People Scattered PM Our Father was the same in the beginning as He is today and forever. He never changes.

His plan for us had different dispensations such as the time prior to, and after, sending Christ to this earth, but His divine plan for us did not change, nor did the rules. Man has always wanted a king, or someone in power that they could see. God allowed them Saul, and others, but as we see through history man is not capable of governing his people fairly. Then God sent Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Who is our King and will reign forever over us after this earth age. He came in the flesh and man had someone he could see and touch. Since the crucifixion man has had access to our Father, through Yahshua. Our Father didn't change, but allowed us the proof of His grace through the precious blood of our Saviour. Anyone who chooses not to approach God through His Son Jesus, may not come to Him. My point is that God put many things in motion thousands of years before our Saviour came to this earth and as Christ said, He didn't change one purpose or plan of His Father. He in fact fulfilled what God promised and reinforced the rest of His Father's prophecy and plan. (He removed the need for animal sacrifice, but this also was a fulfillment of prophecy). Let us explore or discuss why God scattered His children through the generations. It could have been because He was so angry with them for worshipping everything but their own Father. Or like the time He scattered them for their own protection allowing them to be taken captive by a bigger prosperous nation. Each time they emerged from captivity far richer and larger than they were before. What about the majority of the ten tribes during the Assyrian captivity? Some will say the majority were never heard from again. It just depends on whether you know who you are looking for or not. There is overwhelming historical proof (not to mention the fulfillment of God's prophecy) that those tribes migrated over the Caucasus Mountains, later being called Caucasians. They went through Spain and into Eastern Europe settling later into America. Frankly, this is why Shepherd's Chapel brings to you the documentaries it works so hard on. If you look for the footprints, you find that they were there all the time. For example, that's why it's really no mystery to see a stone found just north of the Rio Grande, with the complete ten commandments on it in ancient Hebrew.

Is it a mystery that God's hand moved them into the blessing that He promised their father, Jacob? God told Rebecca before their birth that she bore two nations (America and Russia) of which the elder (Esau) would serve the younger (Jacob). Are they two little countries that fight over a piece of land? Hardly! It's easy enough to see the blessing the great nation (U.S.) has received as opposed to another great nation that must be fed (again and again) by grain from America, else it would starve. God scatters His people for their protection and as seed, to take root and spread His Word. When they formed the government of the U.S. it caused the greatest Christian nation of all time to be formed. If you don't believe it just read the U.S. Constitution or check the coins and see if they still say "In God we trust". As the leaven (yeast) spreads throughout many loaves, so does one of God's seeds bring about growth wherever it is planted. The ministry of Shepherd's Chapel alone, from one little spot, is able to spread across and teach all of this hemisphere (via satellite) at one time. In 1996, through innovation via the Internet, it is spreading and growing by leaps and bounds as it continues to reach out to the whole world. Let's go back in history and try to understand God's feelings when He scattered Israel after bringing them out of their Egyptian captivity. God was present with them in every possible way. He rolled back the waters of the Red Sea. He shone a pillar of light to lead their way. He dropped quail and manna from the sky to feed them. But, it wasn't enough because while God was giving Moses the law for these people to live by, they were busy worshipping images created by their own hand. I think a king would have probably destroyed the whole bunch, but God has infinite mercy and His anger didn't bring about their destruction. Instead, He made a covenant (a promise) with His children. Let's cover it in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke Him to anger:

As it was then, so it is again. A likeness of "any thing", whether it be wealth, power, a system, even a church, if it's aside from God and His Word. If you put something else before God, you anger Him. Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. God was furious with them and He made a promise to them or an agreement with them that He would destroy them (as a nation) if they again turned from Him to false gods. Deuteronomy 4:27-28 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men?s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. Intelligent people don?t make things of wood and stone and then serve them do they? Well, what about a church that one builds and while attempting to teach God?s Word from its pulpit it also teaches pagan worship? Do you observe ?Easter? which comes directly from the worship of ?Ishtar?. Its traditions of Easter egg hunts and bunny rabbits come to us from the grove worshippers written of in the Bible. It?s not hard to research and find out for yourself that the ?egg rolling? was a fertility rite, or to put it in plain English, a great big sexual orgy they had in order to produce offspring calling on the help of the goddess Ishtar. Have you never heard the saying ?quick like a bunny?? Are these little traditions of man cute? Is it any wonder what God thinks about it? Now what could be worse than allowing that heathenism into your place of worship? Well, how about if we take the great day of Passover, of which Christ became the ultimate Passover Lamb, the Sacrifice of all time, and tie the two observances together? Christians don?t have any idea how much love their Father feels for them. Because, through His love comes the grace that we are given through Christ Jesus. Otherwise, I think God would make an end to it all.

Deuteronomy 4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Even after the above insult, God breaks His salvation down to each individual. Deuteronomy 4:30-31 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto His voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God; He will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which He sware unto them.) This covenant is from umbilical cord to umbilical cord. It is a contract that cannot be broken. He never said there wouldn?t be tribulation, but He did say that if you seek after Him with all your heart He would always be there for you, as an individual. What more could you ask for? He even sent His Son as an emissary to further strengthen the bond for each individual?s personal walk with Him. I want to turn to a little later in history when God spoke directly of His people settling a land that we know to be America. Isaiah 18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: Could this be ?eagle?s? wings? Or how about the land which the very first airplane came. Isaiah 18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, ?Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled. You should do a study on the ?scattered and peeled? people.

Isaiah 18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when He lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when He bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. I have seen an ensign lifted in power in America that blows the trumpet to most of the nations of the world. It is known as the United Nations. Isaiah 18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, ?I will take My rest, and I will consider in My dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.? As our Father rests before His harvest, He can send a wind (spirit) that can dry and burn on His children or a refreshing sustaining dew from the water of life to nurture and protect them. This is left completely up to the individual, who can make it hard, or who can make it easy. He has given you the authority and the power, through the name of Jesus Christ, to remove any obstacle from our path. As long as it is His path you walk on. Isaiah 18:5-6 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. They shall be left together into the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. A good pruning removes the dead branches, and all the sucker branches that pull nutrition from the fruit. It provides for a much better harvest. Isaiah 18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.? Beloved, this study is to show you that in all things God has a purpose. It is no accident that the America came to power with all His blessings as it has. It is no mystery that His children, that would be called by their new name ?Christian?, were dispersed here. It is no secret that Christ is returning as the King of kings and Lord of lords to claim

through the coming harvest the fruit which is His. In Matthew, Chapter 12, Jesus is answering the Pharisees who have accused Him of casting out devils by the power of Satan. He tells them that if Satan cast out his own devils he would be dividing his kingdom and a divided kingdom will not stand. God?s scattered people are not divided, they are His loved ones that are planted exactly where He wants them. For Christ Himself said ... Matthew 12:30 He that is not with Me is against Me; and he that gathereth not with Me scattereth abroad. You are either with Him or against Him. Wherever there are ?fields sewn with seed? there is a harvest that will take place. When the trumpet sounds it calls out a people who are under the covenant God made with them. It?s up to each and every individual. So, count your blessings and do your best because God is aware of each and every righteous act and He counts it worthy. "Every day is a beautiful day, because Jesus Is the Living Word"