And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Continuing: the Greek word above translated as “offended” is skandalizo (scandalize), meaning entrap, from the word skandalon, meaning a snare. Skandalizo also means to trip up; figuratively to stumble, or entice to sin, or apostasy (to fall away from God’s ways and ideas). The idea is what we see occurring around us and to us, provoked and incited by the fake news media motivated by the agenda of the globalists and communists. Their means is to publicly scandalize any and all who oppose them and their agenda, to provoke and cultivate hate, which is the antitheses of God’s teaching.
(Before going on it is appropriate to mention those who in public discourse seek to disarm by rebuking any who rightly draws conclusion from their understanding of the COURSE of similar historical events. I urge all to do the opposite realizing that human nature is to repeat the same mistakes, and this axiom is just as true with those knowing history. Man, blinded by hubris and arrogance, delusionally thinks he can commit the same errors and with his greater “brilliance” force a different outcome to what he always eventually finds to be the same inevitable end.)
The above parenthetical statement is to the point – this type of instigation of hate of one group always leads to the same end. Men through history have created these same prejudices, first creating stereotypes and then inciting people to act against any who exhibit the outward signs of what they have been taught and manipulated to hate.
The word in the title (Matthew 24:10) rendered “betray” is the Greek word paradidomi, meaning to hand over (to be scandalized and hated). The word “hate” is from miseo, meaning to detest (especially to persecute).
The fake news media and those who hate our culture put on their acts of showing compassion and producing crocodile tears, while in fact, the real intention is to stir up hate against their neighbors. Their hate knows no boundaries, their consciences without moral restraint, and as we know, their moto is “the end justifies any means.” Always remember, these people use the lie as a weapon and with the intention to manipulate people into doing their will. It is also their intentional tactic to cloth the spells they broadcast in the spurious garments of morality. (In the defense of the useful idiots: they have no idea what has happened to them nor are they any longer in control of their own reactions when prompted by these sorcerers and their witchcraft – liars.)
This is the time, place, and condition the LORD appears into, preaching the gospel of truth and brotherly love, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
Matthew 24
1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2 And Jesus said unto them, See you not all these things? truly I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of your coming [parousia – being near (advent)], and of the end of the world [aion – age]?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ [saying, I am anointed]; and shall deceive many.
6 And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation [ethnos – ethnicity] shall rise against nation [ethnos – ethnicity], and kingdom against kingdom [the realms of darkness and light]: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:
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. [These tell us He will rise in us, after we realize He comes to all as does the sun rising, enlightening all.]
28 For wheresoever the carcass is [the church with every stone cast down], there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun [the church] be darkened, and the moon [civil government] shall not give her light, and the stars [all God’s people cast down] shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens [by the voice of the one we are told of in Hebrews 1 & 12] shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven [where the word of God is rightly divided and there is no confusion]: 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 [this is a further description of verse 14 above].
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 Truly 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 Noah 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.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for you know not what hour your LORD does come.
43 But know this, that if the good-man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his LORD has made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his LORD when he comes shall find so doing.
47 Truly I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My LORD delays his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The LORD of that servant shall come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The LORD is telling of His people as the stones of the temple cast down, and of confusion building its kingdom over them, until the appointed time when they are uncovered and brought up out of their graves.
These events are spoken of in Isaiah 9 as light coming and lighting upon Israel. At the same time the destroyers, the children of disobedience, say they will rebuild with the same defiled hands that built corruption and produced desolation.
Isaiah 9
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.
3 You have multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before you according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
8 The LORD sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
11 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
12 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
13 For the people turn not unto him that smites them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
14 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.
15 The ancient and honorable, he is the head [he has led it]; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail [he is the end of it].
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burns as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother [they shall consume themselves as they consume each other].
In Jeremiah 43 the LORD tells of these fallen stones being hidden under the kingdom of confusion (Babylon). This happens when they entered into the new captivity (Egypt), after they refused to obey the voice of the LORD and thus came to Tahpanhes (the place where they were cast down and became stationary). The name of the place only appears seven times, three of those in this chapter.
Jeremiah 43
7 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
8 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
9 Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick-kiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
10 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
11 And when he comes, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh [the house of their self-proclaimed brilliance], that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
The name is first used in Jeremiah 2:16 where it is written as Tahapanes in telling of this as the place the crown on the head of God’s people was broken. We know from our previous studies, this is a chapter describing God’s people changing from Him to following idols.
Jeremiah 2
8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, say the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.
10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
12 Be astonished, O you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says the LORD.
13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
14 Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he spoiled?
15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
16 Also the children of Noph [are seen as] and Tahapanes [the stones cast down] have broken the crown of your head.
17 Have you not procured this unto yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?
When verse 16 speaks of the stones cast down from the crown, and ealier of God’s people becoming slaves (to the deceptions manipulations of those leading them), it is to what Zechariah 9:16 later refers. It tells of when the LORD raises these stones again to be His crown, as an ensign to the land, “when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.” Zechariah 9:1
Zechariah 9
14 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
The name Tahpanhes appear again in Jeremiah 44:1 as the LORD defines the abominations, which Daniel later speaks of, as does the LORD in Matthew 24 above. When reading this chapter you will see the place the LORD is telling us to flee from, when we see the idols that are worshiping. We also see that these men are refusing to humble themselves or to hear these words of correction.
Jeremiah 46
1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol [in this watchtower], and at Tahpanhes [where all the stones are fallen], and at Noph [and have seen], and in the country of Pathros [this interpretation], saying,
2 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; You have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation [because of their abominations – the idols they follow], and no man dwells therein,
3 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, you, nor your fathers.
4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
7 Therefore now thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit you this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
8 In that you provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither you be gone to dwell, that you might cut yourselves off, and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
10 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
11 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
15 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
16 As for the word that you have spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto you.
17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
Tahpanhes is next used in Jeremiah 46:14 telling of the day of the LORD’s vengeance.
Jeremiah 46
10 For this is the day of the LORD God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the LORD God of hosts has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; for you shall not be cured.
12 The nations have heard of your shame, and your cry has filled the land: for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.
13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar [the prophets of lies which caused the desolation] king of Babylon [the confusion that now rules over all the world] should come and smite the land of Egypt.
14 Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol [this watchtower], and publish in Noph [to those who see by these words] and in Tahpanhes [the place where God’s people have fallen away]: say you, Stand fast, and prepare you; for the sword shall devour round about you.
15 Why are your valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.
16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [those now holding God’s people captive in the fall] is but a noise; he has passed the time appointed.
We know from prior studies, Jeremiah speaks of when the LORD rises and His elect remnant rise with Him. We know Ezekiel speaks of when all God people are raised by the preaching and prophesying of the LORD in and through His elect remnant (His first-fruits). The final time Tahpanhes appears (the seventh) it is in Ezekiel 30:18 where it’s written as Tehaphnehes. In this chapter, the LORD tells of when He breaks the arm (hold of the yoke) of those who have taken us captive. The LORD says he will do this by increasing their confusion to the point of their destruction. Confusion increased becomes delusion, which we see now and is written of in 2 Thessalonians 2:11. There it is telling of what has taken hold of the wicked and unreasonable men and is taking them into self-destruction by their own delusions – as they all believe a lie.
2 Thessalonians 2
1 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ.
Ezekiel 30
18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
19 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
22 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groaning of a deadly wounded man.
25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
