And the LORD said unto me, “Amos, what see you?” And I said, “A plumbline.” Then said the LORD, “Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
The word above, in Amos 7:8, rendered “plumbline,” is ‘anak (594), only used here in verses 7 & 8, and given the dubious meaning “probably from an unused root meaning to be narrow; according to most a plumb-line, and to others a hook:–plumb-line.”
It is (the LORD says) from the word ‘anaq (6059 & 6060), both meaning a chain, the first (6059), adding it is a liberal furnishing. Each of these words is only used three times, and in them, we understand they are ideas (foundational principles: knowledge, understanding, and wisdom in application: the heart of a man, which produces his fruit that marks his identity, good or evil).
The chain is pride. It is the wicked as we now see them, marked by depravity, corrupt thinking, and violence with which they defend them (evil they call good to justify attacks against those they define as evil). They are chained to these identities by their open “pride” in what is their shame.
The verse before the title says, “Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline [‘anak – made by pride], with a plumbline [‘anak – with a chain of their own pride] in his hand.”
This chain is now very apparent upon those (including Pope and President) who shamelessly celebrate “pride,” while at the same time they (and their fake news and social media) remain silent as the wicked (is there anything more wicked than killing the most innocent: defenseless children) violently riot and attack the innocent. They censor the truth and report (redefine) their evil as good to justify and defend their violence, because they’re undeniable evidence that they are altogether evil.
They do these things because they bear the mark (the chain) of Cain, “who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abides in death. Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.”
Proverbs 1
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive [the love of God poured out, giving] the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 My son, hear the instruction of your father [giving you the knowledge of God, and His understanding], and forsake not the law of your mother [wisdom: discretion is the application of what your Father taught you]:
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains [‘anaq – 6060] about your neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14 Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Psalms 73
6 Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain [‘anaq – 6059]; 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 innocency.
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 cast 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 [when Your presence is plainly manifested], 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 [only those who are joined with the LORD in His ONE MIND and BODY are saved]: you have destroyed all them that go a whoring from you.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the LORD God, that I may declare all your works.
Amos 7 begins with the LORD showing (giving him understanding) of the great army, who as locusts have devoured all economic growth, a similar pattern (we saw in the previous post) He revealed to Joel (in Joel 1:4). In Amos, it’s telling of the final destruction after the king’s (Brandon’s) mowing (gez).
Amos asks the LORD to forgive us (for our lukewarm lack of vigilance allowing the degeneration away from His strength) for by who will Jacob rise (speaking of God’s people still in a state of wrestling with Him and His word, unaware it’s Him) because he (Jacob) is small (diminished). To which the LORD answers, “This also shall not be.”
We know from chapter 6, (verse 6 saying) this is the affliction of Joseph (the coming king, who will lead God’s people together into prosperity, still separated from them) by those anointing themselves who are not by it (the separation) grieved. These self-anointed (mis)leaders are the “excellency of Jacob” the LORD says He abhors, and whose palaces He hates.
The LORD (beginning chapter 6) says, “Woe to those who are at ease [sha’anan – haughty {lukewarm amid the tumult, of which they are willingly ignorant: because if they weren’t, they’d have to do something uncomfortable}] in Zion, and that trust in the mountains of Samaria, which are named the chief of the nations [the strange and self-destructive ideas, which destroy people and nations, set up as gods in God’s place], to whom the house of Israel came!”
The lukewarm men are those now saying the LORD has already done everything needed to be done; therefore, let us eat, drink, and be at ease, for tomorrow we die.” Friends, the truth is the LORD has prepared us with the only preparation needed, and now it’s time for you to do your part, which is to have faith in His provision, and whether we live or die, we are forever with Him.
Joel 2
27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Romans 8
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifies.
34 Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us [and by His love prepared us].
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our LORD.
The word “conquerors,” in verse 37 above, is the once used Greek word hupernikao, meaning “from 5228 [huper – over] and 3528 [nikao – victory]; to vanquish beyond, i.e. gain a decisive victory:–more than conquer [victory over – death].” It is speaking of victory over those who’ve gotten the victory over us and made dead God’s people (the “virgin of Israel” to whom the man child is given: Emanuel, the LORD’s presence and Salvation manifested in the flesh). It is victory over death Paul speaks of in 1 Corinthians 15: brought out of corruption into life and immortality.
Amos 5
1 Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3 For thus says the LORD God; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave a hundred, and that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.
4 For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live:
5 But seek not Bethel [the corrupt houses of God, where the calves are put in God’s place], nor enter into Gilgal [where the waters are always agitated], and pass not to Beersheba [the corruption of the seven wells, the word of God incorrectly interpreted and turned to old wives’ tales]: 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, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
8 Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion [the redeemer breaking forth as light: understanding, wrath against the star of the idols], 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 the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time [when all are speaking their own evil misleading – “If they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light {understanding} in them.”].
14 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.
15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.
18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness [ignorance], and not light [when understanding is rejected – and therefore men flee known evil to an evil of which they are ignorant].
19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it? [And the LORD has come into this time of ignorance, unknown as a thief in the night, uncomprehended as He shines His light upon any and all who come out of the corrupt houses into His light]
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have you offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch [your king {Brandon} who says you must sacrifice your children – whose mandatory offering is abortion] and Chiun [the pillar of their religion] your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus [beyond your confusion {Babylon}, when the word and work of God are silenced and replaced with delusions and insanity], says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Amos 6
1 Woe to them that are at ease [sha’anan – lukewarm] in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
Acts 7
41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
43 Yea, you took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which you made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon [quoting Amos 5:27, replacing Damascus with Babylon, showing us the meaning is in the translated names, not the places].
44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus [Joshua] into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
46 Who found favor before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
47 But Solomon built him a house.
48 Howbeit the Most High dwells not in temples made with hands [but He dwells in flesh, from where He is manifested to those He calls to His service]; as says the prophet,
49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will you build me? says the LORD: or what is the place of my rest?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?
51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown to you, speaking and working]: as your fathers did, so do you.
52 Which of the prophets [in who the LORD spoke and worked unknown] have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels [these messengers of God, of who you are ignorant], and have not kept it.
Hebrews 12
25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven [the place of full understanding, the manifestation of the presence of God]:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Revelation 13
1 Let brotherly love [Philadelphia – the church of – His ONE BODY] continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels [God’s messengers] unawares.
Revelation 3
7 And to the angel [the messenger – I Am] of the church in Philadelphia write; These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens [as it now is], and no man shuts; and shuts [as it was], and no man opens;
8 I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name [my identity manifested in this word and work].
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan [who follow the spirit of evil: misleading messengers doing the work of evil], which say they are Jews [claiming they know God, when they don’t, and we know they don’t because they can’t hear Him here speaking], and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved [agapao – given My word of Salvation to] you.
10 Because you have kept the word of my patience [long-suffered with Me until you received understanding], I also will keep you from the hour of temptation [the world doubting My presence manifested in this word], which shall come upon all the world, to try [whether their works and words are good or evil] them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown.
12 Him that overcomes [those who have gotten a victory over God’s people and brought them into death] will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven [with full understanding] from my God: and I will write upon him my new name [which is Ishi, “the man” in whom God chooses to manifest His presence].
13 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
14 And unto the angel [messenger] of the church of the Laodiceans [the people justified {as in Romans 8:33 above} – made right: shown the right way] write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the [old and new] creation of God;
15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would you were cold or hot.
16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you mayest be rich; and white raiment, that you mayest be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye-salve [from kolla – things that will remain, stick, through the shaking], that you may see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hears my voice [the voice of God, as this is], and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes [the wicked] will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
Psalms 72
1 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness unto the king’s son.
2 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with judgment.
3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
5 They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown [gez] grass: as showers that water the earth.
7 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endures [this Constitutional Republic].
8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends [ending the old and corrupt and bringing the new, wherein dwells righteousness] of the earth.
9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
11 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.
12 For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and him that has no helper.
13 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.
14 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
15 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
16 There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
17 His name shall endure forever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things.
19 And blessed be his glorious name forever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.
20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
Isaiah 32
9 Rise up, you women that are at ease [sha’anan – lukewarm]; hear my voice, you careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
10 Many days and years shall you be troubled, you careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering [into My ONE BODY] shall not come.
11 Tremble, you women that are at ease [sha’anan]; be troubled, you careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
12 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers [evil misleaders and deceivers]; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
14 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high [heaven, understanding the word of God, sent as the latter rain], and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
19 When it shall hail [this word frozen in heaven, reserved unto fire and the perdition of ungodly men], coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
20 Blessed are you that [do the work of God and] sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass [to their work, tilling under the fallowed ground and carrying this word].
Jeremiah 4
1 If you will return, O Israel, says the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight, then shall you not remove.
2 And you shall swear, The LORD lives, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
5 Declare you in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow you the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defensed cities.
6 Set up the standard [nec – the son of man lifted up] toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north [from their ignorance], and a great destruction.
7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles [perdition of the ungodly] is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make your land [of the ignorant] desolate; and your cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.
10 Then said I, Ah, LORD God! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches unto the soul.
11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds [full of understanding], and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind [from where the LORD speaks]: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.
14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you mayest be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
Amos 6
3 You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
4 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David;
6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
8 The LORD God has sworn by himself, says the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
10 And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burns him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with you? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold your tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
11 For, behold, the LORD commands, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
13 You which rejoice in a thing of naught, which say, Have we not taken to us horns [power to rule] by our own strength?
14 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.
Amos 7
1 Thus has the LORD God showed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings [gez].
2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O LORD God, forgive, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, says the LORD.
4 Thus has the LORD God showed unto me: and, behold, the LORD God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep [the understanding of corrupt men], and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O LORD God, cease, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, says the LORD God.
7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood [as a serpent lifted up] upon a wall made by a plumbline [‘anak – made by the pride of men, a chain they think protects them], with a plumbline [‘anak] in his hand.
8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what see you? And I said, A plumbline [‘anak]. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline [‘anak – darkness to which they are chained, shame they take pride in] in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
9 And the high places of Isaac [Jacob and Esau – God’s people and the enemies mixed among us at war to destroy our nation and better, sane, normal culture] shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam [who’ve made calves they put in God’s place, and brought in devils to tell the people these are their gods – 2 Chronicles 11:15] with the sword.
1 Corinthians 15
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed [when understanding is received, and this word is heard as the LORD’s word],
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible [into full understanding], and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
Hosea 13
14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
16 Samaria shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
Hosea 14
1 O Israel, return unto the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
3 Asshur [the communist Pope and President] shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you [LORD] the fatherless find mercy.
4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Psalms 14
1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Psalms 15
1 LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?
2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.
3 He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.
4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honors them that fear the LORD. He [reproves those] that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.
5 He that puts not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.
