27 – 28 July 2023
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.
As often discussed, the word “indignation” is from the twenty-two times used Hebrew word za’am, meaning “from 2194 [za’am – meaning the same]; strictly froth at the mouth, i.e. (figuratively) fury (especially of God’s displeasure with sin):–angry, indignation, rage.”
It (za’am) is when God is furious about the effects of wickedness, the evil action of men in power against the powerless. For those who don’t believe God is real, or doubt His presence, because He hasn’t used His power as the wicked use theirs, you are about to see His power as He turns their evil against the wicked.
Thus says the LORD, “It may be that the house of Judah [the corrupt crop of leaders of God’s people] will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
Friends, do you think the wicked will repent when they see God’s word manifested into reality before their eyes? They won’t (because of their reflexive enmity). They deny the present reality: the result of returning to the primitive animal ignorance from where He raised us into prosperity above all the nations.
This lesson is for believers, to tell their children and for them to tell theirs. The LORD allowed the wicked to make their own hell, proving it is a choice, and there, in Sheol, shall they be housed forever in darkness.
When the LORD above, from Jeremiah 36:3, speaking of the coming evil, speaks on of Jeremiah (as Paul speaks of himself as a prisoner of the LORD) telling Baruch (blessing) the son of Neriah (the light of Jehovah) to take the word (in which is the blessing: which is understanding) he (Baruch) wrote from the mouth of the LORD (spoken by Jeremiah), to warn those against whom this evil is coming.
In this pattern, we see the LORD’s love (agape – charity: freely giving what must be freely given as received) and mercy in warning, first of the evil, and then of the destruction that from it comes.
Jeremiah 36
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch [the carrier of the blessing] the son of Neriah [come with the light of Jehovah]: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah [Jehovah rising in him to raise his people who hear Him speaking in His word and obey] all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll [mgillah] of a book [cepher] [This the same “volume” of the “book” in which the LORD, as do we, find ourselves written, and become the ONE BODY He has prepared for Himself: to, as sons, do the Father’s will on earth as it is done in heaven – written in Psalms 40:7 and Hebrews 10:7].
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:
6 Therefore go you, and read in the roll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD’s house upon the fasting day: and also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities [to Jerusalem to meet the LORD and hear His ways of peace that flow from His teaching].
7 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger [‘aph] and the fury [chemah – heat] that the LORD has pronounced against this people.
8 And Baruch the son of Neriah [obeyed and] did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD’s house.
9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they [not the king] proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah [those Jehovah has perfected] the son of Shaphan [who hid in the chamber, as in Isaiah 26:20 & 21, until the LORD’s anger is past, in rock which is Christ from whom this word flowed] the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’s house, in the ears of all the people.
The chapter then speaks of those hearing this word of God, all fearing what they heard, obeying, passing on the warning, as received, to others in a long chain.
16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at his mouth?
18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
19 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man know where you be.
20 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll [mgillah] in the chamber of Elishama [hearing God and obeying] the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
21 So the king sent Jehudi [one of the misleaders of God’s people, who is confederate with the king] to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
22 Now the king sat in the winter house [where the fires always burned] in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife [cutting it up, to report it in a way that misrepresents, so to attack and demonize the origin, the LORD Himself], and cast it into the fire [caused by all their other misreporting, more know lies from known liars, more false accusations from known false accuser, all so they can call good evil and their evil good] that was on the hearth, until all the roll [mgillah] was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
28 Take you again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
29 And you shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah [the pattern of the corrupt administration now in power, who will never repent or heed any warning], Thus says the LORD; You have burned this roll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon [your own confusion, now turned mas delusion, insanity now controlling the world] shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
30 Therefore thus says the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body [his administration and their followers in whom the LORD’s Spirit is NOT] shall be cast out in the day [now when understanding has come] to the heat [of the LORD’s anger], and in the night to the frost [when, by choosing darkness, it, understanding, shall be kept from them].
31 And I will punish [paqad – now when I have come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, against] him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened [shama’ – obeyed and heeded My warning] not.
32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
The LORD from here takes us to Jeremiah 8, giving the cause again, starting in the previous chapter, of His indignation, which He states, in Jeremiah 8:3, saying death is chosen. He asks one thing: obey His voice because His words ONLY are the way of salvation and life.
Jeremiah 7
3 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
4 Trust you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these [houses you have corrupted by your ways and false interpretation].
5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor [without which there can be no peace];
6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow [all without power, representation, or just recourse], and shed not innocent blood [as those in power now do] in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt [putting these strange ways above God’s way – see Revelation 7: 2 & 3, and 22:11 below]:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, forever and ever.
8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
9 Will you steal [by taxation and perverted economic policy], murder [many millions of My children], and commit adultery [following devils you put in My holy place], and swear falsely [as policy in every newscast and public statement {The Obama Doctrine}], and burn incense unto Baal [the idol this evil world you’ve put in My place], and walk after other gods whom you know not;
10 And come and stand before me [thinking you will forever hide behind claims of ignorance] in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD. [And I alone make it known to you, warning you its end is perdition, and choosing it you choose death.]
12 But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. [This is when the priesthood became fully corrupt and the childish priests became thieves and robbers, stealing the offering and not honoring God, for which the LORD, in 1 Samuel 2, says, “32 And you shall see an enemy in My habitation, in {control of} all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man {any with wisdom} in your house forever. 33 And the man of your {choosing}, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall be to consume your eyes {and all they teach will produce ignorance}, and to {without understanding} grieve your heart {blind your minds}: and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age. 34 And this shall be a sign unto you, that shall come upon your two sons, on Hophni {“closed hands,” hiding what they’ve stolen} and Phinehas {“mouth of the serpent,” devils misleading}; in one day they shall die both of them. 35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest {in the order of Melchizedek}, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.]
13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you, but you answered not;
14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein you trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.
16 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear you.
17 See you not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [the house they call by My name, in which they’ve put devils], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger [ka’ac].
19 Do they provoke me to anger [ka’ac]? says the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces [paniym – not knowing the LORD’s identity or their own]?
20 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Behold, my anger [‘aph] and my fury [chemal] shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn [as Tophet], and shall not be quenched.
21 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh [My offering you have dishonored].
22 For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23 But this [one] thing commanded I them, saying, Obey [shama’] my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk you in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
24 But they hearkened [shama’ – obeyed] not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward [devolving into a more primitive state of mind], and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets [My word they have written for your good], daily rising up early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened [shama’ – obeyed] not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they [in an endless state of childishness] did worse than their fathers.
27 Therefore you shall speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken [shama’ – obey] to you: you shall also call unto them; but they will not answer you.
28 But you shall say unto them, This is a nation that obeys [shama’] not the voice of the LORD their God, nor received correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29 Cut off your hair [all the ideas grown from your evil imaginations], O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
30 For the children of Judah [your leaders acting childishly] have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house [in the minds of all My people] which is called by my name, to pollute it.
31 And they have built the high places of Tophet [where the fires burn], which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom [the sons of perdition, ignorantly lamenting they are in hell by their own choices], to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
33 And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven [those who say they have understanding], and for the beasts [without My Spirit] of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate [as is this nation this day, the hell you’ve made it].
Jeremiah 8
1 At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
2 And they shall spread [shatach – “to expand” as the exposition in the firmament, so that all the ignorant will understand they are the flesh of these bones] them before [in the presence of] the sun [the ignorant church], and the moon [ignorant civil government], and all the host of heaven [and all God’s ignorant people], whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they [My scatter flock] shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they [their flesh without My Spirit] shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.
4 Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise [it is this rising of the dead bones, when they are again given flesh, and after, given life by this breath, the life from the mouth of God, heard from His first begotten from the dead, and then from the first fruits who rise with his rising]? shall he turn away, and not return [to the LORD his maker and receive life]?
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return [to My truth, the Father’s which He has given Me].
6 I hearkened and heard [shama’ – obeyed], but they [God’s people at large] spoke not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rushes into the battle [against Me].
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her appointed times [mow’ed]; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes [which have misinterpreted My written word] is in vain.
9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
10 Therefore will I give their wives [their churches] unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness [lust for what isn’t theirs], from the prophet even unto the priest every one deals falsely.
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace [and the enemies mixed among us are at war with us, and none of God’s priests or prophets tell His people this is the LORD’s judgment].
12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination [put their own words in My place]? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation [pquddah – now when the LORD is here as the Chief Overseer of the earth, and the judgment of God] they shall be cast down, says the LORD.
13 I will surely consume them [with the fire from My mouth], says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them [and this now totally corrupt nation shall end, and upon its ruins, a new nation shall rise in righteousness].
14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves [into the ONE BODY with Me], and let us enter into the defensed cities [heavenly New Jerusalem], and let us be silent there [not speaking our own words and ways]: for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
16 The snorting of his [the enemies’] horses was heard from Dan [judgment]: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are [have] come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you [with the words from their mouths they destroy your minds], says the LORD.
18 When I would comfort myself [My BODY with understanding] against sorrow, my heart [their mind] is faint in me [because My people are still choosing death].
19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far [merchaq – this appointed time the LORD decreed] country [‘erets – for the earth]: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger [ka’ac] with their graven images [the creations of men], and with strange vanities [ways that aren’t Mine]?
20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black [My ONE BODY is still without understanding]; astonishment has taken hold on me.
22 Is there no balm in Gilead [in this testimony]; is there no physician there? [Yes there is.] why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered [because none obey and therefore there is no one to deliver the cure]?
Isaiah 63
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in my anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore my own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Savior.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel [mal’ak – messenger] of his presence [paniym] saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his Holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goes down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name. [Amen!]
Ezekiel 37
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O LORD God, you know.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O you dry bones, hear [shama’ – obey] the word of the LORD.
5 Thus says the LORD God unto these bones; Behold [see and understand], I will cause breath [this word from My mouth] to enter into you, and you shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So I [obeyed and] prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise [qowl – the voice of the LORD], and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says the LORD God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. [These are the four winds {the LORD’s Spirit} that come after {in the words of} the elect remnant are sealed, which releases {makes known} the second death of wicked and raises God’s people at large to life – see Revelation 7 below]
10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts [who still remain in the tribulation].
12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus says the LORD God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, says the LORD.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write upon it, For Judah [the elect remnant], and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph [those God will add, when they come out of the tribulation], the stick of Ephraim [God’s people at large in this generation] and for all the house of Israel his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one 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] in my hand.
20 And the sticks whereon you write 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 [the dead who don’t know me], whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land [this new nation]:
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 [of their corruoption]: 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 [when I write My word into their minds, and we will all have one mind]: 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 holy] Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Revelation 7
1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east [as the light of this new day, to give understanding into the head of the elect remnant], having the seal of [as a slave, prisoner, obeying] the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt [adikeo] the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt [adikeo – in Revelation 2:11, the “hurt” of the second death, and in Revelation 22:11 it’s twice the “unjust” who remain unjust] not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed [made slave, prisoners, obeying as] the servants of our God in their foreheads [His word always at the forefront of their minds, with dominion over their thinking].
4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel [those who will reign on the earth as God reigns, with righteousness].
9 After this [when the elect remnant are sealed into obedience and open their mouths] I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sit upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God forever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes [of corruption], and made them white [pure] in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun light [the church shall no long teach their own word and ways] on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them [with understanding], and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes [quoted from Isaiah 25:8, which also speaks of when death is swallowed up in victory].
1 Corinthians 15
51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [in death], but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
Revelation 22
4 And they shall see his face [presence]; and his name [identity] shall be in their foreheads.
5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the LORD God gives them light: and they shall reign forever and ever.
6 And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the LORD God of the holy prophets sent his angel [I Am] to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
7 Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel [the messenger – I Am] which showed me these things.
9 Then said he unto me [as I say unto you], See you do it not: for I am your fellow-servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of them which keep [guard and protect from corruption] the sayings of this book: worship God.
10 And he says unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
11 He that is unjust [adikeo], let him be unjust [adikeo – which is choosing the second death: the dead choosing to stay dead rather than rising with us into life] still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work [just mentioned] shall be.
13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end [of ages], the first and the last.
14 Blessed are they that [obey and] do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and make a lie.
16 I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I Am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
18 For I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things [to force it to say what God hasn’t said], God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy [to force it to say what God hasn’t said], God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
20 He which testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, LORD Jesus.
21 The grace of our LORD Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Isaiah 25
1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made of a city a heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.
4 For you have been a strength [understanding] to the poor [those without power], a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 You shall bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the LORD God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.
9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab [the gates of hell: the open mouths of wicked men] shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swims spreads forth his hands to swim [dividing the waters, to stay above them]: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12 And the fortress of the high fort of your walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
As we know from previous discussions, the “cover” (from the once used word lowt) “cast over” (from the three times used word luwt) all people, which the LORD will removes, refer us to the other two times luwt appears.
In the first, 1 Samuel 22:9, it’s the “wrapping” David removes from the sword he took from Goliath, with which he cut off his head. The sword is then, in the following verses, revealed to be deception, which causes David’s enemies to disregard him.
1 Samuel 21
9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you slew in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped [luwt] in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish [“I will blacken” hide myself in there ignorance, so they think I AM “only a man”] the king of Gath [“winepress,” as I come as judgment].
13 And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, you see the man is mad: wherefore then have you brought him to me?
15 Have I need of mad men, that you have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
The other use (of luwt) comes in 1 Kings 19:13, when Elijah (Jehovah is God) “wrapped” his face (paniym – presence) in his mantle (covering God’s glory in him), which (mantle) he later cast upon Elisha (God is Salvation).
Jeremiah 50
24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have strived against the LORD.
25 The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation [za’am]: for this is the work of the LORD God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans [against those who’ve used their words to manipulate humanity into hell].
26 Come against her from the utmost border [qets – this full end], open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
27 Slay all her bullocks [those doing this work of misleading into hell]; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation [pquddah – now, when I Am here as the Chief Overseer of the earth].
28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to [open their mouth and] declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.
31 Behold, I am against you, O you most proud, says the LORD God of hosts: for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
32 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts [a man of war] is his name [My identity]: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet [raqaz – pour His anger upon] the inhabitants of Babylon.
35 A sword [of David] is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
36 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.
37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad [become insane] upon their idols.
39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
41 Behold, a people shall come from the north [shall come out of ignorance], and a great [new] nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts [the end of the old and corrupt, where their proud waves are stayed, beginning the new] of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, everyone put in array, like a man to the battle, [as My awakened army] against you, O daughter of Babylon.
43 The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail [fearing what they have brought forth].
44 Behold, he [the LORD, I Am] shall come up like a lion from [roaring against] the swelling [proud waves] of Jordan [words that carried all in the descent into death] unto the habitation of the strong [in power]: but I will make them [the wicked] suddenly run away from her [My people they have oppressed]: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me? [All these are references to Michael, who is like God and stands for God’s people in this time of Jacob’s trouble, and Shiloh, who comes as the shepherd and stone of God’s people – the king of peace, and king of righteousness, in the order of Melchizedek]
45 Therefore hear you the counsel of the LORD, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock [“I will be silent and poor {without earthly power}”] shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
46 At the noise [qowl – the LORD’s voice] of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
Revelation 18
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened [given understanding] with his glory.
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she has filled fill to her double.
7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the LORD God who judges her.
9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is your judgment come.
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 by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated 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, and our bodies washed with pure water.
23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the LORD. And again, The LORD shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Psalms 40
1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he has put a new song [His word] in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume [mgillah] of the book [cepher] it is written of me,
8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.
11 Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart [mind] fails me.
13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
17 But I am poor and needy; yet the LORD thinketh upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
