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and with supplications will I lead them:

by the rivers of waters in a straight way,

DEEP in the mountainous interior of Irian Jaya, formerly Dutch New

Guinea, there lives a tribe of natives called the Yalu. They were one of

the most isolated peoples on the face of the earth yet they had a very

formalized blood sacrificial system. They had a law of Ten

Commandments called the wene malalek and a holy ground called an

osuwa. That osuwa was surrounded by a stone wall. Any man not

consecrated to the spirits of kembu, or any woman who trespassed on

that ground, would be killed. Within the osuwa was a sacred building

called the kembu-vam. It had two rooms, an outer room where the priests

of kembu held ceremonies, and an inner room which held the sacred

stone. The stone was never allowed to be moved by one man, but had to

be carried by four men at its four corners. Pigs were slaughtered and

roasted in the court outside the kembu-vam, and priests, with awesome

ceremony, took pig fat into that holiest of rooms and anointed the sacred

Though unbelievably corrupted, the parallels of the Yalu folk

religion to the Levitical code are so inescapable that one has to ask:

1 A more detailed account of the Yalu folk religion may be found in Don Richard-son’s

Lords of the Earth (Ventura, CA Regal Books, 1977) pp. 76-80.

In Burma, there was a tribe of people called the Karen who

worshiped the God Y’wa. Their prophets declared they had once

possessed a book of the law that had been lost many centuries before.

Sacred songs passed down from generation to generation, reminded

Omnipotent is Y’wa; Him have we not believed.

He has a perfect knowledge of all things.

The earth is the treading place for the feet of Y’wa.

He sees all things and we are manifest to Him.

He causes them to eat of the fruit of the tree of trial.

They obeyed not; they believed not Y’wa ...

They became subject to sickness, aging and death ...

And cease to do evil - restraining our passions -

And pray to Y’wa. He will have mercy upon us again.

If Y’wa does not have mercy on us, there is no other one who

He who saves us is the only one - Y’wa.

O Children and grandchildren! Pray to Y’wa constantly.

Y’wa is just too close to Yahweh (the Hebrew name for God) to be

coincidental. And what about the “fruit of trial” and prayer? Those

traditions do not appear to be founded in the New Testament Gospel, but

upon a knowledge of the Old Testament. Again we have to ask: Where

The Lahu of northern Burma had a tradition that Gui’Sha, the

Creator of all things, had given their forefathers His law written on rice

1 Don Richardson, Eternity in Their Hearts (Ventura, CA, Regal Books, 1981) pp.77-79,

cites from The Gospel in Burma, Wylie, p. 6, and The Karen Apostle, Mason, p. 97-99.

cakes. The Rengma tribe in India believed that the Supreme Being gave

His words to their forefathers written on animal skins (which, by the

way, is what the Mosaic law was written on). But according to their

traditions, the forefathers of the Rengma people had been careless with

These examples are not unique. The native religions of almost every

isolated people on earth contain haunting memories, in varying detail,

of an earlier knowledge of the true God, or of His Law. So, once again

we ask; where did all this knowledge come from? To find out, we may

need to go back again into the history of the children of Israel ...

Jacob, named Israel by the Lord, was Abraham’s grandson. Jacob

had twelve sons, among whom was Joseph, and those twelve men

became the fathers of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel. After the

death of Jacob, Israel’s twelve tribes remained in Egypt for 430 years.

They fled Egypt in 1446BC, and were in the wilderness for another 40

years. After Joshua’s conquest of Canaan, they lived in the Promised

Land, under judges, for another 300 years. Then, during the judgeship

of Samuel, the people demanded to have a king.

God first gave them Saul, then David, and with David began the line

of kings through which Jesus would be born. But the kingdom remained

unified for only two generations. If you read the account carefully, it

appears that Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, had a son who

was truly inept. Rehoboam’s decision to raise taxes caused a revolt, so

during his reign the Davidic kingdom divided. God separated Judah and

Benjamin from the ten northern tribes, and the twelve tribes became two

separate nations: Israel in the North, and Judah in the South. Jerusalem

remained the capital of Judah while Samaria became the capital of Israel.

Northern Israel remained in continual rebellion to the Lord, putting

it in conflict with Judah and the nations around them. Finally, in 748BC,

Tiglath-pileser of Assyria made northern Israel a vassal state and took

captives off to Assyria. In 725BC, Shalmaneser began a major

deportation of Israel, and put Samaria under siege. Samaria itself fell in

722BC and what was left of the nation of Israel was taken captive and

relocated near the Caspian Sea (north of what is now Iran) and they were

never heard from again. This happened just as Moses prophesied it

Neh 1:8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst

thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you

Why did God ever allow this to happen? Were the Israelites not part of

God’s chosen people? Didn’t the everlasting covenant God made with

Abraham include the ten tribes? The prophet Isaiah saw what was going

Isa 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways,

and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’

The fall of northern Israel was not just an unfortunate accident in

history. It was an integral part of God’s eternal plan, and the Lord told

The prophet Hosea was placed in Israel just before its fall, and he

alone details the future of the ten tribes after their dispersion among the

Gentile nations. Hosea prophesied from about 750-722BC and he

prepares God’s people for the calamity that is about to befall them. Read

the prophet carefully, and you will see that the destruction of Israel and

Samaria is fixed. It is going to fall to Assyria, no matter what. Hosea is

not a call to repentance to save the northern kingdom. Instead, the

prophet is describing the Lord’s plan for the ten northern tribes after

In the verse below, we begin to see the everlasting love our

Heavenly Father has for His wayward Israelites. While they were

figuring out ways to rebel against Him, God was putting a long-term

plan in motion to save them: a plan spanning thousands of years. The

following verse is in that setting. Israel is about to go into captivity when

Hos 1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the

sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it

shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them,

Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the

That is a paradoxical Scripture is it not?. Note the tense of the verb,

“shall be.” Shall be is future to when it was written. Israel is about to go

into captivity never to be heard from again, and the Lord tells them that

they are going to be numerous beyond count. Furthermore, He tells them

that no one will know they are His Israelites. Nonetheless, they will be

called the sons of God. Isn’t that mystifying?

Hos 2:19-20 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever ... I will even

betroth thee unto me ... and thou shalt know the LORD.

The Lord then declares that this lost and scattered people will be

His bride, a bride whether they know it or not. Impossible from man’s

standpoint, nevertheless, an accomplished fact from God’s. But there is

more. If we picture in our minds how seed was sown in the old days, we

can also understand this unique Old Testament figure of the sower:

Hos 2:23 And I will sow her [Israel] unto me in the earth; and I

will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will

say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and

Taking from his bag of grain, an ancient farmer would cast seed

evenly over every square foot of his field with a side-wise motion of his

arm. That is what the Lord did with Israel. He scattered Israelites all over

His great field, the earth, from South Africa to China. Oh my, can you

see it? God scattered the seed of Israel over the whole world, from Terra

Descendants of the lost tribes of Israel are everywhere, and God did

not disperse them to lose them. In spite of their scattering, the Lord

declared that He would have mercy on them. Here, at the beginning of

the 21st century, it is only a hundred generations from when God made

an everlasting covenant with Abraham. Since the very hairs of our heads

are numbered, surely the Lord has no trouble remembering every one of

Israel’s descendants. The prophet Amos also spoke of this continuing

covenant with a dispersed Israel, but in figurative language:

Amo 9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel

among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the

Can we hear that? “Yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth?”

The Creator of the universe was going to save his wayward Israelites.

But not only them. God didn’t have just a little local plan to deal with a

few Israelites. The Lord saw and planned the history of the whole world

and its inhabitants in eternity and He is very good. Everything God does

is good. So it is reasonable to believe that the Lord scattered the ten

tribes of Israel abroad for a good reason, and not just as judgment upon

His people. To see why Israel was dispersed, we need to stand outside

our 21st century mind-set and look back on Earth’s 6000 years of

recorded history from the standpoint of God’s overall plan.

Earlier in this chapter we saw how bits of the true faith were spread

among the primitive peoples of the world.1 Apostate as northern Israel

became, it is scripturally provable that there were still men within it who

retained a knowledge of God and of His law (2 Ki 17:26-28). Taking a

broad view of history, it appears that 700 years before Jesus was born,

the Lord may have spread the children of Israel over the whole earth for

the express purpose of sharing the knowledge of the true God with the

Gentile nations. To prepare the hearts of the people of the world for the

coming of Messiah and the preaching of the Gospel. Now we can see a

literal fulfillment of a verse that is usually spiritualized:

Rom 11:25-26 Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the

fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And thus all Israel shall be

What does that verse say? That Gentiles must come to the Lord for

all Israel to be saved. But when the Gentiles do turn to Jesus, ALL Israel

shall be saved! Do you see what that verse could mean if taken literally?

Despite the dispersion of the ten northern tribes, it could mean that God

intended to save the Israelites all along, and in the Christian Era there is

only one way He would do so: by leading them to a knowledge of His

Son. Everyone in the Church may not be a direct descendant of Jacob,

but from Amos 9:9 and the other verses we have read, it is reasonable to

conclude that the dispersed descendants of Israel are saved and in the

No matter what the color of your skin, or where you are on this

planet, if you have come to the Lord with a humble heart it is very

possible that you are a physical descendant of one of the ten tribes of

Israel, and as such you could be the physical brother or sister of every

1 Because parallels to prominent historic Israelite figures like Abraham, Moses, and David

do not appear in most native religions, Don Richardson (author of Eternity in their Hearts,

Peace Child and Lords of the Earth) questions whether these religions originally sprang

from Hebrew roots. But the beliefs of these primitive peoples were passed down by oral

tradition over the 2700 years that Israel has been dispersed. During that length of time,

almost any amount of corruption or omission could have taken place. The importance of

their great historic figures would have lessened as the memory of their deeds was lost in

antiquity. If a culture barely remembers that it once had a “lost book,” it seems unlikely

that it would remember who wrote it, or what it contained.

other believer on Earth. Greetings, then, my brother or sister, in the

name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Now we have discussed all Israel, but what happened to the tribe of

Ephraim? Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. Our historic

setting for the following quote is with them, in Egypt, at Jacob’s bedside

3700 years ago. The great seven-year famine is long past. Jacob is old

and full of years. He is almost blind and now he is about to die.

Jacob (Israel) called his twelve children around him to give them his

final blessing. Joseph and his two sons were ushered in first. Joseph

herded his two boys before him just as any father would when he wants

Gen 48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand

toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward

Israel’s right hand, and brought them near unto him.

14-16 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon

Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon

Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was

the firstborn. And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom

my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all

my life long unto this day, The Angel which redeemed me from all

evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the

name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a

17-18 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand

upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his

father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s

head. And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is

the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it:

he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly

his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall

So the half tribe of Manasseh would become a great people, but

further into the future, the half tribe of Ephraim would become a

multitude of nations. Now Ephraim never became a multitude of nations

in Old Testament times, so if they didn’t before they were taken captive,

then they would have after they were absorbed into the Gentile world.

Obviously, the tribe of Ephraim is not out there claiming to be Israel, so

they must not even know who they are themselves. Where has the Lord

hidden them, and can it be proven biblically?

Hos 11:8-9 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee,

Israel Mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled

together ... I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not

return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in

As the warrior tribe, Ephraim was the most powerful house in Israel. In

fact, that tribe was so influential that Ephraim’s name was sometimes

used in reference to all ten tribes. But when the Lord tells us He will not

give Israel up, He does make a special reference to Ephraim, so Ephraim

might have a special prophetic significance.

Hos 11:10 ... then the children [of Ephraim] shall tremble from the

They are going to return from the West, and, since Israel’s lands

bordered the Mediterranean Sea wherever they are, west would have to

Hos 7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people;

That is one of my favorite verses. The tribe of Ephraim is not only

mixed among the nations, but it is also a bread not turned. What can that

possibly mean? Well, the ancient Israelites baked their bread one side at

a time, something like the pancakes we make today. It took time to bake

one side, and more time to bake the other. At the time of Hosea, the Lord

tells us that only one side of the bread is baked, in other words,

Ephraim’s history is only half over. For Ephraim’s future, the cake

would need to be turned and baked on the other side. God is telling us

that half of Ephraim’s saga was still future to this prophecy and that it

would take place after their dispersion. So where did God put them?

Hos 9:13-17 (excerpts) Ephraim ... is planted in a pleasant place:

but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer ...1 Oh

Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry

breasts...yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the

beloved fruit of their womb . . and they shall be wanderers among

Ephraim will be placed in a pleasant land, but in these terrible texts, we

see that Ephraim’s future would not always be pleasant. A warrior tribe

still, they would be involved in foreign wars. And many of their children

would die unborn, either through miscar-riages or abortions. So who and

REVELATION’S “TIMES” IDENTIFIES EPHRAIM

The “time, times, and half a time” in Daniel were provably 2500

years, so unless there is a good scriptural reason to disregard that

principle, Revelation’s “times” should also be 2500 years.

Rev 12:14 And to the woman [Israel] were given two wings of a

great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place,

where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time,

This 2500 year period cannot be in our future because there can be

only one generation (forty years or so) following the time of the Gentiles

and the time of the Gentiles is over (Luk 21:24-32). So to find out when

this “time” fits, we need to lay this 2500 years over past history.

The last we heard of Israel was when they were taken captive into

Assyria. Samaria, the capital of Israel, fell in 722BC. But the major

captivity took place about two years earlier, circa 724BC. Hosea stated,

“Ephraim is mixed with the nations,” and his book was written just

before the fall of Samaria. Could 724BC be when Revelation’s “time,

1 “Murderer” in Hebrew is: H2026. harag, haw-rag’; a prim. root; to smite with deadly

intent: put to [death], make [slaughter], slay (-er), “Shall bring fourth his children to the

murderer (slaughter)” In OT times, Israel “went forth to war.” This is probably a

figurative reference to warfare, to abortion, or to both.

times, and half a time” began?1 If so, then this time should lead us to a

significant year in the history of Ephraim:

2500 - 724BC = 1776AD...The United States became a nation!

Is America the pleasant land where Ephraim was planted, and could

the people who come from all over the world to seek freedom from

tyranny and religious persecution be the descendants of those missing

tribes? It certainly appears to be a possibility. For years people have

been looking for the United States in prophecy. Now that we have found

some evidence that this nation might contain the remnants of Ephraim

1 The language of the verse does not tie us to the date of the destruction of Samaria. “Fly

into the wilderness” speaks of the dispersion itself, and would be applicable for any time

and the ten lost tribes of Israel, do you suppose anyone will believe it?

Not a chance. We would rather hang in there with the Seven-Year

Tribulation view for which there is NO biblical or historic evidence

whatsoever. But, unless we can think of some other incident of major

prophetic importance that took place on or about 1776, then the United

States becoming a nation is probably what that prophecy is about. That

makes North America and the United States the pleasant and protected

land where the Lord hid Ephraim (Hos 9:13).

How most of the children of the ten dispersed tribes migrated to

Europe is a story recorded by others.1 Suffice to say that the heraldic

symbols used by the great houses of Europe have their roots in the titles

Jacob gave his twelve sons. If you question that, ask any authority on

heraldry.2 The coats of arms that people so proudly hang on their walls

Throughout the Christian Era, the true saints of God were hounded

all over Europe. The chronicles of the oppression of the true Church

during the middle ages have to be read to be believed. Fox’s Book of

Martyrs, Thielman van Braght’s Martyr’s Mirror (the Anabaptist

record), and Broadbent’s The Pilgrim Church record the sufferings of

our forefathers in detail. The true Christians had no settled home in any

land, and their very lives were continually at risk. They wandered from

place to place or were in hiding from persecution. They had a symbolic

valley of Achor (Achor means trouble) throughout the middle ages. But

1 To avoid any suggestion that the author is using material which is conjectural or lacks

red-letter accreditation, only common historic knowledge and the Bible itself were used

to support the conclusions in this chapter. However, for those interested in pursuing this

line of study, here are a few books on the subject: One Man’s Destiny, C.R. Dickey

(Merrimac MA, Destiny Publishing); Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets, E.

Raymond Capt (Thousand Oaks, CA, Artisan Sales); The Royal House of Britain and

Enduring Dynasties, W. H. M. Milner (Windsor, Ontario, Canadian-British Israelite

2 Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning coats of

arms, tracing genealogies, and determining and ruling on questions of rank or protocol,

Heb 13:13-14 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp,

bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we

Then they cried unto the Lord and the Lord hid them from their

persecutors and planted them in a very pleasant land. It was rich and

fruitful and flowing with milk and honey. The New World was just such

a land, and the United States was founded by Christians fleeing religious

persecution. God also told us exactly how that was going to happen:

Rev 12:15-17 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a

flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away

of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened

her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out

of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went

to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the

commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

In the verses above we read that Satan would try to destroy the Jews

and the Church with a flood of people.1 But the Lord separated a

remnant church and many Jews from their enemies by the Atlantic

Ocean. This country grew and prospered and became the hub of the

Western world. West, West, where have I heard that before? This

hemisphere is as far West as you can get. Go any farther and it is called

Hos 11:10-11 (excerpts) They shall walk after the LORD ... then

the children shall tremble from the west ... and I will place them in

Furthermore, the Church, like the Levites, is called to be priests and to

come out from the world.2 God called Levi to be directly in the Lord’s

service. As priests, they were separated from the rest of the people. God

even gave them special cities to live in:

Num 35:7 ... cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty

and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

1 “Waters” is figurative language for many peoples: Rev 17:15 “And he saith unto me,

The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and

2 2Co 6:14-18, 1Pe 2:5-9, Rev 1:6, 5:10, and Rev 18:4-5.

The Levites had 48 cities; the Continental United States has 48

states. It was not until after the pivotal year of 1948 that we too “mixed

ourselves with the nations,” (Hos 7:8) and states outside our borders

were added. It was not until after 1948 that the United States began to

lose its influence as the Christian lighthouse of the world. Occasional

coincidences happen. But are all these historic fits just random chances

that by some fluke of mathematical magic just happen to fit Scripture?

That would be difficult for any thinking person to swallow. Here are

another couple of “coincidences” of interest.

1. The Lord gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. Until the

last decade, babies were routinely circumcised in the United States.

Why us? There is no sound medical reason for this practice.

2. The United States was the first nation to have a five-day work

week, thus observing the Sabbath as well as Sunday.

3. Though Jacob had only 12 sons, Joseph’s two sons became two

tribes. Counting Ephraim and Manasseh, there were then actually

thirteen tribes. In America there were only 12 colonies, but the

Carolinas were too large to govern in horse and buggy days, so the

Carolinas were split into two states, North and South Carolina. So

as Israel’s twelve sons became thirteen tribes, our twelve colonies

All that was long ago. Since then the United States has fought a

half-dozen foreign wars: bringing her “children forth to the murderer,”

as foretold in Hosea 9:13. And now, through manifold abortions, we also

bring our children forth to the murderer in a new and savage way.

However, terrible as that may sound, God’s eternal plan is still on

Just before Ezekiel describes the battle of Armageddon in the 38th

and 39th chapters of his book, he tells of the restoration of the Jews to the

Holy Land in a vision of “dry bones.” Noting the context, these drybones

Eze 37:11-12 Son of man, these bones are the whole house of

Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost:

we are cut off for our parts ... Therefore prophesy and say unto

them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open

your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and

Armageddon follows closely at the heels of this prophecy. How

soon will that battle be? End-time pundits notwithstanding, Scripture

doesn’t appear to say. However, because of where we are in history, we

can now cross-reference those dry-bones with one of Daniel’s final

Dan 12:1-2 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great

prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall

be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation

even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be

delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And

many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some

to everlasting life, and some to shame and ever-lasting contempt.

As the Lord put flesh on the dry-bones lying in their graves (Eze

37:11), so those who slept in the dust awoke, to be restored to the Holy

Land (Dan 12:1-2). Same event, different figurative language. As an

interesting side note, God tells us that all who came to life (returned to

Israel) would not be believers. However, despite their spiritual condition,

the Lord is assembling the forces that are going to take a stand for Him

Eze 37:16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and

write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his

companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph,

the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:

All agree that the above is an end-time vision. Simply stated,

Ephraim and the ten northern tribes are one stick, while Judah (the Jews)

is the other. As we look about us now, something wonderful is

happening to both the Jews and the ten lost tribes, something we have

Isa 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the

adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah,

Before the end, the Lord will take the stick of Ephraim, now in the

true Church, and unite it with the stick of Judah, and we will be one stick

Eze 37:19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will

take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the

tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with

the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one

It appears that God plans to make one stick (one people) of Israel

and Judah again. He is going to heal the division between them and draw

them together. Within this generation, the Christians will be united with

the Jewish people, and we will be one people again. The Israel of God.

Are we up to the task ahead? Of course not, but now that our hearts can

be opened to who Ephraim and Judah are, we can just begin to see what

Zec 9:13 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with

Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O

Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

Judah, now back in the Holy Land, will have only one true ally:

Ephraim and the Gentile church. We are the only candidate left in the

world for the title of “the stick of Joseph.” The days when the United

States was a trustworthy ally to Israel are swiftly passing, as our

governmental leaders pander to the wishes of the Palestinian Moslems

and dip Old Glory into the inescapable tar-pit of Islamic oil.

There is only a remnant of the true Church left in any western land

now. As Scripture opens before us, we can see that the remnant may be

from the lost tribes of Israel, whom Satan has always hated (Rev 12:17).

Don’t be lulled to sleep, folks. If the Lord doesn’t provide a way of

escape, physical persecution is close at hand for Christians everywhere:

Rev 12:11-12 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb,

and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives

unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in

them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil

is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth

So, were 1948 and 1967 important dates? In those years, the new nation

of Israel was born and the time of the Two Witnesses came to an end.

Jerusalem was freed, and all day=years and time-times were fulfilled.

We are now in the end-times, the final generation, and God is

assembling His forces for the hour of trial (Rev 3:10) and the battle of

Armageddon. The true Church is part of those forces, and the other part