Zion Put on Strength and Righteousness, and Babylon (Without Form and Void) is Fallen

Beginning today with a question to the lukewarm, “Is God Almighty and Omnipresent?” Most of the false preachers and corrupted politicians, all such masquerading in the TV and entertainment crowd, unwilling and unable to escape their self-created rut, those ever learning while only skimming the surface scum, will say yes. While doing so in fact only thinking that by their words, without the necessary pre-action, they force God into fulfilling their superficial and momentary lusts. They will say there is no law while making a law that defines a god in their likeness, as they reject and vilify any who refuse to bow to the image of their errors. They only see what witnesses to their corruption and the superficial nature of their idols, having a form of godliness but denying the true power to awaken and remake the mind. They pray with false humility crying about their inability to change and thereby grant themselves license to never put into it any effort.

I am going to plainly tell of the hate – I have seen this evil in the earth, two political ideologies in church and nation that compete against one and other to take from both rich and poor, some to consume and satisfy their own self-justified lust, others to redistribute to feed the lusts of any who will pay with a vote or an offering/donation, or by joining in the public vilification of the other group of haters. All these perpetrators think themselves righteous, think themselves justified, by their claims of incapability (masking unwillingness) to change their nature, while their admissions most loudly proclaim the truth of what they have created; a world without a healthy conscience, without self-control, and void any understanding or will to do good. (They reject the true proverb – the thinking before the action – Peace on earth to men of good will.)

1 John 3
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, 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, even as he is pure.
4 Whosoever commits sin transgress also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6 Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins 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 commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.
11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death.
15 Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoso has this world’s good, and sees his brother have need, and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwells the love of God in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
24 And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

What do you see in this passage? Do you see a call to correction, to purity? or do you see it authorizing more of the same hatefulness mentioned above?

Isaiah 52:7 tells of the beauty seen in the work of those who come preaching the ways of peace. It speaks of it using the Hebrew word shama’, meaning to make it heard intelligently and publicly, and is translated as “publishes.” As the chapter begins we read of our being called to awaken to this our strength, and to put it on as our beautiful garments. We know it isn’t ours but rather our being in this way made, having our conscience remade, in the image and likeness of God, putting on His strength and His righteousness (truth and equity.)

The verses between these tell of our having sold ourselves for nothing, and being redeemed without money (the only cost is diligently seeking the God, all else was paid in advance.) The LORD goes on to say, “My people are taken away for naught? they that rule over them make them to howl,” says the LORD; “and My name continually every day is blasphemed [slandered and vilified.] 6 Therefore My people shall know My name: therefore they shall know in that day that I Am He that doth speak: behold, it is I.”

Remember, this is the chapter where in verse 11 is the call to come out from among these misleaders, to become purified from their unclean things. We know this is quoted in context in Revelation 18:4 in telling of the fall of Babylon the great city of confusion, and in 2 Corinthians 6:14 thru 18 in speaking of our not being unequally yoked, and coming out of this is what brings us into being sons. This last aspect is what Hebrews 12 speaks of when telling of our being sons by correction, and of those refusing correction not being His sons (children), by demanding the correction not be heard any longer they make themselves illegitimate.

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.

2 Corinthians 6
14 Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?
15 And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what part has he that believes with an infidel?
16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty.

Isaiah 52
1 Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bands of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
3 For thus says the LORD, You have sold yourselves for aught; and you shall be redeemed without money.
4 For thus says the LORD God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people is taken away for naught? they that rule over them make them to howl, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation; that says unto Zion, Your God reigns!
8 Your watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart you, depart you, go you out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonished at you; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

The Hebrew word translated in verse 15 above as “sprinkle” is the word nazah. Here is the definition from the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Strong’s #5137: nazah (pronounced naw-zaw’) a primitive root; to spirt, i.e. besprinkle (especially in expiation):–sprinkle.

The word is only used one other time in Isaiah (63:3) and it there is in association with the day of the LORD’s vengeance and His judgment. Of the other twenty-two times it is used it is almost always of cleansing what had been unclean. It is in these cases misrepresented in the sense it alludes to it being spewed from the mouth. This is in the sense of something poisonous and deadly being taken in and then spewed out as life saving measure.

Isaiah 63
1 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore are you red in thine apparel, and your garments like him that treads in the wine-fat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the sounding of your bowels and of your mercies toward me? are they restrained?
16 Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
17 O LORD, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18 The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
19 We are thine: you never barest rule over them; they were not called by your name.

The ideas of spewing (as if vomiting) out of the mouth thing that have defiled the body, and it also done by one to cleans another (as does a priest in pattern) is shown throughout the New Testament Scriptures. We see it when Peter in ending 2 Peter 2 tells of what had been cleansed returning to its former defiled state using the Proverbs 26 analogy of the dog returning to its own vomit.

2 Peter 2
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.

Proverbs 26
9 As a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools [not knowing in either case that he has pierced himself, nor knowing to pull (spew) it out.]
10 The great God that formed all things both rewards the fool, and rewards transgressors.
11 As a dog return 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.

The idea is also seen in Revelation 3 when the LORD is telling of His correcting those who are lukewarm and ignorant of the damage they have done to themselves. There we read of the LORD spewing them out of His mouth.

Revelation 3
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

This is the same sprinkling we are told of in Hebrews 9 as the pattern first seen as the priest sprinkled blood to cleans the people, the book, the house (tabernacle), and the vessels of the ministry. The writer then goes on in Chapter 10 (verse 22) to tell of this sprinkling being a pattern of the better things it foretold, of our being washed by the message of correction (reconciliation to the truth) come as the pure water and blood of Christ. The writer later in Hebrews 12:24 tells us exactly what the sprinkling is the pattern of as it tells us it is the word spoken in correcting the children of God.

Hebrews 10
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated [joined us into the secret] for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having an high priest over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Hebrews 12 (the consecration – joining us into the secret)
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 speak 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.

Friends, Truly I say to you, blessed are you who see these things, and receiving them have become the children of God.

Thank You Father for revealing these things to us, and showing us those not seeing them do so by choice. And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world and men chose darkness instead, and do so because their deeds are evil.

Psalms 4
1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity [that which is worthless,] and seek after leasing [falsehood?] Selah.
3 But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
4 Stand in awe [be astonished,] and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift you up the light of your countenance upon us.
7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only makes me dwell in safety.