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WHY
ETHIOPIA
IS DRY.
WHY THEY ARE BEING
SACRIFICED
BY GOD.
WHY ETHIOPIA IS THE FIRST
EXAMPLE
TO MANY NATIONS:
It is for the reason that they have
been giving honour to a foreign god rather than giving tribute to Jehovah the
One True God. Why is your foreign god not hearing you, you who are,
"tall
and smooth-skinned, dreaded near and far, a nation strong and proud, whose land
is scoured by rivers"? (Isaiah 18:7 NEB).
BECAUSE:
It is time for tribute to be brought to the Lord of Hosts, to the place where
men invoke the Name of the Lord of Hosts: Mount Zion. (18:7 NEB).
THAT IS WHY:
"The shoots shall
be cut down with knives"
even "before the vintage", so that "a people tall and
smooth-skinned" come into the power of the "congregation of the
first-born", Spirit anointed sons of God, Heavenly Mount Zion. (Heb 12:22-24).
No longer will "a people tall
and smooth-skinned" worship a foreign god or refuse to believe that
Christ is the mediator of the "new covenant" for a heavenly
Kingdom of 144,000 Spirit anointed sons of God*
carrying the "utensils of Jehovah", the instructions of our God.
We* are the "Ransomed of the
Lord" and a "People long sought", for you to bring tribute
to the One True God Jehovah. (Isaiah 62:12 NEB). |
"There is a land of sailing
ships, a land beyond the rivers of Cush which sends its envoys by the Nile,
journeying on the waters in vessels of reed. Go, swift messengers, go to a
people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people dreaded near and far, a nation
strong and proud, whose land is scoured by rivers. All you who dwell in the
world, inhabitants of earth, shall see when the signal is hoisted on the mountains and
shall hear
when the trumpet sounds. These were the words of the Lord to me:
From
My dwelling-place I will look quietly down when the heat shimmers in the summer
sun, when the dew is heavy at harvest time. Before the
vintage, when the budding is over and the flower ripens into a berry,
the shoots shall be cut down with knives, the branches
struck off and cleared away… At that time tribute shall be brought to
the Lord of Hosts from a people tall and smooth-skinned, dreaded near
and far, a nation strong and proud, whose land is scoured by rivers.
They shall bring it to Mount Zion, the place where men invoke the
Name of the Lord of Hosts."
(From Isaiah 18:1-7 NEB).
"…strike your cuttings
for a foreign god; protect your gardens on the day you plant them,
and next day make the seed sprout. But the crop will be scorched when
wasting disease comes in the day of incurable pain."
(From Isaiah 17:10,11
NEB).
"Thus says the Lord: Toilers of Egypt and Nubian merchants and
Sabaeans bearing tribute shall come into your power and be your
slaves, shall come and march behind you in chains; they shall bow down before
you in supplication, saying, 'Surely God is among you and
there is no other, no other god. How then canst thou be a god that hidest
Thyself, O God of Israel, the Deliverer?'" (Isaiah 45:14,15
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I HAVE HOISTED THIS SIGNAL
"ON THE MOUNTAINS".
WE AWAIT YOUR ENVOYS.
"The Lord has sworn with raised
right hand and mighty arm: Never again will I give your grain to feed your
foes or let foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled; but
those who bring in the corn shall eat and praise the Lord, and those who gather
the grapes shall drink in My holy courts. Go out of the gates, go out, prepare a
road for My people; build a highway, build it up, clear away the boulders;
raise a signal to the peoples. This is the Lord's proclamation to earth's
farthest bounds: Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your deliverance has come.
His recompense comes with him; He carries His reward before Him; and they shall
be called a Holy People, the Ransomed of the Lord, a People long-sought,
a City not forsaken."
(Isaiah 62:8-12 NEB).
"And now this is what Jehovah
has said, your Creator, O Jacob, and your Former, O Israel: "Do not be
afraid, for I have repurchased you. I have called you by your name. You are
mine… For I am Jehovah your God, the Holy One of Israel your Saviour.
I have given
Egypt as a ransom for you,
Ethiopia and Se'ba in place of you…"
(From Isaiah 43:1-4).
"But you have approached a
Mount
Zion and a City of the Living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and myriads of
angels, in general assembly, and
the congregation of the first-born*
who have been enrolled in the heavens, and God the Judge of all, and the
spiritual lives of righteous ones who have been made perfect, and Jesus the
mediator of a new covenant…"
(From Heb 12:22-29).
20/7/84.
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