Israel's covenant with death

"The prophecy in the Book of Daniel assumes there’s a nation state of Israel. The nation is in the land in unbelief and they are a literal state.

"Listen, a hundred years ago when C. I. Scofield and Larkin and those guys wrote about this stuff, the nation Israel was not a nation and there was really no vision on the future that there would be a nation," explains Richard Jordan.

"I’ve got some books written by Arno C. Gaebelein (1865-1945). Gaebelein was one of the premier prophetic students, preachers and teachers back a hundred years ago and he wrote with finesse and great accuracy about these prophecies and there was no nation of Israel.

"People laughed up their sleeve at him that there would ever be an Israel and in 1947-48 there became one. Then everybody jumped on the bandwagon: ‘Oh, yeah, prophecy’s been fulfilled.’

“Can you show me the verse? Which verse exactly was that? Where’s the verse that says what happened in 1947 is prophecy being fulfilled? You understand the nation Israel could get wiped out tomorrow and not be there for 500 years and it wouldn’t change any of this. Daniel is what’s going to happen when God brings them back.

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“Isaiah 28: [14] Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
[15] Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

“Israel thought that covenant they made with the Assyrian was going to deliver them from captivity and destruction, but they made a covenant with death and hell.

“When you read that your mind goes to Revelation 6 because that rider on that fourth horse is death and hell follows him. Those four horsemen represent four different roles the Antichrist will play and one of them is he’s death and hell follows him.

“The way he is that is Israel makes a covenant with death, and with hell are in agreement. They’re a part of the satanic program.

“Verse 16: [16] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
[17] Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
[18] And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

“That’s an immediate prophecy about the Assyrian captivity; prophetically it’s talking about the Antichrist. Isaiah 10: [5] O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
[6] I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

"That Assyrian is a picture and a type and a dress rehearsal of the Antichrist who also is the Assyrian in Scripture.

“You’ll see this covenant they make in Daniel 9: [24] Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
[25] Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
[26] And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

[27] And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

"In the midst of that 70^th Week he breaks the covenant. They thought they had a covenant that was going to protect them; they made a covenant with the one who was ultimately going to be the one who destroyed them.

“Daniel 11:21: [21] And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

“He’s going to come in as a peacemaker and take the kingdom by buttering up Israel and making them think he loves them; he’s going to be their Messiah. [22] And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

“See that thing about the prince of the covenant?  Verse 28: [28] Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.

“That’s when he breaks it. So this thing about making the covenant in Hosea 10 ('They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.') . . . the idea is they’ve gone out and sought to have the Assyrian deliver them and it isn’t going to work.”

(new article tomorrow--still having a hard time sitting at desk due to back injury.)