Bethany, the story of God’s people’s fall into a house of misery, wherein they ripen and from where they are raised.
The passages surrounding the eleven times the name Bethany appears first tell of the corrupted priesthood, the temple, and worship in general; all a product of the abomination brought into the temple and put in God’s place. These further speak of the LORD leaving corrupted Jerusalem, and going to Bethany and Bethphage, meaning the house (family) of misery and of unripe figs. In the family are Mary, Martha, and dead Lazarus, a house (Christian and Jew) outside the established corrupt order, both the women’s names meaning and telling of them being those who rebelled against the (corrupt) status quo.
As we know, Lazarus is the Greek rendering of the Hebrew name Eleazar, meaning he is who God helps. He is historically the son of Aaron, who was raised to the priesthood after his two brothers (Christians and Jews) became idol worshipers and offered strange fire (ways far from and thereby foreign) to God.
It is in this family (house) the LORD is anointed (by those who have come out of corruption), and where abides the priesthood the LORD raised from the dead. These are the easily understood and recognized embedded meanings.
The deeper meaning is in telling of how the fall occurred, and has now again; and how the restoration comes. The next step is to investigate the name Judas (Judah) Iscariot, which is from the Hebrew words Yhuwdah ‘iyshqirya‘. These words tell of those who are the celebrated men, the celebrity leaders of God people, of His city (which are among His people in Zion and Jerusalem). Examining the usages of these words we see they are used in telling of betrayal, which ends in the release of the vessels carried away into confusion (Babylon) where they were held in the treasure house of the idols of Babylon.
The word ‘iysh only appears one time, rendered “show yourselves men” in Isaiah 46:8, where we are told the betrayers are called to remember. The chapter begins by telling of when Bel and Nebo bow down (yield); these are the idols of the corrupt house to where the vessels were carried away and held. This carrying away is spoken of in Daniel 1:2, where we saw it is into Shinar, the sleep Daniel speaks of in Daniel 12:2. We have seen this as when the book is sealed, in the treasure house of these idols, meaning in the current corrupted church by its dead priests. We understand the restoration, the rebuilding of God house, His city and His wall, come with the fall of the wall these men have built, which can’t be trusted and will surely fall on any near when it does (because it is built with stones of emptiness {bohuw}, upon a foundation of confusion {tohuw} – Isaiah 34:11).
The betrayal is spoken of in Ezra 4, the only place the word qirya’ appears; and where it is rendered “city”. Their it tells of the rebuilding of the wall and how it was halted by the adversaries, who heard the sound of the trumpet and great noise (Ezra 3:10 & 11). The enemies first said they wanted to help build, and when their attempts at subversion were rejected by Zerubbabel and Joshua (Jeshua), they frustrated the building all the days of Cyrus, until the days or Darius.
Until the days of Darius take us again to Daniel, where in chapter 9 we are told of the first year of Darius, when Daniel found the book of Jeremiah and learned of the LORD foretelling the seventy years in accomplishing the desolation of Jerusalem. We know the chapter ends with Daniel speaking of the time between when the commandment goes forth, to build the wall and Jerusalem, (which came from Cyrus) and accomplishing it. He says this building comes after the time between, which is referring to what is spoken of in Ezra 4 and which ends in Ezra 6 and the decree of Darius, to restore the treasure to the temple, after the house of rolls (volumes) was searched. Verse 2 tells us the record of the original decree of Cyrus was found at Achmetha, a name that appears to tell of a time without rain, which led to drunkenness, meaning without God’s word producing a mental stupor, as in Shinar where Daniel 1:2 tells us these treasures were taken. We know Cyrus is spoken of by the LORD in Isaiah 45:1 as the anointed who will build His city. Daniel 9 tells of the same anointing, which comes at the end of the time between the commandment and the completion, which comes with the sealing of the prophesy (unsealing the book and writing the meaning in our heads) and the restoration of the vision. The final step is the anointing of the Most Holy, which takes us back to Mary anointing the LORD, in the house outside the corrupted order (in Bethany), after He raises the priesthood. We know this priesthood, and those who are born by coming out of Babylon (confusion in the status quo), are spoken of in Zechariah 3 & 4 as Joshua (Jesus) and Zerubbabel.
All these names speak of the same people and group, in consort.
And the prophesies unsealed are those which tell of me and my coming, as the first begotten from the dead, sent to raise many of God’s children into the same glory.
Darius is the son of Esther. He is the child whose mother is a Jew and His father a Gentile, which is telling of the pattern of Timothy, whose mother was a Jew and father a gentile. As in the pattern of Mary and Martha, as Christians and Jews who are born out of the confusion of those before them, Gentile and Jew into one House.
Ephesians 5
30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Today, instead of pasting the above-referenced chapters, I urge you to open the book and read them. Amen!
