Friday, March 31, 2017

Obamacare, the New World Order and the Mark of the Beast - Part I


I'm going to share some things you need to know but may not want to hear. Please read all the way through, even if you don't agree with everything. This is an important message. It is about the connection between Obamacare, the New World Order "beast" system in Bible prophecy and the mark of the beast.

Case in Point: Obamacare Lite

First, let's examine the recent effort by the House Republicans and President Trump to "repeal and replace" Obamacare. There has been a lot of spin from media and politicians, so we need to look closely at the details to see the truth.

Republicans have been promising to repeal Obamacare ever since President Obama and the Democrats passed it seven years ago. It has been a rallying cry to elect more Republicans. House Republicans voted dozens of times to repeal or eliminate provisions of Obamacare while Obama was in the White House. In fact, both the House and Senate Republicans passed a bill in January 2016 to repeal Obamacare. But President Obama vetoed it! Republicans loudly blamed Obama and the Democrats for defending this terrible healthcare legislation

Along came Donald Trump who campaigned on a promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. He won, as did a majority of Republicans in the House and Senate. Now Obamacare should finally be repealed, right? Wrong!

Instead of moving forward with the Obamacare repeal that already passed the House and Senate, Speaker Paul Ryan and Republican leaders crafted a bill that made some adjustments to Obamacare but fundamentally left the program in place. It was Obamacare Lite. (Yes, I actually read the Congressional Budget Office's report on the bill.) Like Obamacare, it was was based on the principle that the government should fund, regulate and encourage participation in health insurance. The Republicans bill was full of subsidies and regulations, though perhaps fewer than Obamacare. It still had a penalty for people who do not purchase approved insurance policies. Instead of a tax penalty, it required insurance companies to charge a 30% premium to any individual who let their coverage lapse more than 63 days. So individuals would pay insurance companies instead the IRS! The bill maintained Obamacare's big government, quasi-socialized health care system. It was not a repeal and not based on principles of free markets and free choice.

When the Congressional Budget Office scored the bill, they concluded it would raise premiums in the non-group individual policy market by 15% to 20% above Obamacare over the next couple calendar years. I can tell you from personal experience that Obamacare has increased my health insurance costs enormously. Last year alone the increase was 40%! This year premiums for a family of four would be around $16,000 plus an $8,000 family deductible. I would have to pay about $24,000 before materially benefiting from a health insurance policy. So the question for me is: Should I pay for my house or buy health insurance and live in a tent? The bill proposed by Republicans would have increased that amount to as much as $29,000 per year. WHAT A HORRIBLE DEAL. 

Yes, I realize low income people are benefiting from cheap, heavily subsidized premiums. Wealthy people at the top probably don't care because they can afford any price. But for self-employed families in the middle like mine, health insurance is no longer affordable under Obamacare or Obamacare Lite.

Republican leaders also added a clause in the bill to defund the abortion provider Planned Parenthood - but only for one year. Republicans could claim they defunded Planned Parenthood, when in reality it was a short-term gimmick and funding would resume again quickly. Maybe they would just front-load the payment to Planned Parenthood and wait a year for the next disbursement. In any case, it was a trick to fool people about federal funding of infanticide.

One would think President Trump, who campaigned on repealing Obamacare and stopping abortion, would object to the Republicans' Obamacare Lite and fake defunding of abortion. Instead Trump said he backed Ryan's bill "100%." He tweeted:

"After seven horrible years of ObamaCare (skyrocketing premiums and deductibles, bad healthcare), this is finally your chance for a great plan!" - Donald Trump on Twitter

That was not true at all. When Speaker Ryan and President Trump decided not to put the bill to a vote because too many conservative Republicans would not support it, Trump tweeted:

"Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood and Ocare!" - Donald Trump on Twitter  

That too was a lie. Conservative Republicans merely stopped Obamacare Lite and a fake defunding of Planned Parenthood. Donald Trump is a sharp, detail-oriented executive, and Obamacare is a central issue for the Republican Party. I do not believe he was ignorant about the situation. Trump and Republican leaders chose to be deceptive and act in bad faith. 

Finally, following standard Washington politics, Trump shifted blame to the Democrats. Along with Paul Ryan, he expressed resignation to the fact that America will be stuck with Obamacare until it sinks the entire healthcare system under its own weight. THEN he promises to solve the problem:

“The losers are Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, because they own Obamacare. They 100% own it,” Trump said. “They have Obamacare for a little while longer until it ceases to exist, which it will at some point in the near future.”

"ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!" - Donald Trump on Twitter

The United States of Globalism

So what is really going on here? Why did Republicans promise for seven years to get rid of Obamacare and, when given the opportunity, fail to do it?

Some excuse it by saying Republicans are afraid to lead or unable to govern. No, I don't believe incompetence and fear are the main problems. These politicians are serving the interests of those they represent, though it is not the people.

Others say politicians are beholden to corporate and special interests and corrupted by lobbyists and bribery. This is closer to the truth, because graft is the main driver for many politicians. They receive campaign donations from special interests that, when not all spent on the campaigns, may find their way into their pockets. There are other ways to bribe, like paying for fancy trips (i.e. boondoggles) and offering sure-fire "investments." Not to mention the seedier "benefits" of illicit drugs and sex. Once they are on the take, powers behind the scenes make sure these politicians don't step out of line by threatening to expose or prosecute them. Remember the old Tom Cruise movie The Firm? As a new hotshot lawyer at a prominent law firm, Cruise's character was seduced by a strange woman. Later, when he threatened to expose the firm's illegal activities, the firm's head of security showed him very clear, up-close photos of the encounter and threatened to mail them to his wife if he didn't keep quiet. See how that works?

What about the good guys in Congress - those with integrity and principles? I'm sorry, but they are so few that they don't make a difference.

Top politicians like Paul Ryan and Donald Trump are in a different category. I would put the Clintons, the Bushes, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi, etc. in this category too. Republicans and Democrats alike. These people knowingly and willingly serve the globalist agenda. By globalism, on one level, I am talking about the efforts worldwide to dissolve national borders, economies and militaries and form supranational unions, like the European Union and (eventual) North American Union, which will roll up into the United Nations to form a world government. It includes so-called free-trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA, TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), which are incremental steps toward dissolving national borders and handing power over to multi-national corporations and institutions

At the highest level, globalism refers to the New World Order: the one-world government, religion and economy that will be established at the end of the age according to Bible prophecy. Please see the books of Daniel and Revelation. This is Satan's agenda for the world:

"They worshiped the dragon because he gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, 'Who is like the beast? Who is able to wage war against him?'... And he was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. He was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation. All those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered."
- Revelation 13:4,7-8, Holman Bible

By the way, the Republican and Democratic Parties both serve the globalist agenda. They provide a fake contest between two political parties to give an illusion of distinction and choice and democracy, when in fact the globalist elite control both parties from behind the scenes. No matter who is in power, the globalist agenda goes forward. They don't care whether you are Republican or Democrat - only that you pick a side and believe the illusion.

Et Tu, Trump?

Wait a minute, isn't a Trump a nationalist who opposes globalism and wants to build a wall? To which I would say: You mean like he opposed Obamacare?

I'll show you what Donald Trump is about. Look closely at this picture of the iconic Trump Tower in Manhattan, where Donald Trump lives:


This picture comes from Nathan Leal's excellent article, The Trump Chronicles - Part Five - Trump Tower and the Invocation, which exposes Donald Trump as a high-level occultist. Donald Trump designed the building as a perpetual invocation to spiritual principalities of darkness:

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 6:12, New King James Version

Trump Tower is shaped to represent 7 pillars of the pagan god Baal standing over a mystical grove of trees that represent the goddess Asherah. The grove is an inverted pyramid with 6 trees on each side - 666. (Trump also lives on the 66th floor.) This is exactly the kind pagan idolatry that ancient Israel adopted from surrounding nations and for which the Lord ultimately judged and destroyed the nation. In other words, Trump constructed a "high place" in plain view in the middle of New York!

Why? Because Trump made a deal with the devil. Remember when Jesus was led into the wilderness to fast and be tempted by Satan? Here was the devil's final offer:

"Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; and he said to Him, 'All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.' Then Jesus said to him, 'Go, Satan! For it is written, "You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only."'" - Matthew 4:8-10, NASB

Notice that Jesus didn't say the devil couldn't deliver on that promise. Instead He said we should worship the Lord God only!

The devil can deliver riches, fame and power for a time - though anyone who makes a deal with him will get burned in the end. This is how Trump his achieved his success in real estate, show business and politics and received riches, fame, sex and power. It wasn't because he earned good grades at Wharton Business School or is really smart or makes great deals. That's all secondary. He knows it, by the way, as much as he likes to boast about his own greatness. Trump's success comes from his alliance with spiritual powers of darkness. This is why he made Trump Tower into a skyscraper-sized pagan altar and why he will pursue the devil's main agenda: Globalism.

For more details about the state of affairs in America as well as Donald Trump's role in it, please see my other posts:


Even Some with Discernment Will Stumble - Part II
Civil War ForebodingShadow Government, Civil War, and Blood for Blood
Donald Trump's Fascism Is Starting to Show

Obamacare: Stepping Stone to Globalism

If the real agenda is globalism, what does Obamacare have to do with it? I think the answer to that question will clarify why Republicans serving the globalist agenda would not repeal it.

First, Obamacare was designed to be a Trojan Horse that eventually collapses America's healthcare system. Once in place, it creates a slow-motion death spiral that drives up healthcare costs, overwhelms doctors and hospitals, increases taxes, government spending and debt, and discourages businesses from hiring full-time workers. Eventually costs become impossible to manage and the system collapses. 

Why would they want to do that? Obama and the Democrats really wanted single-payer, government-run health care but didn't have the political support for it. So they created a plan that expands health insurance coverage and extends the tentacles of government control in the short term (so they can claim to help people) while breaking the system in the long run. When that happens, politicians will say, "Oh no, we have to save healthcare! Here the new plan: Single-payer, socialized medicine."

We are well on the way to this goal. The US now spends about 18% of GDP on healthcare, which is about double what other industrialized nations spend. Costs are crazy high. Regulation is stifling. Insurance companies are going bankrupt or opting not to offer insurance plans in many markets.

While I submit that the secret goal of Barack Obama and the Democratic elite was to collapse healthcare with Obamacare, remember what President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan are now saying publicly:

"ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!" - Donald Trump on Twitter 

They say we have to let Obamacare collapse before we can save healthcare. Now the Democrats and the Republicans are on exactly the same page with regard to Obamacare. Because they are all globalists!!

But that is only part of the picture. The motto for the globalist elite is: "Order out of chaos." Their grand plan is to create a global economic collapse and World War III - out of the ashes of which will emerge the New World Order. In Revelation 6, war is represented by the Red Horse and economic collapse and famine are the Black Horse. The battle of Gog and Magog in Ezekiel 38-39 describes World War III.

The United States has the world's largest economy and the US dollar is the world reserve currency. If the elite want to collapse the global economy, they have to topple the American economy. If they want to topple the American economy, they have to break its largest critical sector: HEALTHCARE.

Now do you see where this is going?

Introducing the Mark of the Beast

I'd like to tell you it doesn't get worse than this, but I actually think it will.

In Part II of this article, I'll explain why I believe a version of Obamacare will introduce the mark of the beast. 

"And he requires everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark: the beast’s name or the number of his name. Here is wisdom: The one who has understanding must calculate the number of the beast, because it is the number of a man. His number is 666." - Revelation 13:16-18

But first, let's remember that our healthcare doesn't come from insurance policies or Obamacare:


"And He said, 'If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.'" - Exodus 15:26

"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; who pardons all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases." - Psalm 103:2-3



 



Judgment Begins with God's Household


"For the time has come for judgment to begin with God’s household." - 1 Peter 4:17
 
For a week now I have been feeling a disturbance in my spirit - agitated and a little sick to my stomach. I believe it’s related to the church, how the Lord feels about the wayward, slumbering church in America. These are serious times. Judgment is going to fall on the corporate church, the entertainment church, the sleeping church. The dead church will be cut off. The holy remnant church will emerge.

“Come out her, my people.”

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Shadow Government, Civil War, and Blood for Blood


In the post Civil War Foreboding, I wrote about how the Lord showed me that He will allow a spirit of conflict to arise in America that will provoke a form of civil war. This will be a judgment on our nation. Donald Trump's role is to stir up half the country against the other half, led by Obama and other globalist forces from behind the scenes. This won't be a classic civil war with "union forces" opposing "confederates" on the battlefield. In my opinion, it will probably consist of numerous chaotic civil uprisings, insurgencies and disasters that are quelled by martial law. The divisions will occur along a variety of lines: Left vs Right, Globalist vs Nationalist, Black vs White, Citizens vs Immigrants, Jihadis vs Non-Muslims, State Governments vs Federal, etc.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND THERE WILL BE NO WINNERS IN THIS CONFLICT.

I also shared why I believe the Lord showed me Obama still holds reins of power by controlling a shadow government. Since that post was published in January, the news has been inundated with stories about Obama's "shadow government" and the "deep state" opposing Trump's agenda:

How Obama is scheming to sabotage Trump's presidency (NY Post)
Obama has an army of 30,000 agitators organized through a network of leftist nonprofits who will fight Trump's agenda. Obama did not leave Washington DC, but still lives in a mansion less than two miles from the White House. 

Insiders: Obama Holdover 'Shadow Government' Plotting to Undermine Trump (Breitbart)
Several intelligence insiders say a shadow government of Obama holdovers are leaking information to derail Trump's presidency, with National Security Advisor Mike Flynn as their first great success.

Spies Keep Intelligence from Donald Trump on Leak Concerns (Wall Street Journal)
Current and former officials say US intelligence officers are withholding information from President Trump.

Glenn Greenwald: What The 'Deep State' Is Doing To Trump Is A Prescription For Destroying Democracy' (Townhall) 


While these articles just skim the surface of what is really happening, isn't it amazing that suddenly the "conspiratorial" idea of a shadow government is all over the mainstream media? Praise God, He revealed it.

Blood for Blood

And He recently revealed more. On Sunday my wife and I were having a quiet time and the Lord let us to Numbers 35, which is about manslaughter, blood avengers and cities of refuge. In particular this verse was highlighted:

Do not defile the land where you are, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.” – Numbers 35:33, Holman Bible

The heavy and sobering message we received is that God is going to atone for the blood shed by Americans by shedding their own blood. In this way He will cleanse the land.

Think of the 60 million babies killed by abortion, the untold millions killed and harmed by US foreign wars and interventions, the casualties of the CIA-run drug trade, the human trafficking and child sexual abuse and ritual sacrifice especially among the elites in our society. The blood of the innocent has not simply washed away. It cries out from the ground, just like Abel's blood after Cain slew him. Unless we individually have repented and are covered by the blood of Jesus, it will be blood for blood. God will re-balance the skewed scales of justice in America. 

"For He will avenge the blood of His servants. He will take vengeance on His adversaries; He will purify His land and His people." - Deuteronomy 32:43, Holman Bible 

This judgment will fall on all levels of society. Even the elites who think they are above accountability for the crimes they perpetuate in the world will receive their due. Think of the politicians and government leaders, corrupt corporate and banking chiefs, secret society power brokers. No one is above God's reach.

One hundred and fifty years ago America had a president who understood and acknowledged the scales of God's justice, even this aspect of blood for blood. Abraham Lincoln, at his second inaugural address in the midst of the Civil War, spoke these words to the nation: 

"Fondly do we hope -- fervently do we pray -- that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether." - Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, 1865 

Lincoln understood that the bloodshed of the Civil War was in part a divine retribution for the bloodshed of slavery. And he spoke it to the nation!

Yet if I spoke the words in this article to most churches, what do you think would be the response? I can tell you because I have already tried. Last year I contacted about 35 churches in my area about judgment. I wanted to know if church leaders understood God's judgment of America had begun and what they were doing preparing their flocks for the coming storm. Most ignored me. A few responded to disagree. One associate pastor conceded that judgment of America is a possibility but didn't really want to talk about it. 

So there you have it: They don't want to hear it. Tickle their ears and massage their egos, but don't tell them about God's justice and judgment. I think most people in churches would reject this message, because in fact they already have. (There are a few exceptions among churches, but I don't know of any in my area.)

How far America has fallen! In 1865 we had a president who humbly and publicly acknowledged the justice and judgment of God on our nation - treasure for treasure and blood for blood - but today if you speak of it in church they will hate it. Instead many talk about how God is using Donald Trump to make America great again, which is DELUSION. Or they talk about how Trump is a tyrant that Hillary and Obama and the Democrats need to save us from, which is equally DELUSION. This is all a trap and setup for conflict.

There was more to the revelation the other night. The Lord then led us to Judges 20 and 21 as well as 2 Samuel 18, both of which are about CIVIL WARS. The first describes a war between 11 tribes of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, in which there was much bloodshed. The other describes a war between David's son Absalom and the forces loyal to King David, in which there was much bloodshed.

I interpreted this to mean the bloodshed in America will come about through civil war and internal conflict. This is a message we have received before and it is definitely coming.

Finally, we were led to Jeremiah 31, which is joyful and points to our coming deliverance.

"Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old, together, for I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow. 'I will fill the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people will be satisfied with My goodness,' declares the Lord." - Jeremiah 31:13-14, NASB

There is hope through and on the other side of this. None of what I said in this article negates the love and mercy of God. There is forgiveness for all who repent and believe in Jesus Christ. There is nothing to be afraid of, not even death.

But as a nation we have forgotten the justice and judgment of God. The Lord is about to remind us that He has not forgotten.


P.S. For a second witness to this message, see "The Land Must Be Cleansed" in Diana Pulliam's blog called The Mighty Hand of God.

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Faith Not Fear



"Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid."
- John 14:27, NIV


Nothing is scary if we trust in the Lord and his promises.

Fear is natural emotion we all experience. We might feel it in response to the unknown, being out of control or potential loss or harm.

But fear is also an indicator of a lack of faith in God. The Bible tells us not to fear:

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."
- Isaiah 41:10, NIV


When fears arise, we need to go to God and work them out. Ask him to help us understand the source and perceive what is true. There is always a lie or misbelief beneath a fear. Once we see the truth, we exercise the faith to trust the Lord and stand on the truth.

Fear in the Parable of the Talents

Fear is probably Satan's greatest tool for enslaving people and holding them back from truth and righteousness. 

In the parable of the talents in Matthew 25, read the conversation between the master and the slave who hid his talent instead of using it to earn a return:

"And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed. AND I WAS AFRAID, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.' But his master answered and said to him, 'You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.' For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." - Matthew 25:24-28, NASB

The slave said he was AFRAID. Afraid of what? He thought the master was harsh and unfair, so he did nothing with his talent. As a result, it was taken from him and he was sent into the outer darkness.

Do you see the lie the slave believed? The master in this parable represents God. The slave did not believe God is good and generous. Therefore he did nothing with his talent. It was FEAR that motivated him instead of FAITH.

Except for a healthy fear of God, let us cast fear aside. As fears arise, we can take them to the Lord, work them out and get to a point of faith and truth. Then we will be unencumbered and free to earn a return for the Master, who is coming back quickly!
 
"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."
 - Hebrews 11:6, NIV


Saturday, February 18, 2017

Our Hope Is in the Age to Come


"Lift up your eyes to the sky,
Then look to the earth beneath;
For the sky will vanish like smoke,
And the earth will wear out like a garment
And its inhabitants will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be forever,
 

And My righteousness will not wane."
- Isaiah 51:6, NASB

Our hope is in the age to come.

We were born into this world and it is all we have known, so it is natural to think this is all there is. It is tempting to think that if we are going to have a good life and a future, we must build it here and now in this present reality. 

"For this world in its current form is passing away." - 1 Corinthians 7:31, Holman CSB

However, by faith in the word of God we lay hold of the truth: This world in its current form is passing away. This is not our home. This life is a testing ground where are our eternal destinies are decided. Did we repent of evil and believe in Jesus Christ to have eternal life with him? Or did we go along with the world and follow Satan into the lake of fire? Not only is our eternal position determined here, but our eternal rewards as well. God generously rewards faithful service. Jesus said to store up treasures in heaven where they endure forever, not on earth where everything will perish. That means He wants us to invest our talents and resources into doing good and advancing the Kingdom of Heaven, not building our own fiefdoms destined to perish quickly.

When I say quickly, I mean quickly! The Holy Spirit has revealed that we are approaching the end of this age. Judgments are coming on the world. The Four Horsemen of Revelation are riding. The battle of Gog and Magog and the destruction of Mystery Babylon is coming too, as well as the New World Order beast kingdom. This generation is going to see it all.

It is critical to build our faith in God and prepare to deal with suffering, persecution, calamity and loss. We must detach from this world in its present form and put our hope in the age to come. Jesus said in this world we will have tribulation. It's not going to be fun retirements with generous pensions and Caribbean cruises. The prosperity preachers' promise of "our best life now" is causing people to put their hope in this world and leading them astray - exactly what Satan wants. Shepherds need to tell their sheep the truth of what is coming from the pulpit, otherwise people may lose their faith in the fiery trials ahead.

So where is our hope? Our hope is in the age to come. Our hope is that Jesus is coming back to defeat Satan and his minions and bring peace and renewal to earth for a magnificent thousand-year reign. Beyond that even greater things are coming - a new heaven and a new earth! It's all good if we are in Christ.

"How lovely on the mountains
Are the feet of him who brings good news,
Who announces peace
And brings good news of happiness,
Who announces salvation,
And says to Zion, 'Your God reigns!'
Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices,
They shout joyfully together;
For they will see with their own eyes
When the Lord restores Zion. 
Break forth, shout joyfully together,
You waste places of Jerusalem;
For the Lord has comforted His people,
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
The Lord has bared His holy arm
In the sight of all the nations,
That all the ends of the earth may see
The salvation of our God.
Depart, depart, go out from there,
Touch nothing unclean;
Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves,
You who carry the vessels of the Lord.
But you will not go out in haste,
Nor will you go as fugitives;
For the Lord will go before you,
And the God of Israel will be your rear guard."
 - Isaiah 52:7-12