The Consummation Decreed: Jesus Christ the same, yesterday, today, and forever! Part II
Lamentations 3
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 [As You decreed] Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48 Mine eye run down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.
50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
51 Mine [people’s failing] eye affects mine heart [foundational ideas] because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon [here in the belly of hell], and cast a stone upon me.
54 Waters flowed [tsuwph] over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon [as did Jonah].
56 You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 You drew near in the day that I called upon you: you said, “Fear not.”
58 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
64 Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
The relationship between the iron and honey, the sweetness and strength of God’s word overflowing (tsuwph) us with understanding, are seen in an identical twice used word tsuwph, meaning “from 6687 [tsuwph]; comb of honey (from dripping):–honeycomb.”
Proverbs 16
15 In the light [understanding] of the king’s countenance [presence] is life; and his favor is as a cloud [realizing in Him is the understanding that has left the earth] of the latter rain [sent as the Word of God from heaven].
16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
17 The highway of the upright is to depart [be corrected] from evil: he that keeps his way preserves his soul.
18 Pride goes before [brings the incorrigible to] destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
19 Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
20 He that handles a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusts in the LORD, happy is he.
21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.
22 Understanding [light] is a wellspring of life unto him that has it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
24 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb [tsuwph], sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
25 There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Psalms 19
1 The heavens [His understanding] declare the glory of God; and the firmament [where the waters are rightly divided] shows his handiwork [reveals the arm of the LORD].
2 Day unto day [in the light, to those who understand, it] utters speech, and night unto night shows [to the ignorant it is sent, again and again, to give] knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice [from the mouth of God] is not heard.
4 Their line [their right assessment of the earth’s condition, seeing all the foundations are out of course] is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the [old and corrupt] world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun [light rising of the new day, heaven and earth],
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man [mighty in the strength of God’s understanding] to run a race [the course set before us].
6 His going forth is from the end of [the old corrupt] heaven, and his circuit [the course] unto the ends [ending of the old and beginning the new] of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb [tsuwph – when they, He, overflows us with His strength].
11 Moreover by them is your servant warned [of the end of the wicked, so we aren’t consumed with them]: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his [own] errors? cleanse you me from secret faults [of ignorance].
13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins [of pride]; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression [of vilifying and demonizing the work and word of the LORD].
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
The word of God contains a plethora of evidence that the bitter waters are the corrupt words of false prophets and false teachers, and that this bitterness deadens the mind of those who believe and follow them. These are the water below, of the earth, the creations of deceivers and the ignorant, which corrupt heaven (the places of understanding). The new heaven is when God sends the light in the firmament (the sweet and strong exposition of His word), separating the waters above from the waters below.
John, in Revelation 8:10 & 11, says the waters are made bitter when a great star, who is (the spirit of) Satan, falls from heaven (causing men to fall away from God and His truth). He says this star is as it were a burning lamp, which we know is a description of Christ in the furnace (Genesis 15:17) of the earth with us; here, thereby, describing the many false Christs the LORD speaks of in Matthew 24:24.
Revelation 8
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers [words follow to the people at large: into the sea], and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
The word “wormwood” (a poison) refers to the Hebrew word la’anah, and what the LORD says to us, of it, in His word.
Proverbs 5
1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow your ear to [exalt] my understanding:
2 That you mayest regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood [la’anah], sharp as a two-edged sword [saying she has understanding, saying she is rightly dividing when she is creating ignorance and fiction].
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6 Lest you shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable [confused], that you can not know them.
7 Hear me now, therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Jeremiah 23
14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem [now, among My people] a horrible thing: they commit adultery [with strange women], and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood [la’anah], and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness [as the vomit out the bitter poison they’ve swallowed] gone forth into all the land.
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD has said, You shall have peace [when there is war against us destroying us]; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and heard his word? who has marked his word, and heard it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind [from where His voice is heard] of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
Amos 5
4 For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live:
5 But seek [not these places where they’ve put idols in My place, which they call by My name] not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught.
6 Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
7 You who turn judgment to wormwood [la’anah], and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him that made the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
9 That strengthens [with His honey] the spoiled against the strong [in power], so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress [the lies by with they hold the world captive in hell].
10 They hate him [the seventh angel sounding] that rebukes in the gate [calling God’s people to leave hell and enter His kingdom], and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
John, in Revelation 10, describes the seventh angel, whose voice is the seventh (last) trumpet sounding, who receives the word of God from heaven, which is in His mouth as sweet as honey. He says it is in his belly bitter, meaning he must repeat it (vomit it from himself) as received. This aspect is then described in the following verse (11), saying he must repeat it (must prophesy again).
As we understand, Revelation 10 is John speaking of what he learned from reading Ezekiel, as he described the life in the word of God passed forward to give understanding to those to whom it was sent (the cycle of receiving, understanding, sending, and repeating: which he describes as a wheel within a wheel, in which is life from the mouth of God).
Ezekiel 3
1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that you find; eat this roll [mgillah – the volume of the book], and go speak unto the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll [mgillah].
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this roll [mgillah] that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey [dbash] for sweetness.
4 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get you unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have hearkened unto you.
7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto you; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces [as one cherubim faces the other at the mercy seat, and between them, in the conversation, I will manifest my presence in mercy and judgment], and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed [chathath – when you see this sign] at their looks [as they are dismayed at what they are seeing], though they be a rebellious house.
10 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words [the roll] that I shall speak unto you receive [eat] in your heart, and hear with your ears.
11 And go, get you to them of the captivity, unto the children of your people, and speak [repeat] unto them, and tell them, Thus says the LORD God; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.
12 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing [of waters – as an earthquake shaking their world], saying, Blessed be the glory [presence] of the LORD from his place.
13 I heard also the noise [qowl – the voice] of the wings [of the cherubim] of the living creatures that touched one another [giving and receiving life by the word of God], and the noise [qowl – the voices] of the wheels over against them, and a noise [qowl – the voice, His word spoken by me] of a great rushing [skaking the world].
14 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness [vomiting what I had eaten], in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib [this mountain of the flood], that dwelt by the river of Chebar [by which I saw far off], and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
18 When I say unto the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him not warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
20 Again, When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also you have delivered your soul.
22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you [in the plain sight to those I send you].
23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar [which I, by His word, saw far off – now when the word is repeated, opened to those in need of its life]: and I fell on my face.
24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spoke with me, and said unto me, Go, shut yourself within your house [shut what you understanding and utter it not, because it is the voice of the seventh angel, the seven thunders unspoken until now].
25 But you, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands [of their confusion] upon you, and shall bind you with them [their false prophecies and false teaching], and you shall not go out among them:
26 And I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth [the voice of understanding shall not be heard], that you shall be dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
27 But when I speak with you [again], I will open your mouth, and you shall say unto them, “Thus says the LORD God; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear:” for they are a rebellious house.
Revelation 10
1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud [with the understanding held in heaven]: and a rainbow [the light rightly divided as its {coat of many} colors are seen] was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun [the light of the new day], and his feet as pillars of fire [one like the son of man, walking in the fires with us]:
2 And he had in his hand a little book open [this word of God]: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars: and when he had cried, seven [the sound of understanding, of the seven colors of the (coat) rainbow] thunders uttered their voices.
4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not [because they are reserved for the one whose right it is to rule {I Am}].
5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6 And swore by him that lives forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he has declared [decreed] to his servants the prophets.
Jeremiah 10
12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
13 When he utters his voice [His seven thunders], there is a multitude of waters in the heavens [word of understanding], and he causes the vapors to ascend [the water above are separated from the waters below] from the ends [ending the old and beginning the new] of the earth; he makes lightnings with rain [understanding by sending His purified, distilled, word from heaven], and brings forth the wind [the work of His Spirit, of which man is ignorant] out of his treasures [giving these words that are more valuable than any other thing].
Revelation 10
8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spoke unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which stands upon the sea and upon the earth.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make your belly bitter, but it shall be in your mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter [and I knew I had to repeat what I had eaten].
11 And he said unto me, “You must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”
Hebrews 10
5 Wherefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till [now when] his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified [declared, decreed, holy].
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest [the known presence of the LORD] by the blood of Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh],
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest [Timothy in who the LORD has risen] over the house of God;
22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [into ONE BODY], as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst you were made a gazing-stock [were held up for public mocking] both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst you became companions of them that were so used.
34 For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompence of reward.
36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition [apoleia]; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
2 Peter 1
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance [into His kingdom] shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17 For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. [Hear you him.]”
18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation [not from anyone’s imagination].
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown in them speaking and working].
2 Peter 3
1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily [from their own imaginations] shall bring in damnable [apoleia] heresies, even denying the LORD that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction [apoleia].
2 And many shall follow their pernicious [apoleia] ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingers not, and their damnation [apoleia] slumbers not.
Daniel 12
… and there shall be a time of trouble [tsarah – this tribulation], such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
2 Peter 3
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition [apoleia] of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The LORD is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night [unknown to the ignorant]; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise [the voice of God as thunders], and the elements [stoicheion – the corrupt foundational ideas of wicked men] shall melt with fervent heat [from the word of God released from heaven, unto fire], the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [stoicheion] shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our LORD is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrestle, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction [apoleia].
17 You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things before, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall [away into fables created from men’s imaginations] from your own steadfastness.
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen.
Psalms 81
1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon [the new government come into the darkness], in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
5 This he ordained in Joseph [that his seed, Shiloh, would be sown in the earth to sit on his throne] for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt [oppression]: where I heard a language [of lies] that I understood not.
6 I removed his shoulder from the burden [of unbelieves]: his hands were delivered from the pots.
7 You called in trouble [tsarah – this tribulation], and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I proved you at the waters of Meribah [strife – where they rebelled against the word of God]. Selah.
8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken unto me;
9 There shall no strange god be in you; neither shall you worship any strange god.
10 I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt [out of oppression]: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it [with My words].
11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured forever.
16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey [dbash – the word of God eaten and repeated] out of the rock [the flesh in who the LORD manifest His presence: by His word flowing from them] should I have satisfied you.
1 Corinthians 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
2 And were all baptized unto Moses [drawn from the waters below] in the cloud [into the waters above, in heaven where understanding is separated] and in the sea [where the people were separated by what they believed, the misleaders they followed until the LORD gathered them again in the destruction of the oppressing and pursuing army];
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat [this strengthening word of God];
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
7 Neither be you idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends [old and new] of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation [doubting God is with us] taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted [doubt] above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread, and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
The word “escape,” in verse 13 above, is the Greek word ekbasis, “(meaning to go out); an exit (literally or figuratively):–end, way to escape.” Its other use, in Hebrew 13:7, tells us the escape is the “end” we reach, which it there describes.
Hebrews 13
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follows, considering the end [ekbasis – the escape] of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace [life given as a gift from God, reestablishing right foundations]; not with meats [dead flesh of men without His Spirit], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
The End!
