Gemstones of the High Priestly & Luciferian Ephods :: By Jeff Van Hatten

The anxiety of the past year has been at fever pitch. One item of note that should not be a source of angst is whether or not Satan will gain an upper hand. Prophecies within scripture debunk that thought quite thoroughly.

First Stop – Ephod of the High Priest

Exodus 28:17-21 – “Put on the Ephod settings of stones, four rows of stones: the first row is to be a carnelian, a topaz and an emerald; the second row a green feldspar, a sapphire and a diamond; the third row an orange zircon, an agate and an amethyst; and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx and a jasper. They are to be mounted in their gold settings. The stones will correspond to the names of the twelve sons of Israel; they are to be engraved with their names as a seal would be engraved, to represent the twelve tribes.”

The above translations of the stones are from the Hebrew words, which are: Odem [H124], Pitdah [H6357], Bareqeth [H1304], Nophek [H5306], Sappiyr [H5601], Yahalom [H3095], Leshem [H3958], Shebuw [H7618], Aclamah [H306], Tarshish [H8658], Shoham [H7718], and Jashepheh [H3471].

Second Stop – The Sons of Jacob

The sons of Jacob, in order of birth are: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah (Genesis 29:32-35), Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulon, Joseph (Genesis 30:6-22), and Benjamin (Genesis 35:18).

Third Stop – The Correlations

Taking the stones of the breastplate, and assigning them to each of the sons of Jacob in their birth order, we find the following correlations:

Row 1

The Carnelian is assigned to Rueben.

The Topaz is assigned to Simeon.

The Emerald is assigned to Levi.

Row 2

The Green Feldspar is assigned to Judah.

The Sapphire is assigned to Dan.

The Diamond is assigned to Naphtali.

Row 3

The Zircon is assigned to Gad.

The Agate is assigned to Asher.

The Amethyst is assigned to Issachar.

Row 4

The Beryl is assigned to Zebulon.

The Onyx is assigned to Joseph.

The Jasper is assigned to Benjamin.

Fourth Stop – The Ephod of Lucifer

Ezekiel 28:13 – “You, Lucifer, were in Eden, the garden of God; covered with all kinds of precious stones: carnelians, topaz, diamonds, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphires, green feldspar, emeralds.”

The missing stones of Lucifer’s Ephod are found in the third row of the Priestly Ephod: the zircon, agate and amethyst, belonging to Gad, Asher, and Issachar.

Fifth Stop – The Prophecies

Genesis 14-20 – “Issachar is a strong donkey who will bend his back to the burden, and submit to forced labor…. A troop shall overcome Gad, but he shall overcome at the last…. Asher’s food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal delicacies.”

Yahweh knew when he created Lucifer that Lucifer would rebel and, therefore, placed limitations on him. In the blessing Jacob/Israel gave his sons in Genesis chapter 49, Yahweh says:

  • Asher will produce a delicacy (a son) fit for royalty;
  • Issachar will crouch between burdens; and
  • Gad will be overcome by troops but will eventually succeed.

Sixth Stop – The Impact on Lucifer

By removing those three stones from Lucifer’s Ephod, Yahweh declared:

  • You, Lucifer, will never have a royal heir, a son that will sit and rule
    • Yeshua is the son who is King of Kings (Revelation 19:16).
  • You, Lucifer, will never carry anyone’s burden.
    • Yeshua will be the carrier of burdens and take sin from the world; (John 1:29) and
  • You, Lucifer, will never be an overcomer.
    • Yeshua was crucified, but overcame death, hell, and the devil!! (Hebrews 2:14, Revelation 1:18).

Conclusions

The missing stones in Lucifer’s Ephod tell a very interesting story: Lucifer will never be king, will never bear another’s sins, and will never overcome – those attributes belong only to Yeshua.  Fear not, Yeshua is coming to rapture his bride, judge the unbelieving, save Israel, and claim his eternal kingship. May he come quickly.

Website: https://raptureparty.net/

Email: jeff@raptureparty.net

Israel and election 2020 :: By Terry James

Election results still aren’t settled as I write this. Presidential Election 2020 is, in my many decades of experience, unlike any other. And this is in no way hyperbole.

I know I don’t have to convince you of the truth of that statement. Those of you who read these columns have lived through everything from Donald Trump’s 2016 election until this present hour. Little in the four intervening years has not been strange and, to use KJV terminology, extremely “vexing.”

Strangest of all regarding this election are the dynamics within the matters involved. Donald J. Trump has had everything imaginable thrown at his presidency—and some things so profoundly evil as to defy anything approaching political normalcy. None of it has touched him.

We’ve expressed many times in these articles how Trump seems impervious to and even invulnerable against anything his political enemies and even the minions of Satan can manage against him.

The election of 2016 presented, according to all political hacks—and all polls—insurmountable odds against Trump winning. This was the case up until 9 o’clock on that election night. But when the electioneering dust settled, the political pundits all had to sadly report that the woman the Democrats had chosen to coronate as president had gone down to electoral landslide defeat.

The rage then exploded across the nation and the world. The globalist-elites’ grand plans for America—thus for the world—had been stopped cold in their tracks. Trump had one thing in mind. Well, two things: 1) To drain the swamp that was Washington, DC, and 2) To “Make America Great Again!” Neither could then nor now be tolerated by the powers and principalities of Ephesians 6:12.

Those powers and principalities, both human and demonic, had had their power and control diminished. It could not stand, and their rage became, as often described, “unhinged.”

We who viewed all this through the prism of Bible prophecy understood that this fury that seemed to make Trump’s human enemies do things that bordered on totally irrational was the result of their throwing off all godly restraints. The opposition party, in fact, voted audibly to kick God out of their party platform. Romans 1:28 thus observably set in, and the rage went wild.

There was the Russian collusion hoax brought against Trump twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for years. The political witch hunt went on until the $40 million Mueller investigation had to admit, finally, that Trump wasn’t guilty of even the slightest infraction.

The Democrat side of the House of Representatives impeached him for something that a White House recording plainly showed was a non-impeachable matter, with the president’s legitimate call to a Ukrainian official. Still, the phony trial went on for months. Taken to its full course, the inevitable not-guilty verdict made the unhinged party on the left look for all to see to be the evil minions they are.

These were the major actions used to assault Mr. Trump. If we dig in a bit, we can present hundreds of less dramatic attacks from the Democrats and their henchmen and henchwomen in the mainstream press. The assaults, as you will remember, were unrelenting.

The question, then, to consider—and I believe it to be one of a profound nature as we move farther into this fleeting age: Why, after all of this, in which nothing could remove this president from the Oval Office, no matter what was attempted, does it now appear that he will be removed by the mere electoral process? This, despite the blatant evidence that his opponent is obviously mentally challenged as proven every time he speaks for any length of time in public. Why are voters—at least half of them—so deluded as to elect the radicals who want to remake America into something akin to the old Soviet Union?

More profound than this is the question: Why has the Lord of Heaven suddenly seemed to take his hand off, which had so obviously been on this man He miraculously put in the White House?

It is especially a profound question, because God’s greatest end-times indicator, His chosen people, Israel, is at the very heart of things accomplished by one Donald J. Trump.

He promised to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv after declaring Jerusalem as Israel’s capital from America’s perspective. This is something other presidents had promised but never did. Trump did keep the promise to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

He has kept practically every promise he has made—to Israel—to the American people. There is no doubt that this is God’s man for this hour at the close of the Age of Grace (Church Age).

Why has God decided, as it appears He has as of this writing, to remove him from earth’s most powerful office? Why, if it does happen, would the Lord of Heaven replace him with a person who, being mentally ill, seems to represent, through his incapacity, the entire reprobate (upside-down) spiritual and mental capacity of his political party?

Israel must be considered in all this. I haven’t the answers—just the questions.

It will be our wonderful God who will provide those answers when He chooses.