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������ THE VINE OF THE EARTH ‑By Bertrand L. Comparet
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������ Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:12:10 ‑0700
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������� THE VINE OF THE EARTH
���������������� By Bertrand L. Comparet
���� The Bible is a true reflection of life, both lives as it should be,
and would be if Yahweh's commands were obeyed, and life as it
actually is under the present satanic world order. Therefore it must
and it does, contrast the true with the false, for each element of
Yahweh's good plan, Satan has made his deceptive counterfeit. The
Bible warns us of this and tells us of what to be aware, and of
whom to be aware. To comfort His people, Yahweh also tells us
how it will ultimately work out; much of this is in parables, both
in the Old and New Testaments. One of these is the parable of the
vines, Yahweh's own vine and the vine of the earth.
���� Yahweh has called His people Israel His sheep in some
parables; He also calls them His vine in this parable in Psalm
80:8‑11. "Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out
the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and
didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were
covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs of it were like the
goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her
branches unto the river." Notice this was Yahweh's own planting. It
was His own vine and it should have brought forth the right kind of
fruit. If nothing but His vine had been
there, we can presume that it would have done so.
���� But trouble developed, for the vine eventually began bringing
forth the wrong kind of fruit. Yahweh consistently develops this
parable of the vines, we find the next stage of it in Isaiah 5:1‑7.
"Now I will sing
to My well beloved a song of My beloved touching his vineyard. My
well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it,
and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the
choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a
winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes:
and it brought forth wild grapes! And now, O inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge I pray you, between me and
My vineyard. What could have been done more to My vineyard that
I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring
forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?"
���� What is this vineyard, which has so, disappointed Yahweh? We
find the explanation of this parable in Isaiah 5:7. "For the vineyard
of Yahweh is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant
plant."
Therefore, the people of Israel constitute Yahweh's vine, we find
many places where this parable is continued.
���� Yahweh's people Israel have disappointed Him, by failing to
bring forth the fruit, which He could rightfully expect, from the
people of His own selection. How did this come about? For the
explanation, we turn to the prophet Jeremiah. The Bible is always
true to its own law of the two witnesses; everything must be
proven by the testimony of at least two witnesses. Therefore you
will never find the entirety of any matter in the writings of just one
prophet.
���� Self‑styled scholars write learned and ponderous volumes of
commentaries on the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah etc. However, they
have never been able to give a true explanation of it, because you
cannot find the entirety of any one message in the book of just one
prophet. You must find the rest of it in the writings of some other
prophet, who perhaps wrote centuries earlier or later.
���� We will continue with the parable of the vines in Jeremiah 2:21.
"Yet I planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are
thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto Me?"
The word translated strange, is the Hebrew word zoor, meaning an
alien of another race. The trouble was that
those of another race had infiltrated what should have been
Yahweh's own vineyard, containing only His people Israel. Of
course this other race produces fruit of its own kind, even when it
is among Yahweh's own people Israel.
���� That this has been the source of the corruption is emphasized in
Jeremiah 2:25. "Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy
throat from thirst! But thou said, "There is no hope: no; for I have
loved strangers, and after them will I go." The word strangers are
translated from the Hebrew word zoor,
meaning persons of another race. This has been our history from
ancient times even to this very day.
���� We have opened our gates to those who hate everything we
have held as an ideal and above all, they hate our Redeemer,
Yahshua. They don't come to adopt our principles and pursue our
ideals; they come in their greed, to take of our prosperity. They
soon discovered how to corrupt us in ways that rapidly
increases their wealth and power.
���� In ancient times, the ancestors of these mixed ones led us into
worship of stone idols. Today they have led us into the worship of
the most immoral among the movie stars and the most corrupt
among the politicians. We haven't raised them to our level, for this
was never possible, they have dragged us down
to their level. What fruits are now brought forth in Yahweh's
vineyard? Pornographic books and movies, the utter degradation of
art, literature and music. There is rioting in the streets, the
ever‑increasing tyranny of power drunk politicians, whose
corruption and even treason has become so commonplace that
they no longer excite indignation.
���� What will be the outcome of this? If we don't get rid of this alien
influence and turn back to Yahweh, terrible judgment must be the
result. There is no future, no hope, except in restoring our loyalty,
our worship of Yahshua. John 15:1‑8 tells us, I am the true vine, and
My Father is the husbandman. Every
branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more
fruit. Now are ye clean, through the word, which I have spoken unto
you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abide
in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches; he
that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:
for without Me ye can do nothing. If a man abideth not in Me, he is
cast forth as a branch, and he is withered; and men gather them
and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in Me,
and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what
ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Here in is My Father glorified,
that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples."
���� We find powerful figures of Jews in our government using all
their power to disown our Savior Yahshua. They even remove,
from all government departments, any mention of the name of
Yahweh. These Jews use the pretense that our constitution forbids
it! As they well know, our nation was founded by Christians to be a
Christian nation. For that purpose only, did these pilgrims leave
their comfortable homes in a civilized land and come to a
wilderness peopled by hostile savages. All of our original thirteen
colonies
required belief in the divine inspiration of the Bible and the
Christian religion, as a condition of election or appointment to
public office. For more than a century and a half, beginning with the
very men who wrote the constitution, we have lived under that
same constitution in what the Supreme Court has recognized as a
Christian nation.
���� The words of the constitution have not changed, in this respect,
since it was written. How can its meaning ever been reversed, it
cannot and it hasn't. Men desire to abolish the foundation on which
we alone could build that greatness and freedom, our Christian
heritage. They seek to substitute for Yahweh's vine, the vine of the
earth.
���� The first mention of this is found quite early in the Bible in
Deuteronomy 32:31‑33. "For their rock is not as our Rock, even our
enemies themselves being judges: For their vine is of the vine of
Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of
gall, their clusters are bitter; their vine is the poison of dragons and
the cruel venom of asps."
���� The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were inhabited by another
race, to which the Israelites were not related. The grapes of this
vine of Sodom are the individual members of that race; Yahshua
identified them as the children of the devil in John chapter 8.
���� In Ezekiel 16:1‑3 Yahweh says to the people of Jerusalem, "Son
of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say, thus
saith Yahweh unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and nativity is of the land
of Canaan: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite."
���� Yahweh could not truthfully have said that to any Israelite, so He
didn't say it to any Israelites. Yahweh said it to the people of
Jerusalem, the capital city; there is a great difference. Today you
could truthfully say to the people of Washington, D.C. our capital
city, ninety percent of your population are Negroes and most of the
rest are anti‑ Christian." However, you could not truthfully say this
about the United States as a whole. Out of our 250 million
population, about 190 million are white Christians; only about 11%
are Negroes.
���� Today our capital city is not a fair sample of the nation as a
whole, exactly as it was in Jerusalem when Ezekiel wrote. In
Jerusalem, people of other races, Amorites, Hittites and other
Canaanites, had infiltrated and wormed their way into positions of
power. They became the advisors surrounding the king
and the ruling classes of Jerusalem these weren't Israelites. In fact,
they were driving the true Israelites out, the true members of the
tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
���� This is confirmed in Ezekiel 11:14‑15 where we read, "Again the
word of Yahweh came unto me saying, Son of man, thy brethren,
even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of
Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem
have said, Get you far from Yahweh unto us is this land given in
possession."
���� The inhabitants of Jerusalem were driving out the entire house
of Israel, showing that the inhabitants of Jerusalem were not
members of any of the tribes of Israel. We find this confirmed in
Isaiah 3:8‑9 which says, "For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is
fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh,
to provoke the eyes of His glory. The show of their countenance
doth witness against them: and they declare their sin as Sodom,
they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil
unto themselves."
���� Their faces could recognize these evil Canaanite Jews in
Jerusalem. "The show of their countenance doth witness against
them." This could not be true if they were Israelites, because they
would have faces like all the other Israelites. If you wanted to
condemn the ruling class of China, you couldn't say that their faces
could recognize them. They would have the same kind of
Mongolian faces as the rest of the Chinese. The people who were in
power in Jerusalem, who were responsible for the evil customs,
which they induced the nation to follow, told the entire house of
Israel to go far away. These evil people told Israel that the land of
Jerusalem was given to them, these people didn't look like
Israelites, and could be
recognized by their faces.
���� The true Israelites, of the northern kingdom of Israel and the
southern kingdom of Judah, were the ancestors of the Anglo
Saxon, Scandinavian and Teutonic people of today. They all looked
basically the same. Not only is this a logical deduction, but also we
have further proof in the ancient monuments, which portray the
Israelites. These monuments always show the Israelites as having
straight noses, typical of Anglo Saxons. Other monuments, when
they show Hittites or other Canaanite people, always show a hook
nosed face.
���� Naturally such Canaanite faces would stand out in contrast to the
Anglo Saxon, Israelite faces of Jerusalem. Even today these
Canaanite faces stand out in Washington, D.C., London, New York,
Los Angeles and other governmental or commercial cities. These
are the people that can be recognized by the mere sight of their
faces. These were the people that told the entire house of Israel to
get out of Jerusalem, as these Canaanites were taking the land for
themselves.
���� These infiltrating Canaanites weren't part of Yahweh's own vine,
for they never were any part of true Israel. They had secured
positions of wealth and power in Israel and Judah. They were
corrupting the nation so that it was no longer bearing the sort of
fruit, which Yahweh expected from His vine.
���� These Canaanite infiltrators are also the same people against
whom Yahweh spoke in Isaiah 57:3‑4. In the Hebrew He calls these
Canaanites, "children of inborn transgression, and a false seed."
This is why in Jeremiah 2:21 Yahweh says to the kingdom of
Judah, "Yet I planted thee a precious vine, a wholly
right seed: how then didst thou change thyself towards Me into the
degenerate planting of the strange vine?" The word strange is the
Hebrew word nokri, meaning a person of another race.
���� Clearly these people, whom Yahweh recognized by the sight of
their faces, this strange or alien vine, could not share the final great
destiny of Yahweh's own vine, the people of Israel. In Ezekiel
chapter 15 we read, "And the word of Yahweh came unto me
saying, Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any other tree,
or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest? Shall wood
be taken thereof to do any work? Or will men make a pin of it, to
hang any vessel thereon?"
��� "Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel: the fire devoureth both
the ends of it, and the midst of it is burnt. Is it fit for any work?
Behold, when it was whole, it was fit for no work: how much less
shall it be fit yet for
any work when the fire hath devoured it and it is burned?
Therefore, thus saith Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of
the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will set My face against them; and
ye shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set My face against them.
And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a
trespass, saith Yahweh."
���� Note this is directed against those same inhabitants of
Jerusalem, those who can be recognized by their hook nosed
faces. These were the ones that ordered the true Israel to get out
and let them take over the land of Jerusalem. Did you notice
Yahweh told Ezekiel these inhabitants of Jerusalem had committed
a trespass?
���� When you go onto somebody else's land, without any right to do
so, then you are committing a trespass. Yahweh says that these
inhabitants of Jerusalem had committed a trespass; they had no
right to be where they were. This further identifies them as being
no part of the real Judah or any other tribe of
Israel.
���� Both the Bible and ancient history tell us Yahweh kept His word
about driving this Canaanite people out of Jerusalem, where they
had no right to be. These Canaanites endured two terrible sieges
when the
Babylonian armies came and surrounded Jerusalem. Many
thousands of them were killed. Other thousands died of starvation
and pestilence before the Babylonian army finally captured the city.
We can feel reasonably sure that the Babylonians, angered by the
long fighting and the losses they also suffered,
were none too gentle with those they captured. As Yahweh said,
"They shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour
them".
���� Of those who were not taken into captivity at that time, some
fled into Egypt, where Yahweh prophesied another disaster would
come upon them, this did happen. Those who remained in the land
at the time of the siege of Jerusalem, by the Romans in 70 A.D.,
endured starvation, which reduced them to�� cannibalism. Over a
million of them died in that siege and the capture of Jerusalem.
���� There remains to be completed Yahweh's final destruction of
this counterfeit vine of the earth. The destruction will be completed
in connection with the Russian invasion of us and Jerusalem, which
is so clearly prophesied in Ezekiel chapters 38 & 39. By this attack
on us, Russia injures Yahweh's own vine, and Yahweh's judgment
and vengeance is set in motion.
���� In Joel chapters 1 & 3 we read, "For a nation is come up upon My
land, strong and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a
lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. He hath laid My
vine waste, thither cause Thy mighty ones to come down, O
Yahweh. Let the heathen be awakened, and come up to the valley
of Jehoshaphat (Yahweh's judgment), for there will I sit to judge all
the heathen round about, Put Ye in the sickle, for the harvest is
ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the vats overflow;
for their wickedness is great."
���� This is developed more fully in Revelation 14:14‑20 where we
read, "And I looked; and behold, a white cloud, and upon the cloud
sat one like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden
crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out
of the temple, crying in a loud voice to Him that sat
upon the cloud, Thrust in Thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come
for Thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And He that sat
on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth; and the earth was
reaped."
���� And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven,
he also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came from the
altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him
that had the sharp sickle saying, Thrust in thy sickle, and gather the
clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. And
the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of
the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of
Yahweh. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and
blood
came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the
space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."
���� This gathering out of those Canaanites, who make up Satan's
counterfeit vine, is the same event, which Yahshua spoke of in His
parable of the tares and the wheat in Matthew chapter 13. This is
where Yahshua said that the tares, poisonous weeds growing
among the wheat, were the children of the devil
living among the children of Yahweh. The angels will gather out
these tares at the time of the harvest of the earth.
���� Don't think this will be a peaceful process; it is the bloodiest kind
of war. We read in Revelation 19:11‑16 about this same treading of
the winepress of the wrath of Yahweh. "And I saw heaven opened,
and behold, a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make
war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many
crowns; and He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and
His name is called the Word of Yahweh. And out of His mouth goeth
a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He
shall rule them with a rod
of iron; and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath
of Almighty Yahweh. And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a
name written, King of Kings."
���� In Isaiah 63:1‑4 is recorded a vision that Isaiah received. "Who is
this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?
This that is glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His
strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Wherefore
art Thou red in Thine apparel, and Thy garments
like him that treadeth in the wine vat? I have trodden the winepress
alone; and of the people there was none with Me: for I will tread
them in Mine anger, and trample them in My fury; and their blood
shall be sprinkled upon My garments, and I will stain all My raiment.
For the day of vengeance is in Mine heart,
and the year of My redeemed is come."
���� Thousands of years have consistently demonstrated it is
impossible for the mixture of good and evil to exist together. To
have partly Yahweh's own vine and partly Satan's vine of the earth,
to grow together without Yahweh's vine becoming corrupted by the
presence of the evil seed among them, is impossible. The great
realities have not changed at all. The principle is the same, whether
these evil people cheat you out of shekels or dollars. We will never
be able to develop the way Yahweh planned for us until
Yahweh's own vine can grow alone, with no intermixture of the
vine of the earth. No matter how drastic the methods must be, the
removal of the corrupt infiltrators is the greatest of mercy.
���� In the Apocrypha, 2 Esdras 9:20‑22 boils it all down to a very few
words. Yahweh has been talking with Esdras, who was asking Him
about the events which were to end the age. Yahweh explained to
Esdras, "So I considered the world; and behold, there was peril
because of the devices that were come into it. And I saw, and
spared it greatly; and have kept Me a grape of the cluster, and the
plant of a great people. Let the multitude perish, them which were
born in vain; and let My grape be kept, and My plant: for with great
labor have I made it perfect."
���� In the kingdom of Yahweh, for which we hopefully wait, there is
no room for the satanic counterfeit vine of the earth. The removal
of this evil will allow Yahweh's children to live happy, productive
lives in the
paths of righteousness, which Yahweh has marked out for us.