15 – 16 August 2023
For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
The above, Romans 11:25, is Paul, the LORD in him, speaking of Israel as all God’s people (Christian and Jew: Ephraim and Judah) who call themselves His, and the Gentiles as those who don’t and never have considered themselves His people. The verse speaks of the “fullness” of the Gentiles, which is when they realize He is present to save them as well as those calling themselves by His name. These two aspects coincide with God’s people opening their mouths declaring Him present, manifested in His word, by which the LORD receives both groups, us by our obedient faith declaring Him and them through our faith realizing Him.
Romans 3
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace [this gift] through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus [the LORD’s presence in the flesh as Jehovah’s Salvation: Jesus]:
25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation [the mercy seat, above which His presence is manifest in the conversation] through faith in his blood [the necessary sacrifice to deliver the message and declare His presence in it], to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins [to correct the errors: misleading teaching: corruption of His word: that blinds the world to Him] that are past, through the forbearance of God [His long-suffering with us, not willing that any should perish but that all would come to repentance];
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believes in Jesus [Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of His chosen – “I and the children the LORD has given me”].
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision [believers] by [their] faith, and uncircumcision [unbelievers] through [our] faith.
31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
This last portion refers us back to verse 19, speaking to His people who should know Him, blinded by the wicked’s words, closing their mouths to hear Him, His words, which is the only way to salvation.
Romans 3
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understand [the closed mouths of those calling themselves believers witness to this truth], there is none that seek after God [instead they seek salvation in speaking their same old corrupt ways and ideas].
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulcher [as place where death resides]; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
19 Now we know that what things soever the law says, it says to them who are under the law [all who are yet without faith, speaking of it but their works prove the opposite]: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Romans 11
2 God has not cast away his people [who are called by His name] which he foreknew. Know you not what the scripture says of Elijah? how he made intercession to God against Israel saying,
3 LORD, they [God’s own people] have killed your prophets, and digged down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what says the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal [the gods of the world, men and their creations they put in God’s place and call by His name, which have blinded the world to the good news, this Gospel, the word from His mouth by which only does man live].
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant [one hundred and forty four thousand] according to the election of grace [those He chose and gave this gift].
6 And if by grace [if it is a gift from Him], then is it no more of works [what he has given is the finished work, and you need to do nothing more than repeat it – giving His gift as received isn’t a burden, and God loves, gives to, a cheerful giver]: otherwise grace [this gift if you have to work to receive it] is no more grace [a gift]. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace [but payment for something you’ve done]: otherwise [the LORD’s] work is no more [His] work [but yours, which can never save you or others]. [1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe. 11 These things command and teach. 12 Let no man despise your youth {before you put away childish things and became a man}; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14 Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy {the word from the mouth of God through those He before me chose and indwelled}, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery {the elders before us through who the LORD worked}. 15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear {phaneros – shine} to all {from east to west, and they will know it is the coming of the foretold son of man}. 16 Take heed unto {epecho – let these things take hold: become obedient to} yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you {the word you obediently speaks as the LORD commands}.]
7 What then? Israel [all believers] has not obtained that which he [blindly] seeks for; but the election [by receiving the gift without adding their same old corrupt works] has obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
8 (According as it is written [in Isaiah 29:10], God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David says [in Psalms 69:23], Let their [corrupt] table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling-block, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened [blinded by ignorance], that they may not see, and bow down their back always [before tyrants].
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation [when they open their mouth] is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the first-fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root you.
19 You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high-minded [with your own ways and ideas], but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. [Proverbs 3: 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge [declare] him, and he shall direct your paths. 7 Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.]
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written [in Isaiah 59:20 & 21] , There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them [verse 21 continuing, saying “My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed, says the LORD, from henceforth and forever.”], when I shall take away their sins. [said in Isaiah 27:9, as “By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar {all their creations} as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images {they’ve made} shall not stand up.]
28 As concerning [kata] the Gospel, they [those opposing it] are enemies for your sakes: but as touching [kata – concerning] the election, they [the elect remnant] are beloved for the father’s sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God [to the elect remnant] are without repentance.
30 For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy [manifested in your conversation, your open mouths declaring the LORD present with us] they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 For who has known the mind of the LORD? or who has been his counsellor?
35 Or who has first [by their own works] given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Friends, in the referenced passage above from 1 Timothy 4, there is a mystery revealed in the words the LORD, through Paul, uses. It comes in the word prokope, rendered in 1 Timothy 4:15 as “profiting,” speaking of what shines forth and the origin from where it comes. It is compounded from pro, meaning “in front of, prior (figuratively superior),” and kope, (dubiously) meaning “cutting, i.e. carnage:–slaughter.” It (kope) is given this meaning because of the context in which it is used the one time it appears, in Hebrews 7:1, telling of the “slaughter” of the kings by Abram (Abraham), for which he received a blessing from “the MOST HIGH GOD, possessor of heaven and earth,” through Melchisedec.
The mystery is the blessing that comes in the same manner, smiting the kings who’ve taken and hold our brethren. This “taking hold,” the rescuing, the retaking of the mind of men through this Gospel, is spoken of in 1 Timothy 4:16, saying it is of sound “doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.”
The key word rendered “slaughter,” in Genesis 14:17, is nakah, meaning “to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively).”
These words (said to speak of slaughter), in proper context, are the scourge we’ve previously discussed, words as goads driving humanity forward into salvation.
Hebrews 7
1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God [in Hebrew, ‘Elyown ‘El, first used in Genesis 14:18, here speaking of His presence manifested in Melchisedec, the first appearance, archetype, of Christ], who met Abraham returning from the slaughter [kope – nakah in Hebrew] of the kings, and blessed him;
2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that [righteousness] also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides [with us] a priest continually [the son in perpetuity: Joshua {Jesus} the son of Nun: Jehovah’s Salvation manifested in the flesh of the perpetual son of ‘Elyown ‘El].
4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
Genesis 14
14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan [judgment].
15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah [in their “hiding place”], which is on the left hand of Damascus [where the people have been silenced in sorrow].
16 And he brought back [shuwb – returned] all the goods [rkuwsh, from rakash, what was laid up, the ways and ideas that produced peace and prosperity], and also brought again [shuwb – returned] his brother Lot [their protective cover, by removing the cover {lowt} of lies cast over all the world], and his goods [rkuwsh], and the women also, and the people.
17 And the king of Sodom [those causing the “flames” in the furnace] went out [of the slime pits where they were hiding] to meet him [still covered in slime] after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer [from three words meaning the lies and deceptions exposed by chastisement: the scourge – he is also to king of Elam, meaning he rules by the these means {lies and deceptions} throughout eternity; and is the Satan antitype], and of the kings that were with him [ruling by the same means], at the valley of Shaveh [where everything is seen in plain sight], which is the king’s dale [these king’s hell in the earth, when they are awakened to eternal damnation for their crimes against humanity].
18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine [the word of God that changes minds by effectual working in those who receive it as His word]: and he was the priest of the Most High God [‘Elyown ‘El].
19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor [qanah – see Exodus 15:16 below] of heaven and earth:
20 And blessed be the Most High God, which has delivered your enemies into your hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
21 And the king of Sodom [those still covered in slime] said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to yourself.
22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up my hand unto the LORD, the Most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latch, and that I will not take any thing that is your, lest you shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:
24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner [the children who’ve now become men], Eshcol [as a cluster of fruit reattached to the vine], and Mamre [which is their strength]; let them take their portion [let them from you retake their inheritance].
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 an 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 to the poor, 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 [lowt – only appearing here: the origin of the name Lot] cast [luwt – one of the three times the word is used] 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.
The word prokope only appears two other times, in Philippians 1:12 & 25, there telling of the “furtherance” of the Gospel and our joy (by uncovering what has blinded the world to the word of God and His presence thereby manifested.
2 Corinthians 3
14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same vail [cover] untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the LORD, the vail shall be taken away.
17 Now the LORD is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty [into which he rescues us].
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
2 Corinthians 4
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the LORD; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face [presence] of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels [this gift of God in our flesh, which is our joy when He from there reveals Himself when He wills], that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the LORD Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the LORD Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Philippians 1
2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the LORD Jesus Christ.
3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5 For your fellowship in the Gospel from the first day until now;
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.
8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12 But I would you should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of [prokope – scourging, goading, leading humanity into salvation by] the Gospel;
13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
14 And many of the brethren in the LORD, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the Gospel.
18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance [prokope] and joy of faith;
26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
27 Only let your conversation [in which the LORD is manifested above His mercy seat] be as it becometh the Gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel;
28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
30 Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Isaiah 11
1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots [sheresh – Matthew 24:32 & 33 and Job 14:7 thru 9]:
2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel [‘etsah] and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek [‘anav] of the earth: and he shall smite [nakah – scourge with correction] the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5 And righteousness shall be the girdle [preparation] of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle [preparation] of his reins.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea [His word covering all His people at large].
10 And in that day there shall be a root [sheresh] of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of [nec – the pole upon which the son of man must be lifted, as Moses lifted the brazen fiery serpent in the wilderness, so all can hear this word of God and be saved from the venomous words of the serpents attacking] the people; to it shall the Gentiles [the gowy – all who don’t know the LORD, because they are blinded to Him be the lies of the gods of this world] seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria [the communists], and from Egypt [their captivity among tyrants], and from Pathros [from the place where they are pitied], and from Cush [from the darkness: ignorance], and from Elam [all eternity], and from Shinar [from where all the vessels of the house of God were carried and there the people sleep], and from Hamath [where they are, by the lies of men, walled from seeing the LORD], and from the islands [the dry place without this word of God] of the sea.
12 And he shall set up an ensign [nec – the son of man lifted up] for the nations [gowy – all who don’t know the LORD], and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together [into His ONE BODY] the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
13 The envy also of Ephraim [God’s people, as Joseph’s seed, in this generation] shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah [the adversaries of the new crop of Godly leaders He raises] shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah [there leaders], and Judah shall not vex Ephraim [the leaders shall not vex those they lead].
14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines [the immigrants in our midst] toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east [who saw the light of the LORD’s coming and rejected it] together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom [the enemies mixed among us destroying God’s people, His nation, and our better culture] and Moab [the gates, the mouths of evil men, holding the world in hell]; and the children of Ammon [those who have divided and scattered God’s people] shall obey them [the new crop of Godly leaders].
15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the [evil] tongue of the Egyptian sea [the words of tyrants and oppressors flowing to the people]; and with his mighty wind [His almighty Spirit] shall he shake his hand over the river [the waters flowing to the sea], and shall smite [nakah – scourge with correction] it in the seven streams [the teaching coming from the corrupt church institution], and make men go over dryshod.
16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria [the communists]; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 27
1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish [paqad – visit as the Chief Overseer of the earth] leviathan [those to which the people are joined] the piercing serpent [as a misleader among them], even leviathan [Levi – the priesthood] that crooked [bariyach] serpent; and he [the LORD with us] shall slay the dragon [tanniyn – the whale, the open mouths of men that carried all humanity into hell and holds it therein – or the crocodile, death lurking below the surface of these men’s words] that is in the sea [that flows to the people].
2 In that day sing [repeat these words] you unto her, A vineyard of red wine [to change their minds].
3 I the LORD do keep it [the earth]; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers [deceivers] and thorns [misleaders] against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength [this understanding], that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Has he smitten [nakah – scourged] him, as he smote those that smote [nakah – scourged] him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shoots forth, you will debate with it: he stays his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up. [see Romans 11:27 above]
10 Yet the defensed city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf [men as idols put in God’s place] feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off [the fruit] from the channel of the river [leviathan] unto the stream of Egypt [the waters of the tyrant now controlling the world], and you shall be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria [the communists among us, in power], and the outcasts in the land of Egypt [under the hand of oppression – under a Pharaoh who doesn’t know Joseph], and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Exodus 15
3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
4 Pharaoh’s [the great house of evil kings] chariots and his host has he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
6 Your right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of your excellency you have overthrown them that rose up against you: you sent forth your wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed [came together as understanding in our minds] in the heart of the sea [in the minds of the people at large].
9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
10 You did blow with your wind [by Your Almighty Spirit], the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
11 Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them.
13 You in your mercy have led forth the people which you have redeemed: you have guided them in your strength unto your holy habitation.
14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina [the invading army now in control of all the seats of power in the institutions they’ve corrupted].
15 Then the dukes of Edom [the elites of the enemies mixed among us] shall be amazed [bahal – tremble inside: fear and panic because they know what is coming]; the mighty men of Moab [whose mouths are the gates holding the world in hell], trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan [the wicked now possessing the land by possessing the minds of the sleeping dead] shall melt away [from the heat of the fires they’ve caused].
16 Fear [‘eymah] and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm they shall be as still [damam – dumb, paralyzed by fear] as a stone; till your people pass over [‘abar – Passover from death into life], O LORD, till the people pass over [‘abar – Passover], which you have purchased [qanah – resurrected, Your possessions you’ve redeemed].
17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which you have made for you to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which your hands have established.
18 The LORD shall reign forever and ever.
We understand, from 1 Timothy 4:15 this prokope (the scourge that shoots forth correction), that “appears” is the shining (phaneros) of the LORD’s presence as light that now covers the world that was before in darkness. This is what men see, after hearing the Gospel (the scourge that corrects God’s children).
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [Hebrews 11: 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith {the substance of things not seen until perfection}, received not the promise: 40 God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.], 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 [here writing through me] and finisher [perfector] 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 [if you are not corrected], whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live [be made perfect]?
The word phaneros (meaning “shining, i.e., apparent”) is first used in Matthew 6:4, 6, & 18, all speaking of the “open” reward of the LORD to those who seek him in “secret,” from the word kruptos, meaning “concealed, i.e. private:–hid(-den), inward(-ly), secret.” The three places where this “secret” searching comes, are first in alms (charitable giving), likened to not letting “the right hand know what the left hand does [not seeking power over those you’ve given to],” next in the closet, from the word tameion, meaning in the store house alone (where only the Father sees, and seeing your pure heart reveals), and lastly to those who, when they fast, don’t appear (phaino) to make a show of doing so.
This understanding take us to the next two times phaneros appears, saying the same thing in Matthew 12:16 and Mark 3:12, as the LORD speaks of not making him “known.” Its next two uses come in Mark 4:22 & 6:14, saying the same things, translated “abroad.”
Mark 4
22 For there is nothing hid [kruptos], which shall not be manifested [phaneroo]; neither was any thing kept secret [apokruphos – treasures kept covered], but that it should come abroad [phaneros – shine upon all].
23 If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.
24 And he said unto them, Take heed what you hear: with what measure you mete [give what is heard], it shall be measured [given] to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
25 For he that has [received this gift], to him shall be given [greater treasure]: and he that has not, from him shall be taken even that [little understanding] which he has.
26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed [must give this gift he has been given] into the ground [and it was hidden in the earth – ge];
27 And should sleep [in ignorance], and rise night and day [from ignorance into understanding], and the seed should spring and grow up, he know not how [knowing not it is by the LORD working unknown, His Spirit moving in secret as He wills, with water and light].
28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he put in the sickle, because the harvest is [now] come.
30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
32 But when it is sown, it grows up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shoots out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
33 And with many such parables spoke he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
34 But without a parable spoke he not unto them: and when they were alone [in the secret places], he expounded [in this exposition] all things to his disciples [His students that receive Him].
35 And the same day, when the even was come, he says unto them, Let us pass over [death] unto the other side [into life].
The phaneros tells of the “sign of the son of man coming,” which is described in the gospels as “lightning” that “shines” upon all (openly, known, abroad) after He come in secret, working unknown, as a thief in the night of man’s ignorance.
Matthew 24
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the world?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ [a Christian]; and shall deceive many [several of the greatest examples of this in our time are the Pope, Obama, and Mike Pence].
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
27 For as the lightning [astrape] comes out of the east, and shines [phaino] even unto the west [abroad upon all]; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcass [of the dead body of Christ] is, there will the eagles [risen into heaven by the strength of the LORD’s understanding shined upon them] be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened [realized to be without understanding], and the moon [civil government] shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven [God people fallen away from understanding], and the powers of the heavens [the understanding that is therein] shall be shaken [so the corruption of the wicked is shaken from it]:
30 And then [answering the question asked in verse 3] shall appear [phaino – shine] the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet [the voice of His archangel], and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise you, when you shall [now] see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Truly I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 [The old corrupt] Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only [the Father in me is the only one who knows now is the time].
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came [see Psalms 93:3
below], and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
1 Corinthians 3
13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest [phaneros – known openly]: for the day [the time of understanding] shall declare it, because it shall be revealed [apokalupto – in the apocalypse, removing the cover] 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 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, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
20 And again, The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
1 Corinthians 11
19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved [by God] may be made manifest [phaneros – shine] among you.
1 Corinthians 14
24 But if all prophesy [speaking this same word from the mouth of God], and there come in one that believes not [that God is with us in you], or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
25 And thus are the secrets [kruptos] of his heart made manifest [phaneros]; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Philippians 1
12 But I would you should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of [prokope – scourging, goading, leading humanity into salvation by] the Gospel;
13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest [phaneros – shined] in all the palace, and in all other places;
14 And many of the brethren in the LORD, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
1 John 3
1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear [phaneroo – shine as] what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear [phaneroo – shine forth through us], we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself [by which we can see Him], even as he is pure.
4 Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law [anomia – is lawless]: for sin is the transgression of the law [anomia – is lawless].
5 And you know that he was manifested [phaneroo] to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6 Whosoever abides in him sin not: whosoever sins [is defiled by corruption] has not seen him, neither known him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He [the lawless] that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested [phaneroo], that he might destroy the [misleading] works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest [phaneros – shine forth], and the children of the devil [who’ve deceived the world]: whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves [agapao – gives] not [is without godly charity toward] his brother.
Psalms 93
1 The LORD reigns, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he has girded [prepared] himself: the world also is established, that it cannot be moved.
2 Your throne is established of old: you are from everlasting.
3 The floods have lifted up [nasa’], O LORD, the floods have lifted up [nasa’] their voice [qowl]; the floods lift up [nasa’] their waves [of pride].
4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise [qowl – voices] of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea [the wicked sitting in the seats of power, who in their arrogance, have exalted their words against the word of God and His anointed].
5 Your testimonies are very sure: holiness becomes [the three-times used word also rendered “beautiful” in Isaiah 52:7, describing the feet of the one lifted up on the mountain, publishing peace and bringing these good tidings to] your house, O LORD, forever.
Psalms 27
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide [tsaphan] me in his pavilion [in the ignorance of men]: in the secret [cether – under the cover] of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock [who is God with me].
6 And now shall my head be lifted up [exalted] above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy [by which He is manifested in my flesh]; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8 When you said, Seek you my face [paniym – presence]; my heart said unto you, Your face [paniym – Your presence], LORD, will I seek.
9 Hide not your face [paniym – Your presence] far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
