WW2 did not directly impact the Davidian SDA. IN fact, they changed their name from the SHEPHERDS ROD, to the DAVIDIAN SDA for legal reasons, to gain status that they may proclaim themselves by religious rights to be “CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS” and having gained that status as pacifists, their members, their fathers, their sons, themselves, exempt from the draft, therefore untouched in the MICRO by the events they witnessed in the MACRO playing out in the greater world outside Waco Texas.
King James Version: Nahum Chapter 1
1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
In Hindsight, we see Victor Houteff as the one noted of publishing PEACE. Making the announcement of the soon coming establishment of the actual Davidic Kingdom of God here on the earth. And in that tract in 1943, Victor Houteff shows the world in PRESENT TRUTH in Nahum chapter 2:1-4…but he did not begin prophesying from Nahum in 1943 or 1942…
In 1935 in their first year in Waco Texas, Victor Houteff prophesied as Present Truth the book of Nahum, in particular present truth, chapter one emphasizing verse 14 to be applicable to the then current SDA. So in 1942 and 1943 by the publishing of the tract “WAR NEWS FORECAST” we see then that group of followers PAYING ATTENTION, then witnessed in succession, the world playing out events chronologically from the 1935 announcement seeing themselves in NAHUM one, with the SDA emphasized in particular in Vs. 11 during Brother Houteff’s ministry, to a matter of Vengance from Verse one that began to the treatment of the SDA of Ellen White in her lifetime and after, making merchandise of her. In vs. 11 we see the SDA, and the prophecy to the SDA in that present timeframe that the “LIVING SPIRIT OF PROPHECY” would be taken from them…as seen in verse 14, and the same LIVING Spirit of PROPHECY then established in the ministry of Victor Houteff as seen in Verse 15. All this is foundation, and undeniable in recognizing Nahum in Replay to our current and just previous generations.
As the Shepherds Rod, then DAVIDIAN SDA offererd then present truth that of the SDA…with regards to going forward as the movement with the LIVING SPIRIT OF PROPHECY…that “NO MORE OF THY NAME BE SEWN.” SO then
David Koresh did likewise with the name “BRANCH DAVIDIAN” as an identity to those followers of truth. So why then, are some intent on going backwards WHILE PROCLAIMING TO BE MOVING FORWARD?
The name of the followers of God will not go backward to an OLD NAME? They will be given a NEW NAME…not an OLD NAME, and they certainly will not go back to a point to deny that counsel given by the previous Annointed Messenger of God.
I can tell you the name, but I will not. Some of those paying attention already know, and her name, is written in the book, for she is the body of Christ, and she is his bride and she the name of a Branch, and the name of City.
IN the case of Each messenger and their actual ministries being defined by the current replay of Nahum (nearly 70 years now…) we have to consider both the applications of the book in the MACRO and THE MICRO. That is, what part of the book impacted the world at large in their then current timeframes of each messenger, and what part impacted the messenger themselves and the group heeding the Living Spirit or Prophecy more directly, more personally in their then current timeframes. While Victor Houteff and the Rod/DSDA saw Nahum play out in their day for the most part in full, they only witnessed a personal interaction in their own lives in the form of those events in chapter one as applied to the SDA, and the establishment of the Message moving forward under a New Name as led by the Living Spirit of Prophecy. Most emphatically Nahum 1:7-15
7 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
It was a FLOOD which the DSDA worked filling sandbags to spare the town of Waco that finally brought tolerance and some modicum of peace to their precence in the community. And the SDA while trying to persecute Brother Houteff, would not impede his work, and their efforts to stop him as seen in vs 12 failed and he was afflicted by them no more in his lifetime and saw success in his efforts both with the Mt. Carmel Training center as well as his Radio Ministry.
As to NAHUM chapter one during the timeline of the Shepherds Rod/Davidian SDA movement…could such be seen impacting the world at large? No. IT could not, it not be seen in the MACRO. It could be however seen more directly however to be occurring in the MICRO in the years between 1929 and the timeframe leading up the America entering WW2. And in that, those events clearly seen as stated prior, in the relationship of the SDA to the Shepherds Rod message…and the call for REFORM. THE VERY LIVING SPIRIT OF PROPHECY was seen to have been removed from the SDA and well they should deny any more prophets have come, for to them, they have not, for that Spirit, the SPIRIT OF TRUTH WHICH DWELT WITH THEM, Left them, and no more of their name as the holders of PRESENT TRUTH, would be sewn. IN THE MACRO HOWEVER…ALL OF NAHUM 2 and forward could be seen playing out in the world at large during the ministry of the DSDA…and chronologically. While this was a SILENT TRUTH TO THE WORLD AT LARGE…it was STRIKINGLY LOUD TO THOSE PAYING ATTENTION BETWEEN 1929 and 1939 who witnessed Chapter ONE BEING PLAYED OUT with them PERSONALLY. So when they seen the MACRO EVENT of NAHUM in replay, they had been expecting it for TEN years!
But in hindsight, we see, that the ministry of David Koresh, while the world at large was impacted on the MACRO by NAHUM 2:1-4 in the form of WW2 as Present Truth in the timeframe of Victor Houteff, the replay propheticall in the MICRO, that is as a more personal impact to the body of Christ itself of Nahuam 2:1-4 was seen at Waco during the Seige. This, as that in Chapter one, was seen more personal to the body under the Annointed time of Brother Houteeff in the Micro, while in the Ministry of David Koresh, the replay of chapter one in continuance, is seen to that body…in the Macro…via established church history and events in then CURRENT time and present truth under David impacting the WORLD AT LARGE moreso than those at Waco more directly.
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