effort to spread the Gospel to every tribe of racially unclean nonwhite people the world over. Once a month, on a Wednesday evening, there would be a “missionary meeting”, led usually by women, to discuss the progress of saving souls in some distant hinterland where savages would drink the same water they had defecated in. The women of the church had their own missionary society where they would get together and tear up worn-out sheets into 2 or 3 inch rolls for bandages, to treat the several turd-world diseases they harbor, at the risk of all our lives. Becoming a missionary to these sewer-people seemed to be in credentials, as the highest category of christian (lower case on purpose) which one could attain.

It is no mystery, then, but an historical fact that the Evangelical church took a major part in, and was one of the leading promoters of the underground railroad to transport niggers from the southern Confederate States, through Ohio, on their way to Canada! This I had to learn after-the-fact, when my eyes were finally opened to the Christian Israel Identity Message! Another example of this sort of thing, I will now relate how after my wife, Tillie joined my family’s Evangelical church, we had a pastor by the name of Krisher (unsure of the spelling). Anyway, pastor Krisher was one of Tillie’s favorite preachers (who had attended, but not officiated at our wedding). Pastor Krisher would eventually be assigned to a different Evangelical church, whereupon Tillie continued to correspond with him and his wife. Pastor Krisher eventually died about 1955, and my wife made a special effort to attend his funeral, because he had officiated at our daughter (Linda Susan’s) graveside burial, who had lived only three days. A year or two later I happened to be going through some of the correspondence which we received back from pastor Krisher, and in one of Krisher’s letters to us he was lamenting about the Japanese – how they were becoming christians (lower case on purpose) – and that it was imperative we send missionaries to Japan as soon as possible! Although pastor Krisher was a very good friend, he was caught up in the attempt to give the children’s bread to the dogs, (Matt. 15:26), or in other words, take the Gospel (which was meant only for Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the twelve tribes of Israel), to outlandish people! (Gen. 27:46):

“And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?”

With this illustration, I’m getting a little ahead of our story, as back in November of 1949, on Thanksgiving day, we moved our house-trailer from Tiffin, Ohio to a location about 3 miles east of Bowling Green, Ohio, a few hundred feet off of U.S. route 6, which later was diverted by a bypass. This property was owned by a farmer who owned two farms, and let us park our house-trailer beside a vacant house on one of his farms free of charge, just for keeping watch over his buildings and machinery. I had gotten a job at Melvin Munn’s barbershop, which turned out to be a disaster because the administration of Bowling Green State University threatened legal action against Munn, should he refuse service to blacks at their College. This turned out to be a short-lived experience. While near Bowling Green my wife Tillie and I occasionally attended the Trinity United Brethren Church, as it was somewhat like the Evangelical church, and the drive to Fostoria was inconvenient.

Before this, back in Tiffin, Ohio we drove to Fostoria (only 12 miles away) to attend my family’s Evangelical church there. During our time in Tiffin, between August and November of 1949 (our then church going days), we only visited a couple churches of interest. One was a Baptist Church that was showing a movie of Billy Graham and the beginning of his crusades. That Baptist church made it appear that Billy Graham was doing a tremendous job of christianizing (lower case on purpose) America! At first, I believed Graham was doing a good work, but after being awakened to Christian Israel Identity, I realized Graham was nothing more than a tool for the Edomite-jews, and that Graham was/is a traitor to the Christian cause. Before this, Billy Graham was a fast talking Fuller Brush salesman, who might have missed his real calling to be the world’s greatest used car salesman.

The other church of interest in Tiffin, Oho during that period, was a Methodist church that was having a well-advertised one-week series of sermons on future prophecy. At that time I was overly influenced by my uncle Merrill Keiser’s futurist views on Biblical prophecy. Well, I took the time to attend every one of those meetings, sucking it all in. Looking back, I now realize that those meetings were nothing more than an effort to promote Edomite-jewish zionism (lower case on purpose)! No doubt, that Methodist church (and maybe the whole denomination) got some money under the table, accounting for the fact that it was so highly advertised! It is imperative to remember that this was only one year after the satanic Edomite-jewish state of Israeli (Israel lie) was recognized by the criminal United Nations. Surely, I am very thankful for being awakened to my Christian Israel Identity about 1979, whereupon I renounced my former futurist views on Biblical prophecy in favor of the historical view! Here is part of what I wrote in my essay, YAHWEH, THE GOD OF SEGREGATION, vs. SATAN, THE god OF INTEGRATION, (So, which god are you following):

“Our churches were infiltrated long ago in the 1930s by ‘Christian’ socialists holding communistic ideologies, such as Harry Ward and Reinhold Niebuhr at the Union Theological Seminary” (The Red Network by Elizabeth Dilling, p.31).” Of the notable alumni of Union Theological Seminary was one Frederick Buckley Newell (Bachelor of Divinity), 1916, of the Methodist church! (I will clarify shortly.)

I am very sorry to stray away from my main subject here, but I want to demonstrate to the reader just how serious this last paragraph is, and to document it in the process. In a monumental endeavor to expose the enemies of our Christian heritage, Elizabeth Dilling wrote a book entitled The Red Network, in the 1930s. The problem is today, in 2016, it is a hundred times worse than back then. I will be quoting from pages 232-233, where we read:

“UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (AND ST. STEPHENS COLLEGE)

“The notable number of ministerial graduates and instructors of Union Theological Seminary who are also active agitators in the Red Socialist-Communist movement have helped, no doubt, to popularize its nickname ‘The Red Seminary.’ The L.I.D. [League for Industrial Democracy] conference ‘Guiding the Revolution’ held there Dec. 1931, the activities of men like Karl Borders, Harry Ward, Reinhold Niebuhr, Arnold Johnson, (arrested for criminal syndicalism), the Seminary’s advertised recommendation of a filthy sex book for the Eugenics Publishing Co. (fellow publishers of the atheist Freethought Press), etc., etc., help this reputation along.

“The Lusk Report (p. 1115) states: ‘There are two dangerous centers of Revolutionary Socialist teaching of a university type in ecclesiastical institutions. One is the Union Theological Seminary of New York, where Christian Ethics are taught by Dr. Harry F. Ward; the other is St. Stephens College at Annandale, N.Y., where the president is the Rev. Iddings-Bell, and the professor of economics the Socialist, Dr. Edwards ....

“‘Dr. Ward is the author of ‘The New Social Order’ in which he shows a decided sympathy for Socialist social forms and is friendly to Bolshevism in Russia ... He characterized the cognate I.W.W. [International Workers of the World] ‘philosophy’ as the most ideal and practical philosophy since the days of Jesus Christ, and as expressing the ideas of Christ much more closely than any church of the present day.

“‘... He is chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union which champions the I.W.W., and presided over the I.W.W. meeting of Feb. 9, 1920, held at the Rand School, to raise money for the defense of the I.W.W. murderers of the four members of the American Legion at Centralia.

“‘... The pro-Bolshevik articles which Dr. Ward contributed to ‘The Social Service Bulletin’ of the Methodist Federation for Social Service were considered particularly objectionable because the Bulletin was circulated not only by the Methodist Church but by the Congregational, Northern Baptist and other organizations. They called attention to Dr. Ward’s text books circulated by the Graded Sunday School Syndicate. Dr. Ward is also connected with the Y.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.A. and the Inter-Church World Movement.

“‘... Such specialists in Bolshevism as Lieutenant Klieforth and Wm. English Walling have characterized Dr. Ward’s statements as downright falsehoods or distorted facts, and as a kind of Bolshevism far worse than the Bolshevism of Russia.

“‘The same attempt to swing existing educational institutions to the support of the atheism and materialism of the I.W.W. and Bolshevism is shown in the movement in the Episcopal Church of which the nominal leader is the Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell. He is at the head of St. Stephens College at Annandale ... The head of the department of economics is the Rev. Lyford P. Edwards, an able expositor of Socialism and member of the Socialist Party. He gives courses at the college on the I.W.W., on Syndicalism, Socialism and Bolshevism. As a Socialist ... he teaches these movements to the young Episcopalians sympathetically.

“‘What the President, Dr. Bell himself, thinks, can be judged from his book, ‘Right and Wrong after the War.’ He here bases the whole history and character of civilization on what he calls the two great ‘Urges,’ the Hunger Urge and the Sex Urge. He accepts, in other words, the lowest form of Karl Marx materialism conception of history, in which there is absolutely no place for God in the evolution of the universe. Logically this is inescapable atheism’ ...”

At pages 33-34, Elizabeth Dilling writes in part:

“METHODISTS TURN SOCIALISTIC

“If the great voice of John Wesley with its call to Christianize individual souls should finally be stilled by the voice of Karl Marx with its call to class war – disguised as a call to preach the ‘social gospel of economic justice’ – not only Methodism but the whole world will suffer.

“Ominously, the Socialist ‘Christian Social Action Movement’ of Chicago Methodist Church headquarters says of its opportunities for teaching Socialism-Communism: ‘Our most fruitful field of accomplishment we believe to be within and through the agency of the Church of which we are a part. It is difficult to overemphasize the significance to the social and economic movement in America if the Methodist Church should be won to whole hearted advocacy and support of the social gospel. To this endeavor ... we pledge ourselves.; (p. 41 of its Handbook).

“‘Methodists Turn Socialistic’ is the title of an article written by Socialist Chas. C. Webber (jailed in a radical strike in 1930 and defended by the A.C.L.U.), which appears in the Socialist, Garland-Fund-aided ‘World Tomorrow’ of July 1933. In it he felicitates the Annual Conference of the M.E. Church held at Central Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., for its report on ‘The Necessity of Social Change – from capitalism to a socialistic economic system,’ and says that the motion to change the words ‘social ownership’ (complete Socialism) in the final report to ‘social control’ just barely passed. He says: ‘This debate clearly showed that the majority of the members of the N.Y. East Conference of the M.E. Church are convinced that ‘capitalism’ must be brought under some form of social control.’

“The Northeast Ohio Conference of the M.E. Church exhibited similar tendencies when ‘Socialized ownership and control of the country’s financial and industrial system as a substitute for capitalism were recommended’ (Associated Press report, Sept. 20, 1932). Other conferences have likewise adopted communistic-socialistic resolutions.

“The Methodist Federation for Social Service is headed by Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Socialist, A.C.L.U., etc., and its Bulletin is edited by Harry Ward, of radical fame, and Winifred Chappell, frankly of the Communist Party campaign committee. As an ex-Communist said to me, ‘Most of those Bulletins sound like the Daily Worker, only more so.’ The April 15, 1932 Bulletin, which I have, not only frankly admitted Federation cooperation with Communist organizations but under the heading ‘Is it a Coincidence?’ said: ‘The nature of the membership of the Federation and the penetration of the church by this movement is indicated in part by the fact that entirely without design one third of the Delaware Conference membership belonged to the Federation. This overlapping included every member of the commission on ‘Modern Business and Industry,’ 10 of the 14 commission chairmen, and two secretaries of the Board of Foreign Missions who were largely responsible for the conference, and the presiding officer, the president of the Federation’ ....”

The reader can now evaluate whether or not the Union Theological Seminary was infiltrated by Edomite-jewish Marxism and communism, and that the socialism of the Union Theology Seminary was then introduced into the Methodist denomination of churches. Not only that, but the United Brethren and Evangelical churches were swallowed up by the Methodist church, and it remains that way to this very day, making them instruments to spread Satan’s social gospel! And the greater part of the other churches, through their Edomite-jewish oriented seminaries, have suffered the same fate.

Since being in Tiffin, Ohio during that period of August to November of 1949, and visiting a Baptist church once, and listening to a series on erroneous, futuristic so-called biblical prophecy at a Methodist church, I now realize that Almighty Yahweh wanted my wife, Tillie, and myself to be in Tiffin long enough to witness these two miscarriages of Bible doctrine in order to prepare me for the ministry I have undertaken since 1998 in Christian Israel Identity! However, this experience in Tiffin, Ohio, starting with my employment at Brimner and Borer’s barbershop in August of 1947, and then having to quit barbering on account of Dick Brimner’s maddening, continuous spouting of pornographic stories, whereupon I started selling Knapp shoes and taking part time barbering jobs until Thanksgiving day 1949, was just the beginning of several more large bumps in the road.

When I finally informed Dick Brimner that I was quitting my job with him and Borer (though Borer wasn’t there at that time), Brimner got quite irate, and told me how ghastly a person I was, and he had a long string of attributes about me he didn’t like. Well, Dick had that filthy mouth that was about to drive me out of my mind, so I let him rant, and answered him not a word. And that was how we parted.

As it turned out my barbering job with Brimner and Borer was a disaster! Then, I moved to Bowling Green, Ohio, and took a barbering job with Melvin Munn, but the Bowling Green State University threatened to sue Munn if he refused to service negroes, so that barbering job also turned out to be a disaster. I then moved back to my home town in Fostoria, Ohio. In Fostoria I took a barbering job with Clifford Shuman who was also the mayor of Fostoria at that time. Well, the owner of the local news paper used his influence to get Shuman voted out of office, and that political conflict caused nearly everyone to avoid Shuman’s barbershop, so that barbering job also turned out to be a disaster. While in Fostoria, Tillie, and I attended my family’s Evangelical church to which earlier, Tillie also had become a member.

After Clifford Shuman lost his mayoral position in the November 1950 election, I proposed the idea of selling our house-trailer and moving to California with my wife, Tillie, and she agreed to make the move. I had a low mileage used 1949 Buick, and didn’t want to take the risk of towing that house-trailer 2,000 miles, so we advertised it in the newspaper, and got one taker who offered only $1,000, which I hated to take that great of a loss. This offer came from the owner of the Ney Implement Company, who also sold a wide range of household appliances, so I made him a counteroffer – we would accept his offer if he would sell us $1,000 worth of appliances at wholesale price. Suddenly, we had to remove all of our belongings from the house-trailer and pack them into that 1949 Buick, leaving a few things behind.

During my 1944 summer vacation from high school, I had gone to Long Beach, California, and got a job at Douglas Aircraft working on the C-47s. It was a job that I enjoyed, and I decided (with my wife’s approval) to return there and find out if they would hire me again, which they did. After settling down in a furnished apartment, we were at a loss as where we might attend a church. We looked, but couldn’t seem to find an Evangelical church in the area, so we visited several other denominations, but none appeared very appealing. We finally settled on a rather large United Brethren church, and continued going there, even though we didn’t quite fit in with them. One event that we did enjoy was when our Sunday-school class of 50 or 60 couples arranged a weekend mountain retreat of speakers, dinners and social activities. Although we attended that church, we continued to send our monetary support back to Fostoria, Ohio, to the Evangelical church.

When I was rehired by Douglas Aircraft in January of 1951, the interviewer informed me that many of the operations of Douglas had advanced significantly since 1944, and I would have to attend a two week orientation course before entering the factory. That was a breeze, as much of it I had already done between my employment with Douglas in 1944, and at a sheet-metal shop in the Navy. Looking back though, I now realize that Almighty Yahweh wanted me at that orientation course, so I could observe the several mexicans also being trained. At that time, observing those mexicans didn’t necessarily mean much to me, though it left a lasting impression. But after a lengthy in-depth research of the great conspiracy starting about 1976, and then being awakened to my Christian Israel Identity about 1979, it means a great deal to me, as those mexicans are part of the “flood” that Satan is casting out of his “mouth” (Rev. 12:15-16), to destroy true Israel (not to be confused with the Edomite-jews who are of the synagogue of Satan, Rev 2:9 & 3:9)!

Well, I liked my job at Douglas Aircraft very much, and the pay was more than adequate, but I got sick with a urinary tract problem, and the doctor’s treatments and medicines only aggravated the condition. After a period of time, finding no relief, I knew if I could get back to our doctor, John Funck, in Tiffin, Ohio, he could take care of my difficulty, which he did. So, I reluctantly quit Douglas, and we packed up our Buick again and returned to Fostoria, Ohio, and after some time I landed a barbering job in Bowling Green, Ohio at the Hotel Barbershop. Then shortly, we found a very compact furnished apartment in Bowling Green and settled in. We would move three times while working at the Bowling Green Hotel Barbershop, and I worked there from the fall of 1951 until midsummer of 1954, when I opened up my own barbershop in Fostoria, Ohio.

All of this brought Tillie and I to attend a variety of churches and camp-meetings during this period. If the weather was good we would make the 50-mile round trip to our Evangelical church in Fostoria, but if the weather was inclement, we would attend a small Trinity Brethren Church in Bowling Green. Occasionally, we would attend the Rudolph, Ohio Nazarene church (the same church Tillie’s grandmother, [Almina Carter Garing] attended before her death in 1949). So, with a variety of churches came a “verity” of Biblical tenets somewhat in conflict with each other! Each individual church, even within the same denomination, had their own little unwritten code of dos and don’ts. One time only, I remember Tillie and I attended the Portage, Ohio Trinity Brethren summer camp-meeting, and the preacher got on the subject of rings, things and buttons and bows, when a man stood up and cried out, “tell’em about the telee-vision”, which today is hundreds of times worse! I thought the man was a little out-of-place, but time has proved otherwise.

After moving back to Fostoria, Ohio early in 1954, my wife, Tillie, and I started attending our Evangelical church on a regular basis, and everything continued smoothly for some time. By July 10 of that year, I had opened my own barbershop in Fostoria. Two years later I started to build Tillie and I a new home which we moved into in November of 1958, on the subfloors, with a young baby boy who was born July 14, 1958. Two or three years later I was able to purchase a low mileage used 1961 4-door Chevrolet Corvair, and my wife finally got her permanent Ohio drivers license, thereby taking quite a load off of my shoulders by running many of our various family’s errands.

Then out of the clear blue sky, something seriously inappropriate occurred. My wife was always concerned about anyone who was sick, and the wife of one of the five couples in our Sunday-school class was quite ill, whereupon Tillie decided to drive out into the country about two miles where she lived to visit and encourage her. Unbeknown to us, her husband, Troy Smith, had a bad habit of fondling women! When Tillie arrived there, Opal was sick in bed upstairs, and Troy let Tillie enter their home. Once in the living room, Troy started reaching for my wife’s breasts. Immediately, Tillie grabbed her pocketbook with her keys, and anything she had brought with her, and walked out of Smith’s house and drove safely back home under severe mental pressure. About three days later we visited a friend in the Bowling Green hospital, and upon leaving, Tillie requested that I find a secluded parking place, whereupon she related every detail of her frightening encounter, when I became mad as hell at Troy Smith! As my father sat on our Evangelical church board, my wife and I informed him and my mother of what had happened. Troy was a Sunday school teacher of a teenagers class, and absolutely no one in that Evangelical church made an effort to dismiss Troy from teaching that class, whereupon I said, “the hell with that Evangelical church”, and that was the end of that. For a couple of years we didn’t attend any church!

Since about 1955, I noticed that I was gradually gaining, one by one, a few men from the local Nazarene church to my barbershop, starting with the son of Pastor Flannery. As the number continued to grow, I suggested to my wife, Tillie, that we might try going to the Nazarene church in Fostoria. Everything went well there, and Tillie and I joined their church. Pastor Flannery was a hell, fire and brimstone preacher, and that seemed to keep the members in line. Under Flannery, they had an extra large brand new church built by the laymen, and never went in debt over it. Then in the early 1970s, Flannery was transferred to the Nazarene church in Marion, Ohio, and a Nazarene Preacher from Columbus, Ohio named Clay was assigned to Fostoria, and in came trouble!

Sometime later, Pastor Clay’s son, Danny, was caught stealing wine from the local Kroger grocery store. This was broadcast over WFOB the next morning, and when my wife, Tillie, heard it, she was so ashamed that she went to the Kroger manager and personally apologized to him (he being one of my customers). Danny’s mother then downplayed her son’s act, and his father didn’t seem to take any responsibility for it. We soon realized that if Danny got away with that theft, it was a license for my own son, David, to go out and do likewise, so both my wife and I wrote a letter of resignation, and stopped all of our support to that Nazarene church and seminary, and that ended that fiasco! I later heard that the Nazarene seminary at Mount Vernon, Ohio hired an Edomite-jew to help train the students there (if true, it would be like having a fox in a chicken house).

This is my two hundred and fourteenth monthly teaching letter and continues my eighteenth year of publication. In the last letter, WTL #213, I discussed, (3) “The church affiliation that Tillie and I had together as husband and wife.” Because I got sidetracked on the subject that “Our churches were infiltrated long ago, in the 1930s, by Christian socialists holding communistic ideologies, such as Harry Ward and Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Theological Seminary” (The Red Network by Elizabeth Dilling, p.31).” Of the notable alumni of Union Theological Seminary was one Frederick Buckley Newell (Bachelor of Divinity), of the 1916 Methodist church! Now one hundred years later, that problem is a hundred times worse than back then. I quoted Dilling’s Red Network, pp. 232-233, concerning the “Union Theological Seminary (and St. Stephens College),” and Red Network again at pp. 33-34, where she factually documented that the: “Methodists Turn Socialistic”, And so they remain, after swallowing up the United Brethren and Evangelical churches, and have highly influenced many other mainline denominations! It kind of makes one wonder where we presently stand in Biblical prophecy, doesn’t it?

Anyway, getting sidetracked on the above subject, I had to cut WTL #213 a little short of all of the details of Tillie’s and my church affiliation as husband and wife, especially with the Fostoria, Ohio Nazarene church. Tillie and I started to attend this church somewhere around 1961 or 1962, and as many of the men of that church were already customers at my barbershop, we were welcomed with open arms. It wasn’t long thereafter that we began to take part in the activities of that church, and eventually became members. Somewhere along the line, they voted me to be a board member of the church, which was quite a surprise to me. I would learn later that if the church were to go in debt for some large building project, in order to get that loan, the church board members would have to sign the mortgage note, with their own properties being used as security. Fortunately, at that time the Fostoria, Ohio Nazarene church didn’t have any outstanding debt, and under Pastor Flannery it stayed that way as long as he was there.

There were only two pending projects while I was serving on the board of the Nazarene church in Fostoria. One was to remodel what was formerly a two-room business type building into one large room that could be used for miscellaneous activities. The second was to remodel and air-condition an old brick house that was then being used for a children’s Sunday school. Neither project would require borrowing any money.

For another project I volunteered to help, with a few other men, we dug by hand, a trench about sixty feet long for a gas line, so they could have heat in that building. While we were digging, the subject of negroes came up, sort of pro and con. And one of the men, Lowell Griffin, helping with this digging piped up and said something like this: “Those negroes are no different than us – they’ve just been out in the sun too long”, and he was quite adamant in voicing this opinion! He was typical of the average judeo-Nazarene. Although I didn’t join in that conversation, I really believe that Almighty Yahweh wanted me there at that particular moment to hear that exchange of words, for they have been forever emblazoned in my mind, not capable of being erased!

Further, I believe that Almighty Yahweh wanted me in that judeo-Nazarene church to observe the gradual cultural change from sanity to insanity with rock music, drugs, unisex, miscegenation, sodomy, lesbianism, transgenderism, and sooner than we might imagine, legalized pedophilia! Where in hell are we going to draw the line? After all, what is “unisex”, other than a metro-sexual “hermaphrodite”? Maybe they can make one of those with a GMO!

One might think that being a part of the hippie-socialist-Marxist revolution would be something to be ashamed of! But NO! It was/is the other way around. For instance, when my father and mother were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, one of my female second cousins came up to me in the crowded room and related to me how ashamed she was to have an Emahiser as a relative who was a barber, and she made sure that everyone attending heard what she had said! Today there’s a female schoolteacher at North Baltimore, Ohio, in Wood County, by the name of Emahiser, the same area whence came my second cousin. If it’s her, or an in-law by marriage, she is in a tyrannical position to influence all of our young innocent white children, into the low morals of said revolution, which would include today’s perverted views on sex education, happening as this is being written!

Unless one has ever been in a legitimate business, or in an important position, with happy customers and friendly associations, and then an evil trend comes along that causes nearly everyone to hate you for your resistance against it, one simply can not understand how vicious John Q. Public can become! I believe that everyone, at one time or another, should have a job where they would have to deal with the public and depend on them for a living. Anyone who hasn’t as yet done this, has an eye-opening experience coming. I spoke of how all this evil trend started in WTL #192 thusly:

“Since Ed Sullivan introduced the Beatles on television in 1964, our impressionable, immature White Israelite men and women (mostly women) started to mix their genetics with alien nonwhites on a gargantuan scale! Data is found at the following website”: http://www.edsullivan.com/artists/the-beatles

“On February 9th, 1964, The Beatles, with their Edwardian suits and mop top haircuts, made their first American television appearance – LIVE – on The Ed Sullivan Show. A record setting 73 million people tuned in that evening making it one of the seminal [i.e., relating to seed or semen – a Freudian slip?] moments in TV history. Nearly fifty years later, people still remember exactly where they were the night The Beatles stepped onto Ed Sullivan’s stage ... [brackets mine]

“The story of how The Beatles landed on The Ed Sullivan Show began with the group’s formation in Liverpool in 1960. They spent their first couple of years playing in small clubs throughout Europe. During late night gigs in the city of Hamburg, Germany, sometimes playing as long as eight hours a night, the Beatles perfected their act. However, it was not until an appearance on the British television show, ‘Val Parnell’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium’ and the 1963 release of their first album, Please Please Me that ‘Beatlemania’ began to spread ....”

The first few adherents to ‘Beatlemania’ were young boys aged somewhere between 8 to 15 years old. They wanted to leave their hair grow long like a girl – get a guitar – and scream “ya, ya, ya, ya” at the top of their voices – or get a set of drums – and then pound them as hard as they could! Before this, these boys wanted to be just like their fathers, haircut and all. But after the Beatles, dad began to be referred to by these young boys as just “the old man”, in total disrespect, (and sometimes mothers also)!

Here my wife and I, were in this Nazarene church in Fostoria, Ohio, when all of this ‘Beatlemania’ began to happen. It wasn’t long until some of the young church people wanted to sing the hard rock song, “Jesus Christ, Super Star”, instead of the more beautiful Gospel hymns! Tillie and I had a neighbor who attended the Methodist church, and the neighbor lady told Tillie that the Methodist church had discarded all of their old hymn books and purchased new ones containing only negro spirituals!

After the initial thrust of the influence of ‘Beatlemania’, peer pressure was promoted among those young people who had swallowed the hippie-socialist-Marxist revolution hook, line and sinker, and they made it a living hell for the honest, upstanding young people who wouldn’t conform to the subculture introduced by ‘Beatlemania’! I knew one particular high school student who resisted that terrible peer pressure, when one day he came to my barbershop to get a regular length man’s haircut. Just as I was finishing, he said something like this: “Mr. Emahiser, I really like the way you cut my hair, but I dread going back to school!” He was probably a Junior or a Senior about that time at a catholic high-school just across the street from my barbershop.

That peer pressure not only pervaded all of the public and parochial schools and colleges but every phase of life, including church congregations, and the Nazarene church in Fostoria, Ohio was no exception to the rule. The first stage, by promoting a “generation gap”, started with the children being belligerent toward their parents, and the children winning every controversy. When the father and mother finally lost their parental authority, they would usually cave in to their children’s demands, and still protect them despite their wicked evildoings. This gave license for the children (who were fast becoming adults) to commit every kind of criminality.

I will now focus in on some of my observations of that Nazarene congregation and its leadership, from the beginning of this communist hippie-socialist-Marxist revolution until my wife, Tillie, and I disgustedly resigned from that Nazarene church.

We had a man and his wife in our church by the name of Wilson, and as the communist hippie-socialist-Marxist revolution increased in sway, this man decided to take a neutral position between temperate, straight, customary Christians, and those who were yielding to the peer pressure of the communist hippie-socialist-Marxist revolution. One Sunday morning, when Mr. and Mrs. Wilson entered the congregation, Mr. Wilson was wearing a brand new suit that appeared to be tailor made, but it was made entirely of blue denim, similar to the blue-jeans the hippies were wearing. Only Mr. Wilson’s suit wasn’t torn at the knees, or been submerged into a strong bleach solution to make them look well worn and tattered. Mr. Wilson worked for a loan company as debt collector, and repossessor of automobiles and other possessions on which the borrower was far behind in their monthly payments. Before this, though, Mr. Wilson always looked like a well dressed banker. He had been a customer at my barbershop for several years, and he used to tell me many stories about the “deadbeats” he had to deal with. So it became evident to me, that he was pandering to both of the extremely contrary factions (i.e., hippie vs. Christian piety), both in church and business, plus his private life.

Knowing that peer pressure among the younger children was fueling the fires of this communist hippie-socialist-Marxist revolution, there was no doubt in my mind that this same peer pressure was spreading covertly among the children in our Nazarene church, and our own son, David, was no exception. It was a constant effort in our home for my wife and I to steer David away from the evils of the communist hippie-socialist-Marxist revolution, especially drugs! At that particular time, I hadn’t yet fully learned about the communist hippie-socialist-Marxist revolution. Nevertheless, it was a constant threat to our family life.

Be that as it may, there was a pattern of conversing taking place between the young children and their parents, both in my barber business and in the congregation of our Nazarene church. This pattern developed when the young boys wanted long hair like the Beatles, and a substantial number of parents resisted it, giving the barber instructions to give their young son a regular haircut, the length it was before ‘Beatlemania’ came along. The young sons knew better than to aim their hatred at the parents, so they focused their hate toward the barber, and some of those young sons’ parents were members of our Nazarene church. This hate didn’t develop suddenly, but gradually, and it eventually spread from the young sons to their parents. And the parents were also beginning to hate me, and eventually even the grandparents, whereupon my public-approval rating plummeted, from the mid 90s down to the single digits. Well, popularity was never one of my ambitions, but neither did I wish to create any ill will, as I always tried to meet people on friendly terms! This undercurrent of hatred for me and my barber service was not at first openly perceptible in the Nazarene congregation, but with time it would manifest itself again and again. What would usually happen, when the fathers and grandfathers were won over to the communist hippie-socialist-Marxist revolution that their young sons were following, they, in turn, would leave their hair grow long, in quasi retaliation against the barber (and the women were encouraging the fathers and grandfathers in all of this).

This underground hate movement would in time cause me to be removed off of the board of trustees of that Nazarene church – I could smell it coming. They didn’t realize it, but they were doing me a favor – for should that Nazarene church decide to stray into debt, my replacement would have to sign the mortgage note. It just so happened that a few years later, with a change of pastors my wife, Tillie, and I resigned from that Nazarene church, and they went head over heels in debt, with a very huge mortgage. Someone, other than Tillie and I, had to start paying the usury on that enormous, un-Biblical debt! Then, as I stated at the end of WTL #213:

“Then in the early 1970s, Flannery was transferred to the Nazarene church in Marion, Ohio, and a Nazarene Preacher from Columbus, Ohio, named Clay was assigned to Fostoria, and in came trouble!

“Somewhat later, Pastor Clay’s son, Danny, was caught stealing wine from the local Kroger grocery store. The news of this was broadcast over WFOB the next morning, and when my wife, Tillie, heard it, she was so ashamed that she went to the Kroger manager and personally apologized to him (he being one of my customers). Danny’s mother then downplayed her son’s act, and his father didn’t seem to take any responsibility for it. We soon realized that if Danny got away with that theft, it was a license for my own son, David, to go out and do likewise. So both my wife and I wrote a letter of resignation, and stopped all of our support to that Nazarene church and seminary, and that ended that fiasco! I later heard that the Nazarene seminary at Mount Vernon, Ohio hired an Edomite-jew to help train the students there (if true, it would be like having a fox in a chicken house).”

It seemed hard, at that time, to leave the Fostoria, Ohio Nazarene church, and my wife Tillie took it quite distressfully, but Almighty Yahweh had something better for us in mind. For a while (I think maybe a year) we made a 90-mile round trip to Marion, Ohio, but that church too was showing signs of trouble. The first thing my wife and I noticed was that the Marion Nazarene church was allowing two or three negroes to attend their meetings. Of course, if the church has a large missionary endeavor in black Africa, how can they keep the negroes out? On another trip to the Marion Nazarene church, they were having a special program, and during that program they had all of the young teenage boys come forward to receive some kind of an award. There were about fifty of them, and all except one looked like hippies. So I knew that the Marion Nazarene church was having the same problem with the communist hippie-socialist-Marxist revolution!

Making that 90-mile round trip to Marion, Ohio became quite a task, so we didn’t go every week, and only now and then for the Sunday morning worship service. We never did attend one of their Sunday school classes. I am sure that Pastor Flannery knew every detail of why my wife and I resigned the Fostoria, Ohio Nazarene church, and he never said a word pro or con. But he did suggest that we might start renting a motel room so we could attend all of the Sunday services at the Marion Nazarene church, which was a very poor idea, as our son, David, would not be fresh and ready for school early Monday morning! So that sort of ended our 90-mile round trips to Marion.

Really, what was happening, Almighty Yahweh was methodically shutting off all of the avenues for my wife, Tillie, and I to find what we thought was a satisfactory church. We would try again at a very small Nazarene church in a small town, Rising Sun, just seven miles north of Fostoria, Ohio. That too also turned out to be a catastrophe. In the small Sunday school class that they assigned us to, there was a mexican and (if I remember correctly), he was accompanied by a white so-called wife, and all he could talk about was how he wanted to leverage everyone’s life insurance policies, which was a scam that was going around at that time. We soon found out there were two families in that church who dictated every activity and event. They had a better than average pastor, but they voted him out. I personally donated him enough money to help defray some of his, and his wife’s, moving expenses back to Pennsylvania, and that ended that!

Somewhere along the line, about this time, my wife Tillie and I were invited to a Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI) meeting, along with a dinner, by John and Marie Crabtree (the same people who introduced me to the lady with blond hair and blue eyes, who became my wife). It was this organization, or an offshoot off of it, which I found out that there were about as many catholics as there were protestants who were members. My aunt Helen (who was married to my uncle, Merrill Keiser), said: “Now the catholics are being saved ...” My wife and I were not very impressed with that meeting, and never considered going to another. All I knew, at that time, was that the whole world around me was going to hell, and I hadn’t discovered why, nor was I yet awakened to Israel Identity. From my booklet Research Papers Proving Two Seedline Seduction Of Eve, I wrote in part:

“I will start my story with the genealogy chart of Esau on the last page of this booklet, Research Papers Proving Two Seedline Seduction Of Eve. [Note, 1-8-2016: I no longer have this chart, and if I did, it would need to be reworked as I was tracing the fourteen dukes of Edom back to three of Esau’s wives (which might be correct) as maybe three of Esau’s six wives may not have produced a “duke” (i.e., “prince”).

I will now cite Nelson’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary, p. 351:

“ESAU’S WIVES – the six wives of Esau, oldest son of Jacob: (1) Judith (Gen. 26:34), (2) Basemath (Gen. 26:34), (3) Adah (Gen. 36:2), (4) Aholibamah (Gen. 36:2), (5) Basemath (Gen. 36:3), and (6) Mahalath (Gen. 28:9). Because of the large clan that came from these wives, Esau moved south and east of the Dead Sea to the area of Mount Seir sometimes referred to as Edom (Gen. 36:6-9). His descendants through these wives became known as the Edomites.” We also see “Basemath” mentioned twice – could this be the same person? ....

I am not including the chart with this up-dated article: “I made this chart in the late 70s, and at the time, I had no idea of what Israel Identity was all about. I can’t even give you a good reason why I made the chart in the first place. All I know is, that this chart was going to have a very dramatic effect upon me from that time until now. In the late 70s, I knew there was something wrong, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I had made a very serious study into the eastern religions, along with witchcraft, thinking that that might be where the problem was. Well, this was part of the problem, but later I would find how it fits into the scheme of things. Then a Catholic priest, a customer at my place of business, introduced me to the story of the Illuminati and a character by the name of John Todd, and I thought I had found the answer.

“As I would find out later, John Todd only knew about half of what he was talking about. I acquired about 50 of his cassette tapes and started to copy them and pass them around. No sooner than I had gotten involved with John Todd (whom I have never met) and his version of witchcraft and the Illuminati, then another customer brought in a copy of Billions For The Bankers And Debt For The People by Sheldon Emry. Then another customer brought me a copy of The United States and Britain In Prophecy by Herbert W. Armstrong. And yet another customer brought me four cassette tapes by Jim Shaw on Freemasonry. Along with the tapes by Jim Shaw was a small catalogue list with a book entitled Fourth Reich of the Rich by Des Griffin, which John Todd had talked about on one of his cassette tapes. I immediately ordered that book from Shaw. When I got it, in the back of the book were advertised about 200 more books, and I was on my way. Now I didn’t trust Armstrong, so I sent to Sheldon Emry for more information on Israel Identity. Emry only understood the Edomite connection with Jewry, and you can begin to see how the chart I had previously made started to affect me – I knew all about those Edomites and who they were, or so I thought. Anyway, I was headed in the right direction. Well, again I felt I had found the final answer and I informed everybody I knew about those Edomite-jews. Since the early 1980s I have spent about 35,000 to 40,000 hours of study on Israel Identity and the great “jewish” conspiracy.

“Then, in my study I continued to read about Cain and all of the Bible references concerning him. I knew it was there (i.e., two seedline) – I understood it in general – I accepted it but didn’t totally understand the importance of it and didn’t make an issue out of it. About four years ago, [from the time I first wrote this in 1998], I was guided by an acquaintance I had made to Bertrand L. Comparet’s and Wesley A. Swift’s cassette tapes. I had purchased some of Comparet’s tapes before that time, but they were so poor in sound quality, I didn’t order any more. My acquaintance loaned me four of Comparet’s tapes, and I liked them so well I copied them and ordered everything I could get by Comparet and Swift. Out of these tapes I had ordered, about 5 to 10% were not intelligible. I did end up with about 225 tapes by these two men that were from good to fair in sound quality. I would hate to estimate how many times I have repeatedly listened to these cassette tapes over and over again ....

“The biggest breakthrough I made on Two Seedline doctrine was in Genesis 15:19-21, where I identified the Kenites as descendants of Cain .... the Rephaims as mutated giants from fallen angels, and that all of these race-mixed together with seven other nations to form the Canaanites from which the jews are extracted. Although this is commonly taught by some Identity teachers, to my knowledge, no one else in Identity has ever identified this from this particular passage ....

“Let’s see who the jews admit themselves to be. In the Jewish publicationLiberal Judaism, January, 1949, there is an article entitled, ‘Liberal Judaism and Israel’, written by one of their greatest and most renowned Rabbis, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. Dr. Silver, writing about the then new State of Israel[i], says:

“... the third commonwealth of the Jewish Nation is thus an accomplished fact. The State of Israel[i] exists.

“As a result the concept of the wandering Jew is bound eventually to disappear along with the term (galut) exile. All nations send forth immigrants to all parts of the world. People are continually moving from one country to another, and change their citizenship, but they are not regarded as exiles.

“This fact alone – the end of national exile for the Jewish people, as such – is destined to affect favorably the psyche of the Jew throughout the world. It will endow the Jew, wherever he lives, with a self respect and a sense of security, a normal tone, long-wanting in Jewish experience. For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a ‘wanderer’ over the face of the earth has been removed ...”

The following is part of what I wrote in WTL #108:

“THE MISUSE OF THE TERM ‘CHURCH’

“I received a sarcastic letter from a professing Identity minister, with a scathing question written at the end: ‘Do you belong to a local church?’ To make a long story short, I will reproduce here the answer I gave this man as a reply to this portion of his letter to me: ‘... Your last question was ‘Do you belong to a local church?’ My understanding of the word ‘church’ is that it means ‘the called out ones.’ Are you trying to tell me that I am not a ‘called out one’? If not, why did you ask the question? Every time that I’m out driving around town and see a White Israelite, I see a ‘called out one’, and thus the ‘church’ though, they may not be aware of it. Please explain to me how a building built out of concrete and wood represents ‘a called out one’, which appears to be your position ...” In a brochure I wrote recently entitled Founder Of Waldenses Was Not Peter Waldo, I addressed this subject thusly:

“Some people in Israel Identity today will put emphasis on being a member of a local church as if somehow that was a prerequisite for being a Christian. The term ‘church’ in Greek (#1577) is ekklesia and means ‘a calling out’ or ‘called out ones’, and the only people who are ‘called out’ are true Israelites. Whenever one notices a White Israelite walking down the sidewalk one is observing ‘a called out one’, or a member of Yahweh’s assembly. Had some of these people today who put their emphasis on a so-called ‘local church’ lived back in the time of the Waldenses, they would have asked, ‘Are you a member of a local romish church?’; how absurd! That single White Israelite seen walking down the sidewalk is a ‘called out one’, whether he is alone or in a building with 10,000 other Israelites. In the Waldenses, we have an example of the true ekklesia of Yahweh, and nobody cares to mention them or reflect on the persecution they endured. And that persecution was executed by the hand of a ‘man of sin’, or the office of the pope of the romish catholic church, and that title doesn’t deserve to be written in capital letters! The next time anyone asks you if you are a member of a local church, let them know real quickly that you are ‘a called out one’, whether alone or with 10,000 in a sizable edifice. [Note Acts 8:3; 9:31; 1 Cor. 14:23]. The truth is, when you are alone in the privacy of your own immediate family, you constitute, if racially pure, a Holy ekklesia! A multiracial group never establishes an ekklesia, whether among one’s own immediate racially-mixed family or in a large building with diverse races represented [that is, in attendance]!

“In order to establish just what is meant by the term “church”, I will glean from several Bible Dictionaries and put it in my own words. The English word ‘church’, with its cognate ‘kirk’, is derived from the word kyriakón, signifying ‘Yahshua’s’ or ‘belonging to Yahweh’. Simply put, the New Testament equivalent is ekklesia, as originally employed by the Greeks to denote an assembly or congregation of free citizens summoned or ‘called out’, and such an assembly could be called for various reasons. At Acts 19:39, we find instruction for calling an assembly to resolve various legal matters. So if anyone is under the delusion that the heralding is for worship services only, he is sadly mistaken. An ekklesia can be called for many reasons!

“Paul, at Romans 9:4; 16:4; Heb. 9:1-11, reminds us, he was addressing Romans who were part of the lost tribes, that their ancestors had been ‘called out as a special people.’ In its simplest meaning, the word may be taken to denote the ‘assembly’ or ‘congregation’ of those who are recipients of his heavenly favor and have been ‘called out’ to be witnesses of His Redemption. Romans 9:4; 16:4; Heb. 9:1-11 is not referring to a religious service in a building somewhere, but the calling out of all the members of the twelve tribes, and there’s not a building in the entire world that could hold that many people. Yet they represent an assembly. The problem is, we have too many people with tiny 2x4 brains who can’t comprehend something other than a building on the corner of an intersection with a steeple and a bell, with a small group of people thinking they’re the only people on the entire planet.

“Some have the erroneous idea that an ekklesia is a gathering together in a solitary building. Rather, sometimes it is used to denote scattered groups of Christians over a wide area as the churches of Galatia (Gal. 1:2). On other occasions it is used with reference to a body of Christians dwelling in the same immediate locality, such as the church at Antioch (Acts 13:1). Some narrow-minded people today only accept the ‘local’ hypothesis as being the correct one. And if it’s the church on the other side of the street, it can’t be the right one, for only our church on our side of the street has the truth. Yet others, even in Israel Identity, such as Everett (Sileven) Ramsey, claim we must put ourselves under someone in authority, regardless of his doctrine.

“Many are not aware that whenever Yahshua met with his disciples they were an ekklesia, and most of the time they had no building. Not only that, but after Yahshua’s Ascension, when the apostles met in small groups they constituted an ekklesia. But if one were to ask a thousand church-goers today what constituted a church, one would get a thousand different answers, and to most of them it would simply be a building in one way or another ....”

Originally, I planned to present, (1) the background of my own church affiliation, then (2) the background of my wife’s church affiliation, and lastly, (3) The church affiliation that Tillie and I had together as husband and wife. In order to make it more complete, I ended up with four presentations to cover all I wanted to cover. This is far from being a complete autobiography of my wife, Tillie, and myself concerning each of our lifetimes of church affiliation.

I should also point out that this autobiography of Tillie and I is not perfect in every degree, but I spent many hours in order to keep it as flawless as possible. My main purpose for writing this autobiography was to let my readers over the last nearly eighteen years know what kind of a person I am, and more importantly, my background. You may well ask: What is the purpose for my publishing these teaching letters anyway? The answer to this question is: I am duty bound by Yahweh’s Law to witness to the truth to the best of my ability as I understand it. In other words, if I know a crime has been committed, is in the process of being committed or there is a danger of a crime about to be committed, if I do not witness to what I know I become as guilty as the person/s committing the crime. In this case, we are not talking about a single individual crime, we are talking about tens of millions of crimes.

TheNew Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, edited by Jerome H. Smith says this on page 132:

“... such an one shall bear his iniquity – shall be considered as guilty in the sight of God of the transgression which he has endeavored to conceal, and must expect to be punished for hiding the iniquity with which he was acquainted.”

At 1 Sam. 16:1-3, Yahweh Himself directed the prophet Samuel to fill his horn with oil and go to Jesse the Bethlehemite to anoint a new king from among one of his sons, whereupon Samuel became concerned. To this Yahweh replied: “... Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh. And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.” (vv. 2-3). Here, Yahweh instructed Samuel, should Saul inquire, to completely misrepresent his mission to Jesse at Bethlehem. Therefore, can we accuse Yahweh of directing Samuel to tell a lie, when that is exactly what Yahweh did? Nor do we have to reveal everything we know when it is no one else’s damn business but our own, or especially when it is an enemy!

This is my two hundred and fifteenth monthly teaching letter and continues my eighteenth year of publication. In the last letter, WTL #214, I completed an autobiography of my wife Trillis (Tillie) and myself as best I could remember, and from the records I had at hand. That series of WTL lessons started with Letter #203, March, 2015, and continued for twelve months, so if you want to review this autobiography, you will need WTLs 203 through 214. Having read these you will have a better idea of who I am, and why I publish these things. The main purpose, though, is found at Malachi 4:5-6 which reads:

“⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Yahweh: ⁶ And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

Who else other than those teaching the Christian Israel Identity Message are doing this very thing today?

Here is an excerpt from the Youth Message, London, England, reproduced from Destiny Magazine, July, 1947:

“John Wilson and Edward Hine by Marie King:

“John Wilson was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, in 1779 and commenced his Inquiry into the Israelitish origin of the Anglo-Saxons in the year 1837. Studying at great length in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, he succeeded in tracing the Anglo-Saxons as far back as Media.

“In the following year he gave a series of lectures which proved to be most successful. Owing to their popularity, he published his lectures in book form in 1840 under the titleOur Israelitish Origin, in which he traced the migrations of the peoples of Israel as they made their way across the continent of Europe to these Isles. He brings evidence to bear from Diodorus and from Ptolemy, supporting the earlier history of the Israelites. He studied the works of Rawlinson, Herodotus and Josephus and quotes extensively from Sharon Turner.

“The Lectures given by John Wilson attracted the attention of very distinguished men, amongst them being none other than the eminent Sharon Turner himself, also Piazzi Smyth (Astronomer Royal for Scotland and one of the first interpreters of Great Pyramid prophecy), the Rev. F.R.A. Glover (compiler of the genealogical chart of Her Majesty Queen Victoria), and Dr. George Moore, author of The Lost Tribes, or Saxons of the East and West ....”

We won’t mention Edward Hine at this point, as he was an Edomite-jew, trying to enter Christ’s Kingdom from the backdoor!

“Father Of The Rediscovery Of Israel by, A. B. Grimaldi, M.A., reproduced from Destiny Magazine, November, 1950:

“John Wilson was born at Kilmarnock, in Ayrshire, in the Lowlands of Scotland, the same country made famous by its greatest son, Robert Burns. Some unpublished poetical pieces by Wilson, which I obtained from his daughter, may be the result of his reading the poems of the great poet of the Lowlands. John Wilson was born June 8, 1788, (notice discrepancy of date of birth in article by Marie King) his parents being educated, intelligent and religious members of the Established Church. His father, also John Wilson, had two sons. After a home education he went to the Glasgow University where he labored diligently in the prescribed course, as is proved by his college note books which came into my possession. There he studied Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Logic, Philology and the Scriptures. He also attended Greville Ewing’s Theological Academy, and a book of Skeleton Sermons is among his extant manuscripts. He showed a decided talent for languages, and in two weeks obtained a sufficient knowledge of Hebrew to pass the preliminary examination. It had been the intention that he should enter the Scotch ministry, but being of a very independent mind, he thought he could be more useful as a layman.

“Enters Public Work: On finishing his collegiate studies, he spent some years in private study, teaching, lecturing and preaching. At this time phrenology (study of the character of an individual thought to be revealed in conformation of the skull) was attracting attention. Wilson took it up and made a deep study of it as founded on the Scriptures. When proficient, he gave lectures and developed characteristics. His application of phrenological principles to Gospel teachings was a remarkable and unique feature of his system.

“From the first he was a very close, deep student of the Bible, and among his manuscripts are several volumes of notes on most books of the Bible; and voluminous manuscripts on the ‘Animals of the Bible’, considered nationally, historically, symbolically, analogically. etc.

“Wishing for a larger sphere of labor, he entered England and after lecturing on phrenology and other subjects for some time, he passed over to Ireland. In 1828 he took part in the Dublin City Mission work, also in that of the Irish Evangelical Society, and assisting Daniel Hasmith. In 1830 he wrote on the ‘Law and the Lord’s Prayer’, in the Dublin Miscellany.

“While staying at Mr. Lyng’s, at Dysart Ennis, some Romanists, instigated by their priest, drew up a Memorial against him and Mr. Wyng, another devoted evangelist, and attacked the latter’s house.

“In 1838 he lectured on Scriptural phrenology with great success at Cork, and also at Clonmel. He was now adding greatly to his collection of books and reading very extensively.

“Rediscovery Of Israel: John Wilson’s mother had early called his attention to the extraordinary blessings pronounced on Joseph for the later days (Genesis 49). After conducting an evening service at Cork one Sunday, Miss Cummins of Glenmire asked him the meaning of Jacob’s prediction of Joseph, ‘His bow abode in strength’ (Genesis 49:24). He confessed his ignorance, but proposed they should both study the matter and compare notes the next Sunday.

“With his usual thoroughness and energy, Wilson, during the week, read, searched and pondered concerning this subject. One day he accidentally, as it seemed, discovered in the Saturday Magazine where it mentioned that Sir John Fortescue, an English medieval judge declared that ‘The might of the realme of Englande standyth upon her archers’, and observed that all the great battles of England, i.e., Cressy, Pocctiers, Agincourt, etc., were gained by the English long bow.

“Wilson was greatly struck with this, and while pondering it deeply, a light (he said) seemed to flash into his mind, with the thought, ‘Can there be any connection between the bow of Joseph and the bow of England?’ He dedicated the rest of the week to this line of investigation, and when he met Miss Cummins on Sunday, told her he was not yet fully prepared with an answer but had gained such an insight that he would soon give a lecture on it. He purchased Henry’s voluminous History of England, read at Trinity College Library, Dublin, obtained fresh books from old book shops and friends, and at length obtained sufficient evidence to lay the matter before others in a lecture.

“Begins His Public Witnessing: After further study and obtaining further confirmations, he gave his first course of lectures upon ‘Ancient Israel’, in one of the Dublin theaters in 1837. He repeated them in Cork and Rev. G. Roe of Kilkenny assisted him in them there. In all these places they excited great interest.

“In 1838 he gave his course at Booterstown and in that year he met Robert Mimpriss, whom he convinced, and they remained firm friends, and often co-workers, for life. Some of the other leading Christians who became friends of Wilson were Glover, Bickersteth, Campbell, Macneil, Grant and Yates. In 1839 he delivered his lectures in the north of Ireland, while residing in Dublin, using a very large map of Israel’s progress from Media to the West. In Ireland he was very much encouraged by the interest excited and the sympathy he met.

“Work In England: This success determined Wilson to enter upon the larger field of England. He commenced in 1840 with courses at Liverpool, Leamington, Kenelworth, Warwick and Cheltenham, receiving great appreciation from large and most attentive audiences, who generally requested a repetition of the lectures. Many questions, objections, etc., were brought forward after each lecture, and these gave additional evidence, as his answers always either convinced or silenced his objectors by their masterly character. Many now requested him to print his lectures and at length friends in Liverpool enabled him to bring out his first work entitled Our Israelitish Origin in 1840. (This and subsequent publications mentioned in this article are not now available, e.d.) It had a large scale, and five editions have appeared, that in 1876 were edited, revised and enlarged by his daughter. His influence in preparing the way for other workers has been enormous, making him truly the father of the rediscovery of Israel.

“Cheltenham And London: In 1841 he resided at Cheltenham, where Mimpriss was settled as a publisher and map engraver. There he gave lectures and issued some small but valuable tracts on Israel.

“He still gave information and advice on Scriptural phrenology and among his papers I found a copy of his Bookplate, which I conclude was engraved at that time by Mimpriss. It has on it a collection of accurately engraved skulls, lying in different positions, marked with sectional names, while beneath is: ‘J. Wilson, Professor of Phrenology.’ There is a copy of it in the great Franks Collection of Bookplates in the British Museum, No. 32087. Castle has engraved it also (English Bookplates, 1894, p. 140).

“Wilson’s first meeting in London was held that same year, but he continued to hold Bible classes at Cheltenham as well. His first London meetings were presided over by the excellent Bishop Alexander of Jerusalem; whose remarkable tomb, with inscriptions in English, German, Greek and Hebrew, I saw in the Protestant cemetery on Mount Zion when at Jerusalem in 1908.

“In 1842 Wilson issued a series of valuable millennial tracts, which he afterward published as a book entitled The Millennium. He now planned a Christian Association for the systematic and deep study of Israel, etc., but I am not aware that he met much encouragement in this. He gave lectures at Birmingham, and on June 21, and 22, he held a public discussion at Cheltenham with Campbell, a follower of Robert Owen, the Welsh Socialist.

“In 1843 Wilson lectured for the last time at Bristol, also at Carlisle, Kilmarnock, Glasgow and London. He engaged a chapel in Aldersgate, city of London calling it the Witness Hall, and gave services on Sunday, and Israel lectures on week days. It was here that Edward Hine [an Edomite-jew ed. CAE], when 15, heard for the first time about Israel. Wilson also lectured at Bath and published his Phrenology Consistent with Reason and Revelation.

“Palestine And The ‘Harmony’: In 1843 Wilson issued a monthly paper called The Time of the End while residing at Islington (Memoir of Edward Hine, 1909, p. 12). He lectured at Reading, held open-air services at Blackburn and had discussions with Secularists.

“In 1845 Wilson lectured at Carlisle, Newcastle and other northern towns, continuing his services at the Witness Hall. He thought he ought to visit Palestine, but Mimpriss at that time asked his help in his great work, The Gospel Harmony Treasury. He had prepared elaborate maps to explain Christ’s life, but desired notes to accompany them. Wilson considered this a providential call to prepare a work that would supply the rising generations with Scriptural knowledge, of which he found great ignorance, and so prepare them to receive Israel truth. He therefore gave up Palestine and gave himself to this work with great ardor and labor.

“In 1846 he published his Book of Inheritance, a less popular [work] because a deeper book than his first. He lectured at Carlisle and Keswick, while Cockermouth, Penrith, Alston and Hexham are also mentioned. Among his Carlisle hearers was Mr. Louthian, a retired farmer, and he was so much impressed with Israel truth that he sold his property and settled in Beyrout, where he introduced various improvements, helped to establish schools and wrote, advertising others to settle in Palestine and help to prepare the people for Israel’s return.

“In 1847 Wilson published various excellent Tracts on Israel, and induced others to do the same; also Questions On Our Israelitish Origin. He lectured, by request, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, on a large Model of Jerusalem, receiving remuneration, and also visited Lancaster and discussed Scripture subjects with some infidels.

“In 1848 Wilsonlectured to good audiences at Plymouth and opposed the removal of Jewish political disabilities in a pamphlet entitled Forty Reasons for Resisting the Removal of the Jewish Disabilities. [Note: Removing the Jewish Disabilities would have given fully equal political rights to Edomite-jews, which Wilson was properly against! In 1849 an attempt failed, but in 1858 the Jews got their way. ed. CAE.]

“In 1849 he worked on the Treasury Harmony, at Hastings, where he had removed for greater seclusion; also lecturing at the Egyptian Hall and visiting Bodnien.

“In 1851 he wrote an essay called A Vindication of Christ’s Character as a Prophet, not printed until 1879. This is a masterly and unanswerable work, perhaps his finest intellectual effort. In 1853 he lectured at Hurstmonceaux, Worthing, Brighton, to which latter place he permanently removed. In 1855 he prepared a most elaborate Index to the Treasury Harmony and an abstract of the Apocalypse.

“The Treasury Harmony was received with the greatest satisfaction and approval. It became the foundation and pattern for all subsequent Scripture teachers and manuals and passed through various editions. Its influence has been incalculable. These three great undertakings of John Wilson, viz: his Israel lectures, his Israel writings and the Gospel Harmony, prepared the ground for the rapid reception of Israel truth by other workers later on. [It is not clear whether “Treasury Harmony” is the same as “Gospel Harmony” or two different works by Wilson.] [brackets not mine]

“In 1856 Wilson gave a course of lectures upon the mission of Elijah to prepare all Israel for the Second Advent. In 1857 he held discussions with working men at King’s Cross, London upon atheism and created very favorable impressions. His arguments are of remarkable lucidity, logical cleverness and depth and were printed in a little book entitled The Being of God, which had a large circulation. He also conducted open-air services on the Level and at the Battery at Brighton. In the years 1858 and 1859, Wilson continued his open-air religious services at Brighton, where, at the same time, he was engaged in important Sunday School work, connected with a Presbyterian Church.

“His Last Labors: In 1860 he lost his devoted wife, who had aided him in all his educational, Israelite and Christian labors. She died October 13 and was interred in Brighton cemetery. In 1861 Wilson published his Mission of Elijah, a remarkable work, of which Mrs. Melville issued a second edition, to which I contributed an Introduction in 1881. He also gave courses of lectures at Brighton.

“In 1863 and 1864, he continued his studies in Scriptural phrenology, giving lessons and characters (genetic origins) and writing on the subject in the Brighton Gazette, which letters were afterward issued as a booklet.

“In 1866 Wilson commenced his monthly magazine, The Watchmen of Ephraim, an unequalled periodical of Israelite literature, and it was continued until 1868. His health then visibly declined. In 1870 he issued his last work, The Migrations of the English People, which, like his first, was upon the subject of Israel. He then gradually sank until, full of faith, peace and love, he quietly passed from his labors, cares and trials here below. His revered remains were accompanied by a large number of persons to the cemetery, where they were laid beside his wife’s. A well executed granite headstone was erected bearing these words: ‘Here Rest The Mortal Remains of John Wilson, Author of ‘Our Israelitish Origin’ And of His Faithful Helpmeet, Agnes Wallace Wilson. ‘In sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to Eternal Life Through our Lord Jesus Christ’.’

“His coat of arms is on the cover of Lights and Shadows by Elizabeth Wilson, 1881. It contains a wolf rampant, under three stars, with a demi-wolf for crest, and ‘Facta non Verba,’ (deeds not words) for the motto. The name Wilson is said to be derived from wolf, the zodiacal emblem of Benjamin; the stars are taken as referring to Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin.

“His son Rev. E. S. Wilson, became Vicar of Winterton, married and died, but had no family. Another son, John, went to Beyrout but died in Syria, young and unmarried. His daughter, Elizabeth, married Mr. Alexander Melville and died without issue.

“John Wilson’s life and works and labors were all of a remarkable character, showing originality, learning and piety in a high degree. His perseverance, strength of will, kindness of heart, love of his fellowmen, strength and purity of character, were all of a very high order; and he was marked out to become under Providence, a great leader and teacher – to be, in fact, the father of the rediscovery of Israel.”

[Critical comment by Clifton A. Emahiser: While John Wilson accomplished an outstanding discovery in recognizing that the White Anglo-Saxons and related people were Israelites, he fell short of determining that those calling themselves “jews” were not Israelites, but converso Kenite-Edomite-jews (Josephus Antiq. bk. 13; ch. 9; par. 1)! This same erroneous view remains with us to this very day among those who should know better, but through fear or neglect, have never taken the time necessary to set forth the research on the matter!]

Who Was Sharon Turner?by Marie King from Youth Message, reproduced in part from Destiny Magazine, July, 1947:

“Sharon Turner was a widely read and profoundly learned historian. He was also an eminent London attorney and was in practice for himself in the Temple until failing health forced him to retire. For the remainder of his life he used his talents in studying, for historical purposes, the origin of the Anglo-Saxons from the Cottonian Library of the British Museum. He was born in London in 1768 and died there in 1847.

“In his day, and for a number of years afterwards, he was constantly quoted by historians as an authority upon Anglo-Saxon origins, life and literature. The English Cyclopaedia, published in 1857, says of him: ‘He was the first English author who had taken the pains, or had had sufficient knowledge, to investigate the valuable remains left to us in Anglo-Saxon records. He consulted the original manuscripts with great industry and intelligence, and the result has been that, though his views have been more than once assailed, they have been generally sustained, and that the study of Saxon literature has been more appreciated and the authenticity of his materials more generally understood. The work History of the Anglo-Saxons soon took a permanent place in the historical literature of the country.’ To which the Dictionary of National Biography adds that his writings are ‘almost as complete a revelation as the discoveries of Layard.’

“P. W. Thompson, in his book Britain in Prophecy and History, writes: ‘From the fact of his having enjoyed a pension of £300 during the last years of his life it would appear that his contemporaries thought highly of him.’ Sir Edmund Gosse speaks of him as ‘a careful imitator of Gibbon, who illustrated the Anglo-Saxon period of our chronicles.’ Lord Macaulay refers to Turner’s History as an authority consulted by him in his researches concerning Sedgemoor. The elder Disraeli [an Edomite-jew, CAE] wrote of Turner in terms of warm appreciation: ‘Hume despatches, comparatively in a few pages, a subject which has afforded to the fervid diligence of my friend, Sharon Turner, volumes precious to the antiquary, the lawyer, and the philosopher’ (page 68). Again, on pages 166-167: ‘Now, remembering in what estimate Southey held his Life of Wesley, when regarded in its relative order of importance as contrasted with others of his own works, it is illuminating to be faced with the fact that Robert Southey, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, one of the most deservedly appreciated authors of his own day, could find no worthier recipient for the dedication of this favorite book than his esteemed friend Sharon Turner. This, remember, is the deliberate judgment of a contemporary; Southey could afford to be independent in his choice in conferring the honour, and he chose Turner for the highest honour which he, as a foremost writer, had it in his power to bestow.’ These extracts help us to see the esteem with which Sharon Turner was held in his day.

“In his History of the Anglo-Saxons he tells us three successive waves of people populated Europe – first the Kimmerian, then the Scythian, Gothic and ‘German’, and lastly the Slavonian. The inhabitants of Britain are descended from the Kimmerians and Scythians (Book I). The second stock is peculiarly interesting to us, because from its branches the Anglo-Saxons, Lowland Scotch, Normans, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, among others, have unquestionably descended (Book II). At some period after the Kimmerians reached the shores of the North Sea a portion of them passed over and settled themselves in Britain. ‘It is agreed by the British antiquaries that the most ancient inhabitants of our island were called Cymry. The Welsh, who are their descendants, have always called themselves Cymry. Removing the Jewish Disabilities would have given fully equal political rights to Jews, which Wilson was properly against! In 1849 an attempt failed, but in 1858 the Jews got their way. ed. CAE.]

... The Cymry of Britain have sprung from the continental Kimmerians, who were once sovereigns of the Kimmerian Bosphorus (Crimea).’

“After the Kimmerians, came the Scythians, and the Saxons who came to Britain in the fifth century A.D. were a Scythian tribe. Sharon Turner says the name ‘Saxon’ was derived from ‘Sacae’ (Sakai), and traces the Saxons back to the region of the Crimea. The Behistun inscription of Darius the Great shows that ‘Sacae’ was the Persian name for a people vaguely called ‘Gi-mi-ri’ (‘the tribes’) by the Babylonians. The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser, now in the British Museum, calls the Israelites of the ten-tribed House of Israel, Khumri. The Assyrians called the House of Israel Beth-Khumri, or the House of Omri’ (Omri was pronounced Khumri, the initial vowel being guttural), after Omri one of the most notorious of their kings (I Kings 16:16). It is well known that our Anglo-Saxon ancestors at one time inhabited the region now known as the Crimea. We see, therefore, that in the region where Bible history leaves the ten-tribed House of Israel, secular history finds our own ancestors....”

As Marie King then contends that the Germans were not related to the Anglo-Saxons we must highly differ with her opinion where she stated: “In quoting Sharon Turner we must remember that the Anglo-Saxons, etc., are not of German origin. The fact that they passed through the region now known as Germany does not constitute them Germans... so with regard to the Germans we cannot agree with the eminent Sharon Turner....”

In his book The British Nation Identified With Lost Israel, p. 6, Edward Hine cites Sharon Turner thusly:

“Having reference expressly to the Saxons, Sharon Turner observes, ‘They were a German or Teutonic, i.e., a Gothic or Scythian tribe, and of the various Scythian nations which have been recorded, the Sakai, or Sacae, are the people from whom the descent of the Saxons may be inferred, with the least violation of probability’ ...” Then on page 54 Hine states: ‘We have long held the Germans to be identical with the Assyrians ...’ Then on page 98, Hine says in part:

“‘There are other lost nations besides Israel. And by what light can they be traced? I maintain only by the light of Scripture. History must be a very unsafe and treacherous guide. Scripture is divine, History, at its best, is human.’ It is apparent here that Hine doesn’t believe Sharon Turner! This last quotation is under the subheading, “The Teutonic Difficulty.”

Hine at p. 54: “We believe the political resurrection of the three nations to be very near at hand. We have long held the Germans to be identical with the Assyrians; and shall be prepared, in due course, if no one in the meantime will take this matter in hand, to come forward ourselves with proofs.”

Hine at p. 85: “Judges ii. 3. And surely no people in all the earth give so much vitality to this description as these Irish Canaanites do to us. Truly, are they ‘thorns in our sides,’ but mark, only thorns to us, Israel. They are thorns to our brothers in America, thorns in Australia, thorns in Canada, thorns in New Zealand – everywhere to us. But they are not thorns to the French, not thorns to the Prussians, to the Chinese, nor to Denmark, Sweden, Holland, and Germany. Hence, again, these last cannot be parts of Israel.” [emphasis mine]

Hine at p. 98: “Scripture is divine. History, at its best, is human. God Himself has declared that He has cast a veil, a covering over nations; that He has shrouded their ancestry in mystery, and the Identity of Israel will become the key to solve the problems, the means to uplift the covering, Isaiah xxv. 7. Therefore, it is patent that the historical notions of some nations cannot be correct; they are founded upon blindness; and this blindness, may be, has invented the Teutonic Theory. I say that, because the English and the Germans can trace an ancestry to the same region, we need not, therefore, be related as peoples. There must be now about the earth another great nation, besides our own, able to trace an ancestry to the North-West of Asia or Assyria.”

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: It is becoming more obvious that Marie King was following the double-talking Edomite-jew, Edward Hine, rather than the historian Sharon Turner! Hine is quite wrong, as true history agrees 100% with Biblical history!]

Hine rants and declaims John Wilson’s ability at pp. v and vi:

“The main point of my differing with the late Mr. John Wilson, author of Our Israelitish Origin, is, that he sought to identify all the Modern Teutonic [i.e., German] Nations as parts of Israel, whereas I stoutly maintain that to accept this view would lead us to terrible inconveniences and calamities. I see that the whole Ten Tribes must have become incorporated under the Charter of one Nation; that when God addresses Israel He addresses them as a compact body; that He requires the whole Tribes to give response to their prophecies; whereas Mr. Wilson’s view would imply that God would be satisfied if one or two Tribes only responded, it being immaterial if the rest did not. I maintain that God requires the whole Ten Tribes to become consolidated in an Island Nation. Mr. Wilson’s view would sanction the idea that one or two Tribes might so become, while the remaining eight might form different Continental Nations. I maintain that God requires the Ten Tribes to be a Consolidated Nation, and to be HIGH ABOVE all the other Nations of the Earth; Mr. Wilson’s view implies that one Tribe might occupy this exalted position, and the rest become third, fourth, or tenth-rate Nations – that one Tribe might have Israel’s emblems of the Lion and the Unicorn, the others Eagles, Birds, and the like. Hence Mr. Wilson’s view, in my judgment, does violence to Scripture, and would destroy the Prophets.” [brackets above mine]

Hine continues his outrage against John Wilson at pp. vi and vii:

“...Hence we ask, what two powerful people can trace such ancestry? Why, only the British and the Germans. Then there are smaller peoples yet to be identified, to wit, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the Moabites, the Philistines, &c., &c. (Isa, xi. 14); and they must all have an origin from about the same region. So that it is a glorious thing that there should be several nations existing having a Teutonic theory, because doubtless this very theory may become a most valuable link by which to fix an Identity upon the many nations yet lost. Taking this view of things, I should be distressed beyond measure in my own mind if we were without a Teutonic theory; because, I see the probability of its unravelling a mystery. It only wants a little research to unravel some most astounding evidences of the nature indicated.”

Hine continues his outrage at pp. 5-6:

“For this purpose, we call into requisition the services of our own historian, Sharon Turner, with the remark, that it is not so much upon Sharon Turner that we rely as upon his research. We rest upon his quotations from the classic historians, i.e., upon Homer, Strabo, Herodotus, &c. There is a class of men intensely interested in trying to trifle away with the full import of Scripture, and they dread the first stepping stone of this historical link. Why? Because it is the first grand achievement. It is in itself a victory! Prove from history that our ancestors came from the very quarter where Israel was last heard of, and we obtain a grand advantage at the very outset of our pursuit. Who were the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons? Sharon Turner says, in his Anglo-Saxons (vol. i., pp. 93-102), speaking of the second or Teutonic stock of European population:– ‘It is peculiarly interesting to us, because from its branches not only our own immediate ancestors, but also those of the most celebrated nations of modern Europe, have unquestionably descended. The Anglo-Saxons, Lowland Scotch, Normans, Danes, Belgians, Lombards, and Franks, have all sprung from that great fountain of the human race, which we have distinguished by the terms Scythian, German, or Gothic.’ According to Herodotus, ‘The first scenes of their civil existence, and of their progressive power, was in Asia, to the east of the Araxes. [The identical part into which Israel had been carried captive.] Here they multiplied and extended their territorial limits for some centuries, unknown to Europe.’ The account of Diodorus is, ‘That the Scythians, formerly inconsiderable and few, possessed a narrow region on the Araxes; but, by degrees, they became more powerful in numbers and in courage. They extended their boundaries on all sides; till, at last, they raised their nation to great empire and glory.... In the course of time they subdued many nations between the Caspian and Maeotis, and beyond the ‘Tanais.’ ‘In the time of Herodotus they had gained an important footing in Europe, and had taken a westerly direction’ ....” [brackets in this citation not mine]

Hine continues his judgmental opinion at p. 204:

“Reasons why the Teutonic Continental Nations cannot form parts of Israel. This will not only be highly important to ourselves, but of immense service to them, giving them a key by which they can clear themselves from those historical mists and doubtfulness of origin that the vain sophistries of man have so long enshrouded them with, thus not only effectually lifting our own veil, but leading to theirs being lifted off as well.”

Hine really blunders at p. 284:

“Moreover, the fact that Sharon Turner traces the Anglo-Saxons to Media and Assyria, the very place the Ten Tribes were taken captive to, and lost, long before the Jews were taken captive to Babylon, and not lost, but, after a seventy years’ captivity, restored again for a time.” [Note: Hine contends that the 10 northern tribes of Israel went into captivity, while Judah has been cursed. CAE]

However, Jer. 33:24 clearly states:

“Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”

Never once did Edward Hine cite this above passage in his 296 page book, with 141,765 words, revealing his lack of discernment!

This is my two hundred and sixteenth monthly teaching letter and ends my eighteenth year of publication. In the last letter, WTL #215, I brought up the subject of THE ELIJAH MINISTRY at Malachi 4:5-6, which I will quote again because of its GREAT IMPORTANCE:

“⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Yahweh: ⁶ And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

I should point out from the very beginning, there are only a Minor Few who have any idea of the SIGNIFICANCE of what this passage is all about and how its context accords with the rest of the Bible. Hopefully, before we finish this exposé, there will be absolutely no doubt in the reader’s mind how it fits into the design of Almighty Yahweh.

To show the popular misconception on this passage, I am deliberately going to cite two well known Biblical commentaries, one which confuses the context beyond all reasonable logic and thus arrives at a very flawed conclusion, and another well known commentary (from three authors), where one of the authors did much better on this passage, yet I am withholding my approval for his other observations. The first one will be from Adam Clarke’s 6-volume Commentary. The second one will be from the Jamieson, Fausset & Brown 6-volume Commentary.

First from Adam Clarke’s 6-volume Commentary, vol. 4, p. 806:

“Verse 5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet] This is meant alone of John the Baptist, as we learn from Luke i. 17, (where see the note) in whose spirit and power he came.

“Verse 6. And he shall turn (convert) the heart of the fathers (... ‘al, WITH) the children] Or, together with the children; both old and young. Lest I come, and, finding them unconverted, smite the land with a curse, ... cherem, utter extinction. So we find that, had the Jews turned to God, and received the Messiah at the preaching of John the Baptist and that of Christ and his apostles, the awful ... cherem of final excision and execration would not have been executed upon them. However, they filled up the cup of their iniquity, and were reprobated, and the Gentiles elected in their stead. Thus, the last was first, and the first was last. Glory to God for his unspeakable gift!

“There are three remarkable predictions in this chapter:– 1. The advent of John Baptist, in the spirit and authority of Elijah. 2. The manifestation of Christ in the flesh, under the emblem of the Sun of righteousness. 3. The final destruction of Jerusalem, represented under the emblem of a burning oven, consuming every thing cast into it. These three prophecies, relating to the most important facts that have ever taken place in the history of the world, announced here nearly four hundred years before their occurrence, have been most circumstantially fulfilled ....” [Clarke is highly inaccurate! CAE]

On this same page, Clarke has a couple of non-related items of interest which the reader might find interesting:

“In most of the Masoretic Bibles the fifth verse is repeated after the sixth– ‘Behold, I send unto you Elijah the prophet, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come;’ for the Jews do not like to let their sacred book end with a curse; and hence, in reading, they immediately subjoin the above verse, or else the fourth– ‘Remembering ye the law of Moses my servant.’

“In one of my [Clarke’s] oldest MSS. the fifth verse is repeated, and written at full length: ‘Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.’ In another, only these words are added: ‘Behold, I will send you Elijah.’ It is on this ground that the Jews expect the reappearance of Elijah the prophet; and at their marriage-feast always set a chair and knife and fork for this prophet, whom they suppose to be invisibly present ....

“In most MSS. and printed Masoretic Bibles there are only three chapters in this [Malachi] prophet, the fourth being joined to the third, making it twenty-four verses.”

While Adam Clarke is correct that John the Baptist would come in the spirit of Elijah, as his ministry indicated at Luke 1:17. This and Malachi 4:5-6 represent two separate manifestations that would take place at two different periods of times.

Since Clarke cited Luke 1:17, I will quote it here:

“And he [John the Baptist] shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for Yahweh.” Be this as it may, we have much more Scripture concerning this matter!

On to the Jamieson, Fausset & Brown 6-volume Commentary, (Fausset in particular, where I will do some editing and deleting as needed), vol. 4, pp. 726-727:

“5. I send you Elijah – as a means towards your ‘remembering the law’ (Malachi 4:4). the prophet – emphatical; not ‘the Tishbite’; for it is in his official, not his personal capacity, that his coming is here predicted. In this sense, John the Baptist was an Elijah in spirit (Luke 1:16, 17), but not the literal Elijah; whence when asked, ‘Art thou Elias?’ (John 1:21), He answered, ‘I am not.’ ‘Art thou that prophet?’ ‘No.’ This implies that John, though knowing from the angel’s announcement to his father that he was referred to by Malachi 4:5 (Luke 1:17), whence he wore the costume of Elijah, yet knew by inspiration that he did not exhaustively fulfil all that is included in this prophecy: that there is a further fulfilment (compare Note, see on Malachi 3:1). As Moses in Malachi 4:4 represents the law, so Elijah represents the prophets. The [Edomite-] jews; always understood it of the literal Elijah. Their saying is, ‘Messiah must be anointed by Elijah.’ As there is another consummating advent of Messiah Himself, so also of His forerunner Elijah; perhaps in person, as at the transfiguration (Matthew 17:3; compare Matthew 17:11). He in his appearance at the transfiguration in that body on which death had never passed is the forerunner of the saints who shall be found alive at the Lord’s [sic Yahshua’s] second coming. Rev 11:3 may refer to the same witnesses as at the transfiguration, Moses and Elijah; Revelation 11:6 identifies the latter (compare 1 Kings 17:1; James 5:17). Even after the transfiguration Jesus (Matthew 17:11) speaks of Elijah’s coming ‘to restore all things’ as still future, though He adds that Elijah (in the person of John the Baptist) is come already in a sense (compare Acts 3:21). However, the future forerunner of Messiah at His second coming may be a prophet or number of prophets clothed with Elijah’s power, who, with zealous upholders of ‘the law’ clothed in the spirit of ‘Moses,’ may be the forerunning witnesses alluded to here and in Revelation 11:2-12. The words ‘before the … dreadful day of the Lord,’ show that John cannot be exclusively meant; for he came before the day of Christ’s coming in grace, not before His coming in terror, of which last the destruction of Jerusalem was the earnest [i.e., down-payment, or a pledge] (Malachi 4:1; Joel 2:31).

“6. turn … heart of … fathers to … children, &c. – Explained by some, that John’s preaching should restore harmony in families. But Luke 1:16, 17 substitutes for ‘the heart of the children to the fathers,’ ‘the disobedient to the wisdom of the just,’ implying that the reconciliation to be effected was that between the unbelieving disobedient children and the believing ancestors, Jacob, Levi, ‘Moses,’ and ‘Elijah’ (just mentioned) (compare Malachi 1:2; 2:4, 6; 3:3, 4). The threat here is that, if this restoration were not effected, Messiah’s coming would prove ‘a curse’ to the ‘earth,’ not a blessing. It proved so to guilty Jerusalem and the ‘earth,’ that is, the land of Judea when it rejected Messiah at His first advent, though He brought blessings (Genesis 12:3) to those who accepted Him (John 1:11-13). Many were delivered from the common destruction of the nation through John’s preaching (Romans 9:29; 11:5). It will prove so to the disobedient at His second advent, though He comes to be glorified in His saints (2 Thessalonians 1:6-10). curse – Hebrew, Cherem, ‘a ban’; the fearful term applied by the Jews [sic Judahites] to the extermination of the guilty Canaanites. Under this ban Judea has long lain. Similar is the awful curse on all of Gentile churches [sic ekklesia] who love not the Lord Jesus now (1 Corinthians 16:22) ... It is deeply suggestive that the last utterance from heaven for four hundred years before Messiah was the awful word ‘curse.’ Messiah’s first word on the mount was ‘Blessed’ (Matthew 5:3) ....” [As I noted before, I have done some editing and deleting where necessary.] I had to delete about eight lines toward the end of this citation, as Fausset was drifting off course and confusing true Judah with the Edomite-jews!

To get the correct context on Malachi 4:5-6, we must take into consideration Malachi 4:4 which states:

“Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all^H3605 Israel, with the statutes and judgments.”

Here the all-important word is “all”, Strong’s Hebrew #3605:

“H3605. ... kôl, kole; or (Jer. 33:8)°

... kôwl, kole; from H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense):– KJV rendering: (in) all (manner, [ye]), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, [no-] thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso (-ever).”

In short, the “all” at Malachi 4:4 means ALL of Israel! Therefore, it is paramount to compare Malachi 4:4 with Luke 1:16-17 which states:

“¹⁶ And many^G4183 of the children of Israel shall he turn to Yahweh their Almighty. ¹⁷ And he [John the Baptist] shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for Yahweh.”

Here the all important word is “many”, Strong’s Greek #4183:

“G4183. ... polus, pol-oos´; including the forms from the alternate ‘pollos’; (singular) much (in any respect) or (plural) many; neuter (singular) as adverb largely; neuter (plural) as adverb or noun often, mostly, largely:– KJV renderings: abundant, + altogether, common, + far (passed, spent), (+ be of a) great (age, deal, -ly, while), long, many, much, oft (-en [-times]), plenteous, sore, straitly. Compare G4118, G4119.”

I counted through the E-sword electronic program, and G4183 is translated as “many” in English 182 times, including Luke 1:16. Well did Fausset state: “The words ‘before the … dreadful day of the Lord,’ show that John cannot be exclusively meant; for he came before the day of Christ’s coming in grace, not before His coming in terror, of which last the destruction of Jerusalem was the earnest (Malachi 4:1; Joel 2:31).” The word “earnest” is found at 2 Corinthians 1:22 in relation to “the earnest of the Spirit”, and “earnest” is G728 in Strong’s Greek dictionary, and means a “pledge”! In other words, Fausset was indicating that John the Baptist’s ministry was only a pledge, or down payment, on a future event yet to come.

Malachi 4:1 reads: “For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Yahweh of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”

Joel 2:31reads: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of Yahweh come.”

Therefore, it should be coming quite clear that Malachi 4:5-6 and Luke 1:16-17 are speaking of two separate events happening at isolated times! Malachi 4:5-6 speaks of the Elijah ministry, and it is happening as this is being written. As a matter of fact it started with John Wilson, who was born June 8, 1788 at Kilmarnock, Scotland, when he gave his first course of lectures upon ‘Ancient Israel’, in one of the Dublin theaters in 1837. It is astonishingly ridiculous to assign John the Baptist to the prophecy at Malachi 4:5-6, as Adam Clarke implied! We might have to forgive Adam Clarke, as he was born about 1762 at Moybeg in County Londonderry, Ireland. He had an off and on again conversion, helped along by some Methodist preachers. He preached his first sermon in 1782, and John Wesley became quite impressed with him. Clarke began his commentary May 1, 1798 and finished it August 26, 1832. Inasmuch as John Wilson didn’t start his Israel Identity ministry until 1837, Adam Clarke had already finished his Commentary in 1832, so Clarke had no opportunity to accept or reject Israel Identity! So the only thing we can do with Adam Clarke’s comments is to give him credit where credit is due, and give him constructive criticism, after his death, where constructive criticism is due. This is, “precept upon precept, and line upon line, here a little and there a little”, Isaiah 28:10. If I overlook being very careful, it might come back to bite me, “Ouch”!

We do, though, have to wonder how much influence the famous John Wesley had on Adam Clarke’s Commentary, as the 6-volume set that I have was printed by The Methodist Book Concern – New York – Cincinnati – Chicago. For due diligence’s sake, let’s do a little investigation into this matter. From The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church, p. 1034, we read in part:

“WESLEY, JOHN (1703-1791). Founder of Methodism. He was the fifteenth child of Epworth rector Samuel Wesley and his wife Susanna. Although John’s father was a staunch High Churchman of the old school, both his grandparents were Puritan Nonconformists. Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, John Wesley was elected in 1726 to a fellowship at Lincoln College in the same university. He had been ordained deacon the previous year and had preached his first sermon in South Leigh. On two separate occasions he served as his father’s curate. In 1728 he was ordained priest by John Potter ....

“In 1735 the Wesleys accepted an invitation from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to undertake a mission to the Indians and colonists in Georgia. The project proved a fiasco, and when he got back to England in 1738 Wesley wrote: ‘I went to America to convert the Indians; but, oh, who shall convert me?’

“On the journey to America the Wesleys had met a company of twenty-one German Moravians whose simple faith had made a considerable impression on them. When, therefore, John Wesley was introduced in London to another Moravian, Peter Boehler, he was predisposed to lean toward him. In the event, Boehler was to be the pedagogue to bring Wesley to Christ. As a result of conversations with Boehler, Wesley was ‘clearly convinced of unbelief, of the want of that faith whereby alone we are saved.’ On 24 May 1738, his heart was ‘strangely warmed’ as he listened to a reading from Luther’s preface to Romans at a meeting in Aldersgate Street. This experience made him an evangelist. ‘Then it pleased God,’ he declared, ‘to kindle a fire which I trust shall never be extinguished’ ....”

It will help us in our quest to know something about the teachings of John Wesley, from the same book. p. 474 in part:

“HOLINESS MOVEMENT, AMERICAN. A religious movement dating from the mid-nineteenth century that tried to preserve the original thrust of the Methodist teachings on entire sanctification and Christian perfection as taught by John Wesley in such writings as the Plain Account of Christian Perfection. This teaching expects that entire sanctification normally takes place instantaneously in an emotional experience similar to conversion. At this point one is cleansed from inbred sin and enabled to live without conscious or deliberate sin. In the American revivalistic context and under the influence of the camp meeting there was a subtle mutation of these concepts in the direction of individualism, emotionalism, and emphasis on the crisis experience ....” [emphasis mine]

I am very familiar with this kind of church dogma, as I attended several churches that taught this same propaganda! I remember well one lady, during a service got up and testified something like this: “I once knew a woman who was 99% perfect, and almost made it into heaven”, and she believed that BS strongly! What this lady that testified should have said would go something like, “I once knew a woman who was racially 99% White Adamite, and almost made it into the Kingdom”! I’ve witnessed some of those “emotional experiences”, and all it amounts to is, making one’s self a fool!

There is, though, a way to be totally without sin, found at 1 John 3:9: “Whosoever is born of Yahweh doth not commit sin; for his seed (i.e., sperm) remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of Yahweh.” So, it is very important that one marry a spouse of one’s own race. All of this “sanctification” depends on the racial purity of one’s father and mother, not some kind of “emotional experience”! When we consider all of these things, it makes us question how all of these trends developed.

In addition our questions thus far, did Adam Clarke and the Methodist churches also believe in a so-called trinity? For an answer we will go to the United Methodos website:

http://ucmpage.org/articles/what_methodists_believe.html

“The official United Methodist doctrine is that God is one God in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Apostles Creed: ‘(1) I believe in God the Father Almighty – (2) And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord – (3) I believe in the Holy Spirit ...”

In Adam Clarke’s 6-volume Commentary we find the following at volume 5, p. 172:

Here is an excerpt from column 1: “... they now received a commission to teach and proselyte all the nations, and baptize them in the name of the holy Trinity ...”

Here is a paragraph a few lines below the above excerpt:

“In the name of the Father, etc. – Baptism, properly speaking, signifies a full and eternal consecration of the person to the service and honour of that Being in whose name it is administered; but this consecration can never be made to a creature; therefore the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, are not creatures. Again, baptism is not made in the name of a quality or attribute of the divine nature; therefore the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit are not qualities or attributes of the divine nature. Is it possible for words to convey a plainer sense than these do? And do they not direct every reader to consider the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as three distinct persons?”

From The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church, p. 139, we read in part:

“BOEHME, JAKOB (1575-1624). German Lutheran mystic and theosophist. He was born at Altseidenberg near Goerlitz, where he lived nearly all his life, working as a shoemaker. Among his mystical experiences, the most important occurred in 1600, when he looked at a dish reflecting the sunlight and in an ecstatic state saw ‘the Being of Beings, the byss and the abyss, the eternal generation of the trinity, the origin and descent of this world, and of all creatures through the divine wisdom.’ In 1612 he published some of his insights in a work, The Beginning of Dawn, followed by a devotional, treatise, The Way to Christ (1623). His other writings were published posthumously ....”

By the way, Matthew 28:19 reads thusly:

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ...”

These are not three separate entities, but one entity in three different manifestations! (See John 14:-7-9):

“⁷ If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. ⁸ Philip saith unto him, Master, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. ⁹ Yahshua saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?”

So much for the present concerning Adam Clarke’s 6-volume Commentary. Should one have an occasion to refer to it, please use caution in doing so, as one should also do with any Bible commentary! We will now return to the Jamieson, Fausset & Brown 6-volume Commentary, especially for Fausset’s comments on this subject of the Elijah Message at Malachi 4:5-6.

RE: “... In this sense, John the Baptist was an Elijah in spirit (Luke 1:16, 17), but not the literal Elijah; whence when asked, ‘Art thou Elias?’ (John 1:21), He answered, ‘I am not.’ ‘Art thou that prophet?’ ‘No.’ This implies that John, though knowing from the angel’s announcement to his father that he was referred to by Malachi 4:5 (Luke 1:17), whence he wore the costume of Elijah, yet knew by inspiration that he did not exhaustively fulfil all that is included in this prophecy: that there is a further fulfilment ....”

Fausset’s comment from this excerpt is very excellent considering that he lived from October 13, 1821 to February 8, 1910. To my knowledge, I am not aware that Fausset knew anything about Israel Identity, or saw Malachi 4:5-6 in the light that we understand it today.

RE: “... As there is another consummating advent of Messiah Himself, so also of His forerunner Elijah; perhaps in person, as at the transfiguration (Matthew 17:3; compare Matthew 17:11). He in his appearance at the transfiguration in that body on which death had never passed is the forerunner of the saints who shall be found alive at the Lord’s [sic Yahshua’s] second coming.

Here Fausset is correct in the part I underlined, but we don’t see any evidence that it will be Elijah as he appeared at the transfiguration.

RE: “... Even after the transfiguration Jesus (Matthew 17:11) speaks of Elijah’s coming ‘to restore all things’ as still future, though He adds that Elijah (in the person of John the Baptist) is come already in a sense ....”

Here Fausset is reinforcing the premise that the spirit of Elijah will be manifested just prior to Yahshua’s Second Advent!

RE: “... However, the future forerunner of Messiah at His second coming may be a prophet or number of prophets clothed with Elijah’s power, who, with zealous upholders of ‘the law’ clothed in the spirit of ‘Moses,’ may be the forerunning witnesses ...”

Here Fausset is speculating on how the prophecy at Malachi 4: 5-6 might be fulfilled, by stating “... may be a prophet or number of prophets ...” Well there are other Biblical teachers besides myself who are presently teaching the Elijah Message, but we hardly consider ourselves as prophets.

RE: “The words ‘before the … dreadful day of the Lord,’ show that John cannot be exclusively meant; for he came before the day of Christ’s coming in grace, not before His coming in terror, of which last the destruction of Jerusalem was the earnest ....”

Again, Fausset is reinforcing the premise that Malachi 4:5-6 and Luke 1:16-17 are two separate events to happen at different time periods where the Elijah Message would be in effect. That is why Fausset used the Biblical term “earnest” meaning: down-payment, or pledge. In other words, the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 A.D. was a foretaste of a much greater destruction of the enemies of Yahshua just prior to His Second Coming, and all signs are indicating that that destruction may be coming sooner than some might think!

RE: “... The threat here is that, if this restoration were not effected, Messiah’s coming would prove ‘a curse’ to the ‘earth,’ not a blessing. It proved so to guilty Jerusalem and the ‘earth,’ that is, the land of Judea when it rejected Messiah at His first advent, though He brought blessings (Genesis 12:3) to those who accepted Him (John 1:11-13).”

Here Fausset is comparing the “curse” found at Malachi 4:6 to the “blessing” of Christ’s first coming at John 1:11-13, which was a “blessing” for all who believed on Him. Fausset then refers to the Elijah Message that effected Jerusalem and Judea as a “curse”, shortly after Christ’s crucifixion.

RE: “... It will prove so to the disobedient at His second advent, though He comes to be glorified in His saints (2 Thessalonians 1:6-10).”

To understand what Fausset is speaking about, I will quote 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10:

“⁶ Seeing it is a righteous thing with Yahweh to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; ⁷ And to you who are troubled rest with us, when Yahshua Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, ⁸ In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not Yahweh, and that obey not the gospel of our Yahshua Christ: ⁹ Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of Yahshua Christ, and from the glory of his power; ¹⁰ When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.”

RE: “... It is deeply suggestive that the last utterance from heaven for four hundred years before Messiah was the awful word ‘curse.’ Messiah’s first word on the mount was ‘Blessed’ (Matthew 5:3) ....”

Fausset is simply demonstrating how the last word at Malachi 4:6, at the end of the Old Testament is a “curse”, while at Matthew 5:3, Yahshua Christ, at the beginning of His ministry, issued a blessing thusly: “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

This concludes my analysis of the Jamieson, Fausset & Brown 6-volume Commentary, (Fausset in particular), at vol. 4, pp. 726-727.

All those who want to study the Elijah Message further might consult the following passages of Scripture, plus any cross-references to them: Genesis 12:3; 1 Kings 17:1; Joel 2:31; Malachi 1:2; 2:4, 6; 3:3; 4:1, 5; Matthew 5:3; 17:3, 11; Luke 1:16-17; John 1:11-13, 21; Acts 3:21; Romans 9:29; 11:5; Thessalonians 1:6-10; 1 Corinthians 16:22; James 5:17.

However, we have a second witness that interprets the two comings of Elijah in spirit from Barne’s Notes: The Minor Prophets A Commentary, by E.B. Pusey, vol. 1, p. 499, starting with Malachi 4:5-6 in part justly:

“5. Behold I will send [I send, as a future, proximate in the prophet’s mind] you Elijah the prophet. The Archangel Gabriel interprets this for us, to include the sending of St. John the Baptist. For he not only says that he, shall go before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elias, but describes his mission in the characteristic words of Malachi, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children: and those other words also, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, perhaps represent the sequel in Malachi, and the hearts of the children to the fathers; for their hearts could only be so turned by conversion to God, Whom the fathers, patriarchs and prophets, knew, loved and served; and whom they served in name only. St. John the Baptist, in denying that he was Elias, denied only, that he was that great prophet himself. Our Lord, in saying, This is Elias, which was for to come, that Elias is come already and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed, met the error of the Scribes, that He could not be the Christ, because Elias was not yet come. When He says, Elias truly shall first come and restore all things,He implies a coming of Elias, other than that of St. John the Baptist, since he was already martyred, and all things were not yet restored. This must also be the fullest fulfillment. For the great and terrible Day of the Lord is the Day of judgment, of which all earthly judgments, however desolating, (as the destruction of Jerusalem) are but shadows and earnests. Before our Lord’s coming all things looked on to His first Coming, and, since that Coming, all looks on to the Second, which is the completion of the first and of all things in time.

“Our Lord’s words, Elias truly shall first come and restore all things, seem to me to leave no question, that, as St. John the Baptist came, in the spirit and power of Elias, before His First Corning, so, before the Second Coming, Elias should come in person, as Jews [sic Judaeans] and Christians have alike expected. This has been the Christian expectation from the first. St. Justin Martyr asked his opponent, ‘Shall we not conceive that the Word of God has proclaimed Elias to be the forerunner of the great and terrible day of His second Coming?’ ‘Certainly,’ was Trypho’s reply, St. Justin continues, ‘Our Lord Himself taught us in His own teaching that this very thing shall be, when He said that Elias also shall come;and we know that this shall be fulfilled, when He is about to come from Heaven in glory’.”

The main passage that proves beyond all doubt that there were to be two separate periods, about 1900 years apart, is shown at Matthew 17:12 thusly: “But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed^G2309 [past tense]. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.”

Importantly, one should have a complete understanding of the Greek word #2309 thel´-o,eth-el´-o, translated into the English as “listed”. Some KJV renderings are: “will”, “wilt”, “willing”, “willeth”, “would”, “would have”, “listed”, “listeth”, “desire”, “desireth”, “desiring”, “desirous”, “love to”, “intending”, “have this”, “disposed to”, “pleased”, “had rather”, “be forward”.

The Nestle-Aland #27 rendering from the Greek in part on Matthew 17:12: “... but they did with him [John the Baptist] as much as they wanted thusly also the son of the man is about to suffer by them ...”

This is substantial evidence that Christ was indicating that John the Baptist had already been put to death, and that his ministry was an “earnest” (i.e., down payment or pledge) of a greater coming of the Elijah spirit, just before the great and terrible day of Yahweh!

The record of John the Baptist’s murder found at Matt. 14:6-8:

“⁶ But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. ⁷ Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. ⁸ And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger. ⁹ And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.”

It is Biblical, then, that we criticize Adam Clarke for his errors at Malachi 4:5-6, along with the whole Wesleyan movement, who base “salvation” on “unbridled emotionalism” rather than humble belief! As a people, we have strayed so far away from the original tenets of “Covenant Theology” that we no longer comprehend the foremost principles concerning the history of our race!

This is my two hundred and seventeenth monthly teaching letter and begins my nineteenth year of publication. In the last letter, WTL #216, I brought up the subject of THE ELIJAH MINISTRY at Malachi 4:5-6, which I will quote again because of its GREAT IMPORTANCE:

“⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Yahweh: ⁶ And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

To understand the Elijah Message to a greater degree, I am going to cite an excellent article entitled “Elijah the Tishbite” that first appeared in the July 1947 Destiny Magazine, later packaged into a 1947 Yearbook, pp. 232-238, written by Howard B Rand. However, I am going to include my own critical notes, edit out terms like “Jehovah” in favor of the true name “Yahweh” and other labels that are more fitting.

ELIJAH THE TISHBITE, Part #1, by Howard B. Rand

Edited by Clifton A Emahiser

“The birth, life and history of many of the men whose activities are recorded in the Sacred Record are prophetic of things to come. As an illustration, the ‘time of Jacob’s trouble,’ to which Jeremiah refers (Jer. 30:7), defines a period in the experience of the people of Israel in the last days and is a description of the troubles which would overtake them as the age draws to its close. But this period of trouble has its pattern in the difficulties Jacob himself experienced during his lifetime and this is the specific reason it is called the ‘time of Jacob’s trouble.’

[CAE Note: Here Rand is absolutely correct, and we should really read Jer. 30:1-12:

“¹ The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, ² Thus speaketh Yahweh Almighty of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. ³ For, lo, the days come, saith Yahweh, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith Yahweh: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. ⁴ And these are the words that Yahweh spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah. ⁵ For thus saith Yahweh; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. ⁶ Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? ⁷ Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it. ⁸ For it shall come to pass in that day, saith Yahweh of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: ⁹ But they shall serve the Yahweh their Almighty, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them. ¹⁰ Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith Yahweh; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid. ¹¹ For I am with thee, saith Yahweh, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished. ¹² For thus saith Yahweh, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.”] Back to Rand –

“Our Yahweh referred to Noah and to happenings in his generation which would furnish a pattern of events to just precede the close of the age and His triumphant return. In the days just preceding the coming of the Son of man, Yahweh said that conditions upon earth would be ‘as the days of Noah were.’ Many other instances could be cited to show the prophetic significance of the lives and activities of men of old. A study of the many parallels between their lives and present-day events will shed much light upon the fulfillment of prophecy in modern times.

“Translation

“Among the men whose lives are recorded in the Bible, those of Enoch and Elijah are of special interest because neither of these men saw death. Both were translated. Elijah was translated in 3108 A.M. and 888 years later, in 3996 A.M., Christ was born and His name was called Jesus. Now 888 is the numerics of the name Jesus and He was born 888 years after the ascension of the prophet Elijah, who is a type of those who shall not taste death but be translated at the time of the second appearing of Jesus Christ. Elijah appeared with Moses on the Mount of Transfiguration when Peter, James and John were eyewitnesses of the coming of Yahshua in power and glory (2 Peter 1: 16-18).

[CAE Note: This paragraph is all right, except that Rand is using Ussher’s chronology, which are many times in error.] Back to Rand –

“Law of Moses

“The message Elijah gave is associated with the warning which was to go out just before the great and terrible Day of Yahweh:

“‘Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Yahweh: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.’ (Mal. 4:4-6.)

“As a prototype, a study of the times and events in Elijah’s day, his ministry, the message he gave and the acts he performed, plus the ending of his sojourn upon earth by translation, throws much interesting prophetic light upon these days in which we are living.

 

“Elijah’s Appearance

Let us review the life of Elijah as it is revealed to us in the Scriptures. We find that in his day a foreign ideology had so undermined the spiritual stability of Israel that the nation was in mortal danger from the activities of the enemy within, supported by Jezebel, the wife of Ahab the King. Elijah suddenly appeared upon the scene and vanished from it as abruptly as he appeared. Young’s Analytical Concordance says of him:

“‘The grandest and most romantic character that Israel ever produced. ‘Elijah the Tishbite of the inhabitants of Gilead’ is literally all we know of his parentage.’

“Drought Predicted

“The name Elijah means ‘My Almighty is Yahweh,’ or ‘Almighty Himself.’ In the year we first hear of this prophet, Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, had reigned nine years in Jerusalem and Ahab, King of Israel, twelve years in Samaria. Elijah suddenly appeared on the scene with a message for the King of Israel:

“‘And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Yahweh Almighty of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years.’ (1 Kings 17:1.)

“James informs us that the actual length of this period of drought was three and a half years (James 5:17 See also Luke 4:25).

“Yahweh Versus Baal

“Israel had apostatized, the people having turned away from the worship of Yahweh, the Almighty of Israel; to embrace Baalism which was flourishing in the land under the patronage of Jezebel, wife of King Ahab. The conflict was between Yahweh and Baalism, with Elijah sponsoring the cause of Yahweh and Jezebel that of the false prophets and idolatrous worshippers. Jezebel had sought to murder all the prophets of Yahweh and while she had killed many she had not succeeded in destroying Elijah for he suddenly appeared before Ahab and announced that a judgment of drought was to afflict the land. This drought was not to end until the people acknowledged Yahweh as the Almighty of Israel. Immediately following that announcement, Elijah disappeared and, though Ahab sought for him in all the surrounding nations, he was unable to find him.

“Elijah was not a prophet of peace; his messages were of judgment and his mission was the destruction of heathen worship and judgment upon Israel if the people refused to heed the Almighty’s injunctions as the prophet warned them of their evil ways. Ever since the days of Joshua a conflict had been in evidence in Israel between the forces of good and the powers of evil. The question continually before the people was whether they would follow Yahweh or accept the heathen god Baal. A crisis had now come in that conflict and Elijah represented the forces of righteousness and Jezebel the power of evil.

“Jezebel’s Influence

“Jezebel exerted a tremendous influence over the affairs of state, though holding no office herself. As the wife of King Ahab her influence in the land was very great. The King himself was definitely under her power in conducting the affairs of state. Jezebel was personally responsible for importing the worst and most debasing form of the idolatrous practices of Baalism from Phoenicia and in her zeal instigated persecution of the followers of Yahweh.

“Many of the things Jezebel desired to do, and was able to accomplish, were contrary to the Israel law and to the policies of the predecessors of Ahab. Strong willed and popular to an extent, at least with those whom she favored, she became a tremendous power behind the throne, even to securing her husband’s consent to the acceptance of the anti-Yahweh teachings of a foreign politico-religious system. These anti-Yahweh teachings of a foreign power were repugnant to the Yahweh-fearing men and women in Israel but, in spite of their opposition, Baalism was protected and cultivated and finally became well entrenched in the land under Jezebel’s tutelage and with the consent of Ahab. The leaders, teachers and supporters of these anti-Israelitish beliefs were accepted, pampered and entertained by Jezebel, and she saw to it that they lacked nothing insofar as she could provide for their needs, even to eating with her at her table.

“Jezebel’s powerful influence (with a personality which enabled her to carry out her will) and her control through Ahab over the affairs of state were detrimental to the well-being of the nation; her sponsorship of a political and religious concept foreign to Israel’s constitution and purity of worship brought upon the nation the very evil which Elijah had announced to Ahab would come upon the land – a great drought. The idolatrous worship of Baalism produced political deterioration and moral decadency, and exerted a most dangerous influence upon the policies of those who governed the nation.

“With this background it is fitting that the name Elijah means ‘My Almighty is Yahweh’ or ‘Almighty Himself,’ for the conflict had reached a climax and the tests were about to be made to see whether the people would serve the Almighty or continue to worship Baal. While Ahab was King, back of him was Jezebel and the trial or test of strength was between Elijah and Jezebel though the prophet appeared to Ahab and announced the Almighty’s judgment to him.

“The Prophet Miraculously Sustained

Jezebel would have sought to kill Elijah through direct command or by treachery, so immediately following the pronouncement by the Prophet that there would be no rain in the land, Yahweh directed him:

“‘Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.’ (1 Kings 17:3-4.)

The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia says:

“‘Elijah’s ‘ravens’ may indeed be converted by a change of vowel-points into ‘Arabians’; but in spite of the fact that Orientals would bring offerings of food to a holy hermit, the whole tenor of the narrative favors no other supposition than that its writer meant ‘ravens.’

“Ferrar Fenton, in his translation of this text, suggests Arabs instead of ravens with the following footnote:

“‘The word Arabim, was erroneously translated ‘ravens’ by the Greek versioners, and the blunder, as usual, has been repeated since. It means Arabs, as I have translated in my text.’

“Regardless of how this text is rendered, the Almighty saw to it that Elijah was supplied with bread and meat:

[CAE Note: The raven is an unclean bird of the crow family and feeds on carrion (i.e., dead and decaying flesh), fish, grain and nuts. V. 6 states the ravens brought Elijah “bread and flesh” morning and evening, so where did the ravens find baked bread? And the flesh could only be decaying flesh, definitely against Yahweh’s food laws. Also, many believe that John the Baptist ate locust insects, but there are Honey Locust trees that bear pea type pods with small pea shaped sweet fruit that is safe to eat (commonly fed to animals), and it is likely that John ate from the Honey Locust tree. Also, in Elijah’s day, Arab referred to any of the Shemite or Canaanite tribes of the east, and were not necessarily of alien races.] Back to Rand –

“‘And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.’ (1 Kings 17:6.)

“Elijah and the Widow

“The brook finally failed as a result of the continued drought and the Prophet was instructed to go to Zarephath in Zidon where he would find a widow with her son and he was to dwell there. Elijah departed and found the woman gathering sticks. He spoke to her:

“‘... Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.’ (1 Kings 17:10-11.)

“The woman replied that she had only enough meal and oil to make a cake for herself and her son, after which they expected to die. But Elijah told her not to fear but to make a cake for him first and afterward make cakes for herself and son:

“‘For thus saith the Yahweh Almighty of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sendeth rain upon the earth.’ (1 Kings 17:14.)

“The woman obeyed Elijah and the barrel of meal did not become empty, nor was the supply of oil exhausted during the remaining years of the drought.

“During the time that Elijah stayed with the widow her son was stricken ill and died. She mourned her loss in Elijah’s presence and he took the child to his chamber and interceded with the Almighty that the spirit of life might return again to him. The child was revived and Elijah delivered him to his mother. The widow then testified:

“‘... Now by this I know that thou art a man of the Almighty, and that the word of Yahweh in thy mouth is truth.’ (1 Kings 17:24.)

 

 

“Elijah Sent to Ahab

“After many days had passed Yahweh commanded Elijah in the third full year of the drought to go to Ahab. Commenting upon the length of the drought, a footnote in The Companion Bible has this to say concerning the statement in 1 Kings 17:1:

“‘These years (not three years). No definite period stated. ‘Years’ is plural, not dual. In Luke 4:25 and James 5:17: ‘three years and six months.’ These six months must be reckoned before the three years, not added at the end because of ‘the third year,’ i.e., the third full year.’

“The famine was very severe in the land and Ahab and Obadiah, the governor of his house, were out hunting pasture in order to save the lives of the king’s horses and mules if possible. Obadiah had gone in one direction and Ahab in another.”

[CAE Note: I do not particularly recommend The Companion Bible, so be very careful how you might be wrongly influenced by it.] Back to Rand –

“Obadiah Meets Elijah

“When Jezebel sought to slay all the prophets of Yahweh Obadiah hid one hundred of them in a cave, supplying bread and water to sustain them. It was at that time that Elijah met Obadiah and the latter exclaimed, ‘... Art thou here, my Adoni Elijah?’ (1 Kings 12:7.)

“The prophet told him to go inform Ahab that he was there but Obadiah was fearful that while he went to tell Ahab, Elijah would again disappear. He told the Prophet that there was not a kingdom or nation where Ahab had not sought to find him and he had even taken an oath from those in the places where he sought Elijah to positively confirm the fact that they did not know his whereabouts. Obadiah told Elijah that if he informed Ahab that the Prophet was in the vicinity and Elijah again disappeared Ahab would slay him. Obadiah reminded Elijah that he had saved the lives of a hundred of the prophets when Jezebel sought to kill them. At the conclusion of Obadiah’s plea Elijah reassured him that he would be there and would meet Ahab that same day. Obadiah did as he was instructed and Ahab came to meet Elijah. When he saw the Prophet he exclaimed: ‘Art thou he that troubleth Israel?’ But Elijah answered:

“‘... I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and thou hast followed Baalim.’ (1 Kings 18:18.)

“A Challenge

“Elijah wasted no time in coming to the point and with the boldness that marks the true prophet disregarded himself as he lashed out against the false beliefs of the people and the idolatrous religion sponsored by Ahab’s wife. Elijah immediately challenged Ahab to arrange a test. He demanded that all Israel be gathered at Mount Carmel and with them four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, besides four hundred of the prophets of the Shrines of Baal who dined at Jezebel’s table. Ahab complied with the Prophet’s request and when all Israel had gathered at Mount Carmel Elijah addressed them:

“‘... How long halt ye between two opinions? if Yahweh be the Almighty, follow him: but if Baal then follow him.’ (1 Kings 18:21.)

“But the people did not answer him. Consequently Elijah, after asking that the prophets of Yahweh be separated from those of Baal, proposed that the following test be made. Two bullocks were to be brought and the prophets of Baal were to offer one on an altar while Elijah, the Prophet of Yahweh, would place the other on an altar. No fire was to be applied. The prophets of Baal were to call upon their god and Elijah was to call upon his Almighty. The one who answered by fire would be the one true Almighty. The people all agreed to the plan.

“Prophets of Baal

“An answer by fire was universally recognized as the acceptance of a sacrifice. In giving assent to the test Ahab, the King, and Israel admitted this. Baal was the god of fire and a personification of the sun. Thus the test proposed by Elijah was readily accepted by the people. The prophets of Baal might have been dubious, but before the King and that great assembly they dared not hesitate.

“Elijah asked the prophets of Baal to make the first demonstration so they dressed their bullock and placed it upon the altar. Then they began to call upon Baal – all that morning until noon – saying:

“‘... O Baal, hear us, But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.’ (1 Kings 18:26-29.)

“Evening Sacrifice

“Noon, or midday, extended to 3 P.M., and during this time the prophets of Baal continued while Elijah made fun of them. The time of the evening sacrifice would be three o’clock that afternoon. Elijah, under the direction of the Almighty, had selected that hour to make his demonstration as it was the hour of the day with which all Israel would associate the time of sacrifice to Yahweh, the Almighty of Israel. It was also the time of day that the Pastoral lamb was slain for the Passover and later it was the hour that Yahshua Christ died on the cross, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. It was therefore fitting that Elijah should begin his demonstration at the time of the evening sacrifice for he had from three o’clock until sunset to complete the task.

“‘And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was broken down.’ (1 Kings 18:30.)

 

“The Altar of Yahweh

“Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of Israel, and built an altar in the name of Yahweh. He made a trench about the altar and Ferrar Fenton gives the capacity of it as about two hogsheads or between one and two hundred gallons.

[CAE Note: I have The Holy Bible In Modern English by Ferrar Fenton, and while it may be of some value as a reference Bible, it has its share of problems.] Back to Rand –

“After completing the altar and laying the wood and the bullock upon it, Elijah commanded that four barrels of water be poured upon the burnt offering and the wood. He commanded that it be done a second and a third time and the trench also was filled with water. It seems that Elijah had completed the construction of the altar before the time of the evening sacrifice, no doubt building it during the time the prophets of Baal were constructing their altar and making their demonstration:

“‘And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh Almighty of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art the Almighty in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that thou art Yahweh Almighty, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.’ (1 Kings 18:36-37.)

[CAE Note: Please mark the words, “... thou hast turned their heart back again.” as the same concept is also found at Malachi 4:5-6.] Back to Rand –

“The Fire of Yahweh

“Yahweh answered Elijah in a demonstration of fire and heat comparable to the energy released by the splitting of the atom. This fire the Scriptures designate as the fire of Yahweh for it was not like any other fire with which they were familiar:

[CAE Note: This is pure speculation on the part of Rand to compare Yahweh’s fire to the “splitting of the atom”. Natural fire always burns upward, as well as atomic and hydrogen bomb explosions, while Yahweh’s fire “fell”, or burned downward.] Back to Rand –

“‘Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burntsacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.’ (1 Kings 18:38.)

“This demonstration of the power of the Almighty, who answered Elijah’s prayer by fire, had an electrifying effect upon the people witnessing the scene, who saw the results of the fire and its tremendous heat which consumed not only the sacrifice but the stones, earth and water. All the people fell upon their faces.

“Could it be that the small amount of force released for the purpose of consuming this sacrifice was sufficiently powerful to cause physical prostration? The people knew that the power of the Almighty was in this fire and exclaimed:

“‘Yahweh, he is the Almighty; Yahweh, he is the Almighty!’, (v. 39)

“It is certain that energy of this kind is only safe at the command of men who, like Elijah, are consecrated to the service of Yahweh. They alone are capable of the restraint needed in handling such power*. [CAE Note: *Here again, Rand speculates that nuclear power is the same as Yahweh’s power, but I disagree!] Back to Rand –

“In the contest before the King and the people, Elijah had established the fact that Yahweh was the Almighty of Israel. By this one test he annihilated the strength of Baal worship in Israel and defeated the subtle and evil works of Jezebel.

“Prophets of Baal Killed

“Elijah ordered the people to take all the prophets of Baal and not let one of them escape. They were taken down to the Brook Kishon and slain there. Under the law of Israel idolatry was punishable by death and there is no doubt that, as heathen priests, those prophets of Baal were far from guiltless in the slaying of many of the prophets of Yahweh as they helped Jezebel in her murderous program.

“The people having acclaimed: ‘Yahweh he is the Almighty,’ Elijah said to Ahab:

“‘... Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.’ (1 Kings 18:41.)

“The Drought Broken

“The Prophet was referring to a sound from the ocean which indicated the coming of rain. He sent his servant to the top of Carmel and Elijah sat down with his head upon his knees, perhaps in complete exhaustion after the strenuous happenings of that day. The servant looked toward the sea and reported seeing nothing. The Prophet sent the servant again – and for seven times. The seventh time he reported he saw a little cloud corning up from the sea, as small as a man’s hand. Evidently the release of atomic fire* had a marked and immediate effect upon atmospheric conditions for Elijah warned Ahab to make haste for a very great rain was about to begin. Meantime, the heavens became black with clouds and there was a very high wind. As Ahab rode toward Jezebel, a city at the eastern side of the great plain of Esdraelon, Elijah ran before him to the entrance of the city. Evidently the Prophet remained outside the city while Ahab entered and told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had slain all the prophets of Baal with the sword. [CAE Note: *Rand again on “fire”!]

“Jezebel’s Reaction

“Elijah had won the people and even Ahab was convinced by the demonstration which he had witnessed. He gave Jezebel an account of all that Elijah had done with the hope of convincing her also, but without success. Jezebel sent word to Elijah saying:

“‘... So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.’ (1 Kings 19:2.)

“Ahab had no control over his wife; in fact, she completely dominated the situation and was able to override any objections the King might have had and assume authority to act as though she were the king. This is evidenced in her threat to kill Elijah before sunset the next day. The Prophet knew the vindictive and evil ways of Jezebel and fled for his life, going into the land of Judah where he left his servant. Evidently he did not dare remain there for Ahab, King of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, were friendly. After leaving his servant at Beersheba in Judah, Elijah went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. Weary, tired and despondent, he sat down under a juniper tree and requested of Yahweh that he might die, saying:

“‘... It is enough; now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.’ (1 Kings 19:4.)

“Fed By An Angel

“Some have condemned Elijah for fleeing; yet the Prophet knew that the time of judgment upon Jezebel had not yet arrived and she was in a position to carry out her threat. So he fled to safety. While it is true that Elijah had won the acclaim of the people as a result of the trial with the prophets of Baal, and they recognized Yahweh as the true Almighty, he had little success with Ahab. The King’s acceptance was influenced by the reaction of Jezebel, whom Ahab evidently feared to offend more than he feared the Prophet. As a result of the trial and subsequent flight for his life, Elijah was physically exhausted and he fell asleep under the juniper tree. He was finally awakened by an angel who had prepared food for him to eat and water to drink. After partaking of this refreshment the Prophet went to sleep again. Later the angel awoke him the second time, saying:

“‘Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.’ (1 Kings 19:7.)

“The journey to Horeb

“Following his refreshing sleep, and the strength gained through the food the angel served him, Elijah continued his journey for forty days until he came to Horeb, the Mount of Yahweh. Arriving at the Mount, the Prophet made his lodging in a cave. Yahweh asked him what he was doing there and Elijah said:

“‘... I have been very jealous [zealous] for Yahweh Almighty of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.’ (1 Kings 19:10.)

“The Demonstration

“Thereupon Yahweh issued a command to Elijah which was followed by a tremendous demonstration:

“‘And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Yahweh, And, behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but Yahweh was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.’ (1 Kings 19:11-12.)

“Elijah lived in a time of spiritual decadency, to which fact he bore testimony. It was a period of conflict and in the demonstration by tempest, earthquake and fire – in a sense symbolical of the contending forces – the Prophet was shown that Yahweh was not in any of it. Then he heard the still small voice ....” It is hoped, with Howard B. Rand’s article on Elijah the Tishbite along with my notes and editing that the reader will better comprehend the importance of the ELIJAH MESSAGE at Malachi 4:5-6, and how it has reappeared today during our lifetime. Part ^#2, in the next lesson.

This is my two hundred and eighteenth monthly teaching letter and continues my nineteenth year of publication. In the last letter, WTL #217, I brought up the subject of THE ELIJAH MINISTRY at Malachi 4:5-6, which I will quote again because of its GREAT IMPORTANCE:

“⁵ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Yahweh: ⁶ And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

To understand the Elijah Message to a greater degree, I am going to continue citing an excellent article entitled “Elijah the Tishbite” that first appeared in the July 1947 Destiny Magazine, later packaged into a 1947 Yearbook, pp. 232-238 written by Howard B. Rand. However, I will also continue including my own critical notes, editing out terms like “Jehovah’ in favor of the true name “Yahweh” and other labels that are more fitting. We will start where we left off in WTL #217:

ELIJAH THE TISHBITE, Part #2, by Howard B. Rand

Edited by Clifton A Emahiser

“The multitudes in Israel are always unable to hear this voice directing and guiding His servants in the paths of righteousness. When Elijah recognized the Presence of Yahweh he wrapped his face in his mantle and went and stationed himself in the entrance of the cave. The Voice addressed him and asked, ‘What doest thou here, Elijah?’ The Prophet replied as before that he was zealous for Yahweh but His prophets had been slain, Israel had forsaken His covenant and they even sought his life.

“The Command

“The Voice commanded him to return by the way of the wilderness of Damascus and anoint Hazael to be King over Syria and Jehu to be King over Israel. Also, he was to anoint Elisha to be a prophet in his place. Yahweh then said:

“‘And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.’ (1 Kings 19:17.)

“In spite of the great apostasy, the misrule of Ahab and the violence of Jezebel, Yahweh informed Elijah:

“‘Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.’ (1 Kings 19:18.)

“Elijah did as he was commanded and departed from the Mount [before] Yahweh. Finding Elisha plowing in his field, he cast his mantle over him as he passed by. That was a sign to Elisha that he was to follow Elijah and, if faithful, he would finally become his successor. He accepted the call and the mantle of Elijah was to become his after he had ministered to the needs of the prophet.

“Smear Campaign

“One of the early uses of the smear technique is recounted in the story of Jezebel’s dealings and removal of Naboth so Ahab could possess his vineyard. Ahab coveted a vineyard near his palace which was owned by Naboth, who refused to sell his ancestral inheritance to the King. Jezebel noticed that Ahab was downcast and, learning that he was troubled because Naboth refused to sell his vineyard, she said:

“‘... Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.’ (1 Kings 2I:7.)

“Naboth’s Death

“In order to discredit Naboth, Jezebel sent letters in the name of Ahab to the elders of the city where Naboth lived, instructing them to proclaim a feast and place Naboth at the head of it. They were then to get two witnesses to testify that while in this position Naboth libeled the Almighty and the King, then he was to be adjudged guilty, taken out and stoned to death. If Naboth was true to the Almighty, he no doubt would have libeled Baal, the [so-called] mighty one of Jezebel. However, the false witnesses testified against him and he was tried, found guilty and stoned to death. When Jezebel heard that her plans to bring false accusation against Naboth had succeeded, and that he was dead, she told Ahab to take possession of his vineyard. And Ahab went down to the vineyard and took possession.

“Ahab in Naboth’s Vineyard

“The word of Yahweh came to Elijah to go and meet Ahab whom he would find in Naboth’s vineyard and to whom he was to say:

“‘... Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Yahweh, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?’ (1 Kings 21:19-20.)

“Actually Elijah was his best friend but because of his evil acts the Prophet was sent to reprimand him. Because of this Elijah had become an enemy in the sight of the King. But Elijah answered:

“‘... I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of Yahweh. Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy prosperity, and will cut off from Ahab him [all his males]... that is shut up and left in Israel. And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. And of Jezebel also spake Yahweh [through Elihah], saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.’ (1 Kings 21:20-24.)

“The account then declares that Ahab had sold himself to work evil, stirred to such acts by Jezebel, his wife. He worshipped the idols and committed the abominations of the Amorites whom Yahweh had driven out of the land.

“Ahab Repents

“When Ahab heard the judgment Elijah pronounced against him he rent his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. Because he humbled himself, Yahweh told Elijah he would not bring about the evil in Ahab’s day but it would come upon his house in the days of his son.

“In a war which followed between Syria and Israel, with Judah allied with Israel, Ahab was slain. His son, Ahaziah, became king but he served Baal and worshipped him, provoking the Almighty of Israel to anger.

“Ahaziah Falls Sick

“Ahaziah had a serious fall and became sick. He sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub (the fly god to whom appeals were made in time of sickness), the god of Ekron (a city of the Philistines) if he would recover. But Elijah met the messengers and said to them:

“‘... Is it not because there is not an Almighty in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? Now therefore thus saith Yahweh, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die ...’ (2 Kings 1:3-4.)

“The messengers returned to the King who was surprised that they had turned back without completing their mission. They then gave the King the message Elijah had given them. Ahaziah asked what type of man it was who sent him that message and the messengers said:

“‘... He was an hairy man [evidently a reference to his raiment of hair], and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins ...’ (2 Kings 1:8.)

“Destruction by Fire

“The King recognized the Prophet and he said, ‘It is Elijah the Tishbite.’ Then the King sent the captain of his guard with fifty men to the hill on top of which Elijah was living and commanded him to come down. The Prophet answered:

“‘... If I be a man of the Almighty, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.’ (2 Kings 1:10.)

“A second company was sent to take Elijah and they were destroyed in the same manner. A third company came but their captain implored Elijah to spare him and his fifty men. Then the Angel of Yahweh told Elijah it was safe for him to go with this company. And so the Prophet went with this captain and his guard to the King and said:

“‘... Thus saith Yahweh, Forasmuch as thou has sent messengers to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron is it not because there is no Almighty in Israel to enquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down off that bed in which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.’ (2 Kings 1:16.)

“The King died according to the word of Yahweh as spoken by Elijah.

“The Journey to the Jordan

“The time was approaching when Elijah was to be translated, which was evidently known to the young men who were students in the schools of the prophets over which Elijah evidently presided. As Elijah was journeying with Elisha from Gilgal, the Prophet told Elisha to wait there for Yahweh had called him to Bethel. But Elisha refused to leave Elijah and they went on together to Bethel. Again Elijah told Elisha to wait there for Yahweh had sent him to Jericho but he refused and went on to Jericho with Elijah.

“At Jericho the sons of the prophets (pupils in the school of the prophets) asked Elisha, as the sons of the prophets at Bethel had, if he knew that Yahweh would take Elijah away that day. Elisha told them he knew it and for them to remain silent. Apparently the coming departure of Elijah was not to be made known except to a selected few who already were in possession of this important information.

“Elijah went on to the Jordan River and Elisha with him, while fifty of the young men of the sons of the prophets stationed themselves at a distance where they might view what would happen. Elijah and Elisha stood at the edge of the Jordan River and Elijah took his mantle and, folding it, struck the water with it. The waters parted so the two crossed on dry ground.

“Elisha’s Request

“When they had passed over, Elijah said to Elisha, ‘Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away.’ And Elisha said, ‘Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.’

“The Prophet said he had made a difficult request in that it would mean hard and dangerous problems for him to face. But the answer to Elisha’s request would depend upon his ability to witness Elijah’s departure and the senior Prophet said:

“‘... nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.’ (2 Kings 2:10.)

“The Chariot of Fire

As they walked and talked together a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and stopped between them. Thereupon Elijah ascended in a whirlwind (tempest) to the heavens and Elisha saw it and exclaimed:

“‘... My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof ...’ (2 Kings 2:I2.)

“Elisha rent his own mantle in two and the mantle which Elijah had worn fell upon him as Elijah ascended. Then Elisha returned to the Jordan River and, taking Elijah’s mantle, he struck the waters with it, saying, ‘Where is Yahweh Almighty of Elijah?’ The waters parted and Elisha went over.

“The Spirit of Elijah

“When the sons of the prophets saw this they remarked that the spirit of Elijah had fallen upon Elisha and they came to him and bowed themselves to the ground, accepting him as their new instructor and leader.

“These young men asked Elisha if they might go in search of Elijah as perhaps the Spirit of Yahweh had left him on some mountain or in some valley. Elisha said they were not to go but they urged him until he finally gave his consent. At the end of three days they returned from their fruitless search and Elisha said, “... Did I not say unto you, Go not? ...’ (2 Kings 2:18)

“Remarkable Parallels

“This ends the account of the extraordinary career of a remarkable man, the history of whose activities began, insofar as we are informed, with the years of famine visited upon Israel because of their idolatry. The earthly career of Elijah ended in his translation as he ascended in a whirlwind-tempest of atomic* splendor. During his activities on earth he had at his command a fire comparable with the energy released by atomic* fission. He used that force to bring home to Israel the fact that Yahweh was the Almighty of Israel. Later on he used it to destroy the two captains with their companies of men who sought to take him by force. The parallels between the life and activities of Elijah and his times and events in modern Israel are most interesting.

[CAE Note: *This is pure speculation on the part Rand to compare Yahweh’s fire to the “splitting of the atom”. Natural fire always burns upward as well as atomic and hydrogen bomb explosions, while Yahweh’s fire “fell”, or burned downward. Besides, our sun is a continuous hydrogen nuclear reaction. Had Yahweh’s fire been nuclear, many of the people would have died due to radioactivity, along with Elijah when he called fire down on Ahab’s two contingents of 51 men. I have used an * wherever Rand brings this subject up.] Back to Rand –

“Sponsored Foreign Ideology

“Jezebel, who outlived her husband, Ahab, sponsored the doctrines of Baalism, a foreign ideology definitely anti-Yahweh and evil in every respect. Many in Israel had turned away from worshipping the Almighty and from keeping His laws as a result of the influence of Baalism in their midst. The nation had experienced destruction of prosperity through drought and famine from which relief did not come until the people acknowledged Yahweh as the one supreme Almighty.

“Communism Today

“Today we have a perfect parallel in the doctrines of Communism, a foreign ideology which is anti-God in its concepts and socialistic in its doctrines. As Baalism was sponsored by the leaders in Israel in Elijah’s time, so Communism has been sponsored by leaders in modern Israel today. This active sponsorship began in the administration of former President Roosevelt and during those years Eleanor Roosevelt was instrumental also in fostering aid and support for the friends of Soviet Russia. Now such men as Henry Wallace, Senator Claude Pepper and many others are assisting anti-God doctrines, foreign to our type of government, to gain a foothold in our nation. The parallels are so striking between the activities in the land of Israel twenty-five centuries ago and those in Anglo-Saxon lands today that there is no doubt that history is repeating itself – and for a purpose!

 

“Skeptics Answered

“The economic difficulties which afflicted Israel in the time of Elijah are even now in evidence in Great Britain and will be apparent in the United States in the very near future. The most significant parallel, however, is furnished in the modern discovery of how to split the atom*, producing the fire which Elijah had at his command. Destiny referred to this editorially as ‘The Fire of God’ in its issue of October 1945.

“Atheists and skeptics in the past have made all manner of fun of the account recorded in which it is stated that the earth, stones and water were consumed by the fire that Elijah called down from heaven upon the altar he had built. Now the atomic* bomb has not only destroyed cities but, along with the pulverization of iron, steel and stones, it has blasted the arguments of all disbelievers who have said that such a destructive type of fire could not have been brought into being.

“The present knowledge of atomic fire* has come to men at a time when the Elijah message is going out, calling upon modern Israel to remember the Law of Yahweh, given by the hand of Moses. Thus, in the proclamation of the Gospel of the Kingdom throughout the Israel lands, the Elijah call is being heard again.

“The Still Small Voice

“Following Elijah’s demonstration of the power of the fire of the Almighty, he fled to the wilderness where the Almighty portrayed His power before him through tempest, earthquake and fire. He explained to Elijah, nevertheless, that those spectacular demonstrations did not necessarily manifest Him or His purposes. The Almighty Himself was in the still small Voice which Elijah heard after the destructive forces of nature had subsided. This Voice has been heard by many servants of Yahweh who, throughout the ages, have been called and chosen for special service. The skeptic will scoff but in so doing he only demonstrates his ignorance of what the man of the Almighty knows to be a reality.

“Destruction of Israel’s Enemies

“When Ahaziah, an idolatrous worshipper of Baal, succeeded Ahab, his father, and ordered the arrest of Elijah, the fire of the Almighty consumed the captain of the guard and his men whom the King sent to do his bidding. Ezekiel, the Prophet, predicts that this is the type of destruction which awaits the armies of the Soviet Confederacy when they move against Israel in these last days. He describes their destruction as by a terrible tempest and storm which will overcome the armies of the Communist hordes. Esdras is even more explicit in the vivid description of this coming disaster that will overwhelm the foes of unrighteousness:

“‘I beheld, and, lo, all they which were gathered together to subdue him were sore afraid, and yet durst fight. And, lo, as he saw the violence of the multitude that came, he neither lifted up his hand, nor held sword, nor any instrument of war: But only I saw that he sent out of his mouth as it had been a blast of fire, and out of his lips a flaming breath, and out of his tongue he cast out sparks and tempests. And they were all mixed together; the blast of fire, the flaming breath, and the great tempest; and fell with violence upon the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up every one, so that upon a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be perceived, but only dust and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was afraid.’ (2 Esdras 13:8-11 .)

“Type of Coming Translation

“Is it just a coincidence that in the lifetime of Elijah we find him making use of atomic fire* and Malachi declares the message of this Prophet would go out again just before the great and terrible Day of Yahweh, when atomic fire* would again be used? Also, apart from the actual task of warning Israel and the issuance of the call to remember the law of Moses, Elijah is a type of those who are to escape death by virtue of the translation as the age closes.

“Elijah did not die; he was translated, ascending in a fiery chariot and Elisha saw him go. Paul tells us of a parallel event in the closing days of the present age:

“‘For Yahshua himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of Yahweh: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet Yahshua in the air: and so shall we ever be with Yahshua.’ (1 Thess. 4:16-17 .)

“The Powers of Heaven

“Can it be that Elisha, who received the falling mantle of Elijah as he ascended in the fiery chariot, will be the type of those who must carry on the work and witness while the Marriage Supper is in progress? Our Yahshua declared that just before the event: ‘And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory’ (Luke 21:27). The powers of heaven would be shaken. This is a further reference to the splitting of the atom*. The fact that Elijah ascended in a whirlwind or tempest of atomic* power enabled the skeptics of the day to account for his disappearance by attributing it to the destructiveness of this storm. The Almighty has always allowed those who would not accept by faith to have plausible excuses for their continued unbelief. This will be true even in the startling events destined to occur in the closing scenes of the present age until the final climax when all – atheist, agnostic and modernist – will be compelled to recognize the truth. That day will arrive when: ‘Every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.’ (Rev. 1:7) Even so, Amen.”

It is hoped, with Howard B. Rand’s article on Elijah the Tishbite, along with my notes and editing, that the reader will better comprehend the importance of the ELIJAH MESSAGE at Malachi 4:5-6, and how it has reappeared today during our lifetime. Elijah’s commission was:

“And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Yahweh Almighty of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art the Almighty in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and thatI have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that thou art Yahweh Almighty, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.” (1 Kings 18:36-37.)

[CAE Please mark the words, “... thou hast turned their heart back again”, as the same concept is also found at Malachi 4:5-6.]

Howard B. Rand wrote an article “The Ancient Order Of Master Shepherds” in the July 1946 Destiny Magazine, later packaged into a 1946 Yearbook, pp. 117-119. Then he wrote another article on the same subject, “Order of Melchizedek” in Destiny Magazine, October, 1962. He further wrote an article, “Enoch’s Mission and Shem’s Responsibility”, 1962 Destiny Yearbook pp. 201-204, where he cites another book he wrote on this same topic, Primogenesis which I will now quote in part. (I will be using the Tetragrammaton.)

“Order of Melchizedek: When Shem with his followers came out of Egypt, they founded at Jerusalem the city destined to become the City of David and also the capital of the Kingdom of Yahweh when Yahshua, [returns] who is of the Order of Melchizedek ... ‘The priestly Order of Melchizedek began with Adam and the Preachers of Righteousness from Adam to Noah were of this Order. Noah is recorded as the eighth Preacher of Righteousness in 2 Peter 2:5. The fifth chapter of Genesis begins, ‘This is the book of the generations of Adam, and no one of the line of Cain is recorded there.’

As stated in Primogenesis: “‘Noah was the tenth in generation. The reason he was but the eighth in priestly line was because Enoch was translated before his father died and did not come to the priestly office (Genesis 5:24). Methuselah, the son of Enoch, took the office directly from his grandfather Jared, the father of Enoch. Methuselah, in turn, outlived his son Lamech, so the office passed directly to his grandson, Noah, the son of Lamech (Genesis 5:27). Noah, therefore, became the eighth Preacher of Righteousness, though the tenth in generation, because these two, Enoch and Lamech, never succeeded to the priestly office.’ (Primogenesis, p. 44)

“In this line of Preachers of Righteousness, Shem, Noah’s son, became the ninth. As stated in Primogenesis: ‘The Order of Melchizedek, in its earthly representation, began with Adam as the first Preacher of Righteousness. Noah was the eighth and Shem the ninth ... ‘So also Yahshua glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, ‘... Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.’ As he saith also in another place, ‘... Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek’ (Hebrews 5:5-6).

“In His ministry, He was a Prophet; in His atonement, He was a Priest. When He returns, He is to be King. Thus, in the Order of Melchizedek, He is Prophet, Priest and King’ (Primogenesis pp. 66-67).

“Order of Master Shepherds: The Bible also records a line of master shepherds beginning with these Preachers of Righteousness, who wore the shepherd’s garb as the insignia of office. From Abraham to John the Baptist, in each generation there were those who were members of this ancient and honorable Order. Then Yahshua associated Himself with the office, becoming the Grand Master of the Order of Master Shepherds: ‘I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep’ (John 10:14-15).

“Ninth Preacher of Righteousness: It is fitting, therefore, that Shem, who was the ninth Preacher of Righteousness and also a member of the Order of Master Shepherds, was entrusted with the construction of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh in Egypt ... Only a building that is pyramidal in shape is completed by placing a capstone in position ...

“A Sign and Witness: Many generations after Enoch’s day the Prophet Isaiah was constrained to write: ‘In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the Land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Yahweh. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt ...’ (Isaiah 19:19-20) ... Undoubtedly Isaiah was aware that this was the Pillar of Enoch; that to Enoch its design was committed and on Shem the responsibility was laid to build this remarkable structure in the land that had harbored the people of Israel for four hundred years and had later sheltered, Yahweh in the flesh, Yahshua.”

Along the same line of thought, I will now follow-up with another article appearing in Destiny magazine of October, 1955 (inside front cover), entitled “Shem The Powerful.” Actually, I will be utilizing a quotation which this article cites from a book The Worship of the Dead or The Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry by a Colonel J. Garnier:

“Sphinxes were the particular form of sculpture associated with the shepherd kings, and were constructed in honor of Set [an Egyptian name given to Shem], while the Great Sphinx seems to be especially associated with the Great Pyramid built by Suphis [another name associated with Shem]. As the Tanis Sphinxes [a group of three sphinxes at Tanis, Egypt ...]; are unmistakably the likeness of one particular individual, it seems certain that they represent the features of the first great shepherd king. Set the Powerful [Shem] ...

“If, then, these heads are likenesses of the great Shepherd King Set, they represent the exact features of the antediluvian patriarch Shem, and we behold in them something of the type of primeval man as he first came from the hands of Yahweh ... In representing him, therefore, as a lion with a human head, there was a certain fitness, and the idea was probably borrowed from the Cherubim, the form which seems to have been generally known ...”

Since Howard B. Rand used Ussher’s chronology, he believed that Shem was contemporary with Abraham, and that Shem was the one to whom Abraham paid his tithes. I was also under the same illusion until I took the time to check the Masoretic text against the Septuagint. After making a chart of both chronologies, I found that the Septuagint has Shem dead for about 650 years before Abraham was born. There is a total discrepancy of 1486 years between the Masoretic and Septuagint texts. I doubt very much whether Ussher’s chronology (which is based on the Masoretic text) is correct. If the oldest living patriarch was the family priest-king, Abraham, therefore, probably paid his tithes to Nahor #2, his brother, rather than Shem. Also, it was found in the Masoretic text that Heber was born before Abraham, and died after him. This is highly unlikely as Heber was Abraham’s great, great, great, great grandfather. Genesis 11:26-27 tells us that Abraham had two brothers, Nahor and Haran. Inasmuch as Nahor #1 (Abraham’ s grandfather) died, and Terah became pagan, the priest-king office was probably left to Nahor #2; Haran having died before Abram and Terah left Ur of the Chaldees (Gen. 11:28). Therefore, I believe it is possible Nahor #2 may have been Abraham’s Melchizedek. The priest-kingship skipping the generation of Terah (breaking the lineal order) might explain why Melchizedek was without lineal descent.

It should be coming quite clear in our studies on this subject that Joseph and that pharaoh mentioned (probably Amosis), and Joseph’s wife Asenath and her father were all descendants of Shem. We should also be starting to realize that the Great Sphinx, a little up the road from the Great Pyramid of Gizah, could emblematically be a representation of Adam through Nahor #2, (less Enoch, Lamech and Arphaxad who were outlived by their fathers), and Yahshua the Redeemer-Messiah Himself. And, also, that the Great Pyramid of Gizah is a monumental emblem of Enoch, forecasting Adamic-Israel’s future in the mathematics of its dimensions. Surely, Isaiah was correct when he wrote, Isaiah 19:19-20:

“¹⁹ In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Yahweh. ²⁰ And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they [as the Israelites formerly did] shall cry unto Yahweh because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.”

Today we are in the time of oppression spoken of in verse 20. It tells us here that we are to be delivered by a “savior” (singular). We are not going to be delivered by an arm of flesh, but by the Almighty Himself. There have been those courageous men who tried it and failed; it didn’t work! But, this is no reason we should neglect being in a strong defensive posture, ready for any eventuality. Yahweh will reveal to us when it is time to go on the offensive. I believe the reason the altar and pillar were placed in Egypt is because our coming deliverance will be very similar to that experienced in the Exodus, and that the wicked pharaohs of today, like then, are going to “let our people go”, and it will require the death angel to accomplish it. We have to put first things first. How are the “tares” going to be rooted up unless they are first identified? The good news is: the enemy, the Edomite-jews, are quickly being identified, no help from, nor thanks to, the one seedliners! Rand also incorrectly saw Communism as the enemy, whereas in truth Capitalism and Communism are both brought to us by the same Edomite-jews ....

I would inform the reader that I only rate Rand’s extensive writings about 50%. However, the 50% that he got correct is simply outstanding. I would also advise the reader, if one can find his original printed articles, one can check my edited quotations against his original publications. My position is, anyone who has put anything into writing or speech, they are fair game for a critical review.

This is my two hundred and nineteenth monthly teaching letter and continues my nineteenth year of publication. At this juncture, I have decided to continue to do critical reviews of Howard B. Rand’s ministerial writings from his books, tracts and especially those found in his Destiny Magazine.The many issues of Destiny Magazines had several guest writers of varying degrees of excellence.

I will inform the reader at the outset that I only rate Rand and his associate writers about 50%. However, the 50% that they get correct is simply outstanding. I would also advise the reader, if one can find any of their original printed articles, to check my edited articles against the original publications. My position is, if anyone who has put anything into writing or speech, they are fair game for a critical review, as it best serves our kinsmen in the faith, and this is what I will be doing with Rand and his associated group of writers.

The following article, A Color-Blind Era written by C.R. Dicky, appeared in Rand’s Destiny Magazine, June, 1962, yearbook pp. 129-130 (editing and emphases in brackets):

“A Color-Blind Era

“An Associated Press Release from Victoria Falls, Rhodesia, dated February 18, 1960, reads in part as follows:

“Evangelist Billy Graham, resting here after an intensive 5-week tour of West Africa, said he is not leading a crusade against the color bar.

“‘Before I can preach about color in Africa, we must apply Christ in the United States,’ Graham said.

“‘Race barriers will ultimately have to end,’ Graham added, ‘but I cannot presume to suggest a solution of Rhodesia’s and the [South African] Union’s problem, because we have our own problem in the States.’

“However, he declared, ‘I don’t see how the South African approach (of rigid segregation) can possibly work.’ Graham said he thinks economic, political and spiritual partnership would be a better approach.

“‘Christ was not a European,’ he said, ‘He wasn’t fair skinned. I should say he was swarthy’.’

“First, let it be said that we have no desire to minimize the tremendous influence and outreach of Evangelist Billy Graham’s work. Perhaps no other evangelist in Christian history has awakened so many people to their need of the saving power of Jesus Christ [??? C.A.E.]. Therefore, it is surprising, to say the least, to find him teaching that Christ ‘wasn’t [FAIR] skinned – but [SWARTHY].’

“It would be interesting to know where he finds a statement in the Bible to support such a belief. Holy men of [Yahweh] wrote as they were moved by the Spirit in regard to the racial background of Jesus [sic Yahshua]. The lineage of His mother has been carefully recorded, even to the color of skin, so there is no excuse for confusion on this important subject. Here are some facts as recorded in the Scriptures. The genealogy of Jesus [sic Yahshua] Christ, as recorded by Matthew, begins as follows:

“‘The book of the generation of Jesus [sic Yahshua] Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren.... And Jesse begat David the king.... And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus [Yahshua] who is called Christ. 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’.” (Matt. 1:1-17.)

“This record clearly traces the lineage of Jesus [sic Yahshua] back to Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah. What kind of people were they? Are there any clues as to whether these prominent people in that early day were a dark-colored race, or of [FAIR] complexion? We believe that there is ample evidence in the Scriptures. For example, it is written in Genesis 12:10-14:

“‘And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a [FAIR] woman to look upon: Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. Say, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very [FAIR]’.” [Gen. 12:10-14:]

“Thus we learn that Sarah – mother of Isaac, and mother of the Saxon Race – was NOT ‘[SWARTHY]’ but ‘very [FAIR].’ (See Genesis 21:12: ‘... In Isaac shall thy seed be called,’ or named. Amos, chapter 7, heralds this change by referring to the ten tribes as the House of Isaac.)

“When Abraham was old and failing in health, he sent his chief servant on a journey to find a wife for Isaac. Abraham said to the servant:

“‘I will make thee swear by [Yahweh], the [Almighty] of heaven, and the [Almighty] of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac’ (Gen. 24:3-4).

“An interracial marriage for Isaac was strictly banned. So the servant made his way to Mesopotamia, and the city where Abraham’s brother Nahor lived. He neared the city at evening time and prepared to water his camels. Finding this to be the place where the women went to draw water, the servant was led to pray this prayer:

“‘... O [Yahweh Almighty] of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham. Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.’

“‘And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. And the damsel was[VERY FAIR] to look upon ....”’ (Gen. 24:12-16).

“In this manner, Isaac, son of the FAIR and beautiful Sarah, took as his wife the [‘VERY FAIR’] and lovely Rebekah. Here, in this important moment of history, we find the beginning of a [FAIR-SKINNED] Covenant Race which was to emerge ‘in the latter days’ as [Yahweh’s] Chosen People of prophecy and history – the AngloSaxon-Celtic and kindred Christian nations around the world. What a wonderful story it is for those who can read simple Bible facts with understanding!

“King Saul reigned for a time over Israel. But it was David who was chosen by [Yahweh] to establish His throne in Israel.

“‘He (David) shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.... thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.’ (2 Sam. 7:13, 16.)

“What manner of man was David? When Samuel was sent by [Yahweh] to anoint a king in Israel, after the death of Saul, he rejected seven of Jesse’s sons. Then he inquired, ‘Are here all thy children?’ Jesse said, ‘There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.’ And Samuel said unto Jesse, ‘Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither’ (1 Sam. 16:11). David was brought in and the scene closes with these words:

“‘... Now he (David) was [RUDDY], and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And [Yahweh] said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of [Yahweh] came upon David from that day forward.’ (1 Sam. 16:12-13.)

“In the account of David’s challenge of Goliath, we find this interesting statement:

“‘And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and [RUDDY], and of a [FAIR] countenance.’ (1 Sam. 17:41-42.)

“It is written in 2 Samuel 14:27:

“‘And unto Absalom (one of David’s sons) there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a [FAIR] countenance.’

“The genealogies of Matthew’s first chapter, and Luke’s third, leave no doubt concerning the fact that both Mary, the mother of Jesus [sic Yahshua], and Joseph, her husband, were the descendants of King David. Is it reasonable to suppose that a Covenant Race, which was so carefully guarded in its beginning, would be allowed to disintegrate, lose its identity, and become a darkskinned race by the time of our Lord’s birth in Bethlehem? Both prophecy and history verify the lineage of Jesus [sic Yahshua] the Christ through Abraham, David, and His mother Mary, as we have seen in the record.

“Here are two more interesting statements on the subject of color:

“Job 42:15: ‘In all the land were no women found so [FAIR] as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.’

“Acts 7:17-21: ‘But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which [the Almighty] had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end that they might not live. In which time Moses was born, and was [EXCEEDINGLY FAIR], and nourished up in his father’s house three months: and when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.’

[Critical review showing my writings concerning “the Pharaoh’s daughter:

From Watchman’s Teaching Letter #37 for May, 2001, I addressed more of this story thusly: To start with, in a quote from the book The Boehm Journey To Egypt, Land Of Tutankhamun by Frank J. Cosentino, page 120, we read this:

“It will be recalled that Hatshepsut was the first great queen of Egypt. She married Thutmosis II and after his death seized the throne from Thutmosis III, who after Hatshepsut’s demise was to become one of Egypt’s greatest warrior-kings. To secure her name in history and to prove herself equal to all the male pharaohs before her, she embarked on ambitious building programs during her twenty-year rule (1489-1469 B.C.).”

Princess Hatshepsut was the only surviving child of Tuthmosis I and his queen. As there is no word in the ancient Egyptian language for “queen”, the meaning was simply “king’s great wife.” Had Tuthmosis I had a son, he would have been in line to inherit the throne from his father. With Hatshepsut being a female, and no others contending for the throne, it could pass through her to whomever she might marry. There was a major flaw in this arrangement, as it left an opening for non-royal blood to gain the throne. In the Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty this happened several times. In fact, Tuthmosis II, the half-brother whom Hatshepsut married, is a case in point. The exact system of choosing a new king is not precisely known, but, in the 18th Dynasty, it seems that if there was no son to receive the honor, it was passed on through the oldest female, and in turn to her husband. The difference in the case with Hatshepsut is that she took the throne herself after her husband died. It was probably a matter of guardianship at first, until Tuthmosis III became of age, but Hatshepsut evidently decided to remain on the throne, denying Tuthmosis III his seat. In the end, this precipitated a bitter battle between Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III.

In Egypt, the pharaoh often had many wives, and in some cases married a half-sister. All this made the process of passing on the throne rather complex. Upon the death of Tuthmosis I, his son Tuthmosis II, by a minor wife, was married to his half-sister, Hatshepsut. By marrying Hatshepsut, it established Tuthmosis II’s right to the throne which lasted for twenty-two unexceptional years. When Tuthmosis II died, he left a daughter by Hatshepsut and a son, Tuthmosis III, by a minor wife. Hatshepsut then ruled seven years as regent for the young boy. After this time, Hatshepsut took it upon herself to change her title from “Queen” to “King.”

Further, from Watchman’s Teaching Letter #40 for August, 2001, I stated:

This is the lady (Hatshepsut) that would have had all the incentive for adopting Moses into the Pharaoh’s household. I covered the lady Pharaoh Hatshepsut to a great extent in both lessons #32 and #37. In lessons #31 and 32, I explained how Moses’ name was derived from the line of pharaohs whose names ended in “mosis”, like in Kamose, Amosis, Tuthmosis I, Tuthmosis II, Tuthmosis III, etc. Surely this is not just a coincidence, for several historians have observed this similarity of names. As Moses was adopted by pharaoh’s daughter, surely he would receive the pharaoh’s family name. Hatshepsut’s unique position in Egyptian history makes her a very good candidate for being the one rescuing Moses from a watery grave.

If you will remember, Hatshepsut was the last of a line having purely royal blood in the House of Pharaoh. We can also be pretty sure that she was of the line of Shem. If you will also remember, the Bible narrative relates that the Egyptian pharaoh gave Joseph his wife. We also know that Joseph’s wife was of the House of Shem, for her father was a priest of On. On was called “Beth Shemesh”, meaning House of the people of Shem. Unless the pharaoh that gave Joseph his wife was also of the House of Shem, he wouldn’t have had the authority to do so. At this point, I will relate to you what one of my proofreaders pointed out in one of his letters to me on this subject:

“Concerning Beth-Shemesh, and we may have discussed this, and from your letters certainly you see it, but I am compelled to discuss it again here. ‘Shemesh’, I am convinced is surely a double-entendre. For the word means ‘sun’ in Hebrew, obvious from the Greek translation ‘Heliopolis’ which means ‘city (polis) of the sun (helios)’, but also, and just as well in palaeo Hebrew, means ‘people of Shem.’ For the people of Shem are the ‘light of the world’ (Matt. 5:14), and just like the ancient Pharaohs, Yahshua is represented as the source of light, Rev. 21:23; John 1:4-9; 8:12; Rev. 22:16. ....”

In all of my work on Egyptian history, I have never found anyone who has put the 18th Dynasty together the way I have in my back Watchman’s Teaching Letters, along with this paper; that is until today (June 29, 2010). I decided to search for some new data on Egypt that would support my premise, and I hit the jackpot. The reason that I hadn’t discovered this before is because I had acquired it since I did that research. I went to the Libronix Digital Library (which contains hundreds of Bibles, lexicons and commentaries) and typed “Thutmose” into the search. The very first book that came up was The Bible Knowledge Commentary by John F. Walvoord & Roy B. Zuck, and there were 21 hits to open, plus an additional 2 hits from an accompanying book entitled The Bible Reader’s Companion.

To my surprise Walvoord and Zuck were parallel to my findings about 90%, although they and I reached these conclusions independently. I would invite anyone to read their commentary on this subject from their Old Testament volume, pages 103-114, and compare their remarks with mine! Looking back, I am glad I didn’t have their input on this topic from the beginning of my endeavor, as it placed me in a position where I had to do my own research from a cold, emptyhanded start the hard way! It is reassuring to me to find that someone else came to a comparable conclusion.

While my research agrees very well with Walvoord and Zuck, my reason for citing the 18th Egyptian dynasty was altogether different than theirs. Their reasoning follows archaeology and aligns chronologies, which is all well and good, showing excellent scholarship. But the thing that caught my eye was how the Egyptians and Hurrians, along with the Hittites, fought in wars to a standstill, and how the Egyptians made peace treaties with them, and then for political reasons exchanged women for the other party’s harems. This brought Hittite and Hurrian [often errantly Hivite in Scripture] women into the pharaoh’s harem to mix the blood of Cain among the Egyptian rulers.

Here is how The Bible Knowledge Commentary by John F. Walvoord & Roy B. Zuck partially treat the history during the 18th Dynasty in their “Introduction”, pp. 106-107:

“... The history of Egypt near the time of the Exodus. Amenhotep I ruled in the newly centralized government from 1546 to 1526 (actually begun by his father Ahmose I) and was succeeded by Thutmose I (who ruled ca. 1526-1512). Moses was born (ca. 1526) in this king’s reign (or at the end of the reign of Amenhotep I). This king’s famous daughter, Hatshepsut, may have been the royal princess who discovered Moses along the Nile. When Thutmose II (1512-1504) died, Thutmose III was very young. So his stepmother, Hatshepsut, contrived to make herself ruler starting in 1503. (Thutmose III is considered king from 1504 to 1482 though Hatshepsut ‘co-reigned’ with him to 1482.)

“During Hatshepsut’s brilliant reign Egypt experienced prosperity. In these years Moses spent his youth in the royal court. After Hatshepsut’s death in 1482 Thutmose III ruled alone till 1450. Thutmose III liquidated the entire royal court and attempted to obliterate Hatshepsut’s name from monuments in the land. At that time Moses probably found the court of Egypt inhospitable and fled to Midian. Thutmose III became a powerful kingdom builder, extending his empire to include Syria.

“Thutmose III was succeeded by Amenhotep II (1450-1425), the Pharaoh of the Exodus (1446). Unlike his warring father, Amenhotep II seems to have suffered military reverses because he was not able to carry out extensive campaigns. His weak war efforts may have resulted from the loss of all or most of his chariots, in the waters of the Sea of Reeds. The so-called ‘Dream Stela’ of Thutmose IV records that the god Har-em-akht told the young prince in a dream that someday he would be king. If Thutmose IV had been the eldest son, proof of his throne-right would have been unnecessary. It is logical, therefore, to assume that he was a younger son, not the oldest son, of Amenhotep II. This accords with the statement in Exodus 12:29 that the eldest son of Pharaoh died the night of Israel’s first Passover. Thus Thutmose III was the Pharaoh of the oppression and Amenhotep II was the Pharaoh of the Exodus ...”

In my own work, I had identified Thutmose III as the oppressor of Israel, but didn’t go into detail on who the pharaoh of the Exodus was. Inasmuch as Moses fled to Midian for forty years, Amenhotep II would seem to be reasonable as the pharaoh of the Exodus. As to the dates of Walvoord and Zuck, my own dates would be somewhat similar for the 18th dynasty, but I tried to follow the dates of The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt, pp. 133-134, which would place Amenhotep II at 1427-1392 B.C. But in quotations, I would use the dates cited by the author which varied notably. END OF MY CRITICAL REVIEW ON THE PHARAOH THAT KNEW NOT JOSEPH. Back to A Color-Blind Era, written by C.R. Dicky:

“Truly ‘blindness in part is happened to Israel,’ as Paul wrote to the Romans in his day. Even to this day [there] are the people the synagogue of Satan is out to destroy, and race mixing is the most effective weapon in his arsenal. It was by this means that the civilization of Noah’s time was destroyed. Read the story in Genesis 6 and weep for the destruction that is coming in the near future to cleanse the earth of unrighteousness once more. [And this was written in 1962 before massive race-mixing got under way in our own time! C.A.E.]

“The Apostle Peter tells about it – and warns of the judgment to come. We quote from his Second Epistle, chapters 2 and 3:

“‘For if [Yahweh] spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly, And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked; ... [Yahweh] knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.’ (2 Peter 2:4-9.)

“‘Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of [Yahweh] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water; Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished, But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.’ (2 Peter 3:5-7.)

“This may be some ‘strange fire’ known only to [Yahweh], or it may be a reference to nuclear warfare which now threatens all nations.

“Yes, this is, indeed, a color-blind era. The Covenant Peoples should not downgrade [sic mollycoddle the] other races; neither should they mingle with them indiscriminately, or intermarry with them. The trend now, in the United States, is to place Negroes in high government posts to rule over white citizens. It is a dangerous precedent, and men who so violate Divine law will be held accountable for their evil deeds. Close affinity between the white and dark races would soon destroy the purity of all races. [Note: Only the White race is pure, C.A.E.]

“Let us fervently hope that [the so-called] evangelist Billy Graham will read the Bible thoughtfully, from beginning to end, before commenting again publicly on a matter so vital as the racial background and [COLOR] of Jesus [sic Yahshua] the Christ.”

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: It is a shame, after writing such a great essay, that C.R. Dicky made the closing statement: “The Covenant Peoples should not downgrade other races ...”]

I addressed this same subject in my series It Is Biblical To Be Caucasian, Song. chs. 4-7, #’s 1–5. Here are excerpts from #1:

We will start this essay by quoting Brenton’s Septuagint at Song of Solomon 5:9-12:

“⁹ What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? what is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, that thou hast so charged us? ¹⁰ My kinsman is white and ruddy, chosen out from myriads. ¹¹ His head is as very fine gold, his locks are flowing, black as a raven. ¹² His eyes are as doves, by the pools of [blue] waters, washed with [white] milk, sitting by the pools.”[brackets mine]

The KJV renders this same passage thusly:

“⁹ What is thy beloved [kinsman] more than another beloved [kinsman], O thou fairest³³⁰³ among women? what is thy beloved [kinsman] more than another beloved [kinsman], that thou dost so charge us? ¹⁰ My beloved [kinsman]is white and ruddy¹²², the chiefest among ten thousand. ¹¹ His head is as the most fine [white] gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. ¹² His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the [blue] rivers of waters, washed with [white] milk, and fitly set.”[brackets mine]

The Hebrew word for “ruddy” here is Strong’s #122: ‘adom {aw-dome´} Meaning:1) red, ruddy (of man, horse, heifer, garment, water, lentils). Origin:from 119: ... to show blood (in the face), i.e., flush or turn rosy ....”

We should also note that the Hebrew word for FAIR is Strong’s #3303, “yapheh … from 3302; beautiful...” When we see the definition for #3302, we see why #3303 is beautiful: “yaphah … a primitive root; properly to be bright, i.e. (by implication) beautiful...” Of course, dark-skinned races cannot be bright, like a star in the night sky.

Benjamin Franklin must have been familiar with that passage, and also possibly with the origin of the Hebrew word for FAIR, for he made a similar statement in his Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc., part 24:

“24. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so .... I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind ....”

And when Franklin stated: “... in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red”, it is evident he was familiar with Song of Solomon 5:9-12. Here, by mentioning: “... the lovely White and Red ...”, Franklin simply meant beautiful White people with rosy cheeks, like the Song Of Solomon, chapters 4 & 5 describe! It should be pointed out here that Benjamin Franklin was one of the leading framers of our United States Constitution, so this sheds light on their intent!....

Excerpts from Song of Solomon, chapter 4, read:

“Behold, thou artfair, my love; behold thou artfair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks ... Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet⁸¹⁴⁴, and thy speech comely ... Thy neck is like the tower of David ... Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies ... Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee ... Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse ... How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! ... Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue ....”

This is why the Brenton’s LXX translates Proverbs 5:15-20 thusly: “¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own vessels, and out of thine own springing wells. ¹⁶ Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, but let thy waters go into thy streets. ¹⁷ Let them be only thine own, and let no stranger partake with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹ Let thy loving hart and thy graceful colt company with thee, and let her be considered thine own, and be with thee at all times; for ravished with her love thou shalt be greatly increased. ²⁰ Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.”

The KJV renders this same passage: “¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. ¹⁷ Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. ²⁰ And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?”

Race-mixing is described by Jeremiah at 2:13 as: “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” And then Jeremiah gives a case-in-point in the same chapter, at vv. 21-22 thusly: “²¹ Yet I had planted thee [Judah] a noble [racially pure] vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate [race-mixed] plant of a strange vine unto me? ²² For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith Yahweh singular-Elohim.” What we have here is a situation where neither of the terms “sour grapes” nor “broken cisterns” can be taken literally.

Wisdom of Solomon (Apocrypha) 3:15-19:

“¹⁵ For glorious is the fruit of good labours: and the root of wisdom shall never fall away. ¹⁶ As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to their perfection, and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out. ¹⁷ For though they live long, yet shall they be nothing regarded: and their last age shall be without honour. ¹⁸ Or, if they die quickly, they have no hope, neither comfort on the day of trial. ¹⁹ For horrible is the end of the unrighteous generation.”

A Word Of Caution On Song 1:6:

This verse reads in part: “Look not upon me, because I am black ...” This verse is not speaking of being genetically “black”, but rather of having a sun tan, for it continues: “... because the sun hath looked upon me ...” How can anyone claim that Almighty Yahweh in the flesh, as Yahshua Christ, is not an extreme Segregationist?

There is another incident that we haven’t as yet covered; that being Gen. 6:2: “That the sons of heaven saw the daughters of men¹²⁰ that they were [FAIR]; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”

It is quite clear, here, that the White Adamic antediluvian women were ruddy White all the way back to Eve – Adam’s rightful wife! Therefore, all the racially pure children of Adam and Eve were ruddy White from the very beginning!

We are admonished at Genesis chapter #1 that kind begets kind, time and again. And if Yahweh’s Word is true, ruddy White parents today would continue to birth ruddy White children, generation after generation unless a nigger, or any nonwhite, gets into the woodpile!

This is my two hundred and twentieth monthly teaching letter and continues my nineteenth year of publication. I have resolved to do a series of lessons doing a beneficial critical review of Howard B. Rand’s books, tracts and articles published in his Destiny Magazine.Printed for many years, Destiny Magazine had several guest writers of varying degrees of excellence. I rate Rand and his associate writers about 50%, but some of their articles are simply outstanding.

With this lesson, I will cite an article entitled, “The Iniquitous Empire: A Great Mystery”, by Howard B. Rand found in Destiny Magazine for March, 1950 yearbook, pp. 81-88:

“The phenomenal rise of world Communism and the rapid advance of Political Zionism, coupled with the presence of abundant evidence to demonstrate the exercise of pressure from hidden sources and controls over the acts of politicians and governments, reveal the existence of a blueprint for world conquest that is master-minded by the authors of a great world conspiracy.

“Thoughtful men and women have long recognized the existence of a secret group of would-be world rulers whose activities have been manifested principally through the power of money and financial control. For example, a study of the history of the Nihilists, the Illuminati, the Fabians and the House of Rothschild supplies ample evidence of the existence of such a cabal. These unseen rulers have exerted a tremendous influence upon all governments and have extended their ruthless controls over the economic, political, financial and intellectual affairs of mankind. Even religion itself has come under their baneful influence.

“Secret Rulers

“Since these concealed forces stand behind every phase of man’s undertakings – cultural, governmental, ecclesiastical – they represent a hidden, iniquitous empire, able to maneuver policies and programs in their favor wherever they will to do so. Their weapons are influence, sometimes coercion, camouflage, subtle propaganda, secret agreements and secret diplomacy; the domain of their empire is any country, or from country to country, or in many countries at once, where they exercise their hidden influences behind the scenes. Their ultimate objective is the seizure of worldwide authority to enthrone themselves in universal rule.

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: While Rand and company seem quite familiar with certain phases of the great conspiracy, they seem not to be familiar with the Edomite-jewish connection documented by Josephus’ Antiquities 13;9;1 which reads:

Describing events circa 125 B.C., “... Hyrcanus took also Dora and Marissa, cities of Idumea, and subdued all the Idumeans; and permitted them to stay in that country, if they would circumcise their genitals, and make use of the laws of the Jews; and they were so desirous of living in the country of their forefathers, that they submitted to the use of circumcision, and the rest of the Jewish ways of living; at which time therefore this befell them, that they were hereafter no other than Jews.”

By the time of Christ, the Edomite-jew family of the Herods had gained almost complete control over Judaea under the Roman Empire, and were greater in number than the few true racially pure Israelites living there at that time, and the Edomite-jews are the ones who are at the head of “The Iniquitous Empire” today. With the Christmas story, we should all be familiar with how Herod the Great had most of the children two years and younger murdered who lived in the Bethlehem area back then.] – back to Rand.

“Power To Make War

“History reveals that through well-laid schemes governments have been made to prosper or die as the leaders of this empire have willed. Political rulers have taken office or have been deposed as directed by these unseen manipulators. The power to make war against anyone daring to question the authority of the rulers of this unseen empire has drenched the earth with the blood of the slain. Murderers and assassins are also in their employ. In an editorial titled ‘Who Wants War’? in Destiny for August 1939, reference was made to the hidden or invisible government:

“‘Who, through deception, are responsible for deceiving men by subtle activities as they disseminate evil propaganda and go forward with their planning.

“‘Let us now quote from their written plan, ‘We must create unrest, dissensions, and hatred throughout Europe and through European affiliations, also on other continents .... We will entangle by intrigues all the threads stretched by us into all the governmental bodies by means of politics, economic treaties or financial obligations .... To attain these ends we will worm our way into parlays and negotiations armed with cunning, but in so-called ‘official language’ we will assume the opposite tactics of seeming honest and reasonable .... We will be able to overcome all opposition by provoking war by the neighbor of that country which dares to oppose .... We will show our power to one of them by assassination and terrorism, and should there be a possibility of all of them rising against us, we will answer them with American, Chinese or Japanese guns’.”

“After reading this portion of the plan, let us turn to the record of current history. What do we find? The best efforts of men of good-will have failed to prevent unrest or have been unable to bring about an understanding among peoples and governments. When at times it has seemed they would accomplish their purpose, intangible and unseen forces intervened to prevent amiable and lasting settlements. We need not comment on the economic treaties or financial obligations to which reference is made. It is apparent to all that such have caused serious conflicts in the diplomatic field today, preventing a real accord between nations. Regarding parleys and negotiations, it is a known fact that there has been planted in international documents and treaties the seeds of future strife and war.

“Reference is made to assassinations. A nation was definitely picked for such activities when, many years before the coming of Bolshevism, the assassin terrorized the rulers of Russia. Then came Communism and its reign of terror. Germany, Italy and other countries rose in revolt against those responsible, with the result that, in accordance with the plan, powerful forces are trying to bring about conditions so that American guns may be used to subdue that opposition.

“Who wants war? It is certain the American people do not, nor do the peoples of the world. Yet, in spite of this fact, the world is arming for a gigantic struggle. It is of interest, in the face of the present armament race, to read what the writers of the subversive plan have to say. ‘The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces – are all essential to the completion of the aforementioned plans’.” End of what was written in Destiny in August of 1939.

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: In 1939, I was only 12 years old, and my family on both sides of our house knew little to nothing about what was really going on, but Rand and his associate writers were aware of a good bit of this subterfuge, while it took me to the mid-1970s to become a novice on this subject, but I learned a lot very quickly with extensive research into the matter.] – back to Rand:

“Setting the Stage

“This editorial was written at least two months before World War II commenced. Following the beginning of war on September 3, 1939, the forces behind the scenes began moving to involve the United States in the conflict. Men high in government positions at Washington were used to set the stage for the attack by the Japanese upon Pearl Harbor as a means of making our participation in the conflict inevitable.

“The situation has now changed with Communist Russia dominating China. Can it be that the Chinese are now being trained and prepared under the discipline of Red leaders to be used later to pressure the United States into acquiescing to the over-all plan? Is it the work of traitors within who, through secret diplomacy, have to all intents and purposes invited the Chinese Reds to come and take the Island of Formosa from which Japan successfully launched her attack upon us?

“It is unfortunate that when one suggests that such a hidden empire exists, whose leaders are directing a subversive program with such worldwide implications, the suggestion is considered by the majority to be the height of absurdity. This very attitude demonstrates how successfully these evil plotters have been able to hide their hand so that only a few are able to recognize the marks by which their activities can be identified.

“The testimony of Mr. Paul G. Hoffman, Economic Co-operation Administrator, in an address at Mount Holyoke College, confirms the fact that only through actual knowledge of the situation will men awaken to the realization of these hidden dangers. The following is the report of Mr. Hoffman’s remarks as given in The Boston Herald for January 19, 1950:

“‘The aim of Russia’s ‘Red Terror’ is to ‘take over this country of ours in due course,’ Economic Co-operation Administrator Paul G. Hoffman said today. Only a prosperous Western Europe and a union of free people, he said, can foil ‘the evil plans of the men of the Kremlin.’

“‘Hoffman told students at Mount Holyoke College that if the Kremlin’s plans fail, Russia ‘will cease to be a slave state .... and we can all get on to the inspiring job of winning the peace.’

“‘Charging that ‘the present Russian dictators’ are as ‘inhuman’ and ‘indifferent to the wants and needs of the average man’ as were Hitler and Ghengis Kahn, Hoffman declared: .... ‘The Politburo is planning to take over this country of ours in due course .... Their purpose is nothing less than this.’

“Hoffman said he himself did not believe that until ‘I was faced with the most convincing evidence, and even more importantly, until I became so intimately involved in this cold war with Russia’s fifth columns. It is only,’ he continued, ‘as you feel the impact of the Kremlin’s drive at first hand that you sense the evil of this red terror. There isn’t a trace of idealism in Russian communism .... There is left not the slightest regard for decency, truth or the integrity of individuals’.”

[Critical note by: Clifton A. Emahiser: It is a huge mistake on the part of Mr. Hoffman to compare Hitler with the Kremlin, as I stated in my essay, Viewing Bolshevism Through The Eyes Of Adolf Hitler:

From Behind Communism by Frank L. Britton in part:

“Rosa Luxemburg’s Revolution:

“The first country to experience a communist revolution outside of Russia was Germany. The German government, which had abetted the Bolshevik coup in 1917 by facilitating Lenin’s return to Russia via the sealed railway car, was in 1918 faced with a revolution of its own. In many respects the German Revolution paralleled the one in Russia. As World War I reached the climactic year of 1918, and as German manpower losses mounted, the Jew-dominated German Social Democratic Party spread the seeds of defeatism among the German population much as the Bolsheviks had done in Russia. On November 3rd a mutiny broke out in the navy at Kiel, followed by rioting by the Social Democrats. On November 9th the Kaiser renounced his throne and the Social Democrats proclaimed a Socialist Republic. Two days later, on Nov. 11th, they agreed to an Armistice with the Allies.

“There now occurred an event which was to embitter the German people against the Jews for all time, and which eventually resulted in the rise of Adolf Hitler. This was the demobilization of the German armies. It should be explained that Germany did not surrender by the terms of the November 11th Armistice; the agreement was that all German armies were to withdraw to the prewar boundaries of Germany as a preliminary to a negotiated peace. But as the German armies retreated to German soil, the Revolutionary government, fearful lest the Revolution be upset, ordered them demobilized. On November 11th Germany still possessed the mightiest military machine on earth; thirty days later it had nothing. Instead of being able to negotiate peace on the terms of Wilson’s Fourteen Points, a helpless and prostrate Germany got the Versailles Treaty ....” Thus, Nazism had absolutely nothing in common with Communism, as Germany was for the most part, a Christian lost Israelite nation!] – back to Rand:

“What Mr. Hoffman apparently does not yet recognize is the extent of the world conspiracy which has as but one of its objectives the overthrow of the government of the United States. Soviet Russian aggression is only a part of the planned moves to accomplish the establishment of world rule.

“World Conspiracy

“A careful study of the affairs of the human race proves the existence of such a force, amounting to a world conspiracy, which has existed for centuries and is now moving to consummate carefully-laid plans to seize the fruits of the earth. Glimpses of its activities reveal a sordid picture of treachery, intrigue and murder, exceeding the most lurid accounts of the sinister and devilish acts of the demented. The violence of the French Revolution, with its acts of terror, and the liquidation of millions by the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution are some of the results flowing from the directives issued by these hidden ones.

“The manipulation of the money systems of the world for the purpose of impoverishing and enslaving mankind is part of the plan in that it will enrich the few and assure control over the affairs of men by the leaders of this invisible empire. Some of the facts pertaining to monetary manipulation were set forth in ‘Is Economic Ruin Inevitable?’ by C.R. Dickey, Destiny for September and October 1949. In every land, back of all visible governments, advising, directing and compelling obedience to their edicts, are the paid minions of this invisible but iniquitous empire. Our own government today is under its control. In Destiny for August 1949 we said:

“‘We are living in serious times and, unfortunately, subversive and radical individuals seem to have the ear of the President if we are to judge the type of advisors surrounding him by his pronouncements and activities .... Recently Justice Frankfurter, in reply to a question as to who really runs the United States, answered, ‘The real rulers of a nation are undiscoverable.’ This is in conformity with a similar statement made by Disraeli when he was Prime Minister of Great Britain:

“‘The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes’.”

“It is imperative that loyal Americans take a look behind the scenes; when they do they will demand that these invisible rulers be dethroned. Unless this is done soon the liberty and freedom our forefathers hoped to establish as a heritage for their children forever, when they left foreign shores and sailed to this North American Continent to found a new nation, will be destroyed by radical parasites who thrive upon the efforts and production of others.

“Our Chief Executive seems to have become a victim of the vicious program of these personages behind the scenes, which may account for his left-wing tendencies and the proposed radical legislation which he so strongly advocates .... Powerful forces are moving to destroy our American way of life and it is disquieting and even alarming to realize that they apparently have the ear of the President of the United States so that they can exert a marked influence on his appointments and his program.

“Powerful Weapons

“It will only be when the rulers of this hidden empire are dethroned and their power to propagandize and make war is completely destroyed that world peace will become a possibility. To accomplish this end it is vitally necessary to reveal to the public their identity and expose their plans. It is impossible to overcome their power singlehanded; only an aroused public can do this. Many individuals who have tried to reveal the extent of their power, and break the strangle hold this invisible empire has acquired over mankind, have themselves been broken. Some have even been goaded on to commit suicide by the sniping of stooges in the employ of these hidden leaders. A case in point was the late Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal.

“Far-Flung Empire

“One significant aspect of this conspiracy is now disclosed by activities in Palestine and will presently involve the whole Middle East.

“‘Time will shortly demonstrate to even the most skeptical the identity of these conspirators who are endeavoring through chaos to enslave mankind. Associated with, if not actually in the center of this great world-wide conspiracy to destroy Christendom, are those who were responsible for the crucifixion of Yahshua Christ, the Son of the Almighty. Their plans are now carefully laid for the seizure of His inheritance, the first steps in the fulfillment of such a program evidenced in the Zionist claims to a right to Palestine which they have undertaken to possess through acts of violence. Furthermore, in their arrogance they have assumed a messianic mission for their race and in so doing are undertaking to usurp the kingly prerogatives of Yahshua Christ, our coming Sovereign and King. The verdict of our Sovereign is therefore just in its condemnation of these conspirators and their attempt, through violence, to seize the Kingdom.’ (Palestine: Center of World Intrigue, page 49.)

“It must not be assumed that these evil forces are centered in any one area of the world alone, for this far-flung empire is now actively operating in the capital cities of all nations and its secret agents have become very powerful in Washington, D.C. Mr. Douglas Reed, in his book From Smoke To Smother, points to the power of money and calls attention to the fact that, alongside the rise of world Communism and political Zionism, the transfer of most of the world’s gold supply and money to America, the present seat of Zionist power, is a vital factor to consider in an analytical survey of this kind. He writes:

“‘It seems to me, when I consider the power of that entombed gold and the pattern of events in the last thirty years, that there are great, organized forces in the world, which are spread over many countries but work in unison to achieve power over mankind through chaos. They seem to me to seek, first and foremost, the destruction of Christianity, nationhood and liberty in Europe; that was ‘the design’ which Lord Acton perceived behind the first of the tumults, the French Revolution, and it has become clearer with later tumults and growing success. This process does not appear to me a natural or inevitable one, but a man-made one which follows definite rules of conspiratorial action. I believe there is an organization behind it of long standing, and that the great successes which have been achieved are mainly due to the efficiency with which this has been kept concealed’.” (From Smoke To Smother, page 315.)

“Over-All Plan

“The time has evidently arrived when the leaders of the hidden empire expect to reveal their hand and assume outward control of world governments which for many years they have directed from the background. A part of their over-all plan is the present movement for the establishment of a centralized world government, the danger of which was clearly outlined in an editorial titled ‘World Government,’ Destiny for December 1949. Quoting in part from that editorial:

“‘With a world organization like that now being advocated, all that an ambitious man would have to do would be to capture the central government through intrigue, or some successfully executed coup, and gain control over the international police through bribery or, by political maneuvering, replace its heads with his own henchmen. Then he would indeed become a world dictator. It would be as easy as that!

“‘The successful accomplishment of such a coup would be a thousand times more certain if the centralized government was in exclusive control of the atomic bomb. Once an ambitious man succeeded in usurping the authority and power of such a world organization, and was in control of its atomic weapons, and perhaps others of equally deadly nature, he could effectively prevent any nation from challenging his authority.

“‘The world would then become subject to the terrorism of absolutism in government and there would be no place anywhere where men might flee to escape. World conditions would be far more intolerable then than they are now behind the iron curtain.

“‘As long as there are men with ambitions to assume world rulership, it would be an extremely dangerous experiment to attempt to organize a world government. It is imperative to warn that there is real danger of this power falling into the wrong hands.’

“Evidence in Prophecy

“If such a hidden empire does exist, then the writings of the prophets of Yahweh in the Bible should have something to say about it. A study of prophecy does indeed reveal that the Word of the Almighty is not silent concerning this evil empire and its activities. The prophets clearly depict the existence of such a power; their prophecies describe a dominant evil world force more powerful than governments and exerting a sinister influence upon all mankind by the exercise of controls over human destinies.

“A Heterogeneous Monster

“In the seventh chapter of Daniel’s book this diabolical power, having many phases, is symbolically depicted as four beasts coming up out of the sea, the last one a heterogeneous monster combining all the characteristics of the beasts that went before it. The term ‘great sea’ is a symbolical reference to the mass of mankind; therefore, Daniel saw this power rise out from among the people. This was no ordinary vision comprising simple elements by which it could be defined with the same clarity that Daniel was able to explain the vision of the image depicting the four world empires. This beast-power was to be nothing like anything that went before it, the principal divergence being that it would not be confined to any particular territorial limitations. It would not wield its authority through any one visible government; it would be international in aspect and universal in power; its rulers would recognize no national requirements of loyalty to any government or patriotism to any country upon earth. Daniel’s dilemma as he beheld the heterogeneous monster was complete as he heard the Angel describe its evil nature:

“‘Which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.’ (Dan. 7:23.)

“Prophetic students who have endeavored to assign this description of the fourth phase of the hidden empire to the Roman Empire have overlooked the fact that Rome was never essentially different from the Babylonian, Medo-Persian or Grecian Empires in her methods and rule. Ferrar Fenton translates the above passage: “‘It will be different from all the Empires, and devour all the earth, and thrash it, and break it.’

Smith and Goodspeed translate it: “‘Which shall be different from all the other kingdoms; It shall devour the whole earth, and shall trample it down, and tear it in pieces.’

“Missing Significance

“Because students of the Scriptures have undertaken to identify the four beasts which Daniel saw rising out of the sea with the four world empires shown to Nebuchadnezzar in a dream, they have wholly missed the significance of the meaning of this important vision. They have failed to consider the clue given that Daniel himself did not understand this vision which was sealed up until the end of days.’ As pointed out in Study in Daniel:

“‘The very fact that Daniel was so disturbed and alarmed should have immediately put every Bible student on guard against making the mistake of assuming that, because these beasts represent four ‘kings’ arising from the earth, they must therefore be the identical kingdoms the metals in the image of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream represented.

“‘Without a single exception known to us, every student of Scripture who has approached this subject has assumed that the vision of these four beasts was merely a repetition of the vision of the four kingdoms Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream, the meaning of which was so clearly interpreted by Daniel. But the Prophet himself recognized the impossibility of interpreting this vision in the same terms that applied to the image seen by Nebuchadnezzar.

“‘... One fact which should be pointed out here is that, in referring to the meaning attached to the metals in Nebuchadnezzar’s image, Daniel declared they represented four kingdoms, or realms, while the angel stated the four beasts represented four kings, or powers. Only in connection with the final beast, which was so terrible, was the word kingdom or empire used.

“‘Another outstanding difference becomes very apparent when one studies the symbolisms. In the image of the man the head of gold was the greatest in the line of World Empires and, represented in the legs of iron and feet partly of iron and partly of clay, we have a much inferior kingdom. In Daniel’s vision, however, the greatest and most terrible of all the beasts was the last one which was quite different from the other three. Again, a study of the history of the rule of the kings of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Imperial Rome does not reveal any such beastly activities as are assigned to the four beasts of Daniel’s vision. While it is true that the four World Empires, each in its turn, conquered the nations, yet each also established a period of world peace as soon as it was possible after gaining domination.

“‘But the four beasts seen by Daniel did just the reverse. The least offensive was the lion. When the bear arose he devoured much flesh, to be followed by the leopard. When the fourth beast arose it was dreadful and terrible to look upon and devoured and tore its victims to pieces, stamping down what was left with its feet. These divergent facts alone should have shown students the error of trying to make the dream of Nebuchadnezzar and the vision of Daniel merely repetitious and the interpretation the same. If these two had the same object in view, the symbolism used would have harmonized.

“‘As a matter of fact, Nebuchadnezzar saw the successive kingdoms which were to rule during the period of Gentile [rather ‘nations’] domination, but Daniel was shown forces at work within those kingdoms which were to extend beyond them, increasing their power throughout the entire period covered by the rule of the Babylonian Succession of Empires. The forces the beasts represented were to grow stronger and more powerful as the centuries passed.’ (Study in Daniel, pages 169 to 171.)

Again quoting from Study in Daniel:

“‘When it is recognized that these beasts of prey represented the three main systems of human endeavor, the crushing effect of the tusks in the mouth of the bear becomes quite clear.

“‘To the rending power of the bear was added the swiftness and treacherous cunning of the leopard, a development in human economy, as well as in superstitious ecclesiasticism, which began to become more pronounced during the time of the Grecian Empire, with which period that beast was associated. But with the rise of Rome to power the political, economic and religious phases of human activity took on a more sinister aspect, as evidenced in the terribleness of the fourth beast seen and described by Daniel in his vision.

“‘It is not at all surprising that Daniel was unable to comprehend the full significance of much of what he beheld, for until the political, economic and religious aspects of the Babylonian system became fully manifested in all their evil and oppression he had nothing by which he could gauge the significance of what was shown to him. We can now understand why Yahweh told this Prophet that many of his visions were sealed and could not be made known until the time of the end. Imperial Rome had to come into being, for during its rule and the rule of the Papacy the terrible aspects of the power of the fourth beast would be manifested.

“‘The power established over all mankind in the extension throughout the whole earth of human political, economic and religious domination has been immensely increased in the last few centuries through the enthronement of money, the establishment of usury (interest), the greed of commerce and the religious superstitions of men. Millions have gone to untimely deaths because of the oppression of our present world economy and, as men slave to serve Mammon, many have lost their health and become broken in body and spirit. The fearful beast seen by Daniel and described by John is truly devouring many victims and stamping the rest with its feet as men struggle to survive political oppression, economic oblivion and religious domination and superstition.

“‘It is unnecessary for us to go into detail, having now established the identity of these four beasts, for the student can readily recognize that the fourth and most ferocious beast clearly represents the modern world-wide establishment of the godless activities of man’.” (Study in Daniel,pages 180-181.)

“Few men even yet are aware of the full extent to which the world has been subjected to a merciless tyrannical power in the hands of a few men, seeking to regiment and control all human activities. The present institution of the welfare state is one of the final moves in the over-all plan to gain full domination over the works of men and bring all governments into complete subjection to their will. As pointed out in Study in Revelation:

“‘Modern commercial requirements have been the contributing cause of strife and war and the oppression of peoples and nations so that a few might profit thereby. As men depart from the ways of Yahweh, and become more and more materialistic, the godless system increases its oppression with a lowering of its ethical standards, until it is the habitation of foulness’.” (Study in Revelation, p. 277.)

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: Since the subtitle above “Missing Significance”, I have been somewhat confused about what Rand is intimating, so I decided to review his Study in Daniel, pp. 179-181, but I ended up at pp. 87-88 where he implies that Great Britain is the Stone Kingdom and the Germans were “the image [that] was to be smashed, but the attack must be directed at the feet in accord with what Daniel so clearly outlined ... the Stone hits the feet of the image it will be followed by the final and entire collapse of the power of the image ... seals the doom of Germany ...” Here, Rand takes a portion of Daniel’s prophecy completely out of context!] Rand’s “The Iniquitous Empire ...” will be continued in WTL ^#221.

This is my two hundred and twenty-first monthly teaching letter and continues my nineteenth year of publication. I have resolved to do a series of lessons providing clarifying criticism of Howard B. Rand’s books, tracts and articles published in his Destiny Magazine, which included several guest writers of varying degrees in excellence. Although I rate Rand and his associate writers only 50%, some of their articles are simply outstanding.

With this lesson, I will cite the second part of an article entitled, “The Iniquitous Empire; A Great Mystery”, by Howard B. Rand, found in Destiny Magazine for March, 1950 yearbook, pp. 81-88:

In WTL ^#220, I ended the lesson with a critical review thusly:

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: Since the subtitle above “Missing Significance”, I have been somewhat confused about what Rand is intimating, so I decided to review his Study in Daniel, pp. 179-181, but I ended up at pp. 87-88 where he implies that Great Britain is the Stone Kingdom and the Germans were “the image [that] was to be smashed, but the attack must be directed at the feet in accord with what Daniel so clearly outlined ... the Stone hits the feet of the image it will be followed by the final and entire collapse of the power of the image ... [and] seals the doom of Germany ...” Here, Rand takes a portion of Daniel’s prophecy completely out of context!]

The reader will need a copy of WTL ^#220 to understand the context of this second part of “The Iniquitous Empire….” We shall now continue with Rand where we had left off:

“The Eagle’s Body

“Articles in Destiny in the past have called attention to the three-headed eagle of Esdras, mentioned in the 11th, 12th and 13th chapters of his second book. These heads are shown to represent Fascism, Nazism and Communism in the chapter titled ‘An Eagle With Three Heads’ in Documentary Studies, Vol. I, pages 166-177. Up to the present time the eagle’s body, which supports the three heads, has not been identified, but it is clearly recognized now that the body of the eagle represents the iniquitous, hidden empire. The heads are merely governmental systems, or ideologies, through which the hidden empire has expressed its desires. Through them it has made war at will ....”

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: I simply cannot go any further without commenting on Rand’s hypothesis here about “An Eagle With Three Heads”! I carefully read 2nd Esdras chs. 11–13, and there is absolutely no inference that can be applied to “Fascism, Nazism or Communism”. As a matter of fact, in Rand’s book, Documentary Studies, vol. 1, p. 167, Rand says, in part: “Because these heads are on one body, they have a common origin and purpose in their activities. This is clearly illustrated in the declaration that the voice of the eagle, ‘Went not out of the heads, but from the midst of her body.’ Regardless, then, of which head or heads may be in power, the directive force is in the body which is common to them all ....” I have to strongly differ with this thesis, as National Socialism had absolutely nothing in common with Communism! I can understand, knowing that Rand was writing this in 1947, when WW II had just ended, and the Edomite-jewish press was propagandizing how evil the cause of Germany was, how he might have come to this conclusion. It appears that Rand was swayed by the British-Israel position against the German people, who were by-and-large lost Israelites themselves. Again, there is no common origin between National Socialism and Communism!

Because of its importance, I will repeat from the book Behind Communism by Frank L. Britton, pp. 61-64:

“Rosa Luxemburg’s Revolution:

“The first country to experience a communist revolution outside of Russia was Germany. The German government, which had abetted the Bolshevik coup in 1917 by facilitating Lenin’s return to Russia via the sealed railway car, was in 1918 faced with a revolution of its own. In many respects the German Revolution paralleled the one in Russia. As World War I reached the climatic year of 1918, and as German manpower losses mounted, the Jew-dominated German Social Democratic Party spread the seeds of defeatism among the German population much as the Bolsheviks had done in Russia. On November 3rd a mutiny broke out in the navy at Kiel, followed by rioting by the Social Democrats. On November 9th the Kaiser renounced his throne and the Social Democrats proclaimed a Socialist Republic. Two days later, on Nov. 11th, they agreed to an Armistice with the Allies.

“There now occurred an event which was to embitter the German people against the Jews for all time, and which eventually resulted in the rise of Adolf Hitler. This was the demobilization of the German armies. It should be explained that Germany did not surrender by the terms of the November 11th Armistice; the agreement was that all German armies were to withdraw to the prewar boundaries of Germany as a preliminary to a negotiated peace. But as the German armies retreated to German soil, the Revolutionary government, fearful lest the Revolution be upset, ordered them demobilized. On November 11th Germany still possessed the mightiest military machine on earth; thirty days later it had nothing. Instead of being able to negotiate peace on the terms of Wilson’s Fourteen Points, a helpless and prostrate Germany got the Versailles Treaty ....” Thus, National Socialism had absolutely nothing in common with Communism, as Germany was by-and-large a Christian lost Israelite nation!

Additionally, I checked out the entire Apocalypse of Baruch, first published in 1896, translated by R.H. Charles, and republished by Howard B. Rand in 1964. There were only two mentions of the word “eagle”, which had absolutely nothing to do with a “three headed eagle”! This reference is found at 77:17-22:

“17. Nevertheless, as ye said unto me, I will write also unto your brethren in Babylon, and I will send by means of men, and I will write in like manner to the nine tribes and a half, and send by means of a bird. 18. And it came to pass on the one and twentieth day of the eighth month that I, Baruch, came and sat down under the oak under the shadow of the branches, and no man was with me, but I was alone, 19. And I wrote these two epistles: one I sent by an eagle to the nine and a half tribes; and the other I sent to those that were at Babylon by the means of three men. 20. And I called the eagle, and spake these words unto it. 21 ‘The Most High hath made thee that thou shouldst be higher than all birds. 22. And now go and tarry not in (any) place, nor enter a nest, nor settle upon any tree, till thou hast passed over the breadth of many waters of the river Euphrates, and hast gone to the people that dwell there, and cast down to them this epistle’ ....”

This is peculiarly quite similar to 2nd Esdras 13:39-44 (which I consider the latter to be authentic)! It is reputed that the Apocalypse of Baruch was originally written “more closely in time as after 70 A.D. ....” (The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, vol. 1, p. 483). This would be about 600 years after Jeremiah’s scribe, Baruch, the son of Neriah, would have lived. The last two times Baruch, the son of Neriah, is mentioned in Scripture are at Jer. 43:6 & 45:1, near the time that Jeremiah and king Zedekiah’s two daughters, along with Baruch, the son of Neriah, were forced to go to Egypt by a rebellious Judaean group, and Scripture is silent on where Jeremiah and his small party went from there. If Jeremiah’s small party sailed to Ireland, as some believe, then Baruch, the son of Neriah, would have ended up in Ireland. Therefore, the Apocalypse of Baruch must be a fraudulent endeavor by someone wanting to put his own twist on the Scriptures.

It should be pointed out here, Jeremiah was a prophet of Yahweh, and that Baruch, the son of Neriah, was simply Jeremiah’s scribe (but an excellent scribe), and nothing more. We DO NOT have any evidence anywhere that Yahweh commissioned Jeremiah’s scribe, Baruch, to also become a prophet!

It is a very fantastic story of this second Baruch instructing an eagle thusly: “... 22. And now go and tarry not in (any) place, nor enter a nest, nor settle upon any tree, till thou hast passed over the breadth of many waters of the river Euphrates, and hast gone to the people that dwell there, and cast down to them this epistle ....”

It is ludicrous to believe that this second Baruch called an eagle out of its natural north-south migrating flyway, and then gave that eagle a man-spoken oral instruction for flying an alternate flight to deliver his scroll to the lost Israelite tribes at Arsareth near the Black Sea! It is absurd to believe that this second Baruch could speak in ANY language that this presumed eagle could understand! The only kind of bird that I know of that can fly to a designated location is a domesticated homing pigeon, and that is only in one direction, or back to its home nest, kept by its owner!

Let’s now compare the writing of this pseudo-Baruch with the Apocrypha, where at 2 Esdras 13:39-45 we are given substantial evidence of a more credible account:

“³⁹ And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him; ⁴⁰ Those are the ten tribes which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters and so came they into another land. ⁴¹ But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt. ⁴² That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land. ⁴³ And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow passages of the river. ⁴⁴ For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over. ⁴⁵ For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.”End of critical note.] – Back to Rand:

“Daniel saw the beasts in his vision come up out of the sea; Esdras saw the eagle arise out of the sea; John in Revelation (Chapter 13) gave the same origin for the terrible beast he saw (the fourth beast of Daniel’s vision) as he stood upon the sand of the seashore. Both Daniel and Esdras speak of the strivings of the winds preceding the rise of this evil beast-eagle power:

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: It should be noted that the “beast” of Rev. 13:1, that came out of a “sea” of people was given power for “... forty and two months ...” at v. 6. Forty-two months in Biblical prophecy is equivalent to 1,260 years, and Fascism, Nazism and Communism have not lasted that long, although Communism lives on under the label of “liberalism”.] – Back to Rand:

“‘The winds which ‘strove upon the great sea’ represent the political, economic, religious and military strivings for mastery. It was the ‘winds’ which agitated the ‘sea’ into a turmoil and, as the result of the ensuing confusion and chaos, it was possible for the forces represented by the beasts to rise from among the people and become established in the earth.’ (Study in Daniel, pages 175-176.)

“That the many-phased power represented by the beasts of Daniel’s vision and the eagle of Esdras’ vision are one and the same is unmistakably clear from the statement made to Esdras:

“The eagle, whom thou sawest come up from the sea, is the kingdom which was seen in the vision of thy brother Daniel. But it was not expounded unto him, therefore now I declare it unto thee.” (2 Esdras 12:11-12.) [Yes, that is what it says, but it cannot mean Fascism, Nazism and Communism, or they would have to last to somewhere around the year 3200 A.D.! And seeing that Fascism and Nazism were 100% opposed to Communism and Liberalism, the three are not of one voice. C.A.E] – Back to Rand:

“Unknown to Daniel

“This is a most important statement, for the four Empires represented in the four metals in the image seen by Nebuchadnezzar were all revealed to Daniel and he expounded their full meaning to the King of Babylon. The significance of the four beasts from the sea was not made known to the Prophet and therefore they do not represent the four world empires of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Imperial Rome as prophetic students have been prone to believe.

“One of the major factors preventing this revelation from becoming known is the marked tendency to accept without question the findings of the scholars of the past, making no provision to keep a subject open to new research. Those who do this approach the study of prophecy with preconceived ideas and a closed mind which immediately prevents them from taking a new look at prophecy and reexamining the Biblical record in the light of present-day evidence supplied through the march of current events. An attitude of finality makes it impossible for the Spirit of Yahweh to reveal the unfolding drama as Divine illumination is thrown upon the Prophetic Word, giving marvelous revelations of great truths not seen or recognized by the scholars in the past. Because Daniel did not understand the meaning of the four beasts, and particularly the fourth beast, he was greatly agitated and disturbed. We cannot too strongly emphasize the fact, in the light of this, that the empire represented by this terrible beast was not the Roman Empire.

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser:Rand is misreading Esdras, as it is saying that the portion not revealed to Daniel was the kingdom, and not the four beasts. And the only passage in Daniel where one of his visions wasn’t fully explained to him is Dan. 12:9 stating: “And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.” And v. 10 says in part: “... but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand ...” However, Germany’s cause in WW II was righteous, inasmuch they fought against Edomite-jewish Communism!]– Back to Rand:

“The Eagle

“Esdras had been told to remain where he was, for he was to be given other visions by God. They were to be visions of the high things, which the most High will do unto them that dwell upon earth in the last days. Afterward Esdras recorded:

“‘Then saw I a dream, and, behold, there came up from the sea an eagle, which had twelve feathered wings, and three heads. And I saw, and, behold, she spread her wings over all the earth, and all the winds of the air blew on her, and were gathered together. And I beheld, and out of her feathers there grew other contrary feathers; and they became little feathers and small. But her heads were at rest.’ (2 Esdras 11:1-4.)

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: I hardly see how Rand gets “Fascism, Nazism and Communism” out of this passage! Surely, there must be (and is) another explanation!] – Back to Rand:

“At the time Esdras saw the eagle come forth from the sea her heads were in repose, or sleeping, and the instructions given to them were: “‘But let the heads be preserved for the last.’ (2 Esdras 11:9.) Describing the eagle further, Esdras states:

“‘Moreover I beheld, and, lo, the eagle flew with her feathers, and reigned upon earth, and over them that dwelt therein.’ (2 Esdras 11:5.)

“It is not the purpose of this article to go into detail concerning the activities of the eagle represented by her feathers, wings and talons. Space will not permit this, for a tremendous amount of history would be involved in such an analysis. The careful student of prophecy and history, however, can fill in the historical details, for the exposure to view of the machinations of the iniquitous empire in modern times will identify its past activities in history’s records.

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: Howard B. Rand wrote an introduction in his reprint of R.H. Charles’ The Apocalypse of Baruch, stating in part: “... It was not until after World Wars I and II that the visions he recorded began to be clarified, for then the events to which Baruch referred began to develop and come to fruition ...” It is evident, therefore, that Rand was too quick on the trigger to develop his own flawed hypothesis of Esdras’ “three headed eagle”!] – Back to Rand:

“Absolutism

“Esdras continued his description:

“‘And I saw that all things under heaven were subject unto her [the eagle], and no man spake against her, no, not one creature upon earth.’ (2 Esdras 11:6.)

“These words define absolutism in power over the affairs of men to such an extent as to make the whole earth afraid to speak out against those exercising such authority. Men are truly in fear of the power of the rulers of this iniquitous empire today and shrink from antagonizing those who resort to the use of the smear technique. Politicians, senators, representatives, members of Parliament and international councils, all who hold public office refrain from doing or saying anything that might antagonize such branches of the hidden empire as, for instance, the Zionist Movement. The label of anti-Semitism is a powerful weapon to keep them in line. For fear of being called such uncomplimentary names as ‘anti-Semitic,’ ‘Nazi’ or ‘Fascist,’ the prophecy of Esdras is being literally fulfilled, ‘No man spake against her, no, not one creature upon the earth.’ Their object, of course, is to discredit through the smear technique all who undertake to expose their subversive program. [Rand does well here, except for his statement: “...the prophecy of Esdras is being literally fulfilled ...” C.A.E.] – Back to Rand:

“The feathers of the eagle represent the outward manifestations of the hidden powers of the leaders of the invisible empire, acting through the intimidation of men and governments or through terror and revolutionary movements. The French Revolution itself stemmed from the insidious manipulations of the secret rulers, and also the Russian Revolution of 1918. Nesta H. Webster, in her book, The French Revolution, reveals the hidden hand of subversive powers engineering the reign of terror in France. This was only one of many steps leading to ultimate world revolution; the Communist regime is simply a more advanced stage in this struggle for world domination. Already their gestapo has been well established in the United States of America, as stated in Palestine: Center of World Intrigue:

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: In William Finck’s notes onThe Prophecy of Joel, part 2 – Christogenea Internet Radio 04-20-2012, he stated in part: “... Upon the emancipation of the Jew in the early days of Napoleon, instigated by the French Revolution, the Jew became free and equal citizens of Christians in Europe ...” Therefore, Esdras’ “three headed eagle” would rather be Edomite-jewish in all of its manifestations!] – Back to Rand:

“Attention was called to the ‘gestapo’ in our midst in an editorial in Destiny for February 1944, from which the following is quoted:

“‘Of all the nationalities and groups who have come to our shores none, save one, have even remotely considered it necessary, in this land of the free, to organize a system of espionage or, gestapo-like, gather information to be used against citizens who are not in agreement with their aspirations. One group alone has organized to hamper the freedom of expression and action of law-abiding citizens.

“‘Voluminous reports have been compiled by this gestapo organization with the help of its affiliated groups. The Editor of Destiny, along with many others, has not escaped being included in these secret records, nor has Destiny been free from the subversive pressure exerted upon printers, artists and others by the Jews [sic Edomite-jews] in their endeavor to hinder our work or prevent the carrying on of our legitimate business. And all this in the United States of America – the supposed land of the free. The Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith has been organized for this purpose. To our knowledge no other race or group but the Jews [sic Edomite-jews] have found any such secret organization necessary, and it is only necessary with them because they have made it so.

“‘Reports from the records of the Anti-Defamation League have been used again and again to try to harm and hinder American citizens in their legitimate pursuits. Much of what is contained in these records is a subversion of the truth, but then, a gestapo isn’t interested in truth, only in obtaining its objective: the destruction of those against whom it moves. So we charge this un-American organization with trying to intimidate, by methods practiced by the Gestapo, those who would have business dealings with men and women on their black list. We further charge that their compiled records of misrepresentation have been made available to certain writers in these spurious attacks.

“‘America is no place for such an organization and no group other than the Jews [sic Edomite-jews] have felt it necessary to so organize. We have a government with law enforcement agencies and such a group functioning in our midst and treating citizens of the United States as criminal is, in itself, criminal’.”

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: Perhaps the “three headed eagle” really represents Edomite-jewish Bolshevism; Zionism; and the Edomite-jewish sponsored United Nations!] – Back to Rand:

“The Voice

The voice directing all these movements originates in the eagle itself, as Esdras states:

“‘And I beheld, and, lo, the voice went not out of her heads, but from the midst of her body.’ (2 Esdras 11:10.)

“This statement of Esdras follows his observation that the eagle gave directions to men, governments and movements represented by her feathers and the three heads as to the time when they should be active in her behalf:

“‘And I beheld, and, lo, the eagle rose upon her talons, and spake to her feathers, saying, Watch not all at once: sleep every one in his own place, and watch by course: But let the heads be preserved for the last.’ (2 Esdras 11:7-9.)

“In this way Esdras describes the secret but directing influence emanating from the leaders of the insidious empire. Significantly, the heads were not to extend their support to the overall program until the time arrived for its consummation. Esdras was told what the Most High Almighty would do:

“‘In his last days [the last days of the eagle] shall the most High raise up three kingdoms, and renew many things therein, and they shall have the dominion of the earth, and of those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the eagle.’ (2 Esdras 12:23-24.)

“Renewing Many Things

“Thus it was in the last days of the activity of the subversive empire represented by the body of the eagle that Fascism, Nazism and Communism were to flourish. Under their rule many peoples have been oppressed and violence and bloodshed have attended their tyranny. [This is getting monotonous! C.A.E.]

“Fascism, the middle head and the first of the three to become active, endeavored to revive the ancient Roman Empire and Mussolini considered himself equal if not greater than any of the Caesars. The middle head was greater than the others because Fascism in the days of Mussolini had the support of Roman Catholicism. [ditto]

“Hitler, through the establishment of the Nazi regime, sought to revive the old Babylonian Empire to its former greatness and restore to the German people ancient German customs. Then he proposed to extend his rule throughout the whole world. [ditto]

“Communism set up a tyrannical rule through dictatorial power and, though Asiatic in its practices, hoped to capitalize upon the defeat of Hitler and emulate the authority and sway of the Babylonian Succession of Empires. Stalin sought to imitate the oppression of the rulers of the ancient Euphratean civilization. Thus, through these three ‘kingdoms,’ i.e., ideologies of government, men sought to renew many things. [Mostly true, but doesn’t support Rand’s eagle theory, C.A.E.]

“Extent of Communism

“Through these three Esdras was told the final wickedness of the eagle, or iniquitous empire, would be manifested:

“‘For these are they that shall accomplish his [the eagle’s] wickedness, and that shall finish [i.e., bring about] his [the eagle’s] last end.’ (2 Esdras 12:25.) [brackets not mine]

“These are the political powers which have been the means by which the eagle has been able to wage war in order to accomplish her wickedness. Today one head remains, the other two having come to judgment. The steps in their judgment are set forth in the article mentioned earlier in this article, titled ‘An Eagle With Three Heads’ (Documentary Studies, Vol. 1).The final head, Communism, is now moving toward its judgment, after which the body of the eagle itself will be destroyed. The extent of the final head’s power is described by Esdras:

“‘But this head put the whole earth in fear, and bare rule in it over all those that dwelt upon the earth with much oppression; and it had the governance of the world more than all the wings that had been.’ (2 Esdras 11:32.)

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: This sounds Edomite-jewish to me!] – Back to Rand:

“In a few words Esdras pictures the despotic exercise of rulership on the part of the Communists over the greatest domain to ever come under the sway of the rulers of any one kingdom. A glance at the map of the world, defining the territory and peoples now subject to Moscow, will reveal the truth of this statement. The Kremlin’s possession of the atomic bomb, and perhaps weapons of greater fearfulness, their evil intrigue and lying propaganda, the enslavement of many peoples, their present feverish preparations for war on a scale never before known – all these things have certainly put the whole earth in fear.

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: Here Rand makes it appear we are winning the battle, with two down and one to go! It’s not just a three headed eagle, but an Edomite-jewish octopus with thousands of tentacles! Why did Rand not perceive that the same “hidden empire” also ruled over the nations of the West?] – Back to Rand:

“This is the remaining head of the eagle, carrying out the military threat of world conquest in behalf of the rulers of the hidden empire.

“But this last head of the eagle is to be destroyed by the sword; through war Communism is to be completely overwhelmed.

“Empire of Oppression

“Concerning the oppressiveness of the empire represented by the body of the eagle, Esdras is informed:

“‘Thou hast afflicted the meek, thou hast hurt the peaceable, thou hast loved liars, and destroyed the dwellings of them that brought forth fruit, and hast cast down the walls of such as did thee no harm. Therefore is thy wrongful dealing come up into the Highest, and thy pride unto the Mighty. The Highest also hath looked upon the proud times, and, behold, they are ended, and his abominations are fulfilled. And therefore appear no more, thou eagle, nor thy horrible wings, nor thy wicked feathers, nor thy malicious heads, nor thy hurtful claws, nor all thy vain body: That all the earth may be refreshed, and may return, being delivered from thy violence, and that she may hope for the judgment and mercy of him that made her.’ (2 Esdras 11:42-46.)

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: Again, instead this “three headed eagle” sounds Edomite-jewish to me!] – Back to Rand:

“Body Burned

“Finally judgment is to overtake the iniquitous empire symbolized by the body of the eagle from whence the directing voice comes:

“‘... and the whole body of the eagle was burnt, so that the earth was in great fear.’ (2 Esdras 12:3.)

“John in Revelation is told that it is Babylon the Great, emblematical of the present economic and commercial activities of men, which is to be destroyed by fire:

“‘The ratio of trouble that awaits the present profit system of Babylon is in accord with her boastings of continuity and ability to always continue her present business methods and collect toll at the gates of trade. [again, Edomite-jewish, C.A.E.]

“‘Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is Yahweh Almighty who judgeth her’.” Rev. 18:8, (Study in Revelation, pages 279-280.)

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: Again this sounds Edomite-jewish to me!] – Back to Rand:

“This identical use of terms by both Esdras and John concerning the judgment upon the eagle is an important clue which should not be overlooked because it is a significant mark of identification of the nature of the eagle’s body. The principal source of the great power of the secret rulers of the iniquitous empire lies in their control of world finance and economics. To maintain their rule they must retain their grasp upon the world’s wealth represented in money.

“Weeping and Wailing

“Esdras was told that as a result of the judgment which came upon the eagle, the whole earth was in great fear. John is informed that the merchants and traders made rich by serving Mammon – which includes the rulers of the hidden empire – will stand afar off when they see the smoke of her burning and they will weep and wail:

“‘... Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! For in one hour is she made desolate.’ (Rev. 18:19.) .... [deleting some of Rand’s duplication]

“Interpreting the meaning of this small kingdom that would pass over the head that remained, Esdras is informed:

“‘It signifieth that these are they, whom the Highest hath kept unto the end: this is the small kingdom and full of trouble ...’.” (2 Esdras 12:30.)

“This is evidently the Zionist State which is definitely associated with Communism, the final head of the eagle. Because of their wickedness, Esdras is informed that they are to be reproved and the Anointed One will upbraid them because of their cruelty:

“‘For he shall set them before him alive in judgment, and shall rebuke them, and correct them’.” (2 Esdras 12:33.)

“These, then, are those of whom Yahshua was speaking when He said: ‘But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring them hither and slay them before me’, Luke 19:27.

Finally, Rand admits that the “three headed eagle” represents Edomite-jewish “Bolshevism, Communism & Zionism”, omitting Germany entirely from his theme! How irrationally absurd it is to include the pure genetic Germanic people as part of “them” at Luke 19:27!

This is my two hundred and twenty-second monthly teaching letter and continues my nineteenth year of publication. I am continuing my resolution to do a series of lessons providing clarifying criticism of Howard B. Rand’s books, tracts and articles published in his Destiny Magazine, which includes several guest writers of varying degrees in excellence. Although I rate Rand and his associate writers only 50%, some of their articles are simply outstanding.

With this lesson, I will start a critical review of a series entitled “The Book Of The Kingdom” found in Destiny magazines from January, 1949 until April, 1952, in 24 chapters, yet oddly enough Rand does not identify an author. He may have written it all himself, or it might have been a team effort by him and some of his associate writers. So, even if Rand wrote it, or if by the help of others, at least he approved of it and is responsible for it (and it will be edited):

“The Book Of The Kingdom,Destiny, January 1949:

Chapter I of XXIV, “Crossing The Jordan River”:

“TheBookof Joshua begins with the account of Israel entering the Promised Land. Joshua means Jehovah saves or Jehovah, the Saviour. In Greek the name means Jesus. Referring to Joshua in the New Testament, the writers call him Jesus (see Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8). It is perhaps not without significance that Joshua (i.e., Jesus) led Israel from the wilderness over the Jordan River into the Promised Land, bringing them into possession of their inheritance there. In this Joshua was a type of the Coming One, Jesus Christ, who is yet to lead His people into a land of promise when, at the close of the present age, we pass into the new order of the ages.”

Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: The pronunciation “Jehovah” was unknown until 1520 A.D., when it was introduced by the catholic monk, Galatinus, (Brown, Driver, Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon.)It was a failed Latinized attempt to transliterate the Hebrew Tetragrammaton, Yahweh! Yahshua Christ had the same identical name as Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), as there was no “J” in any language before the 1500’s A.D. Actually, the name “Jesus” is a mistransliteration of Joshua (i.e., Yahshua). Evidently, Howard B. Rand and associates never learned the real truth about the Hebrew Tetragrammaton! Matthew Henry, in his 6-volume Commentary, vol. 2, p. 2 says the following in part:

“... Though Joshua is not expressly mentioned in the New Testament as a type of Christ, yet all agree that he was a very eminent one. He bore our Saviour’s name, as did also another type of him, Joshua the high priest, Zech. vi. 11, 12. The LXX., giving the name of Joshua a Greek termination, call him all along ‘ee-ay-sooce’, Jesus, and so he is called in Acts vii. 45, and Heb. iv. 8. Justin Martyr, one of the first writers of the Christian church (Dialog. cumTryph. p. mihi 300), makes that promise in Exod. xxiii. 20, ‘My angel shall bring thee into the place I have prepared’, to point at Joshua; and these words, ‘My name is in him’, (v. 21)to refer to this, that his name should be the same with that of the Messiah. It signifies, He shall save. Joshua saves God’s people from the Canaanites; our Lord Jesus saves them from their sins. Christ, as Joshua, is the captain of our salvation, a leader and commander of the people, ‘to tread Satan under their feet’, to put them in possession of the heavenly Canaan, and to ‘gave them rest’, which (it is said, Heb. iv. 8) Joshua did not.”] – Back to Rand & Destiny.

“Following the death of Moses, Yahweh spoke to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua):

“‘Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.’ (Joshua 1:2.)

“Promised Inheritance

“Yahweh informed Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) that every foot of ground on which Israel would tread would be assigned to them according to the promise to Moses. Their frontiers would stretch from the desert to Lebanon and from the River Euphrates throughout all the land where the Hittites were living to the great or Mediterranean Sea. Not a man, so Yahweh told Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), would be able to hold his own against him all the days of his life. Yahweh promised Joshua (i.e., Yahshua):

“‘... as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.’ (Joshua 1:5.)

“Importance of the Law

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) was admonished to be strong and brave for his was the difficult task of taking the people into the land. He was to remember to observe the law in its entirety just as Moses had commanded him. Above all, he was not to turn from it to the right hand or to the left so that he might have success wherever he went:

“‘This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.’ (Joshua 1:8.)

“The final admonition to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) was:

“‘... Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for Yahweh thy Almighty is with thee whithersoever thou goest.’ (Joshua 1:9.)

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) ordered the officers to go through the camp and command the people to prepare food, for in three days they were to cross the Jordan River. The tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had previously petitioned Moses to permit them to settle on the east side of the river for they saw that the land was good there. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), however, issued a command for all the fighting men of those tribes to go over the Jordan with the rest of the tribes to assist in conquering the land. Then they would be free to return and settle in the territory they preferred.

“Rahab, the Innkeeper

“Spies had been sent to Jericho and the King of Jericho, hearing that they had come into his city, commanded the woman Rahab, in whose house they were lodged, to bring them out. Rahab is called a harlot in the King James translation but, according to Ferrar Fenton, she was ‘an innkeeper.’ [As Flavius Josephus also interpreted the Hebrew, Antiquities 5.9 ff. - CAE] She hid the two men on the roof of her house, evidently covering them with stalks of flax. She then misdirected the King’s men, stating that some men had come to her but they had left when the gates were shut at dark. She told them that if they hurried the men might be overtaken before they reached the Jordan.

“As the King’s men rode after them on the way to the Jordan, Rahab went to the roof and talked with the spies. She told them that terror had seized the people of the land for they had heard about all that Yahweh had done for Israel – how He had delivered them from Egypt and their passage of the Red Sea. They had heard about what they did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, utterly destroying them. Because she had hidden the men, she asked a favor that she and her household might be spared when the armies came to take the city. The two spies promised that if she would hang a scarlet cord[the emblem of Zerah-Judah C.A.E.] – which she subsequently used to lower them to the ground – from a window of her house, for her house was on the wall, she and those in her house would be spared. But they warned her that all persons must be in the house or the spies would not be bound by their oath. Dismissing the spies, Rahab tied the scarlet cord in the window. The spies returned to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), being careful to wait until the King’s men who were searching for them had returned to the city.

“The Spies’ Report

“The spies related their experiences to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua):

“‘... Truly Yahweh hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.’ (Joshua 2:24.)

“The time had come for Israel to pass over the Jordan River and therefore all the people moved to its banks. Instructions were given by the officers that the people were to follow the Ark of the Covenant as the Levitical Priests carried it before them. However, they were to keep two thousand cubits behind the Ark (using the sacred cubit of 25 inches, this would be a little over 4,000 feet) and they were warned not to approach any closer in following the Ark of the Covenant as it advanced before them. [Other sources say 21 inches. - CAE]

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) then commanded the people to sanctify themselves and he instructed the Priests to take up the Ark of the Covenant and precede the people as they moved toward the Jordan. Yahweh informed Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) that he would do great things in the sight of the people from which they would learn that He was with Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) just as He had been with Moses.

“Joshua’s (i.e., Yahshua’s) Instructions

“The next command issued to the people was to gather around Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) so that they might hear the words of Yahweh. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) informed them that the living Almighty was with them and that He would drive out the inhabitants of the land before them. The Ark of the Covenant was to pass on into the Jordan before them. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) commanded that a man be selected from each of the twelve tribes, who were to stand by for further directions. Then Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) announced the miracle the Almighty was to perform in their behalf:

“‘... it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Yahweh, the Sovereign of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above ...’ (Joshua 3:13.) Ferrar Fenton translates the last clause of this verse: “The waters will cease coming down from above.”

“Passage of the Jordan

“The waters of the Jordan overflowed its banks at the harvest seasons and very likely, as the soles of the feet of the Priests bearing the Ark touched the water, a landslide in a gorge north of the place where Israel was about to cross blocked the waters above and the river became dry for their passage across. It was a miracle of timing so that all Israel might safely pass over to the other side of the Jordan. This miraculous crossing of the river added to the terror of the inhabitants of the land:

“‘And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that Yahweh had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.’ (Joshua 5:1.)

“Memorials Set Up

“At Joshua’s (i.e., Yahshua’s) command twelve stones were taken out of the Jordan from the spot where the Priests stood. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) also set up a memorial of twelve stones in the Jordan River at the place where the Priests paused with the Ark of the Covenant while the people marched across. As soon as the passage of the river was completed, the Priests bearing the Ark of the Covenant came up out of the bed of the Jordan and the waters of the river returned to their previous state, flooding over the banks as they had before the crossing:

“‘And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.’ (Joshua 4:19.)

“There Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) erected the second memorial of twelve stones which had been taken from the river to commemorate the drying up of the Jordan River so that Israel could cross safely as they had safely passed over the Red Sea:

“‘That all the people of the earth might know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty: that ye might fear Yahweh your Almighty for ever.’ (Joshua 4:24.)

“Renewal of Circumcision

“Following the crossing of the River Jordan all the men of Israel were circumcised. The Record states that those who had come out of Egypt were circumcised but all who were born in the wilderness after they had left Egypt were not circumcised, for Israel ceased to practice circumcision while they were journeying from Egypt to the Promised Land. The whole nation remained in camp at that place for a period of time. It is as foolish to say that modern Israel today cannot be the descendants of Abraham because they have ceased to practice circumcision as it would be to have accused those who were born during the wilderness wanderings of not being Israelites because they also had failed to practice the requirements of the rite of circumcision.

“Circumcision, as it was practiced then, was only a type to be superseded by Christian circumcision, to which Moses referred (Deut. 30:6). Spirit-filled men and women in modern Israel practice Christian circumcision today. It is worthy of our notice that Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) (whose name means Yah saves) circumcised the people as they entered the Promised Land. Our Saviour, Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) Christ, brings circumcision of heart to all those who accept [sic believe] Him and are to enter with him into the restored and glorified Kingdom:

“‘And Yahweh said unto Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) , This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.’ (Joshua 5:9.)

“Reproach Rolled Away

“This will also be so when Yahshua Christ leads His redeemed ones into the Kingdom, for then the reproach of the whole world will be rolled away and those who have followed Him will never again be held in contempt by their fellowmen but will be glorified with Him, sharing in His glory. Fear and dismay will grip the hearts of those who have ridiculed and opposed His servants as they endeavored to fulfill their mission here on earth. [Egypt, symbolizing captivity, the reproach was rolled away in the stone at the tomb of the risen Christ. - CAE]

“Manna Ceases

“Israel, encamped at Gilgal, kept the passover on the evening of the 14th day of the month. On the day after the passover the people ate some of the produce of the land, unleaven cakes and roasted grain:

“‘And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.’ (Joshua 5:12.)

“A Growing Kingdom

“A new era had begun. During the wilderness wanderings the people were schooled in the law under the tutelage of their great leader and law-giver, Moses. They were also well taken care of and fed by Yahweh during their sojourn in the wilderness and were not burdened with the responsibilities which confronted them as they prepared to advance into the land. Henceforth they must labor and plan their own work in order to provide for their daily needs.

“Under Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) a period of conquest began and the Kingdom of the Almighty was launched upon its mission to subdue evil aggressors and destroy wicked nations. That Kingdom was destined to grow in greatness and expand its borders until it would overspread the earth. Then, under the coming King, great David’s greater Son, universal peace will be established, for the government will rest upon His shoulders (Isa. 9:6-7). The day is coming when all [Israel] nations will be compelled to respect its laws. The Prophet Isaiah informs us that ‘of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,’ and down through the ages the people of the Kingdom, led by Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) into the Promised Land, have been increasing their numbers as promised. As we study the history of the Israel Kingdom, therefore, and note its small beginnings, let us not forget that it is the nucleus of the Kingdom of God upon earth and in the providence of the Almighty its ultimate end is to include the whole earth in its benevolent domain. [emphasis [Israel] in brackets mine, C.A.E.]

“The Book Of The Kingdom,Destiny, January 1949:

Chapter II of XXIV, “Jericho And Ai”:

“Thecityof Jericho had shut its gates and was closed to prevent anyone from entering or leaving it. The King of Jericho took this extraordinary precaution in his endeavor to prevent his city from falling into the hands of the Israelites. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), evidently out surveying the surrounding vicinity of the city with the idea of laying his plans for its capture, looked up and saw a Man standing before him, holding a drawn sword in His hand:

“‘... and Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?’ (Joshua 5:13.) The Man replied: “‘... Nay; but as captain (Prince) of the host of Yahweh am I now come ...’ (Joshua 5:14.)

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) Instructed

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) bowed in reverence and worshipped Him, for he recognized that He was Divine and of the Almighty-Sovereign. He asked, ‘What saith my Sovereign unto his servant?’ Before telling Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) His message, the command was given that Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) remove his shoes from his feet for the ground on which he stood was holy. Having complied with this request, Yahweh then informed him that He would give Jericho into his hands with its King and all its fighting men. Evidently Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) had been giving a great deal of thought to how the city could be taken. Therefore, as he stood before Jericho, looking over the situation, Yahweh appeared to him to give him the needed instructions for its capture. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) was given directions in detail concerning the unusual method he was to use in his attack upon the city.

“For six days all the armed men of Israel were to march around the city of Jericho – just once each day for the six days. Seven Priests were to carry seven rams’ horns as trumpets before the Ark of Yahweh, which was to accompany them in their daily marches around the doomed city. On the seventh day they were to march around the city seven times, after which the Priests were to blow on their trumpets [notice that the sabbath was later suspended - CAE]:

“‘And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.’ (Joshua 6:5.)

“Walls of the City Fall

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) carried out his instructions and on the seventh day, after marching around the city seven times, the Priests blew a loud blast on their trumpets. At that precise moment Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) told the people to shout, for Yahweh had given the city to them. The walls of the city fell and the armies of Israel made their assault, utterly destroying all who were in the city except Rahab, her father, mother and brethren who were in her house with her. The city itself was completely destroyed by fire but the silver and gold, with all the vessels of brass and iron, were put into the treasury of the House of Yahweh:

“‘And Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Yahweh, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.’ (Joshua 6:26.)

“The Curse Fulfilled

“In 1 Kings 16:33-34 we are informed that during the days when Ahab ruled in Israel Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. The Record states that when he laid the foundation his eldest son died and, when completing the city and hanging its gates, his youngest son passed away. This was according to the word of Yahweh as spoken through Joshua (i.e., Yahshua). This fulfillment of Joshua’s (i.e., Yahshua’s) prediction came some 500 years after he had uttered the curse upon anyone who would attempt to rebuild the city.

“As the result of this major victory, Joshua’s (i.e., Yahshua’s) fame spread throughout the land, for all the Canaanites realized that Yahshua’s Almighty was with him and fought in his behalf.

“Sin in the Camp

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) had warned the people before Jericho was captured that under no consideration were they to take any of ‘the accursed thing’ in the city when they assaulted the city lest the camp of Israel be troubled:

“‘But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the children of Israel.’ (Joshua 7:1.)

“Israel Defeated

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) next sent men from Jericho to Ai, a city near Bethel, ordering them to go and spy out the territory. The men returned and reported that the inhabitants of Ai were few and that it was not necessary to send all Israel against them. They said that two or three thousand fighting men would be sufficient to take the city. But when the campaign was launched, the men of Ai routed the attacking Israelites, killing about 36 men and driving them from their gates, pursuing them to Shebarim and defeating them at Morad.

“Joshua’s (i.e.,Yahshua’s) Prayer

“The hearts of the people melted with fear when the news came to them and Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) rent his clothes and prostrated himself before the Ark of Yahweh, remaining there until eventide. He and the elders of Israel went into deep mourning and sprinkled dust on their heads. Then Joshua prayed:

“‘... Alas, O Yahweh Almighty, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to the Almighty we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! O Yahweh, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear ofit, and shall environ us round (surround us), and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?’ (Joshua 7:7-9.)

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) could not understand why Israel should have turned their backs upon an enemy, yet he should have recognized in this defeat that something was materially wrong within Israel in their relationship to the Almighty. The fact that they could not stand before their enemies was clear evidence of a violation of the covenant, for such a defeat was the curse that was to come upon them for refusing to keep the law.

“Israel’s Sin

“Yahweh answered Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) by first telling him to get up, asking him why he was laying on his face before Him. Then He said:

“‘Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.’ (Joshua 7:11.) Moffatt translates this: “‘Israel has sinned; they have broken my compact which I commanded them to keep, they have taken some of the doomed spoil, stolen it, acted deceitfully, and hidden it among their own goods.’

“Yahweh informed Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) that because of this Israel was not able to stand before their enemies, for they were themselves accursed. Then He said:

“‘... neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.’ (Joshua 7:12.)

“The Trial

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) was told that he must sanctify the people and inform them that because of the accursed thing among them they would be unable to stand before their enemies. This condition would continue until it was removed. In the morning they were brought tribe by tribe before Yahweh and the tribe that was selected was to approach family by family. The family chosen was to approach man by man:

“‘And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.’ (Joshua 7:15.)

“Achan’s Crime

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) did as Yahweh had commanded and the tribe of Judah was selected. Out of that tribe the family of Zarhites was chosen. Out of that family the household of Zaddi was taken and from that household Achan was picked. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) then adjured Achan to confess his sin and he told Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) that when he saw among the spoils a fine Babylonish garment, two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold that he coveted them and took and hid them in the earth under his tent.

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahsier: Evidently Achan intended on starting a bank, making loans at usury!] – Back to Rand & Destiny:

“Messengers were sent to his tent and there they found the hidden goods which they brought to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) and spread out before Yahweh in the sight of all the people.

“Sentence Carried Out

“Having confessed his crime, and being confronted with the evidence to prove the truth of his confession before all the people, Achan, with his sons and daughters, and all his possessions, were brought into the Valley of Achor. There Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) rendered the verdict:

“‘... Why hast thou troubled us? Yahweh shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.’ (Joshua 7:25.)

“Crime Against Kingdom

“Here we have demonstrated the seriousness of any man’s trespass against the commands of Yahweh in committing acts that bring harm to the entire Kingdom. Achan’s crime led directly to the slaughter of over thirty-six men in battle for which he had to pay with his life and the life of every member of his family, as well as the destruction of all his possessions. It must be remembered that the fact that he hid the stolen property under his tent is proof that his offense must have been known to his immediate family, who no doubt were accessories with him in the crime committed. The entire situation and the resulting difficulties and final detection and punishment of the individual responsible must have had a marked effect upon all Israel. It was a needed lesson for the people to learn as they began the conquest of the land. Severe as the judgment was, it was in keeping with the enormity of the crime committed in view of the destruction it brought upon the nation. Achan not only sinned against himself and against His Almighty but he caused the nation to suffer and therefore had betrayed his people for financial gain. Note: [Let’s not overlook the Babylonian garment!]

“Basic Cause of Trouble

“In this incident we have the reason for many of the difficulties and troubles which afflict modern Israel today. Because there is ‘sin in the camp’ and the people are walking contrary to the requirements of the commandments, statutes and judgments of Yahweh, we have no peace and our enemies are emboldened to make war against us. The Almighty cannot and will not be with His people to bless them in their undertakings while there is sin among them.

“Evil and immorality are rampant and disobedience to Yahweh and to His commands are clearly in evidence in the activities that are going on in our land. Our nation is suffering because there are many Achans among us, coveting wealth and willing to stoop to any means, no matter how questionable, in their quest for financial gain regardless of the multitudes that may be engulfed in the wake of their evil activities.

“Valley of Achor

“The place of the execution of Achan and his family was called the Valley of Achor, that is, trouble. This valley is referred to prophetically by Hosea when he speaks of Israel’s troubles and final deliverance, stating that the Valley of Achor (trouble) will become a door of hope. The significance of this is that Israel, through trouble, will finally turn to Yahweh and become His people in fact as well as in name.

“Capture of Ai

“Joshua was commanded to proceed against Ai, having been told that he would do to that city as he had done to Jericho. He was not to fear but he was to take all the men of war in the move against Ai. Evidently Yahweh wished all of Israel’s fighting men to share responsibility in the conquest of the land; hence, the specific command that all the men of war were to take part in the campaign against Ai. This was in keeping with the earlier command that the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh were to join the other tribes in conquering the land, even though they intended to eventually settle on the east side of the Jordan River. When Israel captured the city the cattle and spoils were to become their prey. The campaign was mapped and men were sent by night to take up positions behind the city while the rest of the army approached the gates as formerly. When the men of the city came out to battle, the army before the gates was to retreat and feign defeat. Then, when the defenders of Ai had been drawn away from the city, those of Israel lying in wait were to take the city and set it on fire.

“The plan was carried out and when the men of Ai saw the burning city behind them they did not know which way to turn and the forces of Israel destroyed them.

“Gerizim and Ebal

“Following the defeat of Ai, Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) built an altar to Yahweh in Mount Ebal as Moses had directed him to do. Then the people were divided into two groups as Moses had commanded. One group took their position on Mount Gerizim and the other on Mount Ebal. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) then read all the words of the Law of Yahweh, the blessings and the curses as written therein. The account states:

“‘There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua (i.e.,Yahshua) read not before all the congregation of Israel ...’ (Joshua 8:35.)

“The stage was thereby set for the real conquest of the land to begin. The inhabitants of Canaan were aroused against Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) and they gathered together to oppose him and to fight against Israel.”

This is the end of chapter II of “The Book Of The Kingdom”. This will be continued with chapter III in WTL #223.

This is my two hundred and twenty-third monthly teaching letter and continues my nineteenth year of publication. I have resolved to do a series of lessons providing clarifying criticism of Howard B. Rand’s books, tracts and articles published in his Destiny Magazine, which includes several guest writers of varying degrees in excellence. Although I rate Rand and his associate writers only 50%, some of their articles are simply outstanding.

With this lesson, I will continue a critical review of a series entitled “The Book Of The Kingdom” found in Destiny magazine issues from January, 1949 until April, 1952 in 24 chapters, and oddly enough Rand does not identify an author. He may have written it all himself, or it might have been a team effort by him and some of his associated writers. So Rand either wrote it, or if by the help of others, at least he approved of it and is responsible for it, (and it will be edited by me):

“The Book Of The Kingdom,Destiny, February 1949:

Chapter III of XXIV, “The Conquest Of Palestine”:

The Kings Of Canaan gathered together to form a great confederacy to fight against Joshua (i.e., Yahshua). However, when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Israel had done to Jericho and Ai, they were impressed by the might of the invading people so they resorted to cunning in an effort to escape the fate of their Canaanite neighbors. They sent delegates to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) who represented themselves as ambassadors from a far country who had come to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) because they had heard of Yahweh his Almighty and of His fame and exploits in subduing the Egyptians on behalf of His people Israel. Therefore, they said, they had come to make a league with Israel.

“In order to convey the impression that they had come from a great distance the Gibeonites had taken old sacks and old wine bottles which had been torn and mended with them. They wore old clothing and worn shoes upon their feet, their provisions were stale and their bread was dry and mouldy. When Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) and the elders of Israel questioned them, feeling that they might be living among them in Canaan, the Gibeonites showed the worn condition of their clothing and shoes, blandly stating they were new when they first began their journey. The mouldy bread, they said, was fresh from the ovens when they left their own country.

“Joshua (i.e.,Yahshua) Makes Covenant

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) and the elders did not ask counsel of Yahweh in this matter but entered at once into a league with the Gibeonites, making a covenant of peace with them. Three days later Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) discovered that they were neighbors who dwelt right there in Canaan. Thus, Israel was prevented from warring against them or destroying their cities because of the covenant the leaders of Israel had made with them. The people complained against their princes but they replied:

“‘... We have sworn unto them by Yahweh Almighty of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.’ (Joshua 9:19.)

“Importance of Oath

“Though Yahweh had told Israel to drive out all the inhabitants from Canaan, yet His wrath would have been upon Israel if they had failed to keep their oath. Yahweh’s people are required to keep their word even though they swear to their own hurt. When listing those who will abide in the Tabernacle of Yahweh and dwell in His holy hill, David includes as one of the qualifications, ‘... He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not’ (Psa. 15:4).

“A man’s word should be as good as his bond. Yahweh requires that when a man has given his word he must keep that word inviolate .... The law of vows was as follows, ‘When you vow a vow to your Ever-Living God [sic Yahweh Almighty], you shall not delay to pay it, for the Ever-Living God [sic YahwehAlmighty] will demand it from you;– and that would be a sin to you. But if you do not vow, it will be no sin. You must carefully perform the utterance of your lips; whatever you vow to your Ever-Living God [sic YahwehAlmighty], you must give whatever you have promised ...’ (Deut. 23:22-24, Ferrar Fenton Trans.)”

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: While Ferrar Fenton did well correcting many errors made by other translators, in his own translation, he blundered on the Tetragrammaton by changing “Yahweh” to the “Ever-Living”, (changing a Noun to an Adjective). In his “Introductory Note”, p. ix of his translation, he says in part:

“Finally, I must note as to my spelling of the proper names of localities and men. As I made my translation from the Hebrew without any English version open before me, I have followed the now general plan of Oriental scholars and simply translated those names, except a few, such as ‘Moses’, ‘Joshua’, etc. which are too fixed by popular use to be altered ....” Why, then, does he in his “Introduction To The Study Of The History Of Israel And Judah”, p. 221, use the corrupted term “Jehovah”? The pronunciation “Jehovah” was unknown until 1520 A.D., when it was introduced by the catholic monk, Galatinus, (As per Brown, Driver, Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon.)As a matter of fact, Fenton didn’t even get the articulation of the name of Joshua correct, as it should have been “Yahshua”.] – Back to Rand & Destiny.

“Solomon emphasized the need of keeping our solemn promises to Yahweh when he said, ‘When thou vowest a vow unto the Almighty, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. Better it is that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should the Almighty be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands ...?’ (Ecc. 5:4-6.) In listing those who will have no part in the coming new order of the ages when the Kingdom has been established in perfection upon earth, John, in Revelation, declares that all liars and those who practice depravity and falsehood will have no place there.” (Digest of the Divine Law, by Howard B. Rand, Member of the Massachusetts & Maine Bars, pages 150-151.)”

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: While a substantial amount of the comments made by Rand concerning Biblical Law are devotedly compiled by him, he is not without error on some of them. So I went to my copy of his Digest of the Divine Law, pp. 150-151, and what he stated about making vows was found there in greater detail. But upon opening his book, I found a section explaining the Ten Commandments. I immediately wondered whether or not that Rand made the same mistake of contextually misidentifying and confusing the meaning of the 7th with the 10th Commandment.

Rand makes a major issue of violating another man’s wife on pp. 70-72 in seven paragraphs, and only devotes one sentence on p. 72, “... That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words ....” However, with the 7th Commandment, race-mixing is by far a greater issue! This is confirmed at Hosea 4:2: “By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery^H5003, they break out, and blood touches blood.”,where one ethnicity sexually race-mixes with an entirely different ethnicity. It is, therefore, the 10th Commandment that nails down the edict against a man violating another man’s wife! And Yahweh didn’t make two of the ten Commandments entirely alike! End critical note]

To Howard B. Rand’s credit, I will now quote from his Digest of the Divine Law, pp. 77-79 (and I will edit it):

“The Tenth Commandment

“The final and last commandment which Israel heard promulgated at Mount Sinai by the voice of the Almighty was, ‘Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour’s.’ Jesus (i.e., Yahshua) also said, ‘... Take heed, and beware of covetousness; for a man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.’

“It is worth noting that this last commandment sums up the cause back of most of the violations of the rest of the commandments. Covetousness leads men to commit murder and adultery; it is the first cause leading man to steal the property of his neighbor and often is back of the giving of false testimony. Yahweh has declared, ‘Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.’

“Reason for Violence

“Violence and blood have filled the earth as the result of the breaking of this tenth commandment. The desire to acquire the possessions of others has resulted in destructive competition in business, which is itself war when carried on under the Babylonian system, leading to armed conflict between nations. The desire for commercial supremacy as nations strive to destroy competition is but coveting world markets, even to the point of instituting aggressive warfare in order to take that which is coveted. There will and can always be legitimate trade in the buying and selling of goods and the exchange of one’s increase, but, unfortunately, methods are such under the present system that men are not content to live and let live. Instead men covet power and wealth and in their desire to bring their plans to fruition have drenched the pages of history with blood.

“The Almighty gave to men an inheritance in the land forever, but modern business and the Babylonian system of administration has denied men their Yahweh-given privilege. In a world order where foreclosure of mortgages, tax sales and interest charges can be imposed upon a people and used to acquire the property of one’s neighbor, at a greatly reduced value, such has served those who have coveted their neighbor’s possessions. Covetousness is the foundation of evil desires and lusts.

“In these Ten Commandments the Almighty has set before His people what is required of them in their relationship to Him and to their fellow [Adamic] man. If these laws are kept (and they can only be kept by a people in whose heart they have been written) there will be peace and contentment in that community, with freedom from strife. [ ] mine

“Individual Requirement

“When the question is asked as to what we can do regarding the law, the answer is to keep that law insofar as it is possible for the individual to comply with its requirements. No individual can do less as he desires and works for the restoration of the Law of Yahweh as the Law of the land.

“We have given but a brief summary of the ten commandments, making reference to certain of the statutes and judgments which are for the purpose of forcing men to comply with the requirements of the commandments. Until our nation makes this enforcement part of their administrative activities only men of good will will strive to keep the requirements of the law.

“While no honest man can deny the importance of the Ten Commandments yet they are no more important to the individual who desires to be right with the Almighty than are the Yahweh-given statutes to the nation that would have the Almighty’s blessings on all their undertakings in the righteous administration of equity and justice for all.”

[Memo: I still believe that Almighty Yahweh didn’t make two of the ten Commandments just alike! C.A.E.] – Back to Rand & Destiny.

“People’s Responsibility (speaking of the Gibeonites)

“We have here a clear example of the responsibility of a people for the acts of their leaders, even though they are in disagreement with those acts. Because the leaders of a nation are authorized to speak in behalf of the people, the people become a party to the commitments made by those leaders. Not only is the present generation so committed, but generations to come may also be bound by the commitments made by their forefathers. This was illustrated when, many years after Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) made the covenant with the Gibeonites, Saul tried to exterminate the Gibeonites who were in the land in his day. The covenant Israel made with them under Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) was not a scrap of paper. Because Saul violated its terms, the land suffered with a severe famine and no relief came until Israel righted the wrong Saul tried to perpetrate. Punishment was meted out to the house of Saul because he had refused to respect the terms of the covenant made with the Gibeonites (2 Sam. 21:1-14).

“Hewers of Wood

“Because the Gibeonites had practiced deception upon Israel, Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) dealt with them accordingly. While he was compelled to respect the terms of the covenant of peace, he declared that they were cursed for their deception and would become hewers of wood and drawers of water for the people. When the Gibeonites first approached Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) they had said, ‘We are your servants.’ It is reasonable to assume, however, that they did not intend their diplomatic display of humbleness to react literally upon them. Nevertheless, this was the actual result of their deceitfulness and they became bondmen in Israel.

“One fact of importance is that the Gibeonites had faith in the word of Yahweh and believed His promise that the land of Canaan would be given to Israel and its inhabitants destroyed. They admitted to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) that they were afraid for their lives because of Israel and had practiced the deception in order that they might secure a covenant of peace with them. They willingly accepted the position Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) assigned to them as a result of the deception they had practiced upon him and the elders of Israel.

“Here we have the first instance of an alien people living in the land of Israel, side by side with the Israelites. In the recorded history of the Almighty’s people we find the fulfillment of the prophecy that the aliens dwelling among them would become pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides in later days, Wherever Israel is found, there also in their midst will be found the Canaanite who is a constant vexation to them.

[Question by Clifton A. Emahiser: It appears to me like this covenant we Israelites made with those Gibeonites way back then, may still be in effect in our present day. If true, whom could they be?] – Back to Rand & Destiny.

“Gibeon Under Attack

“As a result of the Gibeonites making a covenant of peace with Israel the kings of Canaan became very angry with them. They feared greatly that, since the Gibeonites were allied with Israel, Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) would be invincible. The great city of Gibeon was a royal city in the land and the men of Gibeon were mighty warriors. The King of Jerusalem therefore sent word to four other kings in Canaan, saying:

“‘Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua (i.e.,Yahshua) and with the children of Israel.’ (Joshua 10:4.)

“Joshua’s (i.e.,Yahshua’s) Strategy

“The strategy was to destroy the Gibeonites before they could join forces with Israel. The five kings gathered their armies and besieged Gibeon but the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) at Gilgal, imploring him to come immediately to their assistance. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) promptly advanced from Gilgal, marching all that night:

“‘And Yahweh said unto Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.’ (Joshua 10:8.)

“It is worthy of careful note that Israel was not only duty bound to keep the covenant of peace they had made with the Gibeonites but they were bound by that covenant of friendliness to go to their assistance when Gibeon was in trouble. Humanly speaking, they could have refrained from marching to assist those who had deceived them into making a treaty with them and the five kings would have accomplished what they were prevented from doing; that is, destroy the city and its inhabitants. But to have done so would have been a negative repudiation of their oath and it would have brought punishment upon them. Israel had no other choice than to immediately go to the assistance of Gibeon because of their oath. The primary reason that the five kings were attacking Gibeon was based upon the covenant made with Israel.

“The armies of the five kings, which were encamped outside the walls of Gibeon, were surprised and outflanked by Joshua’s (i.e., Yahshua’s) move. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) had two objectives in view: first, to relieve the pressure upon Gibeon and, second, to cut off the retreat of the armies of the five kings to prevent their fleeing to security behind the walls of Jerusalem. This had been accomplished by making a wide detour, marching through the night in a circular movement to the rear of the opposing forces. The surprise was too much for the enemies of Israel and they were driven into the open country where, the Record states, many were slain by great stones, or aerolites [i.e., stony meteorites], cast down from heaven.

“Meteoric Shower

“Here we have the record of a great meteoric shower used by the Almighty to help Israel in this critical day of battle. In the same way that it was essential for the Almighty to intervene at that time in order that the enemies opposing Israel’s right to possess the land might be destroyed, The Almighty will again intervene to destroy [true] Israel’s modern enemies who are in our generation undertaking to prevent them from coming into their world inheritance. Through Ezekiel the Almighty declares He will rain great hailstones, fire and brimstone upon these foes of His Kingdom (Ez. 38:22).

“Joshua’s (i.e.,Yahshua’s) Long Day

“The battle against the five kings was at its height when Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) issued his famous command:

“‘... Sun, stand thou still [remain silent] upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies ...’ (Joshua 10:12-13.)

“The command of Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) was fulfilled:

“‘... So the sun stood still [remained silent] in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh hearkened unto the voice of a man: for Yahweh fought for Israel.’ (Joshua 10:13-14.)

“Without exception atheists and skeptics have made all manner of fun of such a day as is described in the Book of Joshua (i.e., Yahshua). Theologians and church members have questioned the accuracy of the account. With scarcely an exception Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias either ignore it altogether or declare Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) was mistaken, assuming the day seemed to have been lengthened because of the extensive marching and fighting on the part of the Israelites.

“A Possible Solution

“The stock-in-trade argument against its occurrence is that if the earth, sun and moon remained in the relative positions described by Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), the earth would have had to stop its spinning. This, we are told, would have been disastrous as the earth turns upon its axis at the rate of about 1,000 miles per hour. To suddenly stop that turning would bring about chaos, not only because of the loss of gravity, but the earth itself would fly to pieces. There is no way of knowing exactly what would happen if the earth did stop spinning, but if their arguments are true, there is still another explanation of how the long day could occur without affecting the turning of the earth upon its axis.

“It is a law of physics that every force acts independently of every other. While the earth is spinning, a force which is independent of the force causing this spin could be applied, affecting the polar regions and causing the earth to turn over upon a second axis independent of the polar axis of the earth without affecting in any degree its original spinning. This can be illustrated by a spinning top or gyroscope which can be turned over without affecting its spinning. The north pole could be made to make a complete circle, or one revolution, returning to its former position while the earth continued to spin on its axis and move forward in its path around the sun. At the same time, through the new motion given to the poles, a given point on earth would be kept directly under the sun for the duration of this turnover.

“The temporary second motion given to the earth would not interfere with the effects produced by the continuation of the spinning of the earth upon its own axis or its movement around the sun. Neither would it have any effect upon the length of the year itself as the motion of the earth in its orbit around the sun would be unaffected. The only recognized change would be that the sun would remain in an apparently stationary position over the point where upon the earth the new axis would be established, caused by the turning of the poles. This relative position would be maintained even while the earth spun upon its own axis as long as the ratio of turning given to the poles was such that it compensated for the surface movement at a given point directly under the sun.

“It is not our purpose to say that this is what happened, for we do not know, but it is our objective to show that the relative Positions of the earth, sun and moon could be maintained by Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) without affecting in the least the earth’s motion, both in its spinning upon its axis and in its movement around the sun.

 

“Astronomical Disturbance

“The Biblical account establishes the fact of an astronomical disturbance of great intensity which preceded the beginning of the ‘long day.’ It was so severe that great stones came down from heaven and more of the enemies of Israel died from this shower of stones than were slain by the armies of Joshua (i.e., Yahshua). The context clearly indicates that a tremendous meteoric shower preceded the event which caused the earth, sun and moon to remain in the relative positions described by Joshua (i.e., Yahshua). This brings up some interesting questions. Did an interspace visitor come into our solar system, showering the earth with great meteoric stones, and at the same time exert a tremendous influence at the polar regions, causing the earth’s axis to make one complete rotation?

“The field of force responsible for holding the axis of the earth in its present position could have been momentarily interfered with by the close sweep of a comet or other celestial body of a highly magnetic ore. This body could have induced a secondary field of force, acting upon the earth, which is itself a magnet, much as a magnetic impulse acts upon the armature of a motor, causing it to turn. The influence thus exerted upon the earth by a new field of force would have none of the evil effects of a direct contact between a celestial visitor and the earth but it would nevertheless exert a tremendous pull upon it.

“Earth Turned Over

“When the earth had turned half way over it would continue on and complete the revolution, even though the magnetic mass had passed on beyond the earth’s orbit by that time, and right itself again in the original field of force. All this would be possible if a comet or celestial body passed close enough to the earth to set up a powerful field of force. The fact that a spectacular meteoric shower preceded the long day clearly indicates that such a heavenly visitor did graze the earth’s surface as it sped through the heavens in its path around the sun.

“Here we have one of the most interesting accounts in the Scriptures of a physical phenomena that effected the relative motions of sun, moon and earth. It is an account of a stupendous miracle wrought for the benefit of Israel. Who is the man that questions the power of the Almighty? He who created all things could surely impose upon that creation the conditions which made the event recorded in the Book of Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) possible.

“Five Kings Defeated

“The five kings were defeated and fled to hide in a cave at Makkedah. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) commanded that stones be rolled over the mouth of the cave until the battle was over and Israel had destroyed the enemy. When the armies of the five kings were finally defeated, the people returned to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) encamped at Makkedah. The statement is made, ‘None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.’

“Then Joshua commanded that the mouth of the cave be opened and the kings brought out. They were sentenced to death and their bodies were buried in the cave.

“A Great Confederacy

“Following this battle a great confederacy of kings gathered to destroy Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) and Israel. They had become greatly disturbed as a result of what Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) had done in conquering the land, destroying the cities and slaying the people. But in the campaigns that followed Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) was victorious over all Israel’s enemies. The account states further that there was not a city that made peace with Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) except the inhabitants of Gibeon:

“‘It was the Eternal [sic Yahweh] who made their hearts stubborn enough to battle with Israel, that he might have them all wiped out and destroyed without mercy, as the Eternal [sic Yahweh] had commanded Moses.’ (Joshua 11:20, Moffatt Trans.)

“Modernists have condemned this slaughter, wholly unaware that moral corruption was so prevalent in Canaan and the attending diseases so advanced that if the inhabitants of the land were left to continue their pagan practices, all Israel and the world would eventually be infected with disease. The only way the spread of such contamination could be prevented was in the destruction of all the people [A lesson for our own time C.A.E.] Sodom and Gomorrah also perished because of the moral depravity of their inhabitants and now the Almighty was using Israel to remove another plague spot, for the land had also become corrupt and evil.

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) waged an extensive campaign against the Anakims, or giants, who infested the land, massacred them and sacked their cities, leaving none in the land of Israel except a few in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod:

“‘So Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh said unto Moses; and Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes ....’ (Joshua 11:23.)

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) was growing old and Yahweh told him that a great deal of land yet remained to be possessed. This land had already been divided by lot among the tribes and each had received his portion and was instructed to go up and possess it. But Israel failed to vigorously push their campaigns and Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) chided the tribes for their failure to conquer the land yet remaining in the hands of its inhabitants.

“Dan the Pioneer

“Dan found the coastal region in which this tribe settled too small for them so they went out and conquered lands beyond the confines of Canaan. They invariably named the places they possessed after the name of their father Dan. This name is incorporated in the names of rivers and geographical locations throughout the territory through which they journeyed as they spread westward and northward in their conquests.

“Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh were sent home to the territory they had chosen on the east side of the Jordan after the conquest of the land was completed and the land had been divided among the tribes. The account of the conquest of Palestine concludes with the statement, ‘And the land rested from war’.” This is the end of chapter III of “The Book Of The Kingdom.”

I will now give an overview of this period of time from The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible, p. 202:

“GIBEON:ghib-ohn´ [pertaining to a hill]. The chief city of the Hivites, a people of Canaan (Josh. 11:19), included in the general designation Amorite (II Sam. 21:2). They possessed also Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim (Josh. 9:17). They obtained a treaty with Joshua by false pretenses. The deceit was discovered and they were made slaves of the Israelites (ch. 9). But the treaty was respected: the Gibeonites were aided against their enemies (ch. 10:1-11); and several centuries later, when Saul violated its provisions by a massacre of Gibeonites, the sense of justice was satisfied by the execution of 7 of Saul’s sons (II Sam. 21:1-9). Gibeon was within the territory assigned to the Benjamites (Josh. 18:25); and was given, with its suburbs, to the family of Aaron (ch. 21:17). Saul’s ancestors dwelt for a time in the town and were men of influence (I Chron. 8:29; 9:35). In the contest between Ish-bosheth and David, a battle took place here (II Sam. 2:8-17, 24; 3:30). Here David gained a victory over the Philistines (I Chron. 14:16; in II Sam. 5:25, Geba). In its vicinity Joab murdered Amasa (II Sam. 20:8). There also, in David’s reign and in the early part of Solomon’s reign, before the Temple was built, stood the tabernacle and the brazen altar; and there Solomon sacrificed and in a dream received a message from the Almighty (I Kings 3:4-15; I Chron. 16:39, 40; 21:29; II Chron. 1:3, 6, 13). Gibeonites returned from the Exile (Neh. 7:25), and aided in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem (ch. 3:7). According to Josephus, Gibeon was 40 or 50 stadia (about 4½ to 6 miles) from Jerusalem (Josephus’ Antiquities vii. 11, 7; War ii. 19, 1). Its site is found at the modern village of el-Jib, 5½ miles northwest by north of Jerusalem. An oblong or oval hill stands in the midst of a basin consisting of broad valleys in a high state of cultivation. The hill is steep of ascent, being composed of horizontal layers of limestone rock that form great steps from the plain upward.”

From the above quotation we are informed that “Gibeonites returned from the Exile (Neh. 7:25), and aided in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem (ch. 3:7).”

[Critical Note by William Finck: “However, Rand and The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible cannot justly assert that any of the Judahites returning from captivity were Gibeonites by race, simply because they chose to settle in Gibeon. The city of Gibeon clearly fell to Benjamin (Joshua 21:17) and there is no reason to doubt that Benjamites settled there, as the Gibeonites were taken as slaves, and even if some Gibeonites remained, they were still only slaves. Nehemiah 7:5 informs us that these people who returned ‘were reckoned by genealogy’, and therefore could only have been Israelites who settled in Gibeon!”] One must always critique the context, C.A.E.!

This is my two hundred and twenty-fourth monthly teaching letter and continues my nineteenth year of publication. I have resolved to do a series of lessons providing clarifying criticism of Howard B. Rand’s books, tracts and articles published in his Destiny Magazine, which includes several guest writers of varying degrees in excellence. Although I rate Rand and his associate writers only 50%, some of their articles are simply outstanding.

With this lesson, I will continue a critical review of a series entitled “The Book Of The Kingdom” found in Destiny magazines from January, 1949 until April, 1952 in 24 chapters, and oddly enough Rand does not identify an author. He may have written it all himself, or it might have been a team effort by him and some of his associated writers. So Rand either wrote it, or if by the help of others, at least he approved of it, and is responsible for it (and it will be edited by me):

“The Book Of The Kingdom,Destiny, March 1949:

Chapter IV of XXIV, “Joshua’s (i.e., Yahshua’s) Final Instructions”:

“Following The Conquest of the land of Palestine, six cities were appointed as cities of refuge to which a slayer who had killed a person by accident might flee and there be judged. If the slayer was found to be innocent of having committed murder, he was to reside in the city of refuge until the death of the High Priest then in office, after which he could return to his own home again. If he was adjudged guilty, he was turned over to the avenger of blood and executed. The interesting fact is that even those who accidentally killed another were deprived of their full freedom for the rest of the life of the High Priest serving the people when the accident occurred.

“‘Contrary to popular belief, the Bible does not hold life cheaply. It is a serious thing to take life, and for the taking of life the murderer forfeits his life. But those who accidentally cause the death of another are confined in a city of refuge until the death of the High Priest. In some cases this might amount to life imprisonment. Such a law certainly produced respect for life and made a man careful of the life of his fellowman. This law in operation today would reduce automobile accidents to a minimum. A driver of a car would be as careful of the life of another’s husband, wife, daughter and son as he would be of his own loved ones, for none would want to forfeit his freedom.’ (Digest of the Divine Law, pages 67-68.)

“Cities Given Levites

“After the selection of the cities of refuge, the elders of the tribe of Levi came to Eleazar the High Priest and to Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) to remind them that Yahweh had commanded, through Moses, that they receive cities to dwell in. These cities were to be taken from Israel’s inheritance throughout the land and given to them. The instructions to Moses were:

“‘Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.’ (Num. 35:2-3.)

“The cities of refuge were included among the cities given to the Levites, but forty-two additional cities were given to them so they would have forty-eight cities in all, with their suburbs, as their inheritance.

“Property Redeemable

“The tribe of Levi furnished the administrators, tax collectors, lawyers, doctors, etc., for all Israel. Because this tribe was active in these respective professions, they were to be scattered throughout Israel; hence the necessity of possessing cities throughout all the land as their places of abode.

“The law of inheritance and property rights causing the return of a man to his possessions at the end of fifty years was applicable to country holdings only, not to city property. City property had to be redeemed within a year after its sale, otherwise it became the property of the new purchaser forever (see Digest of the Divine Law, p. 112). The city holdings of the Levites were exempt from the operation of this law. All the city property assigned to them was redeemable by them at any time and returned to their possession in the jubilee.

“It is of interest to note that, after the appointment of the cities of refuge and the setting aside of the cities for the Levites, the account states:

“‘There failed not ought of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.’ (Joshua 21:45.)

“Joshua (i.e.,Yahshua) Addresses Israel

“Many years later, after Israel had enjoyed a long rest from their enemies, Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), who had then grown old, called together all Israel with their elders and judges. Before this assembly Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) recounted the many things the Almighty had done for His people, how He had fought for them and driven their enemies out from before them. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) reminded Israel that Yahweh had driven out before them nations much stronger than they and he admonished them that they were not to turn to the right hand or to the left. Neither were they to make references of any sort to the names of the gods of the nations around them, nor serve them:

“‘But cleave unto Yahweh your Almighty, as ye have done unto this day. For Yahweh 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. One man of you shall chase a thousand: for Yahweh your Almighty, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you. Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Yahweh your Almighty.’ (Joshua 23:8-11.)

“Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) warned the people that if they mingled with the remnant of the nations that remained among them and intermarried with them instead of driving them out, they would sorely regret it to the end of their days:

“‘... 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 Yahweh your Almighty hath given you.’ (Joshua 23:13.)

“Having said that, Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) told the people he was going the way of all the earth for the day of his death was approaching. He reminded them that not one good thing which the Almighty had promised had failed. He also declared that if they trespassed against the covenant the Almighty had made with them and served other gods, the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against them. The result would be that they would perish quickly off the land which Yahweh had given to them.

“Israel’s Vow

“All the tribes of Israel and the elders, judges and officers presented themselves before the Almighty at Shechem. The purpose of the gathering was to take a solemn vow of faithfulness to Yahweh. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) recited the history of the people from Abraham to his time and stressed the Divine protection and deliverance experienced by Israel up to the time they had entered and conquered the Promised Land. He then said that if they refused to serve Yahweh it would be to their own hurt:

“‘And the people said unto Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), Nay; but we will serve Yahweh.’ (Joshua 24:21.)

“Following this assertion of their fidelity to Yahweh, Joshua declared that they were now witnesses against themselves that they had definitely chosen to serve Yahweh. The people replied that they were indeed witnesses to this fact. Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) then commanded them to put away all strange gods from among them and turn to Yahweh with all their hearts in complete sincerity:

“‘And the people said unto Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), Yahweh our Almighty will we serve, and his voice will we obey.’ (Joshua 24:24.)

“A Stone Witness

“Many students of the Scriptures overlook the importance of these vows made by our forefathers. Not only did they bind themselves, but they also bound all succeeding generations of Israelites, for the Almighty will require that Israel’s posterity keep the requirements of the vows made by their forefathers. It is most interesting to note that a stone became the witness of this vow:

“‘And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of the Almighty, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh. And Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of Yahweh which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your Almighty.’ (Joshua 24^:,26-27.)

“Recorded Forever

“Was this stone the Stone of Jacob which was always with them? If so, it was a witness to the conversation that took place between Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) and the people and it heard the vow made by the people. This presents an interesting possibility. Will a day come when the words spoken audibly in the presence of this stone be reproduced through some sort of sensitive electrical device that will make the stone speak? We are able today to impress sound upon records and even upon a wire to be later reproduced at will. The above suggestion may not be so fantastic as some may at first thought, be led to think. The possibility of discovering a means by which inanimate objects can be made to give back to us the sounds and voices spoken within their range are not as strange to contemplate as the radio and art of flying were a century ago. What a field of discovery would open before us if vibrations impressed upon inanimate objects could be recovered and made audible again!

[Comment by Clifton A. Emahiser: Howard B. Rand’s hypothesis in the late 1940s is not out of order here, as today in 2016, one can purchase solid-state computer thumb-drives capable of storing terabytes of digital data, including video and audio intelligence, although this may not be the context of this subject.] – Back to Rand & Destiny.

“A Strange Prophecy

“The archeologist with his spade has wonderfully demonstrated the truths of Scripture. What would be the results if we could tune into a time wave length and listen to the sounds and conversations locked within the walls of ancient ruins, recorded by the rocks in whose presence they were made. It may be that Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) uttered words of strange prophetic meaning when he declared that the stone heard and recorded the vow made in its presence. Did Yahshua Christ also refer to such a future possibility when the Pharisees objected to His disciples rejoicing and praising the Almighty, saying, ‘... Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of Yahshua: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.’ Yahshua Christ’s rebuke was:

“‘... if these [people] should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.’ (Luke 19:40.)”

[Comment by Clifton A. Emahiser: With this last quotation, it would appear that Rand may have made an interesting observation here.] – Back to Rand & Destiny.

“It is not at all beyond possibility that Yahweh Almighty of the universe, who had given to His people the means by which they have been able to split the atom, may also place in their hands an instrument that will unlock the secrets of the past and give to us audible confirmation of the truths of history.

“Stinging Insects

“In the course of Joshua’s (i.e., Yahshua’s) farewell address he referred to hornets being used of the Almighty to drive out two kings of the Amorites against whom Israel did not have to use sword or bow. Hornets are stinging insects and we have a most interesting record in modern times of such insects being used of the Almighty for the purpose of enabling Israel to come into the possession of one of the great waterways of the globe.

“Yahweh declared that the seed of Abraham would possess the gateways, or waterways, of the earth. These were promised to them as a part of their inheritance. In the words of one of the Biblical statements, they were to possess ‘the gates of their enemies.’ One of the great gateways of the world is the Panama Canal, but France commenced the construction of this waterway. Though the undertaking was condemned by the Church of Rome, the French would have continued their work of digging the canal and would have completed its construction except for the scourge of malaria which caused the death of thousands. The work ceased and the United States acquired the construction rights of the canal.”

[Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: The statement that the descendants of Abraham were to possess “the gates of his enemies” at Gen. 22:17 is also made at Gen. 24:60 where Bethuel and his family blessed Rebekah just before she was to leave them to become Isaac’s wife:

Gen. 22:17: “That in blessing I will bless thee [Abraham], and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ....”

Gen. 24:60: “And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.”] – Back to Rand & Destiny.

“Yahweh uses a stinging insect to drive out a nation so that they might not come into possession of a waterway that would be a gateway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This was a principal gateway and it was reserved for His people Israel. It was later discovered that malaria was the result of the sting from a malaria-bearing mosquito, but this discovery did not become known until the French had abandoned their operations at Panama. Israel marched in, conquered the insect and completed the construction of the canal which is today one of the major waterways between two oceans.”

[Critical note by one of my proofreaders, Michael Nelson: “It is error to presume the French were not Israelites, and their abandonment dealt with in the autobiography of Theodore (part-kike) Roosevelt.” I will have to agree with Michael, inasmuch as it was buy-and-large the French and American Israelites, each in their own turn, who supplied the design and labor, while the Edomite-jew arranged all of their underhanded credit-bearing financing upon usury to both the France’s and the United States’ participation in the project, where France lost terribly! And it was one of the first acts by the peanut farmer and kike-loving president, Jimmy Carter, to give our hard earned Panama Canal back to Panama as a free (gratis) gift, which today is controlled by one of our enemies, China. This same kikeloving president, Jimmy Carter, shortly after Bill Clinton became president, returned to Washington to endorse the job-killing NAFTA treaty. At that meeting (Whitehouse East Room, 11-2-1993), Jimmy Baker, Secretary of State, was first to speak in favor and highly recommend NAFTA. Second to speak was the Edomite-jew, Henry Kissinger, who exclaimed how foolish it would be not to pass NAFTA. Third to speak was the peanut farmer and kike-loving ex-president, Jimmy Carter, who highly endorsed passing the NAFTA treaty. Last to speak was the shifty president, Bill Clinton, who signed NAFTA into existence, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out today’s rust-belt loss of millions of jobs in the USA! And while the Americans were able to overcome the severe effects of malaria, as many as 38,000 people each year were treated while the construction took place, according to Harvard University. C.A.E.] – Back to Rand & Destiny.

“The Hand of Yahweh

“In the light of Joshua’s (i.e., Yahshua’s) statement that the Almighty used a stinging insect to conquer Israel’s enemies, this modern demonstration of using such an insect to keep for His people an inheritance that had been given to them is most interesting. This is merely one among many other modern evidences of the Almighty guiding His people and bringing them into their possessions as He did of old.

“Joshua (i.e.,Yahshua) Dies

“Following the final assembly of all Israel to hear Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), when a vow of faithfulness to Yahweh was made, every man returned to his own inheritance. Soon after that Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) died at the age of one hundred and ten years. His influence upon the history of Israel was of great importance. The account states:

“‘And Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua (i.e., Yahshua), and which had known all the works of Yahweh, that he had done for Israel.’ (Joshua 24:31.)

“Joshua (i.e.,Yahshua) Buried in Canaan

“‘This great leader in Israel was faithful to Yahweh and kept his personal vow, ‘... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Yahweh.’ (Joshua 24:15).

“Joshua was buried in the border of his inheritance. This was in Timnath-serah, which is in Mount Ephraim. The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, were also buried at Shechem, a fact which was recorded at the time of Joshua's (i.e., Yahshua’s) death.

“Joseph had been embalmed after his death in Egypt but before his death his brothers had taken an oath before him that when they went up out of Egypt they would carry his bones to Canaan and bury them there. This oath had its final fulfillment in Joshua’s (i.e., Yahshua’s) time. Eleazar the High Priest also died and was buried in the hill on Mount Ephraim.

“Joshua’s (i.e.,Yahshua’s) Leadership

“The history of the life of Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) is extremely interesting. In the early period of his life he was a minister to Moses and was closely associated with him. He was also one of his most trusted and valiant captains. As one of the twelve spies he brought back a good report from Canaan. Thus, with Caleb, the only other spy among the twelve to return a favorable report, he lived to lead Israel into the Promised Land. All the rest died in the wilderness. After Moses' death Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) became Israel’s leader and his campaigns in Canaan were a marvel of military strategy.

“Judah Given Leadership

“After the death of Joshua the children of Israel asked Yahweh who would lead them against the Canaanites and the tribe of Judah was appointed to provide leadership. The Record gives an account of the exploits of Judah and the other tribes as they undertook to drive out the inhabitants of the land. But Israel only partially fulfilled the command of Yahweh, for they failed to drive out all the inhabitants of the land as the Almighty had instructed them to do:

“‘And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.’ (Judges 1:28.)

“Thorns in Their Sides

“The Record lists the tribes who failed to complete the conquest of their inheritance and reports the fact that the Angel of Yahweh came from Gilgal saying He had led Israel out of Egypt and brought them into the Promised Land. His Covenant they were not to break, nor were they to make any league with the inhabitants of the land but were to throw down their altars and drive them from the land. The Angel of Yahweh declared that because Israel had failed to obey all His commands:

“‘... I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.’ (Judges 2:3.)

“When Israel heard the words the Angel had spoken they wept. This incident took place before Joshua (i.e., Yahshua) died and no doubt led to his censuring the people for their failure to fully possess the land.

“A New Generation

“Later on a generation arose which was totally ignorant of Yahweh and the deeds He had accomplished for Israel. That generation forsook the Almighty of their fathers, went after other gods and served Baal. Because of this Yahweh was very angry with them and allowed them to be plundered and sold into the hands of their enemies until they could no longer hold their own against them. Wherever they marched Yahweh’s hand was against them, until finally they were in great affliction.

“Juvenile Delinquency

“This may be cited as a perfect example of the results that follow juvenile delinquency. A generation of young men and women, uninstructed in the ways of Yahweh or in the need of keeping His laws, turned from Him to pursue the immoral practices of the gods of the nations around them. A whole generation had turned away from all spiritual restraints with the result that they became utterly evil in the sight of Yahweh.”

[Comment by Clifton A. Emahiser: Rand speaks of how in twenty years an entire generation of young people can be corrupted. I addressed this very thing in WTLs 192, 210 and 214 where I disclosed:

“On February 9th, 1964, The Beatles, with their Edwardian suits and mop top haircuts, made their first American television appearance – LIVE – on The Ed Sullivan Show. A record setting 73 million people tuned in that evening, making it one of the seminal [i.e., relating to seed or semen – a Freudian slip?] moments in TV history. Nearly fifty years later, people still remember exactly where they were the night TheBeatles stepped onto Ed Sullivan’s stage ... [brackets mine]

“The story of how The Beatles landed on The Ed Sullivan Show began with the group’s formation in Liverpool in 1960. They spent their first couple of years playing in small clubs throughout Europe. During late night gigs in the city of Hamburg, Germany, sometimes playing as long as eight hours a night, The Beatles perfected their act. However, it was not until an appearance on the British television show, ‘Val Parnell’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium’ and the 1963 release of their first album, Please Please Me that ‘Beatlemania’ began to spread. That March the album hit number one on the British charts, and by the end of the year, The Beatles’ music permeated UK radio. The ‘Fab Four’ even performed for the royal family. It was only after this burgeoning success at home did The Beatles and their manager, Brian Epstein, choose to launch their American invasion. They decided when they had a #1 song on the U.S. charts, then they would lock in the date of their Ed Sullivan debut ....”

Up until this time every boy and girl wanted to look like, and be just like their father and mother in every respect. But after the communist hippie revolution, dad became “the old man” and mom becomean “old-fashion grouch” in total disrespect of them! It wasn’t long until using opiate drugs was the “cool thing” to do! Then, it wasn’t very long before nonwhite boys were dating White girls and spiking a beverage with opoids, and proceeded to date-rape them, committing miscegenation (i,e.,miscere-genus), bringing forth a corrupted life-form.

After this, things became morally worse and worse until now in 2016 sodomy, lesbianism, transgenderism and pedophilia are considered a legitimate way of life, and it is only a matter of time that men and women of all races will turn to having sex with animals, which has been happening in black-Africa for quite some time. Thus, things have degenerated far beyond anything Rand could have imagined in 1949. Rand does, though, in his monthly magazine, Destiny, keep his readers posted on the decline of morality and other serious developments, in his “The March Of History”, a continuing series.

I was married in 1948, and by-and-large White men and White women were marrying at that time.] – Back to Rand & Destiny.

“The continuing happiness and prosperity of a people absolutely depends upon the premise that each generation will always keep before the coming generation the great truths of the past and instruct them in the ways of Yahweh. Truth is not inherited; it is only acquired by painstaking instruction. Unless each generation is thoroughly instructed in the principles of righteousness and is well disciplined, inevitable degeneration will follow. Moral standards will be set aside and spiritual truths will be quickly forgotten.

“The Youth Problem

“The youth problem today had its counterpart in the problems of that earlier time – only a few generations removed from Joshua’s (i.e., Yahshua’s) day. Then, whole generations of people turned away from the Almighty into sin and that, too, has its parallel today. They lost all contact with Yahweh and the same causes which produced un-Yahwehliness then are producing juvenile delinquents today – young people who do not know Yahweh, who have not been told about His wonderful works. They have received too little, if any, instruction concerning the necessity to observe and obey all His laws. Instead, they have learned to prefer unrighteous practices.

“Bewildered law-enforcement officials,parents and teachers are groping for a solution to the problem, but no lasting solution will be found until the senior generations realize they failed in the first place to build Christian character upon a sure foundation. That foundation is a proper understanding of what Yahweh requires of us, keeping His laws and observing the requirements of all His commandments.” This is the end of chapter IV of “The Book Of The Kingdom.”

Not having enough space to start chapter V of “The Book Of The Kingdom”, I will present some of Rand’s “Destiny Forecast Of The News”, June 1948 until July 1949, taken from older Destiny magazines:

“DESTINY (Bulletin) for February 1932:

“‘While the trouble area is at present confined to Chinese territory, let us not lose sight of the fact that the trend is ever toward the central lands whither God has declared He will gather the armies of the world in the great controversy He has with all the nations. Whether the beginning of that final conflict arises in the East, the Far East, or in the West, the focal point toward which all ultimately will lead is centered in Palestine and at Jerusalem. God has declared this city is yet to become a cup of trembling unto all the people round about. It may be possible that the conflagration will sweep over the length and breadth of the earth before gaining the height of its intensity, or reaching its objective. But be assured it will finally come to its climax before the Holy City and in the land of Israel.’

“Communist leaders in China have now declared their intention, in case of war, of marching with Russia – whose ultimate objective is the Middle East, –Ed.”

[Comment by Clifton A. Emahiser: This is an interesting observation in 1932 by Rand, as I was only five years old at that time. It is surely true that Jerusalem has “become a cup of trembling”. It is also a fact that Jerusalem will never be built up again as it was in the times of Solomon and Zerubbabel, Jer, ch. 19. Malachi 1:4 declares:

“Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places [i.e., Judaea & Jerusalem]; thus saith Yahweh of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom Yahweh hath indignation for ever.”]– Back to Rand

“DESTINY(Bulletin) for, April 1932:

“Would that it were possible for us to give a message of hope and cheer, of prosperity and peace, of comfort and contentment! But how can we say peace when the nation is unrepentant, having set aside God’s laws and failing in righteousness. Serious as present economic conditions are, there yet exists a far greater menace to our happiness, in the very near future, if the rapid development of unrestrained evil continues. It is useless to mince words here, for the stage is being made ready for intensification of trouble, as demoniac forces forge ahead. We must either overcome these satanic powers or be overcome. There are no half-way measures; neither can there be any truce between right and wrong. We are in a deadly conflict which will be a fight to the finish. For righteousness to compromise with hell means death. For law and order to temporize, in any degree, with the underworld is a betrayal of the trust placed, as a responsibility, in the hands of those whose sworn duty it is to protect our people from these enemies of society. Many are failing to note that a sinister shadow of lawlessness is spreading over our land, preparing the way for such a time of tribulation that the Word of God states ‘never was since there was a nation upon the earth.’

“This hardly needs comment in view of the tremendous increase in crime generally since 1932, and in juvenile delinquency particularly. –Ed.” [The sins which society begins to permit about this time are more deadly to the nation: idolatry in sports and cinema, feminism, sexual deviancy, race-mixing, etc.]

“DESTINY(Bulletin) for February 1933:

“A news item dated February 12th states, ‘Four hundred and thirty Protestant Clergymen of New York State signed a petition urging recognition of Russia’ [under Edomite-jewish Bolshevism and Communism C.A.E.]. The same article said eight hundred college professors and presidents have signed a similar petition. We are not surprised at the attitude of these professors, for many of our schools of higher learning have become hot-beds for the breeding of seditious doctrines. Though originally established to improve the minds of our boys and girls, they have developed into a distinct menace and threaten the liberty, peace and happiness of our people. What, however, can be said of these ministers who desire the recognition of a country that denies their Lord, and publicly proclaims their antagonism to all that the Christian holds dear? Were Soviet Russia able to establish their rule in this land, liberty would be gone. The true man of God would be jailed, exiled or killed. The signers of such a petition are willing to enter a league with the powers of darkness for the sake of harmony and become a party to their blasphemous utterances and deeds. Lending aid and comfort to the enemies of our race, they sacrifice principle to grasp the blood-stained hand of a monster of iniquity who has killed the innocent, trampled the Bible under foot, and is pledged to destroy the home. It is opposition to God and Christ His Son to enter into covenant relations with a nation who not only denies Him, but has declared she would pull God from His throne and destroy His worshipers. Soviet Russia is unrepentant of her bloody deeds and continues to breathe threats against His Church and His Kingdom. With them we cannot deal. Their spirit is evil and their word worthless.

“Had these ministers understood their Bibles, and comprehended the messages of the prophets, they would have recognized the impossibility^,of establishing peaceful and righteous diplomatic relations with Russia. - Ed.”

My objective here is to demonstrate the mind-set of Howard B. Rand back in the early 1930s, while the Great Depression was at its height, and we were advancing toward WW II in the process.