17 – 18 July 2023
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Above, in Jeremiah 29:11, the LORD is speaking to His people, spiritually telling us not to listen to the false prophets among us, denying we are in Babylon and denying the nation will be destroyed. It is now, once here in desolation, He calls us to seek Him diligently and promises we will find Him when we return to the place (of understanding) we left.
He then, speaking of the “mystery of Godliness,” in verse 15, says it (finding Him and the way to peace) is “Because you have said, The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon.”
This end, into and out of Babylon: is when we find Him, when His presence is manifested in the conversation through His prophets speaking His words by the inspiration of Him alive in them.
1 Timothy 3
13 For they that have used the office of a deacon [diakoneo – waiter of tables, delivering the word from God’s mouth, by which men live] well purchase [peripoieomai – only appearing here and in Acts 20:28 where it is the LORD’s blood that purchases us out of sin] to themselves a good degree [bathmos, only here, from bathos meaning profundity, as mysteries; rendered deep or depth], and great boldness [the authority to speak the mysteries of God, the great depth below the surface] in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
14 These things write I unto you, hoping to come unto you shortly:
15 But if I tarry [braduno] long [the LORD longsuffering unknown], that you mayest know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
16 And without controversy great is the mystery of Godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit [while unknown], seen of angels [understood by those who become His messengers], preached unto the Gentiles [those who don’t know the mystery of God’s manner], believed on in the world, received up into glory.
This is the same mystery of Godliness revealed in the beginning verses of Malachi 3.
Malachi 3
1 Behold, I will send my messenger [mal’ak – His angel], and he shall prepare the way before me [paniym – the way for My presence to be seen]: and the LORD [‘adown – the king], whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger [mal’ak – the angel] of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears [comes into your sight]? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Hebrews 12
11 Now no chastening for the present seem to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable [shalowm] fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised [given strength by working out corruption by correction] thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees [that are without strength];
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame [strayed from the truth] be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed [by correction and truth].
14 Follow peace [shalowm] with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the LORD:
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:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 13
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation [manifesting the presence of the LORD above His mercy seat].
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
The “peace” spoken of (in verse 7) below, which we’re told to seek, like we are told to “seek” the LORD, is the Hebrew word shalowm, from shalam (salem), meaning “to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate (in various applications).”
The opposite of peace, a state of war, can be described as not safe in mind, body, or estate (wealth and property). Deceptions (gaslighting and demoralization) are attacks on the mind, just as surely as abortion, COVID, vaccines, etc., are attacks on the body. In all three areas, mind, body, and estate, we are under attack: war waged against us by enemies mixed among us and in power.
Jeremiah 29
7 And seek [darash] the peace [shalowm] of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace [shalowm] thereof shall you have peace [shalowm].
8 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
9 For they prophesy falsely [saying peace and safety] unto you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD.
10 For thus says the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon [ruled by confusion] I will visit you [paqad – come as the Chief Oversser of the earth], and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place [of understanding].
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace [shalowm], and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And you shall seek [baqash] me, and find me, when you shall search [darash] for me with all your heart.
14 And I will be found of you, says the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, says the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
15 Because you have said, The LORD has raised us up prophets in Babylon;
16 Know that thus says the LORD of the king that sit upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwell in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
17 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
18 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
19 Because they have not hearkened to [shama’ – obeyed] my words, says the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear, says the LORD.
1 Thessalonians 5
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the LORD so comes as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our LORD Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep [whether we know it or not], we should live together with him [among us always].
As discussed in previous posts, the “expected end” above, when we have found the LORD and His peace, is from the Hebrew words tiqvah ‘achariyth. These words, speaking of this same end, appear together one other time in Jeremiah, in Jeremiah 31:17, speaking of Rachel bringing forth Ephraim (in the same context we saw in the previous post in Micah 5).
Jeremiah 31 begins by telling us these things happen “at the same time” as the things, in the previous chapter, the LORD says He will accomplish. As we know, verse 7 of Jeremiah 30, tells us this is the time of the tribulation, Jacob’s “trouble,” from the Hebrew word tsarah, which we’ve seen is from the words tsar.
This latter word (tsar) is rendered both “enemies” and “trouble” in Psalms 108, as it speaks of this same time when understanding has come, and the mouths of God’s people are opened.
Psalms 108
1 O God, my heart is fixed [you have laid the foundation of my mind]; I will [repeating the words you’ve given me] sing and give praise, even with my glory [which is Yours, manifesting your presence in me].
2 Awake, psaltery and harp [God people who will sign with me]: I myself will awake early.
3 I will praise you, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto you among the nations [who don’t know You].
4 For your mercy is great above the heavens [this conversation, the firmament, above Your mercy seat, in which You manifest Your presence]: and your truth reaches unto the clouds [where You reserved it, to be sent in the time of Your righteous war against the wicked].
5 Be you exalted, O God, [Your words] above the heavens [above all understanding of man]: and your glory [Your presence] above all the earth;
6 That your beloved [I and the children the LORD has given me] may be delivered: save with your right hand [Your power that effectually works], and answer me.
7 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem [take away the burden of ignorance], and mete out [the word of God to] the valley of Succoth [the lowly who will, upon the desolation’s ruins, build the habitation of God, His holy new nation].
8 Gilead [this mountain of testimony] is mine; Manasseh [those who have forgotten Me] is mine; Ephraim [this second blessing, the blessing of Joseph] also is the strength [the understanding of the deep – see Genesis 49:22 – 26, and Jeremiah 31:18 – 20] of my head; Judah [the elect remnant] is my lawgiver;
9 Moab [the gates of hell, the mouths of ignorant men] is my washpot [where coming out they shall be cleansed of corruption]; over Edom [the enemies mixed among us] will I cast out my shoe [I will take prisoner]; over Philistia [over this invading army] will I triumph.
10 Who will bring me into the strong city [deliver My words against these enemies’ stronghold]? who will lead me into Edom [against the enemies among us at war against us]?
11 Will not you, O God, who have cast us off [zanach – the LORD referring us to the three times Jeremiah uses it: Lamentation. 2:7, 3:17 & 31]? and will not you, O God, go forth with our hosts?
12 Give us help from trouble [tsar]: for vain is the help of man.
13 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies [tsar].
Friends, it’s a simple plan, Christ in us delivering His word, this word, manifesting His identity, as we confess His presence as the One giving it, is what overcomes the world.
John 16
25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time comes, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.
26 At that day [this expected end] you shall ask in my name [manifesting My identity]: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
27 For the Father himself loves [phileo – is a friend of, at peace with us through a like mind] you, because you have loved [phileo] me, and have believed that I came out from God.
28 I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speak you plainly, and speak no proverb.
30 Now are we sure that you know all things, and need not that any man should ask you: by this we believe that you came forth from God.
31 Jesus answered them, Do you now believe?
32 Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 14
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter [the Paraclete – I Am, the LORD present unknown with us, giving us His mind], that he may abide with [dwell in] you forever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it [through ignorance] sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you.
18 I will not leave you comfortless [without a teacher, in whom I will teach you]: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live [in you giving you sight], you shall live also.
20 At that day [this expected end] you shall know that I Am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
21 He that has my commandments, and keeps [guards them against corruption] them, he it is that loves [agapao – receives my word as the Father’s leading] me: and he that loves [agapao] me shall be loved [agapao] of my Father, and I will love [agapao] him, and will manifest myself to him [as the word of the Father is received as His word and effectually works to raise us to life by His dwelling in us].
22 Judas [Judah – the elect remnant who will give his law, as is said in Psalms 108:8 above] says unto him, not Iscariot [not the betrayers], LORD, how is it that you will manifest yourself unto us, and not unto the world?
23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man loves [agapao – receives my word as the word of the Father] me, he will keep [guards it against corruption, delivering it as received] my words: and my Father will love [agapao] him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode [mone – only used here and in verse 2 of this chapter, where the LORD says He goes to prepare a place for us, speaking of us as the many “mansions” in which the He and Father will dwell] with him.
24 He that loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me [to speak them].
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet [seen] present with you.
26 But the Comforter [the Paraclete], which is the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown with us], whom the Father will send in my name [as My identity – Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh], he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace [a state of friendship with God] I leave with you, my peace [My friendship] I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart [your mind] be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28 You have heard how I said unto you, I go away [from sight], and come again unto you. If you loved me, you would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father [His mansion here and now in me]: for my Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that, when it comes to pass [at this expected end], you might believe.
1 Corinthians 15
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
23 But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
24 Then comes the [expected] end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom [this new nation] to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
As is the topic, this last verse referring to the expected end, tells of the Father not put under the son. The quote is from Psalms 8:6, which speaks of the son as having dominion over all the works of the LORD.
As we know from previous conversations, in this context, we understand in the original text of Psalms 8:5 (quoted in Hebrew 2:7) the words telling of the son of man as “made a little lower than the angels” are chacer ‘elohiym. They tell us the son is intentionally sent lacking the full knowledge of God. The Psalm then tells us this is planned so He can be crowned with this understanding: revelation only known to the Father. We are also told (in Heberew 2:9) that lacking understanding, the state of ignorance of what is present, is death, and receiving it (“crowned with glory and honor”) is resurrection from death.
Psalms 8
A Psalm of David
1 O LORD [Jehovah], our LORD [‘adown – our King], how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory [Your presence manifested in revelation] above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth [when this word is heard] of babes and sucklings [the children the LORD has given me] have you ordained strength [understanding that brings forth man] because of your enemies, that you might still [shabath – sabbath: interrupt, stop the work of] the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars [the new civil government and Your people they govern as the Father governs], which you have ordained;
4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit [paqad – come as Chief Overseer of the earth, in] him?
5 For you have made him a little lower than [chacer – to lack a little] the angels [‘elohiym – of God’s knowledge], and have crowned him with glory and honor [the Father’s revelation manifesting His presence in him].
6 You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea [all the beasts of the earth, including men, all without the LORD’s Spirit], and whatsoever passes through [‘abar – all that Passover into life in this resurrection from death] the paths [‘orach – as pilgrims traveling] of the seas [through the ages and generations].
9 O LORD [Jehovah] our LORD [‘adown – our King], how excellent is your name [identity – seeing Your presence] in all the earth!
To the chief Musician upon Muth-labben [upon the death, cutting off the head with this sword, of Goliath]
Micah 2
1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds [where they sleep in death]! when the morning is light [when this new day and understanding have come], they practice it [evil], because it is in the power [to deceive] of their hand.
2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
3 Therefore thus says the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which you shall not remove your necks; neither shall you go haughtily: for this time is evil.
4 In that day [this expected end] shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled [corrupted]: he [the wicked in power doing evil] has changed the portion of my people: how has he removed it from me! turning away he has divided our fields [our nation].
5 Therefore you shall have none that shall cast a cord by lot in [properly assess and declare the true condition to] the congregation of the LORD.
6 Prophesy you not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame [not understand the end reached isn’t what the false prophets have told them].
7 O you that are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened [restricted by the evil lies of the false prophets]? are these his doings [or the work of the wicked]? do not my words do good to him that walks uprightly?
8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy [at war against my work]: you pull off the robe with the garment [the LORD’s righteousness that protects man from the corrupt elements of the wicked] from them that pass by [‘abar – who before, by this cover, passed from death into life] securely [and they are now] as men averse [shuwb – turned away] from war.
9 The women of my people have you cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have you taken away my glory forever.
10 Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
11 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto you of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah [of My ONE BODY], as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise [their voices repeating this word] by reason of the multitude of men.
13 The breaker [who breaks the prisoners out of hell] is come up before [paniym – as the LORD presence to] them: they have broken up [broken out of hell], and have passed [‘abar – from death into life] through the gate [of hell], and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass [‘abar – shall rise] before [paniym – as the presence of the LORD to] them, and the LORD [Jehovah] on [at] the head of them.
Lamentations 2
5 The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strong holds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6 And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden [of Eden removed]: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7 The LORD has cast off [zanach] his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary, he has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise [qowl – their voices to be exalted] in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
8 The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he has stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles [also not knowing the LORD]: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
Lamentations 3
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones [“Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.” Proverbs 20:17], he has covered me with ashes [‘epher – the ruin of the earth, which hide the face, presence, of the prophet].
17 And you have removed my soul far off [zanach] from peace [shalowm]: I forgot [Your ways of peace is the way to] prosperity.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope has perished from the LORD:
19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall [the poisonous words men exalted].
20 My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall [shuwb – returned] to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
24 The LORD is my portion [my inheritance, and He will dwell in me], says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that [diligently] seeks [darash] him [and His peace].
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27 It is good for a man that he bears the yoke in his youth [the burden of ignorance, the things of a child; until he becomes a man by putting away childish things].
28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it [this burden] upon him.
29 He puts his mouth in [the LORD speaks into] the dust [‘aphar – the ruin of the earth]; if so be there may be hope [tiqvah – an expected end].
30 He [the LORD] gives his cheek to him that smites him [long-suffering in the necessary sacrifice to speak the LORD word in His name]: he is filled full with reproach.
31 For the LORD will not cast off [zanach] forever:
32 But though he causes grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men [but long-suffers, hoping all will come to repentance].
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
Jeremiah 30
5 For thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace [shalowm].
6 Ask you now, and see whether a man does travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail [to bring forth the man in them], and all faces are turned into paleness [ready to faint]?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble [tsarah – tribulation], but he shall be saved out of it.
8 For it shall come to pass in that day [this expected end], says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:
9 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.
10 Therefore fear you not, O my servant Jacob, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar [rachowq – from the evil decrees of the wicked in power], and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
11 For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end [kalah] of all nations [including this nation] whither I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end [kalah] of you: but I will correct you in measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.
12 For thus says the LORD, Your [this nation’s] bruise is incurable [‘anash], and your wound is grievous.
13 There is none to plead your cause, that you mayest be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek [darash] you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one [the enemies in power], for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.
15 Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable [‘anash] for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things unto you.
16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil you shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon you will I give for a prey.
17 For I will restore health unto you [as a new nation], and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast [of hell], saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks [darash] after.
18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be built upon her own heap [upon the ruin of the old], and the palace [of her risen king] shall remain after the manner [governing as the LORD ordained] thereof.
19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
20 Their children also shall be as afore time, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] all that oppress them.
21 And their nobles shall be of themselves [of the same ONE BODY], and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart [joins with My mind] to approach unto me? says the LORD.
22 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon [cutting off] the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he has done it, and until he has performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days [‘achariyth] you shall consider [biyn – understand] it.
Jeremiah 31
1 At the same time, says the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
2 Thus says the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
3 The LORD has appeared of old [rachowq – this time when the evil decrees are] unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall again be adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
5 You shall yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
7 For thus says the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travails with child together: a great company shall return thither.
9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way [derek], wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles [without this word] afar off [merchaq – the LORD’s righteous decrees, declaring the appointed time, the expected end, is reached], and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
11 For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing [this word of the LORD] in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd [the resulting prosperity]: and their soul shall be as a watered garden [hearing this word of God from this fountain of ONE calling]; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them [leading them into all truth], and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says the LORD.
15 Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah [the place of deception and betrayal], lamentation [as in Hinnom], and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not [her children are not yet, by her teaching this word of God, born again in these last days].
16 Thus says the LORD; Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears: for your work shall be rewarded, says the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
17 And there is hope [tiqvah] in your end [‘achariyth – these last day, of which Jacob told His children – see Genesis 49:1], says the LORD, that your children shall come again to their own border [this new nation build upon the ruin of the old].
18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised [corrected] me, and I was chastised [and by correction became the Father’s born again children], as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn [shuwb] you me, and I shall be turned [shuwb]; for you are the LORD my God.
19 Surely after that I was turned [shuwb], I repented; and after that I was instructed [yada’ – corrected into the knowledge of the Father], I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
20 Is Ephraim [God’s people in this generation – Rachel’s grandchildren] my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spoke against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, says the LORD.
21 Set you up waymarks [to show the way], make you high heaps: set your heart toward the highway, even the way [derek] which you went: turn again [shuwb – to the LORD], O virgin of Israel, turn again [shuwb – with the LORD] to these your cities.
22 How long will you go about, O you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man [the flesh from where this word of God is heard].
23 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless you, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
24 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.
25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet [while sleeping I was strengthened] unto me.
27 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, says the LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge [the children shall no longer suffer because of the deeds of those before them].
31 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, says the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, says the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
35 Thus says the LORD, which gives the sun [the Church] for a light [understanding] by day [causing light to cover the earth], and the ordinances of the moon [civil government] and of the stars [God enlightened people] for a light [giving understanding] by night [to the ignorant], which divides the sea [separating the people who choose good from the wicked who choose evil] when the waves thereof roar [when the proud and arrogant are in power and exalt their wicked voice above all others]; The LORD of hosts is his name [a man of war is His identity]:
36 If those ordinances [choq – these decreed laws] depart from before me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me [paniym – in which My presence dwells] forever.
37 Thus says the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off [ma’ac – make disappear] all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD.
38 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower [Migdal – watchtower, where things coming in the distance are seen] of Hananeel [what is seen in the field of Hanameel, the corrupt nation following the advice of Hananiah] unto the gate [out of hell] of the corner [pinnah – returning to the foundation stone the LORD sends, creating all things new].
39 And the measuring line [the assessment of the condition of the old] shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb [and their wounds I will heal], and shall compass about to Goath [when they humble themselves].
40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron [dead by their own words and ignorance], unto the corner [pinnah – the return to the foundation stone] of the horse [when their strength returns] gate toward the east [at the understanding he gives – as the light of a new day], shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.
Psalms 75
1 Unto you, O God, do we give thanks, unto you do we give thanks: for that your name [identity] is near your wondrous works declare.
2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn [your power to deceive]:
5 Lift not up your horn [your power to deceive] on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.
8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof [the worthless parts of the earth after He pours out His wrath], all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
9 But I will declare forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 All the horns [the power to deceive] of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns [the power to rule] of the righteous shall be exalted.
