The work of the house of Joseph, part 16

The fifth bowl of wine and water was poured out on October 6, 2004 at Scott Circle in Washington D.C. shortly after our Tabernacles conference at the Houston Medical Center. There were two main objectives that year: (1) to unseat the beast from his throne in Washington, and (2) to nullify the harlot’s “sorcery” (pharmakeia, “drugs”).

On the positive side, the overcomers were to replace the beast, because John “saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them” (Revelation 20:4). Secondly, the great harlot’s power came through drugs (Revelation 18:23), but the overcomers rule by the power of God. By drugging the harlot’s children, the harlot keeps them in bondage and deception.

The Drug Trade

Sodom and Gomorrah cultivated poppies and trafficked opium from the earliest times. Moses denounced it in his day, saying in Deuteronomy 32:31-33,

³¹ Indeed, their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves judge this. ³² For their vine is from the vine of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison [rosh, “head, poppies”], their clusters, bitter. ³³ Their wine is the venom of serpents and the deadly poison of cobras.

The large flower of the poppy plant was called a head (rosh), and it was the source of opium. Men extracted opium from it and mixed it with their wine. It had a bitter taste, as Moses said, and he compared it to “the venom of serpents.”

Jeremiah contrasted opium with the “balm in Gilead,” which was an essential oil produced in Gilead that provided true healing (Jeremiah 8:22). He lamented the fact that many Israelites had tried to find spiritual healing through sin, rather than through the godly prescription. Their solution eased the pain, as opium does, but it does not bring true healing. Jeremiah 8:11 says,

¹¹ They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, saying, “Peace, Peace,” but there is no peace.

“Peace” is from the Hebrew word shalom, which, in this case, means “wholeness, full health.” Opium does not bring health but merely masks their pain.

Divine Judgment

God then judged the people by giving them what they desired. Jeremiah 8:14, 15 says,

¹⁴ Why are we sitting still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities and let us perish there, because the Lord our God has doomed us and given us poisoned water [rosh mayim, “water (extract) of poppies] to drink, for we have sinned against the Lord. ¹⁵ We waited for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

This is the wine of Babylon that the nations were forced to drink. Jeremiah 25:15-17 says,

¹⁵ For thus the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. ¹⁶ They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.” ¹⁷ Then I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it.

The people had gone after false gods who demanded that they kill their babies in order to atone for their sins. Such false sacrifice was “a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind” (Jeremiah 19:5). In those days they used to eat the sacrifices, giving rise to the term Canna-bal, “priest of Baal,” which is now entrenched into our language as cannibal.

More than that, these priests of Baal also drank the blood of these children in order to obtain the effects of adrenochrome, produced by the fear and terror of the babies as they were being slaughtered. Adrenochrome is a powerful drug used even today among the world’s most powerful and famous men and women. It is the drug of choice in Hollywood and is even used as currency on account of its value.

This practice dates back to biblical days when the Israelites wanted to worship false gods who demanded babies so that the priests could have their regular “fix” of adrenochrome. “Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity” (Romans 1:24). God judges people by giving them the desires of their own hearts.

So also He gave the Israelites flesh to eat in the wilderness. Numbers 11:18-21 says,

¹⁸ Say to the people, “Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, ‘Oh that someone would give us meat to eat! For we were well-off in Egypt.’ Therefore, the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. ¹⁹ You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, ²⁰ but a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt’?”

We see, then, that the judgment of God was to give the people the “meat” that they wanted. In New Testament terms, they wanted to walk after the flesh, rather than by the Spirit. Paul says in Romans 8:5, 6, 7,

⁵ For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, ⁷ because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so.

Hence, what we see in the world today is the judgment of God upon the Israelites in the Bible. Because they desired to sacrifice babies for their blood filled with adrenochrome, God sentenced them to drink this spiked wine from the cup of the Lord, not just for a century or two or five or ten or twenty, but for 2,500 years. We are today reaching the climax of this judgment and will soon reach the point where it becomes “loathsome” to us.

Modern Sorcery

There are drug cults today that practice sin in order to empower evil in the world. But on a higher level, the great whore of Babylon has drugged the nations spiritually and physically in order to maintain control. Revelation 18:23, 24 says,

²³ … your merchants were the great men of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery [pharmakeia, “drugs”]. ²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slain on the earth.

John attributes the harlot’s power to drugs and to “Big Pharma,” which supports Jeremiah’s revelation of the cup from which the nations were forced to drink. We can only wonder how many aborted babies have had their blood extracted in order to provide adrenochrome to those willing to pay for it. If the abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood are willing to sell the body parts of aborted babies (as they have admitted on video), would they not also sell their blood?

These horrific sins are only now being exposed, because we are nearing the time when such practices will become “loathsome” to the people. Such things will become “loathsome” when the Holy Spirit is poured out, represented by the fifth bowl of water that was poured out along with the bowl of wine.

Our Tabernacles conference in 2004 was held at the Medical Center in Houston, and this drew our attention to the biblical problem of pharmakeia as a whole. Little did we know that soon (late 2019) a biological weapon would be released called covid-19. It appears that this may well be the final event that will bring about the fall of the merchants of Sodom who have deceived all the nations.

Psalm 94:8-15

Psalm 94:8-15 was read in the temple on the fifth day of the feast of Tabernacles when the fifth bowl of water and wine were poured out on either side of the altar. Psalm 94:8-10 says,

⁸ Pay heed, you senseless [ba’ar] among the people; and when will you understand, stupid ones? ⁹ He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see? ¹⁰ He who chastens the nations, will He not rebuke, even He who teaches man knowledge?

The NASB translates ba’ar as “senseless.” The KJV renders it “brutish,” which is more accurate. The word means “to burn, consume, feed upon, eat up.”

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1197/nasb95/wlc/0-1/

In the context of the fifth bowl of wine, as we have described, it refers to those who consume “the flesh,” as the Israelites did in Numbers 11. Being fleshly minded, as Paul interprets this, such people can also be cannibalistic, as were the priests of Baal. The word that the psalmist chose was true inspiration, having more than one layer of meaning for the discerning ones.

Verse 10 draws our attention to the judgment upon the nations who are forced to drink the blood from the cup in the Lord’s hand. “He who chastens the nations” has done this in order to bring judgment for their sin of baby sacrifice. How? Revelation 18:23 says that the great deception is accomplished by pharamakeia.

Proclaiming the Jubilee

As a final thought about this, let us remember that God is the one who planted poppies in the earth. He did this for a reason, and poppies are among the things that God pronounced “good” in Genesis 1:12 and “very good” in Genesis 1:31. Anyone who has suffered intense physical pain has appreciated the poppy plant. Hence, it has its purpose. The problem is its misuse.

Spiritually speaking, we ought to seek the balm (balsam) of Gilead instead of poppy extract to heal the heart of its iniquity. When men become dependent upon temporary fixes, they are soon chained in bondage. It is our job, as believers, to set the captives free, not to condemn them for being in chains. The mission of Christ is “to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners” (Isaiah 61:1).

In other words, our foundational mission is to declare and implement the Jubilee. This, I believe, is the foundational Gospel message, the “good news” of the New Covenant. Believing this “good news” (basar) is to eat Christ’s flesh and to drink His blood (John 6:53), rather than eating the flesh of infants and drinking their blood—as the cannibals of the priests of Baal have done.