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naturally follows that THE ORGANIZATION and the GOVERNMENT of
God's people, at least as ordained and sanctioned by the Lord,
EXISTED ONLY AS LONG AS THE MARRIAGE UNION WHICH ESTABLISHED IT!
If the marriage was done away, the ORGANIZATION and the CHURCH
GOVERNMENT was at the same time done away. For it was only this
marriage relationship which established the organization---the
kingdom---the government, both civil and ecclesiastical.
When God first proposed the Old Covenant marriage, (Ex. 19:5-
6), He promised His people that IF---notice the IF---they would
be obedient, as a wife should to her husband, they would become
"a kingdom of PRIESTS, and an holy NATION." In other words, a
GOVERNMENT of a religious character---a CHURCH GOVERNMENT!
This is repeated in Leviticus 26. There the blessings to
accrue for obedience are enumerated, together with the PUNISHMENT
for DISOBEDIENCE. And what was that punishment to be?
Notice it!---"they that hate you shall REIGN OVER YOU . . .
SEVEN TIMES"---or 2520 years! (Verses 14-28).
Look at it, in your own Bible. If Israel, the WIFE, married
unto the Lord, proves disobedient, Israel is to LOSE her
government. No longer to be AN ORGANIZATION! Enemy nations
shall REIGN OVER---rule over---the Israelites. Their own
government no longer will rule them. No longer will they be an
organization of their own.
This God threatened to turn the GOVERNMENT---THE ORGANIZATION,
if you please, over to the GENTILES for 2520 long years, TAKING
ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT AWAY FROM HIS PEOPLE!
Now let us see whether He did that!
Israel, of course, disobeyed.
"And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel
committed adultery I HAD PUT HER AWAY, AND GIVEN HER A BILL OF
DIVORCE." (Jer. 3:8).
Surely that ought to settle the matter! Israel was DIVORCED!
This out off the GOVERNMENT, the ORGANIZATION, from among God's
people, and TURNED IT OVER TO THE GENTILES FOR 2520 LONG YEARS---
until the very present generation! Still other Scriptures PROVE
it!
GOVERNMENT AND ORGANIZATION
TURNED OVER TO GENTILES
Let us follow the story thru the Scripture. Let us see if the
other Scriptures confirm this astounding truth!
Israel sinner first, and was taken captive to Assyria about
721 B.C. But the House of Judah remained, and as long as they
did God's true BIBLE FORM OF ORGANIZATION and CHURCH GOVERNMENT
continued with them.
But soon Judah was sinning even worse than Israel; and they
too, were taken captive. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon captured
the Jews, destroyed Jerusalem, moved the Jews to the land of the
Chaldeans. Among them was Daniel, the prophet.
Soon after this captivity, Nebuchadnezzar had the dream in
which he saw the great metallic image. Of course you are already
familiar with this.
Only Daniel could tell the king his dream, and its meaning, as
GOD had revealed it to him. But notice a point in its
interpretation:
"This is the dream," Daniel said, after describing the image,