Before talking about that great city spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, let us notice the big contrast; the city is great but at the same time it is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt. We can see this contrast showing up all in the Holy Scriptures about cities. And previously, we stated that there is a parallel between the four kingdoms of Daniel 7 and the four kingdoms of the statue of Daniel 2. The lion of Daniel 7 is also Babylone of Daniel 2. And as Babylone was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, the lion (the american anglo-saxon axis) was also a golden cup until it degenerated. The bear of Daniel 7 is also the kingdom of Medes and Persia of Daniel 2. It is fascinating how we are witnessing in our modern days the bear (Russia) being one with Persia. And the leopard of Daniel 7 is the Greek empire of Daniel 2. And we see a great cultural link between the Greeks of old and the leopard (European Union). The domination was given to the leopard. That domination is the domination of the greco-roman culture until we have the fourth kingdom symbolized by the feet and toes of the statue of Daniel 2. After the lion, the bear, the leopard are diminished through the final crisis that will give birth to the fourth kingdom, they will merge strangely like a mixture of iron and clay to form the fourth kingdom which will be like the leopard, with the feet of a bear and a mouth of a lion. Also we know that the fourth kingdom will have its headquarters in that great city spiritually called Sodom and Egypt. We have the same contrast, Babylone being a golden cup in the hand of YHWH degenerated into the habitation of devils. Jerusalem, was that great city reknown to all the old world in the times of the King Solomon. The kingdom of Solomon (Israel with its capital Jerusalem) was reknown all over the world for its greatness. It is the great city who was elected by YHWH so that His name will be exalted among all nations. YHWH has done great signs and wonders among His people through his mighty holy prophets like Moses, Joshua, Elijah. YHWH, the Creator of Heaven and Earth has exalted His name through those people of that great city. Even, the Incarnation of YHWH ministered physically and powerfully to the people of that great city with great preaching with signs and wonders and Jerusalem was in a great awe concerning the man-God, the Son of man, the Incarnation of YHWH who was YHWH walking among mortal men. But they didn’t believe in Him, the people of that great city crucified Him for saying that He, Jesus-Christ is the only begotten son of YHWH and that He is YHWH. Like in the ancient days, that great city degenerated, that great city refused to hear the message of the prophets sent to her. After rejecting their Messiah two thousand years ago, that great city continued in a exponential degenerating sequence. The prophet Jeremiah wrote: « Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me? » One of the fears of the ancients Israelites has come true, the prophet Isaiah wrote: « And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrah. Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. » That great city is in a country where there are cities which have one of the biggest percentage of sodomites per square miles in the world. It is not wrong to spiritually call that great city, Sodom. And that city is also becoming spiritually Egypt with her rejection of YHWH (Jesus-Christ of Nazareth) and her worship of Ra, an egyptian deity. Moses warned them not to return to Egypt but they went back to Egypt spiritually by worshiping egyptian gods and claiming hypocritically that they are worshiping YHWH. As they abandoned YHWH (Jesus-Christ of Nazareth) and as they made a covenant with death, they will become the headquarters of the beast. That great city will not welcome the two witnesses (Moses and Elijah) that YHWH will send them, they will deliver them to the beast and the beast will kill them. That great city, although she is famous for her great achievements in the past, she is also famous for killing the prophets YHWH sent them. They even crucified the Incarnation of YHWH. And when the Incarnation of YHWH was walking in that great city He shouted: « O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kill the prophets, and stone them that are sent to you; how often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen does gather her brood under her wings, and you would not! Behold, your house is left to you desolate: and truly I say to you, You shall not see me, until the time come when you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. » Ariel (the household of YHWH) has become spiritually Sodom and Egypt. But Ariel is still proud claiming and clinging mightily to his election by YHWH. However, Ariel has to remember what Moses told to the Israelites : « For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death? » « For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you……. » « Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before you. Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff necked people. » Therefore to all the pan-israelites, we better cling to the imputed righteousness that YHWH bestows on all who believe in the gospel of the kingdom of YHWH of Jesus-Christ died and resurrected for the salvation of the world. Only that imputed righteousness will help us live in this dangerous end times. Let us not cling no more tightly to the election of YHWH of Ariel because Ariel has become Sodome and Egypt. Let us cling to the finished work of Jesus-Christ on calvary and his resurrection with the coming of His everlasting kingdom. However because of that big contrast between greatness and evil, we will not reject Ariel, because « The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt ». Therefore, in that sweet orange (Ariel), there are the most bitter seeds. We have all over the Bible big contrasts between sweetness and bitterness or like the contrast in the enigma of Samson: « Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. » All those contrasts are summarized to the pan-Israel (all believers in the Lord Jesus-Christ) of YHWH in those words: « For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them…….. » The commonwealth of Israel is founded not upon the self righteousness of a degenerated wine tree or fig tree but upon the finished imputed righteousness acquired by all those who believe in the finished work of Jesus-Christ on the cross with his resurrection and ascension.
Maranatha !!!! Come Lord Jesus-Christ of Nazareth !!!!!