25 – 26 July 2023
When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
We have often discussed Divine Condescension: the LORD coming from His throne, in the flesh, and making “himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
The quote (from Philippians 2:7 & 8) speaks of Him, in a state of intentionally lacking knowledge of His own identity (a man caught in the dilemma all men have now become snared), and finding himself (by diligent searching) here (written in the book), realizing the mission into which the Father sent him, choosing good and refusing evil, subordinated himself (as a good soldier) to the Father’s mission plan (the will of God, done on earth as in heaven).
Friends, I know this to be true because I’ve experienced it: the same calling to be a good soldier, and finding myself written in the book, subordinating my will to the Father’s.
These aspects (of realization and subordination) are the same we’ve seen written in Hebrews 2:7 & 9 when it quotes Psalms 8:5. (As we know, Hebrews is a letter of introduction and commendation of Timothy, the first bishop (episkope – Chief Overseer, Chief Priest), outside pure Hebrew descent. This is why the chapter focused so heavily on Melchizedek, the priest of the Most High God, who is without descent (father or mother), but made a priest by God. Paul (by evidence, assumed to be the writer) speaks of him, Timothy in who Christ dwells doing the work, as a forerunner of those who don’t know the LORD or their own identity as the heirs of salvation, who leads us into the presence of God the Father: into the holy of holies, to the mercy seat in this conversation, in this visitation.)
Hebrews 10
1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually.
4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
5 And truly they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
6 But he [the levitical priesthood] whose descent is not counted from them [Melchizedek, who] received tithes of Abraham, and [Christ in him] blessed him [Abraham] that had the promises.
7 And without all contradiction the less [Abraham] is blessed of the better [Christ, the LORD manifesting His presence in the flesh of Melchizedek].
8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he [Melchizedek] received them, of whom it is witnessed that he [the LORD in him] lives.
9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, pay tithes in Abraham.
10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.
11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise [as in Jesus, and now Timothy] after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertain to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
14 For [example] it is evident that our LORD sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchizedek there arises another priest [Timothy, the episkope],
16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
17 For he [the LORD in David, when speaking of Joseph, his ‘adown {king}, in Psalms 110:4] testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek [King of righteousness: the LORD our Righteousness].
18 For there is truly a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof [the written word without Christ giving its Spiritual understanding, which waits under its surface to be revealed to him by the Father who with it anoints him king and priest who takes away the conscience that wills to sin, which the written word without Him couldn’t].
19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did [this expected end, when the LORD has appeared again, without sin, to those who’ve waited for Him]; by the which we draw nigh unto [the presence of] God.
20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, “The LORD swore and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:”)
22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
24 But this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
John 3
11 Truly, truly, I say unto you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen [we do understand]; and you receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and you believe not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things [the way into His kingdom]?
13 And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [so that all who look upon Him can be saved from the darkness and death that comes from the bites, the poisonous words, of the enemies, false prophets and misleader mixed among us], even so must the Son of man [I Am, in me] be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation [krisis – the choice, to reject the light, which is choosing death], that light [understanding] is come into the world, and men loved darkness [the cultivated ignorance of the culture, the tracks of corruption] rather than light [understanding], because their deeds were evil [misleading].
20 For every one that does evil [misleads into darkness] hates the light [understanding truth], neither comes to the light [understanding], lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that does truth comes to the light [understanding], that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God [they are the work and will of God].
Philippians 2
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out [exercise – work to remove the corruption that wars against the LORD’s Spirit] your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
15 That you [without corruption] may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights [understanding and life] in the world;
16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy [because it is the power of God by which He rises in you], and rejoice with you all.
18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19 But I trust in the LORD Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
The title verse, Matthew 8:1, begins a series of patterns as the LORD speaks to us of obedience, subordination of our will to the Father’s, which produces victory in our expected perfection.
Hebrews 5
5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he [the Father] that said [in Psalms 2:7, to His anointed when the heathen are raging thinking they will break the unbreakable band of His law and cast away the cords that bind man to Him as Creator] unto him [as He said to me], “You are my Son, today have I begotten you.”
6 As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered [the warned of experience of not obeying the advice that is for our good];
9 And being made perfect [by obedience], he became [I Am] the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
10 Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of hearing [not yet hearing this word as the word of God].
12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles [stoicheion – elements] of the oracles [the written word delivered to us] of God; and are become such as have need of milk [basic foundational understanding, by which lacking your ignorance is proven without obedience and confession of His presence and work], and not of strong meat [the deep understanding you evidently still lack].
13 For every one that uses [still desires only the superficial understanding] milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe [remaining in a childish state].
14 But strong meat [deep understanding, the realization that brings faith and obedience] belongs to them that are of full age [and have become men], even those who by reason of use [of the things that have made them men] have their senses exercised [the corruption worked out of their minds] to discern both good and evil [and learned to choose the good and refuse the evil].
2 Corinthians 10
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some [who commend themselves and have faith in their own words and ways], which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh [by our own ways and ideas, having faith in ourselves].
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
6 And having in a readiness [when subordination comes] to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he [thinks he] is Christ’s, even so are we [truly] Christ’s.
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the LORD has given us for edification [building you into warriors in His army, the ONE BODY in which he lives], and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed [I will not fail to bring you, those the LORD has predestined, into this perfection and promised end]
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters [when you understand this is the LORD present as He said He would be, doing His work].
10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
11 Let such a one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed [weighty and powerful] when we are present.
12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule [canon – the LORD’s standard] which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you [to reveal Him, His mind to those He has chosen].
14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far [as He has ordained] as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ [which is His power in you when He has risen to life in you as He has in me]:
15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labors; but having hope [of your perfection], when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged [when you understand it is the LORD in us] by you according to our rule [canon – the LORD’s standard of measuring a man] abundantly,
16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.
17 But he that glories, let him glory in [that he knows] the LORD [and that the only glory is His manifesting His presence alive in us].
18 For not he that commends himself is approved [proves nothing by faith in himself], but whom the LORD commends [by His glory manifested and presence revealed in him by Him].
Psalms 119
18 Open you my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
19 I am a stranger in the earth [that has strayed from You]: hide not your commandments from me.
20 My soul breaks for the longing that it has unto your judgments at all times.
21 You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from your commandments.
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies.
23 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate in your statutes.
24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
25 My soul cleaves unto the dust [held down in the ruin of the earth]: quicken you me according to your word.
26 I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.
27 Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so shall I [open my mouth and] talk of your wondrous works.
28 My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen [with Your understanding] you me according unto your word.
29 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously.
30 I have chosen the way of truth: your judgments have I laid before me.
31 I have stuck unto your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
32 I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart [my mind to recognize Your presence with me].
33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
35 Make me [obedient] to go in the path of your commandments; for therein do I delight.
36 Incline my heart unto your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken [bring me from death to life] you me in your way.
38 Establish your word unto your servant, who is devoted to your fear.
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for your judgments are good.
40 Behold, I have longed after your precepts: quicken me in your righteousness.
41 Let your mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your word.
42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproaches me: for I trust in your word.
43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments.
44 So shall I keep your law continually forever and ever.
45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts.
46 I will [open my mouth and] speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed. [“Be not you therefore ashamed of the testimony of our LORD, nor of me his prisoner”]
47 And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.
48 My hands also will I lift up unto your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.
49 Remember the word unto your servant, upon which you have caused me to hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me.
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from your law.
52 I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
53 Horror [zal’aphah- the winds of the storms covering the earth] has taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake your law.
54 Your statutes have been my songs [the word I have repeated as received] in the house of my pilgrimage [among Your people in our journey through all generations].
55 I have remembered your name [your identity], O LORD, in the night [in the times when ignorance covered them], and have kept [guarded from corruption] your law.
56 This I had, because I kept your precepts.
57 You are my portion [my inheritance in every generation], O LORD: I have said [promised] that I would keep [guard and protect from corruption] your words.
58 I intreated your favor with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to your word.
59 I thought [in these times of need] on my ways, and turned [shuwb – returned] my feet unto your testimonies.
60 I made haste, and delayed not to keep your commandments.
61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law.
62 At midnight [in the midst of ignorance] I will rise to give thanks unto you because of your righteous judgments.
63 I am a companion [the Paraclete, a friend with] of all them that fear you, and of them that keep your precepts.
64 The earth, O LORD, is full of your mercy: teach me your statutes.
65 You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according unto your word.
66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments.
It is into this mission I have again been sent: the purpose of which is my identity, the one sent in Divine Condescension, as promised, as needed.
2 Timothy 1
6 Wherefore I put you in remembrance that you stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands.
7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
8 Be not you therefore ashamed of the testimony of our LORD, nor of me his prisoner: but be you partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
9 Who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which you have heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
14 That good thing which was committed unto you keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
2 Timothy 2
2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
3 You, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
Galatians 3
1 O foolish Galatians [milk drinkers], who has bewitched you [who by their evil spells has taken control of your minds], that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
2 This only would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3 Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?
4 Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain [and you have not thereby learned obedience to the LORD, His Spirit you haven’t known].
5 He therefore that ministers to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, does he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Psalms 8
1 O LORD [Jehovah], our LORD [‘adown – King], how excellent is your name [identity] in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings [milk drinkers who’ve now become men] have you ordained [counseled] strength [understanding] because of your enemies, that you might still [shabath – stop the work of] the enemy and the [evil] avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars [the new national government and Your reborn people], which you have ordained [kuwn – set up];
4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him [paqad – come again as the Chief Overseer, Chief Priest, and the King of Righteousness, to reset the foundations]?
5 For you have made him [sent me] a little lower than the angels [chacer ‘elohiym – lacking the understanding of God], and have [by giving me what I lacked, self-manifesting Your presence at your will] crowned him [me] with [Your] glory and honor.
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 flesh without Your Spirit], and whatsoever passes [‘abar – Passes Over from death to life] through the paths of the seas [to this expected end, the perfection of all that the LORD chooses, who’ve learned to choose the good and refuse the evil].
9 O LORD [Jehovah] our LORD [‘adown – our King], how excellent is your name [Your Identity] in all the earth!
Matthew 8
1 When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
2 And, behold, there came a leper [the flesh being consumed] and worshipped him, saying, LORD, if you will, you can make me clean.
3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be you clean. And immediately his leprosy [tsara’, the works of evil, and the scale upon our eyes] was cleansed [fell away and he sees all things clearly and was at peace].
4 And Jesus says unto him, See you [now discerning, and obeying] tell no man; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony [sacrificing your will, suffering to tell what you have experienced] unto them.
5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum [place of the comforter, the LORD in us, here unknown leading God’s people into all truth], there came unto him a centurion [a leader of a hundred soldiers], beseeching him,
6 And saying, LORD, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
7 And Jesus says unto him, I will come and heal him.
8 The centurion answered and said, LORD, I am not worthy that you shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man [as the LORD said above to the leper], Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.
10 When Jesus heard it, he marveled and said to them that followed, Truly I say unto you, I have not found so great faith [perfected in obedience], no, not in Israel. [The only other time the LORD marveled {thaumazo} is recorded in Mark 6:6, saying “And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.” He marvels at the faith that brings the obedience of those who don’t know the LORD but receive His understanding by His teaching; and the lack of faith and obedience in His people because of the unclean spirits, misleaders, possessing them.]
11 And I say unto you, That many [who haven’t know Me, by faith and obedience to this teaching] shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness [the ignorance they choose because their deeds are evil]: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth [when they find themselves in the inescapable hell disobedience created].
13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
14 And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother [the teachers of wisdom to God’s people] laid, and sick of a fever.
15 And he touched her hand [her work’s of corruption], and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered [His pure word] unto them.
16 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils [misleaders teaching corruption]: and he cast out the [unclean] spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet [in Isaiah 53:4, after asking who has believed the report, shmuw’ah, the LORD teaching sound doctrine; and say those who have received it, hear and obey it as the voice of Jehovah, to them the arm, work and strength, of the LORD is revealed], saying, Himself took our infirmities [lack of strength], and bare our sicknesses [the burden of the mass mental illness].
18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side [advising that those who obey and follow Him will with Him Passover from death into life].
19 And a certain scribe came [those meant to pass the word of God along as received, but instead altered it with corruption, the dirt of their additions and erroneous interpretations], and said unto him, Master, I will follow you whithersoever you go [but they didn’t and instead dug their own dens and built their own nests].
20 And Jesus says unto him, The foxes [those thinking they are cunning experts] have holes, and the birds of the air [who think they have understanding] have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere [among them] to lay his head [where He can rest in peace by the same mind].
21 And another of his disciples said unto him, LORD, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me [into life outside all their corrupt orders]; and let the dead [in those places] bury their dead.
23 And when he was entered into a ship [above the water of ignorance that cover the earth], his disciples followed him [into life].
24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea [the storms caused by the wicked], insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves [the proud who’ve risen over all humanity]: but he was asleep [in those who’ve followed Him into this place of the resurrection].
25 And his disciples [His students predestined to awaken at this moment in eternity] came to him, and awoke him, saying, LORD, save us: we perish.
26 And he says unto them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm [the expected end, when obedience is fulfilled].
27 But the men marveled [thaumazo – at the same obedience], saying, What manner of man [the firstborn from the dead] is this, that even the winds [the unclean spirits] and the sea [and humanity who receives him] obey him!
28 And when he was come to the other side [of death into life] into the country of the Gergesenes [meaning “a stranger drawing near;” speaking of His appearing now to those who don’t know Him], there met him two possessed with devils [their minds possessed by misleader], coming out of the tombs [the places men built to house the dead], exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass [Passover from death into life] by that way.
29 And, behold [the unclean spirits in the misleaders seeing Him], they cried out, saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus, you Son of God? are you come hither to torment us before the time [not knowing the time, as their own works and reactions prove it is Him present]?
30 And there was a good way off [far from the LORD] from them a herd of many swine feeding [without His Spirit, that no man should consume because of the uncleanness it’s consumed and remains in their flesh].
31 So the devils requested of him, saying, If you cast us out [by the finger of God], suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out [of those they possed], they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place [off a cliff where they were precariously stationed] into the sea [among those they agitated by their misleading], and perished in the [corrupt] waters.
33 And they [the rulers of this dark age, the spiritually wicked sitting in seats of power] that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told everything, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils [the ONE BODY freed from hell].
34 And, behold, the whole city came out [of their sleep in their graves] to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they requested of him [as the unclean spirits did above] that he would depart out of their coasts.
His answer comes in the first verse of the flowing chapter, which is the choice of the people of hell. “And he entered into a ship [a new institution of church and state], and passed over [from death into life], and came into his own city [this new nation].”
Hebrews 13
20 (For they [the wicked who asked the LORD to depart from them] could not endure that which was commanded [and refused to obey Him], And if so much as a beast [without the LORD’s Spirit] touch the mountain [where God rests and reigns], it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But you [who have received this report: heard and obeyed this word as the voice of Jehovah, as it is] are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels [His messenger],
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 His sacrifice] of sprinkling [upon all in this report], that speak better things than that of Abel [whose blood cried from the earth].
25 See that you refuse not him that speak. 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 [where the LORD sits upon His throne with full understanding]:
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 [obediently] serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Matthew 3
1 In those days [these last days] came John [the dove, the sign of the end reached] the Baptist, preaching [as did Jonah, calling all to repentance] in the wilderness of Judaea [the desolation of God’s leaders],
2 And saying, Repent you: for the kingdom of heaven is [is now, at this moment] at hand.
3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias [in Isaiah 40:3], saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make his paths [into the LORD’s ONE BODY] straight. [The passage in Isaiah goes on, in context, to say, “4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it. 6 The voice said, {open your mouth and} Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh {without the LORD’s Spirit} is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: 7 The grass withers, the flower fades: because the spirit of the LORD blows upon it {as the Spirit from His mouth}: surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word {from the mouth} of our God shall stand forever. 9 O Zion, that brings good tidings {from the LORD who send you}, get you up into the high mountain {into the LORD’s presence}; O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings {to the world in need}, lift up your voice {open you mouths} with strength {understanding He has given us}; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”]
4 And [as Isaiah says above, this is] the same John [sign of the end reached] had his raiment of camel’s hair [in Hebrew from words meaning this is the LORD’s retribution], and a leathern girdle [a preparation of the flesh, that has now withered] about his loins; and his meat [the deep meaning understood] was locusts [was to devour the devourers] and wild honey [systematic understating outside the existing orders].
5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan [away from the waters that carried all into death],
6 And were baptized of him in Jordan [suffering that brings them to repentance], confessing their sins.
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees [the corrupt religious orders] come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers [whose venom is in your mouths], who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance [turning away from you wicked words and ways and returning to the LORD you left]:
9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost [the LORD unknown], and with fire [into which these corrupt trees without good fruit are cast to be consumed]:
12 Whose fan is in his hand [this work], and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up [the worthless] chaff with unquenchable fire.
13 Then came Jesus [the LORD’s ONE BODY] from Galilee [who are His inner circle who’ve received His word and obey Him] to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him [in the suffering that comes with standing against the word that carried all into death].
14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you [with the Holy Ghost and Fire], and come you to me [to be washed with me in my suffering]?
15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [with] it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered [with] him.
16 And Jesus [the ONE BODY of Christ], when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water [of death]: and, lo, the heavens [full understanding] were opened unto him, and he [when his eyes of understanding were opened] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove [as the sign of the expected end reached], and lighting [erchomai – through this Divine utterance receiving understanding] upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven [opened, giving understanding], saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Isaiah 40
22 It is he that sits upon the circle [beginning to ending of ages] of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretches out [in the firmament the full exposition of] the heavens as a curtain [opening and closing the windows thereof], and spreads them out [at His will] as a tent to dwell in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will you liken me, or shall I be equal? says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one fails.
27 Why sayest you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My [now corrupted] way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over [‘abar – saying your corrupt judgment is the way to Passover from death into life] from my God?
28 Have you not known? have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends [ending the old and corrupt, beginning the new] of the earth, faints not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding [which only He reveals to those He chooses when He wills].
29 He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Psalms 110 [A Psalm of David]
1 The LORD [Jehovah] said unto my LORD [‘adown – David’s King: Joseph the first King, whose birthright it is – see 1 Chronicles 5:1], Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies.
3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.
4 The LORD has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The LORD at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head [the son of man who must be lifted, as Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness, so the LORD’s voice is exalted above all others and those who look to him will live].
Psalms 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
4 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
7 I will [open my mouth to] declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give you the heathen for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
10 Be wise now, therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
