19 July – 1 August 2026
Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
As we know, the name Assyrians (the pattern of the modern communists), in the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary, is said to be “apparently” from the word ’ashur (#833), and, in the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, it is said to mean “a step.”
The idea of a step, a degree, is that each is a moment in a progressive movement, which (in this understanding) uncovers the reason the communists here in the US, long ago, when communism elsewhere proved itself to be barbaric and inhumane (abolishing God-given individual rights), lost favor; they (deceptively) rebranded themselves as “Progressives.”
The centralized banking system, with its usurped regulatory power, affords plausible deniability to modern communism, saying things aren’t owned by the government, and therefore the system isn’t communist. They, the modern communists, understand the reality that state CONTROL through extreme taxation and excessive regulation is much better than ownership. This is true because it has a twofold advantage to the communists: first, it lays the blame for adverse effects (the monetary burden) at the feet of the “owners,” also allowing them to demonize the “capitalist” system they’ve perverted and control.
The following is a question I asked Grok to research, and its answer, ending with the name Das Kapital: Where in Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto does he speak about a central bank and seizing control of the money supply?
In Chapter II: “Proletarians and Communists” (also called “Proletariat and Bourgeoisie” in some editions), in the section outlining transitional measures.
This is near the end of the chapter, where Marx and Engels describe what the proletariat will do after gaining political supremacy: “wrest, by degrees [steps], all capital from the bourgeoisie [the middle class], to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State…”
The specific reference is measure/plank #5:
Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
This directly addresses state control over credit and banking (a national bank with monopoly power), which relates to seizing control of the money supply and financial system as part of broader centralization of production and instruments of production.
Full context of the list (for reference): The ten measures appear in sequence (standard translation):
1. Abolition of property in land…
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport…
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State… (and so on for 8–10).
You can read the full text on sites like marxists.org (Chapter 2). This section is famous and often cited in discussions of Marxist economic policy. Note that the Communist Manifesto (1848) is a short political pamphlet, not a detailed economic treatise like Das Kapital.
The idea of the Hebrew word ’ashur (833) meaning “a step” comes from an almost identical word (838) derived from it, meaning “from 833 [Strong’s Dictionary meaning “to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively, to go forward, be honest, proper”] meaning in the sense of going; a step:—going, step.” The latter word speaks of the LORD’s unknown presence revealing the way (hearing His voice) into seeing Him, which is the victory over death and hell.
It (’ashur 838, used nine times) first appears in Job 23:11, where Job (representing God’s hated people, the faithful searching for meaning in their suffering at the hand of those through whom Satan is working) is speaking of his keeping (shamar – protecting and defending from corruption) the “steps” (the process) through which (yet unknown to him) the LORD is drawing the enemies (his three friends, the leviathan, the corrupt priesthood, raising up, through whom Satan is speaking and working) in His way (’achaz – seizing them, as in harpazo, “caught up” from the fires of hell) into the light.
Job 3:8
7 Lo, let that night [time of ignorance of the LORD] be solitary [galmuwd – a four times used word referring us to its use in Job 15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate {galmuwd}, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity {worthlessness}, and their belly {beten – which is the hell into which they consume those who follow their misleading} prepares deceit.], let no joyful voice [the realization of His presence] come therein [among the hypocrites].
8 Let them curse it that curse the day [this understanding], who [Satan through Job’s three so-called friends] are ready to raise up [‘uwr – to awaken] their mourning [leviathan – the corrupt priesthood, which the LORD is drawing into his light].
9 Let the stars the twilight thereof be dark [all God’s people now in this time of mass ignorance of His presence]; let it look for light [understanding], but have none; neither let it see the dawning [aph’aph – the snare, the LORD’s eye here opened] of the day [the light rising here alone, which is seen by none of those whose mouth remain open speaking their own ways and telling all it is the way]:
Job 23
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
3 Oh that I knew where I might find him [that it is in His word]! that I might come even to his [mercy] seat!
4 I would [in a conversation with Him] order [‘arak – rightly order] my cause [mishpat – judgment] before him [paniym – in His presence], and fill my mouth with [His] arguments.
5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength [understanding this deep] in me.
7 There the [self] righteous might dispute with him; so [by speaking His word as received, confessing it is Him present] should I be delivered forever from my judge [the self-righteous, still going about trying to prove they are right and the LORD is wrong].
8 Behold, I go forward [into this time of darkness], but he is not there; and backward [the ignorance of past generations], but I cannot perceive him:
9 On the left hand, [against the wicked] where he does work, but I cannot behold [see] him: he hides himself on the right hand [where He works unknown, in this written word], that I cannot see him:
10 But he knows the way that I take [that it has blinded all]: when he has tried me [removing the blinding corruption], I shall come forth as gold.
11 My foot has held [‘achaz – seized us in] his steps [‘ashur – the process, His manner], his way [derek – the manner of the tree of life – see Genesis 3:24] have I kept [shamar – protected and defended it from corruption], and not declined.
12 Neither have I gone back [muwsh – departed] from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed [above all other voices] the words of his mouth [by which man lives] more than my necessary food.
13 But he is in one mind [alone having the way of salvation], and who can turn him [away from His mission]? and what his soul desires [which is the knowledge of God], even that he does.
14 For he performs [shalam – completes His peace in us, by this teaching that flows from His Rock] the thing that is appointed [choq – in this time He has decreed] for me: and many such things [understanding that come from Him alone] are with him.
15 Therefore am I troubled [bahal – I am amazed and wondering] at his presence [paniym]: when I consider [biyn – receive understanding from Him, revealing Himself], I am afraid [pachad – stand in awe] of him.
16 For God makes my heart soft [rakak – showing the weakness therein the minds of men without the LORD], and the Almighty troubles me [bahal – make me wonder in amazement at the things He tells me]:
17 Because I was not cut off before [paniym – from His presence here in] the darkness [while we were ignorant], neither has he covered [kacah – concealed] the darkness [our ignorance] from my face [paniym – from His presence, even when He was to us unknown].
Job 41
1 Can you draw out leviathan [the corrupt priesthood] with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?
2 Can you put a hook into his nose [so he will perceive that the deep things he believes are corrupted]? or bore his jaw through with a thorn [showing his words to be misleading]?
3 Will he make many supplications [pray for forgiveness] unto you? will he speak soft [rak – admit the weakness in his] words unto you?
4 Will he make [karath – destroy] a covenant [with death] with you? will you [when he repents] take him for a servant forever?
5 Will you play with him as with a bird [raise him up into heaven]? or will you bind him for your maidens [God’s people at large]?
Friends, the repentance of the priesthood doesn’t necessarily happen to those who now call themselves priests. Most of those will be condemned by their unchanged words: their pride in who they think they are and what they think they know. They lack one thing, which is subordination to God’s will understood by hearing His voice.
Isaiah 61
1 The Spirit of the LORD [‘Adonay – David’s King of kings] God [Jehovih – and LORD of lords] is upon me; because the LORD [Jehovah] has anointed [mashach – made me Christ, the flesh in whom He has chosen to manifest His presence with us, in] me to preach good tidings unto the meek [who shall inherit the earth]; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted [those whose minds are broken away from corruption and are now without pride], to proclaim liberty to the captives [possessed by devils, misleader], and the opening of the prison [pqach-qowach – only used here; speaking of opening the spiritual eyes of the possessed, which frees them from hell] to them that are bound [by the words of men, ignorant opinions they claim are truth];
2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD [His presence realized], and the day of vengeance [against the enemies] of our God; to comfort [nacham – leading into all truth] all that mourn [humbly admitting the fallen condition of God’s people under misleaders];
3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty [mitsnepheth – a miter, the headwear of the cleansed priest] for ashes [of the earth’s ruin], the oil of joy [the realization of the LORD’s presence] for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness [the burdens of their misleaders]; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting [in the new earth] of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
The word mitsnepheth is said to be from the three times used word tsanaph, twice used in Isaiah 22:18, where they are together rendered “He will surely violently turn.” The verse continues, using the word tsenephah, rendered “toss;” saying, He: the LORD will “toss you like a ball into a large country.”
Isaiah 22
14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts [a man of war], Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die [to your old and corrupted ways], says the LORD God of hosts [a man of war].
15 Thus says the LORD God of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer [where the treasure is held, from where understanding should be given], even unto Shebna [growth – the key holder, those who have over grown the garden, as thorns and briers who hold captive the key to life], which is over the house, and say,
16 What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulcher here [have instead become places where the dead are housed], as he that hews him out a sepulcher on high, and that graves a habitation for himself in a rock [in which people put their trust, yet without light]?
17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away [tuwl] with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you [covering all understanding of the word of God].
18 He will surely violently turn [tsanaph tsanaph] and toss [tsenephah] you like a ball [duwr – only used elsewhere in Isaiah 29:3, there speaking of the LORD “round about” laying siege to free His captive people, who the chapter tells us are in a state of deep sleep, ignorant of Him and His word] into a large [rachab – a broad way that leads to destruction] country [‘erets – the earth become without form and void]: there shall you die [to your old, corrupt, and ignorant minds], and there the chariots of your glory [the understanding upon which you ride into battle] shall be the shame [disappointment] of your LORD’s house [the churches where they’ve put their created abominations in the LORD’s place, and called them by His name].
19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall he pull you down [from your seats of power].
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant [who I possess] Eliakim [who God has raised] the son of Hilkiah [whose inheritance is Jehovah; with me, in me]:
21 And I will clothe him [the new growth, the tree of life] with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle [the preparation that was prepared], and I will commit your government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem [all God people at large, into whom the LORD, through His branches, has flow His peace], and to the house of Judah [the elect remnant, the branches into and through who this life flows].
22 And the key [of life] of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail [yathed – with affinity to the words yath, or ‘ath, and ‘ed, words meaning sign and witness, alluding to the sign of the dove, Jonah, the end reached] in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
24 And they shall hang upon [talah – suspend, as in stopping their false teaching and preaching] him [His witness of the LORD’s presence, which is the sign of the end reached, calling all to repentance and renewal] all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25 In that day [time of light], says the LORD of hosts [a man of war], shall the nail [the false signs and wonders, the false witness of the many false prophets mixed among us] that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden [men’s opinions they claim are truth] that was upon it shall be cut off [karath]: for the LORD has spoken it.
The word rendered “siege” in Isaiah 29:3 is tsuwr, identical to the word tsuwr, the “Rock” who is Christ, from whom flows the Father’s teaching, which is the siege. The same verse goes on to say “I will raise forts against you.” The word rendered “forts” is mtsuwrah, literally asking, what or who is (mah) the Rock and siege of (tsuwr) Jehovah (Yahh).
This latter word (mtsuwrah) refers us to its eighth and final use, in Nahum (Nacham – the Comforter) 2:1, where it is rendered “munition,” speaking of the Rock and this siege by the Word of God.
Revelation 19
9 And he says unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper [this feast] of the Lamb [the necessary sacrifice of the LORD’s choosing]. And he says unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me [as I here and now say unto all], See you do it not: I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation alive in my flesh]: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy [speaking His word as received].
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 [identity, The Word of God] 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 [here with me, raised by the word of the LORD with us, in us] followed him upon white horses [the strength and purity, upon which we are raised above the crowd], clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword [which is the word of God], that with it he should smite the nations [those who by choice remain ignorant of His presence and power]: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God [of which all shall be made aware].
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; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that [by His strength] fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper [this feast prepared and sent upon all] of the great God;
18 That you may eat the flesh [the temporal existence] of kings, and the flesh [the temporal existence] of captains, and the flesh [the temporal existence] of mighty men, and the flesh [the temporal existence] of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh [the temporal existence] of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast [men, speaking, working ignorance, confused opinions they claim are understanding, declaring the true false and the false true], and the kings [corrupt powers] 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[s] that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark [the confusion, the reversed reality that identified them as delusional and insane] of the beast, and them that worshipped his image [the delusion their sleeping minds have created]. These both were cast alive [in the flesh] into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword [of the word of God, the reality, they refuse to receive as His and] him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls [all those who receive Him and His word, strength by which they are lifted into heaven] were filled with their flesh [His word shaking and overthrowing their flesh minds].
Nahum 2
1 He [the antichrists mixed among us destroying us] that dashes [your children] in pieces is come up before your face [opposing the LORD’s presence with us, in us, while you stand silent and still watching]: keep the munition [natsar mtsuwrah – look for the things revealing in this siege, when they come as teaching from the Rock], watch the [tsaphah – look for these things that come as the LORD’s] way, make your loins strong, fortify your power [this understanding now in you, by His word effectually working] mightily.
2 For the LORD has turned away the excellency [ga’own – the arrogancy of those who lead the remnant] of Jacob, as the excellency [ga’own – destroyed by the same arrogance, pride against the LORD] of Israel [our countrymen now allied with our enemies {their enemies, of which they are ignorant} and gathered against us inside out gates {destroying themselves with us, of which they are also ignorant}]: for the emptiers [baqaq – a nine times used word referring to its uses by Isaiah and Jeremiah foretelling its coming] have emptied [baqaq] them out, and marred their vine branches [and the strength and life that once flowed from its good foundation is decayed and become their sources of weakness and confusion].
3 The shield of his [the antichrists’] mighty men [gibbowr – as giants in the land] is made red [with the blood of those they’ve slaughtered], the valiant [chayil – the strength of the LORD returning to Levi – as in Deuteronomy 33:10 They {the children of Levi, the priests who have received this word of the LORD as His word} shall teach Jacob {all God’s people as ONE BODY} your judgments, and Israel your law: they shall put incense before you, and whole burnt sacrifice upon your altar. 11 Bless, LORD, his substance {chayil – the LORD’s strength in and through him}, and accept the work of his hands; smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.] men are in scarlet [as the LORD in him rises to the battle]: the chariots shall be with flaming torches [the word of God coming from their mouths] in the day of his preparation [kuwn – of their defense, which is spoken of in Nahum 1:15, coming from the one “bringing good tidings and publishing peace”], and the fir trees [the places of the so-called {now falsely} upright] shall be terribly shaken [and the wicked shall be shaken from them].
4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings [giving this understanding the LORD has given them].
5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared [kuwn].
6 The gates of the rivers [this word from the LORD] shall be opened, and the palace [of the wicked in power] shall be dissolved.
7 And Huzzab [natsab – the wicked stationed there] shall be led away captive [galah – shall be revealed], she shall be brought up [‘alah – raised out of their corruoption], and her maids [those they have led] shall lead her as with the voice of doves [speaking this word, the sign of the end reached, as the sign of Jonah {dove}, when God’s people as the men of Nineveh rise and stand in condemnation of the spiritually wicked sitting in power, and calling all to repent and receive the preparation, the good tidings and peace of the LORD at His now appearing and kingdom], tabering upon their breasts [playing the song the LORD has given them to be repeated as received].
8 But Nineveh is of old [yowm – is as the coming sunrise of the new day] like a pool of water [where this word of God is now gathered into His message, making known His plan for the salvation to those who hear and receive Him]: yet they shall flee away [nuwc – those now stationed there shall flee away as locust flee at sunrise]. Stand, stand [upon your old and corrupt positions], shall they cry; but none shall look back [panah – darkness {ignorance as policy} shall not remain when the light is covering the earth, when the preparation given by the LORD’s messengers is seen].
9 Take you the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture [these things that prosper and complete those who receive them as the LORD’s].
10 She [the old earth] is empty [buwqah], and void [mbuwqah – what emptiness?], and waste [balaq – answering the question by referring us to the word’s only other use, in Isaiah 24:1 below]: and the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
11 Where is the dwelling of the lions [the second face Ezekiel saw in the wheel within the wheel, which is the unfolding presence of the LORD in His word heard roaring], and the feeding place of the young lions [who hear and repeat this same word], where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid [was it not in My places of sanctuary]?
12 The lion [of old] did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses [their congregations], and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin [the pieces stored up, and they thereupon rested and fell asleep].
13 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions [who no longer hunt the prey and make my children therein safe]: and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your [fallen away] messengers shall no more be heard [but My word shall again be there heard].
Isaiah 24
1 Behold, the LORD makes the [the old and wholly corrupt] earth empty [baqaq], and makes it waste [balaq], 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 [old and wholly corrupt] 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, 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 [Because the warned curse has come] The new wine mourns the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
Isaiah 29
1 Woe to Ariel [the Lion of God – the strength {understanding} roaring from His people, here taken and controlled by the wicked], to Ariel, the city where David [the Lion of Judah, with reference to 2 Samiel 23, speaking of the second face of the unfolding presence of the LORD revealed, verse 2 & 3 saying, “The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock {tsuwr} of Israel spoke to me, He that rule over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.] dwelt! add you year to year; let them kill sacrifices [the LORD’s messengers He necessarily sends].
2 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel [it will again be My strength].
3 And I [as a man of war] will camp against you round about, and will lay siege [tsuwr] against you with a mount, and I will raise forts [mtsuwrah – the Rock of Jehovah] against you.
4 And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust [as the voice of the serpent from the ruin of the earth], and your voice shall be, as of one that has a familiar spirit [of the known dead speaking words of death], out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
5 Moreover the multitude of your strangers [teaching strange fire] shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passes away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
6 You shall be visited [paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the earth] of the LORD of hosts [tsaba’ – I Am, a man of war] with thunder [this voice, the sound of the light in the cloud], and with earthquake [shaking the wicked and their creations from their seats of power], and great noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice heard roaring], with storm [cuwphap – as in Isaiah 66, verse 15 & 16 saying “For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind {cuwphah}, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.”] and tempest [ca’ar – the whirlwind, from where Job {in Job 38:1 & 40:6} heard the voice of the LORD, by which he then saw Him], and the flame of devouring fire [all from My mouth].
7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight [tsaba’] against Ariel, even all that fight [tsaba’] against her and her munition [matsowd – her munitions are the root, a foundation, of righteousness], and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision [realized to be creation of their sleeping minds].
8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams [chalam], and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams [chalam], and, behold, he drinks; but he awakens, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be [those unknowingly warring against the LORD], that fight [tsaba’] against mount Zion [when they awaken and realize their own mind’s delusions deceived them and they have been emptied of all understanding].
9 Stay yourselves, and wonder [not knowing what you are experiencing]; cry you out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
10 For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep [with no signs of life], and has closed your eyes [to seeing Him]: the prophets and your rulers, the seers [ra’ah – those who should see as the LORD sees] has he covered [kacah].
11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book [cepher – this written word of God] that is sealed [chatham], which men deliver to one that is learned [who therefore know the book is sealed], saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed [chatham]:
12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you: and he says, I am not learned [the unlearned not knowing the book is sealed and they therefore still look to the false so-called learned who are still spewing their own opinions while saying the LORD says].
13 Wherefore the LORD said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth [taking My name in vain], and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart [the foundations of their mind – their stiocheion, the elements of their understanding, are corrupt and disordered] far from me [rachaq – in this time when the earth is ruled by the evil decrees of the wicked in power], and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous [eye-opening] work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder [pele’ – at which all have wondered]: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their [wicked] counsel [‘etsah] from the LORD, and their works are in the dark [their own ignorance of reality and truth they can’t understand because it is to them a foreign language], and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
16 Surely your turning of things upside down [the overthrow] shall be esteemed as the potter’s [yatsar] clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed [yatser] say of him that framed [yatsar] it, He had no understanding?
17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon [purity seen in high places] shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest [of upright men]?
18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words [this word] of the book [cepher], and the eyes of the blind shall see [again] out of obscurity [‘ophel – dusk, when light has left], and out of darkness [by coming out of ignorance].
19 The meek [who shall inherit the earth] also shall increase their joy in the [realization of the] LORD, and the poor [those without worldly power] among men shall rejoice in the [realization of the] Holy One of Israel [with whom the light has returned].
20 For the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner [luwts – those mocking His coming, because all they know is their own false interpretations] is consumed [kalah – is completely ended], and all that watch for [to protect and defend] iniquity are cut off:
21 That make a man an offender for a word [speaking truth], and lay a snare [their own ignorant opinions] for him that reproves in the gate [where these men’s mouths are holding all in death and hell], and turn aside the just for a thing of naught [their worthless opinions].
22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed [padah] Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale [but they will reach the end promised].
23 But when he sees his children [who have been born again out of death and hell], the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name [declare My identity Holy], and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured [against me] shall learn doctrine.
Job 33
1Wherefore, Job [God’s people hated in this time], I [Elihu – He is God, the LORD unknown speaking in the flesh] pray you, hear [shama’ – and obey] my speeches, and hearken [‘azan] to all my words.
2 Behold [see it is the LORD with me, in me], now I have opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth.
3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart [mind]: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly [the LORD thereby making it plainly understood]. [Again, just as David says in 2 Samuel 23:2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue. 3 The God of Israel said, the Rock {tsuwr} of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.]
4 The spirit of God has made me, and the breath [given from the mouth] of the Almighty has given me life.
5 If you can answer [shuwb – turn to Him with] me, set your words in order before me [paniym – making plain His presence is with you also], stand up [with me, as the LORD has commanded you].
6 Behold, I am according to your wish in [peh – I am the mouth of] God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay [the ruin of the earth].
7 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon you.
8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of [you speaking] your [own] words, saying,
9 I am clean without transgression [your error is your ignorance, not seeing your corruption which the LORD in me is working and speaking to correct], [but you still say] I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me [Romans 10:1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel {those upon whom this light has lighted, who will rule with God on the earth} is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge {of God and His presence}. 3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness {His correct and just ways and ideas}, and going about to establish their own righteousness {to prove their own opinions and ways are right, exalting them above His}, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness {these right ways and ideas} of God. 4 For Christ is the end {the completion} of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes {He is present, working and speaking His will}].
10 Behold [the way these men see it as man see], he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy,
11 He puts my feet in the stocks, he marks all my paths. [It is your own ways and ideas that have straitened {restrained His work} in you].
12 Behold, in this you are not just: I will answer you, that God [His word and way] is greater than [the corruptible and worthless words and way of] man.
13 Why do you strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters.
14 For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed;
16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty meat.
21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
22 Yea, his soul draws near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there be a messenger [mal’ak – an angel] with him, an interpreter [luwts], one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:
24 Then he is gracious unto him, and says [to the interpreter sent as His deliverer], Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favorable unto him: and he shall see his face [paniym – His presence] with joy [which is perceived and realized]: for he will render unto man his righteousness [as He does here and now].
27 He looks upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
29 Lo, all these things works God oftentimes with man,
30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light [understanding] of the living.
The understanding of the living, which Job lacks, is seeing as God sees, and realizing He is with us, drawing the wicked into His snare, the sunlight by which their words and works are melted away. As we know, this culminates in Job realizing the words He has heard, from Elihu, are the manifestation of the LORD’s presence, and he finally sees Him in the steps (forward and backward, away from this understanding and back to it, into and out of death and hell).
Job 17
4 For you have hid their heart [minds] from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them [because their words and ways are in ignorance].
5 He that speaks flattery [cheleq – the things worn smooth by time, by steps, which they have inherited from those misled before them] to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail [kalah – at this full end, they will not see the LORD’s presence].
6 He has made [yatsag – set, established] me also a byword [mshoel – in this hell] of the people; and aforetime [paniym – in Your presence] I was as a tabret [tohpeth – here in the fires of hell].
7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow [of ignorance], and all my members are as a shadow [from whom this light is withheld].
8 [The so-called] Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent [of the transgression into ignorance] shall stir up himself against the hypocrite [the self-righteous, those trying to prove their ignorant opinions are correct].
9 The [truly] righteous also shall hold on [‘achaz – shall seize] his [he shall be caught up by the LORD’s] way, and he that has clean [undefiled] hands shall be [by this word the flows from the Rock] stronger and stronger [like iron sharpened by iron].
10 But as for you all [who have experienced this and haven’t yet realized it is the LORD’s presence speaking and working, with us, in us], do you return [to Him], and come now [are you caught up with Him into this third heaven]: for I cannot find one wise man among you. [And is it so? Isn’t it because none of you declare you have seen Him, after hearing Him]?
11 My days [of my own understanding] are past [‘abar – and I must now come from death into life], my purposes [zimmah – my opinions] are broken off [nathaq – are drawn into the light], even the [corrupt] thoughts of my heart [my mind without the LORD’s presence].
12 They [in this light] change the night [my ignorance] into day [into understanding]: the light is short because of darkness.
13 If I wait [and do not take the steps into the course the LORD has prepared for me], the grave [sh’owl – sheol, hell, the grave wherein the dead are held] is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness [in this, Abraham’s, deep sleep, as in Genesis 15:12].
14 I have said to corruption [that caused this sleep here in hell], You are my father: to the worm [the animated dead flesh, here in the fires], You are my mother, and my sister.
15 And where is now my hope [in the LORD’s presence]? as for my hope [in corrupt things], who [except those in whom the LORD interprets it] shall see it?
16 They [the corrupt things] shall go down to the bars of the pit [sh’owl – that shall hold them in hell], when our rest together [in death’s sleep] is in the dust [the ruin of the old and corrupt earth, from where the LORD raises us to life].
Psalms 17
1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned [deceitful] lips.
2 Let my sentence [mishpat – my judgment] come forth from your presence [paniym]; let your eyes behold [chazah – let me discern by seeing with Your sight] the things that are equal.
3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me [paqad – come as the Chief Overseer of the earth] in the night [this time when ignorance covers the earth and no man knows You]; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
5 Hold up my goings [‘ashur – steps] in your paths, that my footsteps slip not [into ignorance].
6 I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.
7 Show your marvelous lovingkindness [palah – distinguishing us from the dead world], O you that saves by your right hand them which put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.
8 Keep me as the apple of the eye [is your pupil your ar eteaching to see as you see], hide me under the shadow of your wings [Your voice heard from on high],
9 From [paniym – by Your presence, save us from] the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
10 They are enclosed in their own fat [prospering in their wickedness]: with their mouths they speak proudly.
11 They have now compassed us in our steps [‘ashur]: they have set their eyes bowing down to [the corruption of] the earth;
12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint [paniym – by Your presence against] him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:
14 From men which are your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
15 As for me, I will behold [chazah – perceive] your face [paniym – presence] in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake [from death], with your likeness.
The word rendered “likeness” is tmuwnah, a ten times used word meaning, “or tmunah {tem-oo-naw’}; from 4327; something portioned (i.e. fashioned) out, as a shape, i.e. (indefinitely) phantom, or (specifically) embodiment, or (figuratively) manifestation (of favor):–image, likeness, similitude.”
It (tmuwnah) is said to be from the word miyn, meaning “to portion out; a sort, i.e. species:–kind.”
These words speak of seeing God, as a species, first unknown while manifesting His presence: speaking and working, and eventually revealed in His offspring, those produced into His image and likeness, after His own kind (miyn).
1 John 3
1 Behold, what manner of love [His word given by Him, to be charitably given as received] the Father has bestowed upon us, that we [who have received His word as His] should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now [by receiving His correction away from error, sin] are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear [phaneroo – not yet “rendered apparent”] what we shall be [awakened into His likeness]: but we know that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – is rendered apparent, when we realize He is in His word and work, with us, in us], we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself [from corruption], even as he is pure. [Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart {from whose minds corruption is removed}: for they shall see God.]
4 Whosoever committeth sin [hamartia – literally translating to – without witness, without martyrdom; this is the necessary daily sacrifice, giving His word as received, declaring it is Him manifested therein] transgresses [anomia – violates] also the law: for sin [hamartia] is the transgression [anomia] of the law.
5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins [hamartia – ending our silence]; and in him is no sin [hamartia – there is no lacking witness or sacrifice].
6 Whosoever abides in him sins [hamartano] not: whosoever sins [hamartano – without this witness and sacrifice] has not seen him, neither known him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin [hamartia – is without this witness and sacrifice] is of the devil [the misleaders who sit in the place of God, showing themselves as if they are gods]; for the devil sins [hamartano] from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested [phaneroo – made apparent], that he might destroy the works of the devil [which is the snare come upon all the earth].
1 Thessalonians 2
10 You are witnesses [martus – you are now the martyrs that must carry the received word forward and give it as received, declaring it is His presence with us, in us], and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe [that this is truly the word from the LORD God]:
11 As you know how [leading you into all His truth] we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father does his children,
12 That you would walk worthy of God [who is present with us, in us], who has [through us] called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually works also in you that believe [it is His and Him present therein this conversation at His mercy seat].
14 For you, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: [misleaders, as enemies mixed among us, not allowing this word to have free course; they are the wicked whose iniquity was already at work, spoken of in 2 Thessalonians 2, who put themselves in God’s place, who Paul says, in beginning 2 Thessalonians 3, are the wicked from whom we should pray for deliverance, that this word of God would have free course, to be delivered as received by His martus]
15 Who both killed the LORD Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak [this word] to the Gentiles [those who don’t know the LORD, who necessarily need to hear His truth] that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath [this word they refuse] is come upon them to the uttermost.
17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart [mind], endeavored the more abundantly to see your face [the presence of the LORD revealed in you] with great desire.
18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan [working through the wicked men he possesses] hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you [here and now, in this conversation] in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For you are our glory and joy [realizing it is the LORD in us speaking and working revealing Himself].
Hebrews 13
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content [arkeo – complete] with such things as you have: 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 [in which the LORD is manifested present].
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace [this gift of God]; not with meats [not with the understanding that is given from dead flesh], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
2 Timothy 2
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 according to my gospel:
9 Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God [from the risen LORD] is not bound [cannot be restrained by Satan].
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: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
12 If we suffer [as martyrs, taking up His same cross, witnessing to His presence with us, in us], we shall also reign with him: if we deny him [alive with us, in us], he also will deny us:
13 If we believe not, yet he abides [long-suffering unknown] faithful: he cannot deny himself.
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the LORD [manifesting His presence] that they strive not about [wicked men’s] words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth [by which salvation comes].
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 [those forbidding you from joining with the present LORD, as they hide behind false claims of friendship];
18 Who concerning the truth have erred [astoichos – a three times used word said to be “from a compound of 1 (as a negative particle) and stoichos (an aim); to miss the mark, i.e. (figuratively) deviate from truth:–err, swerve.”]; saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. [The resurrection is an individual moment, that crescendos in the rising of the complete ONE BODY of Christ.]
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The LORD knows them that are his. And, let every one 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], 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, peace, with them that call on the LORD out of a pure heart [a mind not corrupted by men’s errors].
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strife [their questions are meant to continue the argument – never able or willing to accept the truth, even when it is obvious].
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 [refusing this salvation, the love of the LORD’s truth come]; 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.
The word “snare” is from the five times used word pagis, meaning “a trap (as fastened by a noose or notch); figuratively, a trick or statagem (temptation):–snare.”
Friends, the snare is the temptation to deny the LORD is present with us, in us, which is revealed in our witness and martyrdom (dead, unknown, with Him until the resurrection of the ONE BODY).
Luke 21
31 So likewise you, when you [by your uncorrupted mind] see these things come to pass, know you that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
32 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
33 [The old and totally corrupted] Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my [uncorrupted] words shall not pass away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts [minds] be overcharged [baruno – burdened] with surfeiting [kraipale – by the powers wresting with this word of God, into their perdition], and drunkenness [minds altered by what is consumed, into stupefaction], and cares of this life [you become apathetic], and so that day come upon you unawares [as it now has upon all the world].
35 For as a snare [pagis] shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch [remain awake] you therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand [in this resurrection] before the Son of man.
Romans 19
2 God has not cast away his people which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture says of Elijah? how he made intercession to God against Israel saying,
3 LORD, they have killed your prophets, and digged down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what says the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal [the idols men crested and put in the LORD’s place].
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace [those predestined to receiving this free gift first].
6 And if by grace [it is a gift given freely], then is it no more of [men’s] works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works [and not given by the LORD], then it is no more grace: otherwise [the LORD’s] work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel [God’s people, who because of the corrupt no longer recognize Him] has not obtained that which he seek for; but the [predestined] election has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 (According as it is written [in Isaiah 29:10], God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. [Verse 9 saying “Stay yourselves {stop your drunken words and works}, and wonder {not knowing what you are experiencing}; cry you out {this word of the LORD}, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
9 And David says [in Psalms 69:22 & 23, speaking of the overseers of the earth], Let their table {their words} be made a snare {pagis}, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto them: [speaking of the drunkard of Ephraim: Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.]
10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see [the LORD present with us, in us], and bow down their back always.
Psalms 44
[Words of Instruction, to be Sung to the Rebels and by them upon Returning]
1 We have heard [Your voice] 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 [Your work], 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 [work and power] save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light [understanding] of your countenance [paniym – Your presence], because you had a favor unto them.
4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances [yshuw’ah – Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] for Jacob.
5 Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name [Your Identity revealed] 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 [Your identity] forever. Selah.
9 But [in our rebellion and rejection of Your leadership] 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 has covered me,
16 For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this is come upon us; yet have we [in our confusion we thought we have] not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps [‘ashur] declined from your way;
19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons [tanniyn – by men among us as serpents and whales, devoured us with their wide open mouths and swallowing us into this belly of hell], and covered us with [concealed from us] the shadow of [darkness – ignorance of our own condition, which is] death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of [the identity, His manner in which He reveals Himself as] our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god [which men created and put in His place];
21 Shall not God search [chaqar – penetrate this darkness] this out [as He has]? for he knows the secrets of the heart [mind].
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 [in us], cast us not off forever [netsach – from Your victory and truth].
24 Wherefore hide you your face [paniym – Your presence, which is only hidden in the ignorance caused by the dragons among you], and forget our affliction and our oppression [which He hasn’t forgotten, but they, the rebels, continually turn to their oppressors thinking these destroyers will save them from themselves]?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust [the ruin of the earth led by serpents and whales]: our belly [beten – the belly of hell, of Jonah 2:2] cleaves [dabaq – meaning “to impinge, i.e. cling or adhere; figuratively, to catch by pursuit”] unto [hell on] the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.
