Misleaders
Isaiah 5:12 They (the leaders)
never give a thought
To the plan of the Lord,
And take no note
Of what He is designing…
Isaiah 5 :14 And down it shall go,
That splendor and tumult
That din and revelry …
Isaiah 5 :20 Ah,
those who call evil good
And good evil;
Who present darkness as light
And light as darkness;
Ah,
Those who are so wise—
In their own opinion ;
So clever—
In their own judgment!
Such people
are all around us. They are our leadership class (the class of the power
elite). The confusion created by ‘those who call evil good and good evil’ is
also all around us today. Values seem to be upside down from what they should
be. But those who love God will not succumb because:
Isaiah 8 :10 Hatch a plot—it
shall be foiled.
Agree on action—it shall not succeed.
For with us is God!
The
effect of this cataclysm will be to defeat the ‘multitude of nations’ that are
upon Mount Zion attacking Jerusalem/Israel.
The
"multitude of nations" is similar to another phrase; ie: "all
the nations" that will bring a final war against Jerusalem and modern
Israel. Recently,
the United States has abandoned its long-standing support of modern Israel and
has now joined the rest of the world’s nations in currying favor with the Arab
contingent. NATO, a
previously defensive
organization, has now
become the United Nations’ "world police force." If and when this
police force is used against modern Israel, the prophecy of "all the
nations" coming against Israel will have been fulfilled. The political activity in the Middle
East is a clock for the fulfillment of prophecy; for when the hour of this war strikes,
Melchizedek will sometime thereafter make his entry and all the world will know
it. Also the Lord through Isaiah says to these leaders:
Misleaders
Isaiah 29:12 Act stupid and be
stupefied!
Act blind and be blinded!
(They are drunk, but not from wine,
They stagger, but not from liquor.)
For the Lord has spread over you
A spirit of deep sleep,
And has shut your eyes, the (false)
prophets,
And covered your heads, the seers;
So that all prophecy has been to you
Like the words of a sealed document.
Isaiah 29:11 If it is handed to
one who can read and he is asked to read it,
he will say, "I can’t, because it is sealed;" and if the document
is handed to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it, he
will say, "I can’t read."
My (Isaiah’s) Lord said:
Because that people has approached [Me] with its mouth
And honored Me with its lips,
But has kept its heart far from Me,
And its worship of Me has been
A commandment of men, learned by rote—
Truly, I shall further baffle that people
With bafflement upon bafflement;
And the wisdom of its wise shall fail,
The
servant will startle many nations and silence Kings by revealing to them what
is in store for them. There is hardly a decent leader in the whole world
today. Almost all are out for their own gain. As a group they are the most depraved and ruthless
people on the entire planet. The
world is full of wonderful people, but hardly any of them are in positions of
real power. The ruthless crave power and seek it. They are willing to crush
anything or anyone that gets in their way. The meek are passive and are not
willing to trade their soul for power. But there is a long line of those that
will. As in ancient Israel, the "leaders are misleaders," who lead so
many so far astray. God expects leaders to be the shepherds of His children.
God’s infinite spark of divinity lies within each of us. Just as biologic
fathers give a genetic piece of themselves to their children, our spiritual
Father gives us a spiritual piece of Himself. Now let’s switch gears regarding
the kingdom within:
Walt Whitman Each is not for its
own sake,
Song of Open Road I say the
whole earth and all the stars in the sky
Are for religions sake.
I say no man has ever
yet been half devout enough,
None has ever yet adored or
worshipped enough,
None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and
How certain the future is.
Song of Myself O, I could sing such
glories and grandeurs about you!
You have not known what you are,
You have slumber’d upon yourself all your
life,
Your eyelids have been the same as closed
most of The time.
We are
unaware of the presence of the spirit within and so "we have not known
what we are" and haven’t begun to realize "how divine" we
ourselves can become. The voice within points the way, if we but listen.
Follow the guide within and experience the reality of the divine indwelling.
Behold, "all things are becoming new"-- once we experience and are aware of God’s spirit within; that "little
voice" that speaks silently. And now, back to Isaiah. He turns 180
degrees and addresses our elite and illustrious leaders:
the "blind watchmen,"
"the negligent shepherds," and "the greedy dogs."
Misleaders
Isaiah 56:10 The watchmen are
blind, all of them,
They perceive nothing.
They are all dumb dogs
That cannot bark;
They lie sprawling,
They love to drowse.
Moreover, the dogs are greedy;
They never know satiety.
As for the shepherds, they know not
Shall not save you when you cry out
They
shall all be borne off by the wind, Snatched away by a breeze. Here the
watchmen (56:10) are our "experts", the erudite prognosticators of
conventional wisdom. Their refrain is always the same, everything is fine –
just another bright sunny day. Meanwhile justice has gone out from the land and
truth out from our hearts. Our leaders are misleaders; their only interest is self-interest. Gone are the statesmen. Gone
are the noblemen. Gone are the wise men. There is no one home. Our shepherds
(leaders) are wolves feeding off the flock. Entrusted with much, these
misleaders will be answerable for much. The consequences of this blind
leadership will shortly rear their ugly heads. And then the cry: "if only
we knew." But we close our eyes, and cover our ears, and bury our heads – co-conspirators against truth and
justice. "We hear
no evil, speak no evil, and see no evil. And we love it to have it so."
Daniel 7:14 And to him (one like a son of man) was
Given dominion, and glory and kingdom,
That all
peoples, nations, and
languages
Should serve him;
His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
Which shall not pass away,
And his kingdom is one
That shall not be destroyed
This is
not a spiritual Messiah, he comes in power and glory to judge the earth and
take dominion (sovereignty) of the nations and peoples of the world. Why does
he come and take sovereignty? Melchizedek is our Planetary Prince in waiting.
All normal planets have a Planetary Prince and we are about to be restored to
normalcy. Also, the present world leaders are misleaders; they spend no time truly addressing our global problems such as
overpopulation, pollution, environmental degradation, rapid loss of biologic
species, ongoing ozone depletion, global social and political unrest, and
increasing nuclear weapons proliferation. They talk a lot but actually do very
little, after all it may ruffle the feathers of some powerful corporation. This
planet is being and has been, raped by the wealthy and powerful. Nary a thought is given to putting
back what we take out. The
sole motivation is to get as much wealth and power as fast as possible. Because
of this, when Melchizedek steps in, we will be in the middle of many major
problems. But God is not going to let the many good people of the world be
destroyed by the strong and powerful. Sovereignty will be taken away from the present
leadership elite and given to those who live according to God’s ways:
Rev 11: 15 Then the seventh
angel blew his trumpet…
Saying, "the power to rule over the
World belongs now to our Lord and His
Messiah, and he will rule forever and ever.
The
word Messiah is Christos in Greek. Christ means Messiah. Unfortunately, Jesus was surnamed for just what he
was not. Also notice
that "our Lord" and "his Messiah" are two different
personages in this verse. "Our Lord" is God and "his
Messiah" is God’s chosen representative for our world, Melchizedek. The
fact that this is a Messiah of this physical world and that he rules forever –
indicates a divine being. "Those who possess the earth" are the
political, financial, economic, and religious leaders who lead the world into
chaos and ruin. They are removed from their power and a new leadership, with
Melchizedek at its head, is founded.
1Enoch 38:5 Yet shall not the mighty kings of that period be
destroyed; but shall be delivered into
the hands of the righteous and the holy (Ps. 149:9).
These
world's misleaders will be delivered into the hands of those whom they persecuted
and tried to destroy.
1Enoch 89:11-12 In spite of
this, all those eagles, vultures, ravens, and kites until now
continue to rip the sheep (Christians and Jews) swooping down on
them and eating them. As for the sheep they remain silent; but the
rams are lamenting and crying aloud. Those ravens gather and battle
with him (the large horned ram/prophet) and seek to remove his
horn (his power), but without
success. (James Charlesworth). (my parentheses)
In the
verse above , we witness the persecution and killing of the sheep (predominantly
Jews and Christians). The stronger ones among the Christians (the rams) cry out
and lament while the rest of the sheep remain silent and blind.
1Enoch 89:13 I saw thereafter
the shepherds coming; and those vultures and
kites cried aloud to the ravens so that they would smash the horn
of that ram with the great horn
(the prophet). But he (the prophet)
battled with them, and they
(shepherds) fought each other, and he
(prophet) cried aloud, while
battling them, so that God’s help
would come. (James Charlesworth).
(my parentheses)
The
shepherds are the misleaders who are supposed to be tending the
flock, but are instead killing and enslaving the sheep. The ram with the great
horn (the Dabela), the final prophet, calls to God for help as he battles
against the agents of evil (shepherd leaders and henchmen ravens).
1Enoch 89:21 Then I (Enoch) perceived
that the man came who had written down
the names of the shepherds, and who ascended up before the
Lord of the sheep.
1Enoch 89:22 He (the man) brought assistance, and caused every one to see
him
descending to the help of the dabela.
The
time frame is all of human history which culminates and climaxes at the
"end of the age," beginning in 1948 and unfolding now. The roles in
this story are: the principalities of good and evil, the Messiah/Lord/Melchizedek,
the righteous, those who elect God’s will, the people, the misleaders, the
Jews, the Christians/Lost Israel, the leaders and nations of the world, the
final prophet, and God.
The excerpts above are from The-Kingdom-of-Heaven-is-at-Hand
by Edmund J. Roache, MD