Therefore, they say unto God, “Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?”
The above is Job, in Job 21:14 & 15, speaking of the wicked, in power and prosperity, saying they have no need for God. Toward the end of the chapter, Job says he knows the devices these men (his so-called friends who are ignorant of the fact they are the wicked through whom Satan is working, speaking with darkened counsel), which they wrongfully imagine against him.
Job 21
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.
28 For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
29 Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens,
30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?
32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
The questions asked above refer us to the LORD’s answering them in Job 38 when He speaks from the whirlwind. He above asks, don’t you know these, knowing the places of the prince and the wicked, are their “tokens,” from the Hebrew word ‘owth, meaning “a signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:–mark, miracle, (en)sign, token.”
It (‘owth) is the word the LORD used to tell us, in Jeremiah 10:2, these are “signs” in the heavens, at which we should not be “dismayed,” from the word chathath, meaning “to prostrate; hence, to break down, either (literally) by violence, or (figuratively) by confusion and fear.”
The word is telling of the difference seen in the result of following the advice of the prince (the king in waiting) and that of the wicked. The latter is following the wicked anit-saviors (antichrist) now ruling our nation and the world using hate-filled lies (claiming they are salvation) to deceive people into continuing with them into self-destruction: the perdition of those who receive not the love of the truth. The truth, the love (agape) of God giving His good advice, comes from those these same antichrists dehumanize (divest of human rights), vilify, and now seek to disarm and eradicate. These are the tokens, signs in the heavens (known to the enlightened) now seen plainly.
God’s people, your pastors and prophets will tell you to sit still and stay quiet (make no mention of the LORD here speaking truth to corrupt powers). They refuse to acknowledge the evil now destroying our nation and culture. Their ignorance is well known to the destroyers, and joining them, they continue to deny the reality we see and (these weaklings of the faith) are thereby cowardly complicit in the plot. These men are the leaders of the feminized (fearful, soft, and comfortable therein) church with its twisted ideas of peace and love: perverting their true meanings, they hold down (katecho) the (lukewarm) BODY, and there hold it until taken out of the way.
The church needs a man to lead it, a king who isn’t afraid, “Who shall declare his [the wicked’s] way to his face and who shall repay him [with truth brought to light, exposing] him what [wickedness] he has done.”
Revelation 3
13 He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans [meaning they are the church in this generation, who must awaken and bring “justice to the people”] write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the [new] creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you were cold or hot.
16 So then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you say, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing;” and know not that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire [these treasures of heaven, God’s understanding revealed], that you may be rich; and white raiment [of purity], that you may be clothed [with My righteousness], and that the shame [of not reaching what your false prophets and false teachers said they saw and understood] of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve [this eye-opening truth], that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten [correct]: be zealous therefore, and repent [come back to the path from which you’ve strayed].
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Jeremiah 10
1 Hear you the word which the LORD [here and now] speaks unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed [chathath] at the signs [‘owth] of heaven; for the heathen [those who don’t know Me, and haven’t received My understanding] are dismayed [chathath – are confused and in fear, because they have no idea, are ignorant of, what they are signs of] at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain [worthless – because they are idols, fabrications of men, they follow and blindly worship]: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree [I Am], but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear you, O king of nations? for to you does it appertain [the once used word ya’ah – the origin of the name Jehovah – Yah-hovah, self-existent, self-manifesting into the ruin, to from its dust and ashes create what is good]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities [wothlessness – it is self-evident the ways of men who reject God {oblivious of Him while lying about knowing Him}, in ignorance, are destroying lives and livelihoods, men and nations].
9 [These men create idols of] Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
11 Thus shall you say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the [new] earth, and from under these [new] heavens.
12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens [these words of understanding], and he causes the vapors [the elements of understanding] to ascend from the ends [the end of the old and beginning] of the [new] earth; he makes lightnings [understanding coming] with rain [His purified word from heaven], and bringeth forth the wind [the whirlwind, His Almighty Spirit, from where He speak] out of his treasures.
14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath [life] in them.
15 They are vanity [worthless], and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation [pquddah] they shall perish [lose themselves – selling their souls into death and hell].
16 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts [who is a man of war] is his name.
17 Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
18 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so [that they will realize their condition and their wound can be healed].
19 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.
20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
21 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country [darkness that is upon the earth], to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons [tanniyn – jackals, whales, serpents, men is whose mouths is venom – mouths they open wide and swallow down their prey].
23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.
25 Pour out your fury upon the heathen that know you not, and upon the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten [swallowed] up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
The word rendered “perish,” in verse 11 above, when telling of the end of the idol: men as beasts (leviathan, serpents, whales, and dragons {crocodiles}), is the seven times used word ‘abad (Strong’s #7). It (#7 ‘abad) is the Aramaic (Chaldee) version of the Hebrew word ‘abad (Strong’s #6), which appears later, in verse 15 above, also telling of when these men and their works of error “perish” when the LORD we’ve waited for (with His truth) visits.
When ‘abad (#7) appears above, it is the only time outside of its six uses in Daniel 2 & 7, which refer to the coming of the LORD, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh (Jesus), therein described.
Daniel 2 speaks of the vision Nebuchadnezzar (the blinding lies of false prophets that caused the desolation of God’s people) saw but didn’t understand until the judgment of God (Daniel) came and showed the meaning to him (them). It speaks of the final kingdom when God’s people are mixed with their enemies: here and now when our strength (understanding) is mired (confused) by mixing it with clay. It is here the LORD’s mercy appears toward the false prophets and so-called wise men of Babylon, whose own ways and ideas (their misleadings) have them at the point of self-destruction.
Daniel 2
1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
3 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live forever: tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if you will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, you shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
6 But if you show the dream, and the interpretation thereof, you shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor: therefore show me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
7 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation of it.
8 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that you would gain the time [say it was something that will happen “some time” in the distant future – and thereby buy time for yourselves], because you see the thing is gone from me.
9 But if you will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me the interpretation thereof.
10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
11 And it is a rare thing that the king requires, and there is none other that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy [‘abad] all the wise men of Babylon.
13 And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
14 Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king’s guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:
15 He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
16 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation.
17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
18 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish [‘abad] with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven [Who from there gives understanding].
20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
21 And he changes the times and the seasons [by giving understanding and revealing things held in secret]: he removes kings, and sets up kings: he gives wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
22 He reveals the deep and secret things: he knows what is in the darkness [hidden in men’s ignorance], and the light [understanding] dwells with him [which is the ‘owth, the sign of His house, His family].
23 I thank you, and praise you, O you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might [strength of iron], and have made known unto me now what we desired of you: for you have now made known unto us the king’s matter.
24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch [a lion-like man], whom the king had ordained to destroy [‘abad] the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy [‘abad] not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will show unto the king the interpretation.
25 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar [“LORD of the straitened’s treasure” – who reveals them], Are you able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king has demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, show unto the king;
28 But there is a God in heaven that [from there] reveals secrets, and makes known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days [now]. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed [while you slept in death], are these;
29 As for you, O king, your thoughts came into your mind upon your bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that reveals secrets makes known to you what shall come to pass.
30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that you might know the thoughts of your heart [your own mind, of which you have become ignorant].
31 You, O king, saw, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the form thereof was terrible.
32 This image’s head was of fine gold [its beginning was of the greatest value, through its full understanding, but as it progressed it descended, finally into ignorance where it became of lesser and lesser value], his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
34 You saw till that a stone [who the build rejected] was cut out without hands [the only begotten of God without any man’s help], which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them [and the old world is now ended]: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain [Zion, God’s rule on the earth], and filled the whole earth.
36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
37 You, O king, are a king of kings: for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven has he given into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold [God’s kingdom created in perfection, descended into sleep and death].
39 And after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom [the US] shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and subdues all things: and as iron that breaks all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. [see Isaiah 24 below]
41 And whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas you saw iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men [enemies they will mix among them who will weaken them to destroy them]: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
45 Forasmuch as you saw that the stone [I Am] was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors unto him.
47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a LORD of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you could reveal this secret.
48 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.
The Chaldee word used twice above, in verse 24, to tell of the final mired (confused) kingdom “breaking” and “bruising” all the earth, is r’a’, which only appears here. It refers us to its Hebrew equivalent, ra’a’, appearing in Isaiah 24:19, where it tells of the earth’s current condition.
Isaiah 24
24 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD has spoken this word.
4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
8 The mirth of tabrets ceased, the noise of them that rejoice ended, the joy of the harp ceased.
9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
10 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened [by ignorance], the mirth of the land is gone.
12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
13 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
14 [From the ruin of the earth] They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
15 Wherefore glorify you the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken [ra’a’] down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The [old] earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited [paqad].
23 Then the moon [the corrupt civil governments] shall be confounded, and the sun [the corrupt church] ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Isaiah 25
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made of a city a heap; of a defenced [the fortress of lies in which they trust] city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.
4 For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations [the lies and falsehood under which they think they hide, ignorance with which they think they can keep secret the LORD among us – this uncovering is the apocalypse; meaning taking away the cover, by His revelation].
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab [the gate of hell – the mouths of men] shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim [rightly dividing the waters]: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress [in which they trust] of the high fort of your walls [of lies] shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust [the ruin of the earth from where man is created in the new heaven and earth].
The other two times Daniel uses the Chaldee word ‘abad, in Daniel 7, they further define the fourth kingdom and the stone sent against it. He (the stone) is the one described, in Hebrews 12:2, as Author and Finisher of our faith, who with us comes in a cloud of witnesses, enduring the contradiction of sinner (who need His correction) opposing Him.
Jude 1
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness [ignorance] forever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouths speak great swelling [pride filled] words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage [their positions].
17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
20 But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our LORD Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling [harpazo] them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loveth he chastens, and scourgeth every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Daniel 7
9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days [God’s wisdom] did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels [the understand He brought with Him] as burning fire.
10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the [sealed] books were opened.
11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke [against God]: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed [‘abad], and given to the burning flame.
12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
13 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven [with understanding], and came to the Ancient of days [with the wisdom of God], and they brought him near before him.
14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
15 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me [because I realized the enemies of God were those of His own people].
16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
17 These great beasts [the jackals, serpents, whales, and dragons, devouring with their mouths], which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn [the power now ruling the world in confusion] made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days [God’s wisdom] came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first [he is the king of Babylon – the confusion that now rules in all civil governments of the world], and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times [the times of Abraham’s deep sleep in the furnace] and the [rightly] dividing of [understanding of this] time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy [‘abad] it unto the end.
27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
When Job, above in Job 21, tells of the sign (‘owth), in knowing the house of the prince and the dwelling of the wicked, He is speaking of this word from heaven revealing them.
Job 38
17 Have the gates of death been opened unto you [so you can enter heaven]? or have you seen the doors [the gates of hell] of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth [the time of its end and this new beginning] of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwelleth [in the house of the prince]? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof [the dwelling place of the wicked],
20 That you shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that you shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great [as is the Ancient of Days, the wisdom of God]?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail, [this word of God frozen in heaven]
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters [God’s word from heaven] may cover you?
35 Can you send lightnings [understanding of it], that they may go and say unto you [you doubters and murmurers], “Here we are [Here I Am]?”
36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?
Psalms 74
1 O God, why have you cast us off forever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelt.
3 Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
4 Your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their ensigns [‘owth] for signs [‘owth].
5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
7 They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
9 We see not our signs [‘owth]: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
11 Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
12 For God is my king of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
14 You break the heads of leviathan [men who’ve joined together against the LORD and His people] in pieces, and gave him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
15 You did cleave the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers [of their words corrupting all the world].
16 The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun [understanding to unite your people in ONE BODY of Christ].
17 You have set all the borders [end and beginning] of the earth: you have made summer and winter [times and seasons].
18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
19 O deliver not the soul of your turtledove [I and the children God has given me, who are the signs in heaven – see Isaiah 8:18] unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor forever.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places [the dwelling of the wicked and ignorant] of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
23 Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increase continually.
The “turtledove” above, from the word towr, meaning dove, is speaking of those who know the time and season we’re in, alive among the sleeping dead at this end of the old world and beginning the new.
Jeremiah 8
1 At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, [all the dead misleading My People] out of their graves:
2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon [before the church and civil governments they’ve corrupted], and all the host of heaven [all their army that says it has understanding, who use their falsely so-called wisdom to fight against the LORD with us, in us], whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung [the dead in living flesh] upon the face of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.”
4 Moreover you shall say unto them, “Thus says the LORD; ‘Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle [against the LORD they don’t know].
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times; and the turtle [towr – the dove] and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not [this time of] the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.’
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace;’ when there is no peace.
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.'”
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the LORD.
18 (When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.)
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country [far from the house of the prince among them]: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment has taken hold on me [My dead body].
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [in this mountain of testimony]; is there no physician there [to bring them the cure]? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? [the answer is, because they reject the prescribed course of treatment, and instead insist they are not ill, even without it unto choosing death!]
Job 30
8 They [the wicked] were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11 Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the [their] desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud [understanding they’ve refused].
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season [the time of ignorance]: and my sinews take no rest.
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
19 He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes [of the earth in ruin – where He’s sent me, to raise those who receive Him].
20 I cry unto you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.
21 You are become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me. [2 Timothy 2: 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 {the misleaders they are joined with}, who are taken captive by him at his will.]
22 You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride upon it, and dissolve my substance.
23 For I know that you will bring me to death [the dwelling place of the wicked], and to the house appointed for all living [the house of the prince].
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave [as He has, to pull {harpazo} the dead from the fires of hell into life], though they cry in his destruction.
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light [for understanding to take hold of the sleeping dead], there came darkness [there came continuing ignorance and rejection].
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28 I went mourning without the sun [without the church]: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
29 I am a brother to dragons [tanniyn], and a companion to owls [who hunt souls in the darkness].
30 My skin is black upon me [My body, the church, is covered by ignorance], and my bones are burned with heat.
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
John 6
16 And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,
17 And entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum [the place of the Comforter, who leads into all truth]. And it was now dark [ignorance cover the world], and Jesus was not come to them.
18 And the sea [all the world’s people] arose by reason of a great wind that blew.
19 So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea [walking among the agitated people], and drawing nigh unto the ship [the church]: and they were afraid.
20 But he says unto them, It is I; be not afraid.
21 Then they willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship [the church] was at the land whither they went.
22 The day following, when the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there [there was no other church other than His ONE BODY], save that one whereinto his disciples were entered, and that Jesus went not with his disciples into the boat, but that his disciples were gone away alone;
23 (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the LORD had given thanks:)
24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum [the place where the Comforter, the LORD unknown, is leading all who come to him into all truth], seeking for Jesus.
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when came you here?
26 Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say unto you, You seek me, not because you saw the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him has God the Father sealed.
28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.
30 They said therefore unto him, What sign show you then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work?
31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat [which is this testimony, from the house of the prince waited for, the son of the king, the son of Joseph the King].
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven [this word from the mouth of God, by which man lives].
33 For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven [the full understanding of God the Father], and gives life unto the world.
34 Then said they unto him, LORD, evermore give us this bread.
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believes on me shall never thirst.
36 But I said unto you, That you also have seen me [the Father in me], and believe not.
37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him that comes to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father’s will which has sent me, that of all which he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
41 The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I Am the bread which came down from heaven.
42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he says, I came down from heaven?
43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which has sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me.
46 Not that any man has seen the Father, save he which is of God, he has seen the Father [in the son].
47 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that believes on me has everlasting life.
48 I Am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I Am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Psalms 27
1 The LORD is my light [understanding] and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh [my words, thinking they were merely flesh], they stumbled and fell.
3 Though a host [the army of the wicked] should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident [in the Father who lives in me].
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me [as His Prince] in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock [who is Christ in me, the living God].
6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When you said, Seek you my face [presence]; my heart said unto you, Your face [presence], LORD, will I seek.
9 [Let all the people of God say] Hide not your face [presence] far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine [wicked] enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD [who will manifest His presence to those who, in faith, receive Him]: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
