13 – 14 August 2023
Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
In the above, Jeremiah 33:20, the LORD speaks of what is written in Genesis 1, the time of light and darkness covering His people. In the latter, He tells of the great lights in heaven: the sun and moon representing church and state governments (places where understanding, light, should be and from there propagated). He is speaking of the times when it (light) is and isn’t there, as seasons that have inseparably continued throughout history. When (light is) therein, they’ve (obtaining the consent of the governed) produced great empires, which in prosperity (forgetting and abandoning the light) vile men lusting for wealth (perverse gratification) rose to power, beginning demagogues and ending tyrants (as in the present darkness).
In this circuit of the time, beginning and ending ages, there is always another season to follow, as the LORD promised. This generation finds ourselves in the darkest of the time, amid another night, covering the world in its shadow of death. The promise (the unbreakable covenant) the LORD made with His people, those who trust (have faith) in Him, is He will rise as light in the darkness, and from the event shall come a new day (“world without end, Amen”).
Speaking of this moment, the ‘achariyth, these last days of darkness, the rescue that comes in this time of Jacob’s trouble, is foretold (from the mouth of the LORD) in the passage surrounding the title.
Jeremiah 33
14 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land [‘erets].
16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
17 For thus says the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
20 Thus says the LORD; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24 Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
25 Thus says the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth [‘erets];
26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity [by My good spell: this gospel that will captivate those of sound mind] to return, and have mercy on them.
The chapter, Jeremiah 33, begins with the LORD, as the Creator, telling us to call upon Him (having faith) and He will answer, showing “you great and mighty things, which you know not.”
Jeremiah 33
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison [as I Am also a prisoner for the LORD’s sake, concerning His people], saying,
2 Thus says the LORD the maker thereof [the earth and all therein], the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
3 Call unto me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.
4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts [by the siege engines of the enemy], and by the sword;
5 They [the leaders of God’s people] come to fight with the Chaldeans [those using their words as weapons of war against us], but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men [those who are among God’s people exalting there words and ways above His, to keep their power over them], whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose [blinding] wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure [in the form of a son of man {I Am this man the chose and sent; I Am the king of His choosing – I know it’s hard to believe He would, “27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.” 1 Corinthians 1], and I will cure them, and will [as they have asked] reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
9 And it shall be to me a name [My identity revealed] of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth [‘erets], which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
10 Thus says the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts [a man of war I Am]: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endures forever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land [‘erets – the earth], as at the first [when I created it and it was good], says the LORD.
12 Thus says the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin [this nation that is My right hand], and in the places about [Heavenly New] Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah [the new crop of Godly leaders], shall the flocks pass [‘abar – shall Passover from death into life] again under the hands of him that tells them, says the LORD.
As we’ve often discussed, the word rendered “tells” is the twenty-eight times used Hebrew word manah, meaning “to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll:–appoint, count, number, prepare, set, tell.” It (manah) here speaks of my authority, vested in me by The Almighty, to officially constitute this new heaven, earth, and His new nation: His kingdom on earth. The only people who will have a problem with His doing so are those who have always resisted Him (they choose darkness because their deeds are evil).
(And for those asking what I want or have asked for, the answer is nothing. I Am what and where I Am supposed to be, already seated with all I need. Thank You, LORD. Amen!)
The quote above, “world without end,” appears twice in the written word of God, first in Isaiah 45:17 and then in Ephesians 3:21.
Isaiah 45
1 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus [an appellative speaking the king who is the LORD in the furnace with us], whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates [out of hell into his kingdom]; and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight [the polluted pure]: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness [hidden in men’s ignorance], and hidden riches of secret place [these treasures from the LORD’s treasure houses in the clouds], that you mayest know that I, the LORD, which call you by your name [your real identity], am the God of Israel [which I named and called you by].
4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me [as it has been until these last days]:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun [the light of this new day], and from the west [its shining into the darkness that was covering the earth], that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil [the misleaders against whom My righteousness is contrasted]: I the LORD do all these things.
8 Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open [her mouth], and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
9 Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds [worthless vessels created of the earth]. Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it, What make you? or your work, He has no hands?
10 Woe unto him that says unto his father, What begot you? or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
11 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me.
12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out [this exposition, the firmament of] the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised him [I Am] up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts [I Am who is a man of war].
14 Thus says the LORD, The labor of Egypt [mitsrayim – two {double} straits, oppression, which the LORD said {in Matthew 7:13 &14} must be avoided as we navigate the way into His kingdom], and merchandise of Ethiopia [men covered in darkness] and of the Sabeans [drunken with power and thereby become without right reasoning], men of stature, shall come over unto you, and they shall be yours: they shall come after you; in chains [restrained by My law] they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto you, they shall make supplication unto you, saying, Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no [other] God.
15 Truly you are a God that hides yourself [as You walk among the ignorant], O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded [kalam], all of them: they shall go to confusion [klimmah] together that are makers of idols.
17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded [kalam] world without end.
18 For thus says the LORD that created the heavens [the place where full understand resides]; God himself that formed the [old that became without form, and void – now made new] earth [wherein dwells righteousness] and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret [but right here in the open sight of those only blinded by their own corrupted minds], in a dark place [to those so ignorant and proud that they will never see] of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right [by which the good seed comes to life].
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together [into the LORD’s ONE BODY], you that are escaped of the nations [all those who haven’t known the LORD]: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image [the idols they’ve created, even calling them by My name], and pray unto a god that cannot save.
21 Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time [qedem – see Isaiah 51:9]? who has told it from that time [the word here is miyn {with affinity to min} which speak of the beginning of the species: king]? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
22 Look unto me [as the fiery serpent was lifted by Moses in the wilderness], and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed [zealous for their ignorance] against him shall be ashamed [when this end comes and they find themselves to have wrestled with the word of God into their own perishing].
25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Romans 9
6 Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy.
17 For the scripture says unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore has he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardens.
19 You will say then unto me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus? [Quoted in Isaiah 45:9 above]
21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. [This is preceded in Hosea 2:23, saying “And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy”]
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God. [The passage in Hosea 1 continues, saying, “11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up {‘alah – rise} out of the land {‘erets – the earth}: for great shall be the day of Jezreel {God sows – when He plants in the earth His new nation}.”]
27 Isaiah [10:22 & 23] also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the LORD make upon the earth. [followed by, “24 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian {the communists in power}: he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt {the oppression of tyrants}. 25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation {za’am} shall cease, and my anger in their destruction.]
29 And as Isaiah [1:9] said before, Except the LORD of Sabaoth [hosts – a man of war] had left us a seed, we had been [in flame] as Sodom, and been made [a ruin] like unto Gomorrah. [verse 10 saying, “Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.”]
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;
33 As it is written [Isaiah 28:16], Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence: and whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
Isaiah 28
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD [this voice as His voice], you scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through [‘abar – when this word comes, line and precept, as the Passover from death into life], it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believes shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goes forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over [‘abar – as the Passover from death to life], by day [in the time of light] and by night [and in the time of darkness]: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
As we know, the “report” is from the Hebrew word shmuw’ah, meaning to hear Jehovah’s voice from the one through whom He is speaking, which is the arm of the LORD revealed. Joel tells of the day of the LORD (when His light comes) as a time of darkness, not light (a time of ignorance when there isn’t any understanding – as now).
Joel 2
23 Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he has given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain [the written word], and the latter rain [this exposition] in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years [the understanding] that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
26 And you shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that has dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy [speaking this word as received], your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions [see this revelation]:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
31 The sun [church] shall be turned into darkness [ignorance], and the moon into blood [civil government draining the life from those they govern], before the great and terrible day [time of light] of the LORD come.
32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD has said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call [out of darkness].
The following, ending with Joshua 24:27, is from the post of 8 July 2021:
Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
Friends, in the above, Joel 3:13, the LORD is declaring the final judgment, when all the world sees and knows Him, when all are faced with the decision that’ll determine their eternal dwelling place. It’s a time of which almost all have either thought is fiction, or of in fictitious terms. It’s when humanity awakens out of its long sleep in confusion, from its now delusion into reality, when what’s been turned upside down is righted.
Joel 3
9 Proclaim you this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause your mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat [of Jehovah’s judgment]: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13 Put you in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining [God’s people and their governments of church and state, without light, without understanding, until the LORD roars out of Zion against the world’s misleaders, and establishing His just rule].
16 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 Egypt [the oppressor] shall be a desolation, and Edom [the enemies mixed among God’s people] shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah [the elect remnant], because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah [the elect remnant] shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem [God’s people at large – to and through who will flow the word of God, His teaching the ways of peace and sustainable civilization] from generation to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood [the ways of man that have drained the life from humanity] that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwells in Zion.
The name Shittim refers us to the decision, when the LORD has enlightened us and to this place (of decision) brought us. It’s from the once used word shotet, meaning “(properly, to pierce; but only as a denominative from 7752 [showt]) to flog; a goad:–scourge.” The word showt is the word used twice in Isaiah 28, verses 15 & 18, rendered “scourge,” speaking of the LORD’s correction that comes as He teaches doctrine, precept upon precept, line upon line.
The only appearance of shotet is in Joshua 23:13, rendered “scourges,” but there telling of it coming from the misleaders mixed among us. He says, if after we have prospered (waxed fat) by living under His ways and ideas, we allow the enemies ways and ideas back in, “they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges [shotet] in your sides, and thorns [misleaders] in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.”
This comes as Joshua (Jesus – Jehovah’s Salvation personified) is about to die and gathers all the people together, first reminding them of their tendency to degenerate (backslide away from the LORD) and then presenting them with a decision.
The word “decision,” twice used above in Joel 3:14, is the Hebrew word charuwts, meaning “incised or (active) incisive; hence (as noun masculine or feminine) a trench (as dug), gold (as mined), a threshing-sledge (having sharp teeth); (figuratively) determination; also eager.” It’s referring to the harvest mentioned in the title verse [[Joel 3:13]], and the separating effect of the threshing instrument, which brings the choice between light and darkness.
It (charuwts) refers us to Isaiah 41, as the LORD commands the dry places (without His word) to be silent and let His people renew their strength (understanding). He calls His people who have received understanding to come near (into His presence, as in 1 Thessalonians 2:12, 13, 19, & 20), to speak (HIS WORD), and come together with Him in judgment. This (JUDGMENT) is what He, later in verse 15, says is them as His new “sharp” threshing instrument, with which He beats the mountains and hills (the seats of power) small as chaff.
Joshua 24
14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve you the LORD.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites [those who exalt their words and ways above God’s], in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
18 And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
19 And Joshua said unto the people, You cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
20 If you forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he has done you good.
21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
22 And Joshua said unto the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest you deny your God.
The eleven times used word showt, above seen to speak of this foretold “scourge,” from where comes the word shotet, first appears, four times, rendered “whips.” These come in Rehoboam’s response when Israel (the ten northern tribes), after he became king, asked him to lighten the burden His father Solomon put upon them. His responses, and its recommendation by the young men that grew up with him (all remaining with childish minds), come in 1 Kings 12:11 & 14, and 2 Chronicles 10:11 & 14, all saying “My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips [showt], but I will chastise you with scorpions.”
As we well know, this event is the cause of the breach in the house of Jacob, which was before united under David and remained under Solomon.
The deep meaning inferred in this passage, is the whip of Solomon, which Rehoboam, his generation, and Israel, saw as a burden, are his (Solomon’s) words, teaching God wisdom from His mouth, by which the people remained united (at peace and secure, among themselves and with their enemies). These speak of the tendency toward degeneration due to prosperity, seeing the LORD’s word as a burden, instead of a light yoke (as it is) not understood by those who haven’t experienced life absent it or wholeheartedly received it. What results is the condition Joshua warns of above, the lack of peace and security that come as witnesses against those who abandoned and forgot this understanding, and in their place were exalted words of men, which are as strikes of scorpions (rotting the mind from the inside).
The next time the word showt appears comes in Job 5:21 speaking of the degeneration as it now is, in its end when none understand and therefore none know the LORD or recognize His work, which is now evident in them as witnesses against themselves. Thus, Paul elsewhere says all are dead and must all be changed.
Job 5
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn? [None open their mouth, because they are without understanding and therefore dead.]
2 For wrath [this word of God rejected] kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one [ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth].
3 I have seen [in the beginning of the degeneration] the foolish taking root: but suddenly [pith’own – in this time of their sudden destruction] I cursed his habitation [the hell their apostacy created].
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate [unable to leave hell or enter heaven], neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest [of what took root and grew into full fruit] the hungry [without this word of God] eat up, and take it even out of the thorns [taught to them by misleaders who grew when this understanding was neglected and abandoned], and the robber swallows up their substance [their peace and prosperity into the belly of hell].
6 Although affliction come not forth of the dust [‘aphar – the ruin of the earth {people and nations} comes from the ways of affliction], neither does trouble spring out of the ground [but rather comes from the minds of men without understanding];
7 Yet man is born unto trouble [as a snare], as the sparks fly upward [into the darkness where their light and life is extinguished].
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
10 Who gives rain upon the earth [His word from heaven to those in need of it], and sends waters upon the fields [to bring forth the good fruit man needs to survive]:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 He disappoints the devices [machashabah – the contrivances as weapons of war] of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise [tuwshiyah – the falsely so-called wisdom of the foolish children of the world].
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness [quoted in 1 Corinthians 3:19]: and the counsel of the froward [degenerates that intentionally twist and pervert truth] is carried headlong [into their destruction by their own creations].
14 They meet with darkness [in blinding ignorance] in the day time [not realizing this light has come], and [fecklessly] grope in the noonday [when all see them] as in the night [as they pretend no one does].
15 But he saves the poor [those without power] from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her [poisonous] mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty: [This is reiterated in Psalms 94:12, Proverbs 3:11 & 12, stated in Hebrews 12:5 as something we have forgotten, and contributes to James 1:12.]
18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven [when perfection comes] there shall no evil touch you.
20 In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
21 You shall be hid from [and by] the scourge [showt] of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts [those without the LORD’s Spirit] of the earth.
23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field [at which others stumble]: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.
25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season.
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.
1 Corinthians 3
9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God’s husbandry, you are God’s building.
10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ [the LORD alive in our flesh].
12 Now if any man builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day [this light now come] shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
14 If any man’s work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
17 If any man defile [teaching degeneration to] the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.
18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written [in Job 5:13 above], He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Proverbs 3
11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction [because the end of His correction is perfection as His children]:
12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
13 Happy is the man that [by diligent search] finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her.
16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor.
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retains [doesn’t degenerate away from] her.
19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens.
20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
21 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
22 So shall they be life unto your soul, and grace to your neck.
23 Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.
24 When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.
25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes.
26 For the LORD shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken.
27 Withhold not good [this word men need] from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
28 Say not unto your neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you [as now] have it by you.
29 Devise not evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwelleth securely by you.
30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
31 Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
32 For the froward [who intentionally twist and pervert truth] is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just.
1 Corinthians 16
22 If any man love not the LORD Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not you the chastening of the LORD, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
6 For whom the LORD loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
Ecclesiastes 12
9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
11 The words of the wise are as goads [not showt, but dorbown, from dor, meanin a revolution of time, an age or generation; and bow, meaning to come] and as nails fastened [to hold the building together] by the masters [master builder] of assemblies [who bring God’s people together into His ONE BODY again, as in the days of old], which are given from one shepherd [who as Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, and finally in Christ through who the LORD makes His presence openly known].
12 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Hebrews 12
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.
James 1
12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation [to doubt the LORD’s presence]: for when he is tried [and is proven faithful, by works in agreement with his words], he shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD has promised to them that love [agapao – give this gift as received from] him.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust has conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak [his own words], slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God.
1 Thessalonians 2
12 That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and glory.
13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
14 For you, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
15 Who both killed the LORD Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16 Forbidding us to speak [this word of God] to the Gentiles [those who don’t truly know Him] that they might be saved [by receiving His correction and becoming His children], to fill up their [those forbidding us] sins always [remaining corrupt]: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
17 But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul [Timothy], once and again; but Satan [working through and in these wicked men] hindered us.
19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our LORD Jesus Christ at his coming?
20 For you are our glory and joy.
Ephesians 3
1 For this cause I Paul [Timothy], the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit [His working unknown to reveal Himself in us through us];
6 That the Gentiles [those who don’t truly know Him, even the sleeping dead that think they do] should be fellow heirs, and of the same [ONE] body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our LORD:
12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
13 Wherefore I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our LORD Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Psalms 94
1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.
2 Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teaches man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teaches him out of your law;
13 That you mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts [the truth into which you have led me] delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity [the wicked now in power] have fellowship with you [LORD], which frame mischief by a law [you pervert]?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
