1 – 4 June 2023
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
The word above, in Isaiah 51:4, rendered “harken,” is the qashab, meaning to prick up the ear, which we understand means to let what is said pierce the ear and sink deep into the mind. In the chapter, the word shama’ also appears three times, twice rendered “harken” and once “hear,” meaning “to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc..”
It (qashab) is telling of understanding (light) God’s law and judgment, which must enter the ear and sink deep into the mind of His people. The Hebrew word, rendered “nation,” He uses here is lom, meaning “to gather; a community,” speaking of His ONE BODY.
He says when they are gathered as One, the law that proceeds (yatsa’) from Him, is His judgment (mishpat) that (when sunk in) calms (raga’ – “rest”) them with the light (understanding).
Isaiah 51
1 Hearken to [shama’ – obey] me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [tsuwr – the word that flows from Christ] whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence you are digged.
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
3 For the LORD shall comfort [nacham – lead into all truth] Zion: he will comfort [nacham – lead into all truth] all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody [their songs repeating this word as it flowed from the Rock].
4 Hearken [qashab] unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation [lom]: for a law shall proceed [yatsa’] from me, and I will make my judgment [mishpat] to rest [raga’] for a light of the people.
5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust.
6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens [compare the old {darkened: fully corrupt} to the new {light}], and look upon the earth beneath [and see it in darkness because of the corruption]: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner [and all, with minds darkened, are spiritually dead and on the verge of extinction]: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
7 Hearken unto [shama’ – obey] me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart [foundational mind] is my law; fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you afraid of their reviling.
8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Are you not it [arm] that has cut [chatsab – the same word rendered “hewn” in verse 1 – It speaks of a written description] Rahab [rahab – only used elsewhere in Job 26:12 where it tells of the LORD “dividing” {raga’ – calming} the sea, as he with understanding smites the “proud” {rahab}; and in Isaiah 30:7 where it is the “strength” {rahab} of our oppressors {Egypt} and the oppressed to sit still {idle: not doing as the LORD commands – the following verse saying, “Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever”}, and wounded the dragon [tanniym – serpents and whales who devour and swallow their prey with wide-open mouths – men whose mouths are the great gulf {chasma – the gate through which, without the LORD, no man can cross} between heaven and hell]?
10 Are you not it which has dried the sea, the waters of the great deep [wherein these things are hidden treasures]; that has made the depths of the sea [the revelation of things hidden] a way for the ransomed to pass over [‘abar – Passover]?
11 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return [to this understanding, by seeing Him], and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain [nasag – reach {this destination}] gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
12 I, even I, am he that comforts [leads in this good way, into all truth] you: who are you, that you should be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
13 And forget the LORD your maker, that has stretched forth the heavens [spreading them before you in this exposition: firmament], and laid the foundations of the earth; and have feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? [Their strength is to sit idle while others dig their pits, and let whatever happens to happen, and then use deception to describe it, to create fear and deprivation, to control you into doing what they command, and you blindly obey them and their evil, while you refuse to obey good.]
14 The captive exile hastens that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread [this word of God] should fail [by not obeying it].
15 But I am the LORD your God, that divided [raga’ – calmed] the sea, whose [proud] waves roared: The LORD of hosts [a man of war, sent to rescue the captive exiles] is his name [His identity manifested].
16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the [new] heavens, and lay the foundations of the [new] earth, and says unto Zion, You are my people [My army, My flock, My ONE BODY].
17 Awake, awake, stand up, O [New] Jerusalem, which have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; you have drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
18 There is none to guide her among all the sons [no, not one telling them the LORD has come to rescue them – instead, rejecting His words, they exalt theirs above His] whom she has brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand [tolead her in the right way] of all the sons that she has brought up.
19 These two things are come unto you; who shall be sorry for you? desolation, and destruction, and [these have come by] the famine [for hearing this word of God], and the sword [the same word against those who reject it]: by whom shall I comfort [lead into all truth] you? [There is only One good shepherd the LORD has chosen, called, and sent in His name, I Am!]
20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
21 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
22 Thus says your LORD [‘adown – the king sent in the name of] the LORD [Jehovah], and your God [with, in, him] that pleads the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again:
23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you; which have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and you have laid your body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over [into their promised utopia which we now see is hell].
Job, in answering His accusers, in Job 26, where he also speaks of rahab (the strength of the rebellious), describes the LORD, His ways (unknown) calming (raga’) the sea, and thereby, He also defeats the wicked. He speaks in questions asking who among men has done the thing the LORD has done, as is reiterated in Isaiah above as he answers saying there are none.
Job 26
2 How have you [false accusers] helped him that is without power? how saves you the arm that has no strength [no understanding]?
3 How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
4 To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?
5 Dead things are formed from under the waters [where the deep is darkened], and the inhabitants thereof.
6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.
7 He stretches out the north [darkness – ignorance] over the empty [tohuw] place [the earth without form, as in Geneisis 1:2, saying “And the earth was {hayah – became} without form {tohuw}, and void {bohuw]}; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” This is where the LORD found us, His people; Deuteronomy 32:10 saying, “He found him in a desert land, and in the waste [tohuw] howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed {biyn – gave understanding, light, to} him, he kept {natsar – protected} him as the apple {while he was little among men} of his eye {by this endless fountain of living waters, by which man lives}.”], and hangs [talah – suspends {the sentence of death}] the earth upon nothing [bliymah – only appearing here, asking what corruption and ignorance: speaking of humanity’s deep sleep, when he has been ignorant of his own ignorance and idenity].
8 He binds up the waters [reserving His word and understanding there] in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent [opened by any man] under them.
9 He holds back the face [paniym – presence] of his throne, and spread his cloud upon it [reserving it for the appointed time].
10 He has compassed the waters [paniym maiym – the face of the waters: the word present on earth without understanding] with bounds [choq – decreed the appointed time], until the day and night [the end of days] come to an end [takliyth – “end, perfection, consummation, completion, completeness”].
11 The pillars of heaven [that hold up the current understanding that is now shaken] tremble and are astonished [tamahh] at his reproof. [Habakkuk 1:5 Behold you among the heathen {those who don’t know Me}, and regard, and wonder marvelously [tamahh]: for I will work a work in your days which you will not believe, though it be told you.]
12 He divides [raga’ – calms] the sea with his power, and by his [this is speaking of me, tamahh, Tim-Yahh, Timothy] understanding he smites through the proud [rahab].
13 By his [Almighty] spirit he has garnished the [shiphrah – gives brightness to the before darkened] heavens; his hand has formed the crooked serpent [leviathan – the ever-winding river, carrying the words men have forever changed, that keep men from seeing what is ahead, the foil against which the LORD reveals His presence miraculously].
14 Lo, these are [only] parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard [shama’ – obeyed] of him? but the thunder [His voice of understanding from the cloud: the sound of the light] of his power [gbuwrah – Might, strength] who can understand?
Acts 13
38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
40 Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets [in Habakkuk 1:5];
41 Behold, you despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which you shall in no wise believe, though a man declares it unto you.
Isaiah 30
1 Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
2 That walk to go down into Egypt [to their oppressors], and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh [the house of the wicked who now rule the world], and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
3 Therefore shall the strength of [sitting idle, obeying] Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.
5 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
6 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength [rahab] is to sit still.
8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come [‘acharown – for these later days] forever and ever:
9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.
14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
15 For thus says the LORD [‘Adonay – the King of king] God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not.
16 But you said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted – so his voice is heard above all others] on a hill.
18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious unto you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you.
20 And though the LORD give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers:
21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.
22 You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstruous cloth; you shall say unto it, Get you hence.
23 Then shall he give the rain of your seed, that you shall sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures.
24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of [these living] waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26 Moreover the light of the moon [understanding of civil Government] shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun [the understanding of the church] shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up [chabash] the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
28 And his breath [the life from His mouth], as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations [those whodon’t know Him] with the sieve of vanity [bringing the harvests of their own worthless ways upon them]: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
29 You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept [qadash – when you declare His Holy One, repeating the LORD’s words as received]; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard [from His people], and shall show the lighting [understanding] down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
31 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian [communists in church and state] be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
32 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass [ma’abar – what Passover, this Passover], which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps [playing these songs with Him, repeating it as received]: and in battles of shaking [so the wicked will be shaken out of the new haven and earth I Am creating] will he fight with it.
33 For Tophet [the place of fires] is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he has made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath [the life from the mouth] of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.
The confusion of Egypt, above in Isaiah 30:3, is from the Hebrew word klimmah, disgrace (dis-grace), from kalam, meaning “to wound.” It’s described later, in Isaiah 45:16, as coming to those who make idols (fabricate words and ways people follow away from God).
Isaiah 45
1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus [an appellative speaking the king who is the LORD in the furnace with us], whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates [out of hell into his kingdom]; and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight [the polluted pure]: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness [hidden in men’s ignorance], and hidden riches of secret place [these treasures from the LORD’s treasure houses in the clouds], that you mayest know that I, the LORD, which call you by your name [your real identity], am the God of Israel [which I named and called you by].
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me [as it has been until these last days]:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun [the light of this new day], and from the west [its shining into the darkness that was covering the earth], that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil [the misleaders against whom My righteousness is contrasted]: I the LORD do all these things.
8 Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open [her mouth], and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds [worthless vessels created of the earth]. Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it, What make you? or your work, He has no hands?
10 Woe unto him that says unto his father, What begot you? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me.
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out [this exposition, the firmament of] the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised him [I Am] up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts [I Am who is a man of war].
14 Thus says the LORD, The labor of Egypt [mitsrayim – two {double} straits, which the LORD said {in Matthew 7:13 &14} must be avoided as we navigate the way into His kingdom], and merchandise of Ethiopia [men covered in darkness] and of the Sabeans [drunken with power and thereby become without right reasoning], men of stature, shall come over unto you, and they shall be yours: they shall come after you; in chains [restrained by My law] they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto you, they shall make supplication unto you, saying, Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no [other] God.
15 Truly you are a God that hides yourslef [as You walk among the ignorant], O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded [kalam], all of them: they shall go to confusion [klimmah] together that are makers of idols.
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded [kalam] world without end.
18 For thus says the LORD that created the heavens [the place where full understand resides]; God himself that formed the [the old that became without form, and void – now made new] earth [wherein dwells righteousness] and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret [but right here in the open sight of those only blinded by their own corrupted minds], in a dark place [to those so ignorant and proud that they will never see] of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right [by which the good seed comes to life].
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together [into the LORD’s ONE BODY], you that are escaped of the nations [all those who haven’t known the LORD]: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image [the idols they’ve created, even calling them by My name], and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21 Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time [qedem – see Isaiah 51:9 above]? who has told it from that time [the word here is miyn {with affinity to min} which speak of the beginning of the species: king]? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
22 Look unto me [as the fiery serpent was lifted by Moses in the wilderness], and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed [zealous for their ignorance] against him shall be ashamed [when this end comes and they find themselves to have wrestled with the word of God into their own perishing].
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
In the following chapters, we understand, in the word chatsab, the LORD is describing those among us as friends and neighbors, as the institutionalization of hatred toward His truth and therefore hating us without a cause. Throughout history, this corruption has increasingly embedded itself, becoming popular prejudice (popular culture), and culminating in a crescendo of evil against those speaking truth opposing their perverted orthodoxy. This normalization of evil and the demonization of good is the self-evident truth of the death resulting from the fall, natural law that is never, and cannot be, broken. Yet, men continually think (in hubris proclaim and decree) they can cheat and defy it. And all the desolate world, when it is now covered in total darkness, wandering in the wilderness, wonders what is happening while praying for the mountains and hill to cover them.
Luke 23
28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry [when, as now, My word isn’t heard]?
32 And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
33 And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary [kranion – “cranium,” when these institutions of church and state took control of the minds of men, and killed truth and good] there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do [because they are ignorant and without sight]. And they parted his raiment [righteousness], and cast lots.
35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
37 And saying, If you be the king of the Jews, save yourslef [again ignorant of the truth, that He was saving Himself and all who receive His sacrifice delivering this message as received, and doing it in the Father’s name: identity manifested in flesh: demonstrating His character].
38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, This Is The King Of The Jews [the King of Judah, the son of David and son of Joseph, the King of kings].
The word kranion is from keras, meaning, “from a primary kar (the hair of the head [thoughts that grow in mind and are manifested outwardly]); a horn (literally or figuratively):–horn.
The LORD uses this word (keras) once outside of Revelation where it is (nine times) the corrupt powers (horns of church and state) of the world, as one, with one confused mind, ruling the world, called Babylon; and (in Revelation 9:13) once as the four “horns” of the altar, when this voice is heard from the LORD presence sacrificing to deliver this message.
Revelation 9
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns [keras] of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand [two hundred million – roughly two thirds of the nation’s population – the army of the sleeping dead]: and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them [riding above the army in command], having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions [roaring words that cause fear]; and out of their mouths issued [hell’s] fire and smoke and brimstone.
18 By these three was the third part of men killed [became dead in their minds, from the confusion that rules there], by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths [as confusion, turned delusion, and now mass insanity among the dead].
19 For their power [over their army they command] is in their mouth [the known lies these known liars tell, and the false accusation with which they falsely accuse any who stand against them], and in their tails [what follows, results from, their lies and false accusations]: for their tails were like unto serpents [devil’s misleading], and had head [kephal – meaning “from the primary kapto (in the sense of seizing); the head (as the part most readily taken hold of)”], and with them they do hurt.
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented [the calls to repent, from the one like Jonah whose come from the belly of death and hell calling all the repent and come out from among the dead, are what causes these men’s deeper descent into the evil they proliferate] not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold [calves they put in God’s place], and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
The other appearance (of keras) is in Luke 1:69, as Zachariah (Jehovah remembers {the sacrifice of those He sent with His blessing}) describes the LORD sending John (meaning dove, as Jonah, the dove) calling all to repentance as he comes from the belly of hell (passing over through the gates, the whale’s and serpent’s mouths, ever open devouring men and swallowing them into the belly of the earth), which {Passover} is described as coming by the “horn” of salvation raised up (out of hell).
Luke 1
35 And the angel [Gabriel – the warrior of God] answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown to the world] shall come upon you, and the power of the Highest [His word that has effectually worked in you] shall overshadow you: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of you shall be called the Son of God.
36 And, behold, your cousin Elisabeth [in Hebrew Eli-Sheba – the one the LORD calls the queen of the south, who hears the one greater than Solomon, who comes like Jonah, rises with the LORD and condemns this evil generation, telling them they are the dead], she has also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
38 And Mary [the rebel, who now rebels against the corrupt status quo] said, Behold the handmaid of the LORD; be it unto me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.
39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah;
40 And entered into the house of Zachariah [the LORD remembers], and saluted Elisabeth [the oath of God – which he spoke to Abraham, Genesis 22:17, that we will possess the gates of our enemies: the gates holding God’s people in hell].
41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
42 And she spoke out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my LORD should come to me?
44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of your salutation sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
45 And blessed is she that believed [has faith that this is the LORD speaking His plan: will]: for there [with obeying] shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the LORD.
46 And Mary said, My soul does magnify the LORD,
47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
48 For he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
49 For he that is mighty has done to me great things; and holy is his name.
50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
51 He has shown strength [given this understanding] with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
52 He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
53 He has filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he has sent empty away.
54 He has helped his servant Israel [the whole family that will rule the world with God], in remembrance of his mercy;
55 As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham [in Genesis 22:17], and to his seed forever.
56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.
57 Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.
58 And her neighbors and her cousins heard how the LORD had shown great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
59 And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zachariah, after the name of his father.
60 And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John [Jonah, the dove, the sign {calling all to repentance} of the end reached – in Hebrew to name Jonah {Yonah}, is from yayin (wine) meaning effervesced and intoxication – saying he escaped as a spirit, from the waters of hell that drunken the minds of this evil generation].
61 And they said unto her, There is none of your kindred that is called by this name.
62 And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.
63 And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marveled all.
64 And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, and praised God.
65 And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings [rhema – matters, topics] were noised abroad [dialaleoa – through preaching] throughout all the hill country of Judaea [the high places of the elect remnant].
66 And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts [reserved them in their minds, waiting for the LORD to give them understanding], saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand [power and work] of the LORD was with him.
67 And his father Zachariah was filled with the Holy Ghost [the LORD in him unknown to the world], and prophesied, saying,
68 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel; for he has visited [as Chief Overseer] and redeemed his people,
69 And has raised up an horn [keras] of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
70 As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
73 The oath [sheba] which he swore to our father Abraham,
74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
75 In holiness and righteousness before him [in His presence], all the days of our life.
76 And you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Highest: for you shall go before the face of the LORD to prepare his ways;
77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring [anatole – the rising light] from on high has visited [come as the Chief Overseer to] us,
79 To give light [understanding] to them that sit in darkness [ignorance] and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace [that flows from His teaching].
80 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.
Job 19
22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh [in which He dwells]?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven [chatsab] with an iron pen and lead in the rock [in Christ – the LORD manifested in the flesh] forever!
25 For I know that my redeemer lives, and that he shall stand [quwm – rise] at the latter day [‘acharown – these last days] upon the earth [‘aphar – in the ashes, dust, of its ruin]:
26 And though after my skin worms destroy this [old] body, yet in my [new] flesh shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
28 But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me [the root of matter is to bring you out of corruption and into this new life in My kingdom come on the earth]?
29 Be you afraid of the sword [fear rejecting the great salvation that comes from hearing and obeying this word]: for wrath [the fire from man’s poisonous words] brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a [good] judgment.
Isaiah 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops [left the brawling women therein]?
2 You that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle [but by their own words and ways].
3 All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, which have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the LORD God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam [all eternity] bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir [the wall of men’s lies upon lies] uncovered the shield.
7 And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and you did look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool [the word of God remaining with His people on the earth].
10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall [of lies and falsehood].
11 You made also a ditch between the two walls for [to hold in My understand sent to restore understanding to] the water of the old pool: but you have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it [the waters: My written word I gave] long ago.
12 And in that day did the LORD God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth [repentance and remorse for your covenant with death, and agreement with hell, thinking you can hide yourselves under lies and falsehood]:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die [to all your old and corrupt ways and ideas], says the LORD God of hosts.
15 Thus says the LORD God of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer [into whose hands these heavenly gifts were given], even unto Shebna [what has grown in the place where vigor should be, vigilance in protecting and defending the pure word from corruption], which is over the house, and say,
16 What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed [chatsab – that you write your own corrupt interpretations] you out a sepulcher here [making it a place of the dead], as he that hews [chatsab] him out a sepulcher on high, and that graves a habitation for himself in a rock [from where corrupt now flows]?
17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you.
18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your LORD’s [the idols you call by My name] house.
19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall he pull you down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim [whom God has raised] the son of Hilkiah [whose inheritance is Jehovah]:
21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, and I will commit your government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open [this understanding], and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.
Jeremiah 2
5 Thus says the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful country [America], to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
8 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal [the idols of confusion they created and put in My place], and walked after things that do not profit.
9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, says the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead.
10 For pass over [‘abar – Passover] the isles of Chittim [the places without My word, now filled with brawling women], and see; and send unto Kedar [those remaining in the darkness], and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.
11 Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit [putting idol in My place and calling them by My name].
12 Be astonished, O you heavens [the place where understanding should be], at this, and be horribly afraid, be you very desolate, says the LORD.
13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed [chatsab] them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water [no word of God].
Psalms 91
1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3 Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome [words of] pestilence.
4 He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flies by day;
6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come nigh you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the Most High, your habitation;
10 There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come nigh your dwelling.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
12 They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon [whose open mouths are the gates of hell] shall you trample under feet.
14 Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
