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THE KEY TO PROPHESY ‑By Bertrand L. Comparet
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Thu, 3 May 2001 02:32:03 ‑0700
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THE KEY TO PROPHESY
By Bertrand L. Comparet
Today we easily see how each of the great events of the Old
Testament days was prophesied long in
advance. Yet, the people were strangely blind to it when the
events were coming upon them. Today it is
the same; the prophecies concerning the end of the age are
being fulfilled; yet the people in most churches
cannot make head or tail of it. They wait expectantly for the
smallest things to happen, meanwhile being
blind to what is actually happening to them. This is because they
don't know to whom the prophecies
apply, so they look to the wrong people, in the wrong place, for
their fulfillment.
Yahweh did not prophecy indiscriminately about everything and
everybody. The great empires of China,
India, the Inca, Maya and Aztec nations of South and Central
America, were never noticed in the Bible,
for they had nothing to do with Yahweh's people nor His religion.
To understand prophecy, you must
know to whom the prophecy is addressed. Bible prophecies are
grouped into certain main lines, each
with its own subject.
(1) Messianic prophecies concerning Yahshua. They foretold His
virgin birth, the place where He
would be born, many details of His ministry, healing the sick,
giving sight to the blind. All the details of
His betrayal and crucifixion were given, and His resurrection on
the third day, etc. Obviously, only
Yahshua could fulfill these, if you waited for someone else, you
could reach only doubt and confusion. All
the other main lines of prophesy are also directed specifically to
some one subject and cannot be fulfilled
by anyone but the people concerning whom they were written.
(2) Prophecies concerning the 12 tribes of Israel. As we know,
Israel split into two nations upon the
death of Solomon in 975 B.C. and the two nations then had their
separate histories and different destinies
to fulfill. Either one alone of the two nations it became and of
course, not by any Gentile people cannot
fulfill prophecies relating to the whole house of Jacob.
(3) The two tribed nation of Judah. Judah and Benjamin
remained when the ten tribed Israel split
away from it. These prophecies deal with the short‑lived nation
foretelling its captivity in Babylon for 70
years. Then it tells about the return of a remnant to build the 70
weeks nation foretold by Daniel, which
would fulfill and outlive its purposes in 490 years. It was to
provide the sanctuary for Yahshua's first
coming and His sacrifice for us on the cross. After that it served
no further purpose and within one
generation it disappeared from history. Just as it is obvious that
China, Rome or Argentina could not fulfill
any of these prophecies, neither could the house of Judah fulfill
prophecies that do not concern her.
(4) The house of Israel. Beginning as the ten tribed nation, which
broke away from Judah, they had a
separate destiny. It was to be Yahweh's dominion. It must
become a great nation and a company of
nations. It must be Yahweh's battle‑axe and weapons of war,
with which He broke up the evil, pagan
nations of the earth. It must become a great seafaring people,
from the Norse Vikings of the several
centuries following the decay of the Roman Empire, down
through the mighty navies of Great Britain and
the United States. Its people must multiply like the stars of
heaven in number and they must receive the
new covenant and become Christians. They must possess and
develop the lands, which other people had
allowed to remain desolate. They must take Yahweh's religion
and civilization to many lands, to show
forth His praise in the earth. All these prophecies concern the
house of Israel only and nobody but the
Anglo Saxon, Scandinavian and Germanic nations have fulfilled
them. These we know to be the living
generations of Yahweh's people Israel.
If you watch for fulfillment of these prophecies by Egypt, the
Congo, Russia, China, India or South
America, you not only waste your time in vain, while watching
the empty ring, you overlook the
performance going on in the active ring.
(5) The Jews. Here, willful blindness of most churches has
utterly confused their religion. They persist in
applying Yahweh's prophecies about Israel to the Jews. Since
the Jews never did and never could fulfill
any of these, such churches have to make excuses for the
apparent failure of prophecy and their faith is
badly weakened. They must pretend the time has not yet come
for fulfillment of any of these prophecies,
so the Jews can do these things in some indefinite future. This
blinds them to the fact these prophecies
have already been fulfilled by the real Israel. These have been
fulfilled so far that nothing is left to watch
for but the Russian and Chinese communist attack on the
unwalled cities of Israel, then the second
coming of Yahshua, for which they are not prepared.
In Isaiah 65:15 Yahweh said to the Jews, "Ye shall leave your
name as a curse to My chosen, for
Yahweh shall slay thee and call His servants by another name."
Yahweh said in Jeremiah 24:9 the
Jews would become "a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a
curse, in all places whither I shall drive
them". Yahweh prophesied that they would be recognized by
their faces. Isaiah 3:9 describes the Jews
thus, "The show of their countenance doth witness against them
and they declare their sin as Sodom, they
hide it not". They would be scattered, as wanderers and their
conduct would keep them under attack.
Ezekiel 5:11‑12 describes what will happen to the Jews. "A third
part shall fall by the sword around
about thee; and I will scatter a third part unto all the winds and I
will draw out a sword after them". All
these things have happened, but this has been overlooked by
those who were watching only for that
which the Jews couldn't do because Yahweh had foretold that
only Israel could do it.
(6) The throne of David. In these prophecies Yahweh promised
the throne of David would always rule
over at least a part of His people. That the house of David will
never lack a descendant to sit upon that
throne. Finally, Yahshua, who is born of the house of David, will
return to rule the entire world from that
throne. We know that the royal families of Britain and the
Scandinavian countries are descended from
David. In all these centuries, these prophecies have never failed
for even one day; the final fulfillment of
Yahshua's return is drawing near.
(7) The Babylonian succession of empires. This is told
principally in Daniel and Revelation. Their rise
to power, their brutal character, their satanic but futile opposition
to the nations of Israel and their fall, all
occurred as prophesied. The final stages of these prophecies
are happening before our eyes today when
you know who is who.
(8) The kingdom of Yahweh. This is not something to begin in
the vague future. Daniel's continued
prophecy, after foretelling the Babylonian succession of
empires, beginning with King Nebuchadnezzar to
whom he spoke, is recorded in Daniel 2:44. "In the days of these
kings shall the God of heaven set
up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom
shall not be left to other people, but it
shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it
shall stand forever." The kingdom of Yahweh
was set up on earth centuries ago, in the days of the kings of the
Babylonian succession of empires. It is
still here and most of you who hear my voice are living in it.
(9) The church. This is not a nation; it has no armies or navies. It
rules no territories, it conducts no
commerce, it is not as numerous as the stars, but it is a little
flock. It is the spiritual center of the nations of
Israel, but it fulfills only its own prophecies and none of the
prophecies of Israel are transferred to it.
These nine main lines of prophecy are like as many different
trains, coming from different places with
different passengers and arriving at the depot on different
tracks. You will miss your train if you wait at
the wrong platform. Never in all eternity will a Gentile train arrive
on an Israel platform, nor will an Israel
train arrive at a Jewish platform, nor a kingdom of Yahweh train
at a church platform. The only key to
the understanding of prophecy is to watch for each train of
prophecy at its own platform.