God rules through His sons
Job 1:6
CLV 6 There was a
day when the sons of Elohim would come to station themselves before
Yahweh, and Satan came also in their midst.
Job
1:6
LITV 6 And a day came
when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah. And
Satan also came among them.
Job
2:1
YLT 1 And the day
is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and
there doth come also the Adversary in their midst to station
himself by Jehovah.
Job 38:4-7 (The morning stars rejoiced together)
ECB 4 Where were you
when I founded the earth? Tell, if you know
discernment, 5 who set the
measurements, if you know? Who stretched the line
thereon? 6 Whereon are the
foundations sunk? Who poured the corner stone 7 when the
morning stars shouted together and all the sons of Elohim
shouted?
Jesus calls himself the
bright and morning star. The devil was formerly called a bright
morning star.
Isaiah
14:12
LITV 12 Oh shining
star, son of the morning, how you have fallen from the heavens! You
weakening the nations, you are cut down to the ground.
Revelation 22:16
ALT 16 "I,
Jesus, sent My angel to testify to you(p) [or, tell you(p)
about] these [things] concerning the
assemblies. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the
Bright, Morning Star!"
Ecclesia is a Greek
word for a governmental assembly of citizens. Church members are
also called citizens of heaven and sons of
God.
Revelation
22:16
ECB
16
EPILOGUE THE FINAL AFFIRMATION OF AUTHOR AND
AUTHORSHIP
I Yah Shua sent my angel to you to witness these
in the ecclesiae. I AM the root and the genos of David, the radiant
and dawning star.
Revelation 1:20
YLT 20 the
secret of the seven stars that thou hast seen upon my right hand,
and the seven golden lamp-stands: the seven stars are messengers of
the seven assemblies, and the seven lamp-stands that thou hast seen
are seven assemblies.
The 7 stars are over the light
bearing assemblies in the Roman realm of Asia. The Roman kingdom
was still temporarily occupied by a former bright and morning star.
The true prince and power of the air challenges these 7 assemblies
to be true to their calling. They are civil bodies of elected
people and are called out by Yeshua to worship the true Elohim,
even while in the kingdom of a disloyal elohim. The devil had even
tried to expropriate Jesus Himself.
The devil was a fallen elohim
who was given the fourth kingdom of Daniel to rule over in the
spirit realm, which was the kingdom of Rome. Just as the kingdom
was taken from Judah and handed over to Babylon, and then to the
Medes and Persians, then to Greece and then to Rome, it was lastly
taken from the prince and power of Rome and handed over to Yeshua.
If you don't believe this then Rome still has the spiritual
authority to rule the kingdom today, in the name of the adversary.
We as Christians are called sons of the King today. The Prince
betrothed the 12 tribes at Pentecost into a new covenant and
married His bride in AD 70. He now rules the kingdom as King and
power of the air. The former prince and power of the air was a
fallen son from heaven who ruled over the fallen sons of Adam.
Adam's covenant descendents were dispersed into the population at
large from the exile of the Garden of Eden, then from tower of
Babel diaspora and then the Jewish diaspora. First century
unbelievers were called sons of the devil.
The Devil ruled
the kingdom when Christ came
Luke
4:6
LITV 6 And the Devil
said to Him, I will give all this authority and their glory to You,
because it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I
wish.
1 John 5:19
CLV 19 We are
aware that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the
wicked one."
Christ
came to release the descendents of Abraham first.
He is accused of doing good
on the Sabbath. "The accuser of the bretheren" is a title given to
the devil.
Luke
13:16
CLV 16 Now this
woman-being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan binds, lo! eighteen
years-must she not be loosed from this bond on the sabbath
day?
John 8:38
YLT 38 I—that which I
have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye
have seen with your father—ye do.'
What is worse than
being the accuser of the bretheren? Answer: Accusing the woman only
of adultry. Doesn't it take two to commit adultery? The reason they
brought the woman was to find reason to accuse the only begotten
Son of God.
John 8
YLT 1 And at dawn he
came again to the temple, 2 and all the
people were coming unto him, and having sat down, he was teaching
them; 3 and the scribes
and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman having been taken in
adultery, and having set her in the midst, 4 they say to him,
`Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime—committing
adultery, 5 and in the law,
Moses did command us that such be stoned; thou, therefore, what
dost thou say?' 6 and this
they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse
him.
1 John 3:8
CLV 8 Yet he who
is doing sin is of the Adversary, for from the beginning is the
Adversary sinning. For this was the Son of God manifested, that He
should be annulling the acts of the Adversary."
John 8:44
LITV 44 You are of
the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you desire to do.
That one was a murderer from the beginning, and he has not stood in
the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie,
he speaks from his own, because he is a liar, and the father of
it.
The word translated murder in
John 8:44 is human-killer or anthropos-killer. The first human
killed by the devil was the first human son of God. God's truth to
Adam was, "The day you eat you will die". The devil's lie from the
beginning was, "You will surely not die". The desire of the
unbelieving Jews in the first century was to kill the only begotten
son just as their father killed the first human son. They did it
with lies.
John 8:30-32 (To Jews who believe)
LITV 30 As He spoke
these things, many believed into Him. 31 Then Jesus
said to the Jews who had believed in Him, If you continue in My
Word, you are truly My disciples. 32 And you
will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
Sons who
refused to believe in Yeshua the Christ, stayed dead
Ephesians 2:1-3
SALVATION BY CHARISM THROUGH THE
TRUST
ECB 1 And you -
being dead in backslidings and sins 2 wherein you
formerly walked according to the eon of this cosmos, according to
the arch of the authority of the air, the spirit that now energizes
in the sons of distrust: 3 among whom
also we all had our behavior ever in the pantings of our flesh,
doing the will of the flesh and of the mind; and by nature being
the children of wrath even as the rest:
Sons who believe in Yeshua become alive to do good
Ephesians 2:10
ECB 10 For we
are his doing, created in Messiah Yah Shua to good works, which
Elohim previously prepared that we walk in them.
A fallen bright and morning
star meets the ever true bright and morning star: When
tested, Jesus was more than just limited to having only truth and
righteousness on His side. Jesus was hungry, thirsty and in the
devils home court; out among the animals. Either this is the same
adversary we read about who tests God's then-best-human-son
Job, or it is a
different devil. God set
it up for His only begotten Son to be born into Satan's kingdom of
the Roman empire, just as He had set it up for Job to be tested by
Satan.
Matthew 4:1-11
LITV 1 Then Jesus
was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the
Devil. 2 And having
fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards He
hungered. 3 And coming
near to Him, the Tempter said, If You are the Son of God, speak
that these stones may become loaves.4 But
answering, He said, It has been written: "Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word going out of the mouth of God."
Deut. 8:3 5 Then the
Devil takes Him to the holy city, and he set Him on the wing of the
temple. 6 And he said
to Him, If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it has
been written: "He shall give His angels charge concerning You, and
they shall bear You on their hands, lest You strike Your foot
against a stone." LXX-Psa. 90:11, 12; MT-Psa. 91:11,
12 7 Jesus said
to him, Again it has been written: "You shall not tempt the Lord
your God." Deut. 6:16 8 Again the
Devil takes Him to a very high mountain, and he showed to Him all
the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said
to Him. I will give all these things to You if falling down, You
will worship me. 10 Then Jesus
said to him, Go, Satan! For it has been written: "You shall worship
the Lord your God, and you shall serve Him only." Deut.
6:13 11 Then the
Devil left Him. And behold! Angels came near and ministered to
Him.
As a fallen son, Satan had accused Job and other bretheren. He
is thrown down and the true Son is given the authority over the
kingdom
Revelation 12:7-10
LITV 7 And war
occurred in Heaven, Michael and his angels making war against the
dragon. And the dragon and his angels made war, 8 but they
did not have strength, nor yet was place found for them in
Heaven. 9 And the
great dragon was cast out, the old serpent being called Devil, and,
Satan; he deceiving the whole habitable world was cast out onto the
earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10 And I
heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation
and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His
Christ, because the accuser of our brothers is thrown down, the one
accusing them before our God day and night.
Ezekiel 28:13-17
CLV 13 In Eden,
the garden of Elohim, you have been, Every precious stone your
covering, Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper,
Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, The workmanship of your
tabrets, and of your pipes, In you in the day of your being
produced, have been prepared." 14 You
[are] an anointed cherub who is covering, And I have set you in the
holy mount, Elohim you have been, In the midst of stones of fire
you have walked up and down." 15 Perfect
[are] you in your ways, From the day of your being produced, Till
perversity has been found in you." 16 By the
abundance of your merchandise They have filled your midst with
violence, And you do sin, And I thrust you from the mount of
Elohim, And I destroy you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the
stones of fire." 17 High has
been your heart, because of your beauty, You have corrupted your
wisdom because of your brightness, On the earth I have cast you,
Before kings I have set you, to look on you,
2 Peter 2:4
LITV 4 For if God
did not spare sinning angels, but delivered them to chains of
darkness, thrust down into Tartarus, having been kept to
judgment;
Isaiah 14:13
LITV 13 For you
have said In your heart, I will go up to the heavens; I will raise
my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit in the mount of
meeting, in the sides of the north.
New stars (rulers) were being
put into place
Isaiah 34:4
LITV 4 And all the
host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be
rolled together like a scroll. Then all their host shall droop, as
a leaf drooping from the vine, and as the drooping from a fig
tree.
Revelation 6:13
ECB 13 and the
stars of the heavens fall to the earth, even as a fig tree casts
her unripened when quaked by a mega wind:
Job
38:33
CLV 33 Do you know
the statutes of the heavens? Or can you establish its
superintendence over the earth?
Isaiah 13:10
CLV 10 For the
stars of the heavens are not appearing, and their constellations
are not irradiating their light. Dark is the sun in its faring
forth, and the moon is not brightening with its
light."
Church
fathers such as Justin Martyr, Eusebius, Clement of Alexandria, and
Origen believed that the sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4 were the
fallen angels who left their boundries. They had sex with
human women from God's people group, resulting in the
offspring of the Nephilim and a land of extreme violence.
Evidently angels can take on a fully functional human body that is
still superhuman. According to Jewish writings some of their
hybrids became flesh eating blood sucking giants. This fall of
God's people brought the flood judgement on them. The fallen elohim
became even more invasive during Noah's
day than
in the original fall of God's covenant people with Adam and Eve.
This time they didn't just take on flesh in order to talk to the
daughters of Eve. They took on flesh and joined
them in marriage. The resultant hybrids were from the seeds of the
fallen gods.
Jude 1 (flesh of another kind)
6 And those
angels not having kept their first place, but having deserted their
dwelling-place, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness
for the judgment of a great Day; 7 as Sodom
and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these,
committing fornication, and going away after other flesh, laid down
an example before-times, undergoing vengeance of everlasting
fire.
Jude 15 (Jude allegedly quotes from Enoch)
15 "to do
judgment against all, and to rebuke all" the ungodly of them
concerning all their ungodly works which :they ungodly" did, "and
concerning all the hard things ungodly sinners spoke against Him."
I Enoch 1:9; 5:4; 60:8
Enoch is one
outlandish book
It may not be scripture
but it does represent Jewish thought
The Book of Enoch
Translated from Ethiopic by Richard Laurence,
London, 1883.
Enoch 7:1 It happened after the
sons of men had multiplied in those days, that daughters were born
to them, elegant and beautiful. 7:2 And when the angels, (3) the sons of heaven,
beheld them, they became enamoured of them, saying to each other,
Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men,
and let us beget children.
7:11 And the women conceiving
brought forth giants, 7:12 Whose stature was each three hundred
cubits. These devoured all which the labor of men produced; until it became impossible to feed
them; 7:13 When they
turned themselves against men, in order to devour
them; 7:14 And began to
injure birds, beasts, reptiles, and fishes, to eat their flesh one
after another, (8) and to drink their blood.
10:18 Destroy all the souls
addicted to dalliance, (15) and the offspring of
the Watchers, for they have tyrannized over mankind.
15:8 Now the giants, who have
been born of spirit and of flesh, shall be called upon earth evil
spirits, and on earth shall be their habitation. Evil spirits shall
proceed from their flesh, because they were created from above;
from the holy Watchers was their beginning and primary foundation.
Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of the
wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits of
heaven shall be in heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation
of terrestrial spirits, who are born on earth. (24) 15:9 The spirits of the
giants shall be
like clouds, (25) which shall oppress, corrupt, fall,
content, and bruise upon earth. 15:10 They shall cause lamentation. No food
shall they eat; and they shall be thirsty; they shall be concealed,
and shall not (26) rise up against the sons of men, and
against women; for they come forth during the days of slaughter and
destruction.
(3) An Aramaic text reads
"Watchers" here (J.T. Milik, Aramaic Fragments of
Qumran Cave 4 [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976], p.
167
(8) Their flesh one after
another. Or, "one
another’s flesh." R.H. Charles notes that this phrase may refer to
the destruction of one class of giants by another (Charles, p.
65).
(15) Dalliance. Or, "lust" (Knibb, p. 90; cp. Charles, p.
76).
(24) Note the many implications
of vss. 3-8 regarding the progeny of evil spirits.
(25) The Greek word for
"clouds" here, nephelas,
may disguise a more ancient reading, Napheleim
(Nephilim).
(26) Shall not. Nearly all manuscripts contain this
negative, but Charles, Knibb, and others believe the "not" should
be deleted so the phrase reads "shall rise up."
Some
Conjecturing...
The elohim who were watching
the people on earth saw that Adam's progeny had developed a more
elegant and beautiful image in their women. "Sons of men", in verse
one, was what Jesus liked to call Himself when He was born into the
covenant of Adam: "son of man" is more precisely translated - "son
of human", meaning - "son of Adam". All people don't have the image
of God as much as others. True sons in covenant with God today have
the holy spirit of Yeshua sent to develop the true image of God in
them. The fallen sons (elohim) did not maintain or develop the
image of their creator and actually became envious that Adam's
image was becoming more special; like when the brothers of Joseph
became envious.
Ham was still being influenced
by the land that had just been destroyed by the flood. After they
left the ark he placed his seed into the new 'mother of all the
living'. To uncover your father's nakedness means exactly that;
biblically it means to have sex with your father's wife. Biblically
speaking, the nakedness of the wife is the nakedness of the
father. Do you think
Noah got drunk alone? Ham found them already uncovered
literally. Noah awoke from his drunkenness and cursed the one day
in gestation baby; to be the slave of Japheth. He named him Canaan
which means to be humbled or subdued. The nation that developed
from the son of that audacious episode, was up for destruction as
the 12 tribes entered the promised land. The Caananites put on a
ruse and became their slaves instead.
Leviticus 18:8
LITV 8 You shall
not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is the
nakedness of your father.
Leviticus 20:11
LITV 11 And a
man who lies with his father's wife, who has uncovered the
nakedness of his father, both of them shall surely be put to death;
their blood shall be on them.
1 Corinthians 5:1
ALT 1 Sexual
sin is actually heard of [or, reported] among you(p), and
such sexual sin which is not even named [or, known] among
the Gentiles, that someone is having the wife of his
father!
Corporately the church is the
bride of Yeshua. Only his image is to be developed in His bride. So
when the seditious elohim took on flesh to develop their ungodly
images in the people of Yahwey, it was a great
transgression.
Genesis 19:1,5
(good angels can also take on flesh)
LITV 1 And the two
angels came into Sodom at evening. And Lot was sitting at the gate
of Sodom. And Lot saw, and he rose up to meet them and bowed his
face to the earth. 5 And they
called to Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to you
tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.
God seperated Adam from the population to personally
build His image in him so Adam could properly rule. The image of
God in Adam was supposed to stay true, but it went backwards so God
started over with Noah. Noah's progeny disobediently assembled to
build the tower of Babel. So Yahwey caused a diaspora. Then He
chose Abraham from that diaspora to build a single nation
from.
Deuteronomy 32:8-9
Brenton LXX 8 When
the Most High divided the nations, when he separated the sons of
Adam, he set the bounds of the nations according to the number of
the angels of God. 9 And
his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the
line of his inheritance.
Deuteronomy 32:8-9
CLV 8 When the
Supreme gave the nations allotments, when He parted the sons of
Adam, He stationed the boundaries of the peoples according to the
number of the sons of El. 9 For
the portion of Yahweh is His people; Jacob is the line of His
allotment.
According to Jewish tradition, God assigned an angel to
help develop each of the nations. The Jews called them
watchers.
Daniel 4:13-18
LITV 13 I was
looking in the visions of my head on my bed. And, behold, a
watcher, even a holy one, came down from the heaven 14 He cried
with might and said this: Cut down the tree and cut off its
branches. Shake off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the
animals flee from under it, and the birds leave its
branches. 15 But leave
the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a fetter of iron and
bronze, in the grass of the field. And let it be wet with the dew
of the heavens, and his portion be with the animals in the grass of
the earth. 16 Let his
heart be changed from man's, and let the heart of an animal be
given to him. And let seven times pass over him. 17 This matter
is by the decree of the watchers, and the command by the word of
the holy ones, so that the living may know that the Most High rules
in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He will. And He sets
up over it the lowest of men.18 I,
Nebuchadnezzar, have seen this dream. Now you, O Belteshazzar,
declare its meaning, since all the wise men of my kingdom are not
able to reveal the meaning to me. But you are able, for the
spirit of the holy gods is in you.
Daniel 4:18 (This is a better translation of verse 18)
CLV 18 This dream,
I, king Nebuchadnezzar, perceived. Now you, Belteshazzar, state the
interpretation, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom can not
make known to me the interpretation. Yet you Daniel can, seeing
that the spirit of the holy Elohim is in
you."
There are 70 descendents of
Noah listed before the tower of Babel incident. Many believe these
70 people developed 70 nations. 70 could represent the number of
people sent out to carry God's image to the already existing
populations; to bring new order to the world. Did each of the 70 descendents of Noah
start a nation with his guardian angel? These 70 sons of Adam were forcefully seperated
in order to reluctantly fulfill their commission to spread out and
multiply with the human image of God.
For some reason the Masoretic
text in Deuteronomy 32:8 seems to have been changed, by the
descendents of the unbelieving portion of the first century Jews,
to read, "sons of Israel" instead of "sons of God". There were 70
descendents of Israel who went down to Egypt but that was some time
later. Israel did not yet exist when the sons of Adam were seperated at
the tower of Babel, so the Masoretic variant doesn't make the best
sense here. It is an anachronism.
The sons of Israel were
seperated in the promised land according to the twelve tribes. Are
the Masorites trying to make this verse apply to the sons of God in
Jewish diaspora instead of the sons of God at the Babel diaspora?
Why the apparent change in the Masoretic text? The Jewish diaspora
was regathered at Pentecost to recieve the Holy Spirit. The
believing Jews then scattered again to take their newly inspired
image of God to all the languages listed, as a whole-hearted
fulfillment of the original great commission; to spread out and
infiltrate all nations with the image of God in Adam. They were
resurrected into the new covenant in Yeshua the Messiah; to bring
more order to the world. The unbelieving Jews kept the Hebrew
manuscripts for us because they did not like their Septuigint any
more, which by the way was translated by 70 Jewish scholars before
their Messiah came. The 70 scholars wanted to infiltrate the world
with the Word of God in the common language of the
day.
Apocrypha:
Sirach Chapter 17 (Israel is here called God's firstborn
nation. Other gods gave birth to other nations.)
17 For in the division of
the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people;
but Israel is the Lord's portion:
18 Whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with
discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake
him.
19 Therefore all their works are as the sun before
him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.
20 None of their unrighteous deeds are hid from him,
but all their sins are before the Lord
21 But the Lord being gracious and knowing his
workmanship, neither left nor forsook them, but spared
them.
Exodus 4:22
LITV 22 And you
shall speak to Pharaoh, So says Jehovah, My son, My first-born is
Israel.
Numbers
11:16
YLT 16 And
Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Gather to Me seventy men of the elders
of Israel, whom thou hast known that they are elders of the people,
and its authorities; and thou hast taken them unto the tent of
meeting, and they have stationed themselves there with
thee,
Exodus 24:1
CLV 1 Then to Moses
He said: Ascend to Yahweh, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and
seventy of the elders of Israel, and bow yourselves down from
afar.
Exodus
24:9-11
CLV 9 Then Moses
and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel
ascended. 10 And they
saw the Elohim of Israel and beneath His feet as it were a work of
sapphire tiling, as the very heavens for purity. 11 To the
selectmen of the sons of Israel He put not forth His hand, yet they
perceived the One, Elohim, and ate and drank
After Moses and Joshua died, Israel fell into worshipping the
gods of the nations. "Every man did what was right in his own
eyes." Gideon unsuccessfully tried to rule with his 70 sons.
Judges 8:30
YLT 30 and to
Gideon there have been seventy sons, coming out of his loin, for he
had many wives;
The son of Gideon, who was given the royal
Philistine name Abimelech, murdered all his brothers accept
one. Abimelech means 'my
father is king', even though Gideon was a judge; they wanted to
have a king like the other nations. Abimelech's father was given
the name Gideon after cutting down his father's idol and tearing
down his father's alter to Baal. Since Gideon was born into
idolatry his birth name was Jerubaal; named after the deities of
the nations. Abimelech wanted to assocciate his half brothers with
that idolatry before cutting them down; that is why he calls his father Jerubaal instead
of Gideon.
Judges
9:2
YLT 2 `Speak, I pray
you, in the ears of all the masters of Shechem,
Which is good for you—the ruling over you of seventy men
(all the sons of Jerubbaal), or the ruling over you of one man?
—and ye have remembered that I am your bone and your
flesh.'
Judges 9:18
LITV 18 and you
have today risen against my father's house and have killed his
sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech the son of
his slave-girl king over the leaders of Shechem, because
he is your brother
Only Jotham, the youngest son
of Gideon, survived. He told a long parable after the masacre of
his brothers; of the trees who sought a king. In the midst of idol
worship, treachery and political manueverings, God moved the people
to become dissatisfied with Abimelech. Only a few years later a
woman drops a milstone on his head. God desires to rule through his
children by way of His spirit of truth and righteousness. He never
wanted them to have a physical king on an earthly throne like the
other nations did. He warned them against such a thing. Yet they
asked for one until they got their wish, against God's will.
And like all the other nations, Israel's monarchy over taxed
them and took their sons for the military. They wanted Jesus
to be that kind of king too. He refused. He said His father desired
to be worshipped in spirit and in truth regardless of location.
That is why Yeshua fashioned a new covenant. The temple of God was
the second king of Israel's idea. God allowed the third king of
Israel to build a temple. God has since moved back to His original
plan; typified by a movable temple in which Yahwey rules through
his son's via the Holy spirit in man. The false image makers of the
nations have never ceased trying to out-vie each other for
political kingship. They look so preposterous at times. Yeshua is
the ever true Prince and power of the air.
1 Samuel 10:19 (They demanded to see a king)
CLV 19 and you
to-day have rejected your Elohim, who [is] Himself your saviour out
of all your evils and your distresses, and you say, `Nay, but--a
king you do set over us; and now, station yourselves before Yahweh,
by your tribes, and by your thousands..
Before they entered the
promised land, Yahwey had instructed them how to rule themselves,
but they wanted to be ruled like the other
nations.
Deuteronomy 12
CLV 1 These
are the statutes and the judgments which you shall observe to obey
in the land that Yahweh Elohim of your fathers gives to you to
tenant it all the days that you are alive on the
ground.
8 You
shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, each
man everything that is upright in his own eye. 9 because
until now you have not come to the resting place and to the
allotment that Yahweh your Elohim is giving to
you.
28 Observe and hear all these words which I
am instructing you today, that it may be well with you and with
your sons after you until the eon, for you shall do what is good
and upright in the eyes of Yahweh your Elohim.
30 Guard yourself lest you should be trapped
to go after them after they are exterminated before your face, and
lest you inquire about their elohim, saying:How do these nations
serve their elohim that I, I too, may do
thus? 31 You shall not act thus toward Yahweh your
Elohim, for every abhorrence which Yahweh hates they perform for
their elohim, for even their sons and their daughters they burn
with fire for their elohim. 32 Every word which I am enjoining on you
today, you shall observe to obey it. You shall neither add to it,
nor shall you subtract from it.
After they failed to
follow Yahwey, even while being ruled by a king, the right to rule
the world was given to Babylon.