President Trump and King Josiah Parallels
By MBPSTB
Saturday, 21 January, 2017
Shabbat, 5thD, 11thM
Yesterday was a very emotional day. The inauguration of Donald Trump as our 45th president. Thank You Abba Father for answering prayers regarding the safe keeping of Donald Trump up to and through this process. Thank You Abba Father for keeping from the time of his election, these weeks leading up to yesterday, essentially uneventful. YOU are a mighty God who hears the prayers of Your people, Israel.
I have been reading in 2 Chronicles for weeks now on Shabbat, making my way through it somewhat slowly as there seems to be so much that is relevant to our current times. Below are some of the things that have popped out and I felt the need to share.
The wording of the Stone’s Tanach (Artscroll Edition) is somewhat different than Common English Translations ( CETs) and it never ceases to amaze me how crucial and important concepts (sadly) are missed in CETs.
2Ch 34:31(KJV) And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
In just about every single CET, we find the word “made” and we also find it worded in such a way as to infer that King Josiah “created” (made) “a” covenant with YHWH. This implied something in addition to YHWH’s Covenant, that is TORAH. Can any man do this??? I think the answer is no and the Stone’s Tanach clarifies with wording that more correctly suits the situation in the proper context.
Leading up to the point of this study, we find that Josiah has been made king after his father Manasseh was a wicked king who for 55 years, corrupted and polluted and profaned everything in the city, the Temple and forced the people to live in among wickedness. **
Josiah however, had a heart after King David and sought to undo and remove the wickedness from the land and the Temple. During this process the Torah was found in the Temple and was read to the King and he wept and rent his garments and asked that Hilkiah seek out word from YHWH. Huldah the Prophetess (so called a prophetess because she studied in the study house). Huldah declared in the name of YHWH that evil would be brought upon that place and its inhabitants, even so King Josiah would not see it in his time, but would go to his grave in peace.
** 55 years wicked king Manasseh ruled. If we subtract 55 from 2017 it brings us to 1962 which is about when prayer was taken out of Public Schools and we began our backlside as a nation. During the 55 years from 1962 to 2017, we have had a spirit of Manasseh and the time to pay up has come. It is only by the Grace of God, we have been given a time of the last 8 years to heavily oppress us, forcing us as individuals, churches and a nation as a whole to force us to our knees in the hopes of returning to our God with our hearts and minds and souls, this being done in order to save a remnant out of all this.
As I read in 2 Chronicles, what came to mind is a sort of parallel between King Josiah and President Trump.
When Donald Trump was elected, I think I speak for many when I say we sighed with relief. Now he is president and we are optimistic about the future of this nation. But all the while, being glad to close the oppressive chapter on our last administration, I also know as many do, that our God, the God of Israel who is King of the universe has commanded and declared and spoken His Royal Edict of Blessings and Curses given in Deuteronomy. Once a king declares something and it is written down as Edict, He cannot go back on his word. Ever. Examples are given in books of Daniel, Ezekiel, and even in the Renewed Covenant with King Herod and John the Baptist.
So, Huldah declared the words of Deuteronomy in which God said He would utterly pour out His wrath (2 Chron 34:22-28).
King Josiah then went up to the Temple and read in the ears of ALL, the words of The Book of the Covenant that had been found in the Temple of YHWH. Please note now, the word used in place of “made”:
(2 Chron 35:31) The king then stood at his place and sealed the Covenant before YHWH, to follow YHWH and to observe His commandments and His testimonies and His decrees with all his heart and with all his soul, to uphold the words of the Covenant written in this book.
For more on the word “seal” and what it truly means, see the study titled:
Seal vs. Oath and What It Means
by MBPSTB
19 August, 2014
29th day, 5th month
\Bible Study\Textual Corruption
As Donald Trump has spoken in recent weeks and in his inaugural speech, we feel a confidence from him a determination to set right many of the wrongs. We feel he really means it and has even proved he has this country and this people’s best interests at heart. Already he has been able to turn the hearts of big corporations who had taken their operations outside of this nation, making us dependent upon foreign nations, and has influenced them into coming back. He has said things that have given us a sigh of relief. This is not much different than King Josiah.
However, damage has been done. Things that offended God and as YHWH has declared what happens when we sin as a nation, as individuals and a whole, the wheels have been set in motion and a King’ s Word cannot be changed. He is a God who does not change and does not lie. He is not wishy washy, going back on His Word. What is written IS STILL COMING regardless of a righteous leader. The abominations that have been set in place still remain and these offenses to God and His Word must be dealt with. If we are His Nation, we have to answer to Him and His way. We cannot be something other than what He demands of us and expect to be blessed or have close relationship with Him.
Lev 11:44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Lev 11:45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
So, imagine my surprise when I looked up at the page I was reading from, in the Stone’s Tanach, in 2 Chronicles chapter 35. Page 2017. My jaw dropped. 2017.
Donald Trump becomes our leader. A leader with a heart like Josiah desiring to set right the wrongs done. He becomes our president in 2017.
Being in awe of this remarkable occurrence, I turned back to page 2016 to see if there was something there I had missed.
Many online are saying they think the saints were sealed in other years, some say 2013. I make no comment on that. I believe this process of the sealing is something that has spanned years because no one person is walking this path at the same point in time and space.
In 2016 I can only relate what has happened to me personally in that at some point in around August, I felt a window closed, a deadline passed, a cutoff. In prayer, as if no more petitions would be granted. Later, it seems others were getting this same feeling. It was somewhat temporary and at first, I thought it was going to be a permanent thing from that point forward. It has not been and only now with hindsight, I think I understand that it was for a time and the message might be that the time has been completed for something that we are not fully aware of yet. Many, many more of other nations are coming to know the Lord Jesus Christ, so it is not connected to that.
I have however, done a few studies regarding the 144 thousand and now think that this was might be the final cutoff for that. That the 144 Thousand are now sealed in completeness. The number has been fulfilled. Revelation tells us:
Rev 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
In studies done about the word “SEAL”, it is clear that to be SEALED is to be in Covenant with YHWH by the keeping of His Sabbath and Torah and Feast Days.
When broaching this subject online it has met with resistance and in some cases hostility. Many have come forward in recent months claiming to be of this group. I am not here to dispute what they say. Each of us have our personal encounters with the Most high and none of us should judge another in the matter of signs wonders and visions.
To be SEALED is to be walking in TORAH. Yet, many who are now claiming to be of the 144K, also appear to be exclusively of the Christian faith, still keeping Sunday as Sabbath and Xmas and Easter, etc. Perhaps these will fulfill the parable of Jesus in that they receive the full day’s wages at the end of the day.
If the END OF THE DAY is 2016, because the window is now shut, we must also consider what comes after Revelation 7:3.
Rev 8:1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Rev 8:2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Rev 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Rev 8:4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Rev 8:5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
Rev 8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
Rev 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Rev 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
Rev 8:9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Rev 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
Rev 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
Rev 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Rev 8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
We can all continue to read in Revelation what comes after this.
2 Chronicles chapter 35
2Ch 35:1 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
2Ch 35:2 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
2Ch 35:3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,
Now here is something remarkable: Rabbinic commentaries including even the Talmud on verse 35:3 regarding WHERE they were going to put the Ark in the Temple:
Apparently the Ark had been removed from the Temple by wicked predecessors before King Josiah. It had been replaced with some form of idolatrous image and King Josiah now ordered it returned to its rightful place. In the Talmud and even other commentaries it is said that this verse refers not to the Temple, but to a secret vault area that Solomon had prepared for hiding away the Ark in case of emergency.
Why is this important to know about the Ark and what might it mean to the 144 Thousand? Please see and read: Who and What are the 144k?
On 144kfirstfruits.ning.com
Passover Destructions
Gen 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
Gen 19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
Gen 19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
Pesach, Egypt, Sodom and Jerusalem…is there a connection?
We all know the greatest story of how YAH”s Pesach was the main event of the exodus from Egypt…but little known and most likely “passed over” (no pun intended) is Lot’s experience in Sodom:
Gen 19:3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
The great destruction of Sodom was at Pesach. So…Torah was in effect long before Moses was even born.
Here also, we find a clue as to when this destruction of Jerusalem will take place in the future. It will also be a Pesach event:
Isa 30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
The two verses below also seem to have much in common:
Isa 30:30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
Rev 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Now, having studied the above verses, I am able to better understand what is meant by Jerusalem being called spiritually, Sodom and Egypt, because just as Sodom and Egypt fell during Pesach events, so indeed, I believe will Jerusalem.
Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. (Sodom was destroyed during an Appointed time of YHWH and Egypt was also destroyed in an Appointed Time of YHWH. The allusion here is that there will be another destruction. Many believe that Ephraim is the U.S. and we all know that Ephraim was raised in Egypt (the structure of our society and culture is based upon Egyptian technology and framework. Everyone believes that it is fashioned after Rome but in fact, Rome copied Egypt.)
So now, with all of this presented, is it possible there are parallels that can be drawn and then if so, what might it mean for us in the near future?
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