And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. (Zechariah 9:16)

And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. (Zechariah 9:16)

As seen in previous posts, as in Revelation 12:1, those spoken of above as the stones of the crown are the elect remnant, the new leaders of God’s people in this new world. These are the lowly raised to life at the LORD’s entry, his appearance in New Jerusalem, in them and through them.

The word “ensign” is the one time used Hebrew word nacac, from the word nec, both meaning a signal. As we know, nec is the word used in Numbers 21:8 & 9, rendered “pole” in describing what the brazen serpent is raised on. As we also know, this signal is what the LORD says, in John 3:14, must happen and is the salvation of those who come to its light. The greater context is the LORD there, just before, telling of the wind, the Holy Spirit as the LORD himself working while still unknown, moving where he wills. The necac is a signal given by way of a known flag raised and fluttering in the wind.

These passages are telling of the elect as those in who the LORD is raised, so His people at large, in darkness, can look to its light and be saved. As Isaiah says, in Isaiah 8:18, “I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.” The passage goes on to say it is this word, God’s hidden word in us, that signifies there is light (understanding) in us.

Jeremiah 15
19 Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: let them return unto you; but return not you unto them.
20 And I will make you unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.
21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.

Isaiah 8 [Because those leading God’s people have refused His word, “the waters of Shiloah that go softly,”]
7 Now therefore, behold, the LORD brings up upon them the waters of the river [the word of the ungodly and deceivers, with all their false promises of a communist utopia], strong and many, even the king of Assyria [speaking of the communists that have now come among us], and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels [the main-stream fake news media – totally saturating the people with their lies and omissions of truth], and go over all his banks:
8 And he shall pass through Judah [communists reaching even to the leadership of God’s people]; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck [almost to the very highest positions, where they now seek to go]; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of your land, [and when this comes, we realized the LORD is with us] O Immanuel.
9 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and you shall be broken in pieces.
10 Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
11 For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
12 Say you not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear you their fear, nor be afraid.
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwells in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? [Shouldthey be looking] for the living to the dead?
20 [Or] To the law and to the testimony[?]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Numbers 21 [Because God’s people loathed the word of God from Moses, the light bread, as they did the soft waters, and as a result, the communists came in,]
6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents [those teaching and broadcasting poisonous words, deceptions and manipulations that deadened their minds] among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole [nec]: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looks upon it, shall live.
9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole [nec], and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

John 3
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again [into this new world].
8 The wind blows where it lists [the Spirit of God, unknown, moves wherever He wills], and you hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell where it comes, and where it goes [the unknowingly ignorant have no idea what He is sending it for – because they are blinded by their own ideas]: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus [his name meaning he is victorious among the people – by his coming to the LORD, as a little child, ready and willing to learn] answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Are you a master [teacher] of Israel, and know not these things?
11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? [Speaking from heaven – referring us to Hebrews 12:25 & 26, saying, “See that you refuse not {the light bread, and soft waters, of} him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.]
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so [as a known signal to be looked to] must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Zechariah 9
1 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach [from the one time used word chadar, referring us to Ezekiel 21:14 where it is rendered “entered your privy chambers.” The chapter is telling of the trial, the judgment, when the works of men are exposed as worthless and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
2 And Hamath [the fortress {the ideas} in which they trust] also shall border thereby; Tyrus [the false rock, the corrupt and now false church], and Zidon [those who’ve hunted God’s people as their prey, to devour them], though it be very wise.
3 And Tyrus [the false church] did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea [her power over the people]; and she shall be devoured with fire.
5 Ashkelon [she shall be weighed in the fire – and we] shall see it, and fear; Gaza [the strong –those in power] also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron [she shall be plucked up and not reach her expected end]; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza [from the powerful], and Ashkelon [those sentenced to the fires] shall not be inhabited [shall not sit any longer as judges].
6 And a bastard [those refusing correction] shall dwell in Ashdod [with the powerful who perish], and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines [the invading immigrants].
7 And I will take away his blood [the words that drain life] out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remains [after the judgment], even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron [over those who have been plucked up and disappointed {ashamed and confounded}] as a Jebusite [as those who have been trodden down and are the ruin of the old city, the old world].
8 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passes by, and because of him that returns: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your King comes unto you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
11 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
12 Turn you to the strong hold, you prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto you;
13 When I have bent Judah [my leaders] for me, filled the bow with Ephraim [my people], and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece [the dregs – mire], and made you as the sword [see Ezekiel 21:9 below] of a mighty man.
14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning [understanding]: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet [calling His people together], and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign [nacac] upon his land.
17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

Zechariah 10
1 Ask you of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts has visited his flock the house of Judah, and has made them as his goodly horse in the battle.
4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.
5 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.
8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.
9 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.
10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt [out of captivity], and gather them out of Assyria [the communists]; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead [this heap of testimony] and Lebanon [and into purity]; and place shall not be found for them.
11 And he shall pass through the sea [the people at large] with affliction, and shall smite the waves [the pride of the proud] in the sea, and all the deeps of the river [all the false teaching] shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria [the communists] shall be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt [those who have rule over us in our captivity] shall depart away.
12 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, says the LORD.

Ezekiel 21
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
6 Sigh therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7 And it shall be, when they say unto you, Wherefore sigh you? that you shall answer, For the tidings; because it comes: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and shall be brought to pass, says the LORD God.
8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemns [ma’ac – takes away] the rod [the scepter – to rule] of my son, as every tree.
11 And he has given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon your thigh.
13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn [ma’ac – takes away] even the rod [the scepter – to rule]? it shall be no more, says the LORD God. [See verse 26 & 27 below]
14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entered [as did Jael – Judges 4:21] into their privy chambers [chadar].
15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go you one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever your face is set.
17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
19 Also, you son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose you a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites [this word upon the great men of the old world, who exalt themselves above God], and to Judah in Jerusalem the defensed [where God’s elect are protected in peace].
21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand.
25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end [qets],
26 Thus says the LORD God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say you, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto you, whiles they divine a lie unto you, to bring you upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end [qets].
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your nativity.
31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy.
32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.

In the context of the crown, when verse 20 above tells of the two ways and says the way, the end (qets), of the wicked is as Rabbath of the Ammonites, it is referring to 2 Samuel 12:29. There we read of this pattern of the LORD rescuing the people held under these men’s wicked leadership, as David takes their crown.

2 Samuel 12
26 And Joab [Jehovah the Father] fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon [the great men of the world who exalt themselves above God], and took the royal city.
27 And Joab [Jehovah the Father] sent messengers to David [the beloved {of the Father}], and said, I have fought against Rabbah [the great men of the world], and have taken the city of waters [their words – exposed their ways and ideas].
28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.
29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.
30 And he took their king’s crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David’s head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
31 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon [who exalted themselves above God]. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

Friends, these words are as stones hidden (in the hand of the beloved) for this time, which we are led to by the LORD in me/us. The word above rendered “brick-kiln” is the Hebrew word malben, a word seeming to indicate the precipice of what has been build (mul-ben), this house or family of great men (at its self-inflicted end in the fires). It only appears two other times, in Jeremiah 43:9 and Nahum 3:14, both translated “brick-kiln.”

Jeremiah 43
7 So they came into the land of Egypt [the captivity, between the two straights – the two ways]: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes. [The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon says this means, “you will fill hands with pity”]
8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
9 Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick-kiln [malben – at the precipice, the abrupt end in the fires], which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house [the house of the great] in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
10 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon [the lies of the false prophets, which have caused confusion to rule over the world and the desolation of God’s people], my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
11 And when he comes, he shall smite the land of Egypt [and they shall see the two ways forward], and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment [clothe himself with the sun]; and he shall go forth from thence in peace [lead them to New Jerusalem].
13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh [the house of the sun {held in darkness}], that is in the land of Egypt [captivity]; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

Nahum 3
5 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts; and I will discover your skirts upon your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
6 And I will cast abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will set you as a gazing-stock.
7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon you shall flee from you, and say, Nineveh [this place that has been called to repentance] is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for you?
8 Are you better than populous No [the others who’ve disrupted the world], 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?
9 Ethiopia [covering in darkness] and Egypt [and captivity] were her strength, and it was infinite; Put [whose bow] and Lubim [of affliction] were your 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 honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 You also shall be drunken [your mind shall be ignorant of these things]: you shall be hid [‘alam – this knowledge shall be hidden from you], you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.
12 All your strong holds shall be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, your people in the midst of you are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open unto your enemies: the fire [in the month of Adar {the month of fires} at Shushun, where Haman and His ten sons were hanged on the gallows built for Mordecai] shall devour your bars.
14 Draw you waters for the siege, fortify your strong holds: go into clay [where these stone have been hidden, for this moment], and tread the morter, make strong the brick-kiln. [malben, at the abrupt end of this wicked family/house – try to use your words {lies} to save yourself, and ignorantly put trust in the works of your hands.]
15 There shall the fire devour you; the sword [this word of God] shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the cankerworm: make yourself many as the cankerworm, make yourself many as the locusts.
16 You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoils, and flees away.
17 Your crowned are as the locusts, and your captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18 Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria [communists]: your nobles shall dwell in the dust: your people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathers them.
19 There is no healing of your bruise; your wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of you shall clap the hands over you: for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?

Psalms 60
1 O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.
2 You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.
3 You have shewed your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
4 You have given a banner [nec – a signal] to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
5 That your beloved may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me.
6 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem [reveal the burden in the words], and mete out the valley of Succoth [and give it to those who dwell in temporary flesh bodies with God].
7 Gilead [the mountain of this testimony] is mine, and Manasseh [those who have forgotten God] is mine; Ephraim [God’s people, the double blessing we have inherited] also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
8 Moab [breaking down the gates of hell] is my wash-pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe [God will possess the enemies among us]: Philistia [the invaders shall be converted], triumph you because of me.
9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom [to rule amid the enemies among us]?
10 Will not you, O God, which had cast us off? and you, O God, which did not go out with our armies?
11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

Psalms 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

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