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.
When Peter describes the LORD coming as a thief in the night he is describing a time when men are ignorant of the event, and in the darkness blinded to Him when He appears. He is also speaking of the people He comes to not knowing until He has taken what He wants and with it departed. As we know, the elect were the first the LORD came for, and now the dead in Christ. The place He has come to is the ignorant and blinded church, God’s people who’ve been put to sleep by the devils now in control of the pulpits and lecterns where twisted and perverted knowledge is preached and taught.
We know their information is the “elements” Peter speaks of above, in 2 Peter 3:10, using the Greek word stoicheion. We have often discussed its meaning and thereby know these are the foundational ideas: the basic corrupted principles that underlie all their rationale: the rudiments of this world’s confusion, which transformed intellect into primitive reflex reaction. This last point is why, when their indefensible (because their premise is untrue) ideas are challenged, they resort to responses that draw on emotions rather than analysis, and elicit mindless retorts that reinforce some existing popular prejudice.
We know popular prejudice is the zeitgeist, the spirit of the moment, the ideas accepted by the population and become the foundations of the present culture: culture meaning the ideas and ways of the group you have decided to become a part of and join with. The word prejudice means judging without knowledge. In the context of our here ongoing conversation, we understand prejudice is ignorance, which is darkness and the product of confused thoughts.
In our time, this ignorance, these prejudices, are cultivated through teaching and preaching that has not only twisted truth in favor of a political ideology (godless liberalism and communism under the title of progressivism), which they worship as religion and demand its exclusivity when information is aired. As we know, the censorship of God’s language, His ideas and ways of life, silencing His truth, is what has led the current world’s institutional powers, in every realm, into ideas, delusions bordering or inhabiting insanity, that led it into what is the shadow of death.
Friends, the LORD has appeared to pull us into His light, understanding that raises us from the fires and ashes these men’s leadings have caused. As we know, their ideas in church and state are melting away in the heat of the fires their works based on them have caused, and the works themselves are burning up. Their only way, the only distraction away from seeing their failed ideas, is to agitate emotion rather than stimulate and quicken minds. This is what we see when the church preaches and teaches only to make people feel good about themselves, while the world burns. They and their fellow travelers, secular teachers and broadcasters, incite emotion against, and attack, any who point out there is no value in their words and works – and their only objective is to keep you listening, held in their power, in darkness: confusion that never reaches the right conclusions or their promised destination.
2 Peter 3
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 [stociheion – these men’s corrupted foundational ideas] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works [of men] 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 [the old air, the power that now works in the children of disobedience and brings death] being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens [the air wherein we meet the LORD, where His word gives us understanding and life] and a new earth [under His new heaven], wherein dwell 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 [they unknowingly wrestle with God, ignorantly opposing Him with their confused ideas], as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [because in their confusion, and refusing to leave it, they burn up in the same fires burning up their works].
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.
Friends, these men divide God’s people, in church and state alike, all by their own ideas and ways, and again, in dividing the house it has become unable to stand. As I have many times said, my mission is to unite the church under one head, and doing save it and the world from those who first led them into hell and now hold them there.
In its zeal, the modern evangelical church is on fire for God, but filled and inspirited by ignorance. This same zeal without the righteousness of God, thinking themselves and their teaching totally correct, and thereby thinking themselves without the need for a savior, they will follow these same leaders, who’ve led them into ignorance and division, into perdition, which is the only place insubordination, disobedience, and disorder leads. AGAIN, THE LORD SAYS, COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM!
This doesn’t end any other way, and the beginning that follows is just as we have been told. The only question is when does the church wake up and realize its strength and unity only come under one person, the one God has chosen and sent.
Jeremiah 48
9 Give wings unto Moab [God’s people held in death by the gates of hell], that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
10 Cursed be he that does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keeps back his sword from blood [that keeps back this word of God from those whose word are draining the life from His people].
11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent [the stink of death] is not changed.
12 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles [see Isaiah 30:13 through 18 below].
13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh [shall not reach the end those who’ve subdued them have promised], as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence [disappointed when the idols set there in God’s place were unable to save them].
14 How say you, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
15 Moab is [the gates of hell are] spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
16 The calamity of Moab is near to come [has come], and his affliction hastes fast [is here].
17 All you that are about him, bemoan [nuwd – move away from] him; and all you that know his name [his name is confusion], say, How is the strong staff [branch – as tribes {God’s people} as an offshoot – as in the final church that is part of the beast named Babylon] broken, and the beautiful rod! [maqqel – the staff that Balaam the false prophet, who was send by Balak the king of Moab to curse God’s people, used to strike and force the donkey forward on his way, because it saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way and therefore knew it wasn’t the way and wouldn’t carry him forward with his curse – as we know from our studies, this donkey is God’s elect remnant, upon who the LORD appears riding in His lowly entry. This appears in Zechariah 9:9, and in Zechariah 10:3 again appears, now transformed into the LORD’s goodly horse in the battle. The maqqel is what is leaned on and trusted to hold you up, and is the word used in Zechariah 11:7, 10 and 14 to tell our agreement with God, which binds us together with Him, broken in the betrayal, sold for thirty pieces of silver.]
18 You daughter that dost inhabit Dibon [the totally desolate places, made so by the idols, abominations, put in God place], come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon you, and he shall destroy your strong holds.
19 O inhabitant of Aroer [the ruins], stand by the way, and espy; ask him that flees, and her that escapes, and say, What is done?
20 Moab is confounded [those held by the gates of hell are confused]; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell you it in Arnon [tell it to all those who spew their ideas as if they are experts, all these wizards who haven’t stopped their peeping and muttering], that Moab is spoiled,
21 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
22 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,
23 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,
24 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the LORD.
26 Make you him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
27 For was not Israel a derision unto you? was he found among thieves? for since you spoke of him [since your word took him captive], you skipped for joy.
28 O you that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock [the Rock that is Christ, from where the LORD voice is heard], and be like the dove [who has reached her destination] that makes her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.
29 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
30 I know his wrath, says the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.
31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres [the wall they made of potsherds – again, see Isaiah 30:14].
32 O vine of Sibmah [the sweet smell of life], I will weep for you with the weeping of Jazer [those the LORD has helped]: your plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer [the masses the LORD has helped]: the spoiler is fallen upon your summer fruits and upon your vintage.
33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
34 From the cry of Heshbon [heard in their strongholds] even unto Elealeh [God’s ascending – rising up], and even unto Jahaz [this is the LORD appearing for our help], have they uttered their voice, from Zoar [and you have determined it as insignificant] even unto Horonaim [as if they were the empty words from the mouths of those you’ve followed into hell] , as an heifer of three years old [as if you are their sacrifice]: for the waters also of Nimrim [the waters, this word of God that should purity you] shall be desolate. [All these places where the LORD’s voice is heard, but they have not listened.]
35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says the LORD, him that offers in the high places, and him that burns incense to his gods.
36 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres [who’ve made this wall of potsherds]: because the riches that he has gotten are perished.
37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. [the curse and shame of not reaching the end they have hoped for]
38 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure [Isaiah 30:14], says the LORD.
39 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.
40 For thus says the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.
41 Kerioth [all they have built] is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men’s hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.
43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says the LORD.
44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, says the LORD.
45 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon [their strongholds] because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon [their strongholds], and a flame from the midst of Sihon [their warriors – from the ideas of those who’ve chosen war against God’s ideas], and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
46 Woe be unto you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh [those who have subdued God’s people] perish: for your sons are taken captives, and your daughters captives.
47 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
Zechariah 11
1 Open your doors, O Lebanon [the high places that were once pure], that the fire may devour your cedars [those in you leading and thinking they are upright].
2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O you oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan [those who carry you into death] is spoiled.
4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves [maqqel]; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another [see Micah 3:3 below].
10 And I took my staff [maqqel], even Beauty [agreeableness], and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
12 And I said unto them, If you think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was valued at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff [maqqel], even Bands [the cords that tie us together], that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel [to separate the people at large from their leaders].
15 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto you yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that stand still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. [see Micah 3 below]
17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaves the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Micah 3
1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Isaiah 30
1 Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant [pith’owm petha’].
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus saith the LORD God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not.
16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as [I am] an ensign on an hill.
18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious unto you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you.
20 And though the LORD give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers:
21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
22 You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstruous cloth; you shall say unto it, Get you hence.
23 Then shall he give the rain of your seed, that you shall sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet [the place of fires] is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he has made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Psalms 113
1 Praise you the LORD. Praise, O you servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.
2 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.
3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’s name is to be praised.
4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwells on high,
6 Who humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
7 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill;
8 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise you the LORD.
Psalms 114
1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
5 What ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back?
6 You mountains, that you skipped like rams; and you little hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob;
8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
