The proof of this is seen in taking these verses in context and viewing the passage both prior to and following these verses. IN the passage prior to if you read it, you will realize that the group in these two verses is not the righteous, but the wicked, and the righteous, and more directly so, can be seen in the persons of the Surviving Students of the Seven seals who endured that SIEGE in 93, an event which happpend prior to verses 14 and 15 here, and those Survivors can be seen in verse 10 of Nahum chapter 3…
9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
Those inside MT. Carmel represented cultures from across the world. Verse 9 has root in the history of the United States as it applies to the United States in the MACRO in 1993 via it’s history to have been built on the backs of Slaves, thus EHTIOPIA AND EGYPT, in the Macro “WERE” (historically) it’s strength.. But on the Micro, in 1993, so far removed from Slavery… Ethopia, Egypt, who were thy were represented THE SPIRITIAL STRENGTH by those foreign cultures from around the globe inside Mt. Carmel and they represnted the “RIGHTEOUS EGYPT”. Those MODERN EGYPTIANS AND ETHIOPIANS were the SPIRITIAL STRENGTH….Davids Message was concerned with the MODERN ASSYRIAN, his Identity as the earthly KING OF THE NORTH….you can get much further SOUTH from Israel than Egypt and Ehtiopia Historicallly.
THESE EGYPTIANS here, in the timeframe of 1993, were those inside Mt. Carmel that is Prophecied in scripture and was in Brother Houteffs explaination pointed out would be named by God as his “Righteous” calling them verbatim…” EGYPT my people”…
" "Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee? Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
"Thou [Assyria] also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln [the manufacturing plants]. There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away. Thy crowned [under-lords] are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are [they are lovers of ease and of pleasure]. Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous; all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?"
Nevertheless, "at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. " Jer. 18:7, 8.
Seeing that the Lord is about to humiliate "Assyria" for her own good, but that He would forbear doing so if only she would repent as did Nineveh of old at Jonah's warning, obviously this Forecast is published to benefit not the church alone but "Assyria" and her allies also, and even their enemy.
Nevertheless, if these belligerents will not voluntarily awaken to the fact that Destiny is not in their own hands but in the mighty hands of the Infinite and Omnipotent God, then will He bring them involuntarily to that realization, and spare only their God-fearing citizens, as He declares:
In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Mine inheritance. " Isa. 19:23-25.
Thus in His infinite mercy would the Lord lift "the burden of Nineveh" today, even as He did in the ancient day. Indeed, it is for "a blessing in the midst of the land," even to all nations, that He is to effect
THE CHURCH'S LIBERATION FROM "ASSYRIAN" YOKE.
V.T. Houteff Tract 14 “War News Forecast” © 1943
GOD DID NOT PLACE those in MT. Carmel to curse this world…he placed them their to be our strength. These are the same in Daniel 11:31-35 given to that prophecied generation called “Some of Those of Understanding…WHO IN 1993 prior and in the years prior to 4.19.93 back as far as 1983 was concerned not with just the SDA, or the Branch Davidians, or the DAVIDIAN SDA…but with all those…Scott Sonobe was Pentecostal….others came from “THE CHURCH” at large.
WHO IN THE TIMEFRAME OF DAVID KORESH WAS CONCERNED WITH LIBERATING THE “CHURCH” and those from ANY CHURCH…INCLUDING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH…FROM THE ASSYRIAN YOKE?
Catherine Matteson at either the 2001 or 2002 Memorial, the latter I seem to recall, stood up, and stated “David often told us he could narrow the entire Bible down to one single page of scripture. I didn’t believe him. Had my doubts in him for a long time until he showed me that page, and taught me that EVERYTHING IN SCRIPTURE comes down to one thing….”WHO IS THE KING OF THE NORTH?” THE ASSRYIAN YOKE IS THE YOKE OF THE EARTHLY KING OF THE NORTH! These modern BLESSED Egyptians Brother Houteff prophecied of quoting Isaiah in his tract devoted to the book of Nahum and it’s being played out in his timeframe in replay to this modern world, was fulfilled in 1993 and the years following by those in Mt. Carmel who died, and who survived as seen in Daniel 11:31-35 and seen in Nahum in a fulfillment of the Micro level in verses 9 and 10. Brother Houteff prophecied against the modern Assyrian by noting in his day verses 11, which in 1993 correlated in the Macro to ALL OF US as we witnessed the events which followed.
Now seeing the verses leading up, as prophecied by Brother Houteff fulfilled in the persons of those inside Mt. Carmel trying to remove the yoke of the Modern Assyrian off of the Church, and seeing the fate of the “RIGHTEOUS” in the land who were the strength of it and called “Egypt my People” we see their fate…as it happened between 2-27-93 with the publishing of the article “The Sinful Messiah” and the subsequent 51 day siege, and later treatment of those who survived:
“10 Yet was she carried away,(((into prison and later deportment and scattered abroad as of mid summer 1994, to see the year 1995 as the first entire year they were indeed scattered as they were prophecied by David Koresh to be so in that timeline)))) she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets(((in Newspaper machines for 51 days on magazine racks in newsstands))): and they cast lots for her honourable men (((The visitors to David Koresh and Steve Schneider during the siege and as well seen in the public opinions at large and the speculations as to how such would end during the 51 day period as the world watched, I recall people making “Bets” as to how such would turn out…)))), and all her great men were bound in chains. ((( all for a time, some then longer)))”
So we see by chronology the event of verse 10 remembered…not prophecied forward, but prophecied back…the past called to surface to the one being addressed in the verses to follow….”Ethiopia and Egypt “WERE THY STRENGTH” not are, not will be, but “WERE.”
Vs 11 and 12 show reference to the wicked, to the Modern Assyrian and correlates to Revelation 18. NOT TO THE RIGHTEOUS. And these set the tone of who it is that is being actually addressed in vs. 14 and 15, an event which has not yet been fulfilled.
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