THE REVELATION OF THE
MILLENNIUM
First,
let us ask some questions to get us to start thinking, to begin to ask other
questions, to get us to look outside the box and ask for answers to things that
take us well below the mere surface where the vast majority live each and every
moment of the day. To get started,
here are some intriguing related questions.
1. When Moses was told and shown at the burning
bush that he would perform two signs that would cause belief, why did he later
in Egypt perform the first sign but not the critical second sign?
These
two signs were (1) the staff turning into a serpent and back into a staff, and
(2) placing his hand into his bosom and it coming out leprous, then placing his
hand back into his bosom and it coming out restored. In Exodus 4:8, Yahweh declared: “If they will not
believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they will believe the
witness of the last sign.”
Then He added that if they did not believe these two signs, he was to
take some of the water from the Nile, pour it on the ground, and it would
“become blood on the dry ground.” But not only was the second sign not performed, neither was
this third sign performed, but instead the Nile flowed with blood. Only one of those signs declared by
Yahweh was performed – the first regarding the staff. Clearly, there is a revealing parable
here that takes us well below surface thinking.
Now
for another question:
2. When Yahweh sought to kill Moses as he was
on his way to Egypt, how could the circumcision of his son cause Yahweh to let
him alone?
As
Moses proceeded to go to Egypt to obey Yahweh and seek to deliver the sons of
Israel, “Yahweh met him and sought to put him to death” (Exodus
4:24). But his wife, Zipporah,
“took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it on
Moses’ feet,” and said to him, “You are indeed a bridegroom
of blood to me.” Without a
doubt, this too prophesies. How could
this circumcision of his son by his wife change Yahweh’s wrath against
Moses, and what does it mean? What
does it prophecy?
3. When Peter declared on the day of Pentecost
that Yahweh would raise up a prophet like Moses who would restore all things
(Acts 3:19-23), who was he speaking of?
The
answers to all three of these questions point to one man – an Elijah, who
must come and fulfill that which “Moses” was to have fulfilled, but
did not.
When
Peter spoke of the “restoration of all things,” there is only one
man spoken of who can fulfill that work – Elijah. As Yahshua clearly stated,
“Elijah is coming and will restore all things” (Matthew
17:11).
Moses
stated that this man would be “a prophet like me from your
brethren.” Yahshua was not
“from your brethren”; for clearly, both John the Baptist, who had
the spirit of Elijah, as well as Yahshua himself, said that He was from above
and not of this world (John 3:13, 31).
And regarding Elijah, once again we see his identity confirmed here:
“Elijah was a man with a nature like ours” (James 5:17). Without a doubt, Peter was not speaking
of Yahshua when he declared these things concerning a prophet, but of
Elijah.
Who
fulfilled the promise given to Moses that he would be hidden in the cleft of
the rock on Mount Sinai and Yahweh would pass by (Exodus 33:17-23)? That promise was not fulfilled by
Moses, but by Elijah (1 Kings 19:8-14).
When
it was time for Elijah to ascend alive into heaven, to where did he journey as
he traveled across the land of Israel and crossed the Jordan River? He went to the very area where his predecessor,
Moses, had died – to the land east of the Jordan opposite Jericho. Elijah ascended alive where Moses had
died!
And
what two attesting men stood on the mount of transfiguration with Yahshua as He
was glorified? Once again, it was
the fulfilling pair – Moses and Elijah. Repeatedly we see that Elijah is the prophet who fulfills
that which is given to Moses.
And
all of this is equally proven and evidenced in questions 1 and 2. Let’s start with question 1.
1. When Moses was told and shown at the burning
bush that he would perform two signs that would cause belief, why did he
perform the first sign but not the critical second sign?
The
answer to this seems quite evident, and lies in the same reason why the promise
to Moses regarding Yahweh’s glory was not fulfilled by Moses. To get right to the point, Moses did
not fulfill the second of the two signs because, prophetically, there had to
come one later who would do so – the Elijah.
Yahweh told Moses to do this (Exodus 4:21), but in prophetic testimony
regarding a Moses work, its fulfillment would come later in Elijah.
What
we find is that the Moses first Remnant in like manner began all the plagues
that were actually evidenced by Moses.
The 2,000 year period of Christianity is the period of these plagues, or
could equally be said to be the “great and terrible wilderness,” or
the “great and terrible day of Yahweh” in Malachi 4:5, or even the
“great tribulation” of the book of Revelation. The fulfillment of the book of
Revelation has been taking place for 2,000 years! This is the period in which wrath is carried out against the
kingdom of heaven on earth, the church.
This
truth is evidenced in the “three days journey into the wilderness” requested by Moses “that they
[Christianity] may sacrifice to Yahweh our God” (Exodus 3:18). This is the three days, or 3,000 year
journey of the wilderness “great tribulation” church, that must be
cut short to two.
Therefore,
the first sign that Moses did perform in Egypt was fulfilled when the staff
that was taken by Mark Christianity was turned into a serpent, as Satan has
ruled over the church. But Elijah
must now come and perform the second sign so as to cause men to believe. The first part of that sign was
performed when the first Remnant became leprous in their hand, in their
works. Now it is time for the
second Remnant to form and to be healed of the leprosy that has afflicted
kingdom men for 2,000 years, in their hand, in their works.
So
what then is the answer to question 2?
2. When Yahweh sought to kill Moses as he was
on his way to Egypt, how could the circumcision of his son cause Yahweh to let
him alone?
What
made Moses’ son so unique so as to be able to avert Yahweh’s
wrath? In like manner, let us ask
pertaining to Malachi 4:5-6: Who is it who prevents Yahweh from carrying out a
like wrath against the land in the “great and terrible day of
Yahweh”? Of course, once
again it is Elijah. So who in type
was Moses’ son. Can it not
equally be said that as his son, he too was a man like Moses? Most
certainly so. What then does this
mean? What is being said? Once again, Moses’ son
prophesies of the fulfilling Elijah who averts Yahweh’s wrath. As
we have already noted, like unto Moses’ son, Elijah is “a prophet
like me.”
Furthermore,
what is it that we know regarding circumcision? It speaks of Yahweh taking full responsibility, even as he
did so for Abraham with the resulting birth of Isaac, the promised offspring. (Read “Circumcision” in Coverings.)
And as of 1994, when Yahweh declared Jubilee, this is what is evidenced
for this time. The circumcision of
Moses’ son by his wife and the foreskin being cast on, or applied to,
Moses’ feet, evidences the work of Jerusalem above and that circumcision
being applied to the kingdom rights, the feet, of the Moses first Remnant that
will deliver them out of death, including the fulfilling Elijah. Even as it is written in Hebrews 11:40,
in like manner, “apart from us they would not be made perfect.”
Additionally,
even the promised third sign that Moses equally did not perform seems to speak
of good as well. The commanded
sign that was to have been performed was not what Moses performed. Yahweh instructed that water from the
Nile was to be poured on the dry ground and it would become blood. Given the good of the second sign, it
reminds us of Yahshua in the Garden where “His sweat became like drops of
blood, falling down upon the ground.” And is it not also very revealing that this act by Yahshua
is only spoken of in second Remnant Luke (22:44), when the Garden curse is to
be reversed? Likewise,
Zipporah’s words to Moses were – “You are indeed a bridegroom
of blood to me.”
But
instead of applying the blood to the cursed dry ground, Moses took his
staff/rod of judgment “that was turned into a serpent,” and then
caused the Nile to be turned into blood.
Moses did not cause belief, but brought trouble and wrath. Thus we see that the Moses work begins
the period of wrath, judgment, and tribulation with the serpent, and awaits the
fulfillment of good spoken of at the burning bush where Moses was told to take
off his sandals and instructed to perform the signs that cause belief. Therefore, the promise-receiving Moses
work looks to the promise-fulfilling Elijah work.
Let
us now expand upon this some more.
We noted that Moses did not perform the second sign, or even the third,
so as to cause belief. And we also
know that the signs given to Moses are in fact reserved for Elijah. Having said this, let us note that in
Exodus 4:29-31, we read:
Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the sons of
Israel; and Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses. He then performed the signs in the
sight of the people. So the people
believed; and when they heard that Yahweh was concerned about the sons of
Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and
worshiped.
As
we have noted, though Yahweh would not perform the second and even third signs
that cause belief before Pharaoh, He did evidently perform them before the
Israelites. But you will also
notice that Moses may not have even performed them, but Aaron did. We read in Exodus 4:10-17 that when
Moses lamented that he was not eloquent in speech, Yahweh’s anger
“burned against Moses,” and He declared concerning Aaron –
“he shall speak for you to the people; and he will be as a mouth for you
and you will be as God to him.”
While
Moses proclaimed all the signs of wrath before Pharaoh, we find that it was
Aaron who spoke to the elders of the sons of Israel, and it seems even
performed the signs that cause belief.
Prophetically, this is quite consistent with a two-part Remnant. Evidenced here is that it is the second
Remnant who declare Yahweh’s message and effect the signs that cause
belief, not the Moses first Remnant.
Aaron certainly declared Yahweh’s message, and apparently
performed these signs, even though they were first given to Moses to carry
out. Therefore, in type Aaron was
the fulfilling Elijah.
Also,
you will notice that the signs that cause belief were performed for the chosen
ones who were to be delivered out of Egypt. On the other hand, though the first sign before Pharaoh was
the beginning of the signs that cause belief, none of the others followed. Beginning with turning the Nile into blood, all the
signs that followed effected a great and terrible period of affliction and
torment. In The Issue - II, page 16, and Alls
Well That Ends Well,
page 2, we
categorically find that Egypt is prophetic of Christianity. Therefore, all the plagues that came
upon Egypt in order to get the chosen people out of it in the end, is the like
“great tribulation” spoken of in Revelation, or the great and
terrible day of Yahweh” spoken of in Malachi 4:5-6, or even the
“great and terrible wilderness” spoken of in Deuteronomy 8:15, all
of which apply to the period of Christianity.
Therefore, with the
signs that cause belief performed for the remnant in Goshen, and then the signs
of plagues performed on Egypt specifically in order to bring the people to the
deliverance of Passover, we see testified the belief of the first Remnant,
followed by the breach period of Christianity, then concluded by the Passover
exodus of the second Remnant out of the body of Christ, even as it is written
– “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in
her sins and receive of her plagues;
for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her
iniquities” (Revelation 18:4-5).
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