But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
The above, Micah 4:1, come after the LORD tells the heads of His people, after He (as in me) has pronounced His judgment against the prophets, seers, and diviners, who say we will have peace, while, by their deceptions, they are at war against Him.
Micah 3
1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that put not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you [you shall be ignorant of it], that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets [this tells of understanding leaving the church, because they are following these false prophets and false teachers], and the day shall be dark over them [and ignorance covers the earth, as it is this day].
7 Then shall the seers be ashamed [when their promised end doesn’t come and they are proven ignorant], and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips [shut their mouths]; for there is no answer of God [Whose judgment has come against them, and against Who they are at war].
8 But truly I AM full of power by the Spirit of the LORD [of Whom they are ignorant], and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
9 Hear this, I pray you, you heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? no evil can come upon us.
12 Therefore [because of these deceivers and misleaders in power] shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest [as opposed to a city where the people are gathered].
The word used, above in verse 8, to tell of the LORD in Micah confronting, by manifesting (“declaring”) His presence against these misleaders, is the Hebrew word nagad, meaning “to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise.”
This act, the LORD manifesting His mercy in judgment, is understood in one of the other two times the word (nagad) is used by Micah, in Micah 6:8.
Micah 6
1 Hear you now what the LORD says; Arise [from silence and ignorance], contend you before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.
2 Hear you, O mountains, the LORD’s controversy, and you strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.
3 O my people, what have I done unto you? and wherein have I wearied you? testify against me.
4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt [from the oppressors], and redeemed you out of the house of servants; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
5 O my people, remember now what Balak [the devastator] king of Moab [the king of those whose words are the gates holding God’s people in death and hell] consulted, and what Balaam [not of the people] the son of Beor [burning] answered him from Shittim [the fruitful place] unto Gilgal [the swirling waters, the word of agitation]; that you may know the righteousness of the LORD. [Selah! This is referring to Numbers 23:12, when Balak sent Balaam to curse God’s people, and the LORD intervened, and Balaam said {answered Balak} “Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth?”
6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has shown [nagad – declared to] you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
9 The LORD’s voice cries unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see your name: hear you the rod [this voice of the LORD], and who has appointed it.
10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
13 Therefore also will I make you sick in smiting you, in making you desolate because of your sins.
14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down shall be in the midst of you; and you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliver will I give up to the sword.
15 You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint you with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.
16 For the statutes of Omri [who worshipped idols, after the manner of Jeroboam, making calves and appointing devils to mislead the people, telling them these idols were God] are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab [who also put these idols in God’s place, and made altars to them], and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you [by these abominations] a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing [calling all to their idols]: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people.
Numbers 23
1 And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.
2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.
3 And Balaam said unto Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he shows me I will tell you. And he went to a high place.”
4 And God met Balaam: and he said unto Him, “I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.”
5 And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus you shall speak.
6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7 And he took up his parable, and said, “Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, ‘Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.’
8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD has not defied?
9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!”
11 And Balak said unto Balaam, “What have you done unto me? I took you to curse mine enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether.”
12 And he answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD has put in my mouth?”
13 And Balak said unto him, “Come, I pray you, with me unto another place, from whence you mayest see them: you shall see but the utmost part of them [the one forth part], and shall not see them all: and curse me them from thence.”
14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim [the watchers: waiting for their chance to destroy God’s people], to the top of Pisgah [the cleft – thought to be inaccessible place], and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
15 And he said unto Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder.”
16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go again unto Balak, and say thus.”
17 And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, “What has the LORD spoken?”
18 And he took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak [devastator of God’s people], and hear; hearken unto me, you son of Zippor [a pupil of God – whose mouths have become the gates of hell]:
19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and shall he not do it? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he has blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
21 He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither has he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
22 God brought them out of Egypt; He [God] has as it were the strength of a unicorn [The Only Almighty Power – as in Pantokrator: Omnipotent].
23 Surely there is no enchantment [no spell, no manipulation by words, in a curse of man, that has power over what God says] against Jacob, neither is there any divination [no false prophecy or false teaching that can take them to an end other than what God has promised] against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God wrought!’
24 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion [My great army, My ONE BODY], and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.”
25 And Balak said unto Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.” [Speak only this word from the mouth of God.]
26 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, “Told not I you, saying, All that the LORD speaks, that I must do?”
27 And Balak said unto Balaam, “Come, I pray you, I will bring you unto another place; peradventure it will please God that you mayest curse me them from thence.”
28 And Balak [the devastators] brought Balaam [who aren’t God’s people] unto the top of Peor [to another place they think is inaccessible], that look toward Jeshimon [to the desolation they have wrought, now claiming they will rebuild the same alters to the idols they’ve created and put is God’s place, calling them God].
29 And Balaam said unto Balak, “Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.”
30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
It is of this futility and insanity, the LORD speaks in Micah 6 above, saying:
6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He has shown [nagad – declared to] you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
9 The LORD’s voice cries unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see your name [the mark of your idenity]: hear you the rod [this voice of the LORD], and who has appointed it.
10 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?
Micah 4
1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken it.
5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god [and they will understand these are idols who cannot save or deliver], and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her that halts [went lame and strayed from God’s path], and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even forever.
8 And you, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 Now why do you cry out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counselor perished? for pangs have taken you as a woman in travail.
10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth [your king], O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shall you go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to Babylon [back to the same confusion that has ruled the world into desolation]; there shall you be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth.
2 Corinthians 6
1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
3 Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
8 By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
11 O you Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged [you now understand the LORD is in us working and speaking His will].
12 You are not straitened [not restricted by Him that is] in us, but you are straitened in your own bowels [you are restricted by your own false ideas you’ve been misled into believing].
13 Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be you also enlarged [receive the mind of Christ, and He will manifest His glory in and through you].
14 Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers [who don’t believe God manifests Himself in the flesh, at His will]: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light [understanding] with darkness [with those who choose to remain ignorant of the LORD’s presence]?
15 And what concord has Christ with Belial [the idols men put in His place]? or what part has he that believes with an infidel [those who’ve been without faith in the LORD]?
16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols [as calves put in His place]? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them [these unbelievers], and be you separate, says the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing [that defile the mind and keep it stupefied in darkness]; and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty [Pantokrator, Omnipotent].
This chapter (2 Corinthians 6) begins with the LORD (in Paul) telling us it is the rescue; when he has heard (quoting Isaiah 49:8) us and answers by manifesting Himself into this day of salvation. The means and end of the old corrupt heaven and earth are then spoken of as he calls us out (quoting Isaiah 52:11) from among the unbelievers to who we are unequally yoked. The new heaven and earth are then described (quoting 2 Samiel 7:14) when He is dwelling and walking in us, and we, by this course correction, become His sons and daughters.
Isaiah 49
5 And now, says the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
6 And he said, It is a light thing that you shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhor, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
8 Thus says the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you: and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9 That you mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that has mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
Isaiah 52
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I Am he that does speak: behold, it is I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publishes peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publishes salvation; that says unto Zion, Your God reigns!
8 Your watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
9 Break forth into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
10 The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
11 Depart you, depart you, go you out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go you out of the midst of her; be you clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward.
13 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
14 As many were astonished at you; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
15 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
Isaiah 53
1 Who has believed our report [shmuw’ah – this teaching sound doctrine]? and to whom [through understanding] is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2 Samuel 7
13 He [the son of David, who reestablish the king line] shall build a house for my name [wherein the LORD will dwell], and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
16 And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
In these above passages, the LORD leads us to understand the cause of the fall (into abeyance) of the king line. It’s alluded to as the LORD speaks of when He “took it from Saul,” and gave it to the family of David forever. It is revealed in understanding the succession of Samuel the “seer” (ho’eh), to Nathan the prophet (nabiy’), and finally to Gad the seer (chozeh).
Here are the Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary definitions of these words:
Strong’s #7203: ro’eh (pronounced ro-eh’) [used six times]; active participle of 7200; a seer (as often rendered); but also (abstractly) a vision:–vision.
Strong’s #5030: nabiy’ (pronounced naw-bee’) [used 315 times]; from 5012; a prophet or (generally) inspired man:–prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.
Strong’s #2374: chozeh (pronounced kho-zeh’) [used 18 times]; active participle of 2372; a beholder in vision; also a compact (as looked upon with approval):–agreement, prophet, see that, seer, (star-)gazer.
The first word tells of the original state of man (6), in understanding, when hearing only God (Samuel – shmuw’el) and (believing the report, shmuw’ah) heeding His good advice (obeying His commandments).
The second tells of when the first is neglected and abandoned (as a garden overgrown with thorns and briers, and misleaders come to power) and the prophets are many times (315 = 45 x 7) sent (in diverse manners), only seeing and speaking the promises in parts they saw fulfilled far off (perfected now in one concorded message).
The last defines the cause of the condition of ignorance [18 = 6 + 6 + 6], blinded and deaf to the prophets speaking God’s word and warning of the judgment that would ultimately come.
The first ends with the death of Samuel, and Saul (the king “desired” by the people, chosen by the crowd, and not by God) sought the advice of familiar spirits (the known dead), after the LORD stopped speaking to Him; after he disobeyed His commandment.
The commandment He disobeyed was to “utterly destroy” Amalek (who is not our king – or of God’s choosing), an Edomite (descended from Esau) king; the LORD thereby telling us he is an enemy mixed among us, as a brother and countryman at war against us (a misleader – against our better culture under God).
We know this king from Exodus 17, after water, the word of God, flows from the Rock (Christ unknown in Moses), and God’s people go to war with him. During the battle, Moses is upon this Rock, on a mountain as a banner lifted up where all could see Him. When he held up his hand (the arm of the LORD revealed, in the report, the water from the Rock), God’s people prevailed, and when he let it down, when it wasn’t seen, Amalek prevailed.
The final (finisher) king (I Am) comes to do what Saul wouldn’t, end the war, and destroy the power of these would-be (wannabe) kings to control (disrupt and delude) the minds of men. The one leading the battle on the ground (earth) is Joshua the son of Nun: Jesus: Jehovah’s salvation manifested in the flesh, the perpetual son of God and man.
The LORD tells Moses to write this for a memorial in a book, and that He will utterly extinguish the remembrance of Amalek. Moses then built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi, from the word nec; the pole upon which Moses lifted the brazen serpent. This tells us Jehovah is in the flesh of the son of man who must be lifted, from who God’s word flows, so all who believe (this report) can look to Him and (receiving the light) live. Doing this, heeding the warnings, and following His commands, the venomous words of the serpents mixed among these believers no longer have an effect.
Exodus
14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance [zeker] of Amalek from under heaven.
15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi:
16 For he said, “Because the LORD has sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
The “remembrance” is spoken of in the only two times the word zeker appears in Isaiah, in Isaiah 26:8 & 14. The first of these refers to the first appearance of the word (zeker), in Exodus 3:14, as The LORD God tells Moses His name, “I Am That I Am,” is a memorial to all generations, meaning He is the living God to be remembered in every generation, as he was with (in) Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He tells Moses to go tell this to the elders, that it’s God visiting His people, making His presence known, manifested in Moses to save them from those oppressing them (Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh, as I Am).
Isaiah 26
1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open you the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.
4 Trust you in the LORD forever: for in the LORD Jehovah is everlasting strength:
5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he lays it low; he lays it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the path of the just.
8 Yea, in the way of your judgments, O LORD, have we waited for you; the desire of our soul is to your name, and to the remembrance [zeker] of you.
9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
10 Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of your enemies shall devour them.
12 LORD, you will ordain peace for us: for you also have wrought all our works in us.
13 O LORD our God, other lords beside you have had dominion over us: but by you only will we make mention of your name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore have you visited [paqad] and destroyed them, and made all their memory [zeker] to perish.
15 You have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation: you are glorified: you had removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
16 LORD, in trouble have they visited [paqad] you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening [correction] was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in your sight, O LORD.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain [to bring forth the I Am among us], we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen [into the birth canal].
19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise [as ONE BODY]. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust [the ruin from where you shall rise to life]: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish [paqad] the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
The end of the “seer [ro’eh – who see clearer than the chozeh],” Samuel (shmuw’el – hearing God), ends the sequence 1 Chronicles 29:29 describes as “the book of Gad [the crowd] the seer [chozeh],” speaking of the subsequent fall of the king line. It speaks of when Solomon died and His son Rehoboam, instead of lessening the burden on the people of Israel (the northern ten tribes), as was advised by the elders who stood with Solomon, listened to the younger crowd he grew up with and increased the burden. This led to the dividing (and eventual conquering) of the kingdom united under David and started a continuing degeneration resulting in the end of both parts (Judah and Israel).
According to God, according to His word, the division is part of His plan to enlarge His people, scattering them among all nations, purposefully for the moment when He gathers all who receive Him in His ONE BODY, under His one chosen king and shepherd.
The name Rehoboam, is from the Hebrews words rachab, meaning “to broaden (intransitive or transitive, literal or figurative):–be an en-(make) large(-ing), make room, make (open) wide,” and ‘am, meaning “a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock:–folk, men, nation, people.”
We are told, in Deuteronomy 33:20, it is Gad (the LORD’s army, His ONE BODY when it rises) that is enlarged (rachab). This is the same “enlarged” Body foretold in Isaiah 60:5 and Genesis 49:19, the latter saying they were (Gad was) overcome, and in this end-time overcome (the army that receives the victory over) the world.
Genesis 49
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
18 (I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.)
19 Gad [the LORD’s army, overcome until their return to Him], a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
20 Out of Asher [happy] his bread shall be fat [happiness returns when the word of God prospers], and he shall yield royal dainties [ma’adan – speaking of the royal line again raised up – referring us to its use in Proverbs 29:17, telling us this is when rest returns, when we, by correction, give the Father “delight”].
21 Naphtali [by this wrestling – unknowingly with the LORD] is a hind let loose: he gives goodly words [our tongue {the word of God} is loosed and we teach it as received directly from Him].
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well [a tree of life by these waters of God]; whose branches run over the wall [the wall of lies men have created and teach]:
23 The archers [ba’al – the gods of this world whose teaching has blinded all form seeing the Father, in the son, the seed of the women who brings forth the man child – see Revelation 12:17] have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you; and by the Almighty, who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies under [the deep meaning that lies below the surface], blessings of the breasts [drawing from the Ancient of days: wisdom], and of the womb [seed, the son]:
26 The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [all those who have come before us, and only blessed with part of what is perfected in our return to the LORD] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Deuteronomy 33
13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that couches beneath [these treasures found below the surface of His word],
14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun [the church shining the light of this new day], and for the precious things put forth by the moon [civil government also bringing light into the darkness],
15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains [these high places bringing light as God intended them], and for the precious [these treasure given as God freely gave them] things of the lasting [because they are good, better ideas on high] hills,
16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush [in the fire that never burns Him, as the Son of God walking in the furnaces]: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren [for the work of God].
17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns [the Only power, the pantokrator, Omnipotent and Almighty]: with them he shall push the people together to the ends [the end of the old and beginning the new] of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim [God’s people in this generation, upon whom this blessing has come], and they are the thousands of Manasseh [those who forgot the LORD and now remember Him].
18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; and, Issachar, in your tents.
19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand [in His many people].
20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlarges [rachab] Gad: he dwells as a lion, and tears the arm [the works of the wicked] with the crown of the head.
21 And he provided the first part for himself [the husbandman who labors is the first partaker], because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated [enthroned]; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
Isaiah 60
1 Arise, shine; for your light [understanding and life] is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
2 For, behold, the darkness [ignorance] shall cover the earth, and gross darkness [ignorance] the people: but the LORD shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
3 And the Gentiles [those who don’t God] shall come to your light [understanding], and kings to the brightness [the light in us as His glory manifesting His presence] of your rising.
4 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to you: your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
5 Then you shall see, and flow together, and your heart shall fear, and be enlarged [rachab – into His ONE BODY]; because the abundance of the sea [humanity at large] shall be converted unto you, the forces of the Gentiles [the army that doesn’t know God] shall come unto you.
Psalms 4
1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged [rachab] me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
3 But know that the LORD has set apart [separated] him that is godly for himself [the flesh in whom He manifests Himself]: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.
4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness [good judgment and mercy], and put your trust in the LORD.
6 There be many that say, “Who will show us any good?” LORD, lift you up the light of your countenance [the understanding of your presence] upon us.
7 You have put gladness in my heart, more [in this harvest of your treasures] than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.
2 Samuel 22
37 You have enlarged [rachab] my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
40 For you have girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me have you subdued under me.
41 You have also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.
47 The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the Rock of my salvation.
48 It is God that avenges me, and that bringeth down the people under me.
49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: you also have lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
50 Therefore I will give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto your name.
51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and shows mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
