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how DIFFERENT is God's commission today!
But, remember, that church was made up of carnal-minded,
UN-converted people who had not been "baptized into the one Body
BY THE SPIRIT." And so it was that these people soon departed
from God's rules and ways. They profaned and departed from His
Sabbath---His SIGN by which there were to KNOW that He alone--the
CREATOR--- is GOD. This led to idolatry. Soon they were
grumbling and complaining of God's ways, demanding that a man be
exalted to become KING and have authority over them, like the
pagan nations around them. Thus they REJECTED God as their king!
More and more they wanted to live like the other nations
---the ways of pleasing SELF--- of PLEASURE---of greed and GETTING
---of organized COMPETITION---of exalting self, and humans. Thus
they departed from God's ways, and drew deeper and deeper into the
ways of SIN.
And thus they BROKE their marriage-Covenant with God,
which had set them up as His organized CHURCH and STATE. So God
DIVORCED Israel (Jeremiah 3:8). He CUT OFF the church ORGANIZATION
---CUT OFF the government--took away from Israel the divine right
to GOVERN!
Right of GOVERNMENT Given over to GENTILES
Get this point! Listen!! "If ye will not hearken unto
me, and will not do all these commandments .... they that hate
you shall reign over you," God warned them (Lev. 26:14-17). And
this punishment was to last for "SEVEN TIMES"---twenty-five hundred
and twenty years!
First, the House of Israel (Ten Tribes) sinned and was
driven into captivity. They then dwelt many days without a king.
God took away from them the right and privilege of continuing
under His GOVERNMENT---both Church and state. Next, Judah sinned
even worse, and Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon was sent down by the
Eternal to capture Judah.
And to King Nebuchadnezzar---the first of the GENTILE
kings, starting the "TIMES OF THE GENTILES"---Daniel was inspired
of God to say: "The God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and
power, and strength, and glory." (Dan. 2:37). It was a WORLD
ruling kingdom (verse 38). It was the first of FOUR such WORLD-
RULING Gentile Empires to last for the 2520 years of the "TIMES
OF THE GENTILES."
What does this mean? It means that so far as government
in His CHURCH is concerned---or any form of DIVINE government---
GOD TOOK AWAY ALL DIVINE GOVERNMENT FROM ISRAEL and turned the
right to govern (the human, competitive, Nimrod way) over to the
GENTILES for the duration of the TIMES OF THE GENTILES! And that
period is not yet over!
And since, all government on earth has been on the PAGAN
principle---man-ruled, competitive! ALL GOVERNMENT ON EARTH DURING
THIS 2520 YEAR PERIOD IS CONTRARY TO GOD'S FORM OF GOVERNMENT! It