The resounding cry from God, “Let My People Go” came at a time when ancient Israel had suffered enslavement and captivity for centuries. The bondage inflicted through the dictatorship of the nation where they resided… forbid freedom of worship!
Even if we have never given it much thought, that ancient situation was carried out and written in the bible for a reason we should pay very close attention to… because it supplies us a vision of final day events! This fact is very clearly pointed out at 1st Corinthians 10:11.
“Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the end of the ages have come.”
This same scenario has taken place in our day, but as we might expect, on a much larger scale than the ancient pattern. Unlike the obsolete old covenant Israel, the people God will choose as His Israel for the futuristic new covenant in the final part of the days, are scattered all over the earth. (Jeremiah 31:10) (Psalms 44:11) (James 1:1)
Regardless of nationalities, race or cultures, God has promised that His people will all have one thing in common… a heartfelt desire to serve and worship in the truthful manner God Himself chooses, even though it will require quite a change in the way they currently believe. This enlightenment is explained at Hebrews 8:10-13.
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My Laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” “None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying ‘Know the LORD,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.” “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” “In that He says, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.”
These scriptures certainly contradict and expose the popular false teaching that today’s descendants of ancient Israel are still God’s chosen people under the statutes of the old law covenant. The fact is Christ abolished the old covenant and became the mediator of the promised new covenant. His death tore down the wall of separation the old covenant had put in place! (Ephesians 2:13-18) From that moment, ALL people have the equal opportunity to become God’s Israel! (Galatians 3:26-29) Becoming washed in the blood of the lamb will free us from this blinding lie continually taught by exalted men without understanding!! (Revelation 7:13-17)
Isaiah 3:12 refers to the knowledge of these oppressing leaders as being like mere children. They are on TV, radio, with altars on practically every street corner, raking in millions for leading God’s people down the wide path of destruction.
“As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.”
They have no clue that the house of Jacob (in the prophecies) represents God’s misinformed and misled people who are captivated in false worship, which is why they are called “The Captive Ones of Jacob.” There is only one way for the house of Jacob to fulfill the prophecy of the modern-day birth of God’s Israel… they must undergo “a change of thinking!” They must escape their current captivity and turn to God’s truth during the final part of the days… when the crowned rider of the first seal begins to conquer! (Isaiah 30:21, 22) (Revelation 6:1, 2) They can then become clean…Washed in the Blood of the Lamb. We can read Genesis 35:2, 10 for the bible’s initial prophecy of this end-time event.
“And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, ‘Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.’
“And God said to him, ‘Your name is Jacob; your name shall not be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name.’ So he called his name Israel.”
This is exactly what will occur in today’s world when people put aside the misleading lies and become purified by truth. This will take place when God sows the seed of truth during the great day of Jezreel! (Hosea 1:10, 11) More details of the bible’s explanation of the great day of Jezreel can be examined in the precept entitled: “Those not my people will become my people.” However, a very important step during this time period must first take place.
Currently, freedom of worship exists in most countries. There are however, some countries that absolutely forbid it! This equates to billions of people in the same situation as prototypical ancient Israel. Because of the restricted policies of their countries, they can’t turn to God’s truth even if they recognized it and realized the necessity to do so… but… Just as He did during the captivity of ancient Israel, God is going to once again, cause a big change to take place!!
We’ve already heard the rumblings about the concerns of religious freedom on an international scale. Right on cue, this violation of fundamental human rights is now being recognized as an atrocity that needs to be stopped! Leaders in authoritative positions are currently planning a summit for July 25- 26, 2018 with the goal of establishing an International freedom of worship policy.
No one knows how long it will take to accomplish this world-wide change however one thing is certain… the leaders that are unresponsive are going to face the power of God!! As The Most High said in the day of Pharaoh, “They will know that it is I who is doing these things.” Unbelievers will no doubt even begin to know and fear His great name! This point is emphasized over 60 times in the book of Ezekiel; “Then they will know that I am Jehovah!”
Everyone in the entire world will then become a free moral agent, free to pursue any type of worship they choose to follow, whether it’s God’s real truth or men’s conjured up teachings.
In the 2nd chapter of Hosea God addresses the many problems He will cause in the midst of this world’s false worship. He then describes the things He will do for those who will come out of the great harlot and become His New Israel at Hosea 2:14, 15.
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, will bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfort to her.”
“I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope; she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.”
It certainly makes sense that after sowing the seed of truth, God would make it possible for anyone & everyone to follow His “Answer to the earth.” The answers all righteous minded people now need… went forth over the surface of the earth… when the first seal was opened! The flight of the rider on the white horse is actually a metaphoric way to describe the messages and precepts contained in the flying scroll Zechariah saw in vision. The ephah measure of truth we need for the final part of the days is written on this symbolic scroll. The flying scroll will reach all parts of the earth! Eventually, as end-time events continue, every eye will see and every ear will hear about God’s sacred secret and the events that will bring in the rule of God’s Kingdom. These previously unknown truths will also attack men’s traditional worship with a vengeance, symbolically exterminating its timbers and stones. (Revelation 6:1, 2) (Zechariah 5:1-4) (Isaiah 48:6, 7)
When these scriptures are read very closely and in the intended context, they are very easy to understand. The problem is; the physical minds of men’s religions can’t understand the 2nd coming of The Word, which is why Jesus said, “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ! or There!’ do not believe it. (Matthew 24:23-28)
Remember this: The eagles will be gathered at the carcass! We all need to cast aside the self-righteous attitude that is stimulated by digesting the swine’s flesh. (Isaiah 65:1-5) We need to see through the traditional teachings of men by developing the penetrating and far reaching eyes like those of an eagle! (Job 39:27-30) Then we will not be like fools, looking for the wrong thing, and waiting for something that has already happened! Eating the proper food at the proper time is the recipe for proper discernment! (Matthew 24:45)
The end-time opening of the first seal was the first action that began the revelation of God’s Word… Jesus Christ! (Revelation 1:1)
God announced this unprecedented event in 2015, as He displayed the most spectacular series of heavenly signs in the history of the world! (Acts 2:17-21)… Yet the world did not know it! … This absence of recognition was exactly as it was during the first presence of The Word in the earth! As John 1:9, 10 reveals… The true light that gives light to every sort of man was in the world, but the world did not know it!
Hosea 2:21-23 describes this true light of The Word as being God’s thunderous answer to the heavens and the earth! As these scriptures are read, remember the definition of the Hebrew word Jezreel: “God will sow seed.”
“It shall come to pass in that day that I will answer, says The LORD; I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth.
“The earth shall answer with grain, with new wine, and with oil; they shall answer Jezreel.”
“Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth, and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; Then I will say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people!’ and they shall say, ‘You are my God!’
God will make sure His people, whoever they may be, will have the freedom to pursue the true light of the New Wine without interference by nations or men’s laws! When an end-time event is prophesied to take place in His Word, we can have faith that God Himself… will cause it to become!!
In this great day of Jezreel… the first seal has been opened and God has sown the seed of His end-time truth in the earth!
All of God’s people will have the freedom to listen and walk together when THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH roars like Thunder in the Wilderness!!! (Amos 3:3-8)
As Jesus foretold, “They will know my voice and follow.” ….. This will occur when divine intervention once again causes the resounding cry to be heard and obeyed in all nations of the world: LET MY PEOPLE GO!!!!