THE
BOOK OF REVELATION
By:
Bertrand L. Comparet
Lesson
#12 Of A Series Of 14, Transcribed From Audio Tapes
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In our study of the Book of Revelation, we’ve come to chapter 16, which deals
with the seven last plagues upon great Babylon. These seven last plagues, which
complete the wrath of Yahweh, are symbolized by seven vials which are in turn to
be emptied upon the final beast empire-nations. Before we study these seven last
plagues in detail to identify which events in history they symbolize, let’s try
to identify the Babylonian beast system itself, which has brought upon itself
these plagues. Until we know the people whom Yahweh has identified as his
enemies, we cannot know where to look for the fulfillment of these plagues.
Therefore, for the present we will skip over the first seventeen verses of
chapter sixteen. This final beast empire is repeatedly named “great Babylon.” We know that it
is not the old Babylonia in the Euphrates
valley, for that is fallen many, many centuries ago. The evils of the ancient
Babylonian system exist today, spread among many of today’s nations, even our
own nation for that matter. Unless Yahweh means to condemn races and nations
equally, there must be some wicked element to be found among them, which is the
infection which has made the nations morally sick and which must be removed. To
find what we are dealing with, we must start with Revelation 16, verses 17 and
18, and then go on to chapter 18: “And there were voices, and thunders, and
lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were
upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was
divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great
Babylon came in
remembrance before Yahweh, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the
fierceness of his wrath.”
Now
what’s meant by this – “Voices and thunders and lightnings”? – obviously these
are great contentions between opposing factions. What other age has ever been
marked by such quarrels between these bitterly opposed groups? “Then a great
earthquake”, this being symbolic rather than literal, it means terrific social
upheaval, worldwide wars and revolutions, overthrowing nations and social
orders. “The great city was divided into three parts.” I’ve found no other
authoritative interpretation on this sentence by anyone else. In my own view, I
would say this means that we are now dealing with the economic, the religious
and the political phases of the Babylonian system. And it says: “The cities of
the nations fell”, showing there will be a great international struggle of war
and revolution. All previous things in the Bible are there because they were
important, not just for the moment of their own happening, but because of their
importance, that is, the importance of the principles involved carrying down,
undiminished, into our own day.
In
1st Corinthians 10, verse 11, we are told: “Now all these things happened unto
them for ensamples [examples]: and they are
written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” Now
obviously, that applies to us with far greater force than at any time previous
in all history. The things going on today which puzzle us and depress us so
really show that we are undergoing the experience of good and evil for which
Adam bargained away his immortality. The good is found in Yahweh’s admonitions
to us, His laws to govern our lives. But we are having to learn that mere good
intentions are not enough if they are not directed by knowledge and wisdom,
because many terribly evil things have been done with good intentions. In
Proverbs, both chapter 14, verse 12 and chapter 16, verse 25, it says: “There is
a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
Therefore,
these warnings in the Bible are to enable us to avoid the terrific evil which
will destroy us in our own day if we do not take steps to avoid it. What is evil
anyway? Evil is not something that can exist all by itself. It is not a
condition, merely; it is an action or a series of actions. It is the evil things
men do. Hence, the many warnings to us telling us who these evil ones are were
given so we can avoid them and their works. Whether you recognize Satan as a
person, as the Bible does, or whether you merely try to explain him away as just
a personification of evil tendencies, you must still recognize that evil comes
from those who are his followers. Indeed, the Bible says they are his
children.
The
Bible gives us some examples in ancient times of satanic action. One of the most
important ancient cities was Tyre. It was a Palestinian seaport, and it was
one of the leading trading centers of the ancient world. Many of its inhabitants
were Semitic people. There were even a few Israelites scattered among them. The
nation was friendly to Israel. Its king Hiram, you will
remember, sent to Solomon much of the materials and some of the skilled workmen
to build Solomon’s temple, and we have no record of there being any wars between
Tyre and Israel. But the Bible shows that
Tyre came into the satanic system and that one of
the kings of Tyre, whose name is not stated, was actually
Satan himself, incarnated in human form. Writing about 528 B.C., in the 28th
chapter of Ezekiel, the prophet is told this: “Son of man, take up a lamentation
upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith Yahweh Elohim; Thou sealest
up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the
garden of Yahweh; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz,
and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,
and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was
prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth;
and I have set thee so: thou wast
upon the holy mountain of Yahweh; thou hast walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day
that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. .... Thine heart was
lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy
brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that
they may behold thee.” [See note #’s 1 & 2 at end
of lesson.]
Now
that language could not have been used describing any merely earthly king. In
other words, whoever this king was, he was necessarily an incarnation of Satan
himself. Under satanic direction, Tyre became a great merchant city. Ezekiel 27,
verses 2 and 3, says: “... Take up
over Tyre a dirge, and thou shall say unto
Tyre, O thou
that dwellest by the entrance of the sea, thou merchant of the peoples unto many
shores.” It had extensive trade with Israel and Judah, with the isles of Tarshish, with
Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Assyria, and even Tubal and
Meshech, who are in Russia, as set forth in considerable
detail in the 27th chapter of Ezekiel. However, as so often happens, its
commerce became evil. In the 28th chapter of Ezekiel we are told: “With thy
wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast
gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased
thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches. ... By the
multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence,
and thou hast sinned ... Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of
thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a
fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to
ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.” [See note #3 at end of lesson.]
Now
who were these evil merchants? The very word [sic.
rather one of the words] that is translated merchant [sic. rather, in some places translated “merchant”] is
the Hebrew word ken-ah’-an, which
also means “a Canaanite.” That is the very same hooked nosed people whom today
we call Jews. For example, Hosea 12, verse 7 [and
translated correctly]: “He is
a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.”
Now in those days, remember, that of the goods that were sold, you had nothing
packaged in standard weights, and at that time, neither did you have coined
money of universally accepted value. The goods sold had to be weighed out in the
proper amount upon the balances. Likewise, the gold or silver paid for them, not
being in coined money but in ingots, had to be weighed out to see what the money
was worth. [See note #4 at end of
lesson.]
It
was quite common in those days for the merchant to have two different sets of
weights, one with which he would buy and one with which he would sell. So, you
note here, this ken-ah’-an, this
Canaanite merchant has the balances of deceit, the false weights and measures
which he uses to cheat his customers. In Zephaniah 1, verse 11, again we are
told: “Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, (Maktesh was the bazaar district of
Jerusalem where all the little retail stores were, and you know, of course, who
these merchants were.) – Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant
people are cut down; all they that are ladened with silver are cut off.” Here
again, these merchant people were the same ken-ah’-an, the Canaanites. You’ll
remember when the people of Israel were on the march in the Exodus, before they
were allowed to enter the promised land, they were instructed by Yahweh that
they must absolutely exterminate the Canaanites living there, not leaving one
man, woman or child alive, because Yahweh warned them if you allow them to live
among you, you will have integration. Your children will grow up with their
children. They will learn their ways. They will intermarry with their children
until you will become as corrupted as these Canaanites, until finally I have to
destroy you as I am telling you now to destroy them.
But
you find the melancholy record in the Book of Judges of how city after city was
not destroyed. It tells that they took the city and they put the inhabitants
under a tribute tax, but they allowed them to live there among the people of
Israel. Finally, it says that Yahweh
sent an angel to them with the message that, because they had disobeyed Him in
this regard, He would no longer drive out the enemy before them, that if they
wanted to leave these Canaanite peoples living among them, then so would He, and
it would be a test. Could they obey, with Canaanites among them to set a bad
example? And could they live up to the laws of Yahweh? And of course, if they
did not, they must bear the judgment for so doing. Zechariah 14, verse 21,
looking on to the future when the kingdom of Yahweh comes into being in the millennium,
says then: “... and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the
house of Yahweh of hosts.” [See note #5 at end of
lesson.]
Not
surprisingly, you find these same people also in Assyria. The Assyrian royal palaces were built with thick
walls of sun baked clay brick, like the adobe houses in our own American
southwest and Mexico. There in Assyria, the inside walls were covered with very beautiful
painted and glazed tile with very lovely decorations upon it. And on these
decorations in their palaces, done by their own best artists, you see their
pictures of these Assyrians. Now this is not their enemies’ caricature of them,
this is the Assyrian’s own representation of their own people, and it shows them
as typical hook-nosed Jews. Thus, the same commercial evils, we are told, spread
to Assyria. In Nahum 3, verse 16, the prophet
says of them: “Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven ...”
And Nahum lists this as among the evils with which Nineveh would be
destroyed. [See note #17 in Lesson
#4.]
In
the city of Tyre, these Canaanite, Jewish
merchants had become the most powerful men of the nation, even as they are today
the most powerful men in the chief Israel nations of Britain and the United States.
Writing about 715 to 712 B.C., Isaiah 23, verse 8, says: “Who hath taken this
counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?” I have
mentioned this because the final fall of Tyre is
described in language very much identical to that used in the Book of Revelation
to describe the fall of great Babylon, to show that in both places it is
talking about the same thing. [See note #6 at end of
lesson.]
Let’s
now compare these. An example can be found at Ezekiel 26, verse 13, speaking of
Tyre: “And I
will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be
no more heard.” Revelation 18, verse 22, speaking of Babylon: “And the voice of
harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at
all in thee ...” Ezekiel 26, verse 21, speaking of the fall of Tyre: “I will
make thee a terror, and thou shalt be
no more: though thou be sought for,
yet shalt thou never be found again, saith Yahweh Elohim.” Revelation 18, verse
21, speaking of great Babylon: “And a mighty
angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with
violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no
more at all.” In the 27th chapter of Ezekiel, verses 29 through 34, speaking of
Tyre, “And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall
come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; And ... shall cry
bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves
in the ashes .... And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for
thee, and lament over thee, saying,
What city is like Tyre, like the destroyed in
the midst of the sea? When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledest
many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy
riches and of thy merchandise. In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in
the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of
thee shall fall.” And Revelation 18, verses 17 to 19, speaking of great
Babylon: “...
And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as
trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning,
saying, What city is like unto this
great city! And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing,
saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships
in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made
desolate.”
Therefore,
you can see by the fact that the judgments pronounced and the circumstances of
them are the same, and often in exactly the same words, yet the Bible really is
talking about two events. These merchants of wickedness, being Canaanite Jews,
you should expect to find some more about this in what the Bible says about the
Edomite Jews. Remember, their principle national center was down in
Edom in mount Seir,
southeast of the Dead Sea. Their great capital
city there was the city of Petra, situated in a small valley in the
interior of this mountain range, and its larger buildings carved into the cliffs
that rent the valley. The fall of Edom is described in the Bible in identical
language with the fall of great Babylon. The 49th chapter of Jeremiah deals
with the overthrow of Edom,
and the 50th chapter of Jeremiah deals with the overthrow of Babylon. Now note the
similarity of language: chapter 49, verses 18 and 19: “As in the overthrow of
Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith Yahweh, no man
shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. Behold, he shall come
up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the
strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for
who is like me? and who will appoint
me the time? and who is that shepherd
that will stand before me?”
In
Jeremiah chapter 50, verses 40 through 44, its dealing with Babylon. Note the identity
of the peculiar language used: “As Yahweh overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith Yahweh; so shall no man abide there, neither
shall any son of man dwell therein. Behold, a people shall come from the north,
and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the
earth .... The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his
hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan
unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from
her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for
who is like me? and who will appoint
me the time? and who is that shepherd
that will stand before me?”
Going
back to Jeremiah chapter 49, speaking of Edom, verses 20 and 21: “Therefore hear the
counsel of Yahweh, that he hath taken against Edom;
and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely
the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their
habitations desolate with them. The earth is moved at the noise of their fall,
at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red
sea.” Now Jeremiah 50, verses 45 and 46, is dealing with Babylon: “Therefore hear ye the counsel of Yahweh, that he
hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath
purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall
draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. At
the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is
heard among the nations.”
Clearly
these passages are talking about the same thing, that being the fall of great
Babylon and the
fall of the Edomite Jews. Listen again to the principal blame placed upon the
Canaanite Jew merchants for the evils of Babylon (and now we’re in the 18th
chapter of the Book of Revelation, verses 1 and 2): “And after these things I
saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was
lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying,
Babylon the
great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold
of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful
bird.”
That
repetition of “fallen is fallen” is not done merely for rhetorical effect. It is
calling to your attention the fact that there are two falls of Babylon being discussed. One, the fall of
the ancient city of Babylon, many, many centuries ago, and the
other, the final fall of the surviving Babylonian system which is the thing just
beginning to occur. It continues: “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of
her delicacies.”
For
those people who like to blame everything on the Catholic “Church”, here is a clear warning that that would
be an outright misinterpretation. Not that I am defending the Catholic “Church”,
because it has plenty to answer for, but this evil spoken of here is not the
Catholic “Church.” It says “all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of
her fornication.” We know perfectly well that many of the nations of the earth
have had nothing to do with Catholicism or the Catholic “Church.” The Latin
nations of Europe and the peoples of Mexico, south and central America are
the only ones who have come under the rule of the Catholic “Church.” Again, “the
merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies”,
but the Catholic “Church” neither bought nor sold these delicacies with which
the merchants of the earth grew rich. “And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and
that ye receive not of her plagues.” [See note #9 in
Lesson #11.]
Here
is a great and terrible warning to us, and one that we have not heeded. It has
been impressed upon me greatly, when I examine the conditions we find today,
that we have allowed our entire civilization to become so interwoven with, and
so corrupted by this Babylonian system that I don’t see any possible way that we
can extricate ourselves from the fall of Babylon, so that we will not be pulled
down with it. But somehow we must do so, whatever the price we have to pay. We
must get out of this system, lest we be dragged down to the total destruction
that it is going to undergo. “For her sins have reached unto heaven, and Yahweh
hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double
unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to
her double.”
This
is an example of good Israel Law in the New Testament, and it is speaking of the
end of this age and the beginning of the millennium. Under Israel Law, a thief
was always required to restore at least double what he had stolen. In some
instances, he might even have to repay his theft four or five times, but never
could he get off with a lighter penalty than having to restore double the amount
he had stolen. Going on now, speaking of great Babylon it says: “And the merchants of the
earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any
more.”
[See
note #5 at end of lesson.]
Please
note the following and see if you can identify the people this is speaking of:
“The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls ...”
All right, look about you in all your great cities today. Who is it that
practically monopolizes the jewelry trade, and fine linen, and purple, and silk,
and scarlet, and all aromatic wood, and all manner of vessels of ivory, and all
manner of vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble? Who
has practically monopolized the clothing industry? You don’t find that hard to
identify. And as for the department stores – Yes, there are a few small ones run
by white men, but who owns practically all the greater ones? It goes on: “And
cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense ...”, (that is the drug
industry). Again, a few little corner drug stores are operated by white men, but
who owns the great chain drug stores? “... and wine ...”, (Well, I suppose you
surely know by now who has practically monopolized the liquor industry. I am
told, that among the hard liquors, only one producer, I. W. Harper is still
owned by white men. The rest have been taken over by the Jews. And here in
California, we
have many wineries which still bear the name of their Italian founders, but I am
told that the vast majority of them have been bought up by the big Jewish
whiskey distillers.) “... and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and
sheep ...”, (So with the food stores, you surely know that nearly all the big
grocery chains are Jewish-owned, and even those which are not, that is the
retail stores, they must buy from Jewish wholesalers. Hardly anything you eat,
unless you buy direct from the farmer, can be had without it going through the
hands of Jewish wholesalers.) “... and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and
souls of men. ... The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her,
shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, ... And a
mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with
violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no
more at all.”
If
now you have been hoping that if you just close your eyes maybe all this will go
away, and some peaceful solution to this can be found – that these people who
have brought us to this condition will take up their wealth, and while they
leave us impoverished, they’ll all move peacefully over to Palestine and leave
us alone – well, give up that idea. They have no intention of letting go of
anything that is worth as much in money as what they have accumulated here
today. Only, as he said, “with violence can this great city Babylon be thrown down.”
And you’ll note another thing: It says the angel took up this “great millstone
and cast it into the sea.” As you already know, wherever the sea is used in
symbolic language, it is speaking of the great unorganized mass of non-Israel
peoples. In other words, this Babylonian system is going to be fallen down and
dissolved in the turbulence of the uprising of the peoples. In other words, the
same thing that you see today, the Negro’s rioting, burning and looting – well,
whose stores have they looted and burned? [See note #7
at end of lesson.]
[Transcriber’s
question: Inasmuch as the term “sea’ represents the great masses of non-Israel
peoples, and that the term “millstone” might represent manufacturing industry,
could this be what we are seeing today with all the Israel nation’s
manufacturing facilities being shipped to third-world countries? Perhaps this
might bring on a monetary collapse in the Israel
countries, and in turn bring down the entire Babylonian monetary system. Is it
possible that the enemy might be killing the goose that laid the golden
egg?]
We
have our college youngsters in the various cities that join in with them in
their rioting, plundering and burning. These people, despite their bad
intentions, are actually carrying out, in an unintended way, a good purpose, for
they are contributing to the downfall of great Babylon. Not that they understand this. The
brainwashing to which they have been subjected has directed their attention
entirely away from the real source of the evils. They see the little merchant
from whom they buy goods, and who cannot afford to extend them credit, and
they’re angry at him. But they don’t understand that his problem is the money he
has to borrow at so great a rate of interest, and he can’t afford to let any of
this stand out on credit when he deals with his customers.
Thus,
the Book of Revelation goes on: “... for thy merchants were the great men of the
earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.” Here you come to a bit
of mistranslation which has concealed the meaning. The word that has been
mistranslated “sorceries” here is the Greek word phar-mak-eia, meaning drugs and
medicines. Surely now, you know that nearly all the great drug manufacturers are
Jewish-owned-and-controlled firms today. As for the drugs which are being taken
by our corrupted hippie youth, LSD being probably the worst of the lot, fully
90% of all the LSD that is distributed in the United States is manufactured in the city of
Tel Aviv and imported from there into the
United
States. So “by thy drugs were all the nations
deceived.” And in her (in this great Babylon) “was found the blood of prophets, and
of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.” That again shows that
this is not just talking about the Catholic “Church”, even
though the Catholic “Church” has been guilty of the murder of a great
many people. But certainly the Catholic
“Church” is
not responsible for the blood of all that were slain upon the earth in the many,
many centuries before any Catholic “Church” existed. Yahshua the Christ explained it
very clearly in the 23rd chapter of Matthew, verses 29 to 36. And note who He
was talking to: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye
build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been
partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto
yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye
up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye
escape the damnation of hell?”
Here
again, mistranslation has concealed something. The word here translated
“generation” doesn’t mean that at all. A generation is a group of people born
fairly near the same time of more or less of similar age, but this is not what
it is talking about. It says you gen-e-a, you progeny, you children, you
serpents – you descendants of vipers. You’ll remember that the children of Satan
had adopted the serpent as his symbol, and so in course of time they had finally
even given the Hebrew word naw-khawsh’, which primarily means a
magician or enchanter, they’d given it a secondary meaning of serpent. Inasmuch
as these were the children of the serpent, Satan, He said, “All right, if that’s
the title you want to give yourself”, then, “You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you
escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and
wise men, and scribes: and some of
them you shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall you scourge in your
synagogues, (You note that’s not the Catholic “Church”) – some
of them shall you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you
may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of
righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, ... whom ye slew between the temple
and the altar.”
Obviously,
the Catholic
“Church” didn’t exist in the time of Cain and
Abel, and was not responsible for it. But you’ll notice here, that because these
people are the children of those who did this thing, the whole race, from
beginning to end, is to bear the responsibility for all the righteous blood shed
upon the earth, beginning with the blood of Abel. You’ll remember that Cain was
the one who murdered Abel, and these scribes and Pharisee Jews are identified
here, therefore, as being the children of Cain, and through Cain, the children
of Satan. Hence, He concludes: “Verily I say unto you, All these things shall
come upon this generation.” And here again, it’s a mistranslation. “All these
things shall come upon this gen-e-a”, derived from the word genos, and genos is the word from which they have
coined lately the word genocide, meaning to kill off a race or a nation. Strong’s Concordance gives the
definition of gen-e-a as “nation.”
“Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this ‘nation’.” [See note #8 at end of lesson.]
Now
the Jews of Jerusalem, and of other places in
Judah, were not Judahites nor
from any tribe of Israel. In Ezekiel 11, verses 14 and
15, you read this: “Again the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying, Son of man,
thy brethren, even thy brethren, the
men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of
Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Yahweh: unto us is this land given in
possession.” Very noticeably here, the inhabitants of Jerusalem were telling the
entire House of Israel (every single man, woman and child of it), “you get out
because this land is given to us.” Therefore, it is very clear that these
inhabitants of Jerusalem did not include Israelites. The same
idea is brought out clearly in Isaiah 3, verses 8 and 9, where Isaiah is
condemning the ruling class in the city of Jerusalem. The bright young Jewish
brain-trusters who surrounded the kings and were advising them to do evil, even
as we find in Washington
D.C. today. And he says of these
people in Jerusalem, “the show of their countenance doth
witness against them.” If now you wanted to condemn the ruling class in, let’s
say, Sweden, you couldn’t say “why, the
mere sight of their faces condemns them”, because there’s nothing about their
faces any different from that of the rest of the Swedes. And even in
China today, if you wanted to condemn
the ruling class among these Communist Chinese, you couldn’t say you can
recognize them by the mere sight of their faces. You can’t! They look like any
other Chinese.
But
here Isaiah was pointing out that there were people in Jerusalem who could be
recognized by their faces as not being Israelites. Now this has been the source
of evil from at least the 3rd and 4th chapters of Genesis right on down to our
present time. Isaiah 14, verses 12 and following, speaks of Lucifer by name,
making it unmistakably clear that he is speaking about Lucifer, Satan: “How art
thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend
into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of Yahweh: I will sit also
upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend
above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be
brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly
look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the
earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and
destroyed the cities thereof; that
opened not the house of his prisoners?”
Of
course, you know that except for China, Communism world-wide today is
directed and ruled by Jews.
[Transcriber’s
Note: Evidently Comparet is overlooking the fact that there are “Chinese” Jews.
For anyone wanting more information about “Chinese Jews” might obtain a copy of
the book Jews In Old China by Sidney
Shapiro, copyright 1984. C.A.E.]
Notice
here, “the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms, that
made the world as a wilderness.” Look how much destruction the Communists have
wrought, and they threaten now to reduce the whole world to an uninhabited
wilderness if need be, with atom and hydrogen bombs. “That made the world as a
wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof.” Yes, that’s what they say they
will do. “That opens not the house of his prisoners.” You notice how once the
Communists get control of any place, that whole nation becomes a prison house
for everybody except the Jews, like the Berlin wall, to keep people from leaving. This
Communist paradise is not sufficient to cause anybody to want to live in it.
Hence, there’s far more border guard work done to keep the unfortunate slaves in
than to keep possible enemies out. To be noted unmistakably here, Isaiah has
been speaking of Lucifer because he names him Lucifer. He shows that the work of
Lucifer is manifested in modern Jewish Communism. Going on in that same chapter,
continuing until you get to verse 21, which says: “Prepare slaughter for his
children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess
the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.” [See note #’s 9 & 10 at end of
lesson.]
Strong
medicine? Yes. But remember, if our ancestors had obeyed Yahweh three thousand
years ago, we wouldn’t be having the trouble we’re having today. I’m not saying
that if our ancestors had obeyed Yahweh merely in their own personal actions –
it’s very true that I should refrain from committing robbery, and I do. But you
notice that doesn’t stop hundreds of thousands of robberies from being committed
every year by other people. Therefore, no matter how good I am personally, or
you are personally, as long as you allow the people to live who commit robbery,
you’re going to have robberies, and so with all other crimes. Thus, what our
ancestors were commanded to do when they went into Palestine was to
exterminate the very people whose present-day descendants are bringing upon the
world these terrible calamities. And until finally, the system which they have
fastened upon the whole world – until we are all enslaved beyond any chance to
escape from it; that system has to be overthrown with violence, as it says in
Revelation 18, verse 21.
There
is one encouraging thing in this. It is perfectly true that the problem is so
great that Yahweh’s intervention is going to be required, and it’s going to be
given. And, all His limitless power to do miracles is going to be used to see
that we get through this system alive. Yet, we are going to be given the
opportunity to be partners with Him in the job. In Ezekiel 25, verses 13 and 14,
it says this: “Therefore thus saith the Sovereign Yahweh; I will also stretch
out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast
from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by
the sword. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according
to mine anger and according to my fury ...” Now that has never yet happened.
That isn’t a prophesy of the remote past to be fulfilled during Bible times.
That is a prophesy of the future to be fulfilled in our own time, and we have
not yet done it. But Yahweh has given His command: “I will lay my vengeance upon
Edom by the hand of my people
Israel.”
The
only way that this can come about will be that we succeed in throwing off the
attempt to fasten Communist tyranny upon us. Therefore, this is a very hopeful
prophesy. This is our job, and neither cowardliness nor a feeble squeamishness
can get us out of it. In the 149th Psalm, verses 5 to 9, we read this: “Let the
saints be joyful in glory: – (Now who are the saints? Definitely they are not
people selected by some “church” to be honored for some particular act of piety
these people have done. In the 148th Psalm, it tells you who all of Yahweh’s
saints are, not just some of them, but all of them. And it says ‘... all his
saints; even of the children of
Israel, a people near unto
him ...’ So, all the saints of Yahweh are the children of Israel.) – Let
the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of Yahweh be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword
in their hand; To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; To bind
their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute upon
them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye Yahweh.”
And to that, I surely say, “amen.” [See note #11 at end
of lesson.]
Consequently,
what we are facing now is the final conflict with the forces of evil with which
these surviving Edomites have managed to shackle all activities that we have,
and our whole civilization is bound up in slavery to them and their greed. Our
deliverance from them is to come through the fall of their Babylonian system.
Hence, this which the Book of Revelation prophesies, of something to come in the
very near future, gives us hope. Yes, it will be terrible. It will be rough.
There will be rioting and fighting in the streets as the forces of evil try to
take control. There will be bombing of cities from the Russian invasion. There
will be immense property destruction from this invasion, and from the Communist
revolution. There will be great numbers of people killed. It won’t be any fun.
But, we do have Yahweh’s clear promise that we are going to be brought through
it, and that this evil Babylonian system is going to be overthrown and the
Kingdom of
Yahweh restored. [End of Comparet’s Lesson #12.]
CRITICAL
NOTES ON LESSON #12
Comments
by William Finck initialed W.R.F.
Comments
by Clifton A. Emahiser in brackets in lesson text as “your
transcriber”
or
initialed C.A.E. in critical notes.
Note
#1:
Tyre, Sidon, and the rest of “Phoenicia” (a strictly Greek term) were Israelite
cities which were by-and-large inhabited by Israelites, as can be told from
Scripture itself – and especially the Septuagint – and like all other
cosmopolitan cities, surely attracted the Canaanite merchants and other aliens.
W.R.F.
Note
#2:
Why, if Tyre
were an Israelite city, it had a separate king is something only to be
speculated upon. Josephus says that Tyre was
built 240 years before the Temple at Jerusalem, and he must mean the island city called
Tyre, because
the mainland city had already been there in the days of Joshua (19:29). It may
well be that the island city, outside of Asher’s boundary, technically speaking,
is where the throne of Tyre was situated at this time. Josephus
mentions one king before Hiram, his father Abibalus. Hiram surely seems a noble
man, and must have been since David was certainly no hypocrite. Yet the kings of
Tyre in
Ezekiel’s time were not related to Hiram. Several generations after Hiram the
throne of Tyre was usurped, at least thrice, and the kings of Tyre during
Ezekiel’s lifetime were – according to Josephus’ account from the Tyrian
chronicles – descended from one “Ithobalus, the priest of Astartê”, the Ethbaal
of 1 Kings 16:31, father of Jezebel. Knowing this, it would be safe to assume
that Ethbaal was a descendant of Cain, since both he and his daughter
perpetrated much evil, although, of course, we are not told that directly, yet
in that manner Ezekiel’s prophecy concerning these kings it is certainly
understandable, if Comparet’s viewpoint here is the correct
one.
While
Ezekiel 28:2 addresses the “prince” (5057) of Tyre, and 28:12 the “king” (4428) of Tyre, both of these words
are in the LXX archôn (758), simply a
principal ruler. This person is called an “Adam” at 28:2, which can hardly be
said of a Canaanite, and is evidently circumcised and so follows Israelite
custom, for which see 28:10. Yahweh would only count Israelites among “the
circumcised” in the Old Testament
Kingdom period – so it
seems. The term “Eden” used at 28:13 is a symbolic term used by
Ezekiel to describe the oikoumenê,
the inhabited earth (the Adamic world), as is evident in Ezekiel chapter 31, and
the Shemetic Assyrians certainly didn’t inhabit the “garden of Eden” of Adam and
Eve. Seeing this, and reading vss. 14 and 15, it may well be that this Prince of
Tyre was a man and not Satan himself, whose high stature and impending doom are
described here in very poetic, symbolic language. W.R.F.
Note
#3:
Meshech and Tubal were not in Russia during Ezekiel’s time, but rather – as can
be seen in the Greek writers – inhabited the coasts of the Black Sea at its southeastern shores. There are no “isles”
of Tarshish, but properly “coasts”, as Tarshish was a district of southern
Spain. W.R.F.
Note
#4:
The words ken-ah’-an (Canaan) and ken-ah-an-ee’ (Canaanite) are translated
in the A.V. “merchant” only at Job 41:6, Hosea 12:7 and Zeph. 1:11, and
“traffick (-er)” at Isaiah 23:8 and Ezekiel 17:4. W.R.F.
Note
#5:
At the return of Christ, the enemy is destroyed (Matt. 13:40-42, 2 Thes. 2:8)
and therefore will be in no position to deceive the nations (which is happening
at this very moment) ever again. Rather, Christ will rule forever, the 1000-year
period of Rev. 20 being now past, see 1 Thes. 4:18, Matt. 24:31, 25:41, 46 et
al. W.R.F.
Note
#6:
The word “traffickers” at Isaiah 23:8 is the Hebrew word ken-ah-an-ee’, or Canaanite, and here
certainly used with the meaning of “merchant”, since no Canaanite could possibly
be considered “honorable” before Yahweh! Yet it would be simplistic to think
that all of the merchants of Tyre were
Canaanites, just as it would be simplistic to think that all of the merchants in
New York or Boston today are Jews. There are plenty of
Adamites among them. W.R.F.
Note
#7:
It has been shown previously in these notes that there are many Israelites in
the “sea” (Matt. 13:47-50), and while certain groups are given easily to rioting
and pillage – such as the negroes demonstrated throughout the past 50 years, but
especially in the late 1960s –there were still many of the children of Israel
who blindly followed mostly-Jewish agitators (such as the so-called “Chicago
seven”) and activists (such as Gloria Steinem, Emma Goldman), the ACLU and
similar groups, and a never-ending supply of Marxist “entertainers” with
political aspirations, through these decades of social upheaval, and even still
do today. W.R.F.
Note
#8:
Like so many others, even in Israel Identity, Comparet quotes Strong’s dictionary entries without
reading the “Plan Of The Book” section at the beginning of Strong’s dictionaries to learn the
content of these entries. Strong’s
did not define gen-e-a (#1074) as
“nation”, but only as “generation; by
implication an age.” The section of
each Strong’s dictionary entry “...
After the punctuation-mark :—” contains merely “all the different renderings of
the word in the [King James] Authorized English Version” and so are not Strong’s definitions at all, but rather
only how the A.V. translators rendered each word, which includes all of the ERRORS of the A.V. translators, which
are many. Therefore, after the symbol “:—”, any mentioned KJV translator
rendering may be correct or highly in
error! Under gen-e-a, after the
“:—”, we find the incorrect KJV rendering “nation.”
Liddle
& Scott, much more authoritative Greek lexicographers than Strong, define gen-e-a: “race, stock, family ... 2. a race, generation ... 3. offspring ...” And at Matthew 23:36, as
at most other places in the A.V., gen-e-a should have been translated “race”. This should serve as an example
how one can establish a faulty premise resulting in an incorrect conclusion if
one is not extremely careful! W.R.F.
Note
#9:
Comparet stresses too much here the role of “Communism”, which may give one with
a surface knowledge of recent historical events the false impression that alien
threats may have dissipated in the 1990’s with the alleged and apparent “fall”
of Communism. Rather, “Communism” is only one of the tools the Babylonian system
used to subject people in recent times. The nations of the west, so-called
Democracies, have actually embraced many of the tenets of Communism gradually
throughout the 1900’s, disguised under the less-offensive labels of “Liberalism”
and “Socialism.” Capitalism is the largest benefactor of Socialism, where cheap
labor is supported by the middle classes, and not by the multi-national
corporations which profit from that labor. Ethnic nationalism (loving one’s
brethren) is the only answer to globalism, which relies upon the hoax that
Capitalism and Communism are opposed to each other in order to succeed in the
Anglo-Saxon countries, and which feeds on multi-culturalism and universalism to
keep the Saxon nations divided and to weaken the children of Adam, the White
race. W.R.F.
Note
#10:
The Hebrew word translated “Lucifer”, hay-lale’ (1966) is apparently only in
the OT this one time. I would assert that it is the same as the Greek Hêlios, the “sun-god.” Isaiah 14:20-21
convinces me that the reference here is to the same serpent of Revelation 12:9.
Here the king of Babylon is a “type” of this
serpent, and likely also – knowing the history of Babylon – one of his descendants. The word hay-lale’ was in the Septuagint translated eôs-phoros, or “light-bearer”, which
“Lucifer” is the Latin equivalent of. Contrast the statements of Yahshua at John
8:12, 9:5, 12:46, and Rev. 2:28 and 22:16, et al. W.R.F.
Note
#11:
It is far too late for us to “succeed in throwing off the ... Communist tyranny
upon us” now, for that has been gradually and surely imposed on us since
Congress forfeited control of our monetary system to the Jews in 1913. There is
no possible reformation of our government, and so we are told only to “come out
from” the system, i.e. not to support the system of debt and consumerism which
yokes most Americans today, for the system will fall under its own weight. The
more of us who stop participating in it the sooner, the better. W.R.F.