19 – 21 August 2023
Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
The words “evidences” and “evidence” here, from Jeremiah 32:14, are from the Hebrew word cepher, meaning “writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book.”
The word rendered “continue” is from ‘amad, meaning “to stand.”
We know from Daniel 12:13, this is the resurrection he (Daniel) is told of by the man he sees above the waters, saying Daniel will “stand” in his lot at the end (qets) of the days (of Abram’s deep sleep).” This is in response Daniel’s question in verse 8, asking, “O my LORD, what shall be the end [‘achariyth – the last days] of these things?” The things that end are spoken of in verse 7, saying, “when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”
The words “accomplished” and “finished” are from kalah, meaning “to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume).” We know from this word’s other two appearances in Daniel that it is the end of the “indignation” (za’am) they describe.
These (appearances of kalah) are in Daniel 11:16 & 36, a chapter spiritually describing the great (political) war (for control of the nation) that has raged around us for many years. The end is Armageddon (this rendezvous with the LORD, as is the name’s meaning): the final battle in the appointed time (mow’ed), after the appointed times (mow’ed) of the indignation, in these last days of the darkness (the ignorance in desolation that resulted from abominations put in God’s place).
Daniel 12
4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased [when they are helped with a little help – see Daniel 11:32].
5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river [Daniel seeing himself then and now in the resurrection], and the other on that side of the bank of the river [this time of the end when the word sent is again understood].
6 And one said to the man clothed in linen [the LORD’s presence manifested above His mercy seat, in the conversation, this firmament {exposition}, rightly diving {the “half”} the waters above from those of the wicked man below], which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end [qets] of these wonders [these last days of darkness: wondering at things occurring, not knowing what we are experiencing]?
7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him that lives forever that it shall be for a time [mow’ed], times [mow’ed], and a half; and when he shall have accomplished [kalah] to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished [kalah].
8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my LORD, what shall be the end [‘achariyth] of these things?
9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up [catham] and sealed [chatham] till the time of the end [qets].
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
The word, in verse 7 above, rendered “half” is chetsiy (from the word chatsah, meaning “to cut or split in two; to halve:–divide”), which refers us to the only other time Daniel uses it (Daniel 9:27), and the one time it’s used by Jeremiah (from whose book, cepher, Daniel learned it – see Daniel 9:2) describing this unsealing (rightly dividing) of the evidence.
Daniel 9
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary [see Jeremiah 17:12 speaking of when the sanctuary returns]; and the end [qets] thereof shall be with a flood [from the mouth of evil men – see Revelation 12:15 & 16], and unto the end [qets] of the war desolations are determined [charats – a decision decreed].
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst [chetsiy] of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation [kalah], and that determined [charats – the decision decreed] shall be poured upon the desolate.
The word rendered “poured upon,” nathak, is only used one other time by Daniel, earlier in Daniel 9:11, as he confesses what caused the desolation of God’s people, which is listening to and following the words and way of men in governments (church and state) who put themselves in God’s place and exalt their words above His.
Daniel 9
8 O LORD, to us belongs confusion [bosheth – which is our shame] of face [paniym – revealed by your presence manifested], to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
9 To the LORD our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against him;
10 Neither have we obeyed [shama’] the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before [paniym – manifesting His presence to] us by his servants the prophets.
11 Yea, all Israel [all God’s people] have transgressed your law, even by departing, that they might not obey your voice; therefore the curse [the foretold desolation that comes with putting other god’s words and ways above the One and Only God’s] is poured upon [nathak] us, and the oath [shbuw’ah – referring us to Leviticus 5:4, saying, “4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing {bata’ – babble} with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce {bata’ – babble, words of confusion} with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knows {‘alam – veiled from sight} of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these. 5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he has sinned in that thing:] that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. [The word bata’ only appears two other times; Psalms 106:32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: 33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly {bata’} with his lips. 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: 35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. And Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaks {bata’} like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. 19 The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. 20 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace is joy. 21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief. 22 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.]
12 And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven has not been done as has been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand your truth.
14 Therefore has the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he does: for we obeyed [shama’] not his voice.
15 And now, O LORD our God, that have brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten you renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 O LORD, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face [paniym – presence] to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for the LORD’s sake.
18 O my God, incline your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our supplications before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies.
19 O LORD, hear; O LORD, forgive; O LORD, hearken and do; defer not, for your own sake, O my God: for your city and your people are called by your name.
20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel [warrior of God], whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
22 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give you skill and understanding.
23 At the beginning of your supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to show you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore understand [biyn] the matter, and consider [biyn – understand] the vision [mar’eh – what appears].
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end [chatham – unseal] of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up [chatham – unseal] the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy [this is the beginning of the throne spoken of in Jeremiah 17:12].
Jeremiah 17
1 The sin of Judah [the degeneration into corrupt and feckless leadership] is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart [foundational minds], and upon the horns of your altars [corrupting the sacrifice, and leading all astray: away from God’s truth and understanding];
2 While their children remember [the idols they put in God’s place, on] their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
3 O my mountain in the field [the seats of power], I will give your substance and all your treasures to the spoil, and your high places for sin, throughout all your borders.
4 And you, even yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you know not [as it is this day]: for you have kindled a fire in my anger, which shall burn forever.
5 Thus says the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs [have gone astray] from the LORD.
6 For he shall be like the heath [without any cover from the elements] in the desert, and shall not see [because they are blind in ignorance] when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places [without this word of God you reject] in the wilderness, in a salt land [where noting grows] and not inhabited.
7 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters [these living waters springing up into eternal life], and that spreads out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
9 The heart [corrupted and ignorant, even of its own ignorance] is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst [chetsiy] of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
12 A glorious high throne from the beginning [ri’shown – this refers to the first dominion spoken of in Micah 4:8, and of the kingdom age{s}] is the place of our sanctuary.
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
15 Behold, they say unto me, “Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.”
16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow you [leading the flock, I have not impatiently rushed ahead of You LORD, but waited for your direction]: neither have I desired the woeful day [the destruction foretold by the false prophets]; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you.
17 Be not a terror unto me: you are my hope in the day of evil [when misleaders rule in church and state, as the sun and moon darkened].
18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them [by Your word they mockingly ask for] be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
19 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate [the refers us to Ezekiel 44:3 – where the prince will sit eating bread before the LORD: the entrance {see 2 Peter 1:11, into the “everlasting kingdom” also mentioned in Psalms 145:13} to be given, “ministered abundantly,” to the family of bread, the word from the mouth of the LORD, in the gate that has been closed until it is opened by the Father for him] of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;
20 And say unto them, Hear you the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
21 Thus says the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden [stop your word and works and listen to my good leading] on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
22 Neither carry forth a burden [your words and works] out of your houses on the sabbath day [when I interrupt you for correction], neither do you any work, but hallow [qadash – declare it is to correct you away from corruption] you the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
23 But they obeyed [shama’] not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear [shama’], nor receive instruction.
24 And it shall come to pass, if you diligently hearken [shama’] unto me, says the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain forever.
26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.
27 But if you will not hearken [shama’] unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Micah 4
1 But in the last days [‘achariyth] it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains [His teaching exalted above all other voices], and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion [the first dominion – “eternal life,” in full understanding: i.e., “heaven,” where man has rest in sustainable peace and civilization, as it was in Eden], and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken it.
5 For all people will walk everyone in the name of his god [the idols they worship, which cannot bring them to peace], and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
6 In that day, says the LORD, will I assemble her that halts [is lame, and thereby strayed from the course to the prize], and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
7 And I will make her that halted [was lame and strayed] a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion [the first dominion establishing the new age of heaven and earth] from henceforth, even forever.
8 And you, O tower of the flock [that see His Glory in His appearing and kingdom], the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto you shall it come, even the first [ri’shown] dominion [memshalah]; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
9 Now why do you cry out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counselor perished? for pangs have taken you as a woman in travail [the pain that is only to bring forth him that must be lifted up: whose voice must be exalted].
10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shall you go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to Babylon [shall be in the world controlled by the confusion that comes from many ignorant and deceiving voices until this voice is exalted]; there shall you be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.
11 Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her be defiled [let God’s people be corrupted, as we are, by following the gods, idols, of this world], and let our eye look upon [be the vision of] Zion.
12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn [power as strong as] iron, and I will make your hoofs [your way as] brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain [charam betsa’ – devote what they have plundered] unto the LORD, and their substance [chayil – the forces that sustain them] unto the LORD of the whole earth [His dominion as at first].
In Daniel 11 we understand the wicked powers (north and south – political parties: now Republicans and Democrats, as kings and princes) are against the covenant, which says they are warring for their own dominions and therefore against the promises God made to Abraham (repeated to Isaac) and David.
Genesis 22
15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time [after the first time, in Genesis 15, when the LORD told him of the deep sleep that would come until the end is reached],
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, says the LORD, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
18 And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed [shama’] my voice.
Genesis 25
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for unto you, and unto your seed [all God’s children of the promise], I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath [shbuw’ah] which I swore unto Abraham your father;
4 And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto your seed all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed [shama’] my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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, [unsealing that] 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 [paniym – presence] 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 LORD 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 a 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 [manah] them, says the LORD.
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 only time Jeremiah speaks of the oath (shbuw’ah) is in Jeremiah 11:5, by which the LORD now again, as many times before, calls His people to obey and speak this word to His people.
Jeremiah 11
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,
2 Hear [shama’] you the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
3 And say you unto them, Thus says the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeys [shama’] not the words of this covenant,
4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey [shama’] my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall you be my people, and I will be your God:
5 That I may perform [quwm – rise by] the oath [shbuw’ah] which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear [shama’] you the words of this covenant, and do them.
7 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey [shama’] my voice.
8 Yet they obeyed [shama’] not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.
9 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear [shama’] my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
11 Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken [shama’] unto them.
12 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
13 For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal [idols, men and their creations they put in My place, who they do obey].
14 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear [shama’] them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.
15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she [My house] has wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.
16 The LORD called your name, A green olive tree [referring to Psalms 52:8], fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted you, has pronounced evil against you, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
18 And the LORD has given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then you showed me their doings.
19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised [chashab – conspired] devices [machashabah – what conspiracy against me? The same words answer this question in Jeremiah 18:18, saying, “Then said they, Come and let us devise {chashab} devices {machashabah – this is the conspiracy} against Jeremiah {Jehovah rising}; for {they say} the law shall {has} not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”] against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
20 But, O LORD of hosts [a man of war], that judges righteously, that tries the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed my cause.
21 Therefore thus says the LORD of the men of Anathoth [to whom this word is sent, as they asked], that seek your life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that you die not by our hand:
22 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts [a man of war], Behold, I will punish [paqad – I have come as the Chief Overseer of the earth, against] them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine [without this word they reject]:
23 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth [the disobedient and hostile church of Babylon], even the year of their visitation [pquddah – the same as paqad, this judgment, and the men they follow will lead them into self-destruction].
Psalms 52
1 Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually.
2 The tongue devises [chashab] mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
4 You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.
5 God shall likewise destroy you forever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.
9 I will praise you forever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name [your identity manifested present]; for it is good before your saints.
Both Isaiah (65:15) and Ezekiel (21:23) only use the word shbuw’ah one time, both when speaking of the curse now poured upon the enemy warring against God and His new nation: His surviving remnant.
Isaiah 65
1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold [see] me, behold [see] me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people [who are called by My name, Christian and Israel], which walk [went astray into apostacy] in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoke me to anger continually to my face [paniym – My presence]; that sacrifices in gardens [they planted], and burns incense upon altars of brick [the works of their hands, creations of men you made idols and gods you put in My place];
4 Which remain among the graves [with the dead], and lodge in the monuments [tombs you’ve made to house the dead], which eat swine’s flesh [unclean things you shouldn’t have consumed], and broth of abominable things [creations with which you replaced the holy] is in their vessels;
5 Which say [to Me, when I said “Behold Me”], “Stand by yourself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you.” These [self-righteous hypocrites] are a smoke in my nose [to be fanned away by My hand], a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold [see], it is written before me [this writing is My presence manifested, the evidence of the moment]: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains [worshipping this current corrupt administration, for mere morsels selling your souls into hell], and [you joined these devils and] blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work [their deceptions and wickedness] into their bosom.
8 Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster [as are my elect remnant], and one says, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains [My new government]: and my elect [remnant] shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
10 And Sharon [those who plainly see Me] shall be a fold of flocks [My ONE BODY, My New Nation], and the valley of Achor [where they were in constant strife and war] a place for the herds to lie down in [rest in peace], for my people that have [diligently] sought me. [Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.]
11 But you [that worship this current corrupt administration, and join them in blaspheming Me: calling good evil as you vilify and demonize Me and those who speak My good words of truth] are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop [that are at war against us], and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear [shama’]; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
13 Therefore thus says the LORD God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry: behold, my servants [who obey Me] shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants [who obey Me] shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
15 And you shall leave your name for a curse [shbuw’ah] unto my chosen: for the LORD God shall slay you, and call his servants by another name:
16 That he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles [tsarah – tribulations] are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes [removed by My understanding and peace].
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create [New Heavenly] Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Psalms 19
1 The heavens [this full understanding] declare the glory [presence] of God; and the firmament [this exposition] shows his handy work [the work is of His hand].
2 Day unto day [line upon line, precept upon precept] utter speech [the voice of the LORD in His work], and night unto night [in a time of ignorance, to the ignorant, He] shows knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their [these words’] voice is not heard [shama’ – obeyed].
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun [the rising understanding of this new day, new age, new nation],
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it [ending the corrupt understanding of the old and beginning the new]: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping [shamar – guarding and protecting from corruption] them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his [own] errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Ezekiel 21
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
6 Sigh therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
7 And it shall be, when they say unto you, Wherefore sigh you? that you shall answer, For the tidings [shmuw’ah – the report]; because it comes: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and shall be brought to pass, says the LORD God.
8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemns [ma’ac – takes away] the rod [the scepter – to rule] of my son, as every tree.
11 And he has given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon your thigh.
13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn [ma’ac – takes away] even the rod [the scepter – to rule]? it shall be no more, says the LORD God. [See verse 26 & 27 below]
14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entered [as did Jael – Judges 4:21] into their privy chambers [chadar].
15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
16 Go you one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever your face is set.
17 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
19 Also, you son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose you a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites [this word upon the great men of the old world, who exalt themselves above God], and to Judah in Jerusalem the defensed [where God’s elect are protected in peace].
21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use [qacam] divination [qecem]: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.
23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination [qacam] in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths [shbuw’ah]: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.
24 Therefore thus says the LORD God; Because you have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered [your sins unsealed], so that in all your doings your sins do appear [ra’ah – are in open sight]; because, I say, that you are come to remembrance, you shall be taken with the hand.
25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end [qets],
26 Thus says the LORD God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he [Shiloh, who is the shepherd and stone] come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
28 And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the LORD God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say you, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
29 Whiles they see vanity unto you, whiles they divine [qacam] a lie unto you, to bring you upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end [qets].
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your nativity.
31 And I will pour out my indignation [za’am] upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hand of brutish men, and skillful to destroy.
32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
Psalms 47
1 O clap your hands, all you people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
2 For the LORD Most High is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
3 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
4 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing you praises with understanding.
8 God reigns over the heathen: God sits upon the throne of his holiness.
9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
