Month: February 2017

Continuing today with a look at the latter rain, and rain in general as telling of the word of truth flowing to us – from the cloud spoken of in the prior post. As we saw, the clouds speak of the word of the Father having flowed down in pure form from heaven, where the waters are rightly divided, returned to the cloud as they are rejected and forgotten on earth. As a result of the refusal clouds form and darkness as the shadow of death covers the earth, and cover the people as gross darkness. In this analogy we see the former and the latter rain.

Beginning today with the twofold purpose of the latter rain, which is this word I have freely preached to you.

Psalms 11:6 tells of the latter rain coming as snares upon the wicked, as fire and brimstone, and a terrible tempest [blast of air,] and these are the cup prepared for their consumption.

As we saw in the prior post the wicked are those Paul speaks of who have replaced God and sit in His judgments seats. We know these seats are the places designed to be where the LORD’s righteousness would shine onto the earth: governments (church and nation) as He intended. We have seen these seats lacking, and now outright rejecting, His counsel as symbolized by telling of these great places of light, sun, moon, and stars, now having become darkened and fallen from heaven (no longer rightly dividing the word or truth, thereby not possessing the LORD’s wisdom, and therefore not shining it on the earth as they rule.)

We know in 2 Thessalonians 2 we are told of the men (plural) sitting in these judgment seats and being there until the LORD comes. “5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now you know what hold us down that they might be revealed in their time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity is already at work: only they who now keep us down will, until they be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall the Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even those, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deception of injustice [working these signs and lying wonders] in them that perish [under their leadership;] because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.”

Again, we see Paul here using the parallel description used by John four times in the book of Revelation, of the LORD destroying the cover of ignorance, and its origin of the deception, through the Word of His mouth, and this light into darkness as the brightness of His coming. We know this latter portion as alluding to the Genesis 1 creation, and the John 1 perspective of the same. Additionally, we know the reference to the word coming from the mouth of the LORD has its origin in Isaiah 49, “1 Listen, O isles [O dry places of the earth,] unto me; and hearken, you people, from far; The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name. 2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he hid me; 3 And said unto me, You are my servant, O Israel [my people, my nation,] in whom I will be glorified.”

This is the context in which we are able to understand the latter rain and Word as both the snare that catches and destroys the wicked (self-inflicted by the choice to stay in rebellion and insubordination,) and it delivering those receiving the correction and coming out from under the darkness of these oppressors.

Psalms 10 tells of the these wicked ones further defining them as the lawless. Psalms 11 follows this with the prayer of understanding and is the response of the righteous in light of what is said in the prior Psalm.

Psalms 10
1 Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?
2 The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.
4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts [the images of gods they have created govern their corrupted reasoning.]
5 His ways are always grievous; (Your judgments [LORD] are far above out of his sight:) as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them [openly shows he despises and dismisses them.]
6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set [imagine ways] against the poor.
9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.
10 He crouches, and humbles himself, [dissembling – faking it] that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: He hides his face; He will never see it.
12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up Your hand: forget not the humble.
13 Wherefore does the wicked contemn [hold in contempt and vilify] God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.
14 You have seen it; for You behold mischief and spite, to requite it with Your hand: the poor commits himself unto You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break You the arm [the power (of deception)] of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till You find none.
16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of His land.
17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: You will prepare their heart [their cognitive mind,] You will cause Your ear to hear:
18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Psalms 11
1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain [the high places you have corrupted?]
2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily [secretly] shoot at the upright in heart [well and right reasoning.]
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven [where there is understanding and order:] His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men.
5 The LORD tries the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence His soul hates.
6 Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
7 For the righteous LORD loves righteousness [truth and justice in judgment;] his countenance beholds the upright.

In these Psalms we see why the LORD suffers long, and askes the upright to suffers with Him. In our doing the latter rain is delivered, to both snare and undeniably expose the lawlessness of the wicked, while at the same time bring the uncountable masses out of their darkness and into His marvelous Light.

This is what the book of Job, from start to finish, explains by example. It tells of suffering, inflicted by the pressure of those in the rut of a degenerate culture, which is at the same time by this necessary endurance being delivering from this same culture cause from where they are unable to escape by their own means (all they know is the ways of the cause.)

Friends, I tell you, I speak because I do know and have seen, we have not followed cunningly devised fables, but rather we have trusted in God, and Truth who is Almightily greater, providential, and compassionately merciful. He is not man that He would have or needs to have any ulterior motive. He has no intention of forcing anyone to do anything, and we do well if we understand this is His war for our good, by methods of superior intellect able to overcome any and all earthly powers and means. This is truly His making us in His image and likeness, and for the good of humanity, the sake of peace and civility. He wants only for us to understand it is our choosing to go our own way, which is destroying a real utopia [Eden] He has created for us.

What we are seeing in this rejection of His overture is the worst of all errors, pride that refuses correction, and instead chooses self-destruction. I tell you now, in the Name of Jehovah’s Salvation (Jesus) He will not let them destroy all, and will save as many as will receive this report and willingly live under the rule of mutual security for all. I call on the rebels to join us, join the remnant that brings this message to the world in need of hearing it. Let God’s glory be seen in you as His child.

This is my testifying to you of the thing I have witnessed and know as truth. The next witness will be that of the Father out of the Whirlwind (great tempest.)

As my LORD said, and is recorded in Matthew 7:
20 Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.
21 Not every one that says unto me, LORD, LORD, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, LORD, LORD, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that hears these sayings of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Job 37
1 At this also my heart trembles, and is moved out of his place.
2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth.
3 He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
4 After it a voice roars: he thunders with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
5 God thunders marvelously with his voice; great things does he, which we cannot comprehend.
6 For he says to the snow, Be you on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
7 He seals up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
9 Out of the south comes the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
11 Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud:
12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commands them upon the face of the world in the earth.
13 He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
15 Do you know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
16 Do you know the balancing of [what is poised and waiting in] the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
17 How your garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind?
18 Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and cleanses them.
22 Fair weather comes out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
24 Men do therefore fear him: he respects not any that are wise of heart.

Job 38
1Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind [tempest,] and said,
2 Who is this [Who do these men think they are] that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and answer you me.
4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if you have understanding.
5 Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? or who has stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it [a protective wrapping,]
10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
11 And said, Here-to shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves [casting up mire] be stayed?
12 Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring [the springs of light] to know his place;
13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
14 It is turned as clay to the seal [that I will be knows as He who sealed it;] and they stand as a garment [the clothing of my stand.]
15 And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.
16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth [has your spirit moved on the face of the deep as Mine did in My creating?]
17 Have the gates of death been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
18 Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
19 Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
20 That you should take it to the bound thereof [its termination point,] and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?
21 Know you it, because you were then born? or because the number of your days is great?
22 Have you entered into the treasures of the snow? or have you seen the treasures of the hail, [the waters frozen in heaven, that come down as fire and brimstone,]
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
24 By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?
25 Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who has gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
31 Canst you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?
32 Canst you bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst you guide Arcturus with his sons?
33 Know you the ordinances of heaven? canst you set the dominion thereof in the earth?
34 Canst you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
35 Canst you send lightnings, that they may go and say unto you, Here we are?
36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? or who has given understanding to the heart?
37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
38 When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together [from lack of rain, when the waters of the earth have evaporated away?]
39 Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait [lay poises as does the rain in the cloud?]
41 Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

James 5
1 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the LORD of Hosts.
5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the LORD. Behold, the husbandman waits [is poised] for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 Be you also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the LORD draws near.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the LORD, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the LORD; that the LORD is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest you fall into condemnation [For many shall say unto me LORD, LORD, while in fact they reject correction, and swear by their invention, and refuse to subordinate to the Truth.]
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the LORD:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avail much.
17 Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

Revelation 3
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write [this formula to the people in the judgment – it is either their acquittal or the self-condemnation by choice to continue in darkness;] These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you wert cold or hot.
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy [the price is “diligently” seeking God] 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 hears my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup [feast] 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.
22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.

Today a discussion of the falling away spoken of by Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, and it telling of the world (church and nations) having totally fallen away from the truth found in God’s word. In this examination we will clearly see the LORD’s coming as He described it and is recorded in the Gospels, and we will see the consistency of these ideas illuminated in the later writings of those witnesses possessing this same understanding.

As we know, Paul uses the Greek apostasia (apostasy,) literally meaning away standing, and as we’ve discussed the word standing (stasis) has the meaning of a position held or taken (a stand.) The position Paul is speaking of is specified just prior when as part of his statement he tells of our being not deceived about the coming of the LORD. He tells of this “falling away” as being total, and of the LORD not coming until after this had occurred.

The translations very deceptively tell of this culminating in the singular man of sin being revealed, and in doing conceal the fact of it’s telling of all places being corrupted, and all those sitting in these seats in God’s place being the sons of perdition. As we have previously discussed this plural aspect is very plainly seen as the same words translated in a singular form are in the follow chapter translated in the plural.

There in 2 Thessalonians 3 Paul begins by in summarization defining the problem he had just spoken of in detail. He tells of the LORD coming to deliver us from unreasonable and wicked men, the same wicked he had spoken of in the prior chapter translated as a singular person. In this statement Paul speaks of the problem by the remedy being the word of the LORD having free course as it comes in combating the corrupted ideas of those also defined in the prior chapter as opposing and exalting themselves above God as they sit in His house[s] showing themselves as if they are gods. Paul is defining the falling away from the word AS DELIVERED as the problem, and the solution being the word having free course in reconciling this wrong.

Paul follows the above description with a commandment telling of separating ourselves from these men who walk this way without order (disorderly.) The Greek word here translated as disorderly is ataktos, meaning insubordinate and unarranged, meaning they are the purveyors of confusion (Babylon,) and refuse to subordinate to the truth. It is into this void/condfusion the LORD comes, to reverse it and restores order and understanding to a world fallen away into its own harm and destruction, and held down under the hand of these wicked men (who are in rebellion (taking a stand) against the Higher Power.)

2 Thessalonians 3
1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the LORD may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
3 But the LORD is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
4 And we have confidence in the LORD touching you, that you both do and will do the things which we command you.
5 And the LORD direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

This falling away from understanding into confusion is what the LORD speaks of recorded in the Gospels as heaven and earth passing away, but His words not passing away. It tells of a world that becomes totally separated from His word and its essential wisdom, and in doing fallen into darkness and total confusion. We know this from our many discussions as the condition of the world the LORD comes into, delivering it by renewing and reconciling it again to His will and plan. It is the plan of civilization and peace on earth, as it is in heaven, heaven as place where the word is rightly divided and thereby understood.

Matthew 24
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For where-so-ever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

The word tribulation in verse 21 above is from the Greek word thlipsis, meaning pressure; from the word thlibo, meaning to crowd, from the word tribos, meaning a rut, as in a well-worn path. It is meant to speak of all these meanings: a way that has now become so warn those in it are unable to extricate themselves, this in actuality is the pressure from the crowd, a culture so in its devolved rut of its own corrupted ideas, and pressuring and crowding any who dare try to escape, and leaving no place to escape to as it has covered the world.

The above passage tells of the LORD coming into the dark night of this culture.

Here is the meaning of the cloud He rides upon: we know the waters are the word of God come down from Him and His Spirit giving us the understanding as the word is rightly divided. This right dividing is understanding and when on earth is heaven on earth, as in this state man live in founded on this teaching of the way of peace; peace itself not being heaven, but the right dividing (the firmament) being heaven, and all else its products. When this understanding leaves the earth, by none rightly dividing any longer, heaven leaves the earth as the waters leave with it. Heaven rises off the earth into the air, and the waters are gathered into the clouds. The LORD comes in the air where the waters above are, and from where he rain these water down on us until we awaken (latter rain) and are able to join Him in this cloud in the air where we rightly divide with Him. This is the deep symbolism being used to explain the reality of our time.

This is also why Hebrews 12 begins by addressing those who understand as the cloud of witnesses.

Verse 29 above tells of the places on earth that were intended as the place where the word was rightly divided and produce their intended product, and these being darkened and shaken from heaven. We know this is the same description we are given in Hebrews 12 as we are first told our being gather into this cloud by the LORD correction, His delivering us from the corrupted ideas of these wicked men, and in doing having arrived in heavenly Jerusalem (taught and founded on the word that flow from God, and realizing their product of peace in understanding.) It is the LORD coming to establish us away from these men’s abominations that have caused the desolation of the earth in total. In this reconciliation a new heaven and a earth are created – here on earth, build atop the ruin of the old earth that has become without form and void.

When verse 30 & 31 then tell of the sign of the LORD’s coming and of our being gathered it is referring specifically to Deuteronomy 301 & 2. In the final verse of Deuteronomy 29 we are told of why the LORD mentions in Matthew 24:35 His word not passing [falling] away, but heaven and earth will. The sign He speaks of is His restoring it anew by the secret things kept with Him in heaven where He resides (in the realms of the understood word.) It is telling of the witness in heaven and in earth being joined/gathered again in One.

Deuteronomy 29
24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore has the LORD done thus unto this land? what means the heat of this great anger?
25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 30
1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD your God has driven you,
2 And shall return unto the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all thine heart, and with all your soul;
3 That then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, whither the LORD your God has scattered you.
4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD your God gather you, and from thence will he fetch you:
5 And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
6 And the LORD your God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all thine heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
7 And the LORD your God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate you, which persecuted you.
8 And you shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.

The above is speaking of hearing the same voice spoken of in ending Hebrews 12, and also why its final verse says, “Our God is a consuming fire.”

The word used in Matthew to tells of heaven and earth “pass[ing] away” is the Greek word parerchomai, meaning to go away, and figuratively meaning to perish or neglect (a lack of diligence.) It is the same word used in 2 Peter 3:10 to tell of the heavens passing away with a great noise, as the LORD comes as a thief (unknown) in the night. The “great noise” is referring to both the voice and the gathering the LORD also speaks of in Matthew 24, as he tells of His command to gather His people together to Him.

It is referring to Isaiah 13:4 where we read of the LORD gathering His hosts to battle. The chapter beings with Isaiah seeing the burden (a prophetic warning) of Babylon, followed in verse 2 with telling of lifting the banner (the sign of the LORD’s coming), and to calling us to go the gate and speak to these men of confusion. The chapter ends by telling of this being the shortening of the days, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”

Isaiah 13
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 Lift you up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts musters the host of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

The word parerchomai is also the same word used in Revelation 21:1 in telling of the first earth and heaven being passed away.

Revelation 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice [noise of command from a rightly divided word] out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.

And, the word parerchomai is used in this same context in 2 Corinthians 5:17 to tell of the old man (corrupted heart/reasoning/foundational thinking) that passes away so all things can be made new in the new creation. It tells of this being the work of the LORD, in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, as I Am.

2 Corinthians 5
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he has done, whether it be good or bad.
11 Knowing therefore the terror of the LORD, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
12 For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that you may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance [pretense,] and not in heart [well-reason.]
13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.
14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
18 And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be you reconciled to God.
21 For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Continuing: beginning today with the light that comes after the Holy Spirit of God has moved on the waters of the deep. As we’ve discussed this is the Genesis 1 creation description come after the earth becomes without form and void. It is the description retold by Peter as he describes the appearing of the light in 2 Peter 1, follows it by an in-depth explanation of how the darkness has come, and closes telling of the waters that wash away the corruption in the news creation.

Peter begins by describing the entrance of light into darkness as the entrance into kingdom preached to us and our AGAIN being established in its Truth.

2 Peter 1
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.

He then goes on to tell of the voice coming from heaven, the place we know from Genesis 1 where the waters are rightly divided, and here Peter tells us specifically it is the word. This description also coincides with John’s telling us of the witness in heaven and in the earth. As we’ve discussed in detail, the word comes from the Father delivered by His Holy Spirit, it flows by the Holy Spirit to man on earth as water, as light into darkness, then producing after its own kind joining us with the Lamb (the second Adam) in the blood of this necessary sacrifice delivering it as received (as did the LORD showing us the way.) 1 John 5: 6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he has testified of his Son. 10 He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself: he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he believes not the record that God gave of his Son.

2 Peter 1
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

As we see in these verses Peter is with intention tracking the spirit of Genesis 1. He tells of the light coming into darkness, the waters divided by the word coming from heaven, and the Holy spirit moving on the waters as this process is culminated in the true prophets.

Peter then goes on to describe how the earth will again become without form and void, and in doing refines and defines Genesis 1. We know from our studies the Genesis 1 Hebrew phrase “without form, and void,” is only used two other times, both relating man-caused confusion and its resulting emptiness, and both as always coming from those leading there.

Peter tells us specifically of the cause being false prophets among us, who will absolutely bring in damnable heresies, and the result of their confusion causes them to deny the LORD. This description is mirrored by John in John 1 as he speaks of it from the perspective of the word coming into the world as light, and the world being so confused by the darkness of false and deceptive doctrine, that the world knows it not. But to as many as do believe the report and receive the word, the light of correction, to them gives He power to become the sons of God. This last part being the entrance Peter speaks of as into the kingdom (as described in Hebrews 12 & also as sons of God.)

John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9 That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spoke, He that comes after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
16 And of his fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18 No man has seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

2 Peter explains being led away from this truth and the LORD coming with His marvelous light to reclaim us, or as many of us as will receive him. It is speaking of our (God’s people) having previously many times been delivered in this way, by the LORD sending his word and presence, and of their always being many choosing to remain in the mire and vomit they’ve returned to. We read of their deception as they promise others liberty while they themselves are unwittingly in bondage to their errors.

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [by their own imaginations] 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 hell, 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 Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample 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 deception 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 donkey speaking with man’s voice forbidding the madness of the [false] 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.

Peter then in chapter 3 tells us of the LORD’s longsuffering due to His not wanting any to perish, and sending His word into the world as waters to recreate it again in righteousness (justice and truth.) Here again Peter plainly tells of the deliverance coming through the word of God, which is kept in store for times just as this, and when released (by Him) washes away of all of the past error.

As we have discussed at great length Peter tells of this from the coinciding perspective of the elements, the corrupted foundational principles upon which the world bases all its reasoning, melting away from the fires that burn in the earth caused by these same corrupted ideas.

As we now see these fires are incited by men who agitate others as both part and parcel of keeping their power and to maintain control over what they have gained or lust to further gain. They fight against the LORD’s countering all-consuming fires of truth, coming from the mouth of the LORD, and those who have joined with Him in this battle of good against the world’s evil 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.
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The chapter ends by telling of the men who are unable to understand these plain words of truth. They know not the ways of peace because their motives are based on corrupted and self-centered ideas void of any value. They have chosen by these to self-inflict their own end, and will melt away with their practices. They claim to be tolerant, peaceful, accepting of all, while in fact rejecting all these think themselves enlightened above all the barbarians come before them. They have removed all self-restraint, moral standard, and civility’s necessary mutual respect from the hordes they now incite and release upon those they’ve defined as intolerable, worthy of violence against, and to be rejected and dehumanized by all those seeking acceptability into their cult of evil enlightenment (actually a darkening.) I call on them to repent before they irreversibly set in motion what they will not survive, and from which none will be immune. Choose here and now if you are anarchists, or civilized humans created in the image and likeness of God.

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.

Here is the word directly from the Father, which I deliver to you as life giving waters. It tells of the wisdom received being what makes a man’s face shine. It speaks of the glory of God in those who receive His correction and wisdom its reward. It speaks of not leaving this place, and warns against those doing so and making the fatal mistake of taking a stand against the LORD and His wisdom. Later in the chapter, Ecclesiastes 8:11, we read of the longsuffering of the LORD, and because of the sentence not being carried out, the LORD not desiring that any should perish, men think it isn’t coming. He is long suffering but judgment must come, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”

Ecclesiastes 8
1 Who is as the wise man? and who knows the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom makes his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
2 I counsel you to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he does whatsoever pleases him.
4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest you?
5 Whoso keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerns both time and judgment.
6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
7 For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8 There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man rules over another to his own hurt.
10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.
14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night see sleep with his eyes:)
17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

The conclusion Solomon comes to after examining the natural world, the conclusion the founders came to, the conclusion all right functioning intellectuals come to, is that the only way to understand the natural is to see what is unseen and only useable with natural eyes. It is to see the things that are truth even in the void, in the yet unknown regions of time. 2 Peter 1: 9 But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins [errors.] 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall: 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. 12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth. 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our LORD Jesus Christ has shewed me. 15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

1 Corinthians 2
1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of [man’s] wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified [willingly self-sacrificing to bring us the word of truth.]
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.
10 But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who has known the mind of the LORD, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.

Continuing: Today a deeper examination of the premise discussed in the prior post, that the fires burning in the earth melt away the corrupted ideas upon which the degenerate world bases all its decisions and policy. As we’ve read in recent days, this is what is referred to in 2 Peter 3 when Peter speaks of these fires melting the “element.” As we’ve discussed these “elements” are described using the Greek word stoichieon, meaning an orderly arrangement, and is also translated as principles and rudiments. It is used to describe the first principles of the oracles of God, and rudiments when defining the ideas of the world, corrupting it and keeping God’s people in bondage.

We saw these fires also described from John’s perspective in Revelation 18 & 19 as what destroys those deceiving the earth, and these being the great merchants of the earth and the false prophet[s]. We also saw the fire is what proceeds from the mouth of the LORD as He wields the Word of God as His sword [rightly dividing the Word.] We saw this analogy traced back to Isaiah 49 where it is used in beginning the chapter, a chapter we saw is also quoted in Revelation 7:16 & 17 to tell of the many who come out of the great tribulation. We saw both chapter calling us to come out from among these people and not be unequally yoked with their unbelief. In Isaiah 49 we are told this is the LORD having heard us in an acceptable time and of this being His come to our rescue. This is the report being given from the mouth of the one speaking in the name of the LORD and not believed by men destroying the earth via their corrupted understanding, the same men further described by John in Revelation 18 & 19.

We saw our being told of the LORD hearing us and come to succor us, appearing in Isaiah 49, also being quoted by Paul in 2 Corinthians 6 as he gives us the further definition of this being coming out from being unequally yoked, the righteous from the unrighteous, light from darkness and believers from unbelief. Paul then quotes from Isaiah 52 where is the origin of this call to come out of this unbelief, and the chapter ending by telling of those who will see what they had not seen, and what they had not heard they shall consider.

It is for this point Isaiah 53 begins by asking the question, “Who has believed our report, unto whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?”

We know this first as a question that answers itself. The arm of the LORD is revealed to those who have believed the report. Then we know what follows is a description of what has been seen and not understood, and considering what had not been expected because of listening to the corrupted ideas of those we had been among. It is from there in the midst of this man-caused darkness we are called to come out.

This is the perspective from where Peter writes 2 Peter. Chapter one ends with his telling of our not having followed cunningly devised fables, followed by his describing the intricacies of prophesy, and how it is the Spirit of God who released understanding to men God chooses. His description tells of it in terms referring to Genesis 1 when the Spirit of God “moved” on the waters of the deep. We know there the Hebrew word translated “moved” is a word meaning to brood over, as in a bird sitting on eggs until they hatch. Peter tells of the Holy Spirit carrying (moving) the understanding until God is ready for it to brought forth. This is the same meaning we are being told of in these earlier descriptions of the acceptable time when the LORD comes to free us.

Chapter 2 then begins with telling us of the false prophets that will (absolutely) be among us, and will bring in damnable heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them. This is the point, as it was the point 2000 years ago. Men cause darkness and confusion by adding their fictions, then in pride reject correction, cumulatively resulting in all being unable to see, hear and believe the report. This is the gross darkness we are called out of into the light. This command to come out is the call we first hear in the cloud of darkness, once in the light we see what we couldn’t, and there understanding it is the arm of the LORD revealed.

Before again pasting all three chapters of 2 Peter we need to understand what it means when Peter tells of these corrupted ideas melting away. We know melting tells of the outer layer first liquefying and flowing away, and each successive layer doing the same until all is gone, and this happening in one seamless process. Line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little there a little, so they may be astonished, be snared and taken away. Just because you’re not on fire doesn’t mean the heat isn’t having its effect.

Isaiah 28
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

When Peter speaks of these false prophets denying the LORD that “bought” them and later mentions their melting away he is referring to Exodus 15, where in verse 15 & 16 both are mentioned. There we also read of the arm of the LORD revealed as the waters (the word) the LORD had divided crash back upon these enemies refusing to allow us our freedom.

Exodus 15
… I will sing unto the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
2 The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of thine excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 You did blow with your wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till your people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which you have purchased.
17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever.
19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

2 Peter 1
1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our LORD,
3 According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our LORD Jesus Christ has shewed me.
15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shine in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [from their own imaginations] 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 hell, 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 Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample 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 voiceless donkey speaking with man’s voice forbidding the madness of the [false] 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.

2 Peter 3
1This 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.

Psalms 58
1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart [your own corrupted reasoning] you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear [rejecting correction;]
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the [the boil of the] thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: truly He is a God that judges in the earth.

Continuing our discussion of the leftist tantrum underway and it stemming from corrupted ideas and their resulting mass confusion (Babylon and Babel, from the Hebrew word babel, meaning confusion). We know these corrupted ideas are the foundational principles upon which the corrupted world bases all its decisions and policy, and these are what has caused the fires (agitation and tribulation) now burning in the world. We know the people holding the ideas as their foundation are those having ascended into the highest seats of power. We know their corrupted principles are the “elements” spoken of by Peter in 2 Peter 3 (as the stoicheion,) and are those that melt away in the fire these people and their ideas themselves have created.

We now see many of these people having taken a stand on the side of the anti-American tantrum and with the corrupted principles, and many others like myself have decided to no longer do business with them and their ilk. No matter what you believe, you have to see Revelation 18 playing out before our eyes, and this great city of confusion is in flames. Seems the only ones not seeing it are those melting away.

We see this chapter describing these men, the great merchants of the earth, whose sorceries have deceived the nations. We know the sorceries are the words they have used to persuade others to do their will, in this case buying their product (marketing,) while no man knew who they really were in principle. They have now exposed themselves in choosing to take this stand. Again, no matter what you or they believe, this is what we are undeniable in the mist of.

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 saith 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.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buys their merchandise any more:
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all your wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and odors, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
14 And the fruits that your soul lusted after are departed from you, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from you, and you shall find them no more at all.
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to naught. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
18 And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets; for God has avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
22 And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you;
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

This destruction of the confusion is contrasted in Revelation 19 with the marriage feast as what ushers all into the presence of the Lamb, and God’s Glory risen upon and seen in His people.

Revelation 19
1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, unto the LORD our God:
2 For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
5 And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all you his servants, and you that fear him, both small and great.
6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia: for the LORD God omnipotent reigns.
7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.
8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
9 And he said unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See you do it not: I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
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 doth 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 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 followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
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 fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings 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 that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

In the above chapter we again see the sharp sword proceeding from the LORD’s mouth, the same One also called by the name “Word of God,” name meaning his identity know by this calling.

We also know (from these discussion) the sword coming from the LORD’s mouth is John’s (the writer) way of referring to the origin of the statement in Isaiah 49:2. There in the original verse we also read of this being the hiding place of the same One with the sword of the Word of God coming from His mouth. In versed 3 we read it is us, the elect remnant in who the Glory of God in manifested before the world, and then to all those who awaken from the stupor, joining with us and casting away all their former empty works.

Isaiah 49
1 Listen, O isles [dry places standing out of these living waters,] unto me; and hearken, you people, from far; The LORD has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name.
2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he hid me;
3 And said unto me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
4 Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
5 And now, says the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob [the rebels among His people] again to him, though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved [re-salt] of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhor, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
8 Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD has comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
14 But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me, and my LORD has forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget you.
16 Behold, I have graven you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
17 Your children shall make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go forth of you.
18 Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live, says the LORD, you shall surely clothe you with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on you, as a bride does.
19 For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed you up shall be far away.
20 The children which you shall have, after you have lost the other, shall say again in your ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.
21 Then shall you say in your heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
22 Thus says the LORD God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
25 But thus says the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contends with you, and I will save your children.
26 And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

If you remember this above chapter is the one we’ve discussed as the origin (verse 8 – 10) of the quote appearing in Revelation 7:16 & 17. It speaks of the uncountable number of people who come out of the great tribulation, and of the LORD wiping away all tears from their eyes.

Revelation 7
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindred, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sits upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Isaiah 49:8 is also quoted in 2 Corinthians 6:2 telling of the LORD hearing us in an acceptable time (this time,) and coming to our rescue (succor.) The context of the chapter is not being unequally yoked, and is exactly what we read of in Revelation 18, and are now called to. It tells of those seeking righteousness having no part with unrighteousness, and light having no part with darkness (the gross darkness of these corrupted ideas keeping the people of the world in their stupor (death’s sleep.)

Just prior to our reading this in verse 14 verse 13 tells of it being our being “enlarged.” This is the same as we read of in the prior post and the LORD being magnified in us (Luke 1:46) as the Word of the LORD is heard and believed. It is the glory of the LORD rising upon us and in us, as we have read in Isaiah 60.

“Wherefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.” This conclusion is quoted in 2 Corinthians 6:17 from Isaiah 52:11 (the chapters are pasted below.)

Luke 1
45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the LORD.
46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the LORD,
47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
48 For he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
49 For he that is mighty has done to me great things; and holy is his name.
50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
51 He has shewed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
52 He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
53 He has filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he has sent empty away.

2 Corinthians 6
1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 O you Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
12 You are not straitened in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels.
13 Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be you also enlarged.
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 the unbelieving and unfaithful?
16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols [these false gods of the earth?] 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 naught; 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 [face to face,] 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.