Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

The LORD begins, above in Galatians 5:1, continuing His instruction into His kingdom, into His acknowledged presence, liberation, and life everlasting. Herein (Galatians) He (through Paul) has just spoken of the two covenants (old and new), in an allegory, describing them as the bondwoman and the free. He says the first (bondage) is Sinai, which we know means thorny and tells of His coming against misleaders, which He also calls Agar (Hagar), meaning flight.

The name (Agar) speaks of them (the misleaders) taken out of the way, and of what the law was intended to do, free us from those who were, for their aggrandization (putting themselves in God’s place), leading us in ways of (gendering) bondage to outward appearance. Theirs is righteousness through adherence to their creations, corrupt rules and regulations they add, to be commended and approved of by the same men making them. For such adherence, they approve and commend themselves among themselves.

This liberty, peace, and security therein are what He codified in the Ten Commandments after He freed us from oppression and took us into the wilderness. Of these few necessary laws, which we will briefly discuss below, the first five are intended to keep us free from misleaders (devils, putting themselves in God’s place, doing the work of Satan, either saying “God said,” or making themselves gods). The second five are those intended for our peace; how to treat others and how we are treated, which, when followed, produce security in mind, body, and estate, no matter the person’s position (including those in the womb), power, or wealth (estate).

As we know, these ideas are found in the name Jerusalem (from the words yara’ and shalam), the place and people God creates as these ideas and way flow (are spoken through His messenger) from Him in His new heaven and earth.

Here following are the definitions and rendered forms of these words from the Strong’s Hebrew Diction:

Strong’s #3384: yarah (pronounced yaw-raw’) or (2 Chr. 26:15) yara’; {yaw-raw’}; a primitive root; properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach:–(+) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, show, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.

Strong’s #7999: shalam (pronounced shaw-lam’) a primitive root; to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications):–make amends, (make an) end, finish, full, give again, make good, (re-)pay (again), (make) (to) (be at) peace(-able), that is perfect, perform, (make) prosper(-ous), recompense, render, requite, make restitution, restore, reward, X surely.

The degeneration of this, falling away from God’s intended liberty, began in the garden, another allegory speaking of simplicity and peace, in Eden, that comes by following only God’s word flowing directly from Him. There, the serpent saying “God said” misled God’s people into a state of confusion and confounded language. There they became unable to know why they should choose good (God’s leading) and refuse evil (misleading that destroys people, liberty, security, and thereby societies and civilization). Understanding this spiritual truth, the deep meaning contained below the surface of all just (good) law, is divinely intended to (by understanding) lead us to choose good and flee from devils (taking them, their evil, out of the way).

Psalms 78
1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done.
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart [the basic elements in their mind, the ideas upon which they base all their words and actions] aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast [the “stand fast” in the title verse] with God.
9 The children of Ephraim [God’s people in this evil generation], being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. [Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition [apoleia]; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.]
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
11 And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them.

What God’s people forgot, even the very zealous, is His way. They forgot His promise, saying He will never leave us. Therefore, logic, the intelligence He’s given all, should cause His people to wonder why they don’t “see” Him. It’s because, based on what they have been taught, they look for outward appearance and position rather than the inward marvel: His glory in His manifested approval, which the misleaders and powers of the world reject.

Hebrews 13
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines [of devils, misleaders among you sitting in God’s place]. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats [men’s creations, rules and regulations meant to restrict your God-given liberty], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle [the old corrupt body, which is taken away].
11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

1 Samuel 13
14 But now your kingdom [Saul – who the people desired because of his outward appearance] shall not continue: the LORD has sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be captain over his people, because you have not kept that which the LORD commanded you.

Hebrews 13
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name [for His Salvation that has appeared].
16 But to do good and to communicate forget not [telling of His way and giving this word as received]: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

1 Timothy 3
14 These things write I unto you, hoping to come unto you shortly:
15 But if I tarry long, that you mayest know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

1 Timothy 4
1 Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils [misleaders among them, sitting in God’s place];
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry [forbidding to join into ONE BODY with the LORD], and commanding to abstain from meats [making their own rules and regulation, and teaching to refuse ] which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
6 If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up [in good things] in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto you have attained.
7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables [the things these misleaders have made up and added to God’s good leading into liberty], and exercise yourself rather [work out of you the corruption these men have added] unto godliness.
8 For bodily exercise profits little [and exercising the mind profit much]: but godliness [God manifested in our flesh, as in verse 16 above] is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach [His reproach, outside the camp], because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe.
11 These things command and teach.
12 Let no man despise your youth; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14 Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy [that tells of my coming], with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting [into godliness {God} manifested in our flesh] may appear to all.
16 Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.

Hebrews 1
8 But unto the Son he saith, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.
9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
10 And, You, LORD, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of your hands:
11 They shall perish [will be taken away]; but you remainest; and they all shall wax old as does a garment;
12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the same [yesterday, today, forever], and your years shall not fail [ek-leipo, shall not later, at the shaking end of the old world, be removed].
13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?
14 Are they not all [angels] ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

Hebrews 2
1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the LORD, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him? or the son of man that you visit him?
7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor, and did set him over the works of your hands:
8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifies [separates us from corruption] and they who are sanctified are all of ONE [BODY]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare your name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto you.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me.
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil [the misleaders who’ve led the world into death and hell, from where Jehovah’s Salvation has now risen to raise His people with Him. I and the children God has given me are for signs and wonders];
15 And deliver them who through fear of death [fear not death, because it has no power over us] were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

1 Samuel 13
14 But now your kingdom [Saul – who the people desired because of outward appearance] shall not continue: the LORD has sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be captain over his people, because you have not kept that which the LORD commanded you

1 Samuel 16
12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
13 Then Samuel [shmuw’el – heard God, those who’ve received the report of the LORD, the shmuw’ah, heard Jehovah] took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David [a man of war, not with carnal things, but for the pulling down of stronghold of misleaders not following God’s commandments] from that day forward.

Galatians 4
1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant, though he be LORD of all;
2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt ideas and ways of men who’ve misled into death and hell] of the world:
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
7 Wherefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8 Howbeit then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9 But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements [stoicheion – the corrupt ideas and ways of the world], whereunto you desire again to be in bondage? [These are the “elements” Peter tells us, in 2 Peter 3, melt away, when the LORD comes with the word reserved in heaven, to end the corrupt heaven and earth and create the new, wherein dwells righteousness]
10 You observe days, and months, and times, and years [you and those you listen to, never see today as the day the LORD foretold, and are always looking for, lusting for, something more, never saying you’ve seen enough].
11 I am afraid of you, lest [if you cannot see this is the day for which the LORD has prepared all things, the day He promised] I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I Am as you are [in the world]: you have not injured me at all. [1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love {agape – charity, giving us His word} the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not [and without His word are unable to see Him inthe world}. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself {by washing in these pure waters}, even as he is pure. 4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And ye know that he was manifested to TAKE AWAY our sins; and in him is no sin.]
13 You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
14 And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel [messenger] of God, even as Christ Jesus [the LORD God speaking through me].
15 Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me [so that I would see as you saw corruption, which you thought was correct].
16 Am I, therefore, become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
17 They zealously affect you [with the corruption they though was correct], but not well [not with good leading]; yea, they would exclude you, that you might [by the word of God in you] affect them.
18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which genders to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But [New and Heavenly {with full understanding of the Spirit of the law}] Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother [wisdom and teacher] of us all.
27 For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has a husband [which is joined with the LORD, in His ONE BODY].
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out [take away] the bondwoman [who holds you down, and will {katecho}, until taken out of the way] and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Hebrews 12
…You are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks [through us] from heaven [the place of full understanding]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing [taking away] of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Galatians 5
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ [the word and presence of God in the flesh] has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if you be circumcised [if you think you are saved by an outward appearance, and not by mere belief in God’s promises, the word of] Christ shall profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; you are fallen from grace.
5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith [believing His promises] which worketh by love [agape – charity, by giving this word of God].
7 You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
8 This persuasion comes not of him that calleth you.
9 A little leaven leavens [the corruption of unfaithful men] the whole lump.
10 I have confidence in you through the LORD, that you will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.
12 I would they were even cut off [taken away] which trouble you.
13 For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love [agape – charity, giving this word of God] serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love [agapao – charity, as God has given you, give] your neighbor as yourself.
15 But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another.
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.
18 But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Romans 3
31 Do we then make void the law through faith [in God’s promises]? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Romans 6
6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life [in His new creation].
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he lives, he lives unto God.
11 Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our LORD.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.

1 Corinthians 15
12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15 Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.
18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
24 Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Matthew 22
31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
33 And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. [These two are the Spirit in the law, to keep us from misleaders and give us peace on earth.]
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
42 Saying, What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David.
43 He saith unto them, How then does David in spirit call him LORD, saying,
44 The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you on my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool?
45 If David then called him LORD, how is he his son?
46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

Psalms 110
1 The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies.
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.
4 The LORD has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The LORD at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way [derek – the LORD’s way, in which there is continuance – by which we remain after the shaking]: therefore shall he lift up the head [of His king and High priest in the order of Melchizedek].

The answer to the LORD question in Matthew 22:45, which silences His critics, is speaking of the end of strife (as at Meribah – mriybah), when the LORD is sanctified (as at Kadesh – qadash) among His people. As we know, these parenthetical descriptions refer us to Numbers 20, when LORD told Moses to speak (sanctify – declare the LORD the rock from where His word flowed) to the rock in the presence of all His people. Moses instead struck the Rock a second time; in pattern, crucifying the LORD again instead of taking up His own cross; therefore, he (Moses) wasn’t permitted to enter the Promised Land.

This “sanctification” is spoken of in Hebrews 10:29, saying it is the LORD’s sacrifice by which He is declared holy. The chapter speaks of the LORD coming to do the Father’s will, in the flesh body He has prepared (sanctified – made holy). His sacrifice is the public mocking and rejection He long suffered to deliver the message, as David long-suffered waiting for his throne, and unlike Moses, like David, declaring it is the LORD himself speaking through and in Him.

2 Samuel 23
1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
2 The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
4 And he shall be as the light of the morning [the understanding of a new day], when the sun rise [shining upon all who come out of the corrupt houses to see Him], even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain [after He sends His word from heaven and empties the clouds by reassembling all the elements that were held there, reserved unto fire and the judgment of the ungodly].
5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he makes it not to grow.
6 But the sons of Belial [all those who worship the idols men have put in God’s place] shall be all of them as thorns thrust [misleaders – taken] away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
7 But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.

Hebrews 10
5 Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. [Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.]
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He TAKES AWAY the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them [giving them understanding, the knowledge of God, so they will know to choose good and refuse evil];
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest [into the presence of God] by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil [behind which the LORD’s presence is found]; that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest [in the order of Melchizedek, as David, the king of peace and the king of righteousness] over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled [by the voice of the LORD, speaking here from heaven] from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water [flowing directly from the LORD].
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love [agape – charity, freely giving this word of God as received from Him] and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [into ONE BODY under one king, of the LORD’s choosing], as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, saith the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated [when those before us were given this understanding], you endured a great fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst you were made a gazing-stock [were held up for public mocking and ridicule] both by reproaches and afflictions [because they, our forefathers in Christ, declared the LORD is alive, with and in them]; and partly, whilst you became companions of them that were so used.
34 For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompence of reward.
36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God [after you have shown His charity, giving these life-giving waters, freely, as He gave them], you might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition [apoleia]; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

The word apoleia is (said to be) “presumed” from a word meaning destruction. It is more accurately a derivative of the six times used Greek word apoleipo, from the words apo, meaning away or off, and leipo, meaning “to leave, i.e. (intransitively or passively) to fail or be absent.” It (apoleia) is speaking of those taken or melting away, as in something forgotten.

It (apoleipo) is used above in verse 26, saying once this truth is known, and men refuse it and choose evil, “there remains no more” sacrifice for sin, meaning the LORD has not come to die again for what He once died.

Hebrews 10
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more [apoleipo] sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, saith the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Jude 1
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered [by this word] unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only LORD God, and our LORD Jesus Christ.
5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though you once knew this, how that the LORD, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left [apoleipo] their own habitation [forgot they were created to give God’s word, not their own], he has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness [in ignorance – having forgotten what was once known by the faithful] unto the judgment of the great day.

Hebrews 4
1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
6 Seeing therefore it remains [apoleipo – true but forgotten] that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
7 Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 There remains [apoleipo – true but forgotten] therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labor [doing good works of charity] therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest [in the order of Melchizedek], that is passed into the heavens [the place of full understanding], Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin [with full understanding and good works].
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 5
1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
4 And no man takes this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, You are my Son, today have I begotten you.
6 As he saith also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
10 Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchisedec.
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles [stoicheion – elements] of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat [this deep understanding that gives strength] belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Psalms 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us [that restrict our evil and chain us in darkness].”
4 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision [in their own {evil} delusion, unable to discern reality {good}].
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I [Jehovah] set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I [Timothy] will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10 Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way [derek], when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Isaiah 64
1 Oh that you [LORD] would tear open the heavens [and send understanding as You have], that you would come down [as You have], that the mountains might flow down at your presence [paniym – Your face, which we now understand, and from where flows Your ways of peace: Yara’shalam – Jerusalem],
2 As when the melting fire burns [as a lamp of Your Salvation bringing light: understanding taking away ignorance], the fire causes the waters to boil [the words to be purified], to make your name [Jehovah’s Salvation personified – JESUS] known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence [paniym – Your face, which we now understand was only hidden by the darkness of our ignorance of your ways and ideas]!
3 When you did terrible things which we looked not for [because we were misled into ignorance], you came down, the mountains flowed down [Your truth] at your presence [paniym – Your face revealed].
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, beside you, what he has prepared for him that waited for him.
5 You meet him that rejoices and worketh righteousness, those that remember you in your ways [derek]: behold, you are wroth; for we have sinned: in those [Your ways and our confession of our ignorance] is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is none that calleth upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hid your face [paniym – presence] from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O LORD, you are our Father [who corrects us]; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: behold, see, we beseech you, we are all your people.
10 Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, O LORD? will you hold your peace, and afflict us very sore?

Psalms 32
A Psalm of David, Maschil [God’s instruction through him]
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
5 I acknowledge my sin unto you, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters [evil misleading words of wicked men] they shall not come nigh unto him.
7 You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way [derek – in which is continuance] which you shall go: I will guide you with mine eye.
9 Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto you.
10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
11 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.