Neither Root Nor Branch: Malachi’s Misunderstood Message
When is “the day” that will see the fulfillment of his prophecies? Biblical commentators are not agreed on this.
Oh that Canada / USA border closure! We have finally just received the past three months of mail from our Ferndale PO Box, which is now closed, in late January. So as a temporary measure, please direct all mail and correspondence to our Canadian address.
PO Box 31137 RPO Thunderbird
Langley, BC V1M 0A9
Canada
Pastor Jory Brooks is an American and pastor of the oldest Anglo-Israel church in North America, located in Detroit, Michigan. He is also Vice-President of the “The Servant People, Canadian British Israel Association” and together with President Mary Bennett, has been a driving force in that organization. With his keen interest in history and research, he has updated and written many fine publications for CBIA. When you read a Jory Brooks article, you know you are in touch with one of the foremost scholars of the Israel Truth. He is a speed reader so gets the most out of the hours per day he spends in research. His articles in our magazine are invariably fresh and informative and he also writes a quarterly article for a British publication. It is a tribute to his wisdom that his articles are very often picked up and reprinted in other Israel Truth magazines. Jory is also a sought after speaker and has delivered messages throughout the United States, Canada and the British Isles.
When is “the day” that will see the fulfillment of his prophecies? Biblical commentators are not agreed on this.
It is interesting that biblical commentaries cannot decide whether Oriental nations are Japhetic or Hamitic, and some even claim the Japanese are Semitic!
The British royal family has been traced in an unbroken line back to King David of Israel, and the throne is sacrosanct by divine decree. God’s divine promises cannot be abrogated by man.
What is this fullness of the “Gentiles” (Greek: ethnos=nations) that would herald a redeemed Israel accepting their Messiah? Young’s Literal Translation renders it, “till the fulness of the nations may come in.”
The Bible compares the wicked to a lion: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” (1 Peter 5:8)
It is both interesting and significant that for centuries the original homeland of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples was also said to be in what is now Armenia.
The word “gate” here is singular in the King James Version, which might lead some to suggest that only one limited gate or conquest is in view.
As you might have already suspected, spring and fall, flowers and fruit, were a metonymy or metaphor, a stand-in for the Holy Days that were honored and celebrated at those times of the year.
The occasion was the birth of John the Baptist to his parents Zacharias and Elizabeth. The babe was of the priestly line of Levi and prepared the way for Christ.
In my now nearly half-century of ministry and close reading of the Scriptures, I have seen far too many prophecies of the end of the age and our Lord’s return that have proven untrue.