Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence comes!
In the above, Matthew 18:7, the LORD speaks of the “offenses” that come making the cross necessary: the price paid to combat the lies that have risen to power over His people. The context is He is describing how all must be converted and come to Him as a little child: seeking the knowledge He possesses, which is the entry into the kingdom of heaven (complete understanding in the presence of the king).
Matthew 18
1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3 And said, Truly I say unto you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receive me. [Psalms 118: 26 Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. 27 God is the LORD, which has shown us light {taught us, as His children, understanding}: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar {to the power, and honor, due His cross}.]
6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
7 Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!
8 Wherefore if your hand [works] or your foot [your walk] offend you [taking you off the LORD’s path, His way, His work, giving understanding], cut them off, and cast them from you: it is better for you to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire [where all other’s works and ways lead].
9 And if your eye offend you [the offense is those saying they see something other than what He has shown them], pluck it out, and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
10 Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones [causing them to choose your misleading over the LORD’s good, which is the battle {for the mind} for which He long-suffers]; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
The choice spoke of above, the rescue for which the LORD comes to seek and save those who receive Him, is the same spoken of in Isaiah 8, which Joel calls the valley of decision. Making the right decision (krisis or krima) is what the LORD is teaching, so we will know to choose good and refuse evil, choosing light and hating darkness: having understanding and rejecting ignorance.
John 3
19 And this is the condemnation [krisis – the decision that brings it], that light [understanding] is come into the world, and men loved [agapao – taught and broadcast] darkness [ignorance] rather than light, because their deeds were evil [intentionally misleading].
John 9
39 And Jesus said, For judgment [krima – giving good understanding as it has been given] I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which [claim they] see might be made [understood to be] blind.
Do you see it yet? In their daily headlines, teaching, and attitudes? It is the tribulation: the constant agitation of the collective mind of all humanity? They warn of something they claim they see, which never comes except in the delusion, THE HYPE AND HOAX, they create surrounding it, lies supporting the initial BIG lie. (The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! All while we’re under Chinese attack, through agents they’ve paid off and put in power.)
These are the means and methods of evil in our time: the Godless Democrat Party, communists, globalists, anarchists, their mouthpiece media, and the blind who blindly (many good-hearted but ignorantly) follow them. To them, I say; Truly wake up and REPENT.
To all others, believe your eyes. You do see what you see, and hear what you hear, no matter how intensely they (the evil) for it, gaslight, demonize, and persecute you. These men, in their arrogance, told and tell lie after lie, committing hoax after hoax, all to agitate the world into a constant state of fear, so they could and can manipulate it into destroying itself (of which it is in the midst). The destruction and damage done isn’t the result of anything they’ve warned of, but rather from the irrational responses they’ve prescribed. And they keep coming back, over and over again, one created crisis (forced decision point) after another, always presenting a remedy that does their (intended) damage.
Friends, the LORD has warned, and now again warns, these men will do their damage until they (their lies and misleading) are taken out of the way. It is the LORD’s long-suffering, awakening us to this task, their removal, and returning us to His good leading: among us in truly Godly men He chooses (this is reality).
1 Timothy 6
3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our LORD Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine [didaskalia – this teaching] which is according to godliness; [1 Timothy 3: 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit {revealed in the manifestation}, seen of angels {those who become His messengers – yoked together with Him in this work of teaching}, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up {above all others, as master, King of kings, and LORD of Lords} into glory.]
4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strife of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmising,
5 Perverse disputing of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain [of money, which they love] is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.
2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers [empaiktes], 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 long-suffering 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 [unknown, in the ignorance of men]; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas and ways of men] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2 Thessalonians 2
5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what [misleaders in church and state] withholds [katecho – hold you down in their oppression] that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets [katecho] will let [will hold you down and oppress you], until he be taken out of the way [mesos – out of our midst].
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the LORD shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan [has done its destruction] 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 [agape – this word of God freely given as received from Him] of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion [which now covers the world in the shadow of death: constant agitation and fear], 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.
Jude 1
….Behold, the LORD comes with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speak great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember you the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our LORD Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers [empaiktes] in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Isaiah 5
19 [Woe to them] That say, Let him make speed, and hasten [maher – see below] his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: [Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. 2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.]
23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 7
13 And he said, Hear you now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?
14 Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
15 Butter and honey shall he eat [the teaching of God with us], that he may know [understand, and make the right decision] to refuse the evil [darkness], and choose the good [light].
As we know, in Isaiah 8 the son born is named Maher-shalal-hash-baz, meaning he is quick to the spoil and speeds to the prey. He is the one foretold to be the spoiler of those who’ve spoiled God’s people, rescuing the prey they’ve taken captive and hold down (katecho).
The word maher (Maher) is the word used (Exodus 32:8 & Deuteronomy 9:12) telling of when God’s people, while Moses was on the mountain with God, turned “quickly” out of the way (derek). These passages say they were corrupted and made a calf which the builders said was the God who delivered them out of Egypt. Because of this, the LORD told Moses to arise and get “quickly” down (to the rescue). The builder (banah), who made the altar to the idol put in God’s place and told the people it was God, was Aaron (light bringer – Exodus 32:5).
Isaiah 8
16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hides his face [presence veiled in the flesh] from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts [who is a man of war], which dwells in mount Zion.
19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits [of the dead], and unto wizards [the so-called experts, whose words and ideas are misleading into death] that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? [Or should they be looking] for the living to the dead?
20 [Shouldn’t they be looking] To the law and to the testimony [God is giving?]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light [understanding] in them.
Joel 3
13 Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great [rab].
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision [this is the krisis of John 3:19 – the choice between light or darkness]: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice [qowl] from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Isaiah 6
8 Also I heard the voice of the LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear you indeed, but understand not; and see you indeed, but perceive not.
10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
11 Then said I, LORD, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted [sha’ah] without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate [sha’ah],
12 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great [rab] forsaking in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance [whose life is in them waiting to be quickened to life] is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof [who shall now be awakened – after wickedness has had its full effect].
Deuteronomy 9
9 Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over Jordan [overcome the word that have carried all the world into death, and hold them there, until they are taken out of the way {derek – mesos}] this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims [long necked – giants], whom you know, and of whom you have heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak [neck – giants]!
3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly [maher], as the LORD has said unto you. [Hebrews 12: 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 from heaven: 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 them out of the way} of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made {built by corrupting builders}, 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.]
4 Speak not you in your heart, after that the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, For my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD does drive them out from before you.
5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6 Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked [qasheh] people.
7 Remember, and forget not, how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came unto this place, you have been rebellious [marah – Mary, the virgin] against the LORD.
8 Also in Horeb [desert – in desolation, in your man caused corruption] you provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
10 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
12 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get you down quickly [maher – to take the builders out of the way, the spoilers who’ve spoiled God’s people] from hence; for your people which you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly [maher] turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
The word qasheh (stiff-necked) above is the word used to describe the “hard” bondage in Egypt.
Exodus 1
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard [qasheh – their neck, their minds, became as the neck of the giants they feared – the head {leaders} moving ever further away from the body {the people they lead}, and thereby became unreasonable and obstinate – see 1 Kings 12:7 through 9, and the unreasonableness of Rehoboam] bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor.
The name Rehoboam (final king of united Israel, the son of Solomon, during whose reign the breach occurred ) is from the Hebrew word rchob, meaning the “broad way,” and ‘am, meaning a people. It is speaking of a new crop of leaders sprung up, that abandoned the old ways (of the Ancient of days), misleaders who became the “broad way,” that leads to the (same old ways of) destruction of men and nations.
Matthew 7
12 Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
13 Enter you in at the strait gate [narrowed by the obstacles, misleading men’s ways, that must be avoided]: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of false prophets [the new crop with new ways and ideas], which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves [misleaders among us dividing and conquering us]. [5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother’s eye.]
16 You shall know them by their fruits [this evil generation they’ve produced, as the sons of Eli, and which they did nothing to correct]. Do men gather grapes of thorns [misleaders], or figs of thistles [deceivers]?
17 Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
1 Kings 12
1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem [and the broad way of the misleaders became the burden]: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam [the people will contend] the son of Nebat [who himself had no regard for the king and the ways of Ancient of days], who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)
3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spoke unto Rehoboam, saying,
4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous [qasheh – the yoke joining the leaders to and the people] service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you.
5 And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
6 And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do you advise that I may answer this people?
7 And they spoke unto him, saying, If you will be a servant unto this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.
8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
9 And he said unto them, What counsel give you that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which your father did put upon us lighter?
10 And the young men that were grown up with him spoke unto him, saying, Thus shall you speak unto this people that spoke unto you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter unto us; thus shall you say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.
11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father has chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.
13 And the king answered the people roughly [qasheh], and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him;
14 And spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
As we know, as a result of this unreasonable response, the people followed the leading of Jeroboam, and the kingdom was divided in two (Judah and Israel). As we also know, one of Jeroboam’s first acts was to make calves he put in Bethel (the house of God) and Dan (judgment) and ordain priests of the lowest of the people, who are in 2 Chronicles 11:15 called “devils.” The word there rendered “devils” is the Hebrew word sa’iyr, meaning he-goat. The same word is the origin of Seir, the name of the capital (the leaders) of Edom (Esau), who represent the enemies mixed among us destroying us. In this evil generation, it is our countrymen, while telling us (as Trudeau is telling Canada) it is for our “peace and safety,” at war with our God (from Who our rights come) and us.
As we know, Jeroboam made these calves to keep people from going to meet with God, where He told them to come and where He manifests His presence above the mercy seat. The place of the meeting is in Jerusalem, which we know tells of this meeting in Shiloh (peace – Salem, see 1 Samuel 3:21), from the words yarah shalam (words defining the way to peace: reciprocal respect of people’s God-given rights {among them, to life, liberty, and property} taught by the word that flows directly from Him). Isaiah 57:21 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
1 Kings 12
26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
27 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their king, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
30 And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.
31 And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi [see 2 Chronicles 11:15].
32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
Solomon, in Song of Solomon 8:6, says this qasheh is as hell. This comes as he is (in Song of Solomon 6:13) calling his Shulamite (shalam-ite to return from {hell} to her dwelling) to return into peace {shalam, Salem, and Shiloh}).
Song of Solomon 6
9 My dove [the children the LORD has given me, who with me are signs of the end reached], my undefiled [elect remnant – see Revelation 14:4] is but one [BODY]; she is the only one of her mother [wisdom born of a good teacher], she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
10 Who is she that looks forth [sees what is coming] as the morning [with the understanding of the new day], fair as the moon [righteous civil government], clear as the sun [as the church whose understanding is clearly shines], and terrible as an army with banners?
11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.
12 Or ever I was aware [of the time and place of the fruit], my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib [carrying all God’s people back to Him].
13 Return, return, O Shulamite [you whose habitation is in peace, in heavenly New Jerusalem]; return, return, that we may look upon you [let the world see you]. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were [before] the company of two armies [as the breach is healed and we gather again In ONE BODY under one king].
The word describing the “banners” over this ONE army is the three times used Hebrew word dagal, meaning “to flaunt, i.e. raise a flag; figuratively, to be conspicuous.” It is speaking of the king raised over them, who God sets up, fulfilling all our petitions. This last aspect is what the LORD speaks of earlier in Matthew 7: about asking Him and receiving what we’ve asked.
Matthew 7
5 You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye [so you will be able to judge rightly]; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother’s eye.
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs [who are ever barking out darkness], neither cast you your pearls before swine [who are forever wallowing in the mire they stir with their own ways], lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. [Don’t seek to them, the wizards that peep and mutter, for what {peace and security} they cannot and will not give.]
7 Ask [Your Father in heaven], and it shall be given you; [diligently] seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.
9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread [His nourishing rightly divided word], will he give him a stone [which cannot nourish]?
10 Or if he ask a fish [to reveal the life hidden below the surface of His word: waters], will he give him a serpent [the misleading of devils]?
11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Song of Solomon 5
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick of love.
9 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women? what is your beloved more than another beloved, that you do so charge us?
10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chief [dagal – the banner, king, raised] among ten thousand.
11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves [seeing the sign of the end reached] by the rivers of waters [this word flowing from God], washed with milk, and fitly set [to him, Yahh {ya’ah}, it appertains].
Psalms 20
1 The LORD hear you in the day of trouble [tsarah – this day of tribulation]; the name of the God of Jacob defend you;
2 Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;
3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah.
4 Grant you according to your own heart, and fulfil all your counsel.
5 We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners [dagal – our king]: [in who] the LORD fulfil all your petitions.
6 Now know I that the LORD save his anointed [king]; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
9 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call [to awaken him].
Song of Solomon 8
4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up [‘uwr], nor awake [‘uwr] my love, until he please.
5 Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised you up [‘uwr – awakened you] under the apple tree: there your mother [wisdom and instruction] brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bare you.
6 Set me as a seal [chowtham] upon [pressed into] your heart, as a seal [chowtham] upon your arm [your strength and work]: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel [qasheh] as the grave [Sheol – the zeal of the wicked to who we are yoked is hell]: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame.
7 Many waters [words of the wicked] cannot quench love, neither can the [wicked] floods drown it: if a [wicked] man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned [because the fool despises wisdom and instruction – Proverbs 1:7].
Romans 13
13 Let every soul be subject [hupotasso] unto the higher [huperecho] powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained [tasso] of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resists [opposes] the power, resists the ordinance [the order] of God: and they that resist [stands against] shall receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Will you then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and you shall have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that does evil.
5 Wherefore you must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
6 For for this cause pay you tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.
9 For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
10 Love [agape – charity, freely giving understanding as God has given us] worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love [agape – charity, teaching the knowledge and wisdom of God] is the fulfilling of the law.
11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness [the works of the ignorant], and let us put on the armor of light [understanding].
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
14 But put you on the LORD Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Hebrews 12
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection [hupotasso] unto the Father of spirits, and live?
Philippians 2
3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better [huperecho] than themselves.
4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus [the name of the one who is Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh] every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputing:
15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send [I Am] Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
Philippians 3
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency [huperecho] of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my LORD: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Philippians 4
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace [Shiloh] of God, which passes [huperecho – which is the highest power of] all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 2
13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme [huperecho];
14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
Psalms 77
1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
2 In the day of my trouble [tsarah] I sought the LORD: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
4 You held mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
7 Will the LORD cast off forever? and will he be favorable no more?
8 Is his mercy clean gone forever? does his promise fail for evermore?
9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember your wonders of old.
12 I will meditate also of all your work, and talk of your doings.
13 Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
14 You are the God that does wonders: you have declared your strength among the people.
15 You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
16 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: your arrows also went abroad.
18 The voice of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
19 Your way is in the sea, and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known.
20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
