30 – 31 May 2023
And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.
The Greek word rendered “was come,” above in Luke 9:51, is the three times used word sumpleroo, meaning “to implenish completely, i.e. (of space) to swamp (a boat), or (of time) to accomplish (passive, be complete).” It’s from the preposition sun (“sum”), meaning union or together, and the word pleroo, meaning “to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction).”
Luke, the LORD in him working and speaking (writing), in his other two uses of the word, gives us its intended meaning. It defines this moment (destination) we’ve reached.
(Friends, suffer my foolishness, for the LORD’s sake, for little longer, while I tell you what I know. We, you and I together, with the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, have reached the greatest event that will ever occur in all human history. It is the resurrection of the LORD Jesus Christ, with us, from death and hell. Again, this is reality, and your opinion doesn’t matter or affect it. You are either with or against us.)
Luke 8
15 But that [this word that has lighted {rests} upon you as a dove: a sign of the end reached] on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
16 No man, when he has lighted a candle, covers it with a vessel [keeps it within himself], or puts it under a bed [so he can remain asleep in darkness]; but sets it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light [understand as he understands].
17 For nothing is secret [kruptos – these treasures reserved for this moment], that shall not be made manifest [ginomai phaneros – generated by shinning: made publicly apparent]; neither any thing hid [apokruphos – taken away into secrecy], that shall not be known and come abroad [the original text says – made apparent {ginosko; known} when the shinning {phaneros: appearance} comes – the translation here tells of the end of the journey when we’ve all, with the LORD, entered the ship and sailed to the others side: “abroad”].
18 Take heed therefore how you hear: for whosoever has [understanding], to him shall be given [more]; and whosoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have [speaking of the delusion and insanity that has come upon those, the confused, without this understanding].
19 Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.
20 And it was told him by certain which said, Your mother and your brethren stand without, desiring to see you.
21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it [as he has commanded us to join Him in His ONE BODY].
22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth.
23 But as they sailed he [His flesh: His ONE BODY] fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind [of false doctrines, corrupt stoicheion {first principles}, and their confusion that agitates God’s people at large] on the lake; and they were filled [sumpleroo] with water [the words of proud men who’ve risen over the people], and were in jeopardy [as it is now under the tyranny of wicked and maniacally insane men].
24 And they came to him, and awoke him [and I Am awake], saying, Master, master, we perish [apollumi: Apollyon, the Greek name of the king of the bottomless pit and the devouring army that with him swallowed all humanity into death and hell]. Then he arose [from among the dead], and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water [the corrupt foundational principles and the proud men using them to destroy humanity]: and they ceased, and there was a calm [and the sea became as glass mixed with the fire from the LORD’s mouth].
25 And he said unto them, Where is your faith [why, after experiencing these things, do you still not believe and refuse to obey]? And they being afraid, wondered [still not realizing what they are really seeing], saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commands even the winds and water, and they OBEY him.
As we know, the corrupt church’s day of Pentecost just passed. The true (so-called) fiftieth day of the Holy Spirit (the Paraclete), when the LORD manifests His presence by leading those who haven’t known Him into all truth: when He’s seen again as He ascends into heaven, isn’t known. As we also know, the church, in its early corruption, to control those who followed its misleading (as did Jeroboam, to keep God’s people from returning to their king, to Jerusalem where the LORD said He would meet with us, above His mercy seat, in conversation with Him face to face), created interpretations and days that have nothing to do with their true meaning.
The word Pentecost (pentekoste) is in truth from the two words pente, meaning five, the number of God’s grace: His gift, of these treasures, given; and the word hekastos, meaning “as if a superlative of hekas (afar); each or every:–any, both, each (one), every (man, one, woman), particularly.”
Logically, truthfully, the Pentecost speaks of when the LORD manifests His grace to each and every person, with ONLY One intermediary, Jesus Christ, alive in us. And the church, wanting to be lords over God’s people, couldn’t abide that happening.
Acts 2
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come [sumpleroo], they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind [the LORD’s Holy Spirit here manifested in His Paraclete], and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven [diamerizo – to partition thoroughly {separating the holy from the profane}] tongues like as of fire [speaking the truth understood by His teaching], and it sat upon each of them [as a dove descending from heaven and remaining].
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown, in their flesh, Christ manifested as they speak His word], and began to speak with other tongues [giving understanding to thing not understood before], as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews [Judah, the elect remnant there meeting with the LORD, teaching (yara’ – Jeru) the ways of peace {Salem}, as He promised], devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
6 Now when this was noised abroad [ginomai – generated through speaking the same words heard with understanding], the multitude [plethro – the many] came together [sunerchomai – come to the ONE BODY because of these utterances], and were confounded [sugchairo – because of the corruption comingled among them], because that every man heard them speak in his own language [and they understood the truth which they never before heard].
7 And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans [part of the LORD’s inner circle, known because they speak as He speaks]?
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue [dialectos: dialect – now understanding their words], wherein we were born [in corruption]?
1 Peter 4
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If you be reproached for the name [identity] of Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests [has lighted as a dove] upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters [allotriepiskopos – overseeing matters that should be left between God and each man – not as lords over God’s people – forcing your strange ways upon them].
16 Yet if any man suffers as a Christian [the identity of Christ manifested in his flesh], let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator [of this new creation].
1 Peter 5
1 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof [episkopeo], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre [eager to gain what you lust for], but of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd [Chief Overseer of the Earth] shall appear, you shall receive a crown of [His] glory that fades not away.
Luke 9
43 And they were all amazed at the mighty power of God. But while they wondered every one at all things which Jesus did, he said unto his disciples,
44 Let these sayings sink down into your ears [piercing your ears and entering your minds]: for the Son of man shall be delivered into [I have been betrayed, judged, and condemned to be silenced by] the hands of men.
45 But they understood not this saying, and it was hid [parakalupto – covered along-side, near enough to be grasped: received] from them, that they perceived [sensed] it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying [this matter of utterance: His silence ended with our speaking His word, receiving His students in His name: manifesting His identity].
46 Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
47 And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
48 And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name [manifesting My identity] receives me: and whosoever shall receive me receives him that sent me: for he that is least among you all [giving up his identity to manifest mine to those in need My teaching], the same shall be great.
49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in your name; and we forbad him, because he follows not with us.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.
51 And it came to pass, when the time was come [sumpleroo] that he should be received up [analepsis – only appearing here, meaning when the scales {lepis} are taken up {ana} from their eyes, and His voice is exalted above all others], he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem [where He meets us, manifesting His presence in the conversation above His mercy seat, as he promised],
52 And sent messengers before his face [speaking His message by which His presence is manifested]: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans [God’s people who worship idols they put in His place and call by His name, devils, misleading men who exalt their words above His], to make ready for him.
53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem [where His voice is teaching the only way to sustainable peace and security on Earth].
54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, LORD, will you that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume [analisko – defined it its other two appearances, see below] them, even as Elijah did? [Our mission is to give them this truth, as received, and only those who refuse this love of God, by their choice, are consumed in the fires caused by following the misleading ways of corrupt men]
55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, You know not what manner of spirit you are of.
56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them [and is long-suffering them, not willing that any should perish]. And they went to another village.
57 And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, LORD, I will follow you whithersoever you go.
58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes [the wicked] have holes, and birds of the air [who have worldly understanding] have nests; but the Son of man has not where [no house, for all are corrupt] to lay his head [and my mind {word} isn’t welcome there].
59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, LORD, suffer me first to go and bury my father [the dead in the houses of the dead].
60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go you and preach the kingdom of God [this word from the mouth of God].
61 And another also said, LORD, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my [corrupt] house.
62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow [doing My work], and looking back [to plant the corruption he’s left behind], is fit for the kingdom of God.
In the other uses of the word analisko, meaning “to use up, i.e. destroy,” we understand it is an effect of words against the truth, refusing to surrender to the Divine argument even when it becomes self-evident.
2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming [parousia – being near] of our LORD Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together [episunagoge – a complete collection; only appearing here and. in Hebrews 10:25 where it says we shouldn’t forsake this as we see the day approaching {near}] unto him,
2 That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand [enistemi, standing in – impend, be present].
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away [apostasia – apostasy, standing away] first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [as we know, this is a direct reference to Rueben, who put himself in his father’s, with Bilhah, for which he lost his birthright, which was then given to Joseph and his seed {Ephraim}];
4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped [God the Father’s place only]; so that he as God sits in the temple [the woman, His Church] of God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now you know what withholds [katecho – holds God’s people down] that he [those who put themselves in God’s place] might be revealed [apokalupto – the real apocalypse] in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets [katecho – keeps God’s people from rising to meet the LORD in full understanding] will let [will hold them down], until he be taken out of the way [mesos – out of their midst].
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed [apokalupto], whom the LORD shall consume [analisko – with coals of fire that burn in their minds, doing them good, giving them this good word of God] with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy [katargeo – rendering them idle] with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him [the LORD], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders [after devils led all the world into apostasy],
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness [lies from known liars and false accusation from known false accusers] in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause [rejecting good and choosing to remain with their evil] God shall send them strong delusion [energeia – the same word used to tell of the word of God “effectually working” {change and salvation} in the mind of those who receive it as His – here it’s describing the same word working to “use up” {analisko} the minds of the wicked who reject {endlessly wrestle} with it and thereby become insane: as we now see them in full bloom], that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the LORD, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification [separation from corruption into purity] of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ.
Galatians 5
7 You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
8 This persuasion comes not of him that calls you.
9 A little leaven leavens [corrupts] the whole lump.
10 I have confidence in you through the LORD, that you will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubles you [by following his flesh mind and submitting to the lusts thereof] shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision [separation from this useless flesh], why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offense [skandalon – the trigger as part of the trap: the persecution that draws the troublers deep into the trap of the cross] of the cross ceased.
12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
13 For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty [away from those that trouble you, which cuts them off]; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love [giving the word as received] serve one another.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
15 But if you bite and devour one another [not understanding we long-suffer, with the LORD, not willing that any should perish], take heed that you be not consumed [analisko] one of another.
16 This I say then, Walk in [the way of] the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh [that wars against the Spirit – doubting He is the LORD with us working and speaking through us].
The word rendered “obtaining,” in 2 Thessalonians 2:14 above, is the five-times used Greek word peripoiesis, meaning “acquisition (the act or the thing); by extension, preservation:–obtain(-ing), peculiar, purchased, possession, saving.” The passage very specifically says what is “obtained” is the glory of our LORD Jesus Christ (Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in our flesh) to those He has chosen and called.
Pardon me while I again digress: It has been brought to my attention that others, self-proclaimed “seers,” are saying they see Biblical patterns unfolding before our eyes. Their claim is that we are at a Red Sea moment when our only hope is God dramatically intervening – such as when parting the waters. These men are not against me, we who believe in His presence with us miraculously working right now, and, therefore, are friends and allies (even if they still sleep). The flaw in these men’s thinking is they say God must do something miraculous, like something in the past, when they fail to understand what happened in the past, continuing with the fables they’ve learned, and remain with them (in this, the Spirit mind battles to awaken their flesh mind). These men also say God must do it like they say (thereby exalting their words and way over His), so no man can take the glory. This is exactly the opposite of God’s plan, which is to reveal His glory in those He has chosen and called, thereby exalting (crowning) them as those He commends and proves: Good Shepherds who lead His people through the valley of the shadow of death, to lie down in green pastures, beside still waters. (Right now all those God’s people are listening to are in a state of panic, telling them to look here and there at all the enemy attacks. God’s people only need to look One place, to the good shepherd, the one voice the LORD has exalted, as a serpent on a pole, and He says, all who look here shall not make haste (run away in a panic), and SHALL BE delivered. The LORD says One thing, Obey His voice, and stop listening to those who will never be satisfied until it’s their way.)
Numbers 14
22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to [shama’ – have not OBEYED] my voice;
23 Surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
24 But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
25 (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley [the all the enemies of God throughout history possessing the Promised Earth].) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
26 And the LORD spoke unto Moses [whom He separated from the waters below – no longer following men’s ways and ideas] and unto Aaron [the light bringer – giving the understanding Moses received, as he received from the mouth of God: Moses], saying,
27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:
29 Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness [so they don’t remix their corruption into what I have purified]; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.
30 Doubtless you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, save Caleb [Kaleb, of Judah – the elect remnant, who receive this word as a dog {keleb} lapping water from the hand of God] the son of Jephunneh [in him is the presence of God manifested: God’s glory], and Joshua [Jesus, Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh – of Joseph {Ephraim – see Numbers 13:8 & 16}] the son of Nun [the son in perpetuity].
Judges 7
3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead [leave this mountain of the LORD’s testimony]. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
4 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water [this word of God], and I will try them for you there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto you, This shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of whomsoever I say unto you, This shall not go with you, the same shall not go.
5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon [the hewer of men as trees – the LORD’s man of war], Every one that laps [laqaq, with affinity to laqash {leqesh}, meaning to gather the after crop {aftermath}: the second harvest] of the water [this latter rain] with his tongue [speaking as received], as a dog laps [as Caleb believed God and saw as He sees], him shall you set by himself; likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink [who cannot stand because they are weak without understanding].
6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth [who with strength stand, without fear, alert with understanding this word of God and ready to Obey His commands in the battle], were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian [stife – who were cause endless agitation of God’s people] was beneath him in the valley.
9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get you down unto the host; for I have delivered it into your hand.
10 But if you fear to go down, go you with Phurah [from pu’rah, the “branch” as green shoot of new life, from pa’ar, meaning to gleam, elaborate, explain to make clear] your servant down to the host:
11 And you shall hear what they say; and afterward [‘achar – in this latter time] shall your hands be strengthened to go down [from this mountain of the LORD’s testimony] unto the host [against the army of darkness]. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers [as a devouring army swallowing all new life, leaving the branch barren] for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake [tsluwl, only used here, from the once used word tsalal, which only appears in Exodus 15:10, saying of the Egyptians who pursued God’s people into the rightly divided waters, “You did blow with your wind {your Almighty Spirit moving upon the face of the deep}, the sea {Your people came together and} covered them: they sank {tsalal} as lead in the mighty waters.] of barley [s’orah – from sa’ar, meaning storm, the fear that eventually made {makes} the enemy flee] bread [lechem – this manna, the word from the mouth of God by which men live, of which they are ignorant of what it is] tumbled into [haphak – changed] the host of Midian [the army of agitators], and came unto a tent [‘ohel – its covering was removed, as in the apocalypse], and smote it that it fell [naphal], and overturned [haphak] it, that the tent [‘ohel] lay along [naphal].
14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon [the LORD’s man of war] the son of Joash [given by Jehovah], a man of Israel: for into his hand has God delivered Midian [the agitators], and all the host [and their army of darkness].
15 And it was so, when Gideon heard [shama’ – OBEYED] the telling of the dream, and the [this] interpretation thereof, that he worshipped [shachah – subordinated his will to the will of God], and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD has delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
Isaiah 10
22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption [killayown – the consummation, only appearing elsewhere in Deuteronomy 28:65, where it is “the failing” eyes that come with following devils who put themselves in God’s place] decreed [charats] shall overflow with righteousness. [This speaks of the days of desolation, when the eyes of all those in power, as now, have made the feckless and fearful. It is, now, when there is no hope in these men or the institutions they’ve controlled and corrupted. The “overflowing with righteousness” is the anointing mentioned below in verse 27, when the yoke of these men and their institutions are broken, because they are heavy and worthless burdens.]
23 For the LORD {“Adonay – the King of kings] God of hosts [a man of war] shall make a consumption [kalah – a full end], even determined [charats], in the midst of all the land [‘erets – the earth].
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian [communists in power]: he shall smite you with a rod [the vile laws they make to convict the innocent and pardon evil], and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt [as tyrants do].
25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.
26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb [the prince of darkness]: and as his rod [the law of nature and nature’s God] was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing [the final step – see Daniel 9:24].
The following three paragraphs are from the post of 22 November 2021:
When the LORD tells of the “scourge” He will stir (against the communists) He uses the word showt, meaning a lash (whip). It’s from the word shuwt, meaning to push forward. He says it will be like “the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb.” This refers to when Gideon [warrior – hewer of the mighty], with a few hundred men, by the sword of the LORD, and the sword of Gideon, stirred confusion and panic in the camp of Midian, causing them to flee.
Gideon then called God’s people at large to join the battle, and they together chased Midian to the waters of Bethbarash (house of the ford – crossing over) and Jordan (death – the words that carried all there). The rock of Oreb (darkness, or dusky – as in those who caused light, understanding, to leave) is where the princes of Midian (Oreb and Zeeb – the wolves among the sheep) are slaughtered. Midian means strife, and describes those stirring endless arguments and agitation among God’s people.
Friends, the dictionary definition of communism is a lie. It is truly – a system based on lies, promises of a utopia that comes by giving all power to a few men who’ve appointed themselves our gods. They are (now, today) fascists, Global Socialists, the ilk of the last century (National Socialists), who rise to power as demagogues, demonizing and dehumanizing their enemies, their countrymen, who become their victims. They are those who use known lies and censor all truth because, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
The above quote is by Joseph Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister of the National Socialist Party (Nazi Party) of Germany 1933 – 1945
The fiery trial we find ourselves in is to separate the wheat from the chaff, the good leaders from the worthless. As we understand, only a very few now sitting in seats of power are the wheat.
The words used by Isaiah above to describe this time also appear in Isaiah 28.
Isaiah 28
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report [shmuw’ah – the sound doctrine, teaching, the rumor of Ezekiel 7:26].
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim [2 Samuel 5:20 – as water from His throne, breaking forth upon His enemies], he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon [Joshua 10:10 & 11 – His word reserved {frozen} in heaven, sent as great hailstones upon the wicked], that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the LORD GOD of hosts a consumption [kalah – a full end, as in Daniel 9:27], even determined [charats] upon the whole earth.
23 Give you ear, and hear [shama’ – obey] my voice; hearken, and hear [shama’ – obey] my speech.
Ephesians 1
4 According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the beloved.
7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
8 Wherein he has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself:
10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one [BODY] all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
13 In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
14 Which [promise] is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession [peripoiesis – obtained by the LORD who bought us], unto the praise of his glory [revealed in us].
1 Thessalonians 5
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the LORD so comes as a thief [unknows in the darkness] in the night [to obtain what is rightfully His, by purchase].
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety [as they now tell us while they war against us and put us, our lives and livelihoods, in jeopardy]; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child [having no idea that, with these evil acts, they bring forth the man child that is to rule all nations with a rod of iron]; and they shall not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness [ignorance], that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 You are all the children of light [understanding], and the children of the day [the light that has come]: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain [peripoiesis] salvation by our LORD Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify [build up by educating] one another, even as also you do.
12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among you, and are over you in the LORD, and admonish you;
13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
Hebrews 10
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest [of holies – into the LORD’s presence, before His mercy seat, above which His presence is manifested in the face-to-face conversation] by the blood [sacrificing to give His word as received, in the name: identity] of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh [He chose, called, and prepared for Himself];
21 And having a high priest [in the never-ending order of Melchisedec] 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 [as so many have] the assembling of ourselves together [episunagoge – a complete collection – His 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 publicly mocked] 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 [worldly] 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 recompense 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 [that the LORD is present]: but if any man draw back [hupostello – “to withhold under (out of sight), i.e. (reflexively) to cower or shrink, (figuratively) to conceal (reserve),” the light given to him], my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39 But we are not of them who draw back [hupostole – “shrinkage (timidity), i.e. (by implication) apostasy,” standing away from the LORD revealed] unto perdition [apoleia]; but of them that believe to the saving [peripoiesis] of the soul.
1 Peter 2
3 If so be you have tasted that the LORD is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 You also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes on him shall not be confounded.
7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar [peripoiesis] people; that you should show forth the praises of him [His glory] who has called you out of darkness [ignorance] into his marvelous [eye opening] light [understanding];
10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now [at His mercy seat, by His correction come in this conversation] have obtained mercy.
11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims [who’ve now reached your destination in the LORD’s presence], abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles [who don’t know the LORD]: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation [episkope – when He comes as the Chief Overseer {Bishop} of the Earth].
Psalms 85
1 LORD, you have been favorable unto your land [‘erets – the Earth]: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah.
3 You have taken away all your wrath: you have turned yourself from the fierceness of your anger.
4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause your anger toward us to cease.
5 Will you be angry with us forever? will you draw out your anger to all generations?
6 Will you not revive us again: that your people may rejoice in you?
7 Show us your mercy, O LORD, and grant us your salvation.
8 I will hear [shama’ – obey] what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory [kabowd] may dwell in our land [‘erets – the earth].
10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth shall spring out of the Earth [‘erets]; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land [‘erets – the Earth] shall yield her increase.
13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
