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AMERICA and ISRAEL in BIBLE Prophecy
The Christian Heritage of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Part 17
AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
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The Christian Heritage of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Part 17
AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
By: Tommie Spurgeon
The President (Barack Obama) that we now have, doesn’t keep the laws on immigration or the marriage amendment act that was passed by both the Senate and Congress because he thinks that they are unfair laws. He tells those that are to enforce those laws by executive command not to obey or enforce those laws because they are unjust. If the President doesn/t have to keep the laws of this country because he thinks that they are unjust then the Christians in this nation have equal right to disobey the unjust laws that have been imposed on us through the ACLU and other socialist legal groups. No one should be able to sue or arrest any American citizen over these issues. We need God back in our country. We have a big job to do when we do. One is to keep protecting and defending Christian liberties and to defend the nation of Israel as well. If we see any Christian making a stand against these injustices we need to join with them in the cause. May God bless and keep America under the shadow of His mighty Wings.
One of the very disturbing things today is that the take over of Christianity by our enemies is done through lies and false interpretation of our founders. The view of tolerance towards ungodly living and principles is bringing swift destruction upon us and our families. When we say that we are a Christian nation President Obama says that we used to be but we are not any longer. Is that really true? Or does he just want it to be that way. We were founded as a Christian nation and made a covenant with God in the Mayflower Compact. If you make a deal with God he holds you to it.
6. IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION?
This is one of the questions that may be in the minds of many people today. Is America a Christian nation or is it merely a secular nation that allows religion to exist. Is it a multiple religious nation? Some believe that it is; but what did our founding Fathers have to say about all of this? Before we find out what they said I would like to express the fact that the Christian Religion is the most tolerant of all faiths in the world. We believe in loving everyone and allowing others to make their own choices. All Americans should be free to worship as they feel directed from their hearts. Our only hope is that they would make the right choices.
America's founders believed this. George Washington said, "True religion (Christianity) offers to government its surest support." John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, argued, "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
President Thomas Jefferson said that: "No nation has ever existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given to man and I, as Chief Magistrate of this nation, am bound to give it the sanction of my example."
President Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1805, offered A National Prayer for Peace:
"Almighty God, Who has given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honorable ministry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion, from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitude brought hither out of many kindred’s and tongues. Endow with Thy spirit of wisdom those to whom in Thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and thatthrough obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth. In time of prosperity fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; all of which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen."
James Madison also encouraged public officials to declare openly and publicly their Christian beliefs and testimony — as when he wrote to William Bradford (who became Attorney General under President George Washington):
"I have sometimes thought there could not be a stronger testimony in favor of religion or against temporal enjoyments, even the most rational and manly, than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and who are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent advocates in the cause of Christ; and I wish you may give in your evidence in this way."
AMERICA and ISRAEL in BIBLE Prophecy
The Christian Heritage of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Part 16
AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
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AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
By: Tommie Spurgeon
5. Fight the Battle
Whether we want to recognize it or not we are in a battle for our very existence. Judeo-Christianity is under attack like it has never been before in America. Since 1948 when Israel regained its nation in the Middle East Satan has attacked us from within with our very leaders. It is move of the Devil to remove God and Christianity from America. Judge Black from the Supreme Court changed the meaning of the First Amendment that granted freedom of Religion in America to a Soviet Term of Separation of Church and State. He used a statement out of context in a letter to the Danbury Church as his reasoning. Up until that time America could talk about Jesus anywhere. In public, anywhere and it was never an offense to our Government. Since then prayer was removed from the schools, the way Judges judge laws concerning marriage and everything else has taken a plunge from righteousness to ungodliness.
You would be surprised how many Christians have sold out God in America who just like Judas Iscariot sold Jesus for pieces of silver. Before you go to believing that I am being political realize this. I am not a Republican or a Democrat I belong to an Independent Party but most of all, above party or anything I am a Christian first. I had a woman tell me on the phone just recently, she said, "Tommie the Christians in America are cowards". I have to agree with her statement the Christians of this country are afraid to stand up for Jesus anymore.
The news that the 2012 Democratic National Committee stuck down the previous 2008 stance that said that Americans had God-given potential and that Jerusalem was the Capital of Israel caused quite a disturbance in the nation. The Republicans jumped right on this opportunity in hopes of giving Romney the lead on the election. This stance was always the platform for both parties down through the years. However the Democrats omitted it from the platform this year. This was re-instated on the 5th of September at the Democratic National Convention. Obama realizing that his election could hang in the balance because of this decision decided to put it to a vote on convention floor.
In the 2008 election Obama said that Jerusalem should always be the capital of Israel and agreed that the U.S. Embassy should be moved from Tel-Aviv to there. However when an outcry from the Palestinians and others came against him he shifted his view to the idea that Bill Clinton had during his term that was also adopted by G.W. Bush. This view was that there are so many different religions and people that consider Jerusalem to be a Holy Place in their beliefs and come to Jerusalem to celebrate and worship that the city out to be an international city and left open to everyone. Since there were so many claims from both Palestinians and the Israelis the view from both Bill Clinton and G.W. Bush was to let the Palestinians and Israelis work it out between themselves through negotiations, although the city should be left open to all.
If our Government creates any problems for Israel in any of these things it will hurt the purpose that God has for America. It will not stop what God has planned for our country but will make it difficult for the Christians in America to help and support Israel the way that we should. I find the following video very disturbing because when the chairman put this re-instatement to the floor of the Convention they literally had to force it on the party to help Obama regain his ground in the election. Watch closely and you will see what I am talking about. The vote was put to the people three times with a aye or no type vote. There is supposed to be a two thirds vote either way to decide the outcome. It was put to them three different times and it was decided that the aye vote was the winner. However if you watch this you will notice that it really was about fifty to fifty with the ayes and nos nothing close to a two-thirds vote. I am glad that this was decided but it is discomforting. Please watch this very short video.
This is discomforting considering that more and more people are joining the Democratic Party that represents a non-Christian anti-Israeli group. There was a lot of boos against God and Israel from many Democrats at the results of this decision. As they grow in strength the next election may not keep the view that we have a God-given potential or that Jerusalem is the Capitol of Israel. This is very possible. The Christians in America had better wake up and take a stand for freedom of religion and speech concerning Christians. If we don’t we will lose our voice completely in America. To view the news article copy and paste the following url into your browser.
Our leaders in Government are slowly derailing America and Israel. When will it end? It will not end until the Christians of this country get off of their lazy backsides and do something. We must actively get involved and I am not talking about a political party, I am talking about standing up in large protest just as the homosexuals do. It has worked for them. If protest and standing up will make a difference why don’t we do it?
One of our excuses is religious. We drag out the scripture says that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2Cor: 10:4. This scripture is specifically talking about living an overcoming life not about keeping what God has given us not that we cannot do anything in the flesh to fight the Devil when he is threatening our survival. When David went against Goliath he didn’t sit down on the hillside and look across at Goliath and say the battle is the Lords, so I will sit here and pray and watch God defeat Goliath. What he did say was that battle was the Lords but in the process he went down the hillside to engage the enemy carrying his slingshot and five stones to fight with. His faith was that if he offered himself as a living sacrifice that God would help him win the battle. God did. Elijah faced the false prophets of Baal and his government who was Ahab and Jezebel and won. We must trust God and stand up for what God gave us through the blood and efforts of our Christian founders. Many do not know it but the Jews living in America at the time of the Revolution helped finance the weapons and supplies that our founders needed to fight against the English oppression. I am not advocating taking up arms against our Government but I do believe that we should do everything short of it to win back our religious freedom. God is depending on us to stand up and fight for him.
If there is to be a Revival in America that will get America back on track it will take the Christian people getting back to the public and preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ without fear. The early Church went to jail and endured much suffering to take the Gospel to the world. God gave the Church in America this land so that we would be free to worship and speak about the things of God openly. Being ashamed of Jesus is not what God intended America to be, but rather to be a place of open freedom to declare the Word of God without fear and oppression from our own government. We are going to have to refuse to obey unjust laws that have been made against us. Unjust laws that have been shoved down our throats by the ACLU and others. Going to jail must become an option in our thinking the price is not too great. I am seventy years old and I am willing to go to jail or be criticized for my stance on God and country. We must resist the Devil by refusing to obey laws that are destroying every dream the founders had.
Our founders did not come to this country to kill and take away the land of Indians like many Atheists would have you believe. They came because of religious persecution from their own government in England, After coming here they did not immediately decide to go to war with England, it was far from their minds. They just wanted freedom to serve God the way they believed was right. But what happened was that that government could not leave well enough alone. The religion known as the Church of England after a while followed them to the colonies and the English government began to oppress the churches and make them feel obligated to the authority of the Church of England. This is exactly what our government is doing today it is telling us how and where we can speak about Jesus.
We must stand up because we are Christians, Ephraim the western state of Israel. This is the heart, blood and guts of our country. O Israel when will you arise and take back what the enemy has stolen from you. We must do what Abraham Lincoln said; "We must not pray that God will be on our side but rather pray that we will be on his." God is definitely not standing on the side of running from our responsibility as Christians. God himself founded this country as a Christian country through the founders. Everything about out country was built surrounding freedom of religion and Christianity. It is a not a Democracy but a Republic with a Constitution and it’s amendments are the laws of our country built on Bible Principles. To not stand up for freedom of Religion and try to have the first Amendment re-interpreted and our freedom to speak freely about Jesus would be nothing short of committing high treason against God and his Kingdom. When it comes to talking about Jesus or sharing religious thought it shouldn’t matter whether or not we are in a Government building, in public or wherever we are.
AMERICA and ISRAEL in BIBLE Prophecy
The Christian Heritage of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Part 15
AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
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AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
By: Tommie Spurgeon
Judah in the Old Testament sold his brothers for silver to the Gentiles. In the New Testament Judas sold Jesus for pieces of silver. He was named Judas in the Greek but his name in Hebrew was Judah. He was a shadow of the Jewish betrayal. When Judah would have crowned him King when he road into Jerusalem on the back of a little donkey the Jewish Elders turned on Jesus and destroyed him in the eyes of the people. Because of this they didn’t crown Jesus as King but encouraged Pilate to Crucify Jesus instead. The crowning of the King will come at the end of the age when all of God’s people crown Jesus King over all. This is their inheritance and their glory that the son of David Jesus will set on the eternal throne of God over the nations of the World. All of these things that happen to Jesus through the Jews was God’s plan so that he could turn from the Jews to Ephraim and the Gentiles.
On the other hand just as Joshua was the ambassador or minister of the Promise to Israel. It was Ephraim’s job after the crucifixion to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ as ambassadors of the New Covenant to the World. In Joshua 1: 3 God told Joshua that wherever he placed his foot it belonged to him and he was to share the land with the children of Israel. Compare this thought with whatsoever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven considering the message is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If a soul comes to Christ through ministering the Gospel to someone then they are saved and God recognizes it as so. But any of those souls that are not ministered to will be kept in bondage and darkness. Jesus gave the Kingdom freely to the Disciples, Jesus told them in Matthew 10: 8 “freely ye have received, freely give”. This was the same as with Joshua. God gave him the Promised Land to share with the others that were in the promise; this is exactly what he did.
JOSHUA 1: 2: Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
3: Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
5: There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
6: Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
Joshua had to divide the land for an inheritance to the people, the instruction was to go over Jordan with all the people. Before Moses had died he gave a parcel of land to 2 ½ tribes of Israel that wanted to remain on the East Side of the river of Jordan. However These tribes would have to cross over and fight the enemy the same as those that would inherit the land on the West Side of Jordan. But both sides were the possession of the whole house of Israel. Even though Moses had previously told the 2 ½ tribes of Israel on the East Side of Jordan that they could have the land they still had to get Joshua’s approval before they could possess it. This is the way it is today a person has to hear the Gospel in order to understand and be saved. This is our job. How shall they hear without a preacher?
Let us step back and take a spiritual look at this picture. We have the whole house of Israel divided by a body of water called the Jordan River. You have a smaller group living on the East Side and a very much larger group living on the West Side of the River. Lets put this in a larger scope of things and place it on a world map. I believe that this is prophetic telling us that the refuge or land of Israel in the last days would be on a larger scale. That a smaller group of the house of Israel would live on the East Side of the Atlantic Ocean but a much larger group would live on the West Side of the Atlantic. We have the Jews in the nation of Israel on the East Side with approximately six million people but on the West Side of the Atlantic we have a group of around six million Jews living in the United States. But added to this group are the Christians in this country that in God’s promise are also called Ephraim. That Add these two groups of Christians and Jews together and you have a very large group. These all make up the whole house of Israel in America but don’t forget the Jews in Israel together America and the nation of Israel make up the whole house of Israel. Israel the smaller group in the East and America the larger group in the West.
There are Jews and Christians scattered all over the world but I believe that God created a refuge to protect the Jews in the East with a nation of their own and gave the Church a refuge to protect them and the Gospel along with their companions that included the Jews. This is found in America. This land belongs to God and was given to the Christians at the founding of America. It is not a secular nation, it doesn’t belong to them. It belongs to the Christians and Jews in this country and was designed by our founders to be a refuge for both. It is ours, we must stand up and stop letting the enemy of God steal our nation. They are gradually choking the people of God in this nation to death in order to force Christianity out of the land.
In the story of Joseph when Joseph was sold by his brothers and terrible things happened to him he was forced to go to the Gentiles, He was made Lord over Egypt, He was married to a Gentile, Ephraim and Manasseh were born. He made provision for the whole world for a future time of drought. All of his family would come to him in Egypt to be safe with him. His whole house or family was there together under the protection of Joseph during that terrible time. But God knows the future. Joseph’s life is a shadow of Jesus Christ. Jesus knew from the beginning that Judah would not accept him as King and that they would end up crucifying him. In preparation he went to Galilee of the Gentiles to begin his ministry to gather the Twelve men that would be his ambassadors to take the Gospel to the World. This was his first move toward Ephraim and any symbolism of Gentiles. When the people of Judah rejected him and nailed him to the cross he was forced to go to the Gentiles. The open door to them would be through the promise that God had made to Ephraim through Jacob at the crossed arm blessing. Ephraim was to become a multitude of Gentiles. At the cross Jesus turned to the Gentiles and brought them through the door of salvation to Jesus by the preaching of Ephraim. As they were born again they became part of Ephraim but the World would call them Christians. Just as Joseph took a Gentile wife Christ has taken a Gentile wife through the efforts of Ephraim. But as he is gathering the Gentiles the promise to Ephraim becomes more fulfilled. Ephraim has not come to maturity yet. There is a time coming when Ephraim’s promise will be complete. The Bible calls this the fullness of the Gentiles.
During the bad 7 years that were to come Joseph’s entire household came to him in a foreign land. But this land was not foreign to the Gentile wife or to Ephraim and Manasseh that lived there. But, it was to Joseph’s family that lived in the land of Israel. They would be forced to leave the land of Israel and go to that foreign land where Joseph and his family lived. If they didn’t they would perish. Today Ephraim is the Church and its homeland is America. During the Tribulation the nation of Israel will have to leave their land or perish. They will come where Ephraim lives. It is here in the United States that the Jews in Israel will come. A mighty revival will come about in America that will bring so great a move of the Spirit that the Bible says that it would be like life from the dead. All will be saved and Judah will be joined together with Ephraim in the Kingdom of God. It is the same move of the Spirit of God that God showed to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones. The sticks of both Judah and Ephraim will become one stick in Christ. Christ will not come back until Israel acknowledges that he is the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of God. But think this great Revival is going to happen right here in America, millions will be saved.
Understanding what lies ahead of us in prophecy plus now knowing who we are it is easy to understand why God established our nation. The Pilgrims and Puritans came to this country to establish a New Israel for freedom of religion from the oppression of Government control over the way they worshipped. We have the same problem in America today. Understanding that freedom to openly preach, to speak about God in public, the restrictions to prayer and Bible reading along with having the Ten Commandments struck down all over America. Cross removal and other challenges against Christianity in our country can only tell us one thing. We have a job to do for God in this country. This country was created as a refuge for Christians and Jews and as many that want to come here. But others do not have the right to change what we were founded to be. Knowing what is ahead we must stand up and fight to win our Christian freedom back in this land. This is why we must win.
AMERICA and ISRAEL in BIBLE Prophecy
The Christian Heritage of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Part 14
AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
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AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
By: Tommie Spurgeon
4. Why We Must Win the Battle
There are more things that we will discuss in this teaching on America the Western State of Israel and what we must do. America was established as a Christian nation. It is still a Christian nation in God’s eyes not with the view that the Christians outnumber the sinners but in ownership. Who does this land belong to? This land was given to Christians as so called in Antioch but in reality is the Israel of God or Ephraim. God gave this land to his people the Israel of God to establish a safe haven in the earth for the Church and as many Jews that wanted to find refuge here. Even the Constitution was written for Judeo Christians with the belief that it would never work for a godless or immoral people. The Constitution will not serve for a Muslim who wants to live under Sharia Law or for any other religion than Christianity. But under the Judeo Christian Constitution that we have we welcome everyone to come and live and enjoy the blessing of the prosperous land that was given to Ephraim or the Church. But God never intended for us to give this land over to ungodly leadership or to have our religious freedom suppressed the way it has become in our country. We must take a stand as our founders the Puritans and Pilgrims did with the view of what the purpose of our country was established for.
In this teaching we will learn that it is our responsibility to keep what God gave to our founders. It is up to us through God’s help to retake America through sharing knowledge about who the Christians are in America and what this country is intended to be. Through the scriptures we see that God is going to revive America and that America will fight along side of Israel in the last days to defend her against her enemies. We must through knowledge and prayer do everything we can in the physical to hold on to it. I believe that if God were to allow America to fall into enemy hands that Christianity and all of Israel would disappear from the face of the Earth.
In this teaching I would like to give you further prove of the fact that Ephraim and the Church are in reality one and the same. That America is the homeland of the Church the same as the Land of Israel is the homeland of the Jews, both are refuges for God’s people. The fulfillment of the Church and the promise of Ephraim would come through the preaching of Ephraim and the Church. It began with the training of the Twelve Disciples who were all from Ephraim excluding Judas who was replaced by Matthias that was from Ephraim. The preaching from the hundred and twenty on Pentecost would be the surge of Christianity that would begin in Jerusalem then to Samaria and then the rest of the world.
It was at the cross that all of this was made possible but the promise was from the very beginning with Abraham when God told him that he would be the father of many nations. These nations would eventually be manifested in Jesus through salvation. They would gain access to the Kingdom of God and become the people of God along with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But in order to understand how the door was opened to the Gentiles we have to go back to the blessing that Jacob passed on to Ephraim. Ephraim and Manasseh the sons of Joseph and his Gentile bride were half Gentile. In order for Jacob to bless them he adopted them as he own and said that they would be as the rest of his twelve sons and gave them the name of Israel his spiritual name. When Jacob crossed his arms and blessed these two boys he made the younger the heir instead of the firstborn Manasseh. It was customary that the firstborn would be the heir. The younger brother was Ephraim. God said that Ephraim would become a multitude of nations. The word nations once again was “Gowy” in the Hebrew which was used over and over all through the Old Testament for Gentiles. The connection that both Ephraim was half Gentile and the fact that he would become a multitude of Gentiles makes a lot of sense when it comes to prophecy. But this prophecy happened because Jacob crossed his arms and made the first the last and the last the first. The scripture says that Jacob set Ephraim before Manasseh, which means he counted Ephraim as the firstborn. This is why he was able to bless him above Manasseh. Genesis 48: 20: And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. This cross-armed blessing is very important because it represented something very spiritual in the order of the salvation of the Jews and Gentiles. The crossed arms represented the cross of Jesus when he was crucified. It was from there that he would turn from the unbelieving Jews to Ephraim and the Gentiles. Let me explain in Jeremiah:
Jeremiah 31: 9: They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jeremiah wrote this at the time that the 10 tribes were in bondage to the Assyrians. This was written to reassure Ephraim or Israel that were in bondage and exile that he was still their father and loved them. He was telling them that they were still the heirs and would be first to be born again when salvation was to finally come. This would happen at the cross when Jesus was crucified. Ephraim was to be the firstborn of Jacob but would also be the firstborn of God in the New Kingdom. They were the heirs and possessed the birthright but the multitude of nations or Gentiles would be included in Ephraim’s promise.
It is interesting to note that Jacob adopted Joseph’s half-Gentile sons and made them his own. This is prophetic; prophesying that the Gentiles would be adopted into the Kingdom of God through Jesus Christ to the Father to become the sons of God right along with the whole house of born again Israel. This would happen at the cross. But this adoption would include Ephraim and the Gentiles the two would be made one in Christ. Today we are one with Peter and John even though they are Ephraim we have been made both one and the same. Ephraim, the true Ephraim are the Gentiles and the ten lost tribes of Israel that have been born again by the Spirit of God. We are the Church. In the following verses we will see more from Jesus himself.
Luke 13: 28: There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
29: And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
30: And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.
In these scriptures those that come from the east, west, north and south is speaking of the Gentile people from all the nations in the world. They were to be the first to be born again and set before the Jews in order of whom would accept Jesus first. Ephraim was to be first born as well. God said in Jeremiah that Ephraim was his first born. Here Jesus just said that the Gentiles from the nations would be the first born. They are one and the same. The Gentiles have been made one with Ephraim and heirs to the birthright. The birthright was the promises of the whole house of Israel. The promise bearer was to be Ephraim he would minister the promises of the whole house of Israel as they came. Israel was first given the land of Canaan as promised and Ephraim through Joshua the leader of Ephraim distributed it. Then the Gospel or New Covenant would come with all of its promises through Jesus Christ. It would be the job or inheritance of Ephraim and the Gentiles to take this message to the world. It would be our job the same as the 120 that were commissioned to take the Gospel to the World. Like the Ox the emblem of power and strength with the horns that would gather people together to the ends of the whole earth. We are to bear the burden on our shoulders under the power of the Holy Spirit and with the Word of God.
When Joshua took Israel into the Promised Land there were several things that had to happen. One was that even though the Promised Land belonged to all of them God gave the Promised Land to Joshua First. Why? Because he was the firstborn the birthright holder. God would commission him as the holder or ambassador of the promises of God to distribute the land to all the people. It had to come through him because he was from Ephraim the minister of this promise. The only promise Ephraim did not hold was the promise of a King coming from him. Here is the way it worked. Judah who had the promise of the great King would give birth to him. This happened through a Jewish couple named Joseph and Mary in the town of Bethlehem in the Land of Judah.
AMERICA and ISRAEL in BIBLE Prophecy
The Christian Heritage of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Part 13
AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
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AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
By: Tommie Spurgeon
I believe that the Tabernacle in the Wilderness was prophetic in itself. Remember that since the division of Israel in Solomon’s time Israel has been only two groups therefore there would only be two banners, the Ox and the Lion. The gate to the Tabernacle and outer court were on the east. This was the way in; it had to be on the east. The sin altar for sacrifice was just as you came into the gate. The most Holy Place was on the West End of the Tabernacle and only the Priest was allowed to enter into it once a year. But this Holy Place also was the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit and a great light shined from within it. Many picture this as the Pillar of Fire coming up out of it when Israel camped. Judah’s Camp was on the east and that was right in front of the gate to the Tabernacle and outer court. His banner was that of the Lion.
This is very symbolic. The gate or the way to salvation and the sacrifice for sin was made in the east, the Land of Israel. Jesus was crucified there He was the lamb of God but also the coming Lion of the tribe of Judah that will be coming from the east. He was not crucified in the western part of the world. The most Holy Place was located on the West End and camped very close to it was Ephraim’s camp under the banner of the Ox. The West End was the place the Glory of God was most revealed and the Holy Ghost dwelled there. Today the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit which ever you prefer dwells in a temple not made by hands called the Temple of God. Paul said, "Ye are the Temple of God." The only way the Holy Spirit or Glory of God could be revealed in the west today would be for the Church or Ephraim to take it there.
That is exactly what has happened. America in the west was established in the west to glorify God and take the Gospel. The Gospel has been preached more in and from America than any country in the world. Ephraim pushed the people with the horns of a bullock called the Word of God and gathered people together in America and at that time were believing that it was to become the New Israel. This was embedded in their hearts and their direction was coming from God. God had promised Ephraim a land of his own, one where he would be blessed with abundance and would become a mighty man in the earth. Once again I believe this to be America. When God spoke to me in a vision in 91 he told me that America was a refuge in the earth for Israel. At that time I could only see the Israel of the Holy Land. But since then God has opened my eyes and understanding to realize that Israel, the Israel of God has been living here ever since the nation was founded by the Pilgrims and Puritans that came to this land. But it has not only been a refuge for Christians but also the other house of Israel as well. There are almost six million Judaic Jews living in America right now that are sheltered and protected from the forces outside of this country that seeks to destroy them. These people are under the banner of the Lion yet are protected by the Israel of God, Ephraim with the banner of the Ox. There are approximately 6 million Jews living in Israel itself. We are already protecting and preserving the lives of almost half of the Judaic Israel. It was and is true what God told me. America is here not only for the protection of the Jews living here but also for the protection of Ephraim the Israel of God the Church. America was established by God himself to preserve and protect the Christian Faith and the Jews in this world.
Christianity is dying in Europe and Asia. Even though there is a surge of salvation in China and there are now a large number of Chinese that have come to Christ. It is a small number compared to the population of China. We see flare ups of salvation across the world, small fire that don’t seem to last long. The old nations that were once proclaimed as Christian nations have mostly become atheist. Nations such as England, France, Germany and many others have allowed Christianity to become old and stale. It just doesn’t fit into their socialist views. They will soon be judged for this.
When God showed Ephraim in the west with the Glory of God he knew what was in store for the world. America is a final bastion of hope and defense for Christianity and the Gospel. Satan is trying to destroy America from every direction, not only from without the nation through terrorism and hate groups but from within with Socialism, Communism and Marxism. Many of our leaders are using groups like the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Center and others to try and destroy faith and Christianity in the American way of life. Why because they don’t like it and have learned to hate Christianity. We are in a huge battle to preserve Christianity and moral values in America. America still has a calling and a purpose to fulfill that only God and those willing to work with him can depend on. Remember his gifts and callings are without repentance and that means that he will not change his mind. Once God decides to do something there is nothing that can stop it from happening.
The name of this teaching is called "The Ox, the Gospel, the Push". I have done my best to share with you these thoughts to bring into view the mightiest and greatest Revival the World has ever seen that is on its way. Christians have seen this revival coming from mountaintop to mountaintop but when people are low and seem to be in a valley we have a tendency to lose sight of this wonderful thing.
Jonathan Edwards saw this revival in the Word of God that would be the place where the Jews in America would be saved. Jewish evangelism will begin here and end when the Jews in Israel are saved. God has shown me that America will be saved at the same time. Paul told us in Romans 11: 15 that this revival would be like life from the dead. It will be Ezekiel’s dry bones, The two sticks, Ephraim and Judah, America and Israel being saved and becoming that one new man before the coming of the Lord.
The fullness of the Gentiles in ROMANS 11:25, For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
The fullness of the Gentiles is speaking of the promise made to Ephraim that he would become a multitude of nations. Abraham's promise is being fulfilled in Ephraim today. As he is coming to the end of the age when his fulness the fulness of the Gentiles is being filled up, the Jewish people of Israel will come to Jesus Christ to be saved. This will happen in a nation that God will use for a refuge for both the Church and Israel during the last seven years of this world. This nation will be America it is the land where Ephraim lives and God revealed this in the story of Joseph when he was rejected by his brothers and went to the Gentiles.
This is speaking of Ephraim or the Church coming to maturity and completing the work that God has given us to do and that is to reach the Jews in America and the Jews in the Land of Israel with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But when they have done their Job and the Jews are saved it will be like life from the dead. The greatest push with the horns of Ephraim will be seen in these last days that will shake the very walls of Hell with a revival that will terrify the Devil.
AMERICA and ISRAEL in BIBLE Prophecy
The Christian Heritage of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Part 12
AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
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The Christian Heritage of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Part 12
AMERICA IS EPHRAIM
AMERICA: The Western State of Israel
By: Tommie Spurgeon
In the court yard outside of the great Temple building was a tank of water called a sea. This was to take the place of the water laver that was in the tabernacle in the wilderness but was used to wash the hands and feet of the priest that ministered in the temple. It contained 10,000 gallons of water. This giant bowl made from bronze containing all of this water sits on the backs of 12 Oxen made of bronze. Three were facing the north, three were facing the south, three were facing the west and three were facing the east. This had great meaning and is the only reference to the twelve disciples found in the Old Testament. This showed them as coming from the Ephraim of Israel and laboring to take living waters, the Word of God and the Spirit to all the nations of the world. We would see that sacrifice of these oxen. All were martyred and died sharing the Gospel to the world except for John who suffered many things before he died at a very old age.
As I said before Jesus began his ministry in Capernaum at the very heart of the remnant of old Israel, Ephraim. It was there that he chose his disciples that would labor and sacrifice their lives for him. This was not only Ephraim but was also the Church. They began in Jerusalem but were rejected by most bringing horrible judgment on that nation because of the unbelief of Judah. They went to Samaria and then the rest of the world. Ephraim would become first in salvation and Judah would become last to be saved. They tried to reach all of Israel in the process along with the many Gentiles that they encountered. James wrote a letter that was addressed to the 12 tribes of Israel that were scattered abroad. This shows the intent of the Apostles in their mission to reach the ten tribes of Ephraim as well as the Jews with Benjamin and the Gentiles.
The Gospel contains two things: one is Jesus the King and covenant in his blood. He is the inheritance because in him is eternal life and it is the intent of the Gospel to bring people to him so that they will receive him as their Lord and Savior. The other thing is that in order to believe on him we must hear the Gospel. Paul said "how shall they be saved without a preacher?" People must hear the Gospel in order to believe on Jesus. This is the birthright of the first born, Ephraim, the Church. This is the promised responsibility of Ephraim that was the birthright that would establish a multitude of nations in Christ. They were covenant bearers. This is what any Christian is today, they are to carry the Gospel to anyone they can. There is a labor and a sacrifice in doing so. We are under the banner of the ox the same as the twelve disciples and have the same mission. This is why we are the Israel of God and members of his household and partakers of the commonwealth of Israel. Once again we are not natural Israel but Spiritual Israel the Israel of God (GALATIANS 6: 16).
At the time Moses was to die he blessed the whole house of Israel with different blessings. The following blessing is about Joseph and his two sons Ephraim and Manasseh. Understanding this blessing is a very powerful thing to know. Remember while reading this that God had set Ephraim above Manasseh in other words that Ephraim was to be greater.
DEUTERONOMY 33: 13, And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
14: And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
15: And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
16: And for the precious things of the earth and fullness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
17: His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
I wanted you to see how the JFB Commentary interpreted these scriptures. The following is a quote from their commentary.
JFB 13-17. Of Joseph he said--The territory of this tribe, diversified by hill and dale, wood and water, would be rich in all the productions--olives, grapes, figs, &c., which are reared in a mountainous region, as well as in the grain and herbs that grow in the level fields. "The firstling of the bullock and the horns of the unicorn" (rhinoceros), indicate glory and strength, and it is supposed that under these emblems were shadowed forth the triumphs of Joshua and the New Kingdom of Jeroboam, both of whom were of Ephraim (compare GENESIS 48:2.
The JFB commentary points out that Ephraim and Manasseh were supposed to be very blessed with an abundance of things. Not only at the time they were established by Joshua in the land of Canaan but also after the land was divided the ten tribes were established under the leadership of Jeroboam the leader of Ephraim. But I believe this goes much deeper than this interpretation. This promise is referring to the time that the Ox or Ephraim God’s elect the Israel of God, would take the Gospel to the world. The glory and strength of these horns, the horns of a bullock or the single horn of the Rhinoceros are the tools being used to push people together to the ends of the earth (verse 17 above). Since understanding that Ephraim would take the Gospel to the world it would only be right to conclude that these horns represent the strength and power of the Word of God and the Holy Spirit to gather together the Kingdom of God all over the world. "Not by power, not by might but by my Spirit saith the Lord." The Christians in this world are often accused of being pushy and rude for their zealous preaching and continually trying to persuade others to become Christians. It is true we are and we do often seem to try and push people to make the decision to follow Christ. Jesus said to go into the highways and hedges and compel them to come into his house, LUKE 14:23. The word compel means more than asking them, but would seem to mean in JUDE 1:23, “ And others save with fear,pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh."
Even President Obama said that Christians are too pushy. Those that are not saved often do not understand the urgency of the matter. Jesus may not come today, but a person might die and go into judgment at any moment, the bottom line can be very serious consequences. The twelve oxen in the courtyard of the Temple that supported the bronze "Sea" were the only Old Testament witness to the Twelve Disciples. All twelve of these oxen had horns which symbolized the strength and power of the Word of God. These horns and the strength of the ox were the tools these oxen used to take the living waters on their backs to all the nations of the world. Facing all four directions of the compass north, south, east and west compares to "push the people together to the ends of the earth"(DEUTERONOMY 33: 17). Or, the scriptures in MATTHEW 24:14, "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come". The strength of the ox represents the power of the Holy Ghost to give men the strength to do this. But, why horns? It is similar to Paul's resistance to accept Jesus when Jesus told him it is hard to kick against the pricks (thorns) ACTS 9:5; 26:14, If a person refuses to heed the message of the Gospel, their refusal will proclaim their eternal judgment. The horns are a good thing to push us together into the Kingdom but they can hurt you as well. The Gospel is the same way, we are either blessed with or judged by it, it is our choice.
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