(FOT - Day 3)
Fred R. Coulter—October 9, 2025
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Greetings, brethren! Welcome to the Feast of Tabernacles Day 3. Now, we've been going through some things in Genesis in relationship to the overall picture of the Feast of Tabernacles, because the Feast of Tabernacles pictures many, many things. But it goes all the way back as we started with Adam and Eve living with God in the Garden of Eden, and it ends up with New Jerusalem and all of those in the first resurrection living in New Jerusalem.
So the story thread of the whole Bible is pictured by every different thing in the Feast of Tabernacles.
Let's look at a Scripture here that is very interesting in the book of Hebrews, New Testament. Now it talks about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Let's see what it says:
Hebrews 11:8: "By faith… [that's what we have to follow] … Abraham, being called of God to go out into the place, which he would later receive for an inheritance…"
Did you know that he never received it? And he won't receive it until the first resurrection! And then it will be so great. It'll be so marvelous.
What did he say in Genesis 12:3? "…in you… [and your seed] …shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Now, think on that for just a minute. All the history of mankind, all that we know, and of course there's many things in the universe we don't have the faintest clue concerning. But here, all on earth. That's when Abraham is going to receive it.
Hebrews 11:8: "…being called of God to go out into the place, which he would later receive for an inheritance, obeyed and went, not knowing where he was going."
Now, let's stop and look at this for a minute just for ourselves. Did in any time prior to God's calling, did you ever think that you would be where you are today? The answer is NO! But:
- we got where we are by faith
- we get where we're going by faith
That is belief in God the Father and Jesus Christ. His life, His death, His resurrection, the giving of the power of His Holy Spirit. And all of that is connected for us. So that we, as it says in the book of Revelation, can be kings and priests and reign with Christ a thousand years! And of course, living in the end times, we can see all the things that are taking place. And what is missing is:
- truth
- love
- law
- order
and most of all
- God ruling on the earth
But we're promised we will rule and reign with Him. And we're also promised in Rev. 2, that those who rule the nations will rule them with a rod of iron! So, it's not going to be anything like it is today. It's important we understand the great scope of the Feast of Tabernacles.
Verse 9: "By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, like a foreigner…"
Abraham was told he was going to inherit it, but he didn't.
"…dwelling in tabernacles…" (v 9). Now think of that. What are we keeping now? We are keeping the Feast of Tabernacles. That also tells us that we're going to live with God in the Holy City of Jerusalem.
"…dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob…" (v 9). So, Abraham saw Jacob as a young boy before he died!
What was the promise given to Abraham back there in Genesis 15:5? That your seed shall be like "…the stars—if you are able to count them.'
What did he receive? Abraham received Isaac and Jacob and he died. So you see, a lot of the things that God tells us won't come and be given until the resurrection. But just imagine what Abraham's going to think.
I look at it this way. When we're on the Sea of Glass, preparing to return to the earth after the resurrection, and we get all of our instruction as pictured by Pentecost. There's Abraham, Isaac and Jacob right up front there with God the Father and Jesus Christ. And Jesus says:
Abraham, come here, I want you to see something. So, He takes them over to the edge of the Sea of Glass and He says, 'Look down there. You see all that? Those are all your physical seed. And all of these on the Sea of Glass behind us are the spiritual seed that will shine like the stars in heaven! All because you believed what God said.
Hebrews 11:10: "For he was waiting for the city… [New Jerusalem] …with the foundations of which God is the Architect and Builder." Now then, Sarah is there, too. Yes!
Verse 11: "By faith also Sarah herself received power to conceive seed, and gave birth when she was well beyond the childbearing age, because she esteemed Him faithful Who had personally promised her a son."
Verse 12: "Because of this faith, there came into being from one man—and moreover, one who was reproductively dead—descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens, and as countless as the sand on the sea shore."
Now notice v 13; this is important to understand for us today, too:
Verse 13: "All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and having been persuaded of them, and having embraced them, and having confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth."
That's exactly what we have to do, even today. Yes, indeed!
Verse 14: "For those who say such things make it manifest that they seek their own country, as promised by God."
Now then, what does it say over here in Galatians, 3? All of this has to do with the Feast of Tabernacles. Now this applies to all of us:
Galatians 3:26: "Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus."
- because of Abraham
- because of Christ
- because of the Father
Verse 27: "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ."
- the way He lived
- the way He thought
- everything like that.
Verse 28: "There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither bond nor free; there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And IF you are Christ's, THEN you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise" (vs 28-29).
Now that's quite a thing, isn't it? The promise given to Abraham, a physical seed, was Isaac. There's also a parallel for us today in preparing for the Kingdom of God (Gal. 4).
So, Paul says this concerning that we're coming to God and Jerusalem and heaven above, and this shows there is nothing between us and God. As we will see a physical temple only had a presence of the power of God in it called the 'Shanika.'
God never dwelt in a temple. He put His power there, as we'll see a little later on.
Galatians 4:26: "But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all; for it is written, 'Rejoice, O barren who did not bear! Break forth and cry, you who were not travailing, because many more are the children of the desolate than of her who has the husband.'"
That's referring to Christ and the Church, also to Abraham and Sarah.
Verse 28: "Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are the children of promise."
Of course, we will see a little later during the Feast, all the things that were given in the various prophets concerning the Feast of Tabernacles. Not only for the physical things on the earth, but for the spiritual conversion of those people and:
- how they will be taught
- how they will live
- how they will know and understand God
We touched on that just a little bit on the first day, but we'll get into that a little bit more.
Now let's see some things that are important in the book of Genesis that we need to understand about Abraham and about Isaac and about everything that led up to it. Then we'll look at what happened with David a little bit and look what happened to Solomon a little bit, and then we will look into the things concerning Christ. Everything hinges on Christ, and that's what we need to keep in mind.
Genesis 26:2: "And the LORD appeared to him [Isaac] and said, 'Do not go down into Egypt….'"
That's interesting; read the book of Revelation and what is the city of Jerusalem called today? Sodom and Egypt, because if you go down to Egypt, you're going to learn all the evil of the Egyptians.
"…Live in the land, which I shall tell you of. Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed, I will give all these lands; and I will establish the oath, which I swore to Abraham your father" (vs 2-3).
Now that's quite a thing! See, it all goes back to Abraham, even the fact of Isaac. Likewise with the Church.
- we have God the Father and Jesus Christ
- we had a comparison between Abraham and Isaac
That was a good comparison to make. Now notice what God says here concerning two things:
Verse 4: "And I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens…"
How many children did Isaac have through Rebecca? Two! So, this is a long-term prophecy. That was Jacob and Esau. All right, keep that in mind.
"…and will give to your seed all these lands…." (v 4).
We're going to see it's more than just what was in the area that is called the Middle East today or the Holy Land.
"…And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed" (v 4).
Now, you know who the physical descendants of Israel are today, and we need to understand that even the physical seed of Israel, in relationship to the other nations of the world, were a blessing to them. And notice what is happening today.
Israel is a blessing to the whole world, because God is using Donald Trump to help set up everything to be in the place that it should be at the time of the end. And because we're getting close to the time of the time of the building of the temple, the third temple in Jerusalem, and everything has to be worked out.
You cannot be having wars everywhere concerning it. Now he has settled six wars. We didn't know there were six wars going on in the world, did we? No! He has settled those. The last one to settle, the last two rather,
- the Ukraine and Russia
- the situation with Gaza and Hamas
They have to take care of Hamas in order to build the temple. That's the whole thing that's going on there. Notice who is involved. Donald Trump, a descendant of the Royal House of England, meaning that he has part of the line of Zarah in him! and Netanyahu who is of Perez.
The two of them are working together as God uses them to set up all these things in the end-time. So you see, what we have with the Word of God going clear back here to Isaac and clear back here to Abraham are living examples today of what is taking place! What's that preparing for?
- the return of Christ
- the resurrection of the saints
- the setting up of the Kingdom of God
- the thousand year rule of God, as pictured by the Feast of Tabernacles
But it goes all the way back here to Genesis again.
Now then God says He will do this, v 5: "Because Abraham…"
Now listen carefully, especially for all of those of you who have been told there was no Law from Adam until Moses. That is a complete fabrication and a lie, because where there is no Law, there is no sin. Where there is sin, there is wickedness, and that's because the Law defines what is right and wrong/good and evil.
What did it say in the Ten Commandments? All ten were enforced from the beginning, because if there was no Law, then Cain killing Abel, he couldn't be held accountable because there would be no Law.
But what did God say? 'You sinned, you killed! Your offering was not what I wanted.' He also told Cain that in order to run your life correctly, you have to rule over sin, and He told him that before he killed Abel!
That comes all the way down to the Flood. Everyone was doing evil continually and in the thoughts of their minds. So, God destroyed it!
Now we have this. This is important that we really grasp it and grasp what it means for what we're going to find in the rest of the Bible and for the Feast of Tabernacles, but also what we find in our lives today and what we need to do today.
Verse 5: "Because Abraham obeyed My voice…"
What was the first thing that Jesus said when He was tempted by Satan the devil to turn the stones into bread? He said, 'It is written, man shall not live by the bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God! All the way through the whole Bible, the question is:
- Do you believe God and obey His voice?
OR
- Do you want to go your own way and do your own thing and reject what God says?
- IF God speaks it, it is so!
- IF God commands it, it comes into being!
When it says, v 5: "Because Abraham obeyed My voice…" that tells us an awful lot: Why he is the father of the faithful!
"…obeyed My voice and kept My charge…" (v 5)—whatever God told him to do!
Same way in the New Testament, Jesus said, 'Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not practice the things that I say?' And when you understand that Jesus was God manifested in the flesh that makes it even more imperative.
"…kept My charge, My commandments… [whatever they are, that's plural] …My statutes… [whatever they are, and all of the Holy Days are statutes] …and My Laws" (v 5).
Now there are a lot of laws physically attached with the creation of the earth, that men even cut off from God understand that they have to behave in a certain way, or these things are going to catch up with us.
One of the most active laws that affects everything on the earth, every living thing, every inanimate thing, everything on the earth, is affected by the law of gravity! Contained and generated in the depths of the earth of which we know nothing about except it's hot. It's a great fire going on in the depths of the earth. Then we look out to the sun, and the sun provides us with things day and night, and to the moon, and to the rest of the universe.
So, that's why when God talked to Abram, the first thing He did, He told Abram he would receive his son. Then God said, 'Step outside here and look at the stars and count them if you're able to number them." Amazing! My Commandments, My statutes, and My Laws!
Then Isaac stayed there. Now notice what happened. God told Isaac to stay there. Don't go down to Egypt because there's a famine. Now notice what God did to bless Isaac because he obeyed God!
Verse 12: "Isaac sowed in the land and received in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him. And the man became great—and continued gaining until he became very great" (vs 12-13).
So you see what God does? He keeps His Word! He gives blessing! And this also applies to us. Now as we grow and we overcome human nature in preparing for the Kingdom of God, our greatness of eternal life won't come until the resurrection! But now God was preparing the physical seed that He promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Now here we're looking at Isaac. We'll see what happened with Jacob in a little bit because all of this expands out to worldwide situations even as we know them today.
Verse 14: "And he had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants. And the Philistines envied him."
So, there was a little battle going on. The Philistines came and said, well, we're going to fix them up. 'We'll put his well out of order.' So, they took it. Abraham departed and he went someplace else and he dug a well there (v 18).
So see, whenever something happens and you have to move on and change and obey God, He'll bless you. That's what it is. That's how it happens.
Isaac's wife bore Jacob and Esau. Now Jacob was not the firstborn, but God said, the elder Esau will serve the younger Jacob. And of course, that created the friction and things there. We won't go through all that. I'll let you read that.
But the blessing was passed on to Jacob! Now we come to Gen. 28 and let's see something here that is very important, because Jacob left after Esau sold his inheritance to him. And Esau then got all upset and wanted to kill Jacob. So, his mom said, 'Look, you go to your uncle up in Syria. Just before he was going to leave:
Genesis 28:1: "Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and commanded him. And he said to him, 'You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. And take a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. And may God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you may be a multitude of people. And may He give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, so that you may inherit the land in which you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham'" (vs 1-4).
Now that was the blessing to go out in time. So, Jacob left.
Verse 7: "And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan Aram."
Verse 10: "And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he came upon a certain place, and stayed there all night because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and placed it at his head…. [he didn't lay on it, but he placed it at the head where he was laying] …And he lay down in that place to sleep" (vs 10-11).
Now, this may be the same very stone that is under the coronation chair for the King and Queen of England.
Note our book: America and Britain in Prophecy, Their Biblical Origin And Their Prophetic Destiny, order it at: truthofGod.org; that'll open up your eyes because the lands referred to as the lands of Israel cover a lot more than just the restricted area in the Middle East. It will be an eye-opener!
Verse 12: "And he dreamed. And behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven! And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!"
Direct connection between God and the earth and carrying out the promises given to Abraham. And Isaac saw that that was taking place. Now notice what else he said, and here's a promise direct from God to Jacob. This tells you that the promise of the physical land goes far beyond the area of the Middle East.
Verse 13: "And behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, 'I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your seed'"—which he did!
Everything started right there in the Holy Land, that's true; but it didn't remain there. That's what's important because it said, 'be a blessing to all nations, and he also said, it would be a blessing to all the families of the earth! When you consider that, that's a tremendous blessing. When God says ALL, that's what He means. The whole Plan of God is so great and far reaching that it's incredible!
Verse 14: "And your seed shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south."
Where are the modern descendants of the 10 tribes of Israel?
- America
- Canada
- Britain
the kingdoms of Northern Europe
- Sweden
- Finland
- Denmark
- France
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
then we come down to:
- Australia
- New Zealand
- South Africa
Is that not spread north and south and east and west? Yes! The promises of God are absolutely amazing!
Verse 14: "And your seed shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And in you and in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed."
Now stop and think even today. Take away America and take away Britain. Britain has almost fulfilled its demise as prophesied in the book of Hosea right now today. But you take that away, what do you have? You have an evil, hostile world! So this is amazing.
Verse 15: "And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in every place where you go, and will bring you again into this land, for I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."
Quite a thing! Quite a blessing!
Isn't it something that the Protestants and the Catholics believe, that you don't have to do anything with the Old Testament because that's given to the Jews? Well, the Jews like that, because then they can steal all the promises that God gave to the ten tribes and claim that they're Israel!
- What do we have today?
- Isn't that what they do? Yeah, but they're not all Israel!
Verse 16: "And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and said, 'Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.' And he was afraid and said, 'How fearful is this place! This is nothing but the House of God, and this is the gate of Heaven!'" (vs 16-17). What did he do?
Verse 18: "So, Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone, which he had put at his head, and set it as a memorial pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place The House of God. But the name of that city was Luz at first. Then Jacob made a vow…" (vs 18-20).
Now understand this with a vow: A vow is a solemn promise to God, and a solemn promise is to be kept! Now when we're baptized, we make a covenant vow to God. And that covenant vow was sealed:
- by the sacrifice and blood of Jesus Christ
- by baptism, full immersion in water
You are vowing or promising—by this that you are doing—that you will follow God in everything that He says. You will accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, Lord and Master and High Priest in heaven above.
That's what a true Christian does! Then we grow in grace and knowledge and overcome, because we're going to be kings and priests and rule the world!
So, those promises that we have are just like the promises given here to Jacob, but only to us in a different way in the New Testament.
Verse 20: "Then Jacob made a vow, saying, 'Since God will be with me, and will keep me in the way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, and I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the LORD be my God. And this stone, which I have set for a pillar shall be God's house. And of all that You shall give me, I will surely give the tenth to You'" (vs 20-22)—showing that the tithe was in motion from the beginning!
Yet, people come along today and say that there are no tithes today. Really?
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Now we're right here with this situation with Jacob and then he married Rachel and he got fooled with Leah because the father said, 'The firstborn of my daughters must be married first.' So, Jacob worked out a deal with him to receive Rachel, but he got Leah. Then he had to work out another deal and he ended up working for him a total of 20 years, and he had all of his children with the exception of Benjamin.
When Benjamin was born of Rachel, the first one was Joseph, then all of the rest of the tribes of Israel came from Leah and the two handmaids. Only Joseph and Benjamin came from Rachel.
As he was getting older and all of the sons were growing up. Joseph being very young, God blessed him and he had a dream. And the dream was that all of the other sons of Jacob would bow down and worship him. And they got angry and sold Joseph on down into Egypt as a slave.
The whole story happened there that he remained righteous, but he got thrown in jail because of false accusations of the one who purchased him as a slave. When it was time for him to come out, the baker and the butcher for Pharaoh had dreams, and Joseph told him what the dreams were!
One was going to be killed and one would be brought back to serve the Pharaoh. Pharaoh had the dream of the seven fat cows and the seven lean cows, but he didn't know what it meant. So, the one who had been brought back to serve Pharaoh told Pharaoh, 'There's a man in prison whose name is Joseph, and he knows dreams. So maybe he can tell you that.
Joseph was brought out and by this time he was about 30-years-old and he was brought to Pharaoh, and Pharaoh told him what the dream was. Joseph said:
I'll interpret it for you. There is coming a famine, but there will be first seven years of fat and then seven years of famine.
What you do is in the seven years of the fat, you store everything up for the time of famine. You need to get a wise man to do that for you.
And Pharaoh said, 'You're the wise man' and Joseph was put in second in charge of all of Egypt.
Well, came to pass exactly as he had said. And then Joseph married one of the daughters of the priest of On and had two sons: Ephraim and Manasseh. And we come to that in Gen. 48. Now let's see, because this continues on with a great blessing, here's what happened.
The whole story of bringing Joseph and the 11 sons down to Egypt was because of the famine, and how Joseph knew who they were, but they didn't know who he was.
After they had brought Benjamin down and then Joseph demanded to keep Benjamin and all of the brothers were afraid that, 'Oh, it's going to be terrible with us because we don't bring back Benjamin.' Joseph told them to bring back your father.
When they all came down and bowed down before Joseph as the ruler of Egypt—just like the dream said—then Jacob was there with the 11. Joseph looked like an Egyptian because he was all dressed up as a leading Egyptian; so, they didn't recognize him.
When his father came down, Joseph had to leave the room because he was overwhelmed with emotions. Then Joseph revealed who he was and they all lived there, and the blessing was upon Joseph!
There was a final blessing that Jacob gave to the sons of Joseph, which was greater than the blessings for all of the rest of the sons of Israel.
Gen. 48—Jacob explains everything about it and told his father Jacob:
Genesis 48:8: "And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, 'Who are these?'…. [he was almost blind] …And Joseph said to his father, 'They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place." And he said, "Please bring them to me, and I will bless them'" (vs 8-9).
Now this is right before he died at 147-years-old. We will see the blessing that he gave to the rest, the sons of Jacob.
Verse 10: "And the eyes of Israel were dim for age; he could not see. And he [Joseph] brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. And Israel said to Joseph, 'I had not thought I would see your face, and, lo, God showed me also your offspring'" (vs 10-11).
Quite a thing! Quite a blessing! Quite a thing for the whole world from that time on!
Verse 12: "And Joseph brought them out from between his father's knees, and he bowed his face to the earth. And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manasseh in his left toward Israel's [Jacob's] right hand. And he brought them near to him. And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger…" (vs 12-14).
Now that was supposed to go on the firstborn because Manasseh was the firstborn and Ephraim was the second born.
"…and his left upon Manasseh's head, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn. And he blessed Joseph and said, 'May God, before Whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God Who fed me all my life to this day, the Angel… [always an angel going with him] …Who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads….'" (vs 14-16).
Now, this is official! This is something for all time! This is something that comes down to the day today. This will give us an understanding why the only place in the world that the Gospel is being preached today in the way that it should be, or even in some ways that it should not be is coming from the United States of America!
No other country is doing it! And that's important. That because of the blessing that God gave to Israel and to Ephraim and Manasseh.
"…And let my name… [Israel] …And let my name be perpetuated in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth'" (v 16).
You compare that what is Palestine today and should rightfully be called Judea and not Israel. America and Britain and the other tribes that I mentioned before, they are the 10 tribes of Israel and the two leading ones out of the 10 are Ephraim and Manasseh!
- Who had the British Empire that spanned the whole world? Ephraim!
- Who has the greatest nation on earth? Manasseh!
Verse 17: "And Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, and it displeased him [Joseph]. And he held up his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. And Joseph said to his father, 'Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand upon his head'" (vs 17-18). Very important and amazing thing!
Verse 19: "And his father refused and said, 'I know it, my son, I know it. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.'" Now that's an amazing thing that blessing!
Verse 20: "And he blessed them that day, saying, 'In you shall Israel bless, saying, "God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh."' And he put Ephraim before Manasseh. And Israel said to Joseph, 'Behold, I die. But God shall be with you, and bring you again into the land of your fathers. And I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow'" (vs 20-22).
Now then, we have a tremendous thing going on in Gen. 49. Each one of the 12 children; you have Joseph counted as one, but under Joseph are Ephraim and Manasseh.
We need to bring that down to this day to show that God has done everything in His Word exactly as He said He would do it.
Let's see what He said. You read the blessings on all the others and the blessing that was given to Judah was that there would be a Lawgiver until Shiloh would come and Shiloh was Christ! So there was no other lawgivers coming out of Judah from that time forth.
Genesis 49:22—let's pick it up here concerning Joseph: "Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. The archers have fiercely attacked him and have shot at him, and hated him. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob—from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel—" (vs 22-24).
The stone of Israel would be in the tribe of Joseph, and then that passed on down to Ephraim as you will find written in the book: America and Britain in Prophecy!
Now notice the blessing that comes. This is a greater blessing than to any of the other tribes. They had their blessings but this is greater and this explains why at the end-time that America is so great and what God is doing with the things right now in our very day to prepare for the coming events at the end-time through America!
God is using Donald Trump to actually set up the whole world, which the Beast will inherit. This is an amazing thing to watch; and dealing with the Jews that they will build a third temple. It all comes from right here:
Genesis 49:25: "By the God of your father, Who shall help you. And may the Almighty bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of my ancestors, to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him, the ruler, the leader who was separated from his brothers" (vs 25-26).
What a blessing on Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph!
We have that today. You look at what it is, how we're seeing right now this having been fulfilled for the last 500 years. Ephraim and Manasseh have been the leading nations of the world! What was it said of the descendants of Abraham? That they would be a blessing to all the families of the earth!That's part of the blessing, because that goes on down through everything that God has said.
Deut. 33:13; now isn't that interesting? How many colonies did we have at first? 13!
Deuteronomy 33:13: "And of Joseph he said, 'Blessed of the LORD be his land…"
Isn't that how we look at in America 'from sea to shining sea, in God we trust'! And even though they don't know God the way that they should compared to the rest of the world, even in spite of all of our sins, we acknowledge God in our own way that no other country does. Even Ephraim has almost abandoned God altogether at this day. So, this is quite a thing!
You look at the land that God gave to Manasseh called the United States of America; you look at that and you add on to it Alaska. Now how Canada fits in there we don't exactly know, but they're right there. Here's the blessing to Joseph:
Verse 13: "And of Joseph he said, 'Blessed of the LORD be his land, with the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, and for the deep that couches beneath'" What couches beneath?
Deuteronomy 32:13: "He made him ride on the high places of the earth so that he might eat the increase of the fields. And He made him suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock."
- Who makes oil?
- Where does He make it? Underground!
All geologists will tell you when the supply of oil gets low and they abandon the well later on there's more oil that comes into it! It's not from dinosaurs! If you watch what they are digging up in Montana and Iowa all the dinosaur bones there's not one drop of oil, so they cannot be fossil fuel.
Deuteronomy 33:15: "And with the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the everlasting hills… [that's gold, diamonds, coal, timber, the precious stones and everything like that] … and for the precious things of the earth and fullness of it, and for the good will of Him Who dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him who was separated from his brothers. His glory is like the firstborn of his bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh" (vs 15-17).
Who stopped the wars: WWI and WWII? America and Britain! There's the prophecy of it right here!
So, what we need to do is see how all of these prophecies come down and it has to do with whom God is dealing with and that God has been with them.
This will eventually help us understand some of the things when we get to the to the books of Kings and Chronicles, so we can understand about what happened there.
Exo. 20:19 tells us what God wanted to do with all of the 12 tribes of Israel, and it has happened somewhat in our day today Remember the Passover? The Passover was when God passed over and killed the firstborn of the Egyptians man and beast, but he spared all of Israel brought them out of Egypt, brought them down to Mount Sinai.
Of course, you go through and you can read all about their journey down to Mount Sinai. They finally got there and it was quite a thing. Then as we know as we have talked about concerning the Feast of Pentecost, that the Law was given to them on the Feast of Pentecost, and also Pentecost is when the Church began after Jesus was resurrected from the dead,
So, we have some parallels here and we will see that there is a prophecy about Christ in Deut. 15 and we'll see that we'll see it with what we have here.
Now I want you to think about what God was doing with the children of Israel at Mount Sinai, and giving the Ten Commandments, and as we have seen they were in force before He ever gave them to the children of Israel! They were in force from the beginning!
Exodus 19:2: "…And Israel camped there in front of the mount."
Now let's see what the proposition was given to all the 12 tribes of Israel always the leaders Ephraim, Manasseh and Judah, because out of Judah would come the lawgiver until Shiloh would come! Shiloh was Christ!
Verse 1: "In the third month when the children of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on the same day… [the same day of the week, that was Thursday] …they came to the wilderness of Sinai; for they had journeyed from Rephidim, and came to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness. And Israel camped there in front of the mount" (vs 1-2).
That was the set place they were to come to. God had led them down there; He was going to deal with them directly!
Verse 3: "And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, 'Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob..."
Now listen carefully this is what God proposed. IF— always that little two letter word—free choice we have to choose!
IF they would believe God and IF they would obey God here's what He wanted them to do His way. So, let's read it and let's look at the similarity between that in his proposition to them, and what is proposed for us in Rev. 20. It's amazing!
Verse 3: "And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, 'Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel, "You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you unto Myself"'" (vs 3-4).
Well they had to walk, but they were protected by God which is the same as being protected on a level with eagles.
Verse 5: "Now therefore. IF…"
Why was the blessing given to Abraham? because Abraham 'obeyed My voice.' This is what God wants! When you come to the New Testament this is what Christ wants
When you come to what the apostles have written concerning God the Father, and the words that He gave to Christ and the words that they wrote, it's the same thing, you obey what God has said!
Notice IF; choices! He leaves that choice up to us:
- Do we really love God?
- Do we really obey God?
- Will we believe God?
That's all our choice! Notice what He says:
Verse 5: "Now, therefore, IF you will obey My voice indeed…"
- obey what He says
"…and keep My covenant…" (v 5).
- keep the covenant and the covenant that they had
- was the covenant as a nation
- God dealing with them as a nation
The covenant that we have is that God is preparing us for a future nation of priesthood and of kings and will rule with Christ a thousand years! We find that in Rev. 20. So there's a parallel here.
God is going to work out his choice and His plan however people choose. Everything God is given there is free moral agency, and He will never take away. We must choose!
We have the same thing here:
- obey My voice
- keep My covenant
"…THEN you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine" (v 5).
Isn't that something! Isn't that what He promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Yes indeed! So, here it is Israel grown to be quite a big nation at this time down in front of Mount Sinai to hear God speak!
Think about that! That has never happened in history before that time or after that!
Verse 6: "And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a Holy nation…."
Isn't that what Christ taught? The Kingdom of God and:
- you're going to be rulers
- you're going to be kings and priests
Now on a physical level they could have done this for the whole world, but they didn't do it.
We'll see there was one time where there was one chance to do it in the days of Solomon and what happened?
- same thing today
- same thing with the churches
- same thing with each one of us as individuals
Verse 6: "'And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a Holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.' And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all these words, which the LORD commanded him. And all the people answered together…" (vs 6-8).
Now, listen to this, this is important: IF you say something to God you must do it, and IF you fail to do it you must repent! God will forgive you, but there may be some difficulties you have to work through because of sinning—which is the transgression of the Law and disobedience to the voice of God—but He will still work it out if you're willing so here's what the people said:
Verse 8: "And all the people answered together and said, 'All that the LORD has spoken we will do.'…."
Now notice this proposition is broad! All the commandments start with:
- the particulars
- the details
- what God wants
All of this is going to be taught during the Millennium, and we are going to bring that same thing to all the nations of the world, but this time it will be for not only physical nations to live in, but to have an opportunity for salvation not given to the whole world!
Here we have right here all the children of Israel said 'We will do!'
"…And Moses returned the words of the people to the LORD" (v 8).
Then God told Moses to prepare because 'In three days I'm going to speak to everyone. You bring them at the foot of the Mount Sinai and they're going to hear Me speak.'
That's what Exo. 20 is all about! These Laws for human behavior are in full operation past, present and future!
- in full operation for people who live in the world in the letter of the Law in full operation
- in full operation within the Church of God for those who are converted
- How important are these Laws?
- What is it going to be?
- How is it going to be done?
We'll see in just a minute what God really wanted to do, because not only will you be living under God's blessing if you do them, then you will be you will be in type tabernacling with God! We'll explain that a little later.
Exo. 20—here it is you all know this! Do you know all the Ten Commandments by heart, long version? Every one of these Commandments—contrary to what the Protestants and Catholics and others say—they are:
- right
- good
- fair
- a blessing
The law that is a curse is the penalty for breaking it!
As we read these I want you to think about what this nation would be like if they kept just the Ten Commandments in the letter of the Law. Everybody today wants law and order and common sense.
What do we have here in the Ten Commandments we have law and order and peace, and as we will see, blessings!
When we read through this I want you to think about this:
- Which Commandment is evil? None!
- What happens if everyone is breaking all of these Commandments?
- sin
- death
- chaos
- confusion
- What happens if everyone would keep them?
- blessing
- prosperity
- goodness a
- truth
That was to lead us to Christ!
Let's read it, because this is what we're going to teach the people in the Millennium:
- the Ten Commandments are eternal
- they come from God Who is eternal
- they come from God who is perfect
COMMANDMENT #1–No Other Gods
Exodus 20:2: "I am the LORD your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me" (vs 2-3).
Now think what it would be if the whole world worshiped just one God, the true God! Look at all the confusion and hatred and wars and fighting, because they don't have it. Look at what happened to the children of Israel as we will see, when they abandoned God for all the gods of the land around them!
What are we doing today? The same thing they did back there, they didn't believe God, but God also made it IF you will obey My voice!
COMMANDMENT #2–Idolatry
Verse 4: "You shall not make for yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth.
Don't make anything! What do we have look at the religions! Even the Muslims, though they say they don't believe in idols, they have a couple of big idols that they worship! Five times a day they bow to Mecca, and at Mecca there's a stone there so they're rock worshipers! That's an idol!
Look at all the other nations with their religions
- look at the snakes
- look at the dragons
- look at all of the fake things that they have done with their idols
What has that brought them nothing but death destruction and misery!
Verse 5: "You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them…"
What do they do with every Eucharist they bow down to it! By the way the Eucharist is as pagan as can be! You can take and plaster the names of God in Christ all over it, but it is all pagan and satanic to the core!
What does it say in Rev. 13 that the whole world is going to come to worship the beast, and the dragon—Satan! He's the author of all of the false doctrine that comes along.
"…for I, the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me" (vs 5).
Do people hate God? Look at today, what it is with people hating God! They absolutely hate God! There are a lot of people out there who are on Christ's part, but they're not converted; What are their lives like. Their lives are blessed and things are good for them! What are the lives of those who hate God and reject God?
They end up worshiping Satan the devil and look at the stupidity and idiocy all of the crimes and deprivations going on in the world today; because people have broken the second commandment and bow down to their idols whatever it is:
- religious or secular
- just a thing
- themselves
It brings a living curse upon them!
"…for I, the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me" (v 5).
God has it right there that if anyone hates God they're going to have a lot of trouble! But notice v 6, this is New Testament doctrine! That's why Jesus said, 'Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God!
Verse 6: "But showing mercy to thousands of those who love Me and keep My Commandments."
- Isn't that an amazing thing?
- Isn't that true?
- Are there not blessings in:
- serving God
- loving God
- keeping His Commandments
We will have trials and difficulties, because the world is difficult. But God will see us through it all! Did not Christ have a trials? He had trials every day!
COMMANDMENT #3–God's Name in Vain
Verse 7: "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain."
What is the worst way of taking God's name in vain? Swearing and cursing the name of God, that's one way. But what is worse than that? Taking something that God says is sin and say that you can do this, when that's a lie, saying that you're doing this to the Lord God of the Bible! You're not!
COMMANDMENT #4–The Sabbath
Here's the one that they always forget or change! Look what has happened to the world because of it! Look what has happened to the Jews who have made thousands of laws and hundreds of things that they need to do on the Sabbath!
God wants you to come before Him on the Sabbath Day on your knees:
- with prayer
- with study
- with coming to Him to know that everything comes from God
- life
- health
- everything that we have
- every breath that we breathe
- every drop of water that we drink
- every morsel of food that we eat
- everything about our whole bodily process
- everything comes from God
- That's why God said obey My voice
- that's why He gave these Laws
- this is what we're going to teach in the Millennium when we're kings and priests
- when we're at ministers and of cities and states
- ruling them we're going to teach them to love God
Verse 8: "Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy.
Right in the middle of the Ten Commandments they throw it out and say Sunday is the Lord's Day. The Muslims say NO! Sunday and Saturday are not the days of worship; Friday is!
Verse 9: "Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God…" (vs 9-10). He owns it! What does it say in:
Mark 2:27 "And He said to them, 'The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath"—He owns it!
Exodus 20:10: "…In it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter; your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your livestock, nor the stranger within your gates."
An amazing thing! IF you keep the Sabbath THEN you're also going to do something else that's very important!
- you are going to know that there's no such thing as evolution
- you are going to know that that everything that there is comes from God
- you are going to realize that God is all things to everything
This is what we're going to teach in the Millennium!
Verse 11: "For in six days the LORD made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath Day and sanctified it"—made it Holy!
The only other days He did that, too, was the Feast Days, which are annual Sabbaths!
COMMANDMENT #6–No Murder
Now, that's an amazing thing indeed to understand! Look at the rest of it! There's a mistranslation in most translations on the one about murder some of them translate it 'you shall not kill'; that is a false translation because God says the one who does and commits a crime and a sin worthy of death shall die!
Verse 13: "You shall not murder."
The criminal who commits crimes worthy of death shall die! That's what God has decreed. In the Hebrew it's more direct, He said no murder
COMMANDMENT #7–No Adultery
Look at what has happened because of all the sex sins everywhere. That's too much of a subject to try and catch here, but there it is!
Think of this if they would go back clear to Genesis the second chapter where it says, 'A man shall leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh.'
If that was followed by every man and woman in the world just think how great that would be. That's what we're going to teach when we're ruling the world!
COMMANDMENT #8–No Stealing
COMMANDMENT #9–No Bearing False Witness against your neighbor
All the lying and so forth!
COMMANDMENT #10–No Coveting
Verse 17: "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's." They heard this, but they said:
Oh that's too much for us. Moses you speak to us what God wants, and we will do what God says if you will tell us!
Let's see what happened after that, so come back tomorrow for Day 4, and we'll continue on with the Feast of Tabernacles 2025, and we'll see why God commanded them to build a tabernacle!
Scriptural References:
- Hebrews 11:8
- Genesis 12:3
- Hebrews 11:8
- Genesis 15:5
- Hebrews 11:10-14
- Galatians 3:26-29
- Galatians 4:24-28
- Genesis 26:2-5, 12-14
- Genesis 28:1-4, 7, 10-22
- Genesis 48:8-22
- Genesis 49:22-26
- Deuteronomy 33:13
- Deuteronomy 32:13
- Deuteronomy 33:15-17
- Exodus 19:2, 1-8
- Exodus 20:2-10
- Mark 2:27
- Exodus 20:10-11, 13, 17
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
- Revelation 2
- Genesis 26:18
- Exodus 20:19
- Deuteronomy 15
- Revelation 20; 13
- Genesis 2
Also referenced: Book:
America and Britain in Prophecy
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Transcribed: 8/14/25
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