Lo, this only have I found, that God has made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
The above is the LORD, through (in) Solomon, telling of the search He’s set before man, a journey gathering knowledge of his domain, and only finding the one thing mentioned. His conclusion is Divinely Inspired truth of man’s God’s created state and by what it is corrupted.
As we’ve seen in other posts, Solomon’s ultimate conclusions come in ending Ecclesiastes, saying, “Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
Before this, he speaks of the search and preaching what he found, giving the wisdom God gave him, setting it in order as received, which is the wisdom that is Ancient of Days.
Ecclesiastes 12
9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies [the teachers who bring God’s people together into ONE BODY], which are given from one shepherd.
12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Proverbs 8
1 Does not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
2 She stands in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
3 She cries at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
4 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
5 O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be you of an understanding heart.
6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
9 They are all plain to him that understands, and right to them that find knowledge.
10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
12 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
18 Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass [chuwg – the circuit of understanding – here known, lost, and returned] upon the face [presence – of deep understanding] of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O you children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35 For whoso finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the LORD.
36 But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
The word in the title, Ecclesiastes 7:29, rendered “inventions,” is the twice used Hebrew word chishshabown, said to mean, “from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. actual (a warlike machine) or mental (a machination):–engine, invention.”
The LORD says it’s from the words (2803) chashab, and (7588) sha’own, both speaking of what man creates and what his creation produces (ignorance after its own kind).
As we see above, knowledge is given by God, rightly ordered by those He’s already led into wisdom, producing the conclusion of wisdom in the hearer, which makes man upright. The creations of man are the opposite, men in power creating their own ideas, sending them out from their towers as mass confusion (Babel): ignorance deadening minds and destroying men, nations, and now the world.
Here are the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definitions of the words mentioned above:
Strong’s #2803: chashab (khaw-shab’); a primitive root; properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute.
Strong’s #7588: sha’own (shaw-one’); from 7582 [sha’ah – a primitive root; to rush; by implication, to desolate]; uproar (as of rushing); by implication, destruction.
These words speak of the evil that now controls (rules) our world (Babylon – Confusion), broadcast from their towers of Babel, intentionally confounded language, lies mixed with truth, creating disordered thoughts, the confusion that has now flowered into mass delusion.
Strong’s #894: Babel (baw-bel’); from 1101; confusion; Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire:–Babel, Babylon.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon: babel; Babel or Babylon = “confusion (by mixing).”
Strong’s #1101: balal (baw-lal’); a primitive root; to overflow (specifically with oil.); by implication, to mix; also (denominatively from 1098 [bliyl; mixed]) to fodder.
The only other time chishshabown appears it’s in 2 Chronicles 26:15, there telling of Uzziah’s “engines” of war, in his towers. The chapter describes his corruption: forgetting His strength isn’t found in earthy weapons of war, but in Jehovah. Uzziah means strength is from Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 26
3 Sixteen years old [symbolizing the end of the old creation and the beginning of the new creation – 8+8] was Uzziah [when Jehovah is the strength of our kings] when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jecoliah [Jehovah will enable] of Jerusalem [peace that flows from His teaching].
4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah [the strength of Jehovah] did.
5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah [when Jehovah was remembered], who had understanding in the visions of ra’ah [to see] God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines [the invading armies], and brake down the wall of Gath [the winepress, where they create what alters and stupefies the minds of men], and the wall of Jabneh [the institutions they built], and the wall of Ashdod [the ravagers risen into power], and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians [those mixing their lies with truth] that dwelt in Gurbaal [dwelt with idols], and the Mehunims [corrupting their houses].
8 And the Ammonites [those who seek to scatter God’s people, and exalt themselves above God’s] gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt [oppression]; for he strengthened himSELF exceedingly.
9 Moreover Uzziah built towers [of babel] in Jerusalem at the corner gate [which entered at the foundations of teaching truth], and at the valley gate [bringing them down], and at the turning of the wall [upon the protection and defense of truth], and fortified them [strengthening himSELF].
10 Also he built towers [of babel] in the desert [desolate places], and digged many wells [from where came His own words as waters]: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel [the land that was as Eden]: for he loved husbandry.
11 Moreover Uzziah had a host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel [carried away by God] the scribe and Maaseiah [for the work of Jehovah] the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah [who Jehovah favored], one of the king’s captains.
12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valor were two thousand and six hundred.
13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power [forgetting “this is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel {those who come to life by coming out of babel}, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts”], to help [‘azar] the king [forgetting “the LORD is my helper, I will not fear what man can do unto me”] against the enemy.
14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
15 And he made in Jerusalem engines [chishshabown – the power leading us, mixing lies among truth to destroy enemies, and instead turned them against God’s people], invented by cunning men, to be on the towers [of babel] and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped [‘azar], till he was strong [in his own power and might].
16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted [self-exalted] up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
17 And Azariah [who Jehovah helps] the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
18 And they withstood Uzziah [who forgot his strength was in tJehovah] the king, and said unto him, It appertains not unto you, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron [who are the light, understanding, bringers], that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from the LORD God.
19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy [what destroys all flesh] even rose up in his forehead [the thoughts of his mind were to destroy] before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
20 And Azariah [who Jehovah helps] the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead [it was in his mind to destroy all flesh: man: humanity], and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.
21 And Uzziah the king was a leper [became the destroyer of his own flesh] unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham [those who Jehovah perfects] his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.
22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah [who Jehovah saves] the prophet, the son of Amoz [in the strength of the LORD], write.
The desolation of the moment is described when the (six-times used) word sha’ah appears (five-times) in Isaiah: first as the sign of the end (twice in Isaiah 6:11), and then (in Isaiah 17:12 & 13) telling of the sound, the voices, destroying God’s people. It lastly appears (in Isaiah 37:26) as the LORD speaks to Bandon (Sennacherib) and his fellow communists foreign and domestic, telling them they are the ignorant and He has also made them: tools He wields to destroy the wicked, who finally, if they don’t sincerely repent, destroy themselves.
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 – by the war machines: words and ideas that have forever failed] without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate [sha’ah],
12 And the LORD has removed [the minds of] men far away [from the LORD’s], and there be a great forsaking [by their kings] in the midst of the land.
13 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return,
Isaiah 13
1 The burden of Babylon [the confusion that now rules the world], which Isaiah [who Jehovah has saved] the son of Amoz [made strong] did see [chazah – contemplate and perceive].
2 Lift you up a banner [nec – the pole on which the son of man must be lifted, as Moses lifted the brazen serpent in the wilderness, so all who look to him will not be made dead by the deadly venomous words coming from serpents, misleaders, mixed among them destroying their minds – Revelation 16: 14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.] upon the high mountain [har – mountain, the “Ar” in Armageddon [the mountain of this appointed time], exalt the voice [of the LORD] unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. [Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walks naked, and they see his shame.]
4 The noise [qowl – voices] of a multitude in the mountains [the high place risen up and looming over the earth], like as of a great people; a tumultuous [sha’own] noise [qowl – using their voices as machines of war] of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts musters the host of the battle. [Revelation 16: {do you understand? the number don’t lie}: 16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon {this appointed rendezvous}.]
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails [to bring forth the ONE BODY]: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven [God people at large] and the constellations thereof shall not give their light [do not show understanding – which is why the LORD seems as a thief in the night, in their ignorance unseen]: the sun [the church] shall be darkened in his [the son of man, as the serpent lifted against serpents] going forth, and the moon [civil government] shall not cause her light to shine [shall not reflect understanding].
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked [misleaders] for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man [‘adam – the second Adam at the new creation] more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. [Hosea 2 {8+8}:16 And it shall be at that day, says the LORD {Jehovah}, that you shall call me Ishi [man]; and shall call me no more Baali [you shall no longer call Me by the names of the idols you have put in my place. Because you shall see me as I Am, a man in the world, as you are in the world.]
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
16 [In the day that I end the old corrupt creation and begin the new creation] Their children [those they’ve produced after their own wicked kind] also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency [who use their misleading words to manipulate, control, and destroy people], shall be as when God overthrew Sodom [with flaming fire from heaven: sending full understanding reserved there for this moment] and Gomorrah [made it a ruin].
Isaiah 17
7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that [idols put in God’s place] which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10 Because you [in your long sleep] have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips:
11 In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning [the understanding of this new day] shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas [voices to all humanity]; and to the rushing [sha’own – using their words as machines of war] of nations, that make a rushing [sha’ah] like the rushing [sha’own] of mighty waters [words as a flood]! {Revelation 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.]
13 The nations shall rush [sha’ah] like the rushing [sha’own] of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off [Revelation 12: {got it?}16 And the earth helped the woman {God’s people}, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon {those devouring with the ever-open mouths, as death lurking below their surface} cast out of his mouth.], and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening-tide [when their words come flooding in darkness] trouble [Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.]; and before the morning [before they understanding] he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
The “trouble” that comes at evening-tide, is from the ten-times used Hebrew word ballahah, “from 1089; alarm; hence, destruction:–terror, trouble.”
Job 18
6 The light shall be dark [his understanding shall be ignorance] in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber [the Thief who comes unknown in his ignorance] shall prevail against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
11 Terrors [ballahah] shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten [in the famine for this word of God], and destruction shall be ready at his side.
13 It shall devour the strength of his skin [of his flesh without the Spirit of God]: even the firstborn of death [the first begotten raised from the dead] shall devour his strength.
14 His confidence [in lies and misleading] shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors [ballahah].
15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness [by his understanding that is ignorance], and chased out of the world.
19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
20 They that come after him shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knows not God.
Job 24
17 For the morning [when light, understanding, comes] is to them even as the shadow of [foretelling their] death: if one know them, they are in the terrors [ballahah] of the shadow of death.
18 He is swift as the waters [rushing]; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholds not the way of the vineyards.
19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters [these waters, the word of God, reserved in heaven for this time of war, which are held back by the wicked]: so does the grave [keep the dead from rising] which have sinned.
20 The womb shall forget him [he shall not bring forth after his own wicked kind]; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree [which doesn’t return to life].
21 He evil entreats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.
22 He draws also the mighty with his power [to deceive and manipulate]: he [the misled in power] rises up, and no man is sure of life.
23 Though it be given him [the deceivers and the powerful] to be in safety, whereon he rests [in deception which he trusts]; yet his [the LORD’s] eyes are upon their ways [revealing them to those who hear Him and understand His righteous way].
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Job 27
7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as the unrighteous.
8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God taketh away his soul?
9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?
10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
12 Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you thus altogether vain?
13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18 He builds his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper make.
19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he is not.
20 Terrors [ballahah – his own fear and panic, the tribulation he has made] take hold on him as waters [the word of God exposing him], a tempest [the Almighty Spirit of God] steals him away in the night.
21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs: and as a storm hurls him out of his place [of power, from where he wields deception as his weapon of war].
22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: [if He did spare him] he would fain [with deception says he repents, to] flee out of his hand.
23 Men shall clap their hands at [to bring attention to] him, and shall hiss [by bringing attention to him, cast] him out of his place.
Friends, the wicked in power (neocons, hawks, globalists, war machine pipits, communists, anarchists, and antichrists) are the spirits of Satan, the wicked whose voices, through their media (fake news and corrupt social), are calling for steps toward ending the world. These are the same misleader who’ve led us here, who now claim following their bad advice will lead us out of the hell into which they led us (the world and all humanity). They are the blind at best, who don’t see where they’re taking us, or at worst, want our destruction (ELE).
They call for us to engage in Bardon’s war (wherein he has debilitating self-interest with both sides), knowing the result is untenable. This administration, encumbered by incompetence and its desire to establish delusions even they can’t distinguish from reality, is incapable of waging war. I give you the current gas crisis as the most profound example of their fecklessness. The solution is obvious and in our immediate grasp. Yet, they refuse to act because of the delusion of “man-caused” global warming, and more so what they feel would be the political consequences from their (equally as conflicted and delusional) donors and voters.
The above is the pattern of the word ballahah: the wicked in power create fear and panic (as a weapon of war – chishshabown), which they used to manipulate and control people, and after abandoning their own rational mind, they find themselves paralyzed by the same irrational emotions of which they are the cause. It’s the proverbial – swine (unclean spirits in them), panicked in fear, running off a cliff into the sea (perishing by the fall or drowning in the panic of their own delusions).
The above-mentioned story of the swine, in Mark and Luke, is reported as happening in “the country of the Gadarenes.” The Thayer’s Greek Lexicon says the name means “reward at the end,” which gives the context to the LORD’s telling it.
Mark 5
1 And they came over unto the other side [of death into life] of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes [the reward at the end].
2 And when he was come out of the ship [after he was come out of the corrupt institutions], immediately there met him out of the tombs [the place that house the dead] a man with an unclean spirit [devils as misleaders],
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces [after reformation after reformation, they continuously backslid into apostasy]: neither could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains [in the goverments], and in the tombs [the churches and synagogues], crying, and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh] afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, that you torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What is your name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many [and in all the churches and synagogues].
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine [unclean beasts] feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out [of the misleaders in the churches, synagogues, and government], and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
14 And they that fed [the unrepentant dead] the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil [the misleading spirits in church and state], and also concerning the swine [the false prophets of our time].
17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
18 And when he was come into the ship [returned understanding to the institutions], he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but says unto him, Go home to your friends [who have not heard this word of God], and tell them how great things the LORD has done for you, and has had compassion on you.
20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis [to all the people of the world] how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
Zechariah 4
1 And the angel that talked with me came again [shuwb – returned {to my sight}], and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep [from death without the LORD’s Spirit].
2 And said unto me, What see you? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof [from where the word of God flows, giving light {understanding}]:
3 And two olive trees [zayith – the olive leaf in the mouth of the dove, Genesis 8:11 {end of confusion}, signifying the end reached] by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side [the other side of death] thereof.
4 So I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my LORD?
5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Know you not what these be? And I said, No [because of ignorance], my LORD.
6 Then he answered and spoke unto me [giving understanding], saying, This is the word of the LORD [as light into darkness, giving understanding to the ignorant] unto Zerubbabel [those born by coming out of confusion, by understanding the LORD gives as light], saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.
7 Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone [of the turning to the LORD – shuwb pinnah] thereof with shouting, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Psalms 73
1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well near slipped.
3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13 Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of your children.
16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you caste them down into destruction.
19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awakes; so, O LORD, when you awake, you shall despise their image.
21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have holden me by my right hand.
24 You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside you.
26 My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.
27 For, lo, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go a whoring from you.
