Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things you have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.
Do you, those who’ve been with me for a while, understand the above is what you’ve witnessed?
As the LORD has led us to understand; the blind are without understanding; the deaf unable to hear the voice of God speaking; the lame are out of God’s way; the lepers those whose flesh lives are destroyed by tribulation; and in these states, they sleep in death. They are the poor in spirit, who by receiving His preaching hear God, are healed, raised, and see Him.
As we well know, these ideas are what Paul speaks of, to the Thessalonians, in 1 Thessalonians 2 as he first, in verse 12, as God, calls us into His kingdom. These are those cured and raised in Luke 7:22 above, in who (Paul says in the following verse, 13) the word received as from God, as it is, “effectually works.” The “effect” is the cure of the inner man, the minds of men, by which they then realize what Paul says in question form in verse 19, asking, “Are not even you in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at His coming?”
Just before this question, Paul asks another, in the same verse, saying, “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?” Our hope is that Christ would be manifested, realized alive in us speaking God’s calling, who when received is our joy, and His crowning us at the revelation of His presence. “For you are our glory [God’s glory revealed in us, by the knowledge and understanding of Him], and joy [that a child of God is born into the world].”
Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
2 So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
3 Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;
4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
5 Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler [magen – receiving Him and His word are the shield of protection in the battle] to them that walk uprightly.
8 He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves the way of his saints.
9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
10 When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto your soul;
11 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:
12 To [by the understanding of God’s way, and following His path] deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks froward things [who twists and perverts truth];
13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness [the paths to ignorance];
14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness [the twisted and perverted truth] of the wicked;
15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward [deceive and lead into] in their paths [to ignorance]:
16 To [by the understanding of God’s way, and following His path] deliver you from the strange woman [the corrupt church which is unfaithful to God and His truth], even from the stranger [in their pulpits] which flatters with her words;
17 Which forsakes the guide of her youth [the Ancient of days], and forgets the covenant of her God.
18 For her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
20 That you mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Jeremiah 9
12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perishes [like the flesh of a leper] and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through?
13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim [men as idols put in God’s place], which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword [My word from My mouth] after them, till I have consumed them.
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled [by the communists in power among us]! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you [unfaithful] women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.
22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
23 Thus says the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
24 But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the LORD.
25 Behold, the days [have] come, says the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised [those who outwardly say they are pure, “but your inwardly part {heart: foundational mind} is full of ravening and wickedness”];
26 Egypt [the oppressors], and Judah [the current crop of {mis}leaders in power], and Edom [enemies mixed among us], and the children of Ammon [who exalt their words above the word of God], and Moab [whose mouths are the gates of hell], and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart [their foundational mind].
Friends, the sorrowful truth is the religious, (all) Christians and Jews, are following those who’ve led them into desolation. They’ve led them in the path of darkness, and now, refusing to repent, they call God’s people to continue to follow them, their same worthless misleading, into perdition and death.
2 Thessalonians 2
11 And for this cause God shall send [has sent] them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you [to His king into His kingdom] by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 3
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night [as now, when He is unknown in the darkness, the taught ignorance covering the word in the shadow of death]; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise [this voice of God], and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt ideas and ways taught by men and followed by those, by them, made ignorant] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works 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 being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion – the foundational principles of the corrupt misleaders who’ve put themselves in God’s place] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent [seeking His will and way] 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 wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia – perdition].
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.
The mass “delusion” upon the world at this time is unmistakably the COVID HOAX, the latest and greatest of the many lies from known liars who’ve told one known lie after another (only fooling the ignorant, and with feigned agreement from the complicit).
Likewise, and even more significant in magnitude, are the known lies in the church, false doctrines, fables as calves preached from devils put in God’s place, keeping His people from meeting Him as He prescribed. Among these (lies), they tell God’s people their flesh will leave the planet while saying nothing they do in the flesh will separate them from God. They, therefore, reject and refuse His calls to repent and come to the knowledge of God (His way in which is continuance of the flesh man, who is the temple of God).
Matthew 24
22 And except those days [in tribulation {tsarah}] should be shortened, there should NO FLESH [of the lepers {tsara’}] BE SAVED: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs [who remain in the world telling all to continue to follow them], and false prophets [false teachers who’ve led you into ignorance], and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive [who have deceived all except] the very elect [remnant].
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning [understanding] comes out of the east [as the sun rising of this New day, wherein dwells righteousness], and shines even unto the west [upon all who’ve come out of the houses of corruption]; so shall [is] also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcass [of the dead church] is, there will the eagles be gathered together [who by the strength God has given them, His understanding, they fly in the clear air of heaven: the place of full understanding].
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened [the tribulation ends when God’s people realized there is not light {understanding} in the church], and the moon shall not give her light [neither is there understanding in civil government], and the stars shall fall from heaven [and all God’s people, because of the darkness in church and state establishments, are without understanding, fall way from God – as Paul says in 2 Thessalonians 2:3], and the powers of the heavens [the powers sitting in the seats of God, resisting and opposing him] shall be shaken [so the wicked are shaken from them]:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven [lifted up, as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness, and all who looked to him were saved from the serpents destroying all flesh, by venom rotting them inside:theirminds]: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn [when they realized they have been unfaithful and followed men who are antichrist], and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven [where understand was held, as elements, when removed from the earth] with power and great glory [of God seen in him].
31 And he shall send his angels [messengers with this word from the mouth of God] with a great sound of a trumpet [calling all to assemble in the ONE BODY of Christ], and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other [from the end of the old corrupt understanding, into the light of the New].
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender [I am the vine, and you are the branches], and puts forth leaves [new life to the carcass of God’s people, who were sleeping in ignorance until the darkness of winter ended], you know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise you, when you shall see [understand] all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Hosea 4
1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest.
5 Therefore shall you fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with you in the night [when ignorance covers all people of the world], and I will destroy your mother [the teachers who’ve taught you ignorance].
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children [you have taught ignorance, and they have thereby fallen way from Me, into apostasy].
7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
11 Whoredom [following men that have put themselves in My place] and wine and new wine [the creations of these men, that stupefy the mind] take away the heart.
12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms has caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that do not understand shall fall.
15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not you unto Gilgal [where their words cause constant agitation], neither go you up to Bethaven [houses of tribulation], nor swear, The LORD lives.
16 For Israel slid back [fallen away into apostasy] as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17 Ephraim [God’s people in this generation] is joined to idols: let him alone.
18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [against who I’ve been sent as a man of war] with shame do love, Give you [your tithes and taxes].
19 The wind [of their false doctrines] has bound her up in her wings [under which they put their trust and think they have protection], and they shall be ashamed [when their end is not as expected, because they’ve followed misleaders] because of their sacrifices [to idols and devils].
2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him [as I told you of in 1 Thessalonians 4:16 & 17, when the sleeping awaken, who are brethren who’ve been misled into ignorance by following the error of the wicked],
2 That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away [apostasis – apostasy] first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [apoleia – those who as Reuben, put themselves in the Father’s place, who shall not remain {excel – continue}];
4 Who oppose and exalt himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God [enthroned in the minds of men], showing himself that he is God.
5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things [in 1 Thessalonians 2:14 thru 16, who sitting in God’s place, killed Jesus Christ and the prophets, forbidding us, the LORD in us, to speak to those who don’t know God, who, as in the working of Satan, hindered us]?
6 And now you know what withholds [katech – holds you down, so you can’t rise to meet the LORD, in the air, in the cloud – on wings into understanding] that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets [katecho – who now holds you down in your falling away] will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed [the same wicked men spoken of in 2 Thessalonians 3:2 below], whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth [speaking through us], and shall destroy with the brightness [the full understanding] of his coming [knowledge of which these wicked men have made God’s people ignorant]:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan [leading God’s people into apostasy] with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our LORD Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us, and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
2 Thessalonians 3
1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the [this] word of the LORD may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you [received as the word of God, as told before, in 1 Thessalonians 2:13]:
2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable [atopos, who refuse to change their positions] and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
3 But the LORD is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.
4 And we have confidence in the LORD touching you, that you both do and will do the things which we command you.
5 And the LORD direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
7 For yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
8 Neither did we eat any man’s bread for naught; but wrought with labor and travail night and day [diligently seeking], that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us.
10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work [seeking the LORD], neither should he eat [the LORD’s supper].
11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies [trespassing into things they shouldn’t].
12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our LORD Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work [diligently seek], and eat their own bread [rightly dividing, discerning, the will of God].
13 But you, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
The word atopos, rendered above “unreasonable” when describing the wicked, is said to mean “from 1 (as a negative particle) and 5117; out of place, i.e. (figuratively) improper, injurious, wicked.” It’s used only four times; the other three rendered, “amiss,” “wickedness,” and “harm.” (Explore them – diligently seek understanding by the LORD’s leading, which is our communion with Him.)
The word it (atopos) is from (“a” reversing its meaning) is topos, meaning “a spot (general in space, but limited by occupancy; whereas 5561 is a large but participle locality), i.e. location (as a position, home, tract, etc.); figuratively, condition, opportunity; specially, a scabbard.”
This last aspect, topos as a scabbard, speaks of the place where the word of God, which is the sword of His Spirit, His working unknown, is rightly dividing His word, giving light (understanding), and to those (the atopos, rejecting reason) who refuse it, His wrath.
Paul, when speaking to the Thessalonians, only uses the word (topos) once, in 1 Thessalonians 1:8, rendered “place,” as it is most often.
Friends, this word is used by the LORD, by His unknown working, moving in men, by who He tells us of this moment and the “place” we make our stand, as He shakes the wicked from the “places” they possess.
1 Thessalonians 1
4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.
5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost [the LORD working before you realized it’s Him], and in much assurance; as you know what manner of men [the way of God] we were among you for your sake.
6 And you became followers of us, and of the LORD [alive in us], having received the word [as His word] in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost [receiving Him into yourselves].
7 So that you were examples to all that believe in Macedonia [the houses of dead flesh] and Achaia [who are in tribulation, while therein these houses made ignorant of it].
8 For from you sounded out the word of the LORD not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place [topos – the place we make our stand against the wicked] your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing [because the LORD, alive now in you is speaking these same words He’s through us spoken to you].
9 For they themselves show of us what manner [the way of God, working unknown through men in who He lives] of entering in we had unto you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God [in us and now in you];
10 And to wait for his Son from heaven [coming with this word, in flaming fire against the ungodly who are speaking against Him and His work], whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us [we who’ve received Him] from the wrath to come.
This is the same entrance Peter speaks of, and the same wrath in flaming fire he later describes, of which the atopos (those in the wrong place, with wicked ideas and ways) are ignorant.
2 Peter 1
11 For so an entrance [eisodos – into the kingdom of God] shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though you know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our LORD Jesus Christ has shown me.
15 Moreover I will endeavor that you may be able after my decease [exodos – after leaving the old body {come to remembrance and out of the OLD body, which shall not remain}] to have these things always in remembrance.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased [HEAR you Him].
18 And this voice which came from heaven [when we received full understanding] we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place [topos – this time of ignorance of God and His way: alive in man, working unknown until He is known], until the day dawn [the light comes and He is realized in his Son, who is the brightest of all the lights in heaven], and the day star [phosphoros] arise in your hearts [and His light which is life, understanding the Living God Himself is alive in you]:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD in them, unknown to the world and working all things toward this moment of awakening by His righteous interpretation].
2 Peter 2
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [secretly, from their own imaginations, create lies] shall bring in damnable [apoleia – that cause them and those who follow their ways to perish] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia – perdition].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [aploeia – the ways that lead to their own destruction] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of [as it is this day].
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned [fraudulent] words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia – perishing, perdition] slumbers not.
2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God [this same word of God] the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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 [as now, when He is unknown in the darkness, the taught ignorance covering the word in the shadow of death]; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise [this voice of God], and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt ideas and ways taught by men and followed by those by them made ignorant] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Luke 7
29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, [the product of] being baptized with the baptism of John [and repenting].
30 But the Pharisees and lawyers [those saying they know God, as they] rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him [not repenting].
31 And the LORD said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of THIS generation? and to what are they like?
32 They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace [where men’s souls are bought and sold], and calling one to another, and saying, “We have piped unto you [our own songs, lies upon lies, HOAXs from which you must not deviate], and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.”
33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and you say, He has a devil.
34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and you say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
35 But wisdom is justified of all her children [“I and the children the LORD has given me:” the republicans and the repentant unfaithful who have returned, who are those who enter the kingdom with me].
Isaiah 25
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things [opening our ears and eyes, to hear and now see You] ; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made of a city a heap [flaming as Sodom]; of a defensed city a ruin [as Gomorrah]: a palace of strangers [communists with their foreign ways] to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people [You’ve strengthened with Your understanding] glorify you, the city of the terrible nations [those whose ways are causing tribulation] shall fear you.
4 For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall [tribulation against the “place” of our protection].
5 You shall bring down the noise [the voices] of strangers, as the heat in a dry place [where this word of God isn’t heard]; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud [from where comes Your understanding]: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain [Armageddon – the mountain of this prescribed meeting] shall the LORD of hosts [Who is a man of war] make unto all people a feast of fat things [this prosperous word of God], a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people [He will destroy the presence of the HOAXs and lies: the shadow of death covering all the world], and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain [from where the LORD declares His presence] shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab [the open moths of lying men, which are the gates of hell], shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim [rightly dividing the waters, His word, by his hand that rests in this mountain]: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
Isaiah 63
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where is your zeal and your strength, the sounding of your bowels and of your mercies toward me? are they restrained?
16 Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
17 O LORD, why have you made us to err from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
18 The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
19 We are yours: you never bear rule over them [the enemies mixed among us]; they were not called by your name.
Isaiah 64
1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might flow down [that the high places of the earth would melt way] at your presence, [Say not in your heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) 7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) 8 But what says it? The word is nigh you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the LORD Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.]
2 As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence [His presence is manifested in confession]!
3 When you did terrible things which we looked not for, you came down, the mountains flowed down at your presence.
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 wait for him.
5 You meetest him that rejoice and worketh righteousness, those that remember you in your ways: behold, you are wroth; for we have sinned: in those [your ways] is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses 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 [presence – veiled only by the flesh of those confessing it is You speaking in them, which is Your way] from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.
Deuteronomy 30
10 If you shall hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn unto the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, neither is it far off.
12 It is not in heaven, that you shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
14 But the word is very nigh unto you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you mayest do it.
15 See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
16 In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you mayest live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land whither you go to possess it.
17 But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I denounce unto you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither you Pass Over Jordan to go to possess it.
19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live:
20 That you mayest love the LORD your God, and that you mayest obey his voice, and that you mayest cleave unto him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you mayest dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
1 Thessalonians 4
7 For God [speaking through us] has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given unto us his holy Spirit.
9 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10 And indeed you do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia [the house of dead flesh, where the dead in Jesus sleep]: but we beseech you, brethren, that you increase [your understanding] more and more;
11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands [diligently seeking Him], as we commanded you;
12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing.
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the LORD [speaking through us], that we which are alive [awake] and remain unto the coming of the LORD shall not prevent [rise before] them which are asleep [come out of corruption into His light].
16 For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, [which is] with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God [calling all to gather to Him in ONE BODY]: and the dead in Christ [sleeping in Jesus] shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive [awake] and remain [who aren’t fallen away from Him] shall be caught up [harpazo – pulled from the tribulation fires] together with them in the clouds [where understand is when its removed from the earth as the separated elements of water], to meet [at this appointed time] the LORD in the air [on wings of eagles, strengthened by His understanding and flying in heaven: the place of full understanding]: and so shall we ever be with the LORD.
18 Wherefore comfort [lead into truth] one another with these words.
Psalms 108
1 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
3 I will praise you, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto you among the nations.
4 For your mercy is great above the heavens: and your truth reaches unto the clouds.
5 Be you exalted, O God, above the heavens: and your glory above all the earth;
6 That your beloved may be delivered: save with your right hand, and answer me.
7 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will [rightly] divide Shechem [the burden, which is men word of mens ignorance], and mete out the valley of Succoth [these corrupt house in the low places of the earth].
8 Gilead [this mountain of God – this word of God] is mine; Manasseh [those who’ve fogotten Me and My ways, in which there is continuance] is mine; Ephraim [in My people in this last/first generation] also is the strength [understanding] of mine head; Judah [the elect remanant, the new crop of leaders] is my lawgiver [will freely give My word as I have given it];
9 Moab [at the gates of hell] is my washpot [I will wash them with these living waters]; over Edom [over the enemies mixed among us] will I cast out my shoe [I will take charge]; over Philistia [over the invading army among us doing the work of foreign enemies] will I triumph.
10 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom [against these enemies among us]?
11 Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth [as a man of war] with our hosts [our army]?
12 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Revelation 16
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place [topos] called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon [the mountain {the place where we make our stand} of this appointed time].
17 And the seventh angel [the voice of the archangel] poured out his vial into the air [to clear it from the smoke – Revelation 9:2 And he {the son of perdition, doing the work of Satan} opened the bottomless pit {the endless falling away from God}; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace [the tribulation fires in the earth]; and the sun [church] and the air [all clear thinking] were darkened [made ignorant] by reason of the smoke [clouding clarity] of the pit.]; and there came a great voice [of God, through His arch messenger] out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done.”
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon [the confusion and mass delusion that now rules over the world] came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Psalms 149
1 Praise you the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise you the LORD.
