Christian Nations, God's elect still work to provide the freedoms to search for our Father Jehovah through His Son Jesus Christ.

 

 And now only by great deception under the banner of peace, have the 'beasts' been allowed by those deceived into taking away many of the blessings our Father gave us.

     And who are God's elect? It is those who follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. That means those believers on Christ from all twelve tribes of Israel, which are still scattered today in many lands, the Gentile believers in Christ, and those of Christ who make up the Western Christian Nations of today. They are those who refuse to worship the beast or his image, that is to say, Satan as 'false messiah' soon to come in our near future, in the role of king of the world.
     All others, the non-believers and those who worship the false messiah who comes first, thinking he is Christ, are going where? To know our Salvation through God's Saviour Jesus Christ is to know the Promises which our Father gave His People, both to Jew and Gentile in Christ. Our 'gathering' to Christ, which is the true Message behind;

 

 I Thess.4:  Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

 

 Is stated here in;

  Isaiah 18:7,"to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion".
     The apostle Paul, who was a scholar of the Hebrew Old Testament and prophets, assumed one knew these references here about the gathering to Christ in Zion, when he wrote Thessalonians.

The 'beyond the rivers of Ethiopia' link of this Chapter

     There were several Israelite colonies in Egypt, as written in

 

Jer.44:1:  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Midol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying...

 

Ezek.30: Read All.

 

Historically, these ambassadors of Israel came to the Israelite colonies in Egypt for help against the king of Babylon. As Joseph married Asenath, the daughter of Poti-pherah, priest of On in Egypt,

 

 His two sons of Ephraim and Manasseh became adopted Israelite tribes;

 

 Gen.41: Read All.

 

 Ephraim, ( Great Britain) the younger, took the place of Joseph, as being one of the twelve tribes, and Manasseh became the 'thirteenth' tribe of Israel technically. Both represent the 'double-portion' Birthright Blessing Covenant which God first gave to Abraham. The Sceptre rule would stay with the one tribe Judah.

 

 I Chron.5: Read All.

     As Ephraim now represents the largest of the scattered ten tribes (Great Britain and Europe), and Manasseh, the 'thirteenth' tribe of Israel, represents the United States of America, that's where this 'beyond the rivers of Ethiopia' links to our times today. Consider the following verse which was covered earlier in this Isaiah study: