This is not in conflict with my prior posts on Mystery Babylon, but a separate aspect of what Mystery Babylon is. So what I've said about how Revelation 17 relates to The Bride of Christ doctrine, and whether or not Revelation 18 is geographically linked to Mesopotamia remains the same. This is about what the Sin of Mystery Babylon is. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Capitalism is the Whoredom of Babylon.
I did a post on how the words translated Fornication and Fornicator refer to Prostitution. They like the words for Whore/Harlot come from a root that means "to sell off". People seek to justify their broader interpretations of those verses by saying how words related to Prostitution are sometimes used euphemistically for sexual promiscuity that isn't about money. But the opposite euphemism is also used, people will say they feel like they're "whoring themselves out" to express the idea of "selling out".
Well if you break down Revelation 17 and 18 and look at the context outside of these "pronos" words. There is not anything that implies sex, but a lot about economics, about buying and selling.
I've been expressing my opposition to Capitalism a lot lately on my other blog. There are people like the YouTuber Renegade Cut who want to make any and all Futurist/Pre-Millenial views on Bible Prophecy seem inseparable from Right Wing politics. And yet it is exactly a Futurist and Pre-Millennial view of Revelation that makes chapters 17 and 18 a blatant condemnation of Capitalism. Also Post-Millennialism was invented to justify theocracy.
There is no labor going on in New Jerusalem, New Jerusalem is the return to Eden, it's a Communist Utopia. The founder of Communism was Gerard Winstanly in the mid 1600s who certainly held a Pre-Millenial view of Revelation. Communism is an inherently Christian ideology, it was in the 1700s that Atheists and Deists started forming a Secular version of it that was then further secularized by Karl Marx and the Bolsheviks.
Many of my fellow Anti-Capitalist might not like the implication of making Capitalism a Whore, they might prefer characterize Capitalism as a Pimp. Well the thing is Porneia as an ancient Noun form of the word for Prostitution was associated with all people taking part in that Sin. Babylon being called the "Mother of Harlots" may well imply she's a Madam rather then the Proletariat of Whoredom.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Saturday, September 8, 2018
The Far East and The Lost Tribes
In the KJV of Genesis 9:27 Noah prophecies that God shall "Enlarge" Japheth. The traditions identifying Japheth mainly with European nations have taken this to refer to Europe's political dominance of the rest of the world over the last 500 years or so. While those who seek to associate Japheth mainly with the Far East say it refers to Japheth's descendants becoming the most numerous.
Asia east of Iran and south of the former USSR is less then an Eight of the Earth's Surface but contains over half of the population of Humanity. And that's not even counting how the Native Americans are now mostly agreed to have previously been in this region.
Here is the problem though. "Enlarge" is a mis-translation in that verse. The Hebrew word is Pathah which is also the root the name Japheth comes from. But that word as a verb occurs many times in the Hebrew Scriptures but is translated "Enlarge" only here, other times you see "enlarge" or a form of that word in the KJV it's a different Hebrew word. Pathah is usually translated allure, persuade, entice, and in negative contexts deceive. In Genesis 9:27 this is followed by saying Japheth will dwell in the Tents of Shem, it was also in Shem that YHWH set up His Tabernacle.
As far as Bible Prophecy predicting certain people to be the most numerous, those promises are made exclusively to certain descendants of Shem. In Genesis 15:5 and 22:17 Abraham is promised his Seed will be multiplied as the stars of heaven and the sands of the sea shore. And this promise is repeated to Isaac in Genesis 26:4, and to Jacob in Genesis 32:12, and it's reaffirmed in Exodus 32:13, Deuteronomy 1:10, 10:22, 1 Chronicles 27:23, Nehemiah 9:23 and Isaiah 10:22 (quoted in Romans 9:27), and Hosea 1:10 which is specifically about the Northern Kingdom, and Hebrews 11:12. (Jeremiah 33:22 even says this specifically of the Seed of David, via Solomon's Daughters in 1 Kings 4 David's Seed did exist among the Northern Kingdom's population, but this promise's applicability to David could be fulfilled in how all Christian are made the Seed of Jesus regardless of actual biology).
Also Genesis 24:60 foretells Rebecca's Seed will be Thousands of Millions, that's Billions.
But we can get even more specific then that. Deuteronomy 33's blessings on the Tribes seem to give a particular promise of large populations to three of them. First in verse 6 "Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few."
Then verse 17 talking about Joseph seems to predict Ephraim to have a much larger population then Manasseh, which is also consistent with Genesis 48. But this never happened during the recorded Old Testament history of the Tribes, every Biblical Census has Manasseh being larger then Ephraim in population, and Manasseh also had twice the land Ephraim did being on both sides of the Jordan.
Finally verse 20 says Gad will be enlarged, and this Hebrew word does mean that, being translated that way most of the time in the KJV.
I've talked before on this Blog about how the Deported Northern Israelites were most likely taken east of the Euphrates River. But also how it wasn't really all of the Northern Kingdom deported by Assyria. The first Deportation was of Naphtali and the Trans-Jordan Tribes, and the second focused on part of Ephraim and some of Western Manasseh near the border with Ephraim. The Trans-Jordan Tribes were Reuben, Gad and the eastern half of Manasseh. Gad as I've talked about before is often who the Japanese are identified with.
Now I do think Japheth and Ham probably both contributed to the early populations of the Far East. The deported Israelites were mingled among the Gentiles.
Asia east of Iran and south of the former USSR is less then an Eight of the Earth's Surface but contains over half of the population of Humanity. And that's not even counting how the Native Americans are now mostly agreed to have previously been in this region.
Here is the problem though. "Enlarge" is a mis-translation in that verse. The Hebrew word is Pathah which is also the root the name Japheth comes from. But that word as a verb occurs many times in the Hebrew Scriptures but is translated "Enlarge" only here, other times you see "enlarge" or a form of that word in the KJV it's a different Hebrew word. Pathah is usually translated allure, persuade, entice, and in negative contexts deceive. In Genesis 9:27 this is followed by saying Japheth will dwell in the Tents of Shem, it was also in Shem that YHWH set up His Tabernacle.
As far as Bible Prophecy predicting certain people to be the most numerous, those promises are made exclusively to certain descendants of Shem. In Genesis 15:5 and 22:17 Abraham is promised his Seed will be multiplied as the stars of heaven and the sands of the sea shore. And this promise is repeated to Isaac in Genesis 26:4, and to Jacob in Genesis 32:12, and it's reaffirmed in Exodus 32:13, Deuteronomy 1:10, 10:22, 1 Chronicles 27:23, Nehemiah 9:23 and Isaiah 10:22 (quoted in Romans 9:27), and Hosea 1:10 which is specifically about the Northern Kingdom, and Hebrews 11:12. (Jeremiah 33:22 even says this specifically of the Seed of David, via Solomon's Daughters in 1 Kings 4 David's Seed did exist among the Northern Kingdom's population, but this promise's applicability to David could be fulfilled in how all Christian are made the Seed of Jesus regardless of actual biology).
Also Genesis 24:60 foretells Rebecca's Seed will be Thousands of Millions, that's Billions.
But we can get even more specific then that. Deuteronomy 33's blessings on the Tribes seem to give a particular promise of large populations to three of them. First in verse 6 "Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few."
Then verse 17 talking about Joseph seems to predict Ephraim to have a much larger population then Manasseh, which is also consistent with Genesis 48. But this never happened during the recorded Old Testament history of the Tribes, every Biblical Census has Manasseh being larger then Ephraim in population, and Manasseh also had twice the land Ephraim did being on both sides of the Jordan.
Finally verse 20 says Gad will be enlarged, and this Hebrew word does mean that, being translated that way most of the time in the KJV.
I've talked before on this Blog about how the Deported Northern Israelites were most likely taken east of the Euphrates River. But also how it wasn't really all of the Northern Kingdom deported by Assyria. The first Deportation was of Naphtali and the Trans-Jordan Tribes, and the second focused on part of Ephraim and some of Western Manasseh near the border with Ephraim. The Trans-Jordan Tribes were Reuben, Gad and the eastern half of Manasseh. Gad as I've talked about before is often who the Japanese are identified with.
Now I do think Japheth and Ham probably both contributed to the early populations of the Far East. The deported Israelites were mingled among the Gentiles.
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