God failed beforehand?

(at the bottom of this post is my short analysis of presidential debate that I gave last night and then took offline because I didn't want to sound like a loon making predictions about the future. I got no more idea than anybody else when the quote "SHTF Event" will occur. I am working on new article that I will post tomorrow for sure)

Matthew 24:35: [35] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

I Peter 1:23: [23] Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

"So is there ever a point in time when God's Word does not abide? No, there never is because it 'abideth forever,' says David Reid.

[25] But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

"You know good and well that's quoted in Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4 as well. Jesus Christ says, 'It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'

"Think with me just for a minute about this. If man needs every word, then what must be available to him? Every word. Doesn't it just logically follow that's the essence of what that is saying? 

"What this means is that God promised to preserve His Word and make it continually available. There are no gaps.

"Now think through this with me. God both inspired His Word and preserved His Word. If God promised to preserve His Word and it had to be continually available, then those simple principles mean that all new sources of information cannot be true.

"People get all excited about Codex Vaticanus or Codex Sinaiticus. Well, Codex Vaticanus is first listed in the Vatican library in 1475, but it's not publicly available until much later. Sinaiticus was first discovered in 1844. The modern critical text of Westcott and Hort was 1871. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1946.

"If any of those sources of information actually represent a more accurate text, if they're actually that, then that means what you have before was inferior and what it means is the Word wasn't preserved!

"What if you lived before the Dead Sea Scrolls and they were actually the most accurate? That means you didn't have them! Doesn't that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that that which is new cannot be better?!

"If you're saying that a modern discovered manuscript, or a modern version is more accurate because of that new information, then you must say that what existed before was inaccurate and inadequate and therefore God's promise to preserve His Word and have it 'abideth and endureth forever' was simply false!

"Do you see how you're stuck? That simple principle means any 'new and better and greatly improved' thing cannot be true! Isn't that logically the case? It naturally follows from that.

"The very nature of preservation means that supposed new and better evidence cannot be so because it means that God would have been failing beforehand." 

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The Hebrew Bible has a three-fold division just like the English Bible but the same 39 books they share are grouped together into 24 books in the Hebrew Bible, explains Richard Jordan.

Twenty-four is two times 12. Whose book is the Hebrew Bible? God committed it to the nation Israel. Twenty-four is 3x8. Three is the number of divine completion; eight is the number of a new beginning. So you have a message to Israel about God's intention to provide a new beginning for them.

Twenty-four is 4x6. Four in the Bible is the number of the earth. Six is the number of man. What's God's purpose for man in the earth?

In our Bible, the Old Testament has 39 books and 3x9=27, which is how many books there are in the New Testament. 39 when you divide it is 3x13. Thirteen is the number of rebellion.

As Gentiles--aliens and rebels against God--that was the Old Testament for us. The books in the Hebrew Bible are arranged differently. Their last book is II Chronicles and the last chapter is 36.

At the end of II Chronicles what is Israel doing? They're off in captivity, in Babylon, and now they're invited to come back to the land. What's the hope of Israel? To go back into their land.

You know what our Old Testament ends in? In Malachi 4, the last word is 'curse.' Israel's Old Testament ends with a blessing and ours ends with a curse. I wonder why. Well, you and I are aliens and strangers and what does the law do? It curses.

There's all kind of things like that in the arrangement of the Bible that, as you study your Bible, you can't help but see these things. What happens is you begin to understand there's an underlying structure to the Word of God that demonstrates its divine origin.

The Old Testament is divided into three sections in an English Bible and the first 17 books (Genesis- Esther) are what I call history. Then there's five that look at the heart of Israel (Job-Song of Solomon) and after that are 17 prophetic books looking at the hope of Israel set forth in their prophets (Isaiah-Malachi).

First there are five books of Moses, what's called the Pentateuch or the Torah, which leaves 12 books from Joshua to Esther. But in these 12 that No. 12 is divided. There's 9 of those 12 that are pre-exile and then there are 3 of them that are post-exile. So you keep breaking the thing down.

These other 17 books are divided into five and 12 too. You have the five major prophets, then you have 12 minor prophets which are divided into nine and three. Nine pre-exile before the Babylonian captivity and three post-exile prophets.

When you begin to see how they match up, there's a numerical structure in the way the books are arranged in your bible, that once you begin to see it, there's this balancing act going on in Scripture.

You can't miss the fact that when you look at the table of contents numbers are going to be important. By the way, when you come into the New Testament, you have the first five books (Matthew-Acts) then you have Romans-Philemon, which are Paul's 13 epistles and then you have the nine books of Hebrews-Revelation.

Matthews-John are the history books, the four presentations of the life of Christ, and then in the Book of Acts you have the renewed opportunity of Israel to repent. Acts is the 5th book in the New Testament. The Book of Deuteronomy is the 5th book in the Old Testament and it's is a regiving of the law to Israel after the 40 years in the wilderness. The Book of Acts is a renewed offer of an opportunity for Israel to repent after the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.

There are nine epistles Paul writes to the local churches and then there are four of what we call pastoral epistles, or handbooks for the local church. There are nine epistles written to the Hebrew churches.

Romans is the first of Paul's epistles and it focuses on the Cross. The last epistle to the Thessalonians focuses on the coming of Christ. The first one of the Hebrew epistles is the Book of Hebrews and it focuses on explaining the crosswork for them. The last epistle for them is the Book of Revelation and it's all about Christ coming for these people.

You can break that down more and more and you see this symmetry; there is a mathematical, numerical structure even in the way the Word of God is put together, so numbers are important to God. They matter in Scripture.

There are so many verses about God using numbers and God doing numbers, like how He's numbered the stars and He's numbered the hairs on your head.

But when you begin to study numbers, the first 13 numbers, actually 40 numbers, each number has a significance attached to it in Scripture that you just can't ignore and that's beyond the ability to just say it's coincidence.

It doesn't mean that every time the number occurs its significance is there, but it will be probably about 70-80% of the time, where you can see in the text a specific significance with that number consistently through Scripture.

In Genesis 11 the whole earth was of one language. Verse 6: [6] And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

The people are one and have one language. I read that and I think, wow, that is so true. Man can accomplish and achieve anything he sets his mind on doing unless God intervenes, as he did here. They had one world with one language and in verse 4 they try to create a one-world religion. And here’s unity and globalism at its best. One is a number of unity.

If you want to learn about believing something, just go to Genesis 1 and your Bible will prove itself. The No. 1 is the number of God. It’s the number of unity. It’s the foundation of all other numbers because every other number is a multiple of one. It first occurs in the text of scripture in Genesis 1:9: [9] And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

The number is associated with unity. About the 10 Commandments, Deuteronomy 6 says: [4] Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: [5] And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

That’s the great confession of Israel. It’s a oneness that’s associated with God Himself. Genesis 2:24: [24] Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Two represents division and the number three represents divine completeness. It’s the number of resurrection in the Bible. John 1, for example, starts out, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.” Both the term Word and the name God occur three times. There’s divine completeness.

By the way, No. 4 represents earth and if you go to John 1:14 you’ll see the fourth time the word Word occurs. It says, ‘The Word was made flesh.’ Here’s the Word come into creation!

I know (you think) it’s just happenstance, and it’s all by accident, and you shouldn’t put much stock in it, but isn’t it just fascinating that it’s the fourth time the word occurs there?! When you study through your Bible, you find strange occurrences like that.

The number 13 is the number of rebellion in the Bible and if you look at Mark 7, for example, where Jesus is listing man’s sins, they add up to 13: 'And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

[21] For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
[22] Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
[23] All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

A similar listing of 13 can be found in Romans 1 where Paul writes, 'And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

[29] Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
[30] Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
[31] Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
[32] Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.'

You can do that over and over and over and over in Scripture and these numbers . . . now, there’s not a doctrine tagged to (numbers); that’s just sort of that below- the-surface kind of structure that’s there and confirms something over here, that if you’re not careful you won’t even notice. And if you don’t notice this, you won’t notice that.

(Editor's note: People who are authorities on this stuff will tell you gematria codes are being employed all the time. You never are told this by the media, the government, etc., even though, according to Wikipedia, it's common practice:

Gematria is a Hebrew alphanumeric code or cipher that was probably used in biblical times and was later adopted by other cultures. It is still widely used in Jewish culture. Similar systems have been used in other languages and cultures: the Greeks isopsephy, and later, derived from or inspired by Hebrew gematria, Arabic abjad numerals, and English gematria.

A type of gematria system ('Aru') was employed by the ancient Babylonian culture but, because their writing script was logographic, the numerical assignations they made were to whole words. The value of these words were assigned in an entirely arbitrary manner and correspondences were made through tables.

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The most beautiful sound from my bedroom window right now as I write is the steady sound of distant firecrackers going off in my neighborhood and beyond! It is better than any New Year's Eve sound you will almost ever hear. It's in a sound, "I love you, America." I don't think you would really care to let them off otherwise. 

Our leaders are letting us know that they are not for us. They are in a game with the Jesuits in charge. Biden is a Jesuit. Trump is a Jesuit. As they say, "This will not end well."

If you think any of that debate was on the quote "up and up" you were fooled. I tell people to look it up. Trump went to Fordham and at least two of his kids went to other Jesuit universities, including Ivana.

The mockery of President Biden's performance was magnified by the fact he was doped up. Anybody who's ever seen someone drugged up (I don't care from whatever pill/shot it came) knows they can act like he did.

More and more, I realize I am not a journalist anymore. I had a pretty good run in the professional newspaper/magazine field. I was in New York City when my career ended, only by my choice and only because I just received an inheritance from my father's sudden death one month following 9/11.

In fact, my colleagues, who I went through 9/11 with together--literally we were all at the Print '01 worldwide convention (commercial printing) at McCormick convention center in Chicago that day--were sad to see me go.

The reason I quit, and this is what I told my bosses when I quit, was to write a book about the Bible!  That's the reason I had!!! I spent the next four years living in Midtown Manhattan, Hell's Kitchen, 48th and 10th, without a job and without a "life."

Now I know today we are really close to losing everything we know in this country and it will be horrific.

White light

Sorry for delay on presidential analysis. will update tonight

Revelation 6: [9] And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

[10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
[11] And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

Obviously if white robes are given to the souls of the people who’ve been killed, there’s things you can learn about the state of the dead, reasons Richard Jordan. No. 1, you learn that when a person’s body dies their soul doesn’t.

Here’s some people whose bodies have been physically killed but their souls are alive and are conversing and praying to God and white robes are given to their souls. So, the idea that when you die your soul ceases to exist won’t get it.

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You know you better be careful when you come to that Bible. The heart attitude with which you approach that Book determines what you get out of it. It’s been that way in every age.

You come to that Book and you want to prove your church is right and you’re right and everybody else is wrong, or you come to it with what you want and you want to prove your mind and intellect and that you’re superior to everything, you can prove it.

There are people who are going to stand at the Great White Throne Judgment and be bound hand and foot and cast out into the lake of fire quoting Scripture back to God, and if you don’t believe that you haven’t been around many people of a religious nature.

In Revelation 6 you come to this man on a white horse and the idea that God wouldn’t send him is just the opposite of what God said He’s going to do. He’s going to send the Antichrist.

That is, men don’t want Him, He’s going to allow the Antichrist free reign; He’s going to quit restraining him and He’s going to allow him to do what he wants to do.

God’s going to take the hedge away in this tribulation period, in this 70^th Week, and what you’re going to find is the devil was right about a whole lot of humanity. What you’re going to have is a paring away, a dividing, a purging out  and an identifying of who’s who.

How come Christ is on the white horse in Revelation 19 and it’s not Christ on the white horse in chapter six? Well, compare the two.

Revelation 6:2: [2] And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

Revelation 19: [11] And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
[12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
[13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
[14] And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

Is there a difference between a crown and many crowns? So it’s not a match. You go to verse 15: [15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

What kind of weapon did the guy back in Revelation 6:2 have? You see a sword back in chapter 6? No, he’s got a bow. You know the difference between fighting with a bow and with a sword? They are two different pieces of armor. One’s a piece of artillery and one’s a piece of hand-to-hand combat.

In Revelation19:14, it says the armies which were in heaven followed Him. You go back to Revelation 6 down to verses 7 and 8 and you see what followed this guy? Death and hell. The armies of heaven aren’t following this guy in Revelation 6. Just because they both are sitting on white horses doesn’t mean they are the same.

You say, “Well, why would the guy be sitting on a white horse?” Because the guy over there in Revelation 19 is sitting on one.

Folks, you know, the greatest imitator the universe has ever seen of the Lord Jesus Christ is who? The devil. Why didn’t you know the devil’s going to try to trick you into thinking he’s God anyway?

Isn’t that what he said in Isaiah 14:14? He said, “I got all this wise plan and the goal is that I might be like the most High God.”

I mean, he’s such a good imitator that if he stood up on this platform tonight, and Jesus Christ stood there, you’d pick the wrong one.

Based on everything you know from your own wisdom and your own training and your instincts and all, if you didn’t go strictly, literally by the Book and nothing but the Book, you’d pick the wrong one. And if you went by the wrong book, you’d pick the wrong one too.

An ox by any other name--the god of this world

I will give a little analysis of tonight's presidential debate tomorrow and in meantime here is a post from 1/2/21: 

The calf of Samaria started back in Exodus 32 with the golden calf. It was the main idol of Baal worship.

Hosea 13:2: [2] And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

"So you’ve got this idol-worshipping program going on and it’s going on in Hosea 10 in Beth-aven:

[5] The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
[6] It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

“If you go to Hosea 8: [4] They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
[5] Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
[6] For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
[7] For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
[8] Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

“When you read commentaries they read that word ‘Beth-aven’ and start looking for it and there’s no place that they know of that’s called Beth-aven," explains Richard Jordan.

“Look at Hosea 10: 8: [8] The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

“That term ‘Aven’ there, the word itself means ‘emptiness, vanity, wickedness.’ ‘Beth’ means ‘the house,’ and ‘aven’ means ‘of the sin of Israel.’

“The calves were at Bethel but Bethel, the house of God, has now become Beth-aven, the house of wickedness.

Verse 15: [15] So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

“The place where Jacob had spent the night--saw the ladder and so forth and got up the next morning and said, ‘This is the house of God; this is the gate of heaven’--has been corrupted into the very seat of the satanic religion. That’s how thoroughly Israel had been corrupted spiritually.

Verse 5: [5] The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

“So they’re going to lose it all; it’s going to be wiped out. The people are going to see the great loss of it for them. When it says the priests ‘rejoiced on it,’ you see how that’s past tense? They used to rejoice in it because it made them rich; it made them powerful, but now it’s gone.

“When it says “for the glory thereof,’ that’s sarcasm. It didn’t have any godly glory but it had man-made glory. God took the glory off of Israel and He wrote ‘Ichabod’ over the nation Israel. He’s going to take the false glory the priests and people attributed to Beth-aven and write ‘Ichabod’ over that too.

“Verse 6: [6] It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

“Even the calves are going to be carried away to the Assyrian; going to be given to king Jareb. They made a covenant with the Assyrian that he would deliver them and keep them safe and it winds up he’s going to betray them; come in and take them and all that stuff’s going to be carried off as a present to make him wealthy. That’s exactly what the Antichrist is going to do with them.

“Notice it says, ‘Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.’ Where did the destruction come from? From following their own way; rejecting God’s Word and walking in their own way.

“Look at it in history over in II Kings 17: [10] And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
[11] And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
[12] For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
[13] Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
[14] Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
[15] And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
[16] And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

“I mean, they just sunk down into the lowest pits of this stuff. They were going to do what they wanted to do, God’s Word be hanged.”

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For Asian religions, 2021 is a year of the Ox, starting from February 12th, 2021 (Chinese lunar New Year Day) and lasting until January 30th, 2022. The recent zodiac years of Ox sign are: 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021, 2033…An Ox year occurs every 12 years.

From Japan Times website: "According to Jeffrey Kotyk, a researcher of foreign astrology in medieval east Asia at the University of British Columbia, each earthly branch of the Chinese zodiac is connected to a time of day and a direction. The ox’s time is 1 a.m. to 3 a.m., while its direction is northeast.

"During these hours, it is believed that 'even plants doze' and 'ghosts and goblins appear to scare men away' . . .  The awakening of the spirits in the hours of the ox is linked to the fact that the direction of the ox is called the 'Gate of Demons.'

"In Chinese astrology, the northeast (the cardinal direction shared by the ox and the tiger) is 'considered the origin of bad influences,' Jolivalt says. It is for this reason, he adds, that temples were built to the northeast of Japan’s capitals, to protect them from harm."

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"What you see throughout the Old Testament is a lot of oxen worship and it's no secret what it is," says Columbus, Ohio Preacher David Reid. "It's because a cherub fundamentally can be described in Scripture as an 'ox.'

"Now, in what countries are cows considered sacred? Our gut reaction is to say India, but really they are almost everywhere. Wikipedia says, 'Cattle are considered sacred in world religions such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and others. Cattle played other major roles in many religions, including those of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Israel, ancient Rome, and ancient Germany. Ancient texts such as Rig Veda, Puranas highlight the importance of cattle.^[13]' 

"Why is the ox worshipped almost everywhere? Because he is 'the god of this world,'  and what Satan has done is tricked the vast majority of humanity into worshipping him.

"We know from the Book of Ezekiel that cherubs have four wings and four different faces. They're not a little baby with two wings who looks small and cute; they're fundamentally different creatures and we've already seen that Satan is a cherub.

"Ezekiel 1:3-11: [3] The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

[4] And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
[5] Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
[6] And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
[7] And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
[8] And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
[9] Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
[10] As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

[11] Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

"Now, look at what Ezekiel 10 does: [14] And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

"The list is different from what we saw in Ezekiel 1. Notice verse 15: [15] And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. 

"What that verse tells you is this creature is the same one that's in Ezekiel 1, even though the description is different.

"If man equals man, lion equals lion, eagle equals eagle and they're the same creatures, what does ox have to equal? Cherub. Simple process of elimination.

"What we've established beyond a doubt here, because Ezekiel 1 and Ezekiel 10 told you that those were the same creature, is that Scripture is using the word 'ox' to approximate cherub.

"So what implications can we learn from that? What happens in Genesis 3:14: [14] And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

"Boy, that's a strange saying. Why would you curse a snake above all cattle? Why would you curse a heavenly being above all cattle unless that being could be described as cattle, a cow, an oxen? That's why that's there.

"Here's a question for you. Why did Aaron make a molten calf as opposed to a molten kangaroo? Why didn't he make a molten aardvark? Or a molten donkey? 

"Exodus 32:4: [4] And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 

"Was he possibly paying homage to someone? What did Jeroboam do? What God decides to do after King Solomon's reign is split the kingdom of Israel into a northern kingdom and a southern kingdom. Jeroboam takes the top 10 tribes and forms Israel. He doesn't want his people going down to Judah to worship because he knows if the northern tribes did so they would view Judah as the legitimate home of their religion.

"I Kings 12:28: [28] Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

"Who did he make their gods? Calves.

"Now, what did Samaria do? Hosea 8: [5] Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? [6] For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

Worldwide missionary church, out propagating

Here's a study outtake on Baal worship:

They’ve got their little church and it’s a house where God lives. “If you must whisper, whisper a prayer in our sanctuary because you’re in the presence of God.” It’s a place where benedictions are given by a priest they call "father", who wears a long robe of priestly garments. It’s often a long black robe called a vestment.

It’s the tribe of Dan that takes that man and introduces him over a whole tribe in Israel. You see, that Levite is introduced into the Baal worship through Micah and then he’s taken from there and the counterfeit is complete, because you’ve got a Levite acting as a priest over a bunch of Jews practicing this stuff.

Dan is the tribe that the Antichrist, a Syrian Jew, is going to come from, just like the Lord Jesus Christ comes from the tribe of Judah. Dan is the door through which all this stuff was introduced into Israel.

Genesis 49:16: [16] Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
[17] Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

Who’s the serpent? Satan. Dan’s going to be like a serpent and the association in the verse is to the Second Advent.

Genesis 3: [14] And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
[15] And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

God told the serpent there will be enmity between the seed of the woman (that’s the Lord Jesus Christ) and thy seed (that’s the Antichrist) and the seed of the serpent is going to strike and bite the heel of the Lord Jesus Christ and Christ will destroy the head of the serpent. Dan’s going to be the one biting His heel.

Deuteronomy 33:22: [22] And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

In Psalm 22, Jesus says on the Cross: [11] Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
[12] Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
[13] They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

Christ looks out there from the Cross and sees these people standing around the foot of the Cross and He says, “Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.”

Who’s standing around the Cross? Matthew 27: [39] And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
[40] And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
[41] Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,

It’s these religious leaders in Israel that are out to strike at the heel and destroy Christ. You know who those religious leaders are? They’re bulls of Bashan. He calls them that because Dan’s going to lead the nation.

These guys are so caught up into this Baal-worshipping system; it has so polluted and apostasized Israel that the religious leaders of Israel are identified as a bunch of Baal worshippers—completely idolatrized.

Matthew 23: [5] But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
[6] And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
[7] And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

All of their religious paraphernalia made big so everybody can see it. They love the uppermost rooms and the chief seats in the synagogue. They love to be brought up on the platform and made a lot out of. And greetings in the market, called of men, “Rabbi, Rabbi.”

Where under the sun would a Jew, schooled in the law of Moses, ever thought to call somebody by the religious title of father? They got that from Babylon.

[14] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

How in the world can you devour a widow’s house? By making long prayers. What happened to make the lady a widow? You know anybody who makes long prayers for dead people and get your money doing it?

[15] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

This is a worldwide church. It’s a missionary, going church, going out there propagating.

New, ultimate religion coming for human history

The Lord Jesus Christ didn’t wear robes or religious paraphernalia; He wore the common clothing of His day when He walked the earth. He didn’t stand out in the crowd based on the way His outfit looked or how His hair was cut.

Jesus had short-cropped black hair like any Jew in His day would have had, like anybody in the world of His day had, explains Richard Jordan. If He was sitting in this crowd tonight there wouldn’t be any way to point Him out.

You know one of the ways you know that? From the Garden of Gethsemane, the night before He was crucified when Judas was going to betray Him. How did Judas betray Him? They said, “I’ll take you out and I’ll point Him out to you.” It wasn’t, “He’s the guy wearing the funny clown outfit.”

Christ was so common, so blended into the crowd that Judas had to go over and plant a smacker on His cheek, kiss Him, before they were sure they had the right guy. He was just like everybody else.

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II Kings 10: [20] And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
[21] And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
[22] And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.

You see how it says “and the house of Baal was full from one end to another”? They got a big church building going, and they’ve got them all inside the house of Baal where the place was full—there wasn’t an open spot to to sit anywhere. “Our attendance is up, the crowds are big, offerings are going through the roof, we got everybody going, this is exciting, look what God’s doing!” Does that sound familiar to you?

The verse says, “Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal.” Vestments are the special clothing; they were long robes. Hence, you have in today’s church vernacular the “vestibule.”

I Kings 19:18: [18] Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

The word “Baal” means bull and when you go into the house, bowing down is real important, as well as kissing. You with me?

Hosea 13: [1] When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.
[2] And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

Kiss the ring, kiss the hand. This is where all that stuff in religion comes from!

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Lucifer’s job was to go out and lead creation in worship of Almighty God but he was lifted up by pride and decided he wanted to be like the Most High; take God’s place.

He developed him a system whereby he would have a mediator who would be worshipped and worshipping that mediator would be to worship Satan. Satan has one who will go and orchestrate the worship of his mediator, the Antichrist, and that’s the false prophet.

What you’ve got here is the functioning of the unholy trinity to counterfeit the activity of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost.

Just like the Antichrist is a counterfeit of Jesus Christ, the false prophet’s function will be to counterfeit the function and activity of the Holy Spirit, and he’s going to go out and seek to cause people to worship the beast whose deadly wound was healed.

Revelation 13: [14] And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

The basis of the worship of the Antichrist is going to be his miraculous resurrection. You see  there’s an absolute fascinating counterfeiting of what went on in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the early Acts period in our Lord’s ministry and His empowering of His disciples.

There’s this deadly wound and it’s healed and he lives from it and the false prophet takes this event of the death, and then the resurrection of the Antichrist—he takes this event in earth’s coming human history and then reduces it to a religious system and what he does is he develops a NEW religion.

Of course, there’s been a religious system in place prior to this point. In Revelation 17 there’s this woman, this religious system, clothed in scarlet and purple, that starts out back with Nimrod (Genesis 10-11) and goes all the way through human history and she rides on the back of the beast for a period of time. But what people forget is that then the beast turns around and destroys the woman and what he does is he takes all the sham, and all the various forms . . .

In the Bible, the religious system is called Baal worship and what the Antichrist does, when the middle of that week comes, he develops and sets forth, through his death and resurrection, a new, ultimate form of Baal worship and negates all that went before, destroying it, registering it null and void, setting up his OWN religion.

II Thessalonians 2: [3] Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
[4] Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

He’s going to do away with all of the other religions of the world “so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

He’s going to do away with all of the other religions of the world and establish a NEW one based solely and completely upon him.

Now, that religion is a new one and yet it’s not really new. Unfortunately, because of a lack of real right division of Scripture, most Christians, even dispensationalists, when you talk about the religion of the Antichrist, they immediately identify a church. What church is that? Rome.

Martin Luther, John Calvin, Zwingli, Bullinger, all those great reformers, they saw the church and then they saw Rome and Rome was the Antichrist and the pope, and anything associated with him, was the Antichrist.

I mean, Luther said of the pope sitting in his day, “He’s the one; he’s the Antichrist!” and of course we know better than that. They didn’t understand too much about what prophecy was about or the distinction between the Body of Christ and Israel and so forth, so there’s a lot of things that get “brought over.”

The point is when the Antichrist comes, the pope will have been involved in there, pitching with the guy, as well as the Buddhists and Muslims and all the rest, and the Antichrist’s just going to wipe the whole bunch off and set up a new one; set up his own and there will be his own church and all the world is going to hail HIM.

And this new, ultimate form—there’s a mindset in religion. The mindset goes along like, “You know, you’ve got what you’ve got and it’s an ancient idea, but we have a more recent revelation from God.” You go out and study world religions and that’s the idea.

If you go study the way they think, you see they don’t have an absolute authority—they don’t look at life the way you and I do with the Bible being the authority. They look at life where their attitude, their thinking, their education, their scholarship, their tradition, the vastness of the subject, is the authority.

Chicago’s a great center of theological discussion. One of the great centers in the world is at the University of Chicago, only challenged by Union in New York and then you have to go to Germany to find where the resident theologians of the day live.

But if you sit down and talk to these people about personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ like you and I understand it, you begin to think, “Well, what exactly is it that you guys believe?!”

What you find out is they have a philosophical commitment to a philosophy of life and it’s different from the way you and I understand it.  The reason it’s different is the source book and the basis of authority.

We’re called “Bible thumpers,” which I don’t mind that term, and then they get way over to, “You actually believe you know where it is and what it is and you have the audacity to say you have it in your own language?!” and they just go, “Wow, you’re cuckoo!”

For most of the world it’s not a living thing inside of them; it’s a piece of paper that they read and recite and think when they did it, they did good and they can go home feeling good about themselves.

All that stuff’s going to be wiped off the scene and the false prophet is going to establish for the Antichrist, in his name, a system—he’s going to take his resurrection and use it to codify and reduce it down to a religious system and the system is going to be called Baal worship.

The majority of Protestant prophecy preachers in our day forget about Israel and identify everything as popery. The fact is that when the Antichrist establishes his church under the leadership of the false prophet, it isn’t going to be Catholicism, or Protestantism, or Islam—he’s going to wipe those off and take things from them and amalgamate them all into this new religion.

Epic pandemic with mark of the beast

(well, had something totally unexpected happen that's eaten up my whole evening thus far and now I won't be able to finish new article--something I will post tomorrow for certain)

COVID-19 is a sort of stage-setting for what Revelation 16 talks about: [1] And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

[2] And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

"The 'mark of the beast' won't be a virus but there is an epic pandemic associated with it," explains Richard Jordan. "According to Revelation 16, in that day if you have the 'mark of the beast,' God's going to send a noisome and grievous sore (of leprosy-like disease) upon you.

"The context of Psalm 91 is the 'last days' and verse 3 says, [3] Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
"You ever had a sore that was just boiling, running, wouldn’t quit? It’s nasty, grievous.

"Revelation 13:2: [2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

“Notice that when the Antichrist is described as an animal, he’s described as a leopard. He has the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion, but he’s a leopard.

"You remember what Jeremiah 13 said about a leopard? Verse 23 reads, ‘Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.’ You know how you identify a leopard? By his spots.

“If they get that mark of the beast, when the wrath of God comes out, for those birds that have that spot of the beast God puts a spot of leprosy on them.

“And it's in their garments. That’s why Jude 23 says, [23] And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

“Listen, you’re talking about something where God’s literally going to consume people; consume the flesh off their body in judgment.

“The only thing they’ll be fit for is to be consumed; He’s talking about burning them up. Here’s the curse identified in Isaiah 5:24: [24] Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

“It won’t go well for those who’ve cast aside God’s law. Jeremiah 5:14 says, [14] Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

“You remember what John the Baptist said about the Lord Jesus? ‘[12] Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

“That’s what God’s telling them. They may be God’s nation, they may be going back into the land and building that temple and rebuilding that city, but if they don’t go there in faith trusting in God’s Word, and they’re involved in that vain religious system, that curse is on them.

“So Israel’s in a position where they still have to deal with that 5th Course of Judgment. In Zechariah 2 it's called the ‘Holy Land’ and He’s going to consume all those unholy, defiled people out of the land. He’s going to fly that scroll across the sky, fly His Word out there, make it plain. This is the option they have. Then He’s going to separate the wheat from the tares.

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"The 'mark of the beast' also has to do with worshipping this political leader who's going to take over the government. He's going to control the monetary system in the world, where you have to have this mark in order to have money to buy or sell. There's going to be monetary reset; a deliberate destruction of the money system on a global scale. These are going to be devastating times for the world.

"The 'mark of the beast' is mentioned eight times in Revelation and there are two beasts. As John writes in Revelation 13:11, [11] And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

"The first beast is the Antichrist and the second beast is the false prophet. Of the first beast, Revelation 13 says: [1] And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
[2] And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

"The first beast is not just one man; he has a whole system he's operating and he's the head. By the way, the leopard, bear and lion is the beast back in Daniel 7. When that fourth beast comes in Daniel 7, the residue of their kingdoms are all assimilated into the Antichrist. When he comes up in the earth to rule and reign he draws people together.

"He turns out to be a bad guy later in his career but he starts out by promising hope, wealth, power. In our day we would call it the Deep State, the elite, the cabal. He controls the governments, media and religion because he's going to be worshipped. He's this character that has this whole vast system of governmental global control.

"Then the next beast comes on and he causes the world to worship the first beast. You know how he's described like a lamb? Jesus is the lamb of God. We're talking about religion. He works miracles. In verse 13 he makes fire come down from heaven. He's a religious figure that professes to perform supernatural events to intervene in history, working miracles with demonstrable events and so forth.

"The first one is a political leader but the second guy, where the 'mark of the beast' comes from, is this religious leader to deceive people with this religious system he uses.

"Revelation 19:20 says, [20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

"You see somebody doing miracles you need to watch out. People are going to do miraculous events to cause others to follow them into a religious system that's designed to make them worship someone who is a false christ.

"There is also a real conspiracy associated with the 'mark of the beast.' How does he deceive them? With religion. Paul says in II Corinthians 11, [13] For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
[14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
[15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

"Revelation 17 talks about this woman, this religious system the Antichrist uses to come to power: [2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
[3] So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
[4] And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
[5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

"You want a conspiracy, there's the real conspiracy! It allows the Antichrist to take over and develop the Deep State system he'll use to try and deceive the whole world.

"Revelation 17:8 says, [8] The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

"There's a spiritual conspiracy that goes on across the earth today to deceive people away from the truth of God's Word into a vain religious system designed to promote and deceive the human race into accepting what Satan's program is all about.

"Paul talks about the man of sin, the son of perdition, being manifested. He writes in  II Thessalonians 2:5, [5] Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
[6] And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
[7] For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

"Mystery Babylon already works and is going today, but there's something restraining it, holding it back, and that something is the church the Body of Christ. Until God finishes forming the Body of Christ, this stuff can't take over.These things in the Book of Revelation, like the 'mark of the beast,' are part of the prophetic program."

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Here is an older post on the same subject:
There are four times in the Bible where you find Scripture being written on both sides. In Exodus 32, it says, [15] And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

In Ezekiel 2, Ezekiel writes [9] And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
[10] And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

John testifies in Revelation 5:1, ‘[1] And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.’

“When Christ opens that seven-sealed book written on both sides, out flows the wrath of God,” explains Jordan. “The seals, the trumpets and the vials; they all flow out of that book. He says, ‘I’ll bring forth,’ and the curse is going to go forth.

“If you look at the reference in Exodus 32, you’ll see God’s wrath flowing out there, too.

“In Zechariah 5:3, we know the roll was written on both sides because it says ‘for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.’

“This vision of Zechariah’s is talking about the judgment to take place when the law, the covenant, has been broken. That curse goes forth and that wrath is laid out.

"In verse 4, he describes it in a way that reminds you of something in book of Leviticus. He writes, [4] I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

“This curse is going to be all-consuming consumption that destroys everything related to the satanic policy of evil of the Antichrist and all his associates. There’s a curse in your Bible that does that.

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“Leviticus 13 and 14 deal with leprosy and leprosy in the Bible is a 'sign disease.' It’s a disease God uses as a sign of the corrupting power and the corrupting results of sin. In Exodus 4, Moses says, ‘How are they going to know you sent me?’ God told him, ‘I’ll give you two signs.’

"One of the signs was the sign of leprosy. Moses took his hand, put it in his robe, pulled it out and God made the hand leprosed. Then Moses put it back in and pulled it out and God healed it. It was a sign of healing, but the thing he healed was leprosy; the most deadly, most demonstrative disease because it literally causes flesh to die and corrupt.

“There’s no other disease that has two whole chapters dedicated to it in the Bible. Those chapters in Leviticus aren’t there because leprosy was such a consuming disease in that day.

“In the Mosaic Law, when He told Israel don’t eat pork and don’t eat lobster and catfish, there was no health benefit or problem related to any of that.

“Leviticus 22 tells us that God did that to make Israel look different. There’s not a verse that says He did it for any health reason. God told Adam and Eve to eat herbs. He told Noah for them to eat meat.

“People say, ‘Well, you weren’t made to eat meat so you shouldn’t eat meat.’ Well, if you shouldn’t eat meat God made a mistake telling Noah it was okay to do it. If God told Pete it’s okay to eat pork, then there’s no health problem in it, otherwise God was recommending something that was bad for him. He gave those dietary restrictions to make them separate.

“Leprosy wasn’t because everybody was getting leprosy; it was picked out because it’s a sign; something that carried a message. One of the interesting things about leprosy is that, if you look at Leviticus 14:34, it says, [34] When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

“In the first part of the chapter he said leprosy could get into people and they’re unclean when they have it. Notice from the verse that leprosy can not only be in people, it can be in the dwelling place; the house.

“Verse 44-45 says, [44] Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
[45] And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

“The plague can spread out through the house and when the leprosy gets into the house because it came in with the people, it touches the stones, the timbers and even the mortar that holds the stones together. You get completely annihilated and that’s exactly what we’re reading about in Zechariah.

“Leviticus 13: 46-48 says, [46] All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
[47] The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
[48] Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin.

“Notice the leprosy even gets into the garment. This is a consuming stuff. Here’s how he’s going to describe it. Leviticus 13:2: [2] When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or a bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:

“Notice he describes leprosy as 'a bright spot.' Verse 42 says, [42] And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore; it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead.

“So you’ve got this white spot and it gets all festered and all red and infected and that’s how you identify leprosy.

“When that curse goes forth out of that book written on both sides in Revelation 5, and the seals go out and they’re open, then there's the trumpets and the vials come out in chapters 15 and 16."