Scattering the Power of the Holy People

Posted : 2 May, 2013 02:15 PM

Scattering the Power of the Holy People



The holy people are found in Isaiah 62: 12, "Go through, go through

the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the

highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

Behold the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, say ye to

the daughter of Zion, Behold thy salvation cometh; behold his reward

is with him, and his word before him. And they shall call them, The

holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and they shall be called,

Sought out, A cry not forsaken."



Jesus Christ is in Isaiah 62:10-12. The holy people are his people,

those born again in him (John 3: 1-8), by the word of God (I Peter 1:

23) of any race or ethnic origin (Galatians 3:28-29), the spiritual

house of I Peter 2: 5, and the chosen generation of I Peter 2: 9.



The holy people are found in Daniel 8: 24, "And his power shall be mighty,

but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall

prosper, and practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy

people."



"He" can be seen to be fulfilled first by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and

the Holy People are

physical Israel. In our own timeline, the end times, the holy people

who are destroyed are the Christians in apostasy. They are

spiritually killed by the huge army of horsemen in Revelation 9: 16.



Daniel 12:5-7 says "Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood

other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the

other on that side of the bank of the river.

6. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters

of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

7. And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of

the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto

heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a

time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to

scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be

finished.



Scattering the power of the holy people means something other than

literally dispersing them all over the world. Scattering the power means diminishing

their power. This would be, first of all, their spiritual power, but

also their earthly power, that is, their power to influence the

political, cultural, educational, and other aspects of the world.



"Scatter" is Strong's Exhaustive Concordance number 5310, naphats, "to dash to pieces, or scatter, be beaten in sunder, break in pieces ,broken, , cause to be discharged,dispersed, ..."



Daniel 12: 5-7 is a prophecy for the end times, the timeline of the

New Covenant, since verse 7 says "...when he shall have accomplished

to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be

finished." The power of the holy people will be diminished at the

time of the end. But we see in Revelation 12: 17 that a remnant will

keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of jesus Christ.

The 144,000 appear in Revelation 7 and Revelation 14 who follow the

lamb wherever he leads, and having no deception. In Revelation 14: 1

they stand with Christ on mount Sion.



The spiritual power of the Christians in the end times is diminished

by the false teachers, or false prophets, who again are seen as a huge

army of horsemen in Revelation 9: 16. Their power to influence the

world around them is also diminished by the army of horsemen, the

false prophets.



Matthew 24: 11 predicts that "...many false prophets shall rise, and

shall deceive many. And I John 4: 1 tells us that "Beloved, believe

not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because

many false prophets are gone out into the world."



There are several other New Testament scriptures that show us the

apostasy which occurs before Christ appears again.



II Thessalonians 2: 3 says "Let no man deceive you by any means for

that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and

that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition."



Luke 13: 18-21 supports II Thessalonians 2: 3, saying that the end times

church is to be leavened and the word "till" in verse 21 indicates that this

leavening is tooccur over a period of time.



"Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto

shall I resemble it?

19.It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into

his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the

air lodged in the branches of it.

20. And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?

21. It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of

meal, till the whole was leavened."



The falling away - from the truth - and the leavening of the Christian

community by false doctrines diminishes the spiritual and earthy power

of that community, called the holy people.



Paul in I Corinthians 5: 6-7 warns that "Know ye not that a little

leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as

ye are unleavened."



He is warning that a little bit of false doctrine will grow and

contaminate the entire loaf, that is, a little bit of false doctrine

will increase over time and make an entire ministry impure in its

teachings.



"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some

shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and

doctrines of devils;" I Timothy 4: 1



"But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and

being deceived." II Timothy 3: 13.



"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but

after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having

itching ears;

4. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be

turned unto fables." II Timothy 4: 3-4



Paul's prophecy about the personality traits of people the last days

when perilous times shall come is also a prophecy of the falling away

from the Gospel once delivered to the saints. "This know also, that in

the last days perilous times shall come.

2. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,

proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy....

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such

turn away...

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist

the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith." II

Timothy 3: 1-2, 5, 7-8



Paul is not just describing the personality traits of people in the

world outside the churches

in the last days. He is talking about the church at that time because

he mentions these people have a form of godliness but deny the power

of God, and that they resist the truth and never come to the knowledge

of the truth.



The II Timothy church is the holy people in the end time whose

spiritual and earthly powers are diminished because of the many false

prophets who have come into the church and have led it into apostasy.

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