Today an exposition about the consummation of the age, and the apocalypse (uncovering) of the truth of the Judgment of God. These will be a compilation of all we’ve learned (heard and understood) while also being a conspicuous demonstration of things foreign, beyond our understanding, come into clear view. The ideas are those borne along by the Holy Spirit, delivered to us and their meaning loosed in the LORD’s time.
We will begin with the Greek word ekzeteo, literally meaning to search out. It is the word translated “diligently seek” in our recent discussion of it as a necessary trait in understanding the LORD, and to prove to ourselves He is God. This is written in Hebrews 11:6 to tell of finding understanding as the reward of our faith, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that “diligently seek” him.”
This statement is actually telling of the conclusion (consummation) of our faith, which is finding the LORD after seeking him with a pure heart (a conscience purified). This take us to another of the seven uses of the word ekzeteo, in Romans 3:11 translated as “seeking after” God. It is there used to tell of all the world in sin and there being none that seek after God, and therefore logically none finding Him. We are told the reason for none seeking Him is they don’t understand, and the reason they don’t understand is given just after.
Romans 3
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
If we read on we understand the only way this is overcome is through faith, and faith is defined as believing in the Jesus Christ, and this forbearance (not imposing punishment) of God is in effect until we come to believe He is God. “To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.”
Romans 3
19 Now we know that what things so-ever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and ALL THE WORLD may become guilty before God.
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood [sacrifice to bring this message], to declare his righteousness [truth and equity] for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
We understand the full meaning again by Paul quoting from Isaiah 59: 7 & 8 to tell of why there is no understanding, and why there are none who diligently seek God, and therefore why none find Him.
Isaiah 59
7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
15 Yea, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
This last part of the Isaiah 59 passage above is also specified in more detail in another of Paul’s quotes specifically speaking of those not understanding. The quote appears in Romans 3:11 and is from Psalms 14:2. Therein we read of those not understanding what they are being told, why they aren’t understanding it, and of their not seeking their God. In these above passages we understand they are stumbling at the stumbling stone (the flesh), and as we read they fail to call upon the LORD, and to understand God is in the generation of the righteous – those whose names are written in the book of life from the foundation of the world.
Psalms 14
1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are ALL gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
We then look at two other times the word ekzeteo is used, Luke 11:50 & 51 and it telling of the end of the age (the generational circle/circuit). In these two verse it is translated “shall be required” and “will be required” of this generation.
Luke 11
42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also.
46 And he said, Woe unto you also, you lawyers! for you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47 Woe unto you! for you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48 Truly you bear witness that you allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchers.
49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple: truly I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered.
53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
These scribes and Pharisees are the modern writers and religious rulers; they and the lawyers are the modern makers of laws who have corrupted the age by their lust for controlling every aspect of religion and nation. They are the death that lurks in the ground under the feet of all who now walk the earth in the way they’ve prescribed.
This is where the next example of ekzeteo comes into light as it is used in Acts 15:17 as we are told of our now need to exclude the ordinances that contradict our liberty: their only meant as the swaddling bands for a people still in child stage. In previous posts we looked at Job 38:9 as it told of the cloud and the thick darkness, as swaddling-bands for humanity (the sea) as it was being born, to restrict until fully prepared; and of 1 Corinthians 13:11 saying, “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I “understood” as a child, I thought [reasoned] as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
Acts 15
5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, you know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
8 And God, which knows the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10 Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
11 But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
12 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
13 And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
14 Simeon has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16 After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
17 That the residue of men might seek after the LORD, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, says the LORD, who does all these things.
18 Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.
We see the common reference to removing the restriction of the old (former state) allowing the new to pour forth, when we read further in Amos 9, where verse 16 above is quoted from. There we read of the plowman overtaking the reaper, of the treader of grapes him that sows seed, and the high places of the earth shall pour out new wine. The word translated as “drop” telling of the mountains pouring new wine, is the Hebrew word nataph, meaning to drip down, and therefore is figuratively also translated as prophesy.
Amos 9
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.
At this point we must go back to look at Luke 11:50 and what we are told there by the LORD of all blood of the prophets shed, and it being required of this generation. The LORD is saying that all the blood poured out by the prophets since the foundation of the world, the messages they brought and were therefore killed for, shall be diligently looked into by this generation. This meaning and understanding are found when we diligently examine the word here translated “be required” being ekzeteo, meaning to diligently seek, and the word translated “shed” is the Greek word ekcheo, meaning to pour out.
Ekcheo is the word the LORD uses in Matthew 9:17 speaking of the need to put new wine in new bottles, and if not the new wine will burst the old vessels and the wine “runs out.” This is also the word the LORD uses in Matthew 26:28 to tell of the cup of new testament, which is his blood “shed” (poured out) for many for the remission of sins. It is also used multiple times in Act 2 to tell of the speaking with understanding what had been previously incomprehensible (tongues), and this being the “pouring out” in the latter days told of by Joel. In Acts 2:28 we are told this is the Holy Spirit baptism [poured out] for the remission of sins. It is the Holy Spirit giving the understanding to what the LORD had said earlier in the upper room. This is the gift of the Holy Spirit, understanding.
Joel 2 speaks of many things telling us of this time, and only fully understood by those reading along here and receiving (hearing and understanding) what the LORD’s Holy Spirit has poured out upon us. There we read of the great army arrayed against us, and before them the land was as Eden, and after them total desolation. We read of the this desolate wilderness also as the sun, moon and stars not giving any light, meaning the church and national government, and the people of God no longer possessing or shining the LORD’s enlightening counsel on the earth. The LORD then tells us to rend our hearts, and not our garments, meaning we need to abandon our corrupted reasoning and return to His eternal wisdom.
Joel 2:17 says to the priests and ministers, “weep between the porch and the altar.” This is what the LORD is referring to in Luke 11:51 when He speaks of where the prophets had been killed, between the house (Solomon’s – porch as part) and the altar. This is what we are told in Joel 1:8 & 9 of the cup being cut off as the vine is wasted, and new wine being dried up. The lamenting of the priest and the minsters is said to be as a virgin lamenting for the husband of her youth. The meaning is the new wine is the word of the LORD coming from the prophets, no longer coming because the leaders and the people have killed them off, because their prophesying is the LORD speaking against their corrupted ways. They are therefor as a vine cut off from their roots, as if a strange people in their own land not knowing or understanding the tongue of their nativity. Their wilderness is confusion – and I beheld the earth and because of this it had become without form (confused), and void of understanding.
Joel 1
5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the cheek teeth of a great lion.
7 He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he has made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.
10 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.
11 Be you ashamed, O you husbandmen; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
13 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.
14 Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?
Joel 2
1 Blow you the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD comes, for it is nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
3 A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
6 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
7 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
11 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executes his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent him of the evil.
14 Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
19 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he has done great things.
21 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
22 Be not afraid, you beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
26 And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
I would suggest reading Revelation 15 thru 19 and understand the vials “poured out” in chapter 16 are poured out against those who, as verse 6 says, have killed the saints and prophets, and this is the LORD giving them blood to drink in repayment. We read on that these are those who refuse to repent for their vilification (blasphemy) of God and His work. In the following chapter we read of the woman, as Babylon, who is as a women drunken with the blood of these same martyrs. We are told of the beast with seven heads that carries her: these are the same seven churches of chapters 2 & 3, and the ten horns are the civil governments.
We are told of this beast coming up out of the bottomless pit: logically meaning the pit where there is a never ending fall (falling away), no bottom to its degeneration. We are also told of this beast that was, and is not, and yet is. This is telling of them becoming what they were meant to be, then falling from this state, and now existing in a degenerate form.
I know very few will read to this point, and among them that do and don’t there will be those who will attack this understanding with the same delusional confusion that proves it correct. The educated elites in church and state, those in control of the confusion, will of course defend their error and their attacks by once again attempting the kill the truth, and will in doing validate the LORD’s message and work. These also demonstrate the reasons why the new wine must be in new vessels. Why would anyone look to the dead for life and the living?
Revelation 18
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.
7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the LORD God who judges her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come.
