The historical, Biblical account of Hezekiah includes important parables for us to understand. The first, and one I have written much about on these pages, is the parable concerning Second Passover. Moses authorized Second Passover in the Law and Hezekiah’s observance of Second Passover is the only account of it having been celebrated in the entire Bible. You can do a search for my many articles on Second Passover in the search bar at the right, or click here for one introductory article. The account of Hezekiah’s Second Passover prophesies about today’s Christians because his people, like Christians now, were a people who had forgotten the meaning and significance of the original Passover altogether. For hundreds of years Christians have celebrated “Easter” instead of Passover. The King James Bible even replaced the word “Passover” with the word “Easter” in Acts 12:4. Modern Christians do not understand the significance of Passover and thus will not be prepared when the “parable of Passover” becomes a reality within the next coming days and months. Please read my recent series on the meaning of Passover which you can find by clicking here.

God’s original Passover prophesied many, many things. Please read all of the articles linked here in order to understand these things. But, Passover also serves as a parable concerning the end times, the times we now live in. Just before the original Passover the Israelites had been prosperous and successful in Egypt. They had enjoyed the bounty that came from being related to Joseph, vice-regent under Pharaoh. This corresponds to the great prosperity which Christians enjoyed in America for many years after its original founding by Christians about 400 years ago. But, as with the Israelites in Egypt of old, so is it now with Christians in America. Instead of being first, we are last. Christians are the only cultural group regularly mocked, blacklisted, and excluded from positions of power, influence, and financial prosperity. And all indications are that this is going to get worse, much much worse. Just consider the rampant murders of Christians by Islamists in Middle Eastern and North African countries now. Then remember that the President of the United States is actively arming these same Islamic militants, including Al- Qaeda, in Syria. And now recall that America’s NSA surveils all American citizens, that America has erected and outfitted numerous FEMA camps (prisons) throughout the country, that America’s police forces are now militarized, and that the NSA has purchased about two billion hollow-point bullets (obviously for use on its own citizens because the NSA is not the American military). I could go on about recent laws passed and executive orders signed which threaten all U.S. citizens, but this should be sufficient. Do remember, however, that for the last sixty years American court and political decisions have outlawed and destroyed the memory of Christianity within our institutions of government and education. Christians have become the slaves in America, the ones who have to work twice as hard as the rest in order to educate, feed, and provide for their families.

When I speak of Christians in the above paragraph I am speaking of faithful Christians, Christians who understand that they have been called to be “in the world, but not of it,” Christians who have “come out of Babylon” and her whoredoms, who do not participate in the manifold evils of this society. The rest of the so-called “Christians” attend Babylon’s schools, worship her false gods, marry her unbelieving children, and participate in her many sins. Second Passover has to do with faithful Christians, not unfaithful ones. The NSA and FEMA are coming for the faithful, not the unfaithful. The unfaithful already belong to them.

So, you should now see that faithful Christians in America and throughout the world experience and wait for persecution just as Israel did in the time of Pharaoh in the days of Moses. Coming back to the parables of Hezekiah now, this is also exactly like the days of Hezekiah when Sennacherib king of Assyria threatened to destroy Jerusalem. See Isaiah 36 and 37. The great king of Assyria had already destroyed all of the surrounding fortified cities of Jerusalem. This is akin to the powers that be having destroyed the vestiges of Christianity in our own lands. In arrogance Sennacherib boasts that he has destroyed all nations and the gods of all nations. Is Hezekiah so foolish as to think that the God of Jerusalem shall suffer any less fate?

Interpreting the parable now, Jerusalem in Isaiah 36 and 37 speaks of New Jerusalem of Revelation 21 and 22. The world powers now ready themselves to attack the faithful remnant of Christianity in the earth. It is now important to remember that Paul teaches us that in this age God calls faithful Christians by the name “Israel.” He also teaches us that faithful Christians are “true Jews.” God no longer counts people after their natural lineage. He sees them spiritually. Jesus is the King of the Jews. Only those who acknowledge Jesus as their King are thus considered to be Jews and citizens of Israel. So, when Ezekiel prophesies about Gog attacking Israel he is talking about the spiritual king of Assyria, Satan, attacking spiritual Israel, God’s overcomers,who dwell in New Jerusalem. Ezekiel says,

 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 38:8-23 KJV)

 To be continued…