For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

The Hebrew word rendered above as “disquieted” is ragaz, meaning “to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear).” The word rendered “bear” is nasa’, meaning “to lift up.”

The idea of the latter (nasa’) is referring us to what Paul describes explicitly, speaking of this time when wickedness controls the earth and is holding humanity down. As we know, he uses the Greek word katecho, meaning “to hold down (fast),” rendered “withholds” in 2 Thessalonians 2:6, and “lets” in verse 7.

2 Thessalonians 2
5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what [misleaders in church and state] withholds [katecho] that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets [katecho] will let, until he be taken out of the way [mesos – out of our midst].
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our LORD Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

As we know, what allows the holding down is what Paul, earlier in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, speaking of the LORD’s coming, says is the apostasy, the falling away from the truth (down from heaven). He says above, these wicked men will hold us where we have fallen (down), until they are taken out of the way (mesos – out of our midst).

The three things that shake the earth, and the fourth thing because of which we haven’t risen, are (in Proverbs 30) written after.

Proverbs 30
22 For a servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
23 For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

These people: the three, who are taken away, are those spoken of in the previous chapter, and in this one (Proverbs 30), as those lifted up (nasa’ – into power). They are the rulers in power, sitting the seats created by God, who’ve become fools filled with ignorance that’s the so-called wisdom of this world. The odious (sane’ – hate-filled unfaithful) woman is those who’ve joined themselves to these powers: the damned incorrigibles who receive not the love of the truth and have pleasure in unrighteousness.

The heir is the ONE BODY of the LORD Jesus Christ, with Him in New Jerusalem, who’ve waited for Him and who rise with Him as Israel (to reign over the earth as does God: justly and righteously).

Proverbs 29
1 He, that being often reproved hardens his neck [becomes incorrigible], shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.
3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoices his Father: but he that keeps company with harlots [the unfaithful woman] spends his substance.
9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest [because the “fool” is incorrigible].n, from China and Ukraine] overthrows it [his own land].
5 A man that flatters [chalaq – speaks smooth, deceitful, words to separate] his neighbor[s] spreads a net for his feet.
6 In the transgression of an evil [misleading] man there is a snare: but the righteous does sing and rejoice.
7 The righteous considers the cause of the poor [those without power, who are oppressed and victimized by those with it]: but the wicked [in power] regards not to know it.
8 Scornful [latsown – only used here and in Proverbs 1:22 & Isaiah 28:14 – see both below] men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath [because God’s wrath is correction, and the wrath of men is the destruction of those who follow them].
9 If a wise man contends with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest [because ethe “fool” is incorrigible].
10 The bloodthirsty [horse-leach] hate [sane’ – odious] the [mouth of the] upright: but the just seek [to save] his soul.
11 A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keep it in till afterwards [because the truth always comes to light, which is the appearing of the LORD, both of which the deceitful and the fool will always deny].
12 If a ruler hearkens to lies, all his servants are wicked.
13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lightens [givens understanding to] both their eyes.
14 The king that faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
16 When the wicked [odious – those motivated by blind hate] are multiplied, transgression increases: but the righteous shall see their fall [when the truth appears].
17 Correct your son, and he shall give you rest; yea, he shall give delight unto your soul.
18 Where [by ignorance or malice] there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.
19 A servant [the foolish in power] will not be corrected by words: for though he understands he will not answer [because, he will never admit or repent from his errors].
23 A man’s pride shall bring him low [brings his fall, from the truth and eventually from power]: but honor [honoring the LORD] shall uphold the humble in spirit. which the deceitful and the fool will always deny].
20 See you a man that is hasty in his words [doesn’t think before he speaks]? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son [His heir] at the length.
22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.
23 A man’s pride shall bring him low [brings his fall, from truth and eventually from power]: but honor [honoring the LORD] shall uphold the humble in spirit.
24 Whoso is partner with a thief [who takes away what isn’t his] hates [sane’] his own soul: he hears cursing [against the innocent, from who the thief has taken], and bewrays [nagad – confronts and stands boldly against] it not.
25 The fear of man [the powers who lead by fear of the unknown they say they know] bringeth a snare: but whoso put his trust in the LORD [who does know] shall be safe.
26 Many seek the ruler’s favor; but every man’s judgment comes from the LORD.
27 An unjust man [the men who now sit in God’s seats of power, in church and state] is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

Proverbs 1
10 My son, if sinners [with flattery] entice you, consent you not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave [Sheol – hell]; and whole, as those that go down [fall] into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil [as is the platform of the Democrat Communist Party: to worship other gods, lie, covet, steal, and kill the innocent, unborn and born, privily]:
14 Cast in your lot among [vote for] us; let us all have one purse [let us all be communists]:
15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird [therefore, they spread theirs in secret].
18 And they [unknowingly] lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom cries without [to the just and the unjust]; she utters her voice in the streets [to save those caught in these nets]:
21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,
22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning [latsown], and fools hate [sane’] knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But you have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated [sane’] knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whoso hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Friends, the truth of God is the truth we see, the powers, those who’ve lifted themselves into the seats of God, hate God’s wisdom and the counsel (messenger) He sends them. Therefore, they will perish, go into perdition by their own choice, choosing death over life and hell over understanding. Therefore, they answer the age-old question of the ignorant: “Why is there evil, and why do people go to hell?” Because men choose it.

(Should God be like the communists, oppressing humanity and taking away all choice? If God, knowing all things and Almighty, doesn’t oppress just because He knows better, should men who are ignorant of all this, in their pride and hubris, presume and assume they have license to do so? After seeing the consequences and hearing from one raised from the dead, we understand God’s plan is that men will know to choose the good and refuse the evil, which is the whole duty of man.)

The following, ending with Romans 9, is from the post of 27 December 2021:

Matthew 24
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven [with full understanding]: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass [parerchomai – shall not avert hearing this word of God, which if received is life], till all these things be fulfilled [ginomai – come into being: the unseen will be seen by those watching]. [Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.]
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away [parerchomai – the old understanding and the corrupt world shall be separated from this true word of God, as the waters above were separated from the waters below, in the firmament, by this exposition of light.], but my words [which are the waters bringing rest and refreshing in the new heaven upon the new earth] shall not pass away [parerchomai].
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood [the waters reserved in heaven, for this day, when the Father is known by His knowing the day and His people’s need for His life-giving advice and good leading] they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark [where His testament is carrying those saved above the waters that cover and are destroying the old world],
39 And knew not [because they rejected His word, and refused to hear His warning and receive His salvation] until the flood came [erchomai – the word that must be received, for it is life and salvation], and took them all away [and they shall not remain {yathar}]; so shall also the coming of [parousia – the LORD’s presence manifested in] the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken [away], and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken [away], and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your LORD does come [erchomai – as is His manner, through His messenger speaking Salvation, and the only vexation is to receive the report].
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief [the LORD unknown to those not watching] would come [erchomai], he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up [diorusso – digged through: see the previous post].
44 Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes [erchomai – manifested in this word of God received].
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his LORD HAS made ruler over his household, to give them meat [this word of God, which I have given you in this time only the Father knows] in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his LORD when he comes [erchomai] shall find so doing.
47 Truly I say unto you, That he shall make him [Has made me] ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My LORD delays his coming [erchomai – not seeing Him because he refused to receive this word as the true word of God, as it is, and instead continued in his old and corrupt ways and ideas];
49 And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken [out of his mind, deluded because of the corruption he is consuming];
50 The LORD of that servant shall come [heko – arrive as He has] in a day when he looks not [watches not] for him, and in an hour that he is not aware [is ignorant] of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The hour only the Father knows, of which, by uttering an entrance, He makes aware His people who are “watching” for Him according to His word (guarded and kept from corruption). What is spoken, as we’ve often seen, is described in Isaiah as the “report,” from the Hebrew word shmuw’ah, which is also rendered “doctrine” and “rumor.”

As we well know, Isaiah 28 is the most precise explanation of this work of the LORD and of those who are opposing Him and defending corruption. There it (shmuw’ah) appears twice; the first asking who He shall teach “doctrine,” and the other saying the only vexation is to understand its “report.” It tells of these (doctrine and report) coming to the drunkards of His people in this generation, who He also describes as the crown of pride: misleader He says led His people into a covenant with death and agreement with hell.

He openly tells these scornful men who rule His people, this is the rest and the refreshing, yet they would not hear, because the words are unto them as the stammering words of another language. This foreign language is the truth, unheard because every table is full of vomit (words eaten, digested, and projected {broadcast} in a mixed up and distorted form), and there is no place clean (uncorrupted).

Isaiah 28
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful [latsown] men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [pinnah] stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [as these water breaking forth upon the enemies who are made His footstool], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [as these water frozen in heaven are released, as hail to destroy this crop of misleaders in this evil generation], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD God of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear my voice [for it is sound doctrine]; hearken, and hear my speech [this report in which the LORD’s arm, His strengthening work, is revealed].

When Isaiah describes hearing of the “consumption,” which is “decreed” by the LORD upon the whole earth, it is the “strange” work that brings to pass the act, which he speaks of in the verse before. As we know is His manner, by these words leading us (in His good way) to a deeper understanding of their context when put here together.

The word describing His “strange” work, is the Hebrew word zuwr, which refers us to Isaiah 1, where we see it reversing the apostasy come from following strangers misleading into foreign ways and ideas. The other three words, nokriy, the resulting “strange” act; kalah (#3617), the “consumption;” and charats, the decree (from His voice and speech), refer us to the passages in which each appears once elsewhere in Isaiah.

Hear the word of the LORD: “Cast you up, cast you up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.”

Isaiah 1
24 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon you, and purely purge away your dross, and take away all your tin:
26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed [kalah #3615].
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks [those they say are the upright] which you have desired, and you shall be confounded for the gardens [the place of protection] that you have chosen.

Isaiah 1
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away [zuwr – have become strangers, not knowing Me, My words, or My ways] backward [into apostasy].
5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is [all your leaders are] sick, and the whole heart faint [the whole mind is weak].
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises [chabbuwrah – only appearing in Isaiah one other time, in Isaiah 53:5 rendered “stripes”], and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city [without trustworthy protection from its storms and sun].
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom [burning], and we should have been like unto Gomorrah [ruin].
10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me [your strange ways and ideas, and reject My good leading]?

16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil [misleading] of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

Isaiah 2
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come you, and let us walk in the light [understanding] of the LORD.
6 Therefore you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines [invaders among us], and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man bows down [to their idols], and the great man humbles himself [to the works of their own hands]: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide you in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

Romans 9
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Hosea [2:23], I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Isaiah also cried concerning Israel [Isaiah 10:22 & 23], Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth.
29 And as Isaiah said before [in Isaiah 1:9], Except the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.

Hebrews 1
8 But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
11 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;
12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the same, and your years shall not fail.
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they [the angels] not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Hebrews 2
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD, and was confirmed unto us by them [the angels] that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

Hear now you foolish and become wise, you simple and receive understanding, “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.”

Proverbs 30
1 The words of Agur [who the LORD has gathered] the son of Jakeh [who the LORD has declared blameless], even the prophecy: the man spoke unto Ithiel [who God is with] even unto Ithiel [to who God is speaking] and Ucal [to those the wicked have devoured],
2 Surely I am [you are] more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
4 Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended [do you understand this is what you have witnessed]? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends [the end of the old and the creation of the new] of the earth? what is his name [it is Jehovah], and what is his son’s name [it is Jehovah’s Salvation in my flesh and I Am Tim], if you can tell?
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add you not unto his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
7 Two things have I required of you; deny me them not before I die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
10 Accuse not a servant [who the LORD declares now blameless] unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
11 There is a generation that curses their father [God], and does not bless their mother [wisdom].
12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness [the corruption that blinds them].
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up [nasa’].
14 There is a generation, whose teeth [words] are as swords, and their jaw teeth [words] as knives, to devour the poor [the powerless] from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
15 The horse-leach [the leach that attaches itself to the mouth of the house when it drinks] has two daughters, crying, Give, give [blood]. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough [they are those who never say this sacrifice is enough, who will never be corrected]:
16 The grave [Sheol – hell]; and the barren womb [that refuses to bring forth children into this new birth]; the earth that is not filled with water [this word of God from heaven]; and the fire [caused by the ways and ideas of men who replaced God and sit in His seats] that saith not, It is enough.
17 The eye that mocks at his father [God], and despises to obey his mother [wisdom], the ravens [those covered in darkness, their own ignorance] of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles [those who are borne on the wings of their Father and mother, until they have the strength to soar in heaven – with full understanding] shall eat it.
18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
19 The way of an eagle in the air [the understanding that raises them there]; the way of a serpent upon a rock [the wicked who men trust]; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea [the church among humanity]; and the way of a man with a maid [the LORD among His heirs].
20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman [the false rock, who left God to follow other men as idols in His place]; she eats [their corrupt bread], and wipes her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
21 For three things the earth is disquieted [ragaz], and for four which it cannot bear [nasa’]:
22 For a [wicked and incorrigible] servant when he reigns; and a fool when he is filled with meat [words he says bring strength, which are wickedness and evil misleading];
23 For an odious [sane’ – hateful] woman when she is married [when she is joined with the wicked in their evil]; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress [the ONE BODY waiting to be joined with Her King].
24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer [and you are now strong and yet you prepare not My people for the battle ahead];
26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks [but you now have wisdom, and your houses remain apart from the Rock];
27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands [and you have a king and gather not to Him in ONE BODY];
28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces [but you have hands, and why do you refuse to come into My presence].
29 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
30 A lion [I Am] which is strongest among beasts, and turns not away for any;
31 A greyhound [I have run before you]; a he goat also [and led you]; and a king [in whose name I come], against whom there is no rising up.
32 If you have done foolishly in lifting up [nasa’] yourself, or if you have thought evil, lay your hand upon your mouth.
33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

2 Samuel 23
1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he makes it not to grow.
6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.

Psalms 18
1 I will love you, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.
10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightning, and discomfited them.
15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
24 Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;
26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the froward you will show yourself froward.
27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
28 For you will light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
29 For by you I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
30 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
31 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
32 It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.
33 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me upon my high places.
34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand holds me up, and your gentleness has made me great.
36 You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
39 For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
40 You have also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
45 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
46 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
48 He delivers me from mine enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
49 Therefore will I give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto your name.
50 Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

He knew that the Most High God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomsoever He will.

He knew that the Most High God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomsoever He will.

The above is Daniel (the judgment of God) speaking to Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, about what His father learned after he was humbled by the Most High God. This description of God, as the Most High, is definitive of His position as the Supreme Power of heaven, earth, and all eternity.

These kings of Babylon rule over the earth’s confusion come from the mouths of dogs ever barking in and out darkness: their ignorance, which confounds and defiles all discourse and make the world an endless wilderness. The title, from Daniel 5:21, is preceded by the word “till,” speaking of Nebuchadnezzar’s mind (heart) being like that of a beast (without intelligence) of the wilderness until he knew God as the “Most High.”

The passage tells of his son, Belshazzar, knowing this happened but yet refusing to humble himself. Therefore, per Habakkuk 3:4, the hand of God is sent to write of His reign ending and the land given to a new nation. This writing isn’t understood because he and his wise men refused to look up, for understanding from the One who sent the word, and therefore, Daniel (God’s judgment) is called to interpret.

The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon gives the meaning of Nebuchadnezzar as “”may Nebo protect the crown,” and Belshazzar as “Bel protect the king.” These two (Nebo and Bel, meaning prophet and lord) are idols put in God’s place, as protectors and “most high.”

In a deeper deconstructing of these king’s names, we find they are the cause (their pride and misleading) of the confusion (Babylon) that rules over the world as the shadow (darkness and ignorance) of death.

Nebuchadnezzar is from the Hebrew words naba, meaning prophesy; kdab (kedab), (Chaldee) meaning false (“lying”); and natsar, meaning to conceal (hide to protect). It is speaking of the lies of false prophets mixed among us, which now rule over the world, and caused the desolation of God’s people and it (the world).

Belshazzar is from the Hebrew words bal, meaning a failure; and a derivative of the word shazaph, meaning “to tan (by sun-burning [turned dark by the church]); figuratively (as if by a piercing ray) to scan:–look up, see.” It is the failure to look up, to the Most High God, from who comes the only true “interpretation” (ptsar).

This latter word (shazaph) is associated with (referring us to) the word shezab, (Chaldee) meaning ” to leave, i.e. (causatively) free:–deliver;” and the Hebrew words, shazar, meaning “to twist (a thread of straw):– twine;” and sha’ar, meaning “to split or open, i.e. (literally, but only as denominative from 8179 [opening a door or gate {the gates into death and hell}] to act as gate-keeper (see 7778): (figuratively) to estimate:–think [as in its only use, Proverbs 23:7, speaking of these king’s words].”

Proverbs 23
1 When you sits to eat with a ruler [these kings], consider diligently what is before you [because in their ways and ideas are death]:
2 And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
5 Will you set your eyes upon that which is not [is worthless]? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil [misleader’s] eye, neither desire you his dainty [deceitful] meats:
7 For as he thinks [sha’ar] in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to you; but his heart is not with you [he is an enemy at war with God’s good and sound mind].
8 The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words [lose your understanding].
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Remove not the old landmark [the ways and ideas of the Ancient of days]; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless [because the LORD of hosts is their avenger and protector]:
11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
12 Apply your heart unto [the LORD’s] instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod [of these words of correction], he shall not die.
14 You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell.
15 My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
17 Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
18 For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
19 Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way [derek].

The word shazar only appears in Exodus, and speaks of the curtains and veils in the temple made of “fine twined linen.” Shazaph appears three times, all describing what these curtains and veil depict, what men see when they fail to look up.

Job 20
… The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds [though he thinks he understands];
7 Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
8 He [those who will not remain] shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
9 The eye also which saw him [shazaph – looked to him for understanding] shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

Job 28
3 He [the Most High God] sets an end to darkness [ignorance], and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
4 The flood breaks out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.
7 There is a path which no fowl knows, and which the vulture’s eye has not seen [shazaph – who’s vision has failed because they haven’t looked up]:
8 The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.
9 He [the Most High God] puts forth his hand upon the rock; he overturns the mountains by the roots [these corrupt governments of church and state – see Matthew 21:21].
10 He cuts out rivers among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing.
11 He binds the floods [the words of the wicked] from overflowing; and the thing that is hid [by the lies of the false prophets] brings He [the Most High God] forth to light [understanding].
12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? [It is with the wise king who is, by it, raised {as Daniel} by the Most High God]

Song of Solomon 1
4 Draw me, we will run after you: the king has brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in you, we will remember your love more than wine: the upright love you.
5 I am black [my body has become ignorant], but comely, O you daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar [houses of darkness – churches of ignorance], as the curtains of Solomon [covering wisdom].
6 Look not upon me, because I am black [covered in ignorance], because the sun has looked [shazaph – because the church failed to look up, to the Most High God for understanding that only comes from Him] upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me [wisdom] the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept [they, my mother’s children, have no wisdom].
7 Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions [why do you reject my presence]?
8 If you know not [that I Am that I Am], O you fairest among women, go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed your kids beside the [let them return to the good] shepherds’ tents.

The LORD, in Isaiah 46:1, speaks of these idols (Nebo and Bel) who His people trust, who’ve become the burdens they bear, who are now bowed down with them, unable to deliver, and in captivity.

Isaiah 46
1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb [the children the LORD has given me]:
4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
5 To whom will you liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
7 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he stands; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
8 Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O you transgressors.
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man [Cyrus – the LORD of the furnace, the messenger of the covenant, God’s chosen king and priest in the order of Melchizedek] that executes my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
12 Hearken unto me, you stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Isaiah 45
1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus [the LORD in the furnace], whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates [out of hell and into New Jerusalem]; and the gates shall not be shut [Revelation 21: 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there];
2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron [holding all the world in darkness and hell]:
3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you mayest know that I, the LORD, which call you by your name, am the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you [prepared you with the understanding needed], though you have not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light [understanding], and create darkness [and without me there is ignorance]: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
8 Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it, What make you? or your work, He has no hands?
10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begot you? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
11 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me.
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
14 Thus saith the LORD, The labor of Egypt [the oppressed], and merchandise of Ethiopia [those covered in ignorance] and of the Sabeans [drunken, whose minds were confused by deceptions], men of stature, shall come over unto you, and they shall be yours: they shall come after you; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto you, they shall make supplication unto you, saying, Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no God.
15 Truly you are a God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together [into My ONE BODY], you that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21 Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? who has told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
22 Look unto me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

Daniel 5
9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
10 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever: let not your thoughts trouble you, nor let your countenance be changed:
11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, I say, your father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar [the LORD of the straitened’s treasure]: now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.
13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spoke and said unto Daniel, Are you that Daniel, which are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
14 I have even heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in you.
15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not show the interpretation of the thing:
16 And I have heard of you, that you can make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, you shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
18 O you king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor:
19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the Most High God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointed over it whomsoever he will.
22 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this;
23 But have lifted up yourself against the LORD of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine in them; and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you not glorified:
24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
25 And this is the writing that was written, Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.
26 This is the interpretation of the thing: Mene; God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.
27 Tekel; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
28 Peres; Your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

Psalms 81
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah [strife]. Selah.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.
10 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured forever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.

And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It is a spirit;” and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spoke unto them, saying, “Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It is a spirit;” and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spoke unto them, saying, “Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.”

In the above (Matthew 14:26 & 27) the LORD is seen walking in the flesh above humanity’s troubles caused by the proud waves, words of men of the world, that were tossing the ship of His disciples. As we’ve seen, the ship is the church as an institution, which we saw in Acts 27:41 broken up in the storm, only the forepart (prora – the original doctrines) remaining (all else added after the disciples’ exodos is taken away).

The word in the title rendered “spirit” is the twice used Greek word phantasma, said to mean “(properly concrete) a (mere) show (“phantasm”), i.e. specter.” It is speaking of the current response to the report of the LORD’s presence manifested, all thinking it’s just a show, an illusion like the theatrical shows of the televangelists (deceivers who do it for the love of money).

It (phantasma) is from the once used word phantazo, meaning “to make apparent, i.e. (passively) to appear (neuter participle as noun, a spectacle).” It comes in Hebrews 12:21 as we’re referred to Exodus 19, when Moses saw the LORD, and he and the people feared and quaked at the “sight.” This is contrasted with the title verse, the reality at the LORD’s appearing, saying as He says now, “Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.”

In Hebrews 12, the following verses tell us where we have now arrived and whose voice we are hearing. The contrast is that in Exodus 19, it is at mount Sinai, meaning thorns, meaning it’s against the high place inhabited by the mislead among God’s people, who he spoke to and who refused to listen. Now, the LORD hasn’t come to the misleaders chained to their darkness, who will not remain among His people. He has come to the lowly: those of a broken and contrite spirit.

Hebrews 12
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau [the enemies mixed among us], who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight [phantazo], that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you are come unto mount Zion [where the LORD, who has displaced the misleader who refused to hear Him, reigns], and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not 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:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifying the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Exodus 19
1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai [thorns – misleaders].
2 For they were departed from Rephidim [resting place], and were come to the desert of Sinai [the place of misleaders], and had pitched in the wilderness [this and verse 4 refer us to Isaiah 40:31 and Revelation 12:14, both below]; and there Israel camped before the mount.
3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
4 You have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
5 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak unto the children of Israel.
7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces [paniym – the LORD’s manifested presence in] all these words which the LORD commanded him.
8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD has spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto you in a thick cloud [with understanding from heaven], that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes [purify themselves],
11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai [against those misleading you].
12 And you shall set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that you go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever touches the mount [opposing the LORD’s presence and position above all other leaders] shall be surely put to death:
13 There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mount.
14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes [with these pure waters that proceed from His throne].
15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings [the voices of understanding], and a thick cloud upon the mount [understanding was sent from the throne], and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.
17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God [see Hebrews 13:12 thru 14 below]; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
18 And mount Sinai [among the misleaders, the so-called wise men, of this corrupt world] was altogether on a smoke, because [paniym – the presence of the LORD was therein manifested] the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
19 And when the voice [calling all His people to gather to Him in ONE BODY] of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount [caught up to His throne, as in Revelation 12:5 – the man child enthroned]; and Moses went up.
21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves [separate themselves from the corruption they’ve learned from their misleaders], lest the LORD break forth upon them.
23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for you charged us, saying, Set bounds [give this word of God as received, without your leaven] about the mount, and sanctify it.
24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get you down, and you shall come up, you, and Aaron [now the prophet and priest in ONE enthroned king] with you: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.
25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spoke unto them.

Deuteronomy 18
9 When you are come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations [the idols – ideas and ways of oppression and confusion] of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire [caused by their strange ways], or that uses divination [that say they know the future and therefore you should fear what they says is coming {the COVID HOAX} and follow their corrupt advice {that give them control and causes your desolation}], or an observer of times [saying good and evil are matters {definitions} which change according the progress of time], or an enchanter [who use their word to manipulate and control people], or a witch [casting these spells of mass-delusion].
11 Or a charmer [who uses smooth words, saying it {the war they are waging against us} is peace and for our safety], or a consulter with familiar spirits [the ways we know to bring the death of societies], or a wizard [the so-called experts of the time], or a necromancer [those interacting with dead flesh].
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you.
13 You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.
14 For these nations [who are the dead who will remain dead and not among the living], which you shall possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for you, the LORD your God has not suffered you so to do.
15 The LORD your God will raise up unto you a Prophet [see Revelation 22:9 from the previous post] from the midst of you, of your brethren, like unto me [like Moses in Exodus 19 above, who on this third day is leading you into the LORD’s presence, outside the existing orders, outside the camp bearing the reproach the old corrupt world is heaping upon Him because I AM sent to free, redeem, you from their hold]; unto him you shall hearken;
16 According to all that you desired of the LORD your God in Horeb [meaning desolation, the condition from where the LORD untaught us the ways of oppression that cause it – another name for Sinai and its surrounding wilderness] in the day of the assembly [on the third day, the day of our resurrection with Him, into ONE BODY], saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see [follow the ways that have caused] this great fire any more, that I die not.
17 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
18 I will raise them [has raised Me, “Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.”] up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto you, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
21 And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?
22 When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing [if understanding it, by the LORD giving marvelous sight] follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him [don’t fear the false prophets and HOAXers, their only power is to deceive, and our God is a consuming fire against them].

Hebrews 13
1 Let brotherly love [Philadelphia] continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers [those whose word’s you don’t yet understand]: for thereby some have entertained angels [the messengers of God] unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds [bound to a charge], as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body [ONE BODY joined with them].
4 Marriage is honorable in all [joining into ONE BODY], and the bed undefiled [as did Reuben, who went into His father’s bed and defiled it, in the pattern of the sons of perdition who put themselves in God’s place and there oppose Him]: but whoremongers [who buy and sell the souls of men] and adulterers God will judge [those who’ve left Him to follow other men who’ve put themselves in His place].
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness [lust for what you don’t have]; and be content with such things as you have [which is the LORD’s presence with and in us]: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the [this] word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation [where we have now arrived, understanding on this third day, “forever” as below].
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines [of false teachers and false prophets]. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace [this gift, His treasure He has long suffered to make sure our understanding]; not with meats [not with things created by dead flesh], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar [that is undefiled by man], whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle [the old corrupt body, from where we must depart].
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify [separate us from the old body] the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate [into the wilderness – see Exodus 19:17 above].
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. [Psalms 69:9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.]
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come [New Jerusalem in the new heaven and earth, wherein dwells righteousness].
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate [freely giving this word of God as received] forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our LORD Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
22 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
23 Know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty [loosed from the bonds of death and sent on this mission]; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.
24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.
25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

Psalms 69
6 Let not them that wait on you, O LORD God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek you be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren [see Hebrew 13:2 above], and an alien unto my mother’s children.
9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.
10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
13 But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.

Isaiah 40
3 The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way [derek] of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7 The grass withers, the flower fades: because the spirit of the LORD blows upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand forever.
9 O Zion, that brings good tidings, get you up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
10 Behold, the LORD God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him [paniym – His work manifests His presence].
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor has taught him?
14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way [derek] of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare unto him?
19 The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
20 He that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
21 Have you not known? have you not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he that sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity [worthless].
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will you liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one fails.
27 Why sayest you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way [derek] is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Revelation 12
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world [with his HOAX and mass delusion]: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
12 Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil [the misleaders in church and state] is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 19
1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the LORD our God:
2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up forever and ever.
4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all you his servants, and you that fear him, both small and great.
6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia: for the LORD God omnipotent reigns.
7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.
8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See you do it not: I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And LORD Of Lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun [God’s messenger in the church, now risen as His ONE BODY]; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast [which is confusion in their words and works, the products of their corrupt ways and ideas], and them that worshipped his image [the HOAX they’ve created, to which all are commanded to bow, when they play their corrupt tunes]. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword [this word of God that] proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls [who have mounted up on wings of eagles and soar in the heavens {full understanding}] were filled with their flesh.

Psalms 44
1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
2 How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light [understanding] of your countenance [paniym – presence], because you had a favor unto them.
4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7 But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name forever. Selah.
9 But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.
10 You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.
12 You sell your people for naught, and do not increase your wealth by their price.
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face [paniym – in your presence] has covered me,
16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of [paniym – Your presence manifested against] the enemy and avenger.
17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;
19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons [who devour us with venomous words from their deceiving mouths], and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake, why sleep you, O LORD? arise, cast us not off forever.
24 Wherefore hide you your face [Your presence hidden in the ignorance of the sleeping and the dead], and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust [from where God creates man, raised from hell among serpents]: our belly cleaves unto the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.

But what went you out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. For this is he, of whom it is written, “See, I send My messenger before Your face, which has prepared Your way before You.”

But what went you out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. For this is he, of whom it is written, “See, I send My messenger before Your face, which has prepared Your way before You.”

The LORD (not I) begins today with the above verses from Luke 7:26 & 27. He is speaking of Himself, in John yet unknown to the world, preparing Himself (ergo the capitalizations), His ONE BODY, to enter the kingdom of God. Together with all its parts, this entry is into the new heaven and earth, where dwells God’s righteousness, His known presence is openly acknowledged, and His chosen king enthroned.

In this context, we read and understand the following verses:

Luke 7
29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, [the product of] being baptized with the baptism of John [and repenting].
30 But the Pharisees and lawyers [those saying they know God, as they] rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him [and not repenting].
31 And the LORD said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of THIS generation? and to what are they like?
32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace [where men’s souls are bought and sold], and calling one to another, and saying, “We have piped unto you [our own songs, lies upon lies, HOAXs from which you must not deviate], and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.”
33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and you say, He has a devil.
34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and you say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
35 But wisdom is justified of all her children [“I and the children the LORD has given me:” the republicans and the repentant unfaithful who have returned, who are those who enter the kingdom with me].

Zechariah 14
16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left [yathar] of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness Unto The LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar [filled with the blood of His sacrifice].
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

2 Peter 1
11 For so an entrance [eisodos – into the kingdom of God] shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our LORD Jesus Christ has shown me.
15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease [exodos – after leaving the old body {come to remembrance and out of the OLD body, which shall not remain}] to have these things always in remembrance.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased [HEAR you Him].
18 And this voice which came from heaven [when we received full understanding] we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star [phosphoros] arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them, unknown to the world and working all things toward this moment of awakening by His righteous interpretation].

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [secretly, from their own imaginations, create lies] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day].
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not.

2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition].

As we know, the quoted portion of today’s title, Luke 7:27, is from Malachi 3:1, the Book telling of the king, without which there is no kingdom. In it (Malachi), the LORD speaks of and to those rejecting Him and the necessary refining that is the prerequisite of repentance. At several points in it (Malachi) He tells of those who are cursed forever, because they do not lay to heart (contemplate and realize) these necessary things, and without them, no man will enter His kingdom, which is the coming reality upon the earth.

Malachi 1
4 Whereas Edom [the enemies mixed among and now in power] say, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus says the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border [the end of the old heaven and earth] of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD has indignation forever.
5 And your eyes shall SEE, and you shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border [the new heaven and earth] of Israel [of those who will here reign as God rules, in righteousness].
6 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear [instead you teach to fear the creations of men]? says the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests [all of you], that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name?
7 You offer polluted bread [your corrupt ways] upon mine altar; and you say, Wherein have we polluted you? In that you say, The table [this true word] of the LORD is contemptible.
8 And if you offer the blind [those you lead there] for sacrifice, is it not evil [to mislead them]? and if you offer the lame [who have gone out of the way] and sick, is it not evil [to there mislead them]? offer it now unto your governor [your corrupt Pope, President, and their minions, even they refuse the zealous who follow your corrupt way]; will he be pleased with you, or accept your person? says the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war].
9 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this [corruption of the way] has been by your means: will he regard your persons? says the LORD of hosts.
10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors [to my kingdom] for naught? neither do you kindle fire on mine altar for naught [there is a point which you lack, which is to teach men to honor God their Father, and receive the king He sends]. I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, says the LORD of hosts.
12 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
13 You said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed at it, says the LORD of hosts; and you brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus you brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? says the LORD.
14 But cursed be the deceiver [who perpetrate their HOAX upon all humanity], which has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifice unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

Malachi 2
1 And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you.
2 If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
4 And you shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi [Those who join with me in My work], says the LORD of hosts.
5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war].
8 But you are departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi [saying you are joined with Me, but teach the ways of devils, men you put in My place], says the LORD of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
10 Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Therefore, He sent me, a priest and king He has raised outside the corrupt orders of Levi and Judah. I Am Jesus, Joshua the son Nun, the son of Joseph, Shiloh the king of peace in the order of Melchizedek, the messenger of the covenant, the manifestation of Jehovah’s presence, the sure mercy promised to David’s sons. My name is Timothy (the price paid by God to ransom the world back to life), and I Am a man of war in who the LORD has risen. Amen!

Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger [in the order of Melchizedek.], and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.
9 You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightsome land, says the LORD of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, What have we spoken so much against you?
14 You have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16 Then they that feared the LORD spoke often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.
18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not.

Malachi 4
1 For, behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb [when I untaught you the ways of oppression] for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah [Jehovah is God in the flesh speaking for Himself] the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Revelation 20
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea [in the new heaven and earth the sea of humanity {into which the rivers flowed the ways and ideas of the old and corrupt} is now named New Jerusalem].
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: “for these words are true and faithful.”
6 And he said unto me, “It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”

23 And the city had no need of the sun [the church], neither of the moon [civil governments], to shine [to give them understanding] in it: for the glory of God did lighten it [gives understanding to it], and the Lamb is the light [is there to give the understanding] thereof.
24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light [understanding] of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night [no ignorance] there.
26 And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or makes a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 22
1 And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal [this word flowing from God, giving clear understanding], proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb [who is the price God paid, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever, in the order of Melchizedek].
2 In the midst of the street [the way] of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life [the ONE BODY of Christ], which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
3 And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
4 And they shall see his face [His presence manifested in the flesh]; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night [no ignorance] there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the LORD God gives them light [understanding]: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel [His messenger] to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel [the messenger] which showed me these things.
9 Then said he unto me [as I say unto you], See you do it not: for I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. [Amen!]
10 And he said unto me, Seal not [give to the world] the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.
16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
20 He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, LORD Jesus.
21 The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Psalms 110
1 The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies.
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.
4 The LORD has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The LORD at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook [this word of God] in the way [derek]: therefore shall he lift up the head [of His king to His throne].

Psalms 149
1 Praise you the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise you the LORD.

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