The title of yesterday’s post mentioned the earthquake that precedes our being freed from our captors. Those studying along know the event as the shaking spoken of that removes the creations (deceptions) of the current corrupted establishments. The freedom is wakening from the stupor they’ve induce by methods of mass destruction of the ability to discern reality. We know their means are by discrediting and demonizing all people and places where and when truth appears, and with intention to destroy all reality based reasoning through distorted discourse absent essential points that allow for rational evaluation.
We’ve seen the stupor is meant to deaden intellect, and we know God given intellect as what allows for proper evaluations of situations, truth (reality) is comprehended, and with this we are able to use rightly ordered reason to overcome our environment/state. We have seen the highest form/use of intellect is in our ability for abstract thought, to mentally constructing events and all possible outcomes as we interchange the effecting elements, and to then choose the best course forward (modeling). Reason is found in the choice of data used (the foundation) as the basis of the evaluation, and then right and wrong reason is realized in judging the actual outcome against the stated intention. If the intention isn’t achieved then the data used must logically be considered corrupted.
In understanding this we see the failure of the current establishments to achieve their stated intention, ordered civilization in peace and security (the general welfare), must logically be seen as error due to the effecting elements’ being corrupted. Logic would also demand these elements be changed toward achieving the stated intention. If the change doesn’t occur it is either due to intellectual incompetence, or more often due to rejection of the alternative known outcome because it is contrary to the hidden unstated intention/agenda of those controlling the establishments.
The shaking described in Hebrews 12 is the fire described by Peter in 2 Peter 3 as he tells us this is what melts the elements. We see them as the corrupted principles infesting the now failing world as it applies them. This is what he means when he tells us of the heaven and earth passing away and of the coming new heaven and new earth wherein dwells righteousness (equity and truth). He goes on to speak of those who wrestle with this understand as they do with Paul’s writings. (The writer of Hebrews is unknown although the reference to Timothy and Italy are indications it was most likely Paul.)
Here again are the passages from Hebrews 12, and 2 Peter 3. The meaning becomes apparent with seeing in this light. Remember, the word “elements” is translated from the Greek word stoicheion, meaning an orderly arrangement, and defines the basic principles upon which decisions are based. It is the same word translated as “principles” in Hebrews 5:12 as the passage tells of these being out of order and therefor a priest outside the closed circle having to be raised to correct and reestablish (teach) the first “principles” of the oracles of God. (See the posts July 24, titled, The Day of the LORD, Epiphany or Consuming Fire)
Hebrews 12 (Remember, the point of the chapter is correcting errors.)
22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
2 Peter 3
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the LORD and Savior:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
In recent days we’ve also seen the meaning of Egypt as signifying our captivity, and as our society reduced to mind deadened slaves to these corrupted establishments. Additionally we have seen Assyrians as symbolic of foreign ways also infesting and corrupting the pure intended form of governing and government as God intended for His people. The fire and the shaking are what comes as result of not just implementing these corrupted forms, but as exponential increasing in severity as those in power (ruling and leading) refuse the needed change, due to their being either intellectually incapable or just refusing because they reject the requirements of the correcting (subordinating their minds to their Creator – refusing out of blind pride).
Isaiah 7 speaks of “two tails of a smoking firebrands.” When the “tail” is mentioned it is typically referring to the consequence following as result of an action being alluded to (as in Revelation). Here it is referring to these foreign ways leading to the end of prosperity and the loss of security (of life, liberty and property). These kings are said to cause the hearts of the house of David, the heart of the king and of the people to be “moved.” This is telling of the foundation of their reason (heart) being “moved.” The Hebrew word translated “moved” is nuwa’, literally meaning to waver, also translated as shake. In this we see the shaking and the fire mentioned in the same context as our discussion. The fire is resulting from the foreign ways, and the shaking as reason is moved into this inevitable instability. (Read the chapter if you have time.)
Proverbs 26:18 tells of the firebrand in a passage that begins with the dog returning to his vomit (again accepting what had been rightfully rejected) and ending telling of the ruin of a flattering and lying tongue. It is mostly telling of self-destruction of those refusing to get out of the way (change from) of what they have created and now refuse to alter.
Proverbs 26
10 The great God that formed all things both rewards the fool, and rewards transgressors.
11 As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.
12 See you a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
13 The slothful man says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
14 As the door turns upon his hinges [always returning to the same place – going no where], so doth the slothful upon his bed.
15 The slothful hides his hand in his bosom; it grieves him to bring it again to his mouth.
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
17 He that passes by, and meddles with strife belonging not to him, is like one that takes a dog by the ears.
18 As a mad man who casts firebrands, arrows, and death,
19 So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, Am not I in sport [I was only playing around]?
20 Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.
21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
22 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
24 He that hates dissembles [puts on a deceitful act] with his lips, and lays up deceit within him;
25 When he speaks fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation.
27 Whoso digs a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him.
28 A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
2 Peter 2 ends with quoting from verse 18 above. The chapter begins with telling us of the false prophets who shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them. It goes on to describe these types and then continues this description in chapter 3 (above) telling of the fires that bring the end, and the New heaven and earth based (founded) on sound principles.
2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation slumbers not.
4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to place of eternal self-inflicted torment, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The LORD knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the LORD.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceptions while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: by the dumb ass speaking with a man’s voice forbidding the madness of the prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the LORD and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
I am going to close with Isaiah 19, which mentions both Egypt and Assyria as being SAVED, after it tells of the shaking of the LORD’s hand, and describe the shaking of the unsound is by His counsel. This follows His asking them the question, “Where are they? where are your wise men?” The LORD then answers his own question saying, they have become fools. “14 The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.”
Also note, as we have looked at in previous posts, the rivers, carrying the corrupted counsel, are producing the death of everything that drink/feeds from it – as it is with the information, indoctrination, now coming from our corrupted and confused culture.
Isaiah 19
1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards [those working in the art of darkening minds].
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the LORD, theLORD of hosts.
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say you unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
12 Where are they? where are your wise men? and let them tell you now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
15 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.
16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shakes over it.
17 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that makes mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
18 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.
19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.
20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
21 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.
22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be entreated of them, and shall heal them.
23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
25 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
