Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for your Maker is your husband; the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
The word above (from Isaiah 54:4 & 5) rendered “husband” is the fifteen times used Hebrew word ba’al (1166), meaning “to be master; hence, (as denominative from 1167) to marry:–have dominion (over), be husband, marry(-ried, X wife).”
It (ba’al) is referring back to the LORD using it in verse 1, saying “Sing [shout the word of the LORD in triumph], O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing [repeating the word He’s put in our mouths], and cry aloud, you that did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife [ba’al – than the children of the one who has the Husband], says the LORD.”
(Friends, believe, have faith in the reality at hand. The LORD is in my flesh speaking and working, His warring, which only ends in His and our victory. The only question is – whose side will you choose? The heavenly or the hellish? The good or the evil?)
Now I Timothy, a man of war, myself implore you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ in me, who in fleshly presence I Am base among you, but being absent I Am standing boldly against the wicked among you: But I implore you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 10
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of [evil’s] strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations [the fabrications of misleaders among you], and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ [the living God in our flesh];
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled [when you join in ONE BODY and boldly speak this word, and condemn this evil generation].
7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [thinks he] is Christ’s, even so, are we [truly] Christ’s.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the LORD has given us for edification [to build, increase you, by good education], and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed [but instead, reach our expected and foretold end]:
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10 For his letters say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11 Let such a one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you [publishing, making public this good news].
14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased [by understanding], that we shall be enlarged [see Isaiah 54:2] by you according to our rule [kanon – this standard lifted up] abundantly,
16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
17 But he that glories, let him glory in the LORD [who commends, shows His approval of, us by giving us His treasure to be freely given from our hand].
18 For not he that commend himself is approved, but whom the LORD commends.
The word “commend” is from the Greek word suniemi, from two words meaning with and stand, which tell of God showing His approval by standing with those who boldly stand with Him against evil.
The word “approved” is from the seven times used Greek word dokimos, meaning “acceptable (current after assayal), i.e. approved:–approved, tried.”
These words speak of the substance known after an analysis (tested under attack and found to remain standing).
1 Corinthians 11
17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18 For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you [you are not ONE BODY by One mind of Christ]; and I partly believe it.
19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved [dokimos] may be made manifest among you.
Romans 14
15 But if your brother [who is dead in Christ with heresies among you] be grieved with your meat [your deep understanding that will strengthen him to life], now walk you not charitably [agape – do you walk away from him and not continue, not long-suffering, to give him understanding, love that is light and the life man]. Destroy not him with your meat [with your deep understanding], for whom Christ died.
16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost [the LORD speaking and working unknown until He is known].
18 For he that in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God, and approved [dokimos] of men.
19 Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace [in which is the ONE BODY], and things wherewith one may edify [build up by educating] another.
As we know, the word “agape” speak of the true love of God, His mercy in judgment, a long-suffering charity that gives, again and again, His treasures, His understanding that is the light and life of the world.
1 Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity [agape], I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [agape], I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity [agape], it profits me nothing.
4 Charity [agape] suffers long, and is kind; charity [agape] envies not; charity [agape] vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Charity [agape] never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect [this full understanding] is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face [the presence of God with us and the light in us]: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abides faith, hope, charity [agape], these three; but the greatest of these is charity [agape].
2 Timothy 2
1 You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 You, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that wars entangle himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strives for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strives lawfully.
6 The husbandman that labors [diligently seeks] must be the first partaker [the first to who it is opened] of the fruits [these treasure, the fruit of our labor, our diligently seeking the mind of Christ].
7 Consider what I say; and the LORD give you understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead [in me] according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evildoer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound [it is opened to those who diligently seek Him, and when finding Him believe, have faith, it is Him they’ve found].
10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 It is a faithful saying [regarding the resurrection of the dead and our taking up our cross to quicken the dead to life]: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny [it is] him, he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not, yet he abides faithful: he cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved [dokimos – still standing and the substance, The LORD, is realized in you] unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
17 And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus [who hiding behind a spurious mask of fake love {pseudo-agape} hold you down {katecho} from rising to join with the LORD in His ONE BODY, which is the resurrection];
18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection [which only comes with joining the LORD in heaven: His mind, His full understanding] is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The LORD knows them that are his. And, let everyone that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.
21 If a man, therefore, purge himself from these [dishonorable men, whose inner substance is found to be corrupt], he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity [agape], peace, with them that call on the LORD out of a pure heart [by which only do men see God].
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strife [they are intentionally meant to cause endless argument].
24 And the servant of the LORD must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Isaiah 54
2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations: spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes;
3 For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
4 Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember [zakar] the reproach of your widowhood any more.
5 For your Maker is your husband [ba’al]; the LORD of hosts is his name; and your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.
6 For the LORD has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when you wast refused, says your God.
7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer.
9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with you, nor rebuke you.
10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colours, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 And I will make your windows of agates, and your gates of carbuncles, and all your borders of pleasant stones.
13 And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near you.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against you shall fall for your sake.
16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.
Matthew
40 For as Jonah [the sign of the end reached] was three days and three nights in the whale’s [ketos] belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart [hidden from the minds of men by the ever-open mouths {chasma} of men who put themselves in God’s place] of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up [in the resurrection] in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places [without this word of God], seeking rest, and finds none.
44 Then he says, I will return into my house [the churches] from whence I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished [outwardly clean].
45 Then goes he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits [false doctrines of devils] more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first [because he in ignorance thinks he is saved when he is dead among the dead]. Even so, shall it be also [as it now is] unto this wicked generation.
46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
47 Then one said unto him, Behold, your mother and your brethren stand without, desiring to speak with you.
48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven [calling all to gather into His ONE BODY to speak His One Mind], the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Isaiah 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.
4 Trust you in the LORD forever: for in the LORD Jehovah is everlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance [zeker] of you.
9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion [ba’al] over us: but by you only will we make mention [zakar – rememberance] of your name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited [paqad] and destroyed them, and made all their memory [zeker] to perish.
15 You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited [paqad] you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening [correction] was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain [to bring forth the I Am among us], we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen [into the birth canal].
19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise [as ONE BODY]. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust [the ruin from where you shall rise to life]: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish [paqad] the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
James 1
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower [anthos – the word and works he has wrought] of the grass he shall pass away.
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower [anthos] thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried [dokimos], he shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD has promised to them that love him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust has conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights [understanding], with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us [into life in His family, after His own kind] with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God [whose wrath is against the inventions of men who’ve removed God from their knowledge and are thereby without understanding].
Friends, it’s pretty evident the world has gone to hell. The men who’ve led it there, denying culpability, now claim they will fix it and restore peace by finishing their course of “building back better.”
Those leading God’s people tell them to listen for His voice, while they keep talking over Him, spewing the same old ideas that have led them to lukewarm and sitting still in silence. The LORD says to follow him, take up your cross, and follow Him as He has risen to condemn this evil generation.
Romans 1
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, [against the inventions of this evil generation] who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that [truth] which may be known of [from] God is manifest in them; for God has shown it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of Him [the unseen truth hidden in these misleaders’ ignorance] from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made [now appear], even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened [they became the ignorant they are].
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet [the deserved end they inevitably meet with].
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder [even of children and the unborn], debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them.
Amos 6
1 Woe to them that are at ease [lukewarm and comfortable] in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria [the high places of the earth where idols are put in God’s place and called by His Holy name], which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
2 Pass you unto Calneh [the protection of your idols], and see; and from thence go you to Hamath [their fortress] the great: then go down to Gath [the winepress – of wrath] of the Philistines [the invading army among you destroying you]: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border [is this end greater than the end the LORD foretold]?
3 You that put far away the evil day [this end you refuse to see, because of those you’ve listened to and followed into ignorance], and cause the seat of violence to come near [cause the tribulation to increase until it’s now destroying you as you sit still and do nothing about it];
4 That lie [in comfort] upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent [chashab – fabricate] to themselves instruments [prepared words to be repeated] of music, like David;
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph [God’s people and their king in this evil generation].
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched [exceeded their authority] themselves shall be removed.
8 The LORD God has sworn by himself, says the LORD the God of hosts [who is a man of war], I abhor the excellency of Jacob [My people who are still unknowingly wrestling with Me and My words], and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
10 And a man’s uncle [Reuben, the son of perdition, who puts himself in his father’s place] shall take him up, and he that burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with you? and he shall say, No [the whole body is desolate]. Then shall he say, Hold your tongue [hacah – saying, stay still in “silence”]: for we may not make mention [zakar – bring to remembrance] of the name [identity] of the LORD.
Ezekiel 28
18 You have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of you, it shall devour you, and I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold you.
19 All they that know you among the people shall be astonished at you: you shall be a terror, and never shall you be any more.
20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, set your face against Zidon [those who hunt the souls of men], and prophesy against it,
22 And say, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I am against you, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets [as it is this day]; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword [this word from the mouth of God] upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Friends, those you’ve followed into this current condition, will lead you into destruction, and the only way to salvation is to take them out of the way. Follow me as I follow the One who sent me on this mission.
The “silence” about the LORD’s presence here manifested, above in Amos 6:10, from hacah, is only spoken of one other time by Amos. In Amos 8:3, it’s the cause of death of those these wicked men have swallowed with the ever-open mouths spewing the gates of hell.
Amos 8
1 Thus has the LORD God shown unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2 And he said, Amos, what see you? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end [harvest] is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them anymore.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howling in that day, says the LORD God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence [hacah].
4 Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
5 Saying, When will the new moon [the new government God is bringing with His presence] be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath [this interruption of the LORD whose come for our correction], that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit [they are asking when the LORD will leave them so they can get back to their same old destruction and misleading]?
6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
7 The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their [wicked] works.
8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood [this word of God returned and flooding from His people]; and it [the wicked] shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD God, that I will cause the sun [the old corrupt churches] to go down at noon [when the light, this understanding of God’s word, reaches its apex in heaven: in full understanding], and I will darken [cause the ignorance of the world to be seen] the earth in the clear day [when I meet with My people in the cleared air]:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son [when the kings they’ve followed are realized to be the dead], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
11 Behold, the days come, says the LORD God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD [speaking of this word from the mouth of God, silenced as it has been by those who’ve put themselves and their idols in God’s place]:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea [from generation to generation, as they have these seventy years in desolation], and from the north [ignorance in darkness] even to the east [until they look to this sun rising light], they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it [because those they follow are telling them to look elsewhere, to the idols they’ve put in the LORD’s place].
13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst [without this word of God].
14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria [worshipping idols they call by God’s name], and say, Your god [calves], O Dan [judgment], lives; and, The manner of Beersheba lives [were idols corrupt the wells that should flow God’s word and they instead mislead into death]; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
Amos 9
1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that flee of them shall not flee away, and he that escape of them shall not be delivered.
2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent [the deadly word of the men they continue to follow], and he shall bite them:
4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and [because they reject this word] I will set mine eyes upon them for evil [they choose to follow], and not for good [this truth they reject].
5 And the LORD God of hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
6 It is he that builds his stories in the heaven [by His full understanding], and has founded his troop in the earth [His army who receives Him]; he that calleth for the waters [bringing into the light the words of wicked men] of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
7 Are you not as children of the Ethiopians [covered in darkness] unto me, O children of Israel? says the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt [haven’t I freed them from the words, the misleading of their oppressors]? and the Philistines [the invading enemy are army among us] from Caphtor [whose king sits crowned and ruling over you], and the Syrians [those who exalt themselves and their words above God] from Kir [whose lies upon lies are the wall they and you trust in, separating you from God]?
8 Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof [reestablishing the king line and gathering all God’s people again into ONE BODY under one king of God’s choosing]; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom [the enemies mixed among us, claiming they are our brothers and countrymen at peace with us, as they are at war destroying our nation and better culture], and of all the heathen [who don’t really know me], which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper [plowing under the current corrupt crop], and the treader of grapes [of wrath] him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.
Psalms 99
1 The LORD reigns; let the people tremble: he sits between the cherubims [where He manifests His presence]; let the earth be moved.
2 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
3 Let them praise your great and terrible name; for it is holy.
4 The king’s strength also loveth judgment; you do establish equity, you execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
6 Moses [those pulled from the waters below] and Aaron [those who bring this light] among his priests, and Samuel [those who hear this voice as the voice of God, as it is] among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
7 He spoke unto them in the cloudy pillar [from where His understanding is held]: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
8 You answered them, O LORD our God: you are a God that forgave them, though you took vengeance of their inventions.
9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
