Gods’ Last Messengers’ Name Will Be David!

The original “David” of the Bible Proved to be the Only True “Messiah”. But if you’re like everyone else, including us, you wouldn’t have known what that word meant, until now. Enjoy . . .

It is of the first and greatest importance to prove who is the “Messiah of God”, because upon this one point being fully established, either the original Mosaic or modern Christian faith prevails or falls therewith.

“Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together
That rejoice in my (David’s) hurt;
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor
That magnify themselves against me.
Let them shout for joy, and be glad,
That favor my righteous cause;
Yea, let them say continually,
Let the Lord be magnified,
Which has pleasure
In the prosperity of his servant.” — DAVID, Psa. 35:26, 27.

“There shall come a Star out of Jacob,
And a Scepter shall rise out of Israel,
And shall smite the corners of Moab,
And destroy all the children of Sheth.
And Edom shall be a possession,
Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies;
And Israel shall do valiantly.” — NUM. 24:17, 18.

“Messiah” is the Hebrew for “Anointed,” who is David, the “Messiah of the God of Jacob,” (2 Sam. 23:1,) King of Israel. “Christos” is the Greek for “Anointed,” who is the Savior, it is said, of the Gentiles. We can clearly see, from the language in which originated these two different Messiahs, the first in and from the Hebrew mashiach, and the second from the Greek Christos, from whence they first had their rise; so whichever of the two was literally anointed, that, and that one only, can be the only True Messiah of God.

Because nothing done spiritually, that is only in idea, thought or imagination, can possibly ever constitute the true Messiah, or Anointed, for this plain and most simple reason, that it requires the literal act of pouring on the literal oil, as required by the Law of God*, and which oil was to be made according to the direction given in a Law of God, (see Ex. 30:23-33,) before any one can ever possibly lay any claim, as being the true Messiah, or “Anointed of the God of Jacob.”

* The trinitarian Christians’ own testimony is– “It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away, than one jot or tittle of the Law to fail.” Luke 16:17.

In all courts of Law and Justice, no Idea, Thought, Feeling, or Imagination, can possibly be regarded in the eye of the Law, as punishable, or rewardable, until wrought out or performed in act; — for instance, a man may have very angry Ideas, Thoughts, Feelings, or Imaginations, but until he carried out some of these sensations in deed, or carries them out in action, he cannot possibly be condemned, nor found guilty; and just so, no man can in justice be rewarded for any good Idea, Thought, Feeling, or Imagination, until he actually performs it.

By these remarks we can plainly see who was the True Messiah, or Anointed, the one that was literally in fact anointed, by the pouring upon his head of literal oil, by the Prophet Samuel, as is declared was done , in 1 Sam. 16:1-12 and 13, and declared by him to be the “Anointed (or Messiah) of the God of Jacob.” See 2 Sam. 23:1.

I will here quote these two most memorable declarations out of God’s word, as full and all-sufficient proof of David being the true Anointed, or Messiah, as follows:–

“And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from ruling over Israel? Fill thy horn with oil and go, and I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided me a King among his sons. And he brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance (i.e. fair of eyes, margin,) and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him, for this is he. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren; and the spirit of the Lord came upon David, from that day forward.”

Now this was a very different thing indeed from any mere abstract Idea, Thought, Feeling, or Imagination; a very different thing indeed from any person seeing “the Spirit of God descending as a Dove and lighting upon him,” (see Matt. 3:16,) which is all that trinitarian Christians can bring forward in proof of their Messiah being the Anointed. And how can any rational mind see the Spirit of God? Is a spirit visible? If not, how can any sane mind assert that it was in the form or likeness of a Dove? Admit, however, that it was so, in the only possible way that an invisible spirit can be like a visible Dove, then it can only be in Idea, Thought, Feeling, or Imagination; and how can these feelings, or sensations, constitute the literal act of anointing, or prove him the Messiah, in the only lawful way and manner, as is declared by God must be fulfilled, by the Law of God, in fact, both as to the act of making the particular composition, and the mode of consecration prescribed by Divine authority?

Remember; “Is it easier for heaven and earth to pass away than one jot or tittle of the Law to fail?” If so, the Law was fulfilled in the literal anointing of King David, which alone constituted him the Messiah, as David declared in 2 Sam. 23:1. “Now these be the words of David: David the son of Jesse, and the man who was raised up on high, the Anointed (the Messiah) of the God of Jacob, and the sweet Psalmist of Israel.”

Now I have not only proved that David was the Messiah, by the only act that can constitute any one the Anointed, but I shall now prove, that he will be Israel’s King and Messiah at the Resurrection from the dead, as is declared in the 37th chap. of Ezekiel, and from many other places; and if so, who has any right to lay claim to David’s Identity, as the Messiah, when we are assured by God’s word and Holy Spirit, that he was a “man after God’s own heart,” (1 Sam. 13:14,) and that “his heart was perfect with the Lord his God.” See 1 Kings 11:4. Most assuredly if this be true concerning David, he never transferred his Identity to any other person after him, as the Messiah of God, neither did he ever forfeit it.

In the 37th chap. of Ezek above alluded to, the prophet, after describing the literal Resurrection of the whole house of Israel in the first five verses, goes on in the 6th and says, “And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.” In the 21st verse he says, “Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one King shall be King to them all, and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two Kingdoms any more at all; and David my servant shall be King over them–(not the Nazarene, for particularly mark, there is to be but ONE “King over them all,) and they shall all have ONE shepherd; they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes and do them.”

In the 34th chap. of the same prophet, it is declared in the 22d., 23d and 24th verses, “Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle. And I will set up One Shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David, he shall feed them, and he shall be their Shepherd. And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the Lord have spoken it.” Is it possible for language to be more clear and definite in declaring that David is to be Israel’s King and Messiah in that day? This, however, is but a very small part of the Scripture testimony in favor of the coming in power of the Holy King, Priest, and Prophet, and Messiah of God, at the Resurrection from the dead.

In the 30th Chapter of Jeremiah, 7th, 8th and 9th verses, it expressly and most positively declares the time when God will raise up David unto them. “Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it, it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.”

“For it shall come to pass IN THAT DAY, saith the Lord of Hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, (compare this with Isaiah 9:4 and 6, for this is the time when ‘unto us a child is born,’) and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him. But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their King (not Jesus), whom I will raise up unto them.”

Hosea 3:4 and 5, confirms David, and not another being Israel’s King, for he says, “For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a King, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim (as is now the case), afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God, and David their King, (whom Jeremiah has just said “God would raise up to them,”) “and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days,” and not 2000 years ago.

Zech. 12:8, forever settles this most important question, and declares most clearly and plainly, that it is David: “In that day (when God ‘saves the tents of Judah first,’ see the verse before,) shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.” What then must David, their King, Prophet, Priest and Messiah, be?

Psalm 16:9,10, taken in connection with the 18th chap. and 89th chap. 19-38 verses, throws all the necessary light required upon this most important question. The Psalm 16. 9th and 10th verses, reads thus: “Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices, my flesh shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy ‘Holy One’ (see verses 19 and 20 of the 89. Psalm, who this ‘Holy One’ is, whether David or Jesus,) to see Corruption.” I challenge the world to test the truth of this last assertion, by visiting the Tomb of David, where I have been, and then they will know whether David’s Body has “seen corruption” or not. The Psalm, 18,* shows us not only the Who, but also the manner of the resurrection of David.

* And the whole of this Psalm we find in the 22d chap. of 2 Samuel, sung by David as his Last song, before his “last words,” in 23:1-8, in which he declares himself “the Anointed, i.e. Messiah of the God of Jacob.”

David begins this Psalm by addressing God thus, “I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength in whom I trust; my buckler and the horn of my salvation, and my high Tower.

“I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies. The sorrows of death compassed me and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell (Hades or the Grave) compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me.” Here we see David, after addressing God and calling upon him in the first three verses, then in the two last described his state in the Grave, compassed by the sorrows and snares of death, and them immediately in the next verse shows, that in this, his distress, he cried unto God, and he heard his voice out of his temple. He then shows immediately the manner in which he will come at his resurrection, and this he speaks of himself, in the first person, and not of any one else in the second person. Please mark this, “In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him even into his ears.” Now for the manner and circumstances that will attend David’s Resurrection and coming as follows: “Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because He (God) was wroth.” “There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.” “He bowed the heavens and came down, and darkness was under his feet.” Now any unprepossessed and unprejudiced person can see that David is here speaking of God, and not of Jesus. So with what follows: “He bowed the heavens and came down, and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub and did fly, yea he rode upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place: his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.”

“At the brightness that was before him, his thick clouds passed hailstones and coals of fire. The Lord (Ad-nai) also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hailstones and coals of fire.” Yea, “he sent out his arrows and scattered them, and he shot out lightnings and discomfited them.” “Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the earth were discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.” Now it will be admitted by all hands, that David has been speaking thus far of God in the second person, but now in the next verse he speaks of himself in the first person, and not of Jesus or of another in the second person.

16. “He sent from above, he took me, (not him,) he drew me out of many waters.

17. “He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me, for they were too strong for me.

18. “They prevented me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my stay.”

19. “He brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me because he delighted in me.

20. “The Lord rewarded me according to my Righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.”

21. “For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.”

22. “For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.”

23. “I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.”

24. “Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eye-eight.”

Now I wish you particularly to understand that David in the last nine verses is speaking of himself in the first person and not of Jesus, nor of any one else in the second person. So he was in the first six verses of this same psalm; but at the seventh he changes the pronoun from the first to the second person, that is, from himself to God, thus: “Then the earth shook and trembled, the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because He (God) was wroth.” When there is such a plain and manifest distinction of the pronouns, preserving to David such vast promises of power and blessing at the Resurrection, how very unjust and unfair it is in trinitarian Christians to try to rob David of his claims, by changing the first person to the second, and applying them to Jesus? For we are assured by God, through his prophet Jeremiah, 30th chapter, 9th verse, that Israel “shall serve the Lord their God and David their King, whom I will raise up unto them.”

I know well that there are thousands and tens of thousands so prejudiced and prepossessed, by education, in favor of Jesus being the true Messiah, that they will not hear, nor believe one word concerning David’s being the only true “Anointed, or Messiah, of the God of Jacob;” but when God stirs up himself, and awakes to Judgment, to Judge his cause, then they will know who is the “Living Child” according to God’s righteousness. Let such read the last five verses of the 35th Psalm, “Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me.”

“Let them not say in their hearts, (as the Church of Rome has done,) Ah, so we would have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up,” by counterfeiting another Messiah.

“Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together, that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.”

“Let them shout for joy and be glad that favor my righteous cause; yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.”

The above is a full declaration of the shame and confusion of the enemies to David’s Messiahship, and of the joy and gladness of the friends to him and his righteous cause.

We will now turn our attention to the 89th Psalm, 19 to 38th verse, where we will have a full proof not only of David’s Messiahship, but also who is the “Holy One” mentioned in Psa. 16:10.

“For thou wilt not leave MY soul in hell, (i.e. Hades, or the Grave;) neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption,” which last God has never suffered David to do, until this day, as facts prove.

Psa. 89:19: “Then thou spoke in vision to thy Holy One, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one Chosen (see 1 Sam. 16:6-14) out of the people.”

20. “I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: made him my Messiah (see 1 Sam. 16:12, 13.)

21. “With whom my hand shall be established; mine arm shall strengthen him.”

22. “The enemy shall not exact upon him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.” Did not the enemy exact upon and afflict Jesus? Surely trinitarian Christians say the enemy did. (But the Gospel of Barnabas and Jesus himself therein declares otherwise.) 

23. “And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.”

24. “But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted.”

25. “I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.”

26. “He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.”

27. “I will make him my First Born, higher than the Kings of the earth.”

28. “My Mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.”

29. “His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.”

30. “If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my Judgments;”

31. “If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;”

32. “Then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquities with stripes.”

33. “Nevertheless my loving-kindness I will not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.” Is this the language of the Gospel? Nay verily, but it is the very language of the Law to Israel.

34. “My Covenant will I not break, (for the Father’s sake, ) nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips:” see Jer. 33:20 and 21, and 31:35-38.

35. “Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie unto David.”

36. “His seed shall endure forever, and his Throne as the Sun before me.”

37. “It shall be established forever as the Moon, and as a faithful witness in Heaven. Selah.”

Now in this Psalm is a full and unconditional guarantee of the Messiahship from God to David, and that confirmed by the oath of God’s Holiness, unto David. See verse 36. That promise is not to be merely during the term of his natural life, and limited, and then broken off by death; it is true, it is suspended, or in abeyance while the “sorrows of Hades, or the grave, compass him, and the snares (or bands) of death prevent him.” (see Psa. 18:5;) but his “voice will God hear in the morning, O Lord, in the morning (of the Resurrection) will I (he) direct his prayer unto God, and will look up.” Psa. v. 3. Then will David’s “seed endure forever, and his Throne as the sun before God.”

There is but one possible way to evade and destroy these promises of a Faithful, unchangeable God to David; and that is by the unwarrantable and unjustifiable transfer of David’s person and name, that is, of his Identity, to Jesus of Nazareth, changing all the pronouns from the first to the second person–the  I to the He, the my to his, me to him, and mine to thine. Permit me to ask, what property, title, or claim under heaven, could we not obtain by such a transfer in any court of justice? Only transfer the pronouns in any instrument from the first to the second person, and there is no claim that could be substantiated for a moment: it would be a complete forfeiture. But this I can prove from the Word of God, David never did, neither did God ever do it; as the above Psalm (the 89th) proves, and nearly all the other Psalms, particularly the 18th, where the Church of Rome first took the same small liberty of transferring David’s Messiahship as King, Priest, and Prophet, to Jesus of Nazareth. This they have done, and Protestants too, by a single blow, by making a transfer of the first personal pronouns to the second person; thus effecting a complete change of David’s Identity to Jesus. Are trinitarian Christians aware of the dreadful dilemma they have brought themselves unavoidably into, of giving Jesus his own body and that of David’s body too, and leaving poor David without any body at all? For all Identity is dependent upon our distinct Body, or Personality, and no other person dare claim it, or else we must lose out individual responsibility or accountability.

There have been of late four or five persons, all claiming to be the Identical Prophet Elijah. Not long since a person by the name of Syphret gave out that he was that Prophet. Seeing an advertisement that he was to preach at the Commissioners’ Hall, I attended. After the meeting was over and the congregation was coming out of the door, the preacher came towards me, and reached out his hand. I refused giving him my hand. He asked me why I would not shake hands with him? I told him, “because he was a Humbug.” He wanted to know how I knew he was a Humbug. I replied by asking him, How he could be the Prophet Elijah and Syphret too?–how could he claim the Body of that Prophet and his own Body too? What! you lay claim to Elijah, and have in your possession your own Body and that of Elijah’s Body likewise. What is that Prophet to do for his Body when he comes, as it is declared he will come in Mal. 4:5? Do you not see that you are destroying the Identity of that Prophet, and blending it with your own? He was silent, and we parted. In this same awful condition is every trinitarian Christian who transfers and robs David of his own Identity, or Personality, and makes it over to Jesus; no matter whether he does it by claiming his Identical personality or Individuality, or by transferring the first personal pronoun to the second, or by assuming David’s name and applying it to Jesus, it carries its own condemnation in every act, upon the very face of it.

“And they shall serve the Lord their God and David their King, whom I will raise up unto them.” Here then there can be no mistake who the “Branch” is that is to be “raised unto,” or “raised up,” to David, because we have God’s own words for it. The next text I shall bring forward is Zech. 3:8, “Hear now, O Joshua, the high priest, thou and thy fellows, that sit before thee, for they are men wondered at, for behold I will bring forth my servant, The Branch.” This is doubtless King David, set forth, and manifest before Joshua the high Priest, which may be clearly discerned by the 4th verse of the same chapter, where, and when, it is said, “Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, (which is inseparable from the natural body, or ‘garment,’) and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.” Just the same truth is stated in the 6th chapter, 12th and 13th verses, of the same prophet Zechariah, “And speak unto him, (Joshua,) saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is the Branch, and he shall grow up (or ‘raise up’) out of his place, and he shall build the Temple of the Lord. Even he shall build the Temple of the Lord, and he shall bear the Glory, and he shall be Priest upon his Throne.” Now here is an expression whereby we are certain it is David, that is, the “Branch,” because we are assured in the 89th Psa. 35th and 36th verses, that God hath “once sworn by his holiness that he will not lie unto David,” that “his seed shall endure forever, and,” mark  “His Throne as the sun before him.” In the 18th verse of the 132d. Psalm God declares, “His enemies will I clothe with shame, but upon himself shall his crown flourish.” O how blind have trinitarian Christians been in permitting the sacrilege of the Church of Rome, in robbing David of his Crown by giving it to another.

But if there were not another text, then the two I shall now quote from Zech. 12:8, and Ezek. 37:22 and 24, would be all-sufficient to prove, first, that David shall be the Messiah. “In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them; and 2dly, that after the resurrection of the Dry “Bones of the whole house of Israel,” as is declared in verse 11, then in verse 22, it shows us who is to be King, and consequently whose is the Throne and upon whom the “Crown is to flourish;” and if so, it can never be transferred to another without sacrilege.

But now we will bring forward the 37th of Ezek. 22d. and 24th verses, which are settlers. Once while in Jerusalem, being in company with some Rabbis, a missionary came in and proposed an argument with me, as he said, “I believed with him in the literal interpretation of the prophecies, and as I understood the Scriptures so well.” I asked the Missionary “who was to be King, or Messiah, over Israel in the Redemption, or in the Resurrection?” “O,” he replied, “Jesus Christ, to be sure.” I asked him to “turn over in his Bible to Ezek. 37. 22d. and 24th verses.” He did so, and mind, says I, “if you believe in the literal interpretation only, you must not spiritualize the Word David, nor Israel.” He promised he would not. I then read to him these words, “And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and One King shall be King to them all, and they shall be no more two nations; neither shall they be divided into two Kingdoms (as is now the case) any more at all; And David my servant shall be King over them, and they shall have One Shepherd: and they shall walk in my judgments and observe my statutes, and do them.” And this is the truth and the end thus far of the matter.

Question. “Where is God?”

Answer. “In the Sun, the Moon, the sky;
        On the mountains wild and high,
        In the Thunder, in the rain,
        In the Grove, the Wood, the plain;
        In the little birds that sing;
        God is seen in every thing.”
        But more in our Messiah King.

Question. And what will be done when Messiah our Blessed King comes with his kingdom?

Answer. “He shall judge the People Righteously,”
       “The Heavens will rejoice,
        The Earth will be glad,
        The Fields will be joyful,
        And all that is therein.
        The Trees of the wood will rejoice
        Because he will judge them with righteousness,
        And all the people with his Truth.” Psa. 96:11-13.
        Because our Blessed Messiah reigns.

Question. And what will his people do, and what will his saints say?

Answer. “They shall speak of the might of thy tremendous acts;
        And thy greatness shall they declare.
        The memorial of thy abundant goodness
        Shall they perpetually utter,
        And shall sing of thy righteousness,
        That the Lord is gracious and full of compassion,
        Long suffering and of great mercy,
        That the Lord is good to all;
        And that his mercy is over all his works.
        All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord!
        And thy pious servants shall bless thee;
        They shall speak of the Glory of his Kingdom
        And talk of thy power
        To make known his mighty acts
        To the son of men,
        And the Glorious majesty of thy Kingdom.
        Thy Kingdom is an Everlasting Kingdom,
        And thy dominion subsists throughout all generations.” Psa. 145.

Why Abandon Trinitarian Christianity?

Reasons Part #1

The following verse impressed my mind the first thing after entering the walls of Jerusalem.

WATCHMAN UPON MOUNT ZION DESCRIES . . .

The “Light (or Lamp) that God would give, that David my servant might have always (or perpetually) put before him in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.” 1 Kings 11:36, and 15:4.

What can be this Light or Lamp, that was always, or perpetually, to burn before God in Jerusalem? Most Christian travellers and close observers have visited it, since and before the Temple was destroyed, and the precious Sons of Zion have been trampled in the dust, and have not discovered this LAMP, or CANDLE. Those who have been noted for their investigation and penetration–the ingenious and the curious–the wise and the simple, have also visited Jerusalem and Mount Zion, for more than a thousand years* Before Jesus. It cannot therefore be the Gospel, for there has been a period of many hundred years since the above prediction was given (from B.C. 984 to A.D. 1,) when its Light was not known in “the City of the Great King.” What then can this LIGHT or LAMP of the Lord be?

* The prediction is dated in our Bibles 984 B.C.

I will tell the friendly reader. It is God’s Righteous Law, which trinitarian Christians tell us is entirely abrogated, fulfilled and done away with–but it is not nor ever will be; David says in his 119th Psalm and 105th verse, “Thy word is a Lamp (or Candle) unto my feet, and a Light unto my path.” Solomon says in his 6th chapter of Proverbs, 23rd verse, “For the commandment is a Lamp and the Law is Light,” and God has had his chosen depositories of his Holy Law, (his Israel,) holding up this CANDLE, or LAMP, in Jerusalem, ever since he has spoken the above prediction, and ever will. When thou art told this Holy Law is abrogated, believe it not; for it is a grand deception and LIE of the enemy of man’s Salvation. Jesus declared himself most zealous for the Law, and professed to keep that most Holy Law in all things: he says, “Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill, for verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven; but whosoever shall so and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matt. 5:17, 18, 19: and again, “The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat; all therefore they bid you observe, that observe and do.” Matt. 23:2, 3. How could Jesus have destroyed the law of God and at the same time be God; for how could Jesus be the soul of God, or the divine nature in man’s form (as trinitarian Christians say he was), and destroy the law? The Law is the Life and Love of God conveyed to man as near as it can be in words, which are signs and sounds of certain ideas that make up or compose that divine character,* or compact of God’s attributes that constitute God himself–how then could Jesus be the express Image or representation of God’s mind, and destroy the law?

* The Law is the most perfect union and exhibition of the Divine Attributes that can possibly be given.

Impossible–the true thesis of God is, “without Body, Parts or Passions.” “No man has seen God at any time,” but those who know and obey the divine law, these know God, because they observe his Holy Law. Therefore we see, when Moses had a revelation, or an Oracle of his divine character, he caused his Glory to pass before him. Gave him the Two tables of the Law , and proclaimed the name of the Lord, “The Lord, The Lord God, Merciful and Gracious, Long-suffering, abundant in Goodness and Truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and fourth generation.” Exod. 34:6 and 7. God then makes a covenant with him on Israel’s behalf, forbids Idolatry, and any alliance with the inhabitants of the land; commands the observance of the Passover–the Redemption of the First Born–the observance of the Sabbath and the three Feasts, viz., the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of First Fruits, and Feast of Tabernacles; in which all the males were to appear before the Lord three times in a year. This revelation is an expression of the Divine will and mind, and of his attributes, or of those principles we attribute to him–a supernatural power that we call God; these are the law of his existence, and the sole constitution of his Divine Being.

Reasons No. 2

On the Divine Law

Showing that the very Being and Existence of God himself is dependent upon the Law, and that the Law cannot be abrogated, nor destroyed, no more than God himself can be abrogated or destroyed.

If God be Incorporeal, he can only have a Moral Existence, and that is the constitution of his Divine Law.

There are certain Principles that we attribute to the Divine Being, and that therefore are called Attributes. These are Power, Wisdom, Righteousness, Justice, Mercy, Goodness and Truth. The very existence of his Unity and Being as God, cannot be sustained without them not even for a moment; because his Being is incorporeal, “without BODY and PARTS,” and is therefore a Moral Being, or Divine Existence, composed alone of the above Attributes. The Law of God given to Moses upon Mount Sinai and Horeb, is the most complete and simple exposition and declaration, in One Indivisible Unity, of all the above Attributes or Principles, that it is possible to be conveyed to man in words. And its Height and Depth, Length and Breadth, no mortal ever has, or ever will, fathom or exhaust.

These Divine Attributes are clearly manifest in the whole visible Creation of God, and this is Revelation; but more particularly in the Ten Commandments; which is the best and most perfect law that ever has or can be given to show man his duty to his God, his neighbor, and himself.

The Divine Law is very different from those properties or qualifications that we may attain, and are to be obtained, by mere qualification. These may properly be called attachments, or attainments, and may exist, and do exist, without destroying the existence of the Being himself. Not so much with the Principles, or Attributes, of Power, Wisdom, Righteousness, Justice, Goodness, Mercy, and Truth, for upon these the very existence of God, as a Moral Being, depends; and whenever we hear of the most Holy Law of God being “abrogated,” “destroyed,” and “finished,” as trinitarian Christians say it is, be assured that this is just as impossible as for God himself to be “abrogated,” “destroyed,” and “finished.”

And if trinitarian Christians had never gone any farther than to assert the existence of that Divine Being, whose constitution of Existence consisted alone of the Divine Attributes, or powers, or virtues that we attribute to him, and which are so clearly and visibly manifested in the whole visible creation, would there be an infidel in the whole world? Surely not. And why, because these cannot be denied.

And this is a Revelation Thomas Paine could not deny, because “The Heavens declare (or Reveals) the Glory of God; and the firmament shows his handy work.” Ps. 19:1.

Trinitarian Christians speak of Loving the Lord our God “with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our might, and our neighbor as ourselves,” (Matt. 22:37 and 39,) for “on these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets,”–but surely this does not mean to the total exclusion of all the rest of the commandments, and that the other eight Commandments have no claim upon our obedience. But it was so declared only to let us know, that upon these two great commandments, first, Love to God, and second, Love to Man, are the two great Principles that all the other commandments are to hand and work upon, but by no means to the exclusion and non-performance of all the rest of the commandments. Permit me to ask where were these two commandments of “Loving the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our might, and our Neighbor as ourselves,” first taken from? Answer; from God’s most Holy Law. See Deut. 6:5-10, 12 and Lev. 19:18. Why not give Moses the credit of them?

And were trinitarians ever so foolish as to believe, or are they so ignorant and foolish in this day as to believe, or to suppose that there exists a single rational Mosaic, who thinks, that any commandment or requisition of God’s most Holy Law can possibly be acceptable to God without Love to God and Love to man, as the great principle of action? Most surely not. Why then the need of the vain attempt to set up a New Testament, or a New Law, with the whole MARROW and PRINCIPLE has been set up for thousands of years before, in that most Holy Divine Law that can NEVER be ABROGATED and FINISHED, any more than God can be abrogated and finished, because it is the constitution and declaration (as I said before) of his moral existence, which is self-evident, if God has no physical or corporeal existence?

And all God’s Glory, Honor and Strength are dependent upon his Attributes of Power, Wisdom, Righteousness, Justice, Goodness, Mercy, and Truth; and these all center and are embraced in the Unity of God’s most Holy Divine Law.

Reasons No. 3

SHOWING SURE AND INFALLIBLE GROUND . . .

Upon which ground every Mosaic stands and is sure (if the Word of God be true) of Salvation, without the necessity of any after Dispensation besides the Law and the Prophets.

1st. ” There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun,” name given to Israel, Isa. xliv.

2.“Happy art thou, Israel: who is like unto thee,”“People, saved by the Lord”

“The Shield of thy Help, and who is the Sword of thy Excellency!”

“Thine Enemies shall be found liars unto thee ;” Deut.xxxiii. 29.

“And shall say, Destroy them:” Ibid. 27th verse, and Jer. xvi. 19.

“But Israel shall be saved va the Lord with an Everlasting Salvation, ye shall not be Ashamed nor Confounded, world without end.” Isai. xlv. 17.

” Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any Divination, (not even the alleged Divinity of Jesus,) nor enchantment of Rome, whether Pagan or Christian, that can prevail “against Israel :’ 5 see Num. xxiii. 23.

“For If the First Fruit be Holy, the Lump also is Holy and if the ROOT be HOLY, so are the branches:” which ROOT and BRANCHES are the children of Israel. Compare Rom. xi. 16, with Exod. xix. 6, Num. xv. 40, and Deut. vii. 6, and Jer. ii. 3.

How is it possible for God to give a New Testament, who has declared, that both his Word and Law are Unchangeable? and that the Law of the Lord is Perfect, converting the Soul?” see Psa. xix. 7. What more can be given to man?

If “All Israel shall be saved” (see Rom. xi. 26,) and “the Gifts and callings of God are without repentance” (see verse 29th,) and that “God hath concluded all in Unbelief, that he might have Mercy upon all” (verse 32d,) what possible Hope then can any of the Spiritual Israel (as trinitarian Christians call themselves) have, in trying to convert the literal Israel? When at the same time Christians’ own testimony of themselves is, ” That they are all such miserable sinners” and that “there is no soundness in them, from the sole of their foot to the crown of their head,” and particularly if the “Advantage that the Jew hath and the profit that there is of Circumcision, is Much every way” Rom. iii. 1, 2.

God says through David, “ALL the Gods of the NATIONS (Goyim) are IDOLS,” see Psa. xcvi. 5, and ” They that MAKE THEM are LIKE THEM.” Psa. cxxxv. 18. How awful!!!

But ” Who can count the dust of Jacob, and number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his !” Num. xxiii. 10.

Reasons No. 4

The Scepter of Judah

“The Scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come.” Gen. 49:10. Mosaics and Christians both admit that Shiloh means the Messiah, and that the Scepter is that Royal staff and sign which Kings hold in their hands, as a mark of their Kingly Power and Authority. When, then, did the Scepter depart from Judah? Above 607 B.C. In proof of this see Dan. 1:1 and 2; 2 Kings, 24:1, 13, and 2 Chronicles 36 6 and 7; and now see Christians’ own “Union Bible Dictionary,” p. 138, under the head of “Captivity.” They there say, that the fourth (and last) “Captivity of Judah took place A. M. 3416,” THEN THE SCEPTER DEPARTED.”

Jesus, their Messiah, was not born until about A. M. 4004, so that, according to their own account, and the Testimony of God’s Word, both declare that there were above 607 years that the Scepter departed from Judah BEFORE their Shiloh, or Messiah, came;–so that Jesus could not be the true Messiah. Christians, what will you do in the end thereof?

I will put it in another form.

If the “Scepter were not to depart from Judah until Shiloh (Christians say Jesus) come,” how was it that the Christians’ Shiloh was not born until A. M. 4004, and the Scepter departed from Judah 607 years before that? See Dan. i. 1, 2; 2 Kings 24:1 and 13, and 2 Chronicles 34:6, 7. “Is Wisdom no more in Teman?”* i.e. Edom, (Jer. 49:7,) or has the Word of God proved false and untrue? Nay Verily. Because David was the Anointed† or Messiah of God, (see 2 Sam. 23:1,) and will be the Messiah in the Redemption, as is declared in Jer. 30:9; Ezek. 34:23 and 24, and 38:22-24, and Hosea 3:5, and Psa. 89:19 to 30. And David was born above 400 years before the Scepter departed from Judah.

* Teman was a Grandson of Esau, or Edom, Gen. 34:11. Some persons think that the word Scepter does not mean a Mark of Royalty, but translate the meaning of Scheve, to be Rod, or Affliction, which will not pass away until the Messiah’s coming. And has it passed away yet from Israel?

† Mark, Messiah in Hebrew, and Christos in the Greek, is the same as Anointed in English.

Reasons No. 5

On the New Covenant

One of the most fruitful sources of Error amongst Christians is the belief that we are now living under the “New Covenant” promised to the “house of Israel and to the house of Judah.” Jer. 31:31.

The following remarks may convince any unprejudiced and reasonable mind, that the New Testament Dispensation is not the New Covenant,* and that it cannot as yet have commenced, because of the five following Reasons–

* And so says Bishop Horsley in his Sermons, see. vol. i. pp. 101-104.

1st. It was to be made with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah (and not with Christians) after God no longer “watches over TO PLUCK UP and BREAK DOWN,” but after he “will watch over them TO BUILD and TO PLANT, says the Lord.” Jer. 31:28.

2d. “AFTER THOSE DAYS,” when they shall no more say “The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge,” evidently alluding to our father Adam having eaten the sour Grape of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and his children having necessarily partaken of his consequent depravity, because of transgression. Ibid. 29.

3d. It is to be “after those days” that I have just mentioned, that it is to be made, mark, “with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,” (verse 31,) when he “will put his Law (not abrogate it, as Christians say is now the case) in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts.” (verse 33.) Here is again a very plain and distinctive mark, whereby we can distinguish the “New Covenant” from the New Testament (so called), which Christians say is a Dispensation of “Imputative Righteousness by faith,” and not one of Inherent Righteousness by that fullness of God’s dwelling in Israel* by his immediate presence, as is here promised, as we can plainly see under the New Covenant Dispensation. Another distinctive mark is, that this New Testament Dispensation, Paul says, cannot possibly have taken place, without the “Death of a Testator,” see Heb. 9:16 and 18. But the “New Covenant” requires not death nor blood, at the time of its introduction, and

* Thus we plainly see that Israel will be saved, but not by this Dispensation, but at and by the coming of the Messiah, and by the “New Covenant,” when God “takes away their sins and remembers their sins no more,” verse 34. So it will be doubtless said to Jerusalem, or Israel, as it was said to her “Elder and Younger” Sisters, Sodom and Samaria, that she shall be saved, “but not by the Covenant.” See Ezekiel xvi. 61 and 62.

4th. At the time of its introduction into this world “They shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, (as is now continually done by preaching under the present dispensation,) saying, “Know the Lord; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the Lord:” see verse 34.

And if this New Covenant has now taken place, why do Ministers have need still to say unto their fellow men, “Know the Lord?” and

5th. At that time God has declared, “I will forgive their (that is Israel’s and Judah’s) iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more;” which we can now see is not yet the case, for he still continues the punishment and chastisement for their sins; and we can perceive,

6th. That in that day, “Thus says the Lord, No Stranger u n c i r c u m c i s e d in heart, nor u n c i r c u m c i s e d in flesh, shall enter my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.” See Ezek. xliv. 9, and by reading the chapter from its commencement we can clearly discern that its fulfillment cannot possibly have taken place yet, as is proved by reading the parallel passage in Isa. 52:1, concerning the u n  c i r c u m c i s e d, thus: “Awake, Awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the Holy City; for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the u n c i r c u m c i s e d and unclean,” doubtless meaning both internally and externally, both spiritually and bodily; and

7th. All these excellent and exceeding precious promises to the house of Israel and Judah cannot possibly take place until God shall have first established them again in their own land, as we are informed in the 31st chapter of Jer. 15, 16, and 17th verses, “Thus says the Lord, A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. Thus says the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, says the Lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy, and there is hope in thine END, says the Lord; that thy children shall come again to their own border.” Ezekiel says–“I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you from all countries, and bring you into your own land; THEN (and not until THEN) will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness,” Why then do the foolish missionaries try to convert them, BEFORE they are “GATHERED from all countries,” and brought to their own land?

Reasons No. 6

Three Startling Facts, in Jerusalem

God’s Address to “Ariel,”, (which is Jerusalem,) “the City where David dwelt.”

“And thou shalt be brought down, and thou shalt speak out of the ground, (the Grave,) and thy Speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy Voice shall be as one that has a familiar spirit, out of the Ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the Dust.” Isaiah 29:1 and 4. Mark well, then, what I say. As soon as there is a sufficient force sent, fully authorized and properly qualified and duly protected, then we will find the three following facts–

1stly. David’s Body, that now lays in the Tomb of David, is in a perfect state of Incorruptibility, contrary to the positive declaration is Acts. 13:36, that his Body “saw Corruption,” and confirming Psa. 16:10, that God “will not suffer his ‘HOLY ONE’ (which is David, see Ps. 89. 19, 10) to see Corruption,” and what right have we to transfer David’s Identity and promise of “never seeing corruption” over to Jesus, or to any other person?*

* See Josephus’s Antiquities of the Jews, Book 16, Page 257, Chap. 12, where two of Herod’s guards were killed in attempting to rob his grave.

2ndly. The whole lower story* of the Temple, 187½ feet long, and from 9 to 25 feet high, not only under the Mosque El-Aksa, but also the lower story under the Mosque of Omar, continues to this day entire , contrary to the Testimony of Matthew 24:2, that “There shall not be left here One stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.”

* See Catherwood’s Testimony and that of Mr. Tipping in the “Occident” for Feb. 1849, page 500, on the “Temple of Jerusalem.”

3rdly. “That the Church of the ‘Holy Sepulcher’ (so called) cannot be the Place* where the Nazarene (Jesus) was crucified, as it is a long way WITHIN the NORTH WALL of the City, and we well know that the ancient wall of Jerusalem extended much farther north than the present wall, and the New Testament (so called) says, that he “suffered without the Gate,” see Heb. 13:12. Examine impartially the above Three Facts, and the Veil of Christianity will be forever rent from off its followers’ eyes.

* And so does the whole of the “West Wall of Wailing” still remain.

“The Mission* of Inquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland, page 139, says, this “visit (to the Holy Sepulcher) awakened in our mind only feelings painful and revolting;” and then observes, that “no serious mind can regard it but as ‘Lying Wonders.'” And so ere long it will be seen, that the whole of Christianity is “Lying† Wonders” and “Pious Frauds.”

* And see Dr. Robinson’s Researches, Vol. ii. p. 64, and Dr. Durbin, Vol. i. pp. 305, 306.

† See Isaiah 47:9 and 12.

Reasons No. 7

Plain and Positive Contradictions

Wherein the New Testament (so called) is contrary to the Law of God; although is professes to be built upon it, as a foundation “Founded upon the Law and the Prophets,” and yet Christians say the Law is “Abrogated,” Fulfilled,” and “Finished.”
 

Can you tell which column is full of ERRORS and which one is full of TRUTHS?!

* A Co-Equal is a Rival, this is Idolatry–let those who truly fear God and desire Eternal Life in God’s Everlasting Kingdom read Is. xliii., xliv., and the xlv. chapters, where it is declared fourteen times, that there is One and Only One Eternal Being.

Without reason we could not possibly understand anything more of the Bible than a Horse or an Ox. We would be like a Beast–because by our Reason we alone can attain Understanding. “Man that is in honor and Understands not, is like the Beasts that perish.” Ps. xlix. 20.