What’s In a Number? The Significance of Twelve In Hebrew And European History
Testament. There were 12 Apostles, 12 foundations in New Jerusalem with 12 gates, 12 pearls, and 12 angels.
Pastor Jory Brooks
Pastor Jory Brooks
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.
Ezekiel’s Prophetic Prince
Ezekiel 46:17 continues, “But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.” In the Millennium there will be no “Year of Liberty” every 50 years, because the entire thousand years is a Jubilee period of rest from labor and lost inheritances.
The Mathematical Impossibility of Dispensational-Futurism
To put this into further perspective, if the prophecy referred to the current full number of world Jews, and if you were an Israeli today with a home with 4 individuals living there, in the Dispensationalist conception you might have 120 people crammed living in your house! (30 times more people x4). Or there would need to be a huge amount of New York City style high-rises. That number doesn’t include all of the animals, the lions and snakes and so forth,
“In Those Days and In That Time.” When???
Was the return to Zion fulfilled in 539 B.C.? The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 50:4 asserts, “We are by no means to regard it as an idealized picture of the return of the Jews under Zerubbabel, any more than we can suppose the glowing promises in the second part of Isaiah to have their sole fulfilment in that disappointing event.
Misconceptions Of Ezekiel’s Temple Vision (Ezekiel 40-48)
In Ezekiel’s vision, very close to the middle of the land between the 7 northern and 5 southern tribes, about 30 kilometers north of Jerusalem, is a large complex of sacred buildings called “the Sacred Grant” (Ferrar Fenton), called “the Oblation”
Did God Deceive Abraham?
The modernist approach to Abraham and the covenants is to assume that the Jewish people alone inherited them, and whatever prophecies do not fit the Jews are then spiritualized and given to the church.
Our Role As God’s Leaven
The word, leaven, appears twenty-three times in twenty Scripture texts, enough to warrant our attention. It is a translation of the Greek, zume (Strong’s G2219), from a root meaning to ferment; the Hebrew word is matstsah (H4682), meaning sweetness.
The Galatians And New Covenant Israel
Eighteenth century expositor, John Gill, in his “Exposition of the Bible” tells us, “For if ye be Christ’s…then are ye Abraham’s seed; not his natural but his spiritual seed, the seed that should come,
The Ideal Nation
We read a prophecy of latter-day Israel in Isaiah 58:12, “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, ‘The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.’” Israel was to be the builder…
Birthright and Blessing
We hear a lot in our American pulpits about receiving God’s blessings, but not a word about our birthright as God’s people. This issue was addressed by an American Anglo-Israel minister over a century ago, and his words are even truer today. “I have no hesitation to say, after over twenty-five years of experience with…
