It is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
As we have seen in the past, the “controversy of Zion” is speaking of the debate over whose ideas should rule over the world. The title declaration appears in Isaiah 34:8, the chapter where we know is found one of the three occurrences of the Hebrew phrase, tohuw bohuw. These words are used to describe the condition the earth has become, just before the Holy Spirit moves and light comes into darkness.
As we know, these two words are rendered “without form, and void” in Genesis 1:2 and Jeremiah 4:23, which are explained when they are translated “confusion” and “emptiness” in Isaiah 34:11. This alternate translation comes as we are told of the LORD measuring (assessing) the earth as men have built it, on foundational ideas that can only produce confusion and chaos, and the stones build upon these ideas are emptiness, meaning they have no value.
This condition, without form and void, in Genesis 1, is the cause of the darkness upon face of the deep, which we know refers to ignorance of the underlying problem: the ideas given value by those in control of the world (the cultural icons in church and state). The LORD says, in Jeremiah 4:22 the cause is that His people have become foolish by no longer knowing Him, meaning His ideas and ways, and as a result, there is no understanding. He goes on to say they have become wise to do evil and to do good they have no knowledge (the darkness). This latter state is the product, death come from listening to the bad advice of those mingled among us, as serpents slithering into the garden (the sanctuary, where God separated us from evil ideas, into His ways and ideas, thereby creating a state of protection).
In Isaiah 34, just before the LORD gives His assessment of the world built upon corrupt ideas, He gives the cause as the streams, meaning the words and ideas flowing to the people. He says they are now seen as the pitch, meaning liquid darkness; and the dust thereof (from where man is created and where the serpent remains forever) into brimstone. We are then told these are turned into burning pitch: the fires of hell, which are never quenched – meaning the ideas causing the fires are forever seen as the cause. Then comes the LORD’s assessment of the condition of the earth, now understood as caused by these ideas.
The LORD continues in Isaiah (34), next describing what He has just undertaken through these posts: calling the nobles, those who’ve led the world into this condition, out of ignorance by and into His better ideas, pulling (harpazo – what has been twisted into the rapture by the false teachers among us as serpents) them from the fires into His kingdom. He says none of the noble are found to have come, and all the princes (the gods of the world, by whose ignorance and bad advice this glorious gospel has been hidden from the world) are seen as nothing.
The Hebrew word rendered “nothing” in Isaiah 34:12 is ‘aphec, which next appears in Isaiah 41:29 where it tells of the advice of the counselors, whose works are seen as nothing: molten images (ever changing ideas) that are wind and confusion (tohuw).
Ephesians 4
13 Till we all come in the unity (selah) of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying [educating] of itself in love.
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the LORD, that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But you have not so learned Christ;
21 If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That you put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
The above passage is Paul speaking of the new creation, into this world that is described in the before mention chapters as the time when no man was found on the earth. We know this tells of when all lacked the Spirit: when all flesh has been led into death by following the corrupt ideas that now rule the culture.
Genesis 2:5 says, “there was not a man to till the ground.” Isaiah 41:28 says, “For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.” Jeremiah 4:25 says, “I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.” In Isaiah 34:12 the “man” is “nobles,” of who the LORD, through Isaiah, says, “They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing [‘aphec].”
Friends, we know the corrupt advice, the teaching of the culture, is that God’s truth should be silenced, which they accomplished first by ridicule, later by demonization, and now by outright censorship. The lie they told was that there is such a thing as a culture wherein no ideas dominate or rule. We allowed them to first silence us, and then, now, their ideas rule over us and the world – which has produced the only actual void: confusion, the world unable to understand, or solve, any of its problems, because they endlessly offer the same failed ideas as the solution. Their ideas destroy truthful discourse, substitute lies and opinion, placing a higher value on altered and redefined reality: molten images that can never be grasped, because they are constantly changed to suit the lie or opinion of the moment.
Our ideas, God’s ideas are superior and should rule the world, being at the forefront of the thinking of those who lead and teach. It is either God’s ideas rule or man’s will rush into the void. I am not talking about the corrupt denominations or political parties that have led us here, and are now inescapable entrenched in corrupt ideas and ways. I am here, sent by God to lead and teach His words and ways; and if any teach or lead by anything else, it is because there is no light (understanding) in them.
In this light, and realizing the controversy has ended, hear the word of the LORD:
Isaiah 41
1 Keep silence before me, O islands [dry places that have rejected the word of the LORD]; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
3 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
5 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
6 They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smoothed with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. [Those who’ve seen this work of God – responding with their own inventions, lies in which the trust, delusions they think will stand against this work of God – again, they are delusional – what they have created witnesses against their claims to the throne. See Habakkuk 2:11]
8 But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from the chief men thereof, and said unto you, You are my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away.
10 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
11 Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with you shall perish.
12 You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught.
13 For I the LORD your God will hold your right hand, saying unto you, Fear not; I will help you.
14 Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.
16 You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
20 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King of Jacob.
22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
23 Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
24 Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of naught: an abomination is he that chooses you.
25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treads clay.
26 Who has declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that shows, yea, there is none that declares, yea, there is none that hears your words.
27 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that brings good tidings.
28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing [‘aphec]: their molten images are wind and confusion [tohuw].
The ultimate root of the “controversy” is questioning (the “chiding” of Exodus 17:7) the LORD’s presence in the one He is speaking His ideas through, by which He shows His authority in them, the anointing that crowns His king. This is what Paul tells Timothy (tells me) in 1 Timothy 6:15, the chapter in its entirety describing these ideas and this moment.
1 Timothy 6
1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke [see the prior post – yoked with the LORD in His work] count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our LORD Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strife of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmising [innuendo and insinuation],
5 Perverse disputing of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness [TV preachers and communists]: from such withdraw yourself.
6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
11 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.
13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who quickens all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
14 That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our LORD Jesus Christ [until Christ in you is seen as Jehovah’s Salvation personified – which will crown you]:
15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and LORD of lords;
16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light [understand that can only come from the anointing] which no man can approach unto; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;
18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate [this word – manifesting Christ to the world by becoming willingly yoked together with Him];
19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
Isaiah 34
1 Come near, you nations, to hear; and hearken, you people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea [this is Esau and Edom], and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah [their stronghold – which is their people], and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea [Esau and Edom].
7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion [tohuw], and the stones of emptiness [bohuw].
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing [‘aphec].
13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
16 Seek you out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered them.
17 And he [Esau] has cast the lot for them, and his [the LORD’s] hand has divided it unto them by line [described it in His rightly divided word]: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein [the hell they have created, in which they have ensnared {noosed} themselves].
When Isaiah 34:17 tell of the “lot” cast against God’s people, it is speaking of the lies and insinuations invented by those described as Esau – those among us who have sold their birthright. The Hebrew word translated “lot” is gowral, which is referring us to Esther 9:24 where it is rendered the same.
Esther 9
23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai [a lowly man] had written unto them;
24 Because Haman [a famous and highly thought of man] the son of Hammedatha [strife and endless argument], the Agagite [causing the unbearable burden], the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot [gowral], to consume them, and to destroy them;
25 But when Esther [star] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26 Wherefore they called these days Purim [this year it was the day winter ended – accompanied by many spectacular lunar events] after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
Friends, the dead have no idea they are already dead, hanging themselves by their own inventions, the gallows they built to destroy the little guy: the people of this nation who are God’s people.
Psalms 121
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence comes my help.
2 My help comes from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD is your keeper: the LORD is your shade upon your right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul.
8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Psalms 75
1 Unto you, O God, do we give thanks, unto you do we give thanks: for that your name is near your wondrous works declare.
2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.
8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Psalm 14
1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
