Voice of the Kingfisher speaks out …from a different perspective
by Elinor Montgomery
November 18, 2008
Sadly for most of us, the best selling Book of all time collects dust on many bookshelves. Hence, few people have the biblical understanding of the number 666. It is the number of man’s rule over man in which Satan masquerades as the trinity, with the spirit of death ruling by might and by the sword. As man’s choice of spiritual father, he is the empire-builder and author of suffering and war.
For some reason, beyond my imagination, after having first been given a pain-free, peaceful world under God with the number 777 being the number of the trinity of the divine Creator and Ruler, man made the choice for the alternative number 666 to rule over him. He continues to do so to this day. Hence, the governments of this world, under man’s laws, his financial systems and his religious systems, rule over men instead of God’s Law and His justice.
Each religious/state nation has its own government system of 666, whereby some become stronger than others. The heart of man-ruled nations is to conquer and control the weaker nations by the sword and warfare, in order to establish empires. The process nearly always begins with a little man with a big ego, full of pride, wanting to flex his muscle in order to make men bow to his will. Generally, a charismatic leader will rise up with the need to conquer others in order to rule like a god. Such behavior is the embodiment of the spirit of Lucifer, a fallen angel from heaven, known as the devil.
God set up His own nation Israel, which He alone intended to rule to show the difference between a nation under His ruler-ship and all the other nations under the ruler-ship of man, whose father is the devil. But it could only have been shown if His people had been obedient to His Law and had depended on Him for provisions instead of becoming dependant on trade with other nations and getting involved with the worship of their gods of religion. He wanted His people to be in separation from the systems of men to allow Him to rule over them completely, in order to demonstrate peace and liberty, which only come from His rule.
Israel could have shown the glory of God at work had she been obedient to Him, but she never was obedient. So God’s presence departed from her to move through Jesus to the spiritual nation of Israel. He allowed her to have her own Egyptian period of enslavement in an extended entombment throughout the church age within the Romanism of Christianity until it was time for the Lord to call her out, in the same manner as He called Lazarus from the tomb.
It would be time for her, at last, to become the birthing bride of Israel, producing the true sons of God, as a restored apostolic church on the old apostolic foundation of truth. She would be a free woman again, clothed in the sun with a garland of twelve stars upon her head, ready at last to be the witness to the truth as the Lord called His church to be, in the same manner as He had witnessed before her while on earth.
It was in America that God ruled in His land of promise in a New World (as opposed to the One World). God gave His church a homeland in America, where His Bible ruled in Law, being the governing force behind the nation and the foundation for all courtroom justice. This was the Book, and the only Book, which could be the measure of truth for all Americans including, above all, their judges. It was deemed by the Constitution of the land that one could swear on no higher authority than the Word of God, which became the fundamental truth upon which America was founded. It was deemed by law to be a Book of fundamentals, not a book of relatives that comes from religious doctrines.
The courts’ judges originally came from a church system in America in which the pulpits were alive with the message of salvation, to which the French philosopher and historian, Alexis de Tocqueville testified in the early 19th century. The truth of the gospels, embedded in every aspect of American life, was the basis for the American Way. We enjoyed peace and liberty from controlling empires, which had no such firm foundation in any of the godless religions they embraced.
Our freedoms from religious control came only from God, and we became the envy of the world as our people prospered and grew to become a mighty world power with which to be reckoned. Our power was never used to build empires but rather to defend liberty at home and aid threatened nations in fear of coming under the foreign dictatorial rule of the empire-builders, who always threaten the liberty of the entire world.
But now, America is going the way of her sister nation, Israel, developing a heart of stone toward God while, at the same time, revealing her nakedness in her harlotry with the nations of this world and their gods. Like her sister, she has a propensity for punishment in her choice for the curse instead of the blessing of the Law.
Israel’s downfall began almost immediately after she had just been liberated from her captivity to Egypt when, at the foot of Mt. Sinai, where Moses was receiving the Law, she began doing a satanic dance with Satan, himself, while worshiping the golden calf. She had barely been freed miraculously by God from her slavery when she began complaining like a spoiled child about His provisions. Eventually, she rejected Him and His Law entirely, asking for a king of the world so she could be like all the other nations.
This is what we commonly know today as liberalism – that is to say, separation from God so that, instead of having liberty under His Law, there is freedom from His Law. It always leads back to the problem of embracing the sin of the Garden, by choosing Satan’s ruler-ship as opposed to that of the Creator.
God knew from the beginning what was best for His creation, but prideful man, who thought he knew better, would not listen. So why is it that we ask where God is when bad things happen to good people? He has always been there for us, but we choose to reject Him, that is to say, until times get rough and we come to know that only He can provide that which is good for us.
Though the people of Israel wanted King Saul, God set up His choice among men as king over Israel in the person of a shepherd boy called David who learned at an early age how to protect his flock from the deadly enemy (Satan). David was a godly king who loved the Lord and desperately wanted the Spirit of God to rule over his life. He made mistakes and sinned grievously, but he repented and always turned back to God. It did not mean life was easy for him, but he never let go of the Spirit’s rule over his life for the worship of any other god. He loved God with a passionate heart that panted after Him.
His son, Solomon, was a different story. He firmly established the rule of 666 over Israel to become the king who would see all but a remnant of the nation torn away from his throne so that none of his descendants would ever rule over Israel again. The inheritance of the throne would go to a remnant of those saved for the sake of his father, David. His economic free-trade-plan with the other nations led to an income in the gold trade of 666 talents of gold a year by dealing with the nations, which God had purposely separated from His people (see 2 Chronicles 9:13-14).
This seems to have strong shades of the situation in America today, as she trades with China and other countries, which are known to be the enemies of America, going in debt up to her ears and beyond, costing her people their jobs in order to get a bargain. One has to ask before buying whether or not it really is a bargain and what is the price one has to pay in order to get that bargain.
Solomon built up his stalls of horses and chariots in large numbers, making himself a power-house over the kings of the nations all the way to the border of Egypt. His throne had 6 steps up to it with a footstool of gold. Twelve lions stood there with 6 on each side of the steps (see 2 Chronicles 9:18-19). As his trade with the world grew, he did the forbidden of God by taking 700 wives, princesses of foreign nations, along with 300 concubines. They turned his heart from God so that he brought their national religious idols into God’s separated nation of Israel to please his foreign wives.
Israel came to worship other gods while Solomon cared little about the offense he was causing to God, as Israel passed back into unity with the other nations. It certainly appeared to be the making of a foundation in Israel that was similar to that forming, as I write, in America. She now is being forced by her leaders to become a multi-cultic nation, in order to make way for the coming One World Order of the united nations of the Antichrist.
Have we not become a people enamored by the cults of eastern Gnostic religions? Have their gods and gurus not been foisted upon us by governments pushing multiculturalism instead of endorsing and claiming the American and Canadian way under God? I wonder how long it will be before the ACLU and other such liberal and ignorant groups concerning our heritage in God will demand a stop be put to singing God Bless America and God bless our land, glorious and free.
And so, Solomon rested upon his own wisdom, rejecting the truth of God in order to set up the government of man in his own power instead of under the power of God. He developed a strong financial system while, at the same time, embracing the religions of the world, all the time allowing his worship for God to lapse. The number 666 was written all over King Solomon, shockingly, in the space of just one generation of time away from his father, King David.
Likewise, America barely had her constitutions in place when the satanic attack of liberalism broke out against liberty. Liberalism is the slave-maker of men and the destroyer of liberty in God’s Law. The final goal of Satan and his liberalism is for a one world monetary system, combined with a one world government and a one world religious system to replace the rule of God in not only the nations of the world but also in God’s chosen nation.
All, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, will receive a mark either on their right hand or on their foreheads, allowing no one to buy or sell except those who have the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666 (Revelation 13:18).
The fullness of the gentiles is the fullness of these three systems of economics or trade, politics or government and religion or cults, to the point that they become one in global proportions, over all of which Satan will rule and take up his throne among men as the pretender. It is unfolding before our very eyes as the wrath of God reaches its zenith and His judgment is about ready to fall.
He is in the process of taking down the religious system (judgment first coming upon the religious system of Christianity, which we are seeing, already in progress), the economic system (as demonstrated by the twin towers of world trade, having become nothing more than dust), and the government (the end of liberty for His people under governments now full of liberalism) in America.
Globalism is here and the One World Order, ruled by the Antichrist, is just around the corner. It has always been at the stone-cold heart of man to have Satan rule over him, no matter what the suffering would be, including death. Jesus called His church to be a voice for truth, but the church has given herself away as a harlot requiring no payment for her favors (see Oholibah of Ezekiel 23). But then, the institutional systems of religion never were the true apostolic church.
As world systems evolve, the true church will make her exodus from religion to be restored as the voice for truth that she was called to be. She has her own mark of protection from God on her forehead, as she goes into labor to bring forth true sons for God. At the same time, the religious Babylonian harlot will attach herself to the beast. The true son will ascend to the throne room but the harlot will ride the beast to the bottom of the sea.
Dust off your Bibles and begin to read! Gain wisdom and understanding (see Proverbs 4:7), for the choice between life and death now rests in your hands in these, the final moments before midnight.