Bible Matters 370: Salem and Nineveh.

Why the two witnesses of the Salem and then Nineveh eclipses, Seven years apart?

The United States regime is pushing sin onto the world.   Worship of money, debt, promoting pornography, hate, war, murdering babies, mutilating children and adults for sex change, promotion of fornication, drugs and alcohol, stealing and promoting the destruction of Israel are all things that the US needs to repent and turn from sin.  Just because one can do it doesn’t mean God allows it.    God wants us to turn from sin to love him and the things of this earth.  God wants spiritual perfection.  

Why Salem – Jerusalem?

Genesis 14:18-19 – And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.  And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

Out of Salem, shall Jesus as the Son of God come.  To offer up himself for our sins. 

Hebrews 7:1-3,14-28 – For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;  To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;  Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.  For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.  And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,  Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.  For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.  For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.  For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did ; by the which we draw nigh unto God.  And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest :  (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)  By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.  And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:  But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.  Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.  For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;  Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.  For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

God’s tabernacle is in Salem, dwelling in Zion.

Psalm 76:1-2 – In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.  In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

For out of Zion, salvation comes.

Isaiah 12:1-6 – And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.  Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.  Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.  And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.  Sing unto the Lord ; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.  Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

Why Nineveh?   Nineveh was a Gentile city founded by descendants of Noah, specifically Ham.

Genesis 10:1-12 – Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.  The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.  And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.  And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.  By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.  And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.  And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.  And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.  He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.  And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.  Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

Nineveh was a city of sin and Jonah was sent there to teach them to repent and worship God.   Nineveh accepted God, repented and God saw their works.  Yes.  God saw their Works.   God made them a great city. 

Jonah 3:4-6 – And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.  So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.  For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Jonah 3:10 – And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

Jonah 4:11 – And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Why the eclipse: 

A total solar eclipse foreshadowed Jonah’s preaching to ancient Nineveh on June 15, 763 B.C.  (See Bible Matters 369: Jonah and the Eclipse of Ancient Nineveh.) 

The power of God is shown in both the Salem and Nineveh eclipses.

Salem eclipse = Jerusalem, Peace, Grace, Son of God – Date: 8/21/2017

Nineveh eclipse= Sin, Repentance, Saved – Date 4/8/2024.

Combine path = Love, Mercy and Blessings  – Church of Nineveh (www.churchofnineveh.com)

For God to plan two eclipses and have them pass through a series of cities with the same name shows that God has a long-term plan. 

First:  God had to direct man to build those cities at those specific locations.

Second:  God had to position the orientation of the earth, moon with the sun to cause the eclipse to pass over those cities.

God planned these two eclipses to be 7 years apart.  In bible numbers, 7=completion, spiritual perfection.  

God is perfect.   His Word is perfect.    We are to read and understand it.  God’s doctrine for his Church of Nineveh is from the mouth of two witnesses.   His book, “A Bride of Christ”, uses the preponderance of evidence testimonies from the eight New Testament witnesses to establish the will of God through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  All are in Chapter 16.    Bible number for 16=Love

Why use all eight witnesses for the truth in God’s word for the Gentiles and the Jew in the New Testament?   Bible number for 8=New Beginning.   When one understands this doctrine, it is the new beginning of one’s life with God.   It is one’s born again experience.  The witness of the two eclipses, Salem and then Nineveh, is God’s message for us to recognize the power of God, the grace offered by the Son of God, repent and focus on God’s will for all to turn from sin and to love him and others.  Our works establish our belief.  Our works is faith in action.  Plain and simple.  As believers it is our job to spread this message!

To God be the Glory in all you do, Amen.