Covenantkeepers - Part 8
Psalm 83:1-5, 12
“…let us cut them off from being a nation.”
By Walter Giddings
November 24, 2024
We ended Lesson 7 Covenantkeepers with a Quote from the 1st Great Literary Work on American shores, Of Plimoth Plantation by William Bradford:
“It is well known unto the Godly and judi-
cious, how ever since the first breaking out
of the Light of the Gospel in our honorable
nation of England…what wars and oppo-
sitions ever since, Satan hath raised, maint-
ained and continued against the saints [i.e.,
the believers who were striving to yield
their whole lives to Christ]...Sometimes
by bloody death and cruel torments, other-
wise imprisonments, banishments and other
hard usages, as being loathe [that his] king-
dom should go down, the truth prevail, and
the churches of God revert to their ancient
purity and recover their primitive order,
liberty, and beauty.”
The Light and the Glory. page 107, Quoting from Bradford’s Of Plimoth Plantation.
We turned to the section in the back of the book titled Source Notes, page 362, located footnote 1, for Chapter 5, “To the Promised Land”, and read this:
“1. William Bradford, Of Plimoth Plantation,
Wright and Potter Edition, page 3. While there
are several modern editions of this classic avail-
able, anyone seriously interested should be sure
to get an unexpurgated edition, for at least one
modern edition we know of has elected to leave
out ‘irrelevant theological meditations.’”
We made note that the most hated doctrine in the 21st Century is the teaching that the Caucasian Race are the direct, lineal, uncorrupted, pure seedline descendants of The 12 Tribes of Israel. Was the banner of “irrelevant theological meditations” used to expunge every reference to our forefathers belief they are “God’s New Israel”? Does footnote 1 record the same demonic hostility to the believers striving to yield their whole lives to Christ?
(Psalms 2:1-5) Is almost the whole world drawn up in dread array against Christ followers, Christians, to persecute them to the ends of the earth, just as they did to The Saviour? Is the persecution of believers striving to Love their neighbors as themselves criminal?! Does the Bradford quote and the footnote document fang dripping, foam lipping criminal intent?! Of what Scripture(s) does this hostility put us in mind?
c Why do the heathen rage, and the
people imagine a vain thing?
p 2 The kings of the earth set them-
selves, and the rulers take counsel to-
gether, against the LORD, and against
his anointed, saying,
c 3 Let us break their bands asunder,
and cast away their cords from us.
p 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall
laugh : the LORD shall have them in
derision.
c 5 Then shall he speak unto them in
his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Psalms chapter two.
(Verse 5) When is “Then”? Does “Then” appear to be a Prophecy time marker? Some folks and people like you and me have noticed gatherings in more than several states of flesh-eating birds, even big eagle buzzards with wing spans as tall as one-story houses! Is all the heathen being gathered in our land for this judgment? Will they be judged only when judgment is completed at the House of God? (Verse 4) Does “shall laugh” indicate a future event? Will The Great I Am have the raging nations, their kings and rulers, in cosmic derision?
(Verse 2) Who is The Great I Am’s “anointed”? (Acts 4:24-28). Do we recall the Apostles were held overnight and brought before the Sanhedrin, elders of Israel, with The High Priest and their chief relatives, over the healing of the lame man who had begged alms long time at the Gate called Beautiful? Did all these in authority demand of them, “By what power, or by what name have ye done this”? Did Peter, filled with The Holy Ghost, say boldly, (Acts 4:10), “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.” In executive session the authorities conferred privately and decided to threaten them “that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.” But Peter and John answered with a question for the court to decide: “whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” Can testimony from witnesses with first-hand knowledge only be overcome with testimony from other witnesses with first-hand knowledge? They further threatened them but “finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.”, they let them go. (vv. 24-28). Peter and John reported all that the chief priests and elders had said.
c 24 And when they heard that they
lifted up their voice to God with one
accord, and said, Lord, thou art God
which has made heaven and earth,
and the sea and all that in them is:
p 25 Who by the mouth of thy servant
David hast said, Why did the heathen
rage, and the people imagine vain
things?
c 26 The kings of the earth stood up,
and the rulers were gathered together
against the Lord, and against his Christ.
p 27 For of a truth, against thy holy child
Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both
Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gen-
tiles and the people of Israel, were gath-
ered together.
c 28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and
thy counsed determined before to be
done.
Acts chapter four.
Long time students of The Scriptures will recall they prayed God to behold the “threatenings” of the counterfeit church against the 5000 of the true remnant church of the 1st Century. They asked the Lord to divinely intervene by granting to his servants the zeal to preach his word with “all boldness”, to stretch forth his hand to heal, and that signs and wonders be done “by the name of thy holy child Jesus”. And “the place was shaken where they were assembled together.”
(Psalms 2:10). How much faith did the Church of the 1st Century in Jerusalem have in the Truth of the 2nd Psalm? How much faith do we have in that Truth?
10 Be wise therefore now, O ye kings:
be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Whose kings? Whose judges? Are these the kings and judges of Israel scattered abroad? Or is this addressed to every king and judge “of the earth”? Can Scriptural witnesses answer our question? Can we get a Witness?! (Verse 5) Can we get a witness in the context?
5 Then shall he speak unto them in
his wrath, and vex them in his sore
displeasure.
Who is “them”? Is it “them” in the context of The 2nd Psalm? Is it “them” in the context of the whole scroll of The Psalms? Or is it “them” in the context of the whole of Scripture? Is it the same “them” the LORD laughs to scorn in Verse 4?
Does “the LORD” ever have Israel in derision? Or did Jesus weep over Jerusalem?
Is “them” the raging heathen and the vain imagining people? And their kings and judges? When has God ever had anybody in judgment without first issuing a warning? Did God judge Nineveh in The Book of Jonah without having his Prophet Jonah warn them? Did even the beasts/cattle, with hands, reap the blessings of repentance by believing Jonah the Prophet? (Genesis 9:9-10). Are raging heathen and vain imagining people entirely without covenant with God?
p 9 And I, behold, I establish my co-
venant with you, and with your seed
after you;
c 10 And with every living creature
that is with you, of the fowl, of the
cattle, and of every beast of the earth
with you; from all that go out of the
ark, to every beast of the earth.
Genesis chapter nine.
“And with every living creature that is with you.” Does God have a covenant with every living creature with Noah’s family on the ark “to every beast of the earth”?
What does that mean? Does The Serpent, who lied to the woman in The Garden, lie to American Israel, raging heathen, and vain imagining people about what the Rainbow symbol represents? Is the Rainbow the sign or symbol of the Covenant God made with Noah’s seed and with every living creature? What covenant with God does the Rainbow coalition mention? Does the Rainbow coalition count on American Israel’s blatant ignorance of The Scriptures? Has The Serpent safely relied on Israel’s ignorance of The Living Word of God for almost six millennia? What is a millennium? Do sheep give “stupid” a new name? Genesis 9 continues to tell us The Rainbow is the token of The Covenant! Does this mean it is not the Water, but the Fire next time?
(Back to Psalms 2:11) To whom is this command addressed?
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
The verb “serve” is in the imperative mood, which means this is clearly a command. The verb “rejoice” is also clearly in the imperative mood, meaning this is the giving of direction. To whom is this command and direction given? Are the raging nations and all their kings and judges, as well as American Israel, parties to the covenant God made with them and their kings and judges, and Noah? Has God the right and responsibility to warn them and command them for their good?
(Psalms 2:12) Is the verb, “Kiss” also in the imperative mood?
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and
ye perish from the way, when his
wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed
are all they that put their trust in Him.
Psalms chapter two.
Has “His anointed” in Verse 2 been identified as “the Son” in verse 12? “Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.” Did that apply also to the “beasts/cattle” with hands, when they repented in Nineveh? Are “all they that put their trust in Him”, “blessed”?
Are all we guilty of “irrelevant theological meditations”?
(Psalms 83:1-5) How often are the raging nations and kings of the earth and rulers confederate against Israel, American, or otherwise?
c A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep
not thou silence, O God: hold not
thy peace, and be not still, O God.
p 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tu-
mult: and they that hate thee have
lifted up the head.
c 3 They have taken crafty counsel
against thy people, and consulted
against thy hidden ones.
p 4 They have said, Come, and let us
cut them off from being a nation;
that the name of Israel may be no
more in remembrance.
c 5 For they have consulted together
with one consent: they are confeder-
ate against thee:
What follows in vv. 6-7 is a list of 10 nations. Are they 10 kingdoms? Will their rulers receive power “as kings one hour with the beast” [Revelation 17:12]? What are these 10 nations called in Verse 2? Whose enemies? (Verse 12). What do these enemies do?
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves
the houses of God in possession.
Psalms chapter eighty-three.
Are “the houses of God in possession” of God’s enemies today? Whose fault is it that God has enemies? A quick glance back at the 6 days of the Replenishment in Genesis 1 will put us in remembrance that God saw that the work of the 1st day was good. And God saw that the work of the 2nd and 3rd days were good, and good. And God saw that His work of the 4th day was good. And God saw His work of the 5th day was good. And God saw His work of the 6th day was good. And God saw that Making Adam in His Image and after His Likeness complete with the Dominion Mandate. “And God saw everything He had made, and it was very good.” No sign of enemies yet!
The word “enmity”, as most of you recall appears in Genesis 3, and lasts to the end of the Age: fallen Adam and fallen world! Has Adam lost “Dominion”, and can no longer “subdue” the earth? What always happens when an utter disaster creates a Power Vacuum? Does someone else take Power? Where do we find The Scripture(s) that reveal the someone else that took dominion?
(2 Corinthians 4:3-4) Was Adam the 1st small “g” god of the Paradise world? When Adam abdicated The Throne of Dominion, who took that throne?
p 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid
to them that are lost:
c 4 In whom the god of this world
hath blinded the minds of them that
believe not, lest the light of the glori-
ous gospel of Christ, who is the
image of God, should shine unto them.
Second Corinthians chapter four.
Is the small “g” god of this world a “blinder, persecutor of good, deceiver, impersonator, counterfeiter, corruptor, “a roaring lion...seeking whom he may devour” [1 Peter 5:8], the dragon, that old serpent, the devil, and Satan? Did our forefathers, the Pilgrims, the Puritans, and the covenantkeepers to follow, have a firm grasp on what is at stake? Is most of American Israel blindsided because we are blinded by “the god of this world”?
Did Adam’s Transgression create the Power Vacuum that let the small “g” “god of this world” take the throne of dominion? Did that leave all the earth, even the “cattle” with hands, at Satan’s mercy? Are we responsible for their suffering? Are we able to do anything about that? Did God have mercy on them by including them in the covenant He made with Noah and all living things? How complete, entire, and utterly all-encompassing is our Bankruptcy?
Are we God’s Outright Rescues? How embarrassing is it to be saved? Is it a little less easy right now to take a ride on pride? Is the mark of a covenantkeeper humility?
We began Lesson 8, Covenantkeepers, with a quotation from Bradford’s Of Plimoth Plantation, on page 107 The Light and the Glory. Bradford gives this memorable description of the demonic hostility levelled like a demolition derby at all covenantkeepers of every generation down through the ages. He describes this chief of demons, this head of all wicked angels, the gods of all the raging nations, except Israel,
“... as being loathe [that his] kingdom should
go down, the truth prevail, and the churches
of God revert to their ancient purity and re-
cover their primitive order, liberty, and
beauty.”
Would punishing obedience to any one of The Ten Commandments be obscene?! Would that violate everything The Bible defines as government? Is The Bible The Family Law Book for Covenantkeepers? From Footnote 1 we discovered that Marshall and Manuel found
“... at least one modern edition we know of
has elected to leave out ‘irrelevant theological meditations.’”
Source Notes: Chapter 5: To the Promised Land, page 362.
The unexpurgated Of Plimoth Plantation edition is listed on page 371, the 1st page of Bibliography, as “Bradford, Wm., Of Plimoth Plantation., Boston: Wright & Potter, 1901.”
In Lesson 6 Covenantkeepers we covered the apostasy of the next generation of the Pilgrims and Puritans. King Philip’s War, in a little over one year, from June 1675 to August 1676, devastated the towns and villages of their posterity, and left a believing, Covenantkeeping remnant on the New Land of American Israel! Prosperity, the Test every generation flunks, was purged by the massacres of all-out war, and replaced entirely with a load of crushing debt! Out of all this the believing, covenantkeeping remnant of American Israel was saved! Did The God of our Fathers do everything to make The Lesson indelible?!!
And, today, how many members of even our extended families can tell us The Lesson of King Philip’s War of 1675-1676? Can even one member of our families name the son of Jacob/Israel whose name means “forgetfulness”?
We concluded Lesson 6 quoting the last phrase of John 15:5, Jesus speaking: “…without me ye can do nothing.”
Does this mean with Me ye can do something?
Marshall and Manuel made a startling observation from the 204 Histories of their Search and Research:
“When King Philips War broke out and it
appeared that the Indians might drive them
back into the sea, even then, they did not do
the obvious thing, and beseech the mother
country for help. Though the war would take
a fearful toll in lives and burden them with
horrendous debts, they knew that they had to
fight it out alone. For to invite British troops
onto their soil might mean that they would
never be rid of them.”
The Light and the Glory. page 257.
These are not 8 Lessons of covenantbreaking. These are 8 Lessons of Covenantkeeping! We hurry forward. The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America, compiled by Verna M. Hall, covers the years of 1690 unto 1760, quoting liberally from Richard Frothingham’s The Rise of the Republic, 1890.
“All the colonies exercised powers of govern-
ment under authority derived from the crown.
[The charters were pacts between the King
and the colonies: Parliament was no party to
the Charters] The rights conveyed by charters
and royal instructions were necessarily vague
and indefinite; but under each form the people
shared in the control of local affairs through re-
presentative assemblies...Great Britain, like
an unnatural parent, treated her colonies, du-
ring seventy years, [1690-1760] as aliens and
rivals....
“The fidelity of the colonists to the principle
of local self-government was constant through
the whole of this period (1690 to 1760) ...
“The colonies held these liberties under gene-
ral powers derived from the crown. [The Char-
ters]
“The royal governors ... characterized the colo-
nies as imbued with pernicious political princi-
ples, as animated by a spirit of disobedience to
law, and as aiming at throwing off their depen-
dence on the crown.”
Does that accusation, that the Colonies were “animated by a spirit of disobedience to law”, sound familiar to us in 2024?
“...the prerogative…is seen in the succes-
sive measures brought forward in Parliament
to override the charters ... exercise of the
royal prerogative was regarded by the [Colonial] assemblies to be illegal ...”
“... Although there had been great political
tranquility in South Carolina, yet its governor
complained that the whole power was in the
hands of the people... the assemblies were im-
bued with the spirit of the great idea, that
government is an agency or trust, which was
to be exercised for the common good. ... They
were met by the indefinite, imperious, and
mysterious claims of the royal prerogative
which were urged by needy governors with an
arrogance and conceit that made the claims
doubly offensive. This was occurring constant-
ly through the colonial age. It is difficult to say
precisely what the prerogative was.
“It was in theory utterly hostile to the princi-
ple of local self-government. ... whether the co-
lonists spoke through the assembly or the press,
the liberty which they defended never meant an
absence of law. A sentence of the press runs, It
would fill us with the deepest shame and grief,
could we be justly charged with opposing that
sacred ordinance from heaven, civil government.’”
CHOC. [Quoting Richard Frothingham’s The Rise of the Republic]
San Francisco, California: Foundation for American Christian
Education (FACE), Third printing, December 1980. pp. 291-296
On November 20, 1772, Samuel Adams published this stirring rebuttal to the doctrine of the Crown prerogative:
“Government has no right to absolute, arbi-
trary power over the lives and fortunes of the
people; nor can mortals assume a prerogative
not only too high for men, but for angels, and
therefore reserved for the exercise of the Deity
alone.”
Report for the Committee of Correspondence entitled “The Rights of the Colonists in the section “The Rights of the Colonists as Subjects”. Old South Leaflets. The Annals of America. 20 vols.
Chicago, Illinois. Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968., Vol. 1, p 219.
c.f. Verna M. Hall. CHOC… 1976., p 36. and Marshall Foster and Mary Elaine Swanson. The American Covenant. The Mayflower Institute. 1983., p 112.
Does The American Israel of 2024 deserve to return to “that sacred ordinance from heaven, civil government”? Samuel Adam’s cousin, John Adams, wrote this prophetic warning to covenantbreakers:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral
and religious people. It is wholly inadequate
to the government of any other.”
Benjamin Franklin added to that prophecy this warning of judgment to covenantbreakers:
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
As nations become corrupt and vicious, they
have more need of masters.”
And in another place, Samuel Adams summed it all up:
“The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy
the gift of heaven, let us become a virtuous peo-
ple; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it.
While, on the other hand, if we are universally
vicious and debauched in our manners, though
the form of our Constitution carries the face of
the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be
the most abject slaves.”
Is American Israel, on the counties of the Land Mass called The United States of America, 2024, “universally vicious and debauched in our manners”? Or is there a significant Remnant of Covenantkeepers?
We read where the American Israel Colonists attempted to preserve existing government under their Charters with The Crown. We read that quote from the 18th Century American Israel press calling “civil government” a “sacred ordinance from heaven”, saying it would grieve and shame them to the uttermost if they were to find themselves in opposition to it. In that same Spirit our Forefathers in “Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776, The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America” appealed to “the Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions”. How many of us, their descendants or kindred, in 2024 can cite The Scriptures testifying to “the rectitude” of their intentions in resisting The Crown Prerogative? Prior to undertaking this search and research of how our Forefathers came to their conclusions, I, like you, surprised by the Question, would have not readily been able to do it! I have learned on many occasions that my brothers are better men than me. Shall we make this Question a part of the discussion following This Lesson? Who can cite The Scriptures our Forefathers and Kindred understood that testify to the rectitude of their intentions to resist the Crown Prerogative?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
8 Covenantkeepers
Psalms 83:1-5, 12.
“…let us cut them off from being a nation”
The Light and the Glory. page 107. quoting from Bradford’s Of Plimoth Plantation. “.. and the churches of God revert to their ancient purity, and recover their primitive order, liberty, and beauty.”
Source notes. page 362. Chapter 5 “To the Promised Land” footnote 1. William Bradford. Of Plimoth Plantation. Wright and Potter edition. page 3. “…at least one modern edition we know of has elected to leave out ‘irrelevant theological meditations’”
Psalms 2:1-5. “the LORD shall have them in derision.”
Acts 4:24-28. “the LORD shall have them in derision.”
Psalms 2:10. “be instructed, ye judges of the earth.”
Verse 5 again. “his wrath.”
Genesis 9:9-10. “to every beast of the earth.”
Back to Psalms 2:11. “serve the LORD.”
Psalms 2:12. “Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.”
Psalms 83:1-5. “let us cut them off from being a nation.”
Psalms 83:12. “let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.”
2 Corinthians 4:3-4. “the god of this world.”
Return to The Light and the Glory. page 107. describing Satan “as being loathe that his kingdom should go down, ...”
footnote 1. page 362 “one modern edition we know of has elected to leave out ‘irrelevant theological meditations.”
John 15:5 [conclusion Lesson 6] “without me ye can do nothing.”
The Light and the Glory. page 257. “to invite British troops onto their soil might mean they would never be rid of them.”
The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America. Compiled by Verna M. Hall. [Quoting from Richard Frothingham’s The Rise of the Republic., 1690] pp. 291-296. “the liberty which they defended never meant an absence of law.”
The Committee of Correspondence. “The Rights of the Colonists”. Samuel Adams: “nor can mortals assume a prerogative, not only too high for men, but for angels, ...”
John Adams: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.”
Benjamin Franklin: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”
Samuel Adams: “let us become a virtuous people.”
Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. The Last Paragraph. The Appeal to: “The Supreme Judge of the World for the rectitude of our intentions.”
