 "And all Israel heard of the judgment which the King had judged;
and they feared the King; for they saw that the WISDOM OF God was in him to do
judgment." 1 Kings 3:28.
The two women who came to King Solomon were a type of the Hebrew and
Gentile Churches, and were given to show us who the true "Living Child,"
or Messiah, is; and also which of the two women, of Churches, is the True Church.
And these two things are the most important that have ever engaged the human
understanding.
If an appear to natural affection alone, by King Solomon's attempt to
divide the "Living Child," proved his wisdom, not only to ascertain the
"True Mother" of the "Living Child," what will be
said when it shall be seen that the "two Women" signify the Hebrew and
Gentile Churches, and that his attempt to divide the "Living Child" not
only proves which of the Two Churches is the True Church, by the mother holding fast to
the Divine Unity, but also, which is the True Messiah; the one that came into
this world more than 1800 years ago, or the one who is yet to come.
Some persons thoughtlessly object to types, figures and signs, as
not being sufficiently accurate, or definite, to arrive at Truth; but be it remembered,
that all words are but types, figures or signs, to express and convey our ideas; and the
great and grand object to be attained by them, to the truly wise, is Understanding and
Truth.
Even the Holy and Divine Word, itself, that God has declared he
has "magnified above all his name," (see Ps. 138:2,) is entirely composed of
types, figures, or certain signs, upon which all our salvation is dependent; making in the
aggregate the Holy Word of God. And the reason he has made use of them is, that he might
have a medium through which to convey his Great and ever adorable Name
of Power and Wisdom to us--for how could the Great God convey to fallen creatures the
Truth without a medium? And what sort of medium would it be possible to form without
certain types, figures or signs, of some sort or other? Is it not then exceedingly foolish
and simple for any person to object to them? Ask such if they can speak, read, or write
without them? This cannot be done, therefore True Wisdom consists in the discernment,
right knowledge, and right appreciation of these symbols, in accordance with the Will and
the intention of an all-wise and great Being.
It appears "Two Women," who were Harlots, came to King
Solomon and stood before him. These both, we are informed, dwelt in one house,
and each was delivered of a Son, but the false mother was delivered of hers the Third
Day after the "True Mother." This last expression* expresses very great
wisdom indeed. It appears there was no stranger in the house, but these "Two
Women" were alone. That the woman who last delivered overlaid
her son, and arose at midnight and took the "Living Child"
from the bosom of its mother and laid it in her own bosom, and then placed her dead
child, or Son, in the bosom of the other. When the morning came, the True
Mother arose to give suck, or nourishment, to her son, and "behold it was not her son
that she did bear." Each claiming the "Living Child,"
they both applied to King Solomon to decide the claim. King Solomon said, "Bring me a
sword and divide the Living Child in two, and give half to the one
and half to the other. Then spake the woman whose the Living Child was,
unto the King, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my Lord, give
her the Living Child, and in no wise slay it; (by dividing it;) but the
other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. Then the King said,
give her the Living Child, and in no wise slay it, (by dividing it,) she
is the mother thereof." 1 Kings 3:16-28.
Now be it ever remembered, this all-important decision took place after
the false mother had said, "Nay, the Living is my son and the Dead is thy son,"
and the True Mother said, "No, but the Dead* is thy son, and the Living is my son.
Thus they spoke before the King. Then said the King, the one says this is my son that
lives and thy son is the dead; and the other says, Nay, but thy son is the Dead
and my son is the Living." O what a most perfect and admirable description of the
State of the Hebrew and Gentile Churches for the last 1800 years!
Is it possible for any language that is composed of types, figures, or
signs, to express more fully the claim and state of both Churches? And is it
possible there could be a greater or more important suit at issue, not only to decide
forever which is the "Living Child," or True Anointed Messiah,
but also which of the "Two Women" is the "True Mother," or
Church?
Now this is the interpretation proved by the Word of God.
The "Two Women" who were Harlots signify
the Hebrew and Gentile Churches. (See Is. 54:6; Jer. 3:1; Ezek. 16:28, and Rev.* 17:3, 4, and 5.) The one
"House," in which only were the Two Women, in the "field"
of this World. (See Matt. 13:38.) The "Third Day" after the "True
Mother" was delivered was the 4004th year, for if the mother of the "Living
Child" was delivered of her son, King David, in the year A. M. 2919,† it would
be the first Day, or first thousandth year;--3919 would be the second Day,
or second thousandth year; and 4004 would be the Third Day, or the third
thousandth year, reckoning a part of a day or year for a whole day or year,
as was always the custom amongst the Jews. Thus we see this beautiful type or figure of
the Two Women is proved by time, if One Day is "a thousand years in thy
(God's) sight as yesterday, when it is past." (See Ps. 90:4.) "And one
Day is with the Lord as a thousand years." (2 Peter 3:8.) This "Living
Child," or Man Child, is King David himself, and he is the True Anointed
, or Messiah. (See 2 Samuel 23:1; Jer. 30:9; Ezek. 34:23 and 24, and Hos. 3:5.) He
was not merely an eminent Type of the Messiah, both in his prophetical
and regal character, but was specially and truly the only true "Living
Child," or True Anointed, or Messiah himself, as the above quoted
texts declare, and as time hereafter will make manifest.
The Woman, or Church, who "overlaid" her son, is the
Gentile Church; and this she has done in taking only the spiritual part of a
Messiah, and of God's everlasting kingdom, instead of the natural and the spiritual both
together. Thus she has forestalled and anticipated* the true
Messiah and his kingdom; and has in this way "overlaid" it 1800 years
ago, as all facts prove, and as I shall show hereafter. She is, therefore, the False
Mother, or Church, that labors to divide the true "Living Child." She
has taken the prophecies that King David declared concerning himself, and NOT of another,
and has taken those and laid them in her bosom, and is for giving half to the True Mother,
or Hebrew Church, and taking half to herself. She continues to this day in saying,
"Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it."
i.e. slay it; and ever and anon is, and has been, raising the cry, "Thine is the Dead,
and mine is the Living," although she alone is opposed to the Unity,
and is for Trinity, i.e. division, although she well knows it will prove certain
death to the Living Child. Thus she declares that the only living God consists of
three persons, or personalities, "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost;" whereas the two
last are only properties that she attributes, and gives to the only one God. O! False
Woman! O! False Woman! O! False Church! The light and truth of
God
will yet make thee naked, and "bare and uncover thy thighs and secret
parts." See Is. 47:1 to 4. Thou art literally and verily the "Daughter
of Babylon and Chaldea." See Is. 23:13, and Rev. 17. The last two extracts fully
reveal the Christian Church.
The "morning" when the True Mother, or Church, arises to give
nourishment, or "suck" to her Son, or the True Messiah, is the morning
of the Redemption and Resurrection, or 7000th year. Then, and not till then, will the True
Messiah receive support and nourishment from his mother, the True Church, which cannot be
in this world, or order of things; which supports Daniel's four beasts, or Monarchies, and
is therefore death to the True Mother and her Son--they cannot live in it and receive
support.
That which lives in this world, and is nourished by the four Gentile
Monarchies, is the False Mother, because "She has committed fornication with the
kings and great men of the earth," and her dead son is supported by all the four
Beasts, or Monarchies, of Daniel; and these, and the fifth Monarchy, cannot both receive
support and the dominion at one and the same time; for Daniel declares that
"the fifth Monarchy, or the Kingdom, of the "stone cut out of the mountain without
hands," "smote all the Great Image (of the four Beasts,) and carried them
away, that no place was found for them." See Dan. 2:34 and 35.
So it must have been the one half of the Dead Child (the
spiritual without the literal) that was set up 1800 years ago, for place
has been found for the whole of the Image, from the head of gold down to the feet of iron
and clay; and they all exist until this day. King Solomon signifies true Wisdom. The Sword
that is to try the claim to which the woman, or church, belongs, the one true,
undivided "Living Child," or Messiah, (for
King Solomon, i.e. Wisdom, did not divide it, but only made pretence,) is God's most holy
and righteous law. See Deut. 33:29; Psa. 45:3; and Eph. 6:17.
The True Mother is the Hebrew Church, that continually cries out,
"Hear, O Israel! The Lord thy God is the one Lord," and not three, and
is therefore for Unity and not Trinity, and is opposed to dividing the "Living
Child," ("for her bowels yearned upon her son.")
She cannot take the spiritual part 1800 years before the literal
has had its accomplishment, as all the prophets and their prophecies cry out and
bear witness against her for so doing; for when we carefully examine them, and try her
cause by them, we can clearly discover that the attendant circumstances which
they declare shall take place have not yet occurred, and therefore she cannot be the True,
nor her son the "Living," but she is the False, and
her son the "Dead."
The True Mother, or Church, says, Holy fast
to the literal and spiritual part of the prophecies, and in no wise divide them--neither from each other, not from their
attendant circumstances, neither suffer their consecutive order to be destroyed; but wait upon
God,
and in his own time he will fulfill every jot and tittle of them, and "at the
end they will speak and not lie; and though
it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry." Hab. 2:3.
Then the King, i.e. Wisdom, will say, Give her the "Living Child," and in no
wise slay it,* (divide it,) she is the mother thereof."
Here is an all important and most serious
error that the False Mother has fallen into, assuming to have already in
possession the spiritual part of the kingdom of God, and his Messiah, many
hundreds of years before the literal appears; and in order to support this,
almost every prophecy has been mutilated and severed from its connection with
certain other circumstances, which were given as tests and marks, whereby
we should know for a certainty when they were truly fulfilled, without any possibility of mistake.
But she had not attended to all these
circumstances, which were to take place, some before, some at the time, and some
after the great object of Prophecy. I will mention first, the one so often
quoted from the 7th chapter of Isaiah, 14th v. "Behold, a Virgin* shall conceive, and bear a
Son," (a circumstance that has doubtless happened
many thousands of times. Not a word is there stated of any miraculous conception, without a natural
father,) "and shall call his name Immanuel."
Now this circumstance was given as a Sign to Ahaz, King of Judah, that before this very
child that was born of a woman, and called Immanuel, should "know to refuse the
evil and choose the good, the land (Syria) that thou abhorrest should be
forsaken of both her Kings." (See 16th verse.) This all took place, according to the chronology affixed over the very page,
758 before the Christian Era. Yet, for all this, this prophecy, that was
all fulfilled so many years before the Christian Era, is applied to Jesus of
Nazareth 758 years after.
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Nevertheless the 6th and 7th verses of this
9th chapter of Isaiah are wrested and separated from what I have mentioned
precedes and succeeds the prophecy, and are applied to Jesus, notwithstanding we
see that of all the attendant circumstances which are declared shall take place
at the time of the coming of the true Messiah, not
one has yet taken place to this very day; for the burden is not yet broken from
off Israel's neck, nor the "staff and rod of the oppressor;" neither has Jesus yet sat upon David's
Throne,* nor upon his Kingdom, to order and establish it," for it still
remains crushed under the dominance of the "4 Gentile Beasts," or Monarchies,
and must so remain until the Time comes for the saints to take the
Kingdom," and for the establishment of the 5th monarchy of the "Stone." (See
Daniel 2:31-35.)†
We see here in both these prophecies just
mentioned, that the False Mother has overlaid her son; the first in the sign of the woman bringing forth Immanuel 758 years
B.C., and the last more than 1800 years, as "the burden and staff of the
oppressor" yet remains most grievously upon
Israel's neck, as all facts prove in this our day; and that from the very same
oppressive power, (viz. the Midianites or
Ishmaelites, see Gen. 37:28, where these two are identified,) the Turks being
the lineal descendants from Ishmael, and his mother Hagar.
So that doubtless both these two noted
prophecies remain unaccomplished. As further proof of this, turn over to the
same prophet in the very next chapter, (10:25, 25, and 27,) where the very same
thing is repeated in the 27th verse, and that too when the Assyrian comes to
Zion and smites Israel, which we all know is yet
future.
There remain two more noted prophecies, which
are thought to be all conclusive, in proof that "the
Dead" is "the Living Child," but upon a very
slight examination and consideration, the Time
prophesied, and all the attendant circumstances, (which were given as evidence when they would be really accomplished,) by
comparing all these carefully together, it will clearly be seen that they have
all been anticipated and forestalled, and consequently "overlaid" by the Gentile, or Esau-ic, Church.
The first of these is that famous one given
by the Patriarch Jacob, as is mentioned in the 49th chapter of Gen. 10th v.,
when he called together his sons and told them "that which shall befall you
(them) in the Last days," (verse 1,) and not 1800
years and more since. He says, "The Scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a
lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come,
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be."
Now we can see, that if the "Union Bible
Dictionary," put out by the American Sunday School Union, be true, the "fourth
captivity," and the last, took place (see page 138, under the head of
"captivity") A.M. 3416, that is, 588 years before
ever the Christians' Shiloh (Christ) appeared.*
Well, first I must observe that anything
which happened 1849 years back, could not possibly be "in the Last Days;" and secondly, that consequently the Scepter still remains in possession of the Tribe of
Judah somewhere, as will be clearly seen when the "Kings of the East, and the
Ten Tribes, with Judah at the head of them, come forth from their place of hiding." (See Is. 49:9.) They will then "show themselves" and their true Messiah, which will most certainly prove whether
or not the Christian Church has 'overlaid" and
forestalled the "Living Child" in applying it to
Jesus 1800 and more years ago, instead of the Last
days. God everywhere declares that he will bring
back the captivity of Judah, as well as that of Israel, or the nine and a
half Tribes. See Jer. 30:3, and Ezek. 37:16-23.
And lastly, we do not see as yet that "To him
has the gathering of the people been." If we apply it to Jesus, it is so only in
a very imperfect and limited sense, for there are more Pagans and Mohammedans
than Christians, many times over. But this is not all, for we do not see yet the
two preceding verses of this prophecy fulfilled, nor the two succeeding ones.
Judah's "hand has not been yet in the neck of his enemies, neither have his
father's children bowed down before him," although he is "couching as a Lion,
and as a young Lion." (See verses 8 and 9, and compare this with Balaam's
prophecy, Num, 23:24, and with the corresponding one given in Deut. 33:7, given
by the Man of God, Moses, upon the head of Judah, thus, "Hear, Lord, the voice
of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his
hands be sufficient for him, and be thou a help to
him from his enemies.") Then settle forever that this prophecy remains for the
Last days. Well may Isaiah cry out, "Thou, O Lord,
art our Father, our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting:" and, "Return for thy servants' sake, the Tribes of thine Inheritance; the people of thy
holiness have possessed it (Palestine) but a little while." See Is. 63:16-19.
The next prophecy to be considered is
mentioned in the 9th chapter of Daniel, 24th and 25th verses. "Seventy weeks are
determined upon thy people and upon thy 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." This is
the 24th verse.
Now before I proceed to the 25th verse, I
would observe, that if there was not any other evidence than this between the
two lids of the Bible, the above ought most certainly to be sufficient and
conclusive to any sane and unprejudiced mind, that not the least of it has yet
taken place, for what, "Is Wisdom no more in Teman (Edom?) Is counsel perished
from the prudent? Is their Wisdom vanished?" (Jer. 49:7,) that I need
observe in the 19th century that "transgression is not
finished," neither is there an "end of sins,"
nor "everlasting righteousness brought in;"
neither is all "vision or prophecy sealed" or fulfilled? But now for the 25th verse, and we find
that the greatest of all interpreters, Time, has
proved to nearly all chronologers, that the 70 weeks, if taken for 490 years, as
nearly all agree, are past, forever past, if taken and applied to the "Dead
Child;" and this is all-sufficient to show, in this respect, if in no other,
that she, the false mother, has "overlaid" it, and I challenge any chronologist,
Wm. Miller and above fifty* others, to deny it upon their own calculation now
published, and before the world. "Know, therefore,
and understand, 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." Now who does not know that
neither the walls of Jerusalem nor its streets were
built at all during the appearance of Jesus, but were destroyed seventy years after him, by Titus. "And after threescore and two weeks shall the Messiah be
cut off." Now we know from the books of the Evangelists, (so called,) and from
profane History, that Jesus was crucified about seventy years before that event, as above mentioned, and not after that event. Now can there be a single doubt that
the whole of this prophecy remains yet future? Does not the two last
observations prove that all former calculations, which make them to have been
fulfilled, fall to the ground by only these two last strokes?
Nor can it be otherwise than that this noted
prophecy remains unaccomplished, when we see all that is predicted in the second chapter of the same book of Daniel, in relation
to the "Four Monarchies not yet fulfilled;" nor
the seventh in the setting up of "God's everlasting
Kingdom;" (see 7th chapter;) nor that of the 8th chapter. Cast your eyes
upon the 14th verse, "Unto two thousand and three hundred days then shall the sanctuary be
cleansed." Has this taken place? Have the Turks
cleansed it? You will surely answer, "No one believes this, unless it be
themselves." How then can you reasonable expect that the very cause of events
that is to bring about these events has happened, and yet at the same time
believe that what I have quoted from the next (the 9th chapter, 24th, 25th and
part of the 26th verse,) has taken place 1849 years ago, and that the Jews were
blind in not believing it, as I did, and as
Christians now do? I sucked all these inconsistencies in with my mother's milk,
and never discovered them until I went to Jerusalem. And why? Because I never
looked at them before with a single eye, and with
an unprejudiced mind, in connection with that
patient research that is so indispensably connected with Facts and Places.
Can the effect be produced without a cause?
It is impossible, you will at once reply. So neither can the 9th of Daniel,
until the 2d, 4th, 7th and 8th are fulfilled. Neither can the 53rd chapter of
Isaiah before the 52d chapter, nor before even the first part of the 2d chapter.
Cast your eyes upon only the fore part of these two chapters, and ask yourself
this question. Have these things taken place yet? Has "the mountain of the
Lord's House been established in the top of the mountains?" Is it "exalted above
the Hills?" Do "all nations flow unto it?" Do "many people go and say, come ye and let us go up to
the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and we will teach us
of his ways, and we shall walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the
Law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." Now for the 4th chapter: Have
"seven women taken hold of one man saying, We will eat out own bread and wear
our own apparel, only let us be called by thy name to take away our Reproach?" (See the next 4th and 5th
verses.) "When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of
Zion, and shall have purged away the blood from the midst thereof, by the spirit
of Judgment and by the spirit of burning, then The
Lord will create upon every dwelling-place of Mount Zion, and upon all her
assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flame of fire by
night," &c. &c. Surely this has not yet taken place--so neither has the
9th of Daniel before the 2d and 7th, which corresponds with the 2d of Isaiah.
The Fifth Kingdom of the "Stone" is not yet set
up, (see Dan. 2:44,) and this is the Kingdom mentioned in the 7th chapter, when
"the Kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the Kingdom, under the whole
heaven, shall be given to the people (the Jews) of the saints of the Most High,
whose Kingdom is an Everlasting Kingdom." (Dan. 7:27.) Now then the 8. c. 14th
verse, when the "Sanctuary is to be cleansed at the end of 2300 days"--which is not yet done--then comes the fulfillment of
the 9th chap. 24th and 25th verses of the "Seventy Weeks."
Now we will introduce the 52d of Isaiah:
"Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O
Jerusalem, the Holy City, for henceforth there shall be no more come unto thee
the u n c i r c u m c i s e d and the unclean." Do
the u n c i r c u m c i s e d and unclean pass through Jerusalem yet or any more? Read
the rest of the 52d chapter, and you will see at once, if taken in connection
with the 9th of Dan. 24 and 25, that "transgression is not yet
finished" in the Holy City, neither is there "an end of sins," (the same
that Isaiah declares,) nor "everlasting Righteousness brought in," nor "prophecy
sealed up," or finished; nor has the "Messiah been
cut off at the end of sixty-two weeks," (Jesus was
cut off Before.)
The Word of God will yet be found perfect,
taken in its consecutive order of events, as these
are declared by all the Prophets.
You are now only beginning to be introduced
to an acquaintance with the abominable mother of lies, and of her "fornication
with all the inhabitants of the earth." See Rev.
17:2, and you can perceive how she has introduced her "three gods in one" and
the "one in three," under her mark and name of "Mystery
Babylon," with her many "Pious Frauds" and
"Lying Wonders."
But we will not leave this most important
question, that "the Messiah must have come
sometime during the time that the Second Temple stood, which was built by
Zerubbabel;" but this is not true.
And all this assumption is founded and
supposed to be true upon the assertion quoted out of the 9th of Dan., 26th v.,
that "after threescore and two weeks the Messiah
shall be cut off, but not for himself," some persons not considering that facts
themselves prove that the verse but one before cannot possibly yet have taken
place.
Now we will examine the stronghold of this "Daughter of Babylon" and "Daughter
of Chaldea" and compare Is. 47 with Rev. 17 and 18, and then read the 53d
chapter of Isaiah, and see if it can in any way apply to a Messiah crucified
1816 years since.
The Prophet begins this prophecy properly at
the 13th verse of the 52nd chapter, thus, "Behold, 'my
servant' shall deal prudently." Now, who is this he is speaking to under
the title of "my servant?" Looking at the 41st chapter, 8th verse, "But thou,
Israel, art my
Servant, Jacob whom I have chosen." Here God's own word is its own
Interpreter. Can we have a better? Next verse says, "Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee." The first verse of
the 42d chapter says, "Behold my servant* whom I
uphold, mine elect." Again in the 44th chapter and the 4th verse it says, "Hear
now, O Jacob, my servant." Again in the 45th
chapter, 4th verse, "For Jacob, my servant's
sake;" and so in the 49th chapter, 6th verse, and throughout the whole
book; we find that Israel is the Servant alluded to also in Jer. xxx. 10, and
Ps. 134:22.
In relation to the 2d verse of the 53
chapter, "He hath no form nor comeliness: and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him." Christians
represent that Jesus was of a most perfect Form of
five feet eleven inches high, and a most perfect
beauty, with aquiline nose and orient curls, and most perfect features, and
so says the written account given of him, in the reign of Tiberius Caesar, which
most have seen. Fifth verse, "For he was wounded for" (but the original Hebrew is, Mem, i.e. by,) our
transgressions; that is, "Israel my servant," was "wounded by our
transgressions;" by the gentiles' transgressions he was "bruised" by (not "for") our
iniquities, as will be yet seen before the Gentiles are healed, that it is by
the very "bruises" and "stripes" by which their peace is yet to be made
through their Head, Messiah Ben Joseph.
Verse 8th says, "He was taken from Prison."
We have no account that Jesus was ever in Prison.
Verse 9th, "He made his Grave with the wicked,
and his Death with the Rich;" but the New Testament declares exactly the
contrary. His Death was with the Wicked, (between two thieves,) and his Grave with the Rich," in
the Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, (Matt. 27:60,) and Jesus' Grave is "more than
fifty feet" from that of Joseph's, in the Nave of
the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. See Durbin's
Travels, vol. i., pages 301, 302. How is this?
Verse 10, "He shall see his seed." He never saw "his seed," for we read that he shall never have any; and
even if he had, as He was of the seed of Jeconiah, or Coniah, (see Matt. 1:11,)
not one of the seed of Coniah, as Jer. 22:30,
declares, that "No man of his seed shall prosper sitting upon the Throne of David, nor ruling any more
in Judah," therefore Isa. 9:7, can never be applied to Jesus, if Matt. 2:11 be
true, and Jer. 22:30.
"He shall prolong his days," (verse 10.) This
Jesus never has done, for he died* at the age of about thirty-three.
So that any one can see that it is utterly
impossible for any person who is not entirely carried away with his
prepossessions and prejudices, to apply this 53rd of Isaiah to Jesus; and he
must be enthusiastically Insane upon the subject, to destroy all its consecutive
order, and that of all the Prophets, especially of Daniel, and anticipate and forestall
the events as declared by him, and that, too, before the Four Gentile Beasts are slain or
destroyed," (see Dan. 7:11 and 27;) before the
"Stone" smites them, (see Dan. 2:34;) "before the
ancient of Days did sit;" "before the Thrones are
cast down," (Dan. 7:9;) "before the Beast is slain," (verse 11;) "before the
sanctuary be cleansed," (8-14;) "before the King of Fierce countenance and
understanding dark sentences shall stand up," (verse 23.) How can there be "an end of sins" and "finish of the transgression" 1847 years before these very things
that are to bring them about take place? O foolish, cruel, and inconsistent
Mother to overlay, forestall, and anticipate the Only "Living Child" in this manner, and
to try to make the King and all men believe, even in this 19th century, that thy
"Dead Child" which thou hast so grievously "Overlaid," is the Only Living and True Anointed
Messiah! Will it not take Judgments of no mild
kind to persuade and convince thee? Yea, even the seven most awful plagues
themselves, to open the eyes of those who have had their fat livings from this
state of deception, and who have had their eyes blinded and their hearts
hardened by the God of this world, to wit: the "Lust of the Flesh," the "Lust of
the Eyes," and the "Pride of Life." "O Daughter of Edom" and "Daughter of
Babylon" who art to be destroyed, happy shall be he who takes and dashes thy
little ones against the stones." Ps. 137:8.
If the coming of the True Anointed, i.e.
Messiah, and setting up of God's Everlasting Kingdom, or Church, is overlaid and
superseded so many hundreds of years before all these very facts, or attendant
circumstances come to pass, that are indispensably necessary in order to bring
it about, how is it possible ever to take place or to be established?
It is now admitted on all hands, that nearly
all the LITERAL part, or fulfillment, of the prophecies, have not yet taken
place, and when we ask the spiritualizers when and
where this and that prophecy was ever literally
fulfilled, they invariably answer, "Oh, it was fulfilled many hundreds of years
back, when the Spiritual Kingdom of Jesus was set
up." But let such know that the Kingdom of God for which we pray, is to be as
literal as any of the four that precedes it. Now
what would we think of a Spiritual Kingdom of Chaldea, Medo-Persia, Greece, and
Rome existing only spiritually many hundreds of
years before they ever literally existed, that is, before they ever existed, in
PLACE, together with all the attendant
circumstances that were necessary to form them into a visible Kingdom? Did
you ever hear of a Spiritual Republic of America
or Kingdom of England existing many hundreds of
years before either of them existed literally or visibly?
But the first thing that is requisite is place for
a Kingdom, then a People, and then there must be a
Spirit to influence and move the people to right
government. The false and absurd idea of a Spiritual*
existence in the abstract from the Body, and
before its corresponding
Body, many hundreds of years, is too unfounded and foolish to merit a
moment's serious consideration. Were it not that darkness and its consequent blindness, had fastened this idea upon the minds of
the people, it would be thought the fullest evidence and proof of insanity. The Prophets of
God all give the fullest
detail of circumstances that require Place and Time. Take, for instance, the 60th of Isaiah, and the
last 16 chapters of Ezekiel, and particularly the 32d chapter, and let any one
attempt to spiritualize them into a fulfillment disconnected with the facts and
circumstances as there declared shall and must first take place.
What can we think of a man existing without a
Body? What is to give him perceptibility, feeling, or power to act, but by and
through a Body? But the spiritualist will reply
that "we all come into the world with a fallen Body; it is, therefore,
indispensable for a redeemed spirit to be sent from God, before we can be
prepared for a new and redeemed Body at the resurrection." But I answer; all
this can and will be done by a strict obedience to God's Most Holy and Righteous
Law, which requires us to "Love him with all our
hearts, with all our souls, and with all our might," (Deut. vi. 5,) and "our neighbor as
ourselves," (Lev. 19:18;) and without the help of any other that is inferior and entirely predicated upon it, and which professes to supersede
it, as doth the Christian and Mohammedan Religions. In the case of every living
Being coming into this world, whether Jew or Gentile, he finds himself with a
Body first, and long before he has any spiritual perception. All men, I say, know it to be a
fact, that we come into this world first with a Body; that this Body is without
any knowledge of either Temporal or Spiritual Ideas, until they are received
through the medium of the five senses, and are all predicated upon
substances--for every Idea presupposes a substance--upon which it can be
founded. What Idea can we have of anything that never had any Body or visible
existence? None at all. It is a perfect nonentity. The Jew and Gentile come into
this world under like circumstances, but as soon as they are taught, the one*
begins where the other ends--the one begins and
is taught by his parents--First, to believe in a Spiritual Kingdom entirely unconnected with time and place, but
which consists in some mental abstractions and refinements, and falls far short of the literal and spiritual
Religion of the Prophets, which is connected with time,
place and outward circumstances.
The Israelite commences and is taught by his
parents, first, the Holy Language in which the Prophets spoke and wrote; he is
taught to believe in a literal and redeemed
Kingdom, and is immediately initiated in the knowledge of God's Most Holy Law,
that prepares him for the coming of Elijah, and this is just where inspiration
left him in the days of Malachi; and if he keep the Law, it is where Elijah will find him. "Remember ye the Law of Moses my
servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes
and judgments. Behold I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the coming of
that great and dreadful Day of the Lord." Mal.
4:5.
Here we see from the Word of God that the Jew
who keeps the Law ends with Elijah, whilst the
Christian began with John the Baptist as his
Elijah, and says Jesus "fulfilled" "and abrogated" and the Law ends. But it may now be said to the latter, "What will ye do in the end thereof?" for Elijah when
he comes will most assuredly try and settle whether the Gentile's Child is the
"Living Child" or not, and whether she or the Hebrew Church is the "True Mother."
All that the Gentiles profess to have is the
spirit of the thing, that is, a spiritual Kingdom, set up 1800 years and more since;
consisting of "Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost." The Body of the Redeemed
Kingdom they possess not, but say, they have the fallen, personal Body attached
to themselves, as is the case with the whole creation.
The true redeemed body either of Jerusalem,
(the "Throne"* or HEAD of the redeemed earth,) or
of man, cannot be obtained but by and through the
Jew,† through C i r c u m c i s i o n and the Law of God.§ The Body belongs to
the Jew; they are "the seven and also the eighth."§ Abraham himself was not "perfect" until he
was c i r c u m c i s e d, although he had
suffered so much in passing the Fiery Furnace of Ur of Casdim, and in being made
willing to leave his "own country and kindred."
Furthermore, no spirit, whether fallen or
unfallen, can possibly be at rest, without its Body--for the Body is all that
gives it perceptibility or sensibility--or it is that through which alone it can
put forth any of its life or powers into action,
and is the only medium that can connect it with the world it inhabits.
The principal seat of the fallen Body is
located in the Foreskin, and no redeemed Body can
be acceptable unto God as perfect with it. In
confirmation of this read the 32d chapter of Ezekiel, (a chapter that forever
sets at defiance the sophistical power of the Spiritualizer.) There we see every
one of the nation "Slain with the sword," and doomed with the "U N C I R C U M C I S E D" that "go
down to the pit," or Hades, or Hell. This is fully confirmed by Israel not being included, and how they are to be brought
"out of the Pit wherein there is no water." (Read
Zec. 9:11.) These are only brought out of the Pit, or Hell, by the Blood of
the Covenant of c i r c u m c i s i o n. "A Bloody
husband art thou, (says Zipporah to God, not to Moses,) because of the c i r c u
m c i s i o n." Exod. 4:26. A relation by blood, which is the life, therefore no Pit, nor Hell, but
Life, and that by Blood.
We hear much of those who "died in Faith." This is all true, and Abraham was a
man of Great Faith before he was c i r c u m c i s e d, but pray mark one thing,
That those who thus died "received not the
promises," but saw them afar off." Now there
is a very great difference between being in actual
possession of a kingdom, or merely to have promises of that Kingdom, and
only seeing the fulfillment of the promises a great way, or "afar off," and that only by faith. Jerusalem will not only be in that Kingdom, but
the "Throne" and metropolis of that Kingdom; and
there are those who, when it is established, will only see it by Faith, and "afar off," yea, thousands of years; whilst others
will be in real possession of this Throne of the
Kingdom, and Assessors or Judges upon this throne of God, (see Jer. 3:17,) even
upon Jerusalem; and in that day Jerusalem will be redeemed and "build up with
sapphires, and emeralds, and precious stones, thy walls and towers and
battlements of pure gold, and the streets of Jerusalem," "O thou afflicted,
tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I
will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires."
"And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy
borders of pleasant stones."
Then we will assuredly know who is the True
Mother, and her people, for Daniel assures us that
"the Kingdom shall not be left to other People:"
and also who is the True "Messiah, or Anointed of the God of Jacob."
Now it is not only our privilege, but our
duty, to take the sure Word of God for our "Lamp," and the marks that it has
given us; so that we may see, avoid, and escape the False Woman and her dead
child, and cleave to the "True Mother" and her "Living Child," that it may be
well with us in the world to come. We may thus
perceive from facts, that this False Church has not only divided the Spiritual
from the literal, and placed the former first, by many, very many, years--which
is altogether wrong--but she has divided and wrested all the prophecies from Time, Place, and their attending circumstances, as
declared by all the Prophets.
Babylon was the capital of Chaldea, and
Chaldea, or the Chaldeans, "was not until the Assyrians
founded it." See Is. 23:13.
That Edom is Babylon is established and made
plain by the Holy Spirit of God, for in the 137th Psalm, 7th verse, he speaks of
"the children of Edom," and in the next verse (the 8th) he calls Edom, "O
Daughter of Babylon." Peter in his first epistle, 5:13, identifies Babylon
with Rome, or Edom; and in the Book of Jasher, 90th chapter, 8th verse, it says,
"That the Children of Chittim ruled over Edom, under King Abianus, (see verses 6
and 10,) and Edom became under the hand of the children of Chittim, and became
one kingdom from that day." And in chapter x. 16,
he says, "And the children of Chittim are the Romin who dwell in the valley of Canopia by the river
Tibrea." And in Samuel Baxter's English version of the Polyglot Bible, in his
second map, he has correctly marked down both Austria and Italy as descendants
of Kittim or Chittim, and so the Catholic or Roman religion (for all Syria was a
Roman province (see Luke 3:1,) in the days of Jesus, emigrated and peopled all
the West, Italy, France, England, Ireland, and Scotland.
The first division took place after the Roman
Christian Religion was established, in the days of Constantinople, about the
year A. D. 325; then the Armenian,* or Eutycian, which began in the year 448, or
the 5th century. The second was that of the Greek Church, that commenced about
the middle of the 9th, but was first started about the procession of the Holy
Ghost, in the 6th century. The Waldenses, under Peter Waldo, in the year 1160.
The Hussites, under John Huss, about the year 1407. The Protestant Church began
under Martin Luther, in the 16th century; the Calvinistic under John Calvin,
also in the beginning of the same century. The former may be considered as the
Father of the Church of England, and the latter the father of the Presbyterians,
in all their many and varied divisions. The Church of England and the
Presbyterians separated from each other upon the form of church government, the
one holding or adhering to the Episcopal form, or that of the Bishop, and the
other to the Presbyterian, or that of Priests. In
the year 1523, the Moravians, or United Brethren, divided. In the year 1536 and
'38 the Baptists divided principally from the Independents. In the year 1624 the
Quakers formed themselves into a sect, under George Fox. The Methodists, under
John Wesley, in 1729, divided and formed a sect, principally from the Church of
England. The Swedenborgians commenced under Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish
nobleman, about 1743. The Shakers divided into a sect in the year 1774, under
Anne Lee. The Mormons, under Joseph Smith, in the year 1827. The Irvingites,
under Ed. Irving, in the year 1831. The Puseyites, under Pusey and Newman, began
their division about the same time. I have now only mentioned some of the
principal divisions of Edom, or Esau, since Christianity arose, for
besides these, Ecclesiastical History and Biography give us above 380 divisions
of the False Mother, during the last 1800 years,
all the time crying out "the Living is my Son and
the Dead is thy
Son;" while another Party arise up, saying, "No, but the Dead is thy Son, and
the living is my son."
Thus they have spoken before the King and Great
God. Do not all these divisions mark and sign her as the
False Mother and Gentile Church? Has not Division been the very breath of her Life and of her religion? But let us no
longer dwell upon the various divisions and subdivisions of this false Woman, or
"Mystical Babylon," in her great confusion of tongues, but let us go back and examine the origin and
nature of Division, in great bodies; for as Union
is the very life and strength of the "True Mother," so Disunion, or Division,
has been the very life and preservation, (although weakness,) of the "False Mother" and her "Dead Child." This she well knows; it is, therefore,
not without a just reason that she cried, "Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide
it." (1 Kings 3. 26th verse.) It is for a great reason that she held up to
the Gentiles the Proverb, "That a half a Loaf is
better than no bread." Yet at the same time she must have been conscious, that
dividing the "Living Child" in Two must prove instant death to it as dividing the
highest created Being down to the least animal; or Dividing the Unity of the One
God into three persons; which must prove certain death to the
Godhead, and, therefore, establish Idolatry. Yet we see that if the Gentile
Church had not divided themselves into different sects and parties, and chosen
different localities, the death and extermination of each other would have been
the certain result; and even before they could and did effect this, what oceans
of blood and great loss of life inevitably followed even before a temporary
peace could be restored between them.
The Gentiles, it is feared, will not until it
be too late, learn this great truth--that Union
consolidates and gives STRENGTH, whilst division
diffuses and produces WEAKNESS.
A fool may in a moment divide and destroy by
explosion the most perfect and beautiful Body, but it requires the most
consummate wisdom to unite and preserve it, with all its contending elements,
for any length of time. We see from every day's observation, that the separation
and division of Bodies is the easiest and most simple operation in nature,
whilst it takes the greatest alchemist to unite and preserve a body indestructible* for the longest period. It is in this
that the Power and Wisdom of God stands out most pre-eminent and most
conspicuous in the preservation of the Unity of the Jewish Church or "True Mother," and will be the Wonder† and Glory of
all succeeding ages of the Redeemed World. And although it may justly be
attributed to the great principle of Unity, yet
even in this there is a great secret, a "wheel in the midst of a wheel," for have not the Christian Churches
continually tried to Unite, and cried, "O, let us not divide any more?" But they
have found division unavoidable.
The only two divisions that ever God
immediately sanctioned were, in Principle,* "Light
from Darkness," and in Body, Jacob from Esau. The
former of these has ever tended to Union, and the latter to Division, although
the latter has been modified by different degrees of the pleasantness and
blessedness of the former, else life and creation would not be desirable, nor
possible.
It may be thought by some that I have
depended too much upon a mere figurative description, that King Solomon gave, of
two natural Women, or Mothers, each claiming the "Living Child;" but this cannot be said, nor
maintained, so long as I can substantiate each and every part of that figure or
type by real facts in each and every particular.
For we know that there can be no mistake in this,
that all division can be traced to the Gentile
Christian Churches, and that it was not possible for them to continue without
it; whilst Union can likewise be traced to the Hebrew Church, and that her cry
has ever been Unity. This she has maintained
through every adverse and opposing power and circumstance that Hell, Death, and
the Grave could invent and put in execution, from the earliest and most remote
period of the first ages down to the present day, and yet, "Lo! this people
shall dwell alone and not be reckoned among the
nations." (See Num. 23:9.) So long as the Eternal continues his ordinance in
giving "the sun for a light by day, and the ordinance of the moon and stars for
a light by night, which divideth the sea, when the waves thereof roar, the Lord
of Hosts is his name. If these ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord,
If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out
beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord." (Jer.
31:35, 36, and 37.) And has not the indestructible
nature of the True Mother been attributed to every principle, and that, too, by
men* of the first education and elevated standing--except the one so beautifully
represented and delineated in the Two Women of King Solomon?
And as Division and Disunion has been the
continuance of the Christian, or Esauic, or Edom-ic Church, as was declared by
him whom she believes to be her Messiah, or "Living
Child," when he said, "I came not to send Peace, but a Sword, for
I am come to set a man at variance against his Father, and the daughter against
her Mother, and the daughter-in-law* against her mother-in-law, and a man's foes
shall be they of his own household." (See Matthew 10:34, 35, 36.) So it has
proved. How then can it in Truth be said that he is that Living Child prophesied
of by Isaiah in his 9th chapter, 6th verse? "For unto us a child is born, unto
us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and the
Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father shall call his name
the Prince of Peace, and of the increase of his
government and Peace there shall be no end."
Surely if we compare the above declaration of the character he gave of his own
mission, with the one the Prophet has just given of the true Messiah, all must
admit that the latter prophecy and personage, and his mission of Peace, of which there is to be no end, "to sit upon
the Throne of David, and upon his Kingdom, to
order it and establish it henceforth and forever," that they are not only quite
distinct, but moreover no person in his right mind and senses will say this
prophecy has ever yet been fulfilled. O, says the Christian, I "know this has
never yet been fulfilled, only in a spiritual
sense." To which I reply, "Here you give the fullest proof that you have
Overlaid your child, for rest assured when God
fulfills it in a literal sense, the spiritual
sense must and will
accompany it; and there is nothing under the sun to hinder the spiritual from
accompanying it. Whereas, placing the spiritual
sense first and alone, the literal
remains unaccomplished. This is without a
precedent in the very nature of things--for, as I have already proved, who ever
saw a spiritual existence in the abstract, or what is to give it visibility, or
perceptibility, or consciousness, without a Body?
Who ever saw such a thing? Or by what means could it be made manifest unto him?
What is the Body for but to make a Being manifest? Depend upon this one thing,
that whenever any person asserts that he has known, or has seen and experienced,
a Spiritual Kingdom, or a Spiritual Living Child,
1800 years before the literal, or that any
Prophecy has been fulfilled hundreds of years before the Literal part of it has had its literal accomplishment,
depend upon this one thing, I say, as certain and
undeniable, that such a person has "Overlaid the
Living Child," which must prove as certain death as if we were to extract all
the Spirit from the Body of any man, and then expect him to live or exist.
Why then thus forestall and anticipate the
Truth; and by this very means that you adopt, must certainly and inevitably
terminate, sooner or later, your own existence, or rather the existence of the
Christian System, that you have so long been advocating and supporting upon this
very principle? This is most beautifully and pertinently set forth in the vision
that God gave to Abraham, in the 15th chapter of Genesis, 9th verse, and was to
show him and us, not only what was to take place with his seed, (Israel), and
the "Four Beasts," or Four Gentile Monarchies, but it also declares and shows us
what their certain end will be, by all of them
being "divided and laid each piece one against another," (see verse 10.) It further declares
what the certain end of each piece will be, even
the death and utter destruction and extermination of each other, as is declared
by all the Prophets, (see Jer. 30:11.) And then
Israel, his seed, "should inherit the Land." The
vision by which this was represented was this: "and He (God) said unto Abram,
Take a Heifer of three years old, and a She Goat of three years old, and a Ram of three years old, and a Turtle Dove and a young Pigeon. And he took unto him
all these and Divided them in the midst, and laid each piece over against another, but the birds he
divided not. And when the fowls came down upon the
carcasses* Abram drove them away. And when the Sun
was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and lo! an horror of great
darkness fell upon him. And it came to pass when the sun went down, and it was
dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp
passed between those pieces." It is said that "this vision was the Seventh
Temptation to Abraham when God made a Covenant with him, and showed him what his
seed would have to pass through, under the four Gentile Monarchies, before they
could inherit the promised Land forever." It is said, "Edom is like a Heifer,
and tramples upon all."
Grecia, compared to a Goat by Dan. 8:21.
Media and Persia, to a Ram. Dan. 8:20.
Israel to a "Turtle
Dove" or Pigeon. See Cant. 2:12 and 14.
And he took all these and divided them, and
set "one piece against another," to weaken them, that they might be destroyed in the end, as will eventually be done; but
the TURTLE DOVE is to remain. Abraham would have destroyed them, but he knew
that God had determined that they were to continue to sunset,* the end of the
day, the period appointed by the vision. Then the Burning Lamp (margin says
"Lamp of Fire," that is the Law of Fire, with the
Glorious Shechinah,) shall pass between and through all the divided pieces of the Four Monarchies. And
God's Most
Holy Law will be revealed by Fire, and this will try all the pieces, and every
man's work, of what sort it is, whether it be Gold, Silver, precious Stones,
Wood, Hay, Stubble; every man's work will be made manifest, for the Day will
declare it. This Fiery Law is the "Sword" that King Solomon took, and which will
be brought to him again, (when the morning, i.e. manes of the Redemption comes,)
and this will try the claim whether the Living
Child, or True Anointed Messiah,
belongs to the Hebrew Church, and is "King David,"
"Priest" and "Prophet" of Israel, or is Jesus, who is called God of the Gentile
Church.
But it is only in the morning, when the Hebrew Church arises into dominion, that she can give the Living Child "suck or
nourishment." But behold the one that had been laid to her (as being of the Tribe of Judah, although he had no father, as it is said,) when she
"considered IT" in the "morning" "Behold it was not my Son which I did bear."
This morning is so spoken of in the Psalms and
elsewhere, and so connected with certain circumstances and expressions, that
almost any person can easily discern, that that period, or part of a day, has a
much deeper meaning than can be applied to a
common, or natural morning.* I will quote a
few of them, to wit: "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." Ps. 30:5. "Like sheep they are laid in
the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning." Ps. 49:14. "God is in the midst of her, she
shall not be moved; God shall help her, and that right early." (The margin says
when the morning appears.) Ibid. 46:5. "My soul
waits for the Lord more than they that watch for
the morning: I say, more than they that watch for
the morning." Psa. 130:5. "My voice shalt thou hear in
the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and
will Look up." (Ibid. 5:3.) Then it will be seen that he, David, is the "Living Child" of the True Mother, the Hebrew Church;
and that he is the Anointed Messiah, the "Leader and commander to" Israel, Isa.
55:3 and 4, and blesser of the whole world through them; and that she did bear
this child the Third Day previous to the delivery
of the Gentile Christian World of their Dead
Child.
But the most capital, pertinent, and striking
part of this whole figure yet remains to be unfolded and brought to light. It is
this: "And she arose at midnight, and took my son
from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid
it (the 'Living Child') in her bosom, and laid her Dead
Child in my Bosom." If it is clear from the
foregoing texts that I have quoted, that the morning has reference to the Resurrection and
Redemption morning, then it is likewise evident
that the night must be that portion or period of time that precedes the morning, and must refer to this Gentile
night; and it was at the commencement of this very night that the Gentile
Church arose and took the "Living Child," King David,* from the Hebrew
Church.
"For David, King of Israel, lives and
exists;"
And took all those prophecies that he has
declared concerning himself, and himself alone, and applied them to Jesus, and that
while the Jewish Church was sleeping. And if there
is a possibility of language being sufficiently definite and accurate to express
and limit an Identity of Person, character, and office, and such an
Identity as cannot be
transferred to any other person or persons, without Overlaying this Living Child, it is in all those very
prophecies that he declares concerning himself,
and himself alone; and I challenge the Whole World
to a trial of this by the Word of God.
In the first place King David was the Anointed of God, which is the same as the Messiah.
(See 2 Sam. 23:1.) He was truly inspired with the Word of God. (See verse 2d.)
He was a Prophet and a Priest, because he belonged to that nation that
God
declared should be unto Him both Kings and Priests.
He was of the Tribe of Judah, and Born at
Bethlehem. See Sam. 16:1.
Now let us compare and consider the following
portion of his Psalm, that David spoke concerning the Resurrection of himself, and himself
alone, and see if it be possible to transfer the Identity of
King David to any other person* whatever, without
committing the greatest violence and robbery, for although it is admitted by
Christians and Turks, that David will rise at the
Resurrection, yet these parts of the Psalms have been applied to Jesus without
any warrant and authority that can be brought forward, except out of a
subsequent testimony, that they can only prove by
itself, and that is intended not only to succeed, but also to supersede and
contradict the Holy Law of God. For instance, David says, (Ps. 49:15,) "But God
will redeem MY SOUL from the power of the Grave. He shall receive ME, Selah." Entirely corresponding with this,
he says, in Ps. 16:9, 10, "Therefore MY heart is glad, and MY Glory rejoices, MY
Flesh shall rest in Hope, for thou wilt not leave
MY soul in Hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy 'HOLY ONE' to see corruption."
(See Ps. 89:19 and 20.) "David, King of Israel, lives and exists." And
is it not the most unwarranted change and transfer of the Identity
of King David, the Anointed, i.e. Messiah of God, (see 2 Sam. 23:1,) to Jesus,
or to King Solomon, or any one after him?
Upon what is Identity founded? And how is it known? Most assuredly
upon Personality. This alone gives us Individuality, and a transfer of this Person, or Individuality, is the most
unlawful and unwarranted sacrilege imaginable. Let
a similar manner of procedure be attempted in any of our Courts of Judicature, to throw away the Identity of a person claiming even an earthly
inheritance, and such robbery would be at once forever condemned, as the most unjustifiable proceeding imaginable. David speaks in
the first person singular, invariably, without any
possibility of transfer. Neither can there be such
transfer, except by the False Mother arising
during this Gentile night, and taking the promises
made to the true "Living Child," King David, and
transferring and applying them to Jesus, and thus laying and continuing the Dead child in the Bosom of the False mother. When the
morning of the Redemption comes, and the True
Mother arises to give suck to her Son, "and considers it," it will then be seen, not only by the
mother of the "Living
Child," (that "Behold it was not my (her) son which I did bear,") but all
the World will consider and discern it when it is too late* for them; for Elijah
is coming, (see Malachi 4:5,) and will prove the claim of these Two Mothers, or Churches, and will assemble all the
False Worshippers of Baal before him, and will
take "Twelve Stones" after the Twelve Tribes, and build an altar with them, and
say, "Israel shall be thy name," (mark, Israel,) and will say, "Lord
God of Abraham, Isaac and
Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God
(alone) in Israel." (1 Kings 18:31 and 36.)
Looking at the mere circumstance of two women
appearing before King Solomon, (as a test only of natural affection,) both
claiming the "Living Child," the matter forever ends, as their claim was decided
by that wise King in a very short period of time. But when we extend the
representation, and apply it to the two women, representing the Hebrew and
Gentile Churches, and the "Living Child," that is, to the True Messiah, the
whole remains yet future; their claims remain undecided. The wisdom of King Solomon is operative,
and still requisite to decide the most important of all claims yet future, and
the King's vast wisdom and judgment throw great light and information in order to
direct us in ascertaining this most important of all truths that has ever been
contested for by the two great divisions of this world, viz., the Jews and
Gentiles. Solomon saw this in his superlative wisdom, and set it forth in
prophecy, corroborated by every fact that has since taken place; and that
thousands of years before they were fulfilled; and we, if we have a sufficient
degree of the same wisdom, may see it set forth in
the by-gone pages of History, by every fact, intended for a time, too, when this
very wisdom and decision are indispensably necessary.
It appears to my mind that this work has the
superiority over other works, and must be absolutely true, for two great
reasons. The first is, because it is given us in the symbolical and
representative language of the Word of God itself, and every interpretation and
explanation here given are only taken and used as is there done. The second
great reason is, that where we have the representations and symbols given and so
used by God himself, and so explained and interpreted, this language cannot be
subject to any change, or to that misrepresentation that all other known
languages are subject. Thus we see that our own English language has changed
very much, even since the separation of the American Colonies from Great
Britain. Take, for example, the two words "Fine"
and "Clever," what they are intended to express in
America is; by Fine, a superior and virtuous
person, and by Clever, kind and obliging; but not
so in England. Clever there means a talented and
accomplished man, and by Fine a gay or superbly
dressed person. And if we only travel from Liverpool or London to Yorkshire, we
find much of their language almost unintelligible. Again, compare any ancient
piece of Poetry or Prose, two or three hundred years old, with our present
style, and it is so different that it can be hardly understood. Not so with the
symbolical language of the Word of God. When the interpretation is there given,
it remains the same for all ages. Again, facts
prove for ages, and ever since the judgment and wisdom of King Solomon, that
caused all Israel to fear him, (see the last verse of the 3d chapter of 1
Kings,) when they heard the decision he had given concerning the "Two Women" and
the "Living Child," these things, I say, all plainly show us, that under these
metaphors something much deeper and far more instructive was intended to be
couched, and conveyed to future generations, than merely the trifling dispute
and claims of only two poor individual women, which could or rather would,
interest nobody but themselves.
Furthermore, David's individual Identity can never be transferred to any other person,
neither can his right to the Messiahship, as he was both literally and
spiritually anointed, or to the office of "King,"
"Priest," and "Prophet," unless he has forfeited
his office and character by disobedience, or else
made a voluntary transfer to some other person;
either of which positions must be entirely false and delusive, since we have it
declared by the word of God, as plainly and as positively as words can declare
it, that this should never be done. (See Ps. 139:19 to 20th verses, which I
shall here quote in David's own language to God;) "Then thou spoke in vision to
thy Holy One, (see Ps. 16:10, whom God declares is
his 'Holy One,') (to David,) and said, I have laid
help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one
chosen out of the people, (and mind, not the Nazarene, but David,) I have
found DAVID my servant; with my Holy Oil have I
anointed HIM," (that is, made him Messiah, according to God's Most Holy Law and
that anointing Oil, which is called God's, because made as directed in His Law.)
"With whom my
hand shall be established; mine arm shall
strengthen him; the enemy shall not exact upon
HIM, nor the son of wickedness afflict* HIM. I
will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. But my faithfulness
and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name shall his
Horn, (or Power) be exalted. I will set his hand on the sea, and HIS right
hand on the rivers. He shall cry unto me, Thou art
MY Father, MY God, and the Rock of MY Salvation. Also I will make HIM my First Born, higher than
the Kings of the Earth. My mercy will I keep for
HIM for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast by HIM, his seed shall endure
forever, and HIS Throne (David's Throne) as the
days of heaven." And again, in verses 35 and 36 of the same chapter, "Once have
I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto
DAVID; his seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before
me."
Now we learn from this chapter the following
truths:
1st.
That God spoke in vision to DAVID and called HIM his "Holy One."
2d. That he had "laid help upon ONE, that is, upon
HIM that is mighty."
3d. That "he has exalted ONE (that is DAVID) chosen out of the People."
4th. That this person whom he had chosen and found was DAVID, his
servant, and that with his "Holy Oil he had anointed HIM," or made HIM the HOLY ONE, the
Messiah.
5th.
That with him God's hand shall be established, and in his name (that is in
God's power)
shall David's Horn (or Power) be exalted.
6th. That
God would "make him his 'First Born,' higher
than the Kings of the Earth." Whereas David,
when born into this world, was not the "First
Born," but the Eighth Son. (See 1 Sam. 16:10.) But God will make him His
"First Born" of all the redeemed creation, both in Power, Glory and in Blessing.
7th. That
God's Mercy will he keep for him, (not only in forgiving him his sins,)
but in causing him to inherit every mercy and
blessing, in making to stand fast God's covenant
with him.
8th. That David's seed (or children) should never become extinct, or cease to endure, and that his Throne should be established continuously, as the
days of heaven.
9th. That all the above blessings God swore or confirmed by an
Oath, and that, too, by his "holiness, that he would not lie unto David;" and
repeats, that his seed shall endure forever, and his Throne as the Sun before him." Now let us sum up this
evidence as declared in God's Word in the Who, the
Where, the When, the
What, and the How.
1st.
Who was the
Messiah? David was Anointed or made the Messiah by being literally anointed, as
God commanded in his Holy Law, (see 1 Sam. 16:13,) "Then Samuel took the Horn of
Oil and anointed him in the midst of his Brethren,
and the spirit of God came upon him, from that day forward." See also 2 Sam. 23:1.
2d. Where was David made the Messiah, or
Anointed?
At Bethlehem, (see 1 Sam. 16:1, 4,) "Fill
thine horn with Oil and go, I will send thee to
Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided me a
King among his sons." "And Samuel did that which
the Lord spake; and came to Bethlehem.
3d. When was David declared to be the "Messiah of
the God of Jacob?"
Above 1050 years before ever Christians set up another person in his Name, or claiming his Identity, office and
character.
4th. What was that claim?
It was the claim of being the True Messiah or Anointed,
according to the testimony of the Law and
Prophets, and of being that "Deliverer"* of God's people Israel who should
forever occupy the Throne of David, (for upon himself shall his crown flourish. Psalm 132:18,) as
the true and rightful heir of that Throne, which
Jesus never can inherit or occupy.
5th. How was David made the Messiah, or the
Anointed? *
David was made the Messiah because he was
literally Anointed,
which Jesus never was, as commanded and directed should be done in God's Most
Holy Law, and that by a compound of ingredients
which it was death even to add to, or take from
one ingredient. (See Ex. 30:23, 33.) So we can plainly see that no other
person than David, can possibly lay claim Legally
to be the Messiah. Then we have the time
distinctly given us when David was made the
Anointed Messiah, in 1 Sam. 16:13. We have the time given us when David died, (1
Kings 2:10,) as he declares in Ps. 18:5, "The sorrows of Hell" (or Hades, or the
Grave, which are the same,) "compassed me about;
the snares of death prevented me." The David goes on and describes his rest in the grave, or Hades, in the next verse, (the
6th,) saying, "In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God: until he heard my voice out of his Temple, and my cry
came before Him, even unto his ears." Then he goes on in the 7th verse
describing the manner of his Resurrection, until the 16th verse, when he is to REGAIN his Messiahship and Kingship, and when
God "SENT FROM ABOVE and TOOK HIM
and drew him out of many waters, and from his STRONG ENEMY," (DEATH), and thus
describes the very same thing as is declared by the Prophet Jeremiah, in his
30:9. When God "will raise up David their King
unto them," at the Time of "Jacob's trouble," when
"all faces are turned into paleness." But "he
(Jacob, or Israel) shall be saved out of it," from
these "many waters and strong enemies," as David
describes them, and says they "were too strong for him," but the Lord brought
him "forth also into a Large Place, he delivered me, because he
delighted in ME." "This will be in the morning of the Resurrection," which is the only morning "without clouds," (see 2 Sam. 23:4,) when
God will hear David's
Voice, "and he will look up." (Ps. 5:3.) This
is the morning when the True Mother "arises to give suck to her Son, and beholds that the dead child, or
Messiah, that has been laid to her is the Son
which she, the Jewish Church, did not bear." 1 Kings 3:21.
So we have the very clearest and fullest
proof who the True Messiah, or Living child, was
at first, and who he was during his death,* or
rest in Hades, or the Grave, and who he will be at the Resurrection. Truly when
Christians find out what the Church of Rome has done for them, in forging, by
"Pious Frauds and Lying
Wonders," not only a false Messiah, but their whole Christian system, they
will truly abhor in their inmost soul their very best morality, because it is based upon such a rotten
system. When they discover this, to use their own language, they will "hate the
Whore, make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her
flesh and burn her with fire," (see Rev.
17:16,) and call and entreat the true literal Israel of God to "take away their reproach." "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We
will eat our own bread and wear our own apparel, only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach," (Is. 4:1.)
Zechariah says, "That Ten Men shall take hold, out
of all languages of the nations, even shall take
hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, we
will go with you, for we have heard that God was with you." (Zech. 8:23.) Most
surely he cannot be with any of all the nations,
or else they would be performing a Fool's errand
in going to Israel; but it is because "God is with
them" Then Christians will fully understand the 47th of Isaiah, and who is
meant by the "daughter of Babylon and daughter of
the Chaldeans." I lately asked one of the most
eminent lawyers in this city, What right any person had to claim my Identity, and my name, and my office. He replied,
none; who dare do it? What right have you, then, to claim David's Identity, name, and office, and apply it to Jesus of Nazareth?
How are we to detect the fraud and robbery of
another person who lays claim to our Identity?
First, by his assuming our Name, as is done
by Christians, saying that "David means Beloved," and that "Jesus is the Beloved
of God." Then by making another and an after Title, not merely to succeed, but to SUPERSEDE, the
first genuine Title or Law of God; and that too by
the date of the last claim being made many hundred
years after the time the first original and genuine
Title was made.
This is the case in all the above respects,
with the New Testament, (so called.)
Again, the True Messiah was not to come when
the Roman Empire was in the height of its Glory, (Luke 3:1,) as it was in the days of Jesus; but when it was to become so decayed and so low, that
the great Image was to have descended all the way from the Head down to the "feet
and toes," and to have become part of "Iron and
part of clay," and should be "partly strong and partly broken," before ever
God's Everlasting Kingdom could be set up
by the Stone striking the Great Image of the four
Gentile Monarchies. See Dan. 2:31, 44.
So here is a most striking error, in Christians having
set up the Kingdom of God spiritually, in the year 4004,
instead of the "Last Days." (See the "Dialogue
between an Episcopal minister and a poor slave" at the end of this work fully
exposing this error.)
Another proof that the True Messiah could not have come 1800 and more years
since, is, that his coming is always mentioned by all the Prophets as to take
place contemporaneously with the literal Restoration of Israel, and the gathering of
the nations against Jerusalem. See Hosea 3:4, 5; Joel 3:1 to 16; Jer. 34:11 to
25, and 34:24 to 29, and 37:21 to 26.
And this Restoration of Israel is not to be
gradual, but instantaneous, as we can clearly see from Isaiah 66:7
and 9, "Before she (Zion) travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered
of a man child." "Shall I bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth?
saith the Lord; shall I cause to bring forth and shut the womb? saith thy God."
And so declares the 131. Ps. 1, 2, 3 and 4. "Rejoice ye with Jerusalem and be
glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice with joy, all ye that mourn for her."
Now we know, because we have fully proved it,
that this man child is David; and we also know,
that in every right Delivery the Head must come first; whenever the Head does not come first, it is a wrong
presentation, the child must be turned, a hand or a foot must
never first come and take precedence before the
head; so with the Messiah in the Kingdom of God yet to come.
I have now introduced you to but a short acquaintance with these two Women, and their Living and Dead Child;
and I have the best of all reasons for not being able to make you fully
acquainted with them.
It is because of the darkness, yea the "Gross
Darkness" of the present Christian dispensation of Pious "Frauds and Lying
Wonders." It is because "this is the night when no
(real) man can work." This is the night when "Darkness
covers the earth and gross Darkness the people,"
(Is. 60:1,) and it is in this "midnight" of
Darkness that the false Woman has taken so great an
advantage of the True Mother, as to be able to palm her dead Messiah upon
some of the Jewish Church, and place him in her bosom. But the "morning" has begun to
dawn, when the true Mother will arise "to give suck" to her son, and
then shall we clearly "discern between him that serves God and him that serves
him not," (Mal. 3:18;) between that Messiah which has come in strict obedience
to that Law, and particularly the 13th chapter of Deut., and has never made himself a God, and claimed to be the "Messiah" of the Law and
the Prophets. It has deceived thousands and
myriads, and the morning will declare it. Then,
and not till then, can I give you a full introduction and acquaintance with
these Two Women.
But the True Watchman speaks and loves to
speak of that beautiful morning, and says, "What
of the night? Watchman, What of the night? The Watchman said, The morning cometh and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye; RETURN, COME."
Is. 21:11, 12.
Written in
Jerusalem in the year 1847.
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