Power
Elite
The growing families from Joseph’s two
sons and Jacob’s eleven sons remain in Egypt for several hundred years until
they become progressively enslaved by the Egyptian kings. They suffer deprivation
and debasement until Moses arises and is called by the Lord to be His servant.
Moses, with a supposed series of miracles, leads Jacob (all the Israelites) out
of Egypt in a 40-year trek back to Canaan, the land promised to Abraham by
Melchizedek. Once established in the Holy Land, the House of Israel unifies for
a period and then divides into northern (Israel) and southern (Judah) factions.
The Northern Tribes (Israel/Ephraim) turn away from God first and become
progressively depraved, sinful, and foolish, even sacrificing their own
children to pagan gods. Those in high positions, the power elite, become the
most depraved of all, absolute power corrupting absolutely. Having turned their
backs on God, the Northern Tribes drift farther and farther away from God and
truth. Foolishly, the leaders of Israel try to silence the prophets sent by God
and succeed in leading the people into destruction and captivity at the hands
of the Assyrians. The surviving remnant of Israel (the Northern Ten Tribes) first
go into exile in Assyria and then later migrate northward, never to return,
losing their identify and becoming the "Lost Ten Tribes" of Israel.
Meanwhile, Judah is undergoing the same corrupting process, also ignores her
prophets, and is also destroyed except for a remnant. The remnant of Judah is
taken into captivity to (one city) Babylon for the next seventy years. Cyrus of
Persia-Media then conquers Babylon and frees the Judah (Jews) remnant to return
to Canaan and build the second temple. Then the whole process starts over
again. The people (Judah remnant) turn away from God again; the elite
leadership of "vipers" (as John the Baptist called them) grow more
and more arrogant and less and less wise. They conspire to bring about Jesus’
death and fail to recognize their spiritual
savior as portrayed by
their prophets. Then
the leaders plunge their nation once again headlong into war and inevitable
destruction, this time at
the hands of the Roman army in 70 A.D. Most die, but a remnant of Judah is
scattered among many
nations for the next two
thousand years while the Christians have their turn to carry the torch of God
during the presently ending "Age of the Gentiles". This is Israel’s
history to the present time.
The
Biblical Prophets, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and 1Enoch all predict a final end of
the age when the "Messiah" comes to put an end to war and to reunite
the Judah and Lost Israel remnants into one nation again and forevermore. The
Messiah also judges the nations, the peoples, and establishes justice. He
enters right after the onset of the messianic war where "all the
nations" come against Israel.
As it
stands now, the remnant of Judah (the Jews) has been and is being re-gathered
into modern Israel, with nationhood declared in 1948. The Lost Israel (northern
tribes) remnant is still unidentified and un-gathered, seemingly lost to
history.
Isaiah 10:20-22 And in that day,
The remnant of
Israel
And the escaped of the
House of Jacob
Shall lean no more upon him
That beats it,
But shall lean sincerely
On the Lord, the Holy One of Israel
Only a remnant shall return,
Only a remnant of Jacob,
To mighty God.
Even if your people, O Israel,
Should be as the sands of the sea,
Only a remnant shall return.
Those
"who beat" the "escaped of the House of Jacob" and the
"remnant of Israel" are the leaders and power elite who persecute and
"hold captive" those who follow God during the trial period at the
end of this age. The Lord through Isaiah tell us that the people, once
liberated from their leaders who ‘beat them’ will lean/rely directly only on
the Holy One of Israel. Notice "only a remnant" of Jacob and Israel
returns – the faithful and true.
Note
here again, there returns two
remnants: "The
Israel remnant," the remnant of the Northern Ten Tribes who lost their
identity and have never returned; and the remnant of the "House of
Jacob" probably referring to the remnant of the Jews/Judah, those who will
escape the future destruction of modern Israel. Also note again the phrase
"sand of the sea " to refer to the multitudes of the Lost Ten Tribes.
Remember, "Israel" (the Northern Tribes) is composed mainly of the
"myriads" of Joseph’s chosen son Ephraim and the
"multitudes" of his other son Manasseh. We will identify this large
group of people soon. Both Ephraim and Manasseh were to be abundantly blessed;
past, present and future. God
and Melchizedek have temporarily
allowed the
land of Canaan to be taken from Jacob (Judah and Israel) in consequence to their
backsliding; but they never take away their love for them or the promises they
gave Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These promises will be made good in the years
directly ahead of us. Now we next have:
Messiah
Isaiah 11:7 The wolf shall dwell
with the lamb,
The leopard lie down with the kid …
A babe shall play over a viper’s hole …
Isaiah 44:18 Have no wit or
judgment;
Their eyes are besmeared, and they see not;
Their minds, and they cannot think.
They do not give thought.
This is
a good description of many people that lived then and many that live now. We
are told what to think by the mass media. We have stopped thinking for
ourselves because our minds are numb and atrophied. We "hear no evil, see
no evil and do no evil." America, wake up! Turn off the T.V. and the
experts. Listen to God speak through his servants, the prophets........
Isaiah 44:24 It is I, the Lord,
who made everything,
Who alone stretched out the heavens . . .
I annul the omens of diviners,
And make fools of the augurs;
Who turn sages back
And make nonsense of their knowledge;
But confirm the word of My servant
And fulfill the predictions of My messengers.
The
intellectual elite of our world appears daily in newspapers and on our
televisions. They are the "experts" who write the books about
marriage, although they are divorced three times. They tell us how to bring up
our children, and yet their own children rebel against them. They know
everything about anything, and there is no doubt about it. Ask if they believe
in God and somber tones cover the smirk and smile. And yet, the question of God is the essential
question of all philosophy, all ideologies, and all human understanding. If this most essential question were on a test, it would
count for ninety-nine percent of the grade and the remaining one percent of the
test would directly depend on the answer to the first. If you are wrong about
God, then you are wrong about very much else as well. Yet the intellectual and
political elite are all confirmed in the opinion that "religion is the opiate
of the masses." Those who won’t say this in public believe it in private,
as their very actions and behavior betray them.
If our
leaders are wrong about the first question, what hope do we have for a peaceful
world guided by wisdom. My answer for that is zero. What do you think? Many of
us deny or question the existence of the very One who gave us existence. God
replies:
Isaiah 45:9 Shame on him who
argues with his Maker,
Though naught but a potsherd of earth!
Shall the clay say to the potter, "What are you doing?
Your work has no handle."
If you
live on this world at this time, no doubt you know of people who display this
level of arrogance.
Isaiah 46:4 Till you grow old, I
will be the same
When you turn gray; it is I who will carry;
I am the Maker, and I will be the Bearer;
And I will carry and rescue you.
And so our
Father tends his children, most often without recognition and without thanks.
Yet, His commitment never wavers, never hesitates,
and never sleeps.
Next,
God has further words for the high and mighty; our elite leaders and
controllers:
Isaiah 47:8 And now hear this, O
pampered one—
Who dwell in security,
Who think to yourself,
I am, and there is none but me; . . .
You thought, "No one can see me."
Isaiah 47:10 It was your skill
and your science
That led you astray.
Notice
how similar that time is to ours. Ends of ages have highly similar
circumstances and types of people. Human history is monotonously similar,
repeating cycles of sameness. But there is evolutionary progress; the remnant
groups have a survival advantage that results from biologic factors that modify
the capacity for spiritual receptivity. The Adamic genes should therefore
become increasingly prevalent over long periods of time. The comment of 47:10
on science as the cause of our going astray is well taken. True religion and
true science are complementary and never contradictory, however man’s error
exists in forming a religion
about science that
denies or ignores God and true religion. This religion of science believes that
science has all the answers for man’s every problem, that science is the only
true knowledge, that man doesn’t need the axiom of God, that man can completely
understand his world through science, and that science offers proof and
certainty. All of these beliefs are false, but they go unrecognized and
unchallenged.
Isaiah 60:9 Surely, the isles
and distant
coastlands
shall wait for and expect Me;
and the ships of Tarshish (large
ships) will come first
to bring your sons from afar.
Isaiah 24:13 For thus it will be
among the peoples
In
the midst of
the earth…
Isaiah 24:14 These shall lift up
their voices,
Exult in the Majesty of the Lord
They shall shout from
the sea:
Again
these nations are far away from geographic Israel, across a sea, have coasts,
and are inhabited by gentiles (non-Jewish) and their major faction lives in the
Chief of Nations. These are fairly specific characteristics
when taken together. Let’s also consider "Israel’s" general spiritual
characteristics. In general this is a large multitude of people who are
scattered all over the world with a main concentration in the Chief of Nations,
a coastland across the sea. The remnant
self-selects themselves
by being receptive to the inner leading and guidance of God amidst the trials
of the latter days, shortly to begin. "Israel" in the broadest sense
is any and all of these persons who choose to follow God’s inner and outer
guidance, and who refuse to sink into the chaos and depravity of those around
them. God chooses
all people! Only some people choose God. "God’s people" are not an elite, or racially
defined group, they are simply those
who have chosen to do His will. This
is not to say, that there are no genetic or environmental factors that
condition the individuals’ responsiveness and receptivity to God’s inner and
outer leadings. There are, but they are never the sole determinants or most
important factors involved.
Jeremiah 3l:10 And tell it in the coastlands afar.
Say:
He who scattered Israel will gather them,
Now we
have a nation that is far away from Canaan, across the sea that has coasts and
is addressed as the chief
of nations. The United
States certainly could be this nation. This nation seems to have a major
contingent of these called "Israel." Another, frequent term, isles of
the sea, could be the British Isles. And now, back to Isaiah. He turns 180
degrees and addresses our elite and illustrious leaders:
the "blind watchmen,"
"the negligent shepherds," and "the greedy dogs."
Also,
the present world leaders are misleaders; they spend no time truly addressing our global problems such as overpopulation,
pollution, nvironmental degradation, rapid loss of biologic species, ongoing
ozone depletion, global social and political unrest, and increasing nuclear
weapons proliferation. They talk a lot but actually do very little, after all
it may ruffle the feathers of some powerful corporation. This planet is being
and has been, raped by the wealthy and powerful. Nary a thought is given to putting
back what we take out. The
sole motivation is to get as much wealth and power as fast as possible. Because
of this, when Melchizedek steps in, we will be in the middle of many major
problems. But God is not going to let the many good people of the world be
destroyed by the strong and powerful. Sovereignty
will be taken away from the present leadership elite and given to those who
live according to God’s ways:
Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel
blew his trumpet…
Saying, "the power to rule over the
World belongs now to our Lord and His
Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever.
The
word Messiah is Christos in Greek. Christ means Messiah. Unfortunately, Jesus was surnamed for just what he
was not. Also notice that "our Lord"
and "his Messiah" are two different personages in this verse.
"Our Lord" is God and "his Messiah" is God’s chosen
representative for our world, Melchizedek. The future always comes in through the minority. The last battle won, "conventional
wisdom" is one step from the scrap heap. We fear and resist change, no
matter what its content. Nearly all-conventional wisdom today is wrong! Wrong
about science, wrong about politics, wrong about people, wrong about
philosophy, wrong about religion and wrong about most anything else we can
think of. Our leaders, our intellectuals and our so-called elite will have the
same constant refrain right up to the hour when they are removed from their
power and prestige. The refrain is "everything is fine, going just as we
expected." This is why they are so "confounded" in Micah 7:16 when
the World Messiah steps into the fray. It’s time we started thinking for
ourselves and stop buying the illusions, which are cast up in front of us by
the "leadership class" and the media; one working hand in hand with
the other.
There
is a Sufi metaphor about identification. Misery doesn’t come to us; we unconsciously seek it out
and hold on to it, like
flinging our arms around a pillar. We squeeze tighter and yell, "Oh if I
could only be rid of this misery and pain!"…We "do" misery we "do" expectation. Hell is not a place,
we "do" it, as American mystic Adi DaSantoshia once remarked…We make prophecy work because we are so
damned predictable… We have repeated again and again the behaviors that make it
easy for the seers to prophesy us unto doomsday. (John Hogue, Millennium Prophecy, Pg. 305).
In
other words, we have
seen the enemy and it is us.
This is why the Urantia Book gives Caligastia (the devil) little credit for the
evil around us and places the blame squarely where it belongs – on ourselves. And the silence of "the good
people" is deafening as we stand back and watch the destruction of our
country and our families.
Micah 3:1 I (the Lord) said:
Listen, you rulers of Jacob
You chiefs of the House of Israel!
For you ought to know what is right,
But you
hate good and love evil
You
have devoured My peoples flesh…
Micah 3:9 Hear this, you rulers
of the House of Jacob,
You chiefs of the House of Israel,
Who detest justice
And make crooked all that is straight…
Micah 3:11 Yet you rely upon the
Lord, saying
‘The Lord is in our midst;
No calamity shall overtake us.’
Assuredly, because of you
Zion shall be a plowed field,
And Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins
And the Temple Mount
A shrine in the woods.
Since
there are no definite messianic references here, the prophet is addressing the
leadership of ancient Judah and Israel. Note that Zion was literally plowed under along with all of
Jerusalem during their wars with Rome (1 st and 2 nd century AD). Throughout the Old Testament
prophets there is a recurring theme of corrupt, arrogant, and suicidal
leadership who come to the fore at the ends of ages. Ultimately, these power elite lead an acquiescing majority
of people to their destruction at the hands of the Assyrians, and then
Babylonians, and then the Romans, and now the…? After all, God is the source of all reality. The great majority of our modern
"leaders," "intellectuals," and "experts," who
consider themselves our elite, are atheists, agnostic, or merely give lip
service to God. Consider how utterly confounded and shocked they would be if
their worldview were suddenly presented with an irrefutable fact to the
contrary. They would surely "put their hand to their mouth" and more.
Humankind’s long standing questions about who we are, where we come from, where
we are going , the purpose of life, and whether or not there’s a God are about
to be answered definitely and with authority. And lest we worry about life
losing some of its surprise, uncertainty, and adventure; we should remember
that God is infinite in all dimensions; there is always an inexhaustible
infinity yet to be unfolded and explored – filled with surprise and adventure
beyond not only what we do imagine, but beyond also what we ever could imagine.
1Corinthians.2: 9 Truly:
Eye has not seen and
Ear has not heard and
Has not entered into
The heart of man
All that God has prepared
For those who love Him.
And it is not God’s will that anyone "die in his sin" because:
Micah 7:18 Who is a God like
You,
Forgiving
iniquity
And
remitting transgression;…
He will take us back in love;
He will cover up our iniquities
You will hurl all our sins
Into the depths of the sea.
I hope the world’s leaders are
listening.
1Enoch 91:3 Let the righteous
man arise from
slumber; let him arise,
and
proceed in the path of righteousness, in all its paths; and let him
advance in goodness and in eternal clemency.
1Enoch 91:1 That which was
written by Enoch. He wrote all this instruction
of wisdom for
every man of dignity, and
every judge of the earth,
for all my children who shall dwell on the earth and for subsequent
generations.
1Enoch l: 1 The word of the
blessing of Enoch, how he
blessed the elect and the
righteous who
were to exist in
the time of trouble.
(the end of the age trial period)
1Enoch 1:2 From them (the angels
in his vision) I (Enoch) heard all things, that
will not take place in this generation, but in a distant generation,
which is to succeed on account of the elect.
1Enoch 1:9 The elect shall possess light, joy, and peace; and
they shall inherit the earth.
1Enoch 1:11 Then shall wisdom be given to the elect, all of whom will live and not
transgress.
1Enoch Another mystery also I point
out. To the
righteous and wise shall
109:10 be given books of joy, of integrity,
and of great wisdom…Who from
these
(books) shall acquire the knowledge of every upright path.
A particular group of people is
being described here. So far, this group, referred to as the elect:
1. Receive books of great
wisdom, through which they are made wise
2. Acquire the knowledge of every upright path
3. Pursue and point out the path of the Most High (God)
4. Live in the latter days, the time of tribulation, in a distant generation
from Enoch.
5. Inherit the earth (after the ruling elite are deposed)
6. Are from among ‘Israel’ or Christendom of today.
Evil tends to be much better organized, goal oriented, and assertive than good
on our world and I’m afraid that the reigns of power (all types) have been and
are in the hands of those who would use them to further their own ends rather
than for the welfare of those that are in their charge. This leadership elite of mankind has
become so powerful that a superhuman effort will be needed to overcome it.
Chapter
2:1-49 discusses Nebuchadnezar’s dream of the great image, which symbolizes the
kingdoms of man and their final destruction by the eternal Kingdom of God. The
final kingdom of man has feet of iron and clay. The iron is strong and
unyielding and the clay is weak and malleable (like human nature). Perhaps the
iron represents authoritarian and the clay democratic nations. Irregardless, these verses end with a divine
kingdom "made not with human hands" that "breaks in pieces and
consumes" all the kingdoms of man gone before it. This is the Kingdom of
heaven and earth, which "shall stand forever." Rebellion and
isolation are ended, full restoration then takes place, and Melchizedek’s
comprehensive plan for rehabilitation is completed. Israel was re-established in 1948.
According to prophecy we are living in the messianic period. Referring to the
End of the Age, Enoch says –
Enoch 55:1 I beheld
another army of chariots, with men riding in
them.
And they came
upon the wind from the
east,
From the west, and from the south.
The sound of the noise of their chariots was heard.
What else could chariots, riding upon the wind, with men and audible noise be, other than airplanes? These planes are probably coming to the Holy land for purposes of war, the messianic war where "all the nations" come against Israel. Notice that the planes come from every direction except the north, perhaps because Gog and the army from the north has that direction covered. Directly north of Israel, lies Moscow the capital of Russia and scriptural evidence can be marshaled in support of this Gog/Russia thesis. The presence of airplanes dates the time of Enoch’s prophecy to our present modern age. Also drought, thirst, and failure of things to grow and yield are frequently referred to in the Messianic period. The drought developing in the Middle East and other parts of the world should get progressively worse if we are truly living in the Messianic time period. I would also expect unraveling in our political, financial, and other institutions to greatly accelerate soon. The prophets, places the heaviest burden of blame on the lawlessness, corruption, and deceit of the ruling class, who lead the masses astray.
Ezekiel 7:10 Here is the day! See, the cycle has come round; it has appeared.
The rod has blossomed; arrogance has budded, lawlessness has grown into a rod of wickedness. Our country
began in Godliness, but an evil crop has been sown and the harvest has
blossomed into deceit and arrogance. Keep watch while this increasingly goes to
seed. Our leaders are trampling our Constitution and the rights of our once proud
citizens. There are many strange things going on in Washington that are
completely unreported by the media establishment. We need to ask questions and
dig under the surface a little to find the dark side of current national and
world events. Next we have:
Malachi 3:5 But first I will step
forward to contend against those who have no
fear of me:
who practice sorcery, who commit adultery, who swear
falsely, who cheat laborers of their hire, and who subvert the cause
of
the widow, orphan, and stranger – said the Lord of Hosts…
The
immediate and direct confrontation with the enemies of God describes
Melchizedek’s rather than Jesus’ mission. Who are these enemies? None other than
the present power elite of our world; our political, financial and intellectual
controllers in positions of power; often behind the scene and out of view.
Malachi 3:7 From the very days of
your fathers you have turned away from
My laws and
have not observed them. Turn back to Me and I will turn back to you…
Malachi 3:11 I will surely open the
floodgates of the sky for you and pour down boundless blessings.
Malachi 3:13 You have spoken hard
words against Me – said the Lord.
You have said,
"It is useless to serve God…"
"And so we account
the arrogant happy because they have done evil and
endured; they
have
dared God and escaped…" But for you who revere My name, a sun of
victory shall rise to bring healing.
Interpreted, this concerns the wicked
of Ephraim and Manasseh,
who shall seek to lay hands on the Priest (Final Prophet) and the men of his
council (the elect) at the time of trial that will come upon them. But God will
redeem them from out of their hand. And afterwards, they (the wicked of Ephraim
and Manasseh) shall be delivered into the hand of the violent among the nations
for judgment. (TR)
The
people who will go the most wrong in the messianic time period upcoming are the
same people who went the most wrong in ancient times as well; i.e. the Northern
Tribes, who are Israel,
who in turn are the
tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, foremost among the Ten Northern Tribes. The
Northern Tribes then become the Lost Ten Tribes who migrate to northern and
western Europe, and then later to America, surfacing today after 2000 years as
Christians, some of whom occupy the equivalent to the "promised land"
of yesterday-- America. Ephraim is very probably America today and Manasseh is
very probably Great Britain. The "wicked of Ephraim and Manasseh" are
the leaders and power elite of these two countries. American is Ephraim because
the Lost Ten Tribes first settled in Northern and Western Europe, from there
the Lost Ten Tribes later settled America. The bravest, most courageous, most
freedom loving and most religious of Europe settled America. The "cream of
the crop" of the entire world moved west. America is directly related to
Ephraim of ancient Israel. Both America and ancient Northern
Israel started out on the right tract with the love and blessings of God. When
both their wealth grew, both abandoned God and went chasing after the false
gods of money, sex, and power. Both had leaderships that led the people (the
majority) far away from the sustenance of truth. Deceit, lawlessness and decay
beset Israel and beset us today. Israel’s prophets arose and were ignored even
as they were killed and imprisoned. America, like Israel, will ignore her
prophets as well. The outcome will be the same, making for a precise repeat of
history. The
beginning is like the end. America, like the Northern Tribes, is
blessed with fruitfulness, bounty, and God’s grace. Both became proud and
defiant, lawless and licentious, arrogant and capricious. Both become blind,
deaf, and dumb to the events around them that ultimately swallow them up. Not
only is America Ephraim by heredity, but America is also Ephraim by history. It is from America and Great Britain
that the most destructive leaders of Christendom will come and they will be the
ones who lead the persecution of the elect. They are, and will be, "the
wicked of Ephraim and Manasseh" of Dead Sea Scroll prophecy.
The
"Priest" referred to in this passage is another name used by the
Teacher of Righteousness to designate the messianic prophet, who is usually
called the ‘interpreter of the law.’ The
Teacher of Righteousness sees the future messianic prophet as the completion of
what he himself has become. One
is a forerunner of the other. The Teacher of Righteousness, like the messianic
prophet, ‘interprets’ prophecy that already exists. Neither are recipients of
new visions of things to come.
America’s power elite (the wicked of Ephraim) are those referred to who
"sell nations," "lead many astray," and who lead Ephraim
(America) astray. Next
we move to the Habakkuk Commentary, Dead Sea Scrolls 1QpHab.
1QpHab "How long, O Lord,
shall I cry for help and Thou not hear?" (Habakkuk 1:1-2)
The
Teacher of Righteousness again explains that rather than God bringing the
Kittim against its people, He
(God) will turn the tables on the power elite and instead "execute the
judgment of the nations by the hand of His elect." The elect we are told have eyes "too
pure to behold evil." Truly, such as these are worthy children of the
Father.
1Enoch 51:6 In
those days they (wicked,power elite) shall not be saved by
gold and by silver (Ezek7:19).
1Enoch 51:7 Nor shall they have
it in their power to secure themselves, or fly.
1Enoch 51:8 There shall be neither
iron for war, nor a coat of mail for the breast.
1Enoch 51:9 Copper shall be
useless; useless also that which neither rusts nor
consumes away; and lead shall not be coveted.
1Enoch 51:10 All these things
shall be rejected, and perish from off the earth,
when the Elect one
shall appear in the
presence of the Lord of spirits.
Notice
again the reference to men flying
in 51:7. In some manner
they will be prevented from doing so when Melchizedek arrives. How?
1Enoch 52:1 There my eyes beheld
a deep valley; and wide was its entrance.
1Enoch 52:2 All who dwell on
land, on the sea, and in islands, shall bring to it
gifts, presents, and offerings; yet that deep valley shall not be full.
Their hands shall commit iniquity. Whatsoever they produce
by
labor the sinners shall devour with crime. But they shall perish
from the face of the Lord of spirits, and from the face of
his earth.
They
(the people of God) shall stand up, and shall not fail for ever and ever.
1Enoch 52:6 After which the
righteous and chosen house of his congregation
shall appear, thence forward unchangeable, in the name of the Lord
of spirits. (? 3rd Temple)
1Enoch 52:7 Nor shall those
mountains exist in his presence, as the earth and
the hills, as the fountains of water exist. And the righteous shall
be relieved from the vexation of sinners.
1Enoch 56:2 Blessed are ye, O
saints and elect, for glorious is your lot.
1Enoch 56:3 The saints shall
exist in the light of the sun, and the elect in the
light of everlasting life, the days of whole life shall never terminate;
nor shall the days of the saints be numbered who seek for light, and
obtain righteousness with the Lord of spirits
(Php. 3:14; Rom. 9:23;1 Tim. 6:16).
1Enoch 56:4 Peace be to the
saints with the Lord of the world.
1Enoch 56:5 Hence forward shall
the saints be told to seek in heaven the secrets
of righteousness, the portion of faith; for like the sun has it arisen
upon the earth, while darkness has passed away. There shall be
light which cannot be numbered; nor shall they enter upon the
enumeration of time; for darkness shall be previously
destroyed,
and light shall increase before the Lord of spirits; before the Lord of
spirits shall the light of uprightness increase for ever (Rev. 22:4-5).
1Enoch 61:1 Thus the Lord
commanded the kings, the princes, the exalted,
and those who dwell on earth, saying: Open your eyes, and lift up
your horns, if you are capable of comprehending the Elect one.
1Enoch 61:2 The Lord of spirits
sat upon the throne of his glory.
1Enoch 61:3 And the spirit of
righteousness was poured out over him.
1Enoch 61:4 The word of his
mouth shall destroy all the sinners and all the
ungodly, who shall perish at his presence.
1Enoch 61:5 In that day shall all the kings,
the princes, the exalted, and those
who possess the earth, stand up, behold, and perceive, that He is
sitting on the throne of his glory; that before Him the saints shall
be judged in righteousness;
1Enoch 61:6 And that nothing,
which shall be spoken before Him, shall be
spoken in vain (Rev. 6:15-17).
1Enoch 61:7 Trouble shall come
upon them(the power elite).
Clearly,
the powers that be are brought to judgment and justice. The Son of man
described here seems to fit better with the activities of Messiah/Melchizedek
rather than Jesus. The Lord of spirits is God as previously indicated.
Chapter 62 contains similar
information about the judgment of the power elite.
There
is a covert war on God on this world and it is waged by the powerful elite, the
"intellectuals," the propagandists, the government, and the media
establishment. Our public schools are instruments for the indoctrination of an
alternate, unacknowledged, value system of no-values; the official,
unannounced, state religion. This secular humanistic state is slowly enslaving
its citizens and will lead them into crisis. The war against God has only one possible outcome,
and that outcome is, and forever will be, failure! The most difficult task is teaching
the well intentioned that such a war actually exists. The well intentioned project their own
intentions onto the intentions of others, because the reality of evil intent is
so totally foreign and so totally irrational to them. But evil and iniquity does exist and unless we learn to recognize
it, we will continue to be its victims. Jesus has spoken well: "Be as wise as serpents and as gentle as doves." To be
as wise as serpents we must first recognize and understand those serpents of
wrong choosing.
Rebellion against God, the very source of being and all reality, is tantamount
to cosmic insanity. It is suicidal and bears its own seed of self-destruction.
God allows it, because true freedom requires it and true freedom is necessary to any
prospect of true love, and true love, the love a Father for His children is the
foundation of the world. Emily
Dickinson says it the best, as usual, "Evil is the leisure of God’s
Will" – it is the transient shadow cast by God’s ever-increasing light of
life. Before leaving this topic let’s continue down the line of iniquitous
ones:
1Enoch speaks about a race of people who are descended from the offspring of
"the sons of God who mated with the daughters of men." This race is
referred to as the Nephilim, which corresponds to the Nodite race of the
Urantia Book. This inter-racial union between Nodites and the daughters of man
is blamed for the evil and sin that resulted in "the flood," by which
God purified the earth. Enoch again identifies "an evil race" which
is associated with the evil harvest of the messianic period. This raises the
question of whether or not there are still present, relatively pure line
descendants of this ancient Nodite race? Is this the race that has been
associated with royalty throughout the centuries? If so, this would explain the
royal links between the ruling class, the Power Elite, and the secret
societies. Who are they, where are they, and what role, if any, will they play
in the messianic period?
1Enoch 105:27 For to the
faithful shall He give faith in the habitation of upright
ways. They shall see those, who having been born in darkness into
darkness shall be cast; while the righteous
shall be at rest. Sinners
shall cry out, beholding them, while they
exist in splendor and
proceed forward to the days and periods written
down for them.
In 105:13, "Those who were from heaven" probably refers to the
Nephilim or Nodites. Among these are the "sons of God who cavorted with
the daughters of men" (Ge: 6). In Enoch 10:18, we are told that the
offspring of these "watchers" who fell from heaven are destroyed in
the "last days" judgment because they "have tyrannized over
mankind." 1Enoch thus reveals to us the presence of an ancient and ongoing
"evil race" (? Nodites) who have existed throughout the history of
mankind. And so we can begin to understand the Psalm "Why do the heathen
rage and the nations conspire against the Lord and his anointed" (Psalms 2).
The concept of an evil, world order that attempts to impose itself over mankind
should be studied in detail in our attempt to understand the forces that are
shaping our world situation today. In order to be the bearers of truth, one
must be able to bear ridicule, slander, and contempt. World government could be
a wonderful development and a great benefit to mankind. However, ask yourself,
if our developing world order is really so beneficial, why has it developed and
flourished in secrecy, without public debate and knowledge.
There are scores of international institutions that most of us have never heard
of and know nothing about. Why not? Consider the World Trade Organization so
recently in the news. How many know that this organization represents the
interests of the ever-more powerful international corporate elite who use the
political power and auspices of the United States Government to facilitate and
maintain their success. These interests care nothing about people, jobs,
environmental concerns, or equity. They care only about profit, control, and
power. Government has become an arm of the corporate interest. Is this the
world system that we want? How many of us know that the United States law is
being changed by Federal Executive Orders directly by the President, bypassing
Congress, in order to prepare for the day when the United States Constitution
is made subservient to the United Nations Charter? How many know that the
United Nations Charter has no bill of rights and no protection for the
individual against the arbitrary power of the World State? The Book of Enoch reveals to us that the core of such
"nefarious plans" has ancient roots dating from the very origins of
rebellion on this planet. Is it really surprising to anyone who understands the
Urantia
Book that our
developing world system has points of contact with the same forces of evil
which ‘conspired’
to bring to an
end the life of the Son of Man. However, it would be a mistake to give these
"principalities" of evil too much credit. Mankind itself bears the
greatest burden of blame, for without its willing assistance, such
principalities could have no power and no influence. The kingdom of heaven
within, established in each and every heart, is the only true antidote for the
evil, sin, and iniquity that are present in our world today that acts under the
guise of good will. If we don’t recognize this deceitful aspect of our world,
we will become its victims. Consider the following quotes which have been
chosen from the website www.thewinds.org
in regard to this
secretly operating power elite:
The Power Elite
From the days of Spartians
Wieshophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon,
Rosa Luxenberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy played a
definite role in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the
mainspring of every
subversive movement of
the nineteenth century. And
now at last this band of extraordinary
personalities from
the underworld
of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people
by the hair on their head and have become the undisputed masters of that
enormous empire. (Winston
Churchill stated to
London press in 1922.)
The World is governed by very different personages from what is imagined
by those who are not behind the scenes. (Benjamin Disraeli, First
Prime Minister of England,
1844)
The real rulers in Washington
are invisible and exercise power from behind
the scenes. (U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter)
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a
giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities states and nation.
(John F. Hylan, Mayor
of New York, 1918-1925.)
The real truth of the matter
is, as you and I know, that a financial element
in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the day of
Andrew Jackson. (President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in
a letter dated
November 21, 1933.)
The Trilateral commission is
the international…[It] is intended to be the
vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking
interests by seizing control of the political government of the United
States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort
to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power – POLITICAL,
MONETARY, INTELLECTUAL, and ECCLESIASTICAL. (U.S.
Senator Barry
Goldwater, Republican
candidate for President, 1964, in
his book, "With no Apologies")
One
may ask why there hasn’t been more press coverage of such a well-established
movement. How have its antagonists been so effectively excoriated, ridiculed,
and labeled as crackpots? For those who think that the "Free Press"
is free and uncontrolled, consider the following:
We are grateful to the
Washington Post, The New York Times, Time
Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our
meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.
It
would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if
we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years.
But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards
a world government. The
supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite
and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination
[read that "democracy"] practiced in past centuries. (David Rockefeller,
founder of the aforementioned Trilateral Commission,in an address
to a meeting of that organization in June of 1991.)
There is no such thing, at
this date of the world’s history, in America, as
an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of
you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for
keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of
you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would
be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets
looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one
issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be
gone. The
business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie
outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his
country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and
what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are tools and vassals
of rich
men behind the scenes. We
are the jumping jacks, they pull the
strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the
property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. (John Swinton,
former Chief of Staff of the most powerful and prestigious
newspaper on earth, The New York Times, when asked to give a toast
to the "free press" at the New York Press Club.)
The media looks for minor
details to report on – ‘what the Group of 7
Finance ministers had for dinner’ – instead of concentrating on the fact that
they are
orchestrating the whole global economic, environmental,military,
and political infrastructure of the world. (Joan Veon, Financial advisor
and international journalist.)
Above this race of
men stand an immense and tutelary power, which takes
upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their
fate…After having thus successively taken each member of the
community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme
power then extends its arm over the whole community…The will of man
is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided…It does not tyrannize, but
it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each
nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious
animals, of which the
government is the shepherd. (Alexis
De
Tocqueville in Democracy in America, 1840.)
The bewildered herd are a
problem. We’ve got to prevent their rage and
trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the
Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies or something. Every once in a
while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like ‘Support Our
Troops’, and you’ve got to keep them pretty scared because unless
they’re scared properly and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going
to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to
think, which is very dangerous because they’re not competent to think, and
therefore it’s important to distract and to marginalize them. (Noam
Chomsky, on the Power
Elite’s conception of democracy in America.)
Assemble a mob of men and women
previously conditioned by a daily
reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright
lights…and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost
mindless sub humanity. Never
before have so few been in a position to
make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many. (Aldous Huxley in The
Devils of Loudon.)
I think the subject which
will be of most importance politically is mass
psychology…Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be
rigidly confined
to the governing class. The
populace will not be
allowed to know
how its convictions were generated. (Bertrand
Russell in The Impact of Science on Society.)
The man who never looks into
a newspaper is better informed than he
who reads them insomuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. (Thomas Jefferson)
These are the voices of highly respected individuals of great intelligence,
many of them now of legendary stature. Such voices, independently attesting to
the same truths, must be taken with utmost respect and consideration.
Manipulation and control of values, attitudes, and ideas is much in evidence
during our daily lives and are the only evidence necessary to confirm the
reality of these statements. But one can not see what one is not aware of.
There is an alternate media growing up on the internet, which portrays the
other unreported side of events. One must sift, judge, and correlate all the
available facts before making an interpretation. Next,we focus on our corrupt
financial system, which is a direct descendent of the one developed in Babylon
four thousand years ago.
I see in the near future a
crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes
me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war,
corporations
have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places
will follow, and
the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong
its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is
aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this
moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even
in the midst of war. (Abraham
Lincoln – in a letter
written to William
Elkin less than five months before he was assassinated.)
When plunder becomes a way of
life for a group of men living together
in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system
that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. (Frederick Bastiat –
1801-1850, in Economic
Sophisms.)
The Power Elite
If the American people ever
allow private banks to control the issue of
their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around [the banks], will deprive the
people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on
the continent their fathers conquered. (Thomas Jefferson)
The
system of banking [is] a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, dominate
its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign
exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to
influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the
business world. (Prof.
Carroll Quigley in Tragedy and Hope)
In a small Swiss city sits an
international organization so obscure and
secretive…Control of the institution, the Bank for International
Settlements, lies with some of the world’s most powerful and least
visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions
of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen. (Keith
Bradsher of the New
York Times, August 5,
1995)
Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them
the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create
enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all
the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for
this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain
the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue
to create deposits. (Sir Josiah Stamp - President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, and the second richest man
in Britain.)
[The Great
Depression resulting from the Stock Market crash] was not
accidental. It
was a carefully contrived occurrence…The international
bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might
emerge as rulers of us all. (Rep.
McFadden testified
in Congress, 1933.
There were at least two attempts on his life by gunfire. He died of
suspected poisoning after
attending a banquet.)
The Federal Reserve [Banks]
are one of the most corrupt institutions
the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my
voice who does not know that this
Nation is run by the International
Bankers. (Rep. Louis McFadden)
History shows that the money changers have used every form of
abuse,intrigue,
deceit and violent means possible to maintain control over governments by
controlling the money and the issuance of it. (President, James A. Madison)
Government by the elite substitutes for God and is the answer to every need and
every problem. The High Priest is replaced by the scientist who knows all,
explains all, and who conquers all. Man has put his trust and faith in
"science" and in government. God doesn’t seem to be necessary. Man is
the measure of all things. Man can succeed on his own, with his own brain and
his own laws and his own values. Gone are the moral strictures, gone are the
Ten Commandments, gone are right and wrong, gone are accountability,
responsibility, and duty. Now we are told – if it feels good, do it! You owe it
to yourself. You are entitled.
We
are comfortable, we have what we want and that is all we really care about.
Nevertheless, those who seek control over others are in a desperate, doomed to
fail, last ditch effort to further their own ends. They are allowed by God to
proceed only as an instrument to perfect those who would do God’s will and
stand against the tide. When their (the power elite) function is complete, they
will be removed from power; forever.
Now,
lets look at a few quotes about our political system. In another book by
William Greider, Who
Will Tell the People,
1992, the author tells us the truth about our broken democratic process:
The
blunt message of this book is that American
democracy is in much deeper trouble than most people wish to acknowledge.
Behind the reassuring
facade, the regular election contests and so forth, the substantive meaning of
self-government has been hollowed out. What exists behind the formal shell is a
systemic breakdown of the shared civic values we call democracy.
Citizens are cut out of the politics surrounding the most important governing
questions. The representative system has undergone a grotesque distortion of
its original purpose. The connective tissues that in different ways once linked
ordinary people to governing—political parties, the media, the secondary
mediating institutions—no longer function reliably. At the highest levels
of government, the power to decide things has instead gravitated from the many
to the few, just as ordinary citizens suspect.
Galatians 6:4-5 Let every man
prove his own
work…
For every man shall bear his own
burden.
Galatians 6:6 Let him that is
taught in the word communicate
unto
him (God) that teaches in all good things.
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; for
God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of darkness of this world…(the Power Elite)
Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto
you the full armour of
God, that ye may withstand the evil day.
Ephesians 6:14 Girt your loins
about with truth, and have
on the breast plate of righteousness…
Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod
with the preparation
of the gospel of peace.
Ephesians 6:16 and above all, take
the Shield of Faith…
Ephesians 6:17 the helmet of
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.
Isaiah 24:29 For sluices are
opened on high,
and earth’s
foundations tremble.
The earth is breaking, breaking;
The earth is crumbling, crumbling.
The earth is tottering, tottering;
The earth is swaying
like a drunkard;
It is rocking
to and fro like a
hut…
Isaiah 24:21 In that day, the Lord will punish
The host of heaven in heaven
And the Kings of the earth on earth.
That
this is the messianic time period is indicated by "the Lord"
returning to punish the high and mighty ones, those elite leaders of prior
discussions. Large-scale motion of the earth is certainly described here, but
it is not that well fleshed out. As
outrageous as a pole shift sounds, there is very good evidence from the past to
suggest that prior pole-shifts have occurred. Far greater minds than mine (including
Einstein) have considered such possibilities. We are a young species and are an
even younger civilization when compared to the vast stretches of geologic time
that has gone before us. An honest reading of prophecy brings these unusual
considerations before us to ponder. If we reject them, it should be on the
basis of sound science and careful inquiry.
Congregation of the elect,
those who elect God’s will in a time of adversity, danger, and persecution.
They are also referred to as the Church of Philadelphia in Revelation. They are "made wise
by special
books given to
them" (1Enoch) and are true
to the real message of Jesus –
the Kingdom of heaven within. They are assisted by God and Melchizedek
throughout the trial period. They are also called the party of Melchizedek in the Dead Sea Scrolls. When they ‘stand
up’ war comes to an end by virtue of Melchizedek’s entrance. They inherit the
earth and the power elite is deposed.
The above excerpts is from the book "The Kingdom of Heaven is at
Hand" written by Edmund J. Roache, MD