12 – 13 June 2023
They shall be my people, and I will be their God: And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
The LORD begins in the above, from Jeremiah 32:38 & 39, speaking of the “good” (towb) He promised to our children and us: in the New Covenant, when He writes His law in our mind. As we know, when written by Jeremiah, the leaders of God’s people (kings, priests, and prophets) rejected it and misled the people into complete desolation ending the kingdom (of Judah and Israel), scattering the people throughout the earth. It is in this state they remain.
I reject the notion (because it fails when tested by knowledge and logic) that the current worldly state of Israel is the nation gathered. They, the state (kingdom without a king) of corrupt Judah, remain in the same state of rebellion against God and His anointed, never having their mind rewritten with His New Covenant and, therefore, not in safety. It’s likewise with the scattered state of Israel, here in this nation, again backslid away from the LORD into apostasy: a state standing away from God, into confusion, delusion, and hell.
Jeremiah 32
37 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place [New Heavenly Jerusalem, where full understanding flows from the LORD, and rewrites, resets the good foundations of the world], and I will cause them to dwell safely:
38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good [towb] of them, and of their children after them:
40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
42 For thus says the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
Jeremiah 33
1 Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah [Jehovah rising in me to raise His people] the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison [in the pit, the mire that clouds the waters blinding men’s minds], saying,
2 Thus says the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it [the earth], to establish it; the LORD is his name;
3 Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.
4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts [the wicked risen in power], and by the sword [this word of God they refuse];
5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans [the foreign invaders who’ve used deception to manipulate and control the world into confusion], but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men [the wicked in power], whom I have slain [by this word] in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face [presence] from this [fully corrupt] city.
6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
7 And I will cause the captivity [the former state of prosperity under God’s rule] of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first [as ONE BODY].
8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good [towb] that I do unto them: and they [those who don’t know Me] shall fear and tremble for all the goodness [towb] and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
10 Thus says the LORD; Again, there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts [a man of war]: for the LORD is good [towb]; for his mercy endures forever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, says the LORD.
12 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Again, in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him [the “one shepherd”] that tells [manah – constitutes: inaugurates this New Covenant for] them, says the LORD.
14 Behold, the days [have] come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good [towb] thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness. [This speaks of the LORD manifesting His presence in the son of man, in the order of Melchizedek, the Priest of the Most High God, the King of righteousness, the King of Salem; the King of our Peace.]
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
Hebrews 10
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest [of holies, into the LORD’s presence manifested in the conversation, above His mercy seat] by the blood of Jesus [the sacrifice necessary to bring this word of God, manifesting Jehovah’s Salvation in the flesh He’s prepared for Himself],
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated [egkrainizo – inaugurated, constituted] for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;
21 And having a high priest 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 [which blinds us to His presence], and our bodies washed with pure [un-mired] 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 [agape – charity, freely giving this word of God as received] and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together [episunagoge – a completed collection, in 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 [by the blood of His sacrifice] 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 [necessary to bring] the [New] covenant, wherewith he was sanctified [the Father declaring the Holy One], an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace [this gift that saves us from death and hell]?
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.
The second (and final) gathering is into His ONE BODY under one King (of kings), the one shepherd who repairs the breach between Judah and Israel, and they are again ONE Nation under God.
This final “one shepherd” aspect appears in this translated form four times. The last of these is in Ecclesiastes 12:11, written by the last king (Solomon) that reigned and kept the kingdom whole.
Ecclesiastes 12
1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth [speaking to the young who would very shortly give advice to His son Rehoboam, that would cause the breach in the house of David, and divide the kingdom], while the evil days [of misleading advice] come not, nor the years [of desolation] draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them [the days of the Creator];
2 While the sun [church], or the light [understanding therein], or the moon [civil government], or the stars [all God’s people at large], be not darkened [become ignorant], nor the clouds [where understand is when its elements are separated and it departs the earth] return after the rain [after understanding was from there given, as it was]:
3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble [shall be shaken by the winds of false doctrine], and the strong men shall bow themselves [giving up the strength they gained from understanding], and the grinders cease because they are few [those doing the LORD’s work are silenced, as in beyond Damascus and Babylon], and those that look out of the windows be darkened [when the seers become blind and ignorant, unable to see what is coming or has come],
4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets [when none can enter the kingdom, into the LORD’s presence], when the sound of the grinding is low [when the voice showing the way in are silenced], and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird [when His risen presence is only heard as a still small voice], and all the daughters of music [who repeat His words as received] shall be brought low;
5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high [the wicked powers risen in the darkness], and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish [the first fruit that come: those realizing His presence and obeying His voice], and the grasshopper shall be a burden [devouring all new life as it sprouts from the earth], and desire [to hear the smooth {still – calming} words of God’s truth] shall fail: because man goes to his long home [death], and the mourners go about the streets:
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern [now, when the word of God isn’t diligently searched for, and when given by the few who find Him, it isn’t valued or kept].
7 Then shall the dust [the ruin, when the earth is without form and void] return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it [as now, when all humanity, except the very elect remnant, are dead and ignorant of it].
8 Vanity of vanities [the worthlessness of the worthless], says the preacher; all is vanity [worthless – without form and void of life].
9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed [warning of these days and how to avoid them, or recover from them], and sought out, and set in order many proverbs [setting the good foundations of the earth for those who no longer understand them].
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened [trustworthy] by the masters of assemblies [calling all to again gather into the LORD’s ONE BODY, His united kingdom], which are given from ONE SHEPHERD.
12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished [warned]: of making many books there is no end [qets]; and much study is a weariness of the flesh [without the LORD’s leading].
13 Let us hear the conclusion [cowph – the point of completion which the LORD is accomplishing] of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments [obeying His voice]: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing [dabar – every word or matter that has become hidden in men’s neglect turned ignorance], whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
The “conclusion,” from the five times used word cowph, refers to its other uses describing it as the termination point.
2 Chronicles 20
15 And he [the LORD’s Spirit, Him unknown, unmentioned by name, in the midst of the congregation: gahal, now the living elect remnant, the first assembled] said, Hearken you, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat [the judgment of Jehovah], Thus says the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
16 Tomorrow go you down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff [ma’aleh – what rising] of Ziz [the first risen new life]; and you shall find them at the end [cowph – the terminations, destination, completion, perfection] of the brook [nachal – the brook of the Passover spoken of in Genesis 32:23, when all God’s people ford Jabbok {Rachel into Raeford} separately, where, when Passed Over, they were reunited], before [paniym – present there with the LORD] the wilderness [in the desolation] of Jeruel [{there again} founded by God].
17 You shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand you still, and see [ra’ah – see as the LORD sees] the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against [paniym] them [showing the LORD’s presence in you]: for the LORD will be with you.
18 And Jehoshaphat [Jehovah’s judgment personified] bowed his head with his face [subordinating our identity so He is perceived] to the ground [‘erets – by all the earth]: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before [paniym – in the presence of] the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
The next time cowph appears is in Ecclesiastes 3, as Solomon writes, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven [the purpose is to give us understanding]:” and in verse 11 speaks of the conclusion.
The “season” he speaks of is from the four times used word zman (generation “Z”), meaning “an appointed occasion:–season, time.”
Nehemiah 2 [Jehovah’s comforter – His Spirit sent working unknown]
5 And I said unto the king [melek – Darius: spiritually Jehovah unknown, Artaxerxes – another appellative, meaning the great king, Xerxes – Esther’s husband also called Ahasuerus, meaning I will be silent and small], If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchers [the graves where they are held dead], that I may build it.
6 And the king said unto me, (the queen [Esther] also sitting by him,) For how long shall your journey [mahalak – what walk {the comforter in the pilgrimage in the earth – the word only appears three other times asking and answering the question: in Ezekiel 42:4 were it is the “walk “to the inner chamber, the holy of holies, where the LORD presence is manifested in the conversation above His mercy seat; and twice, in Jonah 3:3 & 4, where it is Jonah’s three days “journey” through Nineveh, calling all to repentance.}] be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king [the LORD, the King of kings] to send me; and I set him a time [zman – the time of the perfection, the conclusion].
Esther 9
27 The Jews [Judah] ordained [quwm – were raised from the shadow of death, into understanding], and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time [zman] every year;
28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim [when the lot was cast into their lap, and the LORD disposed of it and delivered them from the precipice of death] should not fail from among the Jews [Judah], nor the memorial [remembrance] of them perish from their seed.
29 Then Esther [the star] the queen, the daughter of Abihail [the Father Almighty], and Mordecai [little man] the Jew, wrote with all authority [toqeph – the strength of understanding the threat], to confirm [quwm – to raise by] this second letter of Purim [understanding the lot that has been cast into our lap].
30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews [Judah], to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
31 To confirm [quwm – to rise in] these days of Purim [see the lot cast] in their times appointed [zman], according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined [quwm – risen with] them, and as they had decreed [quwm] for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fasting [not listening to or obeying the commands of the wicked] and their cry.
32 And the decree [ma’amar – what words declared] of Esther confirmed [quwm – raised] these matters [dabar – words] of Purim [declaring the lot cast, this matter, and the LORD disposing of it]; and it was written in the book.
Proverbs 16
31 The hoary head [old age – with ancient understanding] is a crown of [God’s] glory, if it be found in the way of [derek – the course to life in] righteousness.
32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.
33 The lot [gowral – the stone of destiny: the time into which we’re predestined] is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof [mishpat – this judgment day] is of the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 3
1 To every thing there is a season [zman], and a time to every purpose under the heaven [the purpose is to give us understanding at/of the completion of the journey]:
…a time to keep silence, and a time to speak [the conclusion];
8 A time to love, and a time to hate [the conclusion of evil]; a time of war, and a time of peace [the conclusion].
9 What profit has he that worketh in that wherein he labors [as is the whole duty of man that fears God]?
10 I have seen the travail [to bring forth these conclusions], which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised [to work out evil] in it.
11 He has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set the world [beginning to end] in their heart [minds], so that no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end [cowph – the conclusion, completion].
12 I know that there is no good in them [that man can find out without the LORD’s leading], but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God does it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which has been is now; and that which is to be has already been; and God requires that which is past [to be remembered].
16 And moreover I saw under the sun [under the church that has forgotten the understanding once delivered to it] the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work [which is to understand truth, with it do good, and work out evil from His ONE BODY]].
18 I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are [without His Spirit] beasts.
19 For that which [death] befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as the one dies [in the flesh], so dies the other; yea, they [without the LORD’s Spirit] have all one breath; so that a man has no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity [worthless without Him].
20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust [created from the ruin of the old earth], and all turn to dust again [in the ruin of this now wholly corrupt earth age].
21 Who knows the spirit of man that goes [‘alah – rises] upward [ma’al – to the upper part, into full understanding and life], and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth [‘eret – the belly of hell]?
22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion [what he shall inherit in the end]: for who [but the LORD] shall bring him to see [ra’ah – and obey] what shall be after [‘achar – in these last days] him?
Ecclesiastes 7
1 A good name [known identity] is better than precious ointment [a false perception in which men rejoice]; and the day of death [when what has run its course dies and leaves] than the day of one’s birth [in which is much travail to bring forth life that replaces it].
2 It is better to go to the house of mourning [that let the old corrupt ways die], than to go to the house of feasting [when men rejoice in their false perceptions]: for that is the end [cowph – the conclusion, the completion] of all men; and the living [who have thereby left death and risen] will lay it to [as the foundation of] his heart.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song [the worthless words repeated] of fools.
6 For [their false words are] as the crackling of thorns [misleading] under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity [worthless].
7 Surely oppression [‘osheq – fraud] makes a wise man mad [insane – bringing forth delusion he is unable to distinguish from reality]; and a gift [mattanah – bribes and tithes] destroys the heart [the good foundation of the mind].
8 Better is the end [‘achariyth – the end of days] of a thing [dabar – when wicked words of the misleaders are terminated] than the beginning thereof [because there in is much pain, travail, that must come before it is realized]: and the patient in spirit [who waits for the LORD to reveal this] is better than the proud in spirit [whose wrath brings God’s judgment].
Ezekiel 34
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
3 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you feed not the flock.
4 The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought again that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them.
5 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
8 As I live, says the LORD God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
9 Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
10 Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves anymore; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth [ywords by which they devour and swallow men into the belly of hell], that they may not be meat for them.
11 For thus says the LORD God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy [when understand has left the earth] and dark day [when ignorance covers the earth].
13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land [this nation God has given us], and feed them upon the mountains of Israel [the high place that will rise and rule the earth with me] by the rivers [this good world that flows from the mouth of God], and in all the inhabited places of the country. [Isaiah 26: 19 Your dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, you that dwell in dust: for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead. 20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation {za’am} be overpast {‘abar – Passover, destroying the sons of perdition}. 21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish {paqad – as the Chief Overseer of the Earth} the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.]
14 I will feed them in a good [towb] pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good [towb] fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. [Hebrews 12: 22 But you are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels {His messengers}, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel. 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 [with full understanding that only comes from the Father who resides therein]: 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 {to shake the wicked who’ve corrupted it from it}. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken [in the conversation, the exposition in the firmament God called heaven, that rightly divided the word of God from the words of men], as of things that are made {by men}, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom {and a king} 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.
15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the LORD God.
16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
17 And as for you, O my flock, thus says the LORD God; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle [between those who serve God and those who serve themselves], between the rams and the he goats [between those leading into good and those misleading with evil they call good].
18 Seems it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good [towb] pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your [old and corrupt] pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the residue [of your old and corrupt ways and ideas] with your feet?
19 And as for my flock, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
20 Therefore thus says the LORD God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle [those who prosper in doing good] and between the lean cattle [the weak and feeble without this word].
21 Because you have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad;
22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
23 And I will set up “one shepherd” over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Ezekiel 37
16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one [BODY of Christ] in your hand.
18 And when the children of your people shall speak unto you, saying, Will you not show us what you meanest by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one [BODY of Christ] in MY hand.
20 And the sticks whereon you write [these words] shall be in your hand before their eyes.
21 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have “one shepherd:” they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify [make and declare holy] Israel [My ONE BODY, One Family of God], when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
James 5
1 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches [the words and matters you think are valuable] are corrupted, and your garments [which you think protect you from the elements: stoicheion] are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust [which doesn’t occur in pure silver or gold] of them shall be a witness against you [showing they are mixed with deception], and [this corruption, the corrupt stoicheion: foundational principles] shall eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the laborers [the treasury you have robbed] who have reaped down your fields [you’ve mired with your feet], which is of you kept back by fraud, cries: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the LORD of Sabaoth [the LORD of hosts, a man of war].
5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 You have condemned and killed the just; and he does not resist you.
7 Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the LORD. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain [the word of God now taught with the understanding of heaven].
8 Be you also patient; establish your hearts [the foundations of you mind]: for the coming of the LORD draws nigh.
9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest you be condemned [for there is none righteous but God]: behold, the judge stands before [stands present at] the door [thura – in the LORD’s name: identity revealed].
10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the LORD, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the LORD; that the LORD is very pitiful, and of tender mercy [in the conversation above the mercy seat].
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not [about words and matters you think you know – because every table is filled with vomit and there is no place clean], neither by heaven [men have corruopted], neither by the earth [become without form and void of understanding], neither by any other oath [you’ve sworn to your scattered denominations]: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest you fall into condemnation.
The Greek word thura, above rendered “door,” means, “apparently a primary word (compare “door”); a portal or entrance (the opening or the closure, literally or figuratively):–door, gate.” It (thura) speaks of an opportunity to exit hell and enter heaven by choosing to believe the LORD is present, knowing His voice and thereby seeing Him, following His good leading, obeying His voice. This choice (to obey or not, opening the door or not) is what judges our eternal destination.
The unknown origin of the word (thura) is the Hebrew word tuwr, meaning “to meander (causatively, guide) about, especially for trade or reconnoitering:–chap(-man), sent to descry, be excellent, merchant(-man), search (out), seek, (e-)spy (out).”
Ezekiel 20
3 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus says the LORD [‘Adonay] God [Jehovih]; Are you come to enquire of [darash – to search] me? As I live, says the LORD [‘Adonay – the King of kings] God [Jehovih – the LORD of lords], I will not be enquired of [darash – be searched] by you.
4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers [this defines judgment]:
5 And say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand [rose to work] unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself [My presence in Moses, of which they were unaware] known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up my hand unto them, saying, I Am the LORD [Jehovah] your God;
6 In the day that I lifted up my hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt [of oppression under tyrants] into a land that I had espied [tuwr – searched out] for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
7 Then said I unto them, Cast you away every man the abominations of [that blinds] his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt [of the tyrants who’ve distressed you]: I am the LORD [Jehovah] your God.
8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken [shama’ – obey] unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen [those who don’t know me], among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness [the place of desolation].
11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.
Judges 1
22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel [the house {family} of God]: and the LORD was with them.
23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry [tuwr – search out] Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz [the first life, the first to shoot forth after winter].)
24 And the spies [shamar – those who obeyed and followed orders] saw [ra’ah – seeing as the LORD sees] a man come forth out of the city [from the family of God], and they said unto him, Show us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we will show you mercy.
25 And when he showed them the entrance into the city [into the family of God], they smote the city with the edge of the sword [this word of God their leaders refuse]; but they let go [freed from their oppression] the man and all his family [of God].
26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites [land of the children of Heth], and built a city [New Jerusalem], and called the name thereof Luz [the first life after the long darkness of Abraham’s {Abram’s} deep sleep]: which is the name thereof unto this day.
Genesis 49
1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days [‘achariyth].
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and hearken [shama’ – obey] unto Israel your father.
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel [the whole family of God]: and this is it that their father spoke unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah [meaning to repeat {where they wait to be reproduced}], which is before Mamre [strength – raised when it returns], in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron [where the sun went down and where the patriarchs’ are in their graves] the Hittite for a possession of a burying place.
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth [from the word chathath, meaning it is the land broken down by violence, into confusion and fear].
33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed [until the enemies are made the footstool of God’s people, as the LORD promised Abraham – see Genesis 22:17 telling of now when we “possess the gate” of our enemies], and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Jeremiah 10
1 Hear you the word which the LORD speaks unto you, O house of Israel:
2 Thus says the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed [chathath] at the signs of heaven; for the heathen [those who don’t know me or my voice] are dismayed chathath] at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe [to make it an idol].
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must need be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might.
7 Who would not fear you, O King of nations? for to you does it appertain [ya’ah – Yahh]: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto you.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities [without worth].
Revelation 3
7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia [where My new nation was formed, and now fallen to the children of Heth] write; These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens;
8 I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door [thura – an opportunity to enter the kingdom], and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan [that resist this word and work of God], which say they are Jews [Judah, those saying they are the elect remnant while they rebel against the LORD’s leading], 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 you.
10 Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation [doubting the LORD’s presence], which shall [has] come upon all the world, to try 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 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 from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
13 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the 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 does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you mayest see [as I see].
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door [thura – the opened opportunity to leave death and enter the LORD’s kingdom], and knock: if any man hears my voice, and open the door [thura], I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcomes 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.
John 10
1 Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that enters not by the door [thura] into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
2 But he that enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the porter [thuroros – gate watcher] opens; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
4 And when he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
6 This parable spoke Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spoke unto them.
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Truly, truly, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door [thura – the opportunity]: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10 The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf catches them [harpazo – raptures them away with lies of false doctrines], and scatters the sheep.
13 The hireling flees, because he is an hireling, and caresnot for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and “one shepherd.”
17 Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews [Judah – the current crop of corrupt leaders] for these sayings.
20 And many of them said, He has a devil [is possessed by a misleader], and is mad [insane]; why hear you him?
21 Others said, These are not the words of him that has a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter [the time of darkness].
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch [with full understanding at the entrance].
24 Then came the Jews [Judah – the corrupt leaders] round about him, and said unto him, How long do you make us to doubt? If you be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and you believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
26 But you believe not, because you are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them [harpazo – rapture them with lies and false doctrines] out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them [harpazo – rapture them with lies and false doctrines] out of my Father’s hand.
30 I and my Father are one.
31 Then the Jews [Judah – the corrupt leaders] took up stones again to stone him.
32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shown you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone you not; but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, makest yourself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law [in Psalms 82:6], I said, You are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
36 Say you of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, You blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
38 But if I do, though you believe not me, believe the works: that you may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,
40 And went away again beyond Jordan [passing over the words of death] into the place where John at first baptized [calling all to repentance]; and there he abode.
41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spoke of this man were true.
42 And many believed on him there.
Revelation 4
1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door [thura] was opened in heaven [giving understanding]: and the first voice [of the LORD’s archangel] which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me [calling all to gather into the LORD’s ONE BODY, in His kingdom]; which said, Come up here, and I will show you things which must be hereafter.
Psalms 82
1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.
2 How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked [who’ve raptured them away with deception and false doctrines].
5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness [ignorance of the time and season]: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
6 I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High.
7 But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes [who choose the darkness because their deeds are evil].
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.
Psalms 45
1 My heart is inditing [is overflowing with] a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2 You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.
3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.
4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.
5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under you.
6 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the scepter of your kingdom is a right scepter.
7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.
9 Kings’ daughters were among your honorable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father’s house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your LORD; and worship you him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat your favor.
13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you.
15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, whom you mayest make princes in all the earth.
17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you forever and ever.
