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Magazine of the

CHURCH OF GOD

June 1996

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KINGS AND PRIESTS

At Mount Sinai, Exodus 19:6 GOD said unto Israel --"And ye shall be unto me a KINGDOM OF PRIESTS, and an HOLY NATION." This was said in the third month,"when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt" Exodus 19:1.

So out of all the nations that were on earth at that time and there were many nations; God, because he had demonstrated His awesome power over Egypt at that time and the Israelites were the ones that had seen that terrifying power: God saw to it that Israel KNEW God; what he could do and so chose them to be His people.

ALL Darwinists would like to think that all nations came out of a primordial swamp by some evolutionary process. They forget to ask the question, how did the swamp get there?

To date, of all the people on earth it is ONLY the Jews that can trace their history all the way back through Mount Sinai back through Abraham and apparently to within 7 years of the Six days of Creation.

Referring to the Countdown No. 23

Where are God's chosen people and where is the true Church?

Quite clearly the Jews recognise that if they are TRUE Jews; they are of Mount Sinai desert blood origin. They also are aware, that they are the CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD. The next question that comes to mind IS ----are they the chosen people? we ask this because some think that the Jews are not of GOD. Are the Jews the chosen people of God? the answer is: Yes.

Was Judah at Mount Sinai? YES. How do we know this? Well Exodus 1:1-7, points out-- "Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, JUDAH, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was FILLED with them."

Again we have double underlined Joseph was in Egypt already because Genesis 48:1, shows that Joseph had two sons Ephraim and Manasseh.

ALL OF THESE TRIBES that were at Mount Sinai. Ephraim included. Ephraim is MODERN DAY BRITAIN. The book by Yair Davidy "Ephraim" covers this. Allen covers the same subject, as apparently does Steven Collins. So the Jewish people have modern day brothers (Manasseh) America and (Ephraim) Britain. Who are ALSO THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.

Consider the following which was printed in 1932:

THE NATURAL, AND INGRAFTED, BRANCHES OF THE GOOD

OLIVE TREE

EVERY student of Holy Writ who reads his Bible after the manner of an ordinary book, by commencing at the beginning, and reading through to the end, must admit that in olden time the Hebrew nation itself was the CHURCH OF GOD. St. Stephen, speaking before the Jewish Sanhedrin, speaks of this Church as "the Church, or congregation, in the wilderness," and, there can be no doubt, refers to Israel ; and Israel (NOT THE HOUSE OF JUDAH merely' nor the Levitical priesthood) was the ancient Church of God.

To this Nation and Church only pertained the adoption, the Shechinah, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God and the promises ; and unto them were committed the oracles of God (Rom. 3:2; 4:4). "He sheweth His word unto Jacob, His statutes and His judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation, and as for His judgments, they (other nations) have not known them" (Psalm. 147:19,20). Such was the unique position of Israel in Old Testament times. She was the Church of the living God, raised up by Jehovah to be His witness in the world; and what has been stated applies, not to Judah only, nor to Levi only, but to the WHOLE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.

Now the CONTINUITY of this Church as God's witness in the world has never been broken: for it is evident, from the Epistle to the Romans, that although the Gentiles were admitted into the covenanted blessings forfeited by the House of Judah, yet still NO Gentile Church was formed; but Israel, as in the old, so in the new dispensation, is the dispenser of God's mercies. The "Gentile Church" theory finds no place in Holy Scripture. St. Paul (Rom.11) distinctly sets forth this great truth. He asks the pungent question, "Hath God cast away His people ?" and the reply is No ! "God forbid." and he then, under the figure of a "Good olive tree," the "First Fruits," the "Lump," the "Root and the branches," all of which are equally represented as "holy," sets forth the state and condition of the CHURCH OF GOD in his day. "The good olive tree" represents Israel, the visible Church of God, the repository of His oracles and ordinances, the tree which His Own right hand planted. The "Root" itself, from which the tree sprang, was Abraham, the father of the faithful: the "Natural branches" represent his seed. Some of the branches were broken off because of unbelief : to wit, the House of Judah; "and thou," that is the Roman Church, "being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them"-among what branches ? The natural branches which remained: and these natural branches, we have seen, were Israel. When GENTILES were converted or proselytized, they were GRAFTED into this tree, in Old Testament times by the rite of circumcision, and in CHRISTIAN times by that of BAPTISM. The Apostle noted a tendency on the part of this wild graft to boast and exalt itself, and he rebuked it in the following words : "Boast not against the branches; thou bearest not the root, but the root thee ;" so that it partook only of the "Root and fatness" of the olive tree, by being UNITED to the tree, which was Israel.

That the Church of God is NOT Gentile is evident, because, if the root and natural branches be Israel, the grafting in of certain Gentile or wild branches cannot make the TREE and ROOT wild or Gentile. No amount of grafting in will change the nature or character of the root or stem of a tree; it remains just what it was before. And again, anyone acquainted with horticulture knows well that a wild graft remains a wild graft, although it partakes of the fatness of a good tree. If some of the branches were broken off and wild branches are grafted in their place, the root or tree does not become wild. Why, then, are we taught that the CHURCH OF GOD is now purely Gentile ? Neither are we taught in Scripture that this wild graft would grow so wonderfully, as quite to extinguish and shut out of view the natural branches ; on the contrary, a caution is given, and a warning to continue in God's goodness, otherwise "thou (the ingrafted branches) also shalt be cut off." So that Israel continues to be the visible CHURCH OF GOD, unbroken continuity, to this day; and the Gentile Churches are but wild branches grafted in. St. Paul sets before these Gentile Christians another great truth-viz., that "blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." This part of Israel, before mentioned as broken off,* is blind, and will remain so, until Ephraim's promised fullness, spoken of in Gen.48:19, be accomplished.

Moreover, Israel continues "a nation" ; for when some of these branches were broken off, our blessed Lord declared judgment in these words: "The kingdom of God shall be taken from you (that is, from the House of Judah) and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof" (Matt. 21:43). By the oath of Jehovah, could not be given to any but to the seed of Israel; if take then from Judah, it must be transferred to Israel. Now says Christ, "Whosoever shall fall upon this stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder." What stone? To what does Christ refer Is it not "the nation" before alluded to?

* "Broken-off" branches cannot bear any fruit (the Jews were the broken-off branches) ; the natural branches, that remained on the tree, and the ingrafted branches (as long as they partake of the root and fatness of the good olive tree), are fruitful. Israel was to "BLOSSOM AND BUD," and to "FILL THE FACE OF THE WORLD WITH FRUIT (Isa. 27: 6) ; the "nation bringing forth the fruits thereof," to whom the kingdom was given by Christ "(Matt.21:43).

The prophet Daniel, in that wonderful chapter (Daniel chap. 2) under the figure of an image representing Gentile supremacy stretching over a period of Seven Times (or 2,520 years) speaks of a STONE, which smites the Gentile image and destroys it ; and afterwards "grows into a great mountain, and fills the whole earth" . He tell us, in the seventh chapter (which is parallel with the second), of the great Roman Apostasy, symbolised by the little horn having "eyes like the eyes of a man, and mouth speaking great things ;" and foretells the destruction of that very Church, the Gentile graft ; and of the kingdom and dominion and greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, being given unto the saints of the Most High.

Here, then, we see Israel, the nation and the Church of God, all victorious. The Bride, the Lamb's wife, is called to the marriage supper of the Lamb ; and the Apostate Church, with her boasted authority and pretended claims, Babylon of the Apocalypse, the wild olive of the Epistle to the Romans, is cut off and destroyed, together with the supremacy of the Gentile nations. Israel, upon Judah's rejection of Christ, still held aloft the light of God; and so, in UNBROKEN CONTINUITY, the Church of God from Abraham to this present time has continued : and this Church, we once more repeat, is Israel, the literal seed of the Patriarch. This truth surely is a grand master weapon with which to meet the claims of the Church of Rome.

The Israelites are spoken of in Scripture as AN HOLY NATION, A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS, a PECULIAR PEOPLE (Exodus.19:5,6), a SEPARATED PEOPLE (Exodus 33:15-16); His CHOSEN ONES (1 Chron.16:13). And, as a PEOPLE, Jehovah speaks of them as "JACOB MY SERVANT" and "ISRAEL WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN," and describes them as HIS WITNESSES (Isa.43:10); of them, Moses declared "the Lord's portion is HIS PEOPLE, Jacob is the LOT OF HIS INHERITANCE" (Deut. 32: 9) ; they are further spoken of as HIS SHEEP (Ezek. 34:30, 31), HIS FLOCK, HIS PEOPLE, HIS HERITAGE (Jer.12), His FIRSTBORN (Jer.31:9).

Where, then, are these people to be found ? Who amongst the nations occupies now the position which Jehovah assigned to Israel for ever ?

Hear the blind testimony of our NATIONAL CHURCH, as she speaks to us through our Prayer-Book; and note what the BRITISH PEOPLE lay claim to by her; for she speaks throughout as though she were ISRAEL in her Liturgy. Hear the people, through all the land, say, "We have erred, and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep," and pray the Lord to spare and restore them. Hear the minister in the very words of Ezekiel 18:30-32, to Israel (represented then by the House of Judah), declare that the Lord "desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live," and then, implore that the Holy Spirit, distinctively promised to this chosen race, should be given to us, to enable us to do this. Again, in the "Venite," We declare what, if we be not descended from Israel, is absurd. We are the Lord's people, "the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand," and that our fathers grieved Him in the wilderness.

In the "Benedictus" we bless Jehovah, the "Lord God of Israel, " in that " He hath visited, and REDEEMED His people ; and hath raised up a mighty salvation for us ; in the house of His servant David . . . that we should be saved from our enemies . . . to perform the mercy promised to our forefathers, and to remember His holy COVENANT ; to perform the oath which He sware to OUR forefather Abraham, that He would give us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might SERVE Him without fear."

In the "Magnificat" we magnify the Lord-for what ? that He, "remembering His mercy, hath holpen His servant Israel ; as He promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed for ever." In the "Cantata" we sing unto the Lord for remembering His mercy and truth toward the HOUSE OF ISRAEL, and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God. In the "Nunc Dimittis" we declare that our eyes have seen His salvation, "which Then hast prepared, before the face of all people ; to be a light to lighten the Gentiles ; AND TO BE THE GLORY OF THY PEOPLE ISRAEL." In the "Jubilate" we say that "the Lord He is God," and we are HIS PEOPLE AND THE SHEEP OF HIS PASTURE." Again, in the "Te Deum," "0 Lord, save Thy people ; and bless THINE HERITAGE. Govern them ; and lift them up for ever."

Now these are all specific terms which belong to Israel, and to no other people. Again, we entreat, "Make Thy chosen people joyful. 0 Lord, save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance." "Give peace in our time, 0 Lord." "Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only Thou, 0 God." What right have we to say this if we be not the House of Israel? Only for the lineal House of Israel, "His servant," "His people," "His heritage," did God ever promise to fight in these latter days (Isa. 54:17).

In the Litany we pray, "Spare Thy people, whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy most precious blood ;" Israel was to be redeemed-bought back ; redemption is one thing, and salvation is another; the former applies to Israel. We repeat the words, "We have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that Thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them!" What "fathers" are here meant ? Were they the Druids, or our Anglo-Saxon idolaters ? We also cry, "0 Son of David, have mercy upon us;" and if a Canaanitish woman once used this plea, and got no answer, because she had no claim on that ground, not being an Israelite, shall we, if we be not Israelites, expect to be heard on the same plea ?

In the Thanksgiving Services, in that "for rain," and in that "for deliverance from plague," expressions which apply only to Israel also occur. In the COMMUNION SERVICE the Ten Commandments given to Israel are rehearsed, and the prayer put up that these laws may be written in our hearts ; and, it must be borne in mind, this is not merely the prayer of individuals, but of the nation, from the NATIONAL PRAYER BOOK; and to whom, but to Israel, did the Lord promise to write His laws in their hearts ? (Jer.31:31-33). In the prayer for the King, the minister asks Almighty God to so rule his heart "that he (knowing whose minister he is) may above all things seek Thy honour and glory ; and that we, and all his subjects (duly considering Whose authority he hath) may faithfully serve, honour, and humbly obey him in Thee and for Thee, according to Thy blessed Word and ordinance." To whom can this apply but to Israel? Over no other nation was the Lord King (Deut.33:5 ; I Sam.8:7 ; 12:12 ; I Chron.29:23). He was King of Israel, not of a spiritual but of a literal Israel, and Solomon and his successors were but His viceroys, for they "sat on the throne of the Lord" merely as His deputies.

Again, in the following prayer, we ask God "so to dispose and govern the heart of George, Thy servant, our King and Governor . . . that he may ever . . . study to preserve Thy People ... in wealth, peace, and godliness."

Does the "Thy People" here refer only to those who are true Christians, or does it refer to the whole nation ? If so, why do we call the whole nation "Thy People," unless they be Israel ?

In the Matrimonial Service some remarkable truths occur. To Israel God promised a multitudinous seed, and our Marriage Service invokes this fruitfulness. The Psalm declares that "thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel." God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, bless these Thy servants," prays the minister, "and as Thou didst send thy blessing upon Abraham and Sarah..... so vouchsafe to send Thy blessing upon these Thy servants."

If we turn to the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, in four cases the Old Testament Scripture is appointed in the place of the Epistle. The first, that for Ash Wednesday, is from Joel. "Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly ... spare Thy people, 0 Lord, and give not Thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them." The second is for Monday before Easter (Isa.63). "Doubtless Thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledges us not. Return for Thy servant's sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance. Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary. We are Thine. Thou never barest rule over them : they were not called by Thy Name." The third is for the Tuesday before Easter ; and the fourth, for the twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity, is enjoined to be read always on the Sunday next before Advent, and it is a notable Scripture (Jer.23 b). It sets forth the King reigning, His Name, the consequence of His rule: Judah saved, and Israel dwelling safely, and it contrasts the coming out of the Land of Egypt with the coming of the House of Israel, out of the north country, and from all the countries wherein they were scattered, and they shall dwell in their own land.

Again, in the Commination Service we openly and avowedly confess ourselves to be Israelites ; the minister exhorts us thus, "Make you new hearts and a new spirit ; Wherefore will ye die, 0 ye House of Israel;" then kneeling 4 down we pray, "0 be favourable and gracious unto Zion ; build Thou the walls of Jerusalem" ; again, "be favourable unto Thy people . . . and let not Thine heritage be brought to confusion." In the service of the 20th of June, in the prayer for the Communion Service, are these words, "And that these blessings may be continued to after-ages, let there never be one wanting in her* house to succeed her in the Government of this United Kingdom (see Jer.33:17-22 ; Psa.89?:20-37, 2 Sam.7:15-19, 25-29), that our posterity may see her children's children, and peace upon Israel, So we that are Thy people and sheep*page 7 of Thy pasture, shall give Thee thanks for ever, and will always be shewing forth Thy praise from generation to generation."+

Now, are these terms, expressions, and sentiments, put into our mouths by the national Church, to be taken literally or spiritually ? If only spiritually, then, a greater piece of presumption never entered the heart of man than to take in a wholesale manner, promises made to Israel and to no other nation, and to apply them to the British National Church and people.

*,+, Written in Victoria's reign.

If they are to be spiritually considered, what are they worth ? They are promises to a literal people ; and, if we spiritualise them, they can apply to no single nation, but to every nominal Christian nation ; and then, they become in our mouths mere empty phrases, because then, are we no more the heritage of the Lord, than any other nation ; and, of course, if you spiritualise Israel, you are bound to spiritualise Assyria, Egypt, Edom, Moab, Syria, Philistina, Tyre, Gog, and Magog, and so on ; for if Jacob must be treated thus, so must Esau. And, whatever we may call it, this spiritualising explains away the promises of God, and makes them unreal and empty things.

By all means apply truths in a spiritual sense for the good of the soul ; but remember, these truths can only be based upon literal facts. Suppose we were to spiritualise everything we do and say, suppose we were to spiritually support all our charities, do it, after a spiritual and heavenly manner, and tell people whom we have promised pecuniary assistance, "You must take the will for the deed ;" where would these charities be ? And where, may we ask, is the truth of God under this treatment ? This popular mode of spiritualising truths has done more to gender and propagate infidelity than almost anything else. If the prayers of our National Church mean anything, they must be taken in a literal sense ; and in a literal sense the witness of our great National Church is that we are Israel.

If, then, these expressions are to be taken literally, how, may it be asked, can a converted heathen use them, except in a spiritual sense? St. Paul teaches us that the heathen are adopted, by faith, into the family and household of God, by the Israelitish rite of baptism. Those not of the lineal seed (as well as those who are of the lineal seed) of Israel are admitted to church privileges by the rite of baptism, whereby they can claim the spiritual promises ; just as in Old Testament times a stranger, not of the seed of Israel, if he would enjoy the privileges and blessings of Israel, must be circumcised (see Ex.12:48 ; Gen.34:14-16 ; Isa.56:6-8).

It seems to have been customary also to name a child when it was circumcised (Luke 1:59), and it seems also to have been the custom for young people about the age of twelve to have accompanied their parents to the Passover. About this age, it is customary for the children in the National Church to ratify the promises and vows, made for them at their baptism.

Thus, there seems to be a marked analogy between the Old and New Testament rites. Again, the promises of God to Israel temporally become the possession of those, not of the seed of Israel, by naturalisation ; thus Rahab and Ruth were admitted by marriage into the family of++(to top of page 8)

* Dr. Aldersmith, in his book, "The Fullness of the Nations," well remarks: " 'Sheep,' in the Old Testament, is nowhere used as a symbol of Gentiles, but of Israelites, and of them in the most emphatic manner. See Ps. 95:7 : 'We are the people of His pasture and the sheep of his Hand.' 'My people bath been lost sheep' (Jer. 1, 6). 'I will search for MY sheep, and will seek them out' (Ezek.34:2). 'The House of Israel are My people, saith the Lord God. And ye My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, are men, and I am your God' (3I). 'All we like sheep have gone astray . . . for the transgressions of MY PEOPLE was He stricken' (Isa.53:6-8)."

++ Israelites, and enjoyed all their privileges; and hence, if a convert to Christianity desires to secure the temporal, as well as the spiritual, privileges of Israel, he must become naturalised ; and subject himself to its temporal, as well as its spiritual laws.

These terms and expressions of our National Prayer-Book must, then, be understood in a literal sense as applying to the lineal seed; and thus is fulfilled, in our Church and Nation, that Scripture which says: "I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not: I will lead them in paths that they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them" (Isa.62:1) "Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see Who is blind, but My servant? or deaf, as My messenger that I send ?" (Isa.62:18, 19). Soon may the words be fulfilled: "Bring forth the blind people"-viz., the House of Israel-"Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord" (53:8,10).

These pages 131-140 came from British Israel Truth was written in 1891 by Hanan and Aldersmith about the Church of England THEN. Published by The Covenant Publishing Co 1932.

Now consider 1996

The National Prayer-Book mentioned above is the CHURCH OF ENGLAND Common Prayer Book which we have now read from The Church of England printed before 1964 as it has a note written in hand "Given by The Church Guild in 1964". The leader of the local Church of England in Sycamore Road Farnborough Hants recently lent us a common prayer book to study.

With the exception that Queen Elizabeth 11 replaces the original King George most of the British Israel Truth is in the Common Prayer Book i.e:

Te Deum pages 6-7; Benedictus, p10; Magnificat p20; Cantate p20; Nunc Dimittis p21; Litany p31; Venite p5; Jubilate p11. The twelve tribes of Israel are gone through page 234 the ten commandments p238 and in the Ratification page 628 it states that The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in the Realm of England. Ratification 1571.

Summary- The Church of England generally without realising it is teaching that Britain is Ephraim of the old testament. While clearly it is not Judah because the Jews know their history and their number can be counted. The Church of England is teaching unknowingly that Britain is of old testament Israel or to put it another way The British are Gods chosen people while still teaching the Babylonian Mystery religion of Trinity, Easter and Christmas.

The Church of God through the Countdown Magazine is teaching the laws, judgments and statutes of God, where you came from and where you are going. We also teach that there are other Churches or groups of the people of God around the world who have had no connection at all with the Worldwide Church of God; and didn't know it existed, but are trying to go the right way.

Government of God

Frankly the government of God has been totally confused in the "other churches" and especially so under H. Armstrong. Government is not from the top down or from the bottom up or a shape. It is a spiritual concept, an everlasting concept. Normally when a leader says that the Government of God is Hierarchical or from the top down what he is really saying is that what that leader says is what goes. In H. Armstrong's case, he propagated the idea that God only works through one human leader at a time, (which is totally unbiblical) because he, HWA, wanted to dominate the scene. HWA lorded it over everyone and missed the whole point of government.

The best way to describe it is in association with the motor trade where a diesel engine has a GOVERNOR in the engine. When the engine is running at correct mixture the vehicle runs sweetly and every one is happy. Unfortunately there comes a time when the driver wants to speed things up a bit, so he puts his foot down hard to make things happen. With this the engine runs over rich with diesel fuel and out comes the familiar black smoke. With the diesel governor coming into play or operational the fuel is cut off and the engine slows down and we are back to normal running and "clean" air. So government is a "how to" rather than a shape or form.

Each king will have to learn the HOW TO. In the Worldwide Church of God the how to was never actually taught. Like in all of the worlds governments it was government of HWA by HWA for HWA. Or as the Bible would say he lorded it over people.

The "How to" is actually taught in the books of Exodus chapters 20-22, Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

When a called person has learned the "How To" and endured to the end they will then have qualified to be a King and Priest (or Queen and Priestess) a combined position. Then as Christ said to his twelve disciples at the time, Matt 19:28-- ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. When Christ departed he did not leave one Leader in Charge here was TWELVE distinct apostles all with there own personalities all filled with the spirit of God and doing God's will in different parts of the world.

Back at Mount Sinai God said to the Israelites; ALL OF THE TRIBES, Ex 19: 6 ---"and ye shall be unto me a Kingdom of priests and an holy nation". There were two and a half million of them that God wanted to make them into POWERFUL kings and priest to show the world how to live. When Moses was asked to take charge of the Israelites he balked at the task so God had to give him Aaron to work through. So much for God using one leader. After Mount Sinai, Moses couldn't cope so God showed him how to DELEGATE responsibility. In other words God was showing Moses that he was using other people to do the job.

Matt 16:18 --and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it--His church.

The Worldwide Church of Mr. H. Armstrong was categorically NOT the only one true church. The entire western world which comprises all of the Tribes of Israel, Britain being Ephraim, America being Manasseh, the Jews being Judah etc are ALL God's CHOSEN PEOPLE. Unfortunately some of the people are still steeped in the Babylonian Mystery Religion--Write for our free booklet.

Christ also said. Rev 2:26--"And he that overcometh and keep my works unto the end, to him will I give Power over the nations".--As Kings and Priest. Rev 5:10---"and hast made us unto our God kings and Priests: and we shall reign on the earth". There is in fact going to be an hundred and forty and four thousand of them. Rev 14:1,4-- firstfruits.

These will be very powerful spirit beings that can appear and disappear at will. Write for our FREE tape and transcript What God is actually like. These have the ability to stand beside people who are unconsciously breaking God's laws Judgments and Statutes in His Kingdom and say, Is 30:21-- "this is the way walk ye in it"--.

So, do you want to be a King and Priest and rule in the Kingdom of God?

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Letter to the Editor Daily Telegraph May 23 1996------ All the insults and obstructionism in the world cannot compensate for the fact that, regardless of the merits of the BSE crises, the European Union can by majority vote, bring virtually any British industry to its knees. Rodney Atkinson London N12

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