4 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations [forth the dorot] from the beginning? I Yahweh (I who will be), the first [Rishon] (One), and with the last [Acharonim (last ones)] (Ones); I am He.

The First One

There was a time when He alone existed; how far back we have to go for such a time we cannot begin to imagine; still less can we form any conception of such a state. The understanding tells us there must have been a time when God was alone in the vastness of His underived energy; there was a time when he began to incorporate His power in the stupendous framework of the heavens, and this introduces the idea of the last in relation to Him

Bro Roberts - Invited to the Son's Marriage

In this passage "the Last" is in the plural, but in Isa. 44:6. it is used in the singular, according to the formula, "Thus saith YAHWEH, king of Israel, and his (Israel's) redeemer, YAHWEH, Tz'vahoth (or, HE who will be of hosts, that is, 'COMMANDER' of them, ch. 55:4). I THE FIRST ONE and I THE LAST ONE; and without me no ELOHIM. And who as I shall proclaim, and declare it, and set it in order for me since I appointed the people of Olahm? And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show unto them."

The "Last Ones" of the forty first chapter are comprised in the "Last One" of the forty fourth, which though expressed in the singular, clearly indicates a plurality by its association with the sentence, "and without me no Elohim" - without the Spirit which quickeneth there will be no glorified saints, for "the flesh profits nothing;" they are "the people of Olahm," destined to reign with the Christ a thousand years (Apoc. 20:6).

And here the reader is requested to bear in mind, that the titles and expressions by which the ETERNAL POWER designates himself in the scriptures of the prophets are all reproduced in the New Testament and the Apocalypse, and therein applied to Jesus and his Brethren when "perfected in spirit," or "glorified together" (Rom. 8:17). Thus, the prophetic YAHWEH ELOHIM styles Himself "the First and the Last," so doth the symbolical Son of man; YAHWEH says he is the only Rock.

Paul speaking of the Rock terms it Christ; YAHWEH styles Himself King of Israel, Christ Jesus calls himself the same; YAHWEH declares that He is a saviour, and that there is none beside Him: the Word made flesh was called Jesus, because he should save his people, or be their saviour - "I, I, YAHWEH, and there is no saviour beside me" (Isa. 43:11).

Eureka 1.2.4.

9 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

"In the place where it was said to them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said to them, Ye are the sons of the living God." "God hath not cast away his people, whom he knew before." "Blindness in part (only) hath happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be brought in; and so all Israel shall be saved."

... The truth, like its author, is light. It is not a matter of opinion, or of doubtful disputation. It is clear, certain, and demonstrable; and being light, it is not afraid of light, because in it is no darkness at all.

Believe, then, God's covenant and testimonies. This is the foundation upon which you must be built if you would be sprinkled with the blood of the covenant, without which you cannot be saved. If you believe them you have found the kingdom of God, which Jesus counsels you to seek first. You cannot fail to have found the kingdom there, for the kingdom is the grand theme of them all.

Now, the next thing you have to do, is to seek God's righteousness; that is, to ascertain what is that way appointed of God, in which men who believe his covenant and testimonies may be regarded by him as righteous and holy; for

"without holiness no man can see the Lord,"

or enter the kingdom, which is the same thing. Men have ways of righteousness; but they are none of them God's way—they are mere corruptions only of his. They tell you to believe in Jesus, and you shall be saved. It is true, you cannot be saved if you do not; but if you believe no more than what is technically termed "believing in Jesus," this credence will not save you.

But why cannot a man be saved who believes only this creed? Because he does not believe the covenant and testimonies, in other words, "the gospel of the kingdom." God has set Jesus forth as a blood-sprinkled mercy-seat for them who believe the things of the kingdom, and of his name as its Christ, and for no one else. Hence, if men reject the things of the kingdom they can no more be saved by Jesus, than those who reject Jesus, but believe all that is testified concerning the kingdom.

The belief of the gospel of the kingdom qualifies a man for being saved by the name of Jesus. This qualification must precede the salvation, or salvation is impossible; because it is written,

"He that believes not (the gospel) shall be condemned."

Jesus himself preached that gospel upon which he predicates men's salvation; therefore, it must be something else than his own personality...

As the promises pertain to Israelites (Rom. 9:4), Gentiles must become Jews before they can claim them.

Mystery of the Covenant of the Holy Land Explained

Herald of the Kingdom and Age to come, Dec 1855

14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob [ tola'at Ya'akov], and ye men of [Yisroel]; I will help thee, saith Yahweh, and thy redeemer [Go'el ], the Holy One of Israel [Kadosh Yisroel].

àV.14 Their Redeemer (Christ) Hb. Goal = thy kinsman, shall be thy Holy One (Ish Kadish). He will save them.

The word is Goail from Gahal to redeem. Now the interpretation of Goail, rendered in the English version, redeemer, must be sought for in the Mosaic law of redemption.

According to this, all the first-borns of man and beast in Israel are Yahweh's, and were all to be sacrificed to Him, except the first-born of an ass, and the first-born children, being males (Exod. 13:1, 13-15; 34:20); fields, houses, cities and servants (Lev. 25:25-34); all these, when sold were returnable to their original owners, because these, as Yahweh's representatives, had the fee simple right in them, and could therefore not convey an unlimited right.

The absolute fee simple right was in Yahweh; first, because He brought Israel's first-born out of Egypt while he slew those of the Egyptians (Exod. 13:14); and secondly, because He claimed the Holy Land as absolutely His, the Israelites being only strangers and sojourners with Him (Lev. 25:23).

The firstling of a cow, of a sheep and of a goat, were not redeemable from death; they were to be sacrificed to Yahweh, being typical of Messiah the prince in his cutting off (Num. 18:17).

The redemption of redeemable things was to be effected by a blood relation of the nearest kin. Hence, GOAIL stands for the nearest relative, a blood relation, the next of kin or a redeemer in this sense. It was his duty in redeeming to pay a stipulated price, so that the near kinsman became a purchaser, and the first-borns and so forth, a purchased people, and purchased things.

Under the law, the price was blood and money. Now all this was a pattern of heavenly things. It was an illustration of the substance expressed in the text words:

"Yahweh. Goail of Israel"; that is, "He shall be the nearest kinsman of Israel."

This necessitates that the Effluence of the Eternal should become an Israelite, or as Paul expresses it, "He," the Spirit,

"took upon himself of the nature of Abraham; for in all things it behoved him to be made like his brethren."

The Spirit becoming thus a blood relation, and by resurrection Son of Power and first-born, he is the one of right to redeem the Holy Land and Israel by a blood-price out of the hand of strangers, who desolate and oppress them. They are the Eternal's, and His near kinsman is Jesus the Holy One of Israel.

Phanerosis - His face as the appearance of lightning

When "every eye shall see him" upon these principles, it will be manifestly a time of great trouble. It is, in fact, the "time of trouble," both of Jacob and the Gentiles, out of which, however, "Jacob shall be delivered" (Jer. 30:7).

Daniel declares it to be "a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation to that same time" (12:1). Israel's hopes will be at the lowest ebb; and unless another Joseph appear as in Egypt, for the salvation of his father's house, they must perish.

But the Eternal Power has provided for them a Deliverer after the type of Joseph, who at his second interview with the nation, his brethren after the flesh, will reveal himself to them in the day of affliction; and when they shall discover, as Zechariah teaches, by the wounds in his hands, that he is Yahoshaia, or Jesus, who was wounded in the house of his kindred (13:6; 12:10); and that it is to him they are indebted for deliverance from the enemy, they will mourn and be in bitterness before him, as their fathers were in Joseph's presence, whom, as they had served Jesus, they sold for a few pieces of silver.

All the tribes of the earth will howl, for the anguish of the times will be great -- Israel among the nations, as a lion among flocks of sheep; YAHWEH's battle-axe and weapons of war to break in pieces the nations, and destroy the kingdoms..."Even so, Amen."

Eureka 1.4.4.

15 Behold [Hinei], I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth [ iron having pifiyyot (blades)]: thou shalt thresh the mountains [harim] (empires), and beat them small, and shalt make the hills [geva'ot] as chaff [motz].

'...an army of Samsons cannot but be invincible. It will be just the force the necessities of the situation demand.

These soldiers of the king of Israel will not only be the goodly horses ridden by the Saints, but they will be the long, or far reaching, sword of their Commander, and his bow and arrow, battle axe, and new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.

"I declare," saith the Spirit, "that I will render double to thee; when I have bent Judah for me, and filled the (Judah) bow with (the) Ephraim (arrow), and raised up thy sons, 0 Zion, against thy sons, 0 Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man. And YAHWEH shall be seen over and his arrow (Ephriam) shall go forth as lightning and Adonai YAHWEH shall blow the trumpet, and his arrow (Ephraim) shall go forth as the lightning: and whirlwinds of Teman" (Zech. 9:13).

Eureka 19.7.

Then "the righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked: so that a man shall say, Verily, there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is Elohim judging the earth" (Psa. 58:10,11).

Jesus and his Brethren in command of the twelve tribes of Israel, are the Sickle of the Spirit by which he cuts off the vine of the earth, and treads its clusters in the great winepress of Divine wrath. Behold them all in battle array in Apoc ch. 19:11-16! There is the Faithful and True One, the Commander of the forces, who makes war in righteousness; His brethren in arms, who are "the called, and chosen and faithful;" and their hosts, the horses they ride, and the sharp sword of their warfare.

These constitute the instrumentality symbolized in ch. 14 by the Angel of the Sickle who treads the winepress. This is evident from the fact that his mission is the same as theirs, which the reader may see by comparing verse 19 of this chapter with verse 15 of the former, where it is written "He treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness of Mighty God". Thus, those who "go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall, tread down the wicked: for they shall be ashes under the soles of their feet in the day that I shall do, saith Yahweh Tz'vaoth".

Eureka 14.12

16 Thou shalt fan [winnow] them, and the wind [ru'ach] shall carry them away, and the whirlwind [se'arah] shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in Yahweh, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel [Kadosh Yisroel].

Esau will have had the dominion over Jacob long enough; and the time will now have arrived to prove to mankind "that there is a God that judgeth in the earth". Esau has lived by his sword, but not righteously. He crucified the king of Israel, persecuted and killed his brethren, corrupted the faith, trod under foot the Holy City forty and two months, and poured out the blood of Jacob like water upon the ground. But they who war against Zion and her sons "shall be as nothing, as a thing of naught".

This has never come to pass since it was recorded by the prophet; for hitherto Jacob has been under the heel of Esau, whose metallic Image stands unbroken upon its feet of iron and miry clay. The work of the Second and Third Angels is to grind to powder the various metals of which it is composed; and to do the work so effectually that no place be found for the things they represent (Dan. 2:35).

Eureka 14.7.

19 I will plant in the wilderness [midbar] the cedar, the shittah [acacia] tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree [etz shemen]; I will set in the desert [Aravah] the fir tree, and the pine [the cypress, and the fir], and the box tree together:

The branches of myrtle-trees were used in the construction of booths under which Israel dwelt in celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles. In their rebelliousness the Jews are regarded as briers and thorns; but in restoration, because of righteousness, they are olive-branches, pine-branches, myrtle-branches, and palm-branches.

When, therefore, it is prophesied in Isa. 55:13,

"Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an Aion-memorial that shall not be cut off"

- when these things are declared, it not only imports that the land previously desolate shall become like Eden, the Garden of Yahweh (Ezek. 36:35), but that all its inhabitants in Messiah's Olahm, the Millennial Aion, shall be

"trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he might be glorified" (Isa. 61:3).

Eureka 1.1.5.

That the Holy Land is to become the Paradise of the Deity is manifest from the following testimonies, which every one acquainted with the history of Eden, in whole, or in part, knows have never yet been accomplished. Thus the Spirit saith, "Thy land, O Zion, shall no more be termed 'Desolate;' but thou shalt be called Hephzibah (that is, My Beloved is in her), and thy land Beulah (that is, Married): for YAHWEH delighteth in thee, and thy Land shall be married. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thine Elohim rejoice over thee" (Isai. 62:4,5).

Here Zion and the Holy Land are represented as a Virgin-Bride; and the Elohim, or Messiah and his brethren in their One Spirit-Body manifestation, as the Bridegroom. This Virgin-Bride and her Bridegroom are the loving couple, whose loves are celebrated by Solomon in his "Song of Songs." The land, in its paradisaic development, is typified in his "garden enclosed," and which, as king, he styles, "my sister spouse," as already quoted. This is the literal, which is also allegorical of something more recondite, as hereafter will be shown. At present we have to do chiefly with the geo-material aspects of the subject.

When the marriage, or union, between the Sons of Zion and their King, as the Bridegroom, and the Holy Land as the virgin-bride, comes to pass, the country will become the Paradise of Yahweh, which his own right hand hath planted. Thus, the Spirit saith, "Yahweh shall comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the Garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody" (Isai. 51:3). "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a renown, for a memorial of the Olahm, which shall not be cut off" (Isai. 55:13).

...Lastly upon this point Ezekiel's testimony may be adduced; as,

"Thus saith Adonai Yahweh; in the day that I shall have cleansed you, O Israel, from all your iniquities, I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities fenced, and inhabited. Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, Yahweh, build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it" (Ezek. 36:33).

When thus converted into Paradise, the same prophet tells us that there will be "a river that can not be passed over" by wading; and that it will be formed by a confluence of "waters springing out from under the threshold of the temple eastward, from its right side, at the south of the altar" (47:1-5). He then informs us that "on the bank of the river was a great wood aitz rav, (both words in the singular number) on the one side and on the other. "The waters issue from Mount Moriah down its south side, and flow on toward the east through a vast cleft in the Mount of Olives (Zech. 14:4,8). When they have passed this valley they divide into two rivers, the one flowing through the desert and emptying into the Dead Sea; and the other into the Mediterranean: both of them abundant and never failing streams.

The effect of the eastern river upon the Dead Sea will be to heal its waters. Both streams are healing waters; for the prophet says, that "It shall be, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the two rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither; for they (of the Dead Sea) shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. And it shall be, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engeddi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the Great Sea (or Mediterranean) exceeding many.

"And by the river on the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall come up every tree for food, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be exhausted; for its months it shall yield, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for healing."

Eureka 2.1.7.